Institutional Interests Research Articles

Is There an Impact of Digital Transformation on Consumer Behaviour? An Empirical Study in the Financial Sector

Digital transformation has become a notorious topic in the financial sector, as its implementation brings about a positive change in the user experience. Its relevance is seen in how scientists study it from different points of view, while it attracts the interest of financial institutions, as the understanding resulting from the research can improve the implementation of plans in the new digital era. Therefore, the objective of this study is to determine the impact of digital transformation on consumer behaviour in the financial sector. A quantitative explanatory level approach was used. The study population was finite, consisting of bank customers, considering a simple random probability sample of 385. The technique used was the survey and a questionnaire as a validated and reliable instrument. Digital transformation has been shown to have a significant impact on consumer behaviour in the financial sector, tested by Chi-square and ordinal logistic regression (χ2 = 0.000 < 0.05; Wald coefficient = 29.162 = 0.000; Nagelkerke’s R2 = 0.381), confirming that consumer behaviour is driven by digitisation activities. This work highlights the importance of managing digital transformation as a mediator of business success and, within action plans, taking steps to improve customer service as a precursor to customer loyalty.

Opposing Innovations: Race and Reform in the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969–1978

AbstractThis article uses oral history, archival material, and published primary sources to examine the competing conceptions of “innovation” at work in the creation and operation of the West Philadelphia Community Free School (WPCFS) from 1969 to 1978. One of the longest-running initiatives in the School District of Philadelphia's experimental Office of Innovative Programs, the WPCFS stood at the crossroads of conflicting imperatives for “innovation.” These included: (1) institutional interests in advancing “humanizing” pedagogy; (2) Black activists’ interests in operating a community-controlled school for students of color in West Philadelphia; and (3) teachers’ interests in balancing their commitments to “humanizing” instruction and a surrounding community with different educational priorities. We highlight two instances where the frictions between these uses of “innovation” became pronounced in the WPCFS—debates over “free time” and the 1973 teachers’ strike. These incidents clarify how the burden of reconciling opposing innovations fell unevenly on the teachers and community members—often in ways that pitted the groups against one another—and exacerbated raced and classed inequalities in the school and district. While the account focuses on the 1960–1970s, we suggest that the WPCFS is relevant for us today, offering insights for the present into the longer discursive history of “innovation” as a lever for school reform, and into its impacts on educational equity.

Building Resident Quality Improvement Knowledge and Engagement Through a Longitudinal, Mentored, and Experiential Learning-Based Quality Improvement Curriculum.

Quality improvement (QI) training is an essential component of resident medical education and a part of the ACGME core competencies. We present our residency's evidence-based QI curriculum, which outlines key components identified in the literature for successful QI education. Our curriculum included a mandatory five-part longitudinal educational series during ambulatory education sessions for second-year residents. Modeled after the Institute for Healthcare Improvement model for improvement and taught by a chief resident, our curriculum introduced residents to key QI concepts through case-based, just-in-time didactics and applied experiential learning via concurrent resident-led longitudinal QI projects. Residents received structured, multilayer mentorship from a faculty mentor in their field of interest and the chief resident of quality and patient safety. Their work-in-progress projects were presented to faculty QI experts and institutional leadership for additional feedback and mentorship. Since 2016, a total of 234 internal medicine residents have completed our QI curriculum and developed 67 QI projects, which have been presented at various local, regional, and national conferences. In the 2 most recent academic years, Quality Improvement Knowledge Application Tool Revised (QIKAT-R) scores significantly increased from 4.6 precurriculum to 6.3 postcurriculum (p < .001). A longitudinal, experiential, and mentored QI curriculum teaches residents QI skill sets through incorporating mechanisms associated with successful educational initiatives and adult learning theory. Our QIKAT-R results and project output show that our curriculum is associated with improved trainee QI knowledge and systems-level improvements.

