scholarly journals Framing the Picture: A Preliminary Investigation into Experts’ Beliefs about the Roles and Purposes of Self-Access Centres

2014 ◽  
pp. 8-28
Author(s):  
Diego Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Teacher Cognition ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
The World ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents results from phase one of a large-scale, two-phase research project investigating self-access centre (SAC) experts’ (Centre Directors; Centre Managers; Centre Coordinators; Learning Advisors) beliefs about the roles and purposes of SACs. The project adopts both the fundamental assumptions and approaches of learner belief studies in SLA and teacher cognition research in education. However, it examines neither learners nor teachers; instead, all the participants are SAC practitioners. Phase one of the study begins by surveying, through an online questionnaire, the different beliefs these practitioners have about self-access learning and SAC practice. This paper describes how the data was collected and analysed, as well as selecting a few interesting findings to highlight the value of conducting beliefs study on SAC experts. The findings reported in this paper need to be triangulated with follow up interviews (phase two) in order to construct a more accurate understanding of the beliefs held by the participants. Therefore, any conclusions or implications regarding the relationship between practitioners’ beliefs and SAC practice remain incomplete. Nevertheless, the findings from phase one provide an insightful preliminary picture of the diversity of both practice and practitioner from SACs across the world and open up a valuable avenue for further discussion.

scholarly journals The aesthetic preference for nature sounds depends on sound object recognition

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Charles Van Hedger ◽  
Howard Nusbaum ◽  
Shannon Heald ◽  
Alex Huang ◽  
Hiroki Kotabe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Object Recognition ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Acoustic Features ◽  
Aesthetic Preference ◽  
Perceptual Features ◽  
The World ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

People across the world seek out beautiful sounds in nature, such as a babbling brook or a nightingale song, for positive human experiences. However, it is unclear whether this positive aesthetic response is driven by a preference for the perceptual features typical of nature sounds versus a higher-order association of nature with beauty. To test these hypotheses, participants provided aesthetic judgments for nature and urban soundscapes that varied on ease of recognition. Results demonstrated that the aesthetic preference for nature soundscapes was eliminated for the sounds hardest to recognize, and moreover the relationship between aesthetic ratings and several measured acoustic features significantly changed as a function of recognition. In a follow-up experiment, requiring participants to classify these difficult-to-identify sounds into nature or urban categories resulted in a robust preference for nature sounds and a relationship between aesthetic ratings and our measured acoustic features that was more typical of easy-to-identify sounds. This pattern of results was replicated with computer-generated artificial noises, which acoustically shared properties with the nature and urban soundscapes but by definition did not come from these environments. Taken together, these results support the conclusion that the recognition of a sound as either natural or urban dynamically organizes the relationship between aesthetic preference and perceptual features.

scholarly journals Portfolio Building: The relationship with literacies in students’ everyday lives

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Angela Brzeski
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Further Education ◽  
College Courses ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Learning Success ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores some propositions about how students’ everydaylives may interact with their success at learning in a large Further EducationCollege in England. Some students, on paper, have all the appropriate entryqualifications, but still struggle to complete their courses. Indeed, some donot complete at all. So, what could be done to help these students achievesuccess? As a member of a large-scale research project team, I have beeninvestigating the home literacies of further education students. Papen(2005a:14) points out that ‘it is useful and necessary before any interventioncan be planned, to carry out research which identifies learners’ everydayliteracy practices’. Of course, there are many other aspects of people’severyday lives that will influence their learning success. However, in thisarticle I want to focus on the possibility of the influence of home literacypractices, by exploring how the reading and writing in the everyday lives ofstudents could be drawn upon and utilized in order to help these students tosucceed on their chosen college courses.

Patients' Own Contributions to Long-Term Supportive Psychotherapy in Schizophrenic Disorders

1994 ◽  
Vol 164 (S23) ◽  
pp. 84-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidsel Gilbert ◽  
Endre Ugelstad
Keyword(s):  
Catchment Area ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Supportive Psychotherapy ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Relationship

The paper describes a study based on the Nordic multi-centre research project NIPS. In the Norwegian part, based on one-year screening and sampling of all new schizophrenic cases in a catchment area in Oslo, patients and therapists were interviewed after 2–3 years. Some patients seemed to have played a much more active part in establishing and breaking therapeutic contacts and in setting the terms for the relationship than is usually acknowledged. In the interviews at five-year follow-up, many patients produced viewpoints on their psychotherapeutic experiences that seem to be very important in relation to therapy.

Strategic HRM and organisational performance: does turnover intention matter?

