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Let W be an algebra over a field F of characteristic zero. Let id(W) be the T-ideal of identities of W, i.e., polynomials in noncommutative variables which vanish upon any evaluation on W. One of the main theorems in PI theory (due to Kemer, 1991) is the solution of the Specht problem, namely that id(W) is finitely generated as a T-ideal (an ideal of the free algebra FáXñ is a T-ideal if it is closed under endomorphisms, that is, variables can be replaced by arbitrary polynomials). The main problem in the solution is the case where the algebra W is affine (i.e., finitely generated over F).
In the last two decades people considered G-graded identities on G-graded algebras where G is any group (generalizing ordinary identities where G = {1}). Here one considers polynomials in noncommutative G-graded variables, that is variables of the form xg where g Î G. Admissible evaluations are those where the variables xg are replaced only by elements of Wg. A G-graded identity is a polynomial which vanishes upon any admissible evaluation. The Specht problem for G-graded algebras asks whether the T-ideal of G-graded identities is finitely generated as a T-ideal. The case where G @ Z/2Z was known (due to Kemer) and it was essential in reducing the ordinary Specht problem from non-affine to affine algebras.
In these lectures I will present the main steps in the proof of the Specht problem for PI, G-graded affine algebras where G is a finite group (the nonaffine case follows as in the non-graded case). I will explain the obstacles which arise from the fact that the group G may not be abelian. As in the ungraded case the main part is to show that the T-ideal of G-graded identities of an affine algebra W coincides with the T-ideal of G-graded identities of a G-graded finite dimensional algebra A.
It should be emphasized that a G-graded algebra may be G-graded PI (i.e., PI as a G-graded algebra) even if it is non-PI (e.g., take the free algebra W (on more than one variable), G-graded where G ¹ {e} and Wg = 0 for g ¹ e). The Specht problem remains open for such algebras.
Most of the new results which I will present were obtained jointly with Alexei Kanel Belov. Other results were obtained with Haile, Natapov, Kassel, Giambruno and La Mattina.
Let V(ZG) denote the group of normalized units of the integral group ring ZG, i.e., the units with coefficient sum 1. A more than 30-year-old conjecture of Hans Zassenhaus states:
Recently Hertweck, Höfert and Kimmerle showed that for all prime powers q and all primes r the finite r-subgroups of V ( ZPSL(2; q) ) are isomorphic to subgroups of PSL(2; q). Using similar methods and the above result we obtained that for a finite minimal simple group G and a prime r any elementary abelian r-group H £ V(ZG) is isomorphic to a subgroup of G, except possibly the case G @ PSL(3; 3) and H @ C3 ×C3 ×C3.
Let k be a perfect field of positive characteristic p, and let G be a finite group. There are various classical results in the literature concerning lifts of finitely generated kG-modules to complete discrete valuation rings of characteristic 0, such as Green's liftability theorem. To understand and generalize these results, it is useful to reformulate them in terms of deformation rings. Deformation rings have become an important tool in the area of number theory, and in particular in the area of Galois representations and modular forms.
In this talk, I will introduce universal deformation rings and deformations of finitely generated kG-modules. This definition goes back to B. Mazur who used deformation rings to study lifts of Galois representations. I will show how the knowledge of the structure of the group ring of kG and its blocks together with the structure of the corresponding blocks in characteristic 0 can be used to determine the universal deformation rings of certain indecomposable kG-modules V. In particular, I will give examples when the universal deformation ring of V is directly related to the group ring of a defect group of the block to which V belongs.
In the first part, we discuss restricted Picard groupoid; these can be viewed as the two-dimensional version of abelian groups. Every restricted Picard groupoid is monoidal equivalent to a strict Picard groupoid, this is a Picard groupoid in which the symmetry, evaluation and coevaluation are the identity morphisms. For strict Picard groupoids, we have a structure theorem. We can define complexes of strict Picard groupoids, and the corresponding cohomology groups. To such a complex, two other complexes of abelian groups can be associated, and the cohomology groups of the three complexes are connected by a long exact sequence of cohomology, generalizing, as we will show later, the long exact sequence of Villamayor and Zelinsky. We introduce cosimplicial Picard groupoids, and associate a complex of Picard groupoids to it.
Hopf algebroids can be viewed as the proper generalization of Hopf algebras to non-commutative base rings. We will consider commutative Hopf algebroids over commutative rings; these are still more general than commutative Hopf algebras: the main difference is that we have a left and right unit map; in the case where these coincide, we recover the classical definition of commutative Hopf algebra. Other examples include: the Sweedler canonical coring associated to a commutative ring extension; AÄR H, where H is a commutative Hopf algebra over R, and A a commutative right H-comodule algebra; this example can be generalized to the case where H is a weak Hopf algebra.
To a commutative Hopf algebroid A, we can associate a cosimplicial commutative ring. Given a covariant functor to abelian groups or to restricted Picard
groupoids, we can then construct a cosimplicial abelian group or restricted Picard groupoid. We can then consider the corresponding cohomology groups. For this covariant functor, we choose Pic, associating the group of invertible S-modules to a commutative ring S. The corresponding cohomology groups are then denoted Hn(A, Pic). The above exact sequence takes the form
We give algebraic interpretations of the cohomology groups Hn(A, Pic) in the case where n=0,1,2. H0(A, Pic) is isomorphic to the Picard group of invertible A-module corings. To describe H1(A, Pic), we have to describe a Galois theory of A-module corings. In the case where A = SÄR S, the duals of the Galois coobjects are Azumaya algebras split by S. In the case where A=H, the duals of the Galois coobjects are H-Galois objects in the classical sense. Finally, H2(A, Pic) classifies certain monoidal structures on the category of A-modules. As an application of our theory, we obtain a normal basis theorem for Galois coobjects over commutative weak Hopf algebras.
Joint work with B. Femi\'c.
In this talk we will attain a deeper understanding of recent computations of the Brauer group of some quasi-triangular Hopf algebras by explaining why a direct product decomposition for this group holds and describing one of the factors occurring in it. For a Hopf algebra B in a braided monoidal category C, and under certain assumptions on the braiding (fulfilled if C is symmetric), we will show that:
The results presented in this talk are part of a joint work with Bojana Femi\'c (arXiv:0809.2517).
Let (k,O,K) be a p-modular system. Some algorithms are presented that allow calculations in the module category of an O-order L in a separable K-algebra A. In particular the methods admit calculation of the projective indecomposable L-lattices as amalgams of irreducible lattices. An application is the calculation of basic algebras of a group ring OG, provided the irreducible ordinary representations of G are known. The algorithms have been implemented using the computer algebra system GAP.
Let a, b Î C \smallsetminus {0} and l Î N, l ³ 3. We determine all Hopf algebra quotients of the quantized coordinate algebra Oca,b (GLn) when a-1b is a primitive l-th root of unity and a, b satisfy certain mild conditions, and we characterize all finite-dimensional quotients when a-1b is not a root of unity. As a byproduct we give a new family of non-semisimple and non-pointed Hopf algebras with non-pointed duals which are quotients of Oca, b(GLn).
This problem was first considered by P. Podle\'s for one parameter deformations of SU(2) and SO(3). Then, the characterization of all finite-dimensional Hopf algebra quotients of the one-parameter deformation Oq (SLN) of the coordinate algebra of SLN was obtained by Eric Müller, and in a joint work with N. Andruskiewitsch, Quantum subgroups of a simple quantum group at roots of 1 (to appear in Compositio Mathematica), we determined all Hopf algebra quotients of the quantized coordinate algebra Oq(G), where G is a connected, simply connected simple complex algebraic group and q is a primitive l-th root of 1. In order to determine the Hopf algebra quotients of the two-parameter deformation of O(GLn) we need to work both with our approach and Müller's approach, which is via explicit computations with matrix coefficients.
"Generalized Groups" (Hecke algebras and non-commutative association schemes being two examples of interest) are algebraic structures that share many of the algebraic and representation-theoretic properties of finite groups, and some useful additional properties as well. Rather than try give a survey of what has become a vast subject, I will present a few illustrative examples.
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A subalgebra pair of semisimple complex algebras B Ì A with inclusion matrix M is depth two if MMt M < nM for some positive integer n and all corresponding entries. If A and B are the group algebras of finite group-subgroup pair H < G, the induction-restriction table for irreducible characters equals M, and S = MMt satisfies S2 < nS iff the subgroup H is depth three in G; similarly depth n > 3 by successive right multiplications of this inequality with alternately M and Mt. For example, the pair of permutation groups Sn < Sn+1 has depth 2n-1 (or more). In joint work with Kuelshammer and Burciu, we show that a subgroup H has depth 2n+2 if its core is an intersection of H with n conjugates of H.
