The influence of institutional factors on firm entry has long interested strategy scholars. However, we have limited understanding of how the sociocultural environment, defined as the unwritten, decentralized “rules of the game,” influences founding rates in emergent industries; we know even less about how these noneconomic factors differentially influence entry by new entrepreneurial (de novo)...

The article analyzes the theoretical foundations and features of emotional competence formation; concept intelligence in retrospect scientific research is understood revealed; structure, components, elements, factors functional role specialists are characterized; methodological approach to formation socio-cultural professionals Ukraine specifics development at present stage highlighted. It prov...

INTRODUCTION..................................................................................... 441 SUBSTANTIVE PARADIGMS OF PERSON· ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS.......... 444 ADAPTATION PARADIGM ....... ......... ... . . . . . . .. .. ... .. . . . . . .... .... ... ................... .. 446 Knowing the Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

Previous literature presents there is a demand to teach adult learners English due to the amount of non-English speaking citizens. Therefore, educators have responded to the need for programs that teach adult learners English. English as a Second Language (ESL) classes help adults by providing a foundation of comprehension for the English language, this foundation helps adults navigate their li...

Obesity in Eastern Europe has been linked to privilege and status prior to the collapse of communism, and to exposure to free-market economics after it. Neither formulation is a complete explanation, and it is useful to examine the potential value of other models of population obesity for the understanding of this phenomenon. These include those of: thrifty genotypes; obesogenic behaviour; obes...