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Vincentian Leadership: "...Not Yet What It Will Be...", John Lane Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

This is a brief summary of the 2003 Vincentian Leadership Conference’s purpose and proceedings. It was part of the Hay-Vincentian Leadership Project, whose mission statement is included. The conference gathered Vincentian scholars, leadership experts, and Vincentian service leaders to discuss bringing the Vincentian Family’s mission into the future. Although there are fewer vowed and ordained members, it seems likely that Vincentian service will continue through the lay members of the Family.

Saint Vincent De Paul As A Leader Of Change: The Key Roles Of A Higher Purpose And Empowerment, Margaret Posig Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

An examination of noteworthy change efforts enacted by Vincent de Paul underscores the importance of believing in the higher purpose of one’s goals. Empowered “followers” need to believe and find meaning in the “leader’s” vision, in order to buy into and support the change efforts. The empowerment of Louise de Marillac as a Vincentian leader was critical to the accomplishment of many great works. Organizations undergoing change or renewal can look to Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac for examples of servant leadership, and the change roles they enacted are integrated with a well-regarded organizational change model for the …

Practitioner Perspective: Reflections Of The Development Of A Values-Based Curriculum, Laurie Worrall Ed.D.

Vincentian Studies

At the time of this article, Laurie Worrall led the Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning at DePaul University. She also directed DePaul’s service learning program. She discusses what community-based service learning (CbSL) is, what makes it successful for both the DePaul community and the people who are served, and the leadership values that are necessary to make CbSL effective. The benefits and challenges of CbSL are also explained.

Saint Vincent De Paul And Money, John E. Rybolt C.M., Ph.D.

Vincentian Studies

The economic structures of seventeenth-century France, Vincent de Paul’s financial management, and his theory behind it are explained. His financial responsibilities and the sources of income for the Confraternities of Charity, the Congregation, and the Daughters of Charity are enumerated. In general, Vincent viewed money as a resource to be husbanded for the benefit of persons who were poor.

No Small Matter: Leadership For Institutional Culture In Vincentian Higher Education, Dennis H. Holtschneider C.M., Ed.D.

Vincentian Studies

The consideration of “Vincentian leadership” exists within the larger context of the loss of religious personnel from Catholic universities across the United States. For the religious mission and identity to remain strong at these institutions, Vincentian leaders must leverage a primarily lay-led, self-sustaining culture.

Vincentian Leadership—Advocating For Justice, Craig B. Mousin

Vincentian Studies

DePaul University employs thousands of people. As Craig Mousin writes, “To do justice to those we seek to serve necessitates that we do justice to those who engage in our work.” He explores “the centrality of work to life and mission” (including the personal and individual missions employees have for themselves) and what justice in the workplace means. He “examine[s] historical concepts of justice to understand what an advocate of justice works toward in a Vincentian institution.” Mousin also discusses how Vincentian leadership principles and “understandings of justice” should be applied in employment situations, especially when the law might advise …

Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics (Book Review), Donna A. Cristo

WCBT Faculty Publications

Book review by Donna A. Christo.

Nye, Joseph S. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. New York: Public Affairs, 2004. ISBN 9781586482251; 9781586483067 (pbk.)

Review Of Bonjour Laziness: Jumping Off The Corporate Ladder, Peter A. Maresco

WCBT Faculty Publications

A book review of Bonjour Laziness: Jumping Off the Corporate Ladder, by Corinne Maier.

Give Me That Online Religion (Book Review), Peter A. Maresco

WCBT Faculty Publications

Book review by Peter Maresco:

Brasher, Brenda E. Give Me That Online Religion. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. ISBN 9780787945794

Bond Yield Compression In The Countries Converging To The Euro, Lucjan T. Orlowski, Kirsten Lommatzsch

WCBT Faculty Publications

We demonstrate that bond yield compression is under way in the countries converging to the euro and that German yields are significant drivers of local currency yields. Based on the evidence from Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, we conclude that these new ...Member States of the European Union are ready to adopt the euro without risking a disruptive shock to their financial stability. This message transpires from investigating the daily volatility dynamics of local bond yields as a function of German yields, conditional on changes in local term spreads, exchange rates and adjustments to central bank reference rates. Similar …

Effect Of Viscoelasticity On Quality Factor Of Microcantilever Chemical Sensors: Optimal Coating Thickness For Minimum Limit Of Detection, F. Lochon, Isabelle Dufour, D. Rebière, U. Sampath, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Microcantilevers with polymer coatings hold great promise as resonant chemical sensors. It is known that the coated cantilever sensitivity increases with coating thickness; however, the drawback of increasing the coating thickness is the increase of the frequency noise and thus the deterioration of the sensor's limit of detection. In this paper, an analytical expression for the viscoelastic losses in the coating, hence the quality factor is established and is used to explain the observed increase of the frequency noise with the polymer thickness. This result is then used to demonstrate that an optimum coating thickness exists that minimise the limit …

