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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"leadership class"”.
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Women and Authority: Transitioning Into a Role of Assigned Authority as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in a Leadership Class
… have increased opportunities to exercise leadership and address challenges while mobilizing people toward change. Formal positions of authority include the role of mother, schoolteacher, senator, or senior executive. It is rare for women to receive any practice for the authority roles they …
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The Benefits of a School Leadership Program for Students
… show that these types of activities, including a leadership class, reduce the risk-taking behaviors of adolescents and promote school connectedness. In addition, researchers have discovered a correlation between school connectedness and success in later life, including but not limited to: higher …
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Greek leadership courses : participation and changes in student leadership practices
… study focuses on the effectiveness of a Greek Leadership class at a university in northern California. Changes in leadership practices were analyzed using Kouzes and Posner's LPI (Leadership Practices Inventory). The LPI was distributed as a pretest and a posttest survey. Analysis in changes of …
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Essays on Leadership Selection and Public Goods Provision in Self-Help Organizations
… dissertation examines the relationship between leadership selection and public goods provision in self-help organizations. Leadership selection is defined as the rules for selecting leaders, as well as the factors that determine the quality of the leadership class. Self-help organizations are …
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The Effects of a Play Therapy Intervention Conducted by Trained High School Students on the Behavior of Maladjusted Young Children: Implications for School Counselors
… school student enrolled in a Peer Assistance and Leadership class. The high school students were randomly paired with a referred child. The high school students completed 7 one-hour training sessions in child-centered play therapy procedures and skills prior to beginning the weekly, supervised …
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Apprentices to power: the cultivation of American youth nationalism, 1935-1970
… investigates how privately-operated youth leadership programs promoted citizenship among millions of adolescents and furnished political apprenticeships for many past and current American leaders. It considers four major programs: the American Legion’s Boys’ State and Boys’ Nation; American …
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Scalable non-blocking Krylov solvers for extreme-scale computing
… multiple different preconditioners on multiple leadership-class supercomputers. Performance analysis tools and performance models are developed to provide deeper insight into the performance barriers encountered by these algorithms and show how they relate to observed performance. These tools …
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An evaluation of the LSU Agricultural Center's Agriculture Leadership Development Program, 1988-2004
… participants in the LSU AgCenter’s Agricultural Leadership Development Program have increased their leadership skills and become more involved in agricultural and community issues. The target population for this study was the 252 graduates of Classes I - VIII of the LSU Ag Leadership Program. …
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Development of high fidelity methods for 3D Monte Carlo transient analysis of nuclear reactors
… analysis of power reactor geometries on today's leadership class supercomputers. Extending Monte Carlo to time dependent problems has proven to be a formidable challenge due to the significant computational resource and data processing requirements. In this thesis, a transient methodology is …
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Development of the random ray method of neutral particle transport for high-fidelity nuclear reactor simulation
… such calculations impractical, even using leadership class supercomputers. Reactor designers have instead relied on calibrated methods that are accurate only within a narrow design space, greatly limiting the exploration of innovative concepts. One numerical simulation approach, the Method …
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A Mixed Methods Study of Leader-Follower Dynamics in Student Project Teams: Toward Advancing Career Readiness
… in teamwork. I have identified transformational leadership and effective followership behaviors as predictors of teamwork quality and team effectiveness in the study. This study applies an explanatory sequential mixed methods design to examine: (a) whether transformational team leadership is …
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Coupled-Cluster Methods for Large Molecular Systems Through Massive Parallelism and Reduced-Scaling Approaches
… with even more massive computations possible on leadership-class computing resources. The inclusion of F12 correction to the CCSD(T) method makes it converge to basis set limit much more rapidly. The large-scale parallel explicitly correlated coupled-cluster program makes the accurate estimation …