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What distinguishes Embercombe's consultants is our capacity to bridge the separation that exists between the language of business and the language of life.
Embercombe's consultants are professional individuals who bring a wealth of experience in business, organisation and team management.
Tim 'Mac' Macartney
Mac is the Head of Leadership and Organisation Consulting for Embercombe. He has been working as a people and organisation development professional since 1984. He is the founder of Embercombe
Over the last few years Mac's work with organisations has included clients such as Procter & Gamble, WWF International, Lafarge, Coca-Cola, Thornton's Budgens Supermarkets, Associated British Foods, PepsiCo, and Lend Lease. Over the years he has consulted to various parts of Unilever:
- Joined an in-house team exploring Unilever's global purpose.
- Co-led a 3-year culture change project for Unilever Poland
- Co-led a 3-year culture change project for Unilever Italy HPC.
Mac is one of the speakers and facilitators for the IMD Business School/WWF International One Planet Leaders programme (Lausanne & Singapore), and the WWF International/Exeter University Business School One Planet Leaders MBA programme. Other recent speaking engagements have included the London School of Economics, AISE Conference for the European laundry & detergents industry association, TEDx WWF Singapore, and TEDx Whitechapel. Early in 2011 Mac joined the top managers of an international bank as part of a team facilitating the bank's exploration of their role, values and vision. He advised the same bank on its response to the tragic killing of sixty-nine young people in Norway. He has contributed to two external advisory panels for Procter & Gamble WE and co-facilitated a 'new vision' workshop for the P&G WE Fabric Care leadership team in Geneva. He attended an advisory panel with the CEO and other leaders of Lafarge in February last year, facilitated their new Performance team's vision, and has been invited to sit on Lend Lease's newly formed stakeholder panel.
Recent and imminent talks include:
- Key Note talk at 'Africa Leads' Conference, Stellenbosch University - 21st November '12
- AISE Detergent Industry Conference, Brussels - 6th December '12
- The TEDx Whitechapel Event in London on 12th January 2013
- The TEDx Newark Event in London on 11th May 2013
- Numerous 2013 UK music festivals including Glastonbury, Sunrise Celebration, and Buddhafield
- Key Note talk at WWF UK Global Programmes Conference in Petersfield on 18th June 2013
- Key Note talk at UBM's Business4Better Conference and Exhibition on 10th July 2013
- Key Note talk at the European Commission's Retail Forum for Sustainability in Brussels on 17th October 2013
For twenty years Mac was mentored by a group of 'metis' Native Americans. This prolonged and challenging training has profoundly influenced Mac's world view and continues to inform all aspects of his work with organisations, children, families, and youth.
Johannes Moeller
Johannes has a background in Psychology, and has worked with people and organisations in diverse ways since he was a teenager. In recent years, he has married this experience with his passion for sustainability, social justice and an entrepreneurial enthusiasm to instigate change initiatives.
His work is motivated by the belief that each individual and organisation has the choice to contribute to a more just, resilient and sustainable future in a unique and powerful way, and that the cumulative effect of these diverse actions creates the potential for large-scale social change.
Johannes focuses on creating and facilitating spaces for transformation, learning and service in the context of current social, environmental and economic challenges. He is an Associate of Embercombe, founded the Catalyst Course and the Embercombe Apprenticeship, and developed a number of Embercombe courses - including Crossroads for MBA students from Said Business School (Oxford University) and Sirius, an Environmental Leadership course for teenagers on behalf of the Wilderness Foundation.
His work is process-orientated, holistic and systemic, and mostly involves being in the outdoors. Johannes works with diverse clients, including teenagers, young adults, social entrepreneurs, NGOs and leaders from the corporate sector. Current clients include Future Foundations, The Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter University, Lucca Leadership and the Wilderness Foundation.
Other interests include the performing arts, woodwork, social sculpture and hiking the beautiful hills and coasts of Great Britain.
Kanada Elizabeth Gorla
With 12 years experience directing opera and theatre, and a background in the visual arts and philosophy, Kanada brings a rare combination of gifts and skills to the work of people and organisation development. Kanada has been working as a consultant, facilitator and executive coach since 1995, developing teams and individuals across many sectors, cultures and countries. A long-time associate and Senior Consultant with Embercombe, her areas of expertise are authentic leadership, presence, personal impact, emotional literacy and transformational change.
Her clients have ranged from multinationals (Shell Oil) to high street retailers (Harvey Nichols), from reinsurers (Hardy Group) to social entrepreneurs (Afrikids), from university students (Catalyst) to seasoned leaders (Unilever).
Kanada's approach – holistic, intuitive and pragmatic – is grounded in her understanding of the transformational power of presence and her appreciation that at the heart of all change we find personal responsibility, awareness and choice.
Kanada is passionate about enabling people to realise all that they are and can be. At the same time she invites her clients to place their personal and organizational aspirations within the global social and environmental context in which we live, to reflect deeply on what matters to them, and to allow these deepest values to inform their personal actions and drive their business activities.
Sabina Rademacher
Sabina is responsible for the UK and international Business Education at Embercombe and part of the facilitation team for The Heart of Leadership programme.
Her job as an International Business Developer and International Business Consultant has led her to work all over the world. Born in Germany, she has lived in the States, Latin America and for 17 years in Barcelona, Spain, heading the International Relations of a major business school. Besides her German degree in Economics and an American MBA, she also trained in NLP and Consciousness-Belief Management.
She has trained in the field of 3 Dimensional Leadership and Intercultural Communication, working with adults, teachers and young people.
Sabina has extensive experience in teaching and coaching within different organizations, including International House London, Foundation for International Education in London (FIE), Oxford Brookes University, Birmingham Business School, Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge, City College Plymouth, Culture Smart Consulting, WiBe.V. (Weiterqualifizierung im Bildungsbereich, Universität Potsdam) and still collaborates with The Training Partnership, an organisation bringing European teachers and students to England for work placement training.
She is the founder of Global Citizen Project interactive workshops helping young adults communicate and articulate views, ideas and perspectives more effectively to gain a true Global Awareness and co-author of the 10Min Guide - Intercultural Understanding in the Classroom: http://www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/resources/1777
Until recently, she worked for UK Trade & Investment and the British Chamber of Commerce.
Her desire to work in an internationally focused organisation with a strong commitment to progressive social change, Corporate Social Responsibility and greater global understanding, as well as her passion for the education and support for the young leaders of tomorrow, made her approach Embercombe. In 2013, she decided to join Mac in his vision and the Heart of Leadership program.
