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Algebraic geometry --- Congruence lattices --- Treillis de congruences --- Congruence lattices. --- 51 <082.1> --- Mathematics--Series --- Lattice theory
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A translation surface is obtained by taking plane polygons and gluing their edges by translations. We ask which subgroups of the Veech group of a primitive translation surface can be realised via a translation covering. For many primitive surfaces we prove that partition stabilising congruence subgroups are the Veech group of a covering surface. We also address the coverings via their monodromy groups and present examples of cyclic coverings in short orbits, i.e. with large Veech groups.
cyclic covering --- monodromy group --- Kongruenzgruppe --- zyklische Überlagerung --- Translationsüberlagerung --- translation coveringVeechgruppe --- congruence subgroup --- Monodromiegruppe --- Veech group
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For years now, brands have been increasingly present in everyday life. Consumers no longer buy out of necessity but because they perceive a symbolic value in a product or brand and therefore want to express their self-concept. These changes in consumer behaviour result in the creation of a consumer-brand relationships where the brand is considered as a full member. The consumer personifies the brand and is able to describe it with personality traits as if it was a real person. For their part, companies have well understood the advantage of having a brand personality. Indeed, studies have shown that brand personality is one of the elements that generates brand preference, brand commitment and even brand loyalty. Based on Sirgy's theory of self-image/product-image Congruence (1982) that shows that consumers buy products the image of which is close to their self-image, it is consistent to ask whether there might be such a congruence between the personality of the brand and the personality of the consumer. This is the stated hypothesis of this research. Moreover, as brand personality is predictive of favourable attitudes and behaviours towards the brand, such as brand loyalty, it is worth considering that whether the potential congruence of personalities would have a predictive effect on the brand loyalty relationship. The research focused on green brands and more specifically organic brands in view of the strong values associated with green consumption. For this purpose, a quantitative survey was carried out in Wallonia among consumers around 5 organic brands: Alpro Bio, Pur Natur, Côte d'or Bio, Café Liégeois Bio and Ginette Beer. After collecting a sample of 280 people, statistical analyses (factor analysis, Student t-test and regression analysis) were carried out. The results show a very strong congruence of consumer/green-brand personalities on different personality dimensions and more particularly on Conscientiousness and Fallaciousness dimensions. However, this personality compatibility has only a very weak direct predictive power on the different stages of brand loyalty. The contribution of this research is twofold. First, it reinforces previous researches in the field of congruence. It confirms the importance of the personality congruence perception on the purchase decision. On the other hand, with regard to brand loyalty, it gives a more nuanced picture of the personality congruence predictive effect. Then, in a managerial way, it highlights the dimensions of personalities that are most salient for the consumer to help green brand managers in their decisions.
brand personality --- brand loyalty --- personality congruence --- green brands --- organic brands --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Marketing
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Genuserwerb ist Kongruenzerwerb. Erstmals wird der Erwerb des deutschen Genussystems dezidiert aus diesem Blickwinkel betrachtet und der Frage nachgegangen, wie die beiden zu unterscheidenden Erwerbsaufgaben – Kongruenz- und Klassifikationserwerb – miteinander interagieren. Auf der Basis einer funktionalen Beschreibung des Lerngegenstandes fokussiert diese Untersuchungsperspektive, welche Strategien L2-Lerner entwickeln, um durch Genusmarkierungen an Artikeln, Adjektiven und Pronomen Referenzbezüge herzustellen. Außerdem wird erörtert, inwiefern das ,reference tracking‘ dadurch beeinflusst wird, dass die o.g. sprachlichen Einheiten morphosyntaktisch in unterschiedlichem Maß an das kongruenzauslösende Nomen gebunden sind.Vor diesem Hintergrund wird ein funktionalistisch basiertes Genuserwerbsmodell entwickelt, dessen empirische Überprüfung durch Daten von insgesamt 195 Kindern erfolgt. Obwohl sich die L1 der L2-Lerner (Türkisch, Russisch) typologisch unterscheiden, entwickeln sie – zwar zeitlich versetzt, aber unabhängig von ihren L1 – schrittweise die gleichen semantischen und formalen Strategien der Form-Funktions-Verknüpfung, wodurch der Genuserwerb als eine systematische Abfolge eines Sematisierungs- und Grammatikalisierungsprozesses modelliert werden kann. This book takes a new approach to gender acquisition in German as a second language. It sees gender acquisition less as the ability to classify and more as the ability to recognize congruence. This shift in perspective enables new acquisition strategies for childhood L2 learners. These strategies model gender acquisition as a systematic sequence in a process of semantization and grammaticalization.
German language --- Second language acquisition. --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Gender. --- gender congruence. --- second language acquisition.
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Improving learning and teaching at schools or universities may start with choosing evidence-based interventions and practices, but does not end there. To ensure sustainable changes to programs in educational practice, interventions need to address complex issues related to theories, research designs, and measurements. This book presents typical but often overlooked problems in intervention research in educational practice. These problems are embedded in various educational areas such as, amongst others, school effectiveness, instructional design or motivational aspects of teacher trainings.
