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A cross-national study on the antecedents of workâlife balance from the fit and balance perspective
Drawing on the perceived workâfamily fit and balance perspective, this study investigates demands and resources as antecedents of workâlife balance (WLB) across four countries (New Zealand, France, Italy and Spain), so as to provide empirical cross-national evidence. Using structural equation modelling analysis on a sample of 870 full time employees, we found that work demands, hours worked and family demands were negatively related to WLB, while job autonomy and supervisor support were positively related to WLB. We also found evidence that resources (job autonomy and supervisor support) moderated the relationships between demands and workâlife balance, with high resources consistently buffering any detrimental influence of demands on WLB. Furthermore, our study identified additional predictors of WLB that were unique to some national contexts. For example, in France and Italy, overtime hours worked were negatively associated with WLB, while parental status was positively associated with WLB. Overall, the implications for theory and practice are discussed.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
On the verge of Umdeutung in Minnesota: Van Vleck and the correspondence principle (Part One)
In October 1924, the Physical Review, a relatively minor journal at the time,
published a remarkable two-part paper by John H. Van Vleck, working in virtual
isolation at the University of Minnesota. Van Vleck combined advanced
techniques of classical mechanics with Bohr's correspondence principle and
Einstein's quantum theory of radiation to find quantum analogues of classical
expressions for the emission, absorption, and dispersion of radiation. For
modern readers Van Vleck's paper is much easier to follow than the famous paper
by Kramers and Heisenberg on dispersion theory, which covers similar terrain
and is widely credited to have led directly to Heisenberg's "Umdeutung" paper.
This makes Van Vleck's paper extremely valuable for the reconstruction of the
genesis of matrix mechanics. It also makes it tempting to ask why Van Vleck did
not take the next step and develop matrix mechanics himself.Comment: 82 page
Heidegger and Blumenberg on modernity
The debate surrounding the way in which Heidegger and Blumenberg understand the modern age is an opportunity to discuss two different approaches to history. On one hand, from Heidegger's perspective, history should be understood as starting from how Western thought related to Being, which, in metaphysical thinking, took the form of the forgetfulness of Being. Thus, the modern age represents the last stage in the process of forgetfulness of Being, which announces the moment of the rethinking of the relationship with Being by appealing to the authentic disclosure of Being. On the other hand, Blumenberg understands history as the result of the reoccupation process, which means replacing old theories with other new ones. Thus, to the historical approach it is not important to identify epochs as periods of time between two events, but to think about the discontinuities occurring throughout history. Starting from here, the modern age will be thought of not as an expression of the radicalization of the forgetfulness of Being, but as a response to the crises of medieval conceptions. For the same reason, the interpretation of history as a history of the forgetfulness of Being is considered by Blumenberg to subordinate history to an absolute principle, without taking into account its protagonists' needs and necessities
A method to measure the resonance transitions between the gravitationally bound quantum states of neutrons in the GRANIT spectrometer
We present a method to measure the resonance transitions between the
gravitationally bound quantum states of neutrons in the GRANIT spectrometer.
The purpose of GRANIT is to improve the accuracy of measurement of the quantum
states parameters by several orders of magnitude, taking advantage of long
storage of Ultracold neutrons at specula trajectories. The transitions could be
excited using a periodic spatial variation of a magnetic field gradient. If the
frequency of such a perturbation (in the frame of a moving neutron) coincides
with a resonance frequency defined by the energy difference of two quantum
states, the transition probability will sharply increase. The GRANIT experiment
is motivated by searches for short-range interactions (in particular
spin-dependent interactions), by studying the interaction of a quantum system
with a gravitational field, by searches for extensions of the Standard model,
by the unique possibility to check the equivalence principle for an object in a
quantum state and by studying various quantum optics phenomena
Mechanisms linking acculturation, work-family conflict, and subjective well-being among Chinese immigrants in New Zealand
Workâfamily conflict (WFC) research has focused almost exclusively on nonimmigrant populations. To expand the understanding of WFC among immigrants, this longitudinal study (sixâmonth time lag) aimed to investigate the mechanisms linking acculturation, strainâbased WFC, and subjective wellâbeing. In order to do this, two theoryâbased mediation models were developed and tested on a sample of 264 Chinese immigrants working in New Zealand using structural equation modeling. Results show that subjective wellâbeing mediated the effect of acculturation on strainâbased WFC, and acculturation did not directly influence strainâbased WFC. Furthermore, evidence was found for reciprocal relationships between strainâbased WFC and subjective wellâbeing, as well as for the sameâdomain perspective. Strainâbased work interfering with family and strainâbased family interfering with work (two directions of strainâbased WFC) have significant effects on workârelated and familyârelated wellâbeing, respectively, and vice versa. Overall, the present study provides an appropriate platform for future workâfamily research on immigrant populations and offers practical prescriptions for human resource managers to operate successfully within a diverse workplace
Pietro De Vitiis, Heidegger e la fine della filosofia
Haar Michel. Pietro De Vitiis, Heidegger e la fine della filosofia. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. QuatriÚme série, tome 75, n°28, 1977. p. 709
Michel Henry : entre phénoménologie et métaphysique
LâaffectivitĂ© pure rĂšgne-t-elle en dehors de lâHistoire de lâĂtre ? Comment cet obscur domaine intĂ©rieur â la primordiale auto-affection du sujet par lui-mĂȘme â peut-il ĂȘtre lâ« absolu » ? Cet absolu sâapparaĂźtrait Ă lui-mĂȘme, abritĂ© dans son « historiai », oublieux de tout sauf de son propre dĂ©roulement, sourd au bruit et Ă la fureur des Ă©vĂ©nements du monde. « Lâabsolu ne se produit pas dans lâhistoire ». « Le destin de lâabsolu ne se joue pas dans lâhistoire ». Nâest-il pas Ă©trange et parad..
Richard Frank Krummel, Nietzsche und der deutsche Geist. Ausbreitung und Wirkung des Nietzscheschen Werkes im deutschen Sprachraum bis zum Todesjahr des Philosophen. Ein Schrifttumsverzeichnis der Jahre 1867-1900
Haar Michel. Richard Frank Krummel, Nietzsche und der deutsche Geist. Ausbreitung und Wirkung des Nietzscheschen Werkes im deutschen Sprachraum bis zum Todesjahr des Philosophen. Ein Schrifttumsverzeichnis der Jahre 1867-1900. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. QuatriÚme série, tome 74, n°22, 1976. pp. 282-283
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