Funding Institution Research Articles

Livelihood strategies of marginalised Zimbabwean women living in South Africa

abstract Zimbabwean women constitute a significant number of migrants living in South Africa. Both accompanying spouses and lone Zimbabwean migrant women face challenges in securing formal employment and are often forced to establish informal businesses for their survival. Drawing on qualitative interviews, this study explored perceived challenges and triumphs encountered by Zimbabwean women in informal trading across South Africa. All the women indicated that they established survivalist businesses once in South Africa. Lack of fulfilling employment, poor wages, family financial pressures, disruptions and exclusion from social welfare benefits during the coronavirus lockdown were some of the factors that pushed migrant women into informal businesses. Establishment of informal businesses protected women from resorting to commercial sex work and other transactional relations. Challenges encountered include lack of funding to establish their businesses, low returns, crime, sexual harassment from clients, extortion, and fear of xenophobic attacks. Despite these challenges, Zimbabwean women described how they managed to build a strong clientele and improve their financial wellbeing in the process. Funding institutions can support migrant women through the provision of business loans, and training women on how to run businesses and saving. This will financially empower migrant women and protect their physical, sexual, and mental health.

Dementia Researchers’ Inside Views on Research Networks and Alignment With Public Research Funding: A Qualitative Study

This study presents the dementia researchers views of research networks, and how the networks fit into their pursuit of research objectives and dementia research funding. We conducted 10 semi-structured interviews with 10 leading dementia researchers in Norway, for a qualitative study inspired by grounded theory. The dementia researchers consider the six categories to determine the legitimacy of the proposed network and its proposing person. The six categories are: personal motivation, relationship and friendship, communication, research funding, research management, and network characteristics. The dementia researcher offers insights into best practice of research networks. The study suggests that leading dementia researchers collaborate effectively on research activities toward personal research interests and objectives, but these are not actively aligned coordinated with the interests of the public research funding institutions. Lack of coordination between the funded dementia researchers and the funding institutions limits the potential performance from the dementia research.

Artificial intelligence in science education: A bibliometric review

A descriptive bibliometric analysis of works on artificial intelligence (AI) in science education is provided in this article to help readers understand the state of the field’s research at the time. This study’s main objective is to give bibliometric data on publications regarding AI in science education printed in periodicals listed in the Scopus database between 2002 and 2023 end of May. The data gathered from publications scanned and published within the study’s parameters was subjected to descriptive bibliometric analysis based on seven categories: number of articles and citations per year, countries with the most publications, most productive author, most significant affiliation, funding institutions, publication source and subject areas. Most of the papers were published between 2016 and 2022. The United States of America, United Kingdom, and China were the top-3 most productive nations, with the United States of America producing the most publications. The number of citations to the publications indexed in Scopus database increased in a progressive way and reached to maximum number in 2022 with 178 citations. Most productive author on this topic was Salles, P. with four publications. Moreover, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Memphis, and University of Southern California have the maximum number of publications as affiliations. The National Science Foundation was the leader funding institution in terms of number of publications produced. In addition, “Proceedings Frontiers in Education Conference Fie” have the highest number of publications by year as a publication source. Distribution of the publications by subject area was analyzed. The subject areas of the publications were computer sciences, social sciences, science education, technology and engineering education respectively. This study presents a vision for future research and provides a global perspective on AI in science education.

BENEFITS OF FINANCIAL REPORTING FOR LOCAL BRAND MSMEs

The benefits of financial reporting for local brand MSMEs are important for the company's financial condition and provide the information for making appropriate and credible decisions in the company. The research here aims to provide the benefits of financial reporting for MSMEs, especially local brand MSMEs. This research is a descriptive study. The author uses data-supporting documents for compiling financial reports that will be used as output in the form of financial information. Researchers make comparisons between MSME entrepreneurs before having financial reports and after having financial reports. The research samples here are from eight local brands in the city of Bandung, namely HAICLO, Happy Go Lucky, Cherish the Love, Nazmi Indonesia, Dressofia, Lederweren Footwear, Hyka Studio, and Curva. The results of the study show that local brands can grow their businesses if they prepare financial reports and get investor funding and financial institutions to help with their financial and business strategies in the short and long term.

