Active Partners Research Articles

Theoretic Trends in Private-Public Partnership Research: Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract This paper conducted detailed research on publication activity in the public-private partnership (PPP) field based on bibliometric analysis. The main aim was to research the different literature materials and systematize trends and priority fields of PPP research. Scopus tools were used to determine the dynamics of the number of indexed publications, research belonging to the country and journals, and the branch structure of publication activity on the research topic, highlighting academics’ contributions in the PPP research field by the number of citations and published papers. The search for the most relevant publications used the key concept of “private-public partnership” in titles, abstracts, and keywords in the bibliometric database Scopus for 1952 - 2022. VOSviewer software is used to build network maps of keyword compatibility, collaborate with authors by country, and measure the research time. Based on the results of the literature review, conclusions are drawn about the growing dynamics of the number of publications in the PPP field; 3 stages of scientific interest in PPP research are identified; the multidisciplinary nature of the concept under study is confirmed; the PPP term is clarified; 7 clusters that characterize the main areas of research in the field of PPP are identified; the leading countries and the most cited authors are identified by their affiliation to a particular country; it is established that the intensive development of scientific research in PPP in the countries of the world took place in the period 2010-2014; the development of PPP in CEE and Ukraine is characterized.

Assistance in Digitalization of Marketing and Customer Satisfaction Programs at MSMEs Batika Indonesia

Batik is one of Indonesia's cultural heritages that is already very well-known at the international level and has been designated by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage. Technological developments have a strong impact on business strategies carried out by MSMEs, one of which is in the aspect of marketing strategy. The purpose of this community service activity is to assist MSMEs in developing marketing strategies through promotion and measuring customer satisfaction. The activity partner is MSMEs Batika Indonesia, which is mainly engaged in batik bags. The mentoring program implemented is to develop digital marketing content, develop promotional tools and compile instruments to measure customer satisfaction. The achievements of this activity are the increasing variety of digital marketing content and the level of consumer satisfaction is measured.

Interbrain neural correlates of self and other integration in joint statistical learning

While statistical learning is often studied individually, its collective representation through self-other integration remains unclear. This study examines dynamic self-other integration and its multi-brain mechanism using simultaneous recordings from dyads. Participants (N = 112) each repeatedly responded to half of a fixed stimulus sequence with either an active partner (joint context) or a passive observer (baseline context). Significant individual statistical learning was evident in the joint context, characterized by decreased reaction time (RT) and intra-brain neural responses, followed by a quadratic trend (i.e., first increasing and then decreasing) upon insertion of an interference sequence. More importantly, Brain-to-Brain Coupling (BtBC) in the theta band also showed learning and modulation-related trends, with its slope negatively and positively correlating with the slopes of RT and intra-brain functional connectivity, respectively. These results highlight the dynamic nature of self-other integration in joint statistical learning, with statistical regularities implicitly and spontaneously modulating this process. Notably, the BtBC serves as a key neural correlate underlying the dynamics of self-other integration.

Ohio's Regional Manufacturing Workforce Partnerships: Governing a Common Pool Resource

Ohio's manufacturing industry sector partnerships (ISP) are economic development and workforce development efforts that rely on community development inputs. The authors posit that graduates of regional, sector-led, industry-specific workforce training programs constitute a common pool resource, as described by Elinor Ostrom, because while hiring graduates is rival, it is not excludable. This creates a workforce version of the tragedy of the commons because these programs often have experiential learning components in workplaces and require funding support, mentoring, and the long-term commitment of company leaders to a partnership. The training programs will flounder if participating employers do not earn a return on their resource expenditures. The output of the partnership program is trained workers, while its primary outcome is the production of goods and services. The economic mobility of the recipients of ISP training is a by-product, or secondary outcome, of the partnership's activities

TRAINING IN MAKING CORRESPONDENCE AND FINANCIAL REPORTS USING MICROSOFT WORD AND MICROSOFT EXCEL APPLICATIONS AT RT.05 RW.01 CIPAYUNG JAYA DISTRICT, DEPOK CITY