Given an irreducible character of a finite group, one can define its (second) Frobenius-Schur indicator by evaluating this character on the sum of the squares of all elements of the group, divided by the order of the group. Linchenko and Montgomery extended this definition to semisimple Hopf algebras and generalized the classical Frobenius-Schur theorem from groups to semisimple Hopf algebras. The set of Frobenius-Schur indicators proved to be a very important invariant of a Hopf algebra; in particular they can be used to compute the trace of the andipode of a Hopf algebra. In this talk we will discuss some recent applications of Frobenius-Schur indicators.
Drinfeld twists were introduced by Drinfeld in his work on quasi-Hopf algebras; they have been used to classify certain classes of (co)semisimple Hopf algebras. In joint work with Pierre Guillot (arXiv:0903.2807), after observing that the invariant Drinfeld twists on a Hopf algebra form a group, we determine this group when the Hopf algebra is the algebra of a finite group G. The answer involves the group of class-preserving outer automorphisms of G as well as all abelian normal subgroups of G of central type. In my lecture I shall also present several examples for which the group of invariant twists has been completely computed by us.
It is well known that a finite simple group G is determined up to isomorphism by its ordinary character table and therefore by its integral group ring. But probably much weaker conditions suffice. The object of the talk are recent results of M. Nagl, M. Borgart and myself related to the following two conjectures.
Conjecture (Huppert 2000). Let G be a finite simple group and let H be a finite group. Assume that the set of the irreducible ordinary character degrees of G coïncides with that one of H. Then H @ G ×A with A abelian.
Note that the assumption in Huppert's conjecture is satisfied provided G and H have isomorphic complex group algebras. More general for an arbitrary field K the question whether a finite (almost) simple group G is determined by the group algebra KG will be considered. Huppert's conjecture is from the point of view of character tables dual to the following one.
Conjecture (Thompson 1988). Let G be a finite simple group and let H be a finite group with trivial centre. Assume that the set of the conjugacy class lengths of G concides with that one of H. Then G @ H.
Let V(ZG) be the normalized unit group of the integral group ring ZG of a finite group G. The long-standing conjecture of H. Zassenhaus (ZC) says that every torsion unit from V(ZG) is conjugate within the rational group algebra QG to an element of G.
W. Kimmerle proposed to relate (ZC) with some properties of graphs associated with groups. The Gruenberg-Kegel graph (or the prime graph) of the group G is the graph with vertices labelled by the prime divisors of the order of G with an edge from p to q if and only if there is an element of order pq in the group G. Then Kimmerle's conjecture (KC) asks whether G and V(ZG) have the same prime graph.
We started the project of verifying (KC) for sporadic simple groups, using the Luthar-Passi method with recent extensions by M. Hertweck as a main tool. Now we are already able to report that (KC) holds for the following thirteen sporadic simple groups:
In my talk I will summarise known information about orders and partial augmentation of these groups, explain enhancements of the Luthar-Passi method that were developed during the project, and highlight some challenges arising from the remaining sporadic simple groups.
Joint work with Victor Bovdi, Eric Jespers, Steve Linton, Salvatore Siciliano et al.
Let H be a Hopf algebra over a commutative ring R. Let K be a normal Hopf subalgebra of H. Write [`(H)] : = H/HK+. Suppose given an H-module M. Then HomK(H,M) and HomR([`(H)],M) are isomorphic as left [`(H)]-modules, the isomorphism resembling a bit a Fourier inversion. Under some projectivity assumptions, this can be used to show that HomK(H,M) is Hom[`(H)](R,-)-acyclic. Therefore, in this situation there are two spectral sequences,
Nichols algebras were introduced by Nichols in 1978 and have reappeared in several places since (including work on the Schubert calculus and quantum enveloping algebras). More recently, they appear as key players in the classification of pointed Hopf algebras (which are finite dimensional if and only if their Nichols subalgebras are). The goal of this talk is to advertise one particular realization of Nichols algebras based on the Hopf quivers of Cibils and Rosso. It is hoped that this model will eventually be useful in determining large families of Nichols algebras which are finite dimensional. Here, we present a new family of such algebras in positive characteristic.
Joint work with S. Witherspoon and C. Cibils.
Various deformation techniques are proving to be instrumental in the efforts to construct new examples of bialgebras as well as in the classification efforts. In the talk I will discuss formal graded deformations, liftings, and cocycle deformations. Emphasis will be placed on the relationships between these concepts.
We will describe all gradings of the Witt, Special and Hamiltonian algebras by finite groups whose order is coprime to the characteristic of the field. The restriction to groups whose order is coprime to the characteristic allows us to use the correspondence between the grading group and a subgroup of the automorphisms of the algebra in question. We will discuss some gradings of the Contact algebras which are closely related to the gradings on the Hamiltonian algebras.
This talk surveys some methods to obtain an explicit description of the Morita equivalence class of a p-adic integral group ring RG of a finite group G which have been introduced by W. Plesken. They are essentially based on linear algebra.
In small cases, the ordinary character table together with the p-modular decomposition matrix of G allow to derive RG by purely combinatorial means. One main ingredient is the fact that RG is a selfdual order with an explicitly given involution. The symmetric groups provide particularly nice examples and we use the Jantzen-Schaper formula to obtain Zp S2p.
Let p and q be primes and let H be a semisimple (quasi-)Hopf algebra of dimension pn qm. We will show that the representation category of H can be obtained from cyclic groups by a sequence of equivariantizations and extensions . This can be viewed as a categorical analogue of the classical Burnside's theorem saying that finite groups of order pnqm are solvable. As a consequence we obtain that H contains non-trivial group-like elements and dimensions of irreducible H-modules divide dimension of H, i.e., Kaplansky's 6th conjecture holds for H.
This is a report on a joint work with P. Etingof and V. Ostrik.
Set-theoretic solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation lead to fascinating classes of finitely presented algebras, groups and monoids. All of them are determined by a presentation of the form áx1,...,xn | R ñ , where R is a set of n(n-1)/2 relations, each of the form xi xj = xk xm. The purpose of the talk is to present the main known results on such algebras, groups and monoids, exhibiting both their structural and combinatorial properties.
Recent solutions of the fundamental problems concerning set theoretic solutions, obtained in a joint work with F. Cedo and E. Jespers, will be also presented.
Let RG denote the group ring of a group G over a commutative associative ring with identity R. An involution g® g* on G extends linearly to an involution of RG and we shall consider involutions on RG of this type. The symmetric elements of RG under one such involution form a subring of RG if and only if they commute. Necessary and sufficient conditions for this to happen have been studied by several authors. We shall consider an analogous problem: when does (RG)-, the set of skew-symmetric elements, form a subring? It is easy to see that this happens if and only if skew symmetrics anticommute, so we shall discuss this question. The set (RG)- is closed under the Lie product [a, b] = ab- ba and the problem of deciding when this product is trivial has also received a lot of attention. We shall discuss an analogous question: when is the Jordan product trivial in the set of symmetric elements; i.e., when do the symmetrics anticommute?
Joint work with Edgar Goodaire.
Let k be an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. Recent classification results for certain large classes of pointed Hopf algebras by Andruskiewitsch and Schneider show that generalizations of quantized enveloping algebras and the small quantum groups of Lusztig cover quite a bit of ground.
We discuss a generalization of the complete reducibility theorem for the quantized enveloping algebras and other complete reducibility theorems for them. In some cases arguments follow those in Lusztig's book very closely.
This is nearly completed work of Andruskiewitsch, Radford, and Schneider.
For a co-Frobenius Hopf algebra of arbitrary dimension over a field, it is well-known that the space of integrals is one-dimensional and the antipode is bijective. Daniel Bulacu and Stefaan Caenepeel recently showed that for a dual quasi-Hopf algebra with nonzero integrals the space of integrals is one-dimensional, and the antipode is injective. We prove that the antipode is bijective.
This is joint work with Margaret Beattie and Miodrag Iovanov.
In this talked we give a short review of the recent development of Hopf algebras arising from transverse geometries. We mostly emphasis on their algebraic construction and its application in Hopf cyclic cohomology. Then a new class of coefficients for this cohomology will be introduced and finally a cup product based on this coefficients will be defined.
The first fundamental problem in the classification theory of pointed Hopf algebras is to understand Nichols algebras (or quantum symmetric algebras). Prominent examples of Nichols algebras are the +-parts of the quantum groups of semisimple Lie algebras. More concretely a very general and basic question is the following: What is the structure of the Nichols algebra of a finite direct sum V of finite-dimensional irreducible Yetter-Drinfeld modules (over any Hopf algebra with bijective antipode)? It turns out that there is a rich combinatorial context which can be used to answer this question.
In joint work with I. Heckenberger we associate a generalized root system to a Nichols algebra of this type (like the root system of a Kac-Moody Lie algebra), and in recent joint work with N. Andruskiewitsch and I. Heckenberger we define reflections of a Weyl groupoid of the Nichols algebra of V (like the Weyl group of a generalized Cartan matrix). I will give an introduction to these new developments and to some of their applications.
