Concept Of Action Research Articles

Implementation Of Accreditation Follow-Up Management (IAFUM) To Enhance Vocational High School Education Quality (Descriptive Study Of SMK XYZ In Bandung City)

This research identifies key post-accreditation issues in Vocational High Schools (VHS/SMK), highlighting low awareness of educational quality, limited involvement in planning, and a mismatch between SMK graduate skills and industry needs. Busy schedules hinder evaluating accreditation outcomes, delaying improvements and re-accreditation preparations. The study applies Corrective Action, Preventive Action, and Continuous Improvement concepts aligned with ISO 9001:2015. It analyzes Accreditation Follow-up Management's (IAFuM) impact on SMK XYZ in Bandung, employing a descriptive qualitative method. Accreditation, crucial for program eligibility, operates independently based on open criteria and government regulations. Findings reveal that while IAFuM was executed at SMK XYZ with documented planning, implementation, and evaluation actions, no records of the Inventory of Problems Resulting from Accreditation (IPRA) were found. The School Self-Evaluation based on National Education Standards (NES) and the School Quality Management System (QMS) lacked documentation. Post-IAFuM implementation, improvements in teaching processes, educator competency, administrative services, community participation, and industry collaboration were observed. However, not all schools saw enhanced alumni absorption or national exam scores. Insufficient follow-ups such as corrective actions, preventive measures, and sustainable enhancements were noted.Recommendations to boost education quality at SMK XYZ Bandung include: schools and accreditation teams reviewing issues, integrating IAFuM with QMS, policymakers considering IAFuM for accreditation gaps and school mentoring, and Accreditation Body for School/Madrasa (AB-S/M) including accreditation result records in school certificates.

The forms of climate action

AbstractScientific research on the mechanisms to address global warming and its consequences continues to proliferate in the context of an accelerating climate emergency. The concept of climate action includes multiple meanings, and several types of actors employ its use to manage the crisis. The term has evolved to incorporate many of the suggested strategies to combat global warming offered by international bodies, states, nongovernmental organizations, the private sector, and social movements. The present work offers a classification scheme to build a shared understanding of climate action through a lens of environmental justice and just transitions developed by sociologists and others. The classification system includes major institutional and noninstitutional forms of climate action. By identifying the primary forms of climate action, analysts, scholars, policymakers, and activists can better determine levels of success and how different forms of climate action may or may not complement one another in the search for equitable solutions in turning back the rapid heating of the planet.

Action at a distance: Accounting and the Company of Grão Pará and Maranhão

Based on extensive archival research, this paper analyses the role of accounting in managing an 18th century multinational Portuguese company. Using the concept of action at a distance, it is demonstrated how accounting was used to managethe Companhia Geral do Grão Pará e Maranhão, established in 1755, whose interconnected activities were conducted in three continents. Considering the constraints of the time, namely the challenge of distance and slow communication, the main picture emerging from archival sources is that this company was a vast machine fuelled by accounting information. The main findings of the paper contribute to previous literature on the constitutive role of accounting and demonstrate its multifaceted nature.

Group action and its application on classification of low order groups

The classification of finite groups is an important topic in mathematics throughout history of mathematics. The topic of this paper is to use group action as a tool, to classify some special finite groups and some low order groups. First this paper introduces some concepts of group action. Then this paper states and proves some important theorems related to group action. For example, the Sylows theorem, which is very important in this paper. Research has found that, groups of specific order, such as groups whose order are 2p,p^2, pq(p, q are distinct prime numbers), p3(p is prime) can be classified using group action and the technique of semi-direct product, and groups whose order are no more than 15 are classified which can be seen as the special situations of the above ones. But in general, to make classification of a larger range of finite groups, more tools should be introduced.

How can outdoor sports protect themselves against climate change-related health risks? – A prevention model based on an expert Delphi study

ObjectivesTo systematically develop an adaptation model to reduce climate change-related health risks for outdoor athletes. DesignDelphi Method study. MethodsA classic asynchronous Delphi study was conducted with a total of three survey rounds. 24 experts from the eight largest outdoor sport associations by membership in the German Olympic Sports Confederation were included as well as 24 medical experts with expertise in sport medicine, internal medicine, allergology, dermatology, infectiology, or toxicology. Based on open-ended questions, panelists were asked to consider prevention measures for sport organizations and clubs. Free text responses were analyzed by qualitative content analysis according to Mayring. ResultsExperts recommended establishing the following eight fields of prevention measures: technical and structural measures; organizational measures; personalized measures; basic, advanced, and continuing education; concepts of action, warning concepts, and financial concepts; cooperation and coordination; campaigns; and evaluation measures. ConclusionsThe pyramid model presented in this study systematizes possible sport-specific adaptation measures on climate change by empirical aggregation of knowledge from scientists, sport organizations, clubs, trainers, and professional athletes. To assess the effectiveness of these prevention measures, sport organizations may incorporate them not only into broader operations but also everyday training routines.

