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INTEGRATING ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF-EFFICACY INTO EDUCATION AT UNIVERSITIES

INTEGRATING ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF-EFFICACY INTO EDUCATION AT UNIVERSITIES

Author(s): Ljerka Sedlan-König / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: Entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurial self-efficacy; university; communities of practice;

Educational institutions are urged to provide more enterprising individuals who will either act as entrepreneurs, or will be able to manage their careers and lives in an entrepreneurial way. The purpose of this study is to address the role of teaching at universities in maximizing entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and to examine the possibility to maximize the likelihood of entrepreneurial behavior by enhancing entrepreneurial self-efficacy with university students. The study investigates the impact that entrepreneurial self-efficacy has on the development of entrepreneurial motivation and behavior using a sample of 324 students of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek in Croatia. The results of the research indicate that students demonstrate a higher propensity for entrepreneurial behavior and a higher probability of starting their own business if they feel more self-efficient. The research has also highlighted that teaching at universities does not significantly improve the perception of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in students and that firsthand experience has a more important role in that. An important conclusion to emerge from this research is that in order to influence entrepreneurial behavior, it is necessary to make better use of experience-based learning and supplement university courses with components of informal and/or non-formal education.

THE PATH TO JOB SATISFACTION. APPLYING THE THEORY OF PURPOSEFUL BEHAVIOR TO MILITARY CONDITIONS

THE PATH TO JOB SATISFACTION. APPLYING THE THEORY OF PURPOSEFUL BEHAVIOR TO MILITARY CONDITIONS

Author(s): Johan Osterberg,Leif W. Rydstedt,Jo Kleiven,Maria Fors Brandebo / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: job satisfaction; performance; turnover intentions; military; path analysis; personality

The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between, on one hand,personality and performance orientation and, on the other, job satisfaction andturnover intentions, using Barrick’s et al. theory of purposeful behavior. Using aquestionnaire, data about job satisfaction, performance orientation and turnover intentions were collected from 300 newly recruited Swedish soldiers. A path analysis gave partial, but not full support to the assumptions behind the theory of purposeful behavior model. No relationships were found between the personality traits of emotional stability and conscientiousness, nor to either performance orientation or directly to job satisfaction. On the other hand, performance orientation showed a consistent relationship to perceived levels of the job characteristics, which mediated the path between the person-related variables and the outcome variables.Performance orientation also showed a strong direct relationship to general job satisfaction, which, in turn, was strongly related to turnover intentions.

The Limits Of Assisted Suicide In German Criminal Law

Granice pomaganja u samoubistvu prema nemačkom krivičnom pravu

Author(s): Ivana Marković / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: Aiding and abetting; assisting; suicide; omission; rule over act; failure to render assistance; Germany;

This paper begins with the evaluation of the limitations between the not punishable suicide assistance and killing on request done by omission (§ 216 CC, „mercy killing“), with the change of rule over the act as central criterion of the analysis. A delimitation to failure to render assistance (§ 323c CC), where suicide is (mis)interpreted as accident in terms of this offense, leading to narrowing of impunity, has also been made. The second part deals with another limitation of impunity of those who are assisting suicide, currently being in center of focus because of the new offense of business-like support of suicide (§ 217 CC), which is now, with a few exceptions, prohibiting the business-like providing, making available and mediating the possibility for suicide.

MYCOLOGICAL VOCABULARY IN UKRAINIAN AND POLISH — AN OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH ISSUES AND THE STRUCTURE OF TERMS

SŁOWNICTWO MYKOLOGICZNE W JĘZYKU UKRAIŃSKIM I POLSKIM — ZARYS PROBLEMATYKI, STRUKTURA TERMINÓW

Author(s): Przemysław Jóźwikiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 5/2017

The article presents the basic issues related to the use of mycological terminology in Ukrainian and Polish. Mycology, a branch of biology which deals with the study of fungi (taxonomy, structure, physiology, significance for people) is a study which has its own terminological apparatus. The linguistic studies on the terminology derived from this branch of biology are not common and this refers to both — the Ukrainian language as well as the Polish language. The goal of this paper is thus to present the literature on the subject, to sketch the research issues related to mycological terminology and to offer the planes for comparing those lexical areas. This paper offers an insight which has not been given so far; moreover, it seems that it may generate interesting results especially due to the fact that the research material is very rich and varied.

Leibniz and the Origins of Modern Lingual Nationalism

Leibniz i początki nowożytnego nacjonalizmu językowego

Author(s): Hanna Święczkowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Leibniz; lingual nationalism; cognitive equality of languages;

In this work I present Leibniz’s views in the context of the dispute on the origins of language held in the 17th century and inspired if not yet by pure nationalism, then certainly by the argument about the priority of linguistic and cultural tradition. The Leibniz’s stand in the matter is not unequivocal. However, when comparing the philosopher’s marginal ideological statements, views expressed in his key texts concerning the theory of language, as well as the ones connected with the theory of cognition, we are lead to a conclusion that the philosopher has taken a different approach – not only as an ideologist defending Germany’s cultural heritage, but also as a thinker, theoretician and researcher of natural languages, proving the equality of their cognitive functions. The most interesting issue undertaken by the philosopher, is the problem of the status of language and its relation to thinking. In this context the futile argument about the priority of languages is replaced with a philosophical question, which remains significant to this day, about the human ability to create a language and its cognitive rank.

Problems of philosophical and cultural concepts in Russia - A sketch

Probleme russischer Begriffsgeschichte - Eine Skizze

Author(s): Peter Thiergen / Language(s): German / Issue: 1(2)/2007

Keywords: philosophical and cultural concepts; Begriffsgeschichte; Russia;

The history of philosophical and cultural concepts in Russia (Begriffsgeschichte, история понятий) has not yet recieved much attention. This lack of systematic research can be observed both in Russia and in the West. The current publication aims at naming historical as well as contemporary reasons for the paucity of scholarly works dealing with this subject. At the same time, however, the author discusses the relevance of modern Begriffsgeschichte—both in general and in relation to Russia in particular.

The mediating effect of entrepreneurial selfefficacy in entrepreneurial intention – a study in Saudi Arabian context

The mediating effect of entrepreneurial selfefficacy in entrepreneurial intention – a study in Saudi Arabian context

Author(s): Mohammad Naushad,Syed Abdul Abdul Malik / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Keywords: entrepreneurial self-efficacy; mediating effect; entrepreneurial intention; partial least square; structural equation modeling; Saudi Arabia;

The purpose of the present study is to test how do the four important psychological antecedents, namely need for achievement (nAch), propensity to risk (PtR), self-confidence (SeC), internal locus of control (IlC) are mediated by the entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) to predict the entrepreneurial intention (EI) in a traditionally oil-based Saudi economy striving for economic diversification. Hypotheses are tested by applying the partial least square (PLS) structural equation modeling (SEM) to a sample of 282 undergraduate business students (male and female) collected from a public university of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The results suggest that psychological variables and self-efficacy play a fundamental role in enhancing entrepreneurial intention (EI) of Saudi students. Personality-related variables have direct influence over EI in other context, but in Saudi context, psychological variables are necessary but not sufficient to develop entrepreneurial intention unless combined with self-efficacy. Self-efficacy has a strong mediating effect between psychological variables and entrepreneurial intentions in Saudi context.

THE MEDIEVAL BOOK IN EARLY MODERN TRANSYLVANIA PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS

THE MEDIEVAL BOOK IN EARLY MODERN TRANSYLVANIA PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS

Author(s): Adinel C. Dincă / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: Transylvania; medieval and early modern period; manuscript; printed book; fragmentology.

The present paper aims to resume, after an intermission of more than 100 years, a generous research subject, well represented on the international and regional scene, but completely out of the spotlight of Romanian historians: the history of the medieval book from Transylvania and its post-medieval destiny. The research perspectives focus on two major directions: on the one hand, the analysis of the historical contexts that favoured the keeping and uninterrupted use of medieval books during the 16th-17th Centuries, on the other hand the study of fragments detached from medieval manuscripts and re-used as materials for the covers and bindings of modern volumes. The destiny of the books, fata libelli, in the interval between their pragmatic use and their transformation into cultural heritage objects during the 19th century, comes forth as a distinct research theme at a national level. The preliminary assessments on this research topic in Romania concern the circumscription of the topic, the review of sources at the disposal of researchers, and also a scrutiny of international research and results.

The beginning of the Bulgarian-Russian cultural and literary connections

Начало болгаро-русских культурных и литературных связей

Author(s): Emil Georgiev / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/1982

Present-Day Tendencies in the Romanian Language

Present-Day Tendencies in the Romanian Language

Author(s): Rodica Zafiu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2010

Keywords: language change; prescriptivism; globalization; Anglicisms; electronic media

The “condition of the language” is a subject of fairly broad interest. In Romania, any discussion regarding some breaching of the norms, or the massive presence of Anglicisms or of vulgar terms, is likely to stir passions. Linguistic variation and change are natural phenomena, described objectively by linguists, but perceived, in most cases, negatively by ordinary speakers. Presentday tendencies in the Romanian language are, to a large extent, manifestations of more general tendencies, common for numerous languages. Today, three “global” factors have an impact on the linguistic evolution of Romanian: (a) the influence of English; (b) the influence of communication by electronic media; (c) a narrowing of the gap between educated and popular language, between writing and speaking. In the dynamics of a living language, change is inevitable and, basically, inoffensive. Nevertheless, the concern of our contemporaries, is important: attitudes and assessments balance out and moderate evolutions that are too fast, preserving the natural dependence on cultural factors.

TURKEY AND THE EUROPEAN UNION. ABOUT A NEVER-ENDING ODYSSEY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

TURCIA ŞI UNIUNEA EUROPEANĂ. DESPRE O NESFÂRŞITĂ ODISEE A INTEGRĂRII EUROPENE

Author(s): Alina Buzăianu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 24/2015

Keywords: Accession negotiations; association agreement; European Union; Turkey; enlargement; integration; odyssey;

This article is trying to make a brief assessment of the current status of play in the Turkish-European relation in the view of a long and frustrating process of negotiations regarding a future and desired Turkish accession to the European bloc. Past and present developments seems to define this complex political relationship more like a failed ”marriage of convenience” and less like a strategic alliance, or a beneficial partnership for both parties involved. Whether Turkey will ever join the EU, as full member is still a question to be answered. The present European and international context is a very blurry one and with no clear hindsight whatsoever. Does the never-ending odyssey of Turkish acknowledgment as being part of the European selective club will eventually end? And will it end happily? Well, we must live and see.

Cross-Cultural Adjustment Experience in High Technology Management: Case of Władysław Turowicz in Pakistan Air Force

Cross-Cultural Adjustment Experience in High Technology Management: Case of Władysław Turowicz in Pakistan Air Force

Author(s): Muhammad Kamran / Language(s): English / Issue: 2 (68)/2017

Keywords: cross-cultural adjustment experience; historiography; high technology management; Pakistan Air Force; Pakistan Space Program

With social structure and technology rapidly changing, cross-cultural management has been regarded as a worldwide trend. While there have been many cases and much literature on management of cross-cultural experiences from a Western perspective, few have discussed cross-cultural management in an Asian context. The goal of this research is to analyze the cross-cultural experience in high technology management and how it leads a boundary spanner toward project success. The researcher analyses the case of Polish engineer Władysław Turowicz, who played a vital role in the formation of Pakistan Air Force and Pakistan’s Space Program (SUPARCO). The researcher has discussed the personal and professional life of Władysław Turowicz and highlights some important cultural perspectives regarding high technology management.

