This contribution seeks to commemorate Francisco Varela’s formal conceptions of self-reference, providing an overview of his writings while shedding some light in the praxis of self-reference, from where a future research agenda can be derived. The architecture of Varela’s thinking, determined by the interrelated notions of autopoiesis, autonomy, closure and self-reference, was examined. The em...

Taking the case of ‘spiritual gardening’ as a starting point, this paper reflects on praxis as the object of practical theology. Praxis is understood as the domain of lived religion and focuses on what people do rather than on official institutionalized religious traditions. Praxis refers to fields of practices like care or community building and to the patterned configurations of action, exper...

Counseling is the instrument that empowers training and forges the development of leaders in their essential drive to inspire and guide others. As much a discipline and praxis as a professional practice, counseling increases consciousness and optimizes the management and synergy of human energy. This article addresses methods for sustaining leadership development via the leader as manager, educ...

In the ten years since the publication of Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s Empire, the relationship between Christianity and global capital has received increasing theological attention among the adherents, critics, sympathizers, and apostates of Radical Orthodoxy. At stake in this conversation is the possibility that Christianity might provide a universal ontology sufficient to ground a cou...

Abstrakt: Die 2011 durchgeführte Umfrage »Softwaretest in der Praxis« soll 2015 erneut durchgeführt werden. Ziel ist eine Verstetigung und langfristige Erhebung, Verfolgung, Analyse und Auswertung von Trends in der Softwarequalitätssicherung. Dies umfasst insbesondere den aktuellen Stand der Technik in der Praxis. Ergänzend dazu werden der Stand von Wissenschaft und Technik erhoben sowie zukünf...

Zusammenfassung: Dieser Beitrag leitet aus einem grundlegenden Modell für Wissensaustausch vier Handlungsfelder für Wissensmanagement (WM) ab. Es folgt ein kurzer Überblick über Architektur-Ansätze für WM aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Auf dieser Basis wird ein Meta-Modell und eine Architektur für die Gestaltung eines integrierten WM vorgeschlagen, welches Strategie, Prozesse und Systeme sowie di...

Recent scientific studies highlight the interrelation of craniofacial growth and cerebral development. The cerebral cortex, important for the cognition, is directly related to sensitivity, motricity, and associative areas that command the organization of visual-constructive praxis. The objective was evaluate the neuropsychologic visualconstructive praxis perceptual functions of children with re...