Academic Topics Research Articles

Revealing the brain behind travel: an analysis of neuro-tourism research using structural topic models and network analysis

ABSTRACT Neuro-tourism is a growing field that could revolutionize the tourism industry by uncovering the neurological mechanisms behind the tourist experience. However, the underlying mechanisms and interrelationships shaping the evolving landscape of neuro-tourism research have not yet been fully elucidated. This study analyzes research trends in neuro-tourism from 2006 to 2024 and identifies academic collaboration networks. We utilized structural topic modeling and network analysis to uncover the underlying academic topics in neuro-tourism. Our analysis found eight growing and four declining subfields in neuro-tourism. The network analysis showed significant contributions from countries, institutions, and journals. This research adds to existing theory by explaining the mechanisms and connections impacting the evolving neuro-tourism research field. It provides valuable insights for scholars and researchers studying the intersection of neuroscience and tourism. Understanding how research is categorized in databases like the Web of Science can help make strategic publishing decisions, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation.

The relationships between discrimination and academic help-seeking: the indirect effects of the impostor phenomenon among undergraduates students

Academic help-seeking behaviors, such as asking peers or instructors to clarify academic topics, are important behaviors contributing to the academic success of college students. However, environmental factors such as experiences of discrimination (e.g., exclusion, being subjected to negative stereotypes) and individual psychological factors, such as the impostor phenomenon or feelings of intellectual incompetence, may dissuade students from seeking academic help. The current study utilized social cognitive theory as a guide to investigate the relationship between perceived discrimination and academic help-seeking attitudes, as well as the indirect role of the impostor phenomenon. Survey responses from 460 racially diverse undergraduates were analyzed using confirmatory factor analyses and structural equation modeling. Results indicated that perceptions of discrimination directly and indirectly – via the impostor phenomenon – influenced academic help-seeking. Specifically, greater experiences of discrimination contributed to higher levels of the impostor phenomenon, which predicted more positive attitudes toward academic help-seeking. These findings demonstrate the influence of discrimination on academic help-seeking among a diverse sample of learners. Particularly, increased academic help-seeking may serve as a compensatory reaction to experiencing discrimination in an educational context. Implications for how institutions can better promote more equitable learning environments and theory-based interpretations of findings are discussed.

The Deradicalisation and Disengagement of Women Convicted of Terrorism Offences in Spain

Understanding what motivates a woman to deradicalise or disengage from a terrorist organisation remains among the less explored academic topics today. This study explores the reasons why thirteen women in Spain either began their process of disengagement from IS, and/or initiated a change in their belief system. The research is based on personal interviews with inmates linked to the Islamic State, as well as with prison officials, psychologists, and educators. The article shows that the decision to stop deviant behaviour, or the experience of a cognitive rejection of beliefs, was preceded by disenchantment, the acquisition of new goals, or the feeling of being accepted by and/or integrated into new social networks.

How Spanish educational researchers used Twitter/X as a platform to promote the dissemination of scientific knowledge: a descriptive study

Purpose: This study aimed to examine how educational researchers in Spain promoted the dissemination of scientific knowledge on Twitter/X as a platform and to contrast their approach with science influencers in the same country.Methods: Accounts on the Twitter/X service belonging to 210 Spanish researchers were analyzed, and their 2016–2020 tweets were compared to those of 38 Twitter/X influencers. Text mining techniques, sentiment and emotion analysis, network analysis, and the Kardashian index (K-index) were used in the study.Results: The results indicated a low academic presence of researchers (4.4%) on Twitter/X. The researchers shared 185,020 posts (38.7% original content and 61.3% retweets). A network analysis revealed low interconnectivity among researchers, with distinct clusters based on their interests or affiliations. The top influencers had strong connections with the news media. The researchers focused minimally on academic topics, while the influencers emphasized the dissemination of scientific findings. The impact of the researchers’ posts was minimal, with low K-index values, whereas the influencers had greater reach because of their follower base.Conclusion: When using Twitter/X, the researchers had a minimal impact on the dissemination of scientific information because they published few original posts and relied instead on retweets unrelated to their academic or research activities. Consequently, the researchers did not use Twitter/X as a tool for scientific communication, which limited the potential for forming new connections beyond their existing social and academic networks. Promoting informal learning that encompasses diverse knowledge and learning levels is crucial to fostering greater engagement and collaboration.

