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Integrating Transversal Skills in Hospitality and Tourism Curricula: Practical Recommendations from Faculty.
No full textTransversal skills have gained increased attention due to rapid technological advances. As AI solutions emerge and new jobs arise from digital access and growing work-age populations (World Economic Forum, 2025), academics must reassess teaching methods and the skills needed in a changing workplace. Incorporating hard and soft skills in hospitality and tourism curricula is vital (Ezeuduji et al., 2023). However, research found that many faculty do not feel prepared to incorporate transversal skills in their teaching. This article presents an innovative approach with recommendations for integrating transversal skills through curriculum enhancement and teaching methods. The authors propose a three-step framework: 1) foundations alignment, 2) planning and capacity building, and 3) implementation and engagement. This research provides a practical approach for universities, faculty, students, and industry partners to cultivate future-ready graduates equipped with adaptability, critical thinking, and interpersonal competencies essential for success in a global workforce
Elizabeth Ann Seton to George Weise, undated, copy of 1-3-3-2#62
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The Moderating Role of Loneliness in the Relation between Perceived Pressure to be Thin, Perfectionism, and Internalizing Problems among Latina Girls
Full text linkLatina girls are at a high risk of depressive symptoms and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors. This study builds on the Perfectionism Social Disconnection Model to identify factors that may influence the development of these internalizing problems (Hewitt et al., 2006). Perceived pressure to be thin, perfectionistic self-presentation, and loneliness have all been linked to internalizing problems, including depressive symptoms in youth. This study focuses on Latina girls, specifically, and the ways that these variables combine to affect their well-being. This study highlights the relation between pressure to be thin and both depressive symptoms and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors and explores the mediating role of perfectionistic self-presentation and the moderating role of loneliness. Participants include 381 Latina 5th through 7th-grade girls (Mage = 11.2) drawn from eight Chicago Public Schools. Results showed that perfectionistic self-presentation significantly accounts for the relation between perceived pressure to be thin and both depressive symptoms (b = .05, SE = .01, p \u3c .001, 95% CI [.03, .07]) and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (b = .33, SE = .12, p \u3c .001, 95% CI [.11, .57]). Loneliness moderates this mediational effect on depression (b = -.01, SE = .01, 95% CI [-.03, -.002]) as well as on self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (b = -.07, SE = .05, 95% CI [-.20, -.002]). However, contrary to the hypothesis, stronger mediation effects were found among those with lower loneliness. These results contribute to a deeper understanding of the unique challenges faced by Latina girls, particularly the ways in which social pressures and peer contexts in schools may influence their maladjustment
A Modern Witch Hunt: America’s Past and Future of Mass Hysteria and Its Emergence in Contemporaneous Abortion Politics
Full text linkPsychic life: the Freud-Bergson convergence
Full text linkSigmund Freud and Henri Bergson contemporaneously developed theories of the psyche bearing many features in common, including an unconscious substrate of memories which furnish dreams and a dualism of vital and repetitive drives. I argue that these similarities, which have received little scholarly attention, owe to a shared concern about the relationship between quantities (i.e. conscious experiences of increase or diminution of a sensation or affect, as well as psychic dynamics determined by the relative magnitudes of unconscious psychic forces) and qualities (i.e. sensations and affects that differ in kind) in psychology. Between forces that differ in degree and experiences that differ in kind, how can there be interaction without commensurability? This question, which I show is central to both Bergson\u27s metaphysics and Freud\u27s metapsychology, has also been largely neglected in psychoanalytic and Bergsonist scholarship. In certain key passages on quality and quantity in their respective works, Freud and Bergson come closer to each other in their thinking on the nature of difference and similarity than they do even to their own followers . In Chapters One and Two, I examine such passages on conscious qualities and quantities in Bergson\u27s Time and Free Will and Matter and Memory and in Freud\u27s early neuroscientific treatise Project for a Scientific Psychology. In Chapters Three and Four, I follow the development of these lines of thought into two parallel theories of unconscious memory and psychical activity laid out in Matter and Memory and in The Interpretation of Dreams. And in Chapter Five, I show how Bergson and Freud\u27s respective dualisms of life and material or death drives elaborated in Creative Evolution and in Beyond the Pleasure Principle carry their investigations of qualitative and quantitative difference to their logical conclusion: a radical rethinking of the nature of difference and oppositio
The son becomes
Full text linkThe Son Becomes is an interactive Twine game that explores generational trauma through a time loop of narrative across three generations of inherited pain. Trapped in a recurrence of pain, players will take the roles of different family members of a father, his son, and grandson and navigate through a relentless cycle of choices, mirroring the suffocation that can happen within a family that may be going through generational trauma. Through the interactive dialogue, players confront the recurring patterns, often making them feel powerless as the choices keep repeating, making it seem like there isn’t a light at the end of the tunnel of suffering. The time loop mechanic reinforces the feeling of entrapment, where it feels like there is no end to generational trauma. Through the game’s minimalist, text driven storytelling that mirrors the invisibility of passed down trauma with simple visuals, The Son Becomes tries to challenge the players in the final loop to see if they can break this cycle of pain or if this cycle of pain will continue on forever
Topic shift detection and triggering in natural dialogue systems: a lightweight approach
Full text linkThis research address a key challenge in dialogue system: enabling the proactive, human-like shifting using lightweight approaching using MobileBERT (~25M) model was proposed and fine-tuned for topic shift detection, augmented with liguistic featuers for for topic trigger detection. Despite its smaller size (~25M parameters), the MobileBERT-based system achieved competitive results (F1 = 74.16%,) compared to the much larger XLNet model (~110M parameters, F1 = 79.95%), while offering greater efficiency. The topic trigger module, combining MobileBERT with linguistic features, further demonstrated effective performance (F1 = 71.61%)