Community service activity partners are in the RT area in RT.05, RW.01, Cipayung Jaya Village, Cipayung District, Depok City. Based on the existing problems, the RT 05 administrators make correspondence and financial reports manually and make financial reports by hand in the ledger, so that there are often difficulties in searching for data, data loss, and file damage. To overcome the problem, the solution provided is to carry out counseling and training activities for the administrators of RT.05, RW.01, Cipayung Jaya Village, Cipayung District, Depok City in making correspondence using MS Word and Financial Reports using the MS Excel application. This activity provides a solution by utilizing and maximizing the tools and functions in MS Word and MS Excel so that it can provide convenience. Efficient in compiling correspondence and financial reports in order to improve the quality of service of RT/RW administrators in serving the community. The results of this community service activity are an increase in knowledge and skills by 70%. The implementation went smoothly, and participants were very enthusiastic in participating both in terms of attendance and in submitting questions and experiences related to correspondence and financial reports using MS Word and MS Excel applications

Disaster Management Strategy Through Social Capital Development

Indonesia is one of the countries with the highest level of natural disaster vulnerability in the world due to extreme geographical and climate conditions. In facing this risk, the government has implemented a disaster management policy based on community involvement. One important aspect in this approach is social capital, which includes social participation, interpersonal trust, and community networks, as a crucial component to strengthen community resilience. This study explores the role of the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) in Lampung Province in developing weather literacy and disaster mitigation programs through digital media to build social capital in the community. The results of the study show that although BMKG has succeeded in increasing community participation through digital channels, community involvement is currently still passive and limited. To achieve comprehensive disaster preparedness, it is necessary to increase active community participation, strengthen trust through two-way communication, and expand community networks. With a social capital-based approach, BMKG is expected to be able to create a more responsive and adaptive mitigation program, making the community an active partner in facing the threat of disasters in the future.

Scotland’s Student Learning Experience model: building partnership in quality in a tertiary context

Since 2003, student engagement has been a key pillar of Scotland’s higher education Quality Enhancement Framework, through which sparqs, Scotland’s pioneering student engagement agency, was founded. A key tool underpinning this has been sparqs’ Student Learning Experience (SLE) model, created in 2006 from Scotland’s quality arrangements for colleges and placed at the heart of sparqs’ course rep training. The SLE model is designed to support conversations between students and staff to identify priorities to enhance the quality of learning. In 2021, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) announced the development of a new tertiary quality framework which would aim to put the experiences of students at the centre of the sector’s approach. sparqs identified the potential of the SLE model to fulfill this purpose and in 2021 was commissioned by the SFC to redevelop and embed the model in Scotland’s forthcoming tertiary quality arrangements. A distinct aspect of the redeveloped SLE model is that the building blocks, lenses and reflective questions are founded upon the views of students across Scotland about what makes an excellent quality learning experience. Throughout 2022 and 2023, sparqs worked with hundreds of students, alongside staff from students’ associations, institutions and sector agencies, to develop the SLE model. That it will remain at the core of course rep training, while also now rooted in quality arrangements, presents a significant opportunity for deeper synergy in understandings of the enhancement of learning and teaching. This article will introduce the SLE model, how conceptualisation of the student learning experience has evolved in policy, practice and literature, and the methodology behind the creation of the new model. It will then describe applications of the model for practice in academic development, course-level student-staff partnership, and strategies for quality enhancement. The article will conclude with next steps in the future of tertiary quality, in which students can be full, active partners in shaping their learning.

Co-Creation through scholarship. The Queen Mary Academy learner interns' programme

Since 2021, the Queen Mary Academy (QMA) at Queen Mary University of London has been running its Learner Interns Programme (LIP). The aim of the LIP is to support educators to undertake student-voice scholarship projects in collaboration with our diverse learner population by annually hiring interns to work on projects. In 2023-24, over 140 applications were received. The poster will discuss how learning and development, for both staff and students, occurs via instigation of such research projects, valuing learner expertise and agency. Student engagement is an element of the Queen Mary Academic Careers Framework which supports academic career paths, and engagement with the LIP has the potential for educators to develop evidence for this. Examples showed how educators deepen their approach to reflection and identified opportunities to leverage research avenues with students as active partners, contributing to their scholarly profiles. As a complimentary point, examples of how interns develop critical thinking and communication skills within academic contexts were shared, covering how interns’ exposure to research helps prepare them for professional roles. The origin and evolution of the LIP was outlined, alongside approaches to intern recruitment, onboarding, co-responsibility training, and community building, that subsequently provide opportunities for the professional development of support colleagues who are involved. Delegates took away ideas around valuing students as partners within structured internships, with direct quotes from educators and support colleagues describing the impact this initiative has had on their professional development. This approach was displayed as an effective example of educational learning development, underpinned by student involvement, for which others may wish to copy its approach or explore potential future collaborations with Queen Mary.

