Chapter 1: Kura koorliny – Introduction: What is the project?

Chapter 1 What is Engagement ?

Everyday connotations of engagement refer to involvement, commitment, passion, enthusiasm, absorption, focused effort, zeal, dedication, and energy. In a similar vein, the Merriam-Webster dictionary describes the state of being engaged as “emotional involvement or commitment” and as “being in gear”. This chapter focuses on engagement at work, a desirable condition for employees as well as for t...

1 CHAPTER 1 : Introduction

1 Introduction : what is language ?

PREVIEW Linguistics is the study of the structure, functions and acquisition of human language. This introductory chapter will introduce you to the enormous complexity of language and to the fact that our understanding of grammar depends on our world knowledge and on the context. This is followed by a discussion of the characteristics of human language and some ways of defining it. In comparing...

Chapter 15. Creativity 1 What Is Creativity?

Research on organizational creativity has increased rapidly in the last decade. Not only is creativity of interest to scientific researchers, it has become a compelling topic in the popular media, with recent articles in Psychology Today (Gryskiewicz 2000), Fast Company (Dahl 2000), and in business-oriented publications such as the Harvard Business Review (Hargadon and Sutton 2000). Why this in...

CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 . 1 PERCEPTUAL COMPUTING

CWW is a methodology in which the objects of computation are words and propositions drawn from a natural language. [It is] inspired by the remarkable human capability to perform a wide variety of physical and mental tasks without any measurements and any computations. CWW may have an important bearing on how humans . . . make perception-based rational decisions in an environment of imprecision,...