scholarly journals What Is a Sustainable Coworking Space?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10547
Author(s):  
Kolja Oswald ◽  
Xiaokang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Q Methodology ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
New Work ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Community Factors ◽  
Coworking Spaces ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Do So

Coworking is a trend that is becoming increasingly popular and is often associated with sustainability. However, a lack of consensus exists on what a sustainable coworking space is. This study addresses this by investigating what is currently understood by a sustainable coworking space. Q-methodology is used to analyze 27 participants’ subjective ideas about what a sustainable coworking space is, resulting in four distinct perspectives. The four perspectives are identified as follows: 1. “New Work”, 2. “Resourceful Society”, 3. “Incubator, and 4. “Environmental”. These perspectives have distinct opinions on what important sustainability aspects in the context of coworking spaces are. Whilst some prioritize environmental and community factors, others have a mixed focus. Additionally, the four perspectives share some common beliefs. All of them believe in the importance of sustainable mobility, as well as in the moderate importance of encouraging their members to be socially responsible. These findings offer insight into the different understandings of coworking space sustainability. This is important because currently this field is under-researched, and a more systematic approach to sustainability in this field is needed. This research lays the foundation to do so and helps work toward a better understanding of coworking in a sustainability and innovative context.

Evaluation of Writing Assignments

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 214
Author(s):  
Anita Jokić
Keyword(s):  
Standardized Tests ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Task Completion ◽  
Writing Assignments ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Job Application ◽  
Written Assignments ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Teacher’S Responsibilities ◽  
Do So

Teaching English as a foreign language is now one of the most important subjects in Croatian secondary schools since English is one of the three obligatory subjects at 'matura' - standardized tests which the seniors need to pass to graduate. Writing is one of the three parts of the EL exam, the other two being listening and reading. When learning a language, students start from listening skill, move on to speaking and reading and finally to most difficult skill to master: writing. Teaching and learning writing faces a lot of challenges since it requires a lot of time to practice and even more to evaluate and monitor progress. Teacher's responsibilities are to regularly provide opportunities to write, encourage students to learn from their mistakes and promote their success. In order to do so, students should be given clear instructions on evaluation/assessment and concise feedback. Since grading written assignments takes up a lot of time, the author proposes rubrics which can be used to assess various types of writing taught at secondary level (description of place/event/person, letters of complaint, job application, invitation, discursive/opinion/for-and-against essay etc.). Author suggests four fixed rubrics and subdivisions: Task completion, Cohesion / coherence, Grammar and Vocabulary. All rubrics and subdivisions are described in the paper. A survey was also conducted on a sample of 140 students and has given an insight into students’ opinion on importance of assessment and feedback and its influence on their progress.

scholarly journals Designing for international law: The architecture of international organizations 1922–1952

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Miriam Bak McKenna
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Organization ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Physical Manifestation ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Do So

Abstract Situating itself in current debates over the international legal archive, this article delves into the material and conceptual implications of architecture for international law. To do so I trace the architectural developments of international law’s organizational and administrative spaces during the early to mid twentieth century. These architectural endeavours unfolded in three main stages: the years 1922–1926, during which the International Labour Organization (ILO) building, the first building exclusively designed for an international organization was constructed; the years 1927–1937 which saw the great polemic between modernist and classical architects over the building of the Palace of Nations; and the years 1947–1952, with the triumph of modernism, represented by the UN Headquarters in New York. These events provide an illuminating allegorical insight into the physical manifestation, modes of self-expression, and transformation of international law during this era, particularly the relationship between international law and the function and role of international organizations.

The relevance of the Fundamental Principles to operations: learning from Lebanon

2013 ◽  
Vol 95 (890) ◽  
pp. 287-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorcha O'Callaghan ◽  
Leslie Leach
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
National Society ◽  
Operational Application ◽  
Humanitarian Crises ◽  
Security Incidents ◽  
Do So

AbstractMany aid agencies and commentators suggest that humanitarian principles are of little value to the humanitarian crises of today. However, through profiling the experience of the Lebanese Red Cross, this article highlights the enduring value and impact of the application of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Fundamental Principles as effective operational tools for acceptance, access and safety. Having suffered a series of security incidents during the civil war and subsequent disturbances and tensions, this National Society deliberately sought to increase its acceptance amongst different groups. One of the approaches used was the systematic operational application of the Fundamental Principles. Today, the Lebanese Red Cross is the only public service and Lebanese humanitarian actor with access throughout the country. This article seeks to address the relative absence of attention to how humanitarian organisations apply humanitarian principles in practice – and their responsibility and accountability to do so – by describing the systematic approach of the Lebanese Red Cross.

scholarly journals Emancipation from the Whirlwind: Piety and Rebellion among Jewish-American Post-Holocaust and Christian Liberation Readings of Job

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David C Tollerton
Keyword(s):  
Modern World ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Theologically Conservative ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Political Radicalism ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Do So

