Future Clients Research Articles

COACHING DE CARREIRA PARA ESTUDANTES DE CURSOS TÉCNICOS E UNIVERSITÁRIOS: COACHING DE CARREIRA 4.0

The present article introduce a study about the diferents marketing theories and the aplications of tools in elaboration of promotional campaign to the Coaching de Carreira 4.0. It was a literature review of qualitative way, with the objective of identify the principals concepts about the subject underway and its applicability to proposed work. The study provided a conceptual analysis of principals contents of Marketing for Executives subject, allowing to identify the existing relationships between these concepts and the product promotion proposal to future clients in technical schools and universities that offer presential and e-learnig graduation. Presents the main media that will be used to promote the carrier coaching and the several used environments to position the product in Market. It innovates when proposing a new concept to coaching, considering the different used strategies to develop studants of multidisciplinar form with focus in inovation and experience in highly technological organizations.

Integration and Promotion: Integrating Sustainability Research into Computer Science Teaching through Serious Games Assignments

“Serious Games” is a final-year 20 credit point module, undertaken as the default optional module for students on Undergraduate courses entitled BSc Computing and BSc Computer Science (Games Technology) at Nottingham Trent University, UK. The module focuses on developing students’ critical evaluation skills, enhancing their ability to design and implement solutions for a real-world design brief, working with clients and making final products accessible to a broad target audience. Historically this was achieved through engagement with a single client, often via a wider research project or local educational establishment of some sort. More recently, the module has retained two client project briefs, which the students are then empowered to choose between. With each client brief the module team has sought to add extra value for the students. For the previous two academic years, the module team has partnered with Green Academy, a strategic team within the University whose priorities include stimulating pedagogical innovation and practice sharing within the area of sustainability and pioneering a shared understanding of sustainability education. The resulting partnership has introduced a brief for students which combines vital industry skills with sustainability literacy. Working with and alongside the students who are undertaking the module, the module has developed Serious Games on a diverse range of local and global sustainability issues and has exposed students to university research culture and our sustainability research specialisms. It has also necessitated that students engage with and contextualise the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the UNESCO ESD competencies which they are tasked with integrating into their design solutions. The long-term intent of this partnership is for these design decisions to be utilised in the Green Academy’s ongoing strategy to further enhance the University’s pedagogical framework and sustainability education offer, and to improve the provision of Serious Games for use by clients outside the University. This report is a synoptic overview of the module design and insights from the two-year partnership as well as how these observations have been leveraged to improve the design and delivery of the module for future clients and students.

APLICAÇÃO DE TÉCNICAS DE GESTÃO DE PROJETOS NA ENGENHARIA GEOTÉCNICA – ESTUDO DE CASO PARTICIPANTE

This paper represents an approach to Project Management techniques, based on the main project management processes defined by PMBOK® (2017) and practical applications, specifically in the Geotechnical Engineering field. The main goal of this monograph is to demonstrate the importance of the existence of the project management culture within an organization and the positive impacts that this can have on a company's projects, such as greater financial gains, increase of market value and become a reference in the field for possible future clients and existing ones. In addition, the main data from this study will show that a Project Manager of a mature organization in the subject, where there is a methodology to be followed and the procedures are well defined, plays a fundamental role for the project’s final result.

The Relevance of Marketing to the Accounting World

This article analyzes and presents the relevance of marketing for accounting, so that the accounting market has been growing and developing and qualifying its services provided, but with the excess of accounting firms, it is necessary for it to stand out in the square, due to the competition from other offices, for this accounting marketing has been used with a tool that guides and qualifies the accounting professional. It will have the purpose of demonstrating tools and techniques that helped the accounting professional in seeking to better serve his client, both internal and external, so that the entrepreneur understands that the accountant will be part of the organization's decision-making. Based on bibliographic research, the article will show how important it is for accounting to work together with marketing, improving its services, promoting its products and understanding its customer so that it can clarify doubts such as; What better calculation regime should the entrepreneur fit and know how to pass on this information to his client or even future client

