Kind Of Accommodation Research Articles

Sleep Quality, Daytime Sleepiness and Sleep Hygiene Among Youth in a Rural District in South India: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background Adequate sleep is crucial for youth cognitive function, academic performance, and mental health. However, various factors, including academic pressure, technology use, and socio-cultural norms can significantly impact sleep patterns, particularly in rural settings. This cross-sectional study assessed sleep quality, daytime sleepiness prevalence, and sleep hygiene practices among youth in a rural South Indian district. We also investigated factors associated with these sleep parameters in this understudied population Methods This was a cross-sectional study among 852 young subjects who were assessed with a self-reported proforma of socio-demographic details, behavioural factors,Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Epworth Sleepiness Scale. Regression model was created to analyse the predictor for sleep quality and daytime sleepiness with respect to sociodemographic variables, behavioural factors and sleep hygiene practices. Results Our study revealed that 49.4% (n=421) of participants exhibited poor sleep quality, while 29.5% (n=251) reported abnormal daytime sleepiness. The most prevalent sleep hygiene practices were reading in bed (68.5%, n=584) and pre-bedtime eating (56.22%, n=479). Multivariate analysis indicated that sleep quality was significantly associated with accommodation type, with increased odds for those in private accommodation (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 1.29, 95% CI: 1.14-1.62) and hostels (AOR 3.79, 95% CI: 1.79-8.06). Additionally, eating in bed (AOR 1.42, 95% CI: 1.03-1.95) and pre-bedtime eating (AOR 1.41, 95% CI: 1.07-1.88) were also associated with poor sleep quality. Factors significantly associated with daytime sleepiness included younger age (AOR 0.84, 95% CI: 0.75-0.94), non-medical academic streams (AOR 1.94, 95% CI: 1.33-2.83), extensive internet usage (three or more hours) (AOR 1.87, 95% CI: 1.15-3.13), watching TV in bed (AOR 1.46, 95% CI: 1.06-1.99), writing (AOR 1.45, 95% CI: 1.02-2.06), and eating in bed (AOR 1.55, 95% CI: 1.09-2.21). Conclusion This study reveals a significant incidence of poor sleep quality and daytime drowsiness among young individuals residing in rural areas of South India. The results of our study emphasize significant connections between sleep disturbances and several modifiable aspects, such as the kind of accommodation, eating habits, and use of technology. The impact of eating behaviours, both in bed and before bedtime, on sleep quality and daytime sleepiness underscores the importance of proper sleep hygiene education. Furthermore, the relationship between extensive internet usage and daytime sleepiness points to the growing influence of digital technology on youth sleep patterns. These findings emphasize the need for comprehensive sleep health programs tailored to rural youth. Such initiatives should address environmental factors, promote healthy sleep hygiene practices, and provide guidance on balanced technology use. Additionally, the varying impact of academic streams on sleep parameters suggests that sleep health strategies may need to be customized for different educational contexts.

Teachers’ Perceptions of Formative Assessment for Students With Disability: A Case Study From India

Abstract India has made significant progress in improving the enrolment of students with disability but still has a long way to go before schools can be called inclusive. Despite the widely acknowledged relevance of assessments in shaping teaching and learning practices, little research has been done in disability-inclusive assessment in the Indian setting. In this paper, we explore teachers’ perceptions of disability inclusion in formative assessments, including the use of various kinds of accommodations and adaptations, factors that affect the implementation of disability-inclusive formative assessments, and challenges. It is argued that teacher professional development and teacher–parent partnerships are essential for ensuring the inclusion of students with disability in formative assessments. Unless assessment is given its due importance in disability-inclusive education, achievement gaps between children with and without disability may widen due to the unavailability of learning data and its use.

Inclusion in an Interdisciplinary Leadership Training Program: Perspectives From Self-Advocates.

Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) programs are interdisciplinary, graduate-level training programs that seek to promote improved outcomes for individuals with disabilities and their families. Many of these programs include individuals with disabilities as members of the self-advocacy discipline. In this study, 10 self-advocate trainees were interviewed to provide insight into the value of including self-advocates in training and the kinds of accommodations and supports that facilitated their success and inclusion. Interviewees endorsed the importance of including self-advocates in LEND programs. Although several accommodations were discussed as helpful, interpersonal supports from faculty and peers were equally important in ensuring their success and inclusion in LEND. The findings from this study provide support for the expansion of self-advocacy as a formal discipline in LEND programs.

