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Effects of land use change on the functional diversity and composition of mixed species avian flocks in the high tropical Andes of southern Ecuador

One of the greatest threats to biodiversity is land use change. Habitat alteration can have strong impacts on functional diversity, i.e., the range of biological traits within a suite of organisms. Mixed species avian flocks are integral to maintaining both taxonomic and functional diversity in tropical forests as they provide participants with greater foraging efficiency, reduced predation risks, and increased resiliency of species and ecosystems to environmental change. Our aim for this study was to determine the effects of land use change on the taxonomic and functional structures of mixed species avian flocks in and around Cajas National Park, Azuay Province in the tropical Andes of southern Ecuador by comparing non-native vegetation in agricultural plots and forest regenerating from historical use as pastureland to the largest intact primary forest in the region. We found no changes in species richness and diversity or functional richness of flocks across habitats, but we did find significant differences in species composition. Surprisingly, we found higher functional diversity and uniqueness of flocks in regenerating forest with more diverse and structurally complex vegetation, but native and non-native forests were functionally similar. We did, however, find significant differences in the community weighted means of four of five functional traits in different habitat types. Overall, the taxonomic and functional structures of mixed species flocks in this region seem relatively unaffected by land use change, indicating flocking as a beneficial strategy for species with higher sensitivities to disturbance in areas with anthropogenic activities. It is critical to maintain functional diversity in ecosystems, as a greater variety of functional traits and functional redundancy implies an efficient and more resilient ecosystem in the face of environmental change. Mixed species flocks provide membership benefits that may mitigate impacts of disturbance via land use change and thus can be considered essential units for conserving avian biodiversity.

Do Superannuation Fund Members Benefit from Large Fund Size?

Do Superannuation Fund Members Benefit from Large Fund Size?

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP): an analysis of its potential benefits for China

Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a mega-regional free trade agreement aimed to remove tariff and non-tariff trade barriers, increase trade facilitation, liberalise investment, and promote global value chains among the member countries. The study aims to know the importance of RCEP regarding trade, foreign direct investment and other economic affairs for China and its potential economic benefits for members. It has provided for a 90% tariff reduction on trade among its 15 members. It can potentially increase trade and FDI inflow to China through the trade and FDI creation effects. Establishing a business-friendly market in the Asia Pacific region and the tariff reduction provisions of this agreement have many advantages for the Chinese economy. Among its members, China is the leading economic power. Therefore, she will get maximum economic benefits as, according to statistical simulations, it will increase her international trade, exports, services, and FDI inflow. The current 2.2% tariff imposed on Chinese exports in the RCEP market will be decreased to 0.4%. The expected economic profit to China from this agreement is 214 billion dollars, equal to 2.2% of its GDP and a 13.4% increase in FDI inflow.

Analisis Financial Intelligence dalam menentukan keberhasilan usaha Koperasi serta dampaknya pada keunggulan bersaing berkelanjutan

The objective of this study is to determine the extent of the financial intelligence of the co-operation's success and the impact on the sustainable competition advantage of KUD Sarwa Mukti. The method used in this study is a quantitative descriptive method. Based on research it is known that the financial intelligence viewed by financial knowledge is conceptually good and provides economic benefits for members. As the financial industry as a whole, regulators and regulators are at the edge of uncertainty. The cooperatives' success perspectives, in the macro and micro-dimensions overall, are already good. Yet the volume of cooperative businesses tended to decline, the productivity of member enterprises was still low, and businesses, in the mako businesses were unable to provide economic benefits to members. On competitive advantage, kud sarwa mukti tends to excel over competitors. Financial intelligence officers and administrators have been implemented to determine the success of co-operation and to impact the sustainable competition advantage.

The Firm as a Subsociety: Purpose, Justice, and the Theory of the Firm

Research in the “theory of the firm” tradition has often characterized firms as subeconomies, in which economic exchange is shaped by a central authority. We propose an expanded view of firms as subsocieties, in which authority is also responsible for establishing principles that shape cooperation among members. We draw on insights from political theory, sociology, and, to a lesser degree, legal theory to discuss how employees become members of subsocieties by exchanging rights, such as formal control over their work, for the benefits of membership. With this rights exchange, subsociety members develop expectations that those in positions of authority will use their control to define and sustain principles of justice and common purpose consistent with members’ moral sentiments. This view suggests expanded roles for authority and firm boundaries from what are incorporated into standard theories of the firm. These expanded roles have implications both for internal governance and for the boundary itself: When considering boundary changes, leaders must weigh both the economic and the social consequences of their decision. Funding: C. Gartenberg recognizes financial support from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. T. Zenger recognizes the financial support of the Eccles School at the University of Utah.

