Concept In Different Contexts Research Articles

МОДЕЛІ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ БЛАГОПОЛУЧЧЯ ПЕРСОНАЛУ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА

The article is devoted to the models of well-being and their comparative analysis in order to expand the understanding of the essence of this concept and in the context of forming a corporate strategy for staff well-being. A review of the various models of well-being that exist in the current literature has allowed us to identify the main structural components and key elements that make up this concept in different contexts. This article aims to study and summarise different approaches to understanding well-being, including scientific theories, socio-economic models, psychological and cultural definitions. An extended analysis of different models of well-being in the context of different scientific disciplines helped to identify common aspects and differences between them, which will contribute to a more complete and comprehensive understanding of this concept. Different approaches to defining and understanding well-being were considered, taking into account factors such as social justice, economic development, psychological comfort and health. This allowed to identify important aspects that affect the formation of well-being models in the modern world and will contribute to the development of integrated approaches in the formation of corporate HR strategy at the enterprise. The relevance of this scientific article lies in the need to clarify and systematise various approaches to understanding the concept of "well-being". Modern society is faced with various interpretations and models of this concept, which makes it difficult to understand the essence and components of well-being. Our article has made an important contribution to the development of the theoretical framework, and a comparative analysis of existing approaches has allowed us to identify common and distinctive features in different models of well-being. The identification of the main elements and structural components of well-being has made it possible to create a more complete and comprehensive understanding of this concept, which in turn will contribute to the development of scientific research, practical applications and policy implementation in order to improve the quality of life and well-being of society as a whole. This article provides a thorough analysis of various theoretical approaches to the definition of "employee well-being" and discusses the lack of consensus on this concept. In addition, the article emphasises the need for a comprehensive approach to managing employee well-being, highlighting the link between employee well-being and specific management practices, company performance and human resource management.

Multidisciplinary Issues in Social Sciences

Interdisciplinary is a theoretical and pedagogical approach and academic practice that is becoming more and more popular and widespread. Although interdisciplinary is the general name of certain theoretical, pedagogical and institutional activities, it has actually had a radical impact on disciplinary distinctions and has led different disciplines to redefine their epistemological and methodological boundaries. At the same time, interdisciplinary radically affects the structure of academic communities that have drawn their own symbolic and institutional boundaries with strict lines at times. In this study, the concept of interdisciplinary, which has become increasingly popular and influential, will be discussed in the context of the relatively long history of disciplinary distinctions, and different definitions of the concept and problematizations on the concept in different contexts will be critically analyzed. The principle of interdisciplinary in the development of modern science is assimilated on the basis of social work. Information occurs in a social context as a human activity. Therefore, both knowledge and the method of knowing, the society in which it emerged, tradition, history, religion, culture, etc. 
 How abstract can it be from its context? There are no universal and universally acceptable, definitive answers to similar questions. However, it can be stated that the concepts related to knowledge and science are handled and discussed in almost every historical period. Accordingly, knowledge, as one of the most fundamental problems of humanity, has been analyzed within the framework of religion and philosophy in ancient times. 
 This analysis is mostly carried out individually and knowledge is grounded in an isolated subject-object relationship. Early thinkers of antiquity saw knowledge as an act of rational justification. Recently, however, doubts about the representation of truth in modern science have been growing. Interdisciplinarity has almost become a keyword not only in today's academia, but also in the business world and different professional fields.

Guest editorial for the special issue on modeling of μmWave and mmWave electronic devices for wireless systems: Connecting technologies to applications

