Practical Connotations Research Articles

Research on the Planning Strategy of Jingzhou Characteristic Villages Under the Background of Rural Revitalization

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the strategy of rural revitalization, and the construction of beautiful and characteristic villages has entered a new stage. Jingzhou characteristic rural planning as a regional strategy, its purpose is to promote the special process of Jingzhou countryside better, to achieve Jingzhou rural revitalization. Through the analysis of the status quo of characteristic village construction under the background of rural revitalization, the status quo of characteristic village construction in our city, the basic principles and tasks of planning. From the industry revitalization, cultural revitalization, ecological revitalization, talent revitalization and organizational revitalization of five aspects of Jingzhou characteristics of rural planning strategy. Open up a rural development road with Jingzhou characteristics, and enrich the practical connotation of characteristic rural construction.

Special Healthcare Services for Lgbt Cancer Patients

<p>In the UK, a concern of prejudice, as well as a lack of gender identity and sexual orientation documentation, implies that LGBT persons mostly hidden to health-care providers. One of a review was carried out to examine primary literature on the psychological support requirements of LGBT cancer patients when receive treatment and after. Important findings: Key topics that have been mentioned include the negative impact on mental health, health care professional education and the absence of inclusive support groups, the pervasiveness of discriminatory practices within healthcare services. The research demonstrates how LGBT cancer patients are being failed by healthcare professionals in terms of psychological support, resulting in unmet requirements. There are some suggestions use to guarantee an LGBT inclusive atmosphere in cancer care, as well as the development of support programmes for LGBT people with cancer. Practical connotation: LGBT wellness and awareness education should be offered for HCP personnel. The registration and tracking of gender identity and sexual orientation is critical to ensuring that LGBT persons are not 'invisible' in cancer, radiation, and continued studies. LGBT cancer groups and services should be established, since information from the study indicated that LGBT individuals are actively seeking these services.</p>

Construction and Application of The Evaluation Index System of Double-qualified Teachers' Professional Quality in Higher Vocational Colleges

In the process of establishing and using the professional quality evaluation index system of "double-qualified" teachers in higher vocational colleges, teachers should fully understand and understand the identification standards of "double-qualified" teachers in higher vocational colleges and the advanced nature, quality, and quality of their professional quality. Professional, educational and practical connotation characteristics, and combine the professional ethics of teachers with advanced teaching ideals. This paper analyzes in detail the expression and quality characteristics of "double-qualified" teachers in higher vocational colleges, and further summarizes the construction strategy of the professional quality evaluation index system of "double-qualified" teachers in higher vocational colleges based on the current situation of "double-qualified" teacher team construction.

Motivation of the student to enter the pedagogical career at the Universidad San Francisco Xavier De Chuquisaca

The present research was oriented to distinguish the motivations that the student has when he joins the Pedagogy Career, for this purpose we started from a preliminary study that consisted in a poll applied to the students. This poll gave us some insights of the indicators and variables to be considered in this research. The process of information, was constructed by different stages: the first one, was destined to identify the motivations of the students: the second was oriented to the analysis and the categorization of such motivations; the third, oriented to identify and determine the motivational features that the Pedagogy Students should show when they enter the career. Then we proceeded to the comparative analysis between the motivational features that the student has and the one that the student should have. Since this comparative study, we determine the importance of helping the process of professional selection. The investigation results, have theorical and practical connotations, since we made a motivational characterization of the students that enter to the Pedagogy Career, and because we decided to fundament the importance to help in the right process of the professional election.

