Professional Inputs Research Articles

Exploring the Self-Perceptions of Filipino Teachers on Their Community Engagement Competency

Community engagement (CE) is a necessary teacher competency. Given its importance, this research aims to assess the self-perceptions of Filipino teachers on their CE competency and see if there are significant differences in their assessment based on different factors. Using a researcher-made survey, teacher participants were asked to rate how well they demonstrated each action statement in the instruments based on their perception of their community engagement competency from the School Year 2019 – 2020. Comparisons on the total community engagement scores were then compared based on the school type, grade level assignment, and length of teaching service. Results showed that Filipino teacher survey respondents (n=31) perceived themselves to be able to demonstrate the identified CE behavioral indicators, and their identified highest and lowest-rated behavioral indicators may be used as a springboard for further training needs analyses for CE professional development inputs. Statistical analyses showed no significant differences in the CE scores of the respondents based on all the identified factor groupings. This study aims to contribute to measuring CE competency among Filipino teachers.

Drug Dispensation by ‘Signature Pharmacists’ in South Asia

The phenomenon of ‘signature pharmacists’ in South Asia has allowed allopathic prescription medication to be dispensed without the necessary medical knowledge, specifically of drug interactions, dosages and side effects. This practice, in which qualified pharmacists delegate their professional inputs to often unqualified and unsupervised sales staff, persists due to complicity among pharmacists, other healthcare professionals and regulatory officials. The article discusses the extent of this significant risk to public health in South Asia and argues that pharmacy enforcement and education standards should be reformed to address these huge challenges to ensure consumer protection and the general public’s welfare. While the advice is that regulatory authorities should intensify their supervision and inspection efforts to ensure registered pharmacists actively participate in regular pharmacy operations, the article also identifies predicaments related to corruption that are difficult to tackle.

Revisiting translator competence in the age of artificial intelligence: the case of legal and institutional translation

ABSTRACT Multi-componential models of translation competence are widely used in translator training as a yardstick for curricular and syllabus design. These models must be adapted to reflect professional trends, such as the impact of artificial intelligence, and machine translation in particular, on working methods. This paper describes the process of adapting a pioneering model of legal translation competence to the broader scope of institutional translation in light of recent trends, as verified by triangulating information from multiple interviews, analyses of translation volumes and job descriptors and other professional inputs. The resulting revised descriptor was validated through a survey of 474 translation professionals from 24 international organisations of diverse sizes and domain specialisations. The suitability of the descriptor was corroborated across the board, but variations were found in perceptions of the relevance of sub-competences to ensure translation quality. Profiles with a stronger specialisation in legal translation or more experience in institutional translation showed higher awareness of the relevance of all the sub-competences, especially the core language, strategic and thematic competences, and even more so for translating texts of a legal or administrative nature. The implications of these findings for training purposes in particular are discussed.

Exploring the Influencing Factors on the Quality of Japanese Language Classroom Teaching in Colleges and Universities Based on Structural Equation Modeling

Abstract In this thesis, the Japanese language major in the College of Foreign Languages of University J was selected as an example, and the research method combining quantitative questionnaire and qualitative research was used to investigate the development trend and current situation of Japanese language teaching. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze and hypothesize factors that affect the quality of Japanese classroom teaching. Data was collected, processed, and analyzed with relevant regression statistics to study the statistical regularities among variables with correlations and to verify the research hypotheses proposed in this study, as well as the correlations. The results showed that there was an extremely significant causal relationship (Sig. < 0.01) between teacher level: professional ethics and teacher teaching, teacher professional knowledge, resource inputs and teaching content, and teacher professional competence, teaching content, and teacher teaching. Student level: there is a significant positive effect (Sig<0.01) between students’ personal qualities, student learning and learning outcomes, learning inputs, and student learning and learning outcomes. Industry level: there is an extremely significant causal relationship (Sig<0.01) between industry needs and teaching objectives, resource inputs, teaching content, and teacher teaching.

