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The Lives of Bats: A Natural History
No full textBats are the second-largest order of mammals and inhabit almost every corner of the globe, but these secretive creatures are often maligned and misunderstood. With more than 1,400 species worldwide, they are crucial contributors to ecosystems, controlling insect populations and fulfilling an essential role as pollinators. This one-of-a-kind guide showcases the unique characteristics and extraordinary diversity of our planet’s bat life, providing an inviting introduction to these marvelous creatures. Written by a leading expert and packed with the latest scientific findings, The Lives of Bats blends diagrams and stunning photographs with in-depth coverage of profiled species to offer an incomparable look at these unsung heroes of the natural world. Includes a wealth of stunning color photos Features dozens of representative species profiles that demonstrate the remarkable diversity and adaptability of the only mammals on Earth capable of powered flight Covers key topics such as anatomy, echolocation, diet, thermoregulation, mating, diseases, and immunity Discusses human relationships with bats Essential reading for wildlife lovers everywherehttps://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/books/1313/thumbnail.jp
Ten Measures of Beauty
No full textPapers presented in the Midrash Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, volume 10. The contributions that comprise Ten Measures of Beauty, the 10th volume published by the Society of Biblical Literature’s Midrash Section, pertain to Sifra, Midrash Tadshe and Masora, Rabbi Meyuḥas ben Elijah (a biblical commentator), food and meals in midrash, and peace studies
Building Community at Work
No full textEmployees and managers alike seek ways to be happy and effective in the workplace--an arena in which we all spend many hours of our week. Community is an essential ingredient in a healthy and productive work environment: when asked what people like about their jobs, it\u27s not uncommon to hear We\u27re like a family, or Here, I\u27m part of a community. Considering the numerous models conceptualized to support creation of emotionally satisfying and behaviorally productive work settings, it is perhaps surprising that the topic of community at work has been underexplored.Based on sound theoretical foundations and empirical findings from the science of management and community research and action, Building Community at Work guides scholars, employees, and leaders of organizations toward creating communities at work in any institutional sector. To make abstract theory concrete, Neil Boyd weaves scientific models and concepts together with the story of a young business owner\u27s journey to becoming an industry leader in building communities. The book also provides practical considerations for professionals to analyze and conceive ways to create communities at work. In Boyd\u27s accessible and grounded analysis, find the building blocks for transforming the workplace into a flourishing community.https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/books/1314/thumbnail.jp
Setting Up an Institutional OMERO Environment for Bioimage Data: Perspectives from Both Facility Staff and Users
No full textModern bioimaging core facilities at research institutions are essential for managing and maintaining high-end instruments, providing training and support for researchers in experimental design, image acquisition and data analysis. An important task for these facilities is the professional management of complex multidimensional bioimaging data, which are often produced in large quantity and very different file formats. This article details the process that led to successfully implementing the OME Remote Objects system (OMERO) for bioimage-specific research data management (RDM) at the Core Facility Cellular Imaging (CFCI) at the Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden). Ensuring compliance with the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles, we outline here the challenges that we faced in adapting data handling and storage to a new RDM system. These challenges included the introduction of a standardised group-specific naming convention, metadata curation with tagging and Key-Value pairs, and integration of existing image processing workflows. By sharing our experiences, this article aims to provide insights and recommendations for both individual researchers and educational institutions intending to implement OMERO as a management system for bioimaging data. We showcase how tailored decisions and structured approaches lead to successful outcomes in RDM practices. Lay description: Modern bioimaging facilities at research institutions are crucial for managing advanced equipment and supporting scientists in their research. These facilities help with designing experiments, capturing images, and analyzing data. One of their key tasks is organizing and managing large amounts of complex image data, which often comes in various file formats and are difficult to handle. This article explains how the Core Facility Cellular Imaging (CFCI) at Technische Universität Dresden successfully implemented a specialized system called OMERO. With this system it is possible to manage and organize bioimaging data sustainably in a way that they are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable according the FAIR principles. We describe the practical implementation process on exemplary projects within scientific research and medical education. We discuss the challenges we faced, such as creating a standard way to name files, organizing important information about the images (known as metadata), and ensuring that existing image processing methods could work with the new system. By sharing our experience, we aim to offer practical advice and recommendations for other researchers and institutions interested in using OMERO for managing their bioimaging data. We highlight how careful planning and structured approaches can lead to successful data management practices, making it easier for researchers to store, access, and reuse their valuable data