Hyperbolic groups were first studied by M. Gromov. The Flat Plane Theorem states that if a group is hyperbolic it has no subgroup isomorphic to Z×Z. This result has an important role in the classification of the groups G and the rational quadratic extensions K = QÖ{-d} such that the group of normalized units V = U1(oK[G]) is a hyperbolic group, where oK is the integral algebraic ring of K. If G is a non-abelian group, Juriaans, Passi and Souza Filho proved that V is hyperbolic if, and only if, G is the quaternion group of order 8 and d is a positive square free integer such that d º 7 mod 8. In this case, the quaternion algebra H(K) is a division ring. Since the unit group of the Z-order G = H(oK) is hyperbolic, we also show that for a suitable pair of units u, v of G there is an integer m such that the group generated by the powers um, vm is a free subgroup of G of rank two. Juriaans and Souza Filho extended this result and show that, in fact, the theorem is true for any positive square free integer d. We also prove that the power m is equal to 1, except in the case d = 2 which m = 2.
In this talk we shall communicate results obtained by S. O. Juriaans and A. C. Souza Filho in which the units u, v are constructed by the methods due to S. O. Juriaans, I. B. S. Passi and A. C. Souza Filho.


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Rays place Price on 15-day DL
St. Petersburg, FL – The Tampa Bay Rays placed ace David Price on the 15-day disabled list due to a left triceps strain he suffered in Wednesday's 9-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox.
Price exited with one out in Boston's eight-run third after giving up back-to- back RBI singles to Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz.
The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner is headed to the DL for the first time in his career.
Price, a 20-game winner last year, has struggled this season. He's 1-4 with a 5.24 ERA over nine starts. The southpaw's already allowed eight homers after surrendering just 16 in 2012.
In addition, Tampa Bay called up left-handed pitcher Alex Torres from Triple-A Durham to take Price's spot on the active roster.

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text: The Yoga Block Workout\\nGet the best bod on the block—and abs like whoa—with these six moves.\\nLove yoga. Hate yoga. Doesn't matter—you're just stealing the blocks. Instead of inching into a pretzel pose, you'll use them to tone. Everything. \\"I designed these exercises on blocks to throw you off balance, which forces your abs to kick in to help you stabilize,\\" New York City trainer Terri Walsh says.\\n\\n__You'll need:__ Two yoga blocks. Newbies, try firmer ones, like the Gaiam Sol Natural Cork Blocks ($19 each; [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com)) that we used. They're a little easier to maneuver on than squishier foam versions.\\n\\n__The plan:__ Do the routine on the tear-out cards three times a week on alternate days for a month and you'll see blockbuster results.\\n__Works: back, abs, obliques__ \\n \\nSit on edge of block, right leg extended with heel on other block; lean back so left forearm rests on floor. Extend left leg straight up, and grab ankle with right hand (as shown) to start. Lower left foot to block, rotate torso to right, and hug right knee to chest with left arm as right hand comes to floor. Return to start. Repeat for 30 seconds. Switch sides; repeat.\\n\\n__[Log this workout.](/mylogs)__\\n__Works: abs, thighs__ \\n \\nLie faceup with legs straight up, squeezing block between calves; place hands on forehead, and engage abs to lift shoulders off floor. Keep abs tight as you twist hips to right, bringing right elbow to left thigh (as shown). Then twist hips to left, bringing left elbow to right thigh. Continue alternating sides for 2 minutes.\\n\\n__[See the video.](/fitness/workouts/2012/12/yoga-block-workout-video)__\\n__Works: back, abs, thighs__ \\n \\nSit on side-by-side blocks, knees bent, feet on floor; lean back; brace upper body with forearms on floor. Cross left leg under right leg; tap floor with left foot; place right ankle on left knee. Extend legs in a wide V (as shown). Cross legs in opposite direction (right foot on floor, left ankle on right knee). Alternate sides for 1 minute.\\n\\n__[Log this workout.](/mylogs)__\\n__Works: obliques, back, thighs__ \\n \\nStart in a deep lunge with right leg forward, left knee on a block, other block on floor inside of right foot. Lean forward, rest right forearm on block, place left forearm perpendicular to block on floor, and extend right leg behind you to left. Open torso to left, reaching left arm up (as shown). Return arm to floor. Open torso to right, reaching right arm up. Continue alternating for 30 seconds. Switch sides; repeat.\\n\\n__[See the video.](/fitness/workouts/2012/12/yoga-block-workout-video)__\\n__Works: abs, butt, thighs__ \\n \\nPlace blocks flat on floor wider than hip-width apart, one vertical to body, one horizontal. Stand with right foot on vertical block, left knee raised to hip level, arms extended to right at shoulder level. With right foot on block, lunge left leg to left side just outside of other block, reaching right arm to touch left foot, left arm overhead (as shown). Return to start. Repeat for 1 minute. Switch sides; repeat.\\n\\n__[Log this workout.](/mylogs)__\\n__Works: thighs, shoulders, arms, abs, obliques, butt__ \\n \\nStart on all fours with right hand on block that is vertical to body, left hand on floor, left foot flat on horizontal block, toes turned out to left, and right leg extended behind you on floor. Open torso to left, extending arm up. Return to start, then tap right foot to left heel (as shown). Return to start again. Repeat for 1 minute. Switch sides; repeat.\\n\\n__[See the video!](/fitness/workouts/2012/12/yoga-block-workout-video)__\\n\\n__[The 8-Minute CrossFit Workout](/fitness/blogs/freshfitnesstips/2011/10/the-8-minute-fat-blasting-cros.html)__\\n\\n__[Speedy Ab Sculptors](/fitness/workouts/2012/08/stand-up-paddleboard-workout-slideshow)__\\n\\n__[Calorie-Incinerating Cardio](/fitness/2012/07/secret-to-burn-fat-faster)__


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by Eric Rindal – KF15 – Sierra Leone
"What has changed in your business since you took out your loan?" I ask Kiva borrower Fatmata as we stand amongst the whirling crowd in a Freetown market. "Oh, very much, everything has changed," she says as her eyes quickly sway toward the crowd, then back to mine. I ask her to be more specific; she picks up some of her merchandise and slaps it down with a smile, "I can pay for my child's school fees.
I have one, a girl, who is in her last year of schooling." Her pending graduation is quite an accomplishment in a country where 24% of women are literate and nearly half the population lacks a formal education. When Fatmata mentions her daughter's final year, it is obvious this is a triumph for her as well.
I met with a few more borrowers in Freetown's market and asked them many of the same questions about their businesses. The sense of achievement was palpable when each of them mentioned their sustained ability to send their children to school or pay for other basic needs. I left the market and silently walked back to my office on Liverpool Street thinking about the borrowers. These loans are about more than straight business.
The externalities of microfinance float through the air like pollen, and, I believe, they will be the catalyst for the next generation to be pollinated and healthfully spur economic progress. The people of Sierra Leone cannot fully expect comprehensive support from their post-conflict government. Instead, they must rely on their own impetus for self-improvement, within their own family and for the nation as a whole. Through their ambition and entrepreneurialism, it appears that a more economically stable life can be obtainable for the children of microfinance borrowers.
Usually my conversations begin with borrowers' thoughts on the loan and its assistance to their business, but it then quickly melds into thoughts of their family; coloring the conversation with brilliant confidence in their ability to provide a slightly better life for their children. Based on an aggregate of conversations I have had over the last two months with borrowers, I naturally developed basic assumptions where I feel the children of borrowers are major beneficiaries from microfinance. I believe that if a borrower is able to pay school fees without the constant anxiety about family finances, the borrower is less likely to pull that child out of school due to lack of funds or in necessity to help work for the family income. I believe that if borrowers have additional income they will purchase more nutritious, or even more regular, meals for their children. And I believe that more income allows borrowers to prepare for emergencies, such as sicknesses like malaria, typhoid, or dysentery. I like to think these borrowers are seeking familial-interest, rather than self-interest, in hopes of setting a valuable foundation for their children. Familial-interest follows similar tenets of economic self-interest and personal self-improvement in making every effort to actualize their best self; in this case their best family.
Building this tangible and intangible foundation is where many women borrowers in Makeni, Sierra Leone find themselves. I am currently staying in an extra room at the director's house of Kiva partner Salone Microfinance Trust. With years of development, microfinance, and women's empowerment experience, Regina knows effective strategies to equip clients. As she and I walked the dirt path to work my first day I asked her how she saw microfinance playing a role in the next generation. She explained how she has seen many women borrowers at SMT begin with a group solidarity loan and after three or four loan cycles, save enough money to buy a small plot of land. From there, the women use the land as collateral for a larger loan, part of which they spend on their business and part they spend on a foundation to a new house. Graduating from a group loan to the larger individual loan, these women partition some of that money to complete their house. This is not a rare occurrence; women are developing their businesses and building their homes. What concrete changes will this make on their children's wellbeing?
