Community Entities Research Articles

DIASPORA BELONGING BETWEEN EXCLUSIONARY ISOLATIONIST DISCOURSES AND COSMOPOLITAN IDEALS

Reviewed literature on “long-distance nationalism” with its roots in methodological nationalism and more recent constructivist theoretical frameworks that allow for the fluidity of identity, intersectionality of social power dynamics and regard for the immigrant connectivity and simultaneity of virtual presences, provide us with a spectrum of analytical lenses. The mechanism that explains either isolationist, exclusivist tendencies in some migrants or their agency as envisaged promoters of cosmopolitan lifestyles, rests in the stories migrants tell about themselves and how they choose to structure emotional affinity into identity constructs of self and others. While accommodating the theoretical framework of seeing diasporas as transnational digital networks or as amorphous “imagined communities” potentially molded by political elites, this article chooses to consider diaspora affiliation as a category of social practice, fulfilling psychosocial needs of self-actualization. This theoretical framework provides the basis for semi-structured autobiographic interviews and analysis of narratives, as artefacts structuring the basis of belonging and othering within first- and second-generation of Romanian American migrants. This analysis may help examine how diaspora engagement with state actors is decoupled from the native territory’s evolution and governance. It also intends to be the basis for recommendations for further research to better understand transatlantic diasporas and to inform potential policy making with regards to engaging diaspora community entities in promoting cultural identity resilience, skills that protect and promote the positive anchoring of members.

A systematic review on social media utilization by health communicators in India: Insights from COVID-19 pandemic

Social media has become a vital tool for facilitating health communications, particularly during emerging health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This systematic literature review aims to synthesize evidence regarding the benefits and barriers associated with the utilization of social media by health communicators in India for disseminating health-related information. A comprehensive search of databases like CINAHL, Google Scholar, PubMed, and WHO Global Index Medicus databases yielded a total of 13 relevant studies. The narrative analysis revealed six key benefits attributed to the usage of social media by health communicators, including the widespread adoption of social media platforms for health communications, health communicators leveraging social media as an information source, fostering the development of protective behaviors, aiding prompt and transparent health communication, promoting participatory communication and empowerment, and employing social media as a tool for monitoring public sentiments and mental well-being. Conversely, challenges such as the proliferation of misinformation and communication inequalities were identified as significant barriers in social media health communications. While social media platforms hold immense potential in advancing crisis communication agendas, health communicators are advocated to adopt a multifaceted approach by prioritizing digital inclusivity, combating misinformation, and fostering synergetic collaborations between governmental bodies and community entities.

Local Social Capital: Revisiting the Measurement and Establishing Manageable Indicators

The social links between community entities are frequently regarded as a valuable asset for local economic development. Opinions diverge regarding the particulars of social capital and its constitution within social relations, despite its fundamental nature coming from these connections. Diverse public and private activities, according to Putnam (1995b), could constitute local social capital. While social capital can be conceptualized as private relations, assessing and debating it from the standpoint of local governments presents a formidable challenge. The distinction between the public and private spheres regarding the character of human activities was advanced by Arendt (1958). This study aims to frame the possible indicators for measuring local social capital by adopting Arendt’s classical theory. By applying it to the social capital of the social communities, the research fills a gap in the discussion between public and private spheres. The integrated framework theoretically provides a backbone for the distinguished perspectives of social capital in different levels of human activities. As well as categorizing manageable and non-manageable indicators, it also provides practical policy implications for the criteria local governments place an emphasis on for managing the level of social capital in a region. It is anticipated that the framework will advance the expansion of the theoretical literature on social capital by identifying measures at two distinct levels: individual and collective characteristics.

Advantages, Risks, and Safeguards on Digital Engagement to Elderly Mental Health: A Literature Review of China

Recently, China's elderly population has confronted escalating mental health challenges, and prompted immediate interventions. This study roots in an extensive literature review, and explores the potential of digital engagement as a solution. By analyzing the relevant domestic and international publications, the researches delved into the interplay between digital engagement and elderly mental health. Findings indicates that digital platforms play a pivotal role in granting the elderly vital health information and fostering intergenerational communication. The internet notably boosts the elderly's social capital, improves life satisfaction, and defies age-associated productivity misconceptions. However, over-reliance on digital platforms risks reducing personal interactions, further straining their mental health. For optimal mental well-being enhancement via digital tools, a collaborative approach involving the government, community entities, families, and the elderly is paramount. As we leverage these digital advantages, it is crucial to stay vigilant to potential pitfalls, and it aims to a holistic strategy towards elderly mental health.

