Employee engagement: An evaluation of the impact of cultural change initiatives at Kingsland Grange

This piece of work endeavours to explore whether cultural change initiatives at Kingsland Grange have impacted employee engagement and competitive advantage. It is underpinned by a review of contemporary literature relating to cultural change, employee engagement and competitive advantage, which enabled a conceptual model to be developed, presenting a hypothesised causal relationship of the factors concerned. The validity of this model and the notion that cultural change influences employees’ engagement levels and competitive advantage was tested using a single case study at Kingsland Grange. The research was conducted using a multi method approach, incorporating semi structured interviews, documentary research and observational data. The findings support the assertion made in the contemporary literature that successful, well managed change has the potential to enhance employee engagement and competitive advantage, with unsuccessful change having the potential to detrimentally impact on these factors. The research data also provided an insight into the effectiveness of the cultural change process and explored methods employed for dealing with resistance to change

A Resolution Thanking the Brooklyn College Farm Project

A resolution thanking the Brooklyn College Farm Project for the assistance given to Madison County farmers in the 1943 growing season. October 5, 1943

Some Lost Bliss: Tracing the Dark Night of the Soul in Jack Kerouac's Visions of Gerard, The Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, and Big Sur, and an Excerpt from the Novel Mayor of Hollywood

Blended dissertation in fulfillment of the PhD in creative writing at University of St. Andrews. Includes both a critical and a creative component. The critical component is an analysis of Catholic mysticism in the novels of American Beat author Jack Kerouac, with a specific focus on John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul. The creative component is a portion of an early draft of the now-published novel, Mayor of Hollywood

Molecular Data Confirm that All Modern Loons are Part of the Same Created Kind

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Molecular and morphological analyses confirm that all loons (Aves: Gaviiformes) form a single holobaramin

Loons or divers (Aves: Gaviiformes), a group of waterbirds found primarily in the Northern Hemisphere, are comprised of several extinct taxa as well as an extant family (Gaviidae) with one genus (Gavia) and five species. Recent phylogenetic studies suggest that the Sphenisciformes (penguins) and Procellariiformes (petrels, albatrosses, and shearwaters) form a sister group to the loons. Our previous research, based on hybridization, morphological, and vocalization data, found that all extant loons form a single holobaramin (i.e., created kind). This previous study, however, was inconclusive as to the membership of fossil taxa within the kind. The goal of the present study is to verify the baraminic status of the extant loons using new molecular baraminology techniques and to further evaluate extinct loon morphology to determine whether they also belong to the loon holobaramin. DNA sequences from four mitochondrial genes (CO1, CYTB, NADH1, and NADH2) were gathered, for all extant loons and several outgroups, from the BOLD and GenBank databases and aligned with ClustalW in MEGA. Corrected distance matrices were created with the TN93 + Gamma model and analyzed using hierarchical clustering, classic multidimensional scaling, and medoid partitioning in R software. A newly published dataset of skeletal characters, from extinct and extant loons as well as several outgroups, was also analyzed using statistical baraminology clustering methods (BARCLAY: DCA, MDS, PAM, FANNY). Extant loons consistently formed significant/separate clusters across all genes and molecular analyses, confirming they share significant continuity with one another and significant discontinuity from the outgroups. Morphological analyses demonstrated that all loons, extant and extinct, were positively associated/correlated with one another, sharing significant continuity, and negatively associated/correlated, displaying significant discontinuity, with several key avian outgroups. Based on considerable evidence of both continuity among loon species and discontinuity from other avian groups (including the supposed sister groups, Sphenisciformes and Procellariiformes), we conclude that all loons (Aves: Gaviiformes), both extant and extinct species, form a single holobaramin. These results are consistent with our previous research and Answers in Genesis’s brief analysis of loon hybridization for their Ark Encounter Project

Does gender matter? A cross-national investigation of primary class-room discipline.

© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupFewer than 15% of primary school teachers in both Germany and the UK are male. With the on-going international debate about educational performance highlighting the widening gender achievement gap between girl and boy pupils, the demand for more male teachers has become prevalent in educational discourse. Concerns have frequently been raised about the underachievement of boys, with claims that the lack of male ‘role models’ in schools has an adverse effect on boys’ academic motivation and engagement. Although previous research has examined ‘teaching’ as institutional talk, men’s linguistic behaviour in the classroom remains largely ignored, especially in regard to enacting discipline. Using empirical spoken data collected from four primary school classrooms in both the UK and in Germany, this paper examines the linguistic discipline strategies of eight male and eight female teachers using Interactional Sociolinguistics to address the question, does teacher gender matter?Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio