Promoting ethnic tolerance and patriotism: the role of education system characteristics

International audienceThe literature on political socialization has overlooked the influence of system characteristics of schooling on civic values and youth political identities. This article addresses that gap by investigating the degree to which system differentiation relates to the values of ethnic tolerance and patriotism. We distinguish between pedagogical differentiation and territorial differentiation. While the first concept relates to the contrast between early tracking and comprehensive education, the second term captures the contrast between federal versus unitary states. We find that comprehensive schooling and nonfederal systems are associated with smaller disparities of ethnic tolerance and patriotism across ethnic and social groups. Patriotism is positively linked to ethnic tolerance in nonfederal systems. We suggest that nonexclusionary forms of patriotism can be promoted by public education through some form of national regulation of the curriculum

Know Thy Hearer!

This seminar paper will support the thesis that in order to influence the heart of the hearer in the direction of true faith and a godly life, the preacher will need to know his hearers. This thesis will be supported through an exploration of four questions. The first question is Why does the preacher need to know his hearers? Under this section there will be a discussion of the preacher\u27s call, the idea that sermons are to be appropriate to the hearers, preaching as pastoral care, the hearers as participants in the preaching task, the image of the preacher, and ethos

Which gene did you mean?

Computational Biology needs computer-readable information records. Increasingly, meta-analysed and pre-digested information is being used in the follow up of high throughput experiments and other investigations that yield massive data sets. Semantic enrichment of plain text is crucial for computer aided analysis. In general people will think about semantic tagging as just another form of text mining, and that term has quite a negative connotation in the minds of some biologists who have been disappointed by classical approaches of text mining. Efforts so far have tried to develop tools and technologies that retrospectively extract the correct information from text, which is usually full of ambiguities. Although remarkable results have been obtained in experimental circumstances, the wide spread use of information mining tools is lagging behind earlier expectations. This commentary proposes to make semantic tagging an integral process to electronic publishing

Statement from the Montana Stockgrowers Association regarding the Livestock Mill Levy

Statement to the Revenue and Finance Committee from the Montana Stockgrowers Association regarding the Livestock Mill Levy.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanaconstitution/1472/thumbnail.jp

Tracking and political engagement: an investigation of the mechanisms driving the effect of educational tracking on voting intentions among upper secondary students in France

Many scholars argue that the practice of educational tracking exerts a distinct effect on young people’s political engagement. They point out that students in academic tracks are becoming more politically engaged than those than those in vocational ones, and suggest that this may be due to differences across tracks in the curriculum, pedagogy, peer environment or student self-confidence. The current paper aims to investigate whether tracking is related to political engagement through any of these four mechanisms. It uses survey data collected among students in the final year of upper secondary education in France and employs a stepwise multilevel analysis to explore this question. It finds little differences between tracks in the curriculum and in pedagogy relevant for political engagement. Students in academic tracks nonetheless express a stronger commitment to vote than those in vocational ones. This difference between tracks disappears when the social composition of the school population is taken into account, suggesting that the peer environment is the primary mechanism driving the effect of tracking in France. However, in contexts with greater variation between the tracks in curriculum and pedagogy, the latter may well be equally or more important mechanisms

DECISION MAKING FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE ENTERPRISES WITH A FOCUS ON SUCCESSFUL WORKPLACE COLLABORATION

Research purpose. It is rational to say that individual decision making is less timeconsuming and easier than group decision making. Decisions can be accomplished in sucha manner as long the individual is an expert, well-informed on the topic, and is unbiased.However, due to globalization and technological advancement people are enforced to performchallenging tasks in collaboration with other individuals. Nowadays one of the factors whichcontribute the most to business success is whether or not employees are able to collaborate inteam settings. By utilizing team settings businesses gain fasters operations and more effectiveresults. Additionally, collaboration positively impacts individuals’ responsibility, whichfurthermore empowers their motivation, especially in a digital workplace setup. Thus thepurpose of this research is to determine and evaluate the most important values which impactcollaboration in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).Methodology. The study was carried out in a non-experimental way with a focus tocollect data for descriptive research. A two-phase structured self-administrative survey wasdistributed online (n=117). 7 points Likert scale was applied to sum survey responses overthe set of individual values.Value / Practical implications. As a conclusion is offered a set of recommendations formanagers concerning the improvement of collaboration in the workplace based on discoveredindividuals’ values, like introducing Kanban boards to track and trace the efficiency ofindividual effort, increasing autonomy in the workplace, etc

Barriers to entry in the Norwegian payment services market

The purpose of the Revised Payment Services Directive was to ensure efficient and integrated financial services, and to increase market competition and innovation across the EU and EEA. PSD2 was put forth to lower the barriers to entry for the payment services market, hence allowing new entrants to compete with incumbents, and incumbents to compete with each other to increase both competition and innovation. In Norway the number of new entrants is rather low relative to comparable countries. The PSD2 regulative brings new possibilities for third-party providers, but it does not entail a market entry without barriers. This research has taken a qualitative approach to identify entry barriers that new TPPs have faced or will face when entering the payment services market in Norway. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 participants representing fintechs, banks and neutral consultants to answer the research question. We have found that there are a number of entry barriers in the payment services market. The most prominent findings of this study were the quality of the APIs the banks have been required to produce, the banks guarding of exclusive control over strategic resources in form of consumer data, gaps in information and technical knowledge from the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway, and access to financing of Norwegian fintech companies in the payment services market

Barriers to entry in the Norwegian payment services market

The purpose of the Revised Payment Services Directive was to ensure efficient and integrated financial services, and to increase market competition and innovation across the EU and EEA. PSD2 was put forth to lower the barriers to entry for the payment services market, hence allowing new entrants to compete with incumbents, and incumbents to compete with each other to increase both competition and innovation. In Norway the number of new entrants is rather low relative to comparable countries. The PSD2 regulative brings new possibilities for third-party providers, but it does not entail a market entry without barriers. This research has taken a qualitative approach to identify entry barriers that new TPPs have faced or will face when entering the payment services market in Norway. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 participants representing fintechs, banks and neutral consultants to answer the research question. We have found that there are a number of entry barriers in the payment services market. The most prominent findings of this study were the quality of the APIs the banks have been required to produce, the banks guarding of exclusive control over strategic resources in form of consumer data, gaps in information and technical knowledge from the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway, and access to financing of Norwegian fintech companies in the payment services market