Search results for " Contexts"
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Environmental Implications of Traffic Flow Delays: a Model for Urban Streets
2013
In this paper the problem of road's capacity is dealt in presence of perturbations of the vehicular flow. In particular, among the different disturbing causes, it is here considered the presence of vehicles parked along the road in relation to their parking activity. Having already established the delay, caused by those vehicles leaving their stationary positions and entering the traffic flow or by those who slow down the flow to park, it is possible to evaluate the changes in time running values. Related to these times delay, the extra pollutant emissions by a given urban running fleet is also evaluated, by utilizing emission factors depending on age, type, volume capacity and engine of th…
Practices of leisure and life projects among young students in Palermo
2011
Practices of leisure and life projects among young students in Palermo The recent sociological literature on leisure time has pointed out practices of leisure faceted and ambivalent that help to explain some of the main contradictions of modernity. (Lo Verde, 2009, 2011; Roberts, 2006). The interweaving between the practices for the self-realization and the practices characterized by collective and common uses of the leisure time puts in evidence the crucial role that in their structuring have the framework conditions in which social actors live. The existence of social contexts characterized – as already included by Eisenstadt (Eisenstadt, 1973) – by forms of de-differentiation makes more …
Gli Indigeni e la moneta. Rinvenimenti monetali e associazioni contestuali dai centri dell’entroterra siciliano
2012
The Sicilian hinterland and, in particular, the territory of the current province of Caltanissetta, during the archaeological investigations of the last sixty years, has returned a substantial monetary documentation. The analysis of these coins, conducted in parallel with that of the materials found in the relative archaeological contexts, has allowed us to draw significant considerations on the "monetary uses" of the anellenic populations of this part of Sicily. Despite, starting from the last twenty-five years of the fifth century a. C., coins spread more and more in this territory, it seems that these communities never fully understood the original structure of this exchange instrument a…
A bioweapon or a hoax? The link between distinct conspiracy beliefs about the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and pandemic behavior
2020
During the coronavirus disease pandemic rising in 2020, governments and nongovernmental organizations across the globe have taken great efforts to curb the infection rate by promoting or legally prescribing behavior that can reduce the spread of the virus. At the same time, this pandemic has given rise to speculations and conspiracy theories. Conspiracy worldviews have been connected to refusal to trust science, the biomedical model of disease, and legal means of political engagement in previous research. In three studies from the United States ( N = 220; N = 288) and the UK ( N = 298), we went beyond this focus on a general conspiracy worldview and tested the idea that different forms of …
Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political …
2019
It is a hitherto open and debated question whether the belief in conspiracies increases or attenuates the willingness to engage in political action. In the present article, we tested the notion, whether (a) the relation between belief in conspiracies and general political engagement is curvilinear (inverted U-shaped) and (b) there may be opposing relations to normative versus nonnormative forms of political engagement. Two preregistered experiments ( N = 194, N = 402) support both propositions and show that the hypothetical adoption of a worldview that sees the world as governed by secret plots attenuates reported intentions to participate in normative, legal forms of political participati…
Indicators of improved learning contexts : a collaborative perspective on educational leadership
2015
The aim of this paper is to illustrate indicators for improved learning contexts based on the notion of collaborative leadership. Collaborative leadership refers to synergetic educational leadership practices through co-performance and a continuous and shared learning process. We argue that the indicators could serve as a bridge between education and the complex and increasing change within the social life and world of work. For finding the indicators, we combined two intertwining dimensions: ‘leadership in education’ and ‘education for leadership’. They were studied by a tested model describing collaborative leadership by a set of attributes. We then applied these attributes to a curriculu…
Interaction and use of technologies in teaching and learning processes
2020
El nuevo escenario de la sociedad del conocimiento y los desafíos de aprendizaje que debe enfrentar la educación en este milenio han sido determinados por la transformación del mundo en las esferas económicas, políticas y culturales. En este artículo analizamos los procesos de interacción que se producen en los contextos educativos cuando las tecnologías son una oportunidad para lograr cambios profundos que contribuyan a mejorar los procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje desde nuevos planteamientos pedagógicos y curriculares. Todo ello conlleva una reorganización de los centros educativos, la formación y actualización del profesorado y la colaboración de las familias. Los docentes tienen ante sí…
SISTEMI DI COPERTURE INNOVATIVE NEI CONTESTI ANTICHI
2014
La ricerca è indirizzata al tema delle coperture in vetro a protezione di siti archeologici. Tale scelta è stata influenzata dalle seguenti considerazioni: gli ultimi decenni sono stati caratterizzati da un incremento delle coperture trasparenti protettive; il tema delle strutture di copertura in contesti archeologici e ciò che riguarda la loro progettazione, è stato, e continua ad essere oggi, molto dibattuto tra gli esperti in tutto il mondo; la costante evoluzione tecnologica del vetro continua a incrementare le sue possibilità d’uso in architettura. Tale materiale presenta numerosi vantaggi come l’apparente leggerezza e la trasparenza ma in ambito archeologico pone problematiche che rig…
Ciò che non si vede? Aria di casa mia. Aria di libertà
2019
Grande rilievo assume nel fare progettuale la capacità di una visione d’insieme aperta a influenze e contaminazioni provenienti da una sapiente ibridazione fra il nuovo e l’esistente. Questa capacità di stabilire relazioni fra elementi eterogenei è utile per far coesistere in uno stesso organismo realtà architettoniche apparentemente inconciliabili. Ciò che non si vede? (Aria di casa mia. Aria di libertà) è l’interrogativo di fondo di questo saggio che cerca di sottolineare alcune relazioni proficue che nel tempo sono state in grado di accrescere lo stato fisico dei luoghi. L’interpretazione di questi contesti, suscitato da un intreccio inarrestabile di mìmesis, individua in un percorso non…
"Nice, refreshing, excellent that [it] is our corporate language" : a case study on self-efficacy and EFL in a Nordic online trading bank
2017
Englannin kielen merkitys suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa on kasvanut viime vuosikymmenten aikana nopealla tahdilla. Se näkyy monella eri osa-alueella: niin kulttuurissa, politiikassa kuin työmarkkinoilla. Nykyään englannin kielen osaaminen on edellytys työntekijälle. Moni suomalainen yritys toimii kansainvälisellä tasolla, mikä tarkoittaa, että englannin kielen käyttö on monelle jokapäiväistä. Kielen rooli voi jopa olla suurempi kuin suomen kielen. Kommunikointi ulkomailla sijaitsevien työntekijöiden ja toimistojen välillä, samoin kuin asiakaspalvelu, käydään usein englanniksi. Tämän vuoksi on syytä tutkia, millä tavoin englannin kielen rooli ilmenee yritystasolla ja kuinka työntekijät kokeva…