scholarly journals The Science of Cathedral Studies: Exploring Demographic Profile, Motivational Intentions, and Perceived Impact among those Attending the Holly Bough Service in Liverpool Cathedral

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Francis ◽  
Susan H. Jones ◽  
Ursula McKenna ◽  
Nelson Pike ◽  
Emma Williams
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Spiritual Wellbeing ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Demographic Profile ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Detailed Survey ◽  
Beneficial Impact ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
Musical Excellence

The Holly Bough service is a unique pre-Christmas event, combining musical excellence and theological depth, crafted by the founding dean of Liverpool Cathedral in the early twentieth century for the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Located within the developing science of cathedral studies, this paper analyses the demographic profile, motivational intention (drawing on religious orientation theory) and perceived impact on spiritual wellbeing (drawing on Fisher’s four dimensional model) among 564 participants who completed a detailed survey at the service held in 2019. The data demonstrated a mix of ages, a sense of Anglican commitment to this form of event-belonging by those who return year-on-year and invite friends to join them, and a perceived beneficial impact on all four dimensions of spiritual wellbeing.

Feuerbach, Ludwig Andreas (1804–72)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans-Martin Sass
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Orientation ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
I And Thou ◽  
God's Love ◽  
The Future ◽  
Moral System

Ludwig Feuerbach, one of the critical Young Hegelian intellectuals of the nineteenth century, has become famous for his radical critique of religious belief. In Das Wesen des Christentums (Essence of Christianity) (1841) he develops the idea that God does not exist in reality but as a human projection only, and that the Christian principles of love and solidarity should be applied directly to fellow humans rather than being regarded as an indirect reflection of God’s love. In religion, the believer ‘projects his being into objectivity, and then again makes himself an object of an object, another being than himself’. Religious orientation is an illusion and is unhealthy, as it deprives and alienates the believer from true autonomy, virtue and community, ‘for even love, in itself the deepest, truest emotion, becomes by means of religiousness merely ostensible, illusory, since religious love gives itself to man only for God’s sake, so that it is given only in appearance to man, but in reality to God’ (Feuerbach 1841: 44, 48). In Grundsätze der Philosophie der Zukunft (Principles of the Philosophy of the Future) (1843) he extends his criticism to all forms of metaphysics and religion: ‘True Dialectics is not the Monologue of the sole Thinker, rather the Dialogue between I and Thou’, he writes in paragraph 62 (1846–66 II: 345), criticizing in particular his former teacher Hegel. The philosophy of the future has to be both sensual and communal, equally based on theory and practice and among individuals. In an anonymous encyclopedia article (1847) he defines his position: ‘the principle from which Feuerbach derives everything and towards which he targets everything is "the human being on the ground and foundation of nature"’, a principle which ‘bases truth on sensuous experience and thus replaces previous particular and abstract philosophical and religious principles’ (1964– III: 331). Feuerbach’s sensualism and communalism had great influence on the young Karl Marx’s development of an anthropological humanism, and on his contemporaries in providing a cultural and moral system of reference for humanism outside of religious orientation and rationalistic psychology. In the twentieth century, Feuerbach influenced existential theology (Martin Buber, Karl Barth) as well as existentialist and phenomenological thought.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Indian managers on the impact of convergent technologies on work and resultant organisational performance in service industry

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjeev Kumar ◽  
Prikshat Verma ◽  
Parth Patel ◽  
J. Irudhaya Rajesh
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThis research examines Indian service managers' perceptions on impact of convergent technologies on their work and resultant organisational performance. The research uses four dimensions – task productivity, task innovation, customer satisfaction and management control – taken together, to investigate the perceived impact of convergent technologies adoption in service organisations context and further examines the resultant organisational performance, based on these dimensions.Design/methodology/approachThe study used partial least squares (PLS) approach to evaluate the measurement model and the structural model. The study was conducted in service industry firms that have made a significant progression towards adopting convergent technologies.FindingsThe results of the study demonstrated higher levels of perceived impact of adoption of convergent technologies on all the four dimensions (i.e. task productivity, task innovation, customer satisfaction and management control). The results of the study also indicate that all the impact dimensions positively influence organisational performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe results of the study suggest that all the impact dimensions positively influence organisation, therefore the service sector managers should be aware about the role of adopting latest convergent technologies so as to enhance the task productivity, innovation, customer satisfaction and management control in their job roles.Practical implicationsThe practical implications of this research are derived on the basis of Future of Work, Labour Market Information Systems, Productivity, Enterprise Development, Enhancing skills of service employees and Employability themes.Originality/valueTo researchers best knowledge is to first study of its kind to evaluate the perceived impact of convergent technologies on organisational performance in Indian context.

