Institutional Accommodation Research Articles

Smart Hostel Allocation System Using Naïve Bayes Algorithm

This research explores the potential of automated personality classification using supervised machine learning techniques, with a specific focus on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for hostel allocation. The problem is the manual and resource-intensive allocation of hostel accommodations in educational institutions, leading to personality mismatches among roommates, which negatively impacts students' academic engagement and well-being. The aim of this research is to improve hostel room allocation by predicting student personality traits, thus minimizing personality mismatches among roommates. A Naïve Bayes classifier was applied to the MBTI personality dataset acquired from Kaggle. Various preprocessing techniques, such as tokenization, stop-word removal, and word stemming, were used to prepare the dataset for feature selection. CountVectorizer and TF-IDF methods were employed to convert text into numerical vectors for machine learning analysis. Additionally, SMOTE was implemented to address class imbalance within the dataset, ensuring better model performance. The Naïve Bayes classifier showed promising results, with scores achieved across all personality traits as 73% precision, 70% accuracy, F1 Score 70% and Recall 70% in predicting MBTI personality traits from input text. Visualizations and performance metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score were used to evaluate the model's efficiency. The research findings suggest that supervised machine learning techniques can effectively predict personality traits from social media data, aiding in improved hostel room allocation and potentially benefiting broader applications in education and computational psychology. This system is recommended for educational institutions and residential complexes seeking efficient roommate pairing.

The influence of social preconditions on the formation of the environment for elderly people

The onset of old age is associated with certain problems for the individual, his or her family and society. Many people enter old age with material problems, conflict situations in the family, chronic diseases, reduced ability to move and self-care. Older people are increasingly seeking the help of social protection institutions, including residential care facilities. In developed European countries, 2-4% of elderly people are associated with various forms of accommodation in social protection institutions, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, protected (social) apartments, etc. In China, the aging process is developing very rapidly. Chinese scientists suggest that by the middle of this century, the elderly population aged 60 years and older may reach 450-470 million people, including people with disabilities. The population density of the PRC and the degree of aging of the elderly are constantly increasing, which puts enormous pressure on urban health services and public service institutions. Older people need more social, medical, cultural, and other services in cities, as well as the development of the material base of health and social protection institutions. Traditional family support can no longer meet China's growing needs for an aging population. At present, there is a problem with the choice of sites for housing and social welfare facilities for the elderly, and very high urban planning and environmental requirements are imposed on them.

I Will Meet You There, and We Can Be Anxious Together: The Lived Experiences of College Students with Anxiety Disorders

<i>The purpose of this qualitative transcendental phenomenological study was to understand the essence of the shared lived experiences of undergraduate college students with anxiety disorders at two universities in the Southeastern United States. Ellis’s cognitive theory, rational emotive behavior therapy, guided the study which took place at a mid-sized, public nonsectarian university and a small, private liberal arts college. The central research question elicited rich data regarding the shared lived experiences of the study participants. The four research sub-questions address participants’ perceptions regarding the impact of their disorders on their lifestyles and academic performance. A purposeful criterion sample was used to select the participants who completed a questionnaire, open-ended individual interviews, a single focus group interview, and participant journals. Phenomenological reduction was used to create a composite integration of meaning and the essence of the lived experience of the participants. Data results identified five themes: (a) social fears, (b) stressor issues, (c) generational issues, (d) academic performance barriers, and (e) institutional education and accommodation preferences.</i>

STUDENT HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION CHALLENGE IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES AND THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP OPTION

One of the most cherished educational assets for students in tertiary institutions in Nigeria and the world is hostel accommodation. This asset provides students with an environment for intellectual development and easy interaction with fellow peers and fosters teamwork and communal spirit among students. Hostel accommodation in most Nigerian tertiary institutions is problematic and scarce too; as such, many students tend to be affected academically and psychologically; this study investigated the challenges of hostel accommodation in Benue State University, Makurdi and suggested the Public Private Partnership (PPP) option. The objectives of the study are to ascertain the causes of hostel accommodation challenges in Nigerian tertiary institutions with Benue State University, Makurdi, in sight, to ascertain the impact of hostel accommodation problems on students' academic performance and welfare and to suggest options best for hostel accommodation challenge in Nigeria tertiary institution. Three research questions guided the study. The study is anchored on the stakeholders' theory by Edward Freeman (1983). A mixed-method research design was adopted for this study. Simple random sampling was used, and questionnaire administration and Oral interviews were conducted to obtain information from 45 respondents. The study found out, among other things, that the over-enrollment of students causes a shortage in student hostel accommodation, inadequate hostel facilities, and a lack of maintenance culture by management/government, which are identifiable sources of accommodation challenges. The study recommends the PPP option and privatization of hostel facilities as the way forward for the best quality and quantity of accommodation in tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

