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Chen, Yanyu, Yi-Chieh Lin, Miao-Sui Hsu, and Yi-Hsin Lin. "Group- and individual-focused transformational leadership." Chinese Management Studies 14, no. 1 (July 8, 2019): 15–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cms-11-2017-0330.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to build a new transformational leadership typology by demonstrating high/low degrees of group- and individual-focused transformational leader behaviors – authentic type (high-high), group-oriented type (high-low) and individual-oriented type (low-high) – and to predict that the three types relate differently to follower responses (intention to sacrifice, cognitive trust of supervisor and affective liking). Design/methodology/approach This study uses an experimental scenario to generate the maximum levels of between-group variance among the three types. A total of 182 mainland Chinese full-time employees participated in the experiment. Findings Followers’ intention to sacrifice is equally high under the authentic, group-oriented and individual-oriented types of leadership. In addition, followers’ cognitive trust of supervisor is equally high under the authentic and group-oriented types and the lowest under the individual-oriented type. Finally, followers’ affective liking is equally high under the authentic and individual-oriented types and the lowest for the group-oriented type. Originality/value A new transformational leadership typology that combines high and low degrees of group- and individual-focused behaviors is established. Based on this typology, this study shows how the three types distinctively affect followers’ reactions, including intention to sacrifice, cognitive trust of supervisor and affective liking.
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Zhu, Xiumei, and Mingxu Bao. "Substitutes or complements? Individual-focused and group-focused transformational leadership in different organizational structures in new firms." Leadership & Organization Development Journal 38, no. 5 (July 3, 2017): 699–718. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lodj-04-2016-0097.
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Purpose The significant performance implications of individual-focused and group-focused transformational leadership have been documented for established firms, but the issue of whether they are complementary or substitutive still remains a puzzle, and whether their relationship differs in new firms remains unanswered. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between individual-focused and group-focused transformational leadership in different organizational structures in new firms. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on survey data of 209 questionnaires from 63 teams in 63 new firms in China. Findings The results suggest that individual-focused and group-focused transformational leadership are substitutive when the organizational structure is mechanistic, and are complementary when the structure is organic. Originality/value The study contributes to the debate on the relationship between individual-focused and group-focused transformational leadership by comparing organizational structure characteristics and offering a comprehensive understanding of the issue.
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Prokofyeva, Nataly, and Marina Uhanova. "METHODOLOGY OF GROUP WORK ORGANISATION FOR STUDENT LEARNING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT." Environment. Technology. Resources. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference 2 (June 15, 2017): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/etr2017vol2.2558.
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The article describes the methodology of learning programming for students of various engineering disciplines. The course "Algorithmization and Programming of Solutions" is taught to all first-year students of the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology in Riga Technical University and provides the basic knowledge of the principles of computational process algorithmization and software creation technology using Java programming language. There are 8 laboratory assignments in the course, where students have to develop a software programme and 2 group work assignments, where the student has to develop some algorithms to solve a given problem, write a programme, evaluate the speed of developed algorithms and prepare a presentation on the results of their research. The article describes the main principles of efficient student group work organisation that lets to increase their interest and motivate them to participate in the course in a responsible way. This paper is focused on research on how group work influences student learning performance.
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Pranka, Maruta. "The walk-and-talk methodology – researching place and people." SHS Web of Conferences 85 (2020): 03007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20208503007.
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The article focuses on walk-and-talk interviews, which are yet a little-used research method in Latvia. The term is used in the social sciences and humanities and is an appropriate method for gathering data in order to determine the relationship of an individual or a social group with a specific place. The method in a pilot project was used to listen to life experiences in Tūja, a village along the Baltic coast in Latvia. The study focused on social change in Tūja and the influence of the economic and political changes of the 1990s on the living conditions and lifestyle of the local inhabitants. The pilot project was conducted by the researchers from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of University of Latvia.
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Nielsen, Kristina Tomra, Karen la Cour, Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen, Marc Sampedro Pilegaard, Cecilie von Bülow, Åse Brandt, Hanne Peoples, Hans Jonsson, and Eva Ejlersen Wæhrens. "Lessons learned about occupation-focused and occupation-based interventions: A synthesis using group concept mapping methodology." Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy 27, no. 7 (January 20, 2019): 481–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2018.1561940.
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Chopra, Vineet. "Focused ethnography: a new tool to study diagnostic errors?" Diagnosis 7, no. 3 (August 27, 2020): 211–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/dx-2020-0009.
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AbstractWhile much attention has been given to quantifying errors in diagnosis, how best to study the process of diagnosis is less clear. Focused ethnography as a methodology is particularly valuable for studying healthcare processes because it examines specific questions, situations or problems among a smaller group of individuals. In this paper, we review this approach and illustrate how we applied it to study diagnostic errors in hospitalized patients.
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Multan, Ewa, and Marzena Wójcik‐Augustyniak. "Research Methodology of Entrepreneurship and Innovativeness of Higher Education Institutions." Kwartalnik Ekonomistów i Menedżerów 42, no. 4 (October 1, 2016): 83–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0009.5493.
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The article presents the issues of entrepreneurship and innovativeness of universities in the context of the analysis of the European Union guidelines and determining the competitive position of the university with the use of the strategic group maps. The aim of the article is to present different variants of strategic group maps, called by the authors 1D, 2D and 3D maps, which enable the identification of the competitive situation in the sector of higher education in Poland. The study focused on two sets of criteria of differentiation of the universities’ strategies, which are entrepreneurship and innovativeness. The research problem was formulated in the form of the following questions: whether the described methods of 1D, 2D and 3D maps may be applied to the analysis of competition in the sector of higher education institutions in Poland, in relation to entrepreneurship and innovativeness.
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Ferrazzi, Priscilla, Shirley Tagalik, Peter Christie, Joe Karetak, Kukik Baker, and Louis Angalik. "Aajiiqatigiingniq: An Inuit Consensus Methodology in Qualitative Health Research." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 18 (January 1, 2019): 160940691989479. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406919894796.
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Indigenous knowledge and approaches to health research have historically been marginalized by Western traditions. Efforts to overcome this marginalization by recognizing Indigenous methodologies as a distinctive form of inquiry are gathering momentum. Health research that seeks to establish levels of agreement about disputed or conceptually unclear subjects frequently relies on consensus methods. Aajiiqatigiingniq is a principle of cultural knowledge and a consensus decision-making approach among Inuit in the Canadian Arctic. We used group meetings and individual interviews involving Inuit elders and other senior community members in Arviat, Nunavut, to explore and describe aajiiqatigiingniq as an appropriate and ethical methodology in qualitative health research. Findings reveal a systematic but apparently informal approach focused on sustained individual and community well-being. Consensus is achieved through the successive addition of group members, respectful communication, mainly narrative discourse, subjective personal engagement, and an unhurried meeting style. While previous research has used Western consensus methods to embed Inuit knowledge in health research, this study provides a first descriptive account of a wholly Inuit consensus methodology.
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O'Donnell, Ed, and Joseph J. Schultz. "The Influence of Business-Process-Focused Audit Support Software on Analytical Procedures Judgments." AUDITING: A Journal of Practice & Theory 22, no. 2 (September 1, 2003): 265–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/aud.2003.22.2.265.
