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Individual Character Assessment in Design Law The aim of this master's thesis is to reveal the challenges of assessing design's individual character in practice. The requirement of individual character in today's design law is understood as the requirement for a design to be distinguishable at a certain level so that from an informed user's perspective the overall impression that the design creates would be different from the prior art. The first part of this work summarizes on disclosing the conceptual notions of design law that are relevant to this topic as well as the existing legal regulation of design law. The main focus of this part is to reveal the basic aspects of the two main requirements for design's legal protection – novelty and the individual character. The second part of this work is devoted to answering the main question of this study – how are the individual character of a design assessed in practice. Whereas the practice of the national courts of the Republic of Lithuania on this topic is poor, assessment of the design's individual character is analyzed according to the case law of the judicial authorities of the European Union. Some aspects are as well discussed according to the case law of the United Kingdom. The problematic aspects of the assessment of design's individual character are revealed from the perspective of the overall impression possessed on the informed user, issues that can arise while evaluating the freedom of the designer and also according to nature of the product. Attention is as well drawn on a new and not yet studied aspect in the doctrine – the problem of protecting a new generation of a design, with respect to two relevant judgements of the General Court of the European Union that gave different answers to this question. The last part of this study is for considering the relation between copyright law and design law. The basic differences of each of these intellectual property rights are discussed, as well as the principle of double protection opportunity. Also the requirement of originality for a work of art in the copyright law is compared with the requirement of the design's individual character. In addition, the newest approach of the European Court of Justice, considering the level of originality for a design to qualify for copyright protection, is presented and evaluated.

Individual Character Assessment in Design Law The aim of this master's thesis is to reveal the challenges of assessing design's individual character in practice. The requirement of individual character in today's design law is understood as the requirement for a design to be distinguishable at a certain level so that from an informed user's perspective the overall impression that the design creates would be different from the prior art. The first part of this work summarizes on disclosing the conceptual notions of design law that are relevant to this topic as well as the existing legal regulation of design law. The main focus of this part is to reveal the basic aspects of the two main requirements for design's legal protection – novelty and the individual character. The second part of this work is devoted to answering the main question of this study – how are the individual character of a design assessed in practice. Whereas the practice of the national courts of the Republic of Lithuania on this topic is poor, assessment of the design's individual character is analyzed according to the case law of the judicial authorities of the European Union. Some aspects are as well discussed according to the case law of the United Kingdom. The problematic aspects of the assessment of design's individual character are revealed from the perspective of the overall impression possessed on the informed user, issues that can arise while evaluating the freedom of the designer and also according to nature of the product. Attention is as well drawn on a new and not yet studied aspect in the doctrine – the problem of protecting a new generation of a design, with respect to two relevant judgements of the General Court of the European Union that gave different answers to this question. The last part of this study is for considering the relation between copyright law and design law. The basic differences of each of these intellectual property rights are discussed, as well as the principle of double protection opportunity. Also the requirement of originality for a work of art in the copyright law is compared with the requirement of the design's individual character. In addition, the newest approach of the European Court of Justice, considering the level of originality for a design to qualify for copyright protection, is presented and evaluated.

Individual Character Assessment in Design Law The aim of this master's thesis is to reveal the challenges of assessing design's individual character in practice. The requirement of individual character in today's design law is understood as the requirement for a design to be distinguishable at a certain level so that from an informed user's perspective the overall impression that the design creates would be different from the prior art. The first part of this work summarizes on disclosing the conceptual notions of design law that are relevant to this topic as well as the existing legal regulation of design law. The main focus of this part is to reveal the basic aspects of the two main requirements for design's legal protection – novelty and the individual character. The second part of this work is devoted to answering the main question of this study – how are the individual character of a design assessed in practice. Whereas the practice of the national courts of the Republic of Lithuania on this topic is poor, assessment of the design's individual character is analyzed according to the case law of the judicial authorities of the European Union. Some aspects are as well discussed according to the case law of the United Kingdom. The problematic aspects of the assessment of design's individual character are revealed from the perspective of the overall impression possessed on the informed user, issues that can arise while evaluating the freedom of the designer and also according to nature of the product. Attention is as well drawn on a new and not yet studied aspect in the doctrine – the problem of protecting a new generation of a design, with respect to two relevant judgements of the General Court of the European Union that gave different answers to this question. The last part of this study is for considering the relation between copyright law and design law. The basic differences of each of these intellectual property rights are discussed, as well as the principle of double protection opportunity. Also the requirement of originality for a work of art in the copyright law is compared with the requirement of the design's individual character. In addition, the newest approach of the European Court of Justice, considering the level of originality for a design to qualify for copyright protection, is presented and evaluated.