Upućivanje u odgojnu ustanovu – odgojna mjera zahvaćena svjetskim trendom transformacije i deinstitucionalizacije

The transformation and deinstitutionalisation of educational institutions in EU Member States have not bypassed Croatian juvenile criminal law. With the latest amendments to the Youth Courts Act in 2019, a completely new method of executing juvenile sanctions, known as specialised foster care, was introduced into Croatian juvenile law. This measure is implemented not only in social care institutions (community support centres or educational homes) but also in associations specialised in children with behavioural issues. According to the new regulation, it can now also be carried out by foster parents engaged in specialised foster care for children under a special regulation. The implementing regulation for specialised foster care is the Foster Care Act. However, despite legal regulation, its application is lacking, indicating serious issues in practice. The problems are twofold. On the one hand, there is understaffing in institutional accommodation facilities in educational institutions for boys and girls, and, regarding the latter, there are no adequate educational institutions for girls. On the other hand, the execution of this measure is not realised through an alternative, i.e., in a non-institutional way through specialised foster care. All of this can lead to absurdity and result in the imposition of more severe sanctions due to the lack of the possibility to execute the existing educational measure of referral to an educational institution. As a result, the research will investigate to what extent the imposition of this measure on underage girls is prevalent before the Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb and where this measure is executed.

“Servants not Soldiers”: The Origins of Slavery in the United States Army, 1797–1816

Abstract: This article illuminates a lesser-explored aspect of the United States as a “slaveholding republic.” Between 1816–1861, the U.S. Army relied on thousands of enslaved persons who served as officers' servants. In 1816, Congress authorized allowances, rations, and bonuses for officers' private servants while putting an end to the practice of soldiers serving as servants. This legislative move effectively subsidized and incentivized military slaveholding. The paper delves into the political circumstances and legislative maneuvers that led Congress to institutionalize military slavery, establishing mechanisms to sustain, fund, and expand the number of enslaved servants. Military slavery developed gradually with the foundation, bureaucratization, and professionalization of an American military peace establishment. It evolved from 1797 to 1816 through competing policy objectives, resulting in a long-lasting bureaucratic workaround euphemistically termed "servants not soldiers." Facing public criticism over officers’ abuse of soldiers’ labor, the army “outsourced” officers’ servants through a dual process of privatization and racialization, differentiating between “public” and “private” service, between free, white soldiers and enslaved, black servants. Though serving slaveholders’ interests, the adopted solution was a product of bureaucratic contingencies and ad-hoc decision-making and not a policy orchestrated by a cabal of enslavers. Interestingly, a basic question of reimbursement led somewhere unanticipated, ending in government-sponsored enslaved servitude. Acknowledging this contingency does not excuse the actions but underscores how slavery was often "solved" through institutional accommodation rather than political or moral opposition. Thus, slavery directly impacted the U.S. Army, a central national institution, altering the military system at its pivotal, formative moments.

A religious minority tax in healthcare? Insights from Muslim American physicians

Physicians from marginalized racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender backgrounds often encounter adversity, ranging from overt discrimination to subtle microaggressions, which impacts their professional careers. Consequently, concerted efforts to promote workforce diversity in healthcare have begun to tackle these issues. In this study, we further these efforts by uplifting the voices of a minority religious community, Muslim physicians, and their experiences in the medical profession. Using a community-engaged research approach, we recruited 18 physicians from 3 national Muslim clinician organizations who had worked at a university hospital within the last 20 years to participate in semi-structured interviews focused on how their religious identity intersects with experiences of discrimination and accommodation. Deploying a phenomenological framework, we identified four emergent themes that cut across the 18 interviews. The physicians’ experiences demonstrated that they i) shouldered extra labor to uphold their religious identity, (ii) denied their personal experiences of religious discrimination, (iii) feared religious discrimination, and (iv) mislabeled their personal management of religious practices as institutional accommodations. These experiences suggest that the additional responsibilities and burdens that saddle underrepresented racial and ethnic identities in medicine – dubbed “the minority tax” – extend to this religious minority group. They also highlight a unique set of psychological and professional costs associated with carrying a Muslim identity in the physician workforce. Our findings underscore the need for healthcare systems to take bold action in creating non-discriminatory, inclusive, and equitable working environments that attend to the religious identities of diverse physicians.