Developers' decision to navigate resource adversity in crowdfunded digital development projects

In a world where funding institutions and venture capitalists dominate the digital product development landscape, crowdfunding engages a global crowd to finance visionary ideas and address underrepresented needs. However, despite recognizing the challenges of managing crowd expectations, there is limited understanding of how developers navigate these challenges following the successful funding of their proposals. Drawing on a comparative, longitudinal, and in-depth grounded investigation, this study illuminates the prevalence of "resource adversity" within crowdfunded digital development projects. Resource adversity, characterized by scarcities of critical resources such as funding and human capital, affects crowdfunded development despite substantial support from a large crowd, potentially leading to complex outcomes. While adversity compels developers to seek additional funding and advocate for changes in various project aspects, this perspective departs from resource-centric viewpoints and emphasizes resourceful decisions to proactively establish resilience, resist precarious changes, and facilitate the release of high-quality products and post-adversity benefits. The perspective contributes to the dominant research focus on post-adversity decision-making and restoration by discussing connections across pre-adversity, adversity, and post-adversity stages. By focusing on preparedness and resourcefulness, the decision-making insights expand research on managing resource-limited development while meeting diverse stakeholder expectations. Moreover, the perspective enriches extant understanding of community-based innovation by elucidating how product improvisation, community resource engagement, and bricolage are interrelated and contribute to shaping evolving digital products. The article concludes by discussing practical implications for entrepreneurs and platform owners and by exploring avenues for future research.

Bibliometric review of articles related to context-based learning in science education

This study provides a bibliometric study of publications on context-based learning in science education to give readers a better understanding of the current state of the field’s research. The major goal of this study is to provide bibliometric information on articles on context-based learning in science education published in periodicals listed in the Scopus Database between 2005 and 2023. A bibliometric analysis based on seven categories–number of articles and citations per year, most influential countries, most productive authors, most significant affiliations, funding institutions, and subject areas was performed on the information gathered from publications scanned and published within the study’s parameters. Network diagrams and bibliometric analyses were produced using the Scopus Database. The year in which the most articles were published is 2022. The top three most productive countries were the Netherlands, Germany, and Turkey, respectively. The number of citations to papers included in the Scopus Database grew steadily, reaching its peak in 2022 with 410 citations. Pilot, A., who published 13 times, was the most productive author on this subject. Most publications are affiliated with Universiteit Utrecht, Freudenthal Institute and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Horizon 2020 framework program was the top funding source in terms of articles published. Additionally, it was examined how the publications were distributed by subject. The publications’ respective topic areas were social sciences and computer sciences. This study offers a global view of context-based learning in science education as well as a vision for future research.

Research on the Relationship between Pure Mathematics and Mathematics ResearchLevel in Institutions Based on ERA and InCites

The main purpose of this study is to explore the internal relationship between pure mathematics and mathematics research level in institutions, utilizingPython to perform correlation analysis in four areas: total number of publications, funding, journals, and cooperative institutions. Besides, Kruskal Wallis test is used for single factor analysis. The findings reveal that the higher the ranking of scientific research institutions, the more positive correlation between the research level of mathematics and pure mathematics. Moreover, the higher the level of mathematics, the greater the impact of the number of pure mathematics publications and the number of international cooperative publications on their mathematics subject ranking. Finally, we offer five practical recommendations for research institutions wishing to improve the level of pure mathematics research.

Priority setting to support a public health research agenda: a modified Delphi study with public health stakeholders in Germany

BackgroundResearch priority setting (RPS) studies are necessary to close the significant gap between the scientific evidence produced and the evidence stakeholders need. Their findings can make resource allocation in research more efficient. However, no general framework for conducting an RPS study among public health stakeholders exists. RPS studies in public health are rare and no such study has been previously conducted and published in Germany. Therefore, we aimed to investigate which research topics in public health are prioritised by relevant stakeholders in Germany.MethodsOur RPS study consisted of a scoping stage and a Delphi stage each split into two rounds. Firstly, we invited members of the German Public Health Association to gather expert insights during two initial workshops. Next, we defined the relevant stakeholder groups and recruited respondents. Thereafter, we collected research topics and assessment criteria with the respondents in the first Delphi round and aggregated the responses through content analysis. Finally, we asked the respondents to rate the research topics with the assessment criteria in the second Delphi round.ResultsIn total, 94 out of the 140 invited public health organisations nominated 230 respondents for the Delphi study of whom almost 90% participated in both Delphi rounds. We compiled a comprehensive list of 76 research topics that were rated and ranked by several assessment criteria. We split the research topics into two types, substantive research topics and methodological-theoretical research topics respectively, to ensure the comparability among the research topics. In both types of research topics—substantive research topics and methodological-theoretical research topics—the respective top five ranked research topics hardly differed between public health researchers and public health practitioners. However, clear differences exist in the priority ranking of many (non-top priority) research topics between the stakeholder groups.ConclusionsThis research demonstrates that it is possible, with limited resources, to prioritise research topics for public health at the national level involving a wide range of pertinent stakeholders. The results can be used by research funding institutions to initiate calls for research projects with an increased relevance for health and/or scientific progress.

