“Inside-out Leadership” Toward Developing Efficacious Leaders Among Academic Deans in State Universities and Colleges

Understanding job performance of academic deans is essential to managing organizations. It is therefore significant to find out job performance of the immediate leaders to measure productivity at work. Learning to navigate within the broader organizational environment and the significant changes in the nature of their workmakes academic dean position stressful and difficult. Along the emotional struggles are with a great sense of loneliness and isolation. Academic deans must turn such struggles into enjoyable tasks because they need to man educational organizations and hold responsible of the activities to achieve the goals placed on their hands.The problem of a dean’s multitudinous responsibilities seemed apparent in modern day educational setting. State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) Region III academic deans were not differently far from the academic deans in general. This research regional in scope was done with the aim at finding out the relationship between Inside-out Leadership and Self-efficacy to the Job Performance of Academic Deans in State and Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Region III for the A.Y. 2016- 2017. The correlational approach was utilized in this study with three questionnaires using RSLQ for Self-efficacy, GSEQ for Self-efficacy, and APR: Dean Evaluation ProcessQuestionnaire for Job Performance as the instruments used in gathering the pertinent data. Findings revealed that ADs were highly efficacious, and were using inside-out strategies to a great extent but the latter skills were not significant to their job performance. Keywords: inside-out leadership, self-efficacy, academic deans, job performanc

An Easier-To-Align Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference Demonstration

The Hong-Ou-Mandel interference experiment is a fundamental demonstration of nonclassical interference and a basis for many investigations of quantum information. This experiment involves the interference of two photons reaching a symmetric beamsplitter. When the photons are made indistinguishable in all possible ways, an interference of quantum amplitudes results in both photons always leaving the same beamsplitter output port. Thus, a scan of distinguishable parameters, such as the arrival time difference of the photons reaching the beamsplitter, produces a dip in the coincidences measured at the outputs of the beamsplitter. The main challenge for its implementation as an undergraduate laboratory is the alignment of the photon paths at the beamsplitter. We overcome this difficulty by using a pre-aligned commercial fiber-coupled beamsplitter. In addition, we use waveplates to vary the distinguishability of the photons by their state of polarization. We present a theoretical description at the introductory quantum mechanics level of the two types of experiments, plus a discussion of the apparatus alignment and list of parts needed

Gas sensor array system inspired on the sensory diversity and redundancy of the olfactory epithelium

AbstractThis paper presents a chemical sensing system that takes inspiration from the combination of sensory diversity and redundancy at the olfactory epithelium to enhance the chemical information obtained from the odorants. The system is based on commercial MOS sensors and achieves, first, diversity trough different types of MOS along with modulation of their temperatures, and second redundancy including 12 MOS sensors for each type (12×8) combined with a high-speed multiplexing system that allows connecting 16 load resistors with each and every one of the 96 sensors in about two seconds. Exposition of the system to ethanol, ammonia, and acetone at different concentrations shows how the system is able to capture a large amount of information of the identity and the concentration of the odorant

Reciprocal osmotic challenges reveal mechanisms of divergence in phenotypic plasticity in the killifish Fundulus heteroclitus

© 2015. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. The killifish Fundulus heteroclitus is an estuarine species with broad physiological plasticity, enabling acclimation to diverse stressors. Previous work suggests that freshwater populations expanded their physiology to accommodate low salinity environments; however, it is unknown whether this compromises their tolerance to high salinity.We used a comparative approach to investigate the mechanisms of a derived freshwater phenotype and the fate of an ancestral euryhaline phenotype after invasion of a freshwater environment. We compared physiological and transcriptomic responses to high-and low-salinity stress in fresh and brackish water populations and found an enhanced plasticity to low salinity in the freshwater population coupled with a reduced ability to acclimate to high salinity. Transcriptomic data identified genes with a conserved common response, a conserved salinity-dependent response and responses associated with population divergence. Conserved common acclimation responses revealed stress responses and alterations in cell-cycle regulation as important mechanisms in the general osmotic response. Salinityspecific responses included the regulation of genes involved in ion transport, intracellular calcium, energetic processes and cellular remodeling. Genes diverged between populations were primarily those showing salinity-specific expression and included those regulating polyamine homeostasis and the cell cycle. Additionally, when populations were matched with their native salinity, expression patterns were consistent with the concept of \u27transcriptomic resilience\u27, suggesting local adaptation. These findings provide insight into the fate of a plastic phenotype after a shift in environmental salinity and help to reveal mechanisms allowing for euryhalinity

Research and Action on Intimate Partner Violence: Interdisciplinary Convergence of Cultural Community Psychology and Cross-Cultural Psychology

An analysis of the respective organizational histories, missions, and scholarly activity of the International Association for Cross-cultural Psychology (IACCP) and the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) indicates many points of shared values and actions, as well as some important differences. Both scholarly organizations developed out of a similar historical and cultural zeitgeist in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Our missions emphasize the role of culture/diversity in psychological phenomena, adopting an interdisciplinary orientation, the value of collaboration, the importance of research methods and ethics, and the value of action research. However, community psychology generally lacks an adequate treatment of cultural phenomena, while cross-cultural psychology often fails to draw on community and participatory methods useful for understanding culture in context. In this chapter, we examine these common roots and differences and then briefly present a study1 of intimate partner violence (IPV) in a community of Latinos in the United States that illustrates the benefits of an interdisciplinary, cultural community psychology. Finally, we propose several actions to develop further an interdisciplinary collaboration between the two fields