Textual Troubles

Szöveggondnok

Author(s): Ágnes Erdélyi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1-2/2017

Vanity’s Movements in the Age of Enlightenment

Les mouvements de la vanité à l’époque des Lumières

Author(s): Fayçal Falaky / Language(s): French / Issue: 8/2018

Keywords: vanity; secularization; temporality; religion

This article examines the progressive secularization of vanity in the 17th and 18th centuries. Once removed from its theocentric origins, vanity will denote less the vacuity and transience of earthly life and will refer increasingly to socially indecorous behavior that is firmly anchored in the temporal. This shift from the sacred to the saeculum will also cause a shift in the way we imagine vanity’s connoted movements. Once the transient and fleeting, vanity in the 18th century will come to designate the unpliable and the rigid.

A comparative analysis of the functions of proper names of characters in Terry Pratchett’s Men at arms and its Polish translation

Analiza porównawcza funkcji nazw własnych postaci w powieści Terry’ego Pratchetta Men At Arms i jej polskim tłumaczeniu Zbrojni*

Author(s): Martyna Gibka / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: linguistics; onomastics; literary onomastics; characters’ proper names; functions

The Philosophy of Politics and the Primal Experience of the Historical Life-World

Filozofija politike i originarno iskustvo povijesnog života

Author(s): Ante Pažanin / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 02/1988

Keywords: The Philosophy of Politics; Primal Experience; Historical Life-World;

Only that activity in a community is political, which is practiced in accordance with the general requirements of interest to the life of the community. The starting point for un understanding of this relationship is a unity of politics and ethics. The political must determine its concept as a mediated form that makes an evaluation of life in real political communities possible. In its beginnings practical philosophy was called politics in the wider meaning of the word; today it could be called ethics. In this way the autonomy of ethics and the vitality of ethical subjectivity would not only express its independence from metaphysics but would also acquire primacy in relationship to the objectivity of politics as state. Practical philosophy would acquire its contemporary designation that would cover both its modern and its antique meaning.

Notes on Decius’ Gothic War in the Light of the New Fragments by Dexippus of Athens

Notes on Decius’ Gothic War in the Light of the New Fragments by Dexippus of Athens

Author(s): Kalin Stoev / Language(s): English / Issue: 23-24/2017

The paper examines the Gothic invasion in the mid-3rd century AD and the ways in which the newly-discovered fragments by Dexippus (Scythica Vindobonensia) complemented or altered the picture of the event known so far. Comparing the evidence in them with the information known from other sources about events during the last years of Philip the Arab and the rule of Trajan Decius led to the altering of some old theories about the course of events. The appearance of Ostrogotha (Ostroguthos) in the new fragments indicates that he was probably the leading figure in the Gothic incursions between 248 and 251 AD, and this clearly suggests Gothic ethnic belonging of the “Scythians” – as Dexippus referred to them.

Historical and Epistemological Reflections on the Culture of Machines around the Renaissance: Machines, Machineries and Perpetual Motion

Historical and Epistemological Reflections on the Culture of Machines around the Renaissance: Machines, Machineries and Perpetual Motion

Author(s): Raffaele Pisano,Paolo Bussotti / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: foundations; machines; machineries; mechanics; perpetual motion; techniques;

