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Journal articles on the topic "Partners' Commitment"
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Overall, Nickola C. "Does Partners’ Negative-Direct Communication During Conflict Help Sustain Perceived Commitment and Relationship Quality Across Time?" Social Psychological and Personality Science 9, no. 4 (June 19, 2017): 481–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550617712030.
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The current study tested when partners’ negative-direct communication promotes perceived commitment and helps preserve relationship quality and when partners’ negative-direct communication damages perceived commitment and relationship quality. Negative-direct communication was assessed within 322 relationship conflict discussions involving one partner (the agent) wanting change in the other (the target). Perceived commitment and relationship quality were repeatedly assessed across the following year. Greater negative-direct communication by partners as agents of change predicted more positive trajectories of perceived partner commitment and relationship quality across time, whereas greater negative-direct communication by partners targeted for change predicted declines in perceived commitment and relationship quality. These longitudinal effects were magnified for people who initially perceived their partner’s commitment to be low. Thus, partners’ negative-direct communication can help sustain relationship quality when it offers a needed sign of partners’ commitment but has detrimental effects when partners’ negative-direct communication reflects low responsiveness to attempts to improve relationship problems.
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Dwi RachmawatiI, Sonya, Heti Mulyati, and Megawati Simanjuntak. "PEMASARAN BERBASIS HUBUNGAN PADA KERJASAMA PERGURUAN TINGGI NEGERI: KASUS INSTITUT PERTANIAN BOGOR." TADBIR MUWAHHID 3, no. 2 (October 29, 2019): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.30997/jtm.v3i2.2066.
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IPB University should implement its function: teaching, research and community services through collaboration with external partners, especially in national scope. However, the Memorandum of Understanding sometimes did not follow by concrete programs. In addition, the university should maintain string relationship to improve it partner’s commitment. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the factors of relationship marketing to IPB’s partners. This study used survey methods to 100 respondents with questionnaire as the tool. The study used descriptive analysis to describe partner profiles and answers with top three boxes method. The results identified that based on location, partners were concentrated in Java with the most types of institutions are district and city governments. Cooperation initiators generally come from partners. The maximum duration of cooperation is 1-5 years. Number of collaboration 1-5 activities dominate partners. In general, partners are still actively collaborating with IPB, with more active MoU compared to those that are non-active. Trust has the highest perception value of respondents and followed by communication and shared values. Partner's perception of commitment to cooperation and satisfaction is good, while the benefits of cooperation are categorized sufficient. The variable relationship benefits need to be of concern to IPB and be improved by increasing competencies, human resources and appropriate technology that are applicable to the industrial world and local governments.
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Gere, Judith, and Emily A. Impett. "Shifting priorities." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 35, no. 6 (March 17, 2017): 793–810. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407517698851.
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We investigated whether partners in newly developing romantic relationships adjust their goals when they experience conflict with the goals of their partner, and the consequences of goal conflict and goal adjustment. Fifty-nine newly dating couples ( N = 118) reported on their goals at an initial session and again 3 months later. Multilevel models indicated that when people reported higher conflict between a goal and their partner’s goals, they were more likely to stop pursuing as well as to devalue the importance of that particular goal over time. Furthermore, goal devaluing was associated with increases in relationship commitment over time but decreases in women’s relationship satisfaction when their partners devalued conflicting goals. Overall levels of goal conflict were associated with marginal decreases in relationship satisfaction. These results indicate that romantic partners try to adjust their goals to reduce goal conflict even in developing relationships, and that these adjustments have consequences for relationship satisfaction and commitment.
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Stanley, Scott M., Galena K. Rhoades, Shelby B. Scott, Gretchen Kelmer, Howard J. Markman, and Frank D. Fincham. "Asymmetrically committed relationships." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 34, no. 8 (October 12, 2016): 1241–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407516672013.
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This study compared romantic relationships in which there was a substantial difference (>1 SD) in the commitment levels of the two partners to those with more equal levels. These asymmetrically committed relationships (ACRs) were studied in a national, longitudinal sample of unmarried, opposite-sex romantic relationships ( N = 315 couples); 64.8% ( n = 204) of relationships were categorized as non-ACRs, 22.8% were ACRs in which the male partner was less committed than the female partner ( n = 72), and 12.4% ( n = 39) were ACRs in which the female partner was less committed than the male partner. Those who were cohabiting or who had children together were more likely to be in ACRs than those without these characteristics. Compared to those not in ACRs, the less committed partners in ACRs (referred to as “weak links”) reported lower relationship adjustment, more conflict, and more aggression in their relationships; however, these differences were explained by their low levels of commitment. The more committed partners in ACRs (“strong links”) also reported lower relationship adjustment, more conflict, and more aggression than those not in ACRs, even when controlling for their levels of commitment (which were also higher, on average, than those not in ACRs); this finding is noteworthy given that high levels of commitment usually inhibit conflict and aggression. Relationships in which the female partner was the weak link were more likely to break up within 2 years (54%) than those with male weak links (29%) or non-ACRs (34%). However, asymmetrical commitment was not nearly as important a predictor of breakup as females’ levels of commitment. The findings advance the understanding of asymmetrical commitment in romantic relationships and highlight the value of studying both members of a couple in research on commitment.
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Heesen, Raphaela, Adrian Bangerter, Klaus Zuberbühler, Federico Rossano, Katia Iglesias, Jean-Pascal Guéry, and Emilie Genty. "Bonobos engage in joint commitment." Science Advances 6, no. 51 (December 2020): eabd1306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd1306.
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Joint action is central to human nature, enabling collectives to achieve goals otherwise unreachable by individuals. It is enabled by humans’ capacity to understand and engage in joint commitments. Joint commitments are evidenced when partners in interrupted joint actions reengage one another. To date, there is no clear evidence whether nonhuman animals understand joint commitment, suggesting that only humans experience it. Here, we revisit this claim by interrupting bonobos engaged in social activities. Bonobos reliably resumed the activity, and the likelihood of resumption was higher for social compared to solitary activities. Furthermore, communicative efforts deployed to suspend and resume social activities varied depending on partners’ social relationships and interactive roles. Our results suggest that bonobos, like humans, engage in joint commitment and have some awareness of the social consequences of breaking it.
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Neto, Félix. "Gender differences in self-estimated types of love for self and others." Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships 17, no. 1 (June 16, 2023): 130–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.9297.
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Empirical work about love has primarily considered the love of one individual for another. This work uses a novel method to study estimated types of love for self and others based on passionate and companionate theory, and triangular love theory. Two hundred and fifty participants (161 females and 89 males) rated self-estimates and other’s estimates (romantic partners and parents) of global love and several love types. Women self-estimated passionate love, companionate love, intimacy, and commitment more than men did. Gender differences in estimated love types for romantic partners, fathers, and mothers were not evidenced. As regards self-partner differences respondents rated their romantic partners similarly to themselves. Regarding generational differences, children assessed themselves greater in all love types than their parents, except in commitment. Passionate love and commitment significantly predicted global love for self, partners, and parents. Suggestions and limitations are offered.
