Trading religious and daily goods : Franciscans in semi-rural Palestine

This chapter discusses how patterns of interaction were influenced by the beginning of the missionary activity in the 1620s and influenced it in turn. Bethlehem is located eight kilometers south of Jerusalem; the village and the neighboring Bayt Jala were the most populous villages of the district, respectively numbering 287 and 239 households at the end of the fifteenth century. The friars’ investments are equally significant when considered in the light of their involvement in village life. Land was very important both for the sociopolitical life of the community and as a means of subsistence. The reconstruction of the friars’ entanglements with local Bethlehem society shows differences and similarities with other Catholic missions in Asia. The case of the Franciscans in Palestine sheds new light on the meaning of the term “localized actors” for missionaries. Mediterranean trade, leading the Catholic community to acquire not only economic power but also unprecedented social prestige

The key principles of process manager motivation in production and administration processes in an industrial enterprise

The basic premise of sustainable development is that companies should completely re-evaluate their enterprise work logic and process organization. Most of the necessary changes concern employee stimulation and motivation. If we are truly interested in improving business results and the effectiveness of business processes – there would be no progress otherwise – we have to strive to break down the barriers between company management (leadership) and employees in order to establish effective relationships between firms and customers. This paper presents research results of process manager activities in modern industrial enterprises, connected with a methodology proposal for the systematically-oriented process manager motivation of employees in accordance with the increased competitiveness of production and administration processes. It also presents an effective methodology of how to increase the positive effects of welldefined employee motivations from the process manager´s perspective. The core benefit of this methodology lies in the design of a systematic approach to the motivation process from the process manager side, allowing for radical performance improvement via production and administrative processes and the increased competitiveness of enterprise processes

Stabilization of Digitized Processes

Stabile production processes are oriented on flexible production process; they enable implementation of digitized concepts in real production technologies. The presented chapter describes research results oriented on actual state mapping in selected industrial companies, with core orientation of people engagement in core processes connected with production digitization. Quantitative and qualitative research by selected industrial companies was realized in combination with hypothesis testing and verification. Core research problem of the presented chapter is the compatibility between employee and cobot by workplace from the ethical point of view. Based on analyze of selected workplaces in industrial companies were identified crucial decisive parameters of effective cooperation between human and cobot with subsequent formulation of conclusions for setting the rules of ethical mutual cooperation “human-robot” by production workplace. Radical innovations in industrial companies connected with the integration of cobot technologies in the production processes are strongly connected with the aim, to give the stability in the mutual connection between employee and cobot. A model of standardized co-operation between human and cobot will be presented; it is based on the key elements of the standardization process. This is a new point of view on the ethics of the workplace, where the “human-machine” cooperation replaces the cooperation model “human-cobot.

Facilitating, controlling and excluding from movement: religious orders, organizational networks and mobility infrastructure in the early modern Mediterranean

Through an analysis of the network associated with the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, this article challenges overly positive narratives of early modern mobility and of the role played by networks more generally. It reconstructs the functioning of the Franciscan network, focusing on its ‘immobile infrastructure’ and showing how the latter facilitated and at the same time controlled and limited friars’ movement. Building on this analysis, the article postulates the existence of an ‘organisational migration infrastructure’, which enabled, addressed and controlled people’s movement according to organisations’ interests. The article also suggests a new methodological approach to the study of early modern networks, centring its analysis on ‘organisational migrants’ and using the notion of ‘infrastructure’ as an analytical tool. From a wider perspective, the article deepens our general understanding of early modern mobility, particularly with regard to the role of networks and organisations, and to the entanglement of mobility, immobility, control and exclusion

Geographical mobility and community-building in seventeenth-century Palestine : insights from the records of Bethlehem's Catholic Parish

