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Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe

Contesting Religious Authority

By: Sebastian Rimestad

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Orthodox Christian Identity in Western Europe

Contesting Religious Authority

By: Sebastian Rimestad

This book analyses the discourses of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe to demonstrate the emerging discrepancies between the mother Church in the East and its newer Western congregations. Showing the genesis and development of these discourses over the twentieth century, it examines the challenges the Orthodox Church is facing in the modern world. Organised along four different discursive fields, the book uses these fields to analyse the Orthodox Church in Western Europe during the twentieth century. It explores pastoral, ecclesiological, institutional and ecumenical discourses in order to present a holistic view of how the Church views itself and how it seeks to interact with other denominations. Taken together, these four fields reveal a discursive vitality outside of the traditionally Orthodox societies that is, however, only partly reabsorbed by the church hierarchs in core Orthodox regions, like Southeast Europe and Russia. The Orthodox Church is a complex and multi-faceted global reality.Therefore, this book will be a vital guide to scholars studying the Orthodox Church, ecumenism and religion in Europe, as well as those working in religious studies, sociology of religion, and theology more generally.

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1000227618

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Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education

Approaches to Challenges in Higher Education Policy and Practice

By: Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia,Hans Anand Pant,Corinna Lautenbach,Dimitar Molerov,Miriam Toepper,Sebastian Brückner

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Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education

Approaches to Challenges in Higher Education Policy and Practice

By: Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia,Hans Anand Pant,Corinna Lautenbach,Dimitar Molerov,Miriam Toepper,Sebastian Brückner

This publication focuses on competency orientation in higher education, illustrating international assessment practices for measuring student learning outcomes. For Germany, the Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs) research program contributes exemplary approaches, and solutions to current challenges in higher education. KoKoHs models and tests can be used for entrance examination, formative and summative assessment of domain-specific and generic competencies and as a basis for developing new teaching-and-learning tools and formats promoting these competencies.

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Springer

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3658154861

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Cross-Business Synergies

A Typology of Cross-Business Synergies and a Mid-range Theory of Continuous Growth Synergy Realization

By: Sebastian Knoll

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Cross-Business Synergies

A Typology of Cross-Business Synergies and a Mid-range Theory of Continuous Growth Synergy Realization

By: Sebastian Knoll

Sebastian Knoll suggests that the successful realization of growth synergies is associated with a selective focus on specific growth opportunities, decentralized cross-business collaboration that motivates productive business unit self-interest, and a corporate management approach that guides and balances this self-interest in an evolutionary fashion.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3834996874

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9783834996879

A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

By: Anton Sebastian

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A Dictionary of the History of Medicine

By: Anton Sebastian

This is a unique, extensively illustrated dictionary of terms, people, events, and dates spanning the entire history of medicine. It is a monumental work of scholarship totaling some 700 double-column pages with a large number of rare and exceptional illustrations from many original sources painstakingly compiled over years of far-searching inquiry involving more than 5,000 books and hundreds of journals. It is a major resource of hard-to-find information about notable medical figures, instruments, conditions, procedures, and dates and a storehouse of captivating anecdotes and background material. The book contains a wealth of material for concise historical introductions to a broad range of subjects and is the sine qua non authority on both well and little known facts of medical history. With this single volume-an unprecedented tour de force representing more than 7,000 hours of exhaustive research-clinicians and researchers from all fields of medicine can quickly and easily find authoritative, detailed definitions and descriptions, with dates, of medical terms and of the people and events contributing to the development of medicine from earliest times to the present day. The entries range widely from such as abacterial pyuria to zygote, including Latin and Greek origins of terms, compact biographies with dates, eponymic information of all kinds, and rarely seen drawings and photographs of antique medical instruments and little-known conditions.

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1351469991

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9781351469999

Institutional Diversity and Innovation

Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China

By: Cornelia Storz,Sebastian Schäfer

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Institutional Diversity and Innovation

Continuing and Emerging Patterns in Japan and China

By: Cornelia Storz,Sebastian Schäfer

The concept of "innovation systems" has gained considerable attention from scholars and politicians alike. The concept promises not only to serve as a tool to explain sustained economic development, but also to provide policy-makers with scientifically grounded policy options to advance the growth of economies. The thrust of much recent literature has been to review existing empirical findings in order to deduce "best practice" models which are assumed to benefit all countries in a similar fashion. However, as this book argues, such ‘universal’ models often fail in both analysis and policy prescriptions, as they do not take into account sufficiently the circumstances and development trajectories of particular countries. With a foreword by Richard Whitley, this book discusses the extent to which the diagnoses and reform recommendations of recent work on innovation theory, and the related policy recommendations, actually apply to Japan and China. Making links between behavioural economics and institutional analysis, the book covers their regulatory framework, legal and science system, the labour and capital market, and intra-firm relations. It examines the present design and reasons underlying the Japanese and Chinese innovation systems, and based on those findings, emphasises the necessity for reform to secure the future competitiveness of both countries. The book is introduced by a foreword by Richard Whitley, Professor of Organisational Sociology at Manchester Business School.

