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From Followers to Leaders
The aim of this chapter is to respond to the emerging scholarship regarding first-time leaders and their situational and potential lifelong learning environment. While transformational leadership may be the long-term goal, this...
Published by: IGI Global
Paratext Analysis of Patronage Factors
Hu Liu
Jan 01, 2021
Drawing on André Lefevere's rewriting theory, this paper endeavours to explore how Howard Goldblatt translates Mo Yan's novel Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (hereafter referred to as L&D) with regard to patronage control by...
Published by: IGI Global
The Nature of Children's Singing Voices
Joanne Rutkowski
Nov 19, 2013
Singing is often the window to the young child's musical life. Children sing during play, alone and with others, and group singing activities are encouraged in day care centers and preschool settings. However, some children seem...
Published by: Faculty of Education
The Ocean Ranger Disaster
JoAnne Dodd
Apr 09, 2013
In November 1980 the Ocean Ranger was the world's largest semi-submersible oil rig of its time and it was moved to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to commence the drilling of an exploration well in the Hibernia oil field. On...
Adopting Web Conferencing in Online Teaching
This study represented dimensions from the Diffusion of Innovations theory and the Community of Inquiry model to explore the adoption of web-conferencing. It used logistic regression to model the likelihood of adopting...
Published by: IGI Global
The Mind of Sustainability
The authors introduce the science of Mind Genomics to explore what specific messages drive a person to say they will be interested in sustainability and motivated to do something. The messages are the nature of the message and...
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Ontological Modeling of Certification and Inspection Process to Support Smart Disclosure of Product Information
The increasing number of certification schemes diminishes the utility of certifications as private regulation and creates several policy challenges. The undergoing efforts to help consumers verify the accuracy of information...
Published by: IGI Global
Building a Certification and Inspection Data Infrastructure to Promote Transparent Markets
This article reports on data architecture that reduces information asymmetries to support public-private collaboration to govern product certification and inspection for promoting transparent markets and building consumer trust....
Published by: IGI Global