Continuous Process Of Change Research Articles

Relaciones entre la auditoría de gestión y toma de decisiones. Enfoque teórico

Companies need to obtain effective results in the management of their activities and operations. They are in a continuous process of change and evolution, immersed in an interrelated environment that provides crucial information. In this context, it is essential that they exercise control and be selective when making decisions about strategies to implement. The management audit is presented as a key administrative tool to support business decision-making, which highlights the need to have information that facilitates and enriches these investigations. Under this premise, it was proposed to analyze the theoretical foundations of management auditing and managerial decision making from the perspectives of the relevant theories. This analysis is crucial to understand and adequately represent the theoretical relationships between its convergent categories. The research focused on management auditing as a strategic tool for decision-making in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Ecuadorian banana sector. The study was developed with a qualitative approach and descriptive nature, using a logical documentary and historical method. To do this, it was supported by sources such as scientific journals and other studies related to the topic. The content and structure of the study reflect the dynamics of the various theoretical relationships found. In conclusion, an evident evolution of this discipline over time in organizational structures has been demonstrated. Theoretical relationships provide frameworks for evaluating and improving management and decision-making, but their applicability and effectiveness in a specific sector may vary. Furthermore, the derivations obtained can serve as a reference and contribute to scientific knowledge for future researchers interested in delving deeper into the topic.

Transculturación digital: reflexión de un cambio permanente en la educación superior

As part of a series of reflections from a postdoctoral project, this essay presents the notion of digital transculturation among educators in higher education, addressing the evolution from computational and informational culture towards a digital culture. It starts from the emergence of personal computers with graphical user interfaces to the explosion of software packages, a condition that transformed computer usage and its integration into higher education institutions, leading to the production and consumption of digital content, thereby giving rise to a permanent acculturation in the use of ICT. From this backdrop, a reflection is made on the transformation of digital culture in higher education, considering technological evolution, the appropriation of computational knowledge, and digital skills as cultural elements from a digital dimension. The concept of digital transculturation is used as a theoretical framework to comprehend this constantly evolving process. Approaching digital transculturation as a continuous process of change, influenced by the adoption of new technologies and the digitization of culture, the essay analyzes the adaptation of teachers to this transition, highlighting stages of resistance, adaptation, and appropriation of digital culture in educational practice.

Is the School a Learning Organization?

Abstract The concept of an organization that learns “learning organization” is one of the most mentioned ideas in management, representing a subject of great interest for theorists in the field and for those involved in the functioning of organizations. The actuality of the topic consists in the fact that today learning has an important role within organizations. Learning and teamwork are highly encouraged in order to achieve common goals and to achieve the results that the members of the organizations really want. In contemporary times, society is in a continuous process of change. Under these conditions, the school must develop its ability to change to the new in order to face the challenges so that its role as a factor in the development of society becomes more and more obvious. Thus, permanent learning appeared as a reaction to the rapid transformations taking place in society, representing at the same time a necessity and a solution. The school is part of the category of organizations that learn, it being different from the others due to the specificity of the dominant activity, namely the instructive-educational process. In this article, we addressed the main characteristics existing in the specialized literature that define the learning organization, the school as a learning organization, as well as the identification of the existence of a possible relationship between the personal factors of teachers and the strategies that make the school a learning organization. The results illustrate the necesity of a correlation factors, such as function, teaching degree, seniority at work, with the strategies that make the school a learning organisation. In the table below we can see that the education level of the teaching staff is the only variable that does not correlate with the strategies that make a school a learning organisation.

