Conservation Leadership Programme 2016 Team Awards announced

Annual IT Awards Announced

This paper is based on the Shannon Lecture presented in August 2011, at ISIT2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and it presents a subjective overview of selected topics in Information Theory, Communications and Signal Processing taking an InformationEstimation perspective. We first review basic Information-Minimum Mean Square Error (IMMSE) relations and properties in Gaussian additive channels, and...

Editorial: NAR Awards 2016

Finalists are announced for The BMJ Awards 2014.

The clinical leadership teams that have made the shortlist for The BMJ Awards 2016 cover a range of subjects, including reconfiguring ophthalmology services in Leeds, improving heart health in Bradford, and restructuring diabetes care in Portsmouth to ensure that patients access the right specialist care. Now in their eighth year, the awards have this year attracted more than 300 entries, from ...

FY 2011 - FY 2016 Awards

This research project will investigate whether working memory has an impact on the responses participants provide on survey questionnaires. Working memory is a cognitive system that provides both the limited storage for relevant information and the temporary processing needed to perform ongoing mental tasks. When individuals participate in a survey, for each question presented, the participant ...

Team leadership

Despite the ubiquity of leadership influences on organizational team performance and the large literatures on leadership and team/group dynamics, we know surprisingly little about how leaders create and handle effective teams. In this article, we focus on leader–team dynamics through the lens of ‘‘functional leadership.’’ This approach essentially asserts that the leader’s main job is to do, or...