Structural leaders

Structural leaders do homework rethink the relationship of structure, strategy, and environment and focus on implementation. Whereas, human resources leaders believe in people and communicate their beliefs. They are visible, accessible, empower others, and refer to employees as partners or associates. Political leaders clarify what they want and what they can get. They persuade first, negotiate second, and coerce only if necessary. Symbolic leaders lead by example, offer plausible interpretations of experience, communicate a vision, tell stories, and respect and use history. Reframing leadership is a leadership style that will be valuable in assisting future leaders to create new opportunities within their environments. 

The direct linking of carbon nanotubes to graphite and the continuity in synthesis, structure and properties between carbon nanotubes and vapor grown carbon fibers is reviewed by the present leaders of this area, Professor M. Endo, H. Kroto, and co-workers. Further insight into the growth mechanism is presented in the article by Colbert and Smalley. New synthesis methods leading to enhanced production... 

Scientists from Politecnico di Milano and Ineos Vinyls UK developed a tubular fixed-bed reactor comprising a metallic monolith [30]. The walls were coated with catalytically active material and the monolith pieces were loaded lengthwise. Corning, the world leader in ceramic structured supports, developed metallic supports with straight channels, zig-zag channels, and wall-flow channels. They were produced by extrusion of metal powders, for example, copper, fin, zinc, aluminum, iron, silver, nickel, and mixtures and alloys [31]. An alternative method is extrusion of softened bulk metal feed, for example, aluminum, copper, and their alloys. The metal surface can be covered with carbon, carbides, and alumina, using a CVD technique [32]. For metal monoliths, it is to be expected that the main resistance lies at the interface between reactor wall and monolith. Corning... 

The maturation of proteins into their final structural state often involves the cleavage or formation (or both) of covalent bonds, a process termed posttranslational modification. Many polypeptides are initially synthesized as larger precursors, called proproteins. The extra polypeptide segments in these proproteins often serve as leader sequences that target a polypeptide... 

Overall, several useful concepts emerge from these analyses. Different targets and routes of administration may require biased property distributions and screening libraries for successful lead optimization. This could influence the eventual chances of project success and should be taken into account early by project leaders. Once more, optimization focused on potency has been shown again to lead to larger molecules which increases the potential for poor ADME properties. The extent of any ADME issues would of course depend on the structure of lead molecule. Finally, larger, more lipophilic molecules historically have an increased rate of failure in the clinic. 

It is quite common for a Catalysis project leader to set up a structure of empty packages and use them to enter stub specifications, designs, and relations (such as refinements) between them that must be completed in downstream development. These packages also need an appropriate build mechanism that traverses and evaluates the contents of each package, generating results that will be checked, compiled, and linked. 

Working first with Polanyi, Weissenberg, and Brill, and later as the leader of the Textile Chemistry Section, Mark successively published papers on the crystal structures of hexamethylenetetramine, pentaerythritol, zinc salts, tin, urea, tin salts, triphenylmethane, bismuth, graphite, sulfur, oxalic acid, acetaldehyde, ammonia, ethane, diborane, carbon dioxide, and some aluminum silicates. Each paper showed his and the laboratory s increasing sophistication in the technique of X-ray diffraction. Their work over the period broadened to include contributions to the theories of atomic and molecular structure and X-ray scattering theory. A number of his papers were particularly notable including his work with Polanyi on the structure of white tin ( 3, 4 ), E. Wigner on the structure of rhombic sulfur (5), and E. Pohland on the low temperature crystal structure of ammonia and carbon dioxide (6, 7). The Mark-Szilard effect, a classical component of X-ray physics, was a result of his collaboration with Leo Szilard (8). And his work with E. A. Hauser (9, 10, 11) on rubber and J. R. 

It will be sometime before reality fully catches up with political slogans. The current crop of Chinese leaders is bent on "seize the day and seize the hour, defy all hardships, and reach the pinnacles of world science at the earliest possible date." In fact, political and social expedients demand it, but political and social considerations also demand that "Springtime for Science" will not simultaneously affect negatively the status quo nor alter the structural integrity of its socialist society. 

This dependence on others for resources created inexorable pressure to go beyond conventional authority lines to create networks and engage supporters. As one EBO leader was recently quoted as saying, We wanted to be Tom Sawyer getting the rest of the company to paint our fence (Deutschman, 2005). If early trials of an EBO concept proved successful, the initial informal networks were followed by more formal structures, often including the reorganization of entire business divisions, as recently occurred in IBM s Life Sciences division. 

Figure 4 The biosynthesis of nisin A as a representative example of the posttranslational maturation process of lantibiotics. Following ribosomal synthesis, NisB dehydrates serine and threonine residues in the structural region of the prepeptide NisA. NisC subsequently catalyzes intramolecular addition of cysteine residues onto the dehydro amino acids in a stereo- and regioselective manner. Subsequent transport of the final product across the cell membrane by NisT and proteolytic cleavage of the leader sequence by NisP produces the mature lantibiotic. For the sequence of the leader peptide, see Figure 6. Adapted with permission from J. M. Willey W. A. van der Donk, Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 2007, 61, 477-501.

Figure 5 The structural region of the NisA prepeptide is modified by a putative muitienzyme compiex consisting of the dehydratase NisB, the cyclase NisC, and the transporter NisT. After export, the leader peptide is removed by NisP, which is anchored to the cell wall. Mature nisin activates the two-component response regulatory system NisRK, and phosphorylated NisR serves as a positive regulator of nisA and the biosynthetic and immunity operons expressing NisABTC and NisFEG,...

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