Parent–school-community relationship: a comparative study of highly effective schools and schools with low effectiveness in Andalusia

When studying an educational system, the relationship between school and parents is one of its most important components. The literature shows that highly effective schools demonstrate good parent–teacher relationships, while schools with low effectiveness are generally characterised by a lack of good parent–school linkage. The purpose of the research carried out in this article was to identify the differences between parent–school relationships in highly effective and less effective primary schools in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Twenty-five interviews with members of management teams from both types of schools were analysed in order to understand the existing school reality. The results obtained show that parental involvement, parent–school communication, the perceived needs of the parents, the parent–teacher association, the relationships with entities of the educational community and parental complaints about the school are all factors that contribute to differentiate parent–school relationships between highly effective schools and schools with low effectiveness. The conclusions reached reveal that highly effective school management teams perceive greater involvement of parents and better parent–teacher association functioning. However, the people in the schools with low effectiveness highlight the complaints they receive from parents and the needs they present.

Penyusunan Aspek Digital Village Index Desa Damai Kabupaten Maros dengan Metode Design Science

Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have changed the paradigm in various sectors of life, including education, health services, government and the economy. In the ever-evolving digital era, digitalization has become a significant global trend, influencing the way we communicate and interact, including in villages. Villages, as legal community entities with unique characteristics, are the center of attention in digital transformation in Indonesia. However, to measure the level of success of digitalization in villages, an index is needed that can provide an objective picture. In this context, the Digital Village Index (DVI) exists as an evaluation tool that allows the government and stakeholders to identify areas that require improvement and plan more effective development strategies. The Damai Village case study uses a Design Science approach to develop a comprehensive and relevant DVI, with the hope of formulating appropriate strategies to accelerate the digitalization process in the village, according to local characteristics and needs.

It Takes a Village: A Conceptual Model for Black American Community Partnerships

School counselors underutilize three community entities within the Black American community: the Black Church, salons and barbershops, and Black Greek letter organizations (BGLOs). School counselors can use cultural wealth and multitiered systems of support (MTSS) as frameworks for making these connections to further cultivate Black American student achievement. This conceptual article provides information to aid school counselors in assisting students through data and SMART goals; bolstering student success; and closing the achievement, attainment, and opportunity gaps.

현 정부의 지방고등교육정책과 지방의회의 역할

In order for the current government's local higher education policy to succeed, the role and support of the local council, which can be said to be an essential institution in forming the local government's governing body, is very important. The development of a local community depends on how many talented people are fostered within the region and how many of those talented people settle down in the region. To this end, local governments have used local universities as a growth engine for the local innovation system to revitalize the local economy, and have begun to show interest in the role of regional universities. If so, local councils must also play an appropriate role. And in order to proactively and actively respond to these environmental changes, local councils must become entrepreneurs who create new public values through innovation. In order for the current government's higher education policy to create good policy effects and achieve the desired policy goals, it can be said that local councils must play a role in steering and predicting the future. To achieve this, local governments and councils must reorganize organizations to support regional universities, reinforce human resources, and at the same time establish a financial foundation. In other words, as a prerequisite for a local council to play an important role in local higher education policy, it must have an appropriate organizational structure and function. Local councils should become a platform that can mutually organize various community entities through the establishment of a collaborative governance system related to local higher education policies.

Public Employment Services and Strategic Action towards Rural NEETs in Mediterranean Europe

The NEET phenomenon in southern Europe is particularly alarming. Most studies have focused on analysing the socio-demographic characteristics of NEET and policies directed towards them, but more research is needed regarding the psychological aspects that underlie this condition. This paper, grounded in the bioecological model, aims to analyse the psychological dimensions regarding the functioning of Public Employment Services (PESs) in three countries that rely on the South Mediterranean welfare model. Between November 2022 and September 2023, research was conducted across six rural PES locations in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, based on interviews and focus groups with PES operators and young NEET users. Thematic analysis identified two central axes: Enhancing Relationships and Building Strategic Action, which were crucial for improving NEET-PES interactions and fostering connections between PES and other community entities. The results highlighted the importance of psychological elements in the effective involvement of NEETs in policy initiatives.