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IEEE PELS Uttar Pradesh Section Chapter Arranges IEEE Seminar

On 17 September 2022, the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Uttar Pradesh Section Chapter hosted a seminar along with the IEEE Bansal Institute of Engineering and Technology (BIET) Student Branch and IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section with the theme “About IEEE and Membership Benefits.”

OP12 Findings From the 2022 International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Student Benefit Survey

The purpose of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) student benefit survey is to understand perceived benefits of student membership; identify suggested future membership benefits to improve student engagement; and identify drivers of a smooth transition from a student to a new professional member.

India’s Kolkata Section and Guwahati Subsection Inaugurate the IEEE PELS Joint Section Chapter

The IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Joint Section Chapter of the Kolkata section and the Guwahati subsection was inaugurated on 21 September 2022 at the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India. The programme was held in hybrid mode. Prof. Sanjib Kumar Panda, an associate professor and area director of power and energy research at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, also the coordinator, IEEE PELS Asia Pacific Region (R10) inaugurated the new Chapter. Chair of the IEEE Guwahati subsection, Prof. Sukumar Nandi, a professor of computer science engineering at IIT Guwahati was also present to grace the occasion. The inauguration ceremony was attended by approximately total 60 persons including faculty and student members (the photo was taken after the inauguration as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Figure 1</xref> ). Prof. Panda explained in details about the organization of IEEE and the Power Electronics Society, and its various activities and programmes. He specifically explained benefits of joining IEEE and PELS membership to student members.

42 Implementation of California's fertility preservation health insurance benefit mandate

California passed legislation in 2019 mandating health insurance coverage of fertility preservation (FP) for patients facing iatrogenic infertility to improve access to care and reduce medical financial hardship. The objectives of this qualitative study are to assess insurer- and clinic-level implementation practices and identify barriers and facilitators to accessing FP insurance benefits that impact service and patient outcomes. Using purposeful sampling, twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with insurers, physicians, clinic navigators, and financial counselors from eight adult and pediatric oncology and fertility clinics in southern California. Thematic analysis guided by Bullock's (2021) framework for policy implementation and inductive codes was undertaken. At the insurer level, health benefit design standardization is limited therefore downstream training and modification of patient- and clinic-facing resources (benefit verification staff, member benefit handbooks) that reflect FP benefits are heterogeneous. At the clinic level, navigators and financial counselors addressed this heterogeneity by implementing multi-prong, time- and resource-consuming processes in interacting with these insurer resources and report that accessing benefits is complex, inconsistent, prolonged and frequently ineffective. For patient outcomes, clinic navigators report patient psychosocial distress manifested as marital problems or incurring debt by credit card use. Policies intended to improve access to care need effective downstream implementation. Heterogeneous insurer implementation of the state-level FP health insurance benefit mandate has resulted in expenditure of excessive clinic resources to assist patients in accessing urgent FP care that are not feasible, appropriate, or effective. To alleviate medical financial hardship and distress in patients facing iatrogenic infertility, insurers need to improve benefit mandate implementation to support access, and clinics need scalable, effective insurance navigation interventions.

Empirical Evidence on the Development and Digitalization of the Accounting and Finance Profession in Europe

The objective of this research was to evaluate the development and digitalization of professional services in the field of accounting and finance, as well as to calculate and compare several indicators of the development of the profession in each European country. We also sought to identify the factors that drive the development of the accounting and finance profession at the international level. We collected rich information on 337 professional associations in 40 countries in Europe. Using this dataset, 20 accounting and finance services and 14 membership services and benefits provided by professional associations were identified. Digitalization of the profession is a prominent membership service, but also a characteristic of country competitiveness. The results of the intergroup analysis showed that high-income countries have a significantly larger number of professional associations and services compared to middle-income countries. Furthermore, the accounting and finance profession in high-income countries covers a larger number of accounting and membership services. The size of the population and the competitiveness of the national economy are the main predictors of the development and digitalization of the accounting and finance profession in a country. This research has implications for professional associations and national regulators in reducing disparities between European countries on the matter of accounting education and service quality. The scale of this research can provide institutional actors with a holistic perspective on the accounting and finance profession at the national and international level.