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Some large public accounting firms that emphasize the business risk audit methodology revised their audit support software to organize audit evidence around business process rather than transaction cycle. These business-process-focused (BPF) systems present client information grouped by value chain activities, while firms that use traditional transaction-cycle-focused (TCF) audit support software might group client information primarily by account classification. Our study examines whether the presentation differences between BPF and TCF audit support software influence auditors' risk judgment during planning-phase analytical procedures. In a field experiment, experienced audit seniors performed analytical procedures on case materials containing a variety of seeded risk factors. One group completed the exercise using software organized around the BPF while the other group used software organized around the TCF. Participants who used the BPF system identified more of the seeded risk conditions and assessed misstatement risk at higher levels than did their counterparts who used the TCF system. These findings provide the experimental evidence that audit support software organized around business processes can influence decision performance while conducting planning-phase analytical procedures.
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Han, Mee Lan, Byung Il Kwak, and Huy Kang Kim. "CBR-Based Decision Support Methodology for Cybercrime Investigation: Focused on the Data-Driven Website Defacement Analysis." Security and Communication Networks 2019 (December 20, 2019): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1901548.
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Criminal profiling is a useful technique to identify the most plausible suspects based on the evidence discovered at the crime scene. Similar to offline criminal profiling, in-depth profiling for cybercrime investigation is useful in analysing cyberattacks and for speculating on the identities of the criminals. Every cybercrime committed by the same hacker or hacking group has unique traits such as attack purpose, attack methods, and target. These unique traits are revealed in the evidence of cybercrime; in some cases, these unique traits are well hidden in the evidence such that it cannot be easily perceived. Therefore, a complete analysis of several factors concerning cybercrime can provide an investigator with concrete evidence to attribute the attacks and narrow down the scope of the criminal data and grasp the criminals in the end. We herein propose a decision support methodology based on the case-based reasoning (CBR) for cybercrime investigation. This study focuses on the massive data-driven analysis of website defacement. Our primary aim in this study is to demonstrate the practicality of the proposed methodology as a proof of concept. The assessment of website defacement was performed through the similarity measure and the clustering processing in the reasoning engine based on the CBR. Our results show that the proposed methodology that focuses on the investigation enables a better understanding and interpretation of website defacement and assists in inferring the hacker’s behavioural traits from the available evidence concerning website defacement. The results of the case studies demonstrate that our proposed methodology is beneficial for understanding the behaviour and motivation of the hacker and that our proposed data-driven analytic methodology can be utilized as a decision support system for cybercrime investigation.
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Zhao, W., H. A. Wolgamot, P. H. Taylor, and R. Eatock Taylor. "Gap resonance and higher harmonics driven by focused transient wave groups." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 812 (January 9, 2017): 905–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2016.824.
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The first and higher harmonic components of the resonant fluid response in the gap between two identical fixed rectangular boxes are experimentally investigated in a wave basin. Gap response is excited by transient wave groups (being based on scaled versions of the autocorrelation function of sea-state spectra, representing NewWaves, the average shape of large waves in a sea state). Several different wave groups with different maximum surface elevations, spectral peak frequencies and bandwidths are used, while the bilge shape of the boxes and approach angle of the waves are also varied. Unlike a simple regular wave, it is complicated to separate the harmonic components for a transient wave group due to nonlinear wave–wave and wave–structure interactions. A four-phase combination methodology is used to separate the first four harmonic components, and this also allows higher harmonic components to be isolated with simple digital frequency filtering. Harmonic components up to 14th order in the incident wave amplitude have been extracted. It is shown that for an incident group with appropriate frequency content, the linear gap response may be substantially smaller than the second harmonic component, which is strongly driven via quadratic coupling of the linear terms from the incident wave and occurs in the gap resonant modes. Double frequency excitation may have important practical implications for offshore operations. Fourth and zeroth (long-wave) harmonics in the gap are further driven via quadratic coupling of the second harmonic itself. Linear damping coefficients for the first few modes of the gap resonant response are derived from measured time series using a numerical fit and shown to be higher than those from linear diffraction calculations.
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Chmelko, Vladimír, Matúš Margetin, and Michal Harakal’. "Notch effect of welded joint." MATEC Web of Conferences 165 (2018): 21003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201816521003.
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In general, the welded joints are multifactorial notches. This study is focused to separate the geometrical influence (when the weld can be seen on the surface) and technological factors (internal defects of the weld, structural changes of the material and residual stress) on its fatigue life. Proposed methodology of this separation comes out from the cyclic test of three specimens – group with existing weld, group without weld joint (base material) and another group where was removed outer geometry of the weld.
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Morales-López, Soraya, Jayr A. Yepes, Juan C. Prada-Herrera, and Augusto Torres-Jiménez. "Enterobacteria in the 21st century: a review focused on taxonomic changes." Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 13, no. 04 (April 30, 2019): 265–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3855/jidc.11216.
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Introduction: Enterobacteria are the main group causing infections in humans. The aim of this review is to present the new genera and the taxonomic changes that the Enterobacteriacea family has experienced in recent years.
Methodology: a systematic search of papers published in databases from January 2000 to July 2018 was done. Additionally, the bibliographic references of each document were reviewed and each paper citing the article was reviewed in search of clinical cases.
Results: Nineteen new genera of Enterobacteria have been described since 2000. The genera Yersinia, Morganella and Erwinia do not belong to the family Enterobacteriacea anymore.
Conclusions: for an adequate clinical and epidemiological interpretation, it is advisable to update the libraries of the commercial systems used for the identification of the microorganisms, as well as to train the staff in the taxonomic changes of microorganisms.
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Gorlin, Y. M., A. A. Salmina, and V. Y. Lyashok. "Empirical pension indicators: Cross-country comparisons and methodology for Russia." Journal of the New Economic Association 52, no. 4 (2021): 122–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.31737/2221-2264-2021-52-4-5.
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The article proposes a system of empirical indicators for Russia, taking into account the analysis of foreign and Russian approaches to assessing the adequacy of the level of pension provision. One group of the indicators, designed for crosscountry comparisons, is based on the methodology of the European Commission. The results of calculations of the proposed indicators on Russian data are presented, which made it possible to compare the level of pensions in Russia and European Union countries. The article defines the limitations of indicators for cross-country comparisons in terms of assessing the level of pension payments within the Russian system of compulsory pension insurance. For more adequate assessment of the adequacy of payments, the second group of indicators was developed that take into account the particularities of the Russian pension system. A distinctive feature of the proposed approach to the assessment of empirical indicators is that they are focused primarily on assessing the adequacy of the actual pension payments in terms of fulfilling the functions assigned to them - protection from poverty, compensation (replacement) of wages and ensuring the balance of income. The authors propose to evaluate these indicators not only on the data of population surveys, as is most common in foreign practice, but also on the administrative data of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation.
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Singhal, Nalini, Douglas D. McMillan, Renate Savich, Dismas Matovelo, Data Santorino, and Beena D. Kamath-Rayne. "Development and Impact of Helping Babies Breathe Educational Methodology." Pediatrics 146, Supplement_2 (October 1, 2020): S123—S133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-016915e.
