What Does It Take to Be a Professional Translator? Identity as a Resource

What does it mean to be a professional?

An extensive literature on professionalism from many domains was reviewed to identify basic elements generally recognized as necessary for being considered a “professional”. The literature revealed six criteria generally recognized as being necessary of professionals; these criteria were used to define what is necessary of an ergonomics professional. The Foundation for Professional Ergonomics s...

Plant Evolution: What Does It Take To Be an Egg?

The genetic regulation of cell patterning within plant gametophytes remains poorly understood. Now, two new studies in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha shed light on the conserved function of an RKD transcription factor as a key regulator of egg cell fate in the land plant lineage.

What Does It Take

This study explores the extent to which campaign visibility facilitates electoral participation, using data from firstand second-order elections in Britain. Our contribution to the existing literature is threefold. First, we assess whether the effects of campaign effort are conditioned by marginality, finding that campaign mobilisation gets out the vote regardless of the competitiveness of the ...

What does it take to win?

What Does It Take to Mitigate Corruption ?

There has been growing evidence that substantive public resources are lost to corruption in developing countries. This paper investigates pre-existing local conditions associated with the size of public money lost between the government’s disbursement and receipt by beneficiaries, using Indonesia’s poverty alleviation program, IDT. The results show that overall corruption was higher in district...