“…The book provides a comprehensive review of the integration of work and learning, which is a central issue in current discussion on the development of vocational and professional expertise. The contributors represent a broad range of experience and the articles are based on recent, extensive empirical studies…”

“…This book aims to build a bridge between these contradictory results by synthesising principal-agent theory, stewardship theory, and managerial discretion theory into a new empirically-validated model. Using a representative sample of 'double-blind' interviews with managers of 467 firms in China and applying partial least squares path modelling (PLS), the study identifies a potential cause of the discretion puzzle: the failure of the extant literature to account for granularity in the way that managers use their discretion. …”

“…As some of the governments of the countries represented in ChemPubSoc Europe have strongly recommended that the research conducted with their funding is freely accessible for all readers (Open Access), ChemPubSoc Europe was concerned that no journal for which the ethical standards were monitored by a chemical society was available for such papers. …”

“…In that way, the papers submitted for the Minefill Symposia represent the highest quality and level in the conference domain. …”

“…Some of its symptoms are: the closure of any critical or creative alternative, the dispersion of knowledges and the atomisation of researchers. Rather than representing an exclusive or privileged territory, Deleuzian thought constitutes the spirit of the journal, leading it through its journeys: in this sense, La deleuziana wants to be its deterritorialisation."…”

“…As with the first installment, the spirit of this book represents a fusion of Montaigne and Wilde; a mashup of Adorno and Yogi Berra; a parallel channeling of Marx and Marx (both Karl and Groucho). …”

“…"The eighth edition represents the collective contribution of experts with intimate knowledge and experience in the selected subject areas. …”

“…The last step for increasing network throughput is represented by the implementation of multidimensional modulation formats in coherent optical communication systems, which enable increasing the bit rate/channel toward 400 Gbit/s/channel and beyond. …”

“…There are two pivotal moments in which the two rhetoricians were pitted against each other as representatives of different modes of cultural discourse: Athens in the fourth century BCE, as memorably portrayed in Plato's Phaedrus, and Rome in the first century BCE when Dionysius of Halicarnassus proposes to create from the united Lysianic and Isocratean rhetoric the foundation for the ancient rhetorical tradition…”

“…The case studies included in the volume represent women writers from various European countries and comparatively reflect the nuances of their participation in a burgeoning commercial market for authors while profiting as much from patronage. …”

“…As a philosopher, he represents the mainstream of Russian intellectual history during the nineteenth century…”

“…Women express more emotion than men, but do they also experience more emotion than men? Are emotions represented differently in men and women's brains? What are the origins of gender differences in emotions - are we born different or is it socialization that renders us different? …”

“…AUVs are losing their prototype status and have become a fully operational, reliable and effective tool and modern multi-purpose AUVs represent the new class of underwater robotic objects with inherent tasks and practical applications, particular features of technology, systems structure and functional properties…”

“…Expert systems represent a branch of artificial intelligence aiming to take the experience of human specialists and transfer it to a computer system. …”

“…The biosensors can be represented with analogue devices measuring concentrations of analytes and binary devices operating in the YES/NO format, possibly with logical processing of input signals. …”

“…A huge number of milk products have been developed worldwide, representing a spectacular example of biodiversity and a priceless cultural heritage. …”

“…Low-temperature non-equilibrium gaseous discharges represent nearly ideal media for boosting plasma-based chemical reactions. …”

“…Polymer composites represent the platform materials of the XXI century and are an important slice of the market in the production of modern plastics. …”

“…The analysis of power systems under various conditions represents one of the most important and complex tasks in electrical power engineering. …”

“…Those novel compounds then need to be characterized and evaluated in comparison to well-known representatives. This Special Issue focuses on the description of novel enzyme inhibitors of marine origin, including bioprospecting, omic approaches, and structural and mechanistic aspects…”