891 research outputs found
Interview with Roland Abraham
No full textInterview with Roland Abraham, who is a former director of the Minnesota Extension Service. He is the author of Helping People Help Themselves: Agricultural Extension in Minnesota, 1879 to 1979. Abraham talks about how he got to the university and about the Minnesota Extension Service.Abraham, Roland H.; Pflaum, Ann M.. (1999). Interview with Roland Abraham. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/47871
An examination of the antecedents of readiness for fine-tuning and corporate transformation changes
No full textThis study examined employee readiness for fine-tuning changes and for corporate transformation changes. It was proposed that employees would report different degrees of readiness for these two types of change and that different variables would be associated with readiness for the two types of change. Results of regression analyses indicated that trust in peers and logistics and system support displayed strong positive relationships with readiness for fine-tuning changes, while trust in senior leaders and self-efficacy displayed strong positive relationships with readiness for corporate transformation changes. The implications of this study focus on the appropriateness of traditional change management strategies in light of findings that multiple change readiness attitudes exist within an organization
Hand-Scoring Error Rates in Psychological Testing
No full textDespite the comprehensive treatment of test validity in most technical manuals, test authors appear to routinely assume that clients and professionals will score their instruments without error. Recently Allard and Faust challenged this assumption by suggesting that error rates “may not be rare or benign” and demonstrated that tests with more complex scoring procedures were associated with a greater number of scoring errors. This study investigated error rates that resulted from hand scoring seven psychometric tests commonly employed in psychological practice. Significant and serious error rates were identified for both psychologist and client scorers across all tests investigated. Scoring complexity was found to predict the base rate of scorer errors. The findings suggest that greater development in and attention to test-scoring procedures is required to restrict the likelihood of scorer error
Institutionelle Reformen zur Friedenskonsolidierung
No full textAm 19. September 2012 veröffentlichte die Bundesregierung im Zusammenhang mit einer Strategie der Krisenprävention ressortübergreifende Leitlinien für eine kohärente Politik gegenüber fragilen Staaten. Darin gibt sie das Ziel aus, Staatlichkeit durch "institutionalisierte und rechtlich abgesicherte Mechanismen der gleichberechtigten politischen Teilhabe" zu fördern. Wissenschaftler, Diplomaten und Entwicklungspolitiker gehen zumeist davon aus, dass institutionelle Reformen zur Friedenskonsolidierung in Nachkriegsgesellschaften beitragen können. Es bleibt jedoch unklar, unter welchen Bedingungen solche Reformen Erfolg haben. Eine Analyse institutioneller Reformen in 18 Nachkriegsstaaten in den Bereichen territoriale Staatsstruktur, Wahl- und Parteiensysteme, Regierungssysteme, Sicherheitssektor und Justiz in den Jahren von 2000 bis 2005 deutet auf folgende Ergebnisse hin: Nationale und internationale Akteure müssen bei den Reformen die Wechselwirkungen der Institutionen untereinander und das gesamte "Konzert" der Institutionen berücksichtigen. Viel zu selten wird beachtet, dass Reformen in unterschiedlichen Politikbereichen sich gegenseitig widersprechen können oder zusammen eine Wirkung entfalten, die immer die gleichen "Reformverlierer" hervorbringt - das kann einen notwendigen Elitenkonsens untergraben. Reformüberlastung aufgrund vieler gleichzeitig reformierter Institutionen kann die Friedenskonsolidierung gefährden. Für den Erfolg institutioneller Reformen ist über die reine Festlegung in Friedensabkommen und/oder Verfassungen hinaus ihre effektive Umsetzung notwendig
Aplikasi Semiotika Roland Barthes terhadap Makna Takwa dalam QS. al-Hajj [22]: 37
No full textAbstractThis article examines how Roland Barthes' semiotics can be used to understand the meaning of piety in QS. Al-Hajj: 37. The author's background involves the application of the definition of piety as it pertains to the role of the physical and spiritual as it has existed in humans. This study aims to ascertain the true meaning of the word "piety" as it appears in QS. Al-Hajj: 37 from a semiotic standpoint. The descriptive analysis used in this article's research was discovered through library research. Before helping one comprehend how Roland Barthes' semiotics can be applied to the meaning of piety in QS. Al-Hajj: 37. Following a description of Roland Barthes' semiotic theory, the author then discusses the meaning of "piety" in the Qur'an. When Roland Barthes' semiotics are applied to parse the meaning of piety in QS, it leads to the conclusion that there are two levels of the signification of Al-Hajj: 37. In summary, the relational interpretation between the signifiers lafaz al-taqwa and al-wiqayah has been known to be central to the denotative and connotative meanings of piety.Keywords: QS. al-Hajj: 37; Roland Barthes; Semiotics; The meaning of piety. AbstrakArtikel ini menganalisa tentang aplikasi semiotika Roland Barthes terhadap makna takwa dalam QS. al-H{ajj: 37. Latar belakang yang diambil penulis adalah implementasi makna takwa yang disebutkan telah melibatkan peran jasmani dan rohani sebagaimana telah bersemayam dalam diri manusia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui makna hakiki terma takwa pada QS. al-H{ajj: 37 perspektif semiotika Roland Barthes. Metode penelitian dalam artikel ini menggunakan deskriptif analisis yang diperoleh melalui library research. Sebelum mengarah kepada pemahaman perihal aplikasinya semiotika Roland Barthes terhadap makna takwa dalam QS. al-H{ajj: 37, penulis memaparkan dahulu terkait teori semiotika Roland Barthes, dilanjutkan pembahasan terma takwa dalam al-Qur’an. Sehingga menghasilkan bahwa terdapat dua tingkatan signifikasi pada pengaplikasian semiotika Roland Barthes dalam mengurai makna takwa dalam QS. al-H{ajj: 37. Singkatnya, makna denotatif dan konotatif makna takwa telah diketahui terfokus pada interpretasi relasional antara lafaz al-taqwa> sebagai penanda dan al-wiqa>yah sebagai petanda. Kata Kunci: Makna takwa; QS. al-H{ajj: 37; Roland Barthes; Semiotika
