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You are a leader.
Leadership experiences in the Master's Programs test and increase leadership abilities through hands on experience, relationships, feedback and reflection. Organizations and communities are seeking leaders that can drive results and create positive change. Your classroom experience will equip you with exceptional analytical skills. Pair this with leadership experience to demonstrate a powerful and unique combination of skills! Make an investment in your leadership development today to build a competitive advantage in the job market and beyond.
The following leadersip opportunities are offered at Krannert:
Leadership Competency Assessment and Coaching
During your first year in the program, students assess and receive feedback about how often they engage in leadership behaviors via a multi-rater assessment tool. Information from the assessment, as well as information about the student's career strategy and professional goals, is used in one-on-one coaching sessions to increase self-awareness and create an individual development plan. The individual development plan then serves as a guide for how students plan their leadership and professional development activities while in the program. Students may repeat this process during their second year to measure their growth.
Coaches are career counselors and retired executives from the Krannert Professional Development Center, and staff members that work in roles related to student development within the MBA and Master's Programs Office.
Student Clubs and Organizations
The MBA and Master's Program community is home to the Krannert Graduate Student Association (KGSA) and over 30 vibrant student led clubs and organizations. There are several professional clubs focusing on a business function, cultural clubs and special interest clubs. Clubs are a leadership development laboratory where students work collaboratively with faculty, staff, employers, and alumni to apply and test their leadership capabilities. Initiatives and programs led by clubs and organizations enhance the educational experience for all and allow students to leave a lasting impact on the school.
The activities of clubs include city treks, networking events, case competitions, industry specific workshops and far more. Visit Krannert Life for more information about student clubs, activities and events, and blog entries to help you learn more about your classmates and the program. Each week, KGSA publishes a newsletter via e-mail to all students via the Krannert Life website.
Krannert Graduate Student Association (KGSA)KGSA is the governing body of Krannert's student clubs and is responsible for representing the interests of the entire student body with a simple mission: Enhance the Krannert Experience. KGSA directly oversees the planning and implementation of student activities, programs, and processes designed to add value to your experience as a student at Krannert. This governing body provides an excellent leadership opportunity as it is a comprehensive organization that initiates institutional change, manages resource allocation, and addresses the needs of hundreds of students.
Student Mentor Program
Each year, second year Krannert master's students are selected to mentor and advise new student study teams. Mentors connect students to opportunities to get involved and take a leadership role within the community, while supporting new students in their transition to Master's student life. Mentors take the Mentoring and Socialization course (OBHR 560) to equip them with training and skills to be effective in their position and grow as a leader.
Launching Global Leaders Course (MGMT 390)
This course, required for first year MBA, MSHRM and MS(F) students, focuses on leadership competency and professional development skill building activities within the following learning goals:
- Prepare to engage in the Master's student experience within the community and within the job or internship search.
- Appreciate the value of applying well developed leadership skills in a team or workplace environment.
- Understand your strengths and areas for growth relative to Krannert's leadership competency model.
- Learn skills that will help you manage a domestic or international job search during any career phase.
- Recognize and explore the cultural and ideological diversity within the Krannert community.
Leadership (OBHR 662)
This course focuses on leadership in organizations and invites you on a journey of personal exploration, understanding and hopefully development. Leadership develops over time, through repetition, feedback and self-reflection. The overall goal of this course is to provide information and tools that will guide you towards becoming a more effective leader by:
- increasing your conceptual understanding of leadership in organizations;
- helping you discover important insights into yourself as a leader (including your strengths and weaknesses or opportunities for personal growth).
To achieve this goal, this course will involve a mixture of lecture, discussion, case analysis, self-assessment techniques and experiential learning assignments. The emphasis is on exploiting diverse ways of learning as well as interaction with real-life examples and situations. The role of the instructor in this course is not to provide "the" answer, but to create an environment where you can collectively explore, examine and experiment with your own ideas.
Experiencing Leadership: A Transformational Journey from Gettysburg (OBHR 590)
Guided by Purdue professor, Brad Alge, and in partnership with the Lincoln Leadership Institute at Gettysburg, OBHR 590 - Experiencing Leadership: A Transformational Journey from Gettysburg allows you to learn about leadership in a very original and impactful way. You will be put in situations similar to those of leaders like Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain during the Civil War and asked to make difficult decisions all while delving into Lincoln's unique leadership style. Using history as a metaphor and the battlefield as a classroom, you will:
- Experience how leadership can transform teams and organizations
- Develop essential communication skills for effective leadership
- Learn how to think strategically and critically to find the "high ground"
- Understand rational and emotional components of being a leader
- Identify and apply the characteristics of some of history's greatest leaders
- Discover strategies for selling, leading, negotiating and producing results
The knowledge gained through this course will directly apply to organizational leadership and performance in a rapidly changing, stressful environment, with limited information and limited resources—challenges that were present in 1863 and that are ubiquitous in most organizations today.


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Residence: Evanston (Birthplace: Hemel Hempstead, England)
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The Buzz: Donald earned his third career PGA Tour and World Golf Championships victories in 2011, improving his Official World Golf Ranking from No. 9 to No. 3. He earned his first tour title during his rookie season and went on to compete in three Ryder Cups and three World Cups. Donald also is an avid painter. He earned an art theory degree at Northwestern University, even donating one of his paintings to a pgatour.com auction.

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Knowledge Management Practices and Challenges in International Networked NGOs: The Case of One World International pp93-102
© Oct 2008 Volume 6 Issue 2, ICICKM 2007, Editor: Rembrandt Klopper, pp1 - 116
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This paper is based on the outcomes of a study that explored the knowledge management practices and challenges in an international NGO network. The investigation constituted comparative case studies of two centres (one in Zambia and the other in the Netherlands) belonging to a single international network. An empirically grounded framework of knowledge management practices based on the taxonomy proposed by Holsapple and Joshi was utilised as the reference framework for the study. The framework provided guidelines to characterize factors that influence organizational knowledge management; knowledge manipulation activities (processes) and organizational knowledge resources. The results of the empirical study confirm that a variety of factors affect knowledge management behaviours in an organization. These factors include managerial and internal controls such as management styles and incentives for knowledge creation and sharing; resource influences; and environmental influences relating to an organization's culture and the needs of partner organizations. The study highlights important variation in diversity, gaps and perceptions in managing knowledge between centres in the network that are based in Europe and Africa. This is despite significant communality in knowledge management processes and infrastructures. The results further show that institutionalization of knowledge management practices within a network seem to enable or constrain knowledge management at centre and network level. Recommendations are proposed to improve knowledge management practices at local and international level and include enhanced technical and advisory services at international level; capacity building; creating greater awareness of knowledge management; decentralization of knowledge management processes; implementation of a knowledge management strategy at network level and improving relationships between centres. The authors conclude that networked NGO's and specifically OWI could operate more efficiently and incrementally enhance service provision by leveraging their knowledge resources more effectively. It is in this light that knowledge management practices should be examined in NGOs and particularly networks with their complex structures and attendant reoccurring and unavoidable problems.
Keywords: non governmental organisations, NGOs, networks, development, knowledge management, Zambia, Netherlands
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With the rise of China's middle class comes a demand for improved quality of life. So its little wonder air pollution is an ongoing 'hot topic' in Mainland China and Hong Kong, and with it how exactly the government is monitoring air pollution. This week Jonathan Watts of the Guardian covered the recent inclusion of tiny particulate matter PM2.5 in the government's list of air quality indicators, a move sure to gain the approval of environmentalists.
Until now, [PM2.5's] absence from the national pollution index created an absurd discrepancy between official claims of "blue sky" conditions and the reality of air so putrid and murky it could be tasted. "At present, the public's feelings about air quality are different from the monitoring data," environment vice-minister Zhou Jian acknowledged during a speech at a recent forum. "To prevent haze, we will improve the air quality standards as soon as possible and include PM2.5."