An investigation into Dichotomy of Teachers’ Professional Inputs and Parents’ Satisfaction in Public Sector Schools

Teachers’ professionalism is a backbone of school culture. The parents, whose children experience the school’s culture, determine their level of satisfaction. Therefore, a school is a place where teachers’ professional level affects not only its own culture but also determine parents’ dissatisfaction. Our study explores teachers’ professionalism which shapes up school’s culture that consequently make the children’s parents dis/satisfied about schools. We used exploratory design for collecting qualitative data to achieve the objectives. Thematic approach was used for analyzing the data. An interview protocol was developed as a research instrument and by using purposive sampling data were collected from 10 teachers and 05 parents. The results concluded that majority of the primary school teachers seem us less professional which ultimately puts adverse effects on school culture and also makes the children’s parents less satisfied. The study recommends that school culture of our primary schools need to be improved by developing professionalism among teachers through introducing them professional courses in their in-service training programs, up grading their status for making a teaching profession more attractive for the mass of people in Pakistani society.

Receiving Robust Analysis of Spatial and Temporary Variation of Agricultural Water Use Efficiency While Considering Environmental Factors: On the Evaluation of Data Envelopment Analysis Technique

With accelerated urbanisation, continued growth in water demand and the external pressure of water demand from the South–North Water Transfer Project, agricultural water use in Jiangsu is facing a critical situation. Therefore, it is important to explore the spatial and temporal variation in agricultural water use efficiency in order to clarify the pathway for improving agricultural water use efficiency. Firstly, the Super-Slacks-Based Measure (SBM) model was utilized to measure agricultural water use efficiency in Jiangsu Province, China, from 2011 to 2020, and secondly, a fixed-effects model was used to investigate agricultural water use efficiency and the factors influencing it in 13 prefectures in Jiangsu Province in both time and space. The results show that (1) the overall value of agricultural water use efficiency in Jiangsu Province is below 1, which means that agricultural water use efficiency in Jiangsu Province is low and far from the effective boundary, and there is more room for improvement in agricultural water use efficiency; (2) a total of 92% of prefectures in Jiangsu Province have input redundancy, which seriously inhibits the progress of agricultural water use efficiency in Jiangsu Province, among which the redundancy of total agricultural machinery power and agricultural water use is the highest; (3) Regarding total factor productivity and its decomposition index for agricultural use in Jiangsu Province, in the time dimension, the number of professional and technical personnel inputs has a positive impact on agricultural water use efficiency. In the spatial dimension, the number of professional and technical personnel inputs, industrial structure and arable land area have a positive impact on improving regional agricultural water use efficiency, among which the industrial structure has a smaller contribution to agricultural water use efficiency.

‘Where angels fear to tread’—Reflections on the role of an actuary as expert witness in the Land Claims Court

In this paper, the author reflects on his experiences of giving expert actuarial witness in the Land Claims Court regarding the calculation of financial compensation as an alternative to the restoration of dispossessed land. As no specific formula for compensation has been legislated in South Africa’s land reform programme, relevant case histories are examined in which the common law has been developed. The technical, ethical and professional inputs which an actuary can provide are reviewed. The author concludes that actuaries are well suited to assist the Land Claims Court to resolve the potentially large number of claims, and that this will be in the public interest.

Implementation of an Advanced Nursing Practice to advance transcultural healthcare: A practical development project

Implementation of an Advanced Nursing Practice to advance transcultural healthcare: A practical development project Abstract. Background: Patients and staff with different cultural backgrounds encounter each other in different roles at the children's hospital. Cultural differences are at the heart of misinterpretations and misunderstandings that can result in errors and prolong hospitalisation. Aim: To meet the challenges of reaching a common understanding in trans-cultural care, improve empowerment and ensure adequate treatment of children and family alike we introduced an ANP trans-cultural care team (ANP-TKV). Methods: The role of the ANP-TKV team was conceived as a project, encompassing a stakeholder and risk analysis, defining of the organisation, the setting of milestones, resources and controlling, as well as establishing an information concept. Results: The project concept successfully integrated and consolidated the APN-TKV team into our hospital activity. The team is now regularly consulted to manage complex trans-cultural situations, sensitises diverse professional groups and initiates professional inputs. It also provides helpful material and is able to anticipate potential current trans-cultural issues. Discussion: The evidence-based work of the ANP-TVK team has exerted positive effects on therapeutic teams as well as patients and their families and initiates a cultural change within the hospital. It is now an operative addition to the hospital's strategic commission. Further development of the meaning of trans-cultural and the question of allocation of financial and time resources to the APN-TKV team are presently under review.

