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Individual Adaptability to changes at work refers to an
individual's response to new demands or ill defined problems
created by uncertainty, complexity, mergers, and any rapid change
in the work situation. Today, one of the key factors for
individual's success is said to be adaptability. In the past two
decades there has been increasing interest in the research on
individual adaptability, and this is one of the first academic
volumes to look at this important topic. Specific contexts that
will be addressed include newcomer adaptation, team building and
functioning, work-family conflict, retirement and career
management. The book will provide a comprehensive and integrated
analysis of the conceptual, assessment and contextual issues that
will help identify the current trends and emerging themes in
adaptability research.
This book is unique in that it discusses the nature of human
suffering and how patients can be helped to overcome
psycho-emotional pain through work with the Eight Extraordinary
Vessels. Emotional suffering and resistance to change can be an
impediment to the healing process, with many physical conditions
being resistant to treatment due to their psycho-emotional element.
Understanding this suffering and providing a therapeutic
environment which allows the patient to believe that things can be
different improves the effectiveness of an Eight Extras treatment.
Approaching the topic from the perspective of suffering means that
the theory can be applied to both physical and emotional illness,
including addiction, chronic pain, auto-immune conditions and
hormonal disorders. This a very practical book and will include a
full explanation of how to create an Eight Extras treatment and
also case studies showing clinical use of the vessels and how to
apply them. These case studies show how coping mechanisms and
resistance develops and how important history is in the diagnostic
process.
Environmental Science and Information Application Technology
contains selected papers from the 2014 5th International Conference
on Environmental Science and Information Application Technology
(ESIAT 2014, Hong Kong, 7-8 November 2014). The book covers a wide
variety of topics: - Global Environmental Change and Ecosystems
Management - Graphic and Image Processing - Spatial Information
Systems - Application of Remote Sensing and Application of Spatial
Information Systems Environmental Science and Information
Application Technology will be invaluable to academics and
professionals interested and/or involved in these fields.
This conference series is a forum for enhancing mutual
understanding between Biomedical Engineering and Environmental
Engineering field. This proceeding provides contributions from many
experts representing industry and academic establishments
worldwide. The researchers are from different countries and
professional. The conference brought together researchers from all
over the world to share their new findings, thus to promote
academic exchanges. The volume represents papers related to the
themes of the conference: Bioinformatics and computational biology
Biomedical engineering Environmental science and technology
Environmental sustainability
Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his
contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common
law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and
entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of
legal power whose actions eroded confidence in the law. Working to
limit their behaviours, Coke also simultaneously sought to
strengthen royal authority and the Reformation settlement. Yet the
tensions in his thought led him into conflict with James I, who had
accepted many of the criticisms of the common law. Sir Edward Coke
and the Reformation of the Laws reframes the origins of Coke's
legal thought within the context of law reform and provides a new
interpretation of his early career, the development of his legal
thought, and the path from royalism to opposition in the turbulent
decades leading up to the English civil wars.
Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his
contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common
law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and
entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of
legal power whose actions eroded confidence in the law. Working to
limit their behaviours, Coke also simultaneously sought to
strengthen royal authority and the Reformation settlement. Yet the
tensions in his thought led him into conflict with James I, who had
accepted many of the criticisms of the common law. Sir Edward Coke
and the Reformation of the Laws reframes the origins of Coke's
legal thought within the context of law reform and provides a new
interpretation of his early career, the development of his legal
thought, and the path from royalism to opposition in the turbulent
decades leading up to the English civil wars.
This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of
this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in
the field. Methods to assess mitochondrial function is of great
interest to neuroscientists studying chronic forms of
neurodegeneration, including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, ALS,
Huntington's and other triplet repeat diseases, but also to those
working on acute conditions such as stroke and traumatic brain
injury. This volume covers research methods on how to assess the
life cycle of mitochondria including trafficking, fusion, fission,
and degradation. Multiple perspectives on the complex and difficult
problem of measurement of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species
production with fluorescent indicators and techniques ranging in
scope from measurements on isolated mitochondria to non-invasive
imaging of metabolic function.
Individual Adaptability to changes at work refers to an
individual's response to new demands or ill defined problems
created by uncertainty, complexity, mergers, and any rapid change
in the work situation. Today, one of the key factors for
individual's success is said to be adaptability. In the past two
decades there has been increasing interest in the research on
individual adaptability, and this is one of the first academic
volumes to look at this important topic. Specific contexts that
will be addressed include newcomer adaptation, team building and
functioning, work-family conflict, retirement and career
management. The book will provide a comprehensive and integrated
analysis of the conceptual, assessment and contextual issues that
will help identify the current trends and emerging themes in
adaptability research.