Flow Cytometric And Demographic Analysis Of T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia In Pakistani Population., M R. Khawaja, S S. Allana, N N. Akbaral, S N. Adil, M. Khurshid, Shahid Pervez

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Background: This study was carried out to analyze the proportion of T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (TALL) among all acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in Pakistani population and its correlation with the demographic features. Accuracy of cell surface markers used in flow cytometric analysis of the leukemic cells was also determined.

Methods: Data of 209 consecutive cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) presenting between July 1995 and July 2003 was analyzed. Flow cytometry was performed on all ALL cases using the standard protocols. TALL markers included CD3, CD5 and CD7.

Results: Proportion of TALL among known ALL Pakistani patients was 17.22%. …

Recruitment And Retention Of Emergency Medical Technicians: A Qualitative Study, P. Daniel Patterson, Janice C. Probst, Katherine H. Leith, Sara J. Corwin, M. Paige Powell

Faculty Publications

Emergency medical technicians (EMTs) are critical to out-of-hospital care, but maintaining staff can be difficult. The study objective was to identify factors that contribute to recruitment and retention of EMTs and paramedics. Information was drawn from three focus groups of EMT-Basic, EMT-Intermediate, and EMT-Paramedic personnel recruited from participants at an annual conference. Thoughts and feelings of EMTs and paramedics were investigated using eight questions designed to explore entry into emergency medical services, what it is like to be an EMT or paramedic, and the EMT educational process. Data were analyzed at the group level for common themes using NVivo. For …

Mint Magazine, 2005, Volume 6, Fall, Mint Magazine Staff

MINT Magazine

EDITOR'S Note..........................................................................2

AROUND TOWN
Keeping Moving........................................................3
The View From Southside........................................4
The Many Sides To Pledging....................................5

FEATURE
State Tax Burdens And the Outflow of New York's Population.....................................6

LEISURE
The Long And The Short ...And The Backwards: Shakespeare Abridged...............8
Forests And Woodsmen And Witches, Oh My!..........9

CREATIVE
Go, And You're Gone.................................................10
Phantom.....................................................................11
Wake..........................................................................12

Informal Animation Sketching With K-Sketch, Richard Christopher Davis

Research Collection School of Computing and Information Systems

Animation is a powerful medium that is accessible to few, because current animation tools are extremely complex. This complexity arises partially from current tools’ focus on precise, often unnecessary details and partially from the difficulty of finding a small but sufficiently powerful set of tool features. We are designing K-Sketch, an informal 2D animation tool that uses sketching and demonstration to radically reduce the time needed to create an animation. Our field studies investigating the needs of current anima-tion tool users and would-be users are helping us to mini-mize complexity by showing us how to prioritize the many possible tool …

How To Understand China: The Dangers And Opportunities Of Being A Rising Power, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

china’s situation lends itself to hyperbole. the people’s republic of china (prc) has the largest population in the world, the fastest growing economy in the world, the largest army in the world, the largest middle class in the world, a permanent seat on the united nations security council, a manned space programme, a nuclear arsenal, and so on. but analysts, commentators and policymakers have yet to decide just how to understand china.

สรุปข่าว & กิจกรรมสิ่งแวดล้อม

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.

แนะนำโครงการสถาบันวิจัยสภาวะแวดล้อม : โครงการแผนแม่บทและแผนปฏิบัติการด้านการขยะและของเสียอันตราย หน่วยบัญชาการทหารพัฒนา กองบัญชาการสูงสุด (พ.ศ. 2548-2557), กองบรรณาธิการ

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.

การพัฒนาวิธีทางชีวภาพเพื่อบำบัดสารไตรคอโรเอธิลีน (ทีซีอี) ที่ปนเปื้อนในสิ่งแวดล้อม, เอกวัล ลือพร้อมชัย, อรมาศ สุทธินุ่น

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.

การบริหารจัดการโครงการประชาสัมพันธ์ การอนุรักษ์พลังงาน, เสถียร รุจิรวนิช

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.

"สร้างคุณค่าให้กับสิ่งไร้ค่า" กรณีศึกษาการจัดการขยะของ "โรงแรมสยามเบย์วิวและโรงแรมสยามเบย์ชอร์พัทยา", ธีรพล คังคะเกตุ

Thai Environment

No abstract provided.

