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Intézmények, folyamatok és kutatások a nemzetközi magyarságtudományban : a Jyväskyläi egyetem magyarságtudományi programjának első húsz é…

2013

The University of Jyväskylä's Hungarian Studies Program celebrated its twentieth anniversary with an international conference, held on March 15, 2011. The event was opened by Rector Matti Manninen, who at that time served as the Vice-Rector of the university. The conference participants included people from six European countries who not only commended Jyväskylä's Hungarian Studies Program, but took accounts of the history of the main international institutions of Hungarian Studies abroad as well, devoting special attention to the developments in the last two decades after the political transition in Hungary. The conference proceedings, as a collection of papers by the leading figures of th…

Valda Leinieka grāmatu dāvinājums Latvijas Universitātes Akadēmiskajai bibliotēkai

2019

A Scale of Knowledge and Beliefs about Developmental Dyslexia: Scale Development and Validation

2014

Abstract The purpose of this study was to create and validate a scale measuring knowledge and beliefs regarding developmental dyslexia. A four-step procedure was followed to achieve this objective. A literature review generated a preliminary pool of 65 items. A group of 12 university teachers of learning disabilities read the items for content and face validity and offered comments. Based on their comments, some items were combined, and confusing items were changed or eliminated, which left a scale of 50 items, with the response options of true (V), false (F) or dont know (NS). Later, each participant, using a description of the scales, placed each item into one of the three subscales. An i…

Task-oriented reading efficiency : interplay of general cognitive ability, task demands, strategies and reading fluency

2022

AbstractThe associations among readers’ cognitive skills (general cognitive ability, reading skills, and attentional functioning), task demands (easy versus difficult questions), and process measures (total fixation time on relevant and irrelevant paragraphs) was investigated to explain task-oriented reading accuracy and efficiency (number of scores in a given time unit). Structural equation modeling was applied to a large dataset collected with sixth-grade students, which included samples of dysfluent readers and those with attention difficulties. The results are in line with previous findings regarding the dominant role of general cognitive ability in the accuracy of task-oriented reading…

The precursors of double dissociation between reading and spelling in a transparent orthography.

2016

Research and clinical practitioners have mixed views whether reading and spelling difficulties should be combined or seen as separate. This study examined the following: (a) if double dissociation between reading and spelling can be identified in a transparent orthography (Finnish) and (b) the cognitive and noncognitive precursors of this phenomenon. Finnish-speaking children (n = 1963) were assessed on reading fluency and spelling in grades 1, 2, 3, and 4. Dissociation groups in reading and spelling were formed based on stable difficulties in grades 1–4. The groups were compared in kindergarten phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, letter knowledge, home literacy environment, a…

In Search of Determinants of Time-Discounting in Monetary Choices : Personal Characteristics Matter Only a Little

2022

Time-discounting in monetary choices is determined by aspects related to the reward, contextual factors and characteristics of a person. In the present study, we used three datasets (Ndata1 = 419; Ndata2 = 485; Ndata3 = 240) to examine how well personal characteristics (sociodemographic, financial situation, self-control, cognitive abilities, negative experiencing, and trustfulness) predict time-discounting in both hypothetical and real reward scenarios. The results of the regression analyses indicate that the characteristics of a person only explain a small proportion of the variance in time-discounting (R2 ranged from .10 to .19). The only substantive predictors of time-discounting in mon…

Early Cognitive Profiles Predicting Reading and Arithmetic Skills in Grades 1 and 7

2020

The aim of this study was to investigate cognitive profiles composed of skills predicting the overlap between reading and arithmetic in kindergarten (phonological awareness, letter knowledge, rapid automatized naming, and counting sequence knowledge) and the relation of these profiles to reading and arithmetic skills at Grades 1 and 7. A total of four distinct cognitive profiles were identified in an unselected sample of 1,710 children aged 5–6 years: (1) high linguistic and high counting skills (39.2%), (2) low linguistic and low counting skills (25.4%), (3) high counting skills in relation to linguistic skills (15.3%), and (4) low counting skills in relation to linguistic skills (20.1%). …

Empathy in Technology Design and Graffiti

2021

This paper discusses empathic understanding, what it means, and how it can be acquired. After an overview of some theories and models from the existing literature, two experiments are presented, where participants were assessing graffiti works. From the results of these experiments, it can be concluded that empathic understanding involves both embodied processes and abstract inferences. Furthermore, understanding can be based on perceived, mechanistic bodily similarities and movements or on folk-psychological inferences mentalized between the observer/empathizer and an object/empathized. Empathic understanding it can also be gained by recognizing and implementing learned bodily skills and c…

Koncepcja logistyki klasy światowej w świetle badań

2016

Przedsiębiorstwa stale poszukują sposobów tworzenia przewagi konkurencyjnej. W ostatnich latach można zauważyć rosnące znaczenie logistyki jako systemowej determinanty efektywności i sukcesu przedsiębiorstwa. Logistyka tworzy warunki i możliwości zdobycia i utrzymania trwałej, długofalowej przewagi konkurencyjnej przez przedsiębiorstwa i łańcuchy dostaw. Istotna rola przypisywana jest tzw. logistycznym potencjałom sukcesu przedsiębiorstwa, obejmującym zasoby logistyczne, zdolności logistyczne oraz kompetencje logistyki. Logistyczne potencjały sukcesu przedsiębiorstwa stanowią podstawę szeroko znanej na świecie koncepcji logistyki klasy światowej, opracowanej w Uniwersytecie Stanowym w Michi…

Loģistikas procesu pilnveidošanas iespējas starptautiskā uzņēmumā.

2016

Maģistra darbā tiek pētīta loģistikas procesu būtība, analizējot no dažādiem aspektiem, saistībā ar starptautiskās uzņēmējdarbības aktivitātēm. Uzsvars ir likts uz komunikācijas un informācijas aprites efektivitātes nozīmi loģistikas procesu organizēšanā, tādejādi veicinot uzņēmuma vadības procesu uzlabošanu un konkurētspējas paaugstināšanu. Galvenais pētījuma rezultātā gūtais secinājums ir izvirzītās hipotēzes apstiprinājums, ka loģistikas procesu uzlabošanu traucē komunikācijas problēmas un neefektīva informācijas aprite uzņēmumā, ko iespējams risināt izveidojot efektīvu informācijas plūsmu. Maģistra darbā veiktā analīze un pētījums tiek balstīts uz ārvalstu un vietējo zinātnieku darbiem,…