More info can be found on: uk.linkedin.com/in/sabinarademacher
Danielle Marchant
Danielle has been an operational business leader for nearly twenty years and has worked as a coach, consultant and facilitator since 2006. During this time Danielle has designed and delivered large scale transformational change programmes in GMNC's across multiple sectors, including FMCG, retail, finance, logistics, hospitality and IT. As a board level executive coach Danielle has worked with leaders in twenty different countries. Additionally she has trained, developed and supervised nearly one hundred coaches globally.
Danielle has recently returned to the UK after three years living and working in Asia. During this time she established the Asian arm of two UK businesses. This deep immersion has given Danielle fascinating insight, and she now seamlessly blends the skills and expertise she has developed in the West, with her understanding of life in the East. In Asia Danielle was the Director of a successful international coaching company, which since its beginnings in 2005 has coached nearly ten thousand people in one hundred and fifty five companies worldwide. Simultaneously she established the Asian arm of an award-winning change management consultancy that specialises in helping companies achieve and sustain change through their people.
Danielle creates safe environments for individuals and teams, allowing them build relationships and connect more deeply with one another. Danielle coaches teams beyond the boundaries of their comfort zone, sensitively supporting them to be daring. She facilitates leaders and teams to challenge and stretch themselves whilst connecting to themselves more deeply. She helps teams and leaders gain clarity of purpose and vision, and supports them to follow the steps needed to get there.
Danielle's mission is to support people to do business with heart. She strongly believes that leaders who connect to their heart are more able to lead businesses in a sustainable way, for both their people and the planet. When she is not coaching Danielle spends her free time learning what it takes to live sustainably, as she and her partner bring to life a smallholding in the Cornish countryside.
Jonathan Snell
To read about Jonathan's other mentoring and facilitation work, including the work he does with individuals, please see this page
Jonathan combines highly developed perceptive skills with a profound understanding of human development, and the adventurous spirit of the artist journeyman. Almost all of his work concerns the accompaniment of people who seek to resolve difficulty or deepen understanding, towards realising the capacity to live a powerful and joyful life.
During the weekend when this short paragraph was written Jonathan has worked with a span of people unusual for most in his profession – top industry executives, business entrepreneurs, teenagers, artists, and others less easily defined. He also coaches and mentors many of Embercombe's own people, and travels to Poland regularly to support our Polish sister organisation, Pathways Poland.
Jonathan's professional expertise is developed and informed from many diverse sources including various schools of psychology, psychotherapy, the Alexander Technique, and the wisdom schools of different philosophical traditions. He is an accomplished artist, and ceramicist, has many smallholding skills, and as with all of Embercombe's team, loves the companionship of good friends, stimulating new acquaintances, and true wilderness.
Suzy Edwards
Reading about the destruction of the Amazon as a 15year old propelled Suzy into a career as an environmental professional . She spent 9 years with the Building Research Establishment, the UK's foremost organisation for construction related research and consultancy and a world leader in sustainable construction, where she become an internationally known expert in life cycle assessment of the environmental impact of building products and worked with manufacturers and trade associations, on large government research contracts, with UNEP and in international standards development.
As a freelance consultant, she co-created and delivered a 'Living Well Within One World' seminar series and was a consultant to a range of businesses and charities including the Good Homes Alliance.
She was until recently a board member of Friends of the Earth and is currently a Director of the Sustainable Development Foundation. An encounter with a stranger, an old lady named Hope, set Suzy off on an adventure to bring a much higher awareness of consciousness to her activity and this challenge continues to inspire her. Integrating all of ourselves into what we do has become the theme of her mission. Through her work at Embercombe, she aims to inspire people to take on that challenge for themselves, so that our business lives, or indeed any of our 'public faces', can be as much an expression of our hearts desire as when we are just being 'us'.


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So remember Rex Ryan and his vaunted defense? The one everyone here is crying to get back… the one with Bart Scott and Jim Leonard… the one that Greg Mattison isn't man enough to inherit? Yeah, that one. Well, Rex and his D just got schooled by Miami's Wildcat with Chad Henne at the helm.
And not just once. Not just twice. But three times over in the fourth quarter when it mattered most. Surprising in part because just last year Rex Ryan and the Ravens dominated the Dolphins in Miami twice, and the Wildcat was declared extinct.
Everyone's vulnerable. It's about making adjustments. The Ravens problems, but they have plenty to work with. It's just not guaranteed. It takes time, it takes effort. There is a learning curve. Have patience.
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Secretary of the State Denise Merrill reminds voters that Democrats and Republicans in 21 Connecticut cities and towns, including Middletown, will hold primary elections on Sept. 10.
Eligible voters who wish to register to vote in time for the primaries have until Thursday to register by mail and the final in-person deadline is noon on Sept. 9 at the Middletown Registrar of Voters office. Unaffiliated voters have until that same deadline to enroll in a major party if they want to vote in the primary in their city or town.
Here in Middletown, Wesleyan Professor Stephen Devoto will vie for one of three Democratic Planning and Zoning Commission spots against Town Committee-endorsed candidates incumbent commissioner and former DTC Chair Dan Russo, newcomer Robert Blanchard and Paul Turenne, associate registrar at Wesleyan.
In early August, Devoto obtained the 620 petition signatures necessary to get his name on the November ballot.
Last week, Devoto earned the Realistic Balance party's endorsement for planning and zoning, which means if he does not prevail in the primary, he will be on the ballot in November under the Realistic Balance Party and has applied for the Working Families endorsement.
On Sept. 10, polls will open from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m. Absentee ballots are now available and in order to be counted for the municipal primary, they must be received by the town clerk's offices no later by 8 p.m. on Sept. 10.
The majority of Connecticut's municipalities will hold a general election for municipal candidates on Nov. 5.
To find out where you vote on Sept. 10's primary election, the Middletown Registrar's office has the information.


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If you've ever lingered over a doorway that evokes a "someday" sigh, then you're not alone! Take a virtual stroll past the most enviable entryways of Instagram, sure to inspire the perfect paint color or door bling for your dream home. From Manhattan's Upper East Side to the Mediterranean and everywhere in between, these snapshots take curb appeal to a new level.
