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What Makes a Founder? : Determining the Founder of New Thought
… both rekindles the debate over the title of “founder” of New Thought and presents a definitive statement on who should be considered the “founder.” In this debate, the long-standing and most accepted “founder” is Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. Phineas Quimby was a mental healer who is credited with …
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Genome-Scale Genetics: Lessons from Founder Populations
<p>The potential benefits of using population isolates in genetic mapping due to reduced genetic and environmental heterogeneity are offset by the challenges posed by these populations for traditional association methods. Population isolates often contain large amounts of direct and cryptic …
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Bayesian mixture modelling of migration by founder analysis
… migration period, a number of sequences, called `founder sequences', migrate into the new region. It is first shown through appropriate simulations based on the structured coalescent that previous inferences based on the idea of founder sequences sufer from the fundamental problem that it is …
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Amon Carter: The Founder of Modern Fort Worth, 1930-1955
… efforts demonstrate that Carter was indeed the founder of modern Fort Worth.
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Innovation in founder-run firms: evidence from S&P 500
… innovation is whether the CEO of the firm is its founder. Popular perception is that the inherent venturous spirit of the founders creates an environment that fosters innovation. This study investigates whether founder-CEOs are more innovative than nonfounder CEOs. Using a sample of S&P 500 firms …
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Sequencing in Isolation: Next-generation sequencing studies in founder populations
… that have drifted up in frequency due to founder events and geographical isolation. Population-specific imputation reference panels and very low-depth whole-genome sequencing have been proposed as ways to boost power in next-generation association studies while keeping sequencing costs …
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Unlearning in founder chief executive officers : a critical competence for success
Founder-CEOÔs are highly influential in the growth of their businesses which operate in increasingly complex and turbulent environments. It is key for the businessesÔ survival that the Founder is adaptive and flexible in coping with changes in the external environment. Typically, Founder-CEOÔs …
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The role of founder identity in the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities
… economic value. Ventures that are created by founders driven by economic self-interest, community development or to societal advancement bear importance in this relation. This study explored the role of founder identity in the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities. It was argued that a …
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Faculty as founder? : an examination of faculty's role in biomedical start-ups
Executive Summary: In this thesis, I examine faculty inventors' involvement in university spin-off firms formed to commercialize their inventions. In particular, I analyze the association between a faculty inventor's various roles in commercializing his/her invention and the performance of the …
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Genealogical tracing of founder variants linked to cardiomyopathies in a South African cohort
… variants were identified, suggesting potential founder variants. This study aimed to genealogically trace the origins of these variants in the probands and their families. Methods: Participants were recruited from South African tertiary hospitals, with baseline data recorded at enrolment. Next …
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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: COMPANY CULTURE AS A REFLECTION OF FOUNDER PERSONALITY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ORGANIZATIONS
This dissertation explores the connection between founder personality and organizational culture in founder-led entrepreneurial companies. With a focus on how founder personality affects culture, it draws from the literature in upper echelon/top management teams, family business and organizational …
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Development And Validation Of Novel Transmitted/founder Shivs For Hiv-1 Persistence And Cure Research
… HIV-1 Envs of interest, including transmitted/founder (TF) Envs. TF SHIVs encode a substitution at Env residue 375 that confers consistent early viral kinetics in RM, although longitudinal kinetics are more variable. Further, TF SHIVs have not been evaluated for their suitability for HIV …
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A Historical Study Of Irvin Cooper: Choral Music Educator And Founder Of The Cambiata Concept
Military officers and psychologists have argued that the human experience of killing in combat is directly related to physical proximity between combatants. With the advent of remote controlled weapons and advanced optics, that argument has proven untrue. This thesis, through analysis of …
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Leading for sustainability: an exploratory study of founder transitions in nonprofit organisations in the Western Cape
… incredible passion and commitment of nonprofit founders, towards their unwavering belief in a social cause. Without their energy and charisma, the nonprofit sector would not be as influential and substantial as it is today. For an organisation to mature and increase its desired impact, the …
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A study of the correlation between pre-IPO venture funds and founder characteristics with high-tech firm growth
… (initial public offering) venture fund and founder characteristics with firm growth. Twenty different high-tech firms were studied. These firms were divided into two different samples. One sample consisted of 10 firms that went public well before the 2000 recession and the other sample …
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Toward Cooperative Ethics: A Ricoeurian Reading of the Educational Aim of Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta Founder of the Mondragon Cooperatives
Paul Ricoeur and Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta were contemporaries whose separate works, when brought side by side, provide insights into how community development might proceed at the intersection of the domains of ethics, politics, and economics. In complementary ways they have addressed the …
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Moral divinity with a tincture of Christ?: an interpretation of the theology of Benjamin Whichcote, founder of Cambridge Platonism
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_165587229.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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