During the last 60 years the discipline of human factors (HF) has evolved alongside progress in engineering, technology, and business. Contemporary HF is clearly shifting towards addressing the human-centered design paradigm for much larger and complex societal systems, the effectiveness of which is affected by recent advances in engineering, scien

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Contents
Preface
Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1: Birth of Asymmetrical Face Biometrics and Its Transdisciplinarian Near Future
Chapter 2: HITS : Advanced City Logistics Systems
Chapter 3: HITS : Hierarchical Intelligent Transportation Systems
Chapter 4: Hierarchical Intelligent Traffic System : Application of Vehicular Telematics over Wireless Networks for Intelligent Traffic Incident Detection and Diagnosis
Chapter 5: New Design Philosophies in Architecture as a Way of Achieving Substantial Improvements of Office Buildings’ Quality in Consideration of Sustainable Development
Chapter 6: The Role of Emotions in Cognitive Processes : Theoretical and Empirical Basis for Complex Brain– Computer Interfaces—Electroencephalography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Chapter 7: Evidence-Based Practice : Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Three Forced-Air Warming Blankets in Preventing Perioperative Hypothermia
Chapter 8: CaseView as a Web-Based Resource Technology to Expedite Patient Care and Cost Saving for an Operating Room
Chapter 9: Technical, Ecological, and Social Aspects of Nanotechnologies
Chapter 10: Wayfinding by Colors in Public Buildings
Chapter 11: Human Classification Process : Theory, Simulation, and Practical Applications
Chapter 12: Continuous Quality Improvement in Neonatal Care : Experience of Eastbay Newborn Services Group, Northern California, USA
Chapter 13: A Model and Methods to Solve Problems of Accessibility and Information for the Visually Impaired
Chapter 14: Visualization of Multicriterial Classification : A Case Study
Chapter 15: Toward 2020 with SSAT
Chapter 16: The Problem Statement : Issues, Importance, and Impacts on Software Development
Chapter 17: The Influence of Individual Personality Features on Human Performance in Work, Learning, and Athletic Activity
Chapter 18: Activity Theory as the Initial Paradigm for a Hypothesis about the Collective Goal Orientation of the Macroevolution of Mankind
Chapter 19: Task and Its Complexity Assessment
Chapter 20: Virtualization of Hospital Processes in Forming the Knowledge-Based Organization
Chapter 21: Advanced Technologies in the Aerospace Industry
Chapter 22: Leaders’ Mind Types and Their Relations to Preferred Leadership Styles
Chapter 23: Advanced Theory of Political Marketing
Chapter 24: Marketing Strategies in the Conceptual Age
Chapter 25: Work Locus of Control and Burnout Syndrome
Chapter 26: Cultural Factors of Economic Effectiveness and Innovation : Organizational Psychology of Innovation
Chapter 27: A Short Version of the Need for Closure Scale : Item Selection and Scale Validation
Chapter 28: Psychology in Supporting and Stimulating Innovativeness : The Role of Values and Spirituality
Chapter 29: The Polish Adaptation of the Short Form of the Dutch Work Addiction Scale
Chapter 30: Why Some Arguments Are More Compelling than Others : The Answers from Cognitive and Social Psychology
Chapter 31: Job Attitudes of IT Sector Specialists : Beyond Stereotypes: What Is the Challenge?
Chapter 32: The Effect of Comparative Advertising on the Recall of Brand Opinion : Empirical Research in the Backward Framing Paradigm
Chapter 33: Brand Depreciation in Indirect Comparative Advertising : The Legal Approach and Psychological Empirical Research on Image Shaping and Brand Positioning on the Polish Advertisement Market
Chapter 34: The Effects of Learned Helplessness and Message Framing on the Processing of Verbal and Visual Information in Advertisement
Chapter 35: Perceived Risk–Return Relationship of Investments and Other Risky Actions
Chapter 36: Creativity Barriers, Creative Behaviors in Organization : Research in the Polish Media Sector
Chapter 37: Trauma in Modern Society
Chapter 38: Specific Sources of Stress in the Teaching Profession : A Three-Factor Model—A Case Study
Chapter 39: Elements of a Successful Entrepreneurship/Innovation Culture
Chapter 40: Ergonomics in a Sustainable Society : Well-Being and Social Inclusion
Chapter 41: Business Process Management in Polish Public Administration : Anthropological Aspects of Change in the Face of Technology
Chapter 42: Organizational Citizenship Behavior : In Search of a New Kind of Employee
Chapter 43: Cultural Determinants of Entrepreneurship Development in SME Sector : The Case of Poland
Chapter 44: Professional Development in the Five Hundred Largest Polish Enterprises : Results of Own Research
Chapter 45: Medical Tourism as a Business Opportunity for Transforming Economies