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The educational pedagogy surrounding Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) has been transformative in going beyond a curriculum focused only on basic neonatal resuscitation; indeed, it created the framework for an educational program that has served as a model for replication for other impactful programs, such as the Helping Mothers Survive and other Helping Babies Survive curricula. The tenets of HBB include incorporation of innovative learning strategies such as small group discussion, skills-based learning, simulation and debriefing, and peer-to-peer learning, all of which begin the hard work of changing behaviors that may eventually affect health care systems. Allowing for adaptation for local resources and culture, HBB has catalyzed innovation in the development of simplified, pictorial educational materials, in addition to low-tech yet realistic simulators and adjunct devices that have played an important role in empowering health care professionals in their care of newborns, thereby improving outcomes. In this review, we describe the development of HBB as an educational program, the importance of field testing and input from multiple stakeholders including frontline workers, the strategies behind the components of educational materials, and the impact of its pedagogy on learning.
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Ramaswamy, Kannan, and Saptarshi Purkayastha. "When does it make sense to focus business portfolios? A study of business group responses to institutional change in India." Journal of Asia Business Studies 11, no. 4 (December 12, 2017): 466–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jabs-09-2016-0124.
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Purpose This paper aims to report the findings from a longitudinal study of Indian business groups responding to the pro-market reforms that the government had initiated. It explores their diversification choices at the group level and the group performance consequences of these choices during a period of institutional changes (1990-2008). Design/methodology/approach Ordinary least squares regressions were used to analyze data spanning the 1988-2008 study period for 98 Indian business groups. Findings Results show that business groups that focused their portfolios in the early stages of institutional reforms tended to perform worse than their counterparts that did not do so. However, as market reforms became more established, business groups that made the transition from an unfocused to a more focused portfolio experienced superior performance consequences. Originality/value The findings underscore the temporal dimension of focusing and suggest that both changing strategy by refocusing business portfolio too early or waiting too long to refocus can hurt performance outcomes.
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Udoewa, Victor. "YES International Summer Service Program Design for High School Students." International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship 12, no. 2 (November 27, 2017): 34–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ijsle.v12i2.6658.
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YES Prep Public Schools is a group of public charter schools focused on serving students from low-income communities across Houston, Texas. One requirement of all YES students is summer school between grades 5 through 10 and two mandatory summer internships between grades 10 and 12. Due to financial concerns many students who desire to do an international internship cannot afford any available programs offering such internships. In 2005, we introduced a new, internal, international summer service program for YES high school students to satisfy our summer internship requirement. This paper focuses on the process and results of designing, implementing, and modifying the program using the Lean Startup methodology through its first few years before it won a national award for its character-building work.
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Alexandrova, I. Yu. "Methodology of a marketing research of Internet users." E-Management 2, no. 1 (May 24, 2019): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.26425/2658-3445-2019-1-7-18.
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Strengthening of a trend of development in Russia of internet marketing and, as a result, increase of relevance of carrying out highly professional marketing researches in the web environment has been considered. The article is aimed at identification of methodological specifics of a marketing research of Internet users, development of its concept. The stated goal is achieved by means of the solution of the following tasks: the analysis and systematization of the goals of the marketing research of the Internet users; identification and systematization of the empirical indicators, which are necessary for the research of the Internet users; the analysis and systematization of methods, techniques, the technician and procedures of a research of empirical indicators, including, special services, corresponding to methods of collecting primary empirical data in the web environment. The analysis of such methods of the marketing empirical research of the Internet users as a usability testing, an online experiment, a game experiment, a usability experiment, online questioning, online interviewing, including an individual deep online interview, a group deep online interview (online focus group), the content analysis of web messages of consumers, the analysis of traces, including analysis of site statistics, has been presented. Meanwhile, the attention is focused on observance of the necessity of full subordination of each of the presented techniques to the methodological principles of the corresponding basic method, which derivative it is, because violation of the specified requirement leads to inevitable vulgarization of scientific methodology of carrying out an empirical research and obtaining incorrect data. From the point of view of the author, an application by the marketing analyst of the concept of a research and research tools, presented in the article, in the course of the organization and carrying out market researches of the Internet users allows to obtain information, necessary for creation of effective marketing web communication and also to find and in due time to prevent potential and real communicative failures.
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Vyzikas, Thomas, Dimitris Stagonas, Christophe Maisondieu, and Deborah Greaves. "Intercomparison of Three Open-Source Numerical Flumes for the Surface Dynamics of Steep Focused Wave Groups." Fluids 6, no. 1 (December 30, 2020): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fluids6010009.
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NewWave-type focused wave groups are commonly used to simulate the design wave for a given sea state. These extreme wave events are challenging to reproduce numerically by the various Numerical Wave Tanks (NWTs), due to the high steepness of the wave group and the occurring wave-wave interactions. For such complex problems, the validation of NWTs against experimental results is vital for confirming the applicability of the models. Intercomparisons among different solvers are also important for selecting the most appropriate model in terms of balancing between accuracy and computational cost. The present study compares three open-source NWTs in OpenFOAM, SWASH and HOS-NWT, with experimental results for limiting breaking focused wave groups. The comparison is performed by analysing the propagation of steep wave groups and their extracted harmonics after employing an accurate focusing methodology. The scope is to investigate the capabilities of the solvers for simulating extreme NewWave-type groups, which can be used as the “design wave” for ocean and coastal engineering applications. The results demonstrate the very good performance of the numerical models and provide valuable insights to the design of the NWTs, while highlighting potential limitations in the reproduction of specific harmonics of the wave group.
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Wirawan, Hillman, Muhammad Jufri, and Andi Anto Patak. "Spiritual group training for adolescences." International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies 7, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 62–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlls-10-2016-0040.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of spiritual group training on improving the spiritual well-being (SWB) among adolescences. The SWB is one of the factors that determines adolescences’ positive behavior. A number of previous studies have supported that spirituality and juvenile delinquency were negatively correlated. The level of SWB is mostly influenced by the peers’ group interaction and the role of others in the environment. Design/methodology/approach The authors developed a Spiritual Group Training by utilizing a number of relevant literature. The authors constructed the training using the meaning of life, values of life, life goals, life connections, and relation to God. In order to yield empirical evidence, the authors performed a pre- and post-test experimental design. The study recruited 26 randomly selected students from five high schools. The authors adapted a 13-item SWB scale to measure the participants’ SWB. Findings The results showed that Spiritual Group Training significantly improved participants’ SWB (t=9.71, p<0.001). The results confirmed the study hypothesis that spiritual group training enhanced adolescences’ SWB. Research limitations/implications Designing a proper intervention and evaluation was a challenging task for the authors. In this study, the authors evaluated the training by utilizing a simple pre- and post-test design. Future investigations should employ a different evaluation design. Originality/value Most studies support the notion that spirituality is negatively correlated with adolescence’s negative behavior. However, only a few, if any, investigations have focused on developing certain training focusing on SWB. This study contributed an important idea on the use of SWB to develop adolescence SWB.
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Ermakov, Dmitry Sergeevich. "Application of the “World Café” methodology in pedagogical research." Педагогика и просвещение, no. 3 (March 2020): 63–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0676.2020.3.33694.
