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D-width, Metric Embedding, and Their Connections

Embedding between metric spaces is a very powerful algorithmic tool and has been used for finding good approximation algorithms for several problems. In particular, embedding to an ℓ1 norm has been used as the key step in an approximation algorithm for the sparsest cut problem. The sparsest cut problem, in turn, is the main ingredient of many algorithms that have a divide and conquer nature and are used in various fields.

Embedding between metric spaces is a very powerful algorithmic tool and has been used for finding good approximation algorithms for several problems.

Spiritual Intelligence

Is It Related to a Leader's Level of Ethical Development?

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An Investigation of Factors that Influence Academic Achievement in Christian Higher Education: Emotional Intelligence, Self-esteem and Spiritual Well-being

Significant research supports the contention that several variables influence academic achievement. This study has undertaken to examine the influence of the three variables of emotional intelligence, self-esteem and spiritual well-being upon the academic achievement of first semester students at a private Christian bible college. The results of the statistical analysis for each of the four research questions indicate that emotional intelligence and self-esteem when examined alone are not statistically significant although some scales approach the significance level. Analysis reveals that the construct of spiritual well-being by itself is significantly correlated with first semester college grade point average. Three other variables in combination provide a potential predictive model. Also presented are the results of an investigative analysis of three additional variables of gender, parents' highest level of education and high school GPA and their influence upon the first semester college GPA.

Rethinking Claims of Spiritual Intelligence: A Definition, Model, and Measure

A four-factor model of spiritual intelligence is proposed. Supportive evidence is reviewed for the capacities of critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, and conscious state expansion. Beginning with an over-inclusive 84-item Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory (SISRI) in Study 1 (N = 619 undergraduates), a series of exploratory factor analyses led to a reduced 39-item scale. Study 2 (N = 305 undergraduates) involved a confirmatory factor analysis which resulted in the removal of additional scale items in order to obtain adequate model fit. The final version of the scale, the SISRI-24, displays excellent internal reliability and good fit to the proposed four-factor model of spiritual intelligence. Additional measures of meaning, metapersonal self-construal, mysticism, religiosity, emotional intelligence, IQ, and social desirability offer support for construct validity. According to both intelligence criteria and current psychometric standards, findings validate the proposed model and measure of spiritual intelligence. Suggestions for future studies are discussed.

A four-factor model of spiritual intelligence is proposed. Supportive evidence is reviewed for the capacities of critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, and conscious state expansion.

Public Sector Leadership Perspectives on the Lateral Capability of Public Sector Organizations

Turbulent change in business environment has increased the ongoing dilemma in public sector organizations. On the one hand, it must work in a more effective and flexible way to adapt to the change; on the other hand, it must comply with the rules and procedures. Many studies have shown that the existence of a strong leader is significant to manage those challenges (e.g. Osborne & Gaebler 1993; Wilson, 2000). This situation has also led to the development of flexible organizations, one of which is called lateral organization (Galbraith, 1994). In addition, some studies found that different environmental situations need different leadership styles, and transformational rather than transactional leadership style is more appropriate to implement change (e.g. Bass, Avolio, Jung, Berson, 2003). This study explored the relationship between leadership styles and lateral capability of public sector organization. It also examined the moderating effect of environmental characteristics (dynamic or static) on this relationship. The setting of this study was a state-owned power utility company in Indonesia that has moved toward a flatter organization for more than five years. Bass's Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was used to measure the leadership style, Duncan's instrument was used to determine the environmental characteristic (static or dynamic), and Preziosi's Organizational Diagnostic Questionnaire (ODQ) was used to measure the lateral capability of the organization. This study found the relationships between transformational leadership and lateral capability was significant and positive while this relationship was significant but negative for passive leadership. However, the relationship between transactional active management by exception and lateral capability was not significant. The possible reason for this weak relationship was the reduction of transactional leadership components from originally three components to one component as a result of factor analysis. One component, contingent reward, merged with transformational leadership variable and another component, passive-management-by-exception, moved to laissez-faire variable. Consequently, active-management-by-exception is the only component left in the transactional leadership variable. Such component regrouping was consistent to the findings in prior studies that also found a low discriminant validity between transformational leadership and contingent rewards component and a high correlation between passive-management-by-exception and laissez faire (Avolio, Bass, & Jung, 1999). Future research is recommended to conduct a similar study in other public sector organizations such as health services, police departments, social services, research departments, and other governmental organizations.

Turbulent change in business environment has increased the ongoing dilemma in public sector organizations.