For those living in China, we've compiled a list of real-time updated air pollution tracking sites, micro-blogs and apps. They'll help you closely monitor the skies (and know to stay indoors on those 'crazy bad' days):
http://zx.bjmemc.com.cn/Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center have updates in Chinese and have PM10 readings from across the city. Only one public PM2.5 station at the moment.
Twitter: @BeijingAir From the US embassy in Beijing in Sanyuanqiao, reporting PM2.5 and ozone readings (only one station). Real-time hourly updates in English (and unofficial re-posting on Weibo.) Head to the US Government's AIRNow site for an explanation to their Air Quality Index.
Application: Beijing Air Quality An apps designer has turned the US embassy's data into an application for your smartphone. In English and Chinese.
http://www.envir.gov.cn/Eng/Airep/index.asp The Shanghai Environment Monitoring Center have daily updates in both English, and Chinese.
http://www.sepb.gov.cn/seicroot/english/index.jsp The Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau also have daily updates with specific data from different Shanghai districts. Also in Chinese.
Twitter: @CGShanghaiAir From the US embassy in Shanghai reporting on the air quality in the area surrounding its Huai Hai Middle Road offices. PM2.5 and ozone readings. Real-time hourly updates in English.
Twitter: @Guangzhou_Air From the US embassy in Shamian, Guangzhou, reporting PM2.5 levels hourly, in English.
Hong Kong
http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/campaigns/air-pollution/work/ Greenpeace have published an application that compares air pollution data from all 14 of Hong Kong's monitoring stations to World Health Organization guidelines.
http://hedleyindex.sph.hku.hk/tracker.php The University of Hong Kong also have an Air Quality Tracker, updated daily, in both English and Chinese. (via Clean Air Network)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hong-kong-air-pollution/id504536152?ls=1&mt=8The AirYouBreathe is an app that displays the current air quality in Hong Kong using a variety of different air pollution indexes from around the world, in an effort to produce a more accurate picture of the current air quality.
Across China
http://184.108.40.206/air/ From China's National Environmental Monitoring Center (CNEMC), covering 113 major Chinese cities, in Chinese. Click through the first three slides to reach the real-time, hourly updates. Read Angel Hsu's post for an analysis of this data. (via Vance Wagner)
http://y234.cn/?page_id=5121 From a Chinese graduate student in astronomy, covering Chinese capital cities, in Chinese. Has comparisons between Chinese government standards with those from the US/Canada.
East Asia
http://www.amfic.eu/bulletin/index.php Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting in China provides daily air quality bulletins as 'heat maps' for Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Hong Kong, Qingdao and Seoul, in English and Chinese. As well as a high-level map covering the entire East Asia region. The air quality indicators are separated into dedicated maps.
Have any others?
If you know of other apps, micro-blogs or sites to add to this list send them in via the comments section below!
Air pollution is a severe problem, costing China and Hong Kong billions of dollars each year in lost productivity and health expenses. The most basic solution for air pollution is to end its root causes: quit coal and move away from fossil fuels, replacing them with clean, renewable energy. The solutions to air pollution are straightforward and simple but they require government action: quit coal, establish clear, strict air quality standards, upgrade fuel grade standards and increase urban green spaces.
In order to achieve this Greenpeace are in Hong Kong pushing the government to update its Air Quality Objective and to adopt greater energy efficiency renewable energy standards. While in China we're campaigning against the biggest cause of air pollution – coal.
Some more sites (apologies for any duplicates or dead links):
Some more sites (apologies for any duplicates or dead links):
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We, the people who have gotten very, very ill because of air pollution, need measurement instruments so we can measure the air pollution ourseleves, p...
We, the people who have gotten very, very ill because of air pollution, need measurement instruments so we can measure the air pollution ourseleves, prove it and force the politicians to do something about it. You know how it can be very, very bad local, there where are no air pollution monitoring stations. And in some places, London for example, they do everything to hide the real air pollution, in London they spray glue, I think you already knows.
Greenpeace can make a real change and help by bying in large number and get great discount for low level air pollution measurement instruments, and then let us buy them from Greenpeace for a reasonable cost. And then we can report real data of air pollution, in real-time, from absolutely anywhere, and prove it and force the politicians to stop it! Please help us Greenpeace!
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chinese must improve the quality of air what they breath.
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It is vital that China turns towards renewable resources to replace its dependence on coal or oil, in order to create a healthier living environment f...
It is vital that China turns towards renewable resources to replace its dependence on coal or oil, in order to create a healthier living environment for their citizens. Air pollution is a dire problem that needs to be addressed, and these air trackers should help to quantify this problem. Citizens have a right to clean air, air being one of the most basic necessities for life.
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A recent app, but by far the best app reporting air quality in China (and the rest of the work). It also provides air quality forecast: Airvisual http...
A recent app, but by far the best app reporting air quality in China (and the rest of the work). It also provides air quality forecast: Airvisual https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airvisual-real-time-forecast/id1048912974?ls=1&mt=8
I particularly like the forecast function which has been exceptionally accurate in my opinion.
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From several hours ago I began to see tweets coming from Syria speaking about strange objects in the sky. Panic reached to the level of suspecting the use of chemical warfare against Syrian rebellious towns and cities like in Hama , Idlib , Homs , Daraa, Aleppo and Reef Dimshaq. It was disturbing for sure and was strange to imagine that the Syrian regime would escalate its war against the revolutionaries in these towns at the same time across the Atlantic the UN is discussing the horrible massacre that took place in Homs from two days ago.
Here is a video shot in Deir Ez Zor tonight showing that strange flying object.
from @DaraaNow
Then I found reports about similar sighting for unknown objects in Lebanon and Israel as well other countries in Levant. Some thought it was meteorite while other considered it the #MideastUFO , oh yes UFO.
Here is another photo I found online which will be hot meal for UFO believers
It was spotted also in Iran in , here is a video shot in Mashad.
Intercontinental missile being tested , oh yes it was what it is called in military world ICBM !! After hours of wondering we find repots claiming that it was an intercontinental missile launched in Russia from Astrakhan.
I do not know where it landed , some are saying that it crashed in the red sea but others say it was Kazakhstan according Russian news website !! Already I do not understand why a missile would take this route from Astrakhan to Kazakhstan !!
Why would the Russians test a missile like this tonight choosing this particular area in the world ?? Is it a political military show off ? Let's agree that the revolution in Syria has turned in to another confrontation between the US and Russia and we will find that this missile show off is made for a reason.


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What would be the consequence of requiring that any choice function be computable; i.e. using as the foundational basis ZF + ACC? Does it make a difference if we admit definable functions?
I guess I am sometimes bothered by the thought that any random choice over an uncountable set by definition would seem to almost certainly return a non-computable member. This seems impractical and perhaps even problematic, considering that major branches of mathematics such as for example analysis, with only few notable exceptions, mainly operate within the computable or definable realm.
Presumably an immediate consequence would be that the Banach–Tarski paradox and similar theorems related to unmeasurable sets would fail. But would there be more fundamental consequences?