Research on pricing and recycling decision of closed-loop supply chain under the mergers and acquisitions between competing manufacturers

Based on the increasingly popular practice background of corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A), the feasibility of M&A strategy is studied in the closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) in combination with the different financial strength of competing manufacturers. By constructing a game model in CLSC under three modes of the decentralized decision-making with well-capitalized manufacturers, the decentralized decision-making with a capital-constrained manufacturers and the M&A between competing manufacturers, the paper analyzes the influence of bank loan interest rate and M&A coefficient on the optimal decision and revenue to calculate the conditions that competing manufacturers need to meet to implement the M&A strategy. It finds that: firstly, with the increase of bank loan interest rate, the capital-constrained manufacturers will increase the wholesale price to obtain higher returns, and meanwhile reduce the recycling rate of old products to reduce the capital investment, but the well-capitalized manufacturers will also lower wholesale prices, but they will increase the recycling rate of old products to reduce production costs. Secondly, with the increase in bank interest rates, the revenue of capital-constrained manufacturers decreases, while the well-capitalized manufacturers increase. Thirdly, when competing manufacturers can increase market power or improve core production technology to reduce costs after mergers and acquisitions, they will increase the recycling of old products and reduce the wholesale price of products to gain more market share. Moreover, the better performance of the M&A strategy, the higher the benefits of closed-loop supply chain members will be. Finally, whether manufacturers are capital constrained or not, the M&A strategy are not always beneficial to the manufacturers. And whether the M&A strategy is beneficial or not is related to market demand parameters, recovery cost parameters and merger coefficient. But when these parameters meet certain conditions, the competitive manufacturer’s M&A strategy can benefit all members of the closed-loop supply chain.

Mentoring relationships through technology in the third space

This study has its genesis in the ASCILITE Community Mentoring Program (CMP), in which the authors are active participants. This program runs primarily for the benefit of ASCILITE Members and involves partnering members from across the sector in professional mentoring relationships. The CMP is a vehicle designed to enhance specific knowledge, skills and capacities among the membership, where more experienced members work with those wishing to develop-up their expertise in agreed areas (ASCILITE, 2022). Mentoring has been recognised as an important professional development medium for academics and professional staff working in higher education. These relationships are seen to provide personal growth opportunities that contribute to an individual’s career development and professional identity (re)formation (Qi, in press). Individuals who engage in mentoring are generally team-players, able to function flexibly and in an agile fashion in challenging work environments (Fenwick, 2016; Fenwick et al., 2012). These attributes bode well in building mentoring relationships and sense of belonging. During the mentorship, mentees and mentors build upon their multifaceted competences needed for collaborative, critical and creative work. They take an inquiry-based and reflective approach to build and expand connections, interactions and relational endeavours to potentially align with their personal and professional agenda. They constantly negotiate and self-position in the mentoring space to transcend disciplinary boundaries (Manoharan, 2020). Here, we are conscious of a fundamental question which alludes to mentees and mentors in how they might traverse and relate to their respective professional contexts and concurrently their learning and development opportunities within the mentoring relationships through technology. More recently, Mentors and Mentees leverage the affordances of digital technologies to enhance access to each other, resources and learning across a multitude of contexts. In response to ever-diversified academia in Australasia, mentoring has been perceived as a deep, meaningful and reciprocal learning and developmental avenue. The hybridity of learning and development has created greater opportunities for richer learning experiences and ways to belong (Press et al., 2022). This study employs ‘Third Space’ as a metaphor to reimagine and analyse the relationships and learning of mentors in the mentorship as a co-developmental opportunity. The idea of Third Space derived from cultural theory explores spatial relationships (Padro, 2022; Whitchurch, 2012) and rejects the dichotomy of relationships. It however takes into consideration the contemporary, blended, socially enabled sites for participation and collaboration (Soja, 1996) intersecting with digital technologies. In this sense, mentoring is characterised by the hybrid nature of 21st century learning and development to seed opportunities for new ways of interactions and collaborations across disciplines, to help address the challenges of the modern university (Manoharan, 2020). To help the researchers understand the lived experiences and learnings derived from mentoring, this study has adopted a phenomenological approach that explore the nexus of learning, mentoring and digital technologies. The well-established ASCILITE CMP program then provides the ideal analytical lens into the Third Space, to address the following research questions: How do Mentors experience mentoring, and what do their relationships, learning and development look like? How and in what ways does the Third Space construct position a Mentor’s approach in framing their CMP mentoring activities? To what extent do digital technologies promote a sense of belonging for learning and development in the Third Space? How might mentoring be designed for the Third Space (re)shaped by digital technologies? These questions pose complex concerns. Our empirical study is not necessarily to resolve all these challenging issues. Our point of departure is to raise awareness of mentorship through ongoing critical inquiries, reflexivity and considerations that contribute to the higher education community.

