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What is success at work and why is it important? How do top workers describe their success? How can work, community, leadership, family, or home and school promote success? Success at work is often associated with career-oriented individuals who sacrifice other areas of life to achieve highly in the workplace, but success can also be defined in other ways. It can consist of feelings of knowledge, competence and accomplishment, stemming from an inner drive to work well and create an expression of mastery. This book focuses on employees who have been rewarded for their skills and expertise. Based on the authors’ in-depth research into the phenomenon of success at work, this book provides a positive human-strength based approach to success and offers a fresh viewpoint to the modern, demanding and hectic work life. Drawing from the theory of positive psychology and outlining new theoretical ideas including work motivation, career orientation, work characteristics, and positive states of work, success is described as a combination of multiple elements which include other areas of life. The book is illustrated throughout with case studies from employees, and it will ignite thoughts about what success at work is and can be, and how to recognize factors which enhance or hinder success in varying contexts. Considering a variety of data, this book will appeal to researchers and academics from the fields of work and organisational psychology, positive psychology, career counselling and coaching.

E-Portfolios sind die neuen Werkzeuge zur Dokumentation und Reflexion von Kompetenzen in der beruflichen Bildung. Sie werden von der Berufsvorbereitung bis zu Weiterbildungsberatung eingesetzt. Der Band stellt maßgebliche Konzepte und Umsetzungen von E-Portfolios in unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Bildungspraxis vor. Dazu gehören u.a. der eProfilPASS, das mobile Ausbildungsportfolio, das Online-Berichtsheft BLok und der Berufswahlpass. Weitere Beiträge analysieren den Stellenwert und die berufspädagogischen Potenziale von E-Portfolios. Abschließend werden technologische, konzeptionelle und bildungspolitische Herausforderungen beim Einsatz von E-Portfolios benannt und Denkanstöße für die Weiterentwicklung gegeben.

Having elicited much attention in the humanities in recent years, transcultural phenomena will, in all probability, remain a topic of debate in the near future. Being the product of a collaborative act of writing involving nine authors with different specializations, this study is an introduction to the study of phenomena of transcultural entanglement as well as an effort at systematically exploring this field of research from different medievalist perspectives.

Este trabalho é fruto de preocupações iniciadas no desempenho de atividades de psicóloga e no decorrer de uma pesquisa que realizei anteriormente sobre a vida das crianças no internato. Neste estudo se analisa o cotidiano da vida das crianças em sete diferentes internatos abrangendo a faixa etária de recém-nascido a dezoito anos.

Ce fascicule, édité la première fois en 2003, est le livret d’accompagnement du cédérom « Un siècle de recensements », lui-même issu d’une coopération de dix ans entre la Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) en République arabe d’égypte et le Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), une Unité mixte française de recherche à l’étranger (UMIFRE), implantée au Caire. Le projet de recherche, initié en 1993, visait la création d’une base de données démographiques et socio-économiques de l’Égypte en procédant au géocodage et au géo-référencement des données statistiques. L’entreprise démarra grâce aux ressources de la bibliothèque du CEDEJ, abritant les livres rares des recensements de la fin du xixe siècle (1882, 1897) et du début du xxe siècle, et grâce au partenariat entre le CEDEJ et le CAPMAS, scellé en 1997. Environ 8,5 millions de données statistiques ont été saisies, 5600 entités géo-administratives localisées et minutieusement cartographiées (villes, villages, quartiers de villes) avec leur hiérarchie administrative et ce, sur douze recensements de la population égyptienne, effectués entre 1882 et 1996.

Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change critically appraises current animal use in science and discusses ways in which we can contribute to a paradigm change towards human-biology based approaches. Readership: This volume is intended not only for fellow scholars and scientists, but for the interested public, campaigners, students, academics, researchers, regulators and industry.

There has been an ongoing debate about the capabilities and limits of the bio-natural sciences as sources and the methodological measure in the philosophy of psychiatry for quite some time now. Still, many problems remain unsolved, at least partly for the following reasons: The opposing parties do not tend to speak with each other, exchange their arguments and try to increase mutual understanding. Rather, one gets the impression that they often remain in their “trenches”, busy with confirming each others' opinions and developing their positions in isolation. This leads to several shortcomings: (1) Good arguments and insights from both sides of the debate get less attention they deserve. (2) The further improvement of each position becomes harder without criticism, genuinely motivated by the opposing standpoint. (3) The debate is not going to stop, at least not in the way it would finish after a suggested solution finds broad support; (4) Related to this, insisting on the ultimate aptnessof one side is just plainly wrong in almost every case. Since undeniably, most philosophical positions usually have a grain of truth hidden in them. In sum, many controversies persist with regard to the appropriate methodological, epistemological, and even ontological level for psychiatric explanation and therapies. In a conference which took place in December last year, we tried to contribute to a better understanding about what really is at issue in the philosophy of psychiatry. We asked for a common basis for several sides, for points of divergence and for the practical impact of different solutions on everyday work in psychiatry. Since psychiatry as a whole is a subject that is to wide to be covered in a single meeting, we focused on the following four core topics: 1. Competing accounts of psychiatric biologism, reductionism, and physicalism. 2. Mental disease and brain disease in the light of current neuroscientific and epigenetic findings. 3. Normative suppositions for different accounts of mental disease. 4. Normative implications of different accounts of mental disease. These topics, which have been vigorously as well as fruitfully discussed at our conference, will (ideally) be, too, in the center of our contribution to Frontiers. More precisely, we think of arranging a “research topic” which assembles the issues of the conference. At this point, it seems promising to us to group three or four Target Articles (TA) and let them get criticized by a couple of commentaries from different angles to give the issue a much broader and detailed perspective.

