Cognate Literature Research Articles

Utilization of Smart Board Technology in Textile Design Instruction for Enhancement of Performance in Junior Secondary School in Central Senatorial District, Bayelsa State.

This study, titled Utilization of Smart Board Technology In Textile Design Instruction For Enhancement Of Performance In Junior Secondary School In Central Senatorial District, Bayelsa State will be carried out to investigate the factors responsible the unavailability of smart boards to teach students in secondary schools in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Smart board is also known as interactive white board or is a large interactive board display board in the form of a white board. The interesting aspect of the board is that it is electronically operated and pictorial images are usually presented through it. Unfortunately, despite the commendable services smart board renders, it is observed that it is not available especially the teaching of textile in most secondary schools in Bayelsa State. This situation is grossly hampering on students’ academic performance. Thus, in a bid to remedy the situation this study will outlines six objectives, research questions and hypothesis to guide the study. The study will review some cognate literatures in course of the study. Stimulus-response and master learning theories will form the theoretical framework for the study. The study will adopt correlational research design. To test the reliability of the instrument, the Spearman Browns Prophetic Formula will be used to test the result. Mean scores ranked order and standard deviation will be used to analyse the research questions. Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient will be used as statistical tool to analyse the hypothesis. The four hypotheses postulated will be tested using t-test at 0.05 level of significance. The analysis carried out was discussed. Findings obtained from the study were discussed. The study concludes that the use of smart board to teach textile in secondary is effective and when it is not available it affects students’ performance. Thus, the study recommends that smart board should be provided in schools to encourage effective teaching and learning of textile. This research is believed to have contributed to knowledge because it helped to widen scope of knowledge in the use of smart board in teaching textile.

‘Constellations’ and ‘Entanglement’ in The Study of Legal Pluralism: Reflections on The Scholarship of Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann

Two key terms permeate the work of Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (and of her co-authors, especially Franz von Benda-Beckmann) in her discussions of legal pluralism: ‘constellations’ and ‘entanglement’. These terms are both concerned with describing the existence of, and interrelationships between, plural legal orders. This article critically analyses these two terms, their usage and implied meanings, and compares them with other alternative concepts employed elsewhere in legal pluralism and cognate literature. With reference to empirical evidence on plural work regulation in Indonesia, I argue that the terms have some descriptive benefits for understanding the realities of plural legal orders, but still leaves many aspects under-theorised.

Antecedents of patient satisfaction in the medical tourism sector: a review

PurposeThe main purpose of this paper is to outline the antecedents of patient satisfaction in the field of medical tourism (MT) applying extant literature and to develop a conceptual model based on the review.Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a thorough review of prior studies related to the antecedents of patient satisfaction in the MT sector. Moreover, it provides the theoretical base that helped the researcher to identify significant relationship between the patient satisfaction and its antecedents.FindingsThe researchers identified the prominent antecedents of patient satisfaction and present the potential interrelationships between different antecedents of patient satisfaction such as treatment quality, cost attractiveness, destination image and service quality with patient satisfaction based on the review.Practical implicationsThe results have momentous practical implications as they will help researchers to better understand the antecedents of patient satisfaction and their potential inter linkages with patient satisfaction in MT sector. The conceptual model derived from the review may guide the actions of researchers as well as practitioners in the MT industry as a whole. The present study provides insights for further research in the MT sector and thereby helps to further enrich the existing theoretical base of the MT.Originality/valueThe study brings together the scattered knowledge from the broad and extensive range of medical or health tourism and cognate literature which indicate ideological differences among various aspects of MT as well as potential factors determining patient satisfaction in MT sector (antecedents of satisfaction). The newly developed model incorporates a new construct called “treatment quality” as different from “service quality,” which is a widely used construct to explain customer satisfaction. The antecedents of patient satisfaction and their inter-linkages with patient satisfaction provide a sound theoretical foundation for the future studies.

Antipodean more‐than‐human geographies: From the edges

AbstractTo be more‐than‐human is to be relational, to no longer see the human as a discrete individual and to recognise the multivalent agency and import of the non‐human in bio‐physical, socio‐economic and cultural worlds. This Special Issue galvanises an interest by Aotearoa New Zealand geographers in non‐human–human relations and delivers more‐than‐human research from the edges: of the discipline, from our geographic position antipodal to ‘the west’ and ‘the north’, from early career researchers and from cognate literatures at the periphery of geographic thought. The contributions here question understandings of ethics, politics, conservation and economy through papers that explore affect, care, agency, discourses and practices with a range of more‐than‐human subject‐objects: blackberries, wine yeasts, insects, PFAS and urban streams.

