Insufficiency Of Time Research Articles

A Perspective on Digital Storytelling Experiences of Primary School Teachers on Teaching Controversial Issues in Turkey

In this study, it was aimed to determine the sources of concern of primary school teachers in terms of controversial issues and the difficulties they experience in instructional processes and to improve their teaching skills related to controversial issues with digital stories. In this context, participatory action research method was utilized. A four-week action plan based on controversial issues supported by digital stories was implemented. The participants of the study consisted of four teachers. During the implementation process, digital stories based on controversial issues prepared by the researchers within the scope of action plans were utilized. Semi-structured interview form, focus group interview form and reflective teacher diary were used as data collection tools. The data were analyzed using content analysis through MAXQUDA 2020 program. As a result of the research, the problems faced by primary school teachers in teaching controversial issues are insufficiency of time, difficulties in managing the discussion, requiring intensive preparation, problems arising from cultural background, inadequacy of materials, inadequacy in terms of textbooks, overcrowded classes, lack of family support, extending the discussion outside the classroom and receiving negative reactions from school administration. When the experiences of primary school teachers in teaching controversial issues supported by digital stories are examined, it is seen that ensuring active participation, arousing interest/curiosity, developing a positive understanding of the lesson, associating with real life, moving away from textbooks, concretization, technology integration, increasing permanence, gaining a desire for research, developing interdisciplinary understanding findings have been reached.

School Heads’ Research Knowledge, Competence, and Challenges Encountered: Basis for Research Revitalization Program

Research is vital in addressing the pressing and emerging issues in school; thus, it should be cultivated and nurtured for the improvement of teaching competence, upgrading of school policies, and advancing school management towards educational development and progress. This study assessed the research knowledge, competence, and challenges encountered by the school heads in conducting research. Utilizing the quantitative-qualitative research design, the results revealed that the school heads had a high level of knowledge in creating research titles, creating context and rationale/introduction of the research, providing appropriate interventions, and collecting/gathering data. However, the school heads showed a very low competence in presenting research results and findings, formulating research instruments, evaluating research proposal/manuscript, interpreting research results and findings, and editing research proposal/manuscript. School heads’ research knowledge and competence were significantly influenced by educational attainment and school category. Sex significantly affected the school heads’ research competence but not their research knowledge. Challenges encountered were summarized in four key themes: (1) insufficiency of time, (2) difficulty in writing research technicalities, (3) paucity of knowledge in data collection processes, and (4) inadequacy of skills in data analysis and interpretation. The findings ensued in the creation of research revitalization programs and activities to rekindle the driving forces of school heads in providing research-based interventions while addressing properly, appropriately, and effectively the research challenges, which may lead to advanced management practices, upgraded school policy implementation, and improved quality of education.

Barriers and facilitators of family doctor contract services in caring for disabled older adults in Beijing, China: a mixed methods study

ObjectiveTo evaluate the current state of family doctor contract services (FDCS) in Beijing, identify the roles of family doctors who have worked with disabled older adults and investigate the barriers...

Parents' Perception, Acceptance, and Hesitancy to Vaccinate Their Children against COVID-19: Results from a National Study in the UAE.

Introduction: COVID-19 is considered the greatest health disaster affecting humans during the 21st century, which urged the need to develop an effective vaccine to acquire enough immunity against the virus. The main challenge faced during the development of such vaccines was the insufficiency of time, which raised the question about the vaccine safety and efficacy, especially among children. Parents’ and caregivers’ thoughts and acceptance of administering the vaccine to their children are still debatable topics and are yet to be explored in the UAE. Aims: The study aims to exploit parent acceptance, perception, and hesitancy toward the COVID-19 vaccine administration for their children and the link with their choice of distance learning instead of face-to-face education in the UAE. Methodology: This study utilized a cross-sectional descriptive design. A sample of 1049 parents across all emirates were conveniently approached and surveyed using Google forms from June to September 2021. The participants responded to a semi-structured questionnaire pertaining to socio-demographic, educational, and other questions related to COVID-19 and its link with their beliefs in whether the vaccination of their children will help with resuming face-to-face learning. Results: Approximately 74% of the parents confirmed that their children who are 16 years old and above have received the vaccine, and 71% were willing to give the vaccine to their children aged above 5 years. Parents with children receiving online education and those with children where the online modality of learning negatively affected their academic achievement are more prone to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to their children above five years old. The results show a significant association between vaccination of children and the parental desire for resuming physical attendance in schools (p value < 0.001). Multivariate analysis showed that the highest acceptance rate was from parents with children of low academic achievement due to online learning modality during the pandemic. Conclusion: In the UAE, parents of young children have shown a positive attitude towards COVID-19 vaccination in belief that vaccines will reduce the risk of infection and assist in resuming normal lifestyles, such as going back physically to schools. The results reflect the public awareness and the hypervigilance regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in the UAE.