scholarly journals Black hole induced false vacuum decay from first principles

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Shkerin ◽  
Sergey Sibiryakov
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Decay Rate ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
False Vacuum ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Vacuum Decay ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Dilaton Black Hole ◽  
Black Hole Temperature

Abstract We provide a method to calculate the rate of false vacuum decay induced by a black hole. The method uses complex tunneling solutions and consistently takes into account the structure of different quantum vacua in the black hole metric via boundary conditions. The latter are connected to the asymptotic behavior of the time-ordered Green’s function in the corresponding vacua. We illustrate the technique on a two-dimensional toy model of a scalar field with inverted Liouville potential in an external background of a dilaton black hole. We analytically derive the exponential suppression of tunneling from the Boulware, Hartle-Hawking and Unruh vacua and show that they are parametrically different. The Unruh vacuum decay rate is exponentially smaller than the decay rate of the Hartle-Hawking state, though both rates become unsuppressed at high enough black hole temperature. We interpret the vanishing suppression of the Unruh vacuum decay at high temperature as an artifact of the two-dimensional model and discuss why this result can be modified in the realistic case of black holes in four dimensions.

Police and Suicide Prevention

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 194-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Marzano ◽  
Mark Smith ◽  
Matthew Long ◽  
Charlotte Kisby ◽  
Keith Hawton
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Relative Effectiveness ◽  
Police Attitudes ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Beneficial Impact ◽  
Perceived Impact ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Suicide Awareness

Abstract. Background: Police officers are frequently the first responders to individuals in crisis, but generally receive little training for this role. We developed and evaluated training in suicide awareness and prevention for frontline rail police in the UK. Aims: To investigate the impact of training on officers’ suicide prevention attitudes, confidence, and knowledge. Method: Fifty-three participants completed a brief questionnaire before and after undertaking training. In addition, two focus groups were conducted with 10 officers to explore in greater depth their views and experiences of the training program and the perceived impact on practice. Results: Baseline levels of suicide prevention attitudes, confidence, and knowledge were mixed but mostly positive and improved significantly after training. Such improvements were seemingly maintained over time, but there was insufficient power to test this statistically. Feedback on the course was generally excellent, notwithstanding some criticisms and suggestions for improvement. Conclusion: Training in suicide prevention appears to have been well received and to have had a beneficial impact on officers’ attitudes, confidence, and knowledge. Further research is needed to assess its longer-term effects on police attitudes, skills, and interactions with suicidal individuals, and to establish its relative effectiveness in the context of multilevel interventions.

Twentieth-Century Product Innovations in the German Food Industry

2009 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Spiekermann
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Point Of Sale ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Product Innovations ◽  
Scientific Innovation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
German Food ◽  
Technological Options

Product innovation, a decisive factor in modern economies, is usually analyzed from one point of view–that of the producers. A more realistic approach to the subject would add at least four dimensions to a consideration of the topic: the perspective of consumers and the cultural context within which they form their views; the differences in how experts and consumers acquire knowledge about products; the increasing influence of retailers at the point of sale; and the technological options available to producers and households. Two twentieth-century German case studies–on the scientific innovation of yogurt and the preserving and canning of food–connect the often separate perspectives of business, consumers, and culture.

An Amotivation Model in Physical Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Shen ◽  
Robert K. Wingert ◽  
Weidong Li ◽  
Haichun Sun ◽  
Paul Bernard Rukavina
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Multidimensional Construct ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Ability Beliefs ◽  
Preliminary Support

Amotivation refers to a state in which individuals cannot perceive a relationship between their behavior and that behavior’s subsequent outcome. With the belief that considering amotivation as a multidimensional construct could reflect the complexity of motivational deficits in physical education, we developed this study to validate an amotivation model. In study 1 (N = 156), an exploratory factor analysis provided preliminary support with the model comprising four dimensions: ability beliefs, effort beliefs, values placed on the task, and characteristics of the task. In study 2 (N = 499), the four-dimensional model was further corroborated through a confirmatory factor analysis. Its construct validity and predictive validity were also confirmed. Overall, the findings lend evidence to the conceptual validation of the four-dimensional structure of amotivation. Lack of motivation in physical education may result from different reasons. The multifaceted nature of amotivation in physical education must be considered and instructionally addressed during teaching and learning.