Applicant Perception and Content Exploration of the 2024 podiatric Residency Interview Process

Considerable resources are dedicated on an annual basis to the podiatric medicine and surgery residency interview by both students and programs. Despite this, relatively little is known about student perception of the process, nor the format and content of interview. The objective of this investigation was to study and organize experiences of fourth-year podiatric medical students following the 2024 Centralized Residency Interview Program (CRIP) process. An anonymous and voluntary survey was developed and made available to fourth year podiatric medical students. It was relatively common for there to be academic, social/personal, case work-up, and rapid-fire academic question components to the interview. It was also very common to be provided with the opportunity to ask programs questions. It was relatively uncommon for there to be ethical/moral questions, personality/psychologic assessments, logic assessments, and hands-on demonstrations. The most common hands-on demonstrations were suturing, hand ties and performance of fixation principles. Relatively high yield academic topics included plain film radiography interpretation, rearfoot/ankle osseous trauma, diabetic foot infection, advanced imaging interpretation, and fixation constructs/principles. When evaluating programs, students placed high value on surgical volume, surgical variety, relative resident autonomy, program location, exposure to outpatient clinics, salary, future connections as a program alumnus, unique off-service rotations, exposure to business management/coding/billing, scope of practice, exposure to inpatient management, resident salary, and who the senior co-residents would be. The results of this investigation provide unique information for both medical students and residency programs with respect to the perception, format and content of the podiatric residency interview process.

PUBLIC POLICIES AND SISTERS BETWEEN EFFICACITY AND EFFICIENCY

This research paper falls within the framework of a series of academic topics concerned with the study of the management of national (public) and territorial public affairs, in evocation of pioneering international experiences in the field of general, public and local policies, such as Anglo-Saxon and Francophone jurisprudences, with a focus on the experiences of monarchy systems as the structure it is ideal for formulating, preparing, and implementing an effective and efficience public policy, since it goes with the state in time and place, and revolves with it wherever it goes. Perhaps Morocco is among the “monarchies” that adopt that level of policies, with all the uniqueness and privacy that this entails modern and contemporary Western experiences, with an attempt to shed light on the correct concept of “General policy” that takes into account the peculiarities of the Moroccan system with its political, social and organizational dimensions, in the absence of an updated and accurate concept of that concept that aims primarily at the continuity of the state in space and time, in an integrated and harmonious meeting with national public policies through administrative deconcentration on the one hand, and talking, by the way, about the overlap or confusion that occurs between the concepts of general and public policies, and on the other hand, between territorial policies through the decentralized system, which constitute the link between this and that, and the resulting territorial groups and entities that have come to take the lead in local development through their local councils.

Interdisciplinary public engagement: untapped potential?

Public engagement projects developed by university-based academics tend to focus on specific academic topics. Yet, the problems and topics that our audiences want to engage with are broad, challenging, and can't be explained or solved by a single academic subject or expertise. In this article, we capitalise on our experience working with academics at the University of Oxford, and a workshop for public engagement professionals that we co-organised with the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement, to advocate for a novel approach: interdisciplinary public engagement (public engagement projects that bring together academics from several academic disciplines). We consider the potential benefits and the challenges of this approach and provide examples of how it is starting to be explored.

Merging Historical Feminist Fiction-Based Research With the Craft of Fiction Writing: Engaging Readers in Complex Academic Topics Through Story

Drawing from the literature and the historical fiction-based feminist antimilitarist research I conducted in writing my debut novel, A Sea of Spectres, this article discusses the what and why of fiction-based research. I detail how to: (a) move from inspiration to fiction-based research; (b) frame the research; (c) develop research questions; (d) and embed theory and data in the story through applying the craft of fiction writing. My aim with fiction-based research is to create compelling characters situated in historical and contemporary settings in order to draw readers into engaging and accessible stories that help them learn about themselves, their understandings of others, and their relationships to society. I conclude with recommendations for conducting fiction-based research; delve into the methodology of fiction-based research; study the craft of writing fiction; read in related genre(s); abide by the ethics of fiction and fiction-based research; and learn about the fiction publishing process.