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Brooks, James E., Brian G. Ogolsky, and J. Kale Monk. "Commitment in Interracial Relationships: Dyadic and Longitudinal Tests of the Investment Model." Journal of Family Issues 39, no. 9 (February 27, 2018): 2685–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x18758343.
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Empirical research to explain why partners in interracial relationships appear to be less committed than partners in intraracial relationships is scarce. The Investment Model has been shown to be a robust predictor of relationship commitment, but has only been applied to interracial relationships on a few occasions. Using a sample of 232 couples ( n = 172 intraracial; n = 60 interracial), we found the Investment Model performs comparatively well in interracial and intraracial relationships. However, there were some differences in the influence of investments on commitment. Investments were associated with concurrent commitment in intraracial but not interracial relationships, and an interdependent version of the Investment Model (Actor–Partner Interdependence Investment Model) fit intraracial relationships better than interracial relationships. The results suggest there are nuances in applying the Investment Model to interracial relationships, but that the model is promising for understanding the commitment of partners who experience marginalization.
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McIntyre, Kevin P., Brent A. Mattingly, Sarah A. Gorban, and Morgan A. Cope. "Implications of relationship-induced self-concept change across partners: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model approach." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 37, no. 5 (February 13, 2020): 1554–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407520903799.
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Investigations of relationship-induced self-concept change and relationship quality have generally been limited to intraindividual effects (i.e., actor effects). In the current study, we examined whether self-changes influence romantic partners’ perceptions of relationship satisfaction and commitment (i.e., partner effects). Using the actor–partner interdependence model, we tested how four self-concept change processes—self-expansion, self-pruning, self-contraction, and self-adulteration—are associated with relationship satisfaction and commitment. Results revealed robust actor effects across all self-change processes and partner effects on satisfaction for degradation processes only (i.e., self-contraction and self-adulteration), suggesting that self-changes differentially predict individuals’ and partners’ perceptions of the relationship.
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Obradović, Josip, and Mira Čudina Obradović. "Marital Partners' Traits, Psychological Processes in Marriage, and Marriage Characteristics as Predictors of Love in Marriage." Drustvena istrazivanja 30, no. 1 (March 19, 2021): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5559/di.30.1.01.
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This study was conducted to determine the predictors of marital love. Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love (1986) is used as a starting point. Accordingly, a theoretical model that consists of four groups of level 1 predictor variables and a group of level 2 variables is used. The dependent variables in the model include the three dimensions of love: Passion, Intimacy, and Commitment. The research was conducted among 884 married couples from different parts of Croatia. The results show that married women are less passionate and that marriage partners' passion in marriage is greater at the beginning of the marriage without children and when there is a mutual physical attraction between partners. Married women report less intimacy while greater marital intimacy was present in marriages where there is greater partner support. Unlike passion, the experience of intimacy does not vary at different marital stages. Women show less commitment and partners' commitment to marriage is greater when there is greater emotional stability of both partners, greater mutual physical attraction, and partner support. At the end of the paper, limitations on making firmer conclusions based only on the present study are emphasized.
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Cianci, Anna M., Richard W. Houston, Norma R. Montague, and Ryan Vogel. "Audit Partner Identification: Unintended Consequences on Audit Judgment." AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory 36, no. 4 (October 1, 2016): 135–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/ajpt-51629.
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SUMMARY We examine the impact of partner identification, a regulation proposed by the PCAOB and contested by the audit profession, on audit partners' judgments. Based on accountability theory (e.g., Lerner and Tetlock 1999) and professionalism literature (e.g., Hall 1968; Adler and Kwon 2013), we conduct an experiment in which we manipulate partner identification at three levels (i.e., no identification, disclosure identification, signature identification) and ask 83 partners to make inventory writedown assessments and other judgments underlying their decision making. We find that, contrary to the PCAOB's stated purpose of enhancing audit quality, and consistent with the professionalism literature, partner identification—in the form of either disclosure or signature—yields more aggressive writedown judgments through its negative impact on partners' self-reported measures of commitment to the profession and, in turn, commitment to the public. This result suggests that regulators should consider possible unintended consequences of accountability-inducing regulations. JEL Classifications: C91; M42; M48.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Partners' Commitment"
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Champion, Charlie Ventura. "Does Commitment Moderate the Association between Body Image and Sexual Satisfaction in Romantic Partners?" Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/319921.
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Larsen, Ashley N. "Partners' attributions and level of commitment as predictors of constructive and destructive behavior in discussions of relationship conflicts." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1356.
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Thesis (M.S.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Family Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Gadajsha, Sallma, and Jessica Grund. "Barnmorskors erfarenheter av att ge stöd till partners vid amning : En kvalitativ intervjustudie." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-42570.
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Bakgrund: Partners har en betydelsefull roll för en långsiktig upprätthållning av amning. Partners önskar bli bekräftade som en viktig resurs vid amning av barnmorskor men upplever att stödet mest riktas till kvinnor. Barnmorskor beskriver den egna rollen som viktig i att ge stöd till partners vid amning. Syfte: Att beskriva barnmorskors erfarenheter av att ge stöd till partners vid amning. Metod: En kvalitativ intervjustudie med induktiv ansats. Data inhämtades genom 11 semistrukturerade intervjuer med barnmorskor som jobbar på BB och/eller amningsmottagning i fyra städer i Sverige. En innehållsanalys enligt Graneheim, Lindgren och Lundman valdes som analysmetod. Resultat: Barnmorskornas stöd utgick ifrån partners engagemang som framträdde genom närvaro, intresse och kunskap i amning. Partners amningsnormer utifrån kultur och jämställdhetssyn hade betydelse för amningsstödet. Barnmorskornas förutsättningar i form av kompetens, samarbete inom professionen samt organisatoriska strukturer kunde påverka stödet till partners vid amning. Slutsats: Barnmorskorna besitter unik kompetens för att ge stöd till partners vid amning. Framförallt handlar det om att se individen och erbjuda ett anpassat stöd vid amning utifrån partners förståelse. Vidare kan partners förmåga till förståelse i amningsstödet ha samband med partners ålder, socioekonomiska status, kultur och tidigare erfarenheter. Barnmorskor ser vikten i att ge stöd till partners men upplever att tidsbrist och platsbrist kan vara hinder.Background: Partners have an important role in long-term maintenance of breastfeeding. However, partners feel that breastfeeding support is mostly directed to their women and wishes to be confirmed as an important resource by midwives. Again, midwives consider that they have an important role in providing support to partners during breastfeeding. Aim: To describe the midwives' experiences of providing support to partners during breastfeeding. Method: A qualitative interview study with inductive approach. Data was collected through 11 semi-structured interviews with midwives who work at postpartum departments and/or breastfeeding receptions in four cities in Sweden. A content analysis according to Graneheim, Lindgren and Lundman was chosen as the analytical method. Result: The midwives support was based on the partner's involvement that appeared through attendance, interest and knowledge in breastfeeding. Partners' breastfeeding standards based on culture and gender equality had significations for the breastfeeding support. Midwives' competence, collaboration within the profession and organizational structures could influence the breastfeeding support to partners. Conclusion: The midwives possess unique skills to support partners during breastfeeding. It is about offering individually adapted support during breastfeeding based on the partner's understanding. Furthermore, the partner's ability to understand the breastfeeding support may be related to partner's age, socio-economic status, culture and experience. Midwives see the importance of providing support to partners but feel that lack of time and lack of space can be obstacles.