Back to Freetown, in a small store situated deep within a patchwork neighborhood I sat on a three-legged stool as Kiva borrower Hawa sat on her newly acquired kilo of rice."I bought this with my loan," she said as she patted her seat; then she clutched my hand, "and you want to see what else?!" We left the store and went up uneven steps, under an askew door frame, and entered a small room just big enough for, "my new deep freezer!" Hawa was on cloud nine through my whole interview, "I have five kids- yes, five- and I can send them all, every one of them, to school." Before her loan, Hawa struggled to pay for all five of these school fees. Again she grabbed my hand to secure my attention, she waved the other to display the items she purchased with her loan, "Thank you, thank you, tell everyone thank you for the loan."
So, where will the developing world be in fifteen years when Hawa's children are adults? My hope is, far ahead of where it is now. I believe microloans lent to borrowers today- yes, that one woman in Sierra Leone or that one man in Ecuador- may determine the lives of their children and the future of the developing world.


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HOW can we ESTABLISH the TRUTH?
God has not left us to guess whether certain things are right or wrong.
Three connected parts are necessary to establish the truth.
The Source of Truth can be found in only in God!
John 14:6
There are basic elements of truth that can always be counted on no matter what I feel, no matter where I am, and no matter what my age!
12 WAYS YOUR PHONE IS CHANGING YOU by Tony Reinke
Interesting chapter titles says it all... What do you think?
1 We Are Addicted to Distraction . . . . . . 41
2 We Ignore Our Flesh and Blood . . . . . . 55
3 We Crave Immediate Approval . . . . . . .65
4 We Lose Our Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
5 We Feed on the Produced . . . . . . . . . . 91
6 We Become Like What We "Like" . . . . .109
7 We Get Lonely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
8 We Get Comfortable in Secret Vices . . .131
9 We Lose Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
10 We Fear Missing Out . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
11 We Become Harsh to One Another . . . .163
12 We Lose Our Place in Time . . . . . . . . . .177
LENT(Old English for Spring) is a 40-day period (before Easter, excluding Sundays) of fasting and repentance culminating in the celebration of Holy Week. LENT began by early Christians in an effort to identify with biblical 40 day periods of trial and fasting(Genesis 7:12, Exodus 34:28, Numbers 13:25, Numbers 14:34, 1 Samuel 17:16, 1 Kings 19:8, Luke 4:2, Acts 1:3)leading up to Easter. The Lenten season beacons us to deepen our understanding and appreciation for the abundant grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ's saving work on the cross.
MARDI GRAS Pre-Lenten celebrations (Carnival, Festival)culminate with FAT TUESDAY(Mardi Gras in French or Shrove Tuesday)the day before Ash Wednesday. Since Christians have often chosen or been taught to fast from all sweet food during Lent, including milk, eggs, and meat, the traditional dinner on this night is pancakes to use up their milk and eggs and syrup so there won't be any of the tempting stuff around during Lent. Many have mutated this season as an excuse for indulgence before the fast. It is often looked on as one last "binge" before having to give something up for 40 days. These celebrations foster the unscriptural notion that you can do whatever you want on Fat Tuesday, as long as you show up in church on Ash Wednesday.
ASH WEDNESDAYbegins the Lenten season and is six and a half weeks before Easter every year. Ash Wednesday isthe tradition (not a requirement)of putting ashes on the forehead in the form of a cross as a sign of humility and recognition of our own sin (the ashes usually come from the dried and burned palms from Palm Sunday the year before).
"From dust you came, and to dust you shall return. Turn from your sin and receive the good news." By reminding ourselves of our need and willfully submitting to Christ's authority, we prepare our heart to celebrate Easter with a renewed sense of joy and amazement!
Many equate LENT with SELF DENIALand give up something enjoyable (like meat or chocolate or movies)for the 40 days as a way of focusing more intently on the meaning of the season. While there is certainly nothing wrong with preparing for Easter through some form of self-denial or intentional good works, it is important to realize that these will not win us God's favor, earn special blessing, or increase His love for us. God's love for us could not be any greater than it already is! If you plan to give up something, please make sure to use the margin created to grow in love and appreciation with Christ.
Remember the Lenten season is about preparing the heart; so, if you plan to give up something, then make plans to REPLACE it with something that would turn your heart more toward Christ! Maybe take the challenge to read the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), memorize certain scriptures, or read the Purpose Driven Life daily devotional book during Lent. (free YouVersion Bible App for reading plans & FighterVerse App for scripture memory)
FISH Catholic traditions often practice various acts of penitence and spiritual self-discipline during Lent. One of those disciplines is a fast that requires Catholics to abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent. The rule is based on the authority of the Church, not on the authority of Scripture. The stated reason for Catholics not being allowed to eat meat on Fridays during Lent is to remind the faithful that Jesus died on a Friday. Jesus gave up His body (His flesh), and Catholics, in an effort to attain greater communion with Christ, refrain from consuming flesh.
EASTER Christians celebrate Easter as the resurrection of Christ on the third day after His crucifixion. It is the oldest Christian holiday and the most important day of the church year because of the significance of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the events upon which Christianity is based(1 Corinthians 15:3-4,14). The four Gospels make it clear that Jesus was crucified in conjunction with the Jewish Passover (Matthew 26:17-19; Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:7-15; John 18:28,39; 19:14). The four Gospels also make it clear that Jesus was raised from the dead three days later, on the first day of the week (Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2,9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1,19). Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Whether we call it "Easter" or "Resurrection Sunday," what is important is the reason for our celebration, which is that Christ is alive, making it possible for us to have eternal life (Romans 6:4)!
GOSPEL STORY[BAD NEWS]Since SIN is any thought, attitude, word, or action that falls short of God's perfect, holy standard and deserves punishment, we are separated from the Source of LIFE and we ALL desperately need RESCUED! [GOOD NEWS]Love motivated Jesus Christ to step out of heaven and sacrificially give His innocent life on a bloody cross for the just punishment of our sin and also conquer sin's penalty (death) by victoriously rising from the grave! [Romans 10:9-10][Ephesians 2:8-9]To reject this Gospel story is to condemn your self to death. To receive this Gospel story for your own is embracing LIFE!
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Ephesians 5:33Let each one of you LOVE his wife as himself,and let the wife see that she RESPECTS her husband.
The Language of Love & RespectCracking the Communication Code with Your MateDr. Emerson Eggerichs
MEN: How to Spell LOVE to Your Wife? COUPLE
Closeness: She wants you to be close.
Openness: She wants you to open up to her.
Understanding: Don't try to fix her; just listen.
Peacemaking: She wants you to say, "I'm sorry."
Loyalty: She needs to know you're committed.
Esteem: She wants you to honor and cherish her.
MEN: You don't motivate your wife to become more respectful by acting in unloving ways. [Tony Evans] The less a woman feels appreciated, needed, and valued as an equal with you, the less responsive she will be following your functional lead as head in your house.
LADIES: How to Spell RESPECT to Your Husband? CHAIRS
Conquest: Appreciate his desire to work and achieve.
Hierarchy: Appreciate his desire to protect and provide.
Authority: Appreciate his desire to serve and to lead.
Insight: Appreciate his desire to analyze and counsel.
Relationship: Appreciate his desire for shoulder-to-shoulder friendship.
Sexuality: Appreciate his desire for sexual intimacy.
LADIES: You don't motivate your husband to become more loving by complaining and criticizing to get what you want. The less a man feels respected, the less motivated he will be to want to treat you well, love you, and be good to you.
[got ?'s quote] God's commands for husbands and wives are not conditional. Submission is not contingent upon love, and love is not contingent upon respect. Taking the first step in obedience, regardless of the actions of the other, goes a long way to breaking down the conflict and establishing new patterns of behavior.
LADIES: What would you think of a man that is consumed with CHRIST and empowered to LOVE you and your family with the self-sacrificial love of Christ?
MEN: What would you think of a lady that is consumed with CHRIST and honors your position as husband with endless respect?


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Jennifer Aniston celebrated her fiance Justin Theroux's 42nd birthday on Saturday by throwing a star-studded party at their Los Angeles home, with guests including Ben Stiller, Tobey Maguire and Jason Bateman.
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Guests were treated to a buffet-style meal as they mingled at the couple's newly-renovated Bel Air mansion and they toasted the birthday boy with glasses of champagne.
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Tendering Some Love to the Players…….Tendered Players 2008
The Greatest thing a player can learn on a day like today is how much his club loves what he does on the field for them. But sometimes even that get a bit blurred and the images seems to fade a bit before the reality comes that you either have a new start somewhere else, or you contact your old team and see if they just wanted you at a cheaper price.
Every December 12th, the MLB goes through this sadistic tactic of non-tendering and tendering contracts to the arbitration eligible players on their rosters. Some people are shoe-ins to get picked up because of talent or maybe even a low cost towards the next year budget. Others are looked at under a microscope and the decisions might come down to dollar signs and not talent or ability.
