Concept Of Collaboration Research Articles

Conceptualising multispecies collaboration: Work, animal labour, and Nature‐based Solutions

AbstractTracing the story of beaver restoration across California, this paper investigates the emerging discourse of ‘working with nature’ through the lens of animal work and labour, exploring possibilities for, multispecies collaboration. At the intersection of animal geographies, environmental anthropology, and geographies of conservation, this paper finds three concurrent modes of working with beaver: beaver as labourer, beaver as coworker, and beaver as community. Beaver as labourer emerges as a mode where beavers go from material resource to low‐wage labourer, their liveliness predicated on their ability to be working for humans. Beaver as coworker transitions beavers from labourers to workers, respected for their skills as ecosystem engineers to be working with. Beaver as community emerges as a mode in which beavers and humans live with each other as kin, amidst wider multispecies assemblages. This mode sets the foundation to theorise the concept of multispecies collaboration, a term often used in the literature without definition. This paper explores the concept through theories of animal work and labour, challenging the premise of work altogether, while situating multispecies collaboration as an in‐between, a both/and space of working and living with ‘nature’. This paper serves as an reflection on the ways in which humans ‘work with nature’, in a time where various nonhumans are being made to be ‘workers’. It presents and analyses these relations, ruminates on implications for governance of these multispecies spaces, and develops the concept of multispecies collaboration as a critical consideration for Nature‐based Solutions.

GENERAL THEORETICAL ASPECTS AND CLASSIFICATION OF COLLABORATION ACTIVITIES AS A CRIMINAL PHENOMENON

The paper examines the general theoretical concept of collaboration and its genesis, namely its appearance and development during the Second World War and the modern Ukrainian state. The main features of this phenomenon are analyzed: the presence of subjects of collaboration activities and the clearly expressed nature of harming state sovereignty and territorial integrity through various forms of collaboration. Certain types of collaboration activities are also classified and highlighted. Thus, depending on the desires and beliefs that citizens pursue, the most common among scientists is the division of collaboration into forced, voluntary, and ideological. This criminal law phenomenon is considered separately in the context of the recently introduced amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine regarding establishing criminal liability for collaboration activities. The paper also found that collaboration as a phenomenon of criminal law is immediately seen as a complex of variations of actions that a “collaborator” or “a group of collaborators” could engage in – the population that, for one reason or another, cooperates with the occupation authorities and the military. In addition, the paper pays considerable attention to the phenomenon of collaboration in the current conditions of armed aggression of the Russian Federation. It defines the composition of a criminal offense for committing collaboration activities. In particular, the amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine, namely Article 111-1 “Collaboration Activity,” which contains the concept of collaboration activity, its various forms, and penalties for committing actions that would fall under the specified norm, are analyzed. The paper describes the composition of the specified criminal offense, identifies its subjective and objective features, and possible problems with distinguishing it from related criminal offenses.

On the architecture of collaboration in inter-organizational natural resource management networks

This paper reviews the architecture of collaboration that exists within inter-organizational natural resource management (NRM) networks. It presents an integrative conceptual framework designed to help operationalize the multi-level interactions that occur between different dimensions of trust, risk perception, and control as key concepts in inter-organizational collaboration. The objective is to identify and justify a series of propositions considered suitable for assessing inter-organizational NRM network collaboration through empirical work. Such an integrative conceptualization goes beyond the existing trust scholarship related to collaborative NRM, and, we argue, offers a useful starting point for further exploring some of the ‘inner’ social dynamics affecting collaborative performance using complex systems thinking. To help establish the relevance of the conceptual framework to transboundary resource governance, a survey operationalizing different dimensions of trust, perceived risk, and control is piloted in the Salish Sea, an ecosystem that spans the Canada-US border between British Columbia and Washington State. Key challenges associated with operationalizing the framework and future research needs are identified.

Collaborative Concept Mapping: A Study of Group Work Satisfaction in Vocational Higher Education


 
 
 
 
 
 Collaboration is gaining traction in today's educational environment. Thus, teachers' primary concern is assisting students in experiencing group knowledge collaboration. As online education continues to grow in popularity, there is an increasing need to promote and understand collaborative learning processes. Its success is contingent upon implementing online collaborative learning strategies that foster critical thinking abilities while also providing meaningful collaborative learning opportunities. Collaborative concept mapping is one tool that could be used to foster student collaboration. Rather than creating and visualizing ideas individually, collaborative concept mapping involves two or more students working collaboratively to create one or more concept maps. In collaborative learning, interactions between learners are critical sources of idea generation. The purpose of this study is to examine students’ satisfaction with implementing the strategy in Second Language Reading class. The recent study advances our understanding of how to effectively use collaborative teaching tools in the classroom and improve student learning through group collaboration. The study's findings indicate that students demonstrated positive attitudes toward group collaboration, as evidenced by collaborative concept mapping. In addition, the collaborative learning processes embedded in concept mapping learning platforms support and facilitate reading comprehension achievement, resulting in successful foreign language learning for higher education students. The interaction in collaborative concept mapping, lacking in individual concept mapping, has facilitated individual and group knowledge building. As a result, implementing this strategy may benefit both group and individual learning. 
 