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Griffin, Paul. "Transaction Cost Economics: An Analysis of Commitment in Asymmetrical Insurer-Broker Dyads. An Exploratory Case Study of ING Canada and its Distribution Counterparties." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4862.
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Since the early 1980's there has been a heightened academic interest in the field of commitment, particularly as it relates to business relationships. Knowledge of commitment continues to advance and has begun splintering and applied into specific and narrow fields. The particular field of interest in this study surrounds commitment levels in business relationships within property and casualty insurance distribution networks. The intent of understanding and enhancing commitment levels is to allow stakeholders to explore new ways to improve profitability. This can be achieved by deepening the level of understanding and knowledge of relationship partners with a view to anticipating and fulfilling their needs better than the competition. However, commitment is intangible and involves many factors including human emotion. This increases the difficulty in comprehending the whole phenomenon of commitment. To assist in furthering the knowledge in this area, transaction cost theory is examined and applied to insurance company and broker relationships. In seeking a greater understanding of the underlying drivers of commitment, this thesis investigates the theoretical contribution of transaction cost economics theory in assessing commitment levels. The purpose is to utilize the elements of transaction costs as a means to extend the awareness of how commitment is constructed, and to search for ways to improve and strengthen these relationships. The primary research method consists of three major case studies within the Canadian property and casualty insurance distribution sector. The first case study explores the perspectives of insurance brokers in Ontario. The second study reveals the perceptions of relationship managers employed with ING Canada, the country's largest property and casualty insurance company. Lastly, the research incorporates a series of interviews with ING Canada senior executives to capture their perspectives and validate the research findings from the first two case studies. These investigations into the Canadian insurance industry have provided several outputs, chief among them is the development of a conceptual model referred to as the 'Commitment Wheel'. This model has the advantages of seating affective and calculative commitment at the centre of a moving environment of commitment enablers.
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Coy, Anthony. "THE CONTRIBUTION OF PARTNER INVESTMENTS TO ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP COMMITMENT." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/479.
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Interdependence theory (Kelley & Thibaut, 1978), one of the most widely used theories in the literature on interpersonal relationships, posits that both partners in a romantic relationships play integral roles in maintaining their relationship. Based in interdependence theory, research on the investment model of commitment (Rusbult, 1980) has revealed that individuals’ greater satisfaction and investments and lower alternatives predict greater commitment to their relationships, and commitment in turn promotes a variety of relationship-maintenance behaviors. However, no past research had examined the role of partners. Across three studies, I examined the notion that partner investments would predict individuals’ commitment above and beyond their own satisfaction, investments, and alternatives. Study 1 found that higher levels of partner investments predicted higher levels of commitment within ongoing marriages. Study 2 provided experimental support by manipulating the degree to which individuals thought their romantic partners would sacrifice for their relationship. Specifically, participants told their partners would sacrifice a great deal reported higher levels of commitment than did those told their partner would sacrifice very little. Further, the perception of partner investments mediated the relationship between the partner investments prime and commitment. Study 3 was a couples study designed to examine both actual and perceived partner investments. Despite failing to provide additional support, the findings can inform designs for future dyadic research. Studies 1 and 2 provided the first evidence of partner effects in the investment model and advance the understanding of relationship functioning by demonstrating how both partners can work to strengthen each others’ commitment.
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Smith, Heather Michele. "Commitment, Forgiveness, and Relationship Self-Regulation: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4191.
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Relationship self-regulation (RSR) refers to the “work”, or effort and strategies, that partners exert over time to maintain the health of their romantic relationships. Most research focuses on self-reports of RSR, however, several studies suggest that partner perceptions are more influential in relationship appraisal. In addition, most RSR research has focused not on partners' attitudes and virtues like commitment, but instead on personality traits, emotional health, and communication skills. In this study, we examine the relationship between partners' levels of commitment and forgiveness within their relationships, and how they perceive their partner's use of RSR behaviors. Using paired data from 679 cohabiting and married couples who took the RELATE questionnaire, we found that males' and females' self-reports of commitment and forgiveness were both positively associated with higher perceptions of partner RSR. Likewise, we found that, for females, higher self-reports of commitment and forgiveness were positively correlated with higher male perceptions of her RSR, and male forgiveness was positively correlated with female perceptions of his RSR. The variables of commitment and forgiveness explained an average of 44% of the variance in perceptions of partner RSR for both genders. Implications for future research and clinicians are discussed.
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Chang, Wei-Ning. "A Cross-national Study: Using Face-Negotiation Theory to Understand Gender, Commitment and Culture in Coping Strategies toward a Partner's Infidelity." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/86172.
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The current study explored coping strategies toward the context of discovering a partner's sexual infidelity. There were two primary goals for the current study. First, the current study examined the gender and national differences in conflict styles toward the context of discovering a partner's sexual infidelity. Second, the current study examined the relationship between face concerns and commitment. There were national and gender differences on self-construal face concern, face-concern and conflict styles in the current study. The current findings also suggested that face concern is moderating the relationship between commitment and conflict styles. The limitation and future directions were discussed as well as the clinical implications in the current study.Ph. D.
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Orengo-Aguayo, Rosaura E. "Implementation of an acceptance and commitment therapy skills group with incarcerated domestic violence offenders : a feasibility pilot study." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2127.
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health concern. Existing interventions for male IPV offenders (i.e., Duluth Model with CBT principles) have shown small-to-negligible effects in reducing future perpetration of violence and have high dropout rates. Offenders who fail to complete treatment, or are deemed to be at “high risk”, are sent to jail. Efficacious and acceptable interventions for incarcerated IPV offenders are needed. The objective of this dissertation study was to test the feasibility of implementing an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) skills group with incarcerated IPV offers. The ultimate goal of ACT is to help individuals make behavioral choices in the service of their values, despite the presence of unwanted internal experiences, through the use of acceptance and mindfulness skills. The specific aims of the study were: 1) to examine post-treatment effects in the targeted ACT skills (i.e., present-moment awareness, acceptance, defusion, experiential avoidance), internalizing symptoms, and externalizing behaviors; and to test whether treatment effects were moderated by IPV-related criminal history severity (IPV-CHS); 2) to explore participants’ perceptions of the group; and 3) to examine whether pre-treatment IPV-CHS predicted worse ACT skills and greater symptom severity at pre-treatment.