Future Scope and Strategies for Preservation of Health through Ayurveda

Introduction: The progress of human life largely depends on healthy body. The labor for money, status in the society and honor is not possible for an unhealthy man. As Acharya says “Dharma Artha kama mokshanam Arogya mulamuttamam” Health is most important worldwide term for ‘developing and developed countries.’ But still a confused and unaware term for common people and world also. In present scenario despite of fast progress made by modern medical science, there are continues rise in health - related disorders and people start to give importance to health when they got any life style disease element. So many health - related issues we are facing in today's life in society and we can clearly explain that we are not conscious about the real meaning of health, its importance and its management in our life. The present study focus about following Aims & objectives: To explore future scope and strategies for preservation of health through Ayurveda. To study concept of health in Ayurveda classics and other contemporary health systems. to design practical guidelines for implementing concept of health in today's society. To set model health care system and its propagation for management of life style diseases. Discussion: In present era life style disorder are very common and the root cause is not focusing and understanding what health is and if a person understands this one there is nothing left to him or her to understand. Some life style disorder are Diabetes mellitus type 2, hypertension, over weight, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, dyslipidemia. We may design some protocol for prevention and protection of life style diseases. Conclusion: The Swastha is not ideal state but process of continuous change and adjustment. It is the need of time to understand the actual meaning of health and preservation of life style disorders.

Analysis of cold island effect in city parks from the perspectives of maximum and cumulative values – a case study of Xi'an City

The continuous process of urbanization and climate change has led to severe urban heat island (UHI) effects. Constructing parks with cooling capabilities is considered an effective measure to alleviate UHI effects. However, most studies only quantify the cooling effect from a maximum value perspective, lacking a measure of temperature diffusion in space. This study combines the perspectives of maximum value and accumulation to define a cold island index, quantifying the cooling effect of 40 urban parks in the main urban area of Xi'an city. The results show that, on average, urban parks can reduce the surrounding environment by approximately 2.3℃, with a cooling range of about 127.1ha, which is three times the park area. Different factors drive the measurement of the cooling effect using different cold island indexes, but all indexes are highly correlated with green space area. There are significant differences in the cooling effect among different types of parks, and overall, ecological parks have the best cooling effect. The directional spread of internal cold islands in parks is most related to park shape, while external spread is related to surrounding green spaces. The research results have practical value in the construction of parks with cooling effects and the sustainable development of cities in urban planning processes..

Face Ourselves: Striving for Antiracism in a Non-Profit

Advancing racial equity in workplaces requires ongoing and structural change. Organizations invested in this work need to view equity not as a checkbox, but as a continuous process of examination and change to organizational culture (Winters, 2020). In 2014, The Leadership Academy, a national education non-profit, began their journey to becoming an antiracist workplace. Through participatory action research methods, we focused on dismantling inequities and building empowerment, being iterative, and spurring staff’s greater awareness and action. Our journey has been undergirded by core elements of participatory research. We anchored ourselves in a commitment to supporting varying interests, perspectives, and styles of communication and participation. Here, we share what we produced and the practices we used, supported by lessons learned across our journey. We changed strategic plans, policies, and guiding values to be overtly antiracist, and we did so by supporting the voices and experiences of staff of color and spurring more involvement and accountability among white staff. These practices included affinity spaces, balancing small workgroups with whole-group discussions, and asynchronous work options. External facilitators were instrumental in helping us disrupt the structures and processes embedded in our organization; they held a mirror so we would truly face ourselves. We learned critical lessons about transparency, change management, flexibility, and relationships. Our antiracism journey at The Leadership Academy will never be done. Our dedicated, participant-led efforts yielded substantial shifts. We are eager to continue learning and pursuing deeper antiracist practices.

Litigating Policy Drift: Frozen Categories and Thresholds in Court

The combination of rigid policy rules with shifting political, economic, and social environments can produce drift: policy change without formal modification. We know much about the political origins and consequences of drift but little about the legal battles that accelerate or impede it. I identify two distinct forms of policy rigidity that generate drift: interval freezing and categorical freezing. Drawing from recent and historical cases encompassing voting rights, racial discrimination, religious conscience protections, and other hot-button issues, I argue that drifting policies possess several sources of legal resilience: injuries are difficult to identify; judges can be persuaded of the merits of restraint, textual formalism, and bright-line rules; and policy makers plausibly deny any intentional action in pursuit of controversial outcomes. Drift is not an automatic and unremarkable process of continual policy change but rather the outcome of high-stakes political and legal contestation over how rigid policy thresholds and categories should be adapted to meet shifting conditions.

