Dedication

The following articles refer to this text: 2006;32 :339-348 2008;34(5):345-355 Demerouti E, Bakker AB, de Jonge J, Janssen PPM, Schaufeli WB. Burnout and engagement at work as a function of demands and control. Scand J Work Environ Health 2001;27(4):279-286.

"L’intenso quindicennio (1551-1566) in cui si svolge la carriera editoriale di Girolamo Ruscelli è caratterizzato dal progressivo affinamento dei meccanismi di un apparato paratestuale che estende la sua influenza sull’area del testo e ne veicola la fruizione allargata all’intero mercato del «mondo». La regia di questo articolato congegno viene sistemata nella sezione dei paratesti preliminari, che – come risulta dalla silloge qui pubblicata – da spazi tradizionalmente riservati all’autore e al tipografo, diventano il luogo in cui la nuova figura del curatore-editore realizza il proprio ruolo professionale nel dialogo con l’universo dei lettori, introducendosi di forza nei rapporti di produzione culturale della piena età della stampa.
Nelle 34 dediche e nei 26 testi variamente riconducibili alla categoria dell’avviso che aprono le circa 40 edizioni allestite da Ruscelli si assiste allo sviluppo di un discorso unitario basato su alcune costanti fondamentali. Nello specifico della dedica, egli agisce da vero auctor del genere, modificando gli equilibri interni dell’epistola in funzione della componente prefativa e ricollocando la figura del patronus in una posizione ancillare che gli assegna forte responsabilità nel successo della pubblicazione. Così concepito, il complesso dei paratesti preliminari diventa la sede ideale per condurre nel solco della moderna saggistica militante l’autopromozione della figura ibrida di mediatore culturale in equilibrio tra mondo delle lettere e pratica tipografica. Ma, soprattutto, le dediche e gli avvisi di Ruscelli risultano cruciali per la presentazione di un catalogo editoriale che cresce intorno a un ampio progetto di divulgazione culturale imperniato sull’affermazione del volgare come lingua moderna al «colmo» di perfezione e prossima a scalzare il latino dalla sua posizione di dominanza."

In the 2nd century CE, Aristolochos and the two siblings Apollonius and Ostamas erected a monument with a dedication to Heracles on the eastern slopes of the mountain Alacadağ. Its location can be reached via a steep forest path climbing to the summit of the 2368 m high Alacadağ, which the locals call “Kolak’ın kız kestiği yer”. This mountainous area lies in the territory of Limyra and is close to the boundary with Arycanda. Beside the inscription carved in the face of the rock outcrop, which is some 3 metres high, a relief of Heracles is cut in a niche. The inscription mentions that the boundaries of the public land were determined under the supervision of five epistatai, whose names are listed. Aristolochos as well as the two siblings Apollonius and Ostamas may have been workers involved in said demarcation of public land.

Marianna Villa

Ai margini del Cortegiano: la dedicatoria d'autore al Da Silva

La dedica autoriale al Da Silva, aggiunta solo in fase di stampa del Cortegiano, ha finito per costituire un “doppio sistema” di dediche, perché si è sovrapposta ai proemi dei quattro libri, già composti e indirizzati ad un altro dedicatario, nel frattempo morto, Alfonso Ariosto. Un’analisi specifica dal punto di vista dei topoi ricorrenti, delle strategie di dedica e delle sue funzioni permette invece di ritrovare una intenzionale complementarietà tra i due sistemi. Dal momento che nei proemi Castiglione si era già soffermato sulle figure di dedicatario e patroni e sulle motivazioni che presiedevano alla composizione dell’opera, e quindi aveva già impiegato la tradizionale topica della lode o della convenientia, ora, a ridosso della pubblicazione, sceglie una strada diversa, ritagliandosi uno spazio diretto di intervento, con la finalità di giustificare i ritardi e le difficoltà intercorse, e soprattutto di incentivare e promuovere la lettura, conferendo così all’epistola una funzione prefatorio-esegetica, assente nei proemi dei quattro libri.