A sample of 33 court-mandated IPV offenders who participated in the 1 month ACT skills group (12 sessions, delivered 3 times per week) and who completed self-report questionnaires at pre and post treatment was used to evaluate the first two aims. The sample used to evaluate aim three consisted of 58 participants who had completed either the ACT skills group or another treatment offered at the jail at the time (treatment-as-usual) and for whom pre-treatment data were available. Quantitative results revealed that ACT did not produce significant pre to post changes in any of the outcome measures (i.e., ACT skills, internalizing symptoms, and externalizing behaviors), that IPV-CHS did not reliably moderate treatment effects, and that IPV-CHS did not predict worse ACT skills or greater symptom severity at pre-treatment. Qualitative results, however, revealed that participants viewed the ACT treatment favorably, found the material useful, and felt accepted and understood by the facilitators. The present study provides evidence for the feasibility of administering a standardized ACT-based protocol within a correctional setting. It further demonstrated that incarcerated IPV offenders perceived ACT to be an acceptable and useful treatment approach. The quantitative data, however, do not support the widespread dissemination of this ACT protocol with incarcerated IPV offenders at this time. Future research should follow-up on these discrepant findings by testing this ACT protocol with a larger sample, randomizing into ACT versus control group, including multiple follow-up time points, collecting one-year recidivism data, and exploring the effects of longer treatment and alternate forms of delivery (e.g., combination of individual and group sessions). Strengths and limitations of the study, as well as additional recommendations and directions for future research, are discussed.
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Hsiao, Wan-ting, and 蕭琬婷. "The Study on The Impact of Supply Chain Performance from Trust and Commitment Between Supply Chain Partners." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05636409875054401760.
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The companies’ operation is changed in today’s environment; they set up a long and steady cooperation only with few partners and try to make the best benefit to each other through this association; therefore, the supply chain management is one of the important things to the enterprises, and the “trust and commitment” which can makes the relationship become favorably will be one of the most important key point. The study of Morgan and Hunt (1994) also believed that trust and commitment has a compact relationship. For this reason, this study wants to find out the relationship between trust, commitment and performance. The research conducted comprehensive theoretical literature review in order to build the conceptual model of research. We developed questionnaire and conducted a subsequent survey in the member of the “Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers'' Association”. We mailed 800 questionnaires and received 124 valid questionnaires. For measure validation, we used statistical methods such as coefficient alpha and exploratory factor analysis. Besides, SPSS 12.0 and Amos 4 are utilized as the analytical tool for testing statistical assumptions and estimation of the measurement and structural equation models.
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Lin, Chih-huang, and 林誌皇. "On Becoming Business Partners: Exploring the Relationships between Human Resource Professionals’ Person-Job Fit & Career Commitment." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97327767605986518752.
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From some research, it could find that execution failures in the companies were often the result of poor human capital management. This opened the door for Human Resource (HR) to add important value to their organizations. First, this study tried to understand the situation of HR in the companies by exploring the relationships between HR professionals’ strategic involvement and competencies. Second, while HR professionals got perception of P-J fit through combing their responsibilities and competencies, they would enhance commitment to their current jobs. Data for the research were collected from companies in Taiwan. In our survey package there were two types of questionnaire. One was designed for HR managers; another was for HR members. Total 92 survey packages were returned. The results showed that HR professionals’ objective P-J fit (match between their responsibilities and competencies) positively influenced on career commitment through subjective P-J fit (perception of P-J fit). We also found while HR professionals became business partners, it was necessary to have variety of competencies to put their role in order to achieve effectiveness. Therefore, from analytic results, we found the knowledge and skills of HR domain had become increasingly important in the companies; in addition, we also suggested to pay attention on the importance of diversity of HR competencies. They were all beneficial to organizational performance and their career development.
Books on the topic "Partners' Commitment"
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United States International Trade Commission, ed. General Agreement on Trade in Services: Examination of major trading partners' schedules of commitments. Washington, DC: U.S. International Trade Commission, 1995.
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United States International Trade Commission, ed. General Agreement on Trade in Services: Examination of South American trading partners' schedules of commitments. Washington, DC: U.S. International Trade Commission, 1996.
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Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women. Situation analysis of the EAC partner states on implementation of gender equality commitments. Kampala, Uganda: EASSI, 2015.
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United Nations Human Settlements Programme., ed. Coalition for sustainable urbanisation: Partnership commitments for implementing Agenda 21 : contributions to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) from Habitat Agenda partners in national governments, inter-governmental organisations, local authorities and their associations, non-governmental organisations, community based organisations, the private sector, and other urban development practitioners : progress report (unedited) for discussion at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Nairobi, Kenya: UN-HABITAT, 2002.
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Partners for America's future: Our environmental commitment. [Washington, D.C.?]: US Army Corps of Engineers, 1994.
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Connable, Ben. An Enduring American Commitment in Iraq: Shaping a Long-Term Strategy with Iraqi Army Partners. RAND Corporation, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7249/pe353.
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Gray, Barbara, and Jill Purdy. Conflict in Multistakeholder Partnerships. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198782841.003.0006.
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Despite a strong commitment to collaborate, partners may encounter conflict as they work together. Even when partners agree on goals and a common agenda, conflicts still may arise over the process they will use to search for agreements, over their relationships and threats to identity, over values or because of power differences or over how agreements will be implemented. In this chapter, partnership level factors that generate conflict are explored, including why some conflicts have long histories and are deeply rooted within fields. Several actions that partners can take to address conflicts are suggested such as acknowledging critical identities, reframing, de-escalation techniques, mediation, and shuttle diplomacy. The role of conflict and how it was handled in each of our three main cases is explored.
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Partners for excellence: The Federal Highway Administration's customer service commitments to motor carriers. [Washington, D.C.?]: The Administration, 1994.
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Gray, Barbara, and Jill Purdy. Multistakeholder Partnerships in Context. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198782841.003.0002.
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This chapter analyzes a variety of contextual factors that make partnerships a necessity. More and more societal problems have become “wicked problems” that involve many actors and defy resolution and require the attention and commitment of many interdependent players to find solutions because actions taken by one organization or sector negatively impact others. Increasing “glocalization” or fusing of the local and the global problems also propels partnerships. Six glocal conditions are explored that have spurred the growth of cross-sector partnerships locally and across the globe: deepening income inequality; growing importance of health in the economy; environmental degradation including climate change, water crises, and the need for sustainability, large-scale involuntary migration, increases in extreme weather events and continued decline in ability of governments to handle complex problems. The chapter also identifies partners’ motivations for joining partnerships, and classifies partnerships according to motives and intended outcomes.
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Throne, Julie. General Agreement On Trade In Services: Examination Of Major Trading Partners' Schedules Of Commitments. Diane Pub Co, 2004.
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Ando, Toshihide. "Japan's Unwavering Commitment to a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific”." In Japan and its Partners in the Indo-Pacific, 1–13. London: Routledge India, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003393634-1.
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Sassa, Kyoji, and Matjaž Mikoš. "Introduction: Aim and Outline of the Book Series “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology”." In Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 1, 2022, 1–8. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16898-7_1.
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AbstractThe Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk (Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020: KLC2020) was launched on 5 November 2020 by the adoption of 2020 Kyoto Declaration in the end of the launching session of the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020. The KLC2020 was signed by 90 worldwide partners. On 3 November 2021, during the 5th World Landslide Forum (WLF5) held in a hybrid mode (onsite, online-virtual, and pre-recorded modes) in Kyoto, Japan, the ICL and the KLC2020 partners launched the new open-access book series “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology” to promote the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk. This article introduces the aim and outline of the new book series “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology.”
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Sassa, Kyoji. "Editorial of the New Open Access Book Series “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology”." In Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 2, 2022, 1–8. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18471-0_1.