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1136715487

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Leadership Results

How to Create Adaptive Leaders and High-Performing Organisations for an Uncertain World

By: Sebastian Salicru

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Leadership Results

How to Create Adaptive Leaders and High-Performing Organisations for an Uncertain World

By: Sebastian Salicru

A model for developing the leaders and delivering the leadership results the world needs Leadership Results explores the fall of traditional leadership thinking and the struggling multibillion dollar leadership development industry that is failing to deliver results, and explains the mindset, skills, ways of being and methods that will get results in the new context and evolving paradigm. The Leadership Results model is practical and predictive, providing a way forward for companies seeking to build sustainable leadership capacity, develop individual leaders, boost employee engagement and deliver breakthrough results through shared and collective leadership. Actionable steps guide you through the process of evolving leadership culture to see increased productivity, growth opportunities and ensured profitability borne on a culture of trust, collaboration, fairness and a commitment to innovation and real prosperity. Expert analysis debunks pervasive myths and assumptions surrounding leadership, employee engagement, and talent development, while demystifying the role technology plays in innovation and progress. Leaders, coaches, trainers, OD practitioners, change agents, and students will find insightful guidance, thought-provoking discussion and illustrative case studies that will help them: Rethink leadership to make a stronger impact Take bold action to change the status quo Marry strategic and innovation leadership into a force for real change Stop making the same mistakes and start forging a new path forward From the heads of state on down, all levels of leadership are experiencing a rapid loss of trust and confidence — and the glaring absence of results that follows. Unethical business practices are costing more than five per cent of the global GDP every year; citizens around the world have lost faith in the public and private sectors; only 13% of employees are engaged at work — clearly, there is a severe lack of effective leadership. Leadership Results provides a practical way forward through this global quagmire, with a clear, actionable model for leadership that works.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0730345475

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9780730345473

Legal Entanglements

Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989

By: Sebastian Gehrig

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Legal Entanglements

Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989

By: Sebastian Gehrig

During the division of Germany, law became the object of ideological conflicts and the means by which the two national governments conducted their battle over political legitimacy. Legal Entanglements explores how these dynamics produced competing concepts of statehood and sovereignty, all centered on citizens and their rights. Drawing on wide-ranging archival sources, including recently declassified documents, Sebastian Gehrig traces how politicians, diplomats, judges, lawyers, activists and intellectuals navigated the struggle between legal ideologies under the pressures of the Cold War and decolonization. As he shows, in their response to global debates over international law and human rights, their work kept the legal cultures of both German states entangled until 1989.

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Berghahn Books

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1800730845

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9781800730847

Corrupt Capital

Alcohol, Nightlife, and Crimes of the Powerful

By: Kenneth Sebastian León

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Corrupt Capital

Alcohol, Nightlife, and Crimes of the Powerful

By: Kenneth Sebastian León

This book offers a deep dive into the social, political, and economic forces that make white-collar crime and corruption a staple feature of the nightlife economy. The author, a former bouncer-turned-bartender of party bars and nightclubs in a large U.S. city, draws from an auto-ethnographic case study to describe and explain the routine and embedded nature of corruption and deviance among the regulators and the regulated in the nightlife environment. This text offers a contemporary and incisive theoretical framework on the criminogenic features and structural contradictions of capitalism. The author both describes and explains how the dominant political economy is rife with structural contradictions that, in turn, generate various manifestations of white-collar crime, organizational deviance, and public corruption. The author uses the bar and nightlife environment to empirically anchor these claims. Methodologically, the research is innovative in advancing inquiry into ethically and logistically challenging environments. The style of writing and framing of the text is one that punches upward and avoids the voyeuristic and reductionist tropes historically associated with "dangerous fieldwork." Through a range of disciplinary perspectives, Corrupt Capital offers both scholarly rigor and inviting prose to advance our understanding of crimes of the relatively powerful and powerless alike. An accessible and compelling text, this book will appeal to readers in criminology, sociology, law and society, political science, and all those interested in learning about the relationship between power, law, and routinized corruption in the nightlife economy.