The dedication to Da Silva, written by Castiglione between 1527 and 1528 while the Courtesan is published in Venice, forms a double system of dedications. It was superimposed on the preface of the four books, dedicated to Alfonso Ariosto, who had died in the meantime. This investigation about the strategies of the new dedication, its presentation, its functions shows the relationship between the two systems of dedications. In 1527 Castiglione justifies the difficulties around the printing process and he promotes the Courtesan to his readers, giving an esegetical function to his new dedication.

An examination of how business-oriented models of education attempt to promulgate a Neoliberal ideology emphasizing entrepreneurship, 'leadership' and anti-unionism.  Notions of Social Learning and Hegemony are usee to highlight ideo-utopian visions and the directed narratives needed to effect paradigm change.  Principal examples come from the discourse emanating from TFA and foundations in favor of corporate education reform.  Additional examples focus on how teachers and principals are depicted on TV and in films.  Special attention is given to Jim Belushi's gut-wrenching portrayal of a new principal in The Principal.  Belushi plays Rick Latimer, a high-school teacher with a drinking problem who is made the new principal of crime-ridden and gang-dominated Brandel High.  The climax cannot be believed, but neither can the discourse of corporate reform groups.

From the Introduction:

The subway ads for the New York City Teaching Fellows were designed to appeal to people’s altruism and sense of idealism: “Picture their eyes lighting up when you explain electricity.” “How many lives did your last spread sheet change?” Along with the second person structure, there is also an appeal to egos, as well as tinges of elitism: “Convene the city’s future leaders. Every day.” “They’re not rocket scientists. Yet.” In trying to recruit people from other fields into education, the subtext was that a candidate’s skills in finance or law, as well as the native superiority that i is assumed to imply, make them a better pool from which to take teachers.
Underlying this is a set of assumptions that diminish the complexity of teaching. An explanation is sufficient to make a child’s eyes light up.  A call for teacher dedication pervaded the ads and engaged in some significant omissions. The Image of the Unproblematic Child played a crucial role; the ads seemed to suggest that that child was waiting for the one inspirational teacher to step in and give a direction to the child's latent aspirations that had, perhaps, been stifled because of their uncaring and robotic teachers. The ads played on people's desire to change the world and ignored what I had learned with great difficulty – that every class has disruptive children, some more than others, that the best laid plans are often laid waste, that reaching kids was a slow, incremental process with, at best, mixed success.
The argument that the solution to our educational woes is to be bring in new, supposedly better and more dedicated teachers, has been one of the most compelling of the last few decades. Its most forceful proponents, Wendy Kopp, Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein and, now, Arne Duncan, have offered a vision of the future in which good teachers will be venerated, but not so good ones will leave or be pushed out of the profession and no teacher will have the protections of tenure, seniority and dependable pay scales. Security will be a thing of the past and in its place will be some sort of ‘merit system,’ the details and dependability of which are much in doubt, but which would come to some sort of merit rating based on a mix of results on standardized exams and subjective evaluations by administrators who have their own agendas.
Thus the narrative of dedication – a narrative of how new dedicated teachers will close the achievement gaps due to socio-economic status, race and class is certainly worthy of comment. It is something we might call the Highly Effective Teacher narrative or the TFA narrative (after Teach For America). It glosses over social problems and. by pointing to new teachers as the answer, points to old teachers as the problem. As Steve Klees puts it, it is one of the “underlying refrains of the neoliberal era: schools are failures, and it is the fault of teachers.”  It moves the responsibility from a set of social institutions meant to deal with the consequences of poverty –institutions which are it wants to be dismantled-- and gives the project of educating young Americans to a set of individuals who will be subject to supervisors with much greater discretionary power and will then be gauged on their effectiveness in a matter yet to be determined, but in which cost effectiveness will be a major component.
I focus first  on Teach for America and the discourse that developed around it as a master narrative. The goal of this narrative was to advance approaches to education that emphasized the exceptional individual as the key to a new form of national education that would rescue the public education system. At the same time, the public education system was descried as a relic of bureaucratism with socialist tendencies that served the interest of adults rather than children.