Including local knowledge in coastal policy innovation: comparing three Dutch case studies

ABSTRACT In the context of a growing emphasis on research and application of citizen engagement methods in environmental planning and management (e.g. Reed 2008; Von Korff et al. 2010), we compare three collaborative activities aimed at finding innovative coastal policy solutions in the Netherlands. In these activities, participants across the citizen, science and policy divide were involved in designing nature-based interventions for specific areas in the Netherlands. The activities are compared in terms of the theoretical promise stakeholder engagement holds for influencing participants’ understanding of the respective bio-geophysical systems, the actor networks and for effecting knowledge sharing. We find local knowledge offers the potential for crafting coastal policy solutions to fit the specific bio-geophysical and societal context. The empirical analysis revealed the deep competence of local people, who generally understand their lived environment in a systemic way, and the knowledge that can be harvested to broaden and enrich the design space for coastal solutions – in addition to a willingness on the part of the stakeholders to collaborate in developing local solutions for sustainable futures. Although measures to reduce power differences and enable local knowledge inclusion served to broaden the design space for innovative solutions in our case studies, they also constrained the scientific and technical quality of the contributions from professional experts such as bio-geophysical scientists, engineers, spatial planners and policy analysts. As such, future work addressing the dilemma of integrating high quality professional inputs into coastal policy solutions founded on local expertise is advocated.

Academic Librarians Develop Their Teaching Identities Differently Depending on Their Years of Instructional Experience

A Review of: Nichols Hess, A. (2020). Instructional experience and teaching identities: How academic librarians' years of experience in instruction impact their perceptions of themselves as educators. Communications in Information Literacy, 14(2), 153–180. https://doi.org/10.15760/comminfolit.2020.14.2.1 Abstract Objective – To examine how an academic librarian’s years of instructional experience impacts how they think of themselves as instructors. Design – Survey questionnaire. Setting – American academic library profession. Subjects – 353 participants selected from 501 respondents. Methods – A Qualtrics survey was sent via email to members of several American Library Association discussion lists. The author selected a subset of respondents for further analysis based on how they answered key questions on the survey. Selected participants were those who believed they had experienced perspective transformation around their teaching identities. The author used principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysis to identify twelve transformative constructs across three sub-themes: relational, experiential, and professional inputs. The author then labelled each construct based on its respective component parts. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests were then conducted using SPSS. Main Results – Statistically significant differences were found between experienced and inexperienced instructional librarians. Participants with more instructional experience tend to believe their teaching identities are influenced to a greater extent by these factors: Interpersonal relationships Feedback from colleagues outside of librarianship Self-directed learning opportunities Participants with less instructional experience tend to believe their teaching identities are influenced to a greater extent by these factors: Feedback from those within librarianship Library-centric inputs such as their formal library studies Conclusion – Different types of professional development opportunities will appeal to different librarians based on their level of instructional experience. Less experienced librarian instructors may find mentoring and informal collegial relationships within the library to be beneficial. More experienced librarian instructors may prefer to seek out relationships with colleagues outside the library to further develop their teaching identities.

Build up circular city planning index with EAM

This study is aimed to build up a structure of circular city planning index with Essential Analysis Model (EAM). As countries around the world are engaged in finding solutions against increasingly exhausting resources and energies, the circular city is trending the metro development in future. This mandates a structure for index in circular city planning in future. To ensure the practice of the structure, it is to be based on circular economy and derived by “target oriented” essence logic. This study employs semi-structured exert interview to get professional inputs from more comprehensive population. A hierarchical structure of 18 major and 53 minor indexes is set up with the help of mind map software which may be referenced by government agencies, metro governance, urban and rural planning, and relevant competent authority in their circular city planning endeavor.

