... realistic While Kramer and Gavrieli argue convincingly that a kind of paranoia may often accompany leadership roles, Magee, Gruenfeld, Keltner, and Galinsky argue that having a position of leadership ... worse ways of achieving these ends? Part II begins with a chapter by Richard Hackman that calls into question the standard research approach of many social psychologists and leadership researchers ... necessarily be classified under that same subject heading in another database While the Library of Congress provides a standard list of subject headings for libraries, many online and print databases...
... delight of the bureaucrats, politicians, international bankers, multinational corporations, and some labor leaders The age of the managed fiat currency was born The M anaged Fiat Currency Standard As ... standard, the CPI increased 10 percent In his 1848 Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx urged: “Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means ofa national bank with state capital and ... society and nation, but to adjust and discharge the balance of exchanges between different nations It must be something which has a value abroad, as well as at home, and by which foreign as well as...
... They may damage science as effectively in Britain and Europe as did the Islamic fundamentalists in the Arab world and anti-technology mandarins in medieval China Already companies that advance agricultural ... treatments that are not science-based are highly popular and are a feature of almost every advanced industrial society Perhaps it is part ofa sense of malaise that we have lost touch with nature ... generated a sense of optimism about the future and was naturally cast as the engine of progress, associated with the gradual spread of political freedom as well as material wealth The decline of...
... assumptions of national interest that not allow for variations either across states or across time States are usually assumed to act in a way that maximizes rational utility, understood as the maximization ... that state policy is captive to the interests of this class, meaning that the state will still act to maximize a given rational utility, that ofa class rather than that of the population as a ... failed, and the United States was looked to as a leader but failed to try.12 Britain was motivated but not capable, the United States was capable but not motivated A more nuanced reading of national...
... ML, Pham L, McDermott A, Zeger SL, Samet JM: Fine particulate air pollution and hospital admission for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases Jama-Journal of the American Medical Association ... Following data processing, an exploratory data analysis will be carried out Data processing and analysis will be performed using specific calculating and statistical software Discussion So far, large ... Pope CA, Brook JR, Bhatnagar A, Diez-Roux AV, Holguin F, Hong YL, Luepker RV, Mittleman MA, et al: Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease An Update to the Scientific Statement...
... the parameters used to analyze the range of the DVB-H system First, MpegLock and MpegDataLock are explained Next, parameters corresponding with MPE tables and signal quality, and finally, parameters ... direction based on %Valid reception; (4) CINRR : average CINR value at a distance equal to R; (5) ER : average E value at a distance equal to R More detailed definitions of the parameters related to ... Deventer, and H Gauderis, “Evaluation and validation of the performance ofa DVB-H network,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, Orlando,...
... effects of decreased water and N entry, through decreased stomatal conductance and increased allocation of N As a consequence, C assimilation, carbohydrate concentration, and N availability for ... predawn water potential of needles Further confirmation ofa lack of alteration of hydraulic conductivity in lifted seedlings could be drawn by concomitant water potential and gas exchange measurements ... 0.001 Table I Two-way variance analysis (ANOVA) for nitrogen concentration and C:N ratio of the various components of intact or lifted one-yearold Corsican pine seedlings grown after transplanting...
... 16) at t2 The Tanzanian and German board of the organization managing the orphanage gave their consent and ethical approval Materials The interview sets were basically identical for both assessments ... at home and school in Tanzania [20] To date no prevalence rates for Tanzania are available [20], but Straus [17] reported that more than two thirds of Tanzanian students did not strongly disagree ... Although many orphanages exist and care for OVC, a detailed evaluation of education and care in orphanages lacks in most cases However, some studies have examined aspects of how orphanages could...
... Money T han God ALSO BY SEBASTIAN MALLABY The World’s Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations After Apartheid: The Future of South Africa MORE ... and that was to make money But if alpha existed because markets were inefficient, it followed that savings were being allocated in an irrational manner The research of Fama and French, for example, ... hedge funds wreaked havoc with exchange-rate policies in Europe and Asia After the East Asian crisis, Malaysia’s prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, lamented that “all these countries have spent 10...
