Research Seminar Research Articles

DEVELOPMENT OF A WORKSHOP «A MODERN APPROACH TO THE MEANS FOR PREPARATION AND PUBLICATION OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS»

The article discusses the issues of educational and methodological development of a research seminar on the topic "Modern approach to the means of preparation and publication of scientific publications" for scientific and teaching staff and graduate students. The aim of the seminar is to master the full cycle of writing and publishing scientific publications using modern information and technical means.

Precision medicine in acute respiratory distress syndrome: workshop report and recommendations for future research.

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a devastating critical illness that can be triggered by a wide range of insults and remains associated with a high mortality of around 40%. The search for targeted treatment for ARDS has been disappointing, possibly due to the enormous heterogeneity within the syndrome. In this perspective from the European Respiratory Society research seminar on "Precision medicine in ARDS", we will summarise the current evidence for heterogeneity, explore the evidence in favour of precision medicine and provide a roadmap for further research in ARDS. There is evident variation in the presentation of ARDS on three distinct levels: 1) aetiological; 2) physiological and 3) biological, which leads us to the conclusion that there is no typical ARDS. The lack of a common presentation implies that intervention studies in patients with ARDS need to be phenotype aware and apply a precision medicine approach in order to avoid the lack of success in therapeutic trials that we faced in recent decades. Deeper phenotyping and integrative analysis of the sources of variation might result in identification of additional treatable traits that represent specific pathobiological mechanisms, or so-called endotypes.

Reflections of a Naïve Trainee to Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University in 1970-My First 25 Years.

“Aubrey, I didn’t know you were that smart,” said my colleague, a White faculty member who had known me for years, after I presented a research seminar in 1980. I brushed this off at the time, but in retrospect, it was one of many microaggressions I experienced in my early days at Washington

Implementation of a formal pharmacy residency research certificate program.

We describe the structure, implementation, and initial evaluation of a formal residency research certificate program (RRCP) designed to further advance residents' knowledge and skills in research in an effort to better prepare residents for research involvement during their careers. Pharmacy residency programs vary in the degree of emphasis on research education and training and the structure of resident research activities. Limited data describing formal research education and training for pharmacy residents are available. To better educate and prepare residents in the research process, State University of New York Upstate University Hospital developed and implemented a formal RRCP designed to educate and train residents in essential areas of the research process. Research seminars are delivered by preceptors with experience and training in research throughout the academic year to align with residency project tasks. Residents are also required to complete at least 1 residency project and submit a manuscript suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Upon successful completion of the program and project requirements, residents earn a certificate of completion. Initial data collected through formal resident assessments before and after RRCP completion demonstrated significant improvement in research knowledge (from an average score of 61.3% out of 100% to an average score of 84.7%, P = 0.002). Post-RRCP assessment showed improvements in residents' confidence in several areas of research, including but not limited to research project design, ethical and regulatory principles of research, data collection, selection of appropriate statistical tests, manuscript writing, and the publication process. Residents strongly agreed that the RRCP improved their overall knowledge and perceptions of research.

La formación investigativa en los estudiantes de licenciatura en Educación Básica. Una revisión sistemática

La enseñanza-aprendizaje de los procesos investigativos en las instituciones de educación superior reproduce prácticas didácticas sustentadas en la retención-repetición de teoría y metodología científica. Esta realidad requiere de innovación permanente para superar las limitaciones del tradicionalismo didáctico. El propósito de este estudio fue fortalecer los procesos de investigación formativa con los estudiantes de la carrera de Licenciatura en Educación Básica de la Universidad Técnica del Norte - Ecuador. Se empleó investigación documental e investigación-acción enmarcadas en los planteamientos de la Enseñanza para la Comprensión. Como técnicas se utilizó: revisión documental, entrevistas a docentes y estudiantes, análisis de contenido y triangulación. Al final, se encontró que la investigación formativa constituye un área primordial para la formación de los futuros docentes, pero aún se tienen ciertas falencias en su comprensión y aplicación. Como estrategias para la acción se determinaron: aprendizaje basado en problemas, monografías investigativas, club de revistas científicas y seminarios investigativo. Palabras clave: investigación formativa; formación docente; educación básica; investigación-acción; enseñanza para la comprensión.

Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars

This paper reports the results of the first systematic attempt at quantitatively measuring the seminar culture within economics and testing whether it is gender neutral. We collected data on every interaction between presenters and their audience in hundreds of research seminars and job market talks across most leading economics departments, as well as during summer conferences. We find that women presenters are treated differently than their male counterparts. Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics, as our analysis controls for the institution, seminar series, and JEL codes associated with each presentation. Moreover, it appears that there are important differences by field and that these differences are not uniformly mitigated by more rigid seminar formats. Our findings add to an emerging literature documenting ways in which women economists are treated differently than men, and suggest yet another potential explanation for their under-representation at senior levels within the economics profession.