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Recent transformations in pedagogical theory and practice arouse interest in innovative methods. The developed in the late XX century methodology of conducting an informal focused discourse “World Café” can be applied for solution of complex issues, integration of opinions of the experts in different fields, arrangement of group work, recapitulation, exchange of experience, etc. Currently, this technique enjoys popularity worldwide. The subject of this research is the history of creation, functional capabilities and peculiarities of application of the “World Café” methodology in pedagogical research. The article presents a brief overview of on the history of its emergence. The fundamental principles and rules of its implementation are outlined. The article reveals the peculiarities of application of “World Café” in scientific-pedagogical purposes as a qualitative method of research of socio-constructivist direction, which facilitates the dialogue, opens access to knowledge and opinions of broad range of participants, advances mutual learning, as well as serves as the source of valuable information. The author analyzed Russian and foreign examples of application of “World Café” methodology for resolving the indicated issues. The article describes the characteristics of this method in comparison with such methods of obtaining quality information as individual interviews and focus groups. Comparative merits and flaws are identified.
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Sinnott, Róisín, and Maria Rowlís. "A gardening and woodwork group in mental health: a step towards recovery." Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy 49, no. 2 (November 12, 2021): 96–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijot-08-2021-0018.
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Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the impact of an eight-week gardening and woodwork group programme on individuals’ recovery goals in an adult community mental health setting. Design/methodology/approach Seven individuals participated in the research. The programme was designed and facilitated by two occupational therapists (the authors) and one horticulture and trade skills facilitator. The goal attainment scale was used as a quantitative outcome measure as it allowed individuals to collaboratively set occupation-focused recovery-oriented goals. Due to the small sample size, descriptive statistics were used to analyse this data. Qualitative feedback was gathered through participant feedback forms when the programme ended. Findings Quantitative findings indicate positive results for individuals’ progression towards their recovery goals, with six out of seven participants either achieving or exceeding their goals. One person who attended only one out of eight groups had “worse than expected” goal achievement. Originality/value While there is evidence for the use of gardening and woodwork group therapy in mental health settings, most studies have relied on symptom-focused questionnaires or qualitative results rather than quantifiable recovery-oriented measures (Cipriani et al., 2017; Kamioka et al., 2014; Parkinson et al., 2011). It is hoped that this paper begins to bridge that gap and also outlines how recovery principles, gardening and woodwork can be incorporated into occupational therapy group programmes. This is of particular merit during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to a greater need for group intervention in outdoor settings, where social distancing can be comfortably facilitated.
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Rafael Medrano, Jiménez, and Rius Mª del Mar Gili. "State of the science in diabetic foot: subjective screening vs. objective diabetic neuropathy examination in primary care." Journal of Neuroscience and Neurological Disorders 6, no. 2 (October 14, 2022): 049–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.29328/journal.jnnd.1001069.
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Among the conditioning factors of Diabetic Foot (DF), neuropathy is considered the main factor, arteriopathy the aggravating factor, and foot deformities the triggering factor. The preventive interventions for DF and its complications are distributed by levels of care. At the higher level, hospital care focuses on reducing DF amputations. At the lower level, Primary Care (PC) and Podiatry, focused on preventing DF. PC is considered the ideal place to identify the conditioning factors of DF. In this area, prevention follows the recommendations of the International Working Group on Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) by screening neuropathy focused on the sensitive or insensitive foot. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) a recommends person-centered assessment of neuropathy by clinical examination of symptoms and signs testing sensory, motor, and autonomic neuropathy. This controversy lead us to investigate which methodology (screening or clinical examination) could be more accurate in identifying the conditioning factors of DF in a group of people recruited in the TERMOPIEDI study. Neuropathy was assessed following the definition of diabetic neuropathy, the Young MJ diagnostic criteria, and the Toronto Council diagnostic category. These results allowed us to know the applicability of this procedure in PC within nursing competencies, detecting a greater number of patients with neuropathy compared to the screening method. People with neuropathy presented higher plantar temperature, concluding that neuropathy interferes with foot thermoregulation.
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Vaishali, S., R. Jayaseelan, H. M. Nithya, S. Ranganathan, and P. P. Kannan. "Coping Strategies Among Medical Professionals During COVID 19 Outbreak." INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES 3, no. 02 (July 1, 2020): 68–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.32746/10.32746/ijmhns.2020.v3.i2.51.
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Background: COVID 19 is an ongoing pandemic that has affected people and health workers world-wide. Health care workers not only face short term effects but also long-term psychological consequences due to these stressful situations. Coping strategies can influence health however coping strategies among medical fraternity have not been studied adequately. Methodology: A cross sectional descriptive study was done through an online self-reporting survey model. The BRIEF COPE tool developed by Carver et al was used to assess the coping style. The coping strategy employed was compared to socio-demographic and other variables like professional experience Results: Increasing age was positively correlated with emotion focused and problem focused coping strategies. Marital status had a positive correlation with emotion and problem focused strategies Conclusion: Coping styles in medical professionals differs from those of the general population seen in previous studies. Within the group of medical professionals, those with higher age, higher designation and being married were more likely to use problem focused and emotion focused coping mechanisms which are in general adaptive strategies.
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Vaishali, S., R. Jayaseelan, H. M. Nithya, S. Ranganathan, and P. P. Kannan. "Coping Strategies Among Medical Professionals During COVID 19 Outbreak." INDIAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES 3, no. 02 (July 1, 2020): 68–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.32746/ijmhns.2020.v3.i2.51.
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Background: COVID 19 is an ongoing pandemic that has affected people and health workers world-wide. Health care workers not only face short term effects but also long-term psychological consequences due to these stressful situations. Coping strategies can influence health however coping strategies among medical fraternity have not been studied adequately. Methodology: A cross sectional descriptive study was done through an online self-reporting survey model. The BRIEF COPE tool developed by Carver et al was used to assess the coping style. The coping strategy employed was compared to socio-demographic and other variables like professional experience Results: Increasing age was positively correlated with emotion focused and problem focused coping strategies. Marital status had a positive correlation with emotion and problem focused strategies Conclusion: Coping styles in medical professionals differs from those of the general population seen in previous studies. Within the group of medical professionals, those with higher age, higher designation and being married were more likely to use problem focused and emotion focused coping mechanisms which are in general adaptive strategies.
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Naseem, Sajida, Haider Ghazanfar, Syeda Hanaa Fatima, and Ali Ghazanfar. "Medical students assisted health checkup and focused health education – An integration of community and family medicine." Journal of Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University 1, no. 1 (January 16, 2019): 27–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.32593/jstmu/vol1.iss1.35.
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Objective: The objective of the study was to integrate family medicine practice with the theme of school health service, nutrition and communication skills in the year 4 MBBS curriculum at Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad.
Methodology: Health checkup of students aged 5-15 years, in a private school Mashal Model School, Nurpur Shahan, Islamabad was carried out by a family physician assisted by 100 medical students of Year 4, undergoing Community and Family Medicine clerkship at Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad. School children were given health education in their identified health problem. Medical students’ views regarding the activity were recorded through focused group discussion.
Results: Each medical student got the opportunity to assist health checkup along with educating them on their health issue in an interactive group discussion for five minutes. Mean score of the impact of this activity on their career was found to be 7.55±1.04 while the impact of this activity in their role as a health provider was found to be 7.64±1.12. Different themes were generated from the focused group discussion.