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amlan Haque
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Strategic Human Resource Management ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Applying the job-demand resources model and the psychological contract theory, this paper aims to examine the mediating influence of employee turnover intentions (ETI) on the relationship between strategic human resource management (SHRM) and perceived organisational performance (POP). Design/methodology/approach With a two-phase data-collection method, 200 complete responses were collected through an online questionnaire survey. This study applied a structural equation modelling to examine the multivariate associations and provided comprehensive outcomes for the proposed hypothesised model. Findings This study suggests that SHRM has direct significant effects on both ETI and POP; partial mediational effect on POP via ETI; and ETI has negative effect on POP. Practical implications This paper suggests that organisations aiming higher POP should encourage SHRM and improve their strategic approaches of HRM. The implications of the study results can help organisations to recognise the adverse effects of ETI and effective SHRM outcomes. Originality/value Despite the significant relationship between HRM and organisational performance, limited empirical research has been conducted on the mediational influence of ETI. This paper examines the unique meditational role of ETI on the relationship between SHRM and POP, which has not been utterly observed from employee perspective.

scholarly journals Media in COVID–19: A Double Edge Sword.

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 730-738
Author(s):  
Snehal Gondhalekar
Keyword(s):  
Web Based ◽  
Analytic Treatment ◽  
The People ◽  
Double Edge ◽  
The World ◽  
Double Edge Sword ◽  
The Relationship

This research aims to show the impression of Media on COVID-19 amongst common public. This research focuses on the relationship and its influence globally on the people in every domain of their life and its effects on their health.As we all know, While at same time as we are witnessing a worldwide health danger named COVID-19 since the previous few months the unfold of records approximately as compared to the pandemic has been an awfully travelled lot faster than the virus itself. Hence its miles challenging to find a pleasant stability among the toxic overuse of media era and healthful harnessing of healthcare records.As same as we have seen with different emergencies, individuals everywhere on the world contact each other through web-based media to sort out what's going on. We break down commitment and interest in the COVID-19 point and give a differential appraisal on the development of the talk on a worldwide scale for every stage and their clients. We fit data spreading with pestilence models describing the essential multiplication number for every web-based media stage. Additionally, we distinguish data spreading from flawed sources, finding various volumes of falsehood in every stage. Be that as it may, data from both dependable and faulty sources don't present diverse spreading designs. At last, we give stage subordinate mathematical appraisals of bits of gossip intensification.Capable utilization of these instruments can help rapidly spread significant new data, important new logical discoveries, share analytic, treatment, and follow up conventions, just as analyse various methodologies all around the world, eliminating geographic limits without precedent for history.

scholarly journals Imperialismo y capitalismo: repensando una relación íntima

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 9-45
Author(s):  
Henry Veltmeyer ◽  
◽  
James Petras ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
World Market ◽  
The Political ◽  
South American ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
Primary Products ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

The literature on imperialism suffers from a fundamental confusion surrounding the relationship between capitalism and imperialism. The aim of this work is to bring clarification. In the first part, we state our position regarding the capitalism-imperialism relationship; in the second, we discuss some important points in the marxist debate on imperialism; and in the third, we review the various paths imperialism has taken in Latin America under capitalist development. The central point of this work is the way that it places imperialism at the conjuncture of capitalist development, particularly extractive capitalism. This conjuncture is characterized by the decline of neoliberalism as an economic model; a growing demand for energy, minerals and other «natural» resources in the world market; and the political economy of the development of natural resources (large-scale investment to acquire lands and the natural resources they contain, the export of primary products). The key dynamic of what we call «imperialist extractivism» is analyzed in the South American context, which represents the most advanced, but regressive, form that capitalism has taken, so far, in the new milennium. Our analysis of this dynamic is summaried in 12 theses.

scholarly journals Bancroftian Filariasis Still Endemic in Some Foci in Sohag Governorate, Upper Egypt

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Refaat MA Khalifa ◽  
Amal M Ahmed ◽  
Mohamed AA Taha ◽  
Nasr Eldeen MM Ali ◽  
Haitham KA Abd El Samea
Keyword(s):  
Lower Limb ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Wuchereria Bancrofti ◽  
Endemic Country ◽  
Chronic Case ◽  
Bancroftian Filariasis ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
The World ◽  
Finger Prick

Bancroftian filariasis (BF) is a debilitating disease that has plagued Egypt since the time of the pharaohs. Egypt is the first large endemic country in the world to reach the five-year mark in its national campaign. Now that the mass treatments are completed, a follow-up epidemiological assessment will reveal whether this large-scale, pioneering campaign has been successful in finally eliminating the disease. Hence the aim of the present work was to detect the prevalence of bancoftian filariasis in Tema, El-Maragha, Akhmeem and Girga districts in Sohag Governorate, Upper Egypt. Finger prick thick blood films were randomly collected from 500 clinically suspected individuals representing different sexes and ages suffering from lower limb non-pitting edema and/or inguinal lymphadenitis from May 2015 to February 2017. Three patients (0.6%) were infected with microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti while one chronic case was detected with severe chronic elephantiasis that was amicrofilaraemic but was confirmed serologically. Results were discussed in regards of age, gender, occupation, locality and residence. It was concluded that bancroftian filariasis is still endemic in three districts (Tema, El- maragha and Girga). Although in sporadic few cases, the problem should be taken seriously as one microfilaramic patient could be a patent reservoir for spreading of the disease through infecting the prevailing Culex pipiense mosquito intermediate host.

