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Exploring the generative power of performance measurement systems design
2019
Abstract Prior studies recognise the enabling power of incompleteness in the design of Performance Measurement Systems (PMS). We add to these studies by exploring the ‘time dimension’ of incompleteness as a way to delve into the generative power of design. To this aim, we rely upon the experience of a knowledge-intensive organization during the design of a new PMS. While knowledge complexity engaged the participants within an open-ended design process, incomplete measures were associated with unfolding memories of the past and confident beliefs in future solutions, which generated effects through the knowledge gaps that they entailed, as well as through the projections in the past and in th…
Interruptions to workflow: Their relationship with irritation and satisfaction with performance, and the mediating roles of time pressure and mental …
2013
Understanding the mechanisms of workflow interruptions is crucial for reducing employee strain and maintaining performance. This study investigates how interruptions affect perceptions of performance and irritation by employing a within-person approach. Such interruptions refer to intruding secondary tasks, such as requests for assistance, which occur within the primary task. Based on empirical evidence and action theory, it is proposed that the occurrence of interruptions is negatively related to satisfaction with one's own performance and positively related to forgetting of intentions and the experience of irritation. Mental demands and time pressure are proposed as mediators. Data were g…
The challenge of forgetting: Neurobiological mechanisms of auditory directed forgetting
2017
Directed forgetting (DF) is considered an adaptive mechanism to cope with unwanted memories. Understanding it is crucial to develop treatments for disorders in which thought control is an issue. With an item-method DF paradigm in an auditory form, the underlying neurocognitive processes that support auditory DF were investigated. Subjects were asked to perform multi-modal encoding of word-stimuli before knowing whether to remember or forget each word. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we found that DF is subserved by a right frontal-parietal-cingulate network. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses of the activation of this network show converging evidence suggesting that DF …
Thermal stress affects patch time allocation by preventing forgetting in a parasitoid wasp
2015
Learning and memory allow animals to adjust their foraging strategies through experience. Despite the known impact of temperature on many aspects of the behavioral ecology of animals, memory retention in the face of realistic thermal stress has seldom been assessed. In the laboratory, we studied the behavioral expression of an egg parasitoid’s (Trissolcus basalis) memory when exposed to thermal stress that could be encountered in nature. We hypothesized that thermal stress would disrupt memory consolidation and/ or modify the optimality of memory retention, thus affecting patch time allocation strategies. Memory consolidation was resilient to 1 h of thermal stress following an unrewarded ex…
‘Independence is not given, it is taken’: the Ivorian cinquantenaire and competing history/ies of independence
2013
This article explores competing histories of independence in Cote d'Ivoire. The 2010 commemoration of fifty years of independence led to competing histories about how and if the nation achieved independence in 1960. The postelectoral crisis of 2010–2011 that followed soon afterwards has been interpreted by supporters of the outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo as an attempt by France and the international community to re-colonise Cote d'Ivoire. The article asks how different versions of this history are connected to different political projects and how they have changed through time. The article will analyse these processes of meaning-making in a historiology of Ivorian independence, thus cont…
La nación contra el fascismo: PSOE y SFIO, 1933-1936
2020
Este artículo propone un estudio del antifascismo socialista en España. Al respecto, se apuesta por situar la nación como referente cultural y político en el centro del análisis, y aplicar una perspectiva comparada con el caso de Francia. Dicho análisis se plantea para el período inmediatamente anterior a la Guerra Civil en España y toma como principal fuente a la prensa socialista.El artículo se desarrolla en dos grandes bloques, con la Revolución de Octubre de 1934 como hito. A partir de entonces emergió en el seno del PSOE un enfrentamiento por el control de la organización. El artículo se centra en el estudio de la corriente caballerista, considerada el ala izquierdista, a la cual se co…
Archaeometrical study of paleometallurgical materials from the archaeological site “Cerro de las Balsas — Chinchorro” (La Albufereta, Alacant, Spain)
2008
An Iberian archaeological site located in the east of Spain is one of the most important cupellation centers found in the 4th century b.c. Different metallurgical materials were found in the archaeological site as minerals, cast slags, forged slags, metallic lead, cupella fragments and bronzes. Also was found reverbs remains used for cupper-based materials and cupellation procedure, and hearth forge remains for obtained iron material. The recuperated samples were studied by comparing samples of the same type of material by macroanalysis and microanalysis. The microanalysis and quantitation of the different archaeological materials was carried out by SEM/EDX. The information provides about t…
Iron metallurgy, political economy and social change during the first millennium BC in eastern Iberia
2020
Analizamos las dinámicas históricas de adopción y uso social de la metalurgia del hierro entre los ríos Ebro y Segura a lo largo del primer milenio a.C. Diferentes escalas de análisis, desde los contextos rituales hasta los patrones de asentamiento o la organización interna de los poblados, nos permiten identificar diversas etapas: los primeros objetos de hierro en la zona fueron bienes de prestigio que circularon en un marco de conexiones mediterráneas a partir de los siglos XII-XI a.C. La actividad siderúrgica en la zona se documenta a partir del siglo VIII a.C., con la instalación de población de origen fenicio en asentamientos costeros. La generalización del hierro se producirá a partir…
Music teaching suggestions for working intercultural in secondary education: the pop music of miscegenation
2014
Este artículo tiene como objetivo principal mostrar cómo la clase de Música de Secundaria puede contribuir al desarrollo social y personal del educando en contextos pluriculturales, al tiempo que permite interiorizar conceptos puramente musicales. En este sentido, se muestran algunas de las actividades que se desarrollaron en diferentes cursos académicos en aulas de Secundaria de la Región de Murcia y de las Islas Baleares, con las que se pretendía garantizar la convivencia del alumnado y el establecimiento de lazos socio-afectivos que les llevasen a una positiva relación intercultural, siempre asegurando también el aprendizaje específico musical. Se consideró que debían revisarse las propu…
SHREC 2020: Retrieval of digital surfaces with similar geometric reliefs
2020
Abstract This paper presents the methods that have participated in the SHREC’20 contest on retrieval of surface patches with similar geometric reliefs and the analysis of their performance over the benchmark created for this challenge. The goal of the context is to verify the possibility of retrieving 3D models only based on the reliefs that are present on their surface and to compare methods that are suitable for this task. This problem is related to many real world applications, such as the classification of cultural heritage goods or the analysis of different materials. To address this challenge, it is necessary to characterize the local ”geometric pattern” information, possibly forgetti…