That is the sad reality of this date. You could be an up and coming talent, or a veteran that just had an off year and you could be looking for a job in a heartbeat after midnight tonight. Also, just because they decided to offer you a contract doesn't mean that the wheels stop turning and you might still be dealt to another team and they will make the decision on your fate again, and maybe at a financial disadvantages.
So on and on tonight I will be adding to this blog until I have a final idea of who, what where, when and why might pop up and bite some unsuspecting player on the buttock. Seriously here, there will be some surprises tonight. Some players might be getting held ransom for a financial sacrifice, while other might be rewarded for unforeseen changes in their game or ability. Which ever come about, it is not the end of the world or a career with any of the players tonight.
Everyone will find a place to play in 2009, it might not be the town you are currently playing in, but it also might turn into the best decision of your life. Just because you came up with a certain club does not mean that there are not other staffs or coaches' salivating that your name is on the list tonight. People always have choices in life. The path we take is not predestined as many believe, but they are earmarked with signs and signals we either adhere to or avoid.
The players on this list still have had the honor to play at a level that few people ever achieve in life, on or off the ball field. And with that in mind, you have to remember the sacrifices and the sweat and tears that got you to this level will be rewarded again.
So as we embark on this night when some believe a dream has ended, you have to remember that through every closed door there is another opportunity maybe even down the hall. Here is the list of the guys who got the love and admiration of their clubs tonight. This list will be in no certain order, but will be update throughout the night.
Tampa Bay Rays:
Gabe Gross ( OF )
Dioner Navarro ( C )
Jason Barlett ( SS )
Willy Aybar ( INF )
Grant Balfour ( RP )
Kansas City Royals:
Esteban German ( INF ) 1-year contract
John Buck ( C )
Mike Jacobs ( INF )
Mark Teahen ( OF )
Brian Bannister ( SP )
Kyle Davies ( RP )
Jimmy Gobble ( SP )
Zack Greinke ( SP )
Joel Peralta ( RP )
Florida Marlins:
Jorge Cantu ( 3 B )
Dan Uggla ( 2 B )
Cody Ross ( OF )
Jeremy Hermida ( OF )
Rick Nolasco ( SP )
Josh Johnson ( RP )
Alfredo Amezaga ( RP )
Logan Kensing ( RP )
Dallas McPherson ( INF )
Philadelphia Phillies:
Shane Victorino ( OF )
Ryan Howard ( 1 B )
Ryan Madson ( RP )
Jayson Werth ( OF )
Eric Bruntlett ( INF ) 1-year contract
Clay Condrey ( RP ) 1-year contract
Joe Blanton ( SP )
Cole Hamels ( SP )
Greg Dobbs ( INF )
Chad Durbin ( RP )
Seattle Mariners:
Eric Bedard ( SP )
Aaron Heilman (SP, RP )
Felix Hernandez ( SP )
San Diego Padres:
Scott Hairston ( OF )
Luis Rodriguez ( INF )
Jody Gerut ( OF )
Heath Bell ( RP )
Atlanta Braves:
Kelly Johnson ( INF )
Matt Diaz ( OF )
Jeff Francoeur ( OF )
Mike Gonzalez ( RP )
Omar Infante ( INF )
Casey Kotchman ( 1 B )
Boston Red Sox:
Kevin Youkilis ( 1B )
Jonathan Papelbon ( RP )
Javier Lopez ( RP )
Minnesota Twins:
Jason Kubel ( D H )
Matt Guerrier ( RP )
Los Angeles Dodgers:
Russell Martin ( C )
Andre Ethier ( OF )
Johnathan Broxton ( RP )
Oakland Athletics:
Rob Bowen ( C ) $ 535,000 1-year contract
Justin Duchscherer ( SP )
Jack Cust ( OF )
Chicago White Sox:
Dewayne Wise ( OF ) 1-year, $ 550,000 contract
Wilson Betemit ( INF ) 1-year $ 1.3 Million contract
Detroit Tigers:
Ramon Santiago ( INF ) 1-year $ 825,000 contract
Marcus Thames ( OF )
Fernando Rodney ( RP )
Bobby Seay ( RP )
Joel Zumaya ( RP )
Justin Verlander ( SP )
Edwin Jackson ( SP,RP )
Cleveland Indians:
Kelly Shoppach ( C )
Chicago Cubs:
Chad Gaudin ( RP ) 1-year $ 2 million contract
Ronny Cedeno ( INF )
Reed Johnson ( OF )
Neal Cotts ( RP ) 1-year $ 1.1 million contract
Mike Wuertz ( RP )
Kevin Gregg ( RP )
San Francisco Giants:
Jack Taschner ( RP )
Toronto Blue Jays:
Jason Frasor ( RP )
Brian Tallet ( RP )
Brandon League ( RP )
Jose Batista ( INF )
Pittsburgh Pirates:
Nate McLouth ( OF )
Adam LaRoche ( 1 B )
Ryan Doumit ( C )
Zack Duke ( SP )
John Grabow ( RP )
Tyler Yates ( RP )
Paul Maholm ( SP )
St Louis Cardinals:
Rick Ankiel ( OF )
Chris Duncan ( OF )
Todd Wellemeyer ( RP )
Colorado Rockies:
Garrett Atkins ( 3 B )
Clint Barmes ( 2 B )
Jorge De La Rosa ( SP )
Taylor Buchholz ( RP )
Jason Grilli ( RP )
Huston Street ( RP )
Cincinnati Reds:
Edwin Encarnacion ( INF )
Milwaukee Brewers:
Seth McClung ( SP, RP )
Prince Fielder ( 1 B )
Rickie Weeks ( 2 B )
J J Hardy ( S S )
Corey Hart ( OF )
Dave Bush ( SP )
Washington Nationals:
Ryan Zimmerman ( 3B )
Josh Willingham ( OF )
Scott Olsen ( SP )
Shawn Hill ( RP )
Willy Harris ( SS ) 2-year $ 3 million
Houston Astros:
Brandon Backe ( SP )
Geoff Geary ( RP )
Wandy Rodriguez ( SP )
Tim Byrdak ( RP )
Jose Valverde ( RP )
Humberto Quintero ( C )
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim:
Chone Figgins ( 3 B )
Robb Quinlan ( INF )
Maicer Ituris ( INF )
Ervin Santana ( SP )
Mike Napoli ( C )
As tonight comes to a close at midnight, the name will still be pouring in and this liost might not be totally complete by tomorrow afternoon. But I will do my best to be sure that you all have the latest listing of all players tendered contracts on December 12th.
I will also so a listing of the players who are deemed free agents now that their respective teams have put them on the open market. That listing might be a bit different as I want to block everyone into their respective positions, instead of teams for the non-tender list.
I will have that listing working by tomorrow afternoon and I have not decided yet if I might make prediction on what might happen to those players. As the night grows and the list gets longer, I will determine if that would be entertaining and informative to all of you.


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When Janet Schofield, PhD, a social psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh,
entered college in Boston in the mid-1960s,
the public schools there were just beginning to
desegregate. Protesters stoned school buses and
took to the streets. The experience sparked an
interest in intergroup relations that endures today.
"This whole issue of how people from different
racial or ethnic backgrounds get along is a core
issue in terms of societal peace, conflict and
justice," Schofield says.
Her research explores the factors that influence
relationships among people from different racial
and ethnic groups. Much of this work focuses
on the ways that school structures and policies
affect relationships between white and African-American students. In a study that dates to 1980,
she and her colleagues examined whether an
ambiguously aggressive action — for example,
one student bumping into another in a crowded
hallway — would be viewed differently depending
on the students' race. Schofield and graduate
student Andrew Sagar found that when the person
doing the bumping was African-American, the
participants saw the action as meaner and more
threatening than when the bumper was white. The
research was published in the Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, and "Dateline" featured the
results in a special on race relations.
Follow-up research suggests a similar bias
exists outside school hallways, Schofield says. For
example, more recent studies have found that
both college students and police officers are more
likely to perceive an ambiguous object as a weapon
if the person holding it is African-American
rather than white. In a 2010 longitudinal study,
Schofield examined whether white and African-American college freshmen who had roommates
from the other group were more likely to develop
friendships with people from different racial backgrounds than
freshman paired with someone of their own race. She and her
colleagues found that they were more likely to do so, and that
contact between the two groups during freshman year predicted
the development of those friendships by the end of that year.
Previous studies have found that friendships between group
Research by Dr. Janet Schofield found that white college freshmen who are
assigned black roommates develop long-lasting friendships that cross racial
divides, and vice versa.
members reduce prejudice.
Schofield doesn't just present her work at conferences, she
brings it to policymakers. In 1998, she led a daylong seminar for
members of Congress on improving intergroup relations, and
her research has been cited by two Supreme Court justices in a
case involving race and schooling. "It's very important that the
work become part of the public discourse," she says. n


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Anthropology and Apemen Questions and Answers
Key articles
- Making sense of 'apeman' claims
- Argument: Evolution of Mankind (from Refuting Evolution 2)
- What about similarities and other such arguments for evolution? (From the Creation Answers Book)
- Are there ape-men in your ancestry?