The μmWave and mmWave frequencies have been historically associated with niche applications such as space and defense; however in the last years wireless communications have caused a rapid growth of interest in mass-market applications, representing the enabling technology for the new Information Age where all “things” need to be connected. Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and Smart Cities are portraits of this concept in different contexts, from entertainment to healthcare applications. This exciting scenario triggers the continuous increase of performance requirements such as huge bandwidth, low latency, and very high data rate of emerging wireless technologies (i.e., 5G and 6G). These demanding performance requirements drive microwave designers of devices and components towards new challenges that require innovative solutions where the outstanding properties of high-frequency technologies have to comply with the skyrocketing performance demand. Undoubtedly, it will take a lot of work to tackle the challenges that inevitably arise, but this is the way to go! This special issue, which contains 14 contributions, is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the development of innovative solutions in the research area of wireless applications. The aim is to have an overview from different perspectives on the challenges that arise in this fast-evolving research field. The high-quality contributions on modeling and characterization of electron devices give an in-depth understanding on the crucial role of the accurate modeling,1-6 and the benefits of this are clearly appreciable when active circuits, such as power amplifiers,6-8 passive circuits,9, 10 and antennas,11-13 have to be designed or investigated at such high frequencies. In addition to the aforementioned topics, data analyzes for specific application such as imaging are included.14 This special issue takes a step forward in the different branches of knowledge related to μmWave and mmWave devices, circuits, and systems, oriented to wireless applications from the device level up to the application level. From the reader's point of view the goal is to drive to a comprehensive overview on salient aspects of these topics and to provide interesting hints to overcome the upcoming technological challenges. This special issue has been developed during the hard year of COVID-19 pandemic that, as we well know, has led to unexpected difficulties for all people worldwide. The pandemic situation has affected every aspect of our daily life including developing research activities and building synergy among different research groups, fulcrum of the scientific knowledge growth. Everyone in the scientific community has made greater efforts to carry out their activity, therefore we really feel like to manifest a special gratefulness and respect to all the authors for their high-quality contributions and to all the reviewers for their efforts in improving the quality of the papers. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the editor-in-chief Jian-Ming Jin and to the team at Wiley for their valuable help and constant support throughout the whole publishing process from proposal to publication. We very much hope that the readers will enjoy reading this selection of articles and find them useful and inspiring for enabling advancement of wireless applications.

Smart cities and the banality of power

Smart cities have begun to garner increasing global popularity and political legitimacy in recent years. Driven largely by corporate interests, smart cities provide highly normative solutions to future urban and economic crises and are now popular in the global north and south alike. Despite a growing critical scholarship on smart cities, the processes and politics through which they manifest in different locations are widely different. Yet, there is a dearth of research on how an understanding of smart cities through the lens of power might contribute to our understanding of contemporary urban theory, citizenship and wider urban transformations. The papers, in this special issue, represent a range of entry points for examining the dynamics of power in the operationalisation of the smart city concept in different contexts. The intention is to examine how smart cities produce and engage power, as a way of normalising the structural and social violence inherent in urban transformations across the world.

Social Pedagogy in the World Today: An Analysis of the Academic, Training and Professional Perspectives

Abstract We present a study of social pedagogy from a comparative perspective with the aim of offering an international overview of the current status of social pedagogy in the world. The lack of a universal conceptual definition for the term causes epistemological confusion and inaccuracy and has led to the emergence of multiple polarised perspectives on the concept in different contexts. Our study analyses the current situation from the academic, training and professional viewpoints, with the aim of developing a series of indicators to construct an updated, global and integrated view of social pedagogy. Each of these three visions forms a phase of research and uses a specific methodology: the academic perspective (qualitative methodology with the Delphi method), the training perspective (quantitative methodology with a statistical analysis) and the professional perspective (qualitative methodology with semi-structured interviews). Based On the triangulation of all results in different phases, our principal findings define the main dimensions of social pedagogy: contextual, historical, epistemological, functional, professional, methodological, normative and ethical and political. It also confirms that it is possible to define a theoretical, transdisciplinary and international common ground on social pedagogy and describe the specific features characteristic of each context.

Utilizing a professional role model for development of a learner-centered learning program for managers

The article is devoted to learner-centered learning program development for adult learners, which are experienced professionals – chief executives. The high speed of learning and precise learning outcomes are seen as the main need of an executive in a learner role. A learner-centered learning program satisfies the need.The article suggests the use of a professional role model of a learner – after learning program completion – as a main tool for the development of an appropriate learner-centered learning program. The details of the professional role model, as well as an algorithm of learner-centered learning program development, are discussed.One of the key problems in learning program development is that the skills, competencies and capabilities developed during learning programs often can’t be applied outside the learning program – in “real life” contexts. To enable a learner to be successful in real contexts, it is suggested to use a role concept in different contexts. The learning program in this case should develop not only the ability to play a role, but also play it in different contexts; not just to acquire new roles, but to be able to reduce roles for simpler ones, as well as to compose new roles.

