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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Optimal functioning"”.
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Task-Space-Strengths Fit – An Approach to Positive Physical Work Environment Design
… that enable individuals to thrive, allows for optimal functioning and performance. A task-space-strengths fit, or the match between PWEs intentionally designed to facilitate strengths use and the strengths needed to perform the task at hand, can enhance individual flourishing at work and …
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Readiness for digital learning: examining self-reported and observed mobile competencies as steps toward more effective learner readiness assessment
… students requiring greater preparedness for optimal functioning as digital learners. Quantitative findings include generally strong, positive correlations between self-reported competencies and performance quality. Qualitative case-study analyses highlight four sets of situational factors …
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Oversight in local government in South Africa : a case study of the Ombudman's office for the City of Cape Town
… or legal frameworks for the effective or optimal operation of an institution of this nature. The ombud at the local level calls for a hybrid approach to the ombud practice, and further requires particular arrangements to ensure the independence and credibility of the institution. This …
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The Assessment of Big Results Now in Education (BRNEd) Effectivenees in Primary School Leaving Examinations Performance: A Case of Njombe District Council
… to the extent that most resources necessary for optimal functioning of education sector. The study recommends the government to avail resources for local education authorities so that better results are achieved. It is recommended by this study that a large survey should be conducted over a …
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The Impact of Environment on Building IT Technical Competency
… Technical Competency is critical for the optimal functioning of any organization. IT personnel need to be competent in their technical skills. Studying how IT personnel build their technical competencies is a critical but under-studied area of research. To date, very little research has …
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AN ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF NICOTINE NON-HIRING PRACTICES: SHOULD THIS POLICY BE SNUFFED OUT?
… to prevent NNPs. Finally, I discuss that for optimal functioning of a liberal democracy, organizations have the right to choose who they wish to hire. Hence, it requires a significant ethical harm to prevent hiring on the basis of nicotine use. Therefore, I next consider arguments that …
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Thriving through relationships : exploring the influence of interactions on college student success for living-learning community students.
… with a more holistic depiction: thriving, or optimal functioning related to academic engagement and performance, interpersonal relationships, and intrapersonal well-being. As campus residential settings are primed as laboratories to explore the ways students interact with others and their …
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The critical success factors for landscape management of operations on sustainable urban drainage system (SuDS) projects
… during the operational phase, that contribute to optimal functioning of these complex ecological systems for the benefits of ecosystem goods and services and quality of life for all. This research design has been couched in the pragmatic paradigm which considers the problem at the heart of the …
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Identification of Functional Immunological Indicators of Nutritional status during acute nutritional deprivation
Optimal functioning of the immune system is necessary for the host to be capable of mounting a sufficient immune response, especially in times of sickness and injury. Acute bouts of starvation may compromise immune function, and subsequently lead to increased susceptibility to infection. …
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Education, training, manpower planning and the persistence of manpower shortages : the case of Thailand’s tourism industry
… of some of the conditions required for their optimal functioning, but that the mismatch between supply and demand in the Thai tourism industry is more fully explained by features intrinsic to the industry itself. A Abstract balance between manpower demand and supply in any sectors would be …
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Estudio de prefactibilidad para la instalación de una planta productora de mantequilla condimentada en tres presentaciones: ajos, mix hierbas y ajos y finas hierbas en envase lápiz untable
… Ranking de factores method. Which resulted as an optimal location to Ate, Lima Metropolitana. Thanks to the analysis and qualification of the most influential factors for a good plant operation. In the fourth chapter, the different plant sizes were evaluated: market, productive resources, …
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The influence of child attachment security, dietary consumption, and household chaos on executive function
… cognitive skills that have been associated with optimal functioning (Garon et al., 2008). Children’s EF unfolds over time and may be influenced by multiple factors, including caregiver-child relationships, household environments, and dietary consumption. Children with more secure attachment …
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Flourishing of employees in the information technology industry in South Africa
… well-being. Efforts to promote flourishing and optimal functioning of employees will affect individual and organisational outcomes. Flourishing and languishing are opposite end points on a continuum of mental health indicating the emotional, psychological and social well-being of individuals. An …
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The Identity Harmony Model of Inclusion: Development and Test of a New Theory
… the experience of inclusion and a predictor of optimal functioning. In Article One, I build the IHMI’s theoretical foundation and then propose two essential inclusive practices: (a) employer-employee partnering in the identity negotiation process necessary for employees to develop high-quality, …
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Toward an Anarchist Theory of Self: Wilderness, Actualization and Authority
… research investigated essential components of optimal human functioning. An anarchist model was used to emphasize the autonomous nature of an optimally functioning self. Utilizing Abraham Maslows hierarchy of needs model, Leonard Martins ID compensation theory, fundamental principles of …
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We Can Be Heroes: Sustaining Vitally Engaged Social Heroes in a Heroic Organization (ACT UP/New York)
… begin to develop a broader conceptualization of optimal functioning of social heroes in organizations over long periods of engagement in social heroism. This study applied a qualitative, multi-factor research design to 47 archival interviews with social heroes to analyze the individual and …
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Understanding Burnout and Self-Regulation Capacity in Canadian Developmental and Elite Sport Coaches
… 1 were to identify profiles of psychological functioning within a sample of coaches based on burnout and well-being indices, and investigate whether coaches in these profiles differed in their capacity to self-regulate and their perceptions of stress. Findings of the two-stage cluster analysis …