Conclusion: Themes of school health service, nutrition and communication skills can be successfully integrated in the undergraduate teaching of community and family medicine. Medical students by assisting the generalist practice in the school environment can learn communication skills, thus moving towards social responsibility.
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Mentes, Janet C., Nancy Salem, and Linda R. Phillips. "Ethnocultural Gerontological Nursing." Journal of Transcultural Nursing 28, no. 1 (July 9, 2016): 79–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043659615601483.
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The aging population is growing increasingly more diverse, with one in four older adults from an ethnic minority group by 2050, while the nursing force will largely remain members of a single race White population. The purpose of this review is to appraise the state of nursing knowledge in relationship to meeting the needs of elders in unique racial/ethnic groups using two approaches: evaluating the efficacy of current knowledge and evaluating the state of nursing knowledge about ethnocultural gerontological nursing based on an integrative review of nursing literature. Thirty-four articles were reviewed. Most articles used qualitative methodology focused on a single ethnic group, with several articles focused on health promotion/prevention. Cultural perspectives were better addressed than aging concepts and few articles integrated ethnocultural and gerontological nursing concepts. This evaluation indicates many gaps in the knowledge base about ethnocultural gerontological nursing. Specific areas for future knowledge development are identified.
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Syarmimi J., Nur Aimie, Ambo Ahsan, E. R. ,. Fathiah , Z., Rafidah, M.N., Masnih, M., Affan Zahidi, A.A, and Khairunneezam, M. N. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DA’WAH AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A CASE STUDY ON INTEAM GROUP IN ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY IN MALAYSIA." International Journal of Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurial Research 4, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 01–04. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/ijmier.2018.411.
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Purpose: Nasheed is an art and media of da’wah in Islam. In Malaysia, the songs of da’wah and divine is always welcome although various genres of new music are present. This study aims to examine the relationship between da’wah and entrepreneurship by one of the famous nasheed group in Malaysia which is Inteam.
Methodology: This methodology of this study is qualitatively conducted where entrepreneurs were interviewed via open ended questions. The specialist informants and interviewers were the tools employed for data gathering purpose.
Main findings: This study help to understand the concepts of entrepreneurs and its relationship with da’wah. It is hoped that the findings of this study would add a larger knowledge about entrepreneurs especially among Muslim entrepreneurs in Malaysia.
Limitations: This study is focused on two persons those were interviewed, which are Mr. Muhammad Hazamin and Mr. Mohd Syahril at Inteam records, at Damansara Kuala Lumpur. Their feedback were quite good because those respondent perfectly answered the questions.
Implications of the study will be elaborated together with recommendations for future studies.
The originality in this studies is, it should introduce element of da’wah even doing a business to be a good Muslim.
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Jiang, Xuefeng. "Cluster Preface: Perspectives on Organoheteroatom and Organometallic Chemistry." Synlett 32, no. 13 (July 28, 2021): 1260–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1720387.
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Xuefeng Jiang is a professor at East China Normal University. He received his B.S. degree in 2003 from Northwest University (China). He then joined Professor Shengming Ma’s research group at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 2008. From 2008 to 2011, Xuefeng worked as a postdoctoral researcher on the total synthesis of natural products in the research group of Professor K. C. Nicolaou at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). His independent research interests have focused on green organosulfur chemistry and methodology-oriented total synthesis.
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Pasaribu, Linda. "Enhancing students’ performance in learning economics through group investigation model." Research, Society and Development 9, no. 11 (December 6, 2020): e87991110593. http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v9i11.10593.
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Economics is one of the school subjects that has many relation with real life condition.Economics should be taught by process to make students understand the steps within it. As in High School 1 Bandar. Economics is still taught using lecture method that focused on teacher explanation and not involving students into the lesson. This may affect the students’ performance on learning economics. Hence, this research has objective to enhance students’ performance in learning economics using group investigation learning model. The methodology used both qualitative and quantitative by observing the learning process in three cycles. The subject of the research is students of 10th grade social department in High School 1 Bandar. The result found that, the average score in the early test on economics was 50.50 and increased to 67.22 in cycle I. The score kept on increasing in cycle II for 78.61 and 82.77 in cycle III. While the students’ completeness on economicsshowed the early test had completeness of 43.33%, and enhancefor 55.55% in cycle I, 91.66% in cycle II and 100% in cycle III.Therefore, group investigation learning method can enhance students’ performance.
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Marchand, Andre. "Joint consumption challenges in groups." Journal of Consumer Marketing 31, no. 6/7 (November 4, 2014): 483–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcm-06-2014-1001.
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Purpose – This study aims to develop a new general framework of the challenges for decision making in groups. Unlike most research focused on individual consumption, this study takes a broader perspective on joint consumption. Design/methodology/approach – The conceptual framework and the developed research questions are based on an extensive literature review. Findings – This research identifies five major challenges for group decisions: allocation of responsibilities, preference prediction, preference aggregation, conflicts and mutual influences. For each challenge, this study summarizes existing findings and highlights important areas for continued investigation, related to a marketing-oriented understanding of consumers. This article concludes with implications for both managers and researchers. Originality/value – The identified key determinants of group decisions aggregate findings from multidisciplinary literature and can help marketing researchers and managers understand the relevant but underresearched issues of decision making in groups. Furthermore, this study includes relevant moderators, such as individual and group characteristics, and reveals problematic research gaps. In turn, it offers questions and ideas for additional research.
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Ruiz, Maria, Unai Elorza, and Noemi Zabaleta. "Comparison: Group Model Building Workshops of Two SMEs from the Basque Industrial Sector." Journal of Business and Economics 10, no. 11 (November 22, 2019): 1076–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.15341/jbe(2155-7950)/11.10.2019/005.
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Group Model Building (GMB) is a methodology which involves a target group in the business of model formulation and conceptualization. It is crucial to obtain extended formal models and accelerate group decision support for future model building. In this paper the development of two GMB workshops for two Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) from the Basque Industrial Sector is presented. These workshops focused on one problem: the analysis of the commitment of workers to the organization. Each session in each company was of four-hour duration and involved eight workers and two facilitators. This article highlights the importance of involving decision-making agents from each company in the reflection and process of finding solutions for their problem. The results suggest that in spite of the inherent differences and distinct features of each company, both have important similarities when tackling the same problem. These similarities could be translated to a general pattern conceptual model, which could be simulated as a generic model in the future.
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Ásványi, Katalin, Márk Miskolczi, Melinda Jászberényi, Zsófia Kenesei, and László Kökény. "The Emergence of Unconventional Tourism Services Based on Autonomous Vehicles (AVs)—Attitude Analysis of Tourism Experts Using the Q Methodology." Sustainability 14, no. 6 (March 21, 2022): 3691. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14063691.
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The spread of autonomous vehicles (AVs) could fundamentally change tourism-related mobility in the near future. However, the empirical research on tourism impacts is still very limited. This research aims to systematize the expected tourism impacts of AVs and to explore how experts in different fields of tourism view the technological innovation ahead. The opinions of tourism experts (n = 21) involved in the research were analyzed using the Q methodology. Statements (n = 40) were formulated in topics derived from the literature. Based on the analysis, we distinguished four groups of opinions. An optimistic, technology-oriented group of experts suggested that AV-based sightseeing may emerge as a prominent unconventional service. An accessibility-focused group of experts predicting slow progress stressed that the spread of AVs could improve access to infrastructurally advanced destinations. A mobility-service-oriented group considered that the use of AVs is becoming conventional in terms of mobility, but its appearance remains unconventional for other tourism services. Due to the potential negative effects, a skeptical group of experts believes that AVs will not become conventional in tourism. The value of the research is the creation of groups based on tourism experts’ attitudes, which can help prepare strategic tourism decisions in the future.