Analytic Narratives in Political Economy

Abstract Analytic narratives combine rational choice theory—often extensive-form, game-theoretic models—and qualitative evidence to understand historical and institutional questions in political economy. This article begins by characterizing the features of analytic narratives that distinguish this method from others in economics and political science. Analytic narratives gained prominence in the 1990s as the result of several factors, including the development of game theory, a turn away from general equilibrium theorizing, and the increasing interest in institutions and economic history. Based on the initial responses and subsequent methodological debates, four criticisms of analytic narratives are discussed: those based on claims to originality, the value of rational choice theory, case studies and external validity, and the merits of qualitative evidence. As the article argues, differing disciplinary approaches and perspectives generated many of these criticisms. Nevertheless, from a methodological perspective, analytic narratives remain an effective and distinctive method for analyzing the political economy of institutions.

Eğitim Kurumu Yöneticilerinin Kayırmacı Tutum ve Davranışlarının Sonuçları

In this study, where the results of nepotistic attitudes and behaviors of educational institution managers are examined, it is aimed to provide qualitative content support to researchers who will conduct research on this topic by contributing to the literature on the consequences of nepotism. The expectation of individuals in the business environment is based on equality, justice and receiving the response, behavior and appreciation that they deserve. Education managers should be equidistant from each employee at this point. They should evaluate teachers not according to kinship, gender or their closeness to people, but according to the quality of the work done. If there is favoritism in the educational institution, it can be clearly seen that education managers exhibit nepotistic attitudes. Education administrators, even if they are in an unfair situation, have a nepotistic attitude when they protect and protect the people they feel close to. There are also relations of interest in educational institutions where there is nepotism. As is traditionally the case in many cultures, nepotistic behaviors are often observed in our culture. Because in our society, relationships come before merit. Education managers often exhibit nepotism behaviors in issues such as fair distribution of workload and performance evaluation. For this reason, according to the level of empathy of teachers, whether educational administrators are fair in their nepotistic attitudes and behaviors can be understood from the trust felt in educational administrators and their constructive, analytical approaches in the field of education. Educational administrators working in educational institutions should manage their affairs by taking into account the principles of fairness and openness. Thus, education managers will have drawn a picture away from nepotism by keeping an equal distance from their colleagues. As a result of nepotism practices, the human resource, which is the most important element of the organization, cannot be managed in the desired way and this situation negatively affects the performance, which is the organizational product of the educational institution. While the private sector is affected to a limited extent, this impact is felt more intensely in the public sector, which costs the entire society. It has been determined that due to the nepotistic attitude applied by education managers, the absenteeism rates of educational institution employees have increased, their desire to quit their jobs has increased, and as a result of these attitudes, a working area has been formed in which the trust institution Decays, where a distinction is formed between employees close to or far from management. The expression of nepotism appears as an important problem that causes inequality from a social point of view and deeply affects society. As a result of the loss of social balance, an environment of chaos occurs in society, but there may be consequences that reduce the trust of citizens in public institutions and organizations. Trust in other public institutions and organizations, especially educational institutions, is disappearing, the anxiety level of educational staff and public employees, hence their desire to quit their jobs, is getting stronger, and corporate interest and loyalty are weakening. Key Words: Educational Institution, Educational Administrator, Nepotism

The Value System of Today’s Students: From Family Well-Being to Self-Realisation

The social changes of the modern era influence young people’s value preferences. This paper presents the results of a comprehensive linguo-cognitive and sociopsychological experimental study by a team of linguists from Ural Federal University, which aims to determine students’ value coordinates. In the first stage, based on the original procedure for revealing the key concepts of Russian mentality, the authors constructed a list of 59 nationwide core values and presented them to 633 first-year students at Ural Federal University. As a result of further content interpretation of the material, the researchers discovered that the generation of young people born in post-Soviet Russia is becoming a bearer of new values. The lack of interest in political institutions, the formation of self-mentalism, and micro-solidarity within the narrow circle of family and close people – these value preferences outlined a core of eight basic concepts, having an abstract nature, which required concretisation. At the next stage, the authors presented a questionnaire including a detailed semantic structure of nuclear concepts to first-year students (650 respondents) to determine the nuclear and peripheral conceptual meanings in students’ language consciousness. The cluster analysis of the material demonstrated that the top level of the dendrogram is occupied by the concept of the well-being of loved ones. The paper reveals the complex semantics of the “well-being” concept and shows the axiological dynamics in comprehending the axiologeme. According to historical and Church Slavonic lexicographic sources, the “well-being” linguistic unit has implicitly combined the values of the material, physical, ideal, and spiritual since the eleventh century. Twentieth-century dictionaries confirm the presence of two zones in the semantics of the concept, i. e. the inseparable unity of the spiritual and the material. Students express their choice in favour of the spiritual side of well-being. The article shows that on the upper levels of the dendrogram, there are four basic values in a complex: the concepts of family, self-realisation, faith, and happiness. Also, the authors confirm the status of the self-realisation value sense for young people at the student level, which is directly related to the family and its well-being. As for the cognitive attributes of the faith concept, the students preferred the selfrealisation value sense, which suggests that the respondents have faith in their abilities and capabilities, positive self-esteem, and trust in themselves. Values related to material well-being are on the periphery of the linguistic consciousness of Ural youth, which does not fit in the general picture of the observed pragmatic attitude of young people to modern reality. It has been suggested that the current picture of the hierarchy of value attributes is declarative: young people who have recently left school have a clear idea of the necessary norms of social behaviour established in Russian society, and they put spiritual values over material ones.