- Fossil evidence for alleged apemen: Part 1: the genus Homo, and Part 2: non-Homo hominids
- Adam, Eve and Noah vs Modern Genetics
What does the human fossil record show?
- Image of God or image of an ape?
- Bones Overthrown
- The Human Fossils Still Speak
- 'Out of Africa' theory going out of style?
- Pre-Adamites, sin,
death and the human fossils
Are scientists unbiased when they reconstruct 'apeman' fossils?
- Filling in the blanks
- National Geographic unveils 'Wilma' the Neandertal lady
- 'Ape-woman' statue misleads the public
How intelligent were Neandertals and Homo erectus?
- Armoured Neandertal
- Neandertals were fully human in thinking: Symbolic items show human cognition and symbolic thinking
- Neandertals 'must have had advanced skills'
- Speech, music—and Neandertals
- The Painted Neandertal: Ancient cosmetics are upsetting evolutionary stories
- Homo erectus misunderstandings?
- Skull wars: new 'Homo erectus' skull in Ethiopia
- Axing evolutionary ideas—stone dead!
- How different is the cranial-vault thickness of Homo erectus from modern man?
What do fossil and genetic evidence suggest about Neandertals?
- The caring Neandertal
- Do genetic differences disprove that Neandertals and modern humans interbred?
- Lagar Velho 1 child skeleton: a Neandertal/modern human hybrid (PDF)
- Neandertal Man—the changing picture
- Recovery of Neandertal mtDNA: An Evaluation
- Thumbs up for Neandertals
- The FOXP2 gene supports Neandertals being fully human
- Neandertal genome like ours (There may be Neandertals at your next family reunion!)
- The Neandertal mitochondrial
genome does not support evolution
What about other so-called evolutionary missing links?
- The non-transitions in 'human evolution'—on evolutionists' terms
- Australopithecus sediba revisited
- Homo habilis hacked from the family tree
- Ardipithecus again: A recycled ape-man
- Did Lucy walk upright?
- 'Giants' in the land: an assessment of Gigantopithecus and Meganthropus
- Hobbit bone wars
- Soggy dwarf bones
- Hobbling the Hobbit?
- Hofmeyr man—another African 'missing link'?
- The 'Lucy Child'
- Micro-primates … a transitional form or just heelbone hype?
- Toumai 'ape-man' suffers another blow
- New footprints from Ileret, Kenya, supposed to be from human evolutionary ancestor
- New Hominin skull from Kenya
- No more love for Lucy?
- Not another 'ape-man'!
- The Rise and Fall of Skull KNM-ER 1470
- Time's alleged 'ape-man' trips up (again) [Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba]!
- Who was 'Java man'?
- Australopithecus sediba no human ancestor
- Gautengensis vs sediba: A battle for supremacy amongst 'apeman' contenders, but neither descended from Adam
- He ain't my brother: no apparent family ties between Big Man and Lucy
- Not the Flintstones it's the Denisovans
How are humans unique?
- Broken images
- Monkeying around with the origins of language
- A 'Bill of Rights' for apes?
- Has an ape learned to talk? (available in Spanish)
- Bird-brain matches chimp
- Deaf babies show we are 'created to speak'
- Differences between animals and humans
- Furry little humans?
- Made in the Image of God
- Man: The Image of God
- Recycled humans
- Walking monkey business in Israel
- Curved spines and pregnant primates
- Going ape about human rights: Are monkeys people, too?
What is the 'mitochondrial Eve' hypothesis? Does it suggest that all humans can be traced back to one woman?
- No bones about Eve
- A shrinking date for Eve (available in Spanish)
- Y-chromosome Adam?
- Genesis correctly predicts Y-chromosome pattern (and a brief history of the Jews)
- The Neutral Model of evolution and recent African origins


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Review of Anders Christian Hansen´s Uden for hovedstrømmen - alternative strømninger i økonomisk teoriFoss, Nicolai J. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: For tre til fire årtier siden var der i fin overensstemmelse med tidsånden megen tale om økonomisk teoris krise. En række alternative, »heterodoxe«, »non-mainstream« retninger blev etableret eller taget frem af gemmerne og støvet af som alternativer til den formodet monolitiske, neoklassiske hovedstrøm. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7453
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Abstract: Corporate failures, periodic recessions, regional debt crises and volatile financial markets have intensified the focus on risk management as the means to deal with turbulent conditions. The ability to respond effectively to abrupt environmental impacts is considered an important source of competitive advantage. Yet, surprisingly little research has analyzed whether the presumed advantages of effective risk management are associated with superior outcomes. Here we present a comprehensive study of risk management effectiveness and the relationship to corporate performance based on more than 33,500 observations in 3,400 firms over the turbulent 20-year period 1991-2010. Determining effective risk management as the ability to reduce earnings and cash flow volatility, we find that both have significant positive relationships to lagged performance measures after controlling for industry effects, company size and financial leverage. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8697
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The Role of External Knowledge Sources and Organizational Design in the Process of Opportunity ExploitationFoss, Nicolai J.; Lyngsie, Jacob; Zahra, Shaker A. (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Research highlights the role of external knowledge sources in the recognition of strategic opportunities, but is less forthcoming with respect to the role of such sources during the process of exploiting or realizing opportunities. We build on the knowledge-based view to propose that realizing opportunities often involves significant interactions with external knowledge sources. Organizational design can facilitate a firm's interactions with these sources, while achieving coordination among organizational members engaged in opportunity exploitation. Our analysis of a double-respondent survey involving 536 Danish firms shows that the use of external knowledge sources is positively associated with opportunity exploitation, but the strength of this association is significantly influenced by organizational designs that enable the firm to access external knowledge during the process of exploiting opportunities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8680
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The case of the Resource-based viewFoss, Nicolai J. (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Does the RBV represent a case of scientific progress? And has it emerged as the dominant approach to the analysis of competitive advantage for this reason? Conventional criteria for scientific progress, notably those of the growth of knowledge literature, are not particularly helpful for understanding this. Instead, it is argued that in order to understand why the RBV is an instance of scientific progress, we should begin from the notion that reduction is at the heart of progress in science, and that many scientists implicitly or explicitly hold this view. The RBV is a case of scientific progress because it identified theoretical mechanisms at levels lower than those that were usually investigated in strategy research prior to the RBV. Unfortunately, the micro-emphasis of the RBV gave way during the 1990s to more aggregative modes of theorizing (i.e., the capabilities approach). Thus, the RBV represents an "unfinished revolution" as there is still considerable potential to dig deeper in the deep structure of competitive advantage. Keywords: Resource-based view, mechanisms, reductionism, competitive advantage, transaction costs, property rights. JEL Code: L2, M1 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7481
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Tie Formation in the Sector of Service Intermediaries in ShippingNowińska, Agnieszka (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of the dissertation is to shed light on the complex determinants of tie formation. Extant research has linked similarity and dissimilarity (respectively homophily and heterophily) and different proximities types to the likelihood of tie formation in a linear way. However, there are significant differences in how ties form depending on 1) tie characteristics (formal vs informal), 2) group belonging (female vs. male), 3) types of proximities involved and their interplay, 4) temporal dynamics. Therefore, to fill gaps in the literature, this dissertation addresses the question on how the likelihood of tie formation is correlated with 1) the interplay of geographical and industry space proximities in formal inter-firm ties over time, 2) organizational and geographical proximity in case of formal employer-employee ties after organizational failure 3) gender homophily for females and males in case of informal employee-employee ties. I use the empirical setting of service intermediaries: shipbrokers and bunker traders, in the international shipping industry. My methodological approach includes mixed (qualitative and quantitative) methods and a quasi-natural experiment. The dissertation comprises three empirical studies that address the research questions outlined. The dissertation's main contribution lies in demonstrating the complexity of tie determinants. The first chapter explains the premises, gap, empirical setting, methods and contribution of this dissertation. The following chapter (Chapter 2) analyses the role and interplay of geographical proximity and buyers' types (such as competitors) for the tie formation in formal inter-firm transactions in shipbroking. I find that the effect of geographical proximity does not significantly correlate with tie formation between the focal shipbroker firm and the buyers, it however positively moderates the lower likelihood of dealing with competitors. This finding is explained with co-opetition (simultaneous pursuit of cooperation and competition) in local clusters of service firms. Chapter 3 studies the unexpected and exogenous organizational failure following a fraud and its effects on the status change of displaced employees transitioning into new employment. While there is no generalized stigma in the studied setting, employees organizationally and geographically proximate to the pivot of the failure are more prone to a status loss in guise of lower level jobs or jobs at lower status firms. The mechanisms that explains such a systematic pattern of status loss is blame. Similar to stigma by its spillover effects, it operates however less spread therefore, in contrast to stigma's "wide brush", the blame taints with a "pointed brush". Further, Chapter 4 analyses the differential effects of gender homophily for females and males on the likelihood of co-mobility: while male dyads are more likely to be co-mobile, female dyads are less likely to be co-mobile. By further investigating possible underlying mechanisms, the chapter finds a strong support for labor market discrimination driving the results for female dyads. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9655
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Implications for New Organizational FormsFoss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Two of Herbert Simon's best-known papers are "The Architecture of Complexity" and "The Structure of Ill-Structured Problems." We discuss the neglected links between these two papers, highlighting the role of decomposition in the context of problems on which constraints have been imposed as a general approach to problem solving. We apply these Simonian ideas to organizational issues, specifically new organizational forms. Specifically, Simonian ideas allow us to develop a morphology of new organizational forms and to point to some design problems that characterize these forms. Keywords: Herbert Simon, problem-solving, new organizational forms. JEL Code: D23, D83 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7431