The purchasing power of goods and services of pensioner families during the COVID19 pandemic, 2018-2021

Starting from the normative method, applied in RIQL we will evaluate the real purchasing power of the retired families, more precisely how the income of a person or family covers the essential minimum of goods and services necessary for the subject under discussion. In the time period 1990-2021, the standard of living of the Romanian population was affected in different ways. The incomes of families with children, as well as retired families, could not keep up, sometimes, with the price increases applied to products and services on the market. The incomes and expenses of the population provide a concrete picture of the quality of life of the population and contribute to taking the necessary measures, through socio-economic policies, for the benefit of society members.

Elderly in the Perspective of Minangkabau Nagari Aie Dingin of Solok Regency of West Sumatera Province

Minangkabau people are very well known for their customs which are interesting to know and study. The existence of the Nagari government illustrates how a customary-based governance system governs the Minangkabau community's life. The role of ulayat land explains assets or properties and their benefits for clan members' security. Women's existence and function explain the degree of their role in family and community life. The function and existence of sponsorship for the elderly explains the model and form of sponsorship for the elderly. The purpose of this research is to know the life of the elderly if in the study of Minangkabau Culture in Nagari Aie Dingin of Solok Regency of West Sumatra Province. This study used qualitative methods and descriptive types, data collection was carried out using observation methods, interviews using interview guides and documentation. Data analysis in this study uses the Miles and Huberman model: data reduction, data presentation, conclusion and verification. The findings in this study indicate that with the high level of population aged 60 years and over, many elderly people are still actively working and the communal system is less active. Older women are prioritized over older men in Minangkabau.

The Florida Clinical Skills Collaborative: A New Regional Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Skills.

Discontinuation of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS)exam and Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination (COMLEX) Level 2 Performance Evaluation (2-PE) raised questions about the ability of medical schools to ensure the clinical skills competence of graduating students. In February 2021, representatives from all Florida, United States, allopathic and osteopathic schools initiated a collaboration to address this critically important issue in the evolving landscape of medical education.A 5-point Likert scale survey of all members (n=18/20 individuals representing 10/10 institutions) reveals that initial interest in joining the collaboration was high among both individuals (mean 4.78, SD 0.43) and institutions (mean 4.69, SD 0.48).Most individuals (mean 4.78, SD 0.55) and institutions (mean 4.53, SD 0.72) are highly satisfied with their decision to join. Members most commonly cited a "desire to establish a shared assessment in place of Step 2 CS/2-PE" as their most important reason for joining.Experienced benefits of membership were ranked as the following: 1) Networking, 2) Shared resources for curriculum implementation, 3) Scholarship, and 4) Work towards a shared assessment in place of Step 2 CS/2-PE.Challenges of membership were ranked as the following: 1) Logistics such as scheduling and technology, 2) Agreement on common goals, 3) Total time commitment, and 4) Large group size.Members cited the "administration of a joint assessment pilot" as the highest priority for the coming year. Florida has successfully launched a regional consortium for the assessment of clinical skills competency with high levels of member satisfaction which may serve as a model for future regional consortia.

A Social-Ecological Approach to Modeling Sense of Virtual Community (SOVC) in Livestreaming Communities.

Participation in communities is essential to individual mental and physical health and can yield further benefits for members. With a growing amount of time spent participating in virtual communities, it's increasingly important that we understand how the community experience manifests in and varies across these online spaces. In this paper, we investigate Sense of Virtual Community (SOVC) in the context of live-streaming communities. Through a survey of 1,944 Twitch viewers, we identify that community experiences on Twitch vary along two primary dimensions: belonging, a feeling of membership and support within the group, and cohesion, a feeling that the group is a well-run collective with standards for behavior. Leveraging the Social-Ecological Model, we map behavioral trace data from usage logs to various levels of the social ecology surrounding an individual user's participation within a community, in order to identify which of these can be associated with lower or higher SOVC. We find that features describing activity at the individual and community levels, but not features describing the community member's dyadic relationships, aid in predicting the SOVC that community members feel within channels. We consider implications for the design of live-streaming communities and for fostering the well-being of their members, and we consider theoretical implications for the study of SOVC in modern, interactive online contexts, particularly those fostering large-scale or pseudonymized interactions. We also explore how the Social-Ecological Model can be leveraged in other contexts relevant to Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), with implications for future work.

Help Members Feel a Sense of Belonging

The Membership Management ReportVolume 18, Issue 12 p. 1-1 Spell Out Member Benefits' Impact Help Members Feel a Sense of Belonging Kim Pawlak, Kim PawlakSearch for more papers by this author Kim Pawlak, Kim PawlakSearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 November 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/mmr.32026Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume18, Issue12December 2022Pages 1-1 RelatedInformation

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