Utpa Stats At A Glance - Fall 2005, University Of Texas-Pan American

UTPA Archives - Stats At A Glance

No abstract provided.

Smc Fact Book 2005, Saint Mary's College Of California

SMC Fact Book

No abstract provided.

Transaction Surveillance By The Government, Christopher Slobogin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This symposium article is the second of two on regulation of government efforts to obtain recorded information for criminal prosecutions. More specifically, it explores the scope and regulation of "transaction surveillance," which it defines as government attempts to access already existing records, either physically or through data banks, and government efforts to obtain, in real-time or otherwise, "catalogic data" (the identifying signals of a transaction, such as the address of an email recipient). Transaction surveillance is a potent way of discovering and making inferences about a person's activities, character and identity. Yet, despite a bewildering array of statutorily created authorization …

Adverse Possession Of Identity: Radical Theory, Conventional Practice, Jessica A. Clarke

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This Article examines the conditions under which acting as if one has a particular legal status is sufficient to secure that status in the eyes of the law. Legal determinations of common-law marriage, functional parenthood, and racial identity share striking similarities to adverse possession law – these doctrines confer legal status on those who are merely acting as if they have that legal status. In each case, the elements of a legal claim are strikingly similar: physical proximity, notoriety and publicity, a claim of right, consistent and continuous behavior, and public acquiescence. The reason public performance is critical is that …

A Dsp-Based Active Disturbance Rejection Control Design For A 1-Kw H-Bridge Dc-Dc Power Converter, Bosheng Sun, Zhiqiang Gao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper presents the design and implementation of an advanced digital controller for a 1-kW H-bridge dc-dc power converter. A new control algorithm based on the active disturbance rejection concept is developed to cope with the highly nonlinear dynamics of the converter and the disturbances. An experimental digital control system is used to implement the new control strategy. It consists of a digital control board based on the TMS320C6711 digital signal processor chip, an analogy I/O board, and a complex programmable logic device pulsewidth-modulation generation board. Using a newly developed bandwidth-parametrization technique, an autotuning method based on noise quantification is …

Dynamic Voltage Scaling Techniques For Power Efficient Video Decoding, Ben Lee, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Reshma Dixit, Chansu Yu, Myungchul Kim

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper presents a comparison of power-aware video decoding techniques that utilize dynamic voltage scaling (DVS). These techniques reduce the power consumption of a processor by exploiting high frame variability within a video stream. This is done through scaling of the voltage and frequency of the processor during the video decoding process. However, DVS causes frame deadline misses due to inaccuracies in decoding time predictions and granularity of processor settings used. Four techniques were simulated and compared in terms of power consumption, accuracy, and deadline misses. In addition, this paper proposes the frame-data computation aware (FDCA) technique, which is …

It's Not Easy Being A Cast Iron Bitch: Sexual Difference And The Female Action Hero, Diana Dominguez

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Lt. Ellen Ripley of the Alien series of films, Sarah Connor of the Terminator series, and Lindsey Brigman of The Abyss are examples of a special category of female role in Hollywood – the female action hero. To varying degrees of success, the three characters mentioned above defy the principal dilemma filmmakers seem to have in creating a character that can reconcile the presumably mutually exclusive aspects of cast iron bitch and traditional patriarchal societal views of femininity. Ripley, Connor, and Brigman infiltrate the male-dominated category of the action hero, but they are not a direct feminine challenge to the …

The Trouble With Trills: Gender And Consciousness In Star Trek, Susan J. Wolfe

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

The Star Trek series, which have been both praised for radical inclusiveness and criticized for their neo-conservative agendas, de-essentialize identity, gender, and sexual orientation through their depictions of the Trill, an alien race in which humanoids join with symbionts, slug-like creatures each of which lives in the abdominal cavity of its host, with whom it then shares a single fused consciousness. Hosts are selected independently of their sex, so that a symbiont dwells alternatively inside males and females; each new host, as well as the symbiont, is heir to the memories of all previous hosts.

The notions of unified selves …

On Lillian Robinson’S Wonder Women: Feminisms And Superheroes, Carlos Hernandez

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Sure, we all know that one of the primary functions of comic books is to titillate the proto-patriarchal penises of 12-year-old boys. But might this all-American art form have more to offer women than wedgie-prone bikini bottoms and cleavage from the Planet of the Fembots? According to Lillian Robinson’s Wonder Women, the answer is “Yes, but ....” The “Yes” part comes primarily, and foundationally, through the original Wonder Woman comics of the 40s, which told a story that to this day remains almost unheard-of in comic books: the story of a fully-realized female protagonist. For Robinson, the …