In the paper, authors offer preliminary insights about leadership and reasons why looking at Odysseus myth might not be a good idea. The focus of paper is on distinction between heroic behaviors how misalignment two undermines organizational mission (Nostoi). Quality still today judged by focusing leader’s behavior rather than success effect their followers. This leads to various possibly wrong...

Challenging the dominant economic agency theory of corporate governance with a new discourse drawn from institutional theory, the paper analyses how management accounting is implicated in corporate governance. The proposed institutional theory of agency links the micro-institutions of the organization that are informed by the practices of management accounting with external institutional player...

Junctions of fields are known to be susceptible to developing cold or hot spots in the presence of even small geometrical misalignments. Reduction of these dose inhomogeneities can be accomplished through decreasing the dose gradients in the penumbra, but currently it cannot be done for enhanced dynamic wedges (EDW). An MLC-based penumbra softener was developed in the developer mode of TrueBeam...

The dermis in the holothurian body wall is a typical catch connective tissue or mutable collagenous tissue that shows rapid changes in stiffness. Some chemical factors that change the stiffness of the tissue were found in previous studies, but the molecular mechanisms of the changes are not yet fully understood. Detection of factors that change the stiffness by working directly on the extracell...

The evolution of nurse licensure is representative of the heroic efforts of nurses to enhance the value and impact of the nursing profession. This literature review presents a historical account of the advancement of nursing through the nurse licensure process.

Studies of the relationship between nationalism and localism have brought evidence that these orientations might maintain either relations of opposition or congruence. By conceiving of localism mainly as a strategy, this paper argues that localism can be used alternately as an anchor of nationalist narrative or as an alternative to nationalism by the exact same community. This argument is illus...