This article focuses on the role played by local mobility in processes of confession and community building, taking the Catholic population in seventeenth-century Palestine as a case study. Works on the Reformation in Europe have acknowledged a connection between the strengthening of confessional identities and geographical mobility. Through the analysis of the parish records of Bethlehem, the article reveals some characteristics of seventeenth-century Catholic mobility in Palestine and shows how this mobility was bound up with the consolidation of a tiny Catholic minority and the establishment of a sacramental network. From a larger perspective, this research suggests that mobility plays an important role in the development and consolidation of small communities in a context of competing religion. From a methodological point of view, it also shows the importance of microanalysis in understanding the geographical mobility associated with religious practices and allegiances

The Competence of Personality Preservice Teacher Based on The Strengthening of Character Education

Personality competencies are one of the four competencies that the educators should have. LPTK is a college that will produce prospective teachers. This study aims to improve the competence of the personality of the prospective teacher through the strengthening of character education. The research method used is a mixed method, which is using quantitative method to see the effect and qualitative methods to describe the data of the research. Based on the results of the research, there are six aspects of strengthening the character education associated with the personnel competence of prospective teachers, namely: 1) The attitude of nationalism and patriotism, 2) appreciates the difference, 3) prioritizing the appealing, 4) stressful and authoritative attitude, 5) discipline attitude, and 6) calls of the soul. The sixth of this aspect is included in the character of strengthening the character education to improve the ability of personality student personnel prospective teachers.This model of characterizing strengthening can be used for learning in college science, especially the primary education of the school element teacher concludes future candidates

Tryptophan-catabolising enzymes in animal models

The first and rate-limiting step of the kynurenine pathway is the metabolism of tryptophan (Trp) to N-formylkynurenine, which is then rapidly converted to kynurenine. This initial step can be catalysed by three enzymes, tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase (TDO), indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase-1 (IDO1) and the most recently discovered, IDO2. In adult mammals, TDO is expressed constitutively in the liver and is involved in the global regulation of tryptophan. IDO1 expression is mainly induced in various tissues during inflammatory conditions. IDO2, detected in the adult liver, may play a role in inflammation and autoimmune diseases. This report demonstrates the cellular localisation of IDO2 in adult mouse liver with Ido2-/- mice as the negative control, as well as the mRNA expression of Trp-catabolising enzymes in embryonic developmental series of zebrafish (tdo2a, tdo2b and ido) and mouse (Tdo2, Ido1 and Ido2). Both tdo2a and tdo2b were detected in zebrafish embryonic liver, whereas all three genes coding for Trp-catabolic enzymes were found in the intestine. In murine developmental tissues, Tdo2, Ido1 and Ido2 were all detectable in the yolk sac and placenta, with the expression of Tdo2 being the highest. Finally, this report also is the first to postulate a possible role for IDO2 in averting inflammation and metabolic dysregulation in the liver

Factors associated with the early reproduction in the teenagers of the extension of the Pueblo Joven Tupac Amaru Chiclayo, August - September, 2006

La sexualidad constituye un eje integrador de la personalidad de la persona y es crítica en la adolescencia, en la que interviene factores de riesgo que podrían adelantar la reproducción exponiéndolas a embarazos precoces y a enfermedades de transmisión sexual. Bajo esta realidad se realizó el estudio con el propósito de determinar como algunos factores psicológicos y sociales afectan la sexualidad y reproducción del adolescente, conduciéndolas a sufrir embarazo precoz. La población estuvo constituida por mujeres entre 12 y 18 años del Pueblo Joven Túpac Amaru de Chiclayo; estudiándose una muestra de 101 adolescentes, a las que se aplicó un cuestionario. Con los datos obtenidos se obtuvo su distribución de frecuencias y la asociación de variables fue analizada a través de la prueba Chi cuadrado de independencia de criterios. Dentro de las conclusiones de las que se ha llegado, es que el factor social influye en la reproducción temprana y no el factor psicológico expresado por las variables comunicación con los padres, conocimiento de reproducción, actitud frente al embarazo siendo la variable influencia de amigas que practican la prostitución o que formen pandillas las que incidieron en la reproducción temprana