Kitchen Activities and Hands-on Experience during Lockdown COVID-19, Informal to Formal Education Core Subject Concepts an Empirical Study, Karnataka, India

Aim: Cooking and the kitchen have always been used to promote healthy eating habits in the home. However, there is little information about the learning while doing kitchen activities and the family member’s contribution in balancing family and COVID-2020-2021 phobia. The present study explores the unexplored concepts of kitchen action behind them with emotional bonding.
 Design: The study with a questionnaire to assess their experience being in the kitchen with the family members and to recall the relationship with the core textbook subjects.
 Place and Duration of the Study: The schools from 7 taluks of Shivamogga district Karnataka. However, the present study used the kitchen room as an informal learning area during the COVID-19 years (2019-2021).
 Methodology: We evaluated school students from 5-10 grades a total of 3800 students actively registered in the survey. The present study was an attempt to engage children (students) and family members to overcome the first phobia of school closure, what is next in the academic future. The later phobia was COVID symptoms; as a result, to connect people, family, and community with academic activities we examined how informal learning kitchen actions meet the goals of formal education (2019-2021).
 Results: The students involved in the study vary from Lower primary school (LPS – standard 1 to 4) 18.23%, Higher primary school (HPS – standard 5-8) 22.3%, and High school (HS – standard 8 to 10) 59.2%. The correlation was performed to know the relationship between sites with their interest in response to the kitchen activities and children (students) recalling /remembering based on the subject.
 Conclusions: The study revealed many interesting findings based on the family member's interaction within the kitchen. The present paper describes how homely activities evolved as continuous education without textbooks, pen, and pencil how hands-on experience remains forever, how they compared their actions being in the kitchen how it helped in remembering and recalling the core concepts of the textbook and how family played their mentor role, and how it benefitted them. COVID-19 and school closer opened new opportunities to learn and evaluate their subject concepts with experiments and Kitchen the super lab of Mother benefitted from experiential learning.

Undergraduate students’ conceptualization of elementary row operations in solving systems of linear equations

The concept of systems of linear equations (SLEs) is fundamental and core in linear algebra, a subject, which has many applications in a number of disciplines. Gaussian elimination is a versatile method, which can be used to solve almost all types of SLEs by using row-reductions. This study focused on exploring undergraduate students’ conceptualizations of elementary row operations (EROs) as a means to solve SLEs. The purpose of this study was to explore undergraduate students’ conceptualizations of row reductions and their applications to the solutions of systems of equations. The perspectives of the action-process-object-schema theoretical framework were used in analyzing data and discussing the findings. To explore the students’ conceptualization of EROs, a descriptive research approach was followed. I considered a case study of 131 students registered for a mathematics for educators course, where linear algebra was one of the topics. The findings revealed that students attained the action conception of reducing a system with unique solutions but had challenges reducing and interpreting solutions to a system with non-unique solutions. The latter row-reduction implored process and object conceptions especially when variable elements in the augmented matrix were involved. As students find the learning of linear algebra difficult, this study contributes to the debate in literature on how to improve its teaching and make suggestions on the ways make more effective the learning of linear algebra.

Electoral Legitimacy and Gender Representation Barriers; Theories and Practices in Nigeria

The article describes relevant concepts and theories on Gender Representation and Electoral Legitimacy behaviours and barriers that obstruct global policies for gender equity model to a free and fair election. The limiting barriers and theories described, include Class-Conflict versus Representation Theory, Gender vs Culture, Electoral Legitimacy Deficit vs Dominance Theory, Machismo Culture, Institutional concept, Human Capital, Feminist Rights Concepts (FGF) and the UN Think, Assess, Consider, and Take Action (UNTACT) Concept. The article adopts a descriptive secondary qualitative method to gather data on the key theories, barriers and practices affecting gender representation electoral. Data collection include previous studies, articles, reports, publications, and Electoral Commission official documents already generated. These various sources of information gathered, was critically examined, reviewed, analysed, and synthesized to understand the context in which gender representation barriers exist. Research results indicted Nigeria Electoral process as extremely unreliable at the output-delivery process, and thus, criticised for having flaws and failing to completely enforce candidate electoral rules, which impacts female representation. However, the research contributed to a deeper understanding of the complexities surrounding electoral theories, practices and their impact on electoral system’s legitimacy. Findings suggest, importance of challenging patriarchal electioneering structures, cultural norms, and power imbalances in the political sphere and the need for power dynamics to be examined critically, to deliver effective gender or female representation. Keywords: Electoral Legitimacy, Gender Representation, Theories, Barriers, Nigeria.

