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Qualitätsmanagement wird häufig mit Bürokratismus, Kontrolle und Normierung gleichgesetzt. Aber QM kann mehr. Dieses praxis- und umsetzungsorientierte Buch wendet sich an alle Ärzte, Psychotherapeuten und Leitungskräfte in Gesundheitsorganisationen, die das Management ihrer Organisation verbessern wollen und die wissen, dass sie die formale Bearbeitung von Checklisten, Musterdokumenten und Flussdiagrammen allein nicht weiterbringt. Die Autorinnen sind durch die eigene Praxis und durch die Beratung ambulanter Strukturen mit dem Thema vertraut. Sie stellen allen, die Qualitätsmanagement nutzbringend einsetzen wollen, gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen, Grundlagen, Werkzeuge und praktische Implementierungsstrategien so vor, dass Qualitätsmanagement keinen „Dokumentationsfriedhof“ produziert, sondern eine lebendige, entwicklungsorientierte Praxisorganisation. Das Praxisbuch begleitet den Leser von der gesetzlichen Richtlinie zur lösungsorientierten Gesundheitsorganisation und zeigt auf, dass Qualitätsmanagement der kleinen Praxis ebenso nutzt wie der großen medizinischen Organisation. Das Buch bietet: - Klarheit über die formal-rechtlichen Vorgaben - strukturierte QM-Einführungsstrategien in unterschiedliche Organisationsformen - anwendungsorientierte Beschreibungen von QM-Werkzeugen und QM- Maßnahmen für die Praxis - Erklärungen und Beispiele zur Verbesserung von Kommunikation, Vertrauen und Verbindlichkeit in der Praxis - Praxisbeispiele komplexer QM-Projekte in Praxen, Ärztenetzwerken und anderen ambulanten Organisationen

Au moment où les pays occidentaux redécouvrent les avantages de la production flexible et des communautés territoriales d'entreprises, ce livre s'interroge sur le rôle de la ville dans le fonctionnement des systèmes productifs locaux. Il étudie la place de la ville et des municipalités dans l'organisation du district industriel et l'effet, en retour, de la présence du district sur le développement de la ville. Il met en lumière le rôle des valeurs et des institutions urbaines comme éléments c...

Carlo Battisti (Trento 1882-Empoli 1977) was one of the major linguists in Italy and took part to the history of cinema starring in Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D.. His long and intense activity has been largely divided between linguistics and library science since the very beginning of his studies at the University of Vienna. In Florence, Battisti held lectures of Comparative History of the Romance Languages and of Library science and Bibliography at the School for Librarians and Palaeographer-Archivists, of which he was also director. The eight studies published here offer biographical and intellectual insights on him, and bring a series of unpublished documents to light. The volume is completed by an iconographic appendix.

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Distant Companions tells the fascinating story of the lives and times of domestic servants and their employers in Zambia from the beginning of white settlement during the colonial period until after independence. Emphasizing the interactive nature of relationships of domination, the book is useful for readers who seek to understand the dynamics of domestic service in a variety of settings. In order to examine the servant- employer relationship within the context of larger political and economic processes, Karen Tranberg Hansen employs an unusual combination of methods, including analysis of historical documents, travelogues, memoirs, literature, and life histories, as well as anthropological fieldwork, survey research, and participant observation.

Genetic criticism investigates creative processes by analysing manuscripts and other archival sources. It sheds light on authors’ working practices and the ways works are developed on the writer’s desk or in the artist’s studio. This book provides a cross-section of current international trends in genetic criticism, half a century after the birth of the discipline in Paris. The last two decades have witnessed an expansion of the field of study with new kinds of research objects and new forms of archival material, along with various kinds of interdisciplinary intersections and new theoretical perspectives. The essays in this volume represent various European literary and scholarly traditions discussing creative processes from Polish poetry to French children’s literature, as well as topical issues such as born-digital literature and the application of forensic methodology to manuscript studies. The book is intended for scholars and students of literary criticism and textual scholarship, together with anyone interested in the working practices of writers, illustrators, and editors.

