... examine the thousands of books that are available on the topic of leadership They ask if there are some "natural" categories into which these titles fall By coding these legions of books by their ... range of books not only signals the breadth of interests in the topic of leadership, it also sets the stage nicely for the variety of approaches to leadership that are offered in this book One of ... Interest is ignited by the promise of a miracle cure Then come the variations on the theme, some of which are elaborations ofthe original idea (Results-Based Leadership), while others a mere reworking...
... the Founding Fathers, who decreed death—in the Mint Act of 1792—for any officer or employee ofthe Mint who debased the coinage ofthe United States “Without the automatic check of a gold standard,” ... percent of all the government-held gold in the world What the proponents did not understand was the nature of politicians and others who strive for power Human action rarely follows the recipe ofthe ... lament with tears of “Not Worth a Continental” the deepest regret, the most pernicious shifts of property which the irregularities of our finances introduced, and the many of thousands of fortunes...
... Ib in the genome of this snake These findings provide clues to the evolutionary position ofthe neurotoxic V a aspis population with respect to the other snakes studied The genome of one of these ... with the neutral evolution theory, which states that the strong conservation of exons serves to maintain the function ofthe mature protein [26] The protein-coding regions ofthe PLA2 genes of ... and the 5¢ part of exon encode the mature protein; exon encodes the 5¢-UTR, and exon and part of exon encode the signal peptide The 110 nucleotides at the 3¢ end of exon encode the 3¢-UTR The...
... crucially, they wrote down what they did, recorded their experiences, and taught other doctors The Greeks built on the lessons ofthe Egyptians The body of medical writing attached to the name of Hippocrates ... part ofthe political debate; secondly, since they appeared on both sides ofthe argument, the feeling grew that even the scientists themselves did not know what would be the effects of their ... apply gene therapy to the reproductive cells themselves Will we perhaps be able to turn the sickly into the healthy, the weak into the strong, the small into the tall, the ugly into the beautiful...
... comparative study ofthe role of ideology in leadership The second case, Great Britain from the middle ofthe nineteenth century to the eve of World War One, is often seen as the classic example of international ... the concentration of financial power in the international economy, in other words whether there are other countries with the potential to lead, and the compatibility ofeconomic norms across the ... the liquidity of profits The first is the maintenance ofthe value ofthe currency in which the investments are made and denominated, and the convertibility of local currencies, without which the...
... signals The hand-operating ETSE will be attached outside ofthe chamber There, the researcher can operate the device without the potential harm of an ETS exposure Glove ports on the outside ofthe ... collects the smoke inside During the compression ofthe bag, the smoke will be released in the chamber The compression and decompression ofthe bag will follow a predefined protocol under support of ... most of their time indoors (in industrialized countries, as the USA, up to almost 90 percent [3]) but also because the indoor concentration of pollutants is often much higher [4] The wide range of...
... window of 80 samples is slid along the route For each position ofthe window, the average CINR ofthe samples inside the window is determined The window stops sliding when the average CINR within the ... selection ofthe location of ITx: the relatively higher weights ofthe two most southern BS pull the location of ITx southwards, resulting in higher distances in the North (and West) direction The ... because the influence ofthe height difference on the range is negligible compared to the influence ofthe x, ycoordinates CINRR and ER are the average values of CINR and E, respectively, over the samples...
... in the uptake of water and nutrients, their absence due to lifting does not preclude water and nutrient uptake [7] Therefore, in the case of young bare-root seedlings transplanted at the end of ... and water uptake and then alter root regrowth The major goal ofthe present study was to test the hypothesis of a relationship between regrowth and water, C and N status of Corsican pine seedlings ... transplanting (day 0), at the beginning of root regeneration (day 13), and on days 27 and 41 The significance ofthe effects of lifting and time and their interaction are indicated for the different variables;...
... assesses the severity of symptoms based on the frequency of symptoms reported by the child The occurrence of each DSM-IV symptom within the last month is scored on a scale ranging from none ofthe ... fight) The sum ofthe points assigned to the answer represents the total aggression and ranges from to 44 Procedure The first assessment in March 2010 was carried out by four ofthe authors They ... picture or to play their favorite game at the end ofthe interview In addition, the behavior of all children was observed in their typical daily surrounding During the periods of assessment, interviewers...
... that these egos made the most impact The story of hedge funds is the story ofthe frontiers of finance: of innovation and increasing leverage, of spectacular triumphs and humiliating falls, and of ... talk about their success.” If hedge-fund managers had emerged as the It Boys ofthe new century—if they had supplanted the leveraged-buyout barons ofthe 1980s and the dot-com wizards ofthe 1990s—it ... movie theater decorated with the pattern ofthe stars on his wedding night sixteen years earlier The hedge-fund titans were the new Rockefellers, the new Carnegies, the new Vanderbilts They were the...
