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Extracting and Linking Morphological Data from the Pre-Standard Croatian Grammars Using TEI
Full text linkDigital humanities offer the possibilities and tools to overcome the limitations of
print technology (Robinson, 2002, p. 43). This is especially useful for conducting any
kind of linguistic analysis on written texts. DH can also give new insights in processing
older linguistic data, historical dictionaries, or grammar books. In the literature, the common title “Croatian pre-standard grammars” refers to a
heterogeneous group of grammar books with common structural features and methods
of description, and whose metalanguage or object language1 is one of the Croatian literary languages that precede the modern Croatian standard language based on Štokavian
dialect: Čakavian, Kajkavian, and Štokavian
Rethinking Industry-Specific Characteristics of Idiosyncratic Deals
Full text linkIdiosyncratic deals (i-deals) are becoming an increasingly popular human resource management
approach in various industries to attract, retain, and motivate personnel. They are non-standard work
arrangements in which employees bargain with supervisors or managers to obtain resources or conditions that
are personally desirable (e.g., flexibility in scheduling work, special assignments or training opportunities).
According to the most recent i-deals' literature reviews, around one-third of i-deal articles were generalizability
studies, which did not provide explicit hypotheses concerning contextual variables but frequently incorporated
them to understand the findings. Despite growing interest in the concept, little is known about how and if i-deals
differ amongst industries. This is a significant loss as i-deals are embedded in teams' and companies' social and
organizational contexts, which vary in industries, affecting individual and collective outcomes. This paper aimed
to distinct industry-specific aspects of idiosyncratic deals in the hotel, R&D and manufacturing, healthcare, higher
education, and local government sectors. All reviewed articles were initially categorized into single-industry,
multi-industry or mixed sample studies. Mixed studies were eliminated, and the remaining articles were examined.
According to the research results, the cross-industrial i-deals research is still in the very early phase, but there
could be some essential differences. Task, career, and incentive i-deals were proven to impact organization-based
self-esteem in the hospitality industry positively. A significant positive relationship between different i-deals and
psychological empowerment was discovered in high-tech organizations. Also, a positive relationship between task
and work responsibilities i-deals and flexibility i-deals to employee innovative performance was noted. Local
authorities in England were notorious for redeployment i-deals. I-deals in higher education had a positive
association with psychological empowerment. I-deals had varied effects on job characteristics linked to different
outcomes in the healthcare industry. Future research should focus on distinguishing these differences in more
detail and consider industry-level influences when examining the nature of the relationship between i-deals and
their outcomes
The Importance of Narrative Learning and Reflexivity at Work with Foreigners Granted Asylum and the Context of a Non-Governmental Organization
Full text linkCC BY 4.0This paper discusses the importance of narrative learning and reflexivity at work with foreigners granted asylum. The discussed data is from 1 year
duration fieldwork at NGO working with refugees in Lithuania. In this paper the
examples from 4 narrative portraits of NGO workers are presented. It is argued
that narrative learning is an interactive and co-constructed process and there is
the need of awareness about the narratives and narrative learning, and how storytelling could be used for effective social work practice. The paper discusses
the doctoral research data and explores the links between narrative learning and
reflexivity. It is argued that reflecting about their practice critically, the workers
can create new narrative identities and better understand and analyse their own
identities, values, choices, practices and wider local and international contexts.
Therefore, it is important to increase reflexivity and awareness of workers about
various contextual factors and discourses, which might be influencing their narratives about their work and refugees, and further research on narrative learning
and narratives of NGO workers
Legal Regulation of Gender Equality in the Labor Market: Lithuania in the Interwar Period and after 1990
No full textIn the modern world, there is a strong focus on gender
equality in the labor market, and much has been achieved. In Lithuania,
the main goal is to ensure gender equality in the labor market through
appropriate legal regulation. The aim of this article is to reveal the progress
of legal regulation of gender equality in the Lithuanian labor market
in the interwar period and after 1990. The issue of gender equality in
Lithuania arose in the interwar period when, after women had acquired
full civil rights, legal action was taken to improve their position in the
labor market. However, after the restoration of Lithuania’s independence
in 1990 and accession to the European Union in 2004, the legal regulation
on gender equality in the labor market has remained relevant and
has become more intense. The goals and strategies set by the European
Union facilitate the achievement of the goals related to ensuring gender
equality through legal measures in the labor market, but this issue – over
100 years after the full legal capacity of women was achieved in Lithuania
in 1918 – is still unresolved
A chronicle of the actions of 1–11 March 1990 for the restoration of the independent state of Lithuania
No full textCC BY-NC-ND 4.0On 24 February 1990, for the first time since the occupation of Lithuania by the
Soviet Union in 1940, free elections were held to the puppet Supreme Council of the Lithuanian
Soviet Socialist Republic. The Lithuanian Sąjūdis (the National Freedom Movement) in its official
election program pledged on behalf of the new Lithuanian Supreme Council to declare without
delay the restoration of an independent, democratic state of Lithuania. This was in accordance with
the Lithuanian Sąjūdis striving to abolish the Soviet annexation of Lithuania by parliamentary
resolution.