Multidisciplinary collaborative topology optimization method for perforated plates

Perforated plate is a connection structure able to provide variety of functions such as load-bearing and flow-through capabilities. The current designs of perforated plate are mostly obtained by optimization after establishing an initial model empirically, ignoring the influence across different disciplines and lacking a systematic design process. In this study, we proposed a multidisciplinary topology optimization method to address the design issues of holes on perforated plates. The response states of perforated plate in structural mechanics, fluid mechanics, and vibration were determined using disciplinary analysis, and a single disciplinary topology optimization model was established based on this. A multidisciplinary topology optimization model was constructed based on the disciplinary coupling relationship and collaborative optimization method, with material retention as a shared variable. The continuous change process of materials was discretized by taking a finite number of values for shared variables, and the trend of topology optimization results with respect to material retention was obtained. The hole parameters were converted individual hollow parameters of the material by establish functional and process, and the final topology optimization result was obtained by combining partition collaboration. The method and process were used to optimize the connecting plate of top nozzle, and the results showed higher comprehensive performance compared to engineering case.

Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny

This article examines the atmospheric identity of the Chinese city–state of Macau, which has a distinctive urban charisma owing to its 500-year history as a Portuguese colony and its contemporary development into a global tourist site. By analysing visual ethnographic data, the research understands Macau’s urban space with attention to its affective atmospheres. The research explores how visual analysis of urban atmospheres may enhance understanding of a city’s atmospheric identity. The article analyses the sublime and uncanny as two complementary affective fields exemplified by two unconventional locales: the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge and the adjacent Chinese Special Economic Zone of Hengqin Island. The article demonstrates that visual analysis of affective atmospheres can be instrumental in describing how people, emotions, objects and environments are reconstituted in a continuous process of urban change and development.

Analytical formulas for option prices under time-changed CARMA process

We consider the option pricing problem when the underlying asset price is driven by a continuous time autoregressive moving average (CARMA) process, time changed a Lévy subordinator or/and an absolutely continuous time change process. We derive the analytical formulas for the option prices by employing the orthogonal polynomial expansion method. Our method is based on the observation that the CARMA process belongs to the class of polynomial diffusion and the time variable and underlying state variables enter the polynomial expansion separately. We demonstrate the accuracy of the method through a number of numerical experiments. We also investigate the price sensitivities with respect to the key parameters that govern the dynamics of the underlying state and time change variables.

A multi-scale coupled productivity prediction model for conflagration compression fracturing of shale

A multi-fracture pressure flow regime coupled productivity prediction model considering shale gas adsorption and desorption, mass transfer and diffusion and cross-scale zoning was established based on cross-scale seepage characterization in unmodified area, interstitial matrix area, main fracture area, branched micro-fracture area and broken damage area formed from by conflagration compression fracturing. Then, geometric similarity, hydropower similarity and coupled iteration were used to build the model and complete the calculation. Finally, the effects of regional cross-scale seepage, number of fractures, production pressure difference, and fracture zone scale on gas well productivity were analyzed. The following results were obtained. First, the seepage flow of shale gas in different fractured areas is a continuous changing process. Among them, the unaffected area is dominated by transition flow and slip flow while continuous flow exists in the microfracture area-wellbore broken area and artificial fracture area. Second, the productivity of gas wells increases with the increase of fracture length and number, but the productivity increase tends to be stable after the fracture length exceeds 2 m. It is worth to mention that the increase of the number of fractures is more conducive to improving the productivity of shale gas under this condition. Third, when the number of high energy gas fractures is 6, its mining capacity is equivalent to that of hydraulic fracturing fractures with a half-fracture length of about 100 m. Fourth, when the production pressure difference exceeds 22 MPa, the free gas production capacity shows a decreasing trend. Therefore, the preferred production pressure difference is about 22 MPa. Fifth, the greater the number of artificial fractures, the greater the contribution of the increase in the diffusion coefficient to productivity, and the existence of wellbore fracture zone is also conducive to the stimulation of gas wells.