Breaching, Bridging, and Bonding: Interweaving Pathways of Social‐Symbolic Work in a Flanked Healthcare Movement

AbstractThis article explores how heterogeneous and distributed forms of social‐symbolic work combine over time to yield synergistic relationships that precipitate institutional change. We study a collective effort by patient activists to change the technological and regulatory standards of Type 1 diabetes care. We offer contributions to radical flank theory by conceptualizing radical and moderate flanks as dynamic and overlapping pathways of action rather than fixed actor positions, and we show how a medial ‘bonding’ pathway can provide important social glue to connect the radical and moderate flanks. While in our case the material and discursive ‘hacking’ work in the breaching pathway disrupted institutions, triggered technology innovation, and created momentum for change, material and relational ‘bridging’ embedded these efforts into existing institutional structures and longer‐term innovation trajectories. Values and amplification work in the bonding pathway served to keep the two other pathways aligned over time. By addressing how a complex social problem – patient‐centric innovation – may be affected through heterogeneous social‐symbolic work that leads to institutional accommodation, our study holds considerable policy and societal relevance.

AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE AS ‘LITERATURE OF COMBAT’

The present research paper aims to explore the ways in which literature and its celluloid stepchild, the cinema, have been employed in combination with supposedly nonfictional venues to falsify the realities of Euro- American interaction with the continent’s indigenous people, both historically and in the contemporary setting. Its purpose is to shred away to some extent an elaborate shroud of misimpression and misinformation behind which the dreadful visage of Euro-American subjugation, occupation and massacre have been so prudently veiled. These all complications are accredited to ethnic and social deterioration which is outcome of intensified control of genocide, colonialism, enforced cultural and institutional accommodation, monetary reliance and racism.Keywords: Colonization, American Indian cultures, Collapse of social structures, Resistance literature, Native survival, Systematic marginalization.

Use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disabilities and Health in assessing the readiness of persons with disabilities to be accompanied when receiving services, including accompanied accommodation

Introduction. Currently, assisted living technologies are actively developing in the Russian Federation. When receiving social services, education, promotion of employment, disabled people need to be accompanied. The effectiveness of these measures depends both on the conditions for the provision of services, the qualifications of accompanying persons, determining the required amount of support, on the ability of a disabled person to live independently and work, and on the readiness of the disabled person to be accompanied when receiving services, including a joint venture.Target. Rationale for the use of the International Classification of Functioning, Disabilities and Health in assessing the degree of readiness of persons with disabilities to be accompanied when receiving services, including accompanied accommodation.Materials and methods. Analysis of the results of monitoring the development of joint venture technologies, presented by 85 constituent entities of the Russian Federation for the period 2020–2021 on a wide range of issues, including the organization of employment of people with disabilities who are on a permanent SP and employed people with disabilities, social employment of people with disabilities, training of people with disabilities who are on a permanent accompanied accommodation, organizing a accompanied accommodation in stationary social service institutions, etc., using the ICF in determining the readiness of people with disabilities to be accompanied.Results. The number of disabled people receiving services within the framework of accompanied accommodation was studied based on materials submitted from 85 subjects of the Russian Federation as of 01.10.2022. The monitoring analysis showed that in 80 subjects of the Russian Federation (94.1 %), work is underway to organize accompanied accommodation. In 2022, there is an increase in the number of disabled people receiving services within the framework of accompanied accommodation to 6649 people, of which 4245 people are on educational (training) accompanied accommodation, 2404 people are on permanent accompanied accommodation.Discussion. Using the methodology of the ICF, questionnaires were developed, as well as a methodology for assessing the readiness of persons with disabilities to be accompanied when receiving services, including accompanied accommodation, carried out using them.Conclusions. The developed criteria and methodology for their use make it possible to quantify the degree of readiness of persons with disabilities and children with disabilities to be accompanied when receiving services, including accompanied accommodation, and be used in the preparation of an individual support program.

Potrebe starijih osoba za uslugama iz sustava socijalne skrbi u Republici Hrvatskoj

The paper presents the results of the research on the needs of the older people for services from the social welfare system, which was conducted at social welfare centres. 3001 people from all Croatian regions or counties participated in the research. The research was conducted with the aim of determining the needs for services from the social welfare system, in order to improve the quality of life of the older people. The paper presents the socio-demographic characteristics of the surveyed older people, their marital status, number of household members, support provided by their children, sources of income, property and health status, functional status, rights exercised from the social welfare system and the need for missing services. Respondents feel that they need home help services the most, but there is also a significant interest in institutional accommodation services. There are differences in the needs for care services, depending on how big is the respondent’s place of living. The collected data represent the empirical basis for the social welfare system on the older people, aiming to serve as help in adoption of strategic documents that need to protect this vulnerable population. Key words: the older people, social welfare, needs, services