UNDERSTANDING TEXTS IN EARLY JUDAISM: STUDIES ON BIBLICAL, QUMRANIC, DEUTEROCANONICAL AND COGNATE LITERATURE IN MEMORY OF GÉZA XERAVITS. Edited by JózsefZsengellér. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 48. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xi + 482. Hardback, $128.99.

Religious Studies ReviewVolume 48, Issue 4 p. 581-581 Short Reviews of Recent Publications: Judaism (Hellenistic to Late Antiquity) UNDERSTANDING TEXTS IN EARLY JUDAISM: STUDIES ON BIBLICAL, QUMRANIC, DEUTEROCANONICAL AND COGNATE LITERATURE IN MEMORY OF GÉZA XERAVITS. Edited by József Zsengellér. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 48. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xi + 482. Hardback, $128.99. First published: 30 January 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.16156Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume48, Issue4December 2022Pages 581-581 RelatedInformation

Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, edited by Jeremy Corley and Geoffrey David Miller

Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature, edited by Jeremy Corley and Geoffrey David Miller

Estimates of losses and recovery of ecosystem services for oiled beaches lack clarity and ecological realism

AbstractAssessing environmental injury requires accurate, timely information of damage responses and realistic translation of that information into estimates of services lost to the public. The accuracy of both steps improves with the extent of ecological understanding of the impacted habitat; more accurate assessments produce more effective rehabilitation efforts and equitable compensation decisions. Exposed, sandy beaches are one of our most familiar and highly valued coastal areas, yet, when oiled, providing uncontested environmental assessments for beaches challenges both responsible parties and natural resource trustees. The dynamic, physical nature of exposed beaches has limited experimental inquiry preventing the development of widely accepted ecological models describing beach function. The same dynamic nature confounds sampling beaches efficiently in the aftermath of an oil spill. To constrain oiled beach impact assessments in the future and to encourage investigation of topics relevant to beach environmental assessment, we provide a summary of beach ecosystem services, re‐examine the results of the limited number of relevant oiled beach studies, define ecological criteria that would improve extrapolating injury assessments drawn from cognate literature, and identify research topics for investigation.

INTERTEXTUAL EXPLORATIONS IN DEUTEROCANONICAL AND COGNATE LITERATURE. Edited by JeremyCorley and Geoffrey DavidMiller. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 31. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019. Pp. vi + 378. Hardcover, $94.99.

Religious Studies ReviewVolume 47, Issue 2 p. 236-236 Short Reviews Of Recent Publications: Judaism: Hellenistic Through Late Antiquity INTERTEXTUAL EXPLORATIONS IN DEUTEROCANONICAL AND COGNATE LITERATURE. Edited by Jeremy Corley and Geoffrey David Miller. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 31. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019. Pp. vi + 378. Hardcover, $94.99. First published: 08 August 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.15190Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume47, Issue2June 2021Pages 236-236 RelatedInformation

A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible

A History of Death in the Hebrew Bible

Book Review: Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

Book Review: Intertextual Explorations in Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature

Teachers’ Use of Assessment Data in Secondary Schools in Kenya: Opportunities and Threats

Governments around the world are pushing educators to adopt assessment data as an objective basis for initiating changes in curriculum and instruction. Recent research findings indicate that teachers' effective and consistent use of assessment data in planning curriculum, implementation and monitoring of teaching improves the learner's overall academic achievement. This paper is a product of a desktop review of the limited cognate literature present in Kenya on the utility of assessment data for decision making in secondary schools. Although findings reveal that Kenyan teachers use assessment data to among others; identify weak learners for individual remediation programs, inform parents of their children’s academic progress and for career selection, the instructor’s intensive use of data in classrooms to drive meaningful positive change faces pervasive bottlenecks. Teachers need to exploit the available opportunities created by the government, such as in-service training on information communications technology, to enhance the use of assessment data to promote learning.

The Internet of Things: Social dimensions

AbstractThe Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast, dispersed system in which a diverse array of objects, humans, and other living things is connected via “smart” technologies and the Internet. In this article, I present a thematic review of the literature that focuses on the social dimensions of the IoT. Drawing on research published in sociology, anthropology, cultural geography, critical urban studies, science and technology studies, environmental studies, and human–computer interaction studies and design, I outline key conceptual approaches and then discuss four major themes emerging across these dispersed but cognate literatures: (a) techno‐utopian imaginaries, (b) risks and harms, (c) lived experiences, and (d) interventions into futures. As I show, to date, most of the social research literature has focused on the topics of smart cities and smart homes in the context of the Global North. Some researchers have begun to employ innovative methods to generate new and alternative ways of imagining IoT technologies. The article concludes with proposing directions for future research. These include directing more attention to publics' role in intervening in the futures of IoT, to applications of smart technologies beyond the smart city and home, and the IoT in the context of the Global South.