Now This Is How to Make an Entrance: 50 Ways to Wow With Your Front Door
We were recently inspired by the amazing custom brass door pulls that DwellStudio installed at its soon-to-open SoHo shop (see top left). The door pulls got us thinking: what are some easy ways to improve your curb appeal and welcome guests with pizzazz? Well, shut the front door, because we've discovered some gorgeous solutions. Prepare to get majorly inspired by these ideas for adding gorgeous pops of design and color to your home's front entrance!
A Quick Update: Painting Interior Doors Black
Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member ourfifthhouse from the Su Casa group:
I'd been dreaming of painting the interior doors in my family/living room for. like. ever. I just kept chickening out, worried that maybe I'd regret my decision to paint them. In the end I'm so glad I decided to follow my instincts — after all it's just paint. If I tire of the black I can always repaint . . . but I don't think I'll be tiring of the black any time soon.
Head on over to Our Fifth House for before and after pictures!
Have you completed any decorating projects lately? Be sure to share photos with the Su Casa group!
Before and After: Updating the Foyer
Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member h2urHome.
Last year I showed off my foyer to CasaSugar. In case you forgot here's what it looked like. I liked how it turned out but I've been obsessed with black doors and trim for awhile. Well, painting all the doors and trim in my house would be a major project — I thought perhaps I'd just paint my front door in the foyer.
This is how it turned out!
I really liked how it turned out, the drapery and rug really seem to pop a bit more! If you'd like to see how I added some winter items to the space, please feel free to stop by House To Your Home!
Have you done any decorating lately? Be sure to post your photos in the Su Casa group!
Do You Have Any Brightly Painted Doors?
CasaSugar Community member chatichika recently posted photos of her fun and colorful home on Su Casa. The photo of her orange bathroom door definitely caught my eye. She explained the color by writing, "Due to a hair color explosion/accident staining our door brown in all the wrong places, we decided to paint the entire thing bright orange."
Paint is definitely a great solution for situations like that, and I'm no stranger to painting my walls bright, poppy colors as well. I have yet to paint one of my doors a color besides white, though. Have you?
Try These Tips For Fixing a Leaky Door
Do you have an exterior door that's less than efficient? Short of replacing it, there are some tricks for fixing, at least temporarily, a leaky door.
Curious about how you can get through the Winter with a slightly lower heating bill? Then check out my tips below.- A draft blocker, placed at the bottom of your door, will help to cut drafts. Whenever you're home, place the draft blocker on the inside bottom of the door.
- Use foam tape, where the door meets the frame, to line the door and make the seal tighter if there are significant leaks.
- If your door has glass windows, you can use heavy-duty plastic to insulate the glass.
- How's the bottom door sweep? Give it a close inspection, and if needed, replace the door sweep.
Do You Have Pocket Doors?
A couple of you weren't keen on the way Kylie Minogue staged her London home, which can be yours for $6.1 million. While some may think the cotton candy pinks and blues are inappropriate for a home on the market, I think all will agree that this home has stunning interior architecture. I am particularly coveting the pocket doors that open up Kylie's dining room to the living room. And I love how she's painted them to match the walls.
My experience is that pocket doors are almost always left open, seeing as they take more care to close than the average door. But they are a great option for open plan living spaces, as well as a smart space-saving feature. Do you have any in your home? (Kylie, if you're reading, you don't need to answer this one.)
Do You Have a Screen Door?
Screen doors are great for letting in cooling Summer breezes while keeping out unwanted pesky insects, but they're not de rigueur in most houses. Do you have one on your casa?
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Cool Idea: Add Character to a Boring Builder Door
Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member Seefree from the Su Casa group:
For whatever reason, the builder of our house made the back door from a bathroom to the pool area very tall, skinny and with no interest. This door has always looked so sad and pitiful to me, so I decided to spruce it up. I wanted it to look like an old weathered door I'd found in Mexico, with layers and layers of paint. But I discovered the door is metal, so distressing it would be a challenge. Here's the homely door on the left before.
Since I couldn't sand, chip, or ding it up, I decided to add texture. Out came the spackle and putty knife. I applied it pretty hap-hazard so it wouldn't look intentional and left chunks in some areas. I prefer pink spackle so I can see where it's going and you know it's dry when it turns completely white.
Continue reading to hear more about this project and see the results!
Cool Idea: An Old Door Becomes a Desk
CasaSugar Community member Lori Schmitt posted this desk that she made for her office in the Su Casa group. She writes:
I made this for my office! Adds so much character! And it's EASY! This is a project I have always wanted to do, find an old door and make a desk of it. This is a door I found at the Antiques and Collectibles show in Charlotte a few months ago. It's an 80-inch interior door. Its a pretty old door and exactly what I wanted. Chipped paint, nicks and scrapes, overall pretty weathered!! But it was a beauty to me!
To hear more about the project and see photos, head to Lori's blog, Around Applegate. Meanwhile, Assisted Living group member MandyWH is still looking for tips on turning a door into a dining table, so please comment there with suggestions you have.


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As a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), FAA is tasked with regulating and overseeing all aspects of our nation's civil aviation. FAA employees work from staff and regional offices, centers and airports across the nation in a variety of occupations to provide the safest, most efficient aviation technology and airspace in the world.
From regulating flight inspection standards and advancing new technology to developing and maintaining air traffic control systems, the FAA serves as the guiding force behind the safe and efficient air transport systems on which people and commerce worldwide rely.
The FAA is where technology, business and safety come together to make an impact that reaches around the globe and affects the lives of many.
The mission of the FAA is to provide our nation with the safest, most efficient aerospace systems in the world. We are dedicated to reaching not only the next level of safety and efficiency, but also extending our environmental responsibility and global leadership on behalf of the American public and our stakeholders. This is a complex task, one that relies on the work of an entire organization led by a group of dedicated senior officials.
Our leadership represents the agency's passion, integrity and innovation. These individuals are committed to advancing these values and ensuring that they spread throughout all levels of the organization.
As FAA Administrator, Michael Huerta is responsible for ensuring the agency and its employees are well-equipped to meet the growing demands and requirements of the aviation industry. Mr. Huerta is actively involved in overseeing the multi-billion dollar NextGen initiative that will bring the FAA into the future and redefine air travel as a whole. He currently manages a $15.9 billion budget and more than 47,000 employees nationwide. An experienced and dedicated transportation professional, he served as the Managing Director responsible for the planning and construction of a variety of Olympic transportation facilities prior to joining FAA in 2010.