An Assessment of Practice of Conflict Management in Ethiopian Higher Institution: The Case of Madda Walabu University

The assessment of practice of Conflict Management Practice in Madda Walabu University is the concern of this research article. Conflict is the situation in which one party perceives that its interests are being opposed or negatively affected by another party which is in the same group, in another group, in the same organization or in another organization The major problems which initiate this research are: the prevalence of conflict between several parties in the University, problem on perception of conflict and of the conflict management system of the institution. The major objectives of the research are: Assessing the conflict resolution practice of Madda walabu University, assessing the major sources of conflict in the organization, assessing the attitudes that an employees of the organization have towards conflict and forwarding possible solutions for the problems identified from the collected and analyzed data. The major limitations faced in conducting this research are: Some respondents did not give the required full information because of the fear that they have on this area and insufficiency of time that is provided to conduct this research. Both primary and secondary sources of information are used in collecting the data. Questionnaires are distributed to the institution’s academic, non-academic and administrative staff members and the information gathered is analyzed accordingly. According to the analysis made, there is a wide range of conflict in the organization, a problem of conflict perception is also observed but, there is no special training and orientation prepared to change this perception. The conflict management practice of the organization is found to be poor. There is also a tendency to relate the effectiveness in conflict management to gender difference. To avoid the above problems; the organization should prepare several occasions in which the employees can develop the relationship between them, a special training and orientation program should be prepared in order to create better grasping on conflict related issues. Additionally, several points are forwarded as a recommendation to solve the problem observed. Keywords: Conflict Assessment, Conflict Management, Madda Walabu University DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/11-5-01 Publication date: March 31 st 2021

The Fate of the GOELRO Plan (Towards the Centenary of Soviet Russia’s Economic Development Program)

This article attempts to overcome one-sidedness in the assessment of the GOELRO Plan in the context of its centenary as well as to introduce some new data concerning this monumental economic program of the 20th century. The article touches upon the following themes: regarding an outstanding scientist and educator V. I. Grinevetskii as one of the leading ideologists of electrification; proving the prerevolutionary origins of the plan; assessment of the plan as a general economic program for the country’s development; insufficiency of time allocated for the work of the GOELRO Commission, and, accordingly, the plan’s shortcomings; analysis of statuses of the electrification programs and the first five-year plan; and comparison of different researchers’ opinions concerning the degree of completion of the GOELRO Plan. Comparative analysis of the plan and its international counterparts allowed to conclude about supranational scale and timeless topicality the GOELRO Plan that formed the basis for future national panning of industrial development.

Time as a Social and Environmental Determinant of Health for Rural Women.

Background. Time insufficiency is frequently cited as a reason for poor dietary habits. This does not adequately explain the variations in how time is perceived as a factor in healthy eating. Aims. This study placed the eating behaviors of rural Australian women within the contexts of their stories to understand the factors that influenced healthy eating and how rural communities could enhance their health and well-being. Method. A three-phase sequential multimode narrative inquiry was used within four communities in rural Queensland, Australia. Each phase used a different mode of data collection: photo elicitation focus groups, narrative interviews, participatory workshops. Data were thematically analyzed iteratively to inform subsequent phases. Results. Nine final themes were identified. This article explored the theme of time and two contrasting perceptions of time sufficiency regarding healthy eating within a rural context during a drought. Discussion. Exploration of "time as a commodity" and "time as a duty" allowed a deeper understanding of time as a social and environmental determinant of health. Conclusion. Time's influence on healthy eating is much more than the minutes it takes to prepare a meal. To fully appreciate its impact, time should be considered as a social and environmental determinant of health.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BIOLOGY PRACTICAL LESSONS IN SELECTED WELL-ENDOWED AND LESS-ENDOWED SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN GHANA