In addition, we look at the struggle for the TFA message, the images of teachers on television and on film.

Brief Description: 

DEDICATION – AN INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS OF PRESSURE:
Directed, Pointed And Encompassing Narratives

Variation on Title: Dedication – An Introduction to Systems Of Pressure in 12 Steps
Alternate Title: The TFA Narrative: Dedication as the Introduction of a System of Pressure

DEDICATION – AN INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS OF PRESSURE: , begins with three quotes.

The first two, which serve as epigraphs for the book, are from Joseph Campbell and Henry David Thoreau, respectively. Perhaps Campbell's most famous quote “Follow your bliss and don't be afraid,” contains the optimism of aspiration. In order to indicate that aspiration often reaches a cul-de-sac, it is paired with Thoreau's mass of men who “lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.” The underlying theme is that calls for dedication in education have been used as a way to shift respnsibility from a society working together for the general good to teachers working alone, create unreachable expectiations and, eventually reshape labor relations to more closely resemble 'at-will employee' models.

What once was a collective goal and aspiration is now an individual's obligation and onus. Thus, in order to tie the two together, and to suggest that appeals to dedication are being used to augment administrative autocracy, a third quote is added to the mix at the beginning of the first chapter. It is a quote I have used before-- Michelle Rhee's revealing “Pressure is good.”

Michelle Rhee was an early member (1992) of the Wendy Kopp-foundedTeach For America (TFA) and the TFA narrative, of how highly talented, mission-driven and nearly selfless young teachers could cure the bloated public school system, clear it of its sclorosis and allow us to enter into a new era. Rhee went on to found not only the New Teachers Project (NTP), which brought uncredentialled, but presumbly more idealistic and more capable teachers into the system, but also StudentsFirst!, an advocacy group explictily modeled on the National Rifle Association. Both Kopp and Rhee became public figures and their influence was felt in what amounted to a series of attacks on traditional public schools, how they recruited and trained teachers and teachers unions.

This book is about Labor Relations in education and how they are sold both to educators and to the general public. Over the last 35 years we have seen innumerable attacks on teachers, schools and educational institutions. Much of the rhetoric has been used to justify massive reforms in accordance with neoliberal and neoclassical economic precepts: discretionary power for administrators, performance pay, market emulation, privatization and dismantling of public enterprise. Eli Broad, of the Broad Foundation, tells us that ‘‘schools should be redesigned to function like corporate enterprises’’ and that ‘‘neither school superintendents nor principals need be educators.’’1 Bill Gates tells us that we need to measure all things. Chester Finn, decades earlier, told us that inputs-based measures were fatally flawed and we must orient policy based on outputs that will tell us its quality. Wendy Kopp tells us that raw talent matters more than pedagogical training.

This volume focuses on the last. It is on narratives of education and teaching, especially the Teach for America/Teach for All2 (TFA) narrative of dedicated teachers who need neither experience nor training to work wonders on their underserved charges. It also includes my favorite literal truth-- that TFA was in bed with Charters, as TFA founder Wendy Kopp is married to KIPP honcho Richard Barth.

It goes beyond the titilating, however, to dissect overlapping narratives and how they select out certain issues, events, ideas, facts and numbers and how others are deemphasized. The narrative that gives the book its spine is the TFA Narrative, which tells us that quality teaching is more about the recruitment of talented and dedicated individuals than it is about an integrated system of schools run by educational professionals. But there are also other narrative streams – from large, supposedly philanthropic foundations, from the centrist, neo-liberal Democrats for Education Reform and from varous sports figures and other celebrities, ranging from Andre Aggasi to Steve Brill to Oprah – that put TFA and the like together with Charters as a solution to the alleged failures of public education.
Perhaps more crucial, it is supported and enhacnced by the narrative of the hero teacher as he, or often she, appears in books, films and TV ranging from Stand and Deliver to Freedom Writers. They are both part of a Narrative Set, like Russian dolls, nested within more far ranging narratives about what society should be, but especially the the neoliberal narrative which includes the complementary narrative of the evils of organized labor . What the TFA narrative and all these films have in common is the depiction of an old order staffed by burned out teachers, schools run by jaded administrators which are afraid to change and an uncaring system of education against which brave new individuals must, inspired by their mission, struggle against without losing their idealism.