 
 
 
 

Experienced skills in the alternative towards a blended or hybrid model: the case tested in the economic and administrative sciences

The elements that we knew in the Universities in which large groups of students were summoned ceased to be operable. The systems based on face-to-face and distance education were strongly ascending but at a slow pace. The present study had the purpose of recognizing the context, scenarios and challenges experienced after the pandemic confinement that give way to the consideration of moving from the traditional classroom to hybrid education. For this purpose, a non-experimental, exploratory, descriptive and quantitative research was carried out under a conceptual, theoretical and observational methodology, which allowed the application of an instrument with validity and reliability that measured, according to the criterion of perception. The results show the achievements expressed by the students, where they highlighted the degree of contribution of the didactic strategies, as well as the contribution to the comprehension, analysis and debate, emphasizing the collaborative conception and that an adequate personalized feedback was provided by the teacher. The great challenges to be faced in relation to the implementation of a hybrid classroom model, let's consider transforming an educational model into a hybrid one that allows to effectively harmonize both face-to-face and distance students, with the support of online materials and resources. Considering the factor of opportunity and equity towards students, finally the latent threat of insufficient resources that generates uncertainty for proper academic planning.

Development of a shared decision-making intervention to improve drug safety and to reduce polypharmacy in frail elderly patients living at home.

For patients with geriatric frailty, reducing inappropriate medication is an important goal to improve patient safety in primary care. GP-side barriers include knowledge gaps, legal concerns, and lack of communication between the actors involved. The aim was to develop a multi-faceted intervention to facilitate deprescribing and shared prioritisation among frail elderlies with polypharmacy living at home. Mixed methods study including: 1) scoping review on family conferences, expert panels; 2) group discussions with GPs, mapping of needs and challenges in Primary Care; 3) workshops and expert interviews with GPs, patient advocates, researchers as a basis for a theoretical intervention model; 4) piloting. A major challenge for GPs is to conduct a productive discussion with patients and family cares on deprescribing and drug safety. A guideline for a structured family conference with a medication check and geriatric assessment was developed and proved to be feasible in the pilot study. The intervention developed to facilitate deprescribing and shared prioritisation of drug therapy based on family conferences seems suitable to be tested in a subsequent cRCT. Adapting family conferences to primary care for frail patients with polypharmacy.

Strategy for Strengthening Science Techno Park (Case Study: Solo, Sragen and South Sumatra Techno Park)

Currently, various kinds of research and technology results are produced in Indonesia, but the problem is how far the results of research and technology can be adopted by the industry. In fact, with the increase in research output and technology produced, it is not proportional to the increase in the number adopted by the industry. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the Science Techno Park as an integrated area in developing research and technology results. The research approach used is qualitative with the aim of being able to examine strategies in strengthening the Science Techno Park. From the results of the research, it is known that the concept of BLUD and collaboration can be a strategy that is applied in Solo, Sragen and South Sumatra Techno Park.

SmartLab 2.0 en prevención cardiovascular de dislipemia aterogénica

IntroductionSmartLab 2.0 is an innovative concept of multidisciplinary collaboration between the clinical laboratory and the diabetes day unit that was born with the aim of identifying patients at high cardiovascular risk who require priority attention, such as patients with atherogenic dyslipidemia, in order to create a cardiovascular prevention strategy. ObjectiveImplementation in the Laboratory Information System (LIS) of an automated biochemical algorithm for the identification of patients with atherogenic dyslipidemia in routine analyses and priority referral to the diabetes day unit. Material and methodsThe algorithm designed in the SIL was: HBA1c>9.3 +TG>150mg/dl +HDLc<40mg/dl +LDL/ApoB<1.3. A comment was inserted alerting the requesting physician of the diagnosis of atherogenic dyslipidemia and priority referral was made from the laboratory to the diabetes day unit in the necessary cases. ResultsIn the 1-year period, a total of 899 patients with HBA1c>7 and atherogenic dyslipidemia criteria were identified. Of these, 203 patients from primary care with HbA1c>9.3 were referred to the diabetes day hospital. ConclusionsReinforcement of cardiovascular prevention is necessary at all levels. The clinical laboratory should play a fundamental role in the diagnosis of dyslipidemias. Early detection of patients at high cardiovascular risk is essential and collaboration between the different clinical units is fundamental to guarantee patient safety.

