“A Servant Cannot Serve Two Masters”

No one can serve two masters.

Cytoplasmic dynein heavy chain: the servant of many masters

Cytoplasmic dynein is the main retrograde motor in all eukaryotic cells. This complex comprises different subunits assembled on a cytoplasmic dynein heavy chain 1 (DYNC1H1) dimer. Cytoplasmic dynein is particularly important for neurons because it carries essential signals and organelles from distal sites to the cell body. In the past decade, several mouse models have helped to dissect the nume...

Servant of Many Masters: Shifting priorities in Pareto-optimal sequential decision-making

It is often argued that an agent making decisions on behalf of two or more principals who have different utility functions should adopt a {\em Pareto-optimal} policy, i.e., a policy that cannot be improved upon for one agent without making sacrifices for another. A famous theorem of Harsanyi shows that, when the principals have a common prior on the outcome distributions of all policies, a Pare...

Serving two masters.

The title that I have chosen for the 108th Oration, to open the 1988 teaching session, is not an excuse to indulge in a theological discourse this is neither the time nor the place. Nor do I wish, as a joint appointment University staff member, to discuss the special arrangements in Belfast which accord such individuals a contract of employment with both the University and the Health Board. Suc...

Servant Leadership: A Worldview Perspective

The concept of worldview is introduced and explored as a framework for creating a philosophical foundation for servant leadership. The author uses the work of Schaeffer (1968), Pearcey (2004), Murphy and Ellis (1996), and MacIntyre (1984, 1988) to demonstrate the fragmented nature of modern philosophic and scientific traditions, how this affects ethics and morality, and how this fragmentation c...