Production of knowledge based on the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality: documental research.

To analyze the abstracts that relate nursing to the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality, published in the annals of the main national scientific events in the category, over a 12-year period. documental research carried out in the annals of the Brazilian Nursing Congress and the National Nursing Research Seminar. Data collection took place from July/2018 to June/2019 using a form. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis. 99 studies were analyzed, and three categories emerged: Cultural diversity, emic perspective, and cultural context: possibilities for applying the theory; Incongruencies and peculiarities of the care sectors: limitations of the application of the theory; Knowledge production to improve care: implications for professional nursing practice. the investigated scientific production enabled the construction of knowledge of cultural aspects related to nursing care and showed similarities and variations in care practices.

Reflections on Morna Hooker at 90

Abstract On 14 May 2021, the Cambridge New Testament Research Seminar was dedicated to a celebration of the life and work of Professor Morna Hooker on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday. What follows is the text of three contributions to that seminar, from James Carleton Paget, John Barclay, and Morna Hooker herself. Taken together, they provide an insight into the development of an outstanding biblical scholar, and the development of that discipline during her long and distinguished career. The papers are presented here in the same format as they were given at the seminar, with only minor corrections. It was decided not to add footnotes and bibliographies, but readers who wish to follow up references to Morna Hooker’s books and articles will find them readily available.

Toward Engaging Difference in a Globalized World

Aim/Purpose: This paper reflects on participation in an International Doctoral Research Seminar, held in Beijing, China, to consider what it means to locate difference and make meaning in a globalized world in relation to teaching and learning. Background: The impetus for our inquiry stems from our shared experience at the seminar, which brought together 12 graduate students and six faculty members from three universities. We came with diverse life stories, educational and professional experiences, and research interests. Alongside presentations and school visits, some students questioned how teaching and learning practices differ in China compared to their experiences in Canada. Methodology: We employ an interpretive approach which allows us to revisit our individual stories and to explore different views of meaning-making in a globalized context. Specifically, two authors, positioned by different backgrounds (Chinese and Canadian), share their life histories and experiences for wider dialogue with other delegation members. We consider their experiences at various levels of education (K-12, leading up to graduate school, and at the doctoral seminar) as a mode of generating dialogue around the different contexts in relation to teaching and learning. Contribution: Our article contributes to the area of globalizing teaching and learning. We invite students and educators to revisit their lived experiences and advocate for daily practices that might defy sameness caused by the forces of globalization to instead contribute to epistemological diversity and tolerance. Findings: Through the process of unpacking the lived experiences of the two authors, we encounter the complexities of already being products of a globalized world. We reveal how a singular normative mode of knowing is perpetuated in many educational institutions. Difference, however, was located in the nuances of our stories. Thus, cultivating a practice of paying attention to the dynamic forms of knowing as they emerge can be a process of unlearning sameness toward rich meaning-making. Recommendations for Practitioners: We challenge educational practitioners to reflect on the ways in which meaning is, and can be, generated to resist uniformity and honor the lived experiences of students. We offer an opening to engage in narrative opportunities to promote dialogue and facilitate collaboration. Recommendation for Researchers: We open possibilities to consider a different ethic for generating meaning that resists overpowering global powers and honor local knowledge. Impact on Society: Our article provides an interpretive lens of global meaning-making to discuss critical social, cultural, and ecological dilemmas facing humanity through individuals’ narratives and life histories. Future Research: Future research will inquire into practical and ethical considerations that might play out in local settings (lectures, seminars, assessments, research proposals) and global collaborations, such as future doctoral seminars, to confront western exclusivity.

Postgraduate “Management” program design for small and medium business managers

The paper suggests an approach to teaching and implementing research in the master’s degree studies, which are oriented at system training of heads/owners and managers of small and medium-sized businesses that do not have basic management education, but, as a rule, have a higher technical or technological education and sufficient practical experience. Hypothesis of the article is the assumption that the teaching specifics of this segment should be based on interdisciplinary coordination of content, organization of training, and communication. Verifying this hypothesis based on a review of the literature and identifying the specifics of the segment is the overall goal of the article. As a particular corollary we justify a special educational event (a cycle of research seminars) that integrates various components of training students in the master’s program, in the framework of project activities logic that corresponds to the logic of the modern production process. We show the difference between this segment and consumers who are focused on the MBA and MIM programs, and provide examples from Russian reality. Taking into account the consumer characteristics of the segment, we propose an organizational and pedagogical approach to the formation of key competencies in the field of management for students representing this segment. In particular, we argue for teaching students of this group in the frame of the master’s program, based on the project approach both in the content and in its organization. The article notes that the pedagogical features of the formation of project competencies in students of this segment dictate the use of the method of ascending from the abstract to the concrete as a basis for building a general learning strategy. Decomposition of the learning strategy and the master’s thesis research demonstrates the need for interdisciplinary coordination of content, training and organizing communication.