An Eco-Spirituality of Wonder: An Aesthetic-Ethical Response to Myriad Nature
No full textFor some religionists and humanists, the impact of anthropogenic disruptions also brings us face to face with the Anthropocene paradox. As one consequence of hegemonic culture’s triumphalist view of humans as standing outside of nature and managing nature to our own benefit, this current epoch also presents a rupture to our conventional, established notions of ourselves and assumptions about our place in the matrix of life. In this chapter, I address this paradox, exploring the possibility of an eco-spirituality that arises during this transitional time in which the old order strains and fractures. This eco-spirituality is grounded in the tenets of religious naturalism, which reframes humans as natural processes in relationship with other forms of nature. With its distinctive conception of humanity’s embeddedness in materiality and its constitutive relationality, religious naturalism generates distinctive aesthetical-ethical responses to current forms of ecological degradation and environmental injustices. These aesthetical-ethical responses are what I identify with the “turn to wonder.” Accordingly, this eco-spirituality of wonder inspires new ways of understanding human seeing, knowing, and acting. In this context, an eco-spirituality anticipates what possibilities and wonders may occur when human organisms enact our evolutionary capacities as relational organisms that can love, engaging in multilayered processes of changing behaviors, values, and relationships that promote the betterment of myriad nature
Testing the conceptual boundaries of public service motivation and sense of community responsibility: prosocial actions in community and political engagement
No full textWith growing polarization and declining civic participation, what promotes engagement? Research finds both public service motivation (PSM) and sense of community responsibility (SOCR) correspond to prosocial behaviours within and outside the workplace, such as organizational citizenship behaviour and volunteering. Combing research on these other-oriented constructs from public management and community psychology, we examine the relative influence of PSM and SOCR on engagement across a range of activities in the community and the political realm. We find SOCR predicts community engagement, while PSM predicts political engagement. Findings have implications in advancing the application of the concepts and further establishing conceptual boundaries
A model of managerial coach learning and development
Full text linkManagerial Coaching has emerged as a compelling new approach to leadership in organizations. While research has so far demonstrated the key behaviors and competencies associated with successful managerial coaching, comparatively fewer studies have examined how managerial coaching can be developed in leaders, or how leaders learn managerial coaching behaviors. After reviewing the existing literature on managerial coach training and development, and drawing upon research from the fields of leadership development and active learning, a three-phase model of managerial coach learning and development is proposed. The model suggests that the development of managerial coaches can be understood as a process of developing their readiness to incorporate a coach approach to their leadership; and undergoing specific cognitive, affective, and motivational pathways towards building a set of competencies, mindsets, identities, and efficacies associated with effective managerial coaching behaviors. Implications for training and development of organizational managers are discussed
Manipulating Martensitic Transformation and Residual Stress Development in Stress Superposed Incremental Forming of SS304
Full text linkStress superposition is one of the strategies used in metal deformation processes to increase the material formability, decrease the required forming forces, and create highly customized components. To investigate the effects of tensile and compressive stresses superposed to the single point incremental forming (SPIF) process, experiments and numerical simulations were conducted for a stainless steel 304 (SS304) truncated square pyramid geometry. Tensile stresses were superposed in-plane on the specimen blank by a custom hydraulic frame, and compressive stresses were incorporated via a polyurethane die. Identified parameters for a martensitic transformation kinetics model for SS304 were used in a two-step finite element approach to predict the α’-martensite volume fraction. These results were compared to experimental results measured by a Feritscope at four locations along each pyramid wall and validated by electron backscatter diffraction. The residual stresses were measured using x-ray diffraction. The parts from each incremental forming process revealed differences in the residual stresses, which impacted the final geometries, and the α’-martensite volume fraction at the four measurement locations. The evolution of the stress state, defined by the stress triaxiality and Lode angle parameter, for each process contributed to the phase transformation variance. It was found that superposing both tensile and compressive stresses to SPIF resulted in the greatest phase transformation and lowest magnitude of residual stresses near the base and the greatest overall geometrical accuracy. Stress-superposed incremental forming can be implemented to manipulate final part properties, which is ideal for applications requiring highly customized parts, e.g., biomedical trauma fixation hardware