Solid Growth, Untapped Potential

Compares interest in volunteering and giving in Marin County, California, in 2000 and 2007 among both new and long-term residents

The untapped potential of plant thin cell layers

Thin cell layers (TCLs), which contain a small number of cells or tissues, are explants excised from different organs (stems, leaves, roots, inflorescences, flowers, cotyledons, hypocotyls/epicotyls, and embryos). After almost 45 years of research, this culture system has been used for several monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous plants of commercial importance, and for model plants. The limited amount of cells in a TCL is of paramount importance because marker molecules/genes of differentiation can be easily localized in situ in the target/responsive cells. Thus, the use of TCLs has allowed, and continues to allow, for the expansion of knowledge in plant research in a practical and applied manner into the fields of tissue culture and micropropagation, cell and organ genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, and development. Starting from a brief historical background, the actual and potential uses of the TCL system are briefly reviewed

Colloidal microgels - untapped potential?

Colloidal microgels are discrete cross-linked polymeric nanoparticles that may be prepared from a range of different monomer types. These monomers may confer dispersion sensitivity to a wide range of stimuli including temperature, pH, salinity and the addition of co-solvents. Microgels are spherical and are typically in the size range from 50 nm up to 1000 nm. They are prepared by a polymerization of a monomer or monomers in the presence of a crossliner

Untapped potential: How the G20 can strengthen global governance

The G20 has two distinctive features that make it a unique forum in global politics. First, it is one of the few existing global platforms where different international institutions and regional organisations can coordinate across a vast array of issue areas and emergent policy fields. Second, it is an institution that brings together heads of government which control roughly 80% of world GDP. Despite these features, the G20 lacks constitutive authority of its own, bound by a consensus principle which sharply delimits its scope of action. Notwithstanding its circumspect authority, no recent international body has garnered more attention from transnational civil society groups and advocacy networks than the G20. Most of this attention is critical and points to legitimacy problems. We argue that these legitimacy problems derive from a perception of untapped potential and undue privilege for great powers. Against this backdrop, we submit that a more active and institutionalised forum – with clear decision-making procedures for exercising authority – could help mitigate resistance and contribute to a more legitimate global governance system overall

Is Wave Energy Untapped Potential?

Acknowledgements This research has been supported by the University of Aberdeen and Curtin University with funding from the Aberdeen‐Curtin Alliance. The authors are grateful to many colleagues from the renewable energy circle who have provided valuable commentaries, which have helped to shape this paper.Peer reviewedPostprin

Community College Growth Opportunities: Untapped Potential in America’s Heartland?

Over 1,100 two year public institutions have been established in the United States which enroll almost two-fifths of all students in post-secondary education. However, some parts of the country may not be adequately served by these educational institutions despite demand and supply indicators that indicate future growth potential in the sub-baccalaureate educational market. This paper examines the geographical, demographic, and economic characteristics of counties which host community colleges. It finds that community college access is uneven. A multiple regression analysis reveals several correlates with community college location and identifies counties where opportunities may exist to “seed†additional community colleges.community colleges; access; economic development

Dusting Off Untapped Potential - Case study of YSP/NAEA archive

Presented at the first Creative Campus : Higher Education and the Arts and Cultural sector conference, Manchester University. Case study on the relationship between the University of Huddersfield's School of Art, Design and Architecture and the National Arts Education Archive based at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

The untapped potential of IT chargeback

Cover title. "May 1997."Includes bibliographical references (p. 24-25).Jeanne W. Ross, Michael R. Vitale, Cynthia M. Beath

The Untapped Potential of Introvert Leaders

Academic research shows that extroverts are generally seen as more productive and effective leaders than their introvert counterparts because they possess the characteristics our society has so often revered (Grant, Gino, & Hofmann, 2009). With the rise of the “extrovert ideal” throughout our society, introverts are left wondering what role they play when it comes to leadership (Cain, 2013). Through examples of four successful introvert leaders (Susan Cain, Warren Buffett, Laura Bush, and Bill Gates), it can be derived that it is not the personality that makes the leader but, rather, the passion, drive, and self-actualization of the individual. With greater emphasis on education, development, and training when it comes to utilizing one’s strengths innately within one’s personality, the potential of introverts, often hidden by shame, remorse, and feelings of inadequacy, will no longer go untapped