scholarly journals Essential support of Green biset functors via morphisms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamín García
Keyword(s):  
Essential Support

Who helps and why? A longitudinal exploration of volunteer role identity, intergroup closeness, and community identification as predictors of coordinated helping during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliet Wakefield ◽  
Mhairi Bowe ◽  
Blerina Kellezi
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Community Identification ◽  
Voluntary Organisations ◽  
Essential Support ◽  
Social Identity Approach

Mutual aid groups have allowed community members to respond collectively to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing essential support to the vulnerable. While research has begun to explore the benefits of participating in these groups, there is a lack of work investigating who is likely to engage in this form of aid-giving, and what social psychological processes predict this engagement. Taking a Social Identity approach, the present study explored predictors of coordinated COVID-19 aid-giving in pre-existing volunteers. A two-wave longitudinal online survey study (N = 202) revealed participants’ volunteer role identity at T1 (pre-pandemic) positively predicted perceptions of volunteer-beneficiary intergroup closeness at T1, which in turn positively predicted community identification at T1. This in turn positively predicted coordinated COVID-19 aid-giving at T2 (3 months later). This paper therefore reveals the intra- and intergroup predictors of pandemic-related coordinated aid-giving in pre-existing volunteers. Implications for voluntary organisations and emergency voluntary aid provision are discussed.

scholarly journals Eliciting probabilistic expectations: Collaborations between psychologists and economists

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (13) ◽  
pp. 3297-3304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wändi Bruine de Bruin ◽  
Baruch Fischhoff
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Economic Modeling ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Sense Of Ownership ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Essential Support

We describe two collaborations in which psychologists and economists provided essential support on foundational projects in major research programs. One project involved eliciting adolescents’ expectations regarding significant future life events affecting their psychological and economic development. The second project involved eliciting consumers’ expectations regarding inflation, a potentially vital input to their investment, saving, and purchasing decisions. In each project, we sought questions with the precision needed for economic modeling and the simplicity needed for lay respondents. We identify four conditions that, we believe, promoted our ability to sustain these transdisciplinary collaborations and coproduce the research: (i) having a shared research goal, which neither discipline could achieve on its own; (ii) finding common ground in shared methodology, which met each discipline’s essential evidentiary conditions, but without insisting on its culturally acquired tastes; (iii) sharing the effort throughout, with common language and sense of ownership; and (iv) gaining mutual benefit from both the research process and its products.

scholarly journals Palliative care: Essential support for patients with heart failure in the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 469-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loreena Hill ◽  
James M. Beattie ◽  
Tal Prager Geller ◽  
Resham Baruah ◽  
Josiane Boyne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Patients With Heart Failure ◽  
Essential Support

Essential support while mourning the living

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Suchet
Keyword(s):  
Essential Support

scholarly journals Children's Books by Canonical Authors in the EFL Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Elena Ortells
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Educational Community ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
The One ◽  
Current Concerns ◽  
Literary Materials ◽  
Essential Support

Students’ imperfect grasp of the target language is cited by educators as one of the main tenets and conundrums against the use of real literature in the EFL classroom. However, previous reviews have proven that children and teenagers are likely to become interested in texts of their own choice and in line with their current concerns. Hence, since encouraging them to read for pleasure and providing them with motivating and level-appropriate materials are basic requirements for success, instructors should receive essential support on how to supply their students with literary texts suitable for both their language level and interests. My intention in this article is thus two-fold. On the one hand, I aim to provide several strategies to overcome the negative attitudes against the use of real literature in the EFL classroom, which are deeply rooted in the educational community, by equipping educators with a theoretical framework that allows them to critically select the most appropriate literary materials for their students. On the other hand, my intention is to present in-service teachers with an illustrative sample of texts and activities that clearly show that authentic literature can be successfully implemented in the teaching sphere.

scholarly journals Collaborative Development Environments

2011 ◽  
pp. 225-231
Author(s):  
Javier Soriano ◽  
Genoveva López ◽  
Rafael Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Time Factors ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Dynamically Reconfigurable ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Software Product ◽  
Temporal And Spatial Characteristics ◽  
Collaborative Capabilities ◽  
Essential Support

More and more often organizations tend to behave like dynamically reconfigurable networked structures that carry out their tasks by means of collaboration and teamwork. Effective teamwork is an essential part of any non-trivial engineering process, and collaborative capabilities are an essential support for these teams. Software development is no exception; it is in itself a collaborative team effort, which has its own peculiarities. Both in the context of open source software development projects and in organizations that develop corporate products, more and more developers need to communicate and liaise with colleagues in geographically distant areas about the software product that they are conceiving, designing, building, testing, debugging, deploying, and maintaining. In their work, these development teams face significant collaborative challenges motivated by barriers erected by geographic distances, time factors, number of participants, business units or differences in organizational hierarchy or culture that inhibit and constrain the natural flow of communication and collaboration. To successfully overcome these barriers, these teams need tools by means of which to communicate with each other and coordinate their work. These tools should also take into account the functional, organizational, temporal and spatial characteristics of this collaboration. Software product users are now becoming increasingly involved in this process, for which reason they should also be considered.

scholarly journals Reflection of Cultural Identity in the Latest Diary Fragments of Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas (2009–2012) and Essay Book “Levels of Life” by Julian Barnes

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-109
Author(s):  
Aurelija Mykolaitytė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Julian Barnes ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
French Culture ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Inner World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Essential Support

The article compares the following two texts: the latest dairy fragments of Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas (2014) and the essay book “Levels of Life” by Julian Barnes. Both writers aim to reveal personal experiences through cultural texts: the relationship with the Other enables us to identify ourselves and helps to describe our inner world. The article focuses on how the memory is created and what is the most important in culture for both writers. Several meaningful aspects are emphasized by both writers: they both raise existential questions, search for possible answers in culture, as well as search for links with a particular place and focus on art. The study has revealed that that culture, especially classic European culture, is an essential support that allows us to reflect our being. Special attention is paid to French culture, which could be perceived as a benchmark for the European mentality. Although the books refer to different cultural sources, they both focus on a great respect of the art of the word as capable of preserving memory.

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