oceanography, climate change, reefs, marine science, marine conservation, marine research
Theories on technology adoption in the context of healthcare for older people have developed from a merely individual usability approach to a richer understanding of deeper personal motivations and values as well as a broader awareness of stakeholders and organisations. The aim of this chapter is twofold: first, to give an overview of the existing frameworks, models and theories that describe t…
Diversifying the academic faculty remains an elusive goal marked by slow and uneven progress. This book describes an effective model for institutional transformation which is uniquely grounded in group-level processes. Efforts at institutional transformation continue to center individual actors. This is evident in the proliferation of programs that train individuals on implicit bias, search str…
The first phase of federalism in post-war Yugoslavia can be named ‘administrative federalism’ by borrowing Tito’s own definition of the federal units as having only an ‘administrative character’
In designing, implementing, and evaluating organizational interventions, program logic plays a central role as it outlines the core components of the intervention and links them to both proximal and distal outcomes. Also, central in the design, implementation, and evaluation of organizational interventions is the engagement of stakeholders across the organization (employees, managers, and speci…
Image-based and sequencing-based spatial technologies can currently be used to locate cells anatomically within a tissue; the Human Vell Atlas allows its users to navigate the human body at various levels of resolution to identify patterns and interactions among its fundamental elements, zooming in and out depending on the research goals. Integrating data types or simultaneously measuring multi…
Many athletes strategically adopt a deliberate ‘look’—a ‘game face’, in sport parlance—for the purpose of gaining an edge in competition. Indeed, individual athletes in many sports often intentionally ‘stare down’ opponents, or, conversely, seek to appear carefree, even smiling at an opponent.
Gender, Politics, Elections, Democracy, LGBTQ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
This essay approaches some of the literary features of the Qur’an in formal comparison with those of the Babylonian Talmud, the foundational text of rabbinic Judaism which consists of the foundational law code, called “Mishna” and its secondary commentary, called the “Gemara.”
The free movement of services, one of the four fundamental freedoms of the European Union's (EU) internal market, allows companies to post their employees to other EU Member States. In Slovenia, the concept of cross-border posting became relevant after the country joined the EU in 2004. The number of posted workers in Slovenia has been growing steadily since then and is among the highest in the…