Achievement and Aspiration of Local Colleges and Universities on the Research Agenda of Funding Institutions: Basis for Research Capability Building

This study was conducted for a specific purpose: to assess the research culture in the local colleges and universities and to propose an enhanced research capacity-building program. There were sixteen informants of this study; four administrators and twelve faculty members in the local colleges and universities in the CAMANAVA area namely: The University of Caloocan City, City of Malabon University, Navotas Polytechnic College and Valenzuela City Polytechnic College. A Purposive sampling technique was used to identify the informants. The study made use of a qualitative research approach. The data were collected from individual interviews with the administrators and faculty members. Using open coding, six (6) themes were emerged from the interviews and analysis of the document: philosophical research perspective, impact on institution’s growth and development, motivational components in research engagement, promoting the research culture, managing challenges and impediments and enhancing research capability. The informants identified the challenges in the development of the intensified research culture in the local colleges and universities which includes the scarcity of funds, research skills and expertise, network resources, and time constraint. These can be resolved through the enhancement of research capabalities and development programs. Generally, the study concluded that the research is indeed a powerful tool in addressing institutional problems and the utmost contribution of faculty members of the local colleges and universities in the academic and curricular programs and institutional growth and development. The institutional support will address the compelling need of the local colleges and universities to improve their research capability and research output.

Hyperspectral remote sensing technology for water quality monitoring: knowledge graph analysis and Frontier trend

Water environment health assessment is one of the vital fields closely related to the quality of human life. The change of material contained in water will lead to the reflectance change of hyperspectral remote sensing data. According to this phenomenon, the water quality parameters are calculated to achieve the purpose of water quality monitoring. Series knowledge graphs in this field are drawn after analyzing 564 publications from WOS (Web of Science) and EI (The Engineering Index) databases since 1994 with the support of VOSviewer and CiteSpace. Including statistics of documents publication time, contribution analysis, the influence of publications and journals, and the influence of funding institutions. It is concluded that the research trend of hyperspectral water quality monitoring is the machine learning algorithm based on UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) hyperspectral instrument data by analyzing scientific research cooperation, keyword analysis, and research hotspots. The whole picture of the research is obtained in this field from four subfields: application scenarios, data sources, water quality parameters, and monitoring algorithms in this paper. It is summarized that the miniaturization, integration, and intelligence of hyperspectral sensors will be the research trend in the next 10 years or even longer. The conclusions have significant reference values for this field.

Food sovereignty and displacement: gardening for food, mental health, and community connection

ABSTRACT In this paper, we assess factors that underlie the relationship between gardening and improved mental health and food security outcomes among displaced people. Drawing on a mixed method study of refugee gardeners in New York, we argue that a food sovereignty framework better incorporates crucial factors such as cultural appropriateness of food, autonomy over food choices, and promotion of health and community, as compared with a food security analysis. We draw commonalities between Indigenous food sovereignty scholarship and the resettled refugee experience, making connections across conceptual and material divisions in scholarly literature and funding institutions. Our work helps researchers and practitioners understand the impacts of gardening on social and material outcomes for displaced people, and suggests global linkages between dispossessed immigrant and Indigenous peoples’ food sovereignty movements.

