The Potential of Positive Leadership for School Improvement
In this paper, we undertake four formative assignments: (1) We introduce the idea of positive school leadership (PSL) based largely on theory and research conducted outside the educational sector and introduce four orientations that anchor PSL; (2) we ...
Karen Seashore Louis, Joseph F. Murphy
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Potential improvement of Lymantria dispar L. management by quercetin [PDF]
Lymantria dispar, a polyphagous insect pest, copes with a wide variety of host-specific allelochemicals. Glutathione S-transferases (GST) are important for catalyzing detoxification in L. dispar.
Perić-Mataruga Vesna +4 more
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Combined Abiotic Stresses: Challenges and Potential for Crop Improvement
Abiotic stressors are major constraints that affect agricultural plant physio-morphological and biochemical attributes, resulting in a loss of normal functioning and, eventually, a severe decline in crop productivity.
Rubab Shabbir +9 more
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Evaluating Response to High-Dose 13.3 mg/24 h Rivastigmine Patch in Patients with Severe Alzheimer's Disease [PDF]
AIMS: To identify factors predicting improvement/stabilization on the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Clinical Global Impression of Change (ADCS-CGIC) and investigate whether early treatment responses can predict long-term outcomes, during a ...
Farlow, Martin R. +4 more
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General practitioners’ views on the role of pedometers in health promotion [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: Regular pedometer use can help initiate and maintain regular walking activity that can lead to a number of health-related benefits.
Patel A, Kolt GS, Schofield GM, Keogh JW
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Cultural heritage as potential for tourism in the lower Danube Basin in Serbia [PDF]
The Lower Danube Basin boasts rich and quite diverse cultural heritage, which can be pivotal for the development of tourism and an important factor with regard to social and economic changes in Eastern Serbia.
Basarić Jelena
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Applying the trigger review method after a brief educational intervention: potential for teaching and improving safety in GP specialty training? [PDF]
<p>Background: The Trigger Review Method (TRM) is a structured approach to screening clinical records for undetected patient safety incidents (PSIs) and identifying learning and improvement opportunities.
Academy of Royal Medical Colleges, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement +20 more
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This paper reports the improved thermal and drying performance of a solar air heater powered by real solar irradiance and equipped with a tree-like fractal-based cylindrical pin (SAH-TFCP) as a turbulator for drying applications. The main purpose of this
Chotiwut Prasopsuk +2 more
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From the Pr\'ekopa-Leindler inequality to modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality [PDF]
We develop in this paper an improvement of the method given by S. Bobkov and M. Ledoux. Using the Pr\'ekopa-Leindler inequality, we prove a modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality adapted for all measures on $\dR^n$, with a strictly convex and super ...
Gentil, Ivan
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Improvement of biomethane potential of sewage sludge anaerobic co-digestion by addition of “sherry-wine” distillery wastewater [PDF]
Co-digestion of sewage sludge (SS) with other unusually treated residues has been reported as an efficient method to improve biomethane production. In this work, Sherry-wine distillery wastewater (SWDW) has been proposed as co-substrate in order to ...
Agabo García, Cristina +3 more
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