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An article on well-known author Stephen King and his wife, author Tabitha King,
No full textAn article on well-known author Stephen King and his wife, author Tabitha King, native Mainers who live in Bangor and focus their low-profile philanthropy locally. Their many beneficiaries include Eastern Maine Medical Center, the Bangor and Old Town libraries, Bangor\u27s new Shawn T. Mansfield Baseball Stadium, area swimming pools, and the University of Maine, where both attended college. They have bought a local radio station to preserve local high-school and college sports coverage. Though wealthy enough to live anywhere, and despite King\u27s fame, they have chosen to raise their family in Bangor and live as regular members of the community. Headquarters for King\u27s fans is Betts Bookstore on Main Street
VALUE CREATION THROUGH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: A LITERATURE REVIEW
No full textAbstract: Agricultural sector create value by investing capital from investors to generate future cash flows at rates of return exceeding the cost of that capital. This enable agricultural sector to grow revenues and deploys more capital at attractive rates of return by ensuring process efficiency and production of quality products. Corporate governance enable agricultural sector to operate more efficiently, improve access to capital, mitigate risks especially financial risk and safeguard shareholders interest thus, enhancing accountability and transparency to investors. This paper reviewed existing empirical literature to find out value creation through corporate governance in the agricultural sector. The existing evidence revealed that corporate governance aspects such as board of directors, internal control, power balancing and compensation enhanced the performance of agricultural sector. The results further revealed that corporate governance systems focused on the creation of economic value, decisions consistent with the company objective to maximize share price. Translating the wealth-creation into tangible results has been a determining factor in the evolution of corporate governance systems and the implementation of decision-making criteria and resulting management procedures.
Keywords: Corporate Control, Corporate Governance, Value Creation, Agricultural Sector.
Title: VALUE CREATION THROUGH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR: A LITERATURE REVIEW
Author: Tabitha nasieku, Philip Ocharo Nemwel
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, October 2022 - March 2023
Page No: 28-41
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 05-October-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7148206
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Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
No full textGenomics research findings on asthma are reported with increasing frequency. As these findings are incorporated into existing knowledge of disease etiology and pathogenesis, the implications for public health practice need to be considered. In 2003, the University of Washington Center for Genomics and Public Health initiated a project to synthesize information about asthma genomics, to examine its relevance to public health research and practice, and to communicate findings to a public health practice audience. This goal was achieved through review of the scientific literature, formation of a working group, and consultations with professionals and community organizations. This paper describes the methods used to conduct these professional and community consultations, referred to as the asthma consultative process, and discusses the lessons learned from this activity.U36/CCU300430-23/CC/ODCDC CDC HHS/United State
Talk in Blended‐Space Speech Communities: An Exploration of Discursive Practices of a Professional Development Group
No full textThis study is an exploration of alternative teacher professional development. While using symbolic interactionism for a research lens, it characterizes the discursive practices commonly found in formal, informal, and blended-space speech communities based on the talk within a leadership-development program comprised of five female, church-based small group leaders. The author designed, facilitated, and researched the discourse accounting for the formal professional development design and informal discursive practices which comprised this blended-space speech community. The author provides an overview of the leadership-development program design along with the sociolinguistic research methods. The analysis describes both above-the-sentence and turn-by-turn discursive practices for the group's talk. This includes above-the-sentence discursive practices of managing the conversational floor, enacting discursive power, offering representations of reality, and maintaining appropriate relationships, as well as turn-by-turn practices of responding to questions, utilizing repetition, offering minimal responses, and overlapping turns. The author concludes that blended-space professional development, employing appropriate levels of formal and informal discursive practices, will support both professional and relational goals for teachers. Furthermore, the author suggests implications for designing, facilitating, and examining discourse for conversation-based professional development
Talk in blended-space speech communities: An exploration of discursive practices of a professional development group
No full textThis study is an exploration of alternative teacher professional development. While using symbolic interactionism for a research lens, it characterizes the discursive practices commonly found in formal, informal, and blended-space speech communities based on the talk within a leadership-development program comprised of five female, church-based small group leaders. The author designed, facilitated, and researched the discourse accounting for the formal professional development design and informal discursive practices which comprised this blended-space speech community. The author provides an overview of the leadership-development program design along with the sociolinguistic research methods. The analysis describes both above-the-sentence and turn-by-turn discursive practices for the group's talk. This includes above-the-sentence discursive practices of managing the conversational floor, enacting discursive power, offering representations of reality, and maintaining appropriate relationships, as well as turn-by-turn practices of responding to questions, utilizing repetition, offering minimal responses, and overlapping turns. The author concludes that blended-space professional development, employing appropriate levels of formal and informal discursive practices, will support both professional and relational goals for teachers. Furthermore, the author suggests implications for designing, facilitating, and examining discourse for conversation-based professional development
Community Colleges: Trainers or Retrainers of IT Workers
No full textWhat is the role of community colleges in expanding the supply of information technology workers? Are community colleges responding effectively to the dramatic jump in demand for IT workers by offering solid education and training to a large number of students
Small molecule activation and reduction using non-heme iron complexes
No full textIn Nature, metalloenzymes are responsible for carrying out a vast array of different reactions. The secondary coordination sphere of these play an intricate role in controlling nuclearity, enhancing substrate selectivity, stabilizing reactive intermediates, and controlling the redox potential of the active site metal. Many of these secondary sphere interactions are hydrogen bonding networks formed by strategically located amino acid residues. Inspired by these intricate networks, our group designed a tripodal, tetradentate ligand featuring a secondary coordination sphere through a tautomerizable framework. Each ligand arm incorporates a pyrrole-imine, which upon anionic coordination to a metal center places a hydrogen-bond acceptor in the secondary sphere. Tautomerization to the azafulvene-amine enables dative coordination and places a hydrogen-bond donor in the secondary coordination sphere. Previous work details metalation strategies allowing for both tautomeric forms of the ligand and demonstrating the independent tautomerization of each arm to form mixed tautomer species. Further work investigated the role of the secondary coordination sphere in stabilizing reactive species, such as a terminal iron(III)-oxo species.
