Exemplary Youth Leadership Series: Challenge the Process

Democratic Leadership: The Lessons of Exemplary Models for Democratic Governance

Since leadership plays a vital role in democratic movements, understanding the nature of democratic leadership is essential. However, the definition of democratic leadership is unclear (Gastil, 1994). Also, little research has defined democratic leadership in the context of democratic movements. The leadership literature has paid no attention to democratic leadership in such movements, focusing...

[The leadership challenge for nurses].

This study aimed at learning the opinion of nurses about the possibility of becoming a leader, identifying the characteristics and abilities of an effective leader and presenting the favorable and unfavorable points related to leadership performance, according to nurses' self-evaluation. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 36 hospital nurses and analyzed through the cont...

A Leadership Challenge in 2009

A s president of the IEEE Computer Society, I am going to ask each of you to take a moment to refl ect on what your membership in the Society has meant to you. I will also ask you to share your personal experience with someone in 2009. Many professionals do not understand the importance, contribution, and necessity of nonprofit technical organizations like the IEEE Computer Society. The Society...

Fuzzy Real-Time Optimization of the Tennessee Eastman Challenge Process

A Real-Time Optimization (RTO) strategy incorporating the fuzzy sets theory is developed, where the problem constraints obtained from process considerations are treated in fuzzy environment. Furthermore, the objective function is penalized by a fuzzified form of the key process constraints. To enable using conventional optimization techniques, the resulting fuzzy optimization problem is the...

Youth Leadership in Long-Term Recovery