Pengaruh Peranan Ibu Bapa Terhadap Kemasukan Pelajar Ke Institusi Teknikal dan Vokasional: Satu Kajian Tinjauan Sistematik

Today, there are still communities that still discuss vocational education. Looking down on the ability of this education, the question that arises is to know the perception of the community (parents) towards the acceptance of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). "Do they know and follow from time to time the development of this vocational education?". The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of the role of parents on the admission of students to technical and vocational institutions. By using a systematic literature review (SLR) technique, the researcher used several well-known electronic databases to find journal articles that were studied starting from 2015 to 2022, namely Education Resource Information Center (ERIC), Emerald Insight, Connected Paper, Google, Google Scholar, Sagepub, ResearchGate and Academia. A total of 20 articles were found to meet the criteria to be studied. Findings show that parental support comes in various forms and among the sub-themes derived from the theme of parental support are active involvement, love, discipline formation and the influence of interest. However, these studies are limited and many focus on the influence of parents and student academic excellence. Therefore, further research using experimental methods to investigate interventions to foster high school students' interest in TVET institutions should be conducted.

A Survey of Wave Energy Converter Mechanisms Presented Under the Topological and Functional Viewpoints

Abstract Wave energy converter (WEC) mechanisms have been increasingly attracting the interest of institutions and companies, because of the energetic crisis and the energy demanded by small off-grid off-shore systems. Examples of WEC systems design date back to 1892 and, since then, different mechanisms have been proposed, based on different working principles. In this work, an attempt has been made to build an atlas of WEC devices, collecting them from the scientific and technical literature, as broadly as possible to the best of the authors’ abilities. The working principle, the wave propagation direction, and the coast proximity have been used to classify the mechanisms of the atlas that have been illustrated by means of standardized esthetics. The topological nature of each device has been also extracted by applying both the polynomial representation of its kinematic chain (KC) together with a planar representation of the corresponding graph. These representations gave rise to a further and more detailed classification of the collected WEC devices that have been gathered together in peculiar topological families. Finally, system power has been also included to complete the information related to the devices illustrated in the atlas.