Probabilistic maximization of time-dependent capacities in a gas network

AbstractThe determination of free technical capacities belongs to the core tasks of a gas network owner. Since gas loads are uncertain by nature, it makes sense to understand this as a probabilistic problem provided that stochastic modeling of available historical data is possible. Future clients, however, do not have a history or they do not behave in a random way, as is the case, for instance, in gas reservoir management. Therefore, capacity maximization becomes an optimization problem with uncertainty-related constraints which are partially of probabilistic and partially of robust (worst case) type. While previous attempts to solve this problem were devoted to models with static (time-independent) gas flow, we aim at considering here transient gas flow subordinate to the isothermal Euler equations. The basic challenge addressed in the manuscript is two-fold: first, a proper way of formulating probabilistic constraints in terms of the differential equations has to be provided. This will be realized on the basis of the so-called spherical-radial decomposition of Gaussian random vectors. Second, a suitable characterization of the worst-case load behaviour of future customers has to be found. It will be shown, that this is possible for quasi-static flow and can be transferred to the transient case. The complexity of the problem forces us to constrain ourselves in this first analysis to simple pipes or to a V-like structure of the network. Numerical solutions are presented and show that the differences between quasi-static and transient solutions are small, at least in these elementary examples.

Aesthetic Surgery & the Indications at A Sub-Urban Tertiary Hospital in Edo State, Nigeria

Background: Aesthetic surgery though growing at an exponential rate in developed countries is still not well developed in Nigeria. Though lately, there has been an increasing demand for cosmetic procedures in Nigeria but still, the practice is still slow growing. Objective: Few reports of the scope of aesthetic surgery are available from the sub region and Nigeria as a whole. In this study we seek to determine the aesthetic procedures and its indications in our centre, a sub urban teaching hospital in Irrua, Edo State, Southern Nigeria. Methods: A retrospective study of all aesthetic surgery cases carried out over a 5-year period – Jan 2019 to December 2023 at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital. Data from theatre records and case notes were analysed with respect to age, sex, procedure and indications for surgery done. Descriptive analysis of variables, means and percentages were considered. Results: In the period of study, 1,066 plastic surgery procedures were documented: 34 (3.19%) were for aesthetic indications. Sixteen of the patients (47.1%) were male and 18 (52.9%) female. Age range of patients that had aesthetic surgery was 1 - 60 years and the mean age was 24.1 + 18.08 years. The commonest aesthetic procedure was cleft repair 14 (41.17%) following cleft lip/palate, the rest were scar revisions 6 (17.65%) with the commonest indication being unsightly scar, otoplasties 5 (14.70%) following traumatic injury to the ear, liposuction 3 (8.82%) indicated by lipodystrophy, rhinoplasties 3 (8.82%) post traumatic injury to the nose, mammoplasties 2 (5.88%) which were done post mastectomy, and one (2.94%) cranioplasty following gun-shot orbital injury. Conclusion: There is paucity in the volume of cosmetic procedures in Irrua and the pattern of requests here differs in many respects from western centres. With the current reduced pool of aesthetic surgery, it is advisable to establish an aesthetic surgery sub-unit in most tertiary institutions. This sub-unit should be fully functional including special clinic days, as this could help attract future clients and develop this branch of Plastic Surgery.

Microcultures

The text is an experience report that describes the author's personal perceptions on the topic of microcultures. The author observes how dominant subcultures (white, heterosexual, non-disabled people, among other more socially valued attributes), benefit from a different position in the cultural hierarchy, which seems to cause a certain imbalance in the world. The author observed how her cultural identity developed in a multifaceted way. And that her diverse experiences, combined with her values, languages, customs and traditions, will certainly help her as a therapist, as well as her future clients.

SurfaceCast: Ubiquitous, Cross-Device Surface Sharing

Real-time online interaction is the norm today. Tabletops and other dedicated interactive surface devices with direct input and tangible interaction can enhance remote collaboration, and open up new interaction scenarios based on mixed physical/virtual components. However, they are only available to a small subset of users, as they usually require identical bespoke hardware for every participant, are complex to setup, and need custom scenario-specific applications. We present SurfaceCast, a software toolkit designed to merge multiple distributed, heterogeneous end-user devices into a single, shared mixed-reality surface. Supported devices include regular desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and mixed-reality headsets, as well as projector-camera setups and dedicated interactive tabletop systems. This device-agnostic approach provides a fundamental building block for exploration of a far wider range of usage scenarios than previously feasible, including future clients using our provided API. In this paper, we discuss the software architecture of SurfaceCast, present a formative user study and a quantitative performance analysis of our framework, and introduce five example application scenarios which we enhance through the multi-user and multi-device features of the framework. Our results show that the hardware- and content-agnostic architecture of SurfaceCast can run on a wide variety of devices with sufficient performance and fidelity for real-time interaction.