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0429589379

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9780429589379

The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication

By: Guido Rings,Sebastian M. Rasinger

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The Cambridge Introduction to Intercultural Communication

By: Guido Rings,Sebastian M. Rasinger

Provides concise, up-to-date overviews of key topics, a variety of staggered tasks, and 18 case studies for in-depth discussions and more.

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1108842712

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Organizational Outsourcing Readiness

Empirically Investigating the Role of Client’s IT Capability, Knowledge, and Alignment for Outsourcing Success

By: Sebastian F Martin

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Organizational Outsourcing Readiness

Empirically Investigating the Role of Client’s IT Capability, Knowledge, and Alignment for Outsourcing Success

By: Sebastian F Martin

How can prospective outsourcing clients prepare their internal organizational workflows to meet the challenges associated with an outsourcing venture with little penalty in time, cost, and effort? Along this guiding question, the author empirically investigates the ways in which several factors of the client company's internal organizational context affect the outcomes of their outsourcing efforts. The investigated factors represent the client's IT capability, the explicit knowledge in form of business process documentation available within the company, and the level of alignment between the client's IT and business domains. Based on qualitative and quantitative empirical data, S. F. Martin demonstrates that each of these client-specific factors has a significant inter-organizational impact, affecting the quality of the relationship between client and provider, the vendor’s performance, and outsourcing success.

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ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press

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3838260295

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Velvet Meets the Iron Curtain

The Autobiography of a Czech Dancer

By: Jiri Sebastian Voborsky

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Velvet Meets the Iron Curtain

The Autobiography of a Czech Dancer

By: Jiri Sebastian Voborsky

Velvet Meets the Iron Curtain is a true story of an unexpected revolution of the heart. This autobiography tells a story of a man born behind the Iron Curtain of Communist Czechoslovakia, a nation known for its cultural and historical heritage and for its prevailing atheistic view on life. Jiri Sebastian Voborsky tells his story of growing up under the heavy fist of the totalitarian regime. In a moving and captivating way, he writes of his experience of the 1989 Velvet Revolution and passionately recounts his own revolt against the voice of spiritual depravity when met by his Savior, Jesus Christ. This narrative paints a picture of the profound truth that God, in His wisdom, carefully orchestrates the events of our lives, allowing us to arrive at the very moment where the exchange between man and God takes place. As a high school student, Jiri was privileged to be one out of ten million Czechs who was given the opportunity to personally encounter Jesus Christ. As a professional ballet dancer, Jiri's path of life then brought him to America where he blossomed into a world-renowned choreographer and became a passionate artist pointing thousands to that same Messiah, both here in the United States and around the world. Jiri's desire for his story is to bring hope and inspiration to the readers' lives as they perceive to learn of their own special place in the heart of God.

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1098098498

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How Does Confucian Dynamism Influence National Innovativeness

By: Sebastian Walter

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How Does Confucian Dynamism Influence National Innovativeness

By: Sebastian Walter

Scholars have noticed the importance of innovation for a nation's wealth; and the possibility that some nations could be better at innovating than others. This study takes the Confucian Dynamism dimension of national culture as focal lens to investigate how cultural values influence the innovativeness of societies. A theoretical model is developed and tested with data from 19 countries for the years 1996 to 2006. The results indicate that Confucian Dynamism does influence national innovativeness. The results also lead to a revised model of how Confucian Dynamism could influence national innovativeness. In addition, this study offers possible explanations of how Confucian Dynamism influences innovation on the individual- and firm-level.

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Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)

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3954892626

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Can static type systems speed up programming? An experimental evaluation of static and dynamic type systems

By: Sebastian Kleinschmager

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Can static type systems speed up programming? An experimental evaluation of static and dynamic type systems

