465 research outputs found
Strategic Planning for University-Based Executive Education Programs: Success Factors and Design Alternatives
There appears to be a growing interest among B-schools in providing continuing management education. The trend toward meeting demands of changing business and learning environments â and responding to the obsolescence of various management disciplines -- has encouraged growth in non-degree, professional development programs. Some of these programs are generic in nature, while others are more specialized, depending on the perceived strengths and interests of the schools and the areas faculty choose to emphasize
Clio: Digital Transformation of Legal Practice - At COVID-19 Speed
Professional services firms face evolving client needs and can better meet these needs through digital transformation. We offer the case of Clio, a leading provider of cloud-based legal technology for law firms to better serve their clients. In this role, Clio provides an example of how digital transformation happens â both before and after the dramatic transformation triggered by the COVID-19 shutdowns. With the onset of COVID-19, the company recognized that remote client access and services, previously embraced by early adopters, would now become essential for all law firmsâ survival. The companyâs response resulted in dramatic growth and the transition from a customer base of early adopters to customers spanning most of the innovation adoption curve. Clioâs success throughout this period is attributable to three core elements of the companyâs strategy: (1) Deep, culturally-rooted commitment to customer success, (2) Research-based understanding of the needs of both law firms and their clients, and (3) Industry thought leadership and assistance. These elements generalize beyond Clio and the pandemic and will help guide any organization seeking to become not just a vendor but an essential partner to its customers
Automorphy lifting for residually reducible -adic Galois representations, II
We prove new automorphy lifting theorems for residually reducible Galois
representations of unitary type in which the residual representation is
permitted to have an arbitrary number of irreducible constituents.Comment: Accepted versio
Civil Gideon and NYCâs Universal Access: Why Comprehensive Public Benefits Advocacy Is Essential to Preventing Evictions and Creating Stability
Field testing a novel high residence positioning system for monitoring the fineâscale movements of aquatic organisms
1. Acoustic telemetry is an important tool for studying the behaviour of aquatic organisms in the wild.
2. VEMCO high residence (HR) tags and receivers are a recent introduction in the field of acoustic telemetry and can be paired with existing algorithms (e.g. VEMCO positioning system [VPS]) to obtain highâresolution twoâdimensional positioning data.
3. Here, we present results of the first documented field test of a VPS composed of HR receivers (hereafter, HRâVPS). We performed a series of stationary and moving trials with HR tags (mean HR transmission period = 1.5 s) to evaluate the precision, accuracy and temporal capabilities of this positioning technology. In addition, we present a sample of data obtained for five European perch Perca fluviatilis implanted with HR tags (mean HR transmission period = 4 s) to illustrate how this technology can estimate the fineâscale behaviour of aquatic animals.
4. Accuracy and precision estimates (median [5thâ95th percentile]) of HRâVPS positions for all stationary trials were 5.6 m (4.2â10.8 m) and 0.1 m (0.02â0.07 m), respectively, and depended on the location of tags within the receiver array. In moving tests, tracks generated by HRâVPS closely mimicked those produced by a handheld GPS held over the tag, but these differed in location by an average of â9 m.
5. We found that estimates of animal speed and distance travelled for perch declined when positional data for acoustically tagged perch were thinned to mimic longer transmission periods. These data also revealed a tradeâoff between capturing real nonlinear animal movements and the inclusion of positioning error.
6. Our results suggested that HRâVPS can provide more representative estimates of movement metrics and offer an advancement for studying fineâscale movements of aquatic organisms, but highâprecision survey techniques may be needed to test these systems
Depth alone is an inappropriate proxy for physiological change in the mesophotic coral Agaricia lamarcki
The physiology of mesophotic Scleractinia varies with depth in response to environmental change. Previous research has documented trends in heterotrophy and photosynthesis with depth, but has not addressed between-site variation for a single species. Environmental differences between sites at a local scale and heterogeneous microhabitats, because of irradiance and food availability, are likely important factors when explaining the occurrence and physiology of Scleractinia. Here, 108 colonies of Agaricia lamarcki were sampled from two locations off the coast of Utila, Honduras, distributed evenly down the observed 50 m depth range of the species. We found that depth alone was not sufficient to fully explain physiological variation. Pulse Amplitude-Modulation fluorometry and stable isotope analyses revealed that trends in photochemical and heterotrophic activity with depth varied markedly between sites. Our isotope analyses do not support an obligate link between photosynthetic activity and heterotrophic subsidy with increasing depth. We found that A. lamarcki colonies at the bottom of the species depth range can be physiologically similar to those nearer the surface. As a potential explanation, we hypothesize sites with high topographical complexity, and therefore varied microhabitats, may provide more physiological niches distributed across a larger depth range. Varied microhabitats with depth may reduce the dominance of depth as a physiological determinant. Thus, A. lamarcki may âavoidâ changes in environment with depth, by instead existing in a subset of favourable niches. Our observations correlate with site-specific depth ranges, advocating for linking physiology and abiotic profiles when defining the distribution of mesophotic taxa
Screening Historical Sexualities: A Roundtable on Sodomy, South Africa, and Proteus
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Proteus (2003; 100 min., Canada and South Africa) is a low-budget feature film, directed by John Greyson (Toronto) and Jack Lewis (Cape Town), that made the international rounds of âart cinemaâ and queer festivals in 2003 and 2004, with limited theatrical release in New York, Toronto, and other cities. The film advances Greysonâs and Lewisâs experiments with political essay-narrative forms both in their respective documentary, experimental, and dramatic videos dating back to the early 1980s (including Lewisâs Apostles of Civilized Vice [1999]) and in Greysonâs theatrical feature films beginning with Urinal in 1988. Based on an early-eighteenth-century court record, Proteus narrates the meeting, sexual relationship, and eventual trial and execution for sodomy of two prisoners in the Dutch Cape Colony, the Dutchman Rijkhaart Jacobsz and the Khoi Claas Blank. Subsidiary narratives focus on the Scottish botanist Virgil Niven, who observed the prisoners, and on the contemporaneous crackdown on sodomites in Amsterdam. GLQ initiated the following âvirtual conversationâ among the two directors, Israeli queer legal theorist Noa Ben-Asher, American film scholar R. Bruce Brasell, American film critic Daniel Garrett, and South African historian Susan Newton-King. Though it will âspoilâ the plot for readers who have not seen the movie, we offer it as a lively debate about one of the more interesting entries in the new ânew queer cinema.â The debate explores the precarious and artful interrelationship of histories, nations, narratives, and the law; cinematic intent and spectatorial interpretation; same-sexuality, conjugality, and difference; and even, as one participant dares to put it, love
The Mediating Effects of Self-Esteem on Anxiety and Emotion Regulation.
Individuals with anxiety disorders maladaptively appraise interpersonal threat cues leading to inaccurate interpretations of the self and others. However, little is known about the factors that mediate this association, therefore, the main aim of this study was to examine the relationship between state and trait anxiety, self-esteem, and emotion regulation strategies: reappraisal and suppression. Young adults aged between 18-26âyears participated in the study. They completed a set of self-reports measuring emotion regulation, self-esteem, state-trait anxiety, and positive and negative attributes. Participants also completed an experimental task, using the dot-probe paradigm, which measures threat bias and response inhibition. The findings showed that trait and state anxiety predicted suppression, reappraisal, and internalising problems, and is linked to response inhibition. Importantly, low self-esteem, significantly mediated the relationship between increased anxiety and suppression. Taken together, these results show specific associations between emotion regulation and anxiety, highlighting the significant impact of self-esteem in young adults
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