SUCH FORMS AND METHODS OF MOTIVATION OF PRACTITIONERS IN THE SPHERE OF YOUR EDUCATION

In the minds of the current development of the practice of the sphere of general education and the strategic resources of the functioning of the foundations of education. Efficient management of specific resources favors the development of mortgages and increases the level of their competitiveness in the field of lighting services. Looking at the main mechanism of stimulation, it is not institutional interests, but the consumption of practitioners, as a destructive force, the development of laying the foundation for higher education. In today’s conscientious minds, the main direct motivational activity is not less than the achievement of high productivity of practice, but the activation of the creative potential of practical workers in the field of higher education. Therefore, it is necessary to appoint such a form and method of stimulation, as to be aware of the effectiveness of the promotion and support new trends in the scientific and lighting process and personnel management. The purpose of the study is research, generalization and development of theoretical and methodological approaches to the development of modern forms and methods of motivating employees in the field of higher education. Modern systems and methods of employee motivation must be combined with established principles to create a system focused on higher education. These systems should include forms and methods of motivation that are compatible with the modern world to encourage workers through short-term international projects. This should increase the number of workers with creative and educated backgrounds who stay in the industry for many years. Increasing creativity and scientific activity of employees will also make higher education systems more competitive and increase their overall quality. A necessary condition for the implementation of material forms of motivation is the availability of financial resources for their provision. The methods of direct material influence include the payment of salaries, as well as additional payments and allowances, to scientific and pedagogical workers in the field of higher education. The use of material methods will contribute to the financial support of employees and the improvement of the socio-economic situation of their families. The use of non-material methods has a psychological effect on the individual, acts as a mechanism for self-realization, scientific and creative development, implementation of developed ideas in scientific, educational and practical activities, which will contribute to the self-realization of employees in a higher educational institution. The functioning of the system of motivation of employees in the field of higher education should be comprehensive, as it combines not only the employment of a highly qualified employee for a vacant position and the signing of a long-term contract with him, but also the provision of conditions for the employee’s work so that he does not have to prematurely terminate the contract. When implementing forms and methods of work motivation, it is important to ensure a systematic process of interaction between management and employees. In addition to the external results of the applied motivation methods, which are manifested in the increase in the number and quality of scientific works, receiving honors, awards, etc., it is important to analyze the attitude of employees to the current system. It is expedient to regularly and periodically survey the employees of a higher educational institution regarding the positive and negative features of the motivation system and suggestions for its improvement. To operate effectively, higher education institutions need employees with a wide range of skills. Ensuring that these employees receive the proper care and attention from their supervisors is vital to the success of the institution. The success of these schools motivates staff to develop new ideas and improve higher education services. This creates a competitive advantage for these schools over other educational institutions. Now, motivational activity occupies a central place in our society. They activate the use of creative potential of employees and increase labor productivity. They must be defined and implemented in such a way as to meet the latest trends in higher education and personnel management..

A thematic analysis of fundraiser characteristics in high‐quality major donor fundraising relationships in US higher education

AbstractAs nonprofits increasingly rely on large contributions, skillful major gift fundraisers are more important than ever. In contrast to the vast research on donor motivations, there are few examinations of fundraisers or fundraising relationships. This study responds to nonprofits' interest in understanding beneficial fundraising strategies and to the lack of empirical literature with the question: From the donor perspective, what characteristics do fundraisers demonstrate within high‐quality major giving relationships? This exploratory, interview‐based project used a codebook thematic analysis approach based on HEXACO personality theory to review participants' reflections about fundraisers. The 20 participating donors had given between USD$10,000 and USD$40 million to select colleges and universities in the US Midwest region. This study confirms much of what fundraisers believe to be important to major gift donors, with added nuance about the complex form of professionalism donors appreciate. The fundraiser characteristics show several dual emphases, including on field expertise and interpersonal acumen, attention to donor concerns and institutional interests, patience with the gift‐making process and ability to facilitate its progression, and attention to ethical practice and empathetic interactions. The study shows the inner workings of the major giving relationship fundraising paradigm, reveals how societal perceptions of fundraisers are relevant for understanding donor preferences, and provides a framework for fundraisers to assess and enhance their interactions with major donors.

The life and death of the ‘Baron mall’: The shifting politics of urban regeneration in Valparaiso

The waterfront regeneration of Valparaiso in Chile has been the expression of significant institutional efforts aimed at reaching the so-called urban renaissance of the port-city, seeking to overcome the sustained symptoms of urban decay and economic underperformance. Over the years, a locally born idea became a controversial proposal led by the central government: A privately developed commercial project, named Puerto Baron (Baron Port). This article explores spatialized political struggles both underpinning and undermining this project, from institutional and elite interests pushing its realization to social actions triggering its end. In Valparaiso political and economic forces coalesced across different scales in their attempt to materialize a project that transfers globalized spatial imaginaries with tangled territorialized politics that exceed the limits of the city. Although state-led entrepreneurialism sets the waterfront regeneration agenda, interdependencies with networks of elites and local government were key to sustaining the project. In opposition, social movement strategies of scale jumping help to contest and influence the project’s delay. The case highlights the fragile nature of governing coalitions in Valparaiso as a shift in municipal power, which brought an alignment towards grassroots actors, ended the rather flawed regeneration project of Baron Port. The paper shows how unbounded spatial politics become highly permeated by interests at different scales, though still dependent on national centralized actions and definitions.

