5,177 research outputs found
Understanding the relevance of national culture in international business research: a quantitative analysis
This review is a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the International Business literature whose focus is on national culture. The analysis relies on a broad range of bibliometric techniques as productivity rankings, citation analysis (individual and cumulative), study of collaborative research patterns, and analysis of the knowledge base. It provides insights on (I) faculty and institutional research productivity and performance; (II) articles, institutions, and scholars’ influence in the contents of the field and its research agenda; and (III) national and international collaborative research trends. The study also explores the body of literature that has exerted the greatest impact on the researched set of selected articles.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Morpho-kinematic analysis of the point-symmetric, bipolar planetary nebulae Hb 5 and K 3-17, a pathway to poly-polarity
The kinematics of the bipolar planetary nebulae Hb~5 and K 3-17 are
investigated in detail by means of a comprehensive set of spatially resolved
high spectral resolution, long-slit spectra. Both objects share particularly
interesting characteristics, such as a complex filamentary, rosette-type
nucleus, axial point-symmetry and very fast bipolar outflows. The kinematic
information of Hb~5 is combined with {\it HST} imagery to construct a detailed
3D model of the nebula using the code SHAPE. The model shows that the large
scale lobes are growing in a non-homologous way. The filamentary loops in the
core are proven to actually be secondary lobes emerging from what appears to be
a randomly punctured, dense, gaseous core and the material that forms the point
symmetric structure flows within the lobes with a distinct kinematic pattern
and its interaction with the lobes has had a shaping effect on them. Hb~5 and
K~3-17 may represent a class of fast evolving planetary nebulae that will
develop poly-polar characteristics once the nebular core evolves and expands.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures. To appear in The Astrophysical Journa
Las redes de comunicación para el aprendizaje y la formación docente universitaria
La actual sociedad del conocimiento está demandando un profesorado que
sepa trabajar con las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación además
de saber hacerlo de forma colaborativa. Desde este artículo esbozamos
razones para que este tipo de formación sea llevada a cabo por el profesorado
universitario, dado que el nuevo horizonte que se dibuja en las instituciones de
enseñanza superior demandan un perfil “tecnológico” de sus docentesThe designated society of the knowledge is found demanding a professorship
that knows to work with the technologies of the information and the
communication in addition to knowing to make it in a way collaborative. From
this article we draw reasons so that this type of training will be carried out by the
university professorship since the new horizon that is drawn in the teaching
institutions superior demand a profile "technological" of their educationa
On the generalised Chaplygin gas: worse than a big rip or quieter than a sudden singularity?
Although it has been believed that the models with generalised Chaplygin gas
do not contain singularities, in a previous work we have studied how a big
freeze could take place in some kinds of phantom generalised Chaplygin gas. In
the present work, we study some types of generalised Chaplygin gas in order to
show how different sorts of singularities could appears in such models, in the
future or in the past. We point out that: (i) singularities may not be
originated from the phantom nature of the fluid, and (ii) if initially the
tension of the brane in a brane-world Chaplygin model is large enough then an
infrared cut off appears in the past.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figures. Discussion expanded and references added.
Version to appear in the International Journal of Modern Physics
Tensorial perturbations in the bulk of inflating brane worlds
In this paper we consider the stability of some inflating brane-world models
in quantum cosmology. It is shown that whereas the singular model based on the
construction of inflating branes from Euclidean five-dimensional anti-de Sitter
space is unstable to tensorial cosmological perturbations in the bulk, the
nonsingular model which uses a five-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter
wormhole to construct the inflating branes is stable to these perturbations.Comment: 4 pages, RevTex, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Heterologous expression of AtNPR1 gene in olive for increasing fungal tolerance
The NPR1 gene encodes a key component of SAR signaling mediated by salicylic acid (SA). After a pathogen infection, the accumulation of SA releases NPR1 monomers in the cytosol that are translocated to the nucleus, activating the expression of pathogenesis-related (PR) genes. Overexpression of NPR1 has conferred resistance to fungal, viral and bacterial pathogens in several plant species. The aim of this research was to generate transgenic olive plants expressing the gene AtNPR1 from Arabidopsis thaliana to obtain material resistant to fungal pathogens. Three transgenic lines expressing AtNPR1 gene under the control of the constitutive promoter CaMV35S were obtained following the protocol of Torreblanca et al. (2010), using an embryogenic line derived from a seed of cv. Picual. Level of AtNPR1 expression in transgenic calli varied greatly among the different lines, being higher in the line NPR1-780. The elicitation of embryogenic calli in liquid medium with AS did not increase endochitinase activity, a PR protein. However, jasmonic acid induced a transient increase in chitinase activity after 24 h of treatment in all the lines, being the increment higher in transgenic NPR1 than in control. After maturation and germination of transgenic somatic embryos, plants were micropropagated and acclimated to ex vitro conditions. The expression of AtNPR1 did not alter the growth of transgenic plants neither in vitro nor in the greenhouse. Experiments are in progress to determine the resistance of transgenic AtNPR1 plants to V. dalihae and R. necatrix.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
Research projects: Plan Nacional AGL2014-52518-C2-1-R; AGL2017-83368-C2-1-R and Junta de Andalucía P11-AGR799
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