scholarly journals KIỂM ĐỊNH VÀ ĐÁNH GIÁ THANG ĐO THÁI ĐỘ ĐỊNH HƯỚNG KHỞI NGHIỆP TẠI VIỆT NAM

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (04) ◽  
Author(s):  
TRẦN QUANG LONG ◽  
PHAN NHƯ MINH ◽  
TRẦN HẢI BẰNG
Keyword(s):  
Self Report ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitude ◽  
Five Dimension ◽  
Report Measure

In light of Entrepreneurship literate, the Entrepreneurial Attitude Orientation (EAO) scale is a multidimensional self-report measure of attitudes toward entrepreneurship. There are little studies have tested the validity and reliability of the EAO scale in different social and cultural situations. This research’s purpose is to examine the generalizability of the EAO scale in Vietnam context by applying two step of the preliminary research and the main research. In the former, we applied both of the qualitative and quantitative method with the finding of four dimensions scale and 20 items were removed. The latter used the Cronbach alpha for testing the scale’s reliability and EFA method for examining the scale’s validity. The result shows that EAO scale in Vietnam are include five dimension instead of four, with the appearance of the new one, namely ACHPC. Furthermore, 26 of the original 75 items were removed due to unsatisfactory loading. The findings generally support the generalizability of the four-dimensional model of the EAO and contribute the specialize scale in Vietnam context.

scholarly journals Europeanization process in Hanoi in the early 20th Century – Viewed from changing social position of women

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. First
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Thúy Vy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Impact

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century was a period that Western culture had a strong influence on East Asia countries. The need for finding new markets and expanding colonies of Western countries made most countries of East Asia were at risk of becoming Western colonies. This historical situation forced East Asia countries - whether they like it or not - to "Europeanize" and to absorb Western civilization achievements to survive. However, whether the impacts of Europeanization on values of culture were positive or negative, the Europeanization was strongly depended on the cultural characteristics and processes in each country. In the early twentieth century, under the impact of the process of Europeanization, large cities in Vietnam - especially Hanoi - greatly transformed the appearance and functions from medieval to early modern cities. Through research on the changing social position of Hanoi women in the process of Europeanization in the early 20th century on four dimensions: Time, space, human, and methods, the paper indicated the reasons, characteristics, rules, trends of the fluctuation of cultural values ​​in Hanoi in the early 20th century under the impact of the Europeanization process.

scholarly journals ANALISIS BUDAYA ORGANISASI PADA PERUSAHAAN APM OTOMOTIF DI INDONESIA (STUDI KASUS PADA PT. XYZ)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Pebri Tutur Srihadi ◽  
Ferdinand Dehoutman Saragih
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Shared Meaning ◽  
Organization Model ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Strong Culture ◽  
Division Of Work

This study aims to understand the organizational culture in one of the automotive companies in Indonesia as well as to study the level of readiness of the company in the application of organizational culture to face the highly competitive automotive business in Indonesia. Organizational culture that represents a set of value, trust and shared meaning that is applied intensively and institutionalizes will provide collective benefits that can make the organizational culture strong which will give of success to the company where success of organization depend on organizational culture because organizational culture is the most important construct in building and maintaining a company's success.This study discusses the mapping of organizational culture in one of the automotive companies in Indonesia based on the Denison cultural organization model that has four dimensions, namely mission, consistency, involvement and adaptability. The sample of 174 aimed at employees in all divisions and in all hierarchy in the company.The results of the study show that the company has a strong culture in each division of work and hierarchical companies. The company has a model that fits the four-dimensional model of Denison's Corporate culture, making the company consider having capabilities that are in line with competition in the automotive industry in Indonesia.

Emigration from Teruel, Spain, to California in the Early Twentieth Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-485
Author(s):  
Raúl Ibáñez Hervás
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Demographic Profile ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Spanish Province ◽  
Written Sources

This article examines the pattern of emigration from the Spanish province of Teruel to California during the first third of the twentieth century. It is based on oral interviews and written sources in both Spain and the United States and on significant detective work. The resulting demographic profile of emigrants from Teruel indicates the significance of the emigration phenomenon, and reveals the origins, transportation and admissions challenges, and the destinations of individuals who moved to California for work. In addition, it sheds light on the reasons that motivated hundreds of people from Teruel, known as Turolenses in Spanish, to leave their place of origin and travel thousands of miles by sea and land to California in search of a better future for themselves and their families. This is a timely article, marking the centenary of the largest emigration from Teruel to North America.

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