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Balanced Flexibility: Avoiding the Traps
(Haas School of Business University of California Berkeley, 2015-08)This article identifies three types of traps that can emerge when implementing workplace flexibility—altered work-life dynamics, reduced fairness perceptions, and weakened organizational culture—and provides core lessons ... -
Balancing Work and Family in Higher Education: Best Practices and Barriers
(Demeter Press, 2012-01)Many women have been attracted to the teaching profession over the years. Teaching in higher education environment may, on face, have great appeal as an opportunity in which faculty enjoy a high degree of autonomy in their ... -
Baltimore City Nonprofit Leadership: an analysis of the dynamics of nonprofit leadership and issues of diversity
(2012-03)Nonprofit organizations 501(c) (3)'s serve as valuable assets in their communities. They utilize various revenue and resource streams to accomplish their missions. Many have board members, executives, managers, staff (paid ... -
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's ‘Healthy Holly’ Book Scandal Comes as No Surprise.
(Salon.com, LLC., 2019-04-09)Baltimore has caught the attention of the country again. -
Banking in a Volatile World: Setting Country Lending Limits
(Springer, 1983)Banks often make decisions in an organizational framework that attempts to control repayment problems by setting loan limits for each country. A formal mechanism for setting those limits will be proposed. Our motivation ... -
Baptize
(2009)This is from a series of experimental video games exploring religious actions. As an atheist who nevertheless feels religion to be a part of my life, I choose certain rituals, activities or mental games that people play ... -
Behavioral Responses to Barriers by Desert Tortoises: Implications for Wildlife Management
(Allen Press, 1994)We conducted tests on the behavioral responses of captive desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) to barriers and highway obstacles. Desert tortoises are slow-moving but persistent wanderers in their natural habitat. ... -
Behind the Pyramid Schemes: Broken Families in Struggling Communities
(Salon.com, 2016-11-20)Behind the pyramid schemes: Broken families in struggling communities “Multilevel marketing” schemes often prey on the poor and leave a trail of ruin behind. I’ve seen it up close. -
Being Effie: The Hunger Games and War as a Form of Entertainment Media Consumption
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Being Mindful May Not Make You A Team Player: Does Meditation Help or Hurt Online Group Work?
(Journal of Educators Online, 2017-07)In higher education, more and more students take part in online courses that require them to engage in virtual work groups. Research has shown that online learners are likely to experience information overload and considerable ... -
‘Benefit of Clergy’ in Maryland and Virginia
(The American Journal of Legal History, 1990-01)Many historians know of the famous trial of British soldiers involved in the "Boston Massacre" of March 5, 1770, after which two of the soldiers received "benefit of clergy."' Before the justices of the Superior Court of ... -
The Benefits of Tracking Organizational Outcomes for Long-Term Systems Operations/Maintenance Tasks
(NEDSI, 2015)This study investigates whether periodically tracked organizational performance metrics help long-term systems operations/maintenance projects stay on schedule. Regression analyses were conducted to test for the impact of ... -
Best Practices in Corporate Universities
(University of Baltimore, 2009-01)Training is critical to workforce development, contributes toward employee retention, and provides new skills that are required when agency missions expand. Nevertheless, few transportation agencies have addressed future ... -
Beyond "No Justice, No Peace": In Case After Case, Cops Shoot Black People and Walk Away. What Can We Do?
(Salon.com, 2016-10-02)What’s an activist to do? We fight, we plan, we petition, we strategize -- and for what? Last week, Baltimore County released a statement saying that charges will not be filed against the officers who shot and killed a ... -
Bible Politics: Denial, Division, & Exclusion in the 19th Century Religious Publishing Industry
(Museum of Biblical Art, 2013)My essay considers the question, “When did people of African descent in the New World begin to own personal copies of the Christian Bible?” This question focuses on the widespread distribution of Bibles by Evangelical ... -
Bioassay for ichthyocidal activity of Pfiesteria piscicida: Characterization of a culture flask assay format
(Springer, 2002)The description of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Pfiesteriapiscicida as the causative agent of fish lesions and deaths along the mid-Atlantic estuaries has revealed the need for bioassays to assess its potential ... -
Bioengineering Novel Floating Nanoparticles for Protein and Drug Delivery
(Elsevier, 2016)Gas vesicle nanoparticles (GVNPs) are hollow protein nanoparticles produced by Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 which are being engineered for protein delivery. To advance the bioengineering potential of GVNPs, a strain of NRC-1 ... -
Biofiltration, water quality, and sediment processes
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Biogeochemical factors
(Springer-Verlag, 2009)