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Leading and managing in the social sector : strategies for advancing human dignity and social justice
\"This book explores leadership and management in social sector organizations, which include, NGOs, non-profits, social enterprises, social businesses, and cross-sector collaborations focusing on advancing human dignity and social justice. It provides social sector leaders with an overview of current trends, issues, and challenges in the field as well as best practices to foster effective programs, sustain organizations and meet the growing demands of the sector. The enclosed chapters cover topics such as cross-sector organizational design, innovation for client services, gender management dynamics, policy advocacy, and the growing social entrepreneurship movement.\"--Publisher's website.
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Little White Houses
A rare exploration of the racial and class politics of architecture, Little White Houses examines how postwar media representations associated the ordinary single-family house with middle-class whites to the exclusion of others, creating a powerful and invidious cultural iconography that continues to resonate today. Drawing from popular and trade magazines, floor plans and architectural drawings, television programs, advertisements, and beyond, Dianne Harris shows how the depiction of houses and their interiors, furnishings, and landscapes shaped and reinforced the ways in which Americans perceived white, middle-class identities and helped support a housing market already defined by racial segregation and deep economic inequalities.After describing the ordinary postwar house and its orderly, prescribed layout, Harris analyzes how cultural iconography associated these houses with middle-class whites and an ideal of white domesticity. She traces how homeowners were urged to buy specific kinds of furniture and other domestic objects and how the appropriate storage and display of these possessions was linked to race and class by designers, tastemakers, and publishers. Harris also investigates lawns, fences, indoor-outdoor spaces, and other aspects of the postwar home and analyzes their contribution to the assumption that the rightful owners of ordinary houses were white.Richly detailed, Little White Houses adds a new dimension to our understanding of race in America and the inequalities that persist in the U.S. housing market.
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Magnetic resonance in food science
The term magnetic resonance covers a wide range of techniques, spectroscopy, relaxation and imaging. In turn, these areas are evolving and leading to various new applications of NMR and ESR in food science and nutrition. From assessment of meat quality, through to a study of beer components and the effect of microwaves on potato texture, Magnetic Resonance in Food Science: Latest Developments provides an account of the state of the art in this lively area. Coverage includes: recent developments in magnetic resonance; human aspects of food; structure and dynamics in food; and food quality control. With contributions from international experts, this book is essential reading for academics and industrialists in food science. It is the latest in a series of titles in this area published by the RSC.
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The Infrastructure of Migration and the Migration Regime: Human Rights, Race, and the Somali Struggle to Flee Violence
If the migration regime is defined as the system of laws, both national and international, as well as regulations and policies that have an impact on the lives of migrants as they flee their country of origin because of violence or persecution, move through various countries, and finally attempt to settle in a destination country or region they deem safe, then Somali refugees must endure a migration regime that in practice often defines them as undeserving of the idealistic expression of human rights outlined in international treaties, and instead governs migrants with a series of practices that exploit their labor and threaten their lives with a discourse of both symbolic and very real violence. By denying forced migrants their human rights, the migration regime is also denying migrants representation as human. This migration regime, which at its best functions to warehouse human beings and at its worst operates to exploit and even kill forced migrants, is possible both because Somalis have no functional government to advocate for them and because Somalis must carry with them negative signifiers of race, religion, and origin within a discourse that interprets black and Muslim as threats to safety and stability. In order to move away from danger and maintain community in the process, Somali refugees must participate in an infrastructure of migration that often operates to thwart the refugee regime. Thus the migration regime creates an international system of laws that ipso facto inhibits migration, while the diaspora creates and participates in a transnational community that operates to overcome those legal barriers. Much of the data for the following essay is based on qualitative interviews of refugees and forced migrants as well as government officials.
[NB: Abdi Roble and I are the photographer and writer respectively of the Somali Documentary Project. We both believe that it is the team aspect of our work that makes what we do possible.]
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The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away
This book is a product of the Somali Documentary Project, which seeks to document the lives of Somalis in the diaspora. It consists of six essays that introduce Somali refugees and immigrants to their American fellow-citizens, and approximately 130 black-and-white photographs that document the former's daily lives.
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Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers
Lung squamous cell carcinoma is a common type of lung cancer, causing approximately 400,000 deaths per year worldwide. Genomic alterations in squamous cell lung cancers have not been comprehensively characterized, and no molecularly targeted agents have been specifically developed for its treatment. As part of The Cancer Genome Atlas, here we profile 178 lung squamous cell carcinomas to provide a comprehensive landscape of genomic and epigenomic alterations. We show that the tumour type is characterized by complex genomic alterations, with a mean of 360 exonic mutations, 165 genomic rearrangements, and 323 segments of copy number alteration per tumour. We find statistically recurrent mutations in 11 genes, including mutation of
TP53
in nearly all specimens. Previously unreported loss-of-function mutations are seen in the
HLA-A
class I major histocompatibility gene. Significantly altered pathways included
NFE2L2
and
KEAP1
in 34%, squamous differentiation genes in 44%, phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase pathway genes in 47%, and
CDKN2A
and
RB1
in 72% of tumours. We identified a potential therapeutic target in most tumours, offering new avenues of investigation for the treatment of squamous cell lung cancers.