Corporate governance and voluntary disclosure: evidence from India

PurposeThis study aims to examine the influence of some prominent corporate governance (CG) mechanisms such as board size (BS), board independence (BI), role duality (RD), board’s gender diversity (GD), ownership concentration (OC), audit committee independence (ACI), nomination and remuneration committee (NRC) and risk management committee (RMC) on voluntary disclosure (VD), as well as different types of VD after controlling the effect of some firm-specific factors for Indian firms.Design/methodology/approachThe study selects market capitalization-based top 100 non-financial and non-utility firms listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange as on 31st March 2014. Data are drawn from the Capitaline Plus database over the period of 2014–2018. Appropriate panel data regression model is applied to examine the influence of CG on VD.FindingsThe study reveals a significant negative influence of BI on VD while GD and RMC exhibit a significant positive influence on the same. The remaining CG mechanisms such as BS, RD, OC, ACI and NRC appear to have no significant influence on VD. Analysis into the relationship between CG mechanisms and different types of VD reveals that BI, in particular, has a strong negative influence on corporate strategic disclosure (CSD) and forward looking disclosure (FWLD) while GD and RMC both exhibit a significant positive influence on CSD, FWLD, CG disclosure and financial and capital market disclosure. Notably, none of the CG mechanisms under consideration influence human and intellectual capital disclosure.Research limitations/implicationsThe study considers annual reports as the only medium of making VD and ignores all other sources such as websites and press releases. Besides, it mainly emphasizes on corporate board structure, board committees and OC while other ownership structure-related variables family ownership, managerial ownership are not covered, which can be analysed in future studies.Practical implicationsThe study offers some important theoretical, as well as practical connotations for regulators and practitioners operating in India, as well as other emerging economies having similar institutional settings.Originality/valueThe study is the first of its kind in India that examines the influence of various CG mechanisms on different types of VD and thereby contributes novel findings in the context of an emerging economy.

Intellectuals, Ideology and Politics: A Critical Review of the Intellectuals’ Role in Society

Evaluating the intellectual streams concerning politics, we can see the ideological categorizations that have affected politics. How intellectual groups can be categorized in terms of politics - intellect relation? And to what extent their role has been negative or defendable? The twentieth century has witnessed three types of intellectual; dogmatic, nihilist, and ‘universal explorer’. Since the intellectual has been constantly striving to provide the utopia and its realization, from Plato to Rousseau and Marx, we can imagine that the least mistake in theoretical calculations could have left the intellectual to the abyss of obscurantism and dark-mindedness. As the century witnessed the proximity and surrender of some intellectuals to oppressive, totalitarian ideologies, some analysts refer to the ideological trap of intellectuals as the ‘Syracuse Charm’; a situation in which reckless concern of intellectuals without calculating the practical connotations, leads them to the trap of politics and the temptation of ideologies .

Efficiency management in catch handling onboard small boats – Standardisation of processes in Icelandic fisheries

• Icelandic small boat fishers central to economic prosperity of remote communities. • Applied research methods used to develop exemplar standards for onboard catch handling. • Eight recommendations formed relating to safety, ergonomics, hygiene and fish handling. • Adoption of recommendations could lead to gains in time and resource efficiency. • Standardisation also likely to reap benefits in at least five Sustainable Development Goals. Small boat fishers are often the lifeblood of remote coastal communities in Iceland, contributing to employment, jobs and economic prosperity. This study conducts exploratory but highly practical research into the productive efficiency of onboard catch handling practices by Icelandic small boat fishers using fish handling tools called automatic jigging machines. Using applied research methods, this study researches whether standardisation of operations could be applied to make catch handling practices on small boats more time and resource efficient, leading to reduced waste, a consistently higher quality product, and potential increases in economic efficiency and sustainability. Thematic analysis, value stream mapping, flow analysis and Kaizen ideology were adopted to identify gaps and continuous improvement opportunities to standardise processes, leading to exemplary performance. Eight core recommendations are identified, seven of which are classed as straight-forward, ‘do now’ measures according to a Kaizen Priority Matrix. These include human and technological interventions in the areas of safety, organisational arrangements, hygiene, fish handling and bleeding, and cooling. Questionnaire responses reveal four main themes of importance to the sub-sector: changes in recent decades; the importance of small boat fishers; education and improvement; and the particularities of the sub-industry. The latter include the perception of a ‘race against time’ to land the catch, an issue that sometimes contributes to sub-optimal catch handling practices. Although this study has decidedly practical connotations for small boat fishers, its outcomes are also likely to be of interest to academics, particularly those focused on the organisational management of natural resources and general applications of the project management methodology and applied research methods as a means of solving practical problems in everyday life.

The Manifestation of “The Other” and the Possibility of Self-Redemption - Reconsidering the Authenticity of Where Yellow Sails are Flying

Authenticity, as a research topic in the field of urban problems, is a concentrated reflection of many cultural anxieties caused by urbanization. This article selects the movie Where Yellow Sails Are Flying, trying to clarify the inherent logic and theoretical contexts of authenticity, including what it is, how to define its perceptual, imaginative and practical connotation in the ontology angle. And then pointing out that “human”, as the core of cognitive schemata in practice, has the meaning of otherness of others, so cannot be attributed to an object of “being” or theoretical reality. It not only contains Benjamin’s Messianic unknowable dimension, but also is closely related to the negation of the metaphysical system of presence in the post-modern context. Finally, authenticity, as a kind of cultural politics and practice, is considered to be a collection of blindness and insight, distorting the experience by generalizing and abstracting while displaying the fracture of the signifier and signified. It is only through multiple cultural perspectives can individuals escape from the history of “the other”. This paper also uses the relevant arguments of scientists or philosophers such as Slavoj Žižek, Zygmunt Bauman and Jacques Lacan to critically interpret the theory of authenticity.

