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Postcard from Mrs. D.L. Cooke to Sam Tanaka, August 1943
No full textPostcard from Mrs. D.L. Cooke to Sam Tanaka in the Jerome incarceration camp including a greeting and update from Cooke.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Specialty farming in Idaho: Selecting a site
No full textBulletin no. 744 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 1992-10-01. Author(s): Barney, D.L.; Finnerty, T.L.; Mancuso, C.J
Empowerment de los trabajadores comprendidos en los regímenes laborales D.L. 276 y CAS D.L. 1057 - Dirección Regional de Educación Amazonas, 2018
Full text linkEl objetivo de este trabajo de investigación fue determinar la diferencia de los
niveles de Empowerment entre los trabajadores Nombrados y CAS de la Dirección
Regional de Educación de Amazonas, 201 8.
Se trata de una investigación básica, con enfoque cuantitativo, diseño no
experimental y comparativo. Se encuestó a una muestra de 56 trabajadores de
régimen laboral CAS (D. L. 1057) y 42 nombrados (D. L. 276). Se empleó el
instrumento de Empowerment adaptado de Díaz, (2009) quien se basó en
Spreitzer, (1995) y Whetten y Cameron, (1996). Para el contraste de hipótesis se
empleó el estadístico U-Mann Whitney (α = 0,05).
A nivel de la variable, no existe diferencia de sus niveles en los trabajadores
comprendidos en los regímenes laborales D.L. 276 y CAS D.L. 1057 - Dirección
Regional de Educación de Amazonas, 201 8. Hubo diferencia estadística
(p=0,008<0,05) del ‘significado’ del Empowerment entre los trabajadores
Nombrados y CAS de la Dirección Regional de Educación de Amazonas, 201 8,
siendo mayor en el personal nombrado. No existe diferencias de las ‘competencias’
del Empowerment entre los trabajadores Nombrados y CAS de esta institución.
Existe diferencia significativa (p=0,040<0,05) de la ‘autodeterminación’ del
Empowerment entre estos trabajadores. No existe diferencias del ‘impacto’ del
Empowerment entre los trabajadores Nombrados y CAS. No existe diferencias del
nivel de ‘seguridad’ del Empowerment entre los trabajadores Nombrados y CAS de
la Dirección Regional de Educación de Amazonas, 201 8
Action preferences and the anticipation of action outcomes
Full text linkSkilled performers of time-constrained motor actions acquire information about the action preferences of their opponents in an effort to better anticipate the outcome of that opponent's actions. However, there is reason to doubt that knowledge of an opponent's action preferences would unequivocally influence anticipatory responses in a positive way. It is possible that overt information about an opponent's actions could distract skilled performers from using the advance kinematic information they would usually rely on to anticipate actions, particularly when the opponent performs an 'unexpected' action that is not in accordance with his or her previous behaviour. The aim of this study was to examine how the ability to anticipate the outcome of an opponent's actions can be influenced by exposure to the action preferences of that opponent. Two groups of skilled handball goalkeepers anticipated the direction of penalty throws performed by opponents before and after a training intervention that provided situational probability information in the form of action preferences (AP). During the training phase participants in an AP-training group anticipated the action outcomes of two throwers who had a strong preference to throw in one particular direction, whilst participants in a NP-training group viewed players who threw equally to all directions. Exposure to opponents who did have an action preference during the training phase resulted in improved anticipatory performance if the opponent continued to bias their throws towards their preferred direction, but decreased performance if the opponent did not. These findings highlight that skilled observers use information about action preferences to enhance their anticipatory ability, but that doing so can be disadvantageous when the outcomes are no longer consistent with their generated expectations. © 2014 Elsevier B.V
Exposure to cadmium and lead in an agropastoral iron age population
No full textMetals present in the environment (soil, water and atmosphere) can affect food safety and human health through bio-accumulation and bio-magnification phenomena. Human exposure to the metals may take place through the environment and by ingesting contaminated food (including water), determining harmful effects usually detectable over the long term. Starting with the Industrial Revolution, local occurrence and concentration of metallic contaminants in the environment have been exponentially increasing: it has been assessed that, nowadays, daily absorption of lead, by North American people, is noticeably greater than that during prehistoric times. In this study, we measured concentrations of cadmium, lead and zinc in 153 bone samples (femurs) of Iron Age inhabitants of Central Italy (Abruzzo): the Samnites from the Alfedena Necropolis (2600-2400 bp). The data found are in agreement with the results of similar published studies. Heavy metal concentrations varied widely among samples with the exception of zinc. A significant difference (p same Mann-Whitney test <0.05) in cadmium bone levels was found between male (0.08-1.8mg/kg, median 0.31mg/kg) and female samples (0.05-1.3mg/kg, median 0.53mg/kg). © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Cross-Cultural Meta-Analyses
Full text linkIn the enormous collection of cross-cultural data that have been published during the last few decades it is difficult to perceive patterns. There is a clear need for systematizing the vast amount of cross-cultural studies and for developing models that explain cross-cultural differences in psychology. Two methods of cross-cultural meta-analysis can be distinguished. First, the instrument-based method of comparing data for one instrument across countries is suitable for instruments which have been administered in many countries. Second, a domain-based meta-analysis used a thematic domain from which culture-comparative studies are sampled instead of one specific instrument or method
La durata della somministrazione a termine
No full textIl saggio esamina le innovazioni introdotte nella somministrazione a tempo determinato dal d.l. n. 34/2014, conv. l. 78/2014.
Si rileva come la nuova legge, accomuna contratto di lavoro a termine e contratto di somministrazione a tempo determinato e si evidenziano le incertezze della nuova normativa determinate dalla commistione tra disciplina di somministrazione a termine e disciplina di contratto a termine.The essay examines the innovations introduced in the fixed term labour-only subcontracting by d.l. n. 34/2014, conv. l. 78/2014.
The Author remarks that the Act, unites fixed term employment contract and fixed term subcontracting.
The uncertainties of the new regulation determined by the blending of the regulation of fixed term employment contract and fixed term subcontracting are also highlighted
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