552 research outputs found
Short and sweet: Comparing strategies for the reduction of questionnaires on self-criticism and social safeness while preserving construct validity
No full textMeasuring psychological traits with standardised questionnaires is an essential component of clinical practice and research; however, patients and participants risk fatigue from overly long and repetitive measures. When developing the short form of a questionnaire, the most widely used method for selecting an item subset uses factor analysis loadings to identify the items most closely related to the psychological construct being measured. However, this approach will tend to select highly correlated, homogeneous items and might therefore restrict the breadth of the construct examined. In this study, we will present Yarkoni's genetic algorithm for scale reduction and compare it with the classical scale reduction method. The algorithm will be applied to the shortening of three instruments for measuring self-compassion and social safeness (two unidimensional measures and a three-factor measure). We evaluated the shortened scales using correlation with long-form scores, internal reliability and the change in the correlations observed with other related constructs. Findings suggested that the classical method preserves internal reliability, but Yarkoni's genetic algorithm better maintained correlations with other constructs. An additional qualitative assessment of item content showed that the latter method led to a more heterogeneous selection of items, better preserving the full complexity of the constructs being measured
RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: Measuring the Social, Economic, and Environmental Value of Sustainable Business
No full textIn today’s climate, companies must be economically successful and at the same time take social responsibility. Author Cesar Sandro Saenz Acosta introduces a new SROIM (Social Return on Investment Management) model, to design and measure the social value created by companies. © 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited
Ermeneutica Sociologica
No full textL'autore intende ancorare la sociologia al presupposto che la comprensione dell'essere umano in quanto individuo socialmente definito e costruito risiede nella socialitàThe author intends to anchor the sociology the assumption that the understanding of the human being as an individual socially defined and constructed lies in socializin
Trans and Non-Binary People's Experiences of Their Sexualities and Relationships Alongside Their Gender
No full textSexual health is an important aspect of one’s wellbeing. However, historically, research in this field within trans and non-binary (TNB) populations was either pathologizing, or focusing on risk-behaviours. Additionally, in research, sexuality has been fragmented (e.g., sexual orientation, sexual health, risk-behaviours, sexual acts, pleasure), thus, producing research findings that use different methodologies and outcomes. Conversely, this study focused on sexualities, with these being understood as an umbrella term including, but not exhaustive, relationships, sexual behaviours, and desires. This thesis applied a post-humanist ontological framework, combined with queer epistemology and epistemology of ignorance to TNB sexualities. More specifically, the research aim was to understand how the sexualities of TNB people change alongside their gender. The study implemented Narrative Inquiry, combining this method of art-based methods for data collection. The study highlighted how relationships (past and current) influenced one’s sexualities, and this being in the context of society’s norms and cultural narratives, which might influence one’s behaviours and preferences. Additionally, transition and positive representation seemed to increase one’s sense of confidence, which also affected how participants engaged in relationships. Implications and recommendations for future clinical practice and research are outlined. These include inviting Clinical Psychologists to think beyond the individual when working with TNB populations. This might imply helping TNB people bolster their communication skills (e.g., setting boundaries), and ensure Trainee Clinical Psychologists are apt in working with couples and various relationships structures (e.g., polyamory, ethical non-monogamy). Additionally, gender clinics are encouraged to offer couples/relationships therapy and/or psychosexual therapy as option. In terms of research, engaging more with communities could facilitate offering a more diverse sample group, and welcome additional insights to these findings. Finally, as space was mentioned as an important element, future research should consider both rural and urban setting to understand TNB people’s experiences in different geographic areas
Né qui, né altrove : migration, detention, desertion : a dialogue
No full textSandro Mezzadra teaches the History of Contemporary Political Thought at the University of Bologna. He is an active figure in the alternative globalisation movement in Italy, and has been particularly involved in bringing the question of migration to the centre of political struggle in that movement. Sandro is the author of works such as Diritto di fuga: Migrazioni, cittadinanza, globalizzazione (2001) and (with Fabio Raimondi) Oltre Genova, oltre New York: Tesi sul movimento globale (2001). He is also a member of the editorial collective of DeriveApprodi magazine, one of the chief venues in Italy for the critical analysis of contemporary capitalism. We met in Bologna one foggy January afternoon to discuss the global movement, migration, and border control in Europe and Australia
The part-time work and job on call in JustEatTakeaway supplementary company agreement for Takeaway.com Express Italy (Just Eat group) riders
No full textThe comment deals with the part-time work regulation, contained, in particular, in Part II of the JustEatTakeaway supplementary company
agreement. The use of this instrument is expected to be massive, considering that it is, in the parties' plans, the common form of work in the company.