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en sociologi om kendsgerninger, karakker og kammuslingerElgaard Jensen, Torben (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Lad os forestille os, at man som studerende eller forsker nærmer sig en ny teori. Man har nu både hårdt arbejde og en række forvirrende episoder foran sig. Indledningsvis vil man typisk møde den nye teori som en lukket kasse. Man er selv placeret udenfor, men man kan konstatere eller få fortalt, at kassen gør bestemte ting. For eksempel kan man få at vide, at kassen/teorien tager bestemte typer af data ind og sender bestemte typer af forklaringer ud. I et optimistisk øjeblik tænker man måske, at det er relativt entydigt, hvad teorien handler om. Men denne fornemmelse af klarhed varer kun kort. Når man kommer lidt tættere på, opdager man at teorien ikke er én ting, men flere. Der er flere områder, flere væsentlige forfattere og flere varianter af teorien. Dertil kommer, at teorien er karakteriseret ved bestemte relationer: Nogle områder, forfattere og varianter hænger tydeligvis tæt sammen, mens andre har mindre med hinanden at gøre. Det kræver hårdt arbejde at få overblik over disse relationer, men det kan lade sig gøre. Man begynder at sætte pris på review-artikler, og man må i gang med at læse de nøgletekster, som mange refererer til. Efter en ihærdig indsats kan man langsomt vinde klarheden tilbage. Man synes, man er ved at have greb om teorien. Man får måske endda fornemmelsen af at have den i sin hule hånd. Men præcis på dette tidspunkt begynder tingene at glide igen. Man opdager til sin overraskelse - og måske rædsel - at teorien faktisk ikke ligner en lukket kasse. Teorien er i vid udstrækning bygget på et udvalg af ældre teorier, som til lejligheden er blevet fortolket og anvendt på en særlig måde. Desuden er teorien er udviklet i samspil og konflikt med en række samtidige teorier. Teorien har således en livlig og betydningsfuld udenrigspolitik, som man helt har overset fordi man havde travlt med at orientere sig i indenrigspolitikken. De to former for politik kan som bekendt ikke skilles ad, så nu åbner der sig igen en ny horisont: Hvis man skal finde ud af, hvad teorien er, må man opspore dens forbindelser til et sæt af forudgående og samtidige teorier. Hvordan kan man beskrive et fænomen, der i visse øjeblikke ligner en lukket kasse, men som ved nærmere eftersyn består af et uafgrænseligt virvar af elementer og relationer? Dette er i al sin enkelthed og i al sin kompleksitet, hvad aktør-netværksteori (ANT) beskæftiger sig med. ANT er en teori om teorier. Men ANT er også en teori om teknologi, videnskab, sociale aktører, samfund, natur og magt. Alle disse fænomener analyseres med den samme begrebsramme, nemlig den som er antydet i indledningen. Som en første approksimation kan vi sige, at aktørnetværksteori drejer sig om at tænke i punkter og forbindelser fremfor i kasser. I det følgende vil jeg introducere aktørnetværksteori på fra flere forskellige vinkler. Først vil jeg optegne nogle vigtige relationer til andre teoretiske traditioner (udenrigspolitikken) og de væsentligste dele af ANT (indenrigspolitikken). Herefter vil jeg indkredse den særlige analysestrategi som ANT står for. Hvordan analyserer man aktør-netværk? Hvad er de vigtigste analytiske redskaber og fremgangsmåder? og hvad betyder det, at tænke på denne måde? I kapitlets anden del vil jeg gennemgå et antal klassiske ANT-analyser. Formålet med denne gennemgang er dels at give et indtryk af ANTs empiriske og teoretiske bidrag, dels at vise analysestrategien i praksis. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6689
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The Politics of Wildlife in Infrastructure ConstructionSage, Daniel; Dainty, Andy; Tryggestad, Kjell; Justesen, Lise; Mouritsen, Jan (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Across many construction projects, and especially infrastructure projects, efforts to mitigate the potential loss of biodiversity and habitat are significant, and at times controversial. In our paper we do not propose to gauge the success or failure of this effort; rather we are interested in fleshing out some conceptual approaches via Actor- Network Theory through which infrastructure projects can start to address a series of overlooked questions. Some of these questions are firmly located within the realm of construction project management: are animals considered project risks or stakeholders; is wildlife always simply a retrospective cost to a project or can it proactively benefit a project, can we ever manage wildlife, and if so how? These questions in turn lead us to engage with wider debates found in the margins between the social and biological sciences on the distinction between Nature and Politics: to what extent should we seek a place for animals in politics and how can we live with them ethically. Thus far, very little research has addressed the interplay of humans and animals within construction projects. Instead those interested in the politics and ethics of human-animal relations, or Animal Studies, have focussed far more on stable and contained sites, whether organisations like zoos, farms or laboratories, or other places like homes and parks. These largely ethnographic studies inevitably perhaps downplay the unplanned, unexpected and highly politically and ethically charged collision of hitherto rather separate human and animal geographies. Yet, as we argue here, it is often along such colliding spaces, where animal geographies are unexpectedly found at the heart of human projects, that we ask and answer many of the above questions around our respect and response to both animals, and indeed other humans. In this paper we will examine such encounters conceptually, with reference to two infrastructure projects, and discuss their relevance to both construction project management and broader work on the politics of animals. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8849
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Boutaiba, Sami; Bramming, Pia (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
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An Inquiry into the Making of Market DevicesPallesen, Trine (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This project studies the making of a market for wind power in France. Markets for wind power, as well as markets for other renewable energies, are often referred to as 'political markets: On the one hand, wind power has the potential to reduce CO2-emissions and thus stall the effects of electricity generation on climate change; and on the other hand, as an economic good, wind power is said to suffer from 'disabilities', such as high costs, fluctuating and unpredictable generation, etc. Therefore, because of its performance as a good, it is argued that the survival of wind power in the market is premised on different instruments, some of which I will refer to as 'prosthetic devices'. This thesis inquires into two such prosthetic devices: The feed-in tariff and the wind power development zones (ZDE) as they are negotiated and practiced in France, and the ways in which they affect the making of markets for wind power. In this thesis, it is argued that while the two devices frame the price of wind power and the location of turbines, they also affect and address questions of costs, profitability, and efficiency; and as such, they may be investigated as market devices. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8718
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Caught in-between organizational fieldsDarmer, Per (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
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An Ethnography-inspired Study of Care Workers' Dilemmas at the MarginJensen, Maya Christiane Flensborg (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Within the last decade, rehabilitation has been promoted as a new professionalization opportunity within home care policy and practice in both Denmark and across Europe. Rehabilitation is said to reconfigure home care work in ways that result in improved working conditions, better quality of services, and cost savings. Rehabilitation is, however, only the most recent example of an ongoing range of new reforms and demands that have focused on professionalizing home care workers and their areas of work by imposing new professional structures, qualifications or status on the workers. And, yet, despite these ongoing processes of professionalization, home care workers, and care workers as such, continue to be socially, technically and economically marginalized at work. This paradox has increasingly encouraged in particular feminist-inspired academics (e.g., Sullivan, 2007; Cheney and Ashcraft, 2007) to question whether we have sufficiently understood the complexities and particularities of how professionalization processes are constituted and function at work. Their studies indicate that both definitions of "professionals" and the more material modes of organizing and doing "professional" work in the west tend to privilege some workers (i.e., white, white-collar, heterosexual males) and marginalize others, especially female workers who perform "dirty", private household services for the aging or disabled, such as home care workers. Following these studies I take a critical stance against the so-called professionalization opportunities that are offered to home care workers with the introduction of rehabilitation in home care organizations. I ask what happens to the home care workers' area of work and their risk of being socially, economically and technically marginalized, when they are confronted with the new opportunities to professionalize in rehabilitative home care organizations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9560
