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Greater Gotham : a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919
\"Between consolidation and the end of World War One, New York was transformed and transforming, mirroring the juggernauting dynamism of the country at large--and largely fueling it. The names of two of its streets encapsulate the degree of the city's preeminence: Wall Street and Broadway. [This book] reveals the workings of the city's consolidation; the emerging hegemony of its financial markets, which effectively reconstructed U.S. capitalism; the influx of migrants from other continents and from the American South; the development of its massive infrastructure--subways and waterways and electrical grid; and New York's growing dominance over the arts, media, and entertainment\"--Provided by publisher.
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Professional Learning Communities: A Review of the Literature
International evidence suggests that educational reform's progress depends on teachers' individual and collective capacity and its link with school-wide capacity for promoting pupils' learning. Building capacity is therefore critical. Capacity is a complex blend of motivation, skill, positive learning, organisational conditions and culture, and infrastructure of support. Put together, it gives individuals, groups, whole school communities and school systems the power to get involved in and sustain learning over time. Developing professional learning communities appears to hold considerable promise for capacity building for sustainable improvement. As such, it has become a 'hot topic' in many countries.
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القراءة والكتابة النقدية لطلبة الدراسات العليا
يعد كتاب القراءة والكتابة النقدية لطلبة الدراسات العليا الذي يتبني منظورا تأمليا نقديا في الكتابة العلمية، من الكتب المرجعية في مجال البحث العلمي والكتابة الأكاديمية. يمثل هذا الكتاب دليلا عمليا لطلبة الدراسات العليا، الباحثين والأكاديميين يتكون الكتاب من ثلاثة أجزاء رئيسة تتضمن ثمانية عشر فصلا، ويركز بشكل خاص على ثلاثة مواضيع رئيسية وهي : اكتساب مهارات القراءة والكتابة النقدية الذاتية، والتحليل المتعمق للأدبيات، وتوظيف المراجعات النقدية للأدبيات.
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A widespread methylotroph acyl-homoserine lactone synthase produces a new quorum sensing signal that regulates swarming in Methylobacterium fujisawaense
Pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs of the genera Methylorubrum and Methylobacterium are metabolically versatile bacteria that colonize many diverse environments on earth. Despite their widespread occurrence, the molecular details of how these organisms interact with each other and their environment remain understudied. We analyzed genes encoding N -acylhomoserine lactone (acyl-HSL) quorum sensing signal synthases in the published genomes of these bacteria and determined that the product of the largest family of signal synthases had not been characterized. We identified 3 R -OH-5 Z -C 12:1 -HSL as a novel signal produced by these synthases using inverse stable isotopic labeling and structural characterization by mass spectrometry, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and chemical synthesis. We show that in the methylotroph Methylobacterium fujisawaense DSM5686, this signal activates its cognate LuxR-family transcription factor and is produced in a positive feedback loop. We also discover that in this strain, quorum sensing negatively regulates swarming motility by activating the expression of a small protein that binds a predicted transcription factor. These results characterize a previously undescribed, yet widespread quorum sensing system used by pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs, which helps us understand the chemical ecology of these important bacteria. Bacteria known as pink-pigmented facultative methylotrophs colonize many diverse environments on earth, play an important role in the carbon cycle, and in some cases promote plant growth. However, little is known about how these organisms interact with each other and their environment. In this work, we identify one of the chemical signals commonly used by these bacteria and discover that this signal controls swarming motility in the pink-pigmented facultative methylotroph Methylobacterium fujisawaense DSM5686. This work provides new molecular details about interactions between these important bacteria and will help scientists predict these interactions and the group behaviors they regulate from genomic sequencing information.
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Education Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism
This book explores the limits to rational management. The authors develop the idea of organizational irony as a central concept for analyzing and explaining management activity in a managerialist environment. Drawing on international research as well as their own extensive experience in educational organizations, the authors show that effectiveness is not necessarily the result of over-rationalistic approaches to educational management. Focusing on school leadership and management, authors Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace suggest that major reforms have had limited success because the changes introduced have diverted school staff from their core task of promoting student learning. The result is dissatisfaction, frustration, and stress. The authors use the ironic perspective to show how practitioners respond by mediating the reforms.
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Learning to read critically in educational leadership and management
This book is a unique resource which combines a teaching text with exemplary reports of small-scale research and a literature review conducted by international scholars. Part One gives the reader a framework for the critical analysis of any text and explains how to incorporate it into a literature review for a course assignment, dissertation or thesis. Part Two presents accounts of leading-edge research, offering the reader insights into important issues in the field of educational leadership, management and administration. The reader is invited to practise literature review skills by applying the critical analysis questions to each research report. Part Three is an exemplary critical literature review. It shows how a high quality literature review may be constructed and addresses a key issue in the field.
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Learning to Read Critically in Teaching and Learning
This book combines a teaching text with exemplary reports of research and a literature review by international scholars. This book is essential for students on research-based masters and doctorate courses in teaching and learning; and for students undertaking research training in the humanities and social sciences. Each book is a ‘three in one’ text designed to assist advanced course tutors and dissertation supervisors with key research-based teaching tasks.
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Gotham
In Gotham, winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation.
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Mike Wallace
[...]public companies are by far the most transparent when it comes to sustainability issues. [...]about 80% of the S&P 500 companies already disclose sustainability-performance-related information. [...]whether public, private, large or small, someone is asking about sustainability. [...]surveys of young professionals in their early to mid-20s indicate that they want to work for a company that has a positive impact on the world.
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A contact binary satellite of the asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh
Asteroids with diameters less than about 5 km have complex histories because they are small enough for radiative torques (that is, YORP, short for the Yarkovsky–O’Keefe–Radzievskii–Paddack effect)
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to be a notable factor in their evolution
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. (152830) Dinkinesh is a small asteroid orbiting the Sun near the inner edge of the main asteroid belt with a heliocentric semimajor axis of 2.19
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; its S-type spectrum
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is typical of bodies in this part of the main belt
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. Here we report observations by the Lucy spacecraft
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as it passed within 431 km of Dinkinesh. Lucy revealed Dinkinesh, which has an effective diameter of only 720 m, to be unexpectedly complex. Of particular note is the presence of a prominent longitudinal trough overlain by a substantial equatorial ridge and the discovery of the first confirmed contact binary satellite, now named (152830) Dinkinesh I Selam. Selam consists of two near-equal-sized lobes with diameters of 210 m and 230 m. It orbits Dinkinesh at a distance of 3.1 km with an orbital period of about 52.7 h and is tidally locked. The dynamical state, angular momentum and geomorphologic observations of the system lead us to infer that the ridge and trough of Dinkinesh are probably the result of mass failure resulting from spin-up by YORP followed by the partial reaccretion of the shed material. Selam probably accreted from material shed by this event.
Observations from the Lucy spacecraft of the small main-belt asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh reveals unexpected complexity, with a longitudinal trough and equatorial ridge, as well as the discovery of the first contact binary satellite.
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