A headline in The New York Times said the government would use its contracts with private companies as a "wage lever," meaning the government would try to improve wages by giving work and money to companies that paid well and provided generous benefits. Levers get things done....
FromPopular-Science It’s gone from a “strategic lever for the future to a strategic lever for right now,” he says. FromFortune For Mead and Benedict, social theory was a tool for making sense of the world, but it could also be a lever against your own predicaments. ...
There is increasing recognition of the multi-modal representational nature of science discovery practices, and the roles of multiple and multimodal representations in students' meaning making in science (Tytler, Prain, Hubber, & Waldrip, 2013; Lemke, 1998; Tang, 2016). However, research in this ...
For Salvia, it may be speculated that the lever mechanism has a different meaning in bee- and bird-pollinated species. In Bolivia we always found bee- and bird-pollinated species in the same area, avoiding hybridization by being adapted to these different pollinator groups. In co-occurring be...
The transition from unloading to remission is not abrupt meaning that during the unloading phase the probability to observe longer and longer IPIs gradually increases over time. We assume that there is an IPI which might be used to demarcate the border between the unloading and remission phases ...
aTranslation used to be considered an inter-language transfer of meaning, which is the point of departure for research and study. Many earlier definitions demonstrate this, using source language and target language as their technical terms. Moreover, translation theories strictly confined themselves wit...
effortisappliedbetweentheoutputloadononeendandthefulcrumontheoppositeend.“ThirdClassLever”Examples:•HockeyStick•Tweezers•FishingRodMechanIcalAdvantage•FirstandSecondclasslevershaveapositivemechanicaladvantage.•Thirdclasslevershaveamechanicaldisadvantage,meaningyouusemoreforcethattheforceoftheloadyoulift....
Workplace mentoring: an old idea with new meaning (part 2) Purpose ‐ This article is written in two parts and is presented as research-based insight on the growth of formal workplace mentoring programs and the ali... Short,T William - 《Development & Learning in Organizations》 被引量: ...
The choice of a qualitative methodology prevents generalizations, inasmuch as the purpose of qualitative research is not to generalize the results but rather to describe, interpret, and ascribe meaning to the subjects’ positioning concerning a given situation [76]. This is the main disadvantage of ...
Participants’ responses in three items with a negative meaning (e.g., “I found the FIT-WHEEL system very complex”) were revised. It is important to mention that all the above-mentioned instruments have already been translated into the Greek language and have been used previously in studies...