Canvas Business Model To Create Fundraising Strategy at LAZIS Al Haromain

As LAZ grows more and more, LAZ also has new challenges to be able to keep up with crowd funding institutions in fundraising activities. So it is necessary to have a strategy and program advantages that need to be owned by each LAZ. The Jariyah Islamic Boarding School Program is one of the flagship programs offered by Lazis Al Haromain to assist the development of Islamic boarding schools. This study aims to find out how the Fundraising strategy is in obtaining infaq funds and attracting current donors at the Jariyah Islamic Boarding School Program and formulating a strategy with the Business Model Canvas. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques were carried out by interviews, observation and documentation. The results of the stud y show that the current strategy being developed includes pick-up donations, campaigns through social media, the Friday jariyah movement, and offering pesantren jariyah coupons. The results of the elaboration of the strategy into the 9 elements of the Business Model Canvas show that the implementation of the strategy is quite good but based on the results of the SWOT analysis there are several elements of the business model canvas that need to be improved so that the strategy runs more optimally and has an impact on obtaining funds in the Islamic boarding school's jariyah program.

Textuelle Infrastrukturen des Theaters. Dramaturgie als Vermittlung

Textuelle Infrastrukturen des Theaters<b>. Dramaturgie als Vermittlung</b>

Association Between Financial Efficiency and Credit Risk of SMEs—A Study Using DEA and Altman Z-score

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have encountered several threats resulting in a high failure rate vis-à-vis unavailability of financial assistance from funding institutions. Financial assistance is triggered through financial efficiency of SMEs and an error-free credit risk assessment. This article attempts to evaluate SMEs’ financial efficiency and credit risk. Data from 2016 to 2020 are collected for 36 listed companies and analysed using the Altman Z-score to predict leeway of bankruptcy and data envelopment analysis to study the financial efficiency. Association between results of both the models shows that there does not exist a direct relation between credit risk and financial efficiency. SMEs can build a comprehensive financial portfolio using the findings of this study The study findings indicated that it lowers the asymmetry of information and leads to deciding on proper interest rates to reduce borrowers’ substantiated credit risk, as this would result in ease of funding to financially distressed SMEs.

Challenges to effective utilization of entrepreneurial skills of unemployed graduates in Damaturu Yobe State, Nigeria

The purpose of acquiring entrepreneurial skills not even only for undergraduates is to secure a living or self-reliance using creative talent to establish a venture that will ensure and sustain growth of wealth in the entrepreneur personal economic and the country at large. This is not possible to the developing entrepreneurs’ consequent to a certain number of challenges that affect the effective utilization of such skills which attributed to unemployment and redundancy among undergraduates. This study aimed at identifying the skills required by unemployed graduate for self-reliance and the challenges to effective utilization of entrepreneurial skills of unemployed graduates in Damaturu Educational Zone. The research study was carried out in four local government areas in Damaturu Educational Zone. The target population consists of 230 unemployed graduates who undergo skills acquisition and empowerment Development (SAED) program in NYSC Camp. A structured questionnaire was used. Finding reveals that lack of capital, lack of mentoring and guidance, too much dependence on government employment among others are among the challenges facing the unemployed graduates to use entrepreneurship skills effectively in their various destinations. It was recommended that some of the business organizations and Yobe State Government should come up with a novel way to support the unemployed graduates with grant for start-ups, private sectors and authorities should also provide simplified access to fund at reliable financial agencies, the unemployed graduates entrepreneurs should as much as possible obtain a start-up capital for the venture from funding institutions and must not depend on government for employment among others.

A Bibliometric Analysis of the Evolution of State-of-the-Art Blockchain Technology (BCT) in the Agrifood Sector from 2014 to 2022.

In recent years, BCT has garnered significant attention from researchers worldwide. The technology in question is a distributed database system characterised by its decentralised nature and lack of reliability. BCT has been widely adopted by numerous governments and scholars across various sectors for a number of years. Blockchain technology also involves highly innovative and advanced concepts. Given the increasing interest among scholars in the academic community regarding the agrifood supply chain, the objective of this study was to investigate BCT and its potential for application in the fields of food and agriculture. This research paper presents a bibliometric analysis of articles on the utilisation of BCT in the fields of food and agriculture. This study discusses scholarly articles that have been published in esteemed academic journals and conferences. Through our bibliometric analysis, we aimed to discern the recurring trends and themes within the research on BCT in relation to agrifood systems. Furthermore, this study examines a diverse array of research domains, prominent scholarly publications, leading publishing platforms, prominent funding institutions, and the prospective trajectory of future research. This study also presents the prominent patterns and themes within this field through an analysis of the most influential scholarly articles, authors, countries, and keywords found in the existing literature. Hence, this research employed various analytical techniques, including analyzing the co-occurrence of author keywords, bibliographic coupling analysis, network view map analysis, and co-citation analysis. This study holds promise as a valuable learning resource for aspiring researchers seeking to acquire compelling and pertinent information about research outcomes from studies on the utilisation of BCT in the field of smart agriculture.