The road to one’s own people. Sergey Shargunov

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
M. V. Kulgavchuk
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
Creative Evolution ◽  
The Road ◽  
The World ◽  
Family Memories ◽  
The Relationship

The article examines books by S. Shargunov, written at different periods (Hurray! [Ura!] and One’s Own People [Svoi], etc.), tracing the author’s personality and his creative evolution: from a protagonist who rejects the world to a search for ‘one’s own’ and ‘one’s own people’. Shargunov’s ‘own people,’ believes M. Kulgavchuk, are first and foremost his family; memories of childhood provide the foundation for his stylistics, prompting comparison with I. Bunin’s lyrical prose. Indeed, Shargunov works within the realm of lyrical prose, occasionally spicing lyricism with a pinch of satire. His main topic, however, is the relationship between the person and the epoch. Kulgavchik points out how this topic, first appearing in Shargunov’s autobiographical prose, fully develops in his research: a biography of V. Kataev entitled In Pursuit of Eternal Spring [V pogone za vechnoy vesnoy] (The Lives of Remarkable People Series). In his biography of Kataev, Shargunov is consistent and thorough, interested in both large-scale historical milestones related to the writer and individual episodes that demonstrate the writer’s strongly non-conformist nature.

scholarly journals The triglyceride glucose index is a simple and low-cost marker associated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a population-based study

BMC Medicine ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sangmo Hong ◽  
Kyungdo Han ◽  
Cheol-Young Park
Keyword(s):  
Insulin Resistance ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Surrogate Marker ◽  
Cox Proportional Hazards ◽  
Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Tyg Index ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background The triglyceride glucose (TyG) index is an inexpensive clinical surrogate marker for insulin resistance. However, the relationship between TyG index and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains unclear. We evaluated the relationship between TyG index and CVD using a large-scale population dataset from the National Health Information Database (NHID). Methods We performed a retrospective observational cohort study of 5,593,134 persons older than 40 years from 2009 to 2017 using the NHID. We divided the participants into TyG index quartiles. Outcome variables were stroke, myocardial infarction, and both. The incidence of outcomes was estimated for each TyG quartile over the total follow-up period. All outcomes were analyzed by Cox proportional hazards regression analysis while controlling for baseline covariates. Results During 8.2 years of mean follow-up, stroke was diagnosed in 89,120 (1.59%), MI in 62,577 (1.12%), and both stroke and MI in 146,744 (2.62%) participants. Multivariate-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) for patients in the highest TyG index quartile demonstrated that these patients were at higher risk for stroke (HR = 1.259; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.233–1.286), for MI (HR = 1.313; 95% CI 1.28–1.346), and for both (HR = 1.282; 95% CI 1.261–1.303) compared with participants in the lowest TyG index quartile. These effects were independent of age, sex, smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, and total cholesterol. Conclusions In our large population study, TyG index, a simple measure reflecting insulin resistance, was potentially useful in the early identification of individuals at high risk of experiencing a cardiovascular event.

scholarly journals Graduates: an overview of the trajectory of graduates in education from the National Institute for the Deaf

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (100) ◽  
pp. 1084-1107
Author(s):  
Marcia Moraes ◽  
Bruno Galasso ◽  
Ricardo Janoario ◽  
Dirceu Esdras
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Academic Outcomes ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Monthly Income ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Education Degree ◽  
Brazilian Sign Language ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This study focuses on the trajectory of graduates from the Instituto Nacional de Educação de Surdos (National Institute for the Education of the Deaf) – INES. It aims at analysing the career development and academic outcomes of students who followed Education degree courses at the INES. One of the objectives of our research was to assess the relationship between these students’ degree courses and graduate follow-up. As a survey tool, we used a bilingual online questionnaire (BSL – Brazilian Sign Language – and Portuguese Language), comprising multiple choice and essay questions, designed for 41 graduates in Education, who obtained their degrees between 2009 and 2016. The majority of the participants were mixed-race women, with no hearing disability, average age of 37, and a monthly income of 3 to 4 minimum wages. The analysed data reveals that more than 90% of the graduates regarded their INES degree courses as good or excellent. In relation to the content of these degree courses, twelve categories were considered rather unsatisfactory, and the most criticised of all was the “curriculum”. Other topics frequently criticised were: the lack of BSL modules in the curriculum, the standard of teaching, lack of modules related to deafness, internship and materials available.

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