Most people can recall encounters, episodes and experiences
involving disagreements over an issue. The more important the
issue, the more it affects interpersonal relationships negatively
when there is strong disagreement. Disagreements often generate
negative thoughts, feelings and actions that significantly
influence attitudes, decisions and behaviours. These dynamics in
dealing with disagreement is part of our human psychology. If the
underlying psychology is understood, this knowledge can facilitate
personal and workplace relationships. It can also help address
disagreements between policymakers and citizens or advocacy
groups.Several questions have become more salient in recent years,
particularly amid COVID-19 challenges, as Singapore society
underwent significant changes that impact on the nature and level
of attention given to the way we deal with disagreements. What
factors should we pay more attention to when dealing with
disagreements? What are the policy and societal contexts, and can
we deal with disagreements in an ethical way? How are disagreements
affected by people's social networks and social identities? What
lessons can we learn from how we have dealt with disagreements? How
do we approach disagreements better to effect positive changes?This
book explores these and other issues about dealing with
disagreements. The book is organised into four parts. Part 1
provides an overview of the issues involved in dealing with
disagreements. Part 2 discusses issues of ethics and values in
managing difficult situations. Part 3 analyses the relationships
linking disagreements, social networks, diversity, and social
identities. Part 4 addresses specific questions on dealing with
disagreements in Singapore in terms of education, youths and
inter-generational differences, the role and practice of the media,
civil society advocacy and engagement, facts and signals in
parliamentary debates and public discourse, dealing with feedback
and viewpoints, political and public service leadership, and
relationships between people and government.This book will provide
new perspectives and possibilities on what it means to say 'dealing
with disagreements', as we resolve problems and generate solutions
to live a better life and build a stronger Singapore society.
This book is the third collection of essays by behavioural
scientist Professor David Chan, most of which first appeared in The
Straits Times. Endorsed by fifty leaders from different sectors,
this book provides a powerful springboard for self-reflections,
sense-making, internal and public discussions, and individual and
collective actions. A common theme that runs through these essays
may be described as 'Meaning Matters' which refers to the content
and subject matter of the critical issues experienced by people and
what it means to them. It is also about why the way that people
think, feel and act as they make sense and meaning of their
experiences should matter to individual well-being and societal
progress in Singapore. This book goes beyond examining what
critical issues mean or matter to people, policy making and nation
building, and why they do, to focus on translating the 'what it
means' and 'why it means' to 'how it means' and 'when it means'.
Written by leading MicroProfile experts, this book provides you
with best practices for building enterprise-grade cloud-native
applications using MicroProfile 4.1 and running them on Open
Liberty with Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio Key Features Apply your
knowledge of MicroProfile APIs to develop cloud-native applications
Use MicroProfile Health to provide the startup, liveness, and
readiness status of your enterprise application Build an end-to-end
stock trader project and containerize it to deploy to the cloud
with Istio interaction Book DescriptionIn this cloud-native era,
most applications are deployed in a cloud environment that is
public, private, or a combination of both. To ensure that your
application performs well in the cloud, you need to build an
application that is cloud native. MicroProfile is one of the most
popular frameworks for building cloud-native applications, and fits
well with Kubernetes. As an open standard technology, MicroProfile
helps improve application portability across all of MicroProfile's
implementations. Practical Cloud-Native Java Development with
MicroProfile is a comprehensive guide that helps you explore the
advanced features and use cases of a variety of Jakarta and
MicroProfile specifications. You'll start by learning how to
develop a real-world stock trader application, and then move on to
enhancing the application and adding day-2 operation
considerations. You'll gradually advance to packaging and deploying
the application. The book demonstrates the complete process of
development through to deployment and concludes by showing you how
to monitor the application's performance in the cloud. By the end
of this book, you will master MicroProfile's latest features and be
able to build fast and efficient cloud-native applications. What
you will learn Understand best practices for applying the 12-Factor
methodology while building cloud-native applications Create
client-server architecture using MicroProfile Rest Client and
JAX-RS Configure your cloud-native application using MicroProfile
Config Secure your cloud-native application with MicroProfile JWT
Become well-versed with running your cloud-native applications in
Open Liberty Grasp MicroProfile Open Tracing and learn how to use
Jaeger to view trace spans Deploy Docker containers to Kubernetes
and understand how to use ConfigMap and Secrets from Kubernetes Who
this book is forThis book is for Java application developers and
architects looking to build efficient applications using an open
standard framework that performs well in the cloud. DevOps
engineers who want to understand how cloud-native applications work
will also find this book useful. A basic understanding of Java,
Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud is needed to get the most out of this
book.
