197 research outputs found
Cold Storage Injury to Rat Small-bowel Transplants—Beneficial Effect of a Modified HTK Solution
No full textsj-docx-1-sjs-10.1177_14574969231181228 – Supplemental material for Practice patterns in diagnostics, staging, and management strategies of gallbladder cancer among Nordic tertiary centers
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-sjs-10.1177_14574969231181228 for Practice patterns in diagnostics, staging, and management strategies of gallbladder cancer among Nordic tertiary centers by Sini Takala, Kristoffer Lassen, Kjetil Søreide, Ernesto Sparrelid, Jon-Helge Angelsen, Erling A. Bringeland, Malin S. Eilard, Oskar Hemmingsson, Bengt Isaksson, Heikki Karjula, Jukka-Pekka Lammi, Peter N. Larsen, Maija Lavonius, Gert Lindell, Frank V. Mortensen, Kim Mortensen, Arno Nordin, Torsten Pless, Per Sandström, Oddvar Sandvik, Yrjö Vaalavuo, Christina Villard and Ville Sallinen in Scandinavian Journal of Surgery</p
The Boston health Community Resource Empowerment Wellness (CREW)
No full textThe Men's Health CREW (Community Resource Empowerment Wellness) is a Health based training program that trains and prepares young Black and Latino men to work in the Health care field as health educators. Health CREW members gain certified competencies as community health workers through the Boston Public Health Commissions Community Health Education Center (CHEC), as first aid and CPR responders, and as men's reproductive health educators that would allow the them to work in entry level health positions in health centers and hospitals in Boston. The Health CREW members also receive extensive education in public health topics including men's health, social justice, cultural competency, HIV/AIDS and maternal and child health. The project is broken down into four modules: 1) Personal Development, 2) Core Trainings (example; Outreach Methods and Public Health), 3) Sexual Reproductive Health, Community health Education Certificate, and Medical Terminology, and 4) Job and Community Placement. Most of the funding for the project would come from the City of Boston and small foundations. The Health CREW members are paid a weekly living stipend of $275 in addition to travel passes. The program has developed a detailed evaluation of each module of the program. We performed baseline assessments of each participant's educational strengths and weaknesses prior to the start of the project. We then performed a detailed evaluation of each module of the program in order to identify problems that individual participants might have had as well as assessing the training process itself. (Author abstract)Pless, A. W. (2007). The Boston health Community Resource Empowerment Wellness (CREW). Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster of Science (M.S.)School of Community Economic Developmen
Face-maker : the negotiation between screen performance, extra-filmic persona and conditions of employment within the career of Peter Lorre
No full textPeter Lorre often described his acting as merely "face-making". This disparaging attitude is
reflected within critiques which read the life of Peter Lorre as a tragic narrative of wasted
opportunities and his career as a screen performer as restricted by the nature of his
employment in studio-era Hollywood. Working in the United States, he was unable to escape
from the notoriety of his first major role in the German film, M (1931), or from the murderous
persona that evolved from his portrayal of a psychopathic serial killer. His status as an emigre
positioned him as a European "artist" whose talent was misused by American filmmaking
practices which typecast the actor in line with his nefarious public image.
This thesis proposes to investigate the accuracy of these perceptions which approach the actor
via a binary split between "person" and "persona". It will offer an alternative methodology for
analysing the career of the screen actor which recognises that persona-based analyses can
obscure complex negotiations between performance, image and the conditions of employment.
Rather than attempting to reveal the "real" Peter Lorre behind the image, the context of Lorre's
mutable position as an employee within the Hollywood industry and the misconstrued
association between his screen labour and his public persona will be examined. The creative
agency of the actor will also be examined in order to question Lorre's definition of himself as
"face-maker" whose work was reliant upon performative gimmicks.
This alternative approach to the screen actor will be pursued through a chronological
investigation of Lorre's professional labour. Also necessary are an exploration of the features of
Lorre's persona and an understanding of the role played by other media in the construction of
this public image. My methodology will combine close textual analysis of Lorre's screen
performances, archival research into the terms of his employment and extensive analysis of
promotional discourses pertaining to the actor throughout his career.