From edenic island to endemic park: A historical political ecology of environmental degradation narratives on Réunion (West Indian Ocean)

Exploring the premise that environmental injustices date back centuries, this article provides an overview of the long trajectory of degradation narratives on Réunion, from the earliest colonial concerns in the late seventeenth century to the contemporary National Park. Through a historical political ecology approach, we identify distinct phases where degradation narratives became prominent, and sometimes entered into conflict, in the environmental history of this French overseas territory, which was a French colony until 1946. Although degradation narratives have shifted significantly over time, they have also gradually converged to a condemnation of the uplands' inhabitants. So far, this move has reproduced socio-spatial inequalities between the uplands region, dedicated to environmental policies, and the lowlands region, dedicated to a plantation economy. Such an account suggests that environmental inequalities may be constituted through a process of continuous change that involves negotiations and often conflicts among multiple dominant stakeholders. Thus, contemporary conservation regimes should not only improve their governance mode, but need to start by doing justice to conservation’ history, especially dynamics of misrecognition with colonial roots.

Gut microbiota in relation to frailty and clinical outcomes.

The gut microbiota is involved in several aspects of host health and disease, but its role is far from fully understood. This review aims to unveil the role of our microbial community in relation to frailty and clinical outcomes. Ageing, that is the continuous process of physiological changes that begin in early adulthood, is mainly driven by interactions between biotic and environmental factors, also involving the gut microbiota. Indeed, our gut microbial counterpart undergoes considerable compositional and functional changes across the lifespan, and ageing-related processes may be responsible for - and due to - its alterations during elderhood. In particular, a dysbiotic gut microbiota in the elderly population has been associated with the development and progression of several age-related disorders. Here, we first provide an overview of the lifespan trajectory of the gut microbiota in both health and disease. Then, we specifically focus on the relationship between gut microbiota and frailty syndrome, that is one of the major age-related burdens. Finally, examples of microbiome-based precision interventions, mainly dietary, prebiotic and probiotic ones, are discussed as tools to ameliorate the symptoms of frailty and its overlapping conditions (e.g. sarcopenia), with the ultimate goal of actually contributing to healthy ageing and hopefully promoting longevity.

IMPACT OF MODERNIZATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT ON CHANGING EMPLOYMENT PATTERNS IN POTOHAR

This study focused on the changing employment pattern in the Potohar region due to modernization and technological advancement. Modernization is the continuous process of social change and development in society. As social change and development in infrastructure, semi-structure, and employment patterns is not new for Pakistani society. The social change is also related to the socio-economic conditions of societies. This research was conducted in the Potohar region, and data was collected from 400 respondents from Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Attoack, and Chakwal. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques were used to analyse the data. The result depicts that when change is happening, transforming employment patterns in four regions builds socio-economic cohesion. It denotes the consistent efforts of modernization in the Potohar region to create a facility, skill, and knowledge-based economy. Modernization is changing the infrastructure and employment patterns in the Potohar region. It is a different social position when there is economic eccentricity, intensifying social tensions, and significant change in Potohar region. Keywords: Modernization, Technological advancement, employment pattern

СТРАТЕГІЇ ТЕХНОЛОГІЧНОГО МЕНЕДЖМЕНТУ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ АГРОПРОДОВОЛЬЧОЇ СФЕРИ: БЕЗПЕКОВИЙ АСПЕКТ

The article substantiates the conceptual foundations for implementing measures to ensure security in implementing the technological management strategy in agricultural enterprises under modern dynamic conditions. It has been researched that an essential prerequisite for guaranteeing the effectiveness of the technological management strategy in agricultural enterprises is identifying and leveling threats to its provision and implementation. Hence, the prevention and mitigation of the consequences of the dangers is the primary condition for ensuring the security of an enterprise. A threat to the safety of an economic entity in the agricultural sector under current conditions is an actual or potential possibility of manifestation of the destructive impact of various factors in its development, which leads to certain losses and negative consequences. It is determined that the goal of technological management is to ensure the technical development of an enterprise in the agricultural sector, i.e., a purposeful, continuous process of changes in the technological revolutions of the enterprise's economic activity, which determine the development of resources, and together makes it possible to ensure the technological competitiveness and sustainability of an enterprise in today's dynamic business environment. Attention is focused on the need to implement the main practical measures to ensure the security of the implementation of the technological management strategy in an agricultural enterprise, which would include the development of a strategic plan to strengthen the protection of business entities, the creation of a separate structural unit responsible for ensuring the security of the enterprise, the development of a mechanism for monitoring and assessing the state of external and internal markets and the formation of recommendations for possible ways to increase the level of competitiveness. Keywords: management, enterprise, security, threat, strategy, technological management.