For librarians working in research, reference, and instruction, information literacy (IL) is foundational to their work. Since the advent of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, IL has been substantially reimagined both theoretically and in professional practice. While much attention and scholarship has focused on broad-based, undergraduate education, there has been less work on information literacy for specific disciplines, such as theological and religious studies, or in library settings with unique curricular and professional needs. Information Literacy and Theological Librarianship: Theory & Praxis gathers together reflective practices and theoretical explorations from librarians across a range of theological libraries, including research universities with divinity schools, seminaries, religious universities, and small liberal arts colleges. This volume engages key concepts and concerns in information literacy pedagogy for theological libraries, and furnishes applied examples drawn from instructional experience. Placing the Framework in conversation with the study of religion and theological education, Information Literacy and Theological Librarianship provides theological and religious studies librarians working in different academic environments with concrete and practical ways to extend their own work on information literacy that is grounded in pedagogy and applicable to the unique features of theological librarianship.

Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory and practice of Tsubouchi’s Shakespeare translation and argues for Tsubouchi’s place as ""the Japanese Shakespeare."" Shakespeare translation is one of the achievements of modern Japanese culture, and no one is more associated with that achievement than the writer and scholar Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859–1935). This book looks at how Tsubouchi received Shakespeare in the context of his native literature and his strategies for bridging the gaps between Shakespeare’s rhetoric and his developing language. Offering a significant contribution to the field of global Shakespeare and literary translation, Gallimore explores dominant stylistic features of the early twentieth-century Shakespeare translations of Tsubouchi and analyses the translations within larger linguistic, historical, and cultural traditions in local Japanese, universal Chinese, and spiritual Western elements. This book will appeal to any student, researcher, or scholar of literary translation, particularly those interested in the complexities of Shakespeare in translation and Japanese language, culture, and society.

The cardiovascular system involves many regulatory mechanisms that maintain the stability of blood pressure by interacting strongly with other vital systems (including the respiratory, endocrine, and autonomous nervous systems). Non-invasive measurements of cardiovascular signals have enhanced the study of the cardiovascular system, providing deeper insights into its physiological modulation, the pathophysiology of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases, and new methods to improve their diagnosis and prognosis. Heart rate variability (HRV) and other time series derived from the cardiovascular system can be considered as outputs of this system, whose changes in response to a given stimulus can provide information about regulatory mechanisms. This Special Issue presents interesting advances in the analysis of HRV in both healthy individuals and patients with various pathologies. It collates studies on the assessment of the nonlinear properties of HRV signals, as well as the nonlinear interactions between heart rate and respiration, revealing an interesting interplay between the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

Safe is the first and only periodical publication in the Netherlands on public safety heritage. This yearbook focuses on the extensive and leading collection of Korpora, Public Safety Heritage, in operation since 1 August 2022. The collection is currently formed by the national collections of the Dutch police and fire brigade, the Dutch Red Cross, the former Protection of Population and heritage in the fields of crisis management, disaster relief, ambulance services and first aid. Korpora holds hundreds of thousands of objects from the 16th century onwards. Safe offers an insight into this fascinating collection. Each issue contains easy-to-read, scholarly articles on the various subfields. It also focuses on important and special acquisitions.

Que sait-on aujourd’hui du Nouveau Cinéma latino-américain, concept apparu à la fin des années 1960 ? Ce livre retrace les origines et les développements de ce projet cinématographique à l’échelle de l’Amérique latine. À partir de l’Institut cubain de l’art et de l’industrie cinématographiques, l’école documentaire de Santa Fe, Chile Films, de Glauber Rocha et du groupe Cine Liberación, l’auteur analyse les conceptions, les médiations et les échanges portés par le Nouveau Cinéma latino-américain.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Consacrer un séminaire — et désormais un ouvrage — au thème « Gouvernement des juges et démocratie » est d’autant plus ambitieux qu’aujourd’hui l’expression est utilisée dans le langage commun, celui des journalistes, mais aussi celui des hommes politiques qui, de manière périodique, en France, accusent les juges constitutionnel, judiciaire et administratif de se comporter comme des juges qui gouvernent. Le premier défi consiste donc à analyser cette notion d’un point de vue scientifique et à déterminer le sens qu’elle peut revêtir tant pour les juristes que pour les politistes ; le deuxième défi consiste à établir le lien avec la démocratie et plus particulièrement à déterminer s’il est positif ou négatif. La question se pose de manière d’autant plus aiguë qu’elle concerne le rôle que jouent, au premier chef, les juges constitutionnels en tant que censeurs de l’action du législateur, démocratiquement élu, mais aussi les juridictions supranationales dont les décisions s’imposent dans les ordres juridiques nationaux. Par la richesse des contributions qu’il réunit, la qualité de leurs auteurs et la multiplicité des points de vue, ce livre s’adresse à tous ceux qui s’interrogent sur la place qu’occupent les juges dans les démocraties.

[This issue of Proceedings gathers papers presented at XOVETIC2018 (A Coruña, Spain, 27–28 September 2018), a conference with the main goal of bringing together young researchers working in big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, HPC (high-performance computing), cybersecurity, bioinformatics, natural language processing, 5G, and others areas from the field of ICT(Information Communications Technology), and offering a platform to present the results of their research to a national audience in the north of Spain. This first edition aims to serve as the basis of this event, which will be consolidated over time and acquire international projection. The conference is co-funded by Xunta de Galicia and European Union. European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).]