Revenue Embeddedness and Competing Institutional Logics: How Nonprofit Leaders Connect Earned Revenue to Mission and Organizational Identity

The increasing reliance on earned revenue displayed by nonprofits in the US has raised mission-related organizational identity concerns. However, the effect of a market-driven activity on mission-driven service may vary based on revenue embeddedness: the activity’s connection to the organization’s mission. This study draws on the competing logics of isomorphism and resource dependence to examine how the pursuit of earned revenue affects the organization’s perception of its mission and projection of identity. The authors examine how leaders use language to connect market to mission, presents additional dimensions of embeddedness, and offers propositions for future research

Poor little Rich Girl, What Does She Know About Misery? : The Significance and Symbolism of Rose in James Cameron\u27s Titanic

This thesis draws attention to and analyzes the various choices made by James Cameron for the characterization of Rose in Titanic, which is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary. While many scholars have defined the hidden meaning behind other directorial aspects, this thesis will take a more interpretive approach in connecting Rose\u27s character journey to her changing appearance on screen, her character defining actions and words, and her overall relationship with Jack. Rose reveals herself as a strong, modern woman throughout the film, and serves as an example of how costume design and dialogue and action mirrors the personal growth of a character

The Nucleus of Comet 10P/Tempel 2 in 2013 and Consequences Regarding Its Rotational State: Early Science from the Discovery Channel Telescope

We present new lightcurve measurements of Comet 10P/Tempel 2 carried out with Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel Telescope in early 2013 when the comet was at aphelion. These data represent some of the first science obtained with this new 4.3-m facility. With Tempel 2 having been observed to exhibit a small but ongoing spin-down in its rotation period for over two decades, our primary goals at this time were two-fold. First, to determine its current rotation period and compare it to that measured shortly after its most recent perihelion passage in 2010, and second, to disentangle the spin-down from synodic effects due to the solar day and the Earth's orbital motion and to determine the sense of rotation, i.e. prograde or retrograde. At our midpoint of 2013 Feb 24, the observed synodic period is 8.948+/-0.001 hr, exactly matching the predicted prograde rotation solution based on 2010 results, and yields a sidereal period of the identical value due to the solar and Earth synodic components just canceling out during the interval of the 2013 observations. The retrograde solution is ruled out because the associated sidereal periods in 2010 and 2013 are quite different even though we know that extremely little outgassing, needed to produce torques, occurred in this interval. With a definitive sense of rotation, the specific amounts of spin-down to the sidereal period could be assessed. The nominal values imply that the rate of spin-down has decreased over time, consistent with the secular drop in water production since 1988. Our data also exhibited an unexpectedly small lightcurve amplitude which appears to be associated with viewing from a large, negative sub-Earth latitude, and a lightcurve shape deviating from a simple sinusoid implying a highly irregularly shaped nucleus.Comment: Accepted by AJ; 12 pages of text (pre-print style), 3 tables, 2 figure

Visualization of trans-Homolog Enhancer-Promoter Interactions at the Abd-B Hox Locus in the Drosophila Embryo

AbstractThe Hox gene Abdominal-B (Abd-B) controls the morphogenesis of posterior abdominal segments in Drosophila. Expression is regulated by a series of 3′ enhancers that are themselves transcribed. RNA FISH was used to visualize nascent transcripts associated with coding and noncoding regions of Abd-B in developing embryos. Confocal imaging suggests that distal enhancers often loop to the Abd-B promoter region. Surprisingly, enhancers located on one chromosome frequently associate with the Abd-B transcription unit located on the other homolog. These trans-homolog interactions can be interpreted as the direct visualization of a genetic phenomenon known as transvection, whereby certain mutations in Abd-B can be rescued in trans by the other copy of the gene. A 10 kb sequence in the 3′ flanking region mediates tight pairing of Abd-B alleles, thereby facilitating trans looping of distal enhancers. Such trans-homolog interactions might be a common mechanism of gene regulation in higher metazoans