Environing media and cultural techniques: From the history of agriculture to AI-driven smart farming

This article presents the new theoretical concept of environing media, which is developed to offer critical insight into how processes of mediation affect how we perceive of, manage and use the environment. Building on the insight that the environment has been in a continuous slow process of change that is now escalating due to human impacts, the article sketches a history of how environmental change and mediation are intertwined. Taking the history of agriculture as a case for the theoretical development, it shows how the current digitization of farming and implementation of AI systems in precision agriculture is the last of a long series in which environmental mediation come to play a crucial role in the forging of human–Earth relations. The article thereby shows the complex interplay between knowing and changing the environment as media technologies produce new epistemologies that in turn produce new interventions.

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Peran Guru Dalam Menghadapi Anak Tantrum di Sekolah PAUD Al-Mukhlisin Bandar Sawah

Talking about child tantrums, of course the teacher also plays a big role in this. This is because development is a continuous process of change leading to maturity. Therefore, communication is very necessary in dealing with children with tantrums at school. Early childhood behavior is strongly influenced by the environment. So if children want to behave well, the environment must also be good. For parents and teachers, provide good behavior for children such as giving affection, love and dealing with children calmly and patiently. In addition, children should also be invited to speak with a sincere heart and soft and smooth language so that children get used to and imitate good things too. Tentrum occurs when a child's emotional development is hampered so that the child becomes frustrated and then expresses it through uncontrolled emotions and anger.&#x0D; Keywords: Teacher's Role, Child Tantrums, Early Childhood Problems

Application of Metaverse and virtual reality in education

&lt;p&gt;The objective of this article is to develop a literature review on the use of Metaverse and virtual reality focused on education. Taking into account that education lives a continuous process of change in search of quality, the use of new tools favors this process, therefore, the use of virtual platforms focused on virtual reality and Metaverse are in essence tools that energize the teaching and learning processes, contribute to organize and update the contents, and allow the student and learner to interact within the virtual environment. In this context, the present work was developed based on an exploratory, descriptive methodology; using the categories Metaverse, virtual reality and teaching, a search was carried out in the Science, Scopus and web Science databases, obtaining one hundred reference articles, from which the above categories are analyzed.&lt;/p&gt;

Health Condition of Elderly People at Dhurkot Rural Municipality in Gulmi District, Nepal

Aging is a gradual, continuous process of natural change that begins in early adulthood. The objective of the study was to analyse the health condition of elderly people atDhurkot Rural Municipality in Gulmi district. Purposively three wards were chosen for sample population. There were 930 elderly people aged 60 years and above who had received Old Age Allowance provided by the government of Nepal. A total of 280 elderly were interviewed. Finding shows that hill Dalit elderly people have better health condition than hill Brahmin elderly people [OR=.46(.26-.81)]. Elderly people who depended on agriculture labour were found to have better health condition than elderly who depended on their own agriculture [OR=.38(.19-.81)]. Elderly belonging to the age of 65-69 years had more good health condition than that of elderly people above 75 years and above [OR= .35(.15-.79)]. Elderly people work as a household work are two times more better health condition than who do agriculture work [OR=2.13(.95-4.47)]. Elderly people living with family without spouse are better health condition than elderly live alone [OR=.22(.07-.69)]. Likewise, elderly people living with spouse and family are better health condition than elderly people living alone [OR= .33(.1-1.03)]. Various health schemes, policies and programmes can be designed in the research area and similar settings based on the study findings.