The key selling point common to them all is dedication. It is decication and talent that will turn the kids around. What this ignores is the core inequity of the system – that kids went to schools, by and large, with others of the same economic class-- and the glaring, obvious fact that poverty takes it toll. That we might underestimate the effects of difficult social conditions with which the average teacher is confronted on a daily basis is not something the narratives consider. That we live in an economically stratified and racially bifurcated society is treated as an excuse that cannot be accepted. These
1 Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life . . ., 2010, p. 217.
Teacher for America has offshoots in many other countries, such as Teach for India. Teach for All was established as an significant omissions lead directly to the Image of the Unproblematic Child, which plays a crucial role, suggesting that that child was waiting for the one inspirational teacher to step in and give a direction to the child's latent aspirations that had, perhaps, been stifled because of their uncaring and robotic teachers.
It is not an accident that once it is internalized by teachers and pervasive in the popular imagination, the image of the Decicated Teacher can be used to eat away at the edges of traditional models of teacher recruitment. On the one hand, as David Labaree has pointed out, the bulk of graduates from Teacher Education programs “offer none of the exclusiveness and cachet that comes from being accepted as a TFA corps member.”3 On the other, when it comes to teachers arguing for better working conditions, higher pay or improved pedagody, the image of the Decicated Teacher can be thrown in their face – the model compared to which they must seem lacking. The Dedicated Teacher is above all this, beyond the want of greater compensation, called to the greater good and possessed by a secular grace that allows for educational miracles. The Gospels tell us “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” (Romans 3:23), but the TFA narrative tells us their teachers are somehow immune.

In all of this there is is an effort to raze the structures of public education to make room for something else – not one encompassing system, but rather an ensemble of semi-private, semi-public enterprises, all of which take their cues from business norms. In order to examine this I present and develop a rudimentary theory of narratives and narrative purpose, breaking the book into 4 parts, all interweavng with the narrative of dedication and its complement, the narrative of mission-driven pressure on teachers. It is Dedication in 12 steps, beginning with
Part I.  Narratives of Differeing Magnigudes in Part I and continues on to:
Part II. Dedication (3-6): TFA and the Directed Narratives
Part III. Dedication (7-9): Gaping Elites
Part IV. Dedication (10-12): Conclusion of a Bifurcated System

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This study proposes to examine the Work Engagement of Information Technology (IT) employees in relation to their demographics. The study is descriptive and empirical in nature and the data was collected through questionnaire method. The sample size for the study is 104 IT employees of Bangalore city. The first part of the questionnaire constituted the demographic questions and the second part of the questionnaire constitutes the 17-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale by Schaufeli & Bakker (2003). The scale comprises of three dimensions namely Vigor, Dedication and Absorption. The study proposes to identify the scores of the three sub-dimensions of Work Engagement. The reliability of the scale was measured using Cronbach Alpha coefficient. Statistical techniques such as Independent sample T-test and One Way Analysis of Variance were used to test the hypotheses pertaining to the IT employee demographics and their Work Engagement.