The Concept of Quadruple Helix Collaboration and Quintuple Helix Innovation as Solutions for Post Covid 19 Economic Recovery

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a serious impact on the health, economy, transportation, and other industrial crises. The implementation of the lockdown or PSBB has disrupted the operations of various economic sectors.Objectives: The purpose of this research is to describe the concept of the Quadruple Helix collaboration and the Quintuple Helix Innovation model as part of the collaboration, innovation, and synergy initiatives between multi actors to help find solutions in an effort to recover the national economy after COVID-19 in implementing government policies.Methodology: The research method used is the descriptive qualitative method using secondary data from various works of literature, such as books, articles, and home pages to access information data relevant to the Quadruple Helix collaboration concept, namely government, academia, company, and society. The analysis technique was carried out by descriptive analysis.Finding: Based on the research results, it can be seen that the Quadruple Helix collaboration concept is a solution for national economic recovery which can refer to the structure, process, input, and output.Conclusion: The Quintuple Helix Innovation model views more comprehensively the importance of adaptability and the suitability of interactions with social environmental conditions in every process from the structure, the process itself, input and output along with its evaluation.

Students’ attitude and motivation towards concept mapping-based prewriting strategies

Abstract This study proposes two collaborative concept mapping-based prewriting strategies to help Chinese EFL learners with a reading-to-write task—reading an unfinished story and then writing its ending. Collaborative concept mapping enables students to visualize the storyline with the help of peer scaffolding. The two proposed strategies used collaborative fill-in-the-blanks concept maps (CFCM) and collaboratively constructed concept maps (CCCM). Classes 1 (N = 48) and 2 (N = 47) participated in the experiment and respectively learned the strategies of CFCM and CCCM. The collected data included students’ concept maps, reading-to-write products, responses to questionnaires on attitudes and motivation, and learning journals, which were analyzed by t tests, path analysis, and qualitative coding. The results indicated that students using CCCM showed more positive attitudes and higher motivation than those using CFCM; however, the two strategies shared similar effectiveness in developing students’ reading-to-write abilities. Students found the proposed strategies effective in helping them write the story ending.

Collaboration in East Africa: A Contextual Definition

Collaboration is a crucial skill for the improvement of educational outcomes in adolescents. Culture affects the way people collaborate to solve problems, share challenges, and make decisions. Yet, there are only a few studies conducted in the African context that investigate local understandings of the concept of collaboration. This article aimed at investigating the concept of collaboration in the East African context and how this resonates with the local culture. The approach used to develop this study is the qualitative comparative method. One of the most relevant results from these analyses is working together or staying together as frequently used definitions of collaboration. The local definition of collaboration underscores a dimension related to being with another person; for the East African population, collaboration can be described as a way of living and facing reality in a community while being accompanied by others.

Collaboration and politics: Can a therapist work coherently while being informed by both collaborative-dialogic and narrative practices?

ABSTRACT The question we address in this article comes from the tension that frequently arises from the contrast between a collaborative and a political stance in therapy: Can a therapist work coherently while being informed by both collaborative-dialogic and narrative practices? We return to the concepts of collaboration and politics, as informed by each of these perspectives, and propose to understand them as being doubly intertwined. This is done by means of conceptualising collaboration as a political stance and politics as collaborative action. From the standpoint of a social constructionist epistemology for therapy, we propose that collaboration and politics be seen as sensitizing concepts, which may be used as conversational options that may create different effects, depending on the relational context of therapy. A clinical case of individual therapy is presented as an example of what these concepts might look like in actual practice.

Shared Decision-Making as a Genuine Interprofessional Endeavor

Shared Decision-Making as a Genuine Interprofessional Endeavor Abstract. In parallel with the growing complexity of decision-making processes, also the complexity of communication increases. This phenomenon requires adapted communication skills from all professions involved in the treatment of the patient. Consequently, the process of shared decision-making (SDM) also requires the continuous and active involvement of all the professions involved in the care process. Like the concept of interprofessional collaboration (IP), also SDM pursues the goal of creating the best possible framework conditions for the clinical context (in this case, treatment that is "tailored" to the person and agreed with him or her on the basis of his or her preferences and values). The numerous positive effects of both SDM and IP make the integration of both approaches in clinical practice not only an ethical necessity, but also a prerequisite for optimal treatment quality. The specific structure of SDM helps not only in a dyadic decision-making situation between physician and patient. It also encourages the interprofessional team to move away from an individualistic view of a single best solution to a more interprofessional team approach, which benefits both the patient and all the involved caregivers.