Interpreting and processing side-scan sonar data with the objective of further automation

One of the most effective tools of remote sensing and visualization of underwater surfaces and objects are acoustic devices, in particular side-scan sonars (SSS). Recently, largely due to the emergence of affordable devices, the geography and scope of application of this device has been significantly expanded. Meanwhile, despite certain progress achieved in terms of improving and minimizing the SSS hardware, the software used remains, in general, at a basic level, providing the operator mainly with a simple tool for visualizing benthic environments and data recording for further post-processing. Existing experience in SSS exploitation reveals that the key issue of interpreting acoustic images lies in the physical essence of their acquisition. Arguably, attempts to implement methods of automated interpretation of optical images have no perspective. Hence, the objective of this paper is to provide a theoretical and practical background of SSS data interpretation and processing. A layout for the potential automation of this process is provided with the objective of eliminating human operation in the process of conducting survey and search operations. The authors consider the conditions of SSS exploitation including special attention to such issues as the vastness of search areas, which, as argued is the key problem of data and data pattern recognition. SSS image recognition is an issue relevant for a wide range of academic topics such as geometric distortion, image recognition, and navigation satellite system target localization.

Research on the applications of natural language processing

In recent years, there has been a rapid advancement in natural language processing (NLP), leading to notable improvements in areas like sentiment analysis, machine translation, and text recognition. However, belonging to the same field under AI, the research materials and academic topics of NLP are not so adequate. Therefore, this paper introduces and shows the reader a general introduction to NLP for the current research environment, so that the reader can clearly understand the history of NLP, its uses, and the current and future research directions. It also analyzes the current mainstream applications of NLP, including the most basic Rule Based method and the more popular deep learning, development of pre-trained language models such as GPT. Besides, this article also analyzes the current mainstream application scenarios of NLP and its related use of technology, so that readers can have a clearer picture of the research direction of NLP. At the end, this paper also summarizes the general development of NLP, research methods, and application scenarios to provides an outlook on the future development of NLP with respect to these points.

An Empirical Analysis of the Influencing Factor of International Reserve

International reserve refers to the assets that a country 's monetary authority can use to intervene in the foreign exchange market and pay the balance of payments at any time. With the development of China 's foreign economy, China 's foreign exchange reserves have grown rapidly since 1995, reaching a peak of $ 3.84 trillion in 2014.For a long time, international reserves have become one of the important academic topics actively studied and discussed by many economists at home and abroad. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of various macroeconomic indicators on the scale of international reserves, in order to find out the most significant indicators that affect the scale of international reserves, and to provide a theoretical basis for optimizing international reserve management. By using Eviews to conduct a regression analysis on the data of the China statistic yearbook from 1981 to 2021, this paper attempts to find out the factor that influences the international reserve and put forward advice for improving international reserve management. According to the investigation of international reserves, economic scale, average import tendency and exchange rate, the final conclusion is that the impact of economic scale and average import tendency on the scale of international reserves is significant.

Changes in modern university: challenges of today and development trends

Education is a process of interaction and communication among all participants, in which each of them has an impact on the outcome. Today, in the conditions of the modern world, cooperation between the teacher and the student acquires new forms and characteristics. The teacher is no longer just a source of knowledge but becomes a partner and helper for the student. The quality of communication between the student and the teacher depends on their readiness for dialogue and mutual understanding, absence of coercion and orders. A comprehensive approach to education and communication allows for a deep understanding of the processes and their improvement. Higher education institutions need to pay special attention to issues of strategic communication development, branding, and image. Clear and well-planned communication systems should be implemented at the level of structural units in order to achieve success. Providing adequate material and technical resources as well as information and communication technologies is crucial for effective use of various teaching methods and forms. However, communication between a teacher and a student should not only be about academic topics, but also about support, motivation, and personal development.

