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In this paper, leadership tasks and stakeholder response during transboundary crisis management are analyzed based on findings from Hofstede’s study, GLOBE Project, and theoretical concepts in cross-cultural management. Accordingly, a conceptual model of transcultural crisis management is proposed. Seven propositions (P) and sixteen sub-propositions (SP) are developed and then tested using the case method. The case of the COVID-19 pandemic is studied to note the effects of cross-cultural differences and intercultural communication in the pre-crisis, crisis, and post-crisis stages. Cross-cultural differences are found to affect sense-making, decision-making, sense-giving and meaning-making during pre-crisis and crisis management stages. Implications of these findings and further research agenda are discussed. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of International Journal of Cross Cultural Management is the property of Sage Publications, Ltd. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Aim: To study clinical profile of amblyopic patients in relation to refractive status, socio economic status, use of glasses and social impact on society. Results: Myopes improving with spectacles are 45% and mixed astigmatism 69%. Most common age group for detection of amblyopia in young adults is 21-30 years(47.1%) with predominance of female(55.7%) belonging from middle class families (81.4%) having studied mostly from Government Marathi medium school(45.7%) with previously not using given glasses(57.1%) and with taken amblyopia of only (7.1%) and with spectacles maximum correction with mixed astigmatism (54.2%) between 6/36-6/9 in right eye (43%) and in left eye (30%) . Hypermetropies’ improving to 6/12 is only 13%. So there’s very few cases improving with the spectacles in hypermetropes in amblyopia. Interpretation: Lack of school screening programs and awareness for health check-up delays the diagnosis of amblyopia leading to non-improvement of vision and due to lack of knowledge and social stigma girls especially avoid wearing glasses even after prescribing leading to amblyopia. Conclusion: School health camps, proper health education, timely examination, and proper use of spectacles is must.

Two species of fishes, Acanthocobitis botia and Barilius bendelisis, belonging to the families Cobitidae and Cyprinidae, respectively, were studied using karyotype and the cytochrome b gene. Both the species were collected from Kosi River, near Almora, Uttarakhand, India (29°37′ N, 79°40′ E). The somatic karyotypes of A. botia (2n = 50; 12m + 14sm + 10st + 14T; NF = 80) and B. bendelisis (2n = 50; 16m + 14sm + 10st + 10T; NF = 80) were described. A fragment of approximately 307 bp that corresponds to the cytochrome b region of mtDNA was also amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The mtDNA sequencing study indicated high per cent sequence divergences between the two species. Overall average percentage of nucleotide composition in A. botia was A(0.303), T(0.329), G(0.136) and C(0.232) and in B. bendelisis A(0.216), T(0.293), G(0.207) and C(0.284). Phylogenetic analysis based on the neighbor-joining (NJ) method using p-distance revealed that A. botia and B. bendelisis belonged to two different clades...