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Højgaard Christiansen, Lærke (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation examines how the multinational brewer Carlsberg Group responds to the issue of 'alcohol-related harm', expressed in its work with the focus area of 'responsible drinking' (RD). RD is associated with different initiatives aimed at reducing the misuse of alcohol, e.g., youth drinking, binge drinking (i.e., drinking to excess), and drunk driving. The issue of 'alcohol-related harm' is not a new issue, but public perception of the issue has changed in the direction of emphasizing health and lifestyle; rather than simply being a question of a few alcoholics, 'alcohol-related harm' has recently become a question of a more general health risk. As a result, brewers and other alcohol produces are increasingly expected to engage in solving the associated problems of 'alcohol-related harm', while making sure that they do not amplify the problem via potentially problematic product launches and inappropriate advertisement campaigns. In 2010 Carlsberg Group initiated the development of a new strategic approach to responsible drinking that differed from the previous orientation, in which each subsidiary had its own approach (or non-approach) to the issue. The call for an integrated approach has given rise to multiple ways of tackling the issue, both at headquarters and subsidiaries, all of which represent the unification of a social and a commercial dimension (the social responsibility logic and the market logic). This dissertation examines the concrete conceptualizations of organizational responses to the issue of 'alcohol-related harm', focusing on the different actors involved and, specifically, on the construction of the interplay between the social and commercial aspects. The question guiding my research is therefore: How does Carlsberg Group handle multiple institutional logics in its responses to the complexity related to the issue of 'alcohol-related harm'? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8749
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Lotz, Maja (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Afhandlingen "The Business of Co-creation – and the Co-creation of Business" handler om, hvorledes danske produktionsvirksomheder tackler globaliserings udfordringer og muligheder gennem udviklingen af nye former for sam-skabende arbejdsorganiseringspraksisser. Studiet udforsker hvordan disse arbejdsorganiseringspraksisser bliver sam-skabt, (og hvad de sam-skaber) gennem en empirisk analyse af de arbejdsroller og fællesskaber, som muliggør sam-skabelsen af dem. Og omvendt, hvilke arbejdsroller og fællesskaber, der bliver muliggjort indenfor disse organisatoriske praksisser. På baggrund af kvalitative case studier i syv danske virksomheder analyseres specifikt, hvordan disse "nye" måder at organisere arbejdet på er baseret på evnen til at samarbejde (og rivalisere) i, og mellem mange forskellige fællesskaber. Der ses endvidere på evnen til kontinuerligt at redefinere og rekombinere arbejdsroller og øvrige organisatoriske ressourcer mod øget vækst (menneskelig såvel som organisatorisk). Et andet træk ved disse arbejdsorganiseringspraksisser er, at autoritet og viden er distribueret lateralt, og at sam-skabelsesprocesserne mellem organisatoriske medlemmer er baseret på evnen til både at tro og tvivle på det man gør. Det vil sige på evnen til at tro og tvivle på eksisterende praksisser, hvilket er en forudsætning for kontinuerligt at kunne forbedre dem. Afhandlingen udforsker de menneskelige og organisatoriske praksisser og dynamikker, der knytter sig til disse samskabelses-processer blandt organisatoriske medlemmer. Det vil sige blandt både medarbejdere, ledere, kunder, leverandører og øvrige organisatoriske partnere indenfor nutidens arbejdsliv i danske produktionsvirksomheder, der opererer globalt. Afhandlingens empiriske undersøgelse er teoretisk informeret af en diskussion og reformulering af tre sociologiske grundbegreber: arbejdsorganisation, roller og fællesskab. De tre begreber redefineres relationelt, og udgør tilsammen afhandlingens analytiske perspektiv. Et perspektiv der sigter efter at videreudvikle forståelsen af de sam-skabende relationer mellem de tre begreber blandt organisatoriske medlemmer. Hermed søger afhandlingen at forstå nutidige virksomhedsdynamikker og -udfordringer ved at rette blikket mod samspillet mellem arbejdsroller, fællesskaber og arbejdsorganiseringspraksisser på et hverdagsligt mikro-niveau. Afhandlingens overordnede bidrag er at vise, hvordan samspillet mellem disse tre analytiske dimensioner (byggesten) faciliterer samskabelsen af arbejdsorganisatoriske praksisser med evnen til både at tro og tvivle på det man gør - for dermed kontinuerligt at skabe innovation (work organizing practices of belief and doubt). Med andre ord praksisser som fordi organisatoriske medlemmer både tror på det de gør, men også stiller spørgsmål til deres arbejdsrutiner og handlemønstre, rummer evnen til at forandre og forbedre deres arbejdspraksisser (eks. arbejdsrutiner, roller, fællesskaber, koordineringsmønstre etc.) gennem kontinuerlig re-kombination og refleksive sam-skabelsesprocesser. Et andet bidrag er at identificere karakteren af de arbejdsroller, der muliggør sam-skabelsen af disse arbejdsorganiseringspraksisser. Analysen viser at arbejdsrollerne i de case studier der studeres typisk kombinerer dimensionerne "planlægning" og "udførelse" på et hverdagsligt plan, og opererer som trans-aktionelle rutiner, der giver adgang til mangeartede ressourcer blandt organisatoriske medlemmer. Analysen viser også, at arbejdsrollerne ikke er predefinerede, men at de forhandles og transformeres løbende gennem sam-skabende fællesskaber, der åbner op for kontinuerlige læreprocesser. Et tredje bidrag er at indkredse karakteren og betydningen af de fællesskaber, der faciliterer arbejdsorganiseringspraksisser baseret på både tro og tvivl. Analysen illustrerer at fællesskab blandt organisatoriske medlemmer typisk erfares som en praktisk logik "of connecting" bundet op omkring et fælles mål, at fællesskab (fællesskabelse) er både mulighedsskabende og begrænsende, og at det åbner op for læring og emotionel energi. Disse fællesskaber giver anledning til multiple rolledannelser. Analysen viser desuden, at fællesskaber på jobbet folder sig ud på mange organisatoriske niveauer, og derfor overskrider traditionelle bureaukratiske organisatoriske skel. Afhandlingens fjerde overordnede bidrag er at vise, hvordan danske produktionsvirksomheder gennem kontinuerlig reorganisering af deres arbejdspraksisser (samt arbejdsroller og fællesskaber) har formået at skabe både menneskelig og organisatoriske vækst. Ved at belyse samspillet mellem arbejdsroller, fællesskaber og arbejdsorganiseringspraksisser giver afhandlingen empirisk indblik i, hvordan disse organiseringspraksisser bidrager til sam-skabelsen af såkaldte "lærende organisationsformer". På den måde øger afhandlingen vores viden om indholdet af denne organisationsform, og dens rolle for danske produktionsvirksomheders evne til kontinuerligt at transformere sig, og udvikle nye konkurrencestærke organisatoriske praksisser for produktion, organisering og innovation i en mere og mere globaliseret verden. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7805
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Bramming, Pia (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This article is about how a constructivist observation of development within Human Resource Management (HRM) opens the possibility for communicating about development in the language of possibility, seen in contrast to a language of deficiency. HRM is discussed as a paradoxical development concept, where the paradoxical consists in that when one focuses upon a proactive development ideal from a linear development understanding, one develops regressively, directly counter to one's intentions. In this article two observation dimensions are developed, as well as two dimensions of how to cope with development on the background of the constructivist observation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6708
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Assembeling and Negotiating the Content of a WorkforceMarfelt, Mikkel Mouritz (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Due to advancements in technology and the expansion of companies onto a global level, organizations have become increasingly aware of the need to understand and manage diverse workforces; that is, the need to understand and manage differences among employees across borders (such as geographical, cultural, professional, etc.). This PhD dissertation studies this phenomenon, 'a diverse workforce', in a large Scandinavian pharmaceutical company. The dissertation follows the Diverse and Global Workforce (DGW) project, a 'headquarter centric' and strategic corporate initiative to address the rapid global expansion of the company workforce. In academia, the phenomenon has been studied widely for the last three decades under the overarching research field 'workforce diversity'. While workforce diversity research has contributed to a better understanding of the concept of diversity in work-related situations, the role of 'workforce' in this equation is often assumed, reducing the problematic of workforce diversity to a need to understand the concept of 'diversity in the workforce'. This perception is not without its problems and has led to a focus on the concept of diversity at the expense of understanding the role of the workforce as something other than a simple container of 'people engaged in or available for work'. And so, even though the 'workforce' was foundational to forming workforce diversity research and its related fields (such as diversity management, diversity at work, diversity in the workplace, etc.), discussions about the role of the workforce have become a peripheral debate, while discussions on the role of diversity have become central. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9285
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New ICTs and StrategyTunby Gulbrandsen, Ib; Kamstrup, Andreas; Koed Madsen, Anders; Plesner, Ursula; Raviola, Elena (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8757
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an introductionRocha, Robson (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper has two distinct aims. First, I would like to present and discuss the national business systems (NBS) framework ( Whitley, 1992,1992a,1996,1997). NBS framework concerns how national variations in economic co-ordination and control systems facilitate and constrain organisational change. The NBS is not widely known in the Latin America countries, and this paper intends to shortly present it The second aim is to question, based on the NBS approach, some of the assumptions about the diffusion of a new universal template for organising work (Lean Production) and its agent, the multinational corporation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6667
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Bramming, Pia (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The article will address competence, its' diffusion, application, and the consequence of this application within the field of Human Resource Management (HRM). The concept competence-in-practice will be presented and in conclusion the article will consider implications and possibilities of competence-in-practice as an alternative approach to Competence Development within Human Resource Management. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6718
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Augier, Mie; Teece, David J. (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, Mie Augier and David Teece outline the history and development of the ideas underlying an emerging approach within strategic management research: the dynamic capabili-ties framework. The framework was first outlined by Teece and Pisano (1994), and in the pre-sent paper elaborated further so the reader will be able to appreciate some of the most impor-tant intellectual resources underpinning it, such as the work of Schumpeter, Penrose, William-son, Cyert and March, Rummelt, Nelson and Winter. Although listed as intellectual resources by the authors, they also turn (some of) them into a topic for further discussion. For example, Augier and Teece identify not only the merits but also the limitations of transaction costs eco-nomics. In this way, the authors pave the way for a more dynamic framework while drawing upon organization theory and scholars like Cyert and March (a behavioral theory of the firm) and Nelson and Winter (an evolutionary theory of economic change). In the dynamic capability framework firms and markets co-evolve. Managers are now allowed to perform distinct strate-gic roles in shaping both firms and their markets, e.g. through asset- selection and orchestra-tion, including also the task of allocating resources between exploitation and exploration. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6673
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A structuralist analysisSommerlund, Julie (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the following, I will analyze two articles called Complex Adaptive Systems Ecology I & II (Molin & Molin, 1997 & 2000). The CASE-articles are some of the more quirky articles that have come out of the Molecular Microbial Ecology Group – a group where I am currently making observational studies. They are the result of a cooperation between Søren Molin, professor in the group, and his brother, Jan Molin, professor at Department of Organization and Industrial Sociology at Copenhagen Business School. The cooperation arises from the recognition that both microbial ecology and sociology/organization theory works with communities of sorts. The articles explore if insights from the one field – organization theory – can be used fruitfully in the other field – microbiology. The two articles are written as prolongations of each other and I will consider CASE I & II to be two parts of the same textual body. It is my main goal with this analysis to localize actants and developmental dynamics, which I can use as guidelines in my later empirical analyses. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6694
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A field study of a pharmaceutical companyBrogaard-Kay, Jacob (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD thesis studies performance management (PM) in complex organizational settings. In both academia and practice, PM as a subject has received increased attention over the past couple of decades. In academia, it has been studied across several research paradigms and disciplines, through empirical cases, structured experiments and philosophical investigations. In practice, the subject is typically "owned" by Human Resource (HR) departments of large-scale international organizations. Typically, employees in all hierarchical positions of such organizations become acquainted with a PM system via the responsibility given to them at the beginning of the year for achieving a set of goals by yearend. A recurrent idea is that there should be a clear link between the organization's overall strategies and the sub-goals of each division, department, line managers and employees. However, this thesis studies closely how PM practices do not merely produce tangible outcomes and clear links between predefined goals and outcomes. Instead, it shows how PM systems and practices are constituted through endless interactions and relations between devices, texts, humans and events. Based on this way of studying the world, this thesis illustrates how PM practices play different roles in shaping the organizing of work in sometimes surprising ways. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9188
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Studies from a social interaction perspectiveDyrlund Wåhlin-Jacobsen, Christian (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In recent years, a growing number of workplaces have implemented activities where employees are invited to voice problems and suggest initiatives directly to their managers in a group setting. Such direct group-based voice activities (DGVAs) are typically inspired by human resource management and production improvement techniques, and they are claimed to have a number of positive effects for both the organizations which host these activities and for their employees. However, others have questioned whether they provide employees with a reasonable opportunity to influence their working conditions, or if they instead mostly assign new responsibilities to the employees and promote overcommitted employee identities. This ambivalence regarding the activities is reflected in how the circumstances regarding voice in the workplace are sometimes described as messy and paradoxical. The aim of this dissertation is to understand an important aspect of how employees can influence their workplace through DGVAs, specifically how the participants construct change initiatives which can improve the employees' working conditions. To this end, the dissertation presents an interaction-focused perspective on voice based on ethnomethodological conversation analysis, a perspective which addresses various shortcomings of the dominant research perspectives on voice. For example, substantial attention has been paid in the voice literature to how individual employees make choices about what messages to convey through voice and whom to address, especially in studies which have applied a psychological lens. However, in DGVAs, voicing a problem or a suggestion to the other participants is only the first step of a longer process towards potential consensus about which initiatives to implement, and the social and interactional mechanisms which underlie this process are not well understood. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9678
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Invitation to a dialog between two theoretical approachesWestenholz, Ann (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Two theoretical approaches – Conventions and Institutional Logics – are brought together and the similarities and differences between the two are explored. It is not the intention to combine the approaches, but I would like to open both 'boxes' and make them available to each other with the purpose of creating a space for dialog. Both approaches were developed in the mid-1980s as a reaction to rational-choice economic theory and collectivistic sociological theory. These two theories were oversimplifying social life as being founded either in actor-micro level analyses or in structure-macro level analyses. The theoretical quest of both Conventions and Institutional Logics has been to understand the increasing indeterminacy, uncertainty and ambiguity in people's lives where a sense of reality, of value, of moral, of feelings is not fixed. Both approaches have created new theoretical insights by overcoming traditional micro-macro and actor-structure dimensions. However, they have also achieved this in different ways and I ask if there is a benefit to 'importing' some of these differences into the other approach. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8792
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What does it mean for business educators?Mazza, Carmelo; Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper; Alvarez, José Luis (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In the last decade, scholarly interest has been mainly attracted on the nature of knowledge, mechanisms of knowledge production and the transformation of the institutions diffusing knowledge. Most of these studies share the underlying hypotheses that management knowledge "travels", as a package, from producers to passive receivers. A few exploratory attempts have envisioned an alternative perspective based on the idea of "knowledge consumption". Managers are active receivers of institutionalized knowledge in the course of enacting their organizational roles. Building on this last perspective, first we try to outline the process of knowledge consumption. We describe how sources of knowledge are selected, knowledge is acquired and consumed by assuming that managers are active consumer of management knowledge. Then, we construct the process linking the flows of management knowledge in organizations and the flows of action performed by managers. We sustain that knowledge has to be first dis-embed from the context and artifacts it is in to be translated into a portable form—a standardized artifact, a logic of action, etc. Then, specific courses of action are required to re-embed knowledge in new artifacts, practices or routines (e.g. a budgetary procedure, an organizational process, etc.). So, to re-embed knowledge in new contexts, managers have to mobilize resources and build consensus on the specific courses of action. By assuming this process, two consequences are derived: first, the dis-embedding/re-embedding process is not the outcome of conscious planning; it goes back and forth, allows for controversial or "hypocritical" moves, at least in the short run. In any case, once management knowledge is translated into logics of action, managers have to use their imaginative power to share these logics to mobilize constituencies on priorities and undertake specific courses of actions This supports the idea that the managerial role is intrinsically political. Second, management education cannot simply deals with managerial recipes and rules of thumb. It is increasingly asked for providing non-technical knowledge to help managers exert their political role. To mobilize constituencies and create consensus on controversial decisions, technicalities could be less relevant than business-unrelated knowledge. We hold that has a relevant impact on both the institutional settings and the content of management education. The paper is structured in three parts. First, a framework is proposed to describe management knowledge consumption. Second, we outline the process linking consumed knowledge with actual managerial action. Third, the impact of this perspective on the structure of the institutions diffusing knowledge and on the idea of what is needed to make managerial decisions are explored. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6671