After the first round of the 24 February 1990 elections, it already became clear that Lithuanian
Sąjūdis candidates would win the election by a large margin. After the second round of elections,
on 10 March, the Lithuanian Sąjūdis anticipated a majority of around two thirds in the national
parliament of 141 deputies, and obtained a strong majority mandate from the nation to restore the
independent state of Lithuania
EtG Quantification in Hair and Different Reference Cut-Offs in Relation to Various Pathologies: A Scoping Review
Full text linkCC BY 4.0Ethyl glucuronide (EtG) is a non-volatile, non-oxidative, hydrophilic, and stable ethanol
phase II metabolite. EtG is produced through ethanol glucuronidation by UDP-glucuronosyltransferase
(UGT), a phase II enzyme. EtG can be extracted from different biological matrices, including keratin
ones, such as hair or nails. The purpose of this scoping review is to describe the relationship between
EtG levels in hair and some of the most common and frequent pathological conditions and verify
whether different reference cut-offs in relation to various pathologies have been identified in the
scientific literature. In fact, in-depth knowledge of the influence of pathologies, such as diabetes
mellitus, hepatic and renal dysfunction, on EtG production and its storage in keratin matrices
would allow a more appropriate interpretation of obtained data and rule out false positives or false
negatives. This scoping review is based on bibliographic research carried out on PubMed regarding
the quantification of EtG in hair of subjects affected by different pathological conditions. According
to the scientific literature, the main and most common pathologies that can affect the concentration of
EtG in hair are liver and kidney diseases and diabetes. The EtG quantification analytical data should
be interpreted carefully as they may have a great impact in both forensic and clinical contexts
Interlinking Lexicographic Data in the MORDigital Project
Full text linkPurpose: To introduce MORDigital as an innovative Portuguese national project
that incorporates the latest results in computational lexicography, the digital humanities,
and linguistic linked data. In particular, we will show how it brings together work in the
development of TEI Lex-0 and OntoLex-Lemon, as well as recent innovations on the
conversion of retrodigitized dictionaries into computational lexical resources (using in
this case the GROBID-dictionaries tool)
Lexico-Semantic Relation Classification with Multilingual Finetuning
Full text linkFollowing the research line of lexico-semantic relation induction based on Language Models (LM) [4, 1, 5], this work analyses how the multilingual fine-tuning of
a LM might improve its performance on a relation classification task. The model is
trained on a set of word pairs which share a known relation (e.g., Big–small, antonymy).
Then, it is used to classify the relation between an unseen word pair. Our hypothesis is
that enriching this training with multilingual information benefits the classification of
lexico-semantic relations that are common in several languages
Responsibility Experience for Your Own Life through Volunteering
Full text linkCC BY 4.0Phenomenon of the Volunteering reveals itself through dedicated
time for volunteering, duration of volunteering commitment, area where volunteering is implemented and through age group of the volunteers. The object of
the study is volunteering experience of young adults. Interpretative Phenomenological Analyses is research methodology. According to the phenomenological
approach, research itself is not focusing on any foreseen objectives, oriented to
the volunteers’ experience. In this article is presented part of the research, giving deeper view on one of the super-ordinates theme, with the aim: to present
responsibility for your own life experience of young adults in long term and
full-time volunteering, while volunteered is held in social help area. In the study
participated 6 research participants, 3 young men and 3 young women, 20–30
years old. To collect the data of the research were used semi-structured interviews. Conclusions of the study presented in this article shows 1) that through
volunteering experience research participants perceived power and duty of own
life’s quality. They got awareness about their own life – they can and they must
be responsible of own life. 2) This power of responsibility is hidden in themselves and change of own life depends on the decisions made by them while
volunteering. Prior experience of responsibility is opening decision possibilities and freedom possibilities in any change of life