This book examines the changing reciprocal relationships between
corporations and their various social obligations over the very
long term - from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Chapters
from emerging and established business historians assess the full
range of social obligations that corporations held historically. By
adopting an innovative methodological approach that is long-term
and comparative, this book offers a challenge to the literature on
corporate history and will be of interest to researchers and
academics in the field of finance and business history.
Live action sequel following the anthropomorphic ninjutsu-trained
turtles Leonardo (voice of Brian Tochi), Michaelangelo (Robbie
Rist), Donatello (Adam Carl) and Raphael (Laurie Faso). Professor
Perry (David Warner), the man who invented the ooze that created
the Ninja Turtles, is kidnapped by the evil Shredder (Francois
Chau) who wants to control the ooze to use on his own sidekicks and
turn them into evil ninjas. So once again, it's up to the Turtles -
who have also enlisted the help of kick-boxing pizza-delivery boy
Keno (Ernie Reyes)...
Smart cards or IC cards offer a huge potential for information
processing purposes. The portability and processing power of IC
cards allow for highly secure conditional access and reliable
distributed information processing. IC cards that can perform
highly sophisticated cryptographic computations are already
available. Their application in the financial services and telecom
industries are well known. But the potential of IC cards go well
beyond that. Their applicability in mainstream Information
Technology and the Networked Economy is limited mainly by our
imagination; the information processing power that can be gained by
using IC cards remains as yet mostly untapped and is not well
understood. Here lies a vast uncovered research area which we are
only beginning to assess, and which will have a great impact on the
eventual success of the technology. The research challenges range
from electrical engineering on the hardware side to tailor-made
cryptographic applications on the software side, and their
synergies. This volume comprises the proceedings of the Fourth
Working Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications
(CARDIS 2000), which was sponsored by the International Federation
for Information Processing (IFIP) and held at the Hewlett-Packard
Labs in the United Kingdom in September 2000. CARDIS conferences
are unique in that they bring together researchers who are active
in all aspects of design of IC cards and related devices and
environments, thus stimulating synergy between different research
communities from both academia and industry. This volume presents
the latest advances in smart card research and applications, and
will be essential reading for smart card developers, smart card
application developers, and computer science researchers involved
in computer architecture, computer security, and cryptography.
Smart cards or IC cards offer a huge potential for information
processing purposes. The portability and processing power of IC
cards allow for highly secure conditional access and reliable
distributed information processing. IC cards that can perform
highly sophisticated cryptographic computations are already
available. Their application in the financial services and telecom
industries are well known. But the potential of IC cards go well
beyond that. Their applicability in mainstream Information
Technology and the Networked Economy is limited mainly by our
imagination; the information processing power that can be gained by
using IC cards remains as yet mostly untapped and is not well
understood. Here lies a vast uncovered research area which we are
only beginning to assess, and which will have a great impact on the
eventual success of the technology. The research challenges range
from electrical engineering on the hardware side to tailor-made
cryptographic applications on the software side, and their
synergies. This volume comprises the proceedings of the Fourth
Working Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications
(CARDIS 2000), which was sponsored by the International Federation
for Information Processing (IFIP) and held at the Hewlett-Packard
Labs in the United Kingdom in September 2000. CARDIS conferences
are unique in that they bring together researchers who are active
in all aspects of design of IC cards and related devices and
environments, thus stimulating synergy between different research
communities from both academia and industry. This volume presents
the latest advances in smart card research and applications, and
will be essential reading for smart card developers, smart card
application developers, and computer science researchers involved
in computer architecture, computer security, and cryptography.
Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing
their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and
mortar of urban planning. Just like in other highly-urbanised
cities, life and living in Singapore is highly dependent on many
other dimensions such as health, access to various services, social
interactions, inter-group relations and community bonds. Social and
behavioural factors will need to be incorporated when designing and
implementing policies and interventions to enhance liveability.This
invaluable book, based on the proceedings at the Behavioural
Sciences Institute Conference 2014, documents an exchange of ideas
among practitioners, academics and public intellectuals on
liveability in Singapore. The book is organized into four parts.
Part I provides an overview of liveability issues. Part II examines
liveability from the perspectives of health and urban planning.
