Traditional models have divided the increasingly popular domain of leadership into contrasting, either/or categories. The vast majority of examples from the leadership literature create dichotomies of leadership (e.g., Theory X vs. Theory Y; task vs. socioemotional; participative vs. autocratic; transactional vs. transformational). There has been little effort to combine the existing dichotomie...

It is shown that the recently proposed preon model which provides a unified origin of the diverse mass scales and an explanation of family replication as well as of inter–family mass–hierarchy, naturally possesses a Peccei–Quinn (PQ) symmetry whose spontaneous breaking leads to an automatic invisible axion. Existence of the PQ–symmetry is simply a consequence of supersymmetry and the requiremen...

This paper proposes the integration of The Competing Values Framework (Quinn 1984; 1988) with Nonaka and Takeuchi’s (1995) knowledge creation and conversion model. Conceptual parallels between the two models are identified and the interaction effects among dimensions are analysed. The resulting Organizational Knowledge Management Model should further understanding of the social and organization...

In January 1993, the US television station CBS premiered a new TV drama about Michaela Quinn—a Boston doctor who moved alone to Colorado frontier establish her medical practice. Seymour’s biography played critical role in initial promotion of show. The character Dr. Quinn, as Seymour her, was feminist Hillary Rodham Clinton vein, and show’s primarily revolved around Quinn’s gender deviance issu...

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1988, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2006, pp. 63–66. The analytical procedures for all-way stop-controlled intersections in the 2000 edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) lack a model to estimate the 95th percentile queue length. This is considered a major shortc...