Seminario de Investigación en Diseño 2020: investigación sobre, para, del, mediante diseño

The 2020 Design Research Seminar was organized by the Design Research and Innovation Group of the University of La Laguna, in collaboration with the Aula Cultural de Diseño of the academic institution. Under the title «Research on, for, of, by design» the question of the different ways of approaching design from disciplinary rigor in scientific research was addressed. The conference program established a space in which to debate and socialize the advances in postgraduate research and doctoral theses in design carried out in the Canary Islands. This edition, due to the pandemic caused by covid-19, its celebration was in virtual format. On this occasion, the professor in design management, Manuel Lecuona spoke on the subject of the seminar mapping those issues that characterize the current context of design research in the university environment and offered feedback to each of the doctoral communications made by Canarian researchers. His analysis and reflections, set out below, constitute useful and relevant information on the state of research in academic institutions that contribute to clarify some of the questions raised

Case Study Experiences on Active Learning Methods in Germany

Abstract This article describes the implementation of active learning methods in engineering courses. The implementation was part of the activities of the international Erasmus project DriveMATH, which ran between 2017 and 2020. The active learning methods eduScrum, JigSaw, problem based learning, practical and team-based learning were used for courses for the master’s degree at Chemnitz University of Technology. Research seminar computer science, research internship and internship automotive software engineering were selected as courses for implementation. The students were invited to participate in the implementation on a voluntary basis. At the end of the implementation, the project team asked the students for feedback in the form of an evaluation survey. Criteria for the evaluation were developed in the team of the partner universities of the project. The data obtained were evaluated with the help of the structure-oriented evaluation model (SURE model).

Time-Space Utopian Model as a Critical Method of Sociology: A Book Review of <i>Utopia Method Vision</i>

Utopia as a method of sociology, has been identified as a proper and distinctive device for analyzing social structures and proposing social solutions to a better future. Since 2000, there has been an increasing attention to the function of Utopia. To discuss this topic, twelve well-known scholars in utopian studies participate in a two-year research seminar and contribute their perspectives of utopian method in the book Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming. This book provides a new sense of utopia’s time and space nature but not a time-space utopia method. To fill in the gap, this study will propose a time-space utopian model after devising space and time models respectively through the method Bricolage. The products will contribute to the systematic understanding of utopia method in a time-space dimension, thus promoting a visualized time-space utopia model as a critical method of sociology.

Special issue: 30 years of ICT and learning in education – major changes and challenges

Special issue: 30 years of ICT and learning in education – major changes and challenges

II International Scientific-practical Conference "Library Development Strategies: from Idea to Implementation", October 6-9, 2020

The development of market relations, competition for investment in science, education and culture, and the aggravation of social and environmental issues call for rapid response to external and internal changes. One of the most effective tools for that response is strategic management methods, which the libraries of different types can implement. The results of implementing strategic management workflow in library activities have quite practical and measurable benefits; they bring about improvement in the quality and efficiency of library products and services. The library products and services placement, sharing experiences and further development require a dialogue between experts, which is implemented within the framework of issue-related scientific and practical activities successfully. One of such event was the International Research and Practice Seminar “Library Development Strategies: From Idea to Implementation”, initiated by H.I. Denysenko Scientific and Technical Library of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” and Ukrainian Library Association in 2017. The event brought together more than 100 participants from Germany, Poland, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine and relished the media attention.

La formación investigativa en los estudiantes de licenciatura en Educación Básica. Caso Universidad Técnica del Norte, Ecuador

La enseñanza-aprendizaje de los procesos investigativos en las instituciones de educación superior reproduce prácticas didácticas sustentadas en la retención-repetición de teoría y metodología científica. Esta realidad requiere de innovación permanente para superar las limitaciones del tradicionalismo didáctico. El propósito de este estudio fue fortalecer los procesos de investigación formativa con los estudiantes de la carrera de Licenciatura en Educación Básica de la Universidad Técnica del Norte - Ecuador. Se empleó investigación documental e investigación-acción enmarcadas en los planteamientos de la Enseñanza para la Comprensión. Como técnicas se utilizó: revisión documental, entrevistas a docentes y estudiantes, análisis de contenido y triangulación. Al final, se encontró que la investigación formativa constituye un área primordial para la formación de los futuros docentes, pero aún se tienen ciertas falencias en su comprensión y aplicación. Como estrategias para la acción se determinaron: aprendizaje basado en problemas, monografías investigativas, club de revistas científicas y seminarios investigativos. Palabras clave: Investigación formativa; formación docente; educación básica; investigación-acción; enseñanza para la comprensión.