 Electronic Banking: an Object of Fallacy or System of Functionality Samuel Affran Abstract — Corporate managers in the banking industry have employed series of strategies to lure many customers to patronage their categories they offer for sale. One of s

Corporate managers in the banking industry have employed series of strategies to lure many customers to patronage their categories they offer for sale. One of such is E-banking. These technological services are introduced by banks with the objective of providing customers with rapid services, with cost efficient. The situation tends to be different in this part of the world. Most of these services partially exist and if it fully does, it comes with unprecedented system failures. Based upon this premises this study is conducted exploratory to find out what really constitutes electronic banking from the Ghanaian perspective and also to ascertain their linkage with customer satisfaction. A total number of 200 questionnaires were administered. Cross-sectional survey was employed using questionnaire as the principal tool for the data collection. A 5-point Likert- scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5(strongly agree) was used to measure the constructs. With the aid of SPSS version 23 the data was analyzed to establish the empirical linkage of the underlying constructs. The study among other things brought to the fore three (3) determinants (Automated Teller Machine, Mobile Phone Banking, Internet or Online banking) that define e-banking from the Ghanaian perspective proving that it is a system of functionality that is established for specific strategic purpose better still because of inefficient execution it was also proven to be an object of fallacy in the sense that having it does not necessary leads to customer satisfaction. The data analysis also shows that statistically between automated teller machine and customer satisfaction there is positively very weak relationship (R^2= .181, p< 0.126). Meaning holding all other variables constant, automated teller machine will cause 18.1% change in customer satisfaction. It is proven by the results that, automated teller machine not only weak in explaining the relationship but the impact is also not significant as the significant level is 0.126 which is above the standard significant value of 0.05. Meaning the automated teller machine if it is not administered efficiently and effectively will have the tendency to impact on customer’s satisfaction insignificantly. This presupposes that the automated teller machines in question were not administered efficiently and effectively. Thus this study has proven empirically that it is not a forgone conclusion that having an ATM services will automatically leads to customer satisfaction making the assertion a fallacy in Ghana thus disproving the study by Sultan and Komal (2009) claiming that having an automated teller machine services will automatically lead to customer satisfaction. The study revealed that relationship between mobile banking services and customer satisfaction is positively very weak (R^2= .170, p< 0.171). This simply means that mobile services rendered by banks to their customers were seriously criticized as woefully inadequate. Thus, holding all other variables constant, mobile banking services causes 17.0 % change in customer satisfaction. This result proves that a unit change in mobile banking service will induce 17.0% change in the rate of customer satisfaction. In other words when the level of mobile banking services is improved by 1% it will lead to 17.0% increase in customer satisfaction which is quite negligible. The significance level of this outcome in reference to the study results was 0.171 which is greater than the standard value of 0.05 indicating that the variance between mobile banking services and customer satisfaction was not significant. Internet banking services were quite effective and efficient thus having positive significant impact on customer satisfaction (R^2= .211, p< 0.003). But the relationship is equally weak explaining only 21.1% of customer satisfaction within the Ghanaian banking industry. The statistical understanding is that unilaterally internet banking service has the empirical tendencies to increase customer satisfaction by 21.1% if these services are improved just a percentage change. The practical connotation is that managers need to make automated teller machine more secured and very convenient spreading it across the length and breadth of the country. It should be in good function (twenty-four hours a day), accessible at all times (weekdays and weekends) and user-friendly as well. Again, managers should be proactive in sending message to customers whenever their system is malfunctioning in order to win customer trust. They should be ready to accept their mistakes and improve on customer complaint. They should avoid the rationalization of system failure which tend to put customers off serving as a catalyst for customer drifting. Again, internet connectivity should be reliable to boost mobile banking services. The banks should create more mobile apps for the various product categories. To sum up more resources should be allocated to online products since it is proven to be the only determinant significant in explaining customer satisfaction.

