This book reveals the mechanism through which adults learn through boundary-crossing experiences. Boundary crossing, though defined in various ways, refers to activities in which persons belonging to different organizations collaborate in a context different from their workplace. While boundary crossing attracts researchers and practitioners as a platform for adult learning, previous analysis of its mechanism has been insufficient. To address this research gap, this text reviews literature on theories related to boundary crossing on an interdisciplinary basis, and empirically analyses the mechanism of learning through boundary crossing and associated job crafting. It also explains the concepts and techniques of the Modified-grounded theory approach (M-GTA) in order to facilitate easy understanding among researchers and practitioners in management and organization research. While job crafting is one of the research topics attracting a large number of researchers today, there is a lack of empirical studies on this topic. This book addresses cases in Japan where various experimental projects are in progress. However, noting the fact that the labor market and human resource management (HRM) practices in Japan are not as different from other countries as is usually said, its findings can be applied to other settings across the globe.

Sapphire’s journey through twisted years of learning, as she is a High Priestess. This is her story on her life starting at six years old. As Sapphire grows up, she is put though hell by jealous evil people because of the gifts the gods gave her without her understanding it and what is happening to her. While growing up her parents are completely against the person Sapphire is growing up to be, due to their religion. In Sapphire’s teenage years she becomes suicidal because of spirits that she saw and heard in her childhood. Sapphire didn’t have anyone to help her deal with these gifts so she blasted Metallica to sleep at night. Sapphire also has flashes of the future. Prison life, probation, parole and her three-charmed baby girl’s births take place. A divorce, plus retiring from the criminal life, Sapphire finds out that she moved just in the nick of time. Sapphire tries to stay hidden and meets this motorcycle club. Sapphire has been found and is targeted as she gives birth to her son while the undercover cops wars on Sapphire never seem to stop

The results of the official Congressional investigation into the government's preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The two-volume set LNCS 14461 and LNCS 14462 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2023, held in Hawaii, HI, USA, during December 15–17, 2023. The 73 full papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Optimization in graphs; scheduling; set-related optimization; applied optimization and algorithm; Graph planer and others; Part II: Modeling and algorithms; complexity and approximation; combinatorics and computing; optimization and algorithms; extreme graph and others; machine learning, blockchain and others.

AntonioLiotta,UniversityofSurrey,UK EmilLupu,ImperialCollege,UK HananLut?yya,UniversityofWesternOntario,Canada Jean-PhilippeMartin-Flatin,CERN,Switzerland GeorgePavlou,UniversityofSurrey,UK AikoPras,UniversityofTwente,TheNetherlands DannyRaz,Technion,Israel JuergenSchoenwaelder,TechnicalUniversityofBraunschweig,Germany AdarshpalSethi,UniversityofDelaware,USA MorrisSloman,ImperialCollege,UK RolfStadler,KTHStockholm,Sweden BurkhardStiller,ETHZurich,Switzerland RobertWeihmayer,VerizonE-Business,USA CarlosB.