Hiding Behind the Title: Bridging the Gap Between Identity and Leadership Through Neuroscience, Emotional Intelligence and Ethical Management

Leadership is the key determinant in the success of any organization, and leaders have an immeasurable impact on the lives and performances of those they have been entrusted to develop, support and lead. School principals are an integral part of the leadership tapestry within society and many people have been impacted by a school principal. Often enough, there are individuals who lead with or behind their title versus understanding first who they are intrinsically, and then working through those dynamics to effectively lead their own lives. When leaders are able to do this, then and only then are they equipped and qualified to assist others in effectively and ethically developing their lives. When leaders display negative and unethical interpersonal characteristics, it impacts the people within an organization. Minimal research has been conducted on how leaders, specifically school leaders’ formative years have influenced who they have become as self-leaders and consequently leaders within their organization. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to examine how a leader\u27s life experiences and self-knowledge influenced them as self-leaders in the areas of emotional intelligence, ethical decision making and therefore leaders in their school community. Interviews and a workshop were conducted with five school principals working in public elementary schools in the Midwest. This study used two frameworks, emotional intelligent competency, and ethical management. This research was guided by the following questions: 1) How does a leader’s formative years influence self-identity and leadership of others? and 2) How does training in building of emotional intelligence and ethical management positively impact self-reported efficacy of leaders? Themes emerged from the interviews and workshop data describing the lived experiences of these participants. The themes were: 1) parental influence, 2) faith, 3) self-reflection connected to leadership, 4) mental exhaustion, 5) compromised ethics and 6) better equipped with prior knowledge. Findings suggested one’s formative years, specifically parental influence had a significant impact on adults’ emotional competence and leadership ability, and pressure from school leaders’ bosses – district office was a key factor in compromising their ethics. Also, participants believed coursework during their principal preparation program or extensive workshops as novice leaders, in self-identity, emotional competencies and ethical management would have better prepared them to lead others

Mass Spectrometry-based Methods for Phosphorylation Site Mapping of Hyperphosphorylated Proteins Applied to Net1, a Regulator of Exit from Mitosis in Yeast

Prior to anaphase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cdc14 protein phosphatase is sequestered within the nucleolus and inhibited by Net1, a component of the RENT complex in budding yeast. During anaphase the RENT complex disassembles, allowing Cdc14 to migrate to the nucleus and cytoplasm where it catalyzes exit from mitosis. The mechanism of Cdc14 release appears to involve the polo-like kinase Cdc5, which is capable of promoting the dissociation of a recombinant Net1·Cdc14 complex in vitro by phosphorylation of Net1. We report here the phosphorylation site mapping of recombinant Net1 (Net1N) and a mutant Net1N allele (Net1N-19m) with 19 serines or threonines mutated to alanine. A variety of chromatographic and mass spectrometric-based strategies were used, including immobilized metal-affinity chromatography, alkaline phosphatase treatment, matrix-assisted laser-desorption post-source decay, and a multidimensional electrospray mass spectrometry-based approach. No one approach was able to identify all phosphopeptides in the tryptic digests of these proteins. Most notably, the presence of a basic residue near the phosphorylated residue significantly hampered the ability of alkaline phosphatase to hydrolyze the phosphate moiety. A major goal of research in proteomics is to identify all proteins and their interactions and post-translational modification states. The failure of any single method to identify all sites in highly phosphorylated Net1N, however, raises significant concerns about how feasible it is to map phosphorylation sites throughout the proteome using existing technologies

Are Neuronal Mechanisms of Attentional Modulation Universal Across Human Sensory and Motor Brain Maps?

One\u27s experience of shifting attention from the color to the smell to the act of picking a flower seems like a unitary process applied, at will, to one modality after another. Yet, the unique experience of sight vs smell vs movement might suggest that the neural mechanisms of attention have been selectively optimized to employ each modality to greatest advantage. Relevant experimental data can be difficult to compare across modalities due to design and methodological heterogeneity. Here we outline some of the issues related to this problem and suggest how experimental data can be obtained across modalities using more uniform methods and measurements. The ultimate goal is to spur efforts across disciplines to provide a large and varied database of empirical observations that will either support the notion of a universal neural substrate for attention or more clearly identify to what degree attentional mechanisms are specialized for each modality

The use of agricultural machinery in Pichincha province, Ecuador.

Dept. of Geography. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1974 .H84. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1974

Reductive C−C Coupling from α,β‐Unsaturated Nitriles by Intercepting Keteniminates

We present an atom‐economic strategy to catalytically generate and intercept nitrile anion equivalents using hydrogen transfer catalysis. Addition of α,β‐unsaturated nitriles to a pincer‐based Ru−H complex affords structurally characterized κ‐N‐coordinated keteniminates by selective 1,4‐hydride transfer. When generated in situ under catalytic hydrogenation conditions, electrophilic addition to the keteniminate was achieved using anhydrides to provide α‐cyanoacetates in high yields. This work represents a new application of hydrogen transfer catalysis using α,β‐unsaturated nitriles for reductive C−C coupling reactions.An atom‐economic strategy to catalytically generate and intercept nitrile anion equivalents by hydrogen transfer catalysis has been developed. Addition of α,β‐unsaturated nitriles to a pincer‐based Ru−H complex affords keteniminates by selective 1,4‐hydride transfer, which were employed in a net hydrogenative acylation reaction.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/149503/1/anie201904530.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/149503/2/anie201904530-sup-0001-misc_information.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/149503/3/anie201904530_am.pd

Overlapping regions of visuospatial and motor attention maps maintain spatial congruency in human posterior parietal cortex

Organization of Data: Separate files are included that provide: the demographic information for each participant the stimulus timing information for each run All data for individual participants are compressed into a single file All participant files include an anatomical image All participant files are in AFNI format with *.BRIK and *.HEAD extensions Raw data for individual runs are included for each participant Runs are labeled 1-5 to correspond to the stimulus timing file Multiple repetitions of the same stimulus timing are indicated by a letter subscript at the end. For example, a participant who performed run 1 twice would have a file with the run1A extension and another file with the run1B extension. Participants for the first experiment are number consecutively 1-9. Participants for the second set of experiments are lettered consecutively A-J All runs related to the attention task have ‘attn’ in the run title All runs related to the intention task have ‘intn’ in the run title If data were collected on multiple days, skull-stripped anatomical images are provided for both days.https://dc.uwm.edu/kinesiology_facdata/1000/thumbnail.jp