Today Artificial Intelligence (AI) is deeply embedded in everyday life, both at the personal and professional level. More than ever, there is a fundamental need to go beyond the hype and offer a nuanced reflection on AI's possibilities and limitations-and on how these technologies affect us in the social, cultural, and political contexts we live in. The most urgent challenges concern questions of human agency, creativity, and responsibility, spanning domains from science to society, politics, and the arts. Addressing these challenges requires a novel, humanitiesbased perspective that complements a technological understanding with foundational inquiries into what it means to be human and how we generate meaning. This timely collection provides an interdisciplinary introduction to these questions, bringing together history, philosophy, ethics, linguistics, science and technology studies, media studies, as well as music and literature. The authors demonstrate that the humanities are not only challenged by AI but provide indispensable tools for understanding and reflecting our stance on it. Readers will thus gain both a broad methodological grounding but also nuanced insight into concrete cases, leaving them better informed and aware that their own perspective on AI is not only valid, but indispensable. The hype surrounding AI thrives on the assumption that its trajectory is already written. This book is an invitation to question that assumption-and to imagine otherwise. "This is a timely and welcome contribution. It does not promise answers-which is appropriate, as many answers do not yet exist-but instead offers a grounded and open way into the study of AI technology from a humanities perspective. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anybody somehow interested in or affected by this societal development; which is to say everybody." Inga Strümke, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, NTNU

Mit seinen Arbeiten auf so unterschiedlichen Gebieten wie Mathematik, Physik, Philosophie, Theologie, Biologie, Geologie, Ästhetik und Philologie suchte Florenskij sich der Wahrheit zu nähern, die er als antinomisch bestimmte, als "Intuition - Diskursion", als "aktuelle Unendlichkeit".

Menschen bedürfen des Zeugnisses der Anderen, um sich zu vergewissern, was und wer sie sind oder was und wozu sie denken, reden und handeln - soweit eine gemeinhin unstrittige These. Doch gilt dies auch für die Zeug*innenschaft an Orten und in Momenten, in denen Menschen Opfer von extremem Unrecht, massiver Gewalt, Hass oder Diskriminierung werden? Lässt sich das Unsagbare eigentlich bezeugen? Matthias Käser plädiert mithilfe interdisziplinärer Zeug*innenschaftsdiskurse gegen das Unbeschreibliche und für das Ethos des Erzählens. Er zeigt auf, dass Erfahrungen um der Betroffenen willen versuchsweise bezeugt werden müssen - so gebrochen oder lückenhaft sie auch sein mögen.

The present volume seeks to contribute some studies to the subfield of Empirical Translation Studies and thus aid in extending its reach within the field of translation studies and thus in making our discipline more rigorous and fostering a reproducible research culture. The Translation in Transition conference series, across its editions in Copenhagen (2013), Germersheim (2015) and Ghent (2017), has been a major meeting point for scholars working with these aims in mind, and the conference in Barcelona (2019) has continued this tradition of expanding the sub-field of empirical translation studies to other paradigms within translation studies. This book is a collection of selected papers presented at that fourth Translation in Transition conference, held at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona on 19–20 September 2019.

O livro é um enfrentamento e uma reflexão crítica sobre diferentes marcadores sociais estruturantes da nossa vida social (racismo, gênero, classe social, educação e saúde, esporte e lazer, entre outros). A obra se constitui de duas partes: na primeira, quatro personalidades que transcendem suas especificidades disciplinares, com reconhecimento nacional e internacional, discorrem sobre os temas e questões sociais fundamentais e uma segunda em que pesquisadores das ciências do esporte trazem o conhecimento avançado de seus grupos de trabalho na tentativa de estimular o pensamento crítico e o engajamento ao pensamento democrático.

