Agent of change

Dr. Hopkins is the one we clearly need to thank, not just for her excellent science but also for courage. We could use her as a template for how to become an agent of change in our institutions. If you are not at MIT but at another university where things are working well, then you have a template you can share with others. 

It is interesting that Fahrenheit directly links the universally distributed fire to an ethereal matter. This brings us back to the argument that Newton s ether works as an instrument of God s providence. Flowever, Newton s ether and Boerhaave s fire and other latent peculiar powers are essentially different. Newton s forces, working in the internal vacuities of matter were agents of change in phenomena and the cause of activity in matter. ... 

McClelland, J. W., Holmes, R. M., Peterson, B. J., and Stieghtz, M. (2004). Increasing river discharge in the Eurasian Artie Consideration of dams, permafrost thaw, and fires as potential agents of change. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 109, Art. no. D18102. 

Nielsen, K. J. (2003). Nutrient loading and consumers Agents of change in open-coast macrophyte assembalges. PAMS 100, 7660—7665. 

Conjunction When these two planets are cheek by jowl, you have strong convictions and can become a powerful agent of change. One example Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, who has this conjunction in the third house of communication. 

Eisenstein, E.L., 1979. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change. Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 

Appreciate the history of engineers in development, be critical of their effects and understand that they can be agents of change. Students cannot change the past but can become aware of how the past has, and continues to, shape the present and future. 

An agent in this sense is something that allows the process to occur. In everyday language, for example, an agent of change is something that helps facilitate change. 

There are four key success factors of cultural change that build momentum (1) moving off assumptions, (2) including students as agents of change, (3) involvement and ownership, and (4) adequate resources. 

Essentially all polymers freely exposed to the elements will change in some manner. The active rays of the sun become potent agents of change in the organic materials. Further polymerization of the resin can occur to produce embrittlement. Other types of new bonding can be triggered to make polymers more crystalline. Any volatile component of the material, such as a plasticizer, can be evaporated. The polymer chains may be simply oxidized and broken up to destroy the product. 

Nanoparticles are seen either as agents of change of various phenomena and processes, or as building blocks of materials and devices with tailored characteristics. Use of nanoparticles aims to take advantage of properties that are caused by the... 

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