Using this ligand framework, our lab previously reported the syntheses of a series of metal complexes featuring pseudohalide ligands. In each of these complexes, hydrogen bonding interactions between the bound substrate and the ligand arms stabilized each species. In Chapter 2, the role of these interactions and the ability of the secondary coordination sphere protons to transfer to a substrate is explored through the aspatial reduction of an iron-azide complex. Reduction of the azide substrate results in fragmentation to N2 and NH3. The protons necessary to afford ammonia derive directly from the secondary coordination sphere. Isotopic labeling studies confirm the source of ammonia as the bound nitrogen atom of the azide substrate. Additionally, density functional theory (DFT) calculations were carried out in order to elucidate information about the mechanism of this reduction. These calculations were consistent with our observation of an intermediate octahedral iron(III) complex, arising from loss of NH3 from the iron center.
Previous work in the group had shown the ability of an iron(II) bis(triflate) complex to catalytically reduce nitrite and nitrate. In Chapter 3, the intermediate of these reductions, an iron-nitrosyl complex, is further studied through reductive means in an effort to mimic the reactivity of the enzyme cytochrome c nitrite reductase (ccNiR). Similar to the reactivity observed in the reduction of azide, the addition of exogenous acid and strong reductants results in the release of NH3 and the formation of an iron(II)-hydroxo complex. Mechanistic studies were conducted showing the plausibility of a hydroxylamine intermediate similar to that of the enzymatic process.
In Chapter 4, selenium oxyanion reduction by an iron(II) bis(triflate) complex was revisited. Previous work had shown that this iron system was capable of carrying out the stoichiometric reductions of selenite and selenite, resulting in an iron(III)-oxo species and elemental selenium. In this work, stoichiometric selenate reduction run at higher temperatures resulted in an increased yield of elemental selenium compared to that of the previous work. Methods to reduce selenate and selenite catalytically were also developed, taking advantage of biphasic solutions to avoid the deactivation of the iron catalyst. While neither oxyanion was able to be reduced catalytically with high turnover numbers or rates, this is the first homogeneous synthetic system to catalyze these reductions. Additionally, the selenium(0) produced from these reductions was further characterized as amorphous red elemental selenium through TEM imaging, UV-visible spectroscopy, and PXRD studies.
The synthesis and characterization of early transition metal (M = Ti, V, Cr, Mo) complexes was explored in Chapter 5. Metal complexes structurally analogous to a previously reported octahedral iron complex bearing our tripodal ligand were successfully synthesized. While only two complexes were structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction, the structures of the remaining two complexes were proposed based off similar spectroscopic data and solubilities. Additionally, a Cr(II) bis(triflate complex analogous to the previously reported iron complex was synthesized.
Overall, this work demonstrated the role secondary coordination sphere interactions, primarily hydrogen bonding, can play on reductive processes. The built-in proton donors of the secondary coordination sphere helped promote reductions of NO and N3- to afford NH3. The proximity of the proton donors to bound substrates stabilized the formation of an iron(III)-oxo species, allowing for successful stoichiometric and catalytic reductions of selenium oxyanions. Furthermore, the versatile binding pocket of the ligand allowed for metalation of the ligand using early transition metals to afford octahedral metal complexes.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-05-01The student, Tabitha Miller, accepted the attached license on 2021-01-12 at 13:39.The student, Tabitha Miller, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-01-12 at 13:46.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-01-13 at 14:30.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16147 on 2021-09-16 at 17:01:40Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T02:34:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4
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Expressions of Oppression or Power? Reconsidering the Texts of Hannah Webster Foster and Tabitha Gilman Tenney
No full textHannah Webster Foster and Tabitha Gilman Tenney were early American novelists writing in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Each author wrote a sentimental novel and a traditional conduct book. The Coquette and The Boarding School by Foster and Female Quixotism and The New Pleasing Instructor by Tenney, have scarcely been understood in relation to each other. This project attempts to view these texts as in the eighteenth-century society might have.
The introductory chapter identifies the problem with the typical feminist critical reading. It also explores many of the popular genres of literature during the eighteenth-century. Included are explorations of the sentimental novel, advice or conduct books, and epistolary novels.
Chapter II explores Hannah Foster\u27s The Boarding School and The Coquette in relation to one another, and Chapter III does much the same with Tenney\u27s The New Pleasing Instructor and Female Quixotism. National concerns, social constrictions, and political history are each explored in relation to the works.
This paper also disputes the interpretations of several feminist literary critics, such as Cathy Davidson, Walter Wenska and Kristie Hamilton. These writers feel that Tenney\u27s and Foster\u27s works are expressions of oppression. To challenge this argument, much of the history and social mores embedded in the eighteenth century are discussed
Deadlands girl : a modern fairy tale
No full textDeadlands Girl is a short young adult, fantasy fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic Canada. The protagonist, Tabitha, is kidnapped and brought to Faerie and the novel follows her quest to come back home. Written as a response to the notion that there are few non-historical Young Adult (YA) novels that are set in Canada, my creative thesis demonstrates that a novel can explore themes of identity, belonging and power while using the Canadian landscape as a backdrop and an inspiration. Mythological creatures assist Tabitha on her hero-quest but, ultimately, it is a coming-of-age story about a young woman growing up and discovering her own power. The novel is introduced with a critical analysis of young adult fiction in Canada, a discussion of identity and what it means to be a Canadian writer creating dark, but hopeful, stories for youth
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