Shaping the Landscape with Landmark Advocacy

For Stan Herr, public service is not something to do on the side

"It's Hands-On...": Cultivating Mentors and Emerging Social Justice Leaders through Shared Project Development: Documenting the Intergenerational and Community Dialogues: A Leadership for a Changing World Initiative

The Leadership for a Changing World (LCW) program seeks to transform the public perception that the U.S. is facing a shortage of leaders to address social, environmental, and economic issues within communities. The program asserts that leadership does exist, albeit in a form that is different from traditional understandings of leadership. LCW shifts the conversation about leadership to include leaders known in their own communities, but not known broadly. Over five years (2001-2005), the LCW program recognized 92 individual leaders and leadership teams based in organizations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. As the program began to come to a close in 2005, the partners developed the idea of a regional forum, the Intergenerational and Community Dialogues, to address recurring concerns that award recipients identified: leadership development, succession, and the creation of sustainable community collaborations. The forum brought together LCW award recipients and emerging leaders from the Pacific Northwest to investigate and explore the challenges and opportunities of intergenerational leadership and community collaboration. This report documents the main ideas that emerged from the conversations of forum participants who explored their experiences cultivating mentors, leaders, and collaborative relationships. It is our hope that this document captures the perspectives, concerns, significant accomplishments, and energetic spirit of the initiative's participants

Jolly Good Fellows

Two recent graduates, who received prestigious national fellowships, are following in Professor Stan Herr\u27s footsteps. Their work at the Maryland Disability Law Center will benefit Baltimore\u27s handicapped community

Making the Invisible Heard: German-Kurdish Cultural Organizations and Transnational Networks

The increasing corpus of theoretical literature on transnationalism remains to be applied to many of the transnational migrant communities which have developed since the advent of modern globalization. This literary essay seeks to provide a perspective on the German-Kurdish community in Berlin, and how they fit into the larger European and Kurdish contexts. It illustrates the convergence of opportunities and disadvantages that German-Kurds face in Berlin, while also investigating what it means to be a Berliner-Kurd. The literary essay accordingly explores the role of language, cultural organizations, and regional networks. In doing so, it is hoped that topics about German-Kurds and transnationalism can be highlighted for further study

Boltzmann-Gibbs Entropy Versus Tsallis Entropy: Recent Contributions to Resolving the Argument of Einstein Concerning "Neither Herr Boltzmann nor Herr Planck has given a definition of W"?

Classical statistical mechanics of macroscopic systems in equilibrium is based on Boltzmann's principle. Tsallis has proposed a generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics. Its relation to dynamics and nonextensivity of statistical systems are matters of intense investigation and debate. This essay review has been prepared at the occasion of awarding the 'Mexico Prize for Science and Technology 2003'to Professor Constantino Tsallis from the Brazilian Center for Research in Physics.Comment: 5 pages, LaTe

Characterization of SF-hERR[beta] repression of human estrogen receptor alpha and estrogen receptor-beta transcriptional activities

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on September 10, 2010).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Dissertation advisor: Dr. Dennis B. Lubahn.Vita.Ph. D. University of Missouri--Columbia 2009.Discovery of new ways to modulate estrogen actions through estrogen receptor is always exciting because of the importance of estrogen and ERs in many human diseases. In this dissertation, we report our discovery of the cross-talk between SF-hERRb and hERs and the mechanism of this cross-talk. We found that SF-hERR[beta] is able to repress the transcriptional activities of hER[alpha] and hER[beta] in various cell lines. This inhibitory effect of SF-hERR[beta] is not through alterations of estradiol binding to hERs. SF-hERRb does not inhibit hERs through direct Estrogen Response Element (ERE) competition. SF-hERR[beta] induces no alterations in hERs protein concentrations. SF-hERR[beta] inhibition of hERs is not through competition/sequestration for PGC-1[alpha], though PGC-1[alpha] can be involved. The A/B domain of hERa and the A/B and D domains of SF-hERR[beta] are required for this inhibition. We determined that SF-hERR[beta] forms complexes with hER[alpha]/hER[beta]. In addition, DY131, a hERR[beta]/hERR[gamma] specific agonist can inhibit hER and SF-hERR[beta] positive human breast cancer MCF-7 cell growth. These findings provide us novel approaches to regulate hERs activities which may lead to discovery of new therapeutic targets for ER-dependent diseases.Includes bibliographical reference

Assessing brand image through communalitites and asymmetries brand-to-attribute and attribute-to-brand associations.

Brand image is a key component of customer-based brand equity, and refers to the associations a consumer holds in memory. Such associations are often directional; one should distinguish between brand-to-attribute and attribute-to-brand associations. Information on these associations arise from two ways of collecting data respectively: brand-by-brand evaluations of all attributes and attribute-by-attribute evaluations of all brands. In this paper, the authors present a methodological approach, namely correspondence analysis of matched matrices, to assess the communalitites as well as asymmetries between brand-to-attribute and attribute-to-brand associations. The methodology results in perceptual maps visualizing brand image. The approach is illustrated in an empirical market research project in which two samples of consumers evaluated ten brands of deodorants and eleven attributes

Franz Ignaz I. Des heiligen Römischen Reiches. Graf und Herr von und zu Sprinzenstein und Neuhaus

FRANZ IGNAZ I. DES HEILIGEN RÖMISCHEN REICHES. GRAF UND HERR VON UND ZU SPRINZENSTEIN UND NEUHAUS Franz Ignaz I. Des heiligen Römischen Reiches. Graf und Herr von und zu Sprinzenstein und Neuhaus (1