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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"Humble"”.
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The case for humble and narcissistic leadership: creative self-efficacy and idea generation in entrepreneurial settings
Based on social-cognitive theory and a paradox perspective, this dissertation explores how leader narcissism and leader humility together moderate the influence of domain-specific self-efficacy on the type-specific innovative work behavior in entrepreneurial settings. This multilevel framework …
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SOURCE AND MATURATION OF HYDROCARBONS IN THE FRIO FORMATION OF THE HUMBLE FIELD, SOUTHEAST-TEXAS GULF COAST BASIN
… of hydrocarbons in the Frio Formation of the Humble oil field, Harris County, Texas, from the East Texas Gulf Coast basin, were interpreted by combining the geochemical characteristics of the Humble oils and thermal evolution history of the Humble field. Ten oil samples from the Frio Formation …
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Locating the mediator within workplace discourse: supporter of the status quo or humble "midwife" of dialogue? Developing an alternative workplace mediation practice.
It appears to be commonly claimed by workplace mediators that they are 'neutral', that is, they do not influence parties' decisions but merely help them to find their own solutions to a conflict. This is problematic if, beneath a cloak of an illusory neutrality, mediators unwittingly contain and …
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The humble rice bowl: a critical analysis of the constitutional and legal effects of the global trading frameworks for rice on the Tolima province of Colombia
Rice is the third most farmed crop in the world after maize and wheat. It is consumed everyday by more than half of the global population, having been a staple of human diets for at least eleven millennia. And while academic literature in the biology and agronomy of rice is more than abundant, …
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Sometimes Sharks Appear in Lakes Too: Tridirectional Insights on Leader Humility and Its Influence on Employee Behavior
… has focused on positive outcomes, portraying humble behaviors as unequivocally beneficial to followers and leaders. However, scant research has examined the detrimental aspects of leader humility. This thesis challenges the consensus that leader humility is largely beneficial for followers and …
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Sometimes Sharks Appear in Lakes Too: Tridirectional Insights on Leader Humility and Its Influence on Employee Behavior
… has focused on positive outcomes, portraying humble behaviors as unequivocally beneficial to followers and leaders. However, scant research has examined the detrimental aspects of leader humility. This thesis challenges the consensus that leader humility is largely beneficial for followers and …
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Mer: An Audio Drama
… Neo-Louisiana’s affluent floating cities and the humble water villages as they reckon with the scale-tipping powers a new drug carries.</p>
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Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime
… however, relies on the surprising power of the humble, local, and familiar to inebriate the senses unto the mystical and ineffable “heights” of experience. For both medieval rhetors and exegetes, the transport of the sublime is located in the movement from the literal to the figural or …
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Toward a More Humane Public Policy: How the Humanities Can, and Should, Inform the Creation and Analysis of Public Policy
… public policy that is less harmful and more humble. </p>
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Adaptive Reuse and Renovation: A Learning Center, Huntley Meadows Park And The Huntley Villa
… this site for the Friends of Huntley, i saw a humble little piece of Virginian history decaying and being swept away by sprawling development. Sufficient research of historical American architecture is important to determine whether it has cultural or architectural significance. This thesis …
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Which Reader? Interpretive Virtue, Ecclesial Context, and Social Location in Ephraim Radner and Richard Hays's Proposals for Theological Interpretation of Scripture
… Radner highlights interpretive virtue as humble receptivity while Hays highlights poetic attentiveness. While I note that this divergence is a matter of emphasis rather than being a matter of mutual exclusion, I do claim that the distinct emphases relative to interpretive virtue raise a …
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The Conflict Between Thomas Becket and Henry II
… every movement, betrayed to an observer what the humble equipments of both and the familiarity of intercourse between them would have concealed, that the younger was the master, sand the other, his attendant. The somewhat awful interview with the Archbishop, on which so much depended, was …
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Way of tea, way of life, and way of art education: learning through performative metaphor
… in our lives: purifying and clearing mind, being humble, relief from stress, self-discipline, and being aware. The way this class was taught has also implications in art education. I learned the significance of learning by doing, teacher’s role, and finally the students’ own way of learning.
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Influencing Employee Growth: How a Leadership Development Program Can Contribute to Nonschool-Based Employee Succession in a Catholic School Division
… action-oriented research with appreciative and humble inquiry methodologies, I combined qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore leadership development needs. Ethical standards, including informed consent and confidentiality, were rigorously upheld. Findings emphasized the need for a …
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Engineered red blood cells and their applications
The humble red blood cell (RBC) is the most abundant cell in the human body. Every second, a normal adult generates some 2.5 million RBCs, which subsequently circulate through the blood vessels for a lifespan of 50 or 120 days in mouse and human, respectively. RBCs are also unique in that they are …
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Humility Predicts Eudaimonic Well-Being and Compassionate Action in a Daily Experience Sampling Study
… modelling demonstrated that on average, humble individuals report greater well-being, give and receive more compassion, and report more autonomous compassion. Compassion did not mediate the relationship between humility and well-being. These findings suggest humility may be an important …
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Empty Pleasures
… in Western society. I explore the vain and the humble veneration of status symbols, mementos, and personal icons. Through a satire of pompous display, I critique our society's fixation on materialism.;I use a digital process to mimic commercial eye-catching tactics in my ersatz copies of …
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The Presidency Effect
<p>From humble beginnings with the merely managerial duties of a formal Chair, the rotating Council Presidency of the European Union (EU) has evolved into a crucial player in the context of EU decision making, although its impact remains largely unaddressed in accounts of EU output. More than from …
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On the Imperishable Face of Granite: Civil War Monuments and the Evolution of Historical Memory in East Tennessee 1878-1931.
… soldiers, antebellum white women, and humble slaves of the past to calm the tensions of the present. By 1931 they ensured that the region's history was unequivocally tied to a Confederate image despite its Unionist heritage.</p>
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Economic evaluation of health care : cautions for the developing country context
… evaluation of health care now extends from the humble cost-minimisation exercise, through cost effectiveness measures, to the more complex cost utility or cost benefit models. These methodologies have differing strengths and drawbacks. This paper evaluates those attributes on both the practical …
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