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Boutaiba, Sami; Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In contemporary society, it is believed that things are changing at an increasingly rapid pace. We see this in newspapers, books, or every speech we listen to that modern (business) life is a race towards new horizons, or towards newness tout court. No matter which standpoint one engages vis-à-vis the rhetoric of change and the accompanying need to innovate and be creative, it is important to reflect upon the way one presents oneself vis-à-vis important stakeholders, including the most invested stakeholder – oneself. It is also within the strong rhetoric of change, that we witness an often-mentioned observation that economic transformation and globalization continue to alter how organizations and employees view work, and that these transformations require that workers and managers understand and adjust to major changes in definitions of and approaches to work, organizational structures, and relationships within and among organizations. Social scientists like Caves (2000) and Florida (2002) argue that creativity, as a resource, is critical for long-term economic development and that creative industries, in particular, act as agents of change that help drive economic development. In fact, creative industries are experiencing rapid growth, both in Denmark (Kultur- og Erhvervspolitisk Redegørelse, 2000; Regeringen, September, 2003) and globally (Pine and Gilmore, 1999), and it is generally believed that there are important lessons to be learnt from the "cultural, creative motor". Yet, they are little understood. Caves (2000) notes that, 'economists have studied a number of industrial sectors for their special and distinctive features', but have largely missed 'the creative industries supplying goods and services that we broadly associate with cultural, artistic, or simply entertainment value' (Caves, 2000:1).2 What researchers of creative industries have yet to examine, is not only how organizations within the creative industries operate and how the organizational members define and manage work, but also how the very meaning of being a creative company is performed, for example in a process of narrative identity construction. Thus, the purpose of this study is to identify and understand the narrativeforms and processes through which creative enterprises organize and manage their symbolic communication and, in the process, attempt to balance creative-artistic and commercial interests. In this paper, we shall focus upon Zentropa, a filmmaking company that has generally been accredited with the etiquette of 'creative agent of change' vis-à-vis the Danish film industry. Thus, Zentropa is recognized as a creative player that has made a difference and it is to this narrative of Zentropa as a creative company that we direct our attention. More specifically, we propose that it matters what narrative is told about a company, and how a specific narrative is enacted, changed, and challenged during the course of a specific development. For a company like Zentropa, for whom the modern mantra 'there is more identity in deviation than in conformity' (see e.g. Bauman, 2000; Giddens, 1991; Sennett, 1998), it seems vital to represent and identify themselves as anti-establishment and a rebel with a cause in its way of being a film company in the Danish film field. The very concern with deviation, with being different, seems to force Zentropa to engage in ongoing reflections as to their own narrative identity. In a more general vein, we contend that there is a great need to come to a better understanding of the dynamics of identity (as also pointed out by Albert et al., 2000:14) in a society that appears restless in its infatuated praise of speed, innovation, and change. These are values with consequences for the way we make sense of ourselves and relate to others. Moreover, these are values that seem embodied by the exemplary case chosen in this project, namely Zentropa, an organization that seems almost exhibitionistic in its constant involvement in dialogues in the public space. Thus, Zentropa seems an exemplary case to study the narrative concern of being innovative, as Zentropa has become widely renowned for being innovative and for having contributed to a long-overdue renewal of the Danish film industry, as important characters in the story of Zentropa have narrated themselves as a 'Maverick' (Becker, 1982) within the high-framework filmmaking and is generally recognized as a remarkable example of innovativeness in Denmark (Kultur- og Erhvervsministeriet, 2000). This paper focuses more specifically on the way in which Zentropa performs an identity in interaction with one of its very significant others, namely the written press. This paper is in particular interested in studying how organizations through different forms of interaction and communication with the business media present and get their enterprises represented. Communication is obviously not a one-way street, thus this study will focus on the complex interaction between the creative enterprise and the business media. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6720
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King Of The Ring: Results
Tuesday, 2 September 2014 | Carl
SOURCE: www.liverkick.com
The King of the Ring 86 kgs K-1 Rules 8-man tournament took place this weekend in Auckland, New Zealand. The Show was aired Live on Fuel TV Australia and Sky Sport 4 New Zealand. After a very entertaining night of fights and lots of knockouts Israel "The Last Stylebender" Adesanya went home with the belt and an over sized Cheque for $10,000 by earning 1 unanimous decision and 2 knockout wins. We have been lucky enough to receive a small video of one of Adesanya's knockouts.
Full Results
Tournament Final: Israel Adesanya def. Jamie Eades (KO Round 1)
Tournament Semi-Final: Israel Adesanya def. Pati Afoa (KO)
Tournament Semi-Final: Jamie Eades def. Ty Williams
Tournament Quarter Final: Ty Williams def. Andrew Banham (KO Round 1)
Tournament Quarter Final: Jamie Eades def. Zane Hopman (Majority Decision)
Tournament Quarter Final: Israel Adesanya def. Slava Alexeichik (Unanimous Decision)
Tournament Quarter Final: Pati Afoa def. Zack Fatamaka (Split Decision)
Super Fight: Hamad Alloush def. Tafa Misipati (TKO Round 2)
Super Fight: Antz Nansen def. Alofa Solitua (TKO Round 3)


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Monotherapy of Itraconazole Versus Prednisolone in Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (MIPA)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01321827
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 24, 2011
Last Update Posted : March 16, 2017
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|Condition or disease
|Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis
|Drug: Glucocorticoids Drug: Itraconazole
|Phase 2 Phase 3
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) is a pulmonary disorder caused by a complex hypersensitivity response to antigens released by the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus. The clinical entity was first described by Hinson et al in 1952, and the clinical and immunologic significance of Aspergillus fumigatus in the sputum were reported by Pepys and coworkers in 1959. The prevalence of ABPA in bronchial asthma is fairly high and a recent meta-analysis suggested the prevalence of ABPA in asthma clinics to be as high as 13 percent. Diagnostic criteria for ABPA have been laid and generally include the following eight major criteria: (a) history of asthma; (b) transient or fixed pulmonary infiltrates; (c) immediate cutaneous hyperreactivity to A fumigatus antigen; (d) absolute eosinophil count > 1000/µL; (e) serum precipitins against A fumigatus; (f) total IgE levels > 1000 IU/mL; (g) central bronchiectasis on high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT); and, (h) raised A fumigatus specific IgE or IgG levels. However, none of these are specific for ABPA,and there is still no consensus on the number of criteria needed for diagnosis, and patients in different stages of ABPA may not fulfill all these criteria. Also, there is no established definition for remission of ABPA. The most widely followed criteria are clinical and radiological improvement with at least 35 percent decline in total serum IgE levels. However, in a recent study the investigators demonstrated that a 35% decline in serum IgE levels at six weeks is not seen in all patients with ABPA, and the decline is slower in patients with baseline IgE levels < 2500 IU/mL. Moreover, the quantum decline in serum IgE levels did not predict clinical outcome. The disorder is highly prevalent in India. The investigators have previously reported our experience with screening stable outpatients with bronchial asthma and acute severe asthma for ABPA. The investigators have also recently reported the prognostic factors associated with clinical outcomes in patients with ABPA.