Seawater acclimation causes independent alterations in Na \u3csup\u3e+\u3c/sup\u3e/TK\u3csup\u3e+\u3c/sup\u3e- And H\u3csup\u3e+\u3c/sup\u3e-ATPase activity in isolated mitochondria-rich cell subtypes of the rainbow trout gill

Mitochondria-rich cells (MR cells) of the gills of rainbow trout undergo changes in relative distribution and biochemical function during acclimation to partial-strength (10‰) and full-strength (30‰) seawater. In isolated total gill cells, Na+/K+-ATPase activity increased fivefold and H+-ATPase activity decreased fourfold when trout were acclimated to either 10‰ or 30‰ seawater. When total MR gill cells were separated based on differential binding to peanut lectin agglutinin (PNA), the PNA subtypes underwent a change in relative distribution in seawater-acclimated fish. In freshwater, the ratio of PNA-: PNA+ was 65:35 while in seawater the distribution changed to 20:80 PNA-:PNA+. Additionally, differential changes in Na +/K+-ATPase and H+-ATPase activity in each of the independent cell types occurred during seawater acclimation; Na +/K+-ATPase activity in the PNA- cells increased by 197% while in PNA+ cells Na+TK +-ATPase decreased by 57%. However, H+-ATPase activity was decreased in both PNA- (84%) and PNA+ (72%) subtypes during acclimation to seawater

Caracterizacion molecular de aislamientos de sweepovirus que infectan Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. y estudio de sinergismo con el sweet potato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV).

Los sweepovirus forman un grupo dentro del genero Begomovirus que se caracterizan por infectar solo a camote, los cuales comunmente causan infeccion asintomatica, pasando inadvertidos, por lo que su prevalencia y distribucion es desconocida en algunas regiones del mundo. Las infecciones multiples son sinergicamente con otros virus. En el presente estudio, se obtuvieron 48 secuencias a partir de fragmentos de PCR usando cebadores universales para sweepovirus de un total de 239 muestras de camote mantenidas en el banco de germoplasma del Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP). Se seleccionaron y caracterizaron los genomas completos de seis aislamientos de sweepovirus: Peru-6, Mexico-31, Cuba-5, San Vicente, Peru-10 y Jamaica-12, utilizando PCR en sentido inverso para los cuatro primeros aislados y por la polimerasa Phi29 para los ultimos dos. La comparacion completa de los genomas confirmo que los seis virus eran bastante diferentes entre si con un 89 % de identidad a excepcion de Jamaica-12 y Cuba-5 (91 %), y San Vicente y Peru-10 (93 %). Se realizo una evaluacion del sinergismo de cada uno de ellos con el aislamiento M2-47 del SPCSV durante un periodo de 10 semanas. Esta se realizo mediante la expresion de sintomas en plantas de camote variedad "Huachano" con infecciones simples (sweepovirus) y dobles (sweepovirus + SPCSV). La deteccion de los sweepovirus se realizo mediante la prueba de hibridacion de acidos nucleicos y por RT-PCR en tiempo real el SPCSV. Se encontro que existe un sinergismo con una magnitud considerablemente variable entre los titulos de los diferente aislados de sweepovirus y que en la mayoria de los casos no se asocio con sintomas claros. La informacion obtenida en este estudio puede contribuir al diagnostico e identificacion de sweepovirus y el aumento de sus titulos presente en algunas interacciones sinergicas sugiere que pueden tener un impacto en el rendimiento y esto debe ser una prioridad para estudio futuros

People can identify the likely owner of heartbeats by looking at individuals' faces

For more than a century it has been proposed that visceral and vasomotor changes inside the body influence and reflect our experience of the world. For instance, cardiac rhythms (heartbeats and consequent heart rate) reflect psychophysiological processes that underlie our cognition and affective experience. Yet, considering that we usually infer what others do and feel through vision, whether people can identify the most likely owner of a given bodily rhythm by looking at someone's face remains unknown. To address this, we developed a novel two-alternative forced-choice task in which 120 participants watched videos showing two people side by side and visual feedback from one of the individuals' heartbeats in the centre. Participants' task was to select the owner of the depicted heartbeats. Across five experiments, one replication, and supplementary analyses, the results show that: i) humans can judge the most likely owner of a given sequence of heartbeats significantly above chance levels, ii) that performance in such a task decreases when the visual properties of the faces are altered (inverted, masked, static), and iii) that the difference between the heart rates of the individuals portrayed in our 2AFC task seems to contribute to participants' responses. While we did not disambiguate the type of information used by the participants (e.g., knowledge about appearance and health, visual cues from heartbeats), the current work represents the first step to investigate the possible ability to infer or perceive others' cardiac rhythms. Overall, our novel observations and easily adaptable paradigm may generate hypotheses worth examining in the study of human and social cognition