As Deputy Administrator, Michael G. Whitaker is responsible for helping to ensure the safe and efficient operations of the largest aerospace system in the world. This includes over 45,000 daily operations as well as enforcing safety standards for all equipment and aerospace professionals within the aviation industry. Whitaker also serves as the Chief NextGen Officer and is responsible for the development and implementation of FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System. Mr. Whitaker is a seasoned aviation executive with extensive business, regulatory, legal, and international experience.
See how high your career can fly at the FAA. Below is a high-level breakdown of the agency committed to upholding the safety and certification for aircraft and pilots and the regulation of U.S. commercial space transportation.
The FAA is organized into four business areas (Lines of Business) that work together to contribute to the agency's goal of safe and efficient air travel for all. While the focus and scope of these mission areas may vary, each plays a unique and critical role in keeping travelers and cargo moving through our nation's skies. Discover the mission area that is right for you and put your skills to use at the FAA.
Since 1967, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Formerly known as the Federal Aviation Agency, it became the largest of several agencies within DOT. This change put in place the current structure at FAA, with the Administrator reporting to the Secretary of Transportation rather than the President. All new programs and budget requests must be approved by DOT, which then includes these requests in the overall budget submitted to the President.
Working at FAA offers a unique opportunity to experience a career where your impact not only reaches throughout the aviation industry, but around the world.
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In every relationship,there comes a time when one of the lovers sees the light as it were and decides to move on. Most people grapple with the agony of choosing the words to use especially if the break up is not as a result of any given misunderstanding but a desire to move on and discover new lands off the familiar shores or when a distant relationship becomes unattenable due to the sheer distance that does not allow physical closeness. In this case, lovers fear that the first person to complain only shows that he or she was never committed to the relationship in the first place. So the relationship becomes frozen! It is said that such a distant relationship is like a train without engine-still on tracks but going nowhere. Lovers feel frustrated because they now can't commit to a new relationship without feeling like they are betraying this stagnating relationship and yet they can't get the physical fulfilment that is needed to regularly renew and cement it time and time again. Poets say that falling in love is like opening the first bottle of champaigne-making love is like drinking it before it goes flat and loses its flavour.
So,what does one do in such frustrating cases? A lot of lovers try a lot of many different things and lines to avoid a messy break up some that really sound hilarius! Lovers change their phonelines to avoid regular pestering by those unwilling to call it quits. Others refuse to answer the phone only to receive a flurry of emails in their inbox. Others decide not to call and answer the calls in a detached way hoping to send signals that they are no longer excited by the relationship anymore. They also avoid using the once sweet sounding pet names like honey,sweetie etc when texting or emailing the other. All these tricks in my own experience are hopeless and they only help to prolong the agony of the eventual break up and draw in the wrath that was supposed to be avoided in the first place.
What is the main plan then? Here in my view is how to go about it.
Lay down a schedule on how to withdraw without causing rancour to your mate. Don't look for flaws to point in the other person but start highlighting yours! Faking Lack of money works well for Men in a lopsided affair commonly referred to as Sugardaddy!
Don't tell your mate such silly things like you have realised that you are gay! Or you are trying to regain secondary virginity by abstaining. This demeans them as morons who don't have a clue about blatant lies when they hear them. Remember that these are people who once meant the world to you and they know you inside out!
For ladies,avoid ambushing your mate with a silly confession that your parents have arranged a forced marriage with someone who went abroad many years ago and now he is coming back to take you with him after secretly financing your college education thro your parents! Its not fair especially to sugar daddies who have taken you to hanging joints that young men could not afford for you!
So much about what we should not do but what about that Break up line?
Here is one I used recently to end a failing long distance relationship with someone half my age who had a crush on me as her tutor.
At my middle age,I knew that there was not much to offer in as far as commitment to a long relationship was concerned being already a taken man by my present marriage. So when this girl moved to a campus in Eldoret 188 miles from my station in Nairobi,I faked an illness,said I had tonsils. Two months and three weeks later. I decided to pay her an unnounced visit as I attended a call of duty in a near by campus. She was furious when I told her that I was on the way at midnight to her place. I calmed her down by letting her know that I had other things to attend to and I only wanted to say hi. She called over the day to ask how I was doing and of course to harass me about my unanounced visit. Then I laid my ace card on the table by texting her to say that I have been diagnosed with throat cancer that I had mistaken for tonsils. Oh my! You should have seen her when she came to my room! She kept a distance not wanting to kiss a cancerous mouth(most people don't know that cancer is NOT infectious!). I explained to her that I was due for an operation in three weeks time and I was pessimistic about my chances of pulling through. And that is why I had decided to come all the way to bid her goodbye just in case I don't make it. To add to It, I said that my wife was also leaving me to test her commitment to a helpless man and she hit the roof saying that she can help me in all other ways but she will have no hand on my divorce before or after. In other words she won't be willing to take my wife's place-not with a sick dying man!
