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Storytelling is an often-overlooked tool that invites and engages one to become a participant within an unfolding experience. The stories presented for the graduate course, DYNM 673: Stories in Organizations: Tools for Executive Development were written to show how to use narrative as a vehicle to explore the meaning of an incident and to appreciate divergent points of view. The paper was also written to demonstrate the efficacy of storytelling as a medium for deeper learning and understanding. Because they concern conflict based on differing perceptions, both are organizational challenges that managers face daily. Effective management requires reflection on how competing opinions influence interpretation of a problem and how conflict affects decision making and problem solving. Suggestions for enabling effective reflection are offered through a review of literature, organizational examples, and the use of the opening narrative

Studies on the immunoreactivity of native and recombinant pseudorabies virus nucleocapsid proteins

A pseudorabies virus (PRV) nucleocapsid based screening ELISA (NC-ELISA) was developed. The NC-ELISA was compared to a commercial PRV screening ELISA. Antibody to PRV was detected by the NC-ELISA between day 14 and 21 in 5 pigs after intranasal exposure to 10[superscript]4 PFU of virus and was still detected on day 42. The NC-ELISA also detected antibody in 23 of 24 naturally infected pigs. The commercial ELISA detected antibody 1 week earlier than NC-ELISA in experimentally infected pigs but didn\u27t detect antibody in 3 naturally infected pigs identified by NC-ELISA. Radioimmunoprecipitation confirmed the presence of PRV specific antibody in these pigs. Nucleocapsid specific antibody responses of 10 PRV glycoprotein subunit-vaccinated were monitored for 113 days after exposure to a low dose (10[superscript]2.3 PFU) of PRV. Nucleocapsid specific antibody responses remained below the positive threshold before challenge but increased dramatically following virus exposure. Mean NC-ELISA OD\u27s were above the positive threshold on day 113 p.c;The potential of two in vitro translation products representing truncated pseudorabies virus (PRV) major nucleocapsid proteins was also studied. Two cDNA clones designated p462A and p462D, containing 800 and 910 bp cDNAs respectively were identified by hybridization with [superscript]32P-labelled PRV genomic BamHI-D fragment. Northern blot analysis showed that [superscript]32P-labelled insert cDNA probes 462A and 462D hybridized to 1.5 and 4.4 kb RNAs respectively in total RNA from PRV infected MDBK cells. In vitro transcription and translation of cDNA 462A yielded a polypeptide doublet with a molecular weight of 19 and 21k. Similarly, cDNA 462D produced a single polypeptide with a molecular weight of 24 k. Pseudorabies virus infection was detected by radioimmunoprecipitation in 21 of 23 pigs when reactions with both in vitro translation products were considered. Sera from 15 of 23 PRV infected pigs immunoprecipitated the 462A polypeptide doublet, while sera from 16 of 23 pigs immunoprecipitated the 462D polypeptide. In addition, sera from 4 of 4 PRV low dose challenged (10[superscript]2 PFU) pigs immunoprecipitated both translation products beginning at day 14 p.i. and continuing to the last day tested, day 60 p.i

Servotronics, Inc. v. Rolls-Royce PLC and The Boeing Company: Brief of Professor Yanbai Andrea Wang as \u3ci\u3eAmicus Curiae\u3c/i\u3e in Support of Neither Party

