Profound Leadership: An Integrative Literature Review

This integrative literature review develops the concept of profound leadership. Using Torraco’s (2005, 2016) framework for integrative literature reviews as a foundation, the purpose of this study is threefold: (a) to review existing leadership theories fitting the profound learning framework (Kroth, 2016; Name deleted to maintain the integrity of the review process; Name deleted to maintain the integrity of the review process); (b) to examine the leadership theory definitions, characteristics, and dependent variables; and (c) to apply the outcomes of (a) and (b) to build the theory of profound leadership and make recommendations for future theory-building. Leadership as a general concept has been extensively explored, researched, and written about, developing a rich palette of explanatory theories. Profound leadership, on the other hand, is an emerging concept to elaborate through this integrative review of literature of specific leadership theories resonating with profound learning

Profound Leadership: An Integrative Literature Review

This integrative literature review develops the concept of profound leadership. Using Torraco’s (2005, 2016) framework for integrative literature reviews as a foundation, the purpose of this study is threefold: (a) to review existing leadership theories fitting the profound learning framework (Kroth, 2016; Name deleted to maintain the integrity of the review process; Name deleted to maintain the integrity of the review process); (b) to examine the leadership theory definitions, characteristics, and dependent variables; and (c) to apply the outcomes of (a) and (b) to build the theory of profound leadership and make recommendations for future theory-building. Leadership as a general concept has been extensively explored, researched, and written about, developing a rich palette of explanatory theories. Profound leadership, on the other hand, is an emerging concept to elaborate through this integrative review of literature of specific leadership theories resonating with profound learning

Profound Leadership and Adult Education: An integrative Review of the Literature

This integrative literature review presents profound leadership through the lens of key characteristics of servant leadership, authentic leadership, level five leadership, profound leadership, transformational leadership, and spiritual leadership

Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change in the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, an Urban National Park in the Twin Cities Area, Minnesota

The Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) Network is a collaborative effort to establish a series of experimental silvicultural trials across different forest ecosystem types. A variety of partners have developed trial sites as part of this multi-regional study researching long-term ecosystem responses to a range of climate change adaptation actions. We are currently implementing an affiliate trial within the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, a national park along the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities Metro Area of Minnesota

Appearance of Membrane Compromised, Viable But Not Culturable and Culturable Rhizobial Cells as a Consequence of Desiccation

For agricultural purposes, drought related stresses negatively affect the Rhizobiaceae in at least three ways. Firstly, rhizobial populations are affected by desertification of agricultural soils. Secondly, the quality of dry-base inocula, also called formula, is negatively affected by a drying step, and thirdly, rhizosphere bacteria protect crop-plants against drought. Although survival of cultivatable bacteria has been studied intensively in dry-base seed inocula and in-vitro, thus far research has only marginally addressed the bacterial cell, its cellular structures and physiology. Many questions remain regarding the sensing of and physiological response of rhizobia to desiccation. This review will focus on the three different fractions of cells after desiccation, the membrane compromised cells, the viable but not culturable cells and the culturable cells

Electrostatic Effects on Proton Coupled Electron Transfer in Oxomanganese Complexes Inspired by the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II

The influence of electrostatic interactions on the free energy of proton-coupled-electron-transfer (PCET) in biomimetic oxomanganese complexes inspired by the oxygen-evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII), are investigated. The reported study introduces an enhanced Multi-Conformer Continuum Electrostatics (MCCE) model, parameterized at the density functional theory (DFT) level with a classical valence model for the oxomanganese core. The calculated pK(a)s and oxidation midpoint potentials (E(m)s) match experimental values for eight complexes indicating that purely electrostatic contributions account for most of the observed couplings between deprotonation and oxidation state transitions. We focus on pK(a)s of terminal water ligands in [Mn(II/III)(H(2)O)(6)](2+/3+) (1), [Mn(III)(P)(H(2)O)(2)](3-) (2, P = 5,10,15,20- tetrakis (2,6-dichloro-3-sulfonatophenyl) porphyrinato), [Mn(IV,IV)(2)(μ-O)(2)(terpy)(2)(H(2)O)(2)](4+) (3, terpy = 2,2’:6’,2”-terpyridine) and [Mn(3)(IV,IV,IV)(μ-O)(4)(phen)(4)(H(2)O)(2)](4+) (4, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) and the pK(a)s of μ-oxo bridges and Mn E(m)s in [Mn(2)(μ-O)(2)(bpy)(4)](2+) (5, bpy = 2,2’-bipyridyl), [Mn(2)(μ-O)(2)(salpn)(2)] (6, salpn= N,N′-bis(salicylidene)-1,3-propanediamine), [Mn(2)(μ-O)(2)(3,5-di(Cl)-salpn)(2)] (7) and [Mn(2)(μ-O)(2)(3,5-di(NO(2))-salpn)(2)] (8) which are most relevant to PCET mechanisms. The analysis of complexes 6-8 highlights the strong coupling between electron and proton transfers, with any Mn oxidation lowering the pK(a) of an oxo bridge by 10.5±0.9 pH units. The model also accounts for changes in the E(m)s due to ligand substituents, such as those in complexes 6-8, due to the electron withdrawing Cl (7) and NO(2) (8). The reported study provides the foundation for analysis of electrostatic effects in other oxomanganese complexes and metalloenzymes, where PCET plays a fundamental role in redox-leveling mechanisms