Critical Analysis Of Strategies Research Articles

Design Thinking as an Effort to Enhance Critical Thinking and Science Literacy in Chemistry Learning: A Systematic Review

Critical thinking skills and science literacy represent two pivotal aspects within education, seeking to cultivate students into knowledgeable, analytical individuals proficient in critical thinking when confronting diverse challenges and life circumstances. In the pursuit of enhancing critical thinking abilities, four fundamental aspects come into play, encompassing the capacity for problem-solving, decision-making, assumption analysis, as well as evaluation and inquiry skills. On the other hand, the literacy aspect comprises the articulation of phenomena through the application of chemical concepts, the resolution of problems through the utilization of chemical comprehension, and the critical analysis of strategies and benefits derived from chemistry education. The primary objective of this study are to analyze research trends on the influence of design thinking strategies in improving students' critical thinking and literacy skills through bibliometric analysis and to ascertain the impact of design thinking strategies on the augmentation of students' critical thinking skills and literacy. The data sources used came from reputable journals from 2017-2023. The data obtained is secondary data analyzed with VOSviewer on research trends in critical thinking skills and scientific literacy, the number of publications, the type of research, and the samples used. The data analysis technique employed is Miles and Huberman's method, which consists of four stages: data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The findings of this research indicate that the utilization of design thinking strategies exerts a significant influence on students' critical thinking skills and literacy, employing 13 aspects applicable during the implementation of chemistry learning processes

Critical Analysis of Strategies Towards Creating an Adequate Level of Awareness on Cybercrime among the Youth in Gauteng Province

This study aims to determine any measures taken by the South African Police Service (SAPS) to create awareness about cybercrime among the youth in the selected policing areas in the Gauteng province. A qualitative research method was applied using semi-structured interviews to find the views of participants, of measures if any, to create youths’ awareness in the area of cybercrime. A total of 37 participants comprised of 29 youths aged between 19 and 35 years, including an additional eight participants from the SAPS Crime Intelligence Unit who agreed to participate. Among these participants, there were 18 females and 19 males. The findings highlighted that there was a lack of awareness on the measures taken by the SAPS in educating the youth about the risks associated with cybercrime. The other challenges highlighted by the SAPS were a lack of capacity, resources, and training to increase the technical skills amongst the SAPS members to work effectively on cybercrime-related challenges, lack of collaboration among role players to respond adequately to cybercrime, and ineffective implementation of cybercrime policies, therefore, there was a lack of cybercrime-related campaigns. Based on the findings, five themes were explored in this study, including a lack of capacity, resources, and training to increase the technical skills amongst the SAPS members to work effectively on cybercrime-related challenges, lack of collaboration among role players to respond adequately to cybercrime and ineffective implementation of cybercrime policies. The recommendations are provided as a potential step towards tailoring education packages and awareness programs to ensure at-risk groups are equipped with actionable mechanisms to protect themselves against cybercrimes.

Strategic tools to improve of environmental friendliness of logistics chains

The transport of goods contributes to an increase in global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite the fact that its share is much less than that of industries, there is significant legislative pressure to reduce emissions from transport. A review and critical analysis of strategies to reduce or completely eliminate the negative impact of international logistics supply chains on the environment was carried out.Comparative characteristics of transport modes are presented, taking into account their negative impact on the environment. An extended review of scientific and practical publications on the topic of “green supply chain management” was carried out in order to reduce the negative impact of cargo transportation on the environment. Strategic solutions have been identified and analyzed to reduce emissions associated with the transportation of goods. Highlighted strategies, the attitude towards which in society has changed for the worse.The main method used is critical analysis. The subject of research is the area according to the passport of the scientific specialty 05.22.01 “Transport and transport-technological systems of the country, its regions and cities, organization of production in transport”, p. 6 “Protection of the environment from the polluting effects of transport”.The scientific novelty of the research lies in the proposed theoretical foundations and the identification of operational “tools” for improving the environmental friendliness of supply chains in the form of combined strategies.The relevance of the work is substantiated by environmental priorities in the state policy of the Russian Federation. In 2019, a large-scale national project “Ecology” was launched in our country, the main goal of which is to change the negative impact on the environment by 2030 and create comfortable living conditions for people in the country.It has been found that the available modes of transport vary greatly in emissions, with slower modes of transport generally having fewer emissions than faster ones.

Strategies and Perspectives to Catch the Missing Pieces in Energy-Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media.

Transition metal hydroxides (M‐OH) and their heterostructures (X|M‐OH, where X can be a metal, metal oxide, metal chalcogenide, metal phosphide, etc.) have recently emerged as highly active electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) of alkaline water electrolysis. Lattice hydroxide anions in metal hydroxides are primarily responsible for observing such an enhanced HER activity in alkali that facilitate water dissociation and assist the first step, the hydrogen adsorption. Unfortunately, their poor electronic conductivity had been an issue of concern that significantly lowered its activity. Interesting advancements were made when heterostructured hydroxide materials with a metallic and or a semiconducting phase were found to overcome this pitfall. However, in the midst of recently evolving metal chalcogenide and phosphide based HER catalysts, significant developments made in the field of metal hydroxides and their heterostructures catalysed alkaline HER and their superiority have unfortunately been given negligible attention. This review, unlike others, begins with the question of why alkaline HER is difficult and will take the reader through evaluation perspectives, trends in metals hydroxides and their heterostructures catalysed HER, an understanding of how alkaline HER works on different interfaces, what must be the research directions of this field in near future, and eventually summarizes why metal hydroxides and their heterostructures are inevitable for energy‐efficient alkaline HER.

Explaining growth? The case of the trade–growth relationship

This paper provides a critical analysis of the modelling strategies adopted in the trade–growth literature. Despite a huge number of econometric studies, there is a growing dissatisfaction with such studies and serious questions over what exactly has been learnt from them. Econometric work has been criticized for, amongst other things, its lack of clear relationship to underlying theory and questionable use of proxies for trade policy. It is frequently unclear what hypothesis is being tested in this literature. Universalist assumptions of the effects of trade policy have been undermined by earlier confident predictions of the effects of trade liberalization having not been borne out systematically by the past quarter century experience. This paper argues that the results of econometric analyses of the trade–growth relations are indicative of fundamental difficulties with the cross-country modeling strategy. The failure to find a clear trade–growth relationship consistently across countries and between time periods could, though, provide the starting point for further investigation. Alternative modelling strategies are considered here. An incipient research agenda has proposed a return to the comparative case study approach, incorporating the institutional and historical specificities of each country and thereby (implicitly or explicitly) rejecting universalist or homogeneity assumptions. Nevertheless, such a careful work has not been able thus far to provide a clear research agenda; there has been no consensus on the conclusions or methods of this approach in relation to trade–growth linkages. Whilst this has undoubtedly stimulated further research it has yet to produce a clear corpus of alternative work. This paper provides a critical analysis of the strategies adopted to address the theoretical and econometric critiques advanced of this work.