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AbstractThe Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020—A Commitment to the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the 2030 United Nations Agenda Sustainable Development Goals, the New Urban Agenda, and the Paris Climate Agreement was established with signatures by 90 partner organizations in November 2020 (Sassa in Landslides 18:5–20, 2021). To secure and provide a global and stable platform for the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 to be continued until 2030 and beyond, an open access book series was proposed by the KLC2020 Secretariat in 2022. The high-level panel discussion during the Fifth World Landslide Forum examined the proposal, and all panelists and participants accepted the proposal. Then, the Launching Declaration of the ICL Open Access Book Series “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology” for the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 was adopted by all panelists and the onsite and online participants of WLF5 on 3 November 2021 (Sassa in Landslides 19:1–5, 2022). This article is a progress report of the founding two issues of “Progress in Landslide Research and Technology” in 2022 for all authors, potential readers of this book series as well as KLC2020 signatory partners, KLC2020 official promoters, and ICL members.
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Cerfeda, Walter. "La CES e la politica europea della CGIL." In Diritti, Europa, Federalismo, 149–63. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0049-3.14.
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The essay focuses on the role of trade union in the European integration, the strengthening of the European Trade Union Confederation, the European social dialogue and the relationship with the the President of the European Commission Delors. In particular, the essay illustrates Trentin's commitment to the recognition of a more straightforward negotiating role of the social partners. This was reached in 1991 when Ces, Unice and Ceep claimed from Delors' Commission the possibility of mandatory consultation in order to be able to negotiate directly afterwards, on all social issues on which the Commission intended to legislate. A diplomacy labor effort that later led to the establishment in 1992 of the European Social Dialogue Committee.
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Charter, Martin, and Paul Whitehead. "Sotenäs Marine Recycling Centre in Sweden: A Case Study Related to Waste Fishing Gear." In Marine Plastics: Innovative Solutions to Tackling Waste, 169–87. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31058-4_10.
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AbstractThe chapter is a case study on the development of a Sweden’s first recycling centre focussed on waste fishing gear and other marine plastics based in Sotenäs. Key to the development of the centre has been a longer-term vision and commitment from the local municipality and the fishermen’s association. Working with partners across Sweden and locally, the centre has also developed an innovation testbed that is developing new test for polymers from waste fishing gear and aims launch new circular products. The chapter provides favourable learning for any organisation that will be tasked with establishing recycling infrastructure in relation to extend producer responsibility (EPR) requirements for fishing gear that will come into force across the European Union in 2025.
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Guasconi, Maria Eleonora. "Il socialismo europeo, Delors e il Trattato di Maastricht." In Diritti, Europa, Federalismo, 61–73. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0049-3.07.
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The essay highlights the role played by Trentin in the dialogue with the social partners, which was promoted by the President of the European Commission Jacques Delors with the Val Duchesse talks. It analyzes, in particular, the editing of the social protocol in Maastricht Treaty in 1992, and reflects on the consequences of this collaboration at the national level: his commitment to the Europeanization of CGIL and to the Italian adherence to the parameters set by the Maastricht Treaty. In particular, the agreement reached on the 23rd July 1993, still testifies to the fundamental contribution made by the three unions and, in the case of CGIL by Bruno Trentin, to the anchoring of Italy to the process of European integration and to Euro, and which were the outcomes of Trentin and Delors’ collaboration.
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Wilson, Peter W. "Foreign Partners and Waning Commitments." In A Question of Interest, 207–25. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429045837-16.
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Shin, Chae-Sang, Yen-Yoo You, and In-Chae Park. "A Study on the Effect of the Collaboration Motive of Partners Participating in the Consulting Project on Relationship Commitment and Collaboration Performance." In Cognitive Computing for Risk Management, 75–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74517-2_5.
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Etherton, Joseph L., and Steven R. H. Beach. "Perceived Partner Commitment and Attachment Style." In Handbook of Interpersonal Commitment and Relationship Stability, 363–78. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4773-0_21.
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Gopalakrishnan, Gopi. "Using Technology to Harness Existing Resources for an Emergency: COVID-19 Response." In Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond, 53–64. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7385-6_3.
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AbstractThe use of technology to respond to the COVID-19 emergency is described. The sudden lockdown imposed by the government with just a four hours’ notice resulted in a paralysis of the healthcare system. World Health Partners (WHP) responded immediately to this crisis. WHP worked in partnership with the state governments of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. The plan was that the state governments would provide the personnel and WHP would set-up a digitized system for providing health services to the people by using tele-medicine.A quick-to-access dashboard was created to give details in real-time of the number of doctors and assistants who were logged-in, the number of calls received and were attended to, prescriptions issued, and COVID-19 suspects identified. Doctors’ absenteeism proved to be a challenge in Bihar. Consequently, the full potential of the project could not be realized in Bihar. In Andhra Pradesh, however, the project was very successful. Despite receiving less number of calls, more consultations were provided through the tele-medicine project in Andhra Pradesh. The major reason for this success was the high level of political commitment by the state government which led to the availability of trained medical personnel for the project. The entire process of the project was successfully transitioned by WHP to the state government of Andhra Pradesh.
Conference papers on the topic "Partners' Commitment"
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Huang, Bo, Wei-Dong Meng, and Yu-Yu Li. "Partners' Resource-commitment Decisions in R&D Outsourcing." In 2008 4th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM). IEEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/wicom.2008.2973.
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J. Barker, Lecia, Amy Voida, and Vaughan Nagy. "Service Interruption: Managing Commitment to Community Partners During a Crisis." In ICER 2021: ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3446871.3469756.
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Apostu, Milka Nicoleta, Octav Sorin Candel, and Maria Nicoleta Turliuc. "Three Cords Twisted Together. The Investment Model, Religiousness and Forgiveness." In World Lumen Congress 2021, May 26-30, 2021, Iasi, Romania. LUMEN Publishing House, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/wlc2021/04.
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The main purpose of the present research is to explore the influence of religiousness on couple commitment, drawing from previous studies where religiousness was confirmed as a strong predictor for positive relationship outcomes. We also aim to analyze relationship satisfaction as a mediating variable between religiousness and commitment. Furthermore, the study seeks to investigate forgiveness in dyadic romantic relationships, testing its role as a moderator of the association between relationship satisfaction and commitment. The procedure includes the recruitment of heterosexual students enrolled in post-graduate courses and their partners to take part in the present study. The final sample consists of 116 individuals involved in romantic relationships. All participants filled in a series of validated self-reported measures, providing data which was analyzed using parametric statistical tests. Additionally, we conducted mediation and moderation analyses. Results indicate that relationship satisfaction is positively associated with commitment, whereas religiousness is positively associated with relationship satisfaction, thus having an indirect effect on commitment. Additionally, considering overall forgiveness as well as the negative vs. positive components of the construct, we find that positive forgiveness is associated with commitment, when satisfaction is also considered in the equation. The current results have important therapeutic implications, such as using forgiveness-related therapies for couples and enhancing relationship satisfaction as means to consolidate relationship commitment.