The teaching and learning of biology in the Senior High Schools has of late not been very effective since the practical aspect of the subject is seemingly neglected by many teachers. The main objective of this study was to investigate and compare how biology practical lessons were conducted in some well-endowed and less-endowed Senior High Schools in Ghana. The main instruments used for gathering the data for the study were questionnaires, document analysis and informal observation of some biology lessons. This enabled the Researchers to capture as closely as possible, the real picture of what happened during the observed lessons. The sampled population for the study consisted of 408 students and 24 biology teachers from twelve selected Senior High Schools in the Eastern and Central Regions of Ghana. Data collected were analyzed using frequency counts and percentages. The research findings showed that the time allotted to practical lessons in biology varied from one school to another, as 35.8% of students from well-endowed schools complained of insufficiency of time as against 78.9% of students from less-endowed schools. The study also found that the teaching strategies employed in the two categories of Senior High Schools were not different. However, students from the selected well-endowed schools tend to have a greater advantage than their counterparts from the less-endowed schools, as they were exposed to less lecture method 7.4% compared to 27.9% from the low-endowment schools . To ensure efficiency in the teaching of the practical aspect of biology in the Senior High Schools, the study recommends that the government and all other stakeholders in education must supply laboratories in all Senior High Schools with the necessary equipment, materials and chemicals to enable students to develop the necessary skills, attitudes, and interest in science. Article visualizations:

Research on The Teachers Views About The Use of Alternative Assessment and Evaluation Methods for Physical Education And Sports Courses

The purpose of this research was to determine the frequency of using alternative assessment and evaluation methods of the physical education teachers working in secondary schools and to determine their opinions about these methods, according to some demographic characteristics of teachers. Quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques, designed according to the research screening model, were utilized. The sample of the research was composed of 257 physical education teachers working in the state and private secondary schools in Istanbul province in 2014-2015 academic year. In the collection of the data: authentic assessment and evaluation tools usage frequency survey and semi-structured interview questions were used. According to the obtained data; there are significant differences in the frequency of physical education teachers’ usage of alternative assessment and evaluation methods based on the level of in-service training, which they have attended. It was observed that demonstration was the most frequently used method, then respectively, performance evaluation, observation, control list, grading scale, and interview were the frequently used by physical education teachers compared to other alternative assessment and evaluation methods. Besides, physical education teachers indicated the alternative assessment and evaluation methods which they widely used respectively as control list, demonstration and grading scale, observation, interview, group evaluation, peer-evaluation, and self-evaluation, project, rubric, and drama. According to most of the physical education teachers, the greatest challenge was time insufficiency in implementing alternative assessment and evaluation methods.

Teachers&amp;rsquo; Views On Activities Practised in Elementary Schools

In this research, positive and negative effects of club activities, the difficulties students had and the thoughts of teachers on how to conduct club activities effective are tried to be determined. In the research,where qualitative research and interview techniques are applied, ten teachers who work in Ankara Tevfik Fikret Private Elementary School, are chosen incidentally to be interviewed. During the interviews with the teachers, four questions were asked and their answers were recorded. Datas were resolved with descriptive analysis and these results were found: Teachers think that these club activities help students to discover and improve their interests and talents and help them to learn how to socialise and work with a plan. These activities also improves their general knowledge, creative thinking skills and push them to take responsibility. According to teachers, normally club activities have no negative effects on students but some problems can occur because of not choosing the suitable club according to student’s interests and talents. The most frequent problems that teachers face during club activities are the insufficiency of time, not being able to find an appropriate place to perform club activities and lack of material and activity variations. Due to these reasons, teachers offered to extend the spare time of club activities and they also offered to find new and more appropriate places and enriching materials for club activities. After all those suggestions, teachers requested students to channel themselves to club activities according to their interests and talents