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Getting to Know the Andrews University Faculty: A Library SurveyWolfhard Touchard, Reference/Database Librarian, James White Library, Andrews University, firstname.lastname@example.com and Cynthia Mae Helms, Head, Dept. of Information Services, James White Library, Andrews University, email@example.com AbstractIn the past years, the library services at Andrews University have given sporadic attention to their university faculty, although it has mainly been given to their students. If the library is to be vital to the research and teaching functions of the faculty, then the library must reach out to its faculty. This study has been conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the university faculty prior to the development of a faculty outreach program. The study shows that the faculty uses the library's Web site but only a few familiar sections. The faculty encourages their students to use the library but do not always check the availability of the resources prior to giving their assignments, nor do they often use course reserves. Faculty expresses a general lack of interest in library instruction because it takes time away from their classes and believes research should be taught in other classes. The most encouraging note from this study is the faculty's interest in communicating with the librarians through e-mail, departmental faculty meetings, and inter-campus mail. They would also like to see new services such as real-time reference and discipline-specific Web portals. The challenge for the faculty outreach librarian is to develop new ways of communication with the faculty and to help them see the value of library instruction. IntroductionOne of the challenges that libraries face today is working with the changing population characterized by those who are comfortable with the card catalog and print resources and those who want to do everything electronically. Academic libraries are not an exception to this because they have students as well as faculty members who fall anywhere within this wide spectrum of patrons. Regardless of who our patrons are, we librarians are interested in knowing how we can best meet their needs and make our services known to them. This study aims to understand the needs of the teaching faculty at Andrews University as a basis for developing a faculty outreach program. Background InformationAndrews University is a church-related university in Southwest Michigan with 2,721 students and 261 faculty members (Quick, 2003). It is comprised of the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Technology, School of Business, School of Education, Division of Architecture, and the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary. The last one offers only graduate programs; all others offer both undergraduate and graduate programs (Andrews University, 2003-2004; correction to the bulletin information provided by Davis, D., personal communication, July 11, 2003). The university offers on-campus and distance education courses and is also known for its multicultural population. James White Library (JWL), the university library, has given orientation tours, course-related instruction, as well as workshops for the international students, transfer students, and community. Library instruction was given to faculty in various occasions such as new faculty orientation, where it was an optional session, and also at general faculty meetings where librarians gave short presentations. Some faculty members attended workshops for their own personal growth. For many years, library instruction was a responsibility shared by a handful of librarians who were under the leadership of a reference librarian, whose job description included the coordination of library instruction. While attempts were made to reach the students, the reference personnel were encountering faculty members who were not fully aware of our collections and services. Faculty were sometimes sending students to look for titles that we did not have, assigning students to read books that they did not put on reserve, or giving deadlines that were not realistic because the items needed had to be acquired through interlibrary loan. It had reached the point where it was time to do something special for the faculty. It was this realization that triggered the idea of assigning someone the role of faculty outreach librarian. This role was added to the reference librarian's job during the reorganization of the library personnel in 1995. Before that time, the role of instruction librarian was part of the responsibilities of the head of the Department of Information Services. Two librarians in the Department of Information Services did most library instruction. They were assisted by the department head, reference librarian, head cataloger, and seminary librarian, all of whom did instruction in addition to their current jobs. These librarians coordinated their work through the venue of the Library Instruction Committee. When the reference librarian assumed the role of faculty outreach librarian, his main objective was to contact as many faculty members as possible for sessions of library instruction. He drew a list of faculty names and marked them off when appointments were set up with them individually, in groups, or by department. The university president also attended one of these sessions. The responses to these sessions varied but were mostly positive. One faculty member sent a letter of appreciation for the one-on-one session because it gave him a chance to catch up with changing technology in a private setting. Creating these types of sessions was a formidable task for one faculty outreach librarian to accomplish. While it made the faculty aware and knowledgeable in the use our services and collection, it was a very time consuming job, especially with faculty turnover and the speed by which technology was changing. In 1998, the Department of Information Services hired an instructional librarian, which increased the number of professional librarians in the department to three. The newly hired person could devote more time to develop and improve the classes and workshops targeted to students and community patrons. Even with the hiring of the instruction librarian, the job of faculty outreach continued to reside in the reference librarian's job description in order to give him time to implement his program. While some faculty members' needs appeared to be met, there was no clear indication of what the faculty knew and what their needs were as a whole. During the school year of 1999-2000, the library instructors decided it was time to systematically study the needs of the faculty in order to efficiently develop an instruction program geared to those needs. Review of LiteratureA survey of the literature shows that librarians have long been interested in working with the faculty and determining their needs before the 1990s. Some publications date back to the 1960s and 1970s. Sibley (1960) wrote a thesis on selected faculty use and evaluation of the library and Nelson (1971) wrote a dissertation on communication between reference librarians and the faculty in selected California state colleges. Goeddecke (1975) wrote about college library public relations. Lopez-Munoz (1977) compiled a bibliography of articles published 1968-1975 on public services in academic libraries and one section in particular dealt with relations with faculty and the curriculum. Nelson's (1973) article revealed that the average faculty member was aware of half the services available in the library. There were varied types of publications in the 1980s. Tomczyk (1989) wrote
two chapters in an edited book about faculty-librarian collaboration in selecting
media and serials. One of the target areas for future planning, brought out
by the Northwestern University User Education Task Force (1989), was the need
to expand faculty outreach. Lester (1984) reported on a survey of faculty
perception of students' use of libraries at the University of Virginia.
The Association of Research Libraries (1987) published a book on library-scholar
communications. Ducas and Michaud-Oystryk (2003) conducted a survey at the University of Manitoba to explore librarian-faculty interaction. It concluded that the faculty was not aware of librarians' capabilities. It also showed that the faculty thought that librarians lack sufficient ability and expertise. The study demonstrated the need for ongoing collaboration between faculty and librarians. Weingart and Anderson's study (2000) recommended greater publicity and more training opportunities. Feldman and Sciammarella's survey (2000) pointed out that communication is an important part of faculty librarian relationships. These studies indicate that communication and marketing are the keys to good faculty-librarian relationships. Laying the FoundationWhile the literature has shown increased interest in faculty and library communications in other universities, Andrews University has not done much for its faculty. The library approached the issue of understanding its faculty by starting with informal focus groups. Each focus group was composed of two to four librarians and four to seven faculty members. The focus group meetings were held with a total of 20 faculty members from the School of Education, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, and Theological Seminary. Since the reference/faculty outreach librarian served as the liaison with the College of Technology, he justified eliminating this group because he had various opportunities of interacting and collaborating through attendance at their faculty meetings and individual contacts with several faculty members. Furthermore, the courses they offered were laboratory, shop, or studio-oriented and the their research needs were filled by their own reading room and periodical subscriptions. Considering those reasons, the Library Instruction Committee proceeded with conducting the informal focus groups with the remaining schools in the university. The Library Instruction Committee formulated questions that asked the faculty's use of the library in relation to their personal research as well as to their classes, their expectations of the library, their interest in workshops, and the best ways of communicating with them. This preliminary study was encouraging because faculty expressed appreciation for the librarians' interest in them. The focus groups held in the 1999-2000 school year revealed several things:
This short study came up with the following recommendations:
