Transformation of resistance to antibiotics was observed in Diplococcus pneumoniae by Hotchkiss (1951, 1952a, 1952b) and in Haemophilus influenzae by Alexander and Leidy (1953) and Alexander et al. (1954). In all these species only certain strains were capable of being transformed. The ability to be transformed has been termed competence; refractory strains are not competent. Austrian (1952) ha...

In the course of the Hamburg/ESO survey we have discovered a white dwarf whose spectrum exhibits many similarities with the prototype of magnetic white dwarfs Grw+70◦8247. In particular several stationary line components indicative for magnetic fields between about 150 and 400 MG are found in both objects. However, the features between 5000 and 5500 Å in the spectrum of HE0241-0155 cannot be ex...

The study aimed to validate for Portuguese language (Brazilian population) the questionnaire Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale (BPNES) in Physical Education. Attended three translators involved in the translation process, three doctors in Sport Psychology and 403 students. The instrument was the BPNES with 12 items that assessed the basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and ...

Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) operating at IGCAR since 1985 is testimony of maturity India has attained in Fast Breeder Technology. The reactor has operated exceedingly well thus established the competence of Indian engineers in handling this difficult technology where large quantity of sodium is used for cooling of reactors. INDIA took quantum leap from 40 MWe FBTR to launch of 500 MWe Fast...

Stereotype research depicts the generic immigrant as incompetent and untrustworthy. The current research expands this image, specifying key information dimensions (e.g. nationality, socioeconomic status) about immigrants. To see how perceivers differentiate among particular immigrant groups, we extend a model of intergroup perception, the Stereotype Content Model (SCM; Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu...

This study examined the reflected appraisal process in female middle school (n = 66; M age = 12.39 – .87 years) and high school athletes (n = 88; M age = 14.70 – 1.08 years). Questionnaires assessed the athletes’ self-perceptions of sport competence and how they perceived their mothers, fathers, coaches, and teammates evaluated their ability in sport. A multiple regression analysis revealed tha...

This paper investigates the managerial competences required for the complex interactions required to successfully integrate an Enterprise Resource Planning system into an organization—the ERP journey. A feature of the study (a five year longitudinal study of a Danish production company implementing SAP R/3) was the rise and fall of the ERP project managers. The study showed that different stage...

This study investigated the discriminant, criterion and incremental validity of an ability measure of Emotional Intelligence (EI). High school students (N = 77) took the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test - Spanish Version (MSCEIT V. 2.0, 2002), a measure of Big Five personality traits (BFQ; Caprara, Barbanelli, & Borgogni , 1993), an General Intelligence test (IGF-r 5; Yuste, 200...

This article presents an approach to understanding human spatial competence that focuses on the representations and processes of spatial cognition and how they are integrated with cognition more generally. The foundational theoretical argument for this research is that spatial information processing is central to cognition more generally, in the sense that it is brought to bear ubiquitously to ...

Competence management has received much attention during recent years because it contributes to achieving organizational goals and solving problems such as improvement of information flow or competence supply. Many approaches were proposed to modelling competence and using competence models but there is still a lack of research into structures and utilisation of competence profiles in a compete...