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Tennant, Charles. "Quality and reliability through common business environment." TQM Magazine 7, no. 5 (October 1, 1995): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09544789510098560.
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Rover Group is the UK’s largest automotive manufacturer employing 35,000 people which designs, develops and manufactures vehicles in the small, medium, executive and specialist four‐wheel‐drive sectors. Describes the processes deployed at Rover to ensure that quality and reliability are designed into the product through the new product introduction process, in order to achieve the company quality strategy milestones. The quality and reliability processes have been developed as a project management framework, known internally as “common business environment”. Describes the product programme milestone philosophy and supporting processes such as design methodology, reliability management, cost management and programme timing synthetics. The processes are deployed into all project teams at Rover Group through a learning methodology called focused learning. Measurement of common business environment implementation is carried out at project Q&R reviews, which are based on the European Foundation for Quality Management self‐assessment criteria.
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Mateo, J., and JA Yagüe. "Evaluation of a soft skills serious game educational methodology in an industrial branches technical training program." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 1193, no. 1 (October 1, 2021): 012128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899x/1193/1/012128.
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Abstract The technical training of the industrial branches sometimes shows important shortcomings of new graduates in training and practice in analytical skills, high-level critical thinking, communication skills, teamwork and understanding of engineering in business practice. Gamification, understood as the application of design elements and game principles in the context of achieving learning outcomes, acquires a remarkable dimension and relevance. In this context, this job is focused on designing, developing, and measuring the results of a training module including gamification. This module is taught in an experimental training course aimed at a group with a heterogeneous educational level whose all its members play the role of team leader in manufacturing industries. The course is promoted by the Aragon (Spain) Government, and the Aragon Automotive Cluster Association, Caar. This work carries out a methodology and results evaluation project for soft skills problem solving and conflict resolution module, through gamification. For this evaluation, a discussion is carried out on the evaluation methods of gamified training. The work allows to obtain significant results on the methodology used in relation to the heterogeneity of the group. The study draws conclusions about the design of the methodology, the validity and efficacy of the educational method, the evaluation model and the relationship between training, experience and educational results.
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Yakovlev, Andrei, Olga Balaeva, and Andrey Tkachenko. "Estimation of procurement costs incurred by public customers: a case study of a Russian region." Journal of Public Procurement 18, no. 1 (March 5, 2018): 68–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jopp-03-2018-005.
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Purpose This paper aims to measure the cost of procurement because public procurement procedures prescribed by legislation not only enhance transparency and competition but also entail certain transaction costs for both customers and suppliers. Design/methodology/approach These costs are important to the efficiency of the procurement system. However, very few previous studies have focused on estimating procurement costs. This paper proposes a methodology for public procurement cost evaluation. Findings This paper shows how procurement costs can be calculated using a formalized survey of public customers. This methodology was tested with a representative group of public customers operating in one region of the Russian Federation. Originality/value The authors formulate the policy implications of this paper, as they relate to the improvement of public procurement regulations and argue that this methodological approach can be applied in other developing and transitioning economies.
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Satinsky, Emily, David Crepaz-Keay, and Antonis Kousoulis. "Making peer-focused self-management programmes work in public mental health." Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 13, no. 5 (September 10, 2018): 257–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmhtep-08-2017-0052.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the Mental Health Foundation’s experiences designing, implementing and evaluating peer-focused self-management programmes. Through a discussion of barriers and good practice, it outlines ways to be successful in making such projects work to improve mental health and wellbeing among at-risk populations. Design/methodology/approach A total of 11 Mental Health Foundation programmes implemented over the past ten years were reviewed through reading manuals and publications and interviewing programme managers. Key data were extracted from each programme to analyse trends in aims, outcomes and recommendations. Findings Through a focus on peer-work, programmes taught individuals from a variety of societal sectors self-management skills to effectively deal with life stressors. Through sharing in non-judgmental spaces and taking ownership of programme design and content, individuals realised improvements in wellbeing and goal achievement. Practical implications Good practice, barriers and recommendations can be taken from this review and applied to future peer-focused self-management programmes. By better embedding quantitative and qualitative evaluations into programme development and implementation, programmes can add to the evidence base and effectively target needs. Originality/value This review lays out valuable experience on an innovative community service paradigm and supports the evidence on effectiveness of peer-focused self-management programmes with a variety of group populations.
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Gudelj, I., B. D. L. Fitt, and F. van den Bosch. "Evolution of Sibling Fungal Plant Pathogens in Relation to Host Specialization." Phytopathology® 94, no. 7 (July 2004): 789–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/phyto.2004.94.7.789.
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Sibling plant pathogens can be grouped according to their host rangesthe following groups: group 1, sibling pathogens with nonoverlapping host ranges; group 2, sibling pathogens with both overlapping and nonoverlapping host ranges; and group 3, sibling pathogens with overlapping host ranges. Using the adaptive dynamics methodology, we investigated the evolution of sibling pathogens in relation to host specialization for groups 1 to 3. In particular, we focused on the role of multiple host niches and a trade-off in infectivity of pathogens to these hosts on the evolutionary outcome. We have shown that this ecological mechanism can explain only the evolution of sibling pathogens in group 1 and that other ecological and epidemiological mechanisms must be responsible for the evolution of sibling pathogens in the other two groups.
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Cruz-Zambrano, Mónica Cecilia, Rocío Carolina Delgado-Morán, Jenny Elizabeth Quiroz-Cevallos, and Rodrigo Alexander Rincón-Zambrano. "Reading strategies for college English language learners." Revista Arbitrada Interdisciplinaria Koinonía 8, no. 15 (January 1, 2023): 137–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.35381/r.k.v8i15.2460.
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This research focused on determining the effectiveness of reading strategies for English university students, such as previewing, scanning, skimming, prediction and inference, with the purpose of perceiving the changes in their reading comprehension and other skills after the application of these strategies. As methodology, a quantitative approach based on a quasi-experimental design was used. For this purpose, a sample of 60 students from the Metropolitan University of Quito, Ecuador, were subdivided into 30 for the control group and 30 for the experimental group, to whom pretest and posttest were applied. The results revealed that the students in the control group did not achieve considerable improvements but those in the experimental group did. The skills developed were: vocabulary, interpretation, comprehension, identification of main and secondary ideas, fluency and summarizing.
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Armitage-Chan, Elizabeth, and Stephen A. May. "Identity, environment and mental wellbeing in the veterinary profession." Veterinary Record 183, no. 2 (June 27, 2018): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.104724.