Weiss, WM and Halupnik, D. Commitment to strength and conditioning: A sport commitment model perspective. J Strength Cond Res 27(3): 718-722, 2013-The purpose of this study was to empirically apply the sport commitment constructs within the realm of strength and conditioning. Based on prior research in the sport domain, it was predicted that higher enjoyment, investments, benefits, and social support and lower perceived costs and attractive alternatives would predict higher commitment to strength and conditioning. With a sample of 191 intercollegiate male and female athletes, a pilot study was conducted to examine the predictors of commitment to strength and conditioning. Multiple regression analysis revealed that the strongest predictors of strength and conditioning commitment were perceived investments, benefits, enjoyment, costs, and attractive alternatives. Interestingly, differences emerged between men and women regarding the most salient predictors of commitment to strength and conditioning. Gender differences also emerged with male athletes reporting higher perceptions of enjoyment, benefits, and perceived obligation to their best friend to continue strength and conditioning. These findings are important both theoretically and practically. The Sport Commitment Model may provide an avenue to gain a further insight into strength and conditioning motivation, and providing practical strategies for increasing athletes' commitment: increasing enjoyment and perceived benefits, and decreasing perceived downsides and attractive alternatives.

Abstract:

In this article, three carved works in stone (Figs. 1-3) found in a variety of areas in Eskişehir (Fig. 4) (within the territory of Dorylaion) and preserved in the archaeological museum of Eskişehir are introduced. These three objects are votive worked stones dedicated to a goddess termed Meter Tetraprosopos (Μητὴρ Τετραπρόσωπος). One of these is a very small altar which has an ancient Greek dedicatory inscription and between the acroteria there is the quadruple figure of the goddess recorded in relief. The second monument (Figs 2 a-d) is a carving of quadruple figurine, the lower part of which is lost. The third object (Figs. 3 a-d) is a small dedication comprising a relief carving consisting of only the four heads of the goddess. There are no inscriptions on the second and third objects. It is observed that this goddess is depicted having a determined iconography. The goddess is described through four women standing side by side, all wearing chitons and having a stephane crown upon their heads. The figures on the altar carry girlands in their hands. The figures on the second, broken figurine would also have carried girlands in their hands. There is a goddess termed "Meter Tetraprosopos" (the four-faced Meter) known from inscriptions from the regions of Galatia and Phrygia. There are however, no depictions of the goddess recorded with these inscriptions. However, some uninscribed votive stones carrying this iconography of the goddess with four faces and four bodies are also known from Phrygia. I think the four-headed goddess mentioned in these inscriptions is to be identified with the goddess depicted in this manner. In my article on two works preserved in Afyon Museum and which, in my opinion also portrays Meter Tetraprosopos, published previously, and the documents concerning this cult have also been compiled, see: N.E. Akyürek Şahin, Meter Tetraprosopos İçin Phrygia'dan İki Yazıtsız Belge, Arkeoloji ve Sanat 133, 2010, 27-38.

Keywords:
Meter Tetraprosopos, Phrygia, Dorylaion, Eskişehir Museum, Dedication


Özet:
Eskişehir Müzesi'nin yeni yazıtları üzerinde sürdürdüğüm epigrafik çalışmalarım sürecektir ve kaydettiğimiz eserlerin bazıları yayıma hazırlanmaktadır.

