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Public Relations Rhetoric: Criticism, Dialogue, and the Long Now
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2011-08-01)
This essay provides a response to the articles in this special issue by introducing the concepts of dialogue, groupthink, and long-term thinking. The philosophy of the Long Now Foundation (an organization devoted to ...
What Are the Different Types of Principals Across the United States? A Latent Class Analysis of Principal Perception of Leadership
(Educational Administration Quarterly, 2014-02-01)
Purpose: Effective styles of principal leadership can help address multiple issues in struggling schools, such as low student achievement and high rates of teacher attrition. Although the literature has nominated certain ...
Life After Vouchers: What Happens to Students Who Leave Private Schools for the Traditional Public Sector?
(Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2013-06-01)
Few school choice evaluations consider students who leave such programs, and fewer still consider the effects of leaving these programs as policy-relevant outcomes. Using a representative sample of students from the citywide ...
First Investigation of the Microbiology of the Deepest Layer of Ocean Crust
(PLos One, 2010-11-05)
The gabbroic layer comprises the majority of ocean crust. Opportunities to sample this expansive crustal environment are rare because of the technological demands of deep ocean drilling; thus, gabbroic microbial communities ...
Teaching Outside the Box: ARL Librarians’ Integration of the “One-Box” into Student Instruction
(2014-05-01)
This article reports the results of a survey that targeted reference and instruction librarians who work at libraries that are members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Respondents were asked to indicate ...
Request for proposal RFP# R 17054 17: Inventory control system for a high density storage facility for the Library Service Center for OU Libraries:
(2016-06-23)
This RFP supplements the journal article "Beyond the usual suspects: A case study in choosing an inventory control system" by Jennifer Watson and Cari Roberts, published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship.
An ethic of connectedness: enacting moral school leadership through people and programs
(Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2010-07-01)
As educators, we grapple with a myriad of dilemmas and often have difficulty resolving issues that relate to curriculum and instruction, funding, facilities and supervision, to name a few. Depending on the leader(s), a ...
An empirical assessment of the effects of trade in innovative tasks on innovation output
(2015-08-24)
Multinational firms are increasingly sending their innovative tasks abroad. This article examines whether offshoring research and development, design, and engineering activities provides any gains in terms of firm‐level ...
Retromer Is Essential for Autophagy-Dependent Plant Infection by the Rice Blast Fungus
(PLos Genetics, 2015-12-10)
Author Summary The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae utilizes key infection structures, called appressoria, elaborated at the tips of the conidial germ tubes to gain entry into the host tissue. Development of the ...
Change is hard: overcoming barriers to service innovation
(2016-09-12)
Creating value through service innovation requires new processes and ways of communicating to multiple stakeholders. Institutions and stakeholders within the service ecosystem, however, often resist change. Adopting a new ...