Comprehensive analyses of 178 lung squamous cell carcinomas by The Cancer Genome Atlas project show that the tumour type is characterized by complex genomic alterations, with statistically recurrent mutations in 11 genes, including
TP53
in nearly all samples; a potential therapeutic target is identified in most of the samples studied.
Lung-cancer genomes analysed
The Cancer Genome Atlas consortium has analysed 178 lung squamous cell carcinomas, a common type of lung cancer for which comprehensive genomic analyses have not previously been available. The researchers report that this tumour type is characterized by complex genomic alterations, with recurrent mutations in 18 genes, including
TP53
in nearly all samples. They also report frequent mutations in squamous differentiation genes. Collectively, these analyses identify potential therapeutic targets worthy of further investigation.
Journal Article
Your profession needs you (lessons in medical leadership)
Although intelligence and technical skills are important for leaders, there is considerable evidence that the most effective leaders share a high degree of ''emotional intelligence'' (EI). Daniel Goleman popularized this term in his 1995 book Emotional Intelligence.2 Since then, Goleman and others have refined the concept, delineating four dimensions of EI: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.3 Each dimension contains specific competencies.
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CAEP 2015 Academic Symposium: Leadership within the emergency medicine academic community and beyond
A panel of emergency medicine (EM) leaders endeavoured to define the key elements of leadership and its models, as well as to formulate consensus recommendations to build and strengthen academic leadership in the Canadian EM community in the areas of mentorship, education, and resources.
The expert panel comprised EM leaders from across Canada and met regularly by teleconference over the course of 9 months. From the breadth of backgrounds and experience, as well as a literature review and the development of a leadership video series, broad themes for recommendations around the building and strengthening of EM leadership were presented at the CAEP 2015 Academic Symposium held in Edmonton, Alberta. Feedback from the attendees (about 80 emergency physicians interested in leadership) was sought. Subsequently, draft recommendations were developed by the panel through attendee feedback, further review of the leadership video series, and expert opinion. The recommendations were distributed to the CAEP Academic Section for further feedback and updated by consensus of the expert panel.
The methods informed the panel who framed recommendations around four themes: 1) leadership preparation and training, 2) self-reflection/emotional intelligence, 3) academic leadership skills, and 4) gender balance in academic EM leadership. The recommendations aimed to support and nurture the next generation of academic EM leaders in Canada and included leadership mentors, availability of formal educational courses/programs in leadership, self-directed education of aspiring leaders, creation of a Canadian subgroup with the AACEM/SAEM Chair Development Program, and gender balance in leadership roles.
These recommendations serve as a roadmap for all EM leaders (and aspiring leaders) to build on their success, inspire their colleagues, and foster the next generation of Canadian EM academic leaders.
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Winter Icing and Storms Project (WISP)
Field studies in support of the Winter Icing and Storms Project (WISP) were conducted in the Colorado Front Range area from 1 February to 31 March 1990 (WISP90) and from 15 January to 5 April 1991 (WISP91). The main goals of the project are to study the processes leading to the formation and depletion of supercooled liquid water in winter storms and to improve forecasts of aircraft icing. During the two field seasons, 2 research aircraft, 4 Doppler radars, 49 Mesonet stations, 7 CLASS sounding systems, 3 microwave radiometers, and a number of other facilities were deployed in the Front Range area. A comprehensive dataset was obtained on 8 anticyclonic storms, 16 cyclonic storms, and 9 frontal passages. This paper describes the objectives of the experiment, the facilities employed, the goals and results of a forecasting exercise, and applied research aspects of WISP. Research highlights are presented for several studies under way to illustrate the types of analysis being pursued. The examples chosen include topics on anticyclonic upslope storms, heavy snowfall, large droplets, shallow cold fronts, ice crystal formation and evolution, and numerical model performance.
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Thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke
Current evidence suggests that, in a small subset of acute stroke patients who can be treated within 3 hours of symptom onset, the administration of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) confers a modest outcome benefit, but that this benefit is associated with an increased risk of intracranial hemorrhage that can be severe or fatal. The data show that tPA therapy must be limited to carefully selected patients within established protocols. Further evidence is necessary to support the widespread application of stroke thrombolysis outside research settings. Until it is clear that the benefits of this therapy outweigh the risks, thrombolytic therapy for acute stroke should be restricted to use within formal research protocols or in monitored practice protocols that adhere to the NINDS (the rt-PA Stroke Study Group trial of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) eligibility criteria. All data on protocol compliance and patient outcomes should be collated in a central Canadian registry for the purposes of tracking safety and efficacy. Stroke thrombolysis should be limited to centers with appropriate neurological and neuro-imaging resources that are capable of administering treatment within 3 hours. In such centres, emergency physicians should identify eligible patients, initiate low risk interventions and facilitate prompt computed tomography. Only physicians with demonstrated expertise in neuroradiology should interpret head CT scans used to determine whether to administer thrombolytic agents to stroke patients. Neurologists should be directly involved prior to the thrombolytic administration.
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