In every English learning class, there must be a process of communication between lecturers and students, upholding intellectual values in communicating. Both have different social distancing that will make some politeness violations classroom. Politeness is an important factor human interaction, behavior polished by relying on conventions, institutionalized socially evaluated. This research ai...

The punitive damages system originated in the United Kingdom and has been widely developed States. In view of serious problem intentional repeated infringement intellectual property rights China, Civil Code relevant laws field have fully introduced a compensation system. However, application time for is short, various problems still exist judicial practice. Through learning drawing on experienc...

Characteristics of Istrian regional identity at the turn of the 21 century can be considered in the context of traditional food as a tourist offer of Istria. The main characteristics of Istrian traditional meals are simplicity and modesty as well as togetherness of the Roman, German and Slavic cuisine. The global trend of coming back to authenticity and health food are cleverly used by the tour...

deeply conscious of the honor you have bestowed upon me as a surgeon in asking me to give this lecture. Although modesty is not a quality with which surgeons are generally overendowed, I would like to accept it as a tribute to my colleagues both medical and surgical who work with me at Guy's and National Heart Hospitals in London. In fact, teamwork is the feature which has characterized modern ...

Franz Peherstorfer was born in Zwettl an der Rodl, a village near Linz, the provincial capital of Upper Austria. After attending elementary and secondary schools in and around Linz, he matriculated in the newly founded Johannes Kepler Universität Linz1 in 1970 where he obtained his university degrees, Masters (1975) and Ph.D.2 (1977), both with summa cum laude. He was appointed as Assistent the...

Humility is a core psychological process theoretically marked by low self-focus, secure identity, and balanced awareness of strengths and weaknesses. We began with a consensual definition of humility before theoretically unpacking it. First, using 25 samples and 2622 adults, we developed the Brief State Humility Scale, which demonstrates strong construct validity and good reliability, is sensit...

The existence of people who are neither ‘all male’ nor ‘all female’ has long been recognized in many societies and, with the advent of scientific medicine in European societies in the 19th century, effort has been directed at determining the ‘true sex’ of such individuals [5]. Taxonomy was a new and exciting intellectual activity, and cases of ‘doubtful sex’ were a challenge to science and medi...

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how national (Chinese) cultural factors influence knowledge sharing behavior in virtual communities of practice at a large U.S.-based multinational organization. The data in this study come from interviews with the company’s employees in China, and managers who are involved in managing knowledge-sharing initiatives. The study results suggest t...

This paper develops a (constructive) critique of the potential of ambient intelligence technologies in emergency response. We explore some difficulties in, and successful practices of, inter-agency collaboration in emergency response, revealed in ethnographic field studies and collaborative design workshops with first responders undertaken in the frame of the Bridge project. We describe four ch...