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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Learning to lead together / Janet Chrispeels -- Changing the culture of a middle school : a narrative examination of a new principal's implementation of shared leadership / Peggy Burke and Mary Cavalier -- Creating meaningful opportunities for collaboration / Vishna Herrity and Pat Morales -- Reflections on practice : a leader's 16-year journey to promote teacher leadership and learning / David Burke and Ian Mitchell -- A middle school strives to achieve team leadership through opposition and uncertainty / Kathleen Martin and Janet Chrispeels -- Evolving roles and sharing leadership : the path of one leadership team / Shiou-Ping Shiu, Janet Chrispeels, and Robin Endacott Doerr -- Principals reflect on sharing leadership / Maureen Yep and Janet Chrispeels -- Lessons learned about sustainable results in urban middle schools : four principals and their reflection on the process of change / Peggy H. …”
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“…Narratives of Vulnerability in Museums is a study of the challenges museums face when they present narratives of instability, uncertainty, and fear in their exhibitions. As a period of sustained societal and personal vulnerability, the Great Depression remains a watershed era in American history. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Joint Pricing and Inventory Control -- 1.2 Research Focus -- 1.3 Structure of the Thesis -- 1.4 Notation and Conventions -- 2 A Review of the Newsvendor Model -- 2.1 Price-taking newsvendor model -- 2.2 Price-setting newsvendor model -- 2.2.1 Modelling demand with additive and multiplicative uncertainty -- 2.2.2 Maximizing the expected profit -- 2.2.3 Optimal price -- 3 An Empirical Study -- 3.1 Description of the data -- 3.2 Demand estimation -- 3.2.1 Detrending demand data -- 3.2.2 Estimating the additive and the multiplicative models -- 3.3 Selection among the additive and the multiplicative models -- 3.3.1 A formal test for model selection -- 3.3.2 Selection based on homoskedasticity -- 3.3.3 Summary of model selection -- 3.4 Fitting a general model -- 3.5 Simulation of profits -- 3.5.1 Comparison of the additive and the multiplicative models based on simulated profits -- 3.5.2 Comparison with the general model based on simulated profits -- 3.5.3 Comparison of the joint and the sequential optimization based on simulated profits -- 3.5.4 Optimal policy with a limited inventory level -- 4 Analysis of the Generalized Model -- 4.1 Literature review -- 4.2 Model description -- 4.2.1 Failure rate and failure rate ordering -- 4.2.2 Elasticity of expected sales -- 4.3 Non-integrated approach -- 4.3.1 Optimizing order quantity -- 4.3.2 Optimizing price -- 4.4 Integrated approach -- 4.4.1 Optimality conditions -- 4.4.2 Structural properties -- 4.5 Sales elasticity for additive and multiplicative models -- 4.6 Numerical study -- 4.6.1 Monotone variance -- 4.6.2 Non-monotone variance -- 5 Conclusion -- References…”