The author analyses the provisions contained in the collective agreement, especially in the light of the discipline contained in the CCNL Logistica, Trasporto, Merci e Spedizione and in the Protocol signed on 18 July 2018 for the same sector. The author also discusses the rules on overtime and supplementary work and the rules on intermittent work, which are also subject to specific contractual regulations
Bridging the Boundaries of Science and Technology: Author-Inventors and Quality of Inventions
No full textA growing body of research examines the relationship between science and technology by using a social network lens to look at the collaboration networks between authors and inventors. Building on this research, we study how publishing inventors’ (author-inventors’) structural position in scientific (co-authorship) and technological (co-invention) networks affects the quality of their inventions. We probe author-inventors’ characteristics by identifying those who act as cutpoints—i.e., those who play a pivotal role in holding the two networks together. Cutpoints can be connected to more or less cohesive subgroups of the scientific network and hence have access to more or less diverse knowledge bases. The results of the analysis suggest that author-inventors’ structural position—in particular, whether they are cutpoints and belong to more cohesive subgroups of the scientific network—is highly consequential for the quality of the inventions with which they are involved. We tested our hypotheses in the emerging field of nanotechnology. The theoretical and managerial implications of the results are discussed
<i>Primavera</i> / <i>The Birth of Venus</i> by Sandro Botticelli. Representations, Reinterpretations
No full textTekst pochodzi z pracy magisterskiej pt. "Primavera" i "Narodziny Wenus" Sandro Botticellego. Reinterpretacje, ekfrazy, reprezentacje (promotor: prof. dr hab. Dariusz Czaja), obronionej w IEiAKUJ w roku 2016. Poświęcony jest rozwojowi badań nad obrazem, ponownym odkryciem dzieł Botticellego w kręgach prerafaelitów oraz ich późniejszej reprezentacji w kulturze.The text is composed of an introduction and third chapter of an M.A. dissertation: “Primavera” / “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli. Reinterpretations, Ekphrases, Representations (promoter: Prof. Dariusz Czaja), presented at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, in 2016. The author deals with the development of research focused on the painting, the rediscovery of Botticelli’s works by pre-Raphaelites, and their subsequent representation in culture
The working time regulation in JustEatTakeaway supplementary company agreement for Takeaway.com Express Italy (Just Eat group) riders
No full textConsidering that the regulation of the time and the possible economic relevance of the phases of waiting for delivery is a field of discussion still access regarding the work of riders, the Author analyzes, in detail, how the JustEatTakeway supplementary company agreement regulates
the working hours of riders. The Author illustrates the discipline contained in the CCNL Logistica,Trasporto, Merci e Spedizione and in the Protocol signed on July 18, 2018 for the same sector, to which the same company agreement in comment refers
The Topicality of Prehistory. A New Reading of Marx’s Analysis of “So-called Primitive Accumulation”
No full textThe essay discusses Marx’s analysis of ‘‘so-called primitive accumulation’’ starting from the idea that contemporary global capitalism is characterized by new enclosures and by a set of other processes long considered characteristic of the historical transition to capitalism. A reflection on this temporal short circuit leads the author to an investigation of some of the peculiarities and difficulties of Marx’s method as, for instance, the relationship between the historical and the logical order of exposition. Reading the temporal structures of capitalism against the backdrop of Marx’s analysis of primitive accumulation suggests an emphasis on temporal heterogeneity, on the intertwining of continuity and rupture, of progress and catastrophe, that is far from any ‘‘historicist’’ interpretation of Marx. From this point of view, the author investigates some of the key questions connected to primitive accumulation: the production of labor power as a commodity as a specific and strategic form of the production of subjectivity, the concept of transition, the role of violence in capitalist development, and the relationship between formal and real subsumption of labor under capital
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