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Cunha, J. C., J. Eric Bickel, Luis Mendoza, Jeremy Walker, Ellen Coopersmith, and Craig A. McKnight. "A Tool for Improving Decision Quality on Upstream Consortia." In Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference. SPE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/207849-ms.
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Abstract This article aims to provide a guideline to better decision quality on multi-company upstream projects. The scope is to provide a high-level overview of what should be included in a decision quality process, when companies with different levels of ownership and influence on the decision-making process naturally tend to have different approaches towards risks and decision management. It is well known in our industry that there is a predominance of multicompany participation in these projects and the paper will provide guidelines that will ultimately provide better decision quality and participant's alignment. Normally high-risk upstream projects have multi-company ownership. However, it has been noticed that companies tend to face decision management differently, which causes unnecessary delays on budget approvals and even operational timeline. Procedures to normalize the definition of an initial decision frame and creation of solutions based on a good set of alternatives are paramount to facilitate discussions and drive final recommendations. In summary, companies’ alignment on decision-making processes is key to quality, speed, and effectiveness of those decisions and critical to project success. Alignment between partners on pivotal decisions can significantly improve project delivery. The main results are practical guidelines for generating (a) decision framing, (b) strategies, (c) alternatives and potential consequences, and (d) logical analysis, partners’ alignment and commitment to action.
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Oberst, Ala, and Maria Gheorghita. "Consolidate the reputation and increase the credibility of the company through the implementation of the social audit." In 4th Economic International Conference "Competitiveness and Sustainable Development". Technical University of Moldova, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52326/csd2022.18.
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An organization’s commitment to the welfare of society has become a central criterion in measuring its overall performance and its ability to continue to operate effectively. The role of the social audit is an essential one in the process of qualitative assessment of the organizational capacity to manage human resources in order to determine the social impact. The main objective established in carrying out this research consists in highlighting the most widely spread international models for social audit that can be applied as a reference by companies from the Republic of Moldova. The selection and application of the most appropriate social audit model will allow enterprises to carry out self-assessment and identify directions for increasing social responsibility to protect and increase reputation, to improve the image and strengthen the organizational culture, to increase the trust of customers and business partners.
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Bērziņa, Dina. "Baltic - Nordic Universities in the EU Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020." In Sixth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head20.2020.11030.
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This study looks at the research education in universities and is aimed at assessment of the Baltic – Nordic Higher Education Establishments’ participation to the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme on basis of the open source data. The author analyses university interest in Horizon 2020 support for doctoral students’ training, correlation between university PhD intensity and involvement in research projects, correlation between Horizon 2020 success and World university rankings, participation comparison of Nordic universities versus the Baltic ones. A brief overview of universities’ commitment to Sustainable development goals is also included. The study concludes that Nordic universities are more thoroughly engaged than the Baltic ones and are taking advantage of the Horizon 2020 opportunities; however, Estonia has a remarkable success. Although Nordic universities are looking for collaboration partners further into Western Europe than to the neighbours across the Baltic Sea, for teaming activities Baltic universities choose Nordic mentors. Nordic universities are more involved in activities leading to excellent research. On contrary – in many cases participation of Baltic universities is limited to coordination of research activities without a direct access to the leading European science communities and respective possibilities for students.
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Muñoz Escalona, Patricia, David Rigmand, David Pinder, Emma Miles, and Jo Cox. "The impact of a STEM partnership on transformative teaching and learning." In SEFI 50th Annual conference of The European Society for Engineering Education. Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788412322262.1137.
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As educators committed to a transformative teaching and learning we need to actively engage with our new generation, promote critical thinking, and share knowledge and skills to promote sustainable developments in order to build that much needed Science Capital. At this moment the UK engineering industry is experiencing two main issues: i) a shortfall of 20,000 graduate engineers per year and ii) lack of female engineers. These two issues are a key challenge that must be addressed to guarantee a sustainable economy. To pursue these goals a STEM partnership between Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), the Royal Navy and six Primary Schools was funded by the Royal Society Partnership Grants scheme. In this project GCU’s students worked collaboratively with 250 primary pupils from age 8 to 11 on the design and manufacturing of a Luge start ramp. Different workshops related to design, manufacturing, mechanical properties, welding and beyond were delivered by the STEM partners, while the pupils provided ideas to enhance the ramp’s design and teachers reinforced the topics prior and after each workshop. The project enables the evaluation of aspects related to the impact of actively involving young pupils in an engineering real life problem, making them act as engineers, and their change in perception towards Engineering. Other aspects that will be analysed are the impact of positive role models not only on the pupils but on pupils’ influencers (teachers and parents), as well as the inclusivity and diversity as part of the commitment to a transformative education.
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Graskemper, Michael David. "A BRIDGE TO INTERRELIGIOUS COOPERATION: THE GÜLENJESUIT EDUCATIONAL NEXUS." In Muslim World in Transition: Contributions of the Gülen Movement. Leeds Metropolitan University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.55207/aeaf6717.
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The Gülen movement’s educational mission is, at its core and in its praxis, remarkably simi- lar to the centuries-old Jesuit educational tradition. It can be argued that both educational movements are united in a shared mission today –a deep concern for the spiritual freedom of the individual and a commitment to the betterment of the world. Both movements seek to instil values such as honesty, dedication, compassion and tolerance. To achieve this goal, students are offered a narrative of the past as a foundation on which to build an understanding of the modern world. Furthermore, they are educated holistically – in ethics and social justice as well as the sciences – what Gülen calls a ‘marriage of mind and heart’. This paper focuses on four shared values of education: commitment, responsibility, virtue and service. Within this framework, themes found in the Gülen educational movement, such as the Golden Generation and the concept of hizmet, are compared to similar Jesuit notions such as A.M.D.G., cura personalis, and ‘Men and Women for Others’. Differences and nu- ances are also addressed in the paper. The discussion aims to highlight the importance of values-oriented education in the modern world. The Gülen–Jesuit educational nexus is one positive bridge to inter-religious understanding and, importantly, collaborative action. The educational endeavors associated with the Turkish-Muslim Gülen movement have popu- larized, possibly more than any other facet of the group, Fethullah Gülen’s mission to prom- ulgate and cultivate an individually transformative Islam in the modern world. As the teach- ers and business partners of the Gülen movement continue to work to form conscientious, open-minded and just students in different cultures across the world, they will continue to be challenged and influenced by a myriad of different perspectives, religions, and socio-political groups; and, in turn, they will succeed in positively influencing those same cultures, as they have in many cases already. Of the many groups with which the Gülen movement has inter- acted in its ever-expanding intercultural milieu, this paper will focus on one: the educational charge of a Roman Catholic religious order called the Society of Jesus, a group more com- monly known as the Jesuits. This paper shows that the educational mission of the Gülen movement is, at its core, remark- ably similar to the mission of the centuries-old Jesuit Catholic educational tradition. In fact, it can be argued that the Gülen and Jesuit educational missions are, in theory and in praxis, united in a shared mission today; one that is rooted in a deep concern for the spiritual free- dom of the individual and dedicated to the betterment of the world. In analyzing this shared mission, this paper aims to discuss the importance of values-oriented education; particularly by addressing how the Gülen-Jesuit educational nexus can act as one positive bridge to inter- religious understanding and, importantly, cooperation and action in our transitioning world. In order to achieve this end, this paper begins with a short analysis of each movement’s back- ground with regard to education. Afterwards, the each movement’s notion of religious educa- tion is discussed. Finally, the focus turns to the mission themes the educational movements have in common. While there is a plethora of shared mission traits from which one could choose, for practical purposes this paper uses as its foundation for comparison four themes distilled by William J. Byron, S.J., from a mission statement from Georgetown University, the Jesuit university in Washington, D.C., which reads: Georgetown seeks to be a place where understanding is joined to commitment; where the search for truth is informed by a sense of responsibility for the life of society; where academic excellence in teaching...is joined with the cultivation of virtue; and where a community is formed which sustains men and women in their education and their conviction that life is only lived well when it is lived generously in the service of others (Byron 1997, 653). The first of these themes is a commitment to the understanding that God works in the world through people. The second is a responsibility to raise individual students to act justly in and for the world. The third is virtue, with the understanding that the way to achieve the mission of these schools is through educating students to be morally upright. Finally, the fourth theme is the need to be actively engaged in service to make the world a more peaceful, tolerant and just place to live. Commitment, responsibility, virtue, and service are, significantly, foundational for not only Jesuit schools, but Gülen schools as well.