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Felin, Teppo; Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Organizational scholars have recently argued that economic theories and assumptions have adversely shaped management practice and human behavior, leading not only to the incorporation of trust-eroding market-mechanisms into organizations but also unnecessarily creating self-interested behavior. A number of highly influential papers have argued that the self-fulfilling nature of (even false) theories provides the underlying mechanism through which economics has adversely shaped not just social science but also management practice and individual behavior. We question these arguments, and argue that there are important boundary conditions to theories falsely fulfilling themselves, boundary conditions that have hitherto been unexplored in organizational research, and boundary conditions which question the underlying premises used by organizational scholars and social scientists to attack economics. We specifically build on highly relevant findings from social psychology, philosophy and organizational economics to show how (1) objective reality and (2) human nature provide two important boundary conditions for theories (falsely or otherwise) fulfilling themselves. We also defend organizational economics, specifically the use of high-powered incentives in organizations, and argue that self-interest (rightly understood) facilitates in creating beneficial individual and collective and societal outcomes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7466
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Insights from the Autrian School PerspectiveIshikawa, Ibuki (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to identify the source of competitive advantage in the resource based view of strategic management literature. In particular, it is argued that the source of competitive advantage is rooted in entrepreneur judgment. In this argument, this paper consists largely of three parts: firstly, a brief survey of the theoretical framework of the RBV of strategic management, particularly to identify critically the resource conception in the sense of what RBV scholars understand; secondly, to argue the significance of exploiting the Austrian perspective, especially focusing on Lachmann (1947,1956), Mises (1946) and Knight (1921) to improve the RBV framework; thirdly, to apply the Austrian perspective to the RBV and demonstrate that the source of competitive advantage is derived from entrepreneurial judgment per se, not the resource per se, and to discuss some possible future research avenues for further development. It becomes clear through this paper that a strategy is mainly seen as the quest for the entrepreneurial judgmental rent. The major insight of this paper is that taking the entrepreneur insight from the Austrian school of thought is the fruitful way to understand the source of competitive advantage. Jel Code: B25, D21, D81, M13 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7460
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Foss, Nicolai J. (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: While (managerial) beliefs are central to many aspects of strategic organization, interactive beliefs are almost entirely neglected, save for some game theory treatments. In an increasingly connected and networked economy, firms confront coordination problems that arise because of network effects. The capability to manage beliefs will increasingly be a strategic one, a key source of wealth creation, and a key research area for strategic organization scholars. KEYWORDS: Interactive beliefs, coordination, network economy, common knowledge. JEL CODE: D84, M30 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7439
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Klein, Peter G.; Barney, Jay B.; Foss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Strategic entrepreneurship is a newly recognized field that draws, not surprisingly, from the fields of strategic management and entrepreneurship. The field emerged officially with the 2001 special issue of the Strategic Management Journal on "strategic entrepreneurship"; the first dedicated periodical, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, appeared in 2007. Strategic entrepreneurship is built around two core ideas. (1) Strategy formulation and execution involves attributes that are fundamentally entrepreneurial, such as alertness, creativity, and judgment, and entrepreneurs try to create and capture value through resource acquisition and competitive posi-tioning. (2) Opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking—the former the central subject of the entrepreneurship field, the latter the central subject of the strategic management field—are pro-cesses that should be considered jointly. This entry explains the specific links between strategy and entrepreneurship, reviews the emergence and development of the strategic entrepreneurship field, and discusses key implications and applications. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8514
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A dynamic perspectiveNielsen, Bo Bernhard (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper focuses specifically on interfirm strategic collaboration as a vehicle for knowledge management across firm boundaries. Drawing on the widely accepted exploitation/exploration dichotomy, this article contributes to research concerning alliance dynamics by combining elements related to alliance formation, negotiation and outcomes. By integrating the exploitation/exploration arguments into a set of knowledge-related strategic motives for alliance formation, the main arguments focus on the influence of governance mechanisms on the relationship between strategic fit and outcome in terms of knowledge. This paper integrates the emergent knowledge-based theories of alliance formation (and outcome) with existing theories related to governance and coordination in an attempt to explain how the knowledge outcome of collaborative relationships may be determined by the strategic fit of partner motives, influenced by the mix of contractual and procedural governance. A series of testable propositions are derived in order to answer the following question: Do combinations of contractual and procedural coordination, given specific strategic fit, explain performance differentials? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7479
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Strategic Orientations of Internationalizing Firms: A Comparative Analysis of Firms Operating in Technology Intensive and Common Goods IndustriesAndersen, Torben J.; Joshi, Mahesh P. (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The strategic orientations of global integration and local responsiveness (the I-R framework) continue to dominate analyses of internationalization strategies and identify the basic strategy typologies of multinational enterprise. Much effort has been devoted to verify the generic strategies established within the original I-R framework but few studies have investigated their implied performance effects. In conformity with the foundations of the I-R framework we characterize the strategic orientations by their implied corporate decision structures and strategy processes and analyze their performance associations in two distinct industrial environments. The evidence from this analysis contradicts predictions in the conventional I-R framework. We explain this conundrum from a resource-based perspective as firms operating in technology intensive environments outperform when they have access to diverse multinational resources whereas firms in common goods businesses gain economies from global product standards. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7428
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Analyzing Antecedents and Contingencies for Value CreationSax, Johanna (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the literature with an investigation into strategic risk management practices from a strategic management and management accounting perspective. Previous research in strategic risk management has not provided sufficient evidence on the mechanisms behind firm practices, processes and tools for managing strategic risks, and their contingencies for value creation. In particular, the purpose of the thesis has been to fill the gaps in the literature by asking the question of: How does strategic risk management influence firms' ability to deal with risks that may affect long-term competitive advantage and corporate longevity? To answer this question, the literature in strategic management and management accounting has been synthesized in order to identify management practices, processes and systems that take an active stance in making better decisions about risk-taking by preparing for the inherent uncertainty of strategic decisions. The thesis comprises four chapters that individually address the blind spots in the literature and in combination answer the overall research question. It suggests that proactive management practices such as strategic planning, interactive control systems and enterprise risk management processes, can be effective means in dealing with strategic risk. It further emphasizes the role of participative decision-making, a participative leadership style and the employees' psychological safety for raising voice as important factors in order to benefit from these management practices most advantageously. Besides from enhancing our theoretical understanding of these mechanisms the thesis further provides empirical evidence on the interplay between the identified managerial practices and contextual factors as well as their ability on managing risks and create value for the firm. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9209
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Andersen, Torben Juul; Roggi, Oliviero (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Major corporate failures, periodic recessions, regional debt crises and volatile markets have intensified the focus on corporate risk management as the means to deal better with turbulent business conditions. Hence, the ability to respond effectively to the often dramatic environmental changes is considered an important source of competitive advantage. However, surprisingly little research has analyzed if the presumed advantages of effective risk management lead to superior performance or assessed important antecedents of effective risk management capabilities. Here we present a comprehensive study of risk management effectiveness and the relationship to corporate performance based on panel data for more than 3,400 firms accounting for over 33,500 annual observations during the turbulent period 1991- 2010. Determining effective risk management as the ability to reduce earnings and cash flow volatility, we find that it has significant positive relationships to lagged performance measures after controlling for industry effects and company size. We also find that availability of slack resources and investment commitments affect the risk management capabilities and their relationship to performance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8696
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Juul Andersen, Torben (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Liberalizations of international trade and improvements in communication and information technologies allow companies to organize around extensive multinational structures of cross-border sourcing networks. In a freely interacting market setting multinational enterprise is exposed to financial and economic risks that can be monitored within conventional reporting systems and managed through use of various derivative instruments. All the while, a dispersed multinational structure can be vulnerable to disruptions caused by changing economic conditions, competitive moves, and geopolitical developments as well as natural disasters and terrorist events that are difficult to forecast. Consequently, current risk management techniques span from conventional gap analyses and quantitative value-at-risk measures of market-related exposures to more qualitative assessments of competitive exposures and low-frequency high-impact disaster events based on scenario analyses. Hence, there is a need to consider risk management approaches that integrate relatively transparent financial exposures with the consequences of uncertain and hard-to-quantify event risks. This paper outlines the contours of such a strategic risk management framework incorporating conventional exposure measures and simulation techniques to assess vulnerability and responsiveness in a turbulent global setting. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7426