Prosthetic Grand Synthesis

Prosthetic Grand Synthesis

Interaksi Sosial dalam Keseharian Masyarakat Plural

Human life is always faced with a variety of diversity, be it skin color, ethnicity, religion, language and so on. With this plurality, it often triggers conflict. To bridge this gap, various kinds of accommodation are needed that can bring these differences together so that there is an understanding and recognition of the existence of a culture. Forms of human interaction with other humans can be associative and dissociative forms. Some of the problems that can produce associative forms of social interaction are ethnocentrism, misunderstanding in values, stereotypes, and prejudice.

Violent states and traumatised organisations: Working with disappointed people in disappointing places

In this article, we build on our previous work to examine how staff teams working with 'un-housed minds' in health and social care settings can become (dis)stressed, dis-organised, disappointed and potentially traumatised. We will argue that this happens irrespective of whether the (dis)stressing experience seems to come from the work with clients or from the dis-orienting effects of organisational and social change processes. Using a psychosocial, group-analytically informed systems-psychodynamic approach we explore the complexity of the reciprocal relationships and the social and organisational parallel processes played out between those who provide these kinds of services and those who use them; also between those are employed and those who employ them, as well as between those who commission such services and those who must manage them. We suggest that, in the current socio-economic climate, dominated by neo-liberal discourses around austerity and the 'undeserving poor' of the homeless, the workless and the 'worth-less', all staff teams concerned with the provision of different kinds of accommodation, care and support will become increasingly (dis)stressed and dysfunctional as they find themselves squeezed between the dis-organisation of the systems they work in and the distressing nature of working with the clients they notionally serve: between the ‘rock’ of increasing demand and dependent need and the ‘hard place’ of apparently decreasing resources. Whether this is simply because there is just too much damage and dis-orderand not enough resources or whether it is because we do not care enough about the plight of our fellow citizens to organise ourselves better to think about how better to (re-)distribute the resources is a moot point. But in either case, in order to continue to practice ethically and to minimise the damage to all, we suggest that it is vital that teams can think together about the importance of opening up reflective spaces for structured conversations, within the wider cultures of psychologically informed environments (PIEs), where these issues can be meaningfully thought about. We will conclude by re-stating our view that, in order to be able to continue to work in these dis-appointing environments, it is imperative that we open up reflective spaces for team development, within which we can struggle together to make sense of these painful and potentially compromising personal, professional, organisational and socio-political challenges.

Passion before profit in hospitality ventures.Some thoughts on Lifestyle Entrepreneur and the case of “Albergo Diffuso”

Purpose of the paper: This study examines the link between the profile of lifestyle entrepreneurship and the emerging concept of the hotel typology of “Albergo Diffuso”, both of which are contemporary offshoots of their major categories. Methodology : Due to the originality and novelty of the business model, first a literature review was conducted in order to achieve the realization of a clear representation of this new kind of accommodation. Then, a questionnaire divided into three sections was developed, including closed-ended and open questions, and administered to a sample of AD. Research limits : Both topics deserve merit for in-depth investigations since they are under-researched. For this point this research needs new and deeper studies focused on face-to-face interviews looking for the drivers that link the concept of “Albergo Diffuso” to the one of “Lifestyle entrepreneur”. Practical implications : Preliminary results of the qualitative study that used a nine-parameter measurement scale suggest that the “Albergo Diffuso” owners’ profile mirrors the one of the typical “lifestyle entrepreneur”. Originality of the paper: The study confirms the “Albergo Diffuso” as a socio-culturally embedded entity in its location and that AD entrepreneurs possess a high level of personal motivation in establishing their enterprises.