SENSE POTENTIAL OF THE CONCEPT “LOVE” IN UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

A cognitive analysis of the content of the concept “love” in the Ukrainian language was carried out. The concept “love” in the Ukrainian language reveals a complex semantic structure presented by the following meanings: 1) a deep feeling of cordial affection, amicability to someone or something (people, family, God, homeland etc.; 2) a deep feeling of heart attraction to a person of different sex, love; 3) interest in something, preference for something. Besides the above mentioned meanings, the historical dictionaries also reveals the following meanings of word “love” as “kindness to someone”, “tenderness”, “harmony”.Paradigmatic relations (synonyms) of word “love” in the language system complement the selected meanings giving them the semantic, stylistic, expressive, emotional and functional tones.Ukrainian proverbs provide additional meanings superimposed on the nuclear part of the analyzed concept. The word “love” is characterized by such connotative meanings as “inner, spiritual nature”, “kinship of souls”, “irrationality”, “uncontrolled emotion”, “intensity”, “value” etc. Further analysis of the functioning of the analyzed concept in different contexts creates the perspective of our study.

Developing the ability to recontextualise cellular respiration: an explorative study in recontextualising biological concepts

ABSTRACTIn many science education practices, students are expected to develop an understanding of scientific knowledge without being allowed a view of the practices and cultures that have developed and use this knowledge. Therefore, students should be allowed to develop scientific concepts in relation to the contexts in which those concepts are used. Since many concepts are used in a variety of contexts, students need to be able to recontextualise and transfer their understanding of a concept from one context to another. This study aims to develop a learning and teaching strategy for recontextualising cellular respiration. This article focuses on students’ ability to recontextualise cellular respiration. The strategy allowed students to develop their understanding of cellular respiration by exploring its use and meaning in different contexts. A pre- and post-test design was used to test students’ understanding of cellular respiration. The results indicate that while students did develop an acceptable understanding of cellular respiration, they still had difficulty with recontextualising the concept to other contexts. Possible explanations for this ack of understanding are students’ familiarity with the biological object of focus in a context, the manner in which this object is used in a context and students’ understanding of specific elements of cellular respiration during the lessons. Although students did develop an adequate understanding of the concept, they do need more opportunities to practice recontextualising the concept in different contexts. Further research should focus on improving the strategy presented here and developing strategies for other core concepts in science.

Lean and agile integration within offsite construction using discrete event simulation

Purpose The purpose of this study is to systematically analyse and synthesise the existing research published on offsite manufacturing/construction. The study aims to highlight and associate the core elements for adopting the offsite concept in different construction contexts. This ultimately facilitates the enhancement of the offsite uptake. Design/methodology/approach The research study was carried out through a systematic literature review (SLR). The SLR was conducted to identify and understand the existing themes in the offsite research landscape, evaluate contributions and compile knowledge, thereby identifying potential directions of future research. The grand electronic databases were explored to gather literature on the offsite concept, lean and agile principles and simulation. A total of 62 related articles published between 1992 and 2015 have been included in this study. The relevant literature was systematically analysed and synthesised to present the emerging offsite themes. Findings The descriptive and thematic analyses presented in this paper have identified related offsite research studies that have contributed to setting a firm foundation of the offsite concept in different construction contexts. Each of the 62 articles was examined for achieving the aim and objectives of this study, the method of data collection and coverage of offsite themes. The results of the analyses revealed that the articles mostly provide information on the offsite concept and its definitions (53 per cent) and offsite barriers and/or drivers (27 per cent). However, limited attention has been paid to the integration of lean and agile principles (13 per cent) and simulation (7 per cent) within the offsite concept, which are therefore more open to research within the offsite concept. Research limitations/implications The literature review highlights the main themes and components of the offsite construction concept. This forms a solid basis and motivation for researchers and practitioners to build on to enhance the uptake of the offsite concept in different contexts. This study also presents a research roadmap within the offsite concept, along with a recommendation for further research to be conducted using the research framework proposed in this study. The framework could lead to validation of using simulation to integrate lean and agile principles within the offsite concept. Originality/value This paper presents a systematic review of the literature related to offsite construction in different contexts. The emerging components, that is, offsite definitions, drivers and/or barriers, lean and agile principles and simulation have been highlighted and discussed thematically. A research framework that enables pursuit of the integration of lean and agile principles offsite through the lens of simulation has been proposed. The framework is expected to open up new opportunities on the effectiveness of offsite development in different contexts.