Mechanism for Preventing Shariah Non-Compliance (SNC) Events in Islamic Financial Institutions

Islamic financial institutions are fastest growing industry in all around the world. This occurred due to the need of Islamic banking and finance product among Muslim community as much as their concerns with Shariah non-compliance (SNC) event that may derive from banking and financial transaction. SNC event will raise the risk management of IFIs and have a negative influence on the IFIs' reputation among their present and future clients. Hence, this study is aimed to investigate the mechanism for preventing SNC events in Islamic financial institutions. This study employs a qualitative approach. This research achieves its objective through document analysis and interview with experts. Secondary data also gathered from sources such as journal papers and the websites of authorized authorities. General finding shows that, a sound Shariah governance and internal control mechanism are significant in overcome SNC events in Islamic financial institutions.

Adolescents' and Adults' Perceptions of Sensory-Based Interventions: A Qualitative Analysis.

Adolescents and adults report that their sensory integration and processing differences affect their occupational performance and quality of life, thus requiring effective sensory-focused interventions. Researchers have yet to investigate this population's experience of occupational therapy interventions designed to remediate these challenges. To explore the perceived experience of adolescents and adults with respect to (1) response to intervention, (2) strategies offered to manage sensory differences, and (3) need for services on completion of an intervention. Retrospective, qualitative study. Zoom or phone call. Eleven adolescents and adults with sensory integration and processing differences who had previously completed occupational therapy interventions. Sensory-based intervention based on the principles of Ayres Sensory Integration® (ASI) and the Sensory Therapies and Research Frame of Reference. A semistructured interview to obtain data, followed by an in-depth analysis using an inductive coding process to group initial open codes into themes and common subthemes Results: Open codes were grouped into three core themes: (1) therapist-related factors (what the therapist did in treatment); (2) client-related factors (what the client experienced); and (3) follow-up (future needs of the clients). Four main subthemes of the client-therapist relationship emerged: (1) therapeutic alliance; (2) education and knowledge; (3) strategies, tools, and resources; and (4) future needs. This study provides a perspective on the experience of adolescents and adults specific to the impact of a sensory-focused occupational therapy intervention on their daily lives. This will help occupational therapists when designing interventions for current and future clients. What This Article Adds: This study highlights the need for further research addressing effective sensory-based interventions for adolescents and adults. It also captures which components of intervention clients deemed helpful and identifies potential targets for future intervention.

Compliance with the Code of Ethics in the Presentation of Transactional Analysis Concepts Through Statements and Manifestation in Social Networks

This article is based on the report at the SOTA conference (March 25-26, 2023) and is devoted to the study of ways of demonstration and manifestation as a psychologist in the space of social media, safely for this psychologist, clients, subscribers, readers, taking into account the need to exclude the risks of violation the code of ethics. In my opinion, the relevance of this topic is high, since many psychologists have a need to demonstrate themselves, but sometimes the ways that marketing offers may be a violation of ethical norms. In this paper I reflect on how to demonstrate yourself in social media relying on the concepts of Transactional Analysis, and how to realize the needs of a specialist in presenting him- or herself, whether it is a desire to share promotional and useful information, or to reveal him- or herself as a professional to potential future clients, or to receive recognition and be noticeable. At the same time, the novelty of my perspective is that in the article I analyze the ways to realize the need for presence in social networks, taking into account the uniqueness of the specialist. In particular, I consider how to run a channel, blog, website, account with pleasure and interest, thereby making social networking a safe process, both for the specialist and for readers, so that the ethical principles become not an image of a Controlling Parent, but a support and a way to help in taking care of yourself and your customers with respect. In this article, I rely on research in the field of Transactional Analysis by authors such as Eric Berne, Vann Joines, Ian Stewart.

Factors Affecting Acceptance of Social Robots Among Prospective Users

Rapid technological and scientific developments in the robotics field have led to the expansion of the use of service robots in domestic environments. The purpose of the study reported in this paper is to identify the factors that determine people’s psychology, attitude, and intention to use a social robotic system. A new conceptual framework is developed and empirically tested, using data from 347 people, performing Structural Equation Modeling analysis. The proposed framework incorporates various factors related to hedonic attitudes, utilitarian attitudes, normative beliefs, control beliefs, and personality traits. The results reveal predominantly the positive impact of normative beliefs and utilitarian and hedonic attitudes but, also, the negative impact of control beliefs on people’s intention to use social robot systems. Consequently, it is concluded that future clients are not only influenced by society’s general attitudes, perceptions, and prejudices towards technology but, also, by the functional benefits of social robots.