Experiential learning in engineering education: A systematic literature review

AbstractBackgroundThe evolving transformations of our society at large, academic institutions, and engineering discipline in the 21st century have profound implications for the nature of experiential learning being offered in engineering education. However, what is experiential learning in the context of engineering education?PurposeThe introduction and evaluation of experiential learning in undergraduate engineering education between 1995 and 2020, as well as the essential elements for consideration in its future implementation, have been analyzed and synthesized.Design/MethodA population–intervention–comparison–outcome framework and PRISMA flow diagram were used to outline a systematic literature review on how experiential learning was introduced into undergraduate engineering curricula, how it was evaluated, and the essential elements for consideration in its future implementation.FindingsA total of 220 studies were synthesized. These studies offered a new lens of seeing experiential learning, which were interpreted as “paradigm shifts.” More than one‐half of the total studies were conducted between 1995 and 2005. These studies were strongly directed at measuring student performance and occurred in a decade when many North American engineering curricula were being restructured. The review indicated that experiential learning has been successfully carried out via diverse methodologies. However, there is a strong need to enrich it with a theoretical basis.ConclusionsExperiential learning introduced into engineering education appeared to be an interdependent self–school–community entity. In the changing work environment of the 21st century, heightened by the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic, invoking the inseparability of self, school, and community would provide unique perspectives to our evolving understanding of experiential learning and its relevance in engineering discipline.

Process of Engaging Community and Scientific Partners in the Development of the CIRCL-Chicago Study Protocol.

Hypertension affects 1 in 3 adults in the United States and disproportionately affects African Americans. Kaiser Permanente demonstrated that a "bundle" of evidence-based interventions significantly increased blood pressure control rates. This paper describes a multiyear process of developing the protocol for a trial of the Kaiser bundle for implementation in under-resourced urban communities experiencing cardiovascular health disparities during the planning phase of this biphasic award (UG3/UH3). The protocol was developed by a collaboration of faith-based community members, representatives from community health center practice-based research networks, and academic scientists with expertise in health disparities, implementation science, community-engaged research, social care interventions, and health informatics. Scientists from the National Institutes of Health and the other grantees of the Disparities Elimination through Coordinated Interventions to Prevent and Control Heart and Lung Disease Risk (DECIPHeR) Alliance also contributed to developing our protocol. The protocol is a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation study using a parallel cluster randomized trial to test the impact of practice facilitation on implementation of the Kaiser bundle in community health centers compared with implementation without facilitation. A central strategy to the Kaiser bundle is to coordinate implementation via faith-based and other community organizations for recruitment and navigation of resources for health-related social risks. The proposed research has the potential to improve identification, diagnosis, and control of blood pressure among under-resourced communities by connecting community entities and healthcare organizations in new ways. Faith-based organizations are a trusted voice in African American communities that could be instrumental for eliminating disparities.

Recognising menhu as a community within Wushu Intangible Cultural Heritage

ABSTRACT This paper discusses the role of the menhu in the protection of Wushu Intangible Cultural Heritage (WICH) and the possibility of developing it as part of WICH community, based on the analysis of the concepts of community in sociological theory, community in the Convention of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Menhu members master skills and enact their inheritance and reproduction for a long time and have a stable and continuous sense of identity in their inherited skills and cultural identity, thus constructing them as a cultural community. Menhu members always actively participate in the recognition, protection, and inheritance of WICH. However, due to the unclear identification of community entities and the criticism of the menhu as a negative culture in folk martial arts, its status and value have not been recognised in the protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), and the identity of its community entity has not been clarified. This paper argues that respecting the complexity of folk martial arts cultures, and establishing a community recognition system that aligns with the realities of WICH, expressing approval and emphasising the subjectivity of the menhu is of practical significance for ensuring the continuous inheritance and dissemination of WICH.

Persistensi Sistem Nilai Dalihan Na Tolu dalam Ruang Rumah Tinggal Masyarakat Batak Perantauan di Yogyakarta

Title: The Persistence of the Value System of Dalihan Na Tolu within Residential Spaces of the Overseas Batak Communities in Yogyakarta The research begins with a community entity moving from old to new residential space. This study focuses on the overseas Batak community who migrated with the urge to achieve hagabeon, hamoraon, and hasangapon. Yogyakarta has become one of the destinations for the migration of the overseas Batak community. The study aims to discover how the Dalihan Na Tolu value system is reflected in the architectural patterns of the Batak community's homes in Yogyakarta. The data sources included physical evidence found in residential homes, reconstructed spatial arrangements based on observations and interviews with individuals who have been displaced from their homeland (specifically Tapanuli, North Sumatra), as well as notes and writings about the history, social, and cultural conditions of the Batak community in Yogyakarta. The gamma map technique was used to analyze the spatial depth level and position of the three functional groups in Dalihan Na Tolu. The principle of Dalihan Na Tolu persists through spatial adaptation, placing hula-hula positions in areas with high connectivity and away from circulation pathways. The persistence of the Dalihan Na Tolu value system is an attitude of respect for hula-hula.