My historiography of Lorre will consider the relationship between the actor and a number of his
employers to suggest that conditions of employment help to shape screen performance. Lorre's
status as a "face-maker" will also be challenged through a demonstration of the actor's use of
complex performative techniques within his film work. This thesis will demonstrate the limitations
of interpreting Lorre's career as Hollywood's mismanagement of a problematic performer.
Instead, his career can be considered indicative of industrial strategies that exist between acting
labour, promotional personas and employers. One consequence of my research is the reevaluation
of Lorre's persona as "extra-filmic" and his career as "transmedial". As such, this
thesis highlights how the significant labour of a screen performer can potentially become
superseded by the personas used by employers to promote actors away from the cinema
screen
The use of methyl iodide as a high Z material in bubble chambers
No full textThesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 1957.MIT copy bound with: Pulsed sinusoidal second sound waves in liquid helium below 1K̊. / Peter Michael Richards and Joseph Stanley Rosenshein. 1957.Includes bibliographical references (leaf [14]).by Richard Kumeo Yamamoto.B.S
Analysis of Attitude Jitter on the Performance of Feature Detection
No full textThis study explored a vision algorithm's performance during a shaker test to help reproduce the effects of vibration caused by the reaction wheels of a spacecraft. In this paper, we analyze the robustness of the feature detection technique by submitting the thermal and visible imaging cameras to sinusoidal vibrations as they simultaneously execute feature detection of the target
Responsible leadership and societal purpose : Reframing the purpose of business as pursuing good dividends
No full textIn this chapter the author argues that a moral form of capitalism can realize good purposes and enable humanity to flourish. However, a shift in thinking about capitalist leadership is proposed through an argument for good dividends—a case for coupling together the notions of moral capitalism and responsible leadership through purpose. The author starts by outlining the relationship between purpose and responsible leadership. Then he discusses features of capitalism that were prominent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and draws conclusions which form the basis of an argument for the importance of pursuing six capitals: financial, human, social, reputational, operational, and planet-community. Maximizing the systemic use of all capitals generates good dividends. He continues by outlining the interdisciplinary perspective of moral capitalism with an understanding of business value that embraces intangible assets (such as human capital, social capital, and brand reputation). He argues that stakeholders’ interests and value can be aligned and realized through purpose, which enhances the value to the owners/shareholders over time. He concludes the chapter with a series of leadership case studies highlighting the relationship between purpose, business value, and social impact, and makes a call for collaborative action by stakeholders
Management education and the ethical mindset: Responsibility to whom and for what?
No full textPaper presented at the European Business Ethics Network (UK) Conference, Ethics in Crisis: a call for alternatives, April 7-9, 2010 at Queen Mary, University of London. Final version published by Springer in Journal of Business Ethics. Original title: Management education and the ethical mindset:
Responsibility to whom and for what? Available online at http://www.springer.com/This paper offers an analysis of leadership responsibility associated with differing models of the firm. Following a critique of the classical economic and conventional stakeholder theories of the firm, we proposes an interactive stakeholder theory that better facilitates the kind of ethical responsibility demanded by twenty-first century challenges. Our analysis also leads us to conclude that leadership education and development is in need of urgent reform. The first part of the paper focuses on what it means to lead responsibly, and argues that leading is essentially the practice of responsibility. The second part of the paper challenges standard assumptions about the ‘business of business’, while the third section examines in more depth how leadership education might be configured as a preparation for the enactment of responsible leadership. KEYWORDS: responsible leadership, ethics, leadership education, mindsets, stakeholder theor
Set your leadership compass and embark on a journey of self-discovery
No full textThink about a business that doesn't monitor its supply chain for child labor or exploits indigenous communities. Or a company that commits to ambitious climate targets but engages in greenwashing PR instead of action. If ignored, it's not long be fore stories find their way to social media, triggering boycotts or threatening the social license to operate. If the firm's leaders are unable to resolve the issue and rebuild public trust, the business can decline. Peter Wuffli, a former finance industry CEO and chairman who now sits on multiple boards, told us recently that responsible leadership seems to be gaining tremendous momentum and has made it onto the CEO agenda. However, there appears to be a knowing-doing gap. An important step to closing this gap is for leaders to be aware of the values, be havior, and beliefs that drive decision-making
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