THE IMPACT OF THE SUPPORT SERVICE “PROGRAMME OF MENTAL ARITHMETIC” ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE ELDERLY IN INSTITUTIONAL ACCOMMODATION

The aim of the research was to determine whether the innovative support service “ Programme of mental arithmetic” has positive effects on the cognitive abilities and the satisfaction of life of the elderly in institutional accommodation. New support services for the elderly are rarely developed, so it is expected that in addition to the direct positive effects on cognitive abilities, there are also indirect effects on the perception of life satisfaction. The study involved 60 elderly people, divided into control and experimental groups. Cognitive abilities were tested using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test and life satisfaction by using the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). An increase in scores was found on both instruments after the program was conducted in the experimental group. The scores of the control group did not change significantly.

A sala de aula de entrada como um lugar curricular onde olhar para a Comunicação Não Verbal do discurso docente na Universidade da República, Uruguay

The text presents the theoretical discussion towards the notion of the entrance classroom as a curricular place and the value of non-verbal teacher communication in communicational interactions at the beginning of training. It thus refers to the construction of a singular discursive, didactic-pedagogical and physical-temporal space for the promotion of communicational interactions towards student permanence and persistence at the beginning of university education. This view is of special interest in university models of free access and gratuity in which the expansion of enrollment becomes a situation of profound relevance in the right to education. The documentary analysis carried out consolidates the entrance classroom as a unique curricular and communicational place for each discipline in particular and for the field of Higher Education in general. Entrance teaching can make available and model experiences that affect student persistence in the early days of institutional accommodation. Among those doings, non-verbal communicational interactions make up 93% of communication. Its interactive didactic value promotes classroom climates that facilitate learning according to communication styles. The findings deepen, from the field of the curriculum and from communication theories, the value of non-verbal communication (NVC) in the teaching discourse at the beginning of university education. They propose to understand and deepen their particularities in the communicational pedagogical positions towards the awareness of a differentiated doing in the initiating period as a subjective student process and admission as a curricular place of teaching.

The ‘Greenlandization’ of Care: Disability in Postcolonial Greenland, 1950s–1980s

Abstract When the former Danish colony Greenland obtained Home Rule in 1979, becoming an autonomous region within the Danish Realm, it faced the challenge of having to establish a comprehensive social welfare system. This article looks at disability care and its interrelations with post-colonialism and national identity formation, as previous practices of medical care and accommodation in Danish institutions were replaced with local solutions. Frame analysis reveals the outlines of the responsibilities of Danish experts for disabled Greenlanders under colonial rule and during the modernization period until 1979. The transition phase of the early 1980s was a central arena for Greenlandic national discourse wherein care responsibilities in welfare policies, disability care institutions, advocacy organizations and the media were framed and renegotiated. The ‘Greenlandization’ of disability care and the respective shift in responsibilities was a highly uneven process that continued to be suffused with Danish norms and practices.

Housing Satisfaction among Students in Tertiary Institutions in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

The paper focused on examining the satisfaction of students with hostel accommodation in tertiary institutions in Calabar, Cross River State Nigeria. The study sought specifically to identify the level at which students were satisfied with hostel accommodation using fifteen (15) variables. In order to obtain data, three (3) tertiary institutions within the study area were purposively sampled. A total of 150 copies of questionnaire were distributed to residents in the school hostels. Specifically, 50 copies of questionnaire were distributed in each residential hostel in schools that were sample out. Analysis were done using both descriptive statistics such as frequencies and simple percentages as well as relative satisfaction index (RSI) to determine the level of satisfaction of students in the hostels. A five point likert scale was adopted in explaining the level of satisfaction of students with the hostels. The findings revealed that the students were fairly satisfied with the quality, condition and general standards of the hostels in the study area. This is due to the fact that certain facilities that need to be on ground to boost satisfaction level of students were not adequately provided. For instance, it was noted that students do not have maximum access to ICT facilities in hostels. It was also revealed that privacy in hostels had the weakest contribution to student satisfaction in the hostels. In order to boost satisfaction of residents with hostel accommodation, it was suggested that hostels be maintained regularly to avoid deterioration of facilities. It was also recommended that more residential units be developed to accommodate students in the study area. Equally, the students’ priority should be given concern in the housing development process.

DEPRESSION IN ELDERLY WITH IMPAIRED VISION

The aim of this study was to examine the influence of the degree of visual impairment on the presence of depression in visually impaired persons in the elderly age placed in institutional accommodation. The study included a total of 40 elderly respondents, both genders. The variables were divided into two groups: anamnestic variables and variables of depression testing. The results were processed by descriptive statistics, and analysis of variance. The obtained results showed that the degree of visual impairment has a statistically significant effect on the presence of depression in visually impaired persons in elderly age.

