The structure that builds the movement

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-111).Many community organizing groups want to expand their effectiveness exponentially. Based on my experience one of the things that seems to be holding them back is frustrations group leaders express about the ambiguity of their roles. As an anthropologist and community organizer I have always paid attention to organizational structure and often saw these frustrations as related to the structure of organizations and their leadership. This study is an effort to understand the link between organizational structure and effectiveness. I investigate this link by looking at what an organization does to achieve one of its goals, leadership development, and analyze how its structure enables it to achieve this goal. The organization I study is City Life/Vida Urbana which is located in Boston and fights against evictions from post foreclosed homes. Building off of City Life's understanding of leadership development I developed a framework for understanding and evaluating deep leadership development. This framework shows how systematically paying attention to listening and dialogue in particular sites uncovers evidence of the development of self, relational and systemic knowledge. This study uses an ethnographic method that focuses on organizational meetings. This method shows how meeting components like the setting, participants and speech style, and combinations of these components in the planning and execution of a meeting, all influence leadership development outcomes. Once City Life's leadership development outcomes have been explained, I explain their organizational structure by analyzing these outcomes through the lens of organizational theory. This analysis reveals how their structure operates and which structural components enable and disable deep leadership development.by Alex Goldenberg.M.C.P

Design of Automotive Center Pillar Reinforcement to Resist Roof Crush

ME450 Capstone Design and Manufacturing Experience: Fall 2007A major role of automotive engineers is to improve fuel efficiency and vehicle safety. However, it is very difficult to improve both of these requirements at the same time. Our team was asked to aid with the design of structural reinforcements in hopes to improve the roof crush strength, but minimize the weight of the automobile body center pillar, also known as the B-pillar. This design would be able to resist roof crush during vehicle rollover accidents when subjected to forces defined by the United States government regulation FMVSS 216. In addition, the design will be able to resist larger forces. Our group focused on the Ford F-150 Crew Cab.Ford Motor Companyhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57954/1/me450f07project24_report.pd

Place Based Learning Community Planning Guide

The introduction of Place Based Learning Communities (PBLCs) at HSU in 2015 has become an increasingly discussed topic throughout the university. We use the term “Learning Community” in its strictest sense - a curricular approach to education that intentionally links a cluster of courses around an interdisciplinary theme and enrolls a common cohort of students. The production of higher GPAs and retention and significant achievement gap closure among the HSU PBLC cohorts is undeniable. All components are comprehensive in the fact that they build a sense of community, belonging, and accountability within the students which serve as factors for higher retention and academic success. Each class, event, study session, field trip, and staff and faculty member are all parts of what make PBLC such a success. There are many components that need to be established and collaborations that need to be formed in order to make student achievement possible. In this manual, you will read what these components and collaborations look like and upon conclusion you will understand what goes into creating a successful Place Based Learning Community

Ireland’s Emerging Cyber Crisis: An Online Decentralized Movement for Nationalist Violence and Anti-Immigration/Muslim Attacks

In recent years, Ireland has seen an influx of immigrants and refugees during an ongoing housing crisis fueled by labor shortages. The majority of those affected by the housing crisis are Irish nationals. A campaign of real-world mobillizations has arisen in wake of the refugee and housing crisis, with hundreds of protests in Ireland between November 2022 and April 2023. Migrants are being physcially assaulted, demonstrating the movement’s potential for violence. In the Cyber-social domain these mobilizations are rapidly spurring a decentralized social movement which uses hashtags such as #Irelandisfull, and references Ireland along with white identitarian/supremacy terms and the Great Replacement conspiracy. These terms have nearly doubled since November of 2022 and Ireland now appears as an emerging online flashpoint for global ethnic nationalist movements. Along with these terms, NCRI notes surges in inflammatory generalizations about immigrants, and misrepresent immigrants as collectively dangerous, despite no significant correlation between the arrival of migrants and crime rates in Ireland. Complete with cartoonish and violent memes on subcultural forums and White genocide conspiracy theories, NCRI assesses that should this online, ultra-nationalist, anti-immigrant movement continue growing in its current trajectory, Ireland will face dramatic increases in anti-immigrant and anti-democratic mobiliizations and violenc

Bacterial Toxicity of Potassium Tellurite: Unveiling an Ancient Enigma

Biochemical, genetic, enzymatic and molecular approaches were used to demonstrate, for the first time, that tellurite (TeO(3) (2−)) toxicity in E. coli involves superoxide formation. This radical is derived, at least in part, from enzymatic TeO(3) (2−) reduction. This conclusion is supported by the following observations made in K(2)TeO(3)-treated E. coli BW25113: i) induction of the ibpA gene encoding for the small heat shock protein IbpA, which has been associated with resistance to superoxide, ii) increase of cytoplasmic reactive oxygen species (ROS) as determined with ROS-specific probe 2′7′-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (H(2)DCFDA), iii) increase of carbonyl content in cellular proteins, iv) increase in the generation of thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARs), v) inactivation of oxidative stress-sensitive [Fe-S] enzymes such as aconitase, vi) increase of superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, vii) increase of sodA, sodB and soxS mRNA transcription, and viii) generation of superoxide radical during in vitro enzymatic reduction of potassium tellurite

A comprehensive overview of radioguided surgery using gamma detection probe technology

The concept of radioguided surgery, which was first developed some 60 years ago, involves the use of a radiation detection probe system for the intraoperative detection of radionuclides. The use of gamma detection probe technology in radioguided surgery has tremendously expanded and has evolved into what is now considered an established discipline within the practice of surgery, revolutionizing the surgical management of many malignancies, including breast cancer, melanoma, and colorectal cancer, as well as the surgical management of parathyroid disease. The impact of radioguided surgery on the surgical management of cancer patients includes providing vital and real-time information to the surgeon regarding the location and extent of disease, as well as regarding the assessment of surgical resection margins. Additionally, it has allowed the surgeon to minimize the surgical invasiveness of many diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, while still maintaining maximum benefit to the cancer patient. In the current review, we have attempted to comprehensively evaluate the history, technical aspects, and clinical applications of radioguided surgery using gamma detection probe technology

Canagliflozin and Cardiovascular and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary and Secondary Cardiovascular Prevention Groups

Background: Canagliflozin reduces the risk of kidney failure in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease, but effects on specific cardiovascular outcomes are uncertain, as are effects in people without previous cardiovascular disease (primary prevention). Methods: In CREDENCE (Canagliflozin and Renal Events in Diabetes With Established Nephropathy Clinical Evaluation), 4401 participants with type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease were randomly assigned to canagliflozin or placebo on a background of optimized standard of care. Results: Primary prevention participants (n=2181, 49.6%) were younger (61 versus 65 years), were more often female (37% versus 31%), and had shorter duration of diabetes mellitus (15 years versus 16 years) compared with secondary prevention participants (n=2220, 50.4%). Canagliflozin reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events overall (hazard ratio [HR], 0.80 [95% CI, 0.67-0.95]; P=0.01), with consistent reductions in both the primary (HR, 0.68 [95% CI, 0.49-0.94]) and secondary (HR, 0.85 [95% CI, 0.69-1.06]) prevention groups (P for interaction=0.25). Effects were also similar for the components of the composite including cardiovascular death (HR, 0.78 [95% CI, 0.61-1.00]), nonfatal myocardial infarction (HR, 0.81 [95% CI, 0.59-1.10]), and nonfatal stroke (HR, 0.80 [95% CI, 0.56-1.15]). The risk of the primary composite renal outcome and the composite of cardiovascular death or hospitalization for heart failure were also consistently reduced in both the primary and secondary prevention groups (P for interaction >0.5 for each outcome). Conclusions: Canagliflozin significantly reduced major cardiovascular events and kidney failure in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease, including in participants who did not have previous cardiovascular disease