There has been a noticeable shift in the relative composition of the industry in the developed countries in recent years; manufacturing is decreasing while the service sector is becoming more important. However, currently most simulation models for investigating service systems are still built in the same way as manufacturing simulation models, using a process-oriented world view, i.e. they mod...

Absrracr-End-taend QOS control over best-effort and differentiated service networks which exhibit variability in their exported service properties looms as an important challenge. In previous work, we have shown how packet-level adaptive FEC can be used in dynamic networks to fadlitate invariant user-specified QoS in an end-to-end manner. This paper addresses two important problems-seit-similar...

The present study asks when infants are able to selectively anticipate the goals of observed actions, and how this ability relates to infants' own abilities to produce those specific actions. Using eye-tracking technology to measure on-line anticipation, 6-, 8- and 10-month-old infants and a control group of adults were tested while observing an adult reach with a whole hand grasp, a precision ...

Dispositional self-awareness is conceptualized in several different ways, including insight, reflection, rumination and mindfulness, with the latter in particular attracting extensive attention in recent research. While self-awareness is generally associated with positive psychological well-being, these different conceptualizations are also each associated with a range of unique outcomes. This ...

Proactivity is a particularly important attribute of knowledge-intensive companies, where work that requires enhancing the potential employees in sustainable working environment crucial. Another challenge for these firms to account increasing importance functioning cognitive mechanisms leading increased well-being knowledge workers following implementation psychological contract. The aim this a...

Individuals often need to be proactive in order successfully navigate their career development journeys. To what extent one is vocationally has critical implications for his or her attitudes, behaviors, and other outcomes work-related settings. However, research proactivity been accumulating from divergent perspectives, resulting a substantially fragmented literature that not comprehensively, o...

The paper presents empirical research carried out at the university of Padova. It investigates association between students’ perceptions current state labour market, and self-perceived employability, career proactivity, control positional advantages. also explores planning its with some contextual personal predictors. 2.834 students took part in survey. Findings show that a more positive vision...