education --- educational interventions --- self-congruence intervention --- teacher --- volitional competences --- motive implementation --- learning skills --- developmental measurement approaches --- self-assessment --- reflective writing --- Empirische Bildungsforschung
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Résumé Étude : Cette étude porte sur l’agencement des antécédents des comportements de citoyenneté organisationnelle ainsi que sur l'intention de quitter l’organisation. Plus précisément, nous avons investigué le rôle du processus d'identification à l’organisation dans le développement de l’implication affective, ainsi que l’impact que peut avoir cette relation sur la compréhension d’autres comportements et attitudes. Nous avons investigué quatre hypothèses de double médiation entre la congruence des valeurs, la justice organisationnelle perçue, l’identification organisationnelle, l’implication affective, les comportements de citoyenneté organisationnelle et l’intention de quitter. Méthode : Cette étude transversale a été réalisée sur un échantillon hétérogène. Au total, 193 personnes ont répondu au questionnaire. Nos analyses ont été réalisées à l’aide du logiciel R-Lavaan 0.6-4. Résultats : Nos analyses ont partiellement confirmé nos hypothèses, soulignant ainsi l’importance du processus d’identification dans le développement de l’attachement affectif. Toutefois, nos résultats ont également mis en évidence la non-influence de l’identification à l’organisation et de l’implication affective envers l’organisation sur des comportements visant des cibles différentes, telles que les collègues de travail. Conclusion : Cette étude corrobore les résultats de Stinglhamber et al. (2015) sur l’identification à l’organisation et l’implication affective en étudiant certains mécanismes sous-jacents de ces deux concepts ainsi que certains comportements qui en résultent. Mots-clefs : Value congruence, Overall justice, Organizational identification, Affective commitment, Organizational citizenship behavior, Intention to quit
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In order to improve the autonomy and the productivity of its new consultants, Consultis asked me to formalize a step-by-step guide that would escort them during their projects about strategic planning and alignment using the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) framework. The goal of this type of mission is to implement the BSC system in the client’s organization in order to improve their strategic thinking process, their performance management system and their performance appraisal process so as to provide a better goal congruence among human resources. Moreover, Consultis gave me the task to put the guide into practice by using it for the organization Arwem Food Group, an international commercial agent, specialized in bakery and pastry products, that act as an intermediary between industrials and retailers. The guide consists of six consecutive phases that could be summarized as follows. The first step gathers some classical project management activities that initiate the project by identifying the project management triangle, the specific risks and the planning of the project. During the second phase, the values, the mission and the vision of the organization are defined, and the strategic diagnosis is undertaken and summarized into a SWOT matrix. In the third phase, the group project starts the design of the Strategy Map by identifying strategic themes and their corresponding strategic objectives that tell the story of the organization’s strategy. The fourth phase consists of selecting the indicators, targets and initiatives that will support the achievement of the strategic objectives. During the fifth phase, the human resources are aligned with the strategy by firstly identifying the operational units’ objectives, and secondly the individual objectives by determining the criteria and the appraisal method used to evaluate the employees. In the last phase, the terms and conditions of the appraisal process are analyzed in order to check the alignment with the best practices and finally the project ends with the technical implementation, and finally by the establishment of a reviewing plan used to continuously improve the system as prescribed by the PDCA methodology.
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À l’origine, la maison de repos s’est développée sur base du modèle hospitalier (Eijkelenboom et al., 2017). Ses principes, encore d’application aujourd’hui, sont considérés comme largement dépassés (e.g. Charlot et al., 2019). Il existe un autre modèle, le changement culturel, qui s’est développé sur les critiques émises à l’encontre du modèle médical (e.g. Miller & Mor, 2006) et qui semble satisfaire les attentes des résidents (e.g. Bollig et al., 2016). Par contre, l’adhésion des professionnels a très peu été étudiée, alors qu’elle est essentielle pour réussir l’implémentation du modèle et pour garantir leur qualité de vie travail. L’objectif de notre étude était de savoir si les valeurs du changement culturel correspondent aux éléments souhaités en maison de repos par les résidents, tout en assurant la qualité de vie au travail des professionnels. Nous avons interrogé 130 professionnels de maison de repos via une enquête en ligne. Nous avons mis en évidence que les principes du changement culturel correspondent pour la plupart aux éléments attractifs en maison de repos pour de potentiels futurs résidents. Ensuite, les éléments repoussants ne sont pas plus présents en maison de repos que les éléments attractifs. De même, les valeurs du modèle médical ne sont pas plus présentes que les valeurs du changement culturel. Enfin, la probabilité de recommander sa structure est liée à la présence des éléments jugés attractifs en tant que potentiel résident, ce qui n’est pas le cas de la probabilité de quitter son emploi. En conclusion, le changement culturel semble un modèle prometteur, car il remplit les attentes des résidents et pourrait probablement davantage attirer les personnes âgées. Par contre, notre hypothèse concernant l’impact du changement culturel sur la qualité de vie au travail des professionnels a partiellement été validée. Cela pourrait s’expliquer par le fait que nous avons étudié la congruence des valeurs entre la structure et des (potentiels futurs) résidents, et non des professionnels. D’autres études pourraient donc s’intéresser à la congruence des valeurs en lien avec le changement culturel, à partir de la perspective des professionnels.
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In der aktuellen Kontaktlinguistik wurden überwiegend Sprachen in Kontakt betrachtet, die genetisch nicht verwandt und strukturell distant sind. Der vorliegende Sammelband setzt sich zum Ziel, mit einem Schwerpunkt im Bereich der romanischen und slavischen Sprachen die Bedeutung von bereits zu Beginn des Kontakts vorhandenen Effekten der strukturellen Kongruenz zwischen den beteiligten Sprachen zu beleuchten. Dabei spielen ererbte wie auch typologische Ähnlichkeiten eine Rolle. Modern contact linguistics has primarily focused on contact between languages that are genetically unrelated and structurally distant. This compendium of articles looks instead at the effects of pre-existing structural congruency between the affected languages at the time of their initial contact, using the Romance and Slavic languages as examples. In contact of this kind, both genetic and typological similarities play a part.
Sociolinguistics --- Dialectology --- Languages in contact. --- Language and languages --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Variation. --- Typology (Linguistics). --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic typology --- Linguistics --- Linguistic universals --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Areal linguistics --- Typology --- Classification --- Congruence. --- Convergence. --- Language Contact. --- Romance Languages. --- Slavic Languages.
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