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Evaluation as adventure: taking that risk
No full textHelen Simons traces the values that underpin her preferred methodology of case study and democratic evaluation to the central values she gained from the land of her birth. She looks back to consider what early experiences may have influenced her deep commitment to these values and how they impacted on her professional world as a teacher, a psychologist, and an evaluator. Her interview transcript which was a stimulus for this article is here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/ev.20302/suppinfo. Read only. This should not be used in any form without explicit permission from the author.</p
Letter from John F. Simons to Thomas P. Shea (June 11, 1919)
No full textA letter from John F. Simons to Thomas P. Shea written on June 11, 1919. In the letter, Simons writes that he has sent Shea's grades and a college catalogue to Boston University's Law School
Letter from John F. Simons regarding Thomas P. Shea (June 10, 1919)
No full textA letter from John F. Simons regarding Thomas P. Shea written on June 10, 1919. In the letter, Simmons confirms that Shea graduated from the YMCA College in 1916 and includes his grades
"Methodology and Microeconomics in the Early Work of Hyman P. Minsky"
No full textThis paper reviews the recently published Ph.D. thesis of Hyman P. Minsky, summarizing its main contributions to methodology and microeconomics. These were aspects of economics with which Minsky is not usually associated, but which lie at the foundation of his later work. They include critical remarks on Cambridge economics. The paper then draws out some antecedents of Minsky's ideas in the work of Henry Simons, and highlights the Marshallian monetary analysis that he adopted.
Super Chern-Simons theory: Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and A∞ algebras
No full textThis is a companion paper of a long work appeared in [C. Cremonini and P. Grassi, Pictures from super Chern-Simons theory, J. High Energy Phys. 03 (2020) 043JHEPFG1029-847910.1007/JHEP03(2020)043] discussing the super-Chern-Simons theory on supermanifolds. Here, it is emphasized that the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism is naturally formulated using integral forms for any supersymmetric and supergravity models and we show how to deal with A∞ algebras emerging from supermanifold structures
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Leadership and vision
No full textLeadership is increasingly defined within theory and policy as an activity which is central to all staff at all levels, and one which is increasingly allied to the modernisation and transformation of health and social care services. For Max Landsberg (2002), the essence of leadership is the ability to create vision, inspiration and momentum in a group of people. This chapter therefore builds on the discussion about contemporary management in Chapter 2, by exploring the relationships between leadership and vision and what they mean for managers, aspiring managers and practitioners in health and social care.
The imperative to transform and improve services reflects recent developments in leadership theory. There is a growing belief that the potential for leadership can be developed in a range of people and distributed throughout organisations, thereby fostering collaborative and integrative working to inform and contribute to an overall organisational vision (Ferlie and Shortell, 2001). This is mirrored in health and social care strategy in which the importance of identifying, nurturing and promoting talent and leadership at all levels is increasingly prioritised (Botting, 2011).
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Scattering Amplitudes of Massive N=2 Gauge Theories in Three Dimensions
No full textWe study the scattering amplitudes of mass-deformed Chern-Simons theories and Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theories with N=2 supersymmetry in three dimensions. In particular, we derive the on-shell supersymmetry algebras which underlie the scattering matrices of these theories. We then compute various 3 and 4-point on-shell tree-level amplitudes in these theories. For the mass-deformed Chern-Simons theory, odd-point amplitudes vanish and we find that all of the 4-point amplitudes can be encoded elegantly in superamplitudes. For the Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory, we obtain all of the 4-point tree-level amplitudes using a combination of perturbative techniques and algebraic constraints and we comment on difficulties related to computing amplitudes with external gauge fields using Feynman diagrams. Finally, we propose a BCFW recursion relation for mass-deformed theories in three dimensions and discuss the applicability of this proposal to mass-deformed N=2 theories
Chern-Simons supergravity on supergroup manifolds
No full textWe construct N=1 d=3 AdS supergravity within the group manifold approach and compare it with Achucarro-Townsend Chern-Simons formulation of the same theory. We clarify the relation between the off-shell super gauge transformations of the Chern- Simons theory and the off-shell worldvolume supersymmetry transformations of the group manifold action. We formulate the Achucarro-Townsend model in a double supersymmetric action where the Chern-Simons theory with a supergroup gauge symmetry is constructed on a supergroup manifold. This framework is useful to establish a correspondence of degrees of freedom and auxiliary fields between the two descriptions of d=3 supergravity
Benjamin Franklin Simons
No full textPhoto of Benjamin Franklin Simons, Lansing. Born 506 South Grand Avenue, Lansing, Michigan 1869. Son of B. F. Simons and Mary Adeline Jennison Simons. Order of Temple, November 20, 1901
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