Toward a Global Political Sociology of School Choice Policies

This paper on the political sociology of school choice policies has been written as a supplement to the essays in the 2020 Politics of Education Association Yearbook and locates them in cognate literatures. In addition, the papers are situated against the changing political and global contexts of such policies, as global pressures, discourses, and policyscapes have been recently challenged to some extent by the rise of new nationalisms and ethno-nationalism in many nations across the globe. School choice policies are linked with practices of marketization, privatization, and commercialization and some conceptual clarification is proffered. Policy is defined as referring to processes, framing discourses, and specific texts. Statecraft (logics and working of the state) has been reconstituted by these changes, with one important often over-looked element of this craft being scalecraft (work creating the scales of policies), that is, policy work on constituting local, national, regional, and global relationships and scales.

Understanding technological change in global finance through infrastructures

Amid escalating claims about the promises and perils of emergent financial technologies (fintech), critical investigation of the extent to which specific technological changes in global finance are truly ‘disruptive’ is sorely needed. Yet, IPE has engaged little with the growing focus on fintech in popular and regulatory debates, as well as in Social Studies of Finance (SSF). This article and accompanying special issue foreground ‘infrastructures’ as a heuristic for injecting nuance into debates on the emergence, limits and implications of technological changes in global finance while bringing IPE into conversation with perspectives on fintech in cognate literatures. Building on insights developed in Science and Technology Studies (STS), we argue that tracing the ways in which infrastructures enabling financial markets to operate are assembled out of multiple old and new socio-technical devices offers productive avenues for addressing key questions arising from several entanglements underpinning technological change. The findings of contributions to this special issue are linked to two key themes in debates on the impacts of technological change: financial inclusion and financial stability. Further avenues are proposed for examining the infrastructures in which technological change occurs in global finance and beyond, while fostering on-going dialogues between IPE, STS and SSF.

Stop accounting myopia: – think globally: a polemic

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to cover issues raised in the author’s plenary address to the Journal of Accounting and Organizational Network Conference held in Melbourne in November 2017. This called for accountants, whether professionals in practice or in academia, to broaden their vision of accounting and accountability beyond the financial accountability of organisations, and serving corporate and capital market interests, to consider how it can help achieve sustainable development goals.Design/methodology/approachThe discussion is based on personal experience, cognate literature and policies of major global institutions.FindingsWhilst the need for financial reporting will remain, there is a pressing need for reporting to measure, monitor and make accountable organisations’ obligations to help achieve sustainable development goals established by global institutions such as the United Nations. Areas of importance discussed are accounting for human rights, mitigation of climate change, securing decent work, increasing accountability – especially civil society democratic participation – and a greater and more equal partnership with stakeholders and developing countries to address their needs.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper is a personal polemic intended to provoke reflection and reform amongst accountants.Practical implicationsThe paper outlines the areas where accounting could and has addressed human rights and sustainability issues.Social implicationsThe social implications are vast, for they extend to major issues concerning the preserving the planet, its species, humankind and enhanced democratic processes for civil society and developing countries.Originality/valueThe paper reinforces the need for policy reforms advocated by social and environmental accounting researchers.

Strategic responses to low-cost competition: Technological lock-in in the Dundee jute industry

This article examines path dependency and technological lock-in in the evolution of the Dundee jute industry, from its beginnings in the 1860s to its demise in the 1970s. The evolution of the industry is explored using the resource-based view of the firm (RBV). The results suggest that the nature and construct of jute fibre was the root cause of a lack of sustainable strategic responses in the sector. Path dependent decisions and technological lock-in meant that many firms were not able to make successful strategic switches, although the capabilities of their engineering skills allowed some firms to endure for longer. Thus, the article extends the RBV to a deeper firm capability level and complements cognate literature on the UK textile sector with a finer specification of the phases in jute’s evolution.

