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Layered Polyelectrolyte Films as Selective, Ultrathin Barriers for Anion Transport
(2000-06-23)Synthesis of high-flux composite membranes requires methods for deposition of ultrathin, defect-free films on highly permeable supports. Layer-by-layer deposition of polyelectrolytes on porous alumina (0.02 µm pore diameter) ... -
A Lazy Bailout Approach for Dual-Criticality Systems on Uniprocessor Platforms
(2019-02-01)A challenge in the design of cyber-physical systems is to integrate the scheduling of tasks of different criticality, while still providing service guarantees for the higher critical tasks in case of resource-shortages ... -
LBP-CA: A Short-term Scheduler with Criticality Arithmetic
(University of Hertfordshire, 2022-11-04)In safety-critical systems a smooth degradation of services is a way to deal with resource shortages. Criticality arithmetic is a technique to implement services of higher criticality by several tasks of lower criticality. ... -
LC-MS/MS Confirms That COX-1 Drives Vascular Prostacyclin Whilst Gene Expression Pattern Reveals Non-Vascular Sites of COX-2 Expression
(2013-07-09)There are two schools of thought regarding the cyclooxygenase (COX) isoform active in the vasculature. Using urinary prostacyclin markers some groups have proposed that vascular COX-2 drives prostacyclin release. In contrast, ... -
The LCES HIRES/Keck Precision Radial Velocity Exoplanet Survey
(2017-04-13)We describe a 20-year survey carried out by the Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team (LCES), using precision radial velocities from HIRES on the Keck-I telescope to find and characterize extrasolar planetary systems orbiting ... -
Le projet européen FOOTPRINT – vers des outils d'évaluation et de gestion du risque pesticides à différentes échelles
(2006)FOOTPRINT was a research project in the 6th Framework Programme which developed a suite of three pesticide risk prediction and management tools, for use by three different end-user communities: - farmers and extension ... -
Leaders without answers? Strategising in a context of continuous socio-economic decline
(2014-09-10)Context and rationale for the paper The mainstream strategic management literature is based on notions of ‘development’ and assumptions that there are always opportunities to improve the status quo, provided organisations ... -
Leaders, followers and problem solving in organisations
(University of Hertfordshire, 2002)The distinction between management style and leadership style has been confirmed in this research by examining the working relationships between leaders and followers in 6 separate sites of a computer systems organisation. ... -
Leadership and Organisational Structure in the Co-production of Government Funded Services
(2012-11-22)We propose a conceptual framework from a critical relatioal perspective to better understand the process of co-production. The argument advanced here is twofold: First, that leadership must be shared to some extend for ... -
Leadership and structure in the co-production of public services
(University of Hertfordshire, 2012-09-15)This paper aims to initiate a debate about the utility of the concept of co-production in developing a better understanding of contemporary challenges to leadership and management in the provision of public services. The ... -
Leadership Development as Reflexive Practice
(2012-09-06)This thesis examines Leadership Development in both a corporate setting and an expedition-based setting. The assumptions that are the foundations of current Leadership Development originate, and are informed by, aspects ... -
Leadership in Small Primary Schools: The Headteacher's Perspective
(2011-09-16)The aim of this research is to identify and scrutinise current aspects of leadership in small primary schools in order to generate a new context-appropriate model of headship. The research is an in-depth study of leading ... -
Leadership of uncertainty
(Open University Press, 2011)The time we are living in has been described as ‘an age of uncertainty’ ( Barnett 2007: 136). While it has always been impossible to predict the future, it seems that the world is becoming more uncertain and this relates ... -
Leadership, power, ethics : leading and managing in a performative culture
(University of Hertfordshire, 2004)This thesis is a study of the experience of leadership. The aim throughout the thesis is to find ways of making sense of the idea of leadership by reference to the everyday routines of organisational life. The thesis is ... -
Leadership: The ghost at the trillion dollar crash?
(2010)Leadership has been largely overlooked by bankers, regulators, policy-makers and scholars trying to discern the cause of the global financial crisis. The paper suggests that this is odd, given the attention (both theoretical ... -
Leading a normal life
(Balliere Tindall, 1997)