The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective
No full textThe thesis discusses two directors who are never considered together in academic discourse. Cassavetes’ perceived focus on events led by the dynamics of performance and his looseness of technique opposes the calculated compositions of the Cronenberg film, with its aesthetic of horrific images and its gallery of emotionally detached protagonists. Yet it is between such opposing methods of cinematic expression that the ineffable qualities of film aesthetics can be discovered. Cassavetes’ cinema achieves this by revelling in a surplus of activity that exceeds narrative, while the indescribable characteristics of the Cronenberg oeuvre is achieved through a systematic emptying of the image’s meaning through a simultaneous commitment to paring back emotion and portraying of images that are controversial and inconceivable. Taken together, the thesis identifies these aspects of film as ‘the visceral,’ a facet of the moving image that most certainly exists, but is resolutely, and disturbingly resistant to interpretation.
Roland Barthes’ writings are integral to a theory of the visceral. His re-evaluation of Saussurean semiology as a method of analyzing and undoing ideologically-imposed meanings informs readings of sequences from Cassavetes and Cronenberg’s films. Following Barthes, the thesis suggests that the existence of the visceral is realized as a resistance to ideological interpretations of the image, and so cannot be described. Ultimately, the inability of semiology to fully grasp certain aspects of the filmed image is put forward as a rejoinder to theories of the fiction film as principally a narrative medium
Psychologist hand scoring error rates on the Rothwell Miller Interest Blank: A comparison of three job allocation systems
No full textHand scoring errors are known to occur on a range of psychological tests. The present study conducts an investigation into the existence of scoring errors by 27 professional occupational psychologists using the Rothwell-Miller Interest Blank (RMIB; Miller, Tyler & Rothwell, 1994). Building on investigations into the impact of work allocation practices on work quality in other professions, this study explored whether psychologist scoring error rates differed between three work allocation systems. Data from 1175 completed RMIB survey forms indicated error rates for the three systems ranged from five to 16.3 percent, with the self-managed work allocation system resulting in the lowest error rate. The discussion focuses on possible ways for psychologists to overcome scoring error rates with the RMIB and the potential implications these results have for allocating case work to psychologists. Suggestions for test developers and organisations designing work allocation systems are proffered
El Tlacuache Núm. 234 (2006). 234 Año 7 (2006) noviembre. El Tlacuache
No full textRoland Barthes y el amor por Ricardo Ferré D´Amaré. - México en Vilo: Un libro de Octavio Rodríguez Araujo por Claudio Albertani. - Origen del guarache* por Robert H. Barlow. - El Yauhtli por Margarita Avilés y Macrina Fuentes
Houston Yacht Club skippers and crews posing on the club dock at Shoreacres before the start of the last September race of the 1930 cabin sloop season
No full textPictured are, from left back row, Roland Chamberlain, George Humphreville, McIver (Boy) Streetman, Si Simons, Ivan Rader, Carl Hamilton, Carlton, the Lee twins and Bill Gross. The front row includes H.V. (Bud) Baker, Mrs. Ray Davis, Mrs. H. Burghard, C.E. Wademan, Hervey Burghard, Mike Mellinger, Ray Davis, Frank Zumwalt, and Paul and Jo Richmond
On Growth and Income Distribution in a Globalizing World
No full textThe basic idea explaining the relationship between economic growth and income distribution is the “U- shaped hypothesis” postulated by Simon Kuznets. This can be shown in a dual-economy model with technical progress. Initially, inequality is low, but as labour participation in the modern sector increases, higher wages in this sector tend to increase inequality. However, if enough labour is incorporated in the modern sector, wage inequality begins to diminish. Income inequality continues to worsen between the two sectors, if a new modern economy (e.g. IT-based technical change) is introduced and potential GDP shifts to a new trajectory before the turning point is reached. In a globalised word, the substantial unskilled-labour-saving technical progress puts pressure on wages of unskilled workers (in industrialized countries). Also, globalization may be blamed for leaving many nations and millions of people out from reaping the benefits of globalization. This problem can only be overcome by appropriate reforms of the international economic system.Economic Growth, Income Distribution, Globalization
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