Bu makalede ise Eskişehir'de (Dorylaion teritoryumu) çeşitli yerlerde bulunmuş (Figür 4) ve bugün Eskişehir Müzesi'nde korunmakta olan üç eser (Figür 1-3) tanıtılmaktadır. Her üç eser de adak taşı olup Meter Tetraprosopos (Μητὴρ Τετραπρόσωπος) isimli bir tanrıçaya sunulmuştur. Eserlerden birisi çok küçük bir altardır (Figür 1 a-b) ve üzerinde Eski Yunanca adak yazıtı vardır. Eserin akroterleri arasına ise tanrıçanın dörtlü figürü kabartma olarak işlenmiştir. İkinci eser (Figür 2 a-d) alt kısmı kırılmış dörtlü bir heykelcik-tir. Üçüncü eser (Figür 3 a-d) ise, üzerinde tanrıçanın sadece dört başından oluşan bir kabartma bulunan küçük bir adak levhasıdır. 2. ve 3. eserlerin yazıtı yoktur. Eserde tanrıçanın belirli bir ikonografide betim-lendiği görülmektedir. Tanrıça yan yana bitişik duran ve khiton giymiş dört kadın biçiminde betimlenmiş olup hepsinin de başında stephane tacı bulunmaktadır. Altar üzerindeki figürler ellerinde girland taşımak-tadır. Kırık olan ikinci heykelcikte de figürler ellerinde girland taşıyor olmalıdır. Phrygia ve Galatia böl-gelerinde yazıtlar aracılığı ile tanınan "Meter Tetraprosopos" (Dört yüzlü Meter) isimli bir tanrıça vardır. Söz konusu yazıtların üzerinde herhangi bir betim yoktur. Ancak, yine Phrygia Bölgesi'nde dört vücutlu ve dört yüzlü bir tanrıça ikonografisinde olan bazı yazıtsız adaklar da ele geçmiştir. Kanaatimce, yazıtlar-da adı geçen "Dört Yüzlü" tanrıça ile bu şekilde betimlenen figürlerde aynı tanrıça kastedilmektedir. Af-yon Müzesi'nde korunan ve yine Meter Tetraprosopos'u betimlediğini düşündüğüm iki eser hakkındaki makalemde bu konuya değinilmiş ve kültle ilgili bilinen tüm belgeler toplanmıştır, bkz. N.E. Akyürek Şahin, Meter Tetraprosopos İçin Phrygia'dan İki Yazıtsız Belge, Arkeoloji ve Sanat 133, 2010, 27-38.

Anahtar sözcükler:
Meter Tetraprosopos, Phrygia, Dorylaion, Eskişehir Müzesi, Adak yazıtı

This study proposes to examine the Work Engagement of Information Technology (IT) employees in relation to their demographics. The study is descriptive and empirical in nature and the data was collected through questionnaire method. The sample size for the study is 104 IT employees of Bangalore city. The first part of the questionnaire constituted the demographic questions and the second part of the questionnaire constitutes the 17-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale by Schaufeli & Bakker (2003). The scale comprises of three dimensions namely Vigor, Dedication and Absorption. The study proposes to identify the scores of the three sub-dimensions of Work Engagement. The reliability of the scale was measured using Cronbach Alpha coefficient. Statistical techniques such as Independent sample T-test and One Way Analysis of Variance were used to test the hypotheses pertaining to the IT employee demographics and their Work Engagement

This study proposes to examine the Work Engagement of Information Technology (IT) employees in relation to their demographics. The study is descriptive and empirical in nature and the data was collected through questionnaire method. The sample size for the study is 104 IT employees of Bangalore city. The first part of the questionnaire constituted the demographic questions and the second part of the questionnaire constitutes the 17-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale by Schaufeli & Bakker (2003). The scale comprises of three dimensions namely Vigor, Dedication and Absorption. The study proposes to identify the scores of the three sub-dimensions of Work Engagement. The reliability of the scale was measured using Cronbach Alpha coefficient. Statistical techniques such as Independent sample T-test and One Way Analysis of Variance were used to test the hypotheses pertaining to the IT employee demographics and their Work Engagement.

This research focused on the work engagement as represented by the sub-dimensions of vigour, absorption and dedication in female academics at two universities in South Africa. An open distance learning (ODL) university, as well as a traditional contact university were targeted. A positive psychological paradigm perspective guided the research. A cross-sectional survey design was used. In total 187 permanently employed female academics at the two universities completed the survey. The findings included that the work engagement scores of the female academics were just above average. It is recommended that universities introduce a management strategy to facilitate, nurture and encourage the experience of work engagement among female academics and that these academics take personal responsibility for their own wellness. Furthermore, they need to act on the initial signs of decreasing work engagement, rather than dismissing it as mere fatigue or lack of energy.

The ability of an organization, especially in the industrial setup, largely depends upon the team work. Team work helps to grow competence and confidence among the employees and this in turn results in improving the overall performance of the organization. PSUs in India which have already earned a bad name for operational inefficiency can improve themselves with the active participation of the employees as a team with unity of mind. The study was undertaken with the objective of ascertaining the team building measures adopted by the PSUs in Kerala, a highly literate State in India, in attaining overall organisational efficiency. The findings on the role of team work in improving organizational ability in the public sector undertakings depict that the employees of different levels are very much concerned on the need for developing and maintaining team work for attaining desired results.

