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Taking the MICL: An Interdisciplinary Masters Programme in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership
The Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership (the MICL) is an innovative, radically interdisciplinary and highly successful programme that is offered as part of the portfolio of Management Masters courses at Cass Business School in the UK. In this paper, we argue that while the world is increasingly Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA), educational responses to this have been surprisingly limited. We note the parallel development of interest in interdisciplinary activity, particularly in relation to higher education, and then describe the MICL as an interdisciplinary management education programme developed against the background of an increasingly VUCA world. We describe the aims and structure of the MICL programme, as well as some of the methods employed to assist staff and students with adopting our interdisciplinary approach. Finally, we present some quantitative data on outcomes for students after completing the programme, as well as some qualitative data relating to the first cohort of students, that lead us to believe that the MICL programme provides a strong foundation on the basis of which students can survive and thrive in a world of increasingly dramatic change and complexity
The Metabolic Syndrome: A Modern Plague Spread by Modern Technology
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73419/1/j.1751-7176.2009.00191.x.pd
Expression of human adenosine deaminase in nonhuman primates after retrovirus-mediated gene transfer.
Primate bone marrow cells were infected with a retroviral vector carrying the genes for human adenosine deaminase (h-ADA) and bacterial neomycin resistance (neor). The infected cells were infused back into the lethally irradiated donor animals. Several monkeys fully reconstituted and were shown to express the h-ADA and neor genes at low levels in their recirculating hematopoietic cells for short periods of time
When research setting is important: the influence of subordinate self-esteem on reactions to abusive supervision
In this paper, we argue that the conflicting theoretical views regarding the role that self-esteem plays in the decision to become aggressive can be explained by the particular research methodology used. Specifically, we examine how individuals respond to a perceived abusive supervisor in two settings: (1) using scenarios and (2) in a field study. Results indicate that individuals with high selfesteem are more likely to become aggressive in response to an abusive supervisor in settings where they are asked what they would do (using scenarios). However, in field research settings, where they are asked what they did do, individuals with low self-esteem were more likely to become aggressive in response to an abusive supervisor
Effects of Management Support, Team Member Support, and Job Status on Safety Climate and Employee Attitudes
This study examined the impact of management and team member support on employee attitudes through the mediating effect of safety climate. Five hundred fifty-six physicians and nurses from a large teaching hospital in the eastern United States completed survey items assessing their perceptions of management support, team member support, and safety climate as well as job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Results indicated that while job satisfaction and commitment were directly affected by perceptions of management and team member support, these relationships were also partially mediated by safety climate. In addition, the results suggested that team member support contributed to the prediction of safety climate over and above the effect of management support alone indicating that multiple sources of support may be important in developing positive safety climates. The hypothesized moderating effect of job status was not significant. Implications of the results and suggestions for future research are discussed
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Accelerating movement across the intentional arc – developing the strategic sensographer
Our research question relates to those who need to be activists in strategic sensography as described in the call for papers. We call these activists “strategic sensographers”. Our own definition of sensuous is characterised by a pseudo-formula, namely 5S+3D (5 senses plus 3 dimensions), which we contrast with the 2S+2D world which dominates the modern office and even university.We take strategists to include both senior executives themselves and those who explicitly support them in the strategy process, whether in a line or staff role. Our model of the intuitive qualities required for strategists has in part been derived from the recruitment criteria of leading organisations, as well as from analyses of the qualities needed to support creativity and innovation (Lucas, Claxton and Spencer, 2012).We examined the routes through which strategists are currently educated or shaped, and conclude as have others (Mintzberg, 2005), that their education is biased in favour of rational-logical thinking. It is in part the tension and interplay between the rational and the intuitive that contributes to sensography, a term that has in part spun off from “stratography” (Cummings and Angwin, 2011)
Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Baryon Density of the Universe
Big-bang nucleosynthesis is one of the cornerstones of the standard
cosmology. For almost thirty years its predictions have been used to test the
big-bang model to within a fraction of a second of the bang. The concordance
that exists between the predicted and observed abundances of D, He, He
and Li provides important confirmation of the standard cosmology and leads
to the most accurate determination of the baryon density, between 1.7 \times
10^{-31}\gcmm3 and 4.1\times 10^{-31}\gcmm3 (corresponding to between about
1\% and 14\% of critical density). This measurement of the density of ordinary
matter is crucial to almost every aspect of cosmology and is pivotal to the
establishment of two dark-matter problems: (i) most of the baryons are dark,
and (ii) if the total mass density is greater than about 14\% of the critical
density as many determinations now indicate, the bulk of the dark matter must
be ``nonbaryonic,'' comprised of elementary particles left from the earliest
moments. We critically review the present status of primordial nucleosynthesis
and discuss future prospects.Comment: 21 pages+6 figs, LaTeX(2.09), FERMILAB-Pub-94/174-A, Figures
available by anonymous ftp in oddjob.uchicago.edu:/pub/bbnrev/fig?.ps
(?=1,2,3,4,5,6) or email from [email protected] REVISIONS include new
discussion and a new figur
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High Energy Physics
This proposal is for the continuation of the High Energy Physics Program at the University of California, Riverside. In 1990, we will concentrate on analysis of LEP data from the OPAL detector. We expect to record 10{sup 5} Z`s by the end of 1989 and 10{sup 6} in 1990. This data will be used to measure the number of quark-lepton families in the universe. In the second half of 1990 we will also be occupied with the installation of the D-Zero detector in the Tevatron Collider and the preparation of software for the 1991 run. A new initiative made possible by generous university support is a laboratory for detector development at UCR. The focus will be on silicon strip tracking detectors both for the D-Zero upgrade and for SSC physics. The theory program will pursue further various mass-generating radiative mechanisms for understanding small quark and lepton masses as well as some novel phenomenological aspects of supersymmetry
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High Energy Physics
Hadron collider studies will focus on: (i) the search for the top quark with the newly installed D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, (ii) the upgrade of the D0 detector to match the new main injector luminosity and (iii) R&D on silicon microstrip tracking devices for the SSC. High statistics studies of Z{sup 0} decay will continue with the OPAL detector at LEP. These studies will include a direct measurement of Z decay to neutrinos, the search for Higgs and heavy quark decays of Z. Preparations for the Large Scintillation Neutrino Detector (LSND) to measure neutrino oscillations at LAMPF will focus on data acquisition and testing of photomultiplier tubes. In the theoretical area E. Ma will concentrate on mass-generating radiative mechanisms for light quarks and leptons in renormalizable gauge field theories. J. Wudka`s program includes a detailed investigation of the magnetic-flip approach to the solar neutrino
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