Collaborating eye to eye: Effects of workplace design on the perception of dominance of collaboration robots.

The concept of Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) describes innovative industrial work procedures, in which human staff works in close vicinity with robots on a shared task. Current HRC scenarios often deploy hand-guided robots or remote controls operated by the human collaboration partner. As HRC envisions active collaboration between both parties, ongoing research efforts aim to enhance the capabilities of industrial robots not only in the technical dimension but also in the robot’s socio-interactive features. Apart from enabling the robot to autonomously complete the respective shared task in conjunction with a human partner, one essential aspect lifted from the group collaboration among humans is the communication between both entities. State-of-the-art research has identified communication as a significant contributor to successful collaboration between humans and industrial robots. Non-verbal gestures have been shown to be contributing aspect in conveying the respective state of the robot during the collaboration procedure. Research indicates that, depending on the viewing perspective, the usage of non-verbal gestures in humans can impact the interpersonal attribution of certain characteristics. Applied to collaborative robots such as the Yumi IRB 14000, which is equipped with two arms, specifically to mimic human actions, the perception of the robots’ non-verbal behavior can affect the collaboration. Most important in this context are dominance emitting gestures by the robot that can reinforce negative attitudes towards robots, thus hampering the users’ willingness and effectiveness to collaborate with the robot. By using a 3 × 3 within-subjects design online study, we investigated the effect of dominance gestures (Akimbo, crossing arms, and large arm spread) working in a standing position with an average male height, working in a standing position with an average female height, and working in a seated position on the perception of dominance of the robot. Overall 115 participants (58 female and 57 male) with an average age of 23 years evaluated nine videos of the robot. Results indicated that all presented gestures affect a person’s perception of the robot in regards to its perceived characteristics and willingness to cooperate with the robot. The data also showed participants’ increased attribution of dominance based on the presented viewing perspective.

Supporting collaborative classroom networks through technology: An actor network theory approach to understanding social behaviours and design

AbstractThis paper presents an implementation of Connected Spaces (CxS)—an ambient help seeking interface designed and developed for a project‐based computing classroom. We use actor network theory (ANT) to provide an underutilized posthumanist lens to understand the creation of collaborative connections in this Computational Action‐based implementation. Posthumanism offers an emerging and critical extension to sociocultural perspectives on understanding learning, by pushing us to decenter the human, and consider the active roles that human and non‐human entities play in learning environments by actively shaping each other. We analyse how students in this class adjusted their help‐seeking and collaborative habits following the introduction of CxS, a tool designed to foster (more inter‐group) collaboration. ANT proposes generalized symmetry—a principle of considering human, non‐human and more than human entities with equivalent and comparable agency, leading to describing phenomena as networks of actors in different evolving relationships with each other. Analysing collaborative interactions as fostered by CxS using an ANT approach supports design‐based research—an iterative design revision process highlighting understandings about design as well as learning—by providing a temporal and informative lens into the relationship between actors and tools within the environment. Our key findings include a framing of technologies in classrooms as bridging agentic gaps between students and becoming actors engaging in different behaviours; learners enacting new agencies through technologies (for instance a more comfortable non‐intrusive help seeker), and the need for voicing and teachers to connect help networks in CxS equipped classrooms. Practitioner notesWhat is already known about this topic Collaborative learning is a valuable skill and practice; opportunities to mentor others are critical in empowering minoritized learners, especially in STEM and computing disciplines. School norms solidify a power and expertise hierarchy between teachers and learners and fail to productively support learners in learning from each other. Additionally, lack of awareness about peers' knowledge is a common hindrance in students knowing who to ask for help and how. What this paper adds An example of a designed interface called Connected Spaces with potential to foster more inter‐student collaboration, especially outside of mandated within‐group collaboration—in the form of cross‐group help seeking and help giving. A design based research study using actor network theory highlighting the limitations of Connected Spaces in sparking notable behaviour change among students by itself but being retooled as a teacher support tool in enabling cross‐group collaborations. Presenting conceptions of collaboration through technologies as bridging agentic gaps and acting with new agencies in performing help‐seeking related actions. Provoking the idea of testing emerging technologies in classrooms along with sharing our analyses and reflections with the classroom as a key idea in computing education—surfacing the gap between designed intentions and the different kinds of extra social work needed in the on‐ground success of different technologies. Implications for practice and/or policy Designers and researchers should create and test more interfaces alongside teachers across different classrooms and contexts aimed at supporting different kinds of voluntary collaborative interactions. Curricula, standards and school practices should further center providing students with opportunities to engage as mentors and build communities of learning across disciplines to empower minoritized students. Researchers engaging in design based research should consider using more posthumanist lenses to examine educational technologies and how they affect change in learning environments.