This dissertation is dedicated to my father and mother, Roy Gene and Glenn Ella Marie Runnels. My parents taught us many things, one of them being to never quit. This work was completed to honor my father and mother and the legacy of excellence they instilled in each of their children. I am thankful for their continued encouragement and support. They set an example of diligence, service, and commitment that has made me who I am and provided the foundation for me to complete this work. Thanks Momma

References are among the most important contextual factors of art. This lecture scrutinizes several thematically based conceptual, motivational and compositional connections between various artworks.
Instead of being a systematic overview of cases and literature, it is structured only upon the references that I casually noticed or recalled during 2010 in order to illustrate the frequency, complexity and diversity of references in art and culture.

Factors affecting disparities in early diagnosis and care for Latino children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are reviewed through a socio-cultural lens. Other models of disparities do not include the expansive factors that contribute to disparities among Latino children nor do they incorporate the family experience raising a child with autism. This dissertation provides a summary model that serves as a foundation for two studies. Study 1 applies the summary model to Latino families raising children with ASD. The findings suggest that Latina mothers reported lower levels of family burden and pessimism compared to White mothers and endorsed positively worded items on family well-being and functioning. Study 2 tests the feasibility of a novel intervention that blends evidence-based practices for autism with culturally informed practices to specifically meet the needs of Latino children and families. Spanish speaking Latina immigrant mothers of children with autism participated in two eight session modules about general autism knowledge and services, advocacy skills, and strategies to work with their children. Post-test data revealed mothers reported increased knowledge about autism, better understanding of how to advocate for their children and themselves, and increased efficacy in using intervention strategies compared to their pre-tests. Suggestions for future research in psychology, and social work practice to improve the development and implementation of policies for and practice with Latino children with ASD and their families are discussed. strategies to improve diagnosis and treatment of autism among these populations (Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, 2011). The Latino 1 population presents a unique challenge to exploring disparities in diagnosis and treatment among underserved children with autism. The young, diverse, and growing population of Latinos is faced with a confluence of factors impacting disparities. Little is known about culturally specific factors and organizational factors contributing and protecting against disparities. The purpose of this chapter is to investigate disparities in diagnosis and treatment, as well as help-seeking and receiving with a focus on autism spectrum disorders (ASD; interchangeable with autism) among Latino children and families. The Socio-Cultural Framework for Health Service Disparities (Alegría, Pescosolido, Williams, & Canino, 2011) frames the investigation with a particular focus on factors at the child, caregiver, and provider levels that contribute to the impact of autism on families. Treatment, service access and utilization are also examined across the child, caregiver, and provider levels Chapter II provides a review of the literature pertaining to children's health disparities 2 , Latino children and families, and autism, as well as a summary model of factors contributing to the impact of autism on families and factors to consider in developing interventions for Latinos are provided with implications for Latino children with autism and their families. 1 The term Latino is utilized throughout the paper. However, several literature sources and data use the term Hispanic. Thus, the terms are interchangeable throughout the text depending on the reference. Most studies have lumped subgroups under the Latino or Hispanic labels without distinguishing among groups. Latino or Hispanic include any person of Latin-American origin or ancestry. Subgroups are Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American. Although Latinos are continually lumped into one category, each group and members within it have diverse experiences with treatment seeking, feelings of support, and service utilization that should be taken into account in the development of interventions to improve early diagnosis and treatment of Latino children with autism. 2 The literature available for disparities in early diagnosis and treatment of Latino children with autism is limited. Therefore, research pertaining to Latino children with other developmental disabilities and chronic illnesses are included where appropriate.