Bibliometric analysis of cybercrime and cybersecurity risks literature

PurposeThis study aims to assess the research developments and works pertaining to cybersecurity risks.Design/methodology/approachA bibliometric analysis of 749 studies on cybersecurity risks published between 1999 and 2021 was conducted using Scopus and the VOSviewer software.FindingsThis study reveals various findings, including the most influential authors and the top countries, journals, papers, funding institutions and affiliations publishing research on cybersecurity risks. The bibliometric analysis shows that the existing studies have affected the knowledge of the consequences of cybersecurity risks. However, some research gaps still exist in this field.Originality/valueThis study’s contribution is that it presents a comprehensive evaluation of the research on cybercrime and cybersecurity risks. Moreover, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, bibliometric analysis has not been conducted on cybersecurity risks. This study’s findings are likely to prove useful to practitioners and academics in mitigating the consequences of cybercrime and cybersecurity risks.

Uncovering patterns and trends in online teaching and learning for STEM education

This article provides a bibliometric overview of publications on eLearning trends in STE(A)M teaching and learning to give readers a better understanding of the current state of research in the field. The main objective of this study is to provide bibliometric data on publications on online teaching and learning trends for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education (STEM) teaching and learning purposes printed in journals included in the Scopus database in the years 2011-2023. For the bibliometric analysis, STEM learning, STEM teaching, online education, bibliometric review keywords were used, and 136 documents from the Scopus database were chosen. The collected data of the publications scanned and published in the parameters of the study were subjected to a bibliometric analysis based on seven categories: number of articles and citations per year, most influential countries, most prolific author, most prominent affiliations, funding institutions, publication source, and subject areas. Network diagrams and bibliometric analyses were created using the Scopus database analysis. Most of the articles were published between 2016 and 2022. The United States of America, the United Kingdom, and China were among the top-three most productive countries, and the United States of America produced the most publications. The number of citations to publications indexed in the Scopus database is growing steadily and reached its peak in 2022 (178 citations). The most prolific author on this subject is Minichiello, A., with four publications. In addition, Stanford University and Utah State University have maximum publishing partners. By funding 16 publications for online STEM teaching and learning, the National Science Foundation has shown leadership. The topic areas of the publications’ distribution were looked at. The articles’ respective fields of study were social sciences and computer science. This study offers a vision for future research as well as a worldwide view of online learning for STEM teaching and learning.

The Contribution of Zakat, Infaq, Sadaqa, and Waqf (Ziswaf) Strategic Management in Developing the Prosperity of Ummah

As a country with the largest muslim population in the world, Indonesia is still far behind in developing the potential of zakat, infaq, sadaqa, and waqf (ziswaf) which should be optimized. This requires a mature strategy in managing to maximize the potential of ziswaf. This study aims to examine the development of ziswaf strategic management at the Baitul Al-Qur'an Social Fund Institution (LDSBQ) which has a vision and mission based on Islamic sharia and aims to prosper the Ummah. This research uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive analysis method, while the data collection instruments use interviews, observation, and documentation. Sources were taken from various references related to the topic of the problem, namely journals, books, and other articles. The results showed that the three main programs of LDSBQ are First, scholar smile; engaged in education. Second, smile healthy; is engaged in the health sector. Third, independence smile; which is a movement for community independence in the economic field, and is supported by social-religious activities such as waqf and da'wah programs. While the fundraising strategy uses a potential network of student and teacher guardians, a network of Gontor alumni colleagues, program socialization through social media, online and offline donation services, and program-based waqf. With a real sector-based movement, social community activities can have a significant impact on the welfare of the ummah to gain happiness in this world and the hereafter.

Islamic Philanthropy: House of Zakat as a Funding and Capital Institution

Islamic Philanthropy: House of Zakat as a Funding and Capital Institution