Lancaster University

About: Lancaster University is a education organization based out in Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 13080 authors who have published 44563 publications receiving 1692277 citations. The organization is also known as: The University of Lancaster & Lancaster University.

Advances in anion supramolecular chemistry:from recognition to chemical applications

Abstract: Since the start of this millennium, remarkable progress in the binding and sensing of anions has been taking place, driven in part by discoveries in the use of hydrogen bonding, as well as the previously under-exploited anion–π interactions and halogen bonding. However, anion supramolecular chemistry has developed substantially beyond anion recognition, and now encompasses a diverse range of disciplines. Dramatic advance has been made in the anion-templated synthesis of macrocycles and interlocked molecular architectures, while the study of transmembrane anion transporters has flourished from almost nothing into a rapidly maturing field of research. The supramolecular chemistry of anions has also found real practical use in a variety of applications such as catalysis, ion extraction, and the use of anions as stimuli for responsive chemical systems.

Clumsiness in Adolescence: Educational, Motor, and Social Outcomes of Motor Delay Detected at 5 Years

Abstract: This paper reports the follow-up at age 15 of a group of children who were diagnosed at age 5 as having delayed motor development. The group of children who were clumsy and the control group still differed in motor performance 10 years later: 46% of the members of the early motor delay group were classified as different from the control group on motor and perceptual tasks. The remainder made up an intermediate group that could not be clearly distinguished from the other groups. Adolescents with stable motor problems had fewer social hobbies and pastimes and had lower academic ambitions for their future than the controls, although the lower academic ambitions also reflect their lower academic achievements. The adolescents who were clumsy believed they were less physically and scholastically competent than the controls. However, they did not have poor opinions of their social acceptance or self-worth. The intermediate group, although they showed motor delay at age 5, had good school performance and high amb...

Goal Setting in Family Firms: Goal Diversity, Social Interactions, and Collective Commitment to Family‐Centered Goals

Abstract: Goal setting in family firms is very complex due to the interplay between family and business systems. However, this topic is largely overlooked in family business research. In this qualitative study of goals and goal formulation processes among 76 organizational members across 19 family firms, we identify goal diversity as a direct consequence of the overlap between the family, ownership, and business systems. We found that goal diversity is expressed more strongly in the proximity of generational transitions, triggering social interaction processes through which organizational members contrast their goals. Our findings suggest that different types of social interactions lead to different behaviors, with familial social interactions being more effective than professional social interactions in managing goal diversity toward the formation of collective commitment to family-centered goals.

The Crisis of the National Spatio-Temporal Fix and the Tendential Ecological Dominance of Globalizing Capitalism

Abstract: This article develops a heterodox, strategic-relational approach to globalization This is seen as a multi-scalar, multi-temporal, multi-centric process, involving new forms of time-space distantiation and compression As such, it is just one face of a complex re-scaling of social processes which can also be interpreted from other scalar viewpoints, such as localization, regionalization or triadization Five interrelated issues are then addressed: (1) the structural and strategic dimensions of globalization seen in temporal as well as spatial terms; (2) the role of globalization, especially in its neoliberal form, in enhancing the ecological dominance of the capitalist economy, ie in enhancing the relative primacy of the capital relation in an emerging world society; (3) the significance of the global scale for capitalist reorganization and its links to other scales of activity ?? especially given the relativization of scale rooted in the erosion of the national spatio-temporal fix associated with Atlantic Fordism; (4) the impact of the new scalar dynamics of globalizing capitalism on the relative primacy and forms of appearance of capital's inherent contradictions and dilemmas and the problems that this poses for a re-regularization of capital accumulation on a global scale; and (5) the implications of globalization for the state and politics Cet article developpe une approche heterodoxe strategico-relationnelle de la mondialisation Celle-ci est vue comme un processus a la fois multi-scalaire, multi-temporel et multi-centre, impliquant de nouvelles formes de distanciation et de compression temps-espace Il ne s'agit la que d'un seul aspect d'une complexe remise a l'echelle de processus sociaux — qui peuvent Atre interpretes a partir d'autres perspectives scalaires, telles que localisation, regionalisation et triadisation L'auteur s'attache ensuite a cinq points imbriques: (1) les dimensions structurelles et strategiques d'une mondialisation observee en termes de temps et d'espace; (2) le role de la mondialisation, notamment sous sa forme neoliberale, dans l'accentuation de la dominance ecologique de l'economie capitaliste, autrement dit dans la progression de la preponderance relative du lien au capital dans une societe mondiale emergente; (3) l'importance de l'echelle mondiale dans la reorganisation capitaliste et ses rapports avec d'autres echelles d'activite— compte tenu notamment de la relativisation d'echelle enracinee dans l'erosion de la position spatio-temporelle nationale associee au fordisme atlantique; (4) l'incidence des nouvelles dynamiques d'echelle du capitalisme mondialisateur sur la predominance relative et les formes d'emergence des contradictions et dilemmes inherents au capital, ainsi que les problames qui en decoulent vis-a-vis d'une re-regularisation de l'accumulation du capital a une echelle planetaire; et (5) les implications de la mondialisation pour lEtat et la politique