Chapter 46: Are All Managers Strategists? : Thinking and Behavioral Styles of Polish Managers
Chapter 47: Prodevelopmental Orientation as a Determinant of an Active Participation and Cooperation in a Reality Oriented toward a Global Change
Chapter 48: Information Overload and Human Information Needs
Chapter 49: Development of Competition in the Polish Energy Sector
Chapter 50: Benchmarking: The Best Practice for Implementation of PRME Principles : International Comparative Study
Chapter 51: Impact of Economic Crisis on HRM Practices : Evidence from Poland
Chapter 52: Information Technologies as a Pillar of a Knowledge-Based Economy : Some Remarks
Chapter 53: Innovative Work Behavior (IWB) in View of the Analysis of Chosen Individual and Organizational Determinants
Chapter 54: External Conditions of Enterprise Development in a Knowledge-Based Economy
Chapter 55: Endogenous and Exogenous Determinants of the Development of Modern Towns
Chapter 56: Believing in the University in a Conceptual Age
Chapter 57: The Function of Imagination in University Science
Chapter 58: World, University, Class, and Identity
Chapter 59: Subjective Perspective on Experiences in Project Management : The Implications for Improvements in Higher Education
Chapter 60: The Idea of Social Responsibility of a University
Chapter 61: Technology-Enhanced Learning in Higher Education : A Proposal for Developing a Quality Evaluation Framework
Chapter 62: Design of an E-Learning System Based on the Socialization, Externalization, Combination, and Internalization Model
Chapter 63: Non-Online and Online Business Instruction : Comparative Outcomes
Chapter 64: Do We Really Equip Our Students with Inquiry Skills?
Chapter 65: Rethinking Teaching in Higher Education : Analyzing Interaction in Blended Learning Environments
Chapter 66: Bridging the Gap between Industry, Science, and Education : Industry Experience to Students, Computer Science Methods to Administration
Chapter 67: Education for Sustainable Development as a Reaction to Modern Challenges
Chapter 68: Overseer or Mentor? : Future Roles of Supervisors at Universities
Chapter 69: Quality of Virtual Mobility
Chapter 70: Virtual Mobility Phenomenon : Educational Perspective
Chapter 71: Continuous Business and Educational Process Improvement in Higher Education Institutions through Implementation of New Technologies
Chapter 72: Changing the Subject : Funding Higher Education in Scotland
Chapter 73: Engineering Ethics Education through Project- Based Learning
Chapter 74: Essential Roles of Language Mastery for Conceptual Understanding and Implications for Science Education Policies
Chapter 75: The Estimation of the Possibility of Introducing New Patterns into Office Space for Academic Staff at Polish Universities
Chapter 76: Development of the Education Quality Assessment System for Programs of Study in Economics at Polish Institutions of Higher Education in the Years 2002–2011
Chapter 77: Changes in the System of Higher Education in Poland : A Historical Perspective and Present Challenges
Chapter 78: The Value System and Professional Aspirations of Polish University Graduates in Historical Perspective
Chapter 79: Experimenting with Teaching Contexts
Chapter 80: New ISO 29990:2010 as Value Added to Non-Formal Education Organizations in the Future
Chapter 81: Polish Universities : Toward a Real Science–Business Cooperation
Chapter 82: Positive and Negative Aspects of Educational Organizations’ Development in Ukraine
Chapter 83: IT Solutions in Assessment
Chapter 84: Engineering Education in India : Challenges for the Twenty- First Century
Chapter 85: Results of the Polish Policy in the Field of Education and Development of Young Scientists in the Years 1944 to 2012
Chapter 86: Creative School : Renewing Leadership for Creativity
Chapter 87: New Ways of Defining Teacher Competencies : Demand-Driven Competency Definition and Development
Chapter 88: Teachers as Citizens : Professional Preparation and Development
Chapter 89: Social Learning–Socialization : Understanding Aims of Social Education against a Backdrop of Sociological Discourse on Socialization
Chapter 90: A Multicultural School : A Challenge for Postmodern Societies—The Case of Poland
Chapter 91: Computer and Multimedia Skills as Elements of the System of Modern Teacher’s Competencies
Chapter 92: Teacher Competence in the Use of the Local Environment
Chapter 93: Frozen in Time, Left Out in the Cold : Teacher Training and Development and the Role of the Head Teacher—Considering Alternatives
Chapter 94: Creating Quality Teaching Professionals for Schools : Organic Professionalism
Chapter 95: Lifelong Learning Policy for Europe as a Challenge for Teacher Training in Poland
Chapter 96: School Organizational Culture : Neglected Factor in Teacher Training and Continual Professional Development
Chapter 97: A Thomistic-Social Profile of Karol Górski’s Personalistic Pedagogy
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