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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies, institutions, citizens, and students to rapidly change their behaviors and use virtual technologies to perform their usual working tasks. Though virtual technologies for learning were already present in most universities, the pandemic has forced virtual technologies to lead the way in order to continue teaching and learning for students and faculty around the world. Universities and teachers had to quickly adjust everything from their curriculum to their teaching styles in order to adapt to an online learning environment. Online learning is a complex issue and one that comes with both challenges and opportunities; there is plenty of room for growth...
The occasioning of self-disclosure humor / Susan M. Ervin-Tripp & Martin Lampert -- Direct address as a resource for humor / Neal R. Norrick & Claudia Bubel -- An interactional approach to irony development / Helga Kotthoff -- Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation : the case of watching football on TV / Cornelia Gerhardt -- Using humor to do masculinity at work / Stephanie Schnurr & Janet Holmes -- Boundary-marking humor : institutional, gender, and ethnic demarcation in the workplace / Bernadette Vine ... [et al.] Impolite responses to failed humor / Nancy D. Bell -- Failed humor in conversation : a double voicing analysis / Béatrice Priego-Valverde
For any organization to be successful, it must operate in such a manner that knowledge and information, human resources, and technology are continually taken into consideration and managed effectively. Business concepts are always present regardless of the field or industry – in education, government, healthcare, not-for-profit, engineering, hospitality/tourism, among others. Maintaining organizational awareness and a strategic frame of mind is critical to meeting goals, gaining competitive advantage, and ultimately ensuring sustainability. The Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology is an inaugural five-volume publication that offers 193 completely new and...
"El profesor Francisco Javier Jiménez Muñoz ha desarrollado principalmente su aportación científica en el ámbito del Derecho de obligaciones, tanto desde el punto de vista del Derecho español como de la armonización del Derecho privado europeo, siendo autor de dos monografías en esta materia (La usura. Evolución histórica y patología de los intereses, Ed. Dykinson, Madrid, 2010; y Régimen Jurídico de los Desahucios y Lanzamientos, Ed. Juruá, Lisboa, 2014; 2ª ed. de 2017); y en el ámbito del Derecho de familia, en que ha publicado diversos trabajos sobre la obligación de alimentos entre parientes, la filiación o la regulación jurídica de la reproducción asistida, entre los que destaca la monografía La reproducción asistida y su régimen jurídico, Ed. Reus, Madrid, 2012. Asimismo, son destacables los capítulos publicados en numerosas obras colectivas".
This book is related to the educational networking (EN) domain, an incipient but disrupting trend engaged in extending and improving formal and informal academic practices by means of the support given by online social networks (OSNs) and Web 2.0 technologies. With the aim of contributing to spread the knowledge and development of the arena, this volume introduces ten recent works, whose content meets the quality criteria of formal scientific labor that is worthy to be published according to following five categories: · Reviews: gather three overviews that focus on K-12 EN practice, mixed methods approaches using social network analysis for learning and education, and a broad landscape of t...
¿Dónde y cuándo nació la bioética? Tradicionalmente se ha atribuido la creación del neologismo «bioética» a Potter, en 1970, y su desarrollo a los jesuitas de la Universidad de Georgetown. Sin embargo, la cuestión es mucho más compleja y supera ampliamente el contexto norteamericano, no solo porque se descubrió que el alemán Fritz Jahr ya había acuñado el término en los años veinte, sino porque la ética clínica tiene siglos de historia, y en todas las culturas y religiones se ha reflexionado sobre los problemas referentes a la salud, la vida y su ocaso. Al factor meramente histórico hemos de añadir el ideológico. «Bioética» fue el término que emplearon algunos teól...
Ante la aparición en la década de 1970 de las modernas técnicas de reproducción asistida, muy pronto en la generalidad de los países desarrollados se observó la necesidad de abordar su regulación, ante lo cual en 1988 se promulgó la primera ley sobre estas técnicas en España (y una de las primeras de nuestro entorno cultural y geográfico): la Ley 35/1988, de 22 de noviembre, sobre técnicas de reproducción asistida. La Ley de 1988 experimentó una importante reforma en 2003, como consecuencia de los grandes avances científicos producidos en esta materia en los últimos años y del desarrollo de nuevas técnicas de reproducción, fundamentalmente a fin de dar respuesta al problem...
This book presents a range of current research topics in biological network modeling, as well as its application in studies on human hosts, pathogens, and diseases. Systems biology is a rapidly expanding field that involves the study of biological systems through the mathematical modeling and analysis of large volumes of biological data. Gathering contributions from renowned experts in the field, some of the topics discussed in depth here include networks in systems biology, the computational modeling of multidrug-resistant bacteria, and systems biology of cancer. Given its scope, the book is intended for researchers, advanced students, and practitioners of systems biology. The chapters are research-oriented, and present some of the latest findings on their respective topics.
This volume analyzes how enduring democracy amid longstanding inequality engendered inclusionary reform in contemporary Latin America.