Alkaline cyanide leaching of refractory gold flotation concentrates and bio-oxidised products: The effect of process variables

The less predictive nature of alkaline cyanide leaching, owing to its complex functional relationships, render most processing plants unproductive and subsequent shutdown. In this work, the mechanism and kinetics of alkaline cyanide leaching of the two refractory flotation gold concentrates and their bio-oxidised products, taken as surrogates, have been investigated under isothermal, batch conditions, together with a review of the cognate literature. Specifically, the influence of ore mineralogy, pH modifier (caustic soda and quicklime), agitation rate (600–1000 rpm) and time on the leaching behaviour has been studied at 30 °C and pH 10.5 ± 0.2 over 8 h period. The results showed that cyanide leaching of the refractory flotation concentrates did not significantly alter the ore mineralogy, regardless of the pH modifier deployed. In case of jarosite-free bio-oxidised product, gypsum and bassanite phases present were leached out completely whilst only bassanite was leached out from jarosite-bearing bio-oxidised product upon deploying caustic soda as pH modifier. Unlike the caustic soda, bassanite was not leached from the jarosite-free and jarosite-bearing bio-oxidised products when quicklime was used to modify the pulp pH. In addition, increasing the agitation rate did not show any impact on the rate and yield of leaching the flotation concentrates. On the other hand, the rate and yield of leaching the bio-oxidised products increased with increasing agitation rate in an ore-type dependent manner. The gold leaching rates were greater within the initial 60 min than the later 420 min. The use of quicklime generally reduced the gold leaching rates compared with the caustic soda, however, certain variations, dependent on the ore mineralogy were observed within the initial 30 min. The leaching kinetics and mechanism of the flotation concentrates followed a chemical reaction controlled, shrinking core model whilst their corresponding bio-oxidised products followed a porous layer diffusion controlled, shrinking core model, both in a two-stage manner. The observed gold leaching rates were ~ 3–4 orders of magnitude lower than those reported for some sulphidic and oxidised gold ores, reflecting the refractoriness of the ores under investigation. The findings highlight the pivotal role complex, refractory ore mineralogy and its variation, pretreatment, process chemistry and applied mechanical action play in judicious manipulation and control of gold leach behaviour and extraction efficacy.

The demise of contrast nephropathy; can this be true? A contrarian view; a representative case report of contrast nephropathy from Mayo Clinic Health System in Northwestern Wisconsin

In the cognate nephrology literature, a few recent publications from major academic centers in the United States have suggested that the incidence of contrast nephropathy was exaggerated and overstated. These investigators have concluded that intravenous contrast material administration was not associated with an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI), emergent dialysis, and short-term mortality in a cohort of patients with diminished renal function. As a contrarian opinion, we first describe a clear cut case of contrast-nephropathy resulting in AKI requiring hemodialysis treatment managed in the Renal Unit of the Mayo Clinic Health System, Northwestern Wisconsin, in the Spring of 2017. We subsequently revisit the overwhelming evidence-base in the English literature that supports the enormous impact of contrast-nephropathy as a clinical syndrome. We finally posit that these recent repudiations of the existence and significance of contrast-nephropathy as a significant clinical entity represent an overreach in statistical expertise. There is no basis for a requiem song over contrast-nephropathy

Religion and Female Body in Ancient Judaism and its Environment. Edited by Géza G.Xeravits. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, 28. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015. Pp. viii + 270. Cloth, $112.00.

Religion and Female Body in Ancient Judaism and its Environment. Edited by Géza G.Xeravits. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, 28. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2015. Pp. viii + 270. Cloth, $112.00.

Towards micro-foundations of institutional change

PurposeGiven managerial choices and the sociocultural context in which they are made are at the heart of management history, then an understanding of both is critical. This paper argues that the “late” North (2005) provides such an understanding.Design/methodology/approachThis study is a research review synthesizing much disparate but cognate literature across the new institutionalism in organizational sociology/studies and in economics.Findings“Late” North (2005) provides an important ontological frame for dealing with the so-called “paradox of embedded agency”, an approach that may afford management historians a more thorough account of how institutions are formed and change over time. North has always maintained that institutional change is the outcome of deliberate or intentional choices made by actors. However, and unlike his earlier work which ignores how humans come to make the said choices, North (2005) explicates the sociocognitive process by which intentionality emerges with expanded consciousness, as humans construct ideas and beliefs about reality, beliefs that shape decisions to alter the said reality via the process of institutional change.Originality/valueIt is rather curious that despite North’s status as a “historian”, management historians – or at least those publishing in this journal from its founding in 1995 – do not seem to be terribly interested in North’s work. Although North rates a mention in rival journals, other than Dagnino and Quattrone’s (2006) study, papers in this journal invoking institutional theory align with the new institutionalism in organizational sociology/studies (NIOS) rather than North’s new institutional economics (NIE). Even in the related sub-discipline of business history, those professing an interest in institutions are more interested in the NIE of non-historians Coase and Oliver Williamson than they are in North’s NIE. And, in recent work analysing the place and significance of institutional theory in historical research, the foundations are unmistakeably NIOS rather than North’s NIE.