By: Sebastian Kleinschmager

Programming languages that use the object-oriented approach have been around for quite a while now. Most of them use either a static or a dynamic type system. However, both types are very common in the industry. But, in spite of their common use in science and practice, only very few scientific studies have tried to evaluate the two type systems' usefulness in certain scenarios. There are arguments for both systems. For example, static type systems are said to aid the programmer in the prevention of type errors, and further, they provide documentation help for, there is an explicit need to annotate variables and methods with their respective types. This book describes a controlled experiment that was conducted to shed some light into the presented matter. Which of the type systems can live up to its promises? Is one of these better suited for a particular task? And which type system is the most supportive in a problem solving? The main hypothesis claims that a static type system is faster in a problem solving in use of an undocumented API. Thus, in the study, the participants need to solve different programming tasks in an undocumented API environment with the help of the static type system (Java), and the dynamic type system (Groovy). The author starts with a short introduction to the topic, the experimentation, and the motivation. Then, he describes a list of related works, and proceeds to the description of the experiment, its evaluation, and finally, the discussion of the results. This book should prove interesting reading for anyone who is interested in the mechanics that drive programmer productivity and performance that depend on the kind of technology used, as well as for anyone who might be interested in empirical research in software engineering, in general.

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3954895404

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Neural Correlates of Quality During Perception of Audiovisual Stimuli

By: Sebastian Arndt

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Neural Correlates of Quality During Perception of Audiovisual Stimuli

By: Sebastian Arndt

This book presents a new approach to examining the perceived quality of audiovisual sequences. It uses electroencephalography (EEG) to explain in detail how user quality judgments are formed within a test participant, and what the physiological implications might be when subjects are exposed to lower quality media. The book redefines the experimental paradigms of using EEG in the area of quality assessment so that they better suit the requirements of standard subjective quality testing, and presents experimental protocols and stimuli that have been adjusted accordingly.

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9811002487

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9789811002489

Designing VR Stressors for Occupational Simulation Training in the ICU Context

By: Sebastian Weiß

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Designing VR Stressors for Occupational Simulation Training in the ICU Context

By: Sebastian Weiß

Dissertationsschrift auf Englisch über die Entwicklung und nachfolgende quantitative Evaluierung von VR - basierten Stresstrainings für IntensivpflegerInnen

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375978593X

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Information Hiding in Communication Networks

Fundamentals, Mechanisms, Applications, and Countermeasures

By: Wojciech Mazurczyk,Steffen Wendzel,Sebastian Zander,Amir Houmansadr,Krzysztof Szczypiorski

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Information Hiding in Communication Networks

Fundamentals, Mechanisms, Applications, and Countermeasures

By: Wojciech Mazurczyk,Steffen Wendzel,Sebastian Zander,Amir Houmansadr,Krzysztof Szczypiorski

Describes Information Hiding in communication networks, and highlights their important issues, challenges, trends, and applications. Highlights development trends and potential future directions of Information Hiding Introduces a new classification and taxonomy for modern data hiding techniques Presents different types of network steganography mechanisms Introduces several example applications of information hiding in communication networks including some recent covert communication techniques in popular Internet services

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1119081777

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Information Hiding in Communication Networks

Fundamentals, Mechanisms, Applications, and Countermeasures

By: Wojciech Mazurczyk,Steffen Wendzel,Sebastian Zander,Amir Houmansadr,Krzysztof Szczypiorski

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Information Hiding in Communication Networks

Fundamentals, Mechanisms, Applications, and Countermeasures

By: Wojciech Mazurczyk,Steffen Wendzel,Sebastian Zander,Amir Houmansadr,Krzysztof Szczypiorski

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118861698

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Interorganizational Information Systems for the Efficient Utilization of Renewable Resources

Insights from Networks in the Wood Industry

By: Sebastian Zander

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Interorganizational Information Systems for the Efficient Utilization of Renewable Resources

Insights from Networks in the Wood Industry

By: Sebastian Zander

Systems of production today face an increasing need to respond to diverse societal challenges. This development has resulted in the need for a transition from a fossil- and mineral resource-dependent paradigm towards a path that takes advantage of bio-based resources. In this context, wood is going to be an important feedstock and an essential enabler towards the transition from a fossil-based to a bio-based society. However, wood is not available infinitely. Hence, increasing the efficiency of the processing and utilization of wood is an imperative. In this context, interorganizational IT plays a decisive role. Therefore, this cumulative dissertation sets out to offer insights into the circumstances and causal mechanisms of IT usage behaviors in the wood industry. Encompassing rich empirical data, the thesis provides answers to research questions surrounding the fields of interorganizational IT adoption and interorganizational IT value. The insights provide implications for practitioners in the wood industry on how to promote the adoption of interorganizational IT and how to design structures and processes to effectively profit from investments in IT. In addition, the thesis also provides guidance for academics studying the phenomena of IT adoption and IT value with regard to sector-specific characteristics.

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Cuvillier Verlag

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3736985843

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