TINTUV TUSHUNCHASI VA TINTUV O‘TKAZISHDA SHAXS HUQUQLARI VA QONUNIY MANFAATLARINING PROTSESSUAL KAFOLATLARI

In this article, the concept of search, which is considered an investigative action in the criminal process, and the issues of procedural guarantees of individual rights and legal interests during the search are analyzed in detail. In this regard, the norms defined in the criminal-procedural legislation on the concept of search and the views of experts and scientists in this regard were studied, and the definition of this concept was developed by the author. In turn, the different aspects from the concept of seizure investigative action are revealed. In criminal procedural legislation, the investigator is given broad powers to independently resolve issues related to the rights, freedoms, and interests of the individual during the search. This article analyzes the conditions that the investigator and participants must follow during the search. Since the search process is directly related to the right of individuals to privacy of residence, the article researches the national and international legislation on guaranteeing the right to privacy of residence in the implementation of this investigative action. Also, based on this scientific research, reasonable conclusions were made regarding the specific aspects of conducting a search in different places, including issues related to the rights and guarantees of diplomatic missions and their employees who have diplomatic immunity when a search is conducted in the territory of a diplomatic mission.

Improving mechanisms of social partnership in the system of «government-business-civil society»in the context of European integration

The article examines the evolution of political relations between the state and business in Ukraine in the conditions of state corporatism. The purpose of the article was to determine the main political trends of government-business interaction, to reveal the processes of evolution of relations and to assess the prospects of their influence on the modern Ukrainian political process. The concepts of collective action and the model of universalism-particularism are proposed as a methodological basis for the analysis of relations between state, business and civil society. It is substantiated that the mechanisms of political interaction between the state and business are gradually being replaced by the mechanisms of political influence of the state on business. The results obtained emphasize the role that civil society organizations can play in the representation of politics. In the conclusions it was established that the forms and principles of state corporatism describe relations; when the government not only chooses: organizations and groups that should represent the interests of the enterprise in interaction with it, but also controls them to some extent.

Ergonomics management model based on good practices of large industrial companies: Structured elements through the fuzzy set theory.

Most organizations perceive the concept of ergonomics actions as a local tool used to improve workplace issues. Ergonomics however is not included in global management systems. The paradigm of ergonomics action in large organizations proposed by this study is that of management systems whose primary objective is the pressing need for continuous performance improvement, acquisition of excellence, and integration into all aspects of the business. The general objective of this work is to draw a frame presenting a model of ergonomics management based on good practices in managing this discipline in large industrial companies. In this study, we describe a strategy based on the fuzzy set theory to aggregate a group of good practices expressed by experienced ergonomists attached to large industrial companies for handling the lack of ergonomics in an organization. A set of good practices was compiled as a basis for application in ergonomics in large companies. This study shows that ergonomics should not be considered an isolated phenomenon but in a strategic, proactive, integrated, and perennial way as one of the management subjects.

Ação empreendedora: Um estudo bibliométrico sobre a produção científica internacional

Objective: To analyze the international scientific production in the field of entrepreneurial action. Method: To investigate the theme of entrepreneurial action, the bibliometric method was used to fulfill the desired purposes. In the operationalization of the research, articles available in the Web of Science and Scopus databases were included. The database selection procedure was carried out by analyzing the documents using the software: My EndNote Web, Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer. Results: It was possible to identify the scarcity of compassionate research on the subject, in addition to the fact that little is known about the emergence of an entrepreneurial action and how, in fact, this research axis can contribute to studies on entrepreneurship. Theoretical contributions: It was identified that there are promising studies on the subject that made possible the exchange of the concept of entrepreneurial action and the different areas of knowledge through the construction of a synthesis matrix. Relevance/originality: The field of entrepreneurial action is still incipient and requires greater efforts towards a theoretical and empirical development, in order to establish and contribute to the construction of a very limited and defined conceptual structure about the phenomenon. Contributions to management: Studies on entrepreneurial action are directly related to case studies that report the emergence of entrepreneurial actions in organizations, which emphasizes the concentration of work in the areas of management and business.