Adaptive scheduling in service systems: A Dynamic programming approach

This paper considers appointment scheduling in a setting in which at every client arrival the schedule of all future clients can be adapted. Starting our analysis with an explicit treatment of the case of exponentially distributed service times, we then develop a phase-type-based approach to also cover cases in which the service times’ squared coefficient of variation differs from 1. The approach relies on dynamic programming, with the state information being the number of clients waiting, the elapsed service time of the client in service, and the number of clients still to be scheduled. The use of dynamic schedules is illustrated through a set of numerical experiments, showing (i) the effect of wrongly assuming exponentially distributed service times, and (ii) the gains (over static schedules, that is) achieved by rescheduling.

Contingent Electric Skin Shock: An Empirical or Ideological Issue?

Intractable self-injury, aggressive, and other destructive behaviors are real human conditions. Contingent electric skin shock (CESS) is a technology, based on behavior-analytic principles, used to ameliorate such behaviors. However, CESS has always been extraordinarily controversial. The Association for Behavior Analysis (ABAI), commissioned an independent Task Force to examine the issue. After a comprehensive review, the Task Force suggested the treatment should be available for use in select cases through a largely accurate report. Yet, ABAI adopted a position indicating CESS is never appropriate. On the issue of CESS, we are extremely concerned behavior analysis departed from the fundamental epistemology of positivism and is misleading nascent behavior analysts and consumers of behavioral technology. Destructive behaviors are extremely difficult to treat. In our commentary, we outline clarifications regarding aspects of the Task Force Report, proliferation of falsehoods by leaders in our field, and limitations to the standard of care in behavior analysis. We recommend using science to answer important questions instead of propagating false information at the expense of current and future clients with treatment refractory behaviors.

Modeling of the Operational Parameters on the Performance of an Air Conditioning System

Heat and moisture are removed from occupied spaces by air conditioning systems. Air conditioners regulate moisture and temperature, and improve air quality. Human efficiency is dramatically boosted and worker's efficiency is affected by their work environment. Human being is more comfortable and productive with air conditioning. After a few years of excellent operation, the system began to fail, resulting in numerous resident complaints. The goal of this study is to establish operational characteristic models for an air conditioning system's performance in order to fulfill future client requirements. The inlet and output temperatures as a function of local time were measured for the LSBLG 1200/MCF model central water chiller air conditioning system. The COP and EER curves were examined. MiniTAB 16.0 was used to establish the characteristic curves and models, according to the findings. The regression models are statistically significant at 97.7 percent and 91.1 percent for p-value less than 0.05 and R2 , respectively. The COP and EER values were calculated, and it was determined that the best cooling occurred between 1 and 3 p.m. The chiller and cooling tower achieve maximum coefficients of performance (COP) of 52 and 20, respectively. The chiller and cooling tower have EER ratings of 177 and 68, respectively. Regression analysis is used to develop models that characterize the statistical relationship between operational parameters such as input and outlet temperatures as a function of local time and response variables such as COP and EER. The performance of the system can be monitored using existing models. Keywords: Modeling, operational parameters, performance, and air conditioning system.

Improving Self-organization and Self-efficacy of Diverse Occupational Therapy students: The Development of the Embodied and Embedded Motor Skills Curriculum

Being organized and confident in our movements and thoughts is necessary to achieve a desired outcome. Motor, process, and social interaction performance skill training is therefore part of contemporary occupational therapy (OT) training. Also prioritized is building awareness of cultural, social and economic diversity, inequity and the need for inclusion and representation within the OT profession. The US OT Practice Framework emphasizes the embeddedness of clients and their activities in personal and sociocultural contexts.Less attention has been paid to the learning process, self-organization, and self-efficacy of diverse OT students as they prepare for hands-on interventions with future clients. Minimal literature is available about their own somatic awareness and embodied understanding of the motor skills they teach their clients. A decade of observing clinical labs at historically Black Howard University (HU), and a recent survey of HU OT students, reveal their quest for embodied motor learning, and for guidance in organizing kinesthetically for client encounters.Researching these observed and voiced needs stimulated the development of the Embedded and Embodied Motor Skill Curriculum (EEMSC). The curriculum is grounded in evidence-based OT research and in the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education.The Kern 6-Step Approach to curriculum design was used to develop the program. It is envisioned that applying somatic learning in clinical interventions with underserved population will be empowering and enabling for both OTs and their clients and contribute to the process of knowledge translation between practice and research.

