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Elastic Foundation Displacement Approximations

open access: yesThe Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2019
Interaction of an elastic foundation and structures like beams, plates and frames plays an essential role in investigating soil media in contact and impact mechanics.
Vytautas Kargaudas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Computational meaningfulness as the source of beneficial cognitive biases

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
The human brain has evolved to solve the problems it encounters in multiple environments. In solving these challenges, it forms mental simulations about multidimensional information about the world.
Jyrki Suomala, Janne Kauttonen
doaj   +1 more source

Changes in work and competences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This introductory chapter is in three sections, and will discuss the main changes that have affected the world of work over the past 50 years, and their consequences on organisations, activities, and the competences of employees. (DIPF/Orig.
Kokosowski, Alain
core   +1 more source

Competences for Environmental Sustainability: A Systematic Review on the Impact of Absorptive Capacity and Capabilities

open access: yes, 2020
Responsible management competences are the skills of managers to deal with the triple bottom line, stakeholder value and moral dilemmas. In this paper, we analyse how managers develop responsible management competences and how the competences interact ...
Tulin Dzhengiz, Eva Niesten
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Metadata for describing learning scenarios under European Higher Education Area paradigm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In this paper we identify the requirements for creating formal descriptions of learning scenarios designed under the European Higher Education Area paradigm, using competences and learning activities as the basic pieces of the learning process, instead ...
B. Bloom   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

A study of university law students’ self-perceived digital competences

open access: yesJournal of Library and Information Sciences, 2021
The concept of digital competences incorporates the effective use of constantly-changing digital tools and media for learning and performing digital tasks, digital behaviours (such as online communication, teamwork, ethical sharing of information), as ...
Konstantina Martzoukou   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

School starters’ early structure sense [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Low and high achieving children’s competences regarding pattern and structure at the beginning of formal schooling are comparatively analyzed in order to evaluate the range of school starters’ early structure sense.
Lüken, Miriam M.
core   +2 more sources

Food safety and nutrition – how to prepare for a challenging future? New approaches for using scenarios for policy-making

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Futures Research, 2017
Scenarios are a well-established methodology used in foresight. In this paper a three-phased process is described to maximise relevance for policy-making of a set of scenarios.
Anne-Katrin Bock, Laurent Bontoux
doaj   +1 more source

Connecting Competences and Pedagogical Approaches for Sustainable Development in Higher Education: A Literature Review and Framework Proposal

open access: yes, 2017
Research into and practice of Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) have been increasing during the last two decades. These have focused on providing sustainability education to future generations of professionals.
R. Lozano   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The role of enabling actors in ecosystem service accounting [PDF]

open access: yesOne Ecosystem, 2017
When accounting for ecosystem services, it is important to distinguish between the flow of services and the flow of benefits (which can be part of economic accounts or not) generated by those services.
Alessandra La Notte, Alexandra Marques
doaj   +2 more sources

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