An SPSS Analysis of The Effects of a Smartphone Game That Incorporates Learning

A mobile game for smartphones with an educational purpose attempts to amuse players while simultaneously delivering educational information and encouraging the development of skills and expertise. In order to create an exciting and stimulating learning experience, these games work to combine fun and engagement with instructional components. Players can engage in game play elements and challenges inside these games that are intended to promote creativity, problem-solving, and learning. The educational material covers a wide range of academic topics, including maths, science, language study, history, geography, & critical thinking. Mobile learning games' ability to enhance education by actively involving students, promoting knowledge acquisition, and enhancing motivation is the main research emphasis. Research can look at how these games affect learning outcomes, what motivates involvement, how they can be customised, how they can transfer skills, how they can be assessed, and how they affect educational inequalities. Understanding these factors can help educators design evidence-based solutions and successfully integrate game-based learning techniques into classroom settings. For statistical analysis purposes, the software programme known as SPSS, or Statistical Package für Social Sciences, is widely used in a variety of fields, including business, research on markets, healthcare, and the social sciences. The IBM-developed statistical analysis tool SPSS provides a wide range of tools and approaches for managing, preparing, and analysing data. Using the extensive tools and capabilities offered by SPSS, researchers and analysts can successfully carry out tasks like data purification, manipulation of data, and data transformation.

Research on the Profit Model of Tiktok Live Broadcast E-commerce Platform

With the arrival of the 5G era, the live broadcast e-commerce market, an important emerging market, has greatly impacted the traditional market. In the research significance based on the theoretical value level, it is undeniable that there are many academic topics and papers on the analysis of Tiktok’s profit model. Still, only some in-depth studies analyze Tiktok’s profit model from a long-term perspective. This paper takes the Tiktok live broadcast e-commerce platform as the research object, studies the profit model of Tiktok from three aspects: Tiktok advertising marketing competition, online celebrity live broadcast and reward, and discusses the competition strategy of Tiktok three aspects: big data algorithm, platform integration method, and preventing multiple ownership of live broadcast e-commerce. Finally, it proposes to build a professional after-sales team; Optimize and improve the supervision system; Cooperate with the counterfeit identification platform; Promote through big data analysis; Tiktok lives broadcast e-commerce platform needs innovation and other suggestions.

Factors Influencing The Implementation Of Health Service Quality Governance In Puskesmas: Systematic Review

Puskesmas is a health service facility that organizes public health efforts and individual health efforts at the first level, by prioritizing promotive and preventive efforts in their working areas. Puskesmas as health service providers for the community must provide excellent service that meets community expectations. Puskesmas need effective quality governance, service performance, service procedures, and resources used to provide primary services as efficiently as possible. Service quality is an important factor that refers to the level of service perfection. Efforts to guarantee the quality of puskesmas are carried out through an accreditation survey which is carried out every 3 years. This study aims to look at the factors that influence the quality of health services at puskesmas from various literatures. To collect and synthesize previous information, this study used a Systematic Literature Review search approach with the PRISMA method, using databases related to medical and academic topics, media publications, Google Scholar. Factors that influence the implementation of health service quality governance at the puskesmas consist of structural factors such as physical facilities, human resources, the leadership role of the head of the puskesmas, access to services, facilities and infrastructure, budget, medical devices, and other facilities, process factors consist of the PDCA method (Planning, Doing, Checking, Actuating), as well as the outcome factors in the form of success on the level of service and degree of public health. The availability of resources, the implementation process carried out by the puskesmas has an impact on the quality of health services provided, as well as having an impact on the output achievements, and the accreditation results of the puskesmas

Телевизийн хөгжөөнт нэвтрүүлгийн загварыг академик англи хэлний хичээлд ашигласан туршилт судалгаа

Nowadays, we are trying to teach academic English which covers a variety of academic disciplinary areas, with a comprehensive program in a tight schedule. It is hard to use activities which are interesting and engaging but require a quite long time in every lesson. Students should develop the ability to read texts on familiar, basic academic topics covering psychology computer and information technology, sociology, geology, humanity and ethical issues in scientific research with an emphasis on vocabulary expansion and application of critical reading skills in intermediate academic level. They review basic English sentence structures and develop the ability to write accurate, fluent, multiple sentences about basic academic topics with an emphasis on the use of specific detail and sentence combining in paragraphs and essays. In Oral Communication, Students need to develop speaking and listening skills necessary for participating in classroom discussions and expressing their opinions with critical listening skills. The most appropriate activity which can meet requirements of recalling, reviewing and reinforcing what they learn in a short period of time is a quiz, a form of game or mind sport in which participants attempt to answer questions correctly. There are many activities which improve students’ motivation and attention, make lessons more active, more engaging and more fun, such as Hangman, Bingo, Where is ….? etc. But, the method we experimented enables to include a full semester and an academic year’s contents and is distinctive to cover all skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking). It can be very interesting, effective, motivating and reinforcing. After teaching experimental lesson which based on this pattern, we studied the results while comparing the experimental class to checkpoint class. Here we present the compared results of exam grade and student satisfaction survey after taking exam according to the topics which we reviewed in the experimental lesson.

COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS USED BY TED TALK SPEAKERS TO ATTRACT THEIR AUDIENCES

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. It is a global set of conferences that has now broadened its focus to include talks on many scientific, cultural, and academic topics (ted.com). This research aimed to identify the kinds of communicative functions used by speakers in TED Talks and which communicative functions are used the most by the speakers to attract their audiences. There were two basic data involved in this study. The first data were TED Talks audio-visual recordings. There were six videos used in this study. The second data was the transcript of the TED Talks. This research adopted the purposive sampling method. The analysis of the functional communicative profile has shown that some communicative functions are used in the same way by TED Talk speakers. Some other functions are more frequently used than others. The most frequently used were the heuristic communicative function and interactional communicative function. This study is expected to enrich the knowledge of teachers and practitioners whose daily lives are close to public speaking and better understand what makes certain public talks and speeches succeeded to captivate their viewers.
 

The Life of Pioneering Amish Studies Scholar Walter Kollmorgen: Transcript of the Reschly-Jellison Interviews

On March 20, 1994, we interviewed Walter Kollmorgen. Reschly also conducted a follow-up interview March 8, 1995. Herein, we provide the transcripts of these interviews, which are of particular historical value since Kollmorgen was one of Amish studies’ first researchers. Kollmorgen was a native speaker of German from having grown up in a Lutheran family in rural Nebraska. He and his younger sister, Johanna, both contracted polio at a very young age. The combination of German and physical limitations enabled both to establish rapport in a short time with the Amish community in Lancaster County for his rural community study. It seems he communicated more with male leaders than female members, so his observations about women in the community were fairly general. He offered several insights concerning the internal politics at the USDA and the sources of the impulse to research rural communities on a theorized stability-instability continuum. Several officials were quite attracted to the Amish lifestyle, for example. As a geographer, Kollmorgen moved on to other academic topics during a long career at the University of Kansas and he often had to search his memory to recall aspects of his research in Lancaster County. Without much previous work to build on, Kollmorgen produced one of the first scholarly studies of Amish sociology, oriented to the questions of how and why they survived the Great Depression economically and culturally. [Abstract by author.]

Philosophy Talk

Produced by Stanford University and KALW public media, Philosophy Talk is the streaming platform for the public radio program that has been on the air for almost 20 years. The philosophers and their diverse guests discuss a wide range of academic topics in an accessible and engaging manner, and there is content to support disciplines across academia, including literature, history, dance, art, political science, business, and gender studies.

Teen Brides, Migrant Husbands and Religious Schooling

In many Muslim communities across South Asia, children and adolescents access education through religious institutions such as madrassa. When analysing the impact of madrassa on gender equity and empowerment, many scholars downplay feminist criticism of these institutions on the basis that even non-religious schools promote traditional gender roles in the global south. Some research on Bangladesh explains that ‘modernised’ or government-recognised madrassa, where students learn secular academic topics in addition to Arabic and Quranic verses, help boost female educational attainment in conservative communities. In addition, scholars often resist criticism of madrassa and other local practices such as early marriage in the name of understanding non-Western norms and ideals. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in remote villages of northern Bangladesh, this paper analyses the impact of religious schooling on young women’s everyday lives and perspectives through the experiences of young brides who are married to labour migrant men. Some of these brides have attended secular school while others have attended traditional madrassa, and I attempt to understand how their educational backgrounds have informed their views on marriage and gender roles. In this article, I contest the claim that religious schooling and early marriage can facilitate rural women’s agency. I argue that advocating for modernised madrassa is problematic, unless the conflicting impacts of unrecognised/traditional madrassa on women’s agency are acknowledged.