From smart and corporate to urban and edgy: revitalising organisations in turbulent environments

Purpose: This paper aims to address issues surrounding the revitalising of organisations in turbulent environments. Design/methodology/approach: The paper contains a discussion of relevant issues and presentation of research which considers how leaders today are choosing to function in a very uncertain environment, that of higher education. Findings: The characteristics of urban and edgy organisations were all found to be evident in the leaders style in higher education. However, it was identified that this type of leadership rests on two critical axis–Knowledge management (shared and open) and the overarching style of leadership (empowerment and encouragement). Research limitations/implications: This work is introductory and used a small sample as a pilot–further more extensive work is needed in this area. Practical implications: This paper has introduced the idea of a new label for organisations which find themselves to be so full of diversity and differences that they can be characterised as being “on the edge” of danger–yet these organisations have found a way to be something which is separate from that of the urban character–important, flexible, dynamic, and playing a central role in development of new ideas. Originality/value: The contribution made to the discipline of leadership is the introduction of a new way of looking at organisation–the work offers new ways of looking at established ideas, through new lenses which may assist leaders and all who work in large organisations

On mesh refinement and accuracy of numerical solutions

This paper investigates mesh refinement and its relation with the accuracy of the boundary element method (BEM) and the finite element method (FEM). TO this end an isotropic homogeneous spherical volume conductor, for which the analytical solution is available, wag used. The numerical results obtained with the BEM and FEM were compared with the results of the andytical solution. The results show that the accuracy of the numerical solutions is improved by enriching a mesh only if the enriched mesh not only incorporates a greater number of nodes but also follows more closely the actual geometry of the volume conductor involved

Phosphido pincer complexes of platinum: synthesis, structure and reactivity

A series of platinum(II) complexes supported by the tridentate bis(phosphine)phosphido ligand bis(2-diisopropylphosphinophenyl)phosphide) [iPr–PPP] have been synthesized and characterized (1–4). X-Ray structural studies of [iPr–PPP]PtCl (1) and [iPr–PPP]PtCH3 (3) complexes show meridional [iPr–PPP] ligands around approximately square-planar platinum centers. Structural data and NMR analysis highlight a strong trans influence for the phosphido phosphorous donor, comparable to that of the anionic aryl carbon of the classic PCP pincer complexes. A series of thermally stable [PPP]Pt(IV) compounds, including [PPP]Pt(CH_3)_2X [X = I (5) and SbF_6 (6)], were also synthesized. The study of the binding affinity of SO_2 and NO to complex 1 has also been addressed

Crossover literature and age in crisis at the turn of the 21st century : Harry Potter’s kidults and the Twilight moms

At the turn of the 21st century, the widely visible popularity of children’s and young adult literature with adult readers lead literary and social critics to ask whether the inhabitants of Western culture were refusing to grow up. Whilst books had been crossing over the line between the adult and children’s book market ever since the separation into two markets had been introduced, the perceived rise in this traffic led to a felt crisis concerning age and identity. At the example of the Harry Potter and the Twilight novels, Maria Verena Peters analyzes the discourse about childhood, coming of age and adulthood inside and outside the pages of children’s and young adult literature as the 20th century came to an end and a new millennium was beginning. Her analysis suggests that this discourse was determined by an anxiety that without the patriarchal, heterosexual, nuclear family, age cannot serve to produce meaningful identity categories. Beyond the policing of gender and sexuality, the discourse of age in crisis – as the examples of Harry Potter’s kidults and the Twilight moms serve to show – also functions to naturalize notions of class and consumption. In addition to the prominent two novel series of the title, the PhD thesis covers a wide range of popular culture artefacts, from Near Dark to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and from The Big Bang Theory to Hotter than my Daughter. It builds upon key findings of fan studies to uncover the intersectionality of age, gender, class and consumption in the marketing, reception and critique of children’s and young adult literature.Um die letzte Jahrhundertwende sorgte die erhöhte Sichtbarkeit der Popularität von Kinder- und Jugendliteratur bei einer erwachsenen Leserschaft dafür, dass Literatur- und Gesellschaftskritiker die Frage stellten, ob die westliche Gesellschaft sich weigere erwachsen zu werden. Obgleich Bücher über die Grenze zwischen dem Segment für Kinder und dem für Erwachsene hin und her gewandert waren seit der Buchmarkt in diese zwei Hälften geteilt worden war, sorgte der Eindruck eines Anstiegs dieser Grenzüberschreitungen für das Gefühl einer Krise von Alter und Identität. Am Beispiel der Harry Potter- und Twilight-Romane analysiert Maria Verena Peters den Diskurs über Kindheit, Erwachsen-Werden und Erwachsen-Sein um die Wende vom 20. zum 21. Jahrhundert diesseits und jenseits der Romanwelten von Rowling und Meyer. Ihre Analyse fördert zu Tage, dass dieser Diskurs von einer Angst gekennzeichnet ist, dass Alter ohne das Konstrukt der patriarchalen, weißen, heterosexuellen, nuklearen Familie keine bedeutungsvollen Identitätskategorien stiften kann. Abgesehen vom Regulieren von Geschlechterrollen und Sexualität naturalisiert der Diskurs von Alter in der Krise auch die soziale Klasse und den Konsum, wie die Beispiele der „Kidults“ im Zusammenhang mit Harry Potter und der sogenannten „Twilight Moms“ zeigen. Zusätzlich zu den titelstiftenden zwei Romanreihen behandelt diese Dissertationsschrift eine weite Bandbreite popkultureller Artefakte, wie z.B. Near Dark, The Big Bang Theory, Buffy the Vampire Slayer und Hotter than my Daughter. Aufbauend auf den Erkenntnissen der fan studies wird die Intersektionalität von Alter, Geschlechterrollen, Klasse und Konsum in der Vermarktung, Rezeption und Kritik von Kinder- und Jugendliteratur aufgezeigt

A new family, Coryphoridae (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerelloidea), and description of the winged and egg stages of Coryphorus

A new family Coryphoridae is proposed in the superfamily Ephemerelloidea for the monotypic genus Coryphorus. Characters that distinguish Coryphoridae from all other Ephemerelloidea are discussed. The male imago, male subimago, female imago, and egg of Coryphorus aquilus Peters are described for the first time.Se propone a Coryphoridae como una nueva familia de Ephemerelloidea para el genero monotipico Coryphorus. Se discuten los caracteres que distinguen a Coryphoridae del resto de los Ephemerelloidea. Se describen por primera vez el imago macho, subimago macho, imago hembra y huevo de Coryphorus aquilus Peters

CLEF 2005: Ad Hoc track overview

We describe the objectives and organization of the CLEF 2005 ad hoc track and discuss the main characteristics of the tasks offered to test monolingual, bilingual and multilingual textual document retrieval. The performance achieved for each task is presented and a preliminary analysis of results is given. The paper focuses in particular on the multilingual tasks which reused the test collection created in CLEF 2003 in an attempt to see if an improvement in system performance over time could be measured, and also to examine the multilingual results merging problem

Metabolic and Mechanistic Studies in the Safety Evaluation of Trans-Cinnamaldehyde

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