Muslim women's work

Islam's view of women and their rights is a multifaceted view. Islam’s view of women includes all their aspects and roles, therefore respecting their rights in society as human beings also as a mother, a sister and as a daughter. For each of these women’s status (human being, mother, sister, girl), Islam assigned the rights and fair duties to them and saved them from the oppression of ignorance that has been done to them. Islam also has raised their status and given them the right to participate in building society and improving their levels and abilities. The ruling on women working outside the home is one of the issues that is debated in Islamic centres, Jurisprudence and religious centres have conducted detailed research in this area. If we look at human society today, we see that many women have proved their skills in their work and expertise. They have an active partnership in the development of societies in all areas, even some of those areas that cannot be done without women and without women's participation are close to disability and immobility. At the same time, the work of women in societies has created some problems for society, and women themselves have increased their obligations because of their work and has caused some social problems, including increased crisis and delay in marriage as well as some crimes and other problems. This research aims to discuss the ruling on women working outside the home and determine the conditions and guidelines of this issue and the appropriate places that exist for women to work and the impact of women's work in the economic development of countries and societies. It raises all these from the perspective of Islamic jurisprudence.

Fatherhood in the context of preterm birth: A narrative review of contemporary research evidence

AbstractLong focused on maternal roles in infancy, research is now exploring fathers' contributions to child development. Current public policy emphasizes early prevention and intervention for child and parent well‐being, especially for at‐risk infants such as those born prematurely. A literature review was conducted following the approach of a narrative review, to examine fatherhood in the context of preterm birth, highlighting the stress and emotional vulnerability experienced by fathers of preterm infants. Promoting early paternal presence and involvement in infant care helps fathers cope with this emotionally challenging experience. Despite limited data on premature fatherhood, fathers are active partners in dyadic interactions and play a significant role in their infant's neonatal intensive care unit journey and family dynamics. The discussion underscores the importance of father‐focused interventions and the paternal contribution to child development, framed within the authors' proposed integrative and developmental model of the family triad.

A mixed-method investigation of faculty perspectives on the benefits and challenges of engaging in student partnership activities in science

There is a growing interest within higher education to engage with students as partners to reposition students from consumers to producers of knowledge. The purpose of this study was to gather insights into the benefits, barriers/challenges, and best practices for engaging in student-faculty partnership activities for science faculty members. Supervising or working with graduate teaching assistants, working with students on university committees, collaborating with undergraduate or graduate students on a new or existing research project, and co-authoring manuscripts with graduate students were regarded as the most impactful partnership activities. Common benefits of student partnership activities included: collaboration and relationship building, broadening perspectives and gaining feedback, personal satisfaction, and institutional and career-related benefits. Common barriers/challenges reported were interpersonal dynamics and maintaining relationships, student management, and external influences. Best practices consisted of planning and setting expectations, developing students’ agency, using open communication, and facilitating peer-to-peer collaboration and peer mentoring.

Pemberdayaan Kelompok Penggerak Pariwisata (Kompepar) Pasir Batang melalui Pembuatan Pembibitan Tanaman Rehabilitasi

The partner or target group for this community service activity is Kompepar Pasir Batang which is located in Karangsari Village, Darma District, Kuningan Regency. The activity area of Kompepar is the Pasir Batang Block which is part of the Gunung Ciremai National Park area. One of the problems faced by these partners is the difficulty of obtaining plant for rehabilitation activities around the partner's activity locations. Therefore, the aim of this service activity is to help provide a nursery for types of rehabilitation plants. The implementation methods used are counseling, training and empowerment. This activity can run smoothly as expected. This activity also received appreciation from the local village government and received full support from partners. Partners are actively involved in every stage of the activity. For the sustainability of the program, assistance by the Community Service Team will also continue so that the positive impact of the activities can be felt in real terms by many parties.

Navigating the seas of the curriculum: A mathematics teacher’s interactions with curriculum materials

Curriculum materials are not a fixed object; they are an active partner in a teacher’s practice. Teachers and curriculum materials interact in a participatory relationship where both the characteristics of the teacher and the characteristics of the curriculum material affect the instruction. Teachers interpret and tailor these materials to create particular instructional strategies, therefore, teachers can be considered as lesson designers. The study presented in this paper uses longitudinal case study design to investigate the relationship between a mathematics teacher and curriculum materials over a period of nine years. Using the lens of curricular noticing, the study examined what the teacher attends to, interprets and responds to while planning a lesson. Data collection occurred at four distinct time points, encompassing both teacher observations during lesson planning and interviews after lesson planning, as well as the teacher’s lesson plans for the same topic at each time point. The obtained longitudinal data provided comprehensive insights into how the teacher’s curricular noticing changed over time and how it affected the teacher’s practice. The findings show that the teacher attended the national curriculum and textbook at all four time points, indicating the stability of these particular resources; however, the interpretation of the textbook elements and response to this interpretation changed significantly. The teacher’s practice became more student-centered and inquiry-oriented. The implications of the study are also discussed.