Intricacies of Significant Imbalance as the Cornerstone of Protection against Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts under EU Law

Significant imbalance in the rights and obligations of the parties to a consumer contract term is, together with good faith, a fundamental pillar of substantive protection against unfair terms. It is the primary tool provided by Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts with a view to mitigating differences in bargaining power between professional traders and consumer on the ever-expanding capitalistic market within the EU. The paper comprehensively reviews the meaning of the “significant imbalance” element by reference to a cross-section of judgments handed by the CJEU and Polish courts. Generally, albeit with a few notable exceptions, the former court has engaged in a subjective-objective exercise aimed at discovering what the balance of rights and obligations would have been between the parties in the particular dispute at hand had it not been for the purportedly unfair clause. Besides that, the requirement has been utilized to impose ad bolster a host of information duties levied on traders so that protection is extended to cases where the consumer is unaware of their rights or are deterred from enforcing them due to procedural obstacles or prohibitive costs of judicial or administrative proceedings. The requirement of significant balance, rooted in the idea that the disproportion of market power between the parties to a disputed term necessitates government or judicial intervention to achieve or restore contractual equilibrium, is shown from a plethora of angles: its ideological foundations, practical connotations, its emphasis on consumer vulnerability and approach to economic power. Assistance and inspiration re gleaned from Polish jurisprudence where numerous questions either unanswered by the CJEU or left to the consideration of national courts, particularly the relation between reasonableness, on the one hand, and significant imbalance and good faith on the other, as well as between significant imbalance and good faith, have been tackled.

The Transformation of Aesthetic Ren 仁 to Moral Ren 仁: A Practical and Contextual Perspective

This paper examines the transformation of ren from the pre-Confucian, amoral description of manly beauty to the Confucian moral denotation. The investigation adopts a contextual and practical perspective to reveal the human context as a moral and practical connotation underlying the aesthetic and amoral origin of ren, which was selected and transformed to bear moral significance in Confucian thinking.

Autoevaluación: Connotaciones Teóricas y Prácticas. Cuándo Ocurre, Cómo se Adquiere y qué Hacer para Potenciarla en nuestro Alumnado

La autoevaluación es una práctica habitual en las clases en los diferentes niveles educativos. Desafortunadamente un porcentaje elevado de profesores desconoce de qué manera específica afecta al aprendizaje de nuestros alumnos y cómo implementarlo con éxito en las aulas. En este trabajo realizamos un recorrido por las dos corrientes que enfatizan el uso de la autoevaluación (teorías autorregulatorias y evaluación formativa) presentando re-conceptualización de lo que significa autoevaluación. Posteriormente se analiza cuáles son las relaciones entre la autoevaluación y el uso de estrategias de aprendizaje de los alumnos y cómo se adquiere esta capacidad. A continuación se presentarán estrategias pedagógicas que fomentan una buena implementación en el aula para que los profesores podamos ayudar a nuestros alumnos a adquirir la capacidad de autoevaluarse.

The Multiple Forms of Teaching Evaluation, Improve Teachers' Teaching Ability

This article in view of the college practical connotation construction, takes many forms of teaching evaluation, solid foundation, improve teachers' teaching coaching ability construction, promote the improvement of education quality of teaching and talent training.

Mediating Role Of Socialization Towards Relationship Between Personality And Job Satisfaction

This research aims to explore the mediating effect of socialization on the relationship between personality and job satisfaction. Furthermore, to explore which personality traits can serve as predictors towards job satisfaction, targeting the bank branch managers in Pakistan by questionnaire in this Cross Section study. From the analysis, we found: (1) socialization has a mediating effect on the relationship between personality and job satisfaction, (2) Among five factors of Personality, Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Neuroticism are found to be significant predictors to determine Job Satisfaction. In conclusion, this research discusses the theoretical and practical connotations of the research results and proposed recommendations for follow-up studies.

Perfil profesional del revisor fiscal y el auditor respecto a la NIA 500

El estudio de la NIA 500 y el perfil profesional del revisor fiscal y el auditor en ésta, se ha dividido en dos ámbitos principales, uno relacionado con su función procedimental en la Auditoría y otro orientado en el perfil profesional, el cual hace referencia a las aptitudes que deberá adquirir el auditor para cumplir con lo establecido por la normatividad a entrar en vigor. Justificación: la realización de éste estudio surge con la intención de indagar a cerca del nivel de actualización y capacitación en el ejercicio de la profesión. Tiene una connotación teórico-práctica. Antecedentes: a nivel Latinoamérica se denota un desarrollo normativo superior en países como México y Costa Rica, Colombia por su parte, se encuentra en periodo de transición y preparación al respecto. Metodología: implementa un diseño no experimental de corte transversal, es de alcance descriptivo y de tipo documental y correlacional. Resultados: se muestra el análisis de la información de manera gráfica y el estudio entre las variables de correlación. Conclusiones: al trabajo investigativo se le atribuye comprensivo, coherente y pertinente como instrumento en el proceso de capacitación y actualización de la profesión.

Accounting Policies and Procedures – Theoretical and Practical Connotations in Treating Risks

The existence of some accounting policies and procedures, which are adapted to the complexity and the specific of each entity in part, is one of the essential conditions for producing and supplying useful information through the financial statements. Along this goal, the objective of having a “trustworthy image” of the: financial position, assets, liabilities and of the represented performance, imply knowing, understanding and correspondingly applying these in practice. Actually, as instruments of internal control, the accounting procedures, which are adopted for drafting and presenting the financial statements, are applied. Regardless of this, the accounting images obtained in his manner do not always reflect the represented economic reality. In this context, the objective of the carried research has focused on identifying the role of the accounting policies and procedures in treating risks that could affect the utility of the accounting information, respectively the trustworthy image of the financial situation and of the performance of an entity.

Non-conformity Risks – Theoretical and Practical Connotations

The utility of the information provided through the means of the financial statements and of the fiscal declarations is insured through the accomplishment of their qualitative characteristics. The relevance, comparability and credibility of the information, probed in the frame of the internal and external decision making processes, supposes that in each entity the risks that could affect these characteristics, to be adequately managed. Hence, besides a corresponding internal control environment and an adequate risk attitude, the accomplishment of this objective is insured by the implementation of a proactive and prospective management reported to the nature and the typology of these risks. In the frame of this process, the carried research has been focused on identifying an adequate control mechanism for non-conformity risks or for the denaturation of the accounting and fiscal information.

A FE-based limit analysis approach for concrete elements reinforced with FRP bars

The aim of this paper is to verify the validity of a FE-based methodology, founded on limit analysis theory, to predict peak load and failure mechanism of concrete elements reinforced with fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) bars. Due to dilatancy, which implies the adoption of a nonstandard constitutive flow law for concrete, such methodology makes use of two different numerical procedures to search for an upper and a lower bound to the actual peak load. A certain number of experimental tests on FRP reinforced concrete elements carried out up to collapse are numerically reproduced and the related predictions, in terms of peak loads and failure modes, are critically discussed. The comparison between experimental findings and numerical results for six beams and six slabs has proved reasonably good and places the proposed methodology as a simple design-tool of practical connotation oriented to FRP-reinforced concrete elements.

English

  This research aims to verify the mediating effect of organizational socialization on the relationship between leader-member relationship and job stress (physical and psychological health), targeting employees of the top 500 businesses in Taiwan ranked by Business Weekly Magazine in 2010. This research adopted the questionnaire survey method and a total of 303 valid questionnaires were returned. From the analysis, we found the following results: (1) organizational socialization has a mediating effect on the correlation between leader-member relationship and physical health, and (2) organizational socialization has a mediating effect on the correlation between leader-member relationship and psychological health. In conclusion, this research discussed the theoretical and practical connotations of the research results and proposed recommendations for follow-up studies.   Key words: Leader-member relationship, organizational socialization, job stress.

Understanding Social Work Research, Hugh McLaughlin, Sage, London, 2007, pp. 210, ISBN 9781412908481, 19.99

Understanding Social Work Research is a guidebook to the opportunities of using various research strategies and techniques for social work. The reader is introduced to the areas which are concerned with the relationship between social work as a profession and applied social science research, and obtains practical information and some of the epistemological research starting points applied to the current context of social work in Great Britain. Mainly the first type of knowledge is usually covered only marginally in the traditional textbooks of research methodology. In the ten thematically focused chapters, the reader is first acquainted with the main arguments supporting research practice in social work. The author further shows with specific examples how research can be used in social work and how it is used in reality. The reader is consequently acquainted with the genuine research environment in Great Britain. The author identifies bodies that carry out research in Great Britain, describes how it is possible to finance research and where the research results can be published or where the research outcomes of other researchers can be read. The main research paradigms and options for their use are also discussed briefly. Ethical research dilemmas in social work are not left aside either. The reader also finds out further details on the organization of research with all practical connotations. The author furthermore addresses evidence-based practice and anti-oppressive practice as important areas of research use in social work. The book is concluded by a discussion on the future use of research in social work.