Part III analyses the relationships linking quality of life to
social class and social services. Part IV addresses specific
questions on liveability in terms of public transport, cost of
living, government's public communications, role of free market
values in town planning, civil society, citizen well-being and
whether there is a psychological gulf between government and
people.This book will provide the reader valuable perspectives, an
increased understanding of issues related to the liveability in
Singapore and many potential applications to reflect on.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused, and will continue to cause, great
disruptions to lives, livelihoods, ways of life, and quality of
life. We will need to learn to live with the coronavirus for a long
time, even as we combat the coronavirus crisis collectively and
fight our own daily battles individually. This book examines
Singapore's reaction and response to the coronavirus and draws
lessons for crisis management, psychological preparedness, and
adaptability.Consisting of 12 chapters, the book is organized into
three parts. Part 1 elaborates on the context of the coronavirus
crisis and discusses human reactions to the outbreak and the key
adaptation challenges that people faced. Part 2 discusses
Singapore's leadership and public responses, focusing on negative
emotions, social responsibility, adoption of new technology for
contact tracing, and the handling of the outbreak among migrant
workers at the dormitories. Part 3 addresses issues of
psychological preparedness amid the evolving COVID-19 situation, in
terms of adapting to post-pandemic realities, enabling positive
attitudes and experiences, building psychological capital, and
learning to work together to emerge stronger and better from the
coronavirus crisis.
Academic abilities play a critical role not only in school settings
but also in practical work situations and other problem-solving
contexts that involve important intellectual task demands. However,
we will not achieve the intended positive outcomes if we give too
much emphasis to academic abilities and neglect non-academic
attributes such as personality, interests, motivations, values,
information-processing styles, self-concepts and attitudes.What
non-academic factors do we need to pay more attention to? How do we
approach the issues and effect changes with meaningful impact? What
is the relationship between education, work and various notions of
success? How are academic and non-academic factors related to civil
society and politics, and what lessons can we learn from mistakes
and successes in the ways we use or treat these related abilities,
attributes or attitudes?This book explores these and other issues
about going beyond academic abilities. The book is organised into
four parts. Part 1 provides an overview of the issues in
conceptualising and assessing academic abilities and non-academic
attributes. Part 2 discusses education in Singapore and the
adaptive Singapore workforce. Part 3 analyses the relationships
linking academic abilities and non-academic factors to civil
society and politics. Part 4 addresses specific questions on staff
and public engagement, similarities and differences across public,
private and people sectors, dealing with feedback and viewpoints,
political and public service leadership, and relationships between
people and government.This book will provide new perspectives and
possibilities on what it means to say 'much more than academic
abilities', as we aspire to live a better life, make a positive
difference to others, and build a stronger society.
It is clear that public trust plays a critical role in developing a
vibrant economy and a strong society. A reasonably high level of
public trust will enable the public, the Government, and the
various organisations and groups in the different sectors in
Singapore to work together to build a cohesive and adaptive
community. This means a community characterised by constructive
relationships embedded in positive economic, human, social,
political and psychological capital.Public trust is important
because it affects how people think, feel and behave. Trust takes
time to build, is easy to lose, and once lost is difficult to
restore. Trust is multi-dimensional, having to do with distinct
aspects relating to competence, integrity and benevolence. Trust is
also dynamic - it changes over time and the direction of change is
not pre-determined.Given how critical and complex the concept of
trust is, we need to have a valid and honest understanding of
trust, if we want to shed light on how and why public trust
changes, and how we can repair public trust violation and develop
public trust in Singapore.The book is organised into four parts.
Part 1 provides an overview of issues involved in thinking about
public trust. Part 2 examines public trust in the context of
upholding public accountability and discusses specific issues of
public transport in Singapore. Part 3 analyses the relationships
linking trust to social media analytics as well as healthcare. Part
4 addresses specific questions on public trust in Singapore in
terms of social harmony, race and religion, education, civil
society, social inequalities, dealing with differences and
disagreements, political leadership, and relationships between
people and government.This book will provide the reader new
perspectives and possibilities related to questions that have
become more salient in recent years as Singapore society underwent
significant changes that likely impact on the nature and level of
public trust.
Foreword by Lee Hsien Loong (Prime Minister, Republic of
Singapore)This book is about the art and science of finding
solutions to helping families in crisis, and making a real and
lasting positive difference in their lives. It is about helping
people in need, as well as lessons on adversity, aspiration and
action when multiple different stakeholders work together in the
helping process. The book is organised into two parts. Part 1
discusses the issues in an unprecedented real-life interim housing
project in Singapore that helped families in crisis over several
years. Part 2 contains chapters critically reflecting on the
experiences and lessons learned from the helping process in this
project. Collectively, the chapters in this book address salient
questions on helping people in need and implications for building a
strong Singapore society.Related Link(s)
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