Ecotourism and Ecolodge Accommodation

In ecotourism, as a specific form of tourism, conscientious individuals and groups participate, who by its influence on nature are trying to reduce effects produced by so called mass tourism. Ecotourism product should be developed on the contemporary tourism trends, with full respect of local specificity which represent commitment in regard to competitive destinations. Existence of receptive factors, such as facilities for accommodation, nutrition, entertainment and recreation, represent one of the basic prerequisites for the development of any ecotourism destination. Ecotourists seek accommodation which is ecologically acceptable, modest but cozy at the same time and provides unique experience in natural surroundings. In accordance with these demands protected areas all around the world offer its visitors high quality Ecolodge facilities, which are fully submerged into nature. During their construction and management strict criteria of protection of the environment are followed with optimal waste and energy management. Montenegro has enviable spacious potential for this kind of accommodation in protected areas, especially in its five national parks, so this form of accommodation has to find its place in the future development of tourism. Designing and construction of ecotourism facilities has to be strategically planned and the fact, that it is not enough just to have attractive location but also specific content it has to offer, has to be respected. Ecolodge facilities should be designed and built in accordance with traditional architecture and surrounding materials, to influence as little as possible on the environment and to use alternative energy sources. In other words, it is necessary to provide sustainability of these facilities.

Test accommodations for individuals with neurological conditions completing the NIH Toolbox-Cognition Battery: An evaluation of frequency and appropriateness.

First, to evaluate the frequency with which individuals with neurological conditions require test administration accommodations for the NIH Toolbox-Cognition Battery (NIHTB-CB). Second, to evaluate the appropriateness of accommodations provided by administrators, including adherence to NIHTB-CB Reasonable Accommodations Guidelines. Adults with traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, or stroke (n = 604) completed the NIHTB-CB and other assessments as part of a multisite study. We provide a descriptive, secondary analysis of test administrator notes to determine use and appropriateness of accommodations. Of the 604 participants, 450 (75%) completed the NIHTB-CB using standard administration procedures, but 137 (22.6%) encountered accessibility challenges that required accommodations. Participants with motor function impairments were most likely to receive at least 1 of 3 kinds of accommodations: (a) use of nonstandard methods of entering responses using standard input devices, (b) use of alternate input devices, or (c) help from the test administrator to enter a response. Fatigue and/or impulsivity led to nonstandard administration by 48 (7.9%) individuals. Post hoc audit of test administrator notes revealed that despite careful instructions and supervision, 49 (56.3%) of the accommodated administrations breached standardization and scores could not be interpreted using test norms. Although the NIHTB-CB was developed for individuals without neurological impairment, most individuals with neurological conditions completed the standardized administration without accommodations. When accommodations were needed, administrators did not adhere to the official Reasonable Accommodations Guidelines in more than half of the cases. (PsycINFO Database Record

CARTOGRAFIA DO TURISMO EM SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, ESPANHA

Santiago de Compostela, the capital of the Autonomous Community of Galicia, is one of the main tourist centers of Spain. It attracts millions of visitor every year because of its cultural and architectonic assets. The religious heritage, in particular, leads thousands of pilgrims to walk the so-called Way of St. James. As a result, the city of Santiago de Compostela has developed a notable tourism infrastructure. This paper precisely aims to analyze both tourism supply and demand in Santiago. It was based on the use of cartographic methods suitable for representing qualitative data, such as typologies of attractions and existing tourist facilities; as well as quantitative data, like the number of visitors and offers of accommodations. Research results show that the cartographic representation of tourist information allows aggregating an extremely useful geographic variable to planning and spatial planning of tourism. The comparative analysis of the geographic distribution of tourism demand and supply demonstrates the existence of preferred spaces for tourism, plus a strong seasonality, which represent a challenge to government actions and policies. On the other hand, the maps also reveal problems related to the spatial variability of certain types of information. For instance, the kind of accommodation or demand for certain tourist attractions, which, in turn, allow establishing a hypothesis for a specific investigation. Keywords: cartography, tourism, geographic analysis, cartographic method.

The Irish rent … and mended: transitional textual communities in nineteenth-century America

In this paper, traditional folkloric forms that were ritualised and practised in pre-Famine Ireland are examined. So, too, are the strategies that storytellers employed in disseminating the imaginative aspects of the oral tradition to their audiences. Following the disruption of the storytelling tradition precipitated by the Great Famine and emigration, the fabric of Irish storytelling lay threadbare, both in Ireland and abroad. Of interest is the fact that in America the less “heroic” and more subtle strands of Irish folklore resurfaced in the theatrical venues that developed during the second half of the nineteenth century, namely, minstrelsy, Vaudeville, and Tin Pan Alley. By the turn of twentieth century, the Irish were responding to other “heroic” depictions of themselves, not only with protestation but also with “tongue-in-cheek” laughter. Their grounding in a variety of folkloric texts in Ireland enabled them to transition to multiple kinds of accommodation and expressive resistance.