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Sevillano, Lucas Cantinelli, Audun Faanes, Tor Berge Gjersvik, and Sigbjørn Sangesland. "Enabling Technologies for Low Cost Subsea Field Development." In ASME 2021 40th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2021-62862.
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Abstract The oil and gas industry faces many challenges as it is committed to provide energy to a world in transition. Declining prices impose constraints to new developments, either greenfield or brownfield. Additionally, the industry’s commitment to long-term value creation with reduced carbon footprint is confronted with the traditional solutions for well construction, production and processing, which consume significant amount of energy with corresponding high CO2 emissions. In this scenario, subsea production and processing technology has been a key enabler for the exploitation of oil and gas resources. This paper presents a holistic review of trends in subsea technology development over recent years which have direct impact on the heart of the subsea production system, namely the subsea tree. The technological developments considered are in different subsea applications such as robotic automation, communication systems, and all-electric systems. The objective of the ongoing research is to perform structural and fundamental analysis of subsea production and injection systems and address the question on how technological developments can be utilized to design an overall better subsea production system so the industry may fully benefit from the economic and ecological impact brought by the joint use of these technologies. Opportunities for reevaluating barrier philosophy to identify technical and economic opportunities for design simplifications of subsea trees that still leave enough pressure barriers in all operational modes are also considered. The analyses presented indicate the current stage of the examined technologies and their potential at reducing both capital and operational cost of subsea systems. These results will be the basis for the future evaluation of improved and new design solutions within the scope of the ongoing project performed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and its industrial partners.
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Kujansuu, Pekka, Joonas Lehtovaara, Max Grönvall, Olli Seppänen, and Antti Peltokorpi. "Comparison of Collaboration and Trade Partner Commitment in Takt Implementation Cases." In 27th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC). International Group for Lean Construction, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24928/2019/0166.
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Schelzig, Karin, and Kirsty Newman. Promoting Inclusive Education in Mongolia. Asian Development Bank, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps200305-2.
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Children with disabilities suffer disproportionately from the learning crisis. Although they represent only about 1.5% to 5% of the child population, they comprise more than half of out-of-school children globally. Inspired by a commitment that every child has the right to quality education, a growing global drive for inclusive education promotes an education system where children with disabilities receive an appropriate and high-quality education that is delivered alongside their peers. The global commitment to inclusive education is captured in the Sustainable Development Goal 4—ensuring inclusive and equitable education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. This paper explores inclusive education for children with disabilities in Mongolia’s mainstream education system, based on a 2019 survey of more than 5,000 households; interviews with teachers, school administrators, education ministry officials, and social workers; and visits to schools and kindergartens in four provinces and one district of the capital city. Mongolia has developed a strong legal and policy framework for inclusive education aligned with international best practice, but implementation and capacity are lagging. This is illustrated using four indicators of inclusive education: inclusive culture, inclusive policies, inclusive practices, and inclusive physical environments. The conclusion presents a matrix of recommendations for government and education sector development partners.
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Hill, Steven. NATO and the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. Royal Institute of International Affairs, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.55317/9781784134419.
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force on 22 January 2021. As part of a project examining NATO obligations and how they interact with nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament law and policy, this paper focuses on what the entry into force of the TPNW should mean for members of the NATO Alliance. NATO has long maintained a strong unified position in opposition to the new treaty, meaning that under current circumstances it is unlikely that any NATO member will join the TPNW. But the reality for NATO, its members and partners is that the TPNW is now here to stay. There is a risk that if the Alliance maintains an intense focus on opposing the TPNW, this may obscure NATO’s broader long-standing commitment to global nuclear disarmament, and may undermine the potential for NATO and supporters of the TPNW to work together to advance the common goal of nuclear disarmament.
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Uandela, André, and Mimi Coultas. Learning from ODF Districts in Mozambique. The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, May 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/slh.2023.008.
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With 30 per cent of Mozambique’s rural population still practicing open defecation (JMP 2021), the country urgently needs to accelerate results if it is to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6.2. After over a decade of work by the Government and key partners including UNICEF, six districts have recently been declared open defecation free (ODF). This paper shares findings from a review commissioned by UNICEF in 2023 to understand the enablers and barriers to success in these districts, and inform national and global discussion on how sub-national systems can be better supported to drive progress towards area-wide sanitation. Eight enablers were identified, ranging from government and community leaders’ commitment and active involvement to programmatic strategies and funding and local market and environmental conditions. The review recommends focusing on these enablers in non-ODF districts and continuing them in ODF districts (particularly across political and staff transitions), while increasing focus on sustainability and post-ODF support throughout.
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Wakefield, Benjamin. Opportunities for the European Union to Strengthen Biosecurity in Africa. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55163/hbpq5439.
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The European Union (EU) has a long history of commitment to improving biological security and supporting multilateral approaches to arms controls and non-proliferation. It has supported various biosecurity programmes in recent years and continues to increase its financial support towards these, with a focus on the universalization of the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540. More recently, through Council Decision 2021/2072/ CFSP, the EU has committed even further to strengthening biosafety and biosecurity capabilities in Africa, with more meaningful collaboration and an increase in the local and regional ownership of projects. This provides an opportunity for the EU to continue to broaden its approach and improve coordination with international partners. In particular focus is the newly formed European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), as it develops its international activities. However, there is still a demonstrated need to strengthen biosecurity-related capacities and capabilities across Africa. This paper highlights the significant opportunities for EU engagement and coordination with international initiatives, such as the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) Biosafety and Biosecurity Initiative (BBI) 2021–2025 Strategic Plan and the Global Partnership Signature Initiative to Mitigate Biological Threats in Africa.
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Chepeliev, Maksym, Wally Tyner, and Dominique van der Mensbrugghe. How Differing Trade Policies May Impact U.S. Agriculture: The Potential Economic Impacts of TPP, USMCA, and NAFTA. GTAP Working Paper, November 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21642/gtap.wp84.