Bdnf-Mediated Regulation of Gabaergic Neurotransmission in Hippocampus Neurons

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Teacher Growth: Essential Characteristics of Experiences in Development from a Novice to Veteran Teacher

Every day teachers enter and leave the field of education. The number of teachers leaving the field in the first five years of teaching has doubled in the last ten yers. It is important to examine the constructs that allow some teachers to remain in the field, while others leave to pursue different careers. A review of the literature showed that there was understanding of the positive and negative constructs in education, but there was limited resarch on the application of these constructs to the teachers' careers. To understand why some teachers remain in the field and others leave, this phenomenology has (a) examined the process that a teacher goes through from starting as a beginning teacher to becoming a veteran one, (b) noted the similarities in the process that each teacher experienced, (c) related the findings in the literature, and (d) looked at how teachers' experiences helped them to grow and learn. The major characteristic that a teacher must possess to go from a novice teacher to a veteran one is adaptation. Adaptation skills are needed to allow the teacher to remain in the school environment. A teacher must possess adaptation skills to consider himself or herself a successful part of the teaching environment and to emerge from a novice to a veteran teacher.

However, if more closely examined, there are more commonalities and
similarities in these teachers' careers than ... From this knowledge and the use of
self-reflection teachers formulate their thoughts and opinions on their profession.

Essential Novice Nurse Educator Role Competencies and Qualifications to Teach in a Pre-licensure Registered Nurse Education Program

Expert nurse clinicians who are transitioning into academic positions after successful clinical careers often find they are unprepared to assume their new educator roles. While nursing clinical expertise may be a necessary expectation, the knowledge is not sufficient to assume a nurse educator position. Novice nurse educators prepared with the essential qualifications and competencies associated with the specialty role of a nurse educator will be better able to transition into their new academic roles. This study identified essential entry-level nurse educators' competencies and qualifications as reported by nursing administrators of accredited pre-licensure nursing programs across the United States.

... and competencies to be awarded a teaching appointment (Choudry, 1992a;
1992b; Davis et al., 2005; Norbeck, 998). ... educator is an intersection between
nursing knowledge, values and skills, and teaching knowledge, values and skills.

Antecedents and Consequences of Personal Reputation in Organizations

This dissertation involves an exploratory investigation that examined the antecedents and consequences of personal reputation in organizations. Using existing scales, this examination inspected personality, social effectiveness, expertise, and time as antecedents of personal reputation, and analyzed power, autonomy, and career advancement as consequences. A structural equation model was used to analyze the data in order to further our understanding of personal reputation in organizations. A revised model, driven by theory and improved fit, supported the proposed antecedents and consequences, with personal reputation partially or fully mediating the two groups (i.e., antecedents and consequences). Furthermore, additional analysis furthered our understanding of the reputation construct as it related to self and other reports. Strengths and limitations of this dissertation, and directions for future research are discussed.

Academy of Management Journal, 42, 288-306. Dulebohn ... Differential
involvement in delinquency: Toward an interpretation in terms of reputation
management. ... Personnel/human resources management: A political influence
prospective.

The Impact of a Foreign Assignment and Subsequent Repatriation Experiences on Eight Returned Expatriates' Personal and Professional Lives

Expatriate employees are affected in many ways, and on multiple levels, by their experiences overseas. The challenges faced and adjustments that need to be made, over time, can profoundly impact the perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors of individuals as they attempt to successfully adapt to a new culture and a foreign work environment. Among the "internal" perceptions that can be affected by this process is the degree of identification with one's "home" and organizational cultures, and aspects of self-concept (e.g., clarity, strength). It is not surprising, then, that repatriating employees often face a number of internal (and external) challenges as they readjust to their "home" and corporate cultures, and that this adjustment is typically mediated by the personal and organizational support systems that are available to them. Through in-depth interviews, eight subjects, representing a broad range of backgrounds and expatriate work experiences, were asked questions about their experiences while overseas and upon returning to the U.S. Interview questions were informed by specific phenomena of interest to the researcher, based on a review of existing research on repatriation and the researcher's training and experience regarding transition issues. Resulting interview data were analyzed and coded for emerging themes common among interviewees. Guided by a Grounded Theory and Phenomenological Inquiry perspective, the study examined how subjects saw themselves in terms of cultural identity and self-concept, what their perceptions were regarding the availability, accessibility, and utility of multiple support systems, what their feelings were about their organizations, and to what extent they experienced repatriation challenges as they returned to life in the U.S and their home organizations.

Empowering expatriates and organizations to improve repatriation effectiveness.
Human Resources Planning, 21(4), 29-39. Andreason, A. (2001). Ensuring the
success of expatriate managers. Journal of Business and Public Affairs, Fall, ...