Oral corticosteroids are currently the treatment of choice for ABPA associated with bronchial asthma. They not only suppress the immune hyperfunction but are also anti-inflammatory. However, there is no data to guide the dose and duration of glucocorticoids and different regimens of glucocorticoids have been used in literature. Itraconazole, an oral triazole with relatively low toxicity, is active against Aspergillus spp. in vitro and in vivo. The activity of itraconazole against Aspergillus spp. is more than that of ketoconazole. The administration of itraconazole can eliminate Aspergillus in the airways and can theoretically reduce the allergic responses in ABPA. The aim of this prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of itraconazole monotherapy in patients with ABPA.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|100 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Study Start Date :
|April 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2015
Experimental: Itraconazole group
Itraconazole 200 mg BD for 4 months along with inhaled formoterol/fluticasone (6/125 mcg) 2 puffs twice daily by MDI and as needed as per the SMART approach
Drug: Itraconazole
Itraconazole 200 mg BD for 6 months along with inhaled formoterol/fluticasone (6/125 mcg) 2 puffs twice daily by MDI and as needed as per the SMART approach
Other Name: Azole
Active Comparator: Glucocorticoid group
Prednisolone 0.5 mg/kg/day for 4 weeks; 0.25 mg/kg/day for 4 weeks; 0.125 mg/kg/day for 4 weeks. Then taper by 5 mg every 2 weeks and discontinue. Patients will also receive inhaled formoterol/fluticasone (6/125 mcg) as needed as per the SMART approach for control of asthma
Drug: Glucocorticoids
Prednisolone 0.5 mg/kg/day for 4 weeks; 0.25 mg/kg/day for 4 weeks; 0.125 mg/kg/day for 4 weeks. Then taper by 5 mg every 2 weeks and discontinue. Patients will also receive inhaled formoterol/fluticasone (6/125 mcg) as needed as per the SMART approach for control of asthma
Other Name: Prednisolone
- Remission rates in the two groups at six weeks and three months [ Time Frame: 6 weeks, 3 months ]Remission - if the IgE levels decline by >=25% and there is clinical improvement with partial/total clearance of chest radiographic lesions after three months of glucocorticoids (if previously present pulmonary opacities)
- Percentage decline in IgE levels at six weeks and three months [ Time Frame: 6 weeks, 3 months ]IgE levels will be noted at baseline six weeks and three months after glucocorticoid therapy and percentage decline will be calculated as: (baseline IgE levels minus IgE levels after six weeks of treatment) divided by baseline IgE levels
- Complete remission rates in the two groups [ Time Frame: 3 months, 6 months ]No ABPA exacerbations over the next 3 months after stopping therapy
- Relapse rates in the two groups at six and 12 months after completion of treatment [ Time Frame: 6 months, 12 months ]Relapse - doubling of the baseline IgE levels irrespective of the patient's symptoms or appearance of radiologic infiltrates
- Treatment related adverse effects in the two groups [ Time Frame: Every 6 weeks ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Years to 70 Years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria: Patients will be included in the study if they meet the criteria for ABPA defined by
Presence of all the following three criteria:
- immediate cutaneous hyperreactivity on aspergillus skin test
- elevated total IgE levels > 1000 IU/mL
- A fumigatus specific IgE levels > 0.35 kU/L
Two of the following criteria:
- presence of serum precipitating antibodies against A fumigatus
- fixed or transient radiographic pulmonary opacities
- absolute eosinophil count > 1000/µL
- central bronchiectasis on HRCT.
Exclusion Criteria:
- if they have taken glucocorticoids for more than three weeks in the preceding six months
- failure to give informed consent
- enrollment in another trial of ABPA
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01321827
|Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
|Chandigarh, UT, India, 160012
|Principal Investigator:
|Ritesh Agarwal, MD, DM
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 481 diseños de 165 diseñadores freelance.
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Moto Adventure Gear (MAG) is a new retailer of select motorcycle parts and accessories aimed at the "adventure rider" consumer. Some people refer to this style of riding as "adventure riding", "adventure touring", "dual-sport riding" and similar. The concept is riding street-legal (lights, license plate, etc) motorcycles past where the pavement ends and seeing things many people don't usually see. Some people even ride across entire continents or around the globe on such rides. Often, camping equipment, tools, and spare parts are packed as the riding locations can be remote.
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The ideas expressed at http://justcreativedesign.com/2009/…good-logo/ are very valid. The WWF Panda is one of my all-time favorite logos.
Past the do's and don'ts below, we defer to your creativity. We figure we motorcycles and riding, you know design. Let's see your best! (we need it!)
-Refer to actual motorcycle images for inspiration
-Fonts must be easy to read, no cursive or balloon types.
-Must look great on a decal, t-shirt. billboard, and anything in-between.
-Must look great in black and white and any color.
-Incorporation of motoadv.com logo
-Ask if you need clarification.
-No gradients.
-No clipart or stock images.
-Don't even think about ripping off another design. We're only running this open so our input is available to all designers. Copied designs will not be tolerated.
Our company colors are blue and white, and the logo must be crisp, stylish, and minimalistic). I'll be conferring with partners along the way, but I am usually *VERY* prompt with replies.
Monies are guaranteed so please bring your best ideas! Good luck to all!
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IBM has just launched an analysis tool that it reckoned would help businesses find under-utilised x86 servers that could profitably be consolidated.
IBM believes that server consolidation using virtualisation technology can save up to 60 percent in IT costs while quadrupling computing utilisation.
Big Blue has expanded its Consolidation Discovery and Analysis Tool (CDAT) to allow IBM resellers and integrators to evaluate smaller environments of 50 servers or fewer. IBM said it's also providing an additional end-user service, Server Consolidation Factory, at US$500 per 50 servers, which it claimed was "up to five times less expensive than competitive services."
As an example, IBM said that IBM integrator Mainline Information Systems performed a successful CDAT evaluation for a 575-employee client, Frankenmuth Mutual Insurance Company, a US-based property and casualty insurer, which has since virtualised its server farm.
"Mainline Information Systems came to evaluate our server utilisation with the CDAT tool and the proposal they came back with reaffirmed to us that virtualising our System x servers is the best way to effectively support the business," said Frankenmuth's IT manager Curtis Williams. "By virtualising many of our physical servers we improved overall server utilisation rates to as high as 80 percent. We also benefit from a great ease of management, rapid deployment and thousands in cost savings per year."
"IBM CDAT is one of the most effective tools we utilise. It has enabled us to consistently achieve a 90 percent win rate with our customers," said Vic Verola, sales VP of IBM integrator Vicom Computer Services. "We are now able to deliver the same high quality studies that previously we were only able to do with our very large clients. Through 'Server Consolidation Made Simple,' the process to engage such clients is very easy, requiring minimum time investment while providing them with an accurate yet efficient proposal."
"Virtualisation and server consolidation are fuelling tremendous growth in technology investments," said Tony Madden, senior VP and general manager of IBM integrator Avnet Technology Solutions. "While this market presents significant opportunities for Avnet's value-added reseller partners, they often have limited resources to develop the comprehensive analysis and proposals these type of engagements demand. IBM's Consolidation Discovery and Analysis Tool and Server Consolidation Factory provide our partners with a way to simplify the proposal process and complement our extensive solutions portfolio, training, programs and services."
"IBM has more than doubled its client engagements for virtualisation on x86 systems, enabling IBM clients to deploy on average a total of 1,000 virtual machines a day thanks to resources such as CDAT," said Rich Lechner, IBM VP of IT Optimisation. "And with more than 70 percent of IBM's virtualisation client engagements coming from business partners, our ability to serve our partners with tools that simplify and extend their client relationships is key."