How to Augment Language Skills outlines ways in which translators and language providers can expand their skillset and how translation technologies can be integrated into language learning and translator training. This book explains the basics of generative AI, machine translation, and translation memory suites, placing them in a historical context and assessing their fundamental impacts on language skills. It covers what to teach in a specific context, how to teach it, how to assess the result, and how to set up lively class discussions on the many problematic aspects. The exploratory empirical approach is designed to reach across several divides: between language education and translation studies, between technology designers and users, between Western and Asian research, and between abstract ideas and hands-on practice. Features include: Fifty-seven technology-related activities for the language and/or translation class. Recent research on the capacities of generative AI.Examples of how to conduct a needs analysis in the Higher Education context. Comparisons of the main teaching methods. Ways to assess the use of technologies. Examples in Chinese, Spanish, Catalan, French, and German. A full glossary explaining the key terms in clear language. Drawing on years of classroom experience, Pym and Hao illustrate how these skills can be taught in a range of classroom and online activities, making this essential reading for teachers and researchers involved in the teaching of languages and the training of translators.

Mit der Föderalismusreform 2006 sind den Ländern Gesetzgebungskompetenzen zur Regelung des Beamtenbereichs zugewachsen. Dies hat nicht nur zu deutlich unterschiedlichen Besoldungshöhen in den Ländern geführt, sondern auch zu einem fragmentierten und unterschiedlich attraktiven Dienstrecht. Wechselwünsche treffen in den verschiedenen Bereichen des öffentlichen Dienstes auf unterschiedliche Schwierigkeiten, die zum Teil auf das fragmentierte Dienstrecht und zum Teil auf informelle Absprachen zwischen den Ländern zurückzuführen sind. Durch eine Online-Umfrage bei Personalverantwortlichen der öffentlichen Verwaltung und durch 32 Fallstudien von angestrebten Bundeslandwechseln betroffener Beamter werden Motivationen und Mobilitätshindernisse systematisch erhoben und analysiert. Dabei wurden sowohl hinderliche, als auch förderliche Faktoren für die Mobilität von Beamten identifiziert. Die Autoren entwickeln zudem eine Reihe von Reformvorschlägen zum Abbau von Mobilitätshindernissen. With the federalism reform of 2006, the German federal states gained legislative power over their civil servants. This did not only lead to a substantial difference in pay levels but also to fragmented civil service regulations with different degrees of attractiveness. Requests to move to another state have created various problems in the different areas of the civil service. They are partly caused by the fragmented regulations and partly by an informal agreement between the states. By making use of an online survey among human resource managers in the different areas of public administration and 32 case studies of civil servants who either aspire to move to or have moved to another state, this book systematically identifies and analyses civil servants’ motivations for and hindrances to doing so. In this way, it reveals both obstructive and conducive factors which explain mobility. Moreover, the authors put forward some reform proposals.

L’année 2022 fut celle des commémorations du 500e anniversaire de Jacques Cujas avec le colloque tenu au Collège de France et l’exposition présentée à la Bibliothèque Cujas à Paris. À l’occasion de la journée Jacques Cujas du 8 décembre 2022 en l’Université Toulouse Capitole organisée par le Centre Toulousain d’Histoire du Droit et des Idées Politiques, la Faculté de droit et de science politique ainsi que l’Académie de Législation, la pensée, l’oeuvre et l’héritage de Cujas ont été mis en perspective. Saisie tant dans sa dimension locale que nationale et européenne, la fabrique de ce grand juriste est envisagée du XVIe siècle à nos jours. Elle repose sur la construction d’un récit hier comme aujourd’hui et de représentations d’une figure du droit. Sa place se manifeste aussi désormais par sa statue érigée au sein des locaux de l’université (ancien cloître des Chartreux). « Au-delà du symbole du retour de Jacques Cujas à la Faculté de droit de Toulouse, c’est aussi et surtout l’accueil du grand humaniste que fut Jacques Cujas à la Renaissance. Sa présence nous rappelle que l’utilisation de l’ensemble des savoirs pour l’étude du droit est une nécessité. Il nous pousse à renouer avec l’encyclopédisme, à connecter le droit aux autres savoirs ; c’est plus que jamais nécessaire » (Matthieu Poumarède, Doyen de la Faculté de droit et de science politique, 8 décembre 2022).

La répétition pour moi est le temps de l’esquisse, du brouillon, de ce qui advient. La répétition, c’est le temps de la forme, et de la forme menacée, parce que l’art du théâtre c’est fondamentalement l’art du refaire. Le refaire, voilà la grande question du théâtre.