Between the Pillory Treatment and Reliable Clarification: On the Role of the Media in Response to the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church in Poland

The author presents the contribution of media in the response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church in Poland. Media in Poland plays an important role in the detection of sexual abuse of minors by clergymen. Journalistic publications contributed to recognizing the criminal acts and to a change of strategy in which the protection of children and the prevention of crime, rather than the interests of institutions, are prioritized. However, the manner and frequency of presentation by media in relation to abuse within the Church also reflected what I have referred to as a pilloried treatment. The author presents both kinds of contribution of media in the response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church in Poland. The paper reflects on challenges for the theological reflection, especially significance of an effective communication of the Catholic Church in the crisis. Finally, the article speaks about media responsibility in the transmission of news about sexual abuse crisis.

An integral community of art and healing: Transcending silos in the ecological era

While respecting various artistic disciplines, there is a complementary need to understand what they share within an inclusive community of art and healing. The use of artistic expression in therapy and research reflects the departmental structures and interests of academic and professional institutions that separate and classify art forms according to organizational priorities, often attributing the shared concept of art exclusively to the visual arts. An integral approach to the creative process is presented as an alternative perspective that recognizes inter-related life processes in all of nature as a basis for artistic expression and well-being.

ОЛИЙ ТАЪЛИМ ТИЗИМИДА РАҚОБАТБАРДОШ КАДРЛАР ТАЙЁРЛАШНИНГ ЖАҲОН ТАЖРИБАСИ

The article presents an analysis of the structure of the higher education system of such developed countries as Germany, Japan, South Korea and the United States of America. The features of the management of higher educational institutions by the Ministry and local self-government bodies are described. Positive trends have been identified, such 0as the policy of developed countries in the field of higher education and the government's protection of the interests of higher education institutions. The measures taken by developed countries to solve the problems that have arisen in the field of higher education are analyzed. The directions of strategic planning and coordination of the activities of higher educational institutions for the purpose of reasonable and effective use of available funds are investigated. The issues of improving relations between the state and higher education institutions in the areas of higher education reforms are described. Scientific conclusions and practical recommendations related to the training of competitive personnel in the higher education system are given

The concept map of SENTIERI Project: a communication interactive digital tool of the national epidemiological surveillance system of Italian contaminated sites

This paper describes the development and the envisioned use of concept maps in the framework of the SENTIERI communication strategies as an information and scientific communication tool applied to epidemiological surveillance in contaminated sites. The concept map of SENTIERI 2019-2022 was designed and implemented to foster access to complex scientific information ensuring usability of the contents and communication with the various stakeholders. The concept map aims to promote environmental health literacy in contaminated sites. The methodology adopted to create the map includes the following phases: 1. choice of a dynamic focus question; 2. selection of the representative terms of the addressed topics; 3. elaboration of the glossary of the selected terms; 4. representation of the links among the selected terms; 5. identification of the significant propositions that make explicit the meaning of each link. Online access to the map is guaranteed by the Mindomo software. The use of the concept map promotes active learning of the topics that characterize SENTIERI 2019-2022 through knowledge paths chosen because of the specific interests and learning purposes. The concept map derives from the integration of specific approaches of the epidemiological discipline with those of the social sciences and offers the possibility of developing site-specific maps through the interactions with local actors and the integration of elements related to emerging problems as well as institutional and local interests.