Multi-hop community question answering based on multi-aspect heterogeneous graph

Community question answering aims to connect queries and answers based on users' community behaviors, find the most relevant solutions for newly raised questions, and improve community activity. Existing research mainly focuses on the single-hop method, which relies on a particular feature for simple question answering. However, multi-hop question answering, which depends on multi-step reasoning to solve complex questions, still faces the destitute adaptability caused by various entity features and complex entity correlations. In this work, we put forward a Multi-Hop Community Question-Answering method called MHCQA, that combines the multi-aspect features of community entities, constrains the answer retrieval process from different perspectives and improves the adaptability of multi-hop answer retrieval. Firstly, we utilize phrases for representing the semantic features of question-answering and fuse them with entity constitution properties through heterogeneous graphs to effectively indicate the diverse relationships among entities in communities. At the same time, we bring a dynamic heterogeneous network construction strategy to improve the efficiency of feature representation. Secondly, we enhance heterogeneous graph attention networks for efficiently computing local entity similarities to find relevant answers to questions based on partial graphs. Finally, we propose a multi-constraint multi-hop community question-answering method, which optimizes answer retrieval from three aspects: the hop count, the number of answers, and the relevance of responses, to improve the scene adaptability of multi-hop answer retrieving. Abundant experiments on realistic corpus (Quora, Math, Super User, and Stack Overflow) illustrate that MHCQA improves the multi-hop question answering error rate by about 2 % and is about 11 % ahead of the baselines in terms of operating efficiency. Given our present literature survey, MHCQA is a promising research idea for automatic answering services in online question-answering communities.

Custom Institutions as Drivers of Community Participation of Agricultural Society: Perspective of Sociology

The existence of custom institution is associated with traditional community entities that are generally located in inland areas. Traditional society is a term that is attached because almost all the daily activities is simple of many people use local resources and the nature. The livelihoods of people are still dependent on agricultural land, plantations and forest products. In this context, custom institutions exist that ensures all kinds of community relations between them, the environment, and God to keep them in harmony. This paper intends to reveal the existence of custom institutions as a special community that called ‘Tau Appa’ in Maiwa Subdistrict. So that, explorative research is conducted by interviews and documentation studies. Interviews conducted with local community leaders and community members. The results of the research obtained as follows: (1) custom institution ‘Tau Appa’ is a manifestation of local trust of to Manurung. (2) ‘Tau Appa’ present to maintain life harmonization of local community. (3) people participation is divided into 2 types, namely custom participation, and development participation. (4) it needs the government support in strengthening the existence of custom institution. Observing that results, it can be concluded the following things: custom institution is the source of custom and social norms for the Matakali people, custom institution as the mobilizer of all people activities, custom institution need to be supported the existence, role and function by government.

Ethnobotany and conservation applications in the Noken making by the Sougb Tribe of West Papua, Indonesia

Abstract. Saiba Y, Ungirwalu A, Murdjoko A, Brearley FQ, Peday MH, Yowei RN, Imburi CS, Runtuboi YY, Djitmau DA, Sa'diyah SH. 2023. Ethnobotany and conservation applications in the Noken making by the Sougb Tribe of West Papua, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 24: 4577-4583. Documenting local ecological knowledge is critical for understanding complex ecological-cultural interactions to protect indigenous community entities. Woven baskets known as Noken have been part of Papuan indigenous culture for centuries, yet ethnobotanical aspects of Noken making remain poorly understood. Hence, this study describes Noken-making from an ethnobotanical perspective. We acquired ethnoecological knowledge by interviewing respondents who were actively involved in the production of Noken. The results revealed that the Sougb Tribe (from South Manokwari District, West Papua, Indonesia) utilized pineapple as a primary material for weaving and other natural materials as dyes, with this process undertaken mainly by women. We also document the Sougb Tribe's adaptation and continuous interaction with their dynamic environment that has evolved during Noken's making. Moreover, the recommendation to conserve Noken preserves biocultural diversity and habitats for key plant species. Since Noken has played an essential part in shaping the Sougb Tribe's cultural identity, conserving the use of Noken will aid in preserving the habitats of plants used as materials for Noken. In the future, the provincial government should assist habitat biocultural conservation by granting tribes customary forest status to facilitate plant habitat protection in line with the sustainable development agenda of West Papua Province.

