Identity work in the transition from manager to management academic

The phenomenon of current practitioners moving into academia is generally welcomed in terms addressing recruitment problems and the perceived benefit of bringing practical experience into the academic setting. Yet the individual practitioner may encounter considerable difficulties with this career transition. This paper identifies the different sources and discourses of credibility – management experience versus academic knowledge – as particularly relevant, and considers the ways in which these “emergent management academics” manage their self‐identities in their day‐to‐day interactions

On almost Ehlers-Geren-Sachs theorems

We show assuming small data that massless solutions to the reflection symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system with Bianchi VII$_0$ symmetry which are not locally rotational symmetric, can be arbitrarily close to and will remain close to isotropy as regards {to} the shear. However in general the shear will not tend to zero and the Hubble normalised Weyl curvature will blow up. This generalises the work \cite{NHW,WHU}, which considered a non-tilted radiation fluid to the massless Vlasov case. This represents another example of the fact that almost Ehlers-Geren-Sachs theorems do not hold in general and that collisionless matter behaves differently than a perfect fluid.Comment: 26 pages, 1 figure; matches accepted version in CQG; presentation improved, minor typos correcte

A Study of Cutter Number Adjustment at the Ohio State University Libraries

"The authors conducted a study of cuttering practice at Ohio State University Libraries to determine the extent of effort presently devoted to the practice and to suggest changes that would result in less work without adversely affecting the public. They determined that there would be little deleterious effect if cuttering were limited to classes M, N, and P, while the effort involved would be halved.

Sharp bounds on 2m/r for static spherical objects

Sharp bounds are obtained, under a variety of assumptions on the eigenvalues of the Einstein tensor, for the ratio of the Hawking mass to the areal radius in static, spherically symmetric space-times.Comment: We changed a footnote in which an earlier result of H\aa{}kan Andr\'{e}asson was not described correctl

Work-life imbalance: informal care and paid employment

In the United Kingdom informal carers are people who look after relatives or friends who need extra support because of age, physical or learning disability or illness. The majority of informal carers are women and female carers also care for longer hours and for longer durations than men. Thus women and older women in particular, shoulder the burden of informal care. We consider the costs of caring in terms of the impact that these kinds of caring responsibilities have on employment. The research is based on the responses of informal carers to a dedicated questionnaire and in-depth interviews with a smaller sub-sample of carers. Our results indicate that the duration of a caring episode as well as the hours carers commit to caring impact on their employment participation. In addition carers’ employment is affected by financial considerations, the needs of the person they care for, carers’ beliefs about the compatibility of informal care and paid work and employers’ willingness to accommodate carers’ needs. Overall, the research confirms that informal carers continue to face difficulties when they try to combine employment and care in spite of recent policy initiatives designed to help them

A scalable, fully automated process for construction of sequence-ready human exome targeted capture libraries

Genome targeting methods enable cost-effective capture of specific subsets of the genome for sequencing. We present here an automated, highly scalable method for carrying out the Solution Hybrid Selection capture approach that provides a dramatic increase in scale and throughput of sequence-ready libraries produced. Significant process improvements and a series of in-process quality control checkpoints are also added. These process improvements can also be used in a manual version of the protocol

Managing a mega-project to explore and enhance careers: insights from Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3

Contemporary careers are changing and face many challenges. This creates a need for innovative cross-cultural and multidisciplinary research. In this chapter, twenty-three participants in a European/South Korean research mega-project provide an overview of their diverse experiences of trans-national, trans-sectoral, and trans-generational work. First, the project’s architects explore the context and rationale in five countries, selection of partners, securing funding and the underpinning principles of ‘strategic entrepreneurship’ and ‘multi-sociation’. Key workstream leaders then outline the project content, including diplomacy in research design, reflecting gender, ensuring impact, capturing learning, communicating to various audiences. Major aspects of Implementation are described: quality management, managing academics and risk, transnational and trans-sectorial working (between academia and industry), novel methodologies and finally the career implications for PhD students involved. These are honest and pragmatic reflections on the way to best practice