International Perspectives on the Legal Environment for Selection

Perspectives from 22 countries on aspects of the legal environment for selection are presented in this article. Issues addressed include (a) whether there are racial/ethnic/religious subgroups viewed as "disadvantaged,” (b) whether research documents mean differences between groups on individual difference measures relevant to job performance, (c) whether there are laws prohibiting discrimination against specific groups, (d) the evidence required to make and refute a claim of discrimination, (e) the consequences of violation of the laws, (f) whether particular selection methods are limited or banned, (g) whether preferential treatment of members of disadvantaged groups is permitted, and (h) whether the practice of industrial and organizational psychology has been affected by the legal environmen

Opportunities and Challenges for the Creation and Governance of Productive Landscapes in Urban Transformations: The Case of Klosterøya Urban Fruit Forest Park

Former industrial areas in Europe are being redeveloped into residential and recreational spaces, often including sustainability initiatives. This study explores how the co-governance and management of a productive urban open space contributes to sustainable transformations, and aims to identify the opportunities and challenges that multi-actor design teams face when co-designing sustainable solutions. To achieve this goal, the landscape design process in Klosterøya urban park in Skien municipality, Norway, a privately owned yet publicly regulated park, is used as a case study in co-governance and analysed using the theoretical combined governance and management model developed. Data were collected through the observations of project meetings, document analysis and semi-structured interviews with the multi-actor design team. The results indicated that the working method, through co-creation, produced opportunities for sustainable urban agriculture, enhanced biodiversity, testbeds and water and resource circularities in the landscape, while ensuring a learning process and users’ involvement. Willingness to invest due to the lack of technical knowledge and soil contamination are revealed as key challenges. Conclusions emphasise the significance of co-creative landscape practices for productive urban open spaces and sustainable urban transformations, providing insights for an informed analysis of co-governance cases through the combined governance and management model

Opportunities and Challenges for the Creation and Governance of Productive Landscapes in Urban Transformations: The Case of Klosterøya Urban Fruit Forest Park

Former industrial areas in Europe are being redeveloped into residential and recreational spaces, often including sustainability initiatives. This study explores how the co-governance and management of a productive urban open space contributes to sustainable transformations, and aims to identify the opportunities and challenges that multi-actor design teams face when co-designing sustainable solutions. To achieve this goal, the landscape design process in Klosterøya urban park in Skien municipality, Norway, a privately owned yet publicly regulated park, is used as a case study in co-governance and analysed using the theoretical combined governance and management model developed. Data were collected through the observations of project meetings, document analysis and semi-structured interviews with the multi-actor design team. The results indicated that the working method, through co-creation, produced opportunities for sustainable urban agriculture, enhanced biodiversity, testbeds and water and resource circularities in the landscape, while ensuring a learning process and users’ involvement. Willingness to invest due to the lack of technical knowledge and soil contamination are revealed as key challenges. Conclusions emphasise the significance of co-creative landscape practices for productive urban open spaces and sustainable urban transformations, providing insights for an informed analysis of co-governance cases through the combined governance and management model

The Effect of Healthcare Data Analytics Training on Knowledge Management: A Quasi-Experimental Field Study

This study aims to provide practice-oriented evidence regarding the implementation of healthcare data analytics and its impact on the use of new data analytics tools and relevant analytical skills improvement. A quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test controlled study was conducted in a large medical system in the eastern United States. Healthcare data analytics training program participants (N = 21) and a comparison group comprising trainee-identified peers completing comparable work (N = 27) were compared at the start of training and one year later. Results showed that both trainees and peers demonstrated improved healthcare data analytics skills over time, related to concomitant increases in their healthcare data analytics-related learning and performance goals. This study suggests that healthcare organizations aiming at successfully implementing a new data analytics infrastructure should provide well-designed training that enables trainees to develop specific learning and performance goals as well as improve relevant skills and ability to use new tools

A study of laterality in children of high, normal and low intelligence with behavioural and brain imaging indices

The study of differences in language laterality among children with different levels of intelligence is particularly important in neuropsychological research and practice, as it contributes to a deeper understanding of the functional characteristics of intellectually deficient, as well as intellectually gifted children. These children in our country are thought to be children with special educational needs and require specific educational interventions. The present thesis explores these differences in language laterality in 102 children 13-17 years old with different levels of intelligence through a meta-analytic method and experimental methods, which include self-report questionnaires, behavioral tests, indirect hormonal indices and a new neuroimaging technique, functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound. Both the results of meta-analysis and research findings, were in agreement as intellectually deficient children seemed to have a greater tendency towards atypical handedness compared to control group, while intellectually gifted children seemed to have more often mild typical latearlity. These findings are broadly in line with genetic theories for the relationship between intelligence and language laterality.Η μελέτη των διαφορών αναφορικά με την πλευρίωση της γλώσσας σε παιδιά με διαφορετικά επίπεδα νοημοσύνης είναι ιδιαίτερα σημαντική στη νευροψυχολογική έρευνα και πράξη, καθώς συμβάλλει στη βαθύτερη κατανόηση λειτουργικών χαρακτηριστικών του εγκεφάλου των παιδιών με υψηλή νοημοσύνη και νοητική υστέρηση, τα οποία αναγνωρίζονται στη χώρα μας ως παιδιά με ιδιαίτερες εκπαιδευτικές ανάγκες και χρήζουν ειδικών εκπαιδευτικών παρεμβάσεων. Η παρούσα διατριβή ερευνά αυτές τις διαφορές στην πλευρίωση της γλώσσας σε 102 παιδιά, ηλικίας 13-17 ετών, με διαφορετικά νοητικά επίπεδα μέσα από μία μετα-αναλυτική μέθοδο, καθώς και μέσα από πειραματικές μεθόδους, οι οποίες συμπεριλαμβάνουν ερωτηματολόγια αυτό-αναφοράς, συμπεριφορικές δοκιμασίες, έμμεσους ορμονικούς δείκτες και μια σύγχρονη νευροαπεικονιστική τεχνική, το λειτουργικό διακρανιακό υπέρηχο Doppler. Tόσο τα αποτελέσματα της μετα-ανάλυσης, όσο και τα ερευνητικά ευρήματα, κατέδειξαν παρόμοια αποτελέσματα, καθώς μεταξύ των παιδιών με νοητική υστέρηση εντοπίστηκαν τα υψηλότερα ποσοστά μη τυπικής πλευρίωσης, ενώ τα παιδιά με υψηλή νοημοσύνη παρουσίαζαν συχνότερα ήπια τυπική πλευρίωση. Τα ευρήματα αυτά συμβαδίζουν σε μεγάλο βαθμό με τις γενετικές θεωρίες για τη σχέση νοημοσύνης και πλευρίωσης της γλώσσας

Speaking out of turn: How video conferencing reduces vocal synchrony and collective intelligence

This project examines nonverbal synchrony in distributed collaboratio