Community Partnerships in Digital Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Review

ABSTRACTCommunity partnerships with libraries, archives, and museums are increasingly recognized as essential to developing and stewarding complete, accurate, and equitable digital cultural records. While research and practice in this area has burgeoned, there is limited empirical research characterizing the state of the field. This study offers preliminary findings of a systematic, state‐of‐the‐art review of community‐institutional partnerships in digital cultural heritage collections and initiatives. This review systematically identifies wide‐ranging, active community partnerships among relevant institutions and their high‐level objectives, and a correlated array of approaches taken in pursuit of those objectives. The resulting conceptual framework and open access dataset form the base of a toolkit supporting community‐institutional partnerships for a more sustainable, community‐centered cultural record.

ОПТИМІЗАЦІЯ ІННОВАЦІЙНИХ БІЗНЕС-ПРОЦЕСІВ В СИСТЕМІ УПРАВЛІННЯ ЛАНЦЮГАМИ ВАРТОСТІ

The article examines applied aspects of implementing the strategy of clustering the national economy based on the optimization of integrated value chains in the context of globalization challenges. The peculiarities of organizational-procedural and communicative-network support of business processes under the conditions of clustering of socio-economic systems are determined. The components of managing the processes of administration and implementation of the innovative potential of integrated production chains in the context of digital development and the format of optimization parameters were formed: intellectual capital; entrepreneurial potential; dominant technologies (level and possibilities of technology development in this area); industry localization (industry environment, market segments); information innovation infrastructure (environment of targeted integrated interaction). The evolution of the concept of integrated value chains in the context of their application in partnership activities of enterprises was considered, their mutual influence and combination, features and advantages were studied. The expediency of using the theory of digital business process management systems in business network structures and value chains is substantiated. The prospects for the use of integrated solutions are outlined, which allow creating a significant synergy of innovative network concepts, ensuring the overcoming of information asymmetry, and moving to an emergent level of business process management. Thus, the integrated value chain gradually expands from the production area to system processes in marketing, scientific and technical activities, financial support, sales process and service activities. A positive characteristic of this is the acquisition of invaluable experience in the systematic management of business processes and the implementation of innovative solutions to optimize the processes of increasing the value of enterprises in the strategic sector of the economy. Therefore, taking into account the current trends in the manifestation of innovative business processes in the digital administration system, one should possess the tools of the analog and digital management model when determining the profile of the business processes of filling the integrated value chain.

Home self-testing of complete blood counts in patients with breast cancer during chemotherapy: A proof-of-concept cohort study in e-oncology.

Before administration of myelosuppressive chemotherapy, complete blood counts (CBC) collected at the hospital/nursing stations are evaluated to avoid severe bone marrow suppression. This maintains disease fixation which often reduces their quality of life. This mixed-method study examined at home self-testing of CBC, the test quality, and the effects on patients' mental well-being. Patients with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy were recruited and trained to perform capillary finger prick CBC testing at home using the HemoScreen Point-of-Care instrument and to upload the test results to the hospital's IT system subsequently. A venous reference CBC sample was taken and tested at the hospital on the day of self-testing. Semi-structured interviews with open-ended components were performed to investigate the user experience and the impact of self-testing on the patients' everyday lives. Thirty-nine patients completed the self-testing education using the HemoScreen instrument. Eight patients withdrew, while the remaining 31 patients performed 161 home tests (2-11 tests per patient) over a 4-month period. The test results compared well with the venous reference CBCs except for platelet counts (correlation coefficient 0.26). Qualitative interviews with nine of the 31 patients emphasized that the patients were comfortable using the self-testing instrument and becoming an active partner in their own treatment. CBC self-testing at home produced clinically valid hemoglobin and white blood cell counts with the added benefit that the patients became active partners in their own treatment course, which was of great importance for the patients and increased their wellbeing.

