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Singapore's systemic approach to teaching and learning twenty-first century competencies -- Thinking big, acting small : lessons from twenty-first-century curriculum reform in China -- Strong content, weak tools, : twenty-first-century competencies in the Chilean educational reform -- Curriculum reform and twenty-first-century skills in Mexico : are standards and teacher training materials aligned? -- Twenty-first-century competencies, the Indian national curriculum framework, and the history of education in India -- Mapping the landscape of teaching and learning for the twenty-first century in Massachusetts in the context of US educational reform -- Theorizing twenty-first-century education

PurposeThe authors use the extension mechanism provided by the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) to define roles, which allows roles to be fully aligned with the BPMN standard. The authors describe how a pattern can be defined in terms of roles and present the formal semantics of pattern realization and refinement to support systematic reuse of patterns in business process development.Design/methodology/approachIt is widely agreed that the use of business process patterns improves the efficiency and quality of business process development. However, few techniques are available to describe business process patterns at an appropriate level of abstraction to facilitate the reuse of patterns. To address this, this paper presents the role-based Business Process Model and Notation (R-BPMN), an extension of BPMN for abstract modeling of business process patterns based on a novel notion of role.FindingsThe authors apply R-BPMN in case studies for pattern realization and refinement and discuss tool support via an existing tool. The case studies demonstrate the practical benefits of R-BPMN in capturing pattern variability and facilitating pattern reuse.Practical implicationsThe findings imply a potential impact of R-BPMN on practical benefits when it is supported at the metamodel level in tool development.Originality/valueThis study addresses the need for abstract modeling of process patterns at the metamodel level, which facilitates the formalization of pattern variability and tool development to support various realizations of process patterns at the model level.

Core military leadership principles associated with success during wartime have previously translated to success in the civilian business and healthcare sectors. A review of these principles may be particularly valuable during times of increased and sustained stress in the intensive care unit. In this perspective paper, we provide an overview of 10 of these principles categorized under the following three essential truths: 1) planning is crucial, but adaptability wins the day; 2) take care of your people, and your people will take care of everything else; and 3) communication is the key to success. We reflect on these three truths and the 10 key principles that fall under them. As critical care physicians who have served in the military health system across two decades of war, we believe that internalizing these key leadership principles will result in optimized performance at multiple levels when crisis condition are encountered.

What can we learn about presidential candidates by examining their speech in natural conversation? In the present study, the television interviews from the 2004 Democratic presidential primary campaign of John Kerry (N= 29) and John Edwards (N= 34) were examined using linguistic analyses. Results indicate that Kerry and Edwards were similar in their use of positive emotion words, but that Kerry used significantly higher rates of negative emotion words than did Edwards. Comparisons with televised interviews of Al Gore from the 2000 presidential campaign (N= 17) revealed striking similarities in the linguistic styles of Gore and Kerry. Gore's linguistic style overlapped considerably with that of Kerry on pronoun usage and many cognitive domains. This study points to how linguistic analyses can give us a clearer picture of how political candidates think, act, and feel.

What can we learn about presidential candidates by examining their speech in natural conversation? In the present study, the television interviews from the 2004 Democratic presidential primary campaign of John Kerry (N = 29) & John Edwards (N = 34) were examined using linguistic analyses. Results indicate that Kerry & Edwards were similar in their use of positive emotion words, but that Kerry used significantly higher rates of negative emotion words than did Edwards. Comparisons with televised interviews of Al Gore from the 2000 presidential campaign (N = 17) revealed striking similarities in the linguistic styles of Gore & Kerry. Gore's linguistic style overlapped considerably with that of Kerry on pronoun usage & many cognitive domains. This study points to how linguistic analyses can give us a clearer picture of how political candidates think, act, & feel. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.