Genesis of accounting systems

Introduction. Globalization of the economy requires the use of generally accepted business management tools in the conditions of an eco­nomy without borders. The trend of recent deca­des is the gradual approximation of existing national accounting systems and models to international standards. Problem. It is important to outline the cur­rent bounds of existing accounting systems, to investigate the objective way of their genesis in order to predict general trends in the interests of economic entities and regulatory institutions. The aim of the article is to clarify the essence of accounting systems in their evolution in order to identify the most important parameters, the classification of which would be the most universal and objective for the harmonization of accounting systems. Methods. General scientific methods of cog­nition are used – theoretical generalization, com­parative analysis and synthesis for processing factual information, induction and deduction. Results. The practical effect of accounting sys­tems classification is to promote the development and harmonization of national accounting sys­tems, help in the professional training of accoun­tants and auditors who will be able to perform their work more efficiently both within a certain country and at the international (global) level. Conclusions. The legal system of countries and their economic parameters are the main factors that are based on the vast majority of the studied classification of accounting systems and models. Economic factors, in turn, are indirectly determined by the level of education in the state and international relations, while correlating with the legal component. Other factors, despite their importance, are mostly not dominant. At the same time, the dominance of the ac­counting system, which is based on the princip­les of full coverage and fair disclosure of infor­mation, is growing on a global scale. The Inter­national Financial Re­porting Standards (IFRS), which affect the accoun­ting infrastructure of most countries, are built on its basic architecture.

Implementasi Akad Rahn Pada Pegadaian Syariah Dalam Rangka Meningkatkan Minat Masyarakat Pada Keuangan Syariah

Islamic financial institutions are business entities whose activities are in the field of Islamic finance and their assets, both financial and financial, are based on sharia principles. One of the Islamic financial institutions in Indonesia is the Sharia Pawnshop (Rahn). Rahn is an agreement for the delivery of goods as a form of collateral for a debt so that the person concerned may take the debt. The implementation carried out by Islamic Pawnshops includes efforts to foster Islamic financial literacy in the community, so that later the community will understand and know about Islamic Pawnshops which can help the economy in the family or create new businesses. Due to the lack of public interest in Islamic finance, especially Islamic pawnshops, the purpose of this research is to inform the concept of pawning in classical fiqh literature, the implementation of rahn contracts in Islamic pawnshops and how to increase public interest in Islamic financial institutions, especially Islamic pawn shops.

Receptor-interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) inhibitor: a review of the patent literature (2018-present)

Introduction RIPK1 is a critical mediator of inflammation and cell death, which associated with extensive neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases. Recently, RIPK1 has aroused the interests of pharmaceutical industry and research institutions. Areas covered This review focuses on patent literature covering small molecule inhibitors of RIPK1 since 2018. Scifinder and PubMed databases were used for patent and literature searching. Expert opinion Studies of RIPK1 inhibitors for necroptosis pathway have increased dramatically in recent years. To date, dozens of RIPK1 inhibitors were reported, and several have entered clinical studies. However, the development of RIPK1 inhibitors is still at a preliminary stage. An understanding of the dosage and disease indications of RIPK1 inhibitors, rational structural optimization and the optimal clinical setting for new structures will require feedback from further clinical trials. Recently, compared with type III inhibitors, the patents on type II inhibitors have dramatically increased. Most of them contain hybrid structures of type II/III inhibitors occupying the ATP-binding pocket and back hydrophobic pocket of RIPK1. The patents of RIPK1 degraders were also disclosed, but the role of RIPK1 kinase- independent and dependent in promoting cell death and diseases must be considered.

Pengaruh Persepsi, Pengetahuan Akuntansi Syariah, dan Religiusitas terhadap Minat Mahasiswa Akuntansi Berkarir di Lembaga Keuangan Syariah

This research explore the impact of Shariah calculations, implications and knowledge on professional interests in Shariah financial institutions. The sample in this study is students who have taken sharia accounting courses. The type of research used in this study is quantitative approach using primary data. Primary data was obtained by distributing questionnaire directly to 100 respondents. The data was the analyzed using multiple linear regression techniques. The results of this study are (1) perception (2) Sharia accounting knowledge (3) religiosity on the interest of accounting students for a career in Sharia financial institutions.

Engineering friendship? Komsomol work with students from the developing world inside the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s

ABSTRACT Following the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev again began to embrace internationalism not just with rhetoric but also in practice. Much as in the West, Soviet authorities used higher education as a means to build influence and strengthen relationships. This article explores the ways in which the USSR’s Communist Youth League (Komsomol) worked with and responded to incoming students from the developing world, both in mainstream universities and at the Central Komsomol School in Moscow. It shows that key dynamics of the Cold War contest both shaped and undermined this facet of internationalist activity, and that institutional interests and competencies remained important in understanding the idiosyncrasies of Soviet internationalism.