방사선사의 병원감염관리에 대한 인지도, 수행도 및 임파워먼트와의 관련성

방사선사들의 병원감염 예방지침의 인식정도와 그 수행 능력 정도를 알아보고 병원감염관리의 개선 및 방사선사의 감염관리 교육을 위한 기초 자료를 얻고자 하였다. C대학병원에 근무하고 있는 방사선사 84명(평균연령 41세, 남 61명, 여 23명)을 대상으로 일반적 특성 10문항, 병원감염관련 문항 10문항, 병원감염관리 인지도 측정도구 24문항, 병원감염관리 수행도 측정도구 24문항, 임파워먼트는 12문항으로 방사선사에 맞게 수정 보완하였다. 연구대상자의 연령, 근무경력이 높을수록 병원감염에 대한 인지도와 수행도는 통계적으로 유의하게 높았다(p<0.05). 연구대상자의 병원감염 특성에서 감염관리 수행을 실천하지 못한 이유는 업무과다 (42.9%), 지식부족 (17.8%), 시간부족 (16.7%) 순이었다. 연구 대상자의 병원감염관리에 대한 인지도, 수행도, 임파워먼트간의 상관관계를 분석한 결과, 인지도와 수행도(r=0.476), 인지도와 임파워먼트(r=0.276), 수행도와 임파워먼트(r=0.459)가 유의한 양의 상관관계를 보였다(p<0.05). 연구대상자의 병원감염관리에 대한 수행도에 영향을 주는 요인은 임파워먼트가 높을수록 통계적으로 유의하게 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). The aim of this study was to investigate the peculiarity of awareness, performance and empowerment of RTs and to find out the relationship between the levels of awareness, performance and empowerment and nosocomial infection control. A total of 84 RTs, which were working at C University Hospital in Gwangju city, were participated in this survey study. A final questionnaire consisted of total 80 items including the general characteristics(10), nosocomial infection(10), awareness level(24), performance level of the prevention of nosocomial infection(24) and empowerment scale(12). The levels of awareness and performance for prevention of nosocomial infection was significantly higher in senior RTs (p<0.05). The response about the content of 'no performance of infection control were excessive work(42.9%), lack of knowledge(17.8%) and insufficiency of time(16.7%), respectively. The association among awareness level, performance level and empowerment score for the prevention of nosocomial infection, it showed positive correlations as follows: awareness vs. performance level (Pearson's coefficient <TEX>${\gamma}=0.476$</TEX>), awareness vs. empowerment (<TEX>${\gamma}=0.276$</TEX>) and performance vs. empowerment (<TEX>${\gamma}=0.459$</TEX>) (p<0.05). The factor that effected on performance was empowerment (p<0.05).

Proje Tabanlı Öğrenme Yönteminin Web Tasarımı Dersinde Kullanılmasına İlişkin Nitel Bir Çalışma

A Qualitative Study on the Use of Project Based Learning Method in Web Design Course. The aim of this study is to explore students’ perceptions of the use of Project Based Learning (PBL) method in Web Design Course. Study group included fourth year students enrolled at the department of Computer Technologies and Instruction at Education Faculty, at department of Computer Teaching at Technical Education Faculty and second year students of Vocational and Technical College in Firat University. This is a qualitative study in nature. In order to collect qualitative data, an interview form including four semistructured questions, was used and totally 54 students were interviewed. Content analysis technique was used to analyze the data. Students indicated that PBL provided effective learning, active participation and permanence in learning. They also emphasized that PBL gave them the opportunity of practicing, increased cooperation and motivation. So they wanted PBL to be used in other similar courses as well. Students complained lack of theoretical knowledge, insufficiency of time and effective supervision. Based on the study results, following recommendations are offered: PBL method should be used in other similar design courses. The students should be directed according to the principles of PBL and should be provided efficient theoretical knowledge. There should be effective communication between students and teachers in PBL process. Teachers should have both theoretical and technical knowledge about the course and PBL method. Necessary equipment should be provided to implement PBL method effectively in Web Design course. Students should do more practices to make suitable and correct assessment.