Church Dedications and Pilgrimages represent two of the defining and determining liturgical moments for the church life in general, but also for the life of parishes, monasteries, dioceses, etc., in particular.
These events also constitute an essential component of what the liturgists call „popular piety” (one of the decision-makers, par excellence, in the evolution of worship structures, but also of the whole liturgical life), aspects which, unfortunately, were less studied and deepened, which is why we would like to underline in this study two of the fundamental characteristics of these events, namely, the liturgical dimension and their missionary impact.

Pelatihan social entrepeneurship merupakan salah satu cara untuk menjawab masalah social ekonomi masyarakat pinggiran di kota. Sasaran utama dari kegiatan ini adalah para pemuda dari karangtaruna di daerah Tandes, Surabaya Barat. Strategi dan metode yang dipraktikkan dalam pelatihan ini adalah pemberian materi dengan ceramah, diskusi dan melihat video inspirasi dari Youtube. Pelatihan ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan wawasan dan ketrampilan berpikir para pemuda agar lebih berdaya secara sosial. Lebih dari itu, harapannya dengan memberikan wawasan mengenai social entrepeneurship dapat menjadi modal awal untuk menjadi mewujudkan kemandirian dari masyarakat khususnya di daerah pinggiran kota melalui usaha melakukan perubahan berbasis social ekonomi.  

La dedicatoria al duque de Béjar, del _Quijote_ de 1605, es, como se sabe, en buena parte un plagio. Para explicarlo caben varias posibilidades, y no solo la hipótesis que la supone redactada por alguien próximo a Robles tras una pérdida de la dedicatoria original. La dedicatoria cose fragmentos de dos procedencias, invierte el sentido de alguno de ellos, está firmada por su autor (y no por el editor) y no se reemplaza en las reediciones. Además, los preliminares literarios (dedicatoria, prólogo y poemas) adelantan el carácter de libro de entretenimiento que es el _Quijote_ y forman una unidad. Por si fuera poco, el prólogo, justo a continuación de la dedicatoria, propone explícitamente recurrir al plagio si hace falta en algunos casos.

The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between job insecurity, organisational commitment and work engagement among staff in an open distance learning institution. The research was conducted through computer-aided telephone interviews and self-completion techniques. A cross-sectional survey design was conducted among 260 employees in an open distance learning institution. The measuring instruments included the job insecurity scale, organisational commitment questionnaire and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. The results demonstrated statistically significant relationships between job insecurity and organisational commitment, and between job insecurity and work engagement. A practically significant relationship between variables was also determined; however, the effect was too small to yield a practically significant relationship between the variables. The results revealed that a component of job insecurity (likelihood of loss of job features), together with a compon...

The Dissertation Committee for Anissa Wicktor Lynch certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Cultivating literacies among emerging bilinguals: Case study of a third grade bilingual/bicultural community of practice

This study proposes to examine the Work Engagement of Information Technology (IT) employees in relation to their demographics. The study is descriptive and empirical in nature and the data was collected through questionnaire method. The sample size for the study is 104 IT employees of Bangalore city. The first part of the questionnaire constituted the demographic questions and the second part of the questionnaire constitutes the 17-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale by Schaufeli & Bakker (2003). The scale comprises of three dimensions namely Vigor, Dedication and Absorption. The study proposes to identify the scores of the three sub-dimensions of Work Engagement. The reliability of the scale was measured using Cronbach Alpha coef icient. Statistical techniques such as Independent sample T-test and One Way Analysis of Variance were used to test the hypotheses pertaining to the IT employee demographics and their Work Engagement.

Reference spadaju među najznačajnije kontekstualne činioce umetničkog delovanja. Ovo predavanje razmatra nekoliko tematski grupisanih konceptualnih, motivskih i kompozicionih veza između različitih umetničkih dela.
Umesto sistematskog pregleda repro-materijala i literature, predavanje sam zasnovao samo na primerima koje sam zapazio tokom letnjeg semestra 2010 nekoliko meseci da bih ilustrovao učestalost, složenost i višeznačnost referiranja u umetnosti i kulturi.