This paper is the second part of our recent paper ‘Historical and Epistemological Reflections on the Culture of Machines around the Renaissance: How Science and Technique Work’ (Pisano & Bussotti 2014a). In the first paper—which discussed some aspects of the relations between science and technology from Antiquity to the Renaissance—we highlighted the differences between the Aristotelian/Euclidean tradition and the Archimedean tradition. We also pointed out the way in which the two traditions were perceived around the Renaissance. The Archimedean tradition is connected with machines: its relationship with science and construction of machines should be made clear. It is enough to think that Archimedes mainly dealt with three machines: lever, pulley and screw (and a correlated principle of mechanical advantage). As underlined in the first part, our thesis is that many machines were constructed by people who ignored theory, even though, in other cases, the knowledge of the Archimedean tradition was a precious help in order to build machines. Hence, an a priori idea as to the relations between the Archimedean tradition and construction of machines cannot exist. In this second part we offer some examples of functioning machines constructed by people who ignored any physical theory, whereas, in other cases, the ignorance of some principles—such as the impossibility of a perpetuum mobile—induced the attempt to construct impossible machines. What is very interesting is that these machines did not function, of course, as a perpetuum mobile, but anyway had their functioning and were useful for certain aims, although they were constructed on an idea which is completely wrong from a theoretical point of view. We mainly focus on the Renaissance and early modern period, but we also provide examples of machines built before and after this period. We have followed a chronological order in both parts, starting from the analysis of the situation in ancient Greece. Therefore, in the first part, we have examined the relations between the Aristotelian/Euclidean and Archimedean traditions from ancient Greece to the early modern age. In this second part, we analyse the relations of Archimedean tradition/ construction of machines from ancient Greece to the 19th century, focusing on the mentioned period. We remind the reader that our aim is to prove an epistemological thesis, not to provide a complete historical endeavour. As a correlated article, the reader will find three previous paragraphs in the first above-mentioned article (Pisano & Bussotti, 2014a).

Education for adults with autism

Edukacja do dorosłości osób z autyzmem

Author(s): Danuta Wolska,Ewelina Sobocha / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 3/2018

Keywords: education; adulthood; autism

The adulthood of persons with autism is a challenge to them, their parents and therapists. They search for various advice, guidelines, and inspiration that would allow them to experience adulthood in a satisfactory way. Entering this phase of their lives is often associated with the difficulty of developing the readiness to take on the developmental tasks of this phase of life and act in new social roles. The authors of this article present suggestions on how to prepare persons with autism during adolescence to establish relationships with friends, build friendships and establish relationships in adulthood. There are also proposals on how such persons can develop interests and spend their free time in this phase of life. The article aims to show the importance of the role of education about adulthood for persons with autism and how to plan its course, so that they can fully realize themselves in adult life.

MUSIC IN EPIC THEATRE

EPİK TİYATRO’DA MÜZİK

Author(s): N. Özgül Turgay,Kadriye Bozkurt Katıkçı / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 52/2018

Keywords: Epic theatre; Bertolt Brecht; gestus; music; alienation;

The aim of this paper is to study the position of music, how it was used and with which methods this served alienation within the historical process of epic theatre. Bertolt Brecht was the first person to use the concept of “alienation” in theatre which he developed under the inspiration of eastern theatre. In establishing an obvious distance between the audience and the play with the Epic Theatre Theory, Brecht aimed for the play to be viewed with a more critical attitude. This distancing is employed in epic theatre with the alienating effect. In staging, alienation is used in various ways including in the format of the play, in technical factors, in acting and by the audience. Music is one of the main elements that generate alienation. While this generated alienation, the variation of musical instruments and its influence on the audience became recognized, and with Epic Theatre the use of music became a milestone in theatre. The language Brecht adopted in Epic Theatre was simple and aimed at the general public. According to Brecht, who targeted a wide audience, the music used must be able to function in the same way as language. In view of this, preference was given to the types of music that appealed to the entire audience, and folk songs that were easily understandable were frequently used. Orchestras and choirs were positioned on the stage where they were visible to the audience; during performances the stage would be effectively illuminated. As if the music supported the text of the play with its structure that could compete with the text, this reminded viewers that they were in the theatre; the play was interpreted with the songs sung by the choir. In distancing the viewers from the atmosphere of illusion by interrupting the text with music, this triggered the desired process of critical thinking. Influencing the audience with music was avoided by giving preference to the interpretative talent of the cabaret and theatre actors.