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This paper discusses responses provided by 31 Pro Vice-Chancellors (PVCs) and Deputy Vice-Chancellors (DVCs) who were part of a larger study of more than 500 higher education leaders in roles ranging from DVC to head of programme in 20 Australian universities. Using both quantitative and qualitative data the paper gives an insider's perspective on what the roles of DVC and PVC are like at the daily level. It identifies the key focus of the roles, highlights the criteria these leaders use to judge that they are effectively performing them and outlines the relative impact of different influences on their work. It then discusses their views on what being in such a role is like, including its key satisfactions and challenges; and identifies the capabilities seen to be central to managing in such a context. Finally, it provides insights into how such leaders have gone about learning their role. The paper indicates how these findings can be used to address the current succession crisis for leaders in such critical roles. It shows how the data generated can be used to build leadership from within by identifying leaders with potential early on in their career, how the findings can be used to give selection processes more focus and how leadership development programmes can best be shaped to be effective. Having a high level of emotional intelligence is identified as a key ingredient in the successful delivery of such roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several multimedia releases, including the compact discs "Goddess: Divine Energy, Music From India," "In Praise of the Goddess: Devotional Songs From North India and the DVD set "Ceremony: The Djungguwan of Northeast Arnhem Land."

However, the UN still made gains with a Gender Action Plan which "seeks to advance women's full, equal and meaningful participation and promote gender-responsive climate policy and the mainstreaming of a gender perspective" (https://unfccc.int/topics/gender/workstreams/the-gender-action-plan). Chapter three argues for a better gender constituency in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, essential because of the leading role it plays in the global climate mitigation and adaptation regime. While various chapters can easily stand alone as useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book has wider appeal to those involved in climate change activism and gender and climate change policy. [Extracted from the article]

Small business regulation by state and increased analytical attention has three folds. Regulations are imposed by commissions and by city and country governments and their subordinates. Significant work has been accomplished which offers some limited insights into non-federal business regulation. Although past work provides to comprehensive picture of state and local regulations, it supports the general view that the costs that regulations impose bear no necessary relation to any social gains. Regulations are often fixed costs of operations.

Presents the short story which is entitled `The Enchanted Second Lieutenant,' by Jacques-Stephen Alexis.

Asymmetric hydrogenation of olefins is one of the most useful reactions for the synthesis of optically active compounds, especially in industry. However, the application range of the catalysts developed so far is limited to alkenes with a coordinating functional group or an aryl substituent next to the double bond. We have found a class of chiral iridium catalysts that give high enantioselectivity in the hydrogenation of Unfunctionalized, trialkyl-substituted olefins. Because these catalysts do not require the presence of any particular functional group or aryl substituent in the substrate, they considerably broaden the scope of asymmetric hydrogenation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]