Hypothesis, Objective, and MethodologyAfter gaining encouragement from the informal focus groups, the faculty outreach librarian and the Library Instruction Committee decided to conduct a more thorough, campus-wide survey during the following 2000-2001 school year. The hypothesis was that the faculty members were not fully aware of the services offered by the library, and there was a need to train and instruct them about the library. Since this was the first time JWL had a faculty outreach librarian, the main purpose of this study was to gather information about the faculty's use of the library, their interests and awareness of library resources, and to design a library instruction program for them. Other suggestions for improving the library's services would also be considered. The faculty outreach librarian formulated the survey, presented it to the Library Instruction Committee, and then submitted it to the Office of Scholarly Research for approval. Address labels were generated by the University's Computing Center and attached to envelopes rather than on the survey form to maintain confidentiality of the subjects, and were mailed to faculty. ProfileOf the 247 survey forms distributed, 106 (47%) were returned. The highest number of responses was received from the College of Arts and Sciences, the college with the largest number of faculty members. A close-to-even number of associate and full professors responded. The next highest number of responses came from assistant professors, followed by a small percentage of instructors. The respondents identified themselves by the length of time they had been teaching. About twice as many faculty members with over 10 years' experience responded as those who had 10 years or less. Results Based on Rank and Teaching ExperienceSome respondents did not indicate their years of service or academic rank. However, faculty members who taught more than 10 years comprised 56% of those who responded and had either the rank of full or associate professor. This group of respondents provided positive responses in terms of using the library Web site and encouraging their students to use the library. There was an equal number of positive and negative responses regarding the use of course reserves, interest in library sessions, and recommending specific library resources for class assignments. A comparison of responses based on rank did not differ greatly for those who have taught more than 10 years. The most outstanding difference was evident in the question that dealt with whether faculty members recommended specific library resources when they gave class assignments. More full professors said they did compared to associate professors who said they did not, considering the ratio within their own ranks. Thirty-five percent of the faculty members who had taught 10 years or less were either associate or assistant professors. Other than using the library Web site and encouraging the use of library resources, this group checked the library resources prior to giving class assignments. An equal number responded negatively and positively about using course reserves and their interest in library sessions. Associate professors leaned towards the positive while the assistant professors leaned more towards the negative regarding interest in library sessions. CommunicationThe survey focused on the faculty members' own needs and those related to their classes. However, the researchers recognized that the mode of communication was an important consideration to make a connection with them. When faculty were asked how they wanted to be informed of the library's new services and resources, 87% gave email as the most preferred method, followed by newsletters, inter-campus mail, departmental faculty meetings, and Web sites (See Figure 1). Personal Use and Awareness of Library ResourcesThis study aimed to elicit information from the faculty on their use of the library's Web site and which specific portions. Ninety percent of the respondents said they used the library's Web site. The remaining 10% gave reasons for not using it such as, "not yet in the habit of using it", or, "seldom need to because I have quite a number of journals to keep up with." Those reasons are personal in nature; however, reasons such as "it took too much time to use," "did not know that it was there," or, "they have not been introduced to me as a new faculty", indicate that the faculty outreach librarian should develop marketing plans and strive to reach those who are not aware of what the library offers. As shown in Figure 2, the library catalog was the top source used on the library's Web site as revealed by 91% of the subjects. Over half of this 91% said they also used the online resources (a list of free and subscription databases and selected Web sites), full text journal titles (a list of all periodicals available in the Library either in print or electronic form), and Web search engines. Less than 50% of this group used the faculty support services information on the Web page. Hardly anyone used the tutorials; there was more interest in events and workshop information than in the tutorials. Faculty Influence on Students' Use of the LibraryDoes the faculty encourage their students to use library resources? It is encouraging to note that 93% said they did. Three percent responded negatively because they assumed that the students were using what they needed or found updated materials on the Web. One respondent said he seldom encourages the students to use library resources but probably should do more of it. Figure 3 shows that 92% of the respondents said they encouraged their students to use periodicals. Seventy-seven percent also encouraged use of books and the Internet; 69% encouraged use of electronic indexes and reference works. The data revealed about 21% of faculty members encouraged use other resources such as software programs, human resources, textbooks, and audiovisuals. The faculty respondents were asked if they considered the students' needs by setting aside materials on reserve for their classes. The results showed that only half of the respondents used course reserves. Those who did not use course reserves gave the following reasons: course reserves were not necessary, the students were encouraged to use their own textbooks, the class being taught is not reading-intensive, the course materials are placed on the web, and some materials are kept in the department. There were those who just felt that they did not have the time to use them but "will eventually get to it." One faculty member's reason for not using reserves was that his students were off-campus. This indicates an insufficient awareness of how electronic reserves benefit on- and off-campus students. Relationship of Class Assignments to Library UseThe type of assignments given by the faculty had a bearing on how and why students use the library. In Figure 4, 70% of the surveyed faculty said they required research papers and 69% gave assigned readings. Other types of assignments were reaction papers (37%), online assignments (26%), and opinion papers (25%). Twenty-one percent gave other types of assignments such as case analysis, homework from texts, book reviews, journaling, current events reports, source-based and personal essays, problem solving, studio exercises, literature analysis, and projects. One of the difficulties encountered at JWL information/reference desk is the situation where students did not easily find resources for their assignments, thus the survey question: "Do you have specific sources in mind when you give library-related assignments?" Only half of the respondents said they checked the availability of library materials before giving assignments. About a quarter said that they never checked the library. This helps with understanding why students become frustrated with finding assigned library materials. Students who are not able to find required readings placed on reserve face the same frustration as those who are unable to find resources for their assignments because their faculty instructors did not check library holdings prior to making them. Faculty Interest in Library InstructionThe survey showed that the subjects were split when asked about their interest in having library sessions for their classes. The most commonly stated reason for not wanting a library session, given by 18% of the respondents, was it was not their responsibility to include a library session in their classes. The faculty felt that teaching the use of the library was the responsibility of a previous class or of the students' themselves. They also expected the students to have had a library session before coming to their classes or should have learned it on their own. One commented, "this is a research class. My class is not to teach research but to do research." A small percentage (7%) felt that a library session was not necessary or that there was no time for it. Some of the faculty said that the students do not see the value of library sessions. One said, "students don't even read the text, how successful would I be in getting them to use [library] resources?" Another respondent said he should be able to do the library instruction himself. Faculty members who said they were teaching off-campus felt they did not need library instruction. Another reason was because of the change to Web-based services. These reasons given by faculty for not wanting library instruction are the very reasons they need instruction. The dawn of technology makes it possible for off-campus students and faculty to use the resources on the library's Web site, but it is important that they learn how to use them correctly and efficiently. Faculty Interest in Other Library ServicesThree specific library services were proposed to the subjects of this study. The most favored form of service was for electronic, real-time reference, chosen by 42% of the respondents. The next favored one was for discipline-specific Web portals at 39%. The service ranked third was faculty workshops at 33%. Summary, Conclusion, and RecommendationsThis study reveals that faculty members are not aware of JWL's services and have varying reasons for not using them. More effort should be exerted in outreach to faculty and meeting their needs on their level. The faculty listed a variety of resources they expect their students to use and they also showed the various instructional methods they use for their classes. This helped the librarians see that some classes are heavily dependent on the library, such as those requiring book reviews and research papers, while others oriented towards laboratory or studio work are not. The three main areas of concern from this study are faculty use of course reserves, interest in library sessions, and checking the library for specific resources before giving class assignments. Particular attention should be given to promoting electronic course reserves as a new feature in the library's Web site. This resource's online capabilities may excite some new faculty but may scare older faculty; thus, the library should try to inform them of what it has to offer and to make them comfortable with changes occurring in the library. The lack of interest in library sessions may also be a point of further study. If it is truly logical for some faculty to think that research skills must be taught in classes other than theirs, it is a challenge for the faculty outreach librarian to find out what those classes are and spend considerable time marketing the various library services to them. The attitude that students are supposed to learn the research skills on their own must also be addressed. This is where tutorials may prove useful. The faculty outreach librarian should develop a program that helps faculty
members see the value of checking library resources before giving class assignments
and putting things on reserve. This matter could be approached from the students'
perspective. When students come to the library and find out that the library
resources for their classes have not been set on reserves or are available,
they can be frustrated and discouraged to use the library. This is where the
library, students, and the faculty should work together.