Preference-based reasoning in BDI agent systems

An important feature of BDI agent systems is number of different ways in which an agent can achieve its goals. The choice of means to achieve the goal in made by the system at run time, depending on contextual information that is not available in advance. In this article, we explore ways that the user of an agent system can specify preferences which can be incorporated into the BDI execution process and used to guide the choices made. For example, a user of a travel system can specify a preferred airline, or a particular kind of accommodation, and the system will use this information to satisfy the goal and preferences, if possible. Preferences are specified in terms of properties of goals and resource usage, and are used to make two types of decisions: (a) select a plan when there is a choice and (b) determine the order in which subgoals of a plan should be pursued when their order is not fixed by design. We have implemented our preference framework in Jadex, and provide detailed case studies within the context of a holiday travel agent application.

Роль и значение хостелов в процессе повышения привлекательности туристской дестинации на примере г. Москвы

The article takes a retrospective view of the development of hostels and considers the current trends, as well as development opportunities and challenges, of this segment of economical means of accommodation. The author draws upon statistics to substantiate the expediency of further development of this kind of accommodation as a contributor to improved tourist traffic.

‘Their families or the disability services will take care of them’: the invisible homeless and how Irish government policy is designed not to help them

Most intellectually disabled adults in Ireland continue to live with their parents. For those who want and/or are forced to move out of the parental home, the default option is to avail of the various kinds of accommodation offered by the Irish disability services. This paper critically investigates the range of housing options available to intellectually disabled adults living in Ireland – some more nominal than others – and the governmental role in facilitating members of this population to live in accommodation of their choosing. The relevant issues are given voice by a mother of an adult with Down syndrome. In her search for appropriate accommodation for her daughter, she provides important experiential knowledge regarding both the shortcomings of current Irish policy and the hidden discrimination to which intellectually disabled people are subjected on a daily basis by banks and private landlords alike.

School-stay as Seasonal Accomodation for Particular Travelers

Abstract Accommodation is the single most essential part of any stay in a destination. Accordingly, accommodation is available everywhere and forms the foundation of tourism industry. Regarding to their travelling patterns and trip characteristics, travelers choose luxury hotel with variety of services to budget hotels with limited facilities. During two main school holidays in Iran, New Year and summer, lots of families travel to different part of the country. Schools can be considered as one of the accommodations options for particular travellers. Due to the lenghth of those holidays and since during school holiday, schools are not occupied with students; they can be available for groups of domestic travellers to stay overnight. The reason behind uniqueness of this type of accommodation is long school holiday in Iran which let the education department use the school buildings for travelers’ accommodation. There is no such a thing as school for accommodation in literature at present. This paper is going to find the condition of this unique kind of accommodation as well as available service provided for travelers. Qualitative analysis was done by interviewing a service provider to find the available services as well as the improvement of this particular type of accomodation, school stay, during last years.

Conscientious Conviction and Subjective Preference: On What Grounds Should Religious Practices Be Accommodated?

In this paper, I seek to challenge two prevailing views about religious accommodation. The first maintains that religious practices deserve accommodation only if they are regarded as something unchosen on a par with the involuntary circumstances of life people must face. The other view maintains that religious practices are nothing more than preferences but questions the necessity of their accommodation. Against these views, I argue that religious conducts, even on the assumption that they represent voluntary behaviours, deserve in certain circumstances certain kinds of accommodation. They must be understood as one possible expression, along with nonreligious or secular beliefs, of a person's convictions of conscience, which are strong ethical commitments upon which depends the moral integrity of those having such convictions. I demonstrate that the main ground for religious accommodation is the need to protect fairly, through such rights as religious freedom and freedom of conscience, the ethical commitments and conscientious beliefs of all citizens. Finally, against the objection that such a view risks leading to the proliferation of demands for accommodation, I maintain that a deliberative approach to religious accommodation is in a good position to put serious hurdles in the path of unreasonable demands.