This article focuses upon the manner in which the Book of Job’s dissonant messages of theological radicalism and conservatism have been utilised within discussion of two specific episodes of innocent suffering in the modern world – the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust and the suffering of the oppressed in the developing world. Overlaying the discussion, the following model is proposed: that, firstly, Christian liberation theologians emphasise the more theologically conservative messages that can be drawn from Job while asserting radical political opposition to those who possess power. Conversely, Jewish Holocaust theologians empathise with Job’s more theologically radical elements, yet do so within outlooks committed to conservatively maintaining the security and power of the state of Israel after two thousand years of Jewish powerlessness. This model is tested by focusing upon seven treatments of Job associated with liberation or Holocaust theologies. It is concluded that, although there are significant complications, in broad terms the model largely holds ”“ offering a comparative insight into contextual Christian and Jewish interpretations of the Bible in which political radicalism and theological radicalism are found to be at odds with one another.

Attracting Students to Sales Positions: The Case of Effective Salesperson Recruitment Ads

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn R. Deeter-Schmelz ◽  
Andrea L. Dixon ◽  
Robert C. Erffmeyer ◽  
Kyoungmi (Kate) Kim ◽  
Raj Agnihotri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Programs ◽  
Student Group ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Business Colleges ◽  
Job Advertisements ◽  
Job Ads ◽  
Group Characteristics ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Do So

Given the recent proliferation in sales programs, business colleges face a new set of challenges. Sales competencies are changing rapidly, and firms struggle with identifying and attracting sales candidates on campus. Therefore, it is important that we understand needed competencies and how the content of job advertisements may differentially appeal to various student populations. To do so, we develop a conceptual model, based on signaling theory, that focuses on how students formulate their intention to pursue a given sales position. Our research utilizes a two-study approach. First, we explore the desired entry-level sales skills communicated by employers through job advertisements. Next, we examine both student and advertisement characteristics and their distinct relationships with the satisfaction with the job ad and the intention to apply for a sales position. Our study is unique, as we examine distinct undergraduate groups’ (sales, marketing, other business, and nonbusiness students) responses to sales job advertisements. Our findings demonstrate that differences in job ad clusters and student group characteristics influence the intention to pursue a sales position. Specifically, different student majors perceive job characteristics communicated within job ads differently. As such, our research provides insight into academic programs as well as corporate sales recruiters.

scholarly journals Mind the Gap: A Systematic Approach to the International Criminal Court’s Arrest Warrants Enforcement Problem

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Banteka
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Us ◽  
Improve Compliance ◽  
Positive Inducements ◽  
Do So

ICCTs have been established on a belying enforcement paradox between their significant mandate and their inherent lack of enforcement powers due to absence of systemic law enforcement. This article is premised on the idea that ICCTs fail to procure substantial results due to their delusive persistence in rejecting the factoring of politics in their operation. Thus, I suggest a perspective for arrest warrant enforcement that not only recognizes the relevance of politics but also capitalizes on it. Accordingly, I argue that by fully comprehending its enforcement tools and making use of its political role, the ICC may increase its rates in the apprehension of suspects, and therefore secure higher levels of judicial enforcement. Based on different compliance theories, I argue that the Office of The Prosecutor of the ICC (OTP) can improve compliance with ICC arrest warrants by making use of third states and non-state actors. In Part I, I address the way states and international actors may assist the OTP towards unwilling to arrest states through inducements, reputational sanctions, and support for enforcement agencies. I propose that external pressure in the form of positive inducements (membership, development aid) or negative inducements (travel bans, asset freezes) as well as condemnation and reputational damage towards non-compliant states, are likely to increase compliance with arrest warrants. In Part II, I examine a strategy for the OTP towards states that are willing to arrest but are unable to do so. In these cases, the OTP would benefit from improving its institutional capacity to identify and use overlapping interests with activist states in the field of human rights and international justice through the establishment of a diplomatic arm within its Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division (JCCD). I unpack the question of what this engagement may look like by examining such a potential relationship between the US and the ICC. Finally, in Part III, I focus on the instances, where civil society has the ability to influence third states or situation states to assist in the execution of arrest warrants. I argue that the OTP ought to include more actively different actors within the global civil society, such as NGOs, transnational networks, and individuals, during its bargaining efforts.

Exploring Carers’ Experiences and Perceptions of Special Guardianship Orders (SGOs) over Time, from the Point of Applying to Now

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Woodward ◽  
Yvonne Melia ◽  
Helen Combes
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Legal Responsibility ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Levels Of Support ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

Abstract In 2005, Special Guardianship Orders (SGOs) came into law in England enabling carers to take full legal responsibility for all aspects of a child’s care, and to therefore provide a foundation to build a life-long permanent relationship. To date, little research has been carried out with a particular emphasis on SGOs, and the impact that they have. Q-Methodology explored carers’ experiences and perceptions of SGOs over time, from the point at which carers applied for the SGO until now. Ten participants each completed three Q-Sorts by way of sorting 47 statements. Seven factors emerged from the Factor Analysis but only five were found to be significant (Eigenvalues above 1.0). The factors reflected variance in Special Guardian’s perceptions of preparation for and understanding of their role, role reward, obligation to take on the role, levels of support, relationship with the birth family and their bond with the child(ren) in their care. This study provides an insight into the experiences of carers-granted SGOs. The similarities and differences in these viewpoints are discussed. The findings suggest that more time and preparation is needed to ensure that carers are better prepared to manage any difficulties that may arise.

The Concept of Modularity in the Context of IS/IT Project Outsourcing

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Shahzada Benazeer ◽  
Jan Verelst ◽  
Philip Huysmans
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Failure Rates ◽  
It Services ◽  
Research Project ◽  
It Project ◽  
Technology Services ◽  
Insight Into

Information systems and information technology (IS/IT) services are often outsourced to external partners for multiple reasons. The outsourcing literature is persistently reporting high failure rates in IS/IT project outsourcing. Literature suggests that the IS/IT project outsourcing is a complex maneuver, but unfortunately, none of the proposed remedies (mitigating actions) have considered addressing the complexity related issue in IS/IT project outsourcing. This paper explores the concept of modularity, as it has been applied in many other fields in order to manage complexity and enhance agility/flexibility. This paper presents a case study conducted at a Belgian organization involved in technology services and is part of a research project consisting of four cases. This study illustrates a systematic approach, how the concept of modularity can be applied in identifying ‘couplings' which may be responsible for increasing complexity to IS/IT project outsourcing. This study is a first attempt to gain insight into this phenomenon.

Experimental Findings with VISSIM and TransModeler for Evaluating Environmental and Safety Impacts using Micro-Simulations

2020 ◽  
Vol 2674 (8) ◽  
pp. 566-580
Author(s):  
Zhijin Song ◽  
Huizi Wang ◽  
Jian Sun ◽  
Ye Tian
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Traffic Dynamics ◽  
Simulation Accuracy ◽  
Average Speed ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Traffic Conditions ◽  
Stop And Go ◽  
Micro Simulation ◽  
Experimental Findings ◽  
Insight Into

Micro-simulation packages provide an efficient and systematic approach to depicting traffic dynamics. Nonetheless, many of these models used by the micro-simulation packages are only calibrated with respect to observed traffic indicators such as average speed, traffic count, and so forth, while omitting non-traffic indicators. This paper aims to investigate the performance of VISSIM and TransModeler when depicting non-traffic indicators such as fuel consumption, emissions, and safety. A model was first calibrated for traffic indicators based on Next Generation SIMulation (NGSIM) trajectories. Results indicated that after calibration, simulation accuracy was still unsatisfactory with regard to energy consumption and emission measurements, with errors of up to 38.23% in VISSIM. In assessing safety, the relative error of VISSIM increased from 12.36% to 59.92% after calibration. The error in TransModeler increased to almost 100%. Furthermore, this study explored the simulation accuracy of VISSIM and TransModeler under different traffic conditions and discovered that the models’ accuracies were relatively high when simulating stop-and-go traffic. We also explored the causes of these observed differences through a regression model. This study presents practical insight into the deficiencies of micro-simulation related research, and based on error analysis, provides a theoretical reference for optimizing simulation accuracy from a novel perspective.

scholarly journals Visualization is crucial for understanding microbial processes in the ocean

2019 ◽  
Vol 374 (1786) ◽  
pp. 20190083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Sebastián ◽  
Josep M. Gasol
Keyword(s):  
Single Cell ◽  
Metabolic Activity ◽  
Cell Activity ◽  
Level Of Activity ◽  
Single Cell Activity ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Do So

Recent developments in community and single-cell genomic approaches have provided an unprecedented amount of information on the ecology of microbes in the aquatic environment. However, linkages between each specific microbe's identity and their in situ level of activity (be it growth, division or just metabolic activity) are much more scarce. The ultimate goal of marine microbial ecology is to understand how the environment determines the types of different microbes in nature, their function, morphology and cell-to-cell interactions and to do so we should gather three levels of information, the genomic (including identity), the functional (activity or growth), and the morphological, and for as many individual cells as possible. We present a brief overview of methodologies applied to address single-cell activity in marine prokaryotes, together with a discussion of the difficulties in identifying and categorizing activity and growth. We then provide and discuss some examples showing how visualization has been pivotal for challenging established paradigms and for understanding the role of microbes in the environment, unveiling processes and interactions that otherwise would have been overlooked. We conclude by stating that more effort should be directed towards integrating visualization in future approaches if we want to gain a comprehensive insight into how microbes contribute to the functioning of ecosystems. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Single cell ecology’.

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