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Manu Ginobili's Most Memorable NBA Finals Performances
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Though age and the cumulative effect of nagging injuries have conspired to slow down Manu Ginobili of late (he only notches one or two ultra-crafty highlights per game these days), the San Antonio Spurs' shifty veteran star still has enough skill and NBA Finals experience to do some real damage against the Miami Heat.
This will be Ginobili's fourth finals, and with the Spurs' championship window unlikely to stay open much longer, he'll be looking to make a splash in what could easily be his last go-round.
Fortunately, he'll have plenty of past experience on which to draw.
Ginobili has put up a handful of terrific finals efforts in his 11-year career. The Argentine has played in 17 games on the NBA's biggest stage, and although he's never topped 30 points in any finals contest, San Antonio's star sixth man boasts solid averages of 14.9 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game.
With Manu, though, it's never just about the numbers. His attacking style and unpredictable decisions put intense pressure on opponents, which counts for a lot in the already pressure-packed atmosphere of the finals.
Honorable Mention: Game 6 vs. Detroit Pistons, 2005
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It only seems right to to give Ginobili's best performance in a losing effort the honorable mention label. After all, when the Spurs get a good showing from their bench scoring savant, they typically come out ahead.
Ginobili has just one double-double in the finals, and this was it: He posted 21 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and two steals in Game 6 against the Detroit Pistons. Despite his stellar line, the Pistons forced Game 7 by notching a 95-86 win.
As you'll see, though, the Spurs might not have even made it to Game 6 without a couple of big nights from Ginobili. And as you'll also see, Manu used to have a mane of flowing locks—of which the hands of time have since robbed him.
5. Game 4 vs. Cleveland Cavaliers, 2007
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It's amazing that the Spurs' last title came nearly six years ago. But in a serendipitous twist of fate, they'll get a shot to grab another one against the same superstar that they defeated in 2007.
When Ginobili pumped in 27 points, grabbed five boards and dished out three assists in a series-clinching Game 4 against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, he helped his team complete a four-game sweep to secure the team's fourth title in less than a decade.
Considering that the Spurs won the game by a single point, it's a good thing he saved up one of his best postseason performances for such a big moment.
Remember, the Cavs roared back to take a lead in the fourth quarter of that game. But thanks to 13 fourth-quarter points from Ginobili—including a huge three and six straight game-clinching foul shots, the Cavs couldn't avoid the broom.
4. Game 7 vs. Detroit Pisons, 2005
You could make the argument that this game should rank higher on Ginobili's finals resume, but because San Antonio took care of business by a comfortable seven-point margin in Game 7 of the NBA Finals against the Pistons in 2005, I hope you'll agree that it belongs at No. 4.
That's not to say Ginobili's performance wasn't excellent, though.
This one was close at times, but the Pistons never held a lead in the final period. Ginobili's 11 points in the fourth had plenty to do with that. On the whole, he totaled 23 points, five rebounds and four assists on a sparkling 8-of-13 shooting night. He also hit all five of his foul shots and made both of his three-point attempts.
That's some vintage Ginobili efficiency right there.
It's also notable that Ginobili started this game, a trick Gregg Popovich has sporadically pulled out in key stretches of San Antonio's various title runs. If things don't go well for the Spurs with Danny Green in the first unit, don't be surprised to see Popovich go back to the well one more time.
3. Game 2 vs. Cleveland Cavaliers, 2007
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Ginobili needed just 11 shots to get his 23 points in the Spurs' 11-point win over the Cavs in Game 2 of the 2007 NBA Finals. That kind of scoring efficiency requires a couple of things: great free-throw shooting and solid work from beyond the arc.
Manu displayed both of those qualities in hitting all 11 of his free throws and drilling 4-of-6 from long distance.
He also tossed in six rebounds, two assists and three steals for good measure. Call me a sucker for scorers who get the job done without eating up a ton of field-goal attempts, but this game stands out as a particularly excellent one for Ginobili.
Plus, according to Basketball-Reference.com, this performance yielded a higher game score (total measure of his statistical contributions) than every game other than the one that'll rank No. 1 on this list.
Pretty impressive, right?
2. Game 1 vs. Detroit Pistons, 2005
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Speaking of efficiency, how about Ginobili's showing in Game 1 of the 2005 NBA Finals against the Pistons?
Manu piled up 26 points on 10-of-16 shooting, grabbed nine boards and handed out a pair of assists in San Antonio's dominant 15-point win. That game set the tone for what Ginobili would go on to do in this series, his best overall of any of three finals he's been involved in.
The Pistons would bounce back to stretch the series to its limit, but this game helped establish Ginobili as a legitimate star on the league's biggest stage. Notice how there are no games on this list from Manu's first finals foray in 2003? Well, that's because he never topped 12 points in any of those games.
This game marked Ginobili's arrival as a serious finals force.
1. Game 2 vs. Detroit Pistons, 2005
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If Game 1 of the 2005 NBA Finals marked Ginobili's arrival, Game 2 solidified the idea that he was here to stay.
With 27 points, seven assists, three rebounds and three steals, Ginobili had his biggest statistical impact yet. Plus, he accumulated those scoring numbers by hitting 11-of-13 from the foul line and knocking down four of his five attempts from long range.