Increased Distress in Neurooncological Patients, a Monocentric Longitudinal Study: When to Screen Which Patient?

Neurooncological patients are well-known to experience an increased psycho-oncological burden with a negative impact on distress, therapy adherence, quality of life, and finally survival. But still, psycho-oncological screening and support is rare, with ongoing discussion about specific screening time points and impact factors. Therefore, we analysed the psycho-oncologic treatment demand at specific disease-related time points throughout therapy. In this longitudinal, prospective, single-centre study, patients with malignant brain tumours were screened for increased distress (using the Distress Thermometer), anxiety, depression (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale questionnaire), and health-related quality of life interference (EORTC QLQ C30-BN20 questionnaire) at specific longitudinal time points during therapy. The results were correlated with sociodemographic and clinical data. From 2013 to 2017, 2500 prospective screening data points from 512 malignant brain tumour patients were analysed. DT was identified as a significant predictor for psycho-oncological treatment demand (p < 0.001). Particularly significant time points concerning psycho-oncological burden were primary diagnosis and tumour recurrence. Next to these known factors, here, patients < 65 years old and female patients (p = 0.018 and p = 0.017) reflected increased screening results, whereas partnership and professional activity (p = 0.043; p = 0.017) were identified as contributing factors to a significantly decreased treatment demand. The increased need for psycho-oncological support for neurooncological patients is underlined. Psycho-oncological support should particularly be offered at the time points of primary diagnosis and tumour recurrence. To support the positive effect of caregivers, they should be involved at an early stage.

Involving Experts by Experience in Craniofacial Research.

Many areas of health research increasingly involve end users of research (typically patients and their families/caregivers) in study design, management, and dissemination. Beyond recruiting patients as research participants, the shift is towards engaging patients, parents and caregivers as active partners on the research team, who are recognised and valued as 'experts-by-experience' (EbyE). Currently, involving EbyE is not routine in global craniofacial research. This paper highlights the value of EbyE involvement, addresses how to incorporate EbyE at all stages of research and discusses key considerations in facilitating positive experiences for EbyE.

Coordinating a growing data enterprise: strategies for facilitating multiple research-practice relationships for the public good.

It takes time, energy, and goodwill to start a data partnership. The corollary to this truism is that maintaining and expanding such partnerships will demand as much, if not more, of these resources. Learn about the strategies we are using to expand our ability to produce rigorous, policy-relevant evidence to combat poverty and inequality while staying committed to addressing the needs of our long-term partners. Developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), the Wisconsin Administrative Data Core (WADC) evolved from a series of large-scale evaluation projects conducted for the state starting in the 1980s. This data enterprise, built by linking administrative data from multiple agencies, allows for cross-program analyses that are otherwise impossible. Increased turnover since the pandemic coupled with more formalized data governance structures has highlighted the importance of maintaining good relationships and providing value back to partners who devote scarce bandwidth to sharing data. At the same time, we are adding new agency partners and working to increase usage of the WADC. These changes multiply the complexity involved in coordinating the data enterprise. We are adapting to this new world by focusing on relationships: creating formal structures that deepen the network of direct relationships among agency staff and researchers, taking advantage of increased turnover by hiring staff who have worked in state agencies, and seeking agency partners who want to be active partners versus data providers. More solid relationships will yield more policy-relevant research that agencies can use to better serve the state.

Penguatan Konsep Bernalar pada Pembelajaran Matematika Melalui Workshop Matematika Bagi Guru Segugus II Leuwiliang Bogor

Mathematics requires unique teaching strategies so that abstract things that are never seen in real life can be rationally accepted by students, especially at the elementary school level. So students must be given the opportunity to learn through meaningful experiences so that they are able to understand concepts correctly. Reasoning mathematics learning means that the thinking process occurs when learning mathematics. Active involvement of students in the learning process is an absolute requirement for the ability to interpret basic concepts in mathematics. The basic concepts understood will be internalized as long-term mathematical knowledge. How to explain the concept of area of flat shapes to students is a challenge for elementary school teachers. This service activity aims to reinforce to teachers the importance of the concept of reasoning in mathematics learning. The partners for this community service activity are Public Elementary Schools in Cluster II, Leuwiliang District, Bogor Regency, which consists of 6 Public Elementary Schools. Through this activity, it is hoped that teachers will continue to develop their competencies and increase their capacity so that they become professional teachers. The service activities went well, the activity participants gave positive responses and stated that the training was very useful for improving teachers' professional competence and the quality of mathematics learning.