Conceptual politics and resilience-at-work in the European Union

AbstractInternational crises, most recently the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, often radically change our view of the world and our place within it. The European Union (EU) has been particularly impacted by these developments because these crises have accentuated some of its ontological and epistemological uncertainties and insecurities. While the EU’s resilience turn initiated by the EU Global Strategy of 2016 aimed at strengthening the EU’s ability to prepare and recover from external shocks and crises, since then, the concept of resilience has undergone a transformation. In recent years, we have seen the EU turning back in on itself and abandoning the radical aspects of resilience. Hence a paradox has emerged – the more complex the problems faced by the EU, the more it turns away from the logics of complexity present in the idea of resilience. In this article, we examine this conceptual shift through the lenses of concepts in action and the way these have reflected changes in the external context, but also power coalitions and institutional path dependencies. This argument will be explored by examining the recently adopted Strategic Compass and the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

An (almost) fuzzy logic of action and preferences, its quasi-model interpretations, and the problem of its decidability

The logical depiction of the concept of action forms a unique method of grasping its semantic content. It finds its reflection in different proposals of epistemic and deontic-logic systems describing actions as the operational behaviour of an agent as a game played over a given game tree. This perspective establishes some unique connection between actions and the agent's preferences. One of the logical-game-theoretic approaches to their modelling has been elaborated in van Benthem's school in the common area of game-theory, epistemic and fixed-point logic. In reference to some ideas of van Benthem's school – the article aims to propose a new (almost) fuzzy logic system AFLAP for actions and preferences describing a game-theoretic behaviour of an agent over a given game tree. Nevertheless, the backward induction strategy is idealised and exchanged for the Church-Rosser property, and a piece of fuzziness is introduced to the system by considering two unique ‘epsilon’ relations, Move and BI, with their approximation sequences. An abstract model in the form of the so-called quasi-model is proposed for such a system. It forms a multi-level (potentially infinite) construction built due to the pattern recently elaborated and enhanced by Wolter-Kurucz's school. This construction is exploited in the article as a convenient basis for proving the decidability of AFLAP by showing its ‘abstract’ finite model property. This task is performed by constructing an additional workable quasi-model of the size dependent on the size of the set of subformulae of a given formula of AFLAP. Finally, some R-programming-oriented applications of the earlier theoretic considerations are presented.

Unveiling the nongenomic actions of thyroid hormones in adult mammalian brain: The legacy of Mary B. Dratman.

A comprehensive review was conducted to compile the contributions of Mary B. Dratman and studies by other researchers in the field of nongenomic actions of thyroid hormones in adult mammalian brain. Dratman and her collaborators authored roughly half of the papers in this area. It has been almost fifty years since Dratman introduced the novel concept of thyroid hormones as neurotransmitters for the first time. The characterization of unique brain-region specific accumulation of thyroid hormones within the nerve terminals in adult mammals was a remarkable contribution by Dratman. It suggested a neurotransmitter- or neuromodulator-like role of thyroid hormone and/or its derivative, 3-iodothyronamine within adrenergic systems in adult mammalian brain. Several studies by other researchers using synaptosomes as a model system, have contributed to the concept of direct nongenomic actions of thyroid hormones at synaptic regions by establishing that thyroid hormones or their derivatives can bind to synaptosomal membranes, alter membrane functions including enzymatic activities and ion transport, elicit Ca2+/NO-dependent signaling pathways and induce substrate-protein phosphorylation. Such findings can help to explain the physiological and pathophysiological roles of thyroid hormone in psychobehavioral control in adult mammalian brain. However, the exact mode of nongenomic actions of thyroid hormones at nerve terminals in adult mammalian brain awaits further study.

Postdemokratie als Krisendiagnose

AbstractThe article looks into the critical potential, but also the limits of the current discussion on post-democracy and the crisis of democracy and proposes an examination of the concept of crisis. The thesis is that the current talk of a crisis of democracy suggests an uncritical, namely restitutive understanding of the crisis that could be appropriated for an apology of Western liberal democracy. In contrast, the text argues for a renewed focus on the self-reflexive and critical potential of the term. Based on a pragmatist concept of problem and action, “crisis” is defined as a certain kind of problem-solving problem and further determined on the basis of four criteria. The contribution this definition makes to the current debate is shown by the example of Jacques Rancière’s diagnosis of post-democracy, which can be read as a diagnosis of crisis in the defined self-reflexive and critical sense.