Rather than expressing a view on the issues raised and ably briefed by the parties, amicus submits this brief to inform the Court of the scholarly research she has conducted regarding Section 1782 proceedings since this Court’s seminal decision in Intel. As Section 1782 applications have proliferated, the lower courts have struggled to apply the Intel factors as this Court had envisioned. Especially in the context of Section 1782 applications submitted by parties to an international proceeding (as opposed to those made by the international tribunal itself), lower courts have frequently found themselves unable to analyze and apply the Intel factors. Because applicants often do not notify the international tribunals or the other parties to the international proceedings of their application, the federal courts tasked with adjudicating those applications are unable to conduct an informed assessment of the critical Intel factors addressing whether the international tribunal is receptive to discovery assistance from U.S. courts or whether the request is an effort to circumvent discovery restrictions in the international proceeding. That lack of information is exacerbated by many courts’ practice of placing the burden of proof on the Section 1782 target who is resisting discovery, rather than the applicant. Typically, the discovery target is a nonparty to the international proceeding and is thus poorly positioned or completely unable to provide the information necessary for the lower court’s assessment of the Intel factors. These practical problems can be solved by two simple clarifications from this Court. First, the Court should clarify that Section 1782 applicants must notify in advance the discovery target, all parties, and all tribunals involved in the international proceedings in which the requested evidence is to be used. Second, the Court should clarify that the Section 1782 applicant bears the burden of proof to establish that the request should be granted under the Intel factors. Both of these requirements are clearly within the Court’s authority, and both are fully consistent with the Federal Rules’ approach to domestic discovery. Moreover, those two clarifications would resolve many of the policy concerns that appear to animate lower court decisions that have excluded international commercial arbitrations from Section 1782’s reach. By ensuring that discovery targets, the opposing parties, and the international tribunals are notified in advance and have an opportunity to express their views on a Section 1782 application, district courts will be able to deny those applications where the international tribunal itself is not receptive to U.S. discovery. And by placing the burden on the party requesting the discovery, the analysis would weed out weak or abusive applications that might currently be granted simply because some lower courts currently place the burden on a nonparty from whom discovery is sought—who is in a particularly weak position to provide the information required to conduct the Intel analysis. Ultimately, this approach—of clarifying the Intel factors to require notice and properly placing the burden on the applicant—is a far preferable way to prevent misuse of Section 1782 than drawing an artificial and ill-defined line between “public” and “private” arbitrations. Indeed, that line does not stand up to the reality of modern international arbitration. On the contrary, because virtually all international arbitration is conducted within the framework of international treaties or other intergovernmental agreements, the line between “public” and “private” arbitral proceedings is an illusory one. Any effort to articulate such a line would illogically exclude many commercial arbitrations from Section 1782’s reach while leaving materially indistinguishable proceedings—such as investor-state arbitrations—within the statute’s bounds. The more logical and practical approach, in light of the years of experience since Intel, is to clarify and strengthen the Intel analysis for all Section 1782 proceedings

Method of detecting pseudorabies virus specific serum antibody by use of a universal diagnostic antigen

A method of testing serum from swine vaccinated against pseudorabies virus with viral envelope-based subunit vaccines to determine the presence of antibodies to infecting pseudorabies virus in wihch an immunoassay is performed on the swine serum using a pseudorabies virus antigen preparation comprising nucleocapsid proteins of the pseudorabies virus. The universal diagnostic antigen is one or more nucleocapsid proteins having relative molecular weights of approximately 23 k, 34 k, 41 k, 63 k and 140 k

Brief for Council of Islamic Schools in North America, Partnership for Inner-City Education, and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners

DAVID AND AMY CARSON, as Parents and next Friends of O.C., and TROY AND ANGELA NELSON, as Parents and next Friends of A.N. and R.N., Petitioners v. A. PENDER MAKIN, in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner of the Maine Department of Education, Respondent. On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit BRIEF FOR COUNCIL OF ISLAMIC SCHOOLS IN NORTH AMERICA, PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER-CITY EDUCATION, AND UNION OF ORTHODOX JEWISH CONGREGATIONS OF AMERICA AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS No. 20-1088 March 11, 2021 Amici curiae operate, represent, and support elementary and secondary schools in three faith traditions: Catholic (Partnership for Inner-City Education), Islamic (Council of Islamic Schools in North America), and Jewish (Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America). Students attending many of the schools that are operated or supported by amici participate in publicly-funded private-school-choice programs. Central to these schools’ religious and educational missions is the integration of faith throughout all aspects of their educational programs, making the status/use distinction employed by the court below both unworkable and discriminatory

Draft Genome Sequences of Three Closely Related Isolates of the Purple Nonsulfur Bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum

We report here the draft genome sequences of three isolates of Rhodovulum sulfidophilum from a single population that will serve as a model system for understanding genomic traits that underlie metabolic variation within closely related marine purple nonsulfur bacteria in natural microbial communities