Individual Character Assessment in Design Law The aim of this master's thesis is to reveal the challenges of assessing design's individual character in practice. The requirement of individual character in today's design law is understood as the requirement for a design to be distinguishable at a certain level so that from an informed user's perspective the overall impression that the design creates would be different from the prior art. The first part of this work summarizes on disclosing the conceptual notions of design law that are relevant to this topic as well as the existing legal regulation of design law. The main focus of this part is to reveal the basic aspects of the two main requirements for design's legal protection – novelty and the individual character. The second part of this work is devoted to answering the main question of this study – how are the individual character of a design assessed in practice. Whereas the practice of the national courts of the Republic of Lithuania on this topic is poor, assessment of the design's individual character is analyzed according to the case law of the judicial authorities of the European Union. Some aspects are as well discussed according to the case law of the United Kingdom. The problematic aspects of the assessment of design's individual character are revealed from the perspective of the overall impression possessed on the informed user, issues that can arise while evaluating the freedom of the designer and also according to nature of the product. Attention is as well drawn on a new and not yet studied aspect in the doctrine – the problem of protecting a new generation of a design, with respect to two relevant judgements of the General Court of the European Union that gave different answers to this question. The last part of this study is for considering the relation between copyright law and design law. The basic differences of each of these intellectual property rights are discussed, as well as the principle of double protection opportunity. Also the requirement of originality for a work of art in the copyright law is compared with the requirement of the design's individual character. In addition, the newest approach of the European Court of Justice, considering the level of originality for a design to qualify for copyright protection, is presented and evaluated.

This study aims to investigate the influence of servant leadership on job satisfaction with individual character as a moderating variable. It used a quantitative approach with multiple linear regression analysis. The population of this study were employees of the Central Sulawesi province industry and trade office. It involved 72 samples selected using a purposive sampling technique. The results showed that servant leadership significantly influence job satisfaction with a value of 82.5%. The most significant factor affecting job satisfaction is wisdom (correlation coefficient = 0.863) in which the higher the wisdom, the higher the job satisfaction. The next factor is persuasive mapping in which the higher the persuasive mapping, the higher the job satisfaction (correlation coefficient = 0.697). Then, it was followed by altruistic calling with the correlation coefficient value of 0.524 in which the higher the altruistic calling, the higher the job satisfaction. The last is emotional healing with a correlation coefficient value of 0.291 in which the higher the emotional healing, the higher the job satisfaction. On the other hand, organizational stewardship is the only factor does not influence the job satisfaction (correlation coefficient = 0.009).

Given talent is fostered by democracy-driven education that focuses on citizenship,a new conception of educational success emerges. An opportunityis thus given to reason about epistemic virtues: though intellectual, theyare also related to successful citizenship and, as such, affect the developmentof individual talents. All capacitating aspects of epistemic virtues shallbe investigated, especially with the purpose of making it truly feasible tofoster talents from within the frame of educational systems. On top of this,some cultural perspectives are considered, which could play a generativerole in orienting educators and teachers towards a humanist view of talents(hence, Humanism of talent). ; Una nuova concezione di successo formativo, collegata con l'educazionedemocratica dei talenti orientata alla cittadinanza, offre l'occasione per ragionaresulle virtù epistemiche – intellettuali e civiche al contempo – chemaggiormente incidono sulla formazione dei talenti. Virtù epistemichedelle quali vanno approfonditi i processi educativi capacitanti, al fine di rendererealmente realizzabile l'alimentazione dei talenti all'interno dei sistemieducativi. Vi sono anche antiche posizioni culturali da recuperare e valorizzarein chiave generativa per orientare educatori e formatori all'umanesimodei talenti.

"With notes, explanatory, biographical, historical, and antiquarian." ; Includes index. ; Mode of access: Internet.

THE COMMUNITY PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF IDENTITY AND CHARACTER, AND THE CHARACTERS THAT ARE MOLDED WILL DETERMINE THE FUTURE EXISTENCE OF THE COMMUNITY. TRADITIONALLY, RITES OF PASSAGE HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED TO INSURE THAT THE INDIVIDUAL WILL BECOME A LOYAL, RESPONSIBLE, AND PRODUCTIVE CITIZEN. HOWEVER, IN TODAY'S SECULAR DEMOCRACIES, WHERE VALUES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE RELATIVIZED, MANY INDIVIDUALS ARE RAISED WITHOUT AN EQUIVALENT PASSAGE INTO RESPONSIBLE ADULTHOOD. TODAY'S SOCIETIES MUST LEARN WAYS TO ACCOMPLISH THE FUNCTION THAT RITES OF PASSAGE IN PREVIOUS SOCIETIES HAVE SERVED.

According to the received wisdom in Melanesian ethnography and elsewhere, Christianity is "unrelentingly individualistic" (e.g., Robbins 2004: 293). In this chapter, drawing upon the notion of "dividual" or "partible personhood" of the New Melanesian Ethnography and implicit in the classic Van Gennepian model of rites of passage, I revisit Louis Dumont's, Kenelm Burridge's, and Max Weber's authoritative conceptualizations of Christian personhood. I seek to demonstrate that in the early Christian church and the later Protestant Reformation of Luther and Calvin, the person, whether human or divine, qualifies instead as a dividual-a kind of agent radically distinct from the canonical "possessive individual" of Western political and economic discourse. Following Dumont, Burridge, and Weber on close reading, I argue that the seeming "individuality" of Christian persons consists merely in singular moments of overarching processes of elicitive detachment, gift-transfer, incorporation, and reciprocation whereby the constituent parts of total or overall dividual persons are transacted. Christian "individualism," in short, is nothing less than an instance of dividual personhood and agency, fundamentally distinct from the possessive individual of modern secular society.

17 USC 105 interim-entered record; under review. ; The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08902070211012931 ; How soldiers adapt to and change in response to the deployment experience has received a great deal of attention. What predicts which soldiers are resilient and which soldiers decline in character strengths across the deployment transition? We examined this question in two analyses drawing from the same data source of soldiers deploying for the first time (Analysis 1: N ¼ 179,026; Analysis 2: N ¼ 85,285; Mage¼ 24.6–24.7 years old, SD ¼ 4.87; 66.5–66.9% White). Specifically, we examined how individual (e.g. sociodemographic, military) and deployment (e.g. stressful experiences) characteristics predict character development across the deployment cycle. Character strengths were assessed once before and up to three times after soldiers' return from deployment. Reproducing previous work, we found evidence for two classes of change—a resilient class ("stable high") and a recovery class ("persistent low"). The strongest predictor of high, resilient character strength levels was better self-rated health at baseline. The findings are discussed in the context of the mechanisms that drive character development, evidence for post-traumatic growth, and practical implications for the U.S. Army ; Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army ; Army Analytics Group ; Research Facilitation Laboratory ; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

We investigated relationships between temperament, character, and anger experience, control, and expression. Police trainees (N = 103) completed the Temperament and Character Inventory (Cloninger, Przybeck, Svrakic, & Wetzel, 1994), the Symptom Checklist 90-R (SCR-90-R; Derogatis,
1994), and the State Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI-2, Spielberger, 1999). Personality scores were of greater significance compared to SCL-90-R scores for most of the STAXI-2 subscales while the scores of both personality and mental health contributed by a similar amount to trait
anger. Temperament subscales explained a much greater amount of anger expression-in variance while variance of character subscales explained more of the variance in anger V, angry reaction, state, and trait anger. Character was found to be superior to temperament in the determination of anger,
supporting a cognitively focused definition of anger.