The Terraformation of Worlds

Best of Both Worlds; Comment on “(Re) Making the Procrustean Bed? Standardization and Customization as Competing Logics in Healthcare”

This article builds on Mannion and Exworthy’s account of the tensions between standardization and customization within health services to explore why these tensions exist. It highlights the limitations of explanations which root them in an expression of managerialism versus professionalism and suggests that each logic is embedded in a set of ontological, epistemological and moral commitments wh...

Population dynamics of synthetic Terraformation motifs

Ricard V. Solé, Raul Montañez, Salva Duran-Nebreda, Daniel Rodriguez-Amor, Blai Vidiella and Josep Sardanyés (1) ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, UPF-PRBB. Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain (2) Institute Evolutionary Biology, UPF-CSIC, Pg Maritim Barceloneta 37, 08003 Barcelona (3) Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, 87501 Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (4) Department of Physics, Massachusetts I...

Language and the Socio-Cultural Worlds of Those Who Use it: A Case of Vague Expressions

 The present study is an attempt to investigate the use of vague expressions by intermediate EFL learners. More specifically, the current study focuses on the structures and functions of one of the most common categories of vague language, i.e. general extenders. The data include a 22-hour corpus of English-as-a-foreign-language conversations. A comparison is also made between this corpus and a...

Learning Valuable Perspectives on Improving the World’s Health Through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Response to Recent Commentaries

An explanation of the most important components of management competence In Project based organizations

The aim of this paper is to highlight the issue of managerial competencies and competency model in industrial enterprises. This paper builds upon the theory of knowledge processing and its role as a theoretical basis for knowledge development in the area of managerial competencies. Managerial competencies are becoming one of the key building blocks of success in a company to achieve both the mi...