47 research outputs found
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No full textA comparison of leader and follower personality traits and the perceived effectiveness of physical education chairpersons at selected institutions in Tennessee.
No full textThere were two purposes of the study. The first was to determine if a positive relationship exists between leader and follower personality traits. The author hypothesized that faculty members who perceived their leaders to be effective would possess the same or similar personality traits as those of their leader. Also, those faculty members who perceived an ineffective leader would possess different traits than those of their leader. The second purpose of the study was to identify the perceived effectiveness of college physical education administrators as seen by the faculty in selected colleges and universities in Tennessee. Included in the sample population were nine chairpersons, 37 faculty members who perceived their chairperson as being effective, and 10 faculty members who perceived their chairperson as being ineffective in that role. This investigation began in the summer of 1986 and data collection was completed in May, 1987. The testing instruments used for gathering data included Cattell's Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire and an Evaluation of Department Chairperson form. Statistical analyses revealed a significant difference between the chairpersons and faculty who perceived an effective leader on Factor N (Forthright vs. Shrewd) with the chairpersons as more shrewd and less forthright. Further analysis revealed two personality factors that differed significantly between the chairpersons and faculty who perceived an ineffective leader. Factor E (Humble vs. Assertive) and Factor Q1 (Conservative vs. Experimenting) resulted in two-tail probabilities of.046 and.001, respectively. The faculty subgroup tended to be more assertive and more experimenting than the chairpersons. Analyses between subgroups of faculty who perceived an effective leader and faculty who perceived an ineffective leader resulted in significant differences on three factors. Factor E (Humble vs. Assertive), Factor M (Practical vs. Imaginative) and Factor Q1 (Conservative vs. ExperimD.A
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No full textEconomic Miracles and Their Hypes: An Africanist Disputation
No full textThis essay argues that economic miracles are the result of particular processes and procedures to establish a regime of truth. Taking the example of Ivory Coast from the 1950s through the early 1980s as core evidence, the author shows the role of public relations in creating a particular perception of economic achievements. Using the emergence of both West Germany and Japan as early examples in the wake of postwar reconstruction, it is further underlined that the larger context of the Cold War facilitated the construction of economic miracles
Will Cloud Computing Change Standards in IT-Service Management?
No full textOne of the latest hypes in IT is the well-known Cloud
Computing paradigm. This paradigm that showed up in recent years
is a paradigm for the dynamic usage of computational power, memory and other computational resources. With respect to hypes, the author strongly believes that the
Cloud Computing paradigm has the potential to survive the hype and to become a usual technology used for the provision of IT based services. Therefore, it will be necessary to deploy Cloud Computing based infrastructures in a professional, stable and reliable way. This would lead to the idea that the Cloud Computing paradigm needs to be concerned with respect to IT Service Management, since cloud based infrastructures have to be managed differently in comparison to a usual infrastructure. This paper discusses, based on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), as the de-facto standard for IT Service Management, whether this de-facto standard might also be able to manage Cloud Computing based infrastructures, how the according processes might change and whether ITIL supports a division of labor between the customer and the service provider
of a Cloud Computing based infrastructure
The Physiologically Difficult Airway
No full textAirway management in critically ill patients involves the identification and management of the
potentially difficult airway in order to avoid untoward complications. This focus on difficult airway
management has traditionally referred to identifying anatomic characteristics of the patient that
make either visualizing the glottic opening or placement of the tracheal tube through the vocal
cords difficult. This paper will describe the physiologically difficult airway, in which physiologic
derangements of the patient increase the risk of cardiovascular collapse from airway management.
The four physiologically difficult airways described include hypoxemia, hypotension, severe
metabolic acidosis, and right ventricular failure. The emergency physician should account for
these physiologic derangements with airway management in critically ill patients regardless of the
predicted anatomic difficulty of the intubation
Care at a Distance
No full textThis widely researched study demonstrates convincingly that neither grandiose promises nor nightmare scenarios have much to do with actual care practices employing telecare. Combining detailed ethnographic studies of nurses and patients involved in telecare with a broad theoretical frameworky from various disciplines, the author concludes that these practices leads to more rather than less intense caring relations, resulting from a spectacular raise in the frequency of contacts between nurses and patients. Patients are much taken with this, not because they feel they are finally able to manage themselves, but because they can ‘leave things to the experts’. The patients find that caring is something that is best done for others. The book frames urgent questions about the future of telecare and the ways in which innovative care practices can be built on facts rather than hopes, hypes or nightmares
Diversity, stability and regional growth in the U.S. (1975-2002)
No full textThis paper summarizes the theoretical arguments from evolutionary theory and ecological economics to put the trade-off between regional economic diversity and regional economic growth on stronger theoretical foundations. Hypotheses are tested using an empirical model that links regional economic diversity to stability and growth using data on 177 BEA areas of the continental United States during the period (1975-2002).evolutionary economics, ecological economies, diversity, stbility, regional growth
Management of Patients with Predicted Difficult Airways in an Academic Emergency Department
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