Personal integrity and faking in the workplace: when competition matters

Integrity Matters

a corpus-based study of the frequency of personal pronouns in translated and comparable non-translated persian texts

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Tree competition and defense against herbivores: currency matters when counting the cost.

Browsing by herbivores profoundly affects the nature and extent of woody plant communities through a variety of mechanisms, including alterations to disturbance regimes (such as fire frequency), indirect effects on nutrient cycling and soil fertility, and changes to net primary production (Hobbs 1996). Plants have evolved myriad ways to avoid being eaten, ranging from the development of spiny, ...

Supporting Personal Learning in the Workplace

The paper focuses on the potential of a work based Personal Learning Environment. It examines relations, context, actions and learning discourses in line with Vygotsky’s sociocultural approach to cognitive development, working on the assumption that “action is mediated and cannot be separated from the milieu in which it is carried out” (Wertsch, 1991). The key aspect of learning discourses it t...

When Meaning Matters

An important question is, to what extent is visual attention driven by the semantics of individual objects, rather than by their visual appearance? This study investigates the hypothesis that timing is a crucial factor in the occurrence and strength of semantic influences on visual orienting. To assess the dynamics of such influences, the authors presented the target instruction either before o...