"It Makes you Want to Go Out and Change the World": Shifts in Victim Advocates' Perspectives Following the Intimate Partner Homicide of a Client in the United States.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) victim advocates are exposed daily to the traumas of their clients, including the potential exposure to an intimate partner homicide (IPH). While research has examined the effects of daily secondary exposure to IPV on victim advocates, little is known about the specific effect of IPH. This study examined how the IPH of a client affected advocates' perception of and approach to their work. Nine advocates were recruited from the northeastern U.S. and interviewed about their experience of the IPH of a client. Advocate interviews were analyzed using The Listening Guide Analysis which systematically isolates and listens to the different, and often contradictory, voices that a participant uses. Exposure to IPH changed participants' perception of their role, how they defined client, and how they interacted with future clients. At a macro-level, the IPH of a client motivated advocates to advance changes in agency protocol, multisector responses, and state policy based on what they had learned from the IPH. Opportunities to translate shifts in their worldview into tangible changes to protocol and policy were critical to advocate adjustment after the IPH. In order to support advocates after IPH, organizations should acknowledge the potentially transformative effect of IPH and create opportunities for meaning making to assist in advocate adjustment. It is imperative for advocacy organizations to support their employees to prevent advocate burnout and the loss of experienced staff, and to continue to provide effective services to vulnerable members of their communities after IPH.

Sex-Positive Clinical Supervision: A Special Commentary

This commentary focuses on clinical competencies, research frameworks, training implications that elevate the meta-competence awareness for the clinical supervisor. There is an identified need to expand sex-positive clinical supervision guidelines. The supervisory setting is created for the safety and personal-professional growth of the supervisee, where it is an opportunity to conceptualize the thematic development of our clinical evolution. In this space, we set a foundation for clinical frameworks to guide the applicability of specific intervention methods and strategies that allow for the critical formulation of a healthy therapeutic outcome. Without established and robust sex-positive frameworks in supervision, the clinical supervisor is exposed to incompetent practices that miss an adequate assessment, detection, and treatment, all critical elements of the conceptualization process. To make matters worse, the lack of training and preparation in sexual wellness and other sexual topics is transferred onto the supervisee, creating a circuit of uninformed clinicians and left to fend on their own when encountering a future client seeking treatment. Not only are we causing a disservice to our supervisees, but we are perpetually injuring the clinical community as a whole. This commentary will examine the clinical, research and training priorities in clinical mental health counseling.

Investigating the Role of Meal Quality and Food Look, Smell, and Taste on Perceived Health Improvement for Clients of Meals on Wheels of Central Indiana

Meals on Wheels organizations across the country have the common goal of ending hunger among the elderly, malnourished, and disabled population. Meals on Wheels of Central Indiana (MOWCI) primarily serves Marion County and the rest of the state through one of its programs. The organization offers daily hot and cold meals Monday through Friday, frozen meal deliveries, and pantry boxes. Minus the pantry boxes, meals are assembled at one of nine participating health corporations: Community Health Network, Eskenazi Health, IU Health- Methodist, Marquette, Franciscan Health, Ascension St. Vincent, and Westminster Village. MOWCI offers traditional or Medicaid subsidized hot and cold meals (for Marion County clients), Ryan’s Meals for Life (HIV/AIDS clients), and Embrace Cancer programs (low-income cancer treatment clients from Eskenazi). In this study, phone surveys were conducted investigating food quality and delivery satisfaction for daily hot and cold clients (n=149). Results were analyzed in Excel using a Chi-Square analysis of independence (alpha 0.05, 3 degrees of freedom). It was found that overall food quality and food smell, taste, and appearance were associated with perceived health improvements in a significantly significant manner with a p-value of 0.0000113 and 0.0198 respectively. There are 248 clients who as of July 7th have not been evaluated and thus, is still an active area of focus for MOWCI. A model has been created and shared with the organization that continues to allow them to collect data on future clients and input the data in order to determine what effect meals have on all of their client population as opposed to the 37.5% of clients that have been evaluated in this project. These efforts will be used in the future to aid in writing grants to allow for the expansion of current and future programs.

Photography as a Wellness Tool for Counselors-in-Training

The academic journey to become a professional counselor can be challenging for counselors-in-training (CIT), adversely affecting their physical health, mental health, and wellness. Counselor educators (CE) have recognized a need for wellness training and interventions to assist CIT during graduate school and to prepare them for their careers. Photography is considered a tool in art therapy within the realm of expressive therapies that can be used for wellness purposes. We review wellness, CIT struggles with wellness, expressive therapies, and photography techniques to promote CIT professional development and wellness practices. We identify the history of photography tools, describe each tool more precisely, and provide examples of how they can aid CIT in addressing their health and wellness and increasing their knowledge and use of photography as a wellness tool with future clients. We discuss practice and research implications for CE and CIT.