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The Impact Of Hybrid Infrastructure On Trust, Motivation And Knowledge Sharing In An Intentional Community: A Latvian Case Study
2013
The role of ICT infrastructure in enhancing innovation processes through fostering knowledge and information exchange is a controversial topic in regional science. Opposing views exist, in particular, with regard to two topics: a) the persistence of a specific role of geographical proximity in knowledge exchange processes in the age of global virtual networking; b) the capability of virtual networking to recreate the social assets of a physical community (trust, solidarity?). Existing studies primarily focus on aggregated data, rely on doubtful epistemological assumptions (e.g. the equation of information with knowledge), and neglect several epistemological principles of social cognition (e…
Foreign Language Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Integrated Technology
2020
The COVID-19 pandemic worldwide evidenced the need to revise and strengthen the current perspective of the role of technology in non-technology-based classes. The current situation requires the revision of practices and basic knowledge of computer literacy and use. Traditionally, technology in the process of language learning has been considered anecdotical. As a result, many teachers do not have the necessary skills to implement proper technology-supported classes. Being that the case at Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), we looked at the students’ needs in integrating a number of different applications in the classroom in order to provide them with additional technological skills. Twenty-two …
Social participation in shaping their local landscape
2015
Charakter lokalnego krajobrazu w znaczącej części zależy od poziomu świadomości społeczności, która na danym terenie egzystuje. Głównie chodzi tutaj o poczucie własnej wartości kulturowej oraz znajomości chociażby podstawowych zasad ekologicznego korzystania z zasobów krajobrazowych. Głównym celem badań, których wyniki przedstawiono w niniejszym rozdziale było uzyskanie odpowiedzi na ile i w jakim zakresie ankietowani uważają, że mają znaczący wpływ na podejmowane decyzje w dziedzinie szeroko pojętego modelowania otaczającego ich krajobrazu? Stwierdzenie „Myśl globalnie – działaj lokalnie” czy też „Gmina terenem racjonalnego kształtowania krajobrazu” – jak potwierdzają wyniki przeprowadzony…
Corporate Social Irresponsibility and Competitive Advantage: Lessons from Parmalat’s Turnaround
2012
The large number of scandals which rocked the corporate world since the end of the twentieth century have fueled a considerable body of research regarding the factors which drove companies to adopt socially irresponsible behaviors and the institutional remedies which may discourage the repetition of such episodes. Today, the time lag since the initial upsurge of corporate scandals allows to shift attention towards the post-scandal turnaround processes brought about by such companies and the factors which influence their performance. Through the in-depth longitudinal study of a particularly successful turnaround which occurred at Parmalat and its comparison with other partially overlapping c…
Il paesaggio nelle scienze sociali
2019
Il capitolo descrive i quattro significati di paesaggio che sono stati recentemente proposti nelle scienze sociali, per concentrarsi sul ruolo del paesaggio come connettore per discipline e studiosi diversi. The chapter describes the four meanings of landscape that have recently been proposed in the social sciences, to focus on the role of landscape as a connector for different disciplines and scholars.
Rappresentazioni della Sicilia. Un'indagine quali-quantitativa
2010
Qual è la rappresentazione della Sicilia costruita dai organi di stampa? Qual è la cornice che fa da sfondo ai discorsi sulla Sicilia? Come si rappresenta l'isola chi vi si reca per ragioni di svago? Cosa racconterà al termine del soggiorno? Il libro tenta di dare una risposta a questi interrogativi, presentando e confrontando i risultati dell'analisi testuale di articoli giornalistici che hanno riguardato la Sicilia e delle risposte a interviste rivolte a turisti in visita nella regione. Dall'analisi dei testi raccolti si desumono, inoltre, aspetti legati alla cultura civica, facendo emergere anche la necessità di diffondere buone pratiche. La percezione di vivere in una regione ricca di f…
Attitudes : Tendencies and Variations
2018
This chapter presents an overview of religiosity and attitudes to religious diversity in media and other public spaces based on a cross-Scandinavian survey conducted in 2015. Although Scandinavians in general have a weak personal connection to religion, Christianity still holds a privileged position as an expression of cultural identity. Scandinavians express support for equal rights to practice religion, but also doubtfulness towards public expressions of religion. More than one-fourth of respondents discuss news about religion and religious extremism regularly. There is a widespread sentiment that Islam is a threat to the national culture, even though most respondents state that they oppo…
Lasso regresija ar empīrisko ticamības funkciju
2015
Maģistra darbs iepazīstina ar daudzdimensijas regresijas metodēm - lasso, adaptētais lasso un scad - un to praktiskiem piemēriem. Tiek aprakstīta soda funkcija, kas palīdz veikt regresijas modeļa neatkarīgo mainīgo atlasi, un orākula procedūra ar orākula īpašībām, kas ir svarīgs nosacījums modeļiem ar labu prognozēšanas spēju. Darbā tiek parādīts reāls pielietojums sociālo darbinieku noslodzes mērījumos. Turpinājumā tiek aplūkota empīriskā ticamība ar soda funkciju, kurai ilustrēta orākula procedūra.
Local mechanical properties by Atomic Force Microscopy nanoindentations
2008
The analysis of mechanical properties on a nanometer scale is a useful tool for combining information concerning texture organization obtained by microscopy with the properties of individual components- Moreover, this technique promotes the understanding of the hierarchical arrangement in complex natural materials as well in the case of simpler morphologies arising from industrial processes. Atomic Force Microscopy, AFM, can bridge morphological information, obtained with outstanding resolution, to local mechanical properties. When performing an AFM nanoindentation, the rough force curve, i.e., the plot of the voltage output from the photodiode vs. the voltage applied to the piezo-scanner, …
A Method to Extract the Complete Fiber Network Topology of Planar Fibrous Tissues and Scaffolds.
2010
Improving fabrication protocols and design strategies, investigating on how scaffold architecture affects cell morphology, metabolism and phenotypic expression, predicting mechanical behaviors, have increasingly become crucial goals in the development of engineered tissue scaffolds. In the present study, an image-based analysis approach that provides an automatic tool to fully characterize engineered tissues fiber network topology was developed. The following micro architectural features are detected: fiber angle distribution, fiber connectivity, fiber overlap spatial density, fiber diameter. In order to demonstrate the potential of this approach Electrospun poly(ester urethane)urea (ES-PEU…