Thanks to his dominant effort, the Spurs buried the Pistons by a whopping 21 points.
More than any other finals performance of his career, this one firmly established that Ginobili was the secret ingredient to the Spurs' one-two punch built on Tim Duncan and Tony Parker. It showed that San Antonio had the league's most valuable No. 3 option and a bona fide star who could bring it when it mattered most.
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Effect of Profilin on Actin Critical Concentration: A Theoretical Analysis Biophysical Journal, Volume 95, Issue 12, 15 December 2008, Pages 5544-5573 Elena G. Yarmola, Dmitri A. Dranishnikov and Michael R. Bubb Abstract To explain the effect of profilin on actin critical concentration in a manner consistent with thermodynamic constraints and available experimental data, we built a thermodynamically rigorous model of actin steady-state dynamics in the presence of profilin. We analyzed previously published mechanisms theoretically and experimentally and, based on our analysis, suggest a new explanation for the effect of profilin. It is based on a general principle of indirect energy coupling. The fluctuation-based process of exchange diffusion indirectly couples the energy of ATP hydrolysis to actin polymerization. Profilin modulates this coupling, producing two basic effects. The first is based on the acceleration of exchange diffusion by profilin, which indicates, paradoxically, that a faster rate of actin depolymerization promotes net polymerization. The second is an affinity-based mechanism similar to the one suggested in 1993 by Pantaloni and Carlier although based on indirect rather than direct energy coupling. In the model by Pantaloni and Carlier, transformation of chemical energy of ATP hydrolysis into polymerization energy is regulated by direct association of each step in the hydrolysis reaction with a corresponding step in polymerization. Thus, hydrolysis becomes a time-limiting step in actin polymerization. In contrast, indirect coupling allows ATP hydrolysis to lag behind actin polymerization, consistent with experimental results. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1656 kb) |
Calculating the Free Energy of Association of Transmembrane Helices Biophysical Journal, Volume 91, Issue 5, 1 September 2006, Pages 1710-1723 Jinming Zhang and Themis Lazaridis Abstract A large number of experimental studies have been devoted to quantifying the interaction between transmembrane (TM) helices in detergent micelles and, more recently, in bilayers. Theoretical calculation of association free energy of TM helices would be useful for predicting the propensity of given sequences to oligomerize and for understanding the difference between association in micelles and in bilayers. In this article, the theoretical foundation for calculating the standard association free energy of TM helices is laid out and is applied to glycophorin A in both micelles and bilayers. The standard association free energy is decomposed into the effective energy, translational, rotational, and conformational entropy terms. The effective energy of association is obtained by molecular dynamics simulations in an implicit membrane model. The translational and rotational entropy of association is calculated from the probability distribution of the translational and rotational degrees of freedom obtained from the molecular dynamics simulations. The side-chain conformational entropy of association is estimated from the probability distribution obtained by rigid rotation of all side-chain dihedral angles. The calculated standard association free energy of glycophorin A in N-dodecylphosphocholine micelles is in good agreement with the experimental value. The translational entropy cost is larger, whereas the rotational entropy cost is smaller in bilayers than in micelles. The standard association free energy in 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine bilayers is calculated to be ∼1.3 kcal/mol more favorable than in N-dodecylphosphocholine micelles, consistent with available experimental data. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1071 kb) |
Slow Motions in Chicken Villin Headpiece Subdomain Probed by Cross-Correlated NMR Relaxation of Amide NH Bonds in Successive Residues Biophysical Journal, Volume 95, Issue 12, 15 December 2008, Pages 5941-5950 Liliya Vugmeyster and C. James McKnight Abstract The villin headpiece subdomain (HP36) is a widely used system for protein-folding studies. Nuclear magnetic resonance cross-correlated relaxation rates arising from correlated fluctuations of two N-HN dipole-dipole interactions involving successive residues were measured at two temperatures at which HP36 is at least 99% folded. The experiment revealed the presence of motions slower than overall tumbling of the molecule. Based on the theoretical analysis of the spectral densities we show that the structural and dynamic contributions to the experimental cross-correlated relaxation rate can be separated under certain conditions. As a result, dynamic cross-correlated order parameters describing slow microsecond-to-millisecond motions of N-H bonds in neighboring residues can be introduced for any extent of correlations in the fluctuations of the two bond vectors. These dynamic cross-correlated order parameters have been extracted for HP36. The comparison of their values at two different temperatures indicates that when the temperature is raised, slow motions increase in amplitude. The increased amplitude of these fluctuations may reflect the presence of processes directly preceding the unfolding of the protein. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (211 kb) |
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Biophysical Journal, Volume 91, Issue 5, 1688-1697, 1 September 2006
Yanling Lu*, Emma Longman*, Kenneth G. Davis*, Álvaro Ortega†, J. Günter Grossmann‡, Terje E. Michaelsen§, José García de la Torre† and Stephen E. Harding*, ,
* National Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics, University of Nottingham, School of Biosciences, Sutton Bonington, England
† Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
‡ CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Synchrotron Radiation Department, Warrington, Cheshire, England
§ Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, and Institute of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
Crystallohydrodynamics describes the domain orientation in solution of antibodies and other multidomain protein assemblies where the crystal structures may be known for the domains but not the intact structure. The approach removes the necessity for an ad hoc assumed value for protein hydration. Previous studies have involved only the sedimentation coefficient leading to considerable degeneracy or multiplicity of possible models for the conformation of a given protein assembly, all agreeing with the experimental data. This degeneracy can be considerably reduced by using additional solution parameters. Conformation charts are generated for the three universal (i.e., size-independent) shape parameters P (obtained from the sedimentation coefficient or translational diffusion coefficient), ν (from the intrinsic viscosity), and G (from the radius of gyration), and calculated for a wide range of plausible orientations of the domains (represented as bead-shell ellipsoidal models derived from their crystal structures) and after allowance for any linker or hinge regions. Matches are then sought with the set of functions P, ν, and G calculated from experimental data (allowing for experimental error). The number of solutions can be further reduced by the employment of the Dmax parameter (maximum particle dimension) from x-ray scattering data. Using this approach we are able to reduce the degeneracy of possible solution models for IgG3 to a possible representative structure in which the Fab domains are directed away from the plane of the Fc domain, a structure in accord with the recognition that IgG3 is the most efficient complement activator among human IgG subclasses.


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