Prevalence of Regular Exercise Among Iranian Adults: A Study in Northern Iran

Regular exercise is an important aspect of physical activity for people living in urban areas. We examined prevalence of regular exercise in leisure times and some related factors in middle aged men and women in northern Iran. A cross-sectional survey was undertaken on 1425 women and 676 men in 2 main cities in northern Iran. Information on exercise habits was collected using a self-administrated questionnaire. Regular exercise was defined as any kind of recreational or sport physical activity other than walking performed three or more days per week for at least 20 minutes. Questions on perceived barriers on regular exercise and walking habit were also included in the questionnaire. Findings showed that 11.2% of the participants (9% in women and 12.8% in men P < .05) did exercise regularly. Prevalence of doing regular exercise was inversely related to age in women but not in men. Educated women were more likely to do regular exercise. The most common perceived barrier for regular exercise was time insufficiency. Only a small proportion of the study men and women had sustainable regular exercise for 1 year. Regular exercise was more common among young and well educated women than older women and the men.

Evaluation of Studies Conducted on the “Learning-Teaching Process” Dimension of 2004 Primary School Curriculum / 2004 İlköğretim Programının “Öğrenme-Öğretme Süreci” Boyutu İle İlgili Yapılan Araştırmaların Değerlendirilmesi

Evaluation of Studies Conducted on the “Learning-Teaching Process” Dimension of 2004 Primary School Curriculum / 2004 İlköğretim Programının “Öğrenme-Öğretme Süreci” Boyutu İle İlgili Yapılan Araştırmaların Değerlendirilmesi

Time in Bed, Sleep Sufficiency and Emotional and Behavioral Problems in a General Population of 10-12 Year Old Children

Objective: To examine the relationship between time in bed, sleep sufficiency and emotional and behavioral problems in a general population of children aged 10-12 years (N=5095). Methods: Emotional and behavioral problems were assessed using The Strength and Difficulties questionnaire, which was completed by children, parents and teachers. Data on time in bed, sleep sufficiency and potential confounders (gender, pubertal development, mother's education and family economy) were parent reported. Results: Controlling for gender, pubertal development and socioeconomic status, childrens emotional and behavioral problems as rated by parents were related to insufficient sleep. Self-reported emotional symptoms and parent-reported conduct problems were associated with both shorter time in bed and insufficient sleep. Teacher-reported hyperactivity was associated with long time in bed. Conclusions: Children with self-reported emotional symptoms or parent-reported conduct problems seem to spend too lit- tle time in bed and to obtain insufficient sleep.

P‐31: A New Driving Method for Data Line Reduction in WUXGA TFT‐LCD

AbstractIt is the important factor that data line reduction with high aperture ratio for low cost pane fabricatol. In the high resolution panel such as WUXGA (1920×RGB ×1200 pixels), it is hard to apply data D‐IC reduction (DDR) structure because of charging time insufficiency. In this paper, we have proposed a new driving method in WUXGA panel. This dual data and common (DDC) structure reduces D‐ICs by the reduction of data line 30% compared to conventional one. Transmittance ratio has been increased about 7% by using the DDC structure. The new structure was fabricated as same the normal 4mask amorphous silicon process with integrated gate driver (GIP). Through reliability test it showed same image quality compared to conventional one and we could verify new pixel panel's stability.