Private accommodation in tourist destination offer - the case of Dubrovnik

For a long time basic accommodation capacities represented the dominant type of accommodation in tourist offer, while at the same time complementary accommodation capacities were neglected. However, recently there has been a growing interest for complementary, substitute types of tourist accommodation, both in the Republic of Croatia and in Dubrovnik, where since 2000 a significant increase of over night stays has been registered, especially in private accommodation. In this paper rooms, apartments, studio apartments and holiday houses owned by physical entities are referred to as private accommodation. Private accommodation enables tourists to engage in everyday life of local residents, learn about history, tradition and culture of a destination. Thus, a tourist may experience and taste the beauties and attractions of a place, truly enjoy autochthonous products and services, as well as obtain genuine knowledge on authentic attractions and tourist offer of a destination. Inadequate offer of private tourist accommodation has negative influence when forming the overall tourist offer of a destination. Poor quality of accommodation units, unprofessional conduct of holders of tourist accommodation offer towards consumers and lack of interest for the needs and wishes of the consumer of this complementary accommodation have all contributed in creating a bad image on this kind of accommodation in tourist offer. Consequently, this paper aims, by analysing the consumers of private tourist accommodation, to point out the importance of private accommodation in overal tourist offer of a destination, to prove that private accommodation tourist offer attracts an increasing number of tourists, and propose to local tourist administration directives on how to create a more efficient procedure in order to ensure a more efficient and better quality administration of tourist private accommodation offer, aiming to improve the overall tourist offer at a destination.

Aims and status of the German DFG ‐ Transregio Research Group Xenotransplantation

Allotransplantation is the therapy of choice for endstage diseases. Due to the organ shortage, three times respectively twice as many patients are currently waiting for kidneys or hearts as are actually transplanted annually in Germany. Consequently, the mortality rate on the heart transplant list is around 16%; if patients have to wait more than 24 months for a kidney, the graft survival after 10 years will be less than half when compared to those who are able to receive an organ within 6 months. Therefore, porcine xenotransplantation of kidneys and hearts will be a very much needed alternative clinical technique – including (porcine) xenogenic islet cell transplantation for diabetic patients with hypoglycaemic attacks – a large number of persons, if one considers that the number of people suffering from diabetes worldwide increased by nearly 50% over the last decade.Of course, much more work is needed before clinical xenotransplantation will become a safe and long lasting alternative. The α(1,3)‐galactosyltransferase KO, PERV C free pigs – held in specific pathogen free units – must express several human transgenes, like a complement regulator molecule (in order to suppress non Gal‐AB's) and HLA‐E (protection from NK‐cell cytotoxicity). Some kind of accommodation will be necessary (e.g. via Hemoxygenase‐1 or PDL‐1 – a negative costimulatory receptor which also increases the CD4+ CD25high Fox p3+ subset). An overexpression of thrombomodulin (TM) would finally be necessary in order to overcome the disparity between porcine (TM) and human (Thrombin) proteins and possibly avoid microvascular thrombotic disease.And to top all these desires of a clinical transplant specialist, all the genetic engineering should be achieved in close connection within one chromosome, preferably an artificial one, in order to make all these changes hereditary.The just mentioned strategies are the main topics of the DFG‐Transregio Research Group. The following abstracts will highlight the respective progress and will also inevitably evaluate arising problems. International leaders in our field will give their results and opinion – an interchange which is necessary within the small but very active xenotransplantation research field.It is my sincere belief that a clinical scenario of xenotransplantation will be possible in the near future.

Adaptive Education for Students with Special Needs in the Inclusive Classroom

This article focuses on factors that promote the use of appropriate accommodations for children with disabilities in early childhood inclusive settings. It investigates the kinds of accommodations that were used with two children who were educated in two settings—a mainstream classroom, and a small unit in which the majority of children were on the autism spectrum. The study found that teaching assistants did not always foster social inclusion; that accommodations were not used consistently across the mainstream and specialised settings; and that planning time and training may be important ways to foster inclusionary practices. In addition, the high frequency of staff changes was noted, which may not be compatible with the demand for structure, routine and consistency that is commonly associated with children on the autism spectrum.

MOTIVATION FOR DOMESTIC TOURISM: A CASE STUDY OF THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA

MOTIVATION FOR DOMESTIC TOURISM: A CASE STUDY OF THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA