This paper examines how students’ employability develops during undergraduate studies at a Dutch liberal arts college compared to conventional bachelor’s programme in law the same university. Drawing on graduate capital model, study focuses six skills that enhance employability: creativity, lifelong learning, career decidedness, self-efficacy, resilience, and personal initiative. To measure gro...

Construct validity of an interview measure of personal initiative (PI) is examined in two parts. The first part assembles the results from 11 samples, showing that PI is meaningfully related to a nomological network of variables, based on environmental supports; knowledge, skills, and cognitive abilities; personality variables and orientations; and behavior and performance, confirming our hypot...

Interface agents are computer programmes that provide assistance to users dealing with computer-based applications. The introduction of agents to user interfaces caused the exploration of new metaphors to enhance user ability to directly manipulate interfaces. In this regard, mixed-initiative interaction refers to a flexible interaction strategy in which agents contribute with users by providin...

In this paper we propose a novel interaction model for augmented environments based on the concept of mixed initiative interaction, and describe the design of the Pendle, a gesturebased wearable device. By splitting control between user and environment, the interaction model combines the advantages of explicit, direct manipulation with the power of sensor-based proactive environments while avoi...

The purpose of the article aim is to present reasons for emergence personal and financial planning in 1960s US, then its quantitative qualitative evolution around world, taking into account institutional aspects.
 Methodology Review literature on subject, legal acts statistics advisory movement.
 Results research study found that emerged from a grassroots initiative as response needs ...

There was a time when industrial PCs, rigorously tested for high reliability, were a step behind the consumer PC market with respect to implementing the latest processors and advanced technologies. However, this definitely isn’t the case for B&R*, who works closely with Intel to carefully align its automation PC roadmap with Intel® processor launches. For instance, B&R, the world’s largest priv...

In recent years many markets have exhibited increasing demand heterogeneity; they are fragmenting into more and smaller market niches. This development threatens the large-scale assumption of many mass production processes. As a result, firms face the dilemma of how to provide a wide variety of goods for prices that can compete with mass produced products. To respond to these challenges, many f...

BACKGROUND To investigate and compare the predictors of personal and perceived stigma associated with depression. METHOD Three samples were surveyed to investigate the predictors: a national sample of 1,001 Australian adults; a local community sample of 5,572 residents of the Australian Capital Territory and Queanbeyan aged 18 to 50 years; and a psychologically distressed subset (n = 487) of ...