Marc Jacob. Precedents and Case-based Reasoning in the European Court of Justice: Unfinished Business * Valeriane Konig. Prazedenzwirkung internationaler Schiedsspruche: Dogmatisch-empirische Analysen zur Handels- und Investitionsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit [The precedential effect of international arbitral awards: Doctrinal and empirical analyses of the Commercial and Investment Arbitration]

The concept of precedent has not received much attention in international law scholarship to date. International courts and tribunals are usually not formally bound by previous decisions. Nevertheless, there is no denying that precedents play a significant role in the practice of international courts. Courts cite and rely on previous decisions in order to lend their arguments more force. Two recently published studies aim to shed more light on this tension in the use of precedents: while Marc Jacob analyses precedents in the case law of the European Court of Justice, Valeriane Konig examines the precedential effect of decisions in international arbitration. Both books not only analyse the same concept in different contexts, they also have a common methodological point of departure. They rely to a certain extent on an empirical analysis. They construct a database of decisions and draw several quantitative and qualitative inferences from this database. They thus contribute to a laudable trend in international law scholarship towards a greater focus on empirical analyses, even though the extent and the informational value of the quantitative analysis are limited in both cases. Valeriane Konig points out in her study on the precedential effect of international arbitral awards why arbitral awards are, at least prima facie, rather unlikely candidates to function as precedents. The principal task of arbitral tribunals is dispute settlement between private parties, not the progressive development of law. Furthermore, the parties often have a significant interest in confidentiality so that a vast number of arbitral decisions are not published. Nevertheless, arbitral tribunals often decide matters in which the normative predetermination through written norms is rather low. For this reason, precedents may have an important informational value and strengthen the consistency of the case law.

Empire. The concept and its problems in the historiography on the iberian empires in the Early Modern Age

The article studies the more recent historiography about the Spanish and Portuguese empires. It identifies several types of interpretations and the use of ‘empire’ as a concept in different contexts, academic traditions and epochs. In doing so, it points to the achievements made and to the gaps that still exist, especially in the context of Renaissance humanism. It is the article‘s goal to facilitate a dialogue between academics about a topic that in the last decade or so has revealed crucial for the study of Ibero-American as well as for European history.

A Concept of “Culture of Prevention”: A Review of Literature

The aim of this review is to analyse the use of the culture of concept in different contexts. Firstly, we noticed that there is no generally accepted definition of this concept. Secondly, the culture of is not operationalized. This is why we conclude that it is not a scientific concept. It is used more as a general concept in the discussion of the scientific results or as an umbrella concept for improvement measures. The culture of concept has two important dimensions. Although on the one hand, it is used as a global concept related to, for example, conflict prevention in international politics; on the other hand, the concept refers local actions, for example eliminating the destructive effects of earth-quake disasters.

Culture Is a Priority for Research in End-of-Life Care in Europe: A Research Agenda

ContextCulture has a profound influence on our understanding of what is appropriate care for patients at the end of life (EoL), but the evidence base is largely nonexistent. ObjectivesAn international workshop was organized to compile a research agenda for cultural issues in EoL research, and assess challenges and implications of the integration of the culture concept in different contexts. MethodsParticipant experts were identified from the expert network established through an Internet-based call for expertise on culture and EoL care and from meetings. The workshop comprised presentations of research priorities from country and disciplinary perspectives, and group discussions. Analysis used all data gathered in the workshop and applied standard qualitative techniques. ResultsThirty experts participated in the workshop and identified the following priorities for cross-cultural research: 1) clarifying the concepts of culture and cultural competence; 2) defining EoL in a context of social and cultural diversity, with a focus on concepts of EoL care and bioethics, experiences of receiving and giving EoL care, and care practices in different settings; and 3) developing appropriate methodologies and outcome measurements that address diversity. ConclusionThis first pan-European meeting compiled a research agenda, identifying key areas for future research focusing on culture, diversity, and their operationalization. This requires international and multidisciplinary collaboration, which is necessary in the current efforts to synthesize best practices in EoL care.

Placing social capital

This paper reviews the contribution that the concept of social capital might make to geography, and the contribution geography might make to the analysis of social capital. We begin by summarizing the conceptual origins and dimensions of social capital, in the process of which we distinguish it from several other social properties (human and cultural capital; social networks). We then summarize key criticisms of the concept, especially those levelled at the work of Robert Putnam. The core of the paper is a discussion of the issue of whether there might be a geography of social capital. We consider links between geographical debates and the concept of social capital, and we assess the difficulties of deriving spatially disaggregated measures of social capital. We illustrate this discussion with reference to literature on three sets of issues: the question of ‘institutional tissue’ and its effects on regional development; the understanding of health inequalities; and the analysis of comparative government performance. In conclusion, we argue that the popularity of the concept reflects a combination of academic and political developments, notably the search for ostensibly ‘costless’ policies of redistribution on the part of centrist governments. We therefore conclude with a discussion of the practical applications of the concept in different contexts.