Socioculturally Mediated Academic Advising: A GYO Approach for Supporting Bilingual/Bicultural Paraprofessionals

This case study examined how the academic advising (hence, advising) component of a Grow Your Own (GYO) teacher program can be tailored to honor bilingual/bicultural paraprofessionals’ (hence, BL/BC paras) assets and differential needs. Data collection strategies included participant observation, interviews, a focus group, field notes, and documentation. Thematic data analysis suggested that socioculturally mediated advising involves some aspects of mentoring and includes (a) taking the time to know and value paraprofessionals’ biographies, (b) personalizing and attending to paraprofessionals’ psychosocial needs, (c) building supportive relationships through the GYO seminar, and (d) advocating for institutional accommodations. Implications for future research consider how socioculturally mediated advising including aspects of mentoring needs to be better understood in BL/BC paras teacher pipeline programs and the field of teacher development.

DYSPHAGIA IN PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES

People with intellectual disabilities often face a number of disorders that can impair their health and even endanger their lives. One of these disorders is dysphagia, which is often unrecognized in this population. The main goal of the research was to determine the differences in the severity of dysphagia relation to the degree of intellectual disability in persons placed in institutional accommodation. The study involved 31 respondents diagnosed with intellectual disabilities. The results showed that people with a higher degree of intellectual disability have more pronounced dysphagia. Caregivers of people with intellectual disabilities should be aware of the presence of dysphagia in people with intellectual disabilities, and refer them to a speech-language pathologist in a timely manner with the goal of timely diagnosis and treatment to improve the overall health and quality of life of people of this population.

Administrative staff ratings of adequacy of office accommodation in tertiary institutions

This study determined the administrative staff rating of the adequacy of accommodation in tertiary institutions in Yobe State. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design of the study was descriptive survey. Population of the study was 1,032 administrative staff of federal and state tertiary institutions in the study area. A proportionate sampling was used to select a sample size of 310 administrative staff. A structured questionnaire containing 15 items validated by three experts was used for data collection. Cronbach alpha method was used to establish the internal consistency of the instrument. Correlation coefficients of 0.83 and 0.81 for two clusters (B1 and B2) with an overall coefficient of 0.82 were obtained.Two hundred and ninety eight duly completed copies of the instrument were retrieved and used for data analysis. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and to determine the homogeneity of the respondents’ ratings while the t-test was used to test the hypotheses. Findings revealed that administrative staff of tertiary institutions in Yobe State rated office accommodation and conveniences in their offices lowly adequate. The findings also showed that ownership of tertiary institution was a significant factor on the mean ratings of administrative staff on the adequacy of accommodation while ownership of tertiary institution significantly did not influence their mean ratings on the adequacy of conveniences provided in their offices. Based on the findings, the researcher concluded that researcher concluded that there is need to improve the provision of office accommodation and conveniences in tertiary institutions in Yobe State, Nigeria. It was recommended among others that, administrators of tertiary institutions in Yobe State should collaborate more with private sectors in the areas of office accommodation and conveniences provision. This will encourage the private sectors to support the universities by providing some of these infrastructures to the institutions.

Off-campus student housing satisfaction indicators and the drivers: From student perspectives to policy re-awakening in governance

ABSTRACT Inadequate on-campus student accommodation in Sub-Saharan higher educational institutions triggered the need for private sector intervention in the off-campus student private housing (SPH) delivery within university communities. This paper examines students’ experiences of off-campus accommodation in terms of satisfaction indicators and driving factors in a vulnerable university’s communities in South-southern Nigeria. The paper drew upon a sequential exploratory mixed method, comprising semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire survey. The paper explored interconnectivity of satisfaction indicators and factors within the threshold of building’s physical attributes, community-related attributes, contract-related covenants, academic and social environment capability, through CAQDAS; Atlas.ti. The paper found disproportionate students’ satisfaction level within the filtered elements and scored the overall satisfaction low. Methodologically, a convergence of results pointing to the factors for improving physical, locational, landlord commitment to tenancy agreement on services and management, and flexible regulation of students’ social activities, from the two approaches, was observed. Variation surfaces from the individual rating of each indicator and the driving factors. Five distinct recommendations emerged; policy on planning, environment, and building regulations compliance, reform on SPH governance, stakeholders democracy, parent’ involvement in off-campus governance, and a committee on private housing accreditation in the university communities.