Advances in social and organizational factors / / edited by Peter Vink

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452834903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 0-429-06605-8; 1-4398-7020-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (841 p.)
• Collana: Advances in human factors and ergonomics series
• Altri autori (Persone): VinkP
• Disciplina: 303.48/3
• Soggetti: Technology - Social aspects; Technological innovations; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: section 1. Perception and design of spaces -- section 2. Ergonomics in industrial quality -- section 3. Human factotrs [sic] in terrorism -- section 4. Enterprise ICT and work -- section 5. Learning and training -- section 6. Flexible work force and work schedule -- section 7. Adapting for special groups -- section 8. Ship design -- section 9. Changes at the organizational level -- section 10. New ways of work -- section 11. User experience, comfort and emotion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Preface The National Academy of Engineering Committee on Engineering's Grand Challenges has identified in 2008 14 areas awaiting engineering solutions in the 21st century (see http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996.aspx). These 14 areas were defined by a panel of technology and engineering luminaries. The goal of the panel was to create a slate of Grand Challenges for scientists and engineers. Among these challenges five are directly related to the content of this book: 1. Restore and improve urban infrastructure 2. Advance health informatics 3. Prevent terror 4. Improve cyberspace 5. Advanced personalized learning This means that the contributions in this book are of a high value for the future of the world. These challenges have a more technological point of view as they are defined from an engineering perspective. The Lund Declaration prepared the future European Grand Societal Challenges (Chuberre & Lioli, 2010). So, ; these are more focused on societal issues. They identified six themes calling for solutions to tackle them. Two of these are closely related to the content of this book: 6. Ageing societies: As the life duration of people increases, this raises numerous issues among which economic, social inclusion and accessibility. 7. Security: How to improve the security of European citizens and their goods within but also outside Europe? --

Volition's face : personificatioon and the will in the renaissance literature / / Andrew Escobedo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910466447303321
• Autore: Escobedo Andrew <1967->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Notre Dame, Indiana : , : University of Notre Dame Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 0-268-10169-8; 0-268-10168-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: ReFormations : Medieval and Early Modern Series
• Disciplina: 820.9003
• Soggetti: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Personification in literature; Will in literature; Renaissance - England; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Personification, energy, and allegory -- The prosopopoetic will: ours, though not we -- Conscience in the Tudor interludes -- Despair in Marlowe and Spenser -- Love and Spenser's Cupid -- Sin and Milton's Angel -- Epilogue: Premodern personification and posthumanism?
• Sommario/riassunto: "Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia signals a form of reduced agency. ; Andrew Escobedo argues that premodern writers, including Spenser, Marlowe, and Milton, understood personification as a literary expression of will, an essentially energetic figure that depicted passion or concept transforming into action. As the will emerged as an isolatable faculty in the Christian Middle Ages, it was seen not only as the instrument of human agency but also as perversely independent of other human capacities, for example, intellect and moral character. Renaissance accounts of the will conceived of volition both as the means to self-creation and the faculty by which we lose control of ourselves. After offering a brief history of the will that isolates the distinctive features of the faculty in medieval and Renaissance thought, Escobedo makes his case through an examination of several personified figures in Renaissance literature: Conscience in the Tudor interludes, Despair in Doctor Faustus and book I of The Faerie Queen, Love in books III and IV of The Faerie Queen, and Sin in Paradise Lost. These examples demonstrate that literary personification did not amount to a dim reflection of "realistic" fictional character, but rather that it provided a literary means to explore the numerous conundrums posed by the premodern notion of the human will. This book will be of great interest to faculty and graduate students interested in Medieval studies and Renaissance literature. "This exhilarating and brilliant book will be a most welcome and timely addition to the ReFormations series, to which it will add distinction. It is also a book that can be relished sentence by sentence, as Escobedo is a writer of intellectual verve and boldness, making hard-won claims look obvious once made." --Sarah Beckwith, Duke University"--