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curs_attr, attroff, wattroff, attron, wattron, attrset, wattrset, standend, wstandend, standout, wstandout - curses character and window attribute control routines
cc [ flag ... ] file ... –lcurses [ library ... ] #include <curses.h> int attroff(int attrs);
int wattroff(WINDOW *win, int attrs);
int attron(int attrs);
int wattron(WINDOW *win, int attrs);
int attrset(int attrs);
int wattrset(WINDOW *win, int attrs);
int standend(void);
int wstandend(WINDOW *win);
int standout(void);
int wstandout(WINDOW *win);
All of these routines manipulate the current attributes of the named window. The current attributes of a window are applied to all characters that are written into the window with waddch(), waddstr(), and wprintw(). Attributes are a property of the character, and move with the character through any scrolling and insert/delete line/character operations. To the extent possible on the particular terminal, they are displayed as the graphic rendition of characters put on the screen.
The routine attrset() sets the current attributes of the given window to attrs. The routine attroff() turns off the named attributes without turning any other attributes on or off. The routine attron() turns on the named attributes without affecting any others. The routine standout() is the same as attron(A_STANDOUT). The routine standend() is the same as attrset(), that is, it turns off all attributes.
The following video attributes, defined in <curses.h>, can be passed to the routines attron(), attroff(), and attrset(), or OR-ed with the characters passed to addch().
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Half bright
Extra bright or bold
Alternate character set
Bit-mask to extract a character
Color-pair number n
The following macro is the reverse of COLOR_PAIR(n):
Returns the pair number associated with the COLOR_PAIR(n) attribute
These routines always return 1.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
curs_addch(3CURSES), curs_addstr(3CURSES), curs_printw(3CURSES), curses(3CURSES), attributes(7)
The header <curses.h> automatically includes the headers <stdio.h> and <unctrl.h>.
Note that attroff(), wattroff(), attron(), wattron(), wattrset(), standend(), and standout() may be macros.


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My question is: How can I modify the query to join the wp_postmeta table and order them by the "postion" value?
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Monday, March 19, 2012
SRC Pistachio Cherry Ice Box Cookies
Being a member of the SRC gives one a chance to discover a new blogger. We get to 'stalk' their blog all month and then the difficult part; make just one recipe from their blog.
I had the honor to get to know Mindy from The World in My Kitchen. What a fun blog. Mindy has lived all over the world, this is definitely reflected in her dishes. Mindy also travels to France with her husband, a teacher. She shares posts about food she eats as she travels. Since I probably won't get to France I enjoyed the virtual experience.
I narrowed the recipes down to three; Crock-pot French Onion Soup, Dorie's Apple cake or Pistachio, Cherry Ice Box Cookie. No surprise, the cookies won--but the other two will be made in the near future!
I do love a good Ice Box Cookie, I think they have gone out of vogue in the cookie making circle. It's that 2 hour fridge time that stops many. Cookies are often instant gratification for me; I really want to cook them now!
But this little gem is certainly one worth waiting for. There is a hint of Orange Rind that plays perfectly with the Pistachios and Dried Cherries. I subbed Dried Cherries for the dried cranberries. I had a bag of KAF Dried Sweet Cherries--they are more than delicious!
The recipe comes together quickly, chill for two hours and then you are rewarded with the best cookie imaginable.Thanks Mindy, these, are excellent!
Pistachio Cherry Ice Box Cookies
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter
Zest from one orange
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/2 cup chopped pistachios
1/3 cup chopped dried cherries
1 egg lightly beaten
1/2 cup sanding sugar
In a small bowl mix together flour, cinnamon and salt. In mixer beat butter, orange zest and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Turn mixer to low and add flour mix in three batches. Add pistachios and cherries, mix gently. Divide dough in two. Form each half in a log about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Wrap in plastic wrap, refrigerate 2 hours.
Brush chilled cookie log with egg, roll in sanding sugar. Slice 1/4 inch thick. Bake on parchment lined sheet for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.
Posted by Cindy at 9:00 AM
23 comments:
- Inside a British Mum's Kitchen said...
These look divine - Love the flavors - makes me think of summer!!
mary x
- March 19, 2012 at 11:10 AM
- Gerry @Foodness Gracious said...
Wow pistachio cherry is an awesome combo from cookies to ice cream! Great SRC post and great to meet you!
Take care..
- March 19, 2012 at 12:15 PM
- Jamie @ Cookin' with Moxie said...
I love the ease of making icebox cookies. What a lovely combination of flavors!
- March 19, 2012 at 12:52 PM
- Eliotseats said...
Cindy---these look great. Ice box cookies always make me nostalgic. Great SRC post!
- March 19, 2012 at 1:39 PM
- Bizzy B. Bakes said...
What a fabulous recipe you chose. Those cookies should be called Temptation.
- March 19, 2012 at 3:12 PM
- mireia badia said...
That looks delicious!
- March 19, 2012 at 4:20 PM
- Debbi Does Dinner Healthy said...
Wow! I want to go make these right now! I have pistachios and dried cherries now. These sound incredible!
- March 19, 2012 at 5:01 PM
- Mindy said...
We love these cookies...I'm glad you decided to make them! One of my favorite parts is that I can keep some in the freezer and slice them off as I need them. Next time I'm trying them with cherries! Thanks for a great post!
- March 19, 2012 at 5:58 PM
- Teri@thefreshmancook said...
Pistachio and cherry! What a great combination! Can't wait to try these!
- March 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM
- Cara @ The Boys Made Me Do It said...
My sister would LOVE these cookies! A combination of all her favorite things!
- March 19, 2012 at 6:55 PM
- Lisa {Authentic Suburban Gourmet } said...
Delish - I want to make very soon! Glad to be part of SRC group C with you!
- March 19, 2012 at 9:24 PM
- Cakelaw said...
These cookies look amazing! Pistachios and cherries are a winning combination.
- March 20, 2012 at 4:49 AM
- Lizzy said...
Oh, how yummy! I just adore dried cherries in cookies...so I know I'd love these gems :)
- March 20, 2012 at 5:50 AM
- Cathy at Wives with Knives said...
Great SRC recipe choice, Cindy. Ice box cookies are my favorite and I love having a roll or two in the freezer when I need cookies in a hurry. I've never made a pistachio Cherry version before and can't wait to try it.
- March 20, 2012 at 7:33 AM
- Danielle said...
Icebox cookies remind me of my grandmother for some reason. The funny thing is that I don't remember her every making them, I just remember her talking about them! I love the pistachio/cherry combo. Yum!
- March 20, 2012 at 8:03 AM
- Anne@FromMySweetHeart said...
What a great recipe from a great blog!
- March 20, 2012 at 10:13 AM
- Art From My Table said...
Oh My! Pistachio's and cherries, 2 of my favorite things! I must try these! thanks for posting.
- March 21, 2012 at 6:00 AM
- Beth said...
Those cookies look great! (And do try Dorie's apple cake. It's terrific too!)
- March 22, 2012 at 7:11 PM
- Words Of Deliciousness said...
These cookies sound delicious. I love pistachio, but I never had them in a cookie, I will have to try this one.
- March 22, 2012 at 8:24 PM
- Gloria said...
These sound delicious! I love a slice and bake cookie. P.S. I would have picked the cookies too!
- March 23, 2012 at 11:15 PM
- ms.composure said...
Stumbled onto your blog via the blog hop and just wanted to show you some blog luv! def enjoyed this post :) new follower!
- March 24, 2012 at 11:16 PM
- beti said...
pistacio and cherries are such a great combo! your cookies look great
- March 25, 2012 at 7:57 AM
- Lisa~~ said...
Pistachio and cherry together is such a wonderful combination, great looking cookies.
If you haven't already, I'd love for you to check out my Group 'A' SRC entry: Broiled Sushi.
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