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This chapter discusses the ideas that feature throughout Bell Hooks' work and highlights their importance to organizational research. It deals with a reflection on how bell hooks' philosophy of visionary feminism may valuably shape the future of critical organizational theorising. Hooks began her education at the segregated public schools in Kentucky where she encountered passionate African American teachers committed to giving her and the other all-Black pupils a "good education". One of the central themes of hooks' work is her use of the term "imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" to describe the four interlocking systems of power that characterise Euroamerican "dominator culture". The economic system of capitalism is, for hooks, a thoroughly exploitative and dehumanising world order. Beyond the confines of management and organizational discourses, concepts such as hooks' imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy offer more powerful frameworks for understanding identity politics in conte

A continuous structural change during the (de)lithiation of lithium-ion battery material, anatase TiO 2 , which undergoes a crystal symmetry change, was not found even at high rates. ; This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. This work was supported by funding from European Union FP7- 265368 via the Eurolion Project and the Cambridge Overseas Trust (materials preparation, XRD), and as part of the NorthEast Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Awards DE-SC0012583 (data analysis). We thank Dr Tao Liu for help with the SEM, Dr Simon Clarke and Dr Michael Carpenter for their helpful comments and discussions, and Dr Kamila Wiaderek, Dr Olaf Borkiewicz, Dr Karena Chapman and Dr Peter Chupas for their help with the setup for XRD measurement. ; This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from the Royal Society of Chemistry via http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6TA00673F

Overexploitation to meet commercial demands has threatened the existence of many species. In theory, one can adopt a portfolio of policies and measures from both the supply (i.e., encourage cultivation while punishing poaching) and demand (i.e., education of consumers) sides to achieve sustainable use. Here we examine the effects of governmental policies and measures towards the utilization of Aquilaria sinensis, a threatened species with high cultural and economic values. We found that, despite national protected status and a suite of government initiatives and granted projects to implement cultivation of the species, poaching persisted and even intensified. From the consumer side, current cultural education related to the species was not coupled with equally strong conservation education, which might have inadvertently reinforced the notion that wild-sourced materials are better, and facilitated a luxury goods-like market for wild products. It appeared that the current government portfolio of initiatives was highly skewed towards utilization, and therefore not effective for promoting the long term ecological persistence of the species. This finding is likely not unique to A. sinensis, nor limited to China. A more balanced portfolio of government initiatives to include stronger and more direct conservation measures towards highly exploited species is needed to achieve sustainable use of this species and related species.

This paper presents an extension to the agent-based model "Creative Industries Development–Urban Spatial Structure Transformation" by incorporating GIS data. Three agent classes, creative firms, creative workers and urban government, are considered in the model, and the spatial environment represents a set of GIS data layers (i.e. road network, key housing areas, land use). With the goal to facilitate urban policy makers to draw up policies locally and optimise the land use assignment in order to support the development of creative industries, the improved model exhibited its capacity to assist the policy makers conducting experiments and simulating different policy scenarios to see the corresponding dynamics of the spatial distributions of creative firms and creative workers across time within a city/district. The spatiotemporal graphs and maps record the simulation results and can be used as a reference by the policy makers to adjust land use plans adaptively at different stages of the creative industries' development process.