Integrated Acute Healthcare Commissioning Pathway in Ireland

The survival of the critically ill patient depends on timely access to a structured critical care pathway. Arising from historic legacy arrangements, fragmentation of acute healthcare service provision in Ireland has been evident with evidence of ineffectiveness and inefficiency. A key to success of ongoing Government and State acute healthcare reforms is integration of patient-centred acute healthcare commissioning. Commissioning Pathway: In line with reform policy, Critical Care Programme (CCP) facilitates integrated and standardised commissioning in the acute sector by collating and furnishing service outputs and outcomes information in an annualised recursive input to commissioners and to the political system as part of the fiscal resource allocation decision-making process. Fiscal Allocation: Easton defined politics as the “authoritative allocation of values” (1953). Following the fiscal Vote of the political system in Ireland, top-down bloc grant funding flows to hospital service providers from which blocs critical care funds currently emerge. Capacity And Capability: The critical care bedstock capacity to meet the need of the critically ill patients is monitored by the annual Census enumeration process, which is facilitated by CCP. The capability to meet the needs of the critically ill patients is strengthened by the national integrated critical care nursing education and training and workforce planning initiative, termed Career Pathway, also facilitated by CCP and Office of Nursing and Midwifery Service Director of Health Service Executive. These national critical care capacity monitoring and capability strengthening initiatives serve to integrate and standardize national and regional critical care service provision in line with a hospital system “hub-and-spoke” Critical Care Model of Care. Audit: National critical care activity and risk-adjusted outcomes for critically ill adult patients in Ireland are monitored by the National Critical Care Audit, operated and governed by National Office of Clinical Audit, affiliated to UK Intensive Care National Audit Research Commission (ICNARC). Commissioning Cycle: The national critical care activity and outcome information, including critical care surge activity information, emerging from Audit is collated and evaluated against policy, regulatory, legislative and professional standard inputs. An annual normative national input thus is facilitated and thus recursively provided to the commissioners and the political system The aim and intended impact of this integrated commissioning pathway or cycle is to improve the survival, quality-of-life and experience of the critically ill patient in Ireland, to strengthen and sustain the critical care workforce and to modernize the care pathway and ease the care journey for the most vulnerable patients in the acute healthcare sector.

Interprofessional Collaboration in Sports Medicine: Findings from a Scoping Review

BACKGROUND Sports medicine has grown from a special interest area in healthcare to an established profession in its own right. Containing many specialties and a range of professional inputs there are complex dynamics at work which often dictate the provision of care. Whilst interprofessional interventions have been successfully applied in more mainstream healthcare contexts there has been no equivalent application in sports medicine. PURPOSE We seek to map the literature to explore interprofessional collaboration, interaction and tension in sports medicine. METHOD The study utilised a scoping review methodology followed by a thematic analysis. DISCUSSION & CONCLUSIONS The review located 13 studies which provided an insight into a number of key themes which affect interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in a variety of athletic contexts. All of these themes relate to IPC. The structured introduction of interprofessional education programmes for sports medicine professionals and others, will enable a response to the numerous challenges identified in the review.

Information System Security Threats and Vulnerabilities: Evaluating the Human Factor in Data Protection

in information security have all these while been concerned only with technical problems and efforts to improve information security have been software-centered or hardware-oriented. There have been limited attempts in addressing the people who use the computers though they are the greatest loophole in information systems security. This paper examines and addresses the threats end-users pose to systems security. Regardless of the countlessly introduced technological solutions aimed at addressing system vulnerabilities, the human factor is still of greater threat to systems security. The study draws its data from a survey conducted on people who frequently use information systems. Professional and technical inputs were also solicited from IT personnel through interviews. Four experiments were conducted to test the accuracy of the survey. A phony phish system was developed to test respondents information security consciousness. The goal of the phony phish system was to send phishing emails that can be used to measure the accuracy of the survey. The rest of the experiments were SQL injection, cross site scripting and brute force attack. The results from the study revealed that, the numerous technical advances in information technology do not always produce more secure environments. Thus, information security cannot be described as solely a technical problem. Computers are operated by people and this means that information security is also a human factor issue. It is therefore suggested, for information and data breaches to be curbed, organizations must adopt a holistic security framework, incorporating the human factor.

