Empowering Muslim Women Though Executive Coaching & Mentoring

This paper examines the role and effect of executive coaching and mentoring on the empowerment of Muslim women and enhancing their levels of contribution. It further substantiates the manner in which executive coaching can accommodate both the nature and needs of Muslim women while further unleashing her respective talents, creativity and skills. The study further highlights the role and significance of coaching in spheres relevant to family, as well as social and career development. This study highlights the use of the strategic technique for personal and leadership development set to explore talents, leaders and implicit abilities. Moreover, it exhibits the flexibility of self-coaching and its appropriateness for Muslim women, especially concerning self-development, which in turn influences social and institutional development. This inquiry highlights a number of practical results which emphasizes the viability and efficacy of executive coaching on personal and institutional levels as far as the making of better world for Muslim women is concerned

Computed tomography and the measurement of enamel thickness in extant hominoids: implications for its palaeontological application

Isolated permanent lower molars of Homo sapiens, Pan troglodytes and Gorilla gorilla were imaged by computed tomography (CT) using a 1,5 mm thick section through the mesial cusps. The teeth were examined dry and immersed in water. Measurements of enamel thickness were made on enlargements of hard copy images. Following CT examination, the crowns were sectioned in the same plane, and the cut faces with maximum dentine content were micrographed for measurement using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Enamel thickness measurements from the CT images were noticeably exaggerated compared to the ideal (sectioned) values, and the CT values for dry specimen images were even larger than those for wet specimen images. These results indicate that CT cannot be employed to measure enamel thickness with any degree of reliability in modem specimens. There is no close correspondence between the SEM and CT values; therefore, the latter cannot even be used to predict the actual values. Thus, the application of CT in the measurement of enamel thickness in fossils is rather dubious.National Science Foundation NSF BNS-89869

Postcanine tooth function and jaw movement in the gomphodont cynodont Diademodon (Reptilia; Therapsida)

Main articleThe postcanine dentition of Diademodon was well adapted, in both morphology and pattern of replacement, to exercising and maintaining precise occlusion. These teeth may be grouped into three morphological classes, consisting of conical, gomphodont and sectorial teeth. The anterior conicals may have acted as gripping teeth, and the posterior sectorials may have been utilized as food "tenderizers" or shredders, while the intermediate gomphodont teeth were utilized in the mastication of food items. The gomphodont teeth, which show evidence of heavy wear, were examined in the scanning electron microscope (SEM), in order to attempt a reconstruction of the masticatory jaw movements in this animal, based on the morphology and orientation of the occlusal wear facets. The occlusal surfaces of the gomphodont teeth are pitted. The pitted occlusal surface texture is an indication of either abrasion or attrition, resulting from direct pounding of the lower teeth against their maxillary antagonists. It is concluded that masticatory jaw movements in Diademodon were wholly orthal. There is no dental evidence to support the contention that this reptile exercised either propalinal (Hopson, 1971) or ectental chewing movements. The jaw closing action in Diademodon appears to have been equivalent to the masticatory power stroke.The Medical Referees' Fund of the Department of Anatomy, University of the Witwatersrand

Notes on a specimen of Diademodon previously referred to Cyclogomphodon

Main articleThe anterior portion of the cranium of a medium-sized cynodont is described. The specimen was previously described briefly by Brink and Kitching (1953 ), who assigned it to the genus Cyclogomphodon Broom, and it was upon this specimen that they based their rediagnosis of that genus. The detailed study of this specimen has revealed that the supposed features which they considered to be generically distinctive for Cyclogomphodon either do not exist or that their validity falls away when this specimen is considered, in an ontogenetic context, as a not yet fully grown individual. It is concluded that this fossil represents a medium-sized, "juvenile", individual of DiademodonNon

The effect of steam as a combustion retarding agent in the gasification of crude oil by partial combustion

Investigations of the effect of steam used as a combustion retarding agent to prevent the formation of free carbon, or lamp black by-product in the gasification of crude oil by partial combustion to make producer gas --page ii

The effect of steam as a combustion retarding agent in the gasification of crude oil by partial combustion

Investigations of the effect of steam used as a combustion retarding agent to prevent the formation of free carbon, or lamp black by-product in the gasification of crude oil by partial combustion to make producer gas --page ii

Quantitative Analysis of Occlusal Microwear in Australopithecus and Paranthropus

Quantitative analysis of microwear features preserved on the occlusal surfaces of the M2s of southern African specimens of Australopithecus and Paranthropus (the so-called \u27gracile\u27 and \u27robust\u27 australopithecines) reveals that there is no striking relationship in either taxon between occlusal facet inclination and the incidence of wear features. Within each taxon, Phase I and Phase II facets tend to differ in a similar manner in the total number of wear features, the percentage frequency of pitting, and in the orientation of wear scratches. Nevertheless, Paranthropus molars tend to display significantly greater numbers of microwear features on both Phase I and II facets than do Australopithecus homologues, and Paranthropus molars also evince significantly higher proportions of occlusal pitting on these surfaces. Paranthropus and Australopithecus crowns also differ significantly in the degree by which the occlusal wear scratches vary in their orientation. On each facet, Australopithecus tooth scratches display a greater degree of directional similarity. The differences between the Phase I and Phase II facets of Australopithecus and Paranthropus M2s suggest that the dietary items involved in the production of these observed patterns differed also. The diets of these Plio-Pleistocene hominids appear to have been qualitatively dissimilar

PATCO Strike: A New Beginning For Labor Relations

While the actual events of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike against the federal government have faded into history, the results of the strike will live forever in the new management/labor relationship that exists, not only in the federal government, but all levels of government and civilian enterprise. The results of the disastrous failure of the strike destroyed thousands of careers and left all levels of organized labor to foresee their now limited options available for negotiations with management. This independent study will attempt to inform the reader of the causes of the PATCO disaster and the miscalculations (on both sides) that resulted in personal tragedy for the union, and absolute victory for the federal government. The sources for the information contained herein are the fifty-seven magazines listed in the bibliography

Idiopathic (immune) thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura