Buller's (2013) book Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Making a Difference caters for both aspiring and experienced leaders in higher education. It gives new insights and practical strategies to help them interpret their roles differently and foster a more constructive and positive leadership style. This is based on Buller's personal leadership experience, recent scholarly research and a wide range of resources. Throughout his book, Buller provides readers with a set of scenarios, case studies, exercises and thought experiments to help put theory into practice, as well as prompt administrators to identify their core values and reflect on their own practices. Overview In his book, Buller highlights the fact that leadership in higher education requires different strategies than that in corporations or schools. This is because shared governance and collegiality play a much more important role in higher education, where hierarchy is more fluid due to the frequency with which administrators rise from and return to faculty positions. According to Buller, positive academic leadership is not only about thinking positively and having a good attitude. It is about focusing on the strengths and successes of the department and on the capabilities of its individuals to develop what is already working well, rather than focusing strictly on weaknesses and solving problems. Despite the significant challenges in higher education, positive academic leaders base their practices on hope, joy, resilience, commitment to service and appreciative inquiry. All of which lead to positive change to bring about greater benefits in the long run. This requires creating a

The Lawrence-Krammer representation of the braid group B n was proved to be faithful for n ≥ 3 by Bigelow and Krammer. In our paper, we give a new proof in the case n 3 by using matrix computations. First, we prove that the representation of the braid group B 3 is unitary relative to a positive definite Hermitian form. Then we show the faithfulness of the representation by specializing the indeterminates q and t to complex numbers on the unit circle rather than specializing them to real numbers as what was done by Krammer.

AntiSophication is the process through which AntiAlgebraic structures can be generated from any given classical algebraic structures. The concept of AntiHyperStructures has been studied in previous work. The aim of this chapter is to study AntiSemihypergroups, AntiQuasihypergroups, AntiSubSemihypergroups, AntiHypergroups, and their properties. Some new definitions and theorems will be presented and supported by illustrative examples. In addition, the authors prove the existence of an infinite number of AntiSemihypergroups and AntiHypergroups.

<abstract><p>The aim of this paper is to combine the innovative concept of single valued neutrosophic sets and ordered semirings. It studies ordered semirings by the properties of their single valued neutrosphic subsets. In this regard, we define single valued neutrosophic $ (m, n) $-ideals (SVN-$ (m, n) $-ideals) of ordered semirings. First, we illustrate our new definition by non-trivial examples. Second, we study these SVN-$ (m, n) $-ideals under different operations of SVNS. Finally, we find a relationship between the $ (m, n) $-ideals of ordered semirings and level sets by finding a necessary and sufficient condition for an SVNS of an ordered semiring $ R $ to be an SVN-$ (m, n) $-ideal of $ R $.</p></abstract>

A NeutroStructure is a structure that has at least one NeutroRelation or one NeutroAttribute, and neither AntiRelation nor AntiAttribute. In this chapter, the authors review and study the NeutroAlgebra structure and introduce several operations and properties of algebraic equations for image retrieval, such as NeutroContent-based image retrieval. It is a generalization of classical and fuzzy algebraic structures for image retrieval. An explanation of the new particular processes is provided by several results.