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Adapting RRI public engagement indicators to the Spanish scientific and innovation context: a participatory methodology based on AHP and content anal…
2022
The paradigm proposed by Responsible Research and Innovation in the European Commission policy discourse identifies Public Engagement as a key area for exchange and dialogue among multiple actors following an inclusive and participatory process. Two definite set of indicators have already arisen at European level to monitor Public Engagement activities in the Science and Innovation realm. Our study aims to propose a deliberative participatory process, which involves selected stakeholders, for the adaptation of the European indicators to the specific Spanish scientific and innovation context. The methodological procedure is of exploratory nature and will be based in a combination of, on the …
Positron emission tomography in CNS drug discovery and drug monitoring.
2014
Molecular imaging methods such as positron emission tomography (PET) are increasingly involved in the development of new drugs. Using radioactive tracers as imaging probes, PET allows the determination of the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of a drug candidate, via recording target engagement, the pattern of distribution, and metabolism. Because of the noninvasive nature and quantitative end point obtainable by molecular imaging, it seems inherently suited for the examination of a pharmaceutical’s behavior in the brain. Molecular imaging, most especially PET, can therefore be a valuable tool in CNS drug research. In this Perspective, we present the basic principles of PET, th…
Les locuteurs confirmés du mandarin peuvent-ils concevoir le temps verticalement ?
2022
In Chinese, to express time, we take advantage not only of the horizontal metaphor – for example, qián and hòu (Mandarin 前 and 后 ; French avant and après) –, but also of the vertical metaphor – for example, shàng and xià (Mandarin 上 and 下 ; French haut and bas) –. But does this linguistic phenomenon reveal that confirmed Mandarin speakers can view time vertically? To resolve this problem, we sketched out a field survey; and the result obtained helps us to understand, in a psychosystematic way, the subductions of the so-called vertical characters shàng and xià (Mandarin 上 and 下 ; French haut and bas) in Chinese.
Influence of Socio-Demographic Factors in the Promotion of Social Entrepreneurship: A Service-Learning Programme
2021
Social entrepreneurship (SE) is often presented in the literature as the key to solve many of this world’s persistent social problems. SE offers a special opportunity to address the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to boost the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This research examines the effects of Service Learning (SL) on the SE of university students and to examine whether certain sociodemographic factors (i.e., age, entrance studies, family studies, social participation, and employment situation) are associated with students’ SE competence development when applying SL. Pre-service teachers (n = 98) of the degree in early childhood education applied a physical education SL …
La terminologie sensorielle dans son environnement : vers une éco-terminologie ? L'exemple du cacao en Equateur
2022
[Contexte] Mühlhäusler (1996) invite à la prise de conscience écologique en linguistique pour interpréter la production discursive dans son cadre environnemental au sens large. Héritage d’une approche relativiste théorisée par Sapir et Whorf, mais dont les prolongements cognitivistes se trouvent par exemple dans la Cultural Cognitive Linguistics de Sharifian (2017), l’écologie du langage offre au chercheur un cadre théorique pragmatique et situationnel pertinent pour appréhender le discours autour de paramètres écologiques fondés sur l'interrelation existant entre une ou plusieurs langues et leur environnement linguistique, culturel, social, politique, géographique et naturel (Haugen, 1972)…
Barriers and drivers of innovation in higher education: Case study-based evidence across ten European universities
2017
Abstract The paper advances current knowledge on factors affecting higher education institutions in their quest for innovation in education. Based on an analysis of ten institutional cases from five European countries, a comprehensive description and classification of barriers and drivers of innovation are provided. Results indicate certain “disengagement” in relation of higher education institutions and education policy makers, business, and students as well as between higher education institutions’ managers and their subordinates. Based on the findings, major innovation-related challenges in the higher education are discussed and related practical recommendations are presented.
Work engagement in eight European countries
2011
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the level and predictors of work engagement among service sector employees in eight European countries.Design/methodology/approachThe work seeks to discover if job demands and resources, i.e. job autonomy and social support, affect work engagement in differing ways in different countries when socio‐demographical variables and work‐related factors are controlled. The study is based on a statistical analysis of survey data from Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and the UK in 2007 (n=7,867). The data represent four economic sectors: retail trade, finance and banking, telecoms and public hospitals.FindingsThe re…
Place Attachment and Its Consequence for Landscape-Scale Management and Readiness to Participate: Social Network Complexity in the Post-Soviet Rural …
2019
This paper uses the tripartite place attachment framework to examine six rural parishes across Estonia and Latvia. Existing analyses/frameworks on participatory processes often neglect the complexity of relationships that rural residents have to their local environments. From a qualitative analysis of face-to-face, semi-structured interviews with case study area inhabitants (23 interviews in Estonia and 27 in Latvia), we depict varying degrees of attachment of individuals to each other and to the place in which they live and their readiness to participate in terms of willingness and ability to participate in a landscape-scale management process. Attachment to the local area was strongest wh…
Antecedentes y efectos del burnout-engagement del vendedor
2012
ResumenEl burnout o «síndrome del trabajador quemado» ha demostrado tener una gran importancia en el campo de las ventas. Sin embargo, no se han encontrado estudios que analicen en profundidad su opuesto, el engagement. El presente trabajo trata de profundizar en los antecedentes y efectos de un concepto integrador de ambos opuestos denominado burnout-engagement. Para ello, se realiza un estudio sobre 107 vendedores de distintos sectores. Los datos obtenidos, dado el tamaño de la muestra, son analizados mediante el sistema PLS. En lo relativo a antecedentes, los resultados demuestran una relación significativa entre el conflicto de rol y el burnout-engagement, la ambigüedad de rol y el burn…
Measuring well-being in Colombian departments. The role of geography and demography
2021
This paper provides a composite indicator of well-being for the 33 Colombian departments in the year 2016. The indicator is built by adapting the well-known OECD Better Life Index to the regional level, and includes the dimensions of income, health, education, safety, housing, environment, labour market, and civic engagement and governance. As to the methodology, Data Envelopment Analysis and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making techniques are employed, an approach which enables a comparison of well-being across departments and the construction of rankings. The results yield several take-away messages. First, there are substantial disparities in well-being across Colombian departments. Second, de…