FAIR Data for Energy System Research

The NFDI4Energy consortium aims to establish new services filling a variety of needs for the energy system research community, from making FAIR research data easily accessible to promoting collaboration among community entities. Seven Task Areas (TAs) have been defined to achieve the consortium’s objectives, each with a specific focus. Task Area 4 (TA4): FAIR Data for Energy System Research shall develop ontologies, metadata standards, and services to promote semantic consistency and improve interoperability of energy research projects, thereby supporting the harmonization of data management among various institutions and research fields.

The Internalization of Local Cultur Literacy through Traditional Games in Elementary Textbooks

Traditional games are a cultural property of a community entity in a region. The threat of globalization has marginalized traditional games to the point where they can become extinct at any time, so the cultivation of cultural literacy through textbooks about textbooks is important to do in schools. This study aims to describe the internalization of local cultur literacy through traditional games in elementary textbooks. This research is qualitative with a library research design. Data obtained through library materials This is a qualitative study that employs a library research research design or library research. The research implementation used library materials to obtain research sources by limiting the process to library collections without requiring direct research in the field. The data sources used in this study were elementary school thematic textbooks and articles relevant to the research topic. Data collection in this study used the documentation method, namely the process of searching for library data related to the research topic. Data analysis techniques in this study used qualitative techniques with content analysis. This study produced the following descriptions of The Internalization of Local Cultur Literacy through Traditional Games in Elementary Textbooks : concepts, general descriptions, steps to play, and the values contained in traditional games. At least in one thematic book, there are at least 2-3 types of traditional games at each grade level.

Qualitative inquiry with persons with obesity about weight management in primary care and referrals.

Referrals to evidence-based weight management in the community-commercial sector are aligned with clinical recommendations but underutilized. This qualitative study explored patients' perceptions and expectations about obesity treatment in primary care and referral to community-commercial sector programs. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of US persons with obesity via telephone. Audiotape transcripts, interviewer notes, and independent review of data by two investigators allowed for data and investigator triangulation. Transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis. Data saturation was reached with 30 participants who had a mean age of 41.6 years (SD 9.4), 37% male, 20% Black/African American and 17% Hispanic, 57% college educated, and 50% were employed full-time. Three primary themes emerged: (1) frustration with weight management in primary care; (2) patients expect providers to be better informed of and offer treatment options; and (3) opportunities and challenges with referrals to community-commercial programs. Patients expect that providers offer personalized treatment options and referrals to effective community-commercial programs are an acceptable option. If patient-level data are shared between clinical and community entities to facilitate referrals, then privacy and security issues need attention. Future research is needed to determine feasibility of implementing clinical to community-commercial referrals for obesity treatment in the United States.

Law and Policy Analysis of Utilizing Village Allocation Funds in the Ngadas Traditional Tourism Village (A Study on the Implementation of Article 72 Paragraph (1) Letter D of UU Desa in Ngadas Traditional Tourism Village, Poncokusumo Subdistrict, Malang Regency)

A village, including customary villages referred to by other names, hereinafter referred to as "Desa," is a legal community entity with defined territorial boundaries empowered to govern and manage local government affairs and the interests of the local community based on community initiatives, ancestral rights, and/or recognized and respected traditional rights within the governance system of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. The recognition of both villages and customary villages as unified entities is granted by the Central Government, which delegates governing authority. In exercising this authority, the Central Government provides funding as a source of village finance. Village finance encompasses all rights and obligations of the village that can be valued in monetary terms, as well as all money and goods related to the implementation of village rights and obligations. Subsequent articles elaborate on village rights and obligations, specifically regarding revenue, expenditure and financing, and village financial management. Article 72 of UU Desa, provides more detailed provisions regarding village revenue. One of the revenue sources mentioned in the article is the Village Fund Allocation (ADD). It is imperative for village governments to utilize the Alokasi Dana Desa (ADD) or Village Fund Allocation in accordance with legislation and the needs of the rural community. The utilization of the Alokasi Dana Desa (ADD) or Village Fund Allocation in Ngadas Customary Tourism Village possesses its own unique characteristics due to the influence of the Romodukun (customary leader). This research is a socio-legal study employing a juridical-sociological approach. The research is conducted in Ngadas Customary Tourism Village, Poncokusumo District, Makang Regency. The primary data for this study are obtained through observation. The observation will be supported by secondary data or other relevant information (secondary data) to formulate conclusions regarding the related issues. The data collection techniques used in this research are interviews and documentary or library research.