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University as a workplace: searching for meaningful work
2018
Work in academia is changing, and research suggests that not all the changes are desirable. Higher education is developing in a direction heavily criticized, especially in relation to the concepts of neoliberal and academic capitalism. In this article, we explore meaningful work in a university context. Our focus lies on individual lecturers’ positive opportunities to make work meaningful and the university a better place to work for both students and faculty. We examine meaningful work as a relational phenomenon: how meaningfulness is constructed through features such as dialogue, expertise, interaction and sharing of ideas. Our empirical findings are based on analysis of qualitative and q…
Prevention of occupational injuries moral hazard and complex agency relationship
2001
This paper exploits the results of agency theory with the aim of contributing a new viewpoint and a form for analysis of the current functioning of the occupational injury and disease section of the Social Security system in its mission of providing incentives for prevention. After outlining the organization and specific features of insurance against occupational risks, an initial level of analysis highlights the presence of moral hazard in relations between insurer and company and between company and employee. A second level of analysis and resort to complex agency relationship models, multitask model and third-party model, is necessary to take into account the consequences for occupationa…
Renewable energy for sustainable rural development: synergies and mismatches
2020
Abstract Energy transition is increasingly regarded as a promising opportunity for the economic development of rural areas. This possibility is associated with the siting and (co-)ownership of decentralized (small-scale) renewable energy facilities. The underlying productive link, however, has been taken for granted, rather than conceptually and practically cultivated. Thus, while renewable energy-based rural development has been stated as a desired by-product of energy transitions, its potential has remained largely unfulfilled. This review aims to illuminate the ambiguous interplay between renewable energy and rural development in the context of the current trajectories of the energy tran…
Identidades y representaciones del Trabajo Social.
2005
En nuestro trabajo, presentamos el conocimiento de la realidad social desde las dimensiones constructivista e interaccionista, teniendo en cuenta el punto de vista del "público", desde la posición de reconocer una mayor riqueza en el conocimiento que se obtiene desde la "intersubjetividad". En el proceso de investigación, llegamos a la complementariedad metodológica, valiéndonos del enfoque cuantitativo para construir las "imágenes", objetivas y mediante el enfoque cualitativo, contando con la perspectiva del estudio de un caso, las audiencias de una serie "Raquel busca su sitio" obtenemos las imágenes del público o intersubjetivas. Ambos componentes, las imágenes y el público del Trabajo S…
Influenza vaccination in high-risk groups: a revision of existing guidelines and rationale for an evidence-based preventive strategy.
2016
Summary Influenza, an infectious respiratory disease, is one of the main causes of excess winter deaths (EWDs) in Europe. Annual flu epidemics are associated with high morbidity and mortality rates, especially among the elderly, those with underlying health conditions and pregnant women. Health Care Workers (HCWs) are also considered at high risk of both contracting influenza and spreading the virus to vulnerable patients. During the 2014/2015 season, the excess winter mortality rates observed in countries of the northern hemisphere (EuroMOMO network) and in Italy (+13%) were strongly related to the intensity of influenza circulation. Influenza vaccination is the most important public healt…
Migranti e pastoralismo. Il caso dei servi pastori romeni nelle campagne sarde
2017
Over the past decade, research into the role of migrants in agriculture within global capitalism increased. Several studies analyze the exploitation of migrants in the intensive agricultural system as a negative effect of market price competition. Within the context, this article focuses on a case-study which so far has received little scholarly attention, that of Romanian salaried shepherds in Sardinia (Italy). Historically, being a salaried shepherd represented a common step in the moral career of the local shepherds: the young people started as “salaried”; during the years of training they became experts and earned enough money to become autonomous. At the beginning of the nineties, the …
In vivo comparison of working length determination with two electronic apex locators: Root-ZX and Dentaport Root-ZX.
2011
ABSTRACT Background:: The purpose of our study is to compare the accuracy of two electronic apex locators (EALs) in the same teeth in vivo: Root ZX and Dentaport Root-ZX. Methods and Materials: Twenty-two adult patients, ages 36-71. Thirty single-rooted teeth with one canal that were scheduled for extraction for prosthetic or orthodontic reasons were used. Before commencement of the study was obtained and written consent from each patient. The teeth had completely formed apices confirmed by radiographic evaluation before treatment. The access cavity was prepareted and been identified the root canals and their patency was assessed with k-file #10.The working length were determined by a singl…
Uncertainty at Work How to Regulate it through Leadership in order to improve the Quality of Work Life?
2022
This thesis manuscript focuses on factors able to regulate the uncertainty of people at work. Due to the constant evolution of the organizational world, uncertainty is increasingly becoming a factor with which to combine in different contexts about work. This factor constitutes a risk for individuals due to its aversive nature. In this perspective we have been interested, on the one hand, about theories concerning the concept of uncertainty. This allowed us to better understand and delimit the concept. On the other hand, we looked for ways to regulate uncertainty through the concept of leadership. This led us to consider this regulation as being either potentially possible through a directi…
Empirical Study on Cyber Range Capabilities, Interactions and Learning Features
2021
Emerging technologies and the globalization require constant investment in people and their performance in actual and virtual environments. New technologies such as autonomous systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) radically re-contextualize the human dimension of the organization. Technological developments are changing the ways people experience the physical and the virtual environments. Strategic changes have revealed new critical vulnerabilities such as social media-based disinformation campaigning with impact on the human aspects at state, societal, organizational and individual levels. Scenarios of gathering information, committing fraud or getting access to critic…
Male Prostitution
2014
CRIMINOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MALE SEX WORK