Participating in a joint research seminar of PAN and JSPS in order to overcome disabilities -

Participating in a joint research seminar of PAN and JSPS in order to overcome disabilities -

PENANGGULANGAN KORUPSI MELALUI PENDEKATAN TEOLOGIS BERBASIS AL-QURAN

This study concludes that overcoming corruption with a non-theological conventional approach is deadlocked, which is caused by a moral crisis, identity, and social situation, and group propaganda that prioritizes corruption prevention strategies with an approach to improving legislation rather than theological approach. The conventional, non-theological approach has so far turned out to be ineffective, because it is only superficial (saṭḥiyyun wa ẓāhiriyyun), not a deep solution, that is, a solution that reaches deep into the substance of the problem, namely theological or religious approach. The perspective of the Qur'an in dealing with corruption is found through three strategies, namely: detective, preventive, and repressive. Detective and preventive strategies are pursued in three ways: strengthening faith, strengthening the heart, and strengthening morality. Meanwhile, the repressive strategy is pursued in four ways: strengthening supervisory institutions (al-ḥisbah), strengthening juridical law and the judiciary, strengthening communities, and strengthening aspects of religiosity. Meanwhile, the detective, preventive, and repressive strategies as a whole are taken through strengthening theological values. The method used in this study is a qualitative method, based on library research, verses of the Qur'an, publications in the form of research results, journals, seminars, and articles. While the interpretation method used is the thematic interpretation method (tafsīr mawḍū’ī), both when analyzing problems from a theological point of view and when using verses of the Qur'an.

Trend of Medical Research Journal and Article Reading among Medical Students – An Experimental Approach

Background: We conducted this study to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of medical research journals and article reading among medical students, to point out factors contributing to perceived barriers towards this activity and to investigate the effect of research seminars, workshops, motivation and mentorship of medical students. Methods: A medical college based experimental study was carried out in two phases, in which second, third- and fourth-year medical students attending the lectures of community medicine were enrolled. A well-structured questionnaire was used to assess the attitude of students, towards research-based activities. Based on the results, the students who showed lack of interest towards research were divided into two groups, experimental and control for the second phase of the study and were subjected to the final questionnaire, the results were then recorded and the data was analyzed using statistical techniques. Results: 226 students recruited for the first part of the study, showed lack of motivation, guidance, mentorship, and curriculum overload as significant factors affecting their research activities. Whereas in second part of the study, the experimental group showed an increase of 23 – 35 % in research activities after research mentorship programs as compared to the control group. Conclusion: The proper understanding of research was generally low among medical students. Lack of motivation, mentorship, and curriculum overload were among the leading factors affecting their attitude towards research. The motivational lectures, and mentorship programs proved very successful in improving student's knowledge about research and research-based activities.

Let’s not just “talk” about it: reflections on women’s career development in hospitality

Purpose This paper aims to provide an action-orientated reflection for promoting gender equality in hospitality, based on Bradley’s (2013) approach that considers the operation of gender in the “production” and “reproduction” spheres of social life. To that end, it reflects on women’s career development in hospitality based on the Western perspective. Design/methodology/approach A two-stage thematic analysis of a public research seminar on gender issues in tourism and hospitality were used to explore issues of women’s career development within the intertwining spheres of “production” and “reproduction”. Findings Three themes, namely, culture of an open dialogue, bringing men into the equation and educating the future workforce, emerged from data to propose new insights on “what can be done” about gender equality in tourism and hospitality, including practical suggestions for transformations of gender relations in organisations. Research limitations/implications This paper contributes new knowledge on women’s career development in the hospitality industry by proposing recommendations to address gender gaps including fostering a culture of an open dialogue based on an inclusive listening environment, recommending changes to organisational policies and culture and integrating the subject of gender into tourism and hospitality curriculum. Originality/value By proposing a sociological perspective of gender in hospitality employment informed by Bradley (2013), this study challenges the traditional masculinity and the long-standing gender labour division through education, organisational and daily practices thus tackling fundamental gender issues.