What are Best Practices to Define a Common Understanding of What is Expected of Companies\u27 Leaders, and How is this Understanding Structured?

[Excerpt] Today, companies need to have strong and meaningful leadership drive their business. A critical component of strong leadership involves identifying the competencies and behaviors that enable leaders to succeed. This is primarily accomplished by implementing a leadership competency model (LCM), which has benefits but is often ineffectively utilized. Knowing which leadership competencies are key for global companies and how companies are implementing LCMs is critical for success in developing strong effective leaders to influence their teams and the overall business

How are Companies Engaging Employees in the Succession Planning Process, and What are the Potential Benefits or Concerns Related to Increased Transparency?

[Excerpt] With today’s movement for a more transparent employee experience in the workplace, it is important that companies engage in succession planning whereby employees are more involved. Employers must be willing to both express an employee’s potential and also work with them to achieve it. The advantages, disadvantages, and consequences of transparency in succession planning are examined. (Note: General research on this topic is limited; strong, explicit international research on succession planning is not available and therefore not provided.

What are Some New and Innovative Ways Companies are Encouraging, Delivering, and Utilizing Feedback?

[Excerpt] The role of feedback in the employee experience is well entrenched. However, until relatively recently, its role in not only evaluating performance, but in shaping and improving it, has been largely misunderstood and misapplied. This includes not only giving meaningful feedback to employees, but receiving it as well. A recent survey conducted by Deloitte reports that 79% of companies survey employees annually or less. While conventional practices lead companies to meet the needs of shareholders above other stakeholders, turning attention to employee needs such as providing adequate feedback systems can enable companies and employees to better take care of customers, who in turn take care of shareholders in a reversal of the stakeholder arrangement

Creencias de un desayuno saludable y no saludable en mujeres adultas con sobrepeso u obesidad de localidades urbana y rural

El sobrepeso y la obesidad se han convertido en una epidemia, ocasionando varios problemas de salud pública como diabetes tipo 2, hipertensión, algunos tipos de cáncer y miles de decesos. Las creencias son ideas y percepciones de un grupo social sobre cuáles alimentos son saludables o no saludables y éstas pueden dar la pauta para guiar la conducta alimentaria. En éste estudio se abordan a las creencias sobre desayuno saludable y no saludable de mujeres con sobrepeso u obesidad en localidades rural y urbana.Objetivo: Identificar diferencias entre las creencias de episodios de desayuno saludable y no saludable, reportadas por mujeres adultas con sobrepeso y obesidad en localidades rural y urbana

Additivity of Handle Number and Morse-Novikov Number of a-small Knots

A knot is an a-small knot if its exterior does not contain closed incompressible surfaces disjoint from some incompressible Seifert surface for the knot. Using circular thin position for knots we prove that the handle number is additive under the connected sum of two a-small knots. As a consequence the Morse-Novikov number turns out to be additive under the connected sum of two a-small knots.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figur

Análisis de confiabilidad y costos del puente tampico

Se trata de un estudio entre costos y confiabilidad del puente Tampico, donde los costos se derivan de las consecuencias de falla y la confiabilidad considera las acciones de viento inciertas.Los puentes vehiculares son obras de infraestructura muy importantes por la función de comunicar poblaciones y permitir el flujo de bienes de consumo y de producción que determinan el ritmo de desarrollo económico e industrial de una región. En particular se estudiará el caso del Puente Tampico, construido sobre el Río Pánuco, y que comunica a los Estados de Tamaulipas y Veracruz por medio de Tampico y Mata Redonda, Veracruz. Se realizan análisis estructurales del puente, se obtienen estadísticas de las respuestas máximas, se estima la probabilidad de falla del puente con base en análisis de escenarios, se evalúan los costos de las consecuencias asociadas a la falla del puente, se establece la relación costo-confiabilidad del puente, y se generan recomendaciones para puentes en zonas de peligro eólico

Poor Health: Adding Insult to Injury for HOPE VI Families

Examines the poor overall health status and debilitating medical conditions reported by many residents in the HOPE VI housing program. Based on surveys of residents at five Hope VI public housing sites

Posible invasión de un nicho alimentario nuevo y microevolución en una especie mexicana de serpiente

Este ensayo trata los determinantes de la dieta en serpientes y en particular se discute un fenómeno único entre las 29 especies del género Thamnophis: la ingestión de acociles por T. melanogaster como posible invasión del género dentro de un nicho alimentario nuevo. Se plantea la oportunidad de estudiar aspectos del proceso de entrada como la microevolución de la conducta y la morfología de la dentición y cráneo asociada a la incorporación de una nueva presa en la dieta. Finalmente se discute la posibilidad de la acocilofagia como un carácter conductual ancestral que ahora sólo permanece como una conducta homóloga.Este ensayo trata los determinantes de la dieta en serpientes y en particular se discute un fenómeno único entre las 29 especies del género Thamnophis: la ingestión de acociles por T. melanogaster como posible invasión del género dentro de un nicho alimentario nuevo. Se plantea la oportunidad de estudiar aspectos del proceso de entrada como la microevolución de la conducta y la morfología de la dentición y cráneo asociada a la incorporación de una nueva presa en la dieta. Finalmente se discute la posibilidad de la acocilofagia como un carácter conductual ancestral que ahora sólo permanece como una conducta homóloga

Development and evaluation of GIS-based models for planning and management of coastal aquaculture : a case study in Sinaloa, Mexico

This study describes the development and exploration of environmental and socioeconomic land-based models, implemented in a Geographical Information System (GIS) for coastal aquaculture development at two planning levels using the State of Sinaloa, Mexico as an example. At a state-level, a very large database was constructed and models were created which focused on different themes: natural resources, land uses, social impacts, production modifiers and market potential. These models enabled multi-criteria decision-making of land allocation for aquaculture. In assessing final aquaculture site considerations models identified wider management options and resolved conflicts of land allocation and land use between production activities competing for resources through the use of multi-objective land allocation decision-making techniques. At a site-level, the Huizache-Caimanero lagoon system was identified by the state-level models as being a suitable site for testing the state model's accuracy. Moreover, these smaller more detailed models showed potential to model the wider effects of an activity and clearly had potential for dynamic modelling of environmental impacts. To evaluate the spatial accuracy and primary data content of the site-levels models and consequently the state-level models a Global Positioning System (GPS) was programmed in Stirling for use in Sinaloa through which it was possible to update and/or modify the database and confirm the general accuracy of the models. This study objectively showed the extent of opportunities for land-based aquacuiture in Sinaloa and further demonstrates the usefulness of GIS as an aquaculture planning tool. Model programming was found to be a very useful tool, enabling regeneration of multiple scenarios very quickly. In general, creating submodels for criteria in natural groupings such as water availability, water quality, etc., allowed the user to evaluate and manipulate these criteria before integrating them into a general model. Thus, spatial modelling provided a more comprehensive and integrated treatment for aquaculture development criteria than is usually possible by manual processing. Overall, it was found that GIS can be used to assess and direct aquaculture development very comprehensively and has enormous potential in aquaculture and related studies