‘By Every Hyper-Political Means’: Internationale Situationniste and the Review as Weapon

Abstract This article examines the articulation of Situationist perspectives on art and politics with reference to the cycle of protest, surveillance, detention, scandal, repression and violence which accompanied the theoretical writings and practical activities of the Situationists. The Situationist International (SI) was, by design, a mercurial organization whose existence was marked by clandestine activity, conflict – internally and externally – scandal and subversion in multiple guises. The twin concepts of détournement [hijacking] and récupération [recovery] will be explored to show why the recourse to the terminology of war was more than a commonplace rhetorical trope for the SI. The group’s deployment of militaristic language reflects, first, the real-life attention the Situationists received from the forces of order and, secondly, an antagonism which underpinned their conception of political action. Their eponymous journal or review was not itself a privileged organ of the Situationist International, intellectually or aesthetically, but ‘heavy artillery’ which provided a convenient platform to become known to an active readership.

O papel da linguagem para a fundamentação do princípio moral na ética do Discurso de Habermas

This study aims to analyze the modulations of language in the Habermas’s Discourse ethics. In this way, it is intended to present, in general lines, the conception of an ethics based on the discursive capacity of the human being. Moreover, it seeks to offer an explanatory scope of a meta-ethics formulated from the linguistic-pragmatic paradigm. For that, some considerations will be presented on the concepts of communicative action and discourse, basic elements for the formulations of the moral principle (U) and the principle of discourse (D). In addition, the foundation of the moral principle (U) will be discussed both from the interactionist use of language as discourse, and from its derivation into pragmatic-transcendental elements presupposed in argumentative logic, such as the law of non-contradiction. Finally, the theoretical architecture of discourse ethics will offer an example of how language can support new proposals for equalizing moral dilemmas in the contemporary world.

Criminalistic Aspects of Classifying Investigatory Actions as One of the Key Means of Proof

The paper contains an analysis of the concept of means of proof. Based on the etymology of the term “means” as a technique and mode of action in order to achieve something or as a tool in some activity, it is concluded that means of proof should include, fist, evidence and any information that the court, the prosecutor, the investigator or the inquirer use to establish the circumstances that need to be proven in criminal proceedings, as well as other circumstances relevant to the criminal case, second, samples for comparative research that do not have any independent significance, but are used for comparison with physical evidence and other objects, third, investigatory and other procedural actions that are the key method of collecting evidence for the investigator (the inquirer), fourth, tactics that are usually determined as most rational, effective modes of action or most expedient behavior of the person performing investigatory actions, fifth, operative search activities whose results may pose grounds for initiating a criminal case, be presented to the investigative body, to the investigator or the court responsible for the criminal case or materials of verifying a report on crime, sixth, tactical (operative-tactical) combinations (operations). Further the authors examine the concept and classification of investigative actions according to the subject authorizing investigative actions, to the methods they are based on, to the subjects performing such actions, depending on the necessity of involving witnesses, of involving experts, depending on the use of technical equipment, based on the criteria of the speed of fixing the traces of crime, and according to the stages of an investigation. It is concluded that classifications are a methodological basis for solving both theoretical and practical problems, and even wrong classifications play a positive role in the progress of this science because they allow us to reject the flawed option and quicker determine the way to the right solution of the problems that the science faces.

Научная рецензия: Язык, общество и государство в изменяющемся мире / под редакцией Стэнли Д. Бранна, Роланда Кехрейна, Швейцария. 398 с. ISBN 978-3-031-18146-7

The collective monograph published in English by Springer Nature Switzerland AG in 2023 was written by the world’s leading linguists and edited by Stanley D. Brunn from the University of Kentucky and Roland Kehrein from Marburg University. The book is divided into three parts: the first part discusses mapping language landscapes, the second one covers the interconnection of language, society, and politics; and the third one focuses on the functions of language on a local and a global scale. The book also features an extensive bibliography and index. The book is supposed to be full of timely, actual examples, drawn from real life, of communication concepts in action. It is also intended to serve as a reference text for professionals in the fields of communication and language dynamics. The purpose of this research project is to provide a detailed analysis of the language landscapes and the status quo of different languages in the world. This analysis will ultimately lead to an understanding of what language policies there are in the world.