Missing and Mending: Romeo and Juliet at Play in the Romance Chronotope

Assume for a moment that Romeo and Juliet is not about star-crossed lovers or feuding families, but more profoundly about the generic insufficiency of time that afflicts everyone and everything to do with romance, author as well as characters. Poetically and emotionally, temporal insufficiency is necessary for romance as a genre, a quality that brings it into close relationship with tragedy. Romeo and Juliet succeeds as a romance because it confirms the besetting, archetypal anxiety of all lovers, that they will not be able to transform the accident of a single meeting into the necessity of a life together, one moment into an eternity. And yet the play's success as a tragedy depends upon preventing the lovers' desired synchronicity from enduring in life, a generic countermovement to love's dilation of the moment. The interference of romantic and tragic rhythms, the mutual dependence of temporal modes in tragic and romance plots, is perhaps the most important poetic issue at stake in Romeo and Juliet, and one to which Shakespeare was alive. In adapting his most proximate source, Arthur Brooke's Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562), Shakespeare telescopes the chronology of the story from roughly nine months to four days, Thursday to Sunday. Then, as if in a conscious attempt to fit too much into too little, to force a tragic outcome, the prologue hurries the events once more, recasting the question of story-time as a dramatic problem, The fearful passage of their death-marked love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which but their children's end nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. (Prologue, l. 9)[1] Sudden angst and unjustified urgency is the mood the Chorus seems to want to foist upon us. The fictional journey we are about to embark upon is a 'fearful passage', made all the more so by the scant two hours allotted its course. Is that enough time, we ask, to see the story through to its end? The answer, of course, is 'no'. Doubtless Shakespeare knew that two hours, like the lovers' abbreviated four days, is inadequate and would force the cast to step up what Granville-Barker calls the play's 'quickening temper',[2] even to the point of hurrying lines past an audience struggling to keep pace with the plot. Indeed, the Chorus anticipates the likelihood of lines' going unheard, an important motive that strangely has been over-looked. To counter the 'quickening temper' it incites, the Chorus first begs the audience's patience: 'if you with patient ears attend'. Then, following the aural image, it puns on the word 'here', 'What here ['heare' Q 2] shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend', promising to recapture the missing gist of the story with acting ('our toil') as supplement to dialogue. The prologue's final couplet is the key to understanding what is going on temporally and spatially in the rest of the play. Missing and mending is not only the major task of the plot (lovers' assignations missed, misunderstandings and feuds mended) but a strategy of dramatic composition, one that acknowledges the insufficiency of the two-hour playing time and seeks to mend it by stretching the plastic unity of time and place. At the risk of subsidizing too heavily the significance of the homonymic connection between 'here' as location and 'hear' as audition, I would like to suggest that this pun stands at the threshold to a poetics of romance mistiming and misplacement. In theatre, hearing or being here establishes a character's presence or absence. For the most part, Romeo and Juliet are not here and choose not to hear; for the bulk of the play they are, in the eyes of their families, missing, an absence which generates the frequent calls of 'where' and returns of 'here'. What follows is an elaborate game of hide and seek, of watching and calling and missing, part Narcissus and Echo, part Pyramus and Thisbe in inspiration and all transacted against the chaotic, foreshortened timeframe of the Phaethon story. …

Diastrophic Background to Twentieth-Century Geomorphological Thought

The eustatic theory of Edward Suess provided the major diastrophic influence which conditioned geomorphological thought for the first 3–4 decades of the twentieth century. Assisted by the translation of De Margerie, the work of A. Penck, the results of the Challenger expedition, and the concept of “borderlands,” this theory had become a basic article of geological faith by the time Chamberlin's (1909) influential statement on diastrophism and correlation appeared. During the following quarter of a century the theory was consolidated as the result of intensification of interest in North American stratigraphy, studies of glacial eustatism, and the investigation of submarine canyons. The high point of the geomorphological influence of the eustatic theory was marked by the publications of Baulig (1928; 1935), who was partly responsible for its subsequent importance in British geomorphological thought. By the late 1930's the increasing awareness of continental instability, largely resulting from ideas bearing on the epeirogenic and isostatic theories, had begun to cast serious doubt on the geomorphological value of Suess' “great unifying generalization.” Of the variety of patterns of crustal movement which had been proposed, that of W. M. Davis came to be largely accepted both by tectonic geologists and geomorphologists alike, although problems of instability of baselevel and insufficiency of time for peneplanation are proving increasing impediments to its retention. It is ironical, too, that many of the geological advances which first appeared to strengthen the eustatic theory have helped more lately to discredit it—at least in the extreme form proposed by Suess.