Leadership Strategies in Diverse Intake Environments

Five fundamental leadership strategies.

A In today’s more challenging environment, dentists are realizing that their leadership skills— or lack thereof—can have a profound effect on practice success. Learning how to lead a practice team more effectively deserves to be an educational priority throughout every dentist’s career. It is vital to a practice’s health as a business, and methodologies evolve constantly. However, there are cer...

Sensor Allocation in Diverse Environments

A variety of environmental conditions may affect sensor coverage, such as terrain, weather, and vegetation. In many applications of sensor networks, these conditions and, consequently, the sensing areas vary throughout the field of deployment. For example, an initial deployment of sensors to detect chemical plumes in an urban environment revealed irregularities in sensing ranges due to variatio...

Augmenting Electronic Environments for Leadership

Adapting instructional content to match the background knowledge of the student has been a long-standing goal of student modeling and tutoring (Bruner, 1966; Burton & Brown, 1979). To this end, cognitive scientists have developed student models that rely on manual knowledge bases relevant to the particular instructional task at hand. Normally, these include domain content, instructional content...

Leadership and Collaboration in Shared Virtual Environments

We present an experiment that investigates the behaviour of small groups of participants in a wide-area distributed collaborative virtual environment (CVE). This is the third and largest study in a series of experiments that have examined trios of participants carrying out a highly collaborative puzzle-solving task. The results reproducing those of earlier studies suggest a positive relationshi...

New strategies for developing leadership.