An Approach to Knowledge Management in Construction Service – Oriented Architecture

Modern business driving requires agility in the reflecting changes of Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture (SoEA). For this purpose Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM) was used for facilitation of structured communication between process participants, process experts and resulted generation of collaborative business process. During such generation all necessary requirements for supporting resources (such as information, know-how, intellectual and professional skills, inputs and outputs, quality and operational risk limitations, moderation, control and monitoring) are taken into consideration using the operational knowledge of experts and project participants that act inside the predefined business area. The work results in updating the business model selecting business services from the virtual SOA torrent (that catches rated cloud services on the internet) and represents the basis for quickly adjustable “real-time” service-oriented enterprise architectures.

Guidance and counselling needs of teacher trainees

Enlightened, emancipated and empowered teachers lead communities and nations in their march towards better and higher quality of life. They reveal and elaborate the secrets of attaining higher values in life and nurture empathy for the fellow beings. Teachers are the torch bearers in creating social cohesion, national integration and a learning society. They not only disseminate knowledge but also create and generate new knowledge. They are responsible for acculturating role of education. No nation can even marginally slacken its efforts in giving necessary professional inputs to its teachers and along with that due status to their stature and profession.

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Food security is highly instrumental to the economic growth and sustainability of any country. Unfortunately, food insecurity has had an adverse effect on people in developing countries of the world, especially in continents of Asia and Africa, most importantly Nigeria. In the midst of food insecurity ravaging these countries, the field of Food Science and Technology has vital roles to play in ameliorating the situation. The Food Scientist, who has obtained sound training in this field, can thus help proffer solutions, making use of technologies that could foster food security in developing countries. While the Food Scientist has important functions to perform in achieving and sustaining food security, it is evident that efforts of other stakeholders are required to ensure success of the exercise. It is important to note that efforts of the Food Scientist could be impaired in the absence of enabling environment and necessary incentives from the government. As in the developed countries, collaborations between the Food Scientist and other professionals alike are also fundamental towards realising the objectives of food security in developing countries particularly Nigeria. In the present review, certain professional inputs by the Food Scientist towards achieving food security are examined. Key words: Food security, developing countries, Food Scientist, stakeholders, incentives, professional inputs

Socioeconomic, Disease, and Biochemical Factors in Adherence to Anti tuberculosis Treatment Regime in Benin City, Nigeria: A Comparative Study

Tuberculosis is a re-emergent disease of great epidemiological concern with the directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) recommended by the World Health Organization falling short of targeted expectations. The aim was to compare the impact of socioeconomic, disease, and biochemical factors on the decision of patients to return to (comply with) the six-month treatment schedule. Effects of education, age, occupational and marital (socioeconomic) and biochemical (drug side effects and values of biochemical indices of liver function) factors were compared between 52 SLR and 49 SNR patients. The results suggest that socioeconomic factors play a more prominent role than factors related to drug side effects in determining whether a patient returns to treatment after initial stoppage. A more integrated multi-disciplinary approach to DOTS administration with professional and social inputs is recommended

Newer Approach to Create Flexible Business Architecture of Modern Enterprise

In this study we analyze co-adoption of several modern concepts of enterprise architecture creation and describe real-time business processes generation on global cloud-based self-generated business service basis to increase the agility of enterprise. We simulated the process of generating the business model started by particular business request with the support of subject-oriented business process management approach that results in particular business process architecture, which is approved or rejected/corrected by board of directors and architectural committee of the enterprise. During that generation all necessary requirements for supporting resources, such as information, know-how, intellectual and professional skills, inputs and outputs, quality and opera- tional risk limitations, moderation, control and monitoring, are formed. On a next twist of the development all formed requirements are to be satisfied by appropriate selections from the cloud facilities and again approved. Finally after several iterations business model will be created in reality and could be executed with predicted results. Briefly that means that certain sets of valued and weighted business process replicas are located in Clouds. In addition to that, in this article we have provided the advanced view on the topic with attempt to install a virtual SOA torrent that catches services from the Internet and makes them avail- able to customers and represents a business service basis for real-time business processes.