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In the last two years, the United States has reversed the post-World War II trend toward the lowering of trade barriers and a commitment towards multilateral free trade. Citing a need to “level the playing field” and hold trading partners accountable to their commitments, the current Administration has moved towards a more protectionist and perhaps mercantilist position vis-à-vis trade policy. One of the Administration’s first actions in this regard was the decision to leave the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, followed thereafter by raising tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The Administration’s actions on trade are likely to have significant implications for U.S. farmers as these actions target three of the largest markets for U.S. agricultural exports – Canada, China and Mexico – accounting for some 44%, and representing an average of $63 billion, of U.S. agricultural exports 2013 to 2015. <em>Commissioned by the <a href="https://www.farmfoundation.org/">Farm Foundation</a></em> <strong><a href="https://www.farmfoundation.org/forums/2019-farm-foundation-forums/u-s-and-canadian-perspectives-on-trans-pacific-trade/">Farm Foundation Forum</a></strong> (March 4, 2019) <ul> <li><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-254829763/us-canadian-perspectives-on-trans-pacific-trade">Forum audio</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.farmfoundation.org/trade/">Food and Agricultural Trade Resource Center</a></li> </ul> <strong><a href="https://www.farmfoundation.org/forums/2018-farm-foundation-forums/oct-31-2018-farm-foundation-forum/">Farm Foundation Forum</a></strong> (October 31, 2018) <ul> <li><a href="https://brianallmerradionetwork.wordpress.com/2018/10/31/10-31-18-a-closer-look-at-the-purdue-universitys-global-trade-analysis-project-regarding-usmca-with-purdue-ag-economist-dominique-y-van-der-mensbrugghe-ph-d/">van der Mensbrugghe Interview</a></li> </ul>
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Freed, Danielle. K4D Strengthens Partners’ Ability to Deliver Improved Results for Inclusion in Crises. Institute of Development Studies, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2022.161.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals requires the inclusion of the most vulnerable people affected by intersecting inequalities. Inclusion is an approach and objective that serves to counter structural discrimination and enable affected people and communities to withstand the causes and impacts of crises. Recognising the need to address this issue, the UK government has sought to implement a range of commitments relating to inclusion in its programme and policy responses to crises. The K4D Inclusion in Crises Learning Journey has played a key role in supporting reflection on the opportunities and challenges for operationalising these commitments and equipping participants with the tools needed to make sure programmes can deliver high impact results, improving the lives and wellbeing of people who are marginalised and crisis-affected.
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Pritchett, Lant, and Marla Spivack. Understanding Learning Trajectories Is Key to Helping Adolescent Girls. Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-rise-ri_2021/032.
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There is a growing consensus among national governments and development partners about the importance of girls’ education. This is reflected in the UK government’s commitment to quality education for every girl for 12 years, and in targets for increasing girls’ schooling and learning adopted by the Group of 7 (G-7) countries at their meeting in mid-2021 (G7, 2021). The emergence of this consensus comes at a critical time. Education systems in low- and middle-income countries are facing a learning crisis, with many systems failing to equip children with the foundational skills they need to reach their full potential. Within this movement for girls’ education, much attention is focused on the unique challenges adolescent girls face, and on programmes to help girls stay in school. But designing interventions without sufficient understanding of the drivers of adolescent girls’ challenges will leave policy makers frustrated and girls unaided. To help adolescents reach their full potential, we must first understand what is undermining their progress in the first place. Understanding learning trajectories (how much children learn over time) is key to helping both today’s and tomorrow’s adolescent girls. This insight note briefly explains what learning trajectories are and then offers six analytical insights about learning trajectories that can inform education systems reforms to ensure that every girl meets her full potential.
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Noack, Anika. Knowledge and Technology Transfer under Digital Conditions: Transfer Intermediaries in Eastern Germany and the Role of Digital Means, Trust and Face-to-Face Interactions. Technische Hochschule Wildau, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.15771/innohub_4.
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Even before the corona pandemic broke out in 2020, the role of digitalisation became more and more apparent within Knowledge and Technology Transfer (KTT) processes. Since the pandemic,intermediary organisations that bridge the distance between academia and the world of business to pave the way for successful university-industry linkages have not primarily been able to build on face-to-face-encounters to create those relations. Based on an ongoing research project, this paper examines how digitally mediated communications potentially enhance or limit knowledge and technology transfer that is primarily based on face-to-face interactions.On the one hand, the use of digitally mediated communications seem to foster the spatial expansion of networks, save travel times and costs and foster a special form of social inclusion. University-industry-relations, on the other hand,still rely on a positive evaluation of face-to-face contacts and geographical proximity for trust to develop between heterogeneous partners. Here, actors with bridging functions like transfer scouts are vital in enabling a regular communicative exchange to create commitment, social cohesion and cooperation in digital contexts. Although the relevance of digitalised transfer processes has been increasing over time, an important set of activities, involving face-to-face contacts and co-location, currently still plays a major role for transfer intermediaries in university-industry-relations.
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Jones, Lee, Jenny Powers, and Stephen Sweeney. Department of the Interior: History and status of bison health. National Park Service, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2280100.
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The North American plains bison once numbered in the tens of millions, but only around 1,000 individuals remained by the late 1800s. Through the actions of private individuals and organizations, the establishment of a few protected, federally managed, herds saved the subspecies from extinction and today the Department of the Interior (DOI) supports ap-proximately 11,000 plains bison in 19 herds across 12 states. DOI chartered the Bison Conservation Initiative in 2008, which established a framework for bison conservation and restoration on appropriate lands within the species’ histori-cal range. With the recent announcement of the 2020 DOI Bison Conservation Initiative, DOI outlined a diverse range of accomplishments made under the 2008 Initiative and re-affirmed the commitment to work with partners in support of managing bison as native wildlife. Both the 2008 and 2020 DOI Bison Conservation Initiatives endorse a holistic approach, addressing health and genetic considerations, and recommend managing DOI bison herds together as a metapopulation to conserve genetic diversity by restoring gene flow. Bison conservation and restoration efforts must consider the significance of disease in bison herds and apply a multi-jurisdictional, multi-stakeholder approach to the management of bison on large landscapes. Robust herd health surveillance programs, both in the donor and recipient herds, along with strong partnerships and communication, are needed to protect the century-long success of DOI bison conservation and stewardship. This report discusses overarching principles affecting bison health decisions in DOI herds and provides detailed baseline herd health history and management, providing a foundation upon which the 2020 Bison Conservation Initiative vision for DOI bison stewardship can be realized.
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Kirby, Nikolas, and Simone Webbe. Being a Trusted and Respected Partner: The APS Integrity Framework: An ANZSOG Research Paper for the Australian Public Service Review Panel. Australia and New Zealand School of Government, March 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.54810/erqp2900.
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This Research Insights Paper is one of a series commissioned through ANZSOG by the 2019 Independent Review of the Australian Public Service, to inform the Review’s deliberations. It looks at how the APS can become a global leader by adopting an integrity framework which specifically promotes ‘institutional integrity’ through four qualities: purpose, legitimacy, fulfilling commitments, and robustness.