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Juul Andersen, Torben; Fredens, Kjeld (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Corporate entrepreneurship is deemed essential to uncover opportunities that shape the future strategic path and adapt the firm to environmental change (e.g., Covin and Miles, 1999; Wolcott and Lippitz, 2007). At the same time, rational central processes are important to execute strategic actions in a coordinated manner (e.g., Baum and Wally, 2003; Brews and Hunt, 1999; Goll and Rasheed, 1997). That is, the organization's adaptive responses and dynamic capabilities are embedded in integrative structures that accommodate dispersed business initiatives. The dual concerns for integration and entrepreneurial behavior are reflected in the conjoint need for effective routines and exploratory search in adaptive systems (e.g., Pfeifer and Bongard, 2007; Sutton and Barto, 1998). It has also been expressed as a need to balance exploitation and exploration (March, 2001) and configure ambidextrous organizational forms (e.g., O'Reilly and Tushman, 2008; Tushman and O'Reilly, 2004). In strategy research, optimization and rejuvenation perspectives have variously been described as intended and emergent strategies (Mintzberg, 1978; Mintzberg and Waters, 1985), top‐down and bottom‐up strategies (Nonaka, 1987), induced and autonomous strategy processes (Burgelman, 2005; Burgelman and Grove, 1996, 2007), central planning and decentralized initiatives (Andersen, 2000, 2004, Andersen and Nielsen, 2009). Burgelman and Grove (2007) outline such a combined strategy process and observe how central direction and dispersed exploration can change over time influenced by strategic leadership. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8552
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Foss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A concern with teams was central to early attempts to grasp the nature of the firm, but fell out of favor in later work. We encourage a return to the emphasis on teams, but argue that the idea of teams as central to the nature of the firm needs to be grounded in an appreciation of the importance of We frames and group agency. We use converging insights from evolutionary anthropology, cognitive social psychology and work on team agency to develop such a grounding, and link it to the issues of the existence and boundaries of firms. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8362
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Debates and a Novel ViewFoss, Nikolai J. (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Arguments derived from the theory of science have been present in strategic management discourse since at least the beginning of the 1970s. The field's topjournal,the Strategic Management Journal, has printed several theory of sciencebased papers. Most positions in the theory of science (falsificationism, instrumentalism, realism, constructivism, etc.) have been present in the methodological discourse in the field. This chapter briefly reviews theory science applications to strategic management, before a distinctive perspective on the evolution of the strategic management field is developed. According to this perspective, science progresses when deeper level mechanisms are identified and theorized. Theoretical reduction may therefore be an independent criterion of scientific progress. Application to the strategic management field of this perspective, which in the social sciences is closely connected to the notion of methodological individualism, reveals that the field has evolved in a manner akin to a swinging pendulum, oscillating between micro and macro perspectives. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7441
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Zarzecka, Olga (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Professional networks of senior managers have indisputable value for them as well as for their organizations. In recent years, much attention has been given to the structure of these networks as it reflects senior managers' opportunity to access valuable resources. Surprisingly, the actual resources that senior managers acquire through their network ties, i.e. the tie content, remain heavily understudied. Hence, the purpose of this dissertation is to answer the following question: What resources flow through informal ties in senior managers' professional networks, and why? The first chapter introduces the topic of this dissertation as well as the overall research question. The three next chapters are empirical studies of informal ties in professional networks of Danish senior managers, that together attempt to answer the overall research question. Chapter 2 looks into gender differences in resource exchanges and the effect of these differences on the number of, and extent to which, resources are provided by a network tie. Chapter 3 explores how firm underperfomance and social identity with corporate elite alter types of resources a network tie provides. Chapter 4 focuses on a tie's internal dynamics and studies the effect of friendship on the extent and novelty of professional advice a tie provides. The fifth and final chapter of this dissertation summarizes the findings of the research papers in the light of the overall research question. Essentially, this dissertation suggests that the strategic value of professional informal network ties is contingent on the actual combination of resources these ties provide. Furthermore, this combination depends on micro-level mechanisms that affect three dimensions of tie content: the number of resources, the type of resources and the extent to which these resources are provided by informal network ties. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9357
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Foss, Nicolai Juul; Ishikawa, Ibuki (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The dominant view in the strategic management field is the resource-based view ("RBV"). It has often been observed that the RBV is lacking in the dynamic dimension. For example, processes of building competitive advantages by means of combining existing complementary resources in novel ways are not inquired into. We argue that the RBV may profitably draw on Austrian (Misesian) and Knightian insights in entrepreneurship and capital theory, particularly in its Lachmannian manifestation, in order to strengthen its dynamic components. We link the RBV and Austrian ideas in the context of the theory of complex systems pioneered by Herbert Simon. We draw a number of implications for strategic management from this synthesis, notably into resource value and sustainability of competitive advantage. JEL Code: B53, D21, L23, M1 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7458
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The Division for the Natural and Applied Sciences (NAS) at Hope College has honored two faculty with awards designed to recognize excellence in teaching or research.
Dr. Kenneth Brown, associate professor of chemistry, has received the "Dean's Science Division Mentoring/ Advising/ Teaching Award." Dr. Nathan Tintle, assistant professor of mathematics, has received the "Dean's Science Division Faculty Promise for Excellence in Research Award." Both awards were announced during a luncheon at the college on Thursday, March 18.
In addition, during the luncheon the division announced that the research award is being named in honor of Dr. James N. Boelkins, who is retiring at the end of the year after serving as provost at Hope since 2002. The provost is the college's chief academic officer.
The "Mentoring/ Advising/ Teaching Award" recognizes a faculty member who has gone beyond the call of duty in being an exceptional mentor, advisor and teacher to students. The winner is selected by a panel of students.
The "James N. Boelkins Science Division Faculty Research Award" will rotate in alternate years between junior and senior faculty, starting with the selection of a junior faculty recipient this year. Junior is defined as someone with less than 10 years experience as a doctorally-prepared faculty member. The award for junior faculty is named the "James N. Boelkins Natural & Applied Sciences Division Faculty Promise for Excellence in Research Award," while the senior faculty recognition remains the "James N. Boelkins Natural & Applied Sciences Division Faculty Research Award." The research awards are based on research accomplishments including publications, grant awards, significant presentations at professional meetings, and external professional recognition. For the Promise award, emphasis will be placed on the potential of the recipient, as viewed by colleagues for significant future accomplishment in research scholarship. The winner is chosen by an anonymous panel of faculty members from among nominees by the division's department chairs and the dean.
"At Hope College, particularly in the NAS Division, the excellence of our academic program is driven by having a faculty who are not only outstanding and innovative teachers, they are also exemplary mentors who are productive researchers," said Dr. Moses Lee, who is dean for the natural and applied sciences as well as a professor of chemistry at Hope. "I would categorize the nominees for the awards as truly exceptional and each one would deserve the recognition. I am very proud of the dedication and accomplishments of Drs. Brown and Tintle and all of my colleagues, and am humbled to serve as their leader."
Brown has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1999. He teaches courses in general chemistry and analytical chemistry in addition to mentoring students through collaborative research during both the school year and summer.
The student nominations on his behalf praised his frequent in-class demonstrations, clarity, enthusiasm, approachability and engaging teaching style. The nominations further cited his passion for teaching and commitment to ensuring that his students understand the material as well as the significance of its applications.
"He challenges you but doesn't let you struggle," one student wrote. Another noted, "every day in class you can tell that this is exactly where Dr. Brown wants to be."
Brown's research emphasis is in electroanalytical chemistry, and his current focus is on the electrochemical preparation and characterization of chemically modified electrodes. He has had articles published in a variety of research publications, with the majority of them including student co-authors.
He graduated from Oral Roberts University in 1993 with a major in chemistry. He completed his doctorate in chemistry at Oklahoma State University in 1999.
Tintle, a member of the Hope faculty since 2005, is engaged in statistics genetics research. His current projects include innovations in the design and analysis of genome-wide association; an interdisciplinary effort to extend the capability of the RAST (Rapid Annotation using Subsystems Technology) genome analysis service; and innovations to the curriculum of the college's statistics courses.
Tintle has received major external research support from agencies and organizations including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In January 2008 the college named him a "Towsley Research Scholar," recognition that included additional support for his ongoing research. His work has so far resulted in 14 peer-reviewed publications, many of which include student co-authors.
He graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany in 2000 with a major in mathematics, and completed Master of Science and doctoral degrees in statistics at SUNY-Stony Brook in 2003 and 2004 respectively.
While completing his graduate work Tintle was lead statistical analyst with the department of psychiatry at SUNY-Stony Brook, which he continues to serve as a consultant. His publications include articles based on both his primary and ongoing interest in statistical genetics and his work with SUNY-Stony Brook's researchers in psychiatry.


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