... (t) and Fs (t) is the absolute value ofthe sth remainder ofthe Taylor series ofthe exponential exp(−t) The following lemma shows that the problem of estimations ofthe volume of smooth HC I(s, ... (6.5) The fundamental idea ofthe proof relies on the structure of (6.3) and (6.5) allowing to represent the volume ofthe continuous and smooth s-dimensional HCs as a sum of volumes of HCs of lower ... ⊂ P (s, T, a − 1/2) Therefore, the proof of (2.9) requires a completely new idea and technique To focus the reader’s attention on the main path in our theory, the proof of Theorem 2.4 which is...
... indicate the position ofthe introns The boxes indicate amino-acid substitutions skipping of three successive exons during the course ofthe processing ofthe primary transcripts [9] At the peptide ... begins with the first nucleotide ofthe first exon (up) and the first amino-acid residue ofthe mature M protein (down) Dashes indicate nucleotides identical with those ofthe M allele The stop codon ... fragments were sequenced The knowledge ofthe structural organization ofthe goat gene encoding the as1-Cas [9] made this strategy possible In addition, the complete sequence ofthe bovine gene [28]...
... modifying them The AutoRun feature in Microsoft Windows systems was a default feature at the time ofthe Conficker malware and was one ofthe three ways computers became infected When the AutoRun ... form of whitelisting, or identifying wirelessly connected computers you trust) • Change the default wireless SSID Learn more about each of these configurations and others in the document “Small Office/Home ... into the computer and automatically executes the media’s contents Operate Under the Principle of Least Privilege In most instances of a malware infection, the malware can operate only under the...
... Power at the Dawn of a New Century These ships and numerous others were ordered to their highest state of readiness in the immediate aftermath ofthe attacks The Department of Defense and the carrier ... sponsored by the Office ofthe Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the unified Combatant Commands, the Department ofthe Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence ... 2001 11 Rear Admiral Matthew Moffit, then serving in the Directorate of Air Warfare (OPNAV N78) in the Office ofthe Chief of Naval Operations, later noted that LGBs often outshined JDAMs in...
... Organization ofthe Book CHAPTER TWO The Evolution ofthe Visual Arts System .9 The Development ofthe Public Art Museum The World of Arts Discourse 12 The Visual Arts ... works—with the exception of web-based art This preference is largely a result ofthe importance the visual arts place on the authenticity ofthe original work of art itself—something that is not true of ... control than in the past over the process of determining the artistic value of emerging work These changes have paved the way for the emergence of unprecedented artistic diversity and for the extraordinarily...
... mouth ofthe Chao Phraya many revere the Chao Phraya as the ‘heart’ of Thailand, at the Gulf of Thailand Here, the calculated loads of and the river basin is widely regarded as the most these ... delta in the Netherlands and Belgium formed by the confluence ofthe Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt rivers Theeconomic importance ofthe Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta is enormous, since the three ... in the livers of all but one fish The results support of pollutants disposed of into the Yangtze may be ‘one ofthe world’s largest’, albeit diluted by the enormous volume the bioaccumulation of...
... local examples of benefits realization, there has so far been only limited evaluation ofthe experience of implementation and ofthe impact of Agenda for Change The results ofthe case study ... on the pay bill in the first full year of implementation The absence of a detailed costing by all the trusts, and the absence of a consistent approach to costing, provides one example ofthe ... The timing of implementation took longer than anticipated, and coverage was not complete at the time ofthe case study research At the time ofthe case studies, from March to May 2007, none of...
... of IPA The intended purpose ofthe REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS is to provide the IPA with the following A general description ofthe engagement and requirements ofthe auditor A general review ofthe ... unbound copy ofthe completed audit for the City of Hobbs The City of Hobbs will require review ofthe completed audit prior to printing and submission J) The proposed price as stated on the proposal ... INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS Sealed proposals will be received by the City Commission ofthe City of Hobbs, New Mexico, in accordance with the Proposal Advertisement Offerors shall use the proposal...
... public official ofthe state or a local public body during the two years prior to the date on which the contractor submits a proposal or, in the case of a sole source or small purchase contract, the ... the date the contractor signs the contract, if the aggregate total of contributions given by the prospective contractor, a family member or a representative ofthe prospective contractor to the ... expend contributions on that official’s behalf for the purpose of electing the official to either statewide or local office “Campaign Contribution” includes the payment of a debt incurred in an election...
... class of ζ, ϕ, -g-relaxed cocoercive operators By virtue ofthe Banach’s fixed point theorem and the resolvent operator technique, we prove the existence and uniqueness of solution for the system of ... Uniqueness Theorems In this section, we will prove the existence and uniqueness of solution ofthe problem 2.13 Lemma 3.1 Let ρ1 and ρ2 be two positive constants Then x, y ∈ H1 × H2 is a solution ofthe ... improves in 4, Theorem 3.1 and in 19, Theorem 4.1 ; the class of ζ, ϕ, -g-relaxed cocoercive operators includes the class of α, ξ relaxed cocoercive operators in as a special case; the class of s- G,...