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This book presents the way in which African American women writers (Hannah Crafts, Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison) have followed the spiritual endeavor of black Christianity as created by early nineteenth-century s...

Subjects / keywords: Lengua y Literatura /Lingüística; General

Based on the Affective Events Theory (AET), this paper proposes a model of how the level of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) directed at individuals (peers) (OCB-I) declines to the extent that physical condition...

This study examines the effects of appreciation and illegitimate tasks on affective well-being. As empirical results often refer to inter-individual effects but are interpreted in terms of intra-individual effects, we tr...

Subjects / keywords: Psicología; Psicología Social

Drawing on a componential model of creativity, this study examines how coworker knowledge sharing drives employee innovative work behaviors in the workplace. Furthermore, the moderating effect of situational factor (supe...

Ana Isabel Jácome-Rosenfeld’s A Question of Will is a gift of moral acumen, providing the world with ethnographic insight and conceptual clarity. Pundits across the political spectrum can debate the pros and cons of d...

El principal objetivo de esta tesis doctoral es analizar el proceso de aculturación, la adaptación y las actitudes intergrupales mutuas de adolescentes de origen inmigrante que viven en España y de sus compañeros aut...

The book, ADVANCES IN BUILDING ENGINEERING RESEARCH, has been conceived as a result of the efforts of some of the most relevant researchers in the field of building engineering at a national level. The work, well structu...

Is the outcome of interdisciplinary and interinstitutional collaborative research carried out by the Alliance of Universities for Regional Urban Development with Equity, constituted by the Universidad Autónoma de Occide...

The 21st century has brought new challenges and new demands. Its financial crises have revealed the scale of the challenges facing the supervisory institutions responsible for the stability of the European banking sector...

En el estudio de las emociones crece cada vez más el interés por entenderlas fuera de la experiencia individual y se busca profundizar en la dimensión colectiva y social de las mismas. Este libro es producto de la inv...

The long-standing view that idioms are formally and thus also semantically fixed has been challenged and many studies have shown that idioms are indeed flexible both structurally and semantically to varying degrees. We o...

This book contains the proceedings of the International Conference titled “Current Challenges for the Rule in Europe”, held at the Public University of Navarre (UPNA) on May 26th–28th, 2025, within the framework of...

Diagnostic procedures are emblematic of medical work. Scholars in the field of social studies of medicine identify diverse dimensions of diagnosis that point to controversies, processual qualities and contested evidence....

This dissertation contributes to the theoretical and experimental foundation of disturbance rejection control in dynamic bipedal robots. Disturbances produced by model uncertainties and external disturbances are studied ...

Water availability is one of the main limiting factors that control ecosystem functions and productivity in semiarid regions. Vegetation of these regions usually presents a patchy distribution where sparse plant cover is...

Con la consagración del divorcio por la sola voluntad de cualquiera de los cónyuges la intención de estar casado o affectio maritalis se convierte en un elemento indispensable tanto para la celebración del matrimonio...

Progress towards gender equality in Europe has been very significant over the last century, however, there is still room for improvement in some of the key dimensions. The EU Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 calls for ...

There are several reasons why English language teachers may embark on the endeavor to develop teaching and learning materials for the EFL population in rural schools. This book presents some of those reasons by means of ...

Cucurbits include a genetically diverse group of plants and one of the most important and large groups of vegetables growing worldwide, including cucumber, squash, gourd, pumpkin, melon and watermelon. The book of the X...

Although the traditions of philia and amicitia proclaim friendship as a universal concept, it has been an androcentric model until the emergence of the female friend in the Age of Enlightenment. This book analyzes the di...

Globalisation has deeply affected educational contexts both in form and duration, with diversity, mobility and long-life learning as key features of language student teacher education. This volume analyses this phenomeno...

La presente guía pretende ser un instrumento sencillo de conocimiento general de los medios, herramientas y posibilidades que las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TICs) ofrecen a los y las doce...