... s a where a := a 1/2 and a := a+ 1/2 a We also show that the problem of nε (U r ,a (Ts ), L2 (Ts )) is weakly tractable but polynomially intractable for every a > The tractability of linear approximation ... )) Although T is the main parameter in the study of cardinality of HCs, the parameters s and a may have a serious effect on the estimates when s is large, or when the positive parameter a ranges ... dimension s and the real parameter T > may be (but not necessarily is) large and a the real parameter ranging from to ∞ These cardinality estimates are then applied for the estimation of nε (U r ,a (Ts...
... Software Installing an antivirus and antispyware software program and keeping it up to date is a critical step in protecting your computer Many types of antivirus and antispyware software can detect ... and install all available updates Enable automatic updates if your vendors offer it; that will ensure your software is always updated, and you won’t have to remember to it yourself Many operating ... daily, and vendors frequently make new signatures available, so antivirus software will be most effective if the signatures are up to date Many antivirus and antispyware programs offer automatic...
... Acronyms AAA AARGM ABCCC AESA AFB AFSB AFSOC AGM AIM AMRAAM AOR ASW ATFLIR ATO AWACS BAMS BDA BLU CAOC CAP CAS Antiaircraft Artillery Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Airborne Command and ... States Marine Corps—Aviation Afghan War, 2001—Aerial operations, American Afghan War, 2001—Naval operations, American War on Terrorism, 2001– Iraq War, 2003–—Aerial operations, American Iraq War, ... grateful to Admirals Chanik, Crenshaw, Fitzgerald, Gallagher, and Kilcline; Rear Admiral Matthew Moffit, Commander, Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center; Captain Hamby; Captain Wright; Captain James...
... market At the same time, visual artists’ career patterns have also been changing, as academic training has taken on greater importance as a credential for emerging artists and as artists’ career ... Melissa K Rowe, Laura Werber Castaneda, Tessa Kaganoff, and Abby Robyn Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts (2004) Kevin F McCarthy, Elizabeth H Ondaatje, Laura Zakaras, ... to paintings, sculpture, and photographs, as well as certain categories of media art and performance art3 Our Approach A central analytical challenge was to identify a set of dimensions around...
... priority hazardous substances requiring immediate action3, and a publicly available register of data about discharge emissions and losses of hazardous substances, such as a Pollutant Release and Transfer ... but also for other river basins in Thailand substances In this respect, a precautionary and The absence of good data gathering systems and data sustainable approach to the management of hazardous ... its waters Contamination by hazardous chemicals is already measurable despite the volume of the river, and is also threatening the East China Sea A plan that leads to ‘zero discharge’ of hazardous...
... assess the national situation through analysis of national level data and information on costs and impact; and thirdly to assess the relevance and effectiveness of any systematic evaluation of ... points and salary scales that had characterized the Whitley system Table 2: Key elements of Agenda for Change: pay bands (April 2006) Pay band Job weight Pay range at April 2006 8a 8b 8c 8d 0–160 ... year of implementation The absence ofa detailed costing by all the trusts, and the absence ofa consistent approach to costing, provides one example of the relative lack of detailed evaluation...
... following A general description of the engagement and requirements of the auditor A general reviewof the financial and procedural operations of the City A sample of the audit contract to be ... basis of funds and account groups, each of which is considered a separate accounting entity The operations of each fund are accounted for with a separate set of self-balancing accounts that comprise ... the Codification of Governmental Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards 5) Any other applicable pronouncements All applicable criteria pertaining to audits of local public bodies and specified...
... negotiate a sole source or small purchase contract that may be awarded without submission ofa sealed competitive proposal “Campaign Contribution” means a gift, subscription, loan, advance or ... portion or all of their time on behalf ofa candidate or political committee, nor does it include the administrative or solicitation expenses ofa political committee that are paid by an organization ... submit a competitive sealed proposal because that person qualifies for a sole source or a small purchase contract “Representative ofa prospective contractor” means an officer or director ofa corporation,...
... Hilbert spaces Lan investigated the existence of solutions for a class of A, η -accretive variational inclusion problems with nonaccretive setvalued mappings Lan 11 analyzed and established an existence ... mappings, Lan 13 established an existence result for nonlinear random multivalued variational inclusion systems involving A, η -accretive mappings in Banach spaces Lan and Verma 15 studied a class of ... -g-relaxed cocoercive operators includes the class of α, ξ relaxed cocoercive operators in as a special case; the class of s- G, η -maximal monotone operators is a generalization of the classes of...