Global Health 101.

Global health is an evolving field that has been broadly defined as the promotion of health for all through transnational collaboration and research. It centers on the concepts of equity and collaboration. The focus of global health has recently undergone a major shift toward emphasizing the importance of a systems-based approach to healthcare delivery, which considers not only the target disease but also the many contextual factors, influencing the ability to deliver care equitably to a population to reduce the burden of any particular disease. Thus, an important global health delivery framework has been established to outline this inter- and multi-disciplinary systems-based to address major global health issues and improve health for all globally. The practice of global health, whether in research or in active intervention, necessitates guiding principles to ensure ethical conduct in the transnational partnerships and efforts to advance the field. With the introduction of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, there has been a major shift in response to epidemiologic transition to focus on reducing the burden of noncommunicable diseases, including cancer, which disproportionately impact low-to-middle income countries. This is true for colorectal cancer, with care challenged by significant gaps in screening, early detection, and referral systems.

Access Entanglements: Approaching Accessible Publishing Through Engagement and Dissensus

A conversation between artists Bojana Coklyat, Shannon Finnegan, Jessica Watkin, and scholar and curator Dr. Eliza Chandler which approaches access and publishing from the vantage of centring disability and its multi-sensorial ways of knowing, engaging with concepts of care, crip time, interdependence and collaboration, the limitations of access as “inclusion,” disability as creatively generative, and access as a distinct methodology for artmaking.

Research on Hybrid Teaching Model Based on Human-Machine Collaboration

The information technology in education promotes the innovation of blended teaching mode with technical support. This paper constructs an online and offline hybrid teaching model based on the concept of human-computer collaboration. In addition, the experimental research method was used to investigate the effect of the hybrid teaching mode on the teaching effectiveness of the course "University Computer Fundamentals" as an example. The study found that learners who participated in the blended learning classroom performed better than traditional multimedia instruction, and that the different learning behaviors of learners correlated with their final grades. This shows that the online and offline hybrid teaching based on human-computer collaboration can improve the learning effectiveness of learners.

Digital Transformation in Public Policy during the New Order at the Regional Revenue and Management Agency of Sumedang Regency

The Industrial Revolution 4.0 has brought significant changes in human life, including in dealing and working from manual to digital. Besides that, the existence of Covid-19 has also changed a new order of life which is called the new Normal. The Sumedang Regency Government at the Sumedang Regency Regional Revenue and Management Agency has responded to this challenge by implementing digital transformation in public policy by implementing an Electronic Based Government System (SPBE) policy through a service known as e-Office. This study aims to analyze the digital transformation of the Regional Revenue and Management Agency of Sumedang Regency. This research uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods. The results of the study show that digital transformation of policies and public services at the Sumedang Regency Revenue and Management Agency has gone very well with the application of e-office. The application of e-office applications in addition to implementing several central and regional government policies, is also used as an internal service tool to assess the work of apparatus in carrying out basic tasks and functions individually . In this study it was also found that e-office applications still need to be developed between local governments and other parties with the concept of collaboration.

Supporting the Community to Embrace Individuals with Dementia and to Be More Inclusive: Findings of a Conceptual Framework Development Study.

The number of community-dwelling people with dementia (PwD) is rising, and the role of their relatives is crucial in addressing and mitigating the implications of dementia on health care systems and on society. We developed a new conceptual framework to promote the collaboration of the community in supporting relatives who are caring for a PwD as well as a range of stakeholders in embracing dementia. A qualitatively driven, multi-method study divided into three phases was performed from 2019 to 2021. A qualitative descriptive study, a mixed-method systematic review and three consensus workshops were conducted, and their results were triangulated. The final version of the Community Collaboration Concept Framework is composed of three main domains based upon seven components: (1) embracing dementia; (2) creating empowerment and a sense of community; (3) collaborating through cocreation and design thinking. The new framework is based on the literature, the synthesis of empirical data and the consensus of a panel of international experts, supporting the global goal of improving community inclusiveness and collaboration. Further studies are needed to confirm its validity, how it should be implemented in practice in various settings and to propose improvements when designing projects based upon it.