Understanding perspective taking and its role in relation to teamworking and diversity

In the current thesis I focus on perspective taking as a fundamental social process guiding productive and cooperative interactions within and between work teams. I define perspective taking as the effortful and effective understanding of diverse cognitions, emotions, and identities tied to particular targets in particular situations. Little attention has been given to perspective taking as a situational or state concept that can vary across groups, time, and contexts. Previous research has typically treated it as a stable personality difference or a temporary mindset induced in laboratory settings. In this thesis, I conduct three studies with data collected from Masters of Business Administration (MBA) study teams and one final study with military teams to examine how perspective taking supports effective teamwork interactions. In the first study, I use data collected from MBA team members to develop and validate three self-report, state indicator measures of active perspective taking: effort, empathic concern, and positive attributions. In the second study, I demonstrate positive reciprocal relationships over time between the three perspective taking indicators and cooperative team member outcomes. In the third study, I show that entire MBA teams can exhibit shared perspective taking at the team level of analysis. The results also confirm that team perspective taking indicators mediate between team diversity and team states of potency and reflexivity. In the final study, I develop a self-report measure of team perspective taking effectiveness or understanding and show that it is positively related to perceived performance, helping, and morale in military teams. I show that team perspective taking effectiveness is supported by elaboration of task perspectives and effective perspective taking for the external targets of other teams. The practical and research implications of the studies for understanding situational perspective taking, team effectiveness, and finding value in team diversity are discussed.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 8.

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Ajuga, Chamaemelum, Clematis, Convolvulus, Cytisus, Deschampsia, Eleocharis, Epipactis, Euphorbia, Groenlandia, Hedera, Hieracium, Hydrocharis, Jacobaea, Juncus, Klasea, Lagurus, Leersia, Linum, Nerium, Onopordum, Persicaria, Phlomis, Polypogon, Potamogeton, Securigera, Sedum, Soleirolia, Stachys, Umbilicus, Valerianella, and Vinca. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material 1

Notulae to the Italian native vascular flora: 8

In this contribution, new data concerning the distribution of native vascular flora in Italy are presented. It includes new records, confirmations, exclusions, and status changes to the Italian administrative regions for taxa in the genera Ajuga, Chamaemelum, Clematis, Convolvulus, Cytisus, Deschampsia, Eleocharis, Epi- pactis, Euphorbia, Groenlandia, Hedera, Hieracium, Hydrocharis, Jacobaea, Juncus, Klasea, Lagurus, Leersia, Linum, Nerium, Onopordum, Persicaria, Phlomis, Polypogon, Potamogeton, Securigera, Sedum, Soleirolia, Stachys, Umbilicus, Valerianella, and Vinca. Nomenclatural and distribution updates, published elsewhere, and corrigenda are provided as Suppl. material

How to detect ecological contents in primary school textbooks using semantic networks

S1. C7 How to detect ecological contents in primary school textbooks using semantic networks Lorenzi C.*, Tatano M.C., Beccarisi L. Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie della Formazione, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, via O. Raimondo, 18, 00173, Roma, Italia; *e-mail: [email protected] Although students can today easily use different source of information studying ecology, textbooks are still important instruments for teaching and learning processes in school. Consequently, it is important to evaluate the quality of textbook that in schools are used. Literature present some textbooks evaluation, a lot of them based on the stakeholders direct involvement. Those methods are expensive and with a high margin of subjectiveness. The Semantic Network Model (SNM) is a form to represent semantically the structured knowledge. In the last years, the SNM has been used to study the organization of different domain of knowledge. Aim of this work is a presentation of strong and weakness points of a new methods based on the construction of a SNM from textbooks. Using SNM it is possible to evaluate how ecological concepts are presented in textbooks, assessing the relationship between ecological concepts groups and the connection of them with other disciplines (interdisciplinarity). Nevertheless, the construction of the SNM is a quite complex process that needs to be improved

A new species of Isoëtes (Isoëtaceae, Pteridophyta) for the Mediterranean

Isoëtes iapygia from the Apulia region (southern Italy) is described as a new species and illustrated. It differs in several characters from the other Mediterranean Isoëtes species, but has some intermediate characteristics similar to terrestrial and amphibious Isoëtes. I. iapygia is similar to the amphibious species for the lack of phyllopodia, even if it has scales; it is similar to terrestrial species for the complete velum and tuberculate macrospores. A completely unique character is represented by the two air chambers. Its habitat is on limestone rocks, in temporary pools