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Mental health and career dissatisfaction are of increasing concern to the veterinary profession. The influence of identity on the psychological wellbeing of veterinarians has not been widely explored. Twelve recent veterinary graduates were enrolled in a private social media discussion group, and their identities investigated through narrative inquiry: a methodology which enables identity priorities to be extrapolated from stories of experience. Two distinct variants of the veterinary identity were identified: an academic, ‘diagnosis-focused’ identity, which prioritised definitive diagnosis and best-evidence treatment; and a broader ‘challenge-focused’ identity, where priorities additionally included engaging with the client, challenging environment or veterinary business. Contextual challenges (such as a client with limited finances or difficult interpersonal interactions) were seen as a source of frustration for those with a diagnosis-focused identity, as they obstructed the realisation of identity goals. Overcoming these challenges provided satisfaction to those with a challenge-focused identity. The employment environment of the graduates (general veterinary practice) provided more opportunities for those with a challenge-focused identity to realise identity goals, and more markers of emotional wellbeing were apparent in their stories. Markers of poor emotional health were evident in the stories of those with a diagnosis-focused identity.
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Moghaddam, Ali Tohidi. "Identifying and Prioritizing the Relationship Marketing Factors Affecting the Customer Satisfaction with Services Section of the Tejarat Bank through the Application of Q Methodology." Journal of Social Sciences Research, no. 511 (November 25, 2019): 1628–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/jssr.511.1628.1636.
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The present research project aims at studying the impressions and beliefs of the customers of Tejarat Bank in order to identify and prioritize the factors of relationship marketing which help increase the satisfaction of the customers with the service section of Tejarat Bank of Hamadan, Iran. It is a mixed exploratory study conducted based on Q methodology. The statistical community of the study comprised all the customers of the central branch of the bank who had, at least, one kind of account in it and were considered as active customers. Finally 30 customers were aimfully selected for the study by using a focused group discussion technique. Based on the interviews conducted with the customers through focused group discussions, 21 Q phrases were extracted. The phrases were then handed out to the customers in the form of a questionnaire with 21 items and an answer sheet (Q diagram). They were asked to give their agreement or disagreement with the items provided. Then after collecting the data which were gained through regulating the Q, they were analyzed by using factor-analysis method. The results thus found showed that the customers have introduced the five cases of trust, commitment, conflict handling, relationship and competence as the main factors of relationship marketing. The identified factors were then prioritized, and this showed that, from the viewpoints of the customers, the variables of trust, commitment and conflict handling were the most important ones in increasing the customer satisfaction.
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Lin, Chinho, Hoang Cong Nguyen, and Ha Hoang Tran. "Comparative review of business group affiliates and firms’ performance." Baltic Journal of Management 14, no. 4 (November 11, 2019): 616–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bjm-03-2018-0105.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to synthesize empirical results relating to antecedents influencing differences in performance between business group (BG) affiliated firms and independent firms in emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach A metanalysis was conducted in this research in which samples were collected, and a continuous data set for figuring the differentiation between group and non-group variables was selected and analyzed. These variables included performance, diversification, ownership characteristics, firm characteristics and group characteristics. Findings The research presents a set of hypotheses from a model that shows the influences of factors moderating the differences between the performance of BG affiliates and independent firms, including governance and the kinds of strategic choices which these firms make. Four of the five hypotheses were totally supported, showing the importance of differentiating affiliates’ and independent firms’ performance in terms of ownership concentration, dividend payout, leverage, R&D, as well as diversification and a firm’s age and size. Originality/value The study focused its research on an examination of pyramid and cross-holding groups in order to reveal the role of the core firms. It also examines ownership concentration, as well as internal relationships with capital structure, and the effect which these have on firm performance, in order to further understand the relationship among BGs, corporate governance and performance in emerging-market economies.
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Mishra, Sushma. "Organizational objectives for information security governance: a value focused assessment." Information & Computer Security 23, no. 2 (June 8, 2015): 122–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ics-02-2014-0016.
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Purpose – The purpose of this study is to develop theoretically grounded and empirically derived organizational security governance (OSG) objectives. Developing organizational security governance (OSG) objectives pose significant challenges for organizations considering the ever-increasing vulnerability from lack of or misuse of appropriate controls. In recent years, there have been several cases of colossal losses to businesses due to inadequate security governance measure. In many cases, organizations do not even know as to what their ISG objectives might be. Following an extensive empirical study, this paper proposes 6 fundamental and 17 means objectives for designing security governance. The objectives were developed from individual values of information technology and security executives across a wide range of firms. The study comprised 52 interview respondents across 9 firms, which resulted in 23 OSG objectives. Theoretically, the study was grounded in Catton’s (1959) value theory and Keeney’s (1992) value-focused thinking. The objectives provide a useful basis for strategic planning for information security governance. Design/methodology/approach – This research is grounded in value-focused thinking methodology. Step 1: develop a comprehensive list of personal values underlying the problem being explored. The researcher undertakes extensive interviews, using relevant probes, to elicit underlying values of respondents. Step 2: change the values enlisted to a common form and convert them into objectives. The data collected in Step 1 is collated and presented in a common form, which enables cross-comparison and easy interpretation. Step 3: classify the objectives as means and fundamental for the decision context. Objectives are clustered into groups and then classified into fundamental and means. Findings – This study uses a value-focused approach to develop OSG objectives. Incorporating individual values in developing governance objectives would facilitate alignment of individual and organizational values about OSG. This study proposes 6 fundamental and 17 means objectives for OSG. The study provides a comprehensive list of OSG that is rooted in values of stakeholders in an organization. Originality/value – The main contributions study can be classified in two categories. First, it represents a collective set of OSG objectives which touch upon technical, formal, informal, moral and ethical dimensions of governance. This is a unique, synthesized and cohesive framework for OSG, which incorporates several aspects of OSG into one platform, thus allowing the development of a comprehensive security management program. Second, some of the objectives developed in this research (“establish corporate control strategy”, “establish punitive structure”, “establish clear control development process”, “ensure formal control assessment functionality” and “maximize group cohesiveness”) have not been emphasized enough in security governance literature.
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Pfeifer, Eric, Christine Stolterfoth, Claudia Spahn, Hans Ulrich Schmidt, Tonius Timmermann, and Marc Wittmann. "Preventing music performance anxiety (MPA): Music students judge combined Depth Relaxation Music Therapy (DRMT) and silence to be an effective methodology." Music and Medicine 12, no. 3 (July 24, 2020): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v12i3.688.
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This article presents the results of a study which focused on the application of combined Hypnomusictherapy (HMT)/Depth Relaxation Music Therapy (DRMT) and silence in preventing music performance anxiety (MPA) in music students. Participants (n=12) were divided into two groups. Each group received either 16 minutes of HMT/DRMT followed by 6:30 minutes of silence or a 16-minute seminar consisting of a moderated group discussion on silence followed by 6:30 minutes of silence. Each of the two groups experienced the alternative condition (within-subject design) with one week in between. Focus groups were held for data gathering after each session. Qualitative content analysis according to Mayring [1,2] was applied to analyze the data. Silence following DRMT/HMT was perceived as more relaxing and longer lasting than silence following the seminar. Participants reported that their distracting or depressing thoughts decreased and their auditive perception of silence changed during the combined silence and DRMT/HMT. The results indicate that the procedure can help prevent MPA.
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Antonellou, Polyxeni, and Kalliope Kounenou. "Evaluation of a career counselling program focused on Greek elementary school children's career interests." European Journal of Counselling Psychology 5, no. 1 (December 23, 2016): 4–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejcop.v5i1.83.
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Although childhood is the most significant period in one's career development process, little research attention has been paid to the evaluation of career counselling intervention programs in elementary-aged children. An intervention study was carried out in order to evaluate a career counselling program implemented in one Greek elementary school which focused on the enrichment of the children's career interests. The research methodology used was the quasi experimental research design. Children (N = 84) aged 8-11 years were distributed in experimental and control groups. Τhe impact of the intervention focused on the enrichment of their career interests, which was assessed via semi-structured interviews and use of drawings. The results showed a statistical significant difference between groups concerning children's career interests after intervention, while the analysis of drawings revealed more differences in self-confidence, self- esteem and extraversion in favour of the children that participated in the experimental group. Gender and age differences were also explored and revealed. The results are discussed in relation to various aspects of children's career development, as well as to the significance of career counselling intervention programs.
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Tikhomirova, Nadezhda L. "Foreign highly qualified specialists as a particular contingent of students studying Russian as a foreign language." Professor’s Journal. Series: Russian and Literature: studying and teaching 1 (February 25, 2021): 30–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18572/2687-0339-2021-1-30-34.
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The article is devoted to the description of foreign highly qualified specialists living and working in Russia and studying Russian language. This type of contingent is relatively new for the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language and has not been studied sufficiently yet. The article gives main characteristics of this group of people, their motives and goals in learning Russian, that were identified by questioning. The requests from this contingent of students (which are quite important for the methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language) are simultaneously the fastest possible way of learning Russian within a limited range of topics, adaptation to the Russian linguocultural environment, and the development of a system focused on highly qualified specialists.
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Sikosek, Darinka. "HOW CAN STUDENTS-TEACHERS ACQUIRING COMPETENCES FROM LECTURE AND SEMINAR ACTIVITIES BY PROMPTING DIDACTIC PRINCIPLES." GAMTAMOKSLINIS UGDYMAS / NATURAL SCIENCE EDUCATION 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2008): 6–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.48127/gu-nse/08.5.06.
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This study is focused on the curricular innovations of methodological subjects for acquiring of teachers competences at undergraduate education where students as prospective chemistry teachers serve as a goal group. The redesign of the curricular forms thus introduced (such as Lectures, Seminars, Didactic /Laboratory Practical Courses and Mentor work) is based on consistent consideration of topical didactic principles. Research into the optimal forms for curriculum performance focuses particularly on their organisation, methodology and evaluation. These three model parameters serve to implement student activity and autonomy, goal-oriented process learning and democratic relations to ensure realisation of the competences necessary for carrying out the teaching and learning model. The active development and acquisition of subject didactic competences is accompanied by three issues: “What? How? Why? and the following infinitives: “to preserve, to innovate and to abandon”. Key words: teaching skills and competences, student autonomy, didactic principles, curricular forms of methodological programme.
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Namjildorj, Oyuntsetseg. "Expanding Demand for Master’s Degree Programs in Interdisciplinary Studies in Education in Mongolia." International Journal of Asian Education 4, no. 2 (June 3, 2023): 88–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.46966/ijae.v4i2.334.
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The fourth revolution of industrialization has enormously influenced the education sector and needs to be dynamic and sensible in light of the changeable requirements of employers. Specifically, higher education institutions (HEIs) must focus on the global labor market to offer an innovative curriculum and attract prospective students. One of the current trends in the higher education sector is to design interdisciplinary degree programs. The interdisciplinary master's degree program is relatively new in Mongolian tertiary education. Therefore, we aimed to identify the need for a master’s degree program in interdisciplinary studies in education from the perspective of prospective students and also determine the areas of studies that have been preferred in the field of education. In this study, two online surveys and a focused-group interview were conducted. Three hundred ten educators were involved in the online surveys and focused-group interviews. The research questions were created on Google form, data was collected electronically, and focused group interviews were conducted simultaneously. The findings indicated that 52% of the prospective students preferred a master’s degree program in interdisciplinary studies in education, and a diverse combination of areas has been demanded, in particular, education and modern teaching methodology (26.4%); teaching and linguistics (25.5%); education and international studies (23%) and, teaching and psychology (19.4%). The other important finding was that interdisciplinary studies would be able to provide the necessary knowledge and skills that make graduates competitive in the labor market.
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Mora, Marisol, Eva Penelo, Teresa Gutiérrez, Paola Espinoza, Marcela L. González, and Rosa M. Raich. "Assessment of Two School-Based Programs to Prevent Universal Eating Disorders: Media Literacy and Theatre-Based Methodology in Spanish Adolescent Boys and Girls." Scientific World Journal 2015 (2015): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/328753.
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Aims. To evaluate the long-term effects of two school-based prevention programs administered to a universal mixed-sex sample of school-going adolescents on disturbed eating attitudes, aesthetic ideal internalization, and other eating disorder risk factors, when compared to a control group.Methods. Participants were 200 adolescents aged 12–15 selected by means of incidental sampling from second-year compulsory secondary education at schools. An interactive multimedia media literacy program (ML + NUT,Media LiteracyandNutrition) and a program focused on the same topics using dramatic arts (Theatre Alive) were applied and compared with a control group. Pretest, posttest (1 month later), and 5- and 13-month follow-up measurements were taken. Analyses were conducted with two-way mixed3×3ANCOVA (group × phase) adjusted by baseline levels, body mass index, and sex.Results. Participants in both experimental groups showed significantly higher self-esteem scores than the control group over time. The ML + NUT group also presented lower aesthetic ideal internalization scores than the control group.Discussion. Both programs can benefit students’ self-esteem. Moreover, ML + NUT program was useful in reducing thin-ideal internalization. However, differences in body dissatisfaction and disordered eating attitudes were not found. The programs may be protective on the core psychological variables, which are essential to adaptive adolescent development.
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Brindová, Daniela, Marek Kmeť, and Ondřej Ješina. "Sociálne determinanty zdravia školákov so zdravotným postihnutím." Studia sportiva 7, no. 3 (December 16, 2013): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/sts2013-3-5.
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The main objective of this paper is to present an international research project disHBSC („Health Behaviour in School Aged Children with disabilities“), which a methodology is based on international research of lifestyle of school-aged children. The aim of the new study is to deepen the understanding of health and health-related behavior among disabled school-aged children. Our interest is focused on children with the most common types of disadvantage in the population: children with visual impairments, hearing impairments, physical and mental disabilities, children with oncological disease and children with chronic diseases, which are often eliminated from the researches. Presented will be the development of protocol and research methodology modified specifically for the selected group of Czech and Slovak disabled school-aged children. It will be also described process and first outcomes of the pilot study specifically focused on two selected groups of disadvantages: intellectual disability (mental retardation) and oncological desease. Working group preparing documents for international research disHBSC includes under the coordination of the research team of the Faculty of Medicine, University of PJ Safarik in Kosice mainly partners of the Faculty of Physical Culture Palacky University in Olomouc, in collaboration with Cyril and Methodius Theological Faculty in Olomouc and partners Faculty of Education in Bratislava with the support of WHO office in Bratislava. The achievement of the objectives of the project can be sustained contribution in scientific research and knowledge and also in the health promotion of the target population of adolescents with disabilities.