Resource Gathering Research Articles

Developing Local Wisdom-Based Instructional Materials in Minangkabau Context for English for Tourism Course

This study aims to develop a model of local wisdom-based instructional materials in Minangkabau context for the English for Tourism course. To realize the aim, an R&D design was applied by adapting Borg & Gall’s first four stages, namely product analysis, initial product development, expert validation, and product revision. Product analysis includes analyzing the characteristics and needs of students towards the teaching materials; b) interviews with competent resource persons to obtain input for initial product development; c) a review of the relevant theory of initial product development. Initial Product Development includes formulating core topics, designing syllabus, gathering resources for designing draft, and designing, editing and printing prototypes. Validation was conducted to figure out whether the prototype model had integrated Minangkabau local wisdom in teaching materials for the course and was suitable for learning into speaking. The product analysis stage resulted in initial product development in the form of a prototype consisting of 14 units, where each unit consists of 4 parts, namely: introduction, common expressions, sample conversations, and role play. The validation results confirm that, in general, in terms of the relevance of teaching materials to course objectives, the prototype was valid (3.15 out of 4) and very valid (4.03 out of 5). In addition, in terms of the principles of learning speaking skills, the prototype was very valid (3.66 out of 4). Furthermore, from the aspect of integrating Minangkabau local wisdom into teaching materials, this prototype has provided a model for practical conversations for tour guiding activities in Minangkabau context.

Gaya Kepemimpinan Influence Untuk Meningkatkan Kuantitas Peserta Didik Di Smks Sagaranten

Leadership is a complex and unique phenomenon of social interaction, anyone will show leadership behavior when interacting in a format that influences others. Even in personal capacity, in the human body there is capacity or potential as a controller, which essentially facilitates a person to be able to lead himself.This research journal was conducted at SMKS Sagaranten which is located on the cigadog highway km.2 sagaranten sukabumi and produces the influence of the principal's leadership to increase the quantity of students.Leadership is often given the meaning of degree of influence, while the leader is the person who has the most potential to influence. Leaders who cannot actualize their influence do not have the character of true leadership. Then we must know how educational leadership is so the purpose of this article is to dig deeper into leadership and complete the task. Articles are made with techniques for gathering resources such as reading material and books on leadership.So that we can draw the conclusion that educational leadership as "one ability and process of influencing, guiding, coordinating and mobilizing other people who are related to the development of the science of education and the implementation of education and teaching, so that the activities carried out can be more efficient and effective in achieving educational and teaching goals.

“It is not Working for Them but with Them”: Adult Educators Roles With Community Groups in Transforming Communities

This paper reflects on Freire’s discourse on liberating education and adult educators’ educational roles with community groups in transforming communities. Mineral-rich communities in Ghana are in danger of losing water bodies, rich arable lands, and forest vegetation cover through “galamsey,” which refers to the gathering of rich mineral resources illegally for sale. Yet the fourth Industrial Revolution Age positions adult educators strategically in making learning the needed skill among community groups to improve communities. This qualitative study adopted a convenience sampling procedure to select and interview eight graduate students in a higher education institution (HEI) in Ghana. Data were analyzed using thematic and narrative approaches. The results indicate that adult educators’ educational roles are empowering, yet they should employ more dialogical, story-telling, and conversational approaches; and must listen to community members’ views on community development programs. The study concludes that adult educators drive community development programs via inclusiveness and networks to make communities sustainable.

After the startup: A collection to spur research about entrepreneurial growth

AbstractResearch SummaryEntrepreneurship researchers have made great strides toward understanding who discovers and/or creates opportunities, how they validate a business model, and how they attract resources, but far less is known about what happens next. Beyond gathering resources, how do entrepreneurs build a growing organization once customer enthusiasm has been demonstrated? What has been learned is fragmented across theoretical perspectives and activities related to growth. We describe a collection of articles that spotlight different theories and organize the articles according to key activities: (1) building internal resources and capabilities, (2) leveraging partnerships, (3) taking strategic actions, and (4) managing interactions among resources, partners, and actions. Juxtaposing these activities with theories from the collection, we offer a research agenda designed to spur research to fill gaps in understanding of how entrepreneurs successfully manage growth.Managerial SummaryThe period of an organization's development between the startup stage and becoming an established firm presents unique challenges. We spotlight a set of articles that have provided insights into how organizations can overcome these challenges. We then add our own perspective by providing research ideas that scholars can investigate in order to generate additional insights.

Nonsmooth Control Barrier Function design of continuous constraints for network connectivity maintenance

This paper considers the problem of maintaining global connectivity of a multi-robot system while executing a desired coordination task. Our approach builds on optimization-based feedback design formulations, where the nominal cost function and constraints encode desirable control objectives for the resulting input. Our solution uses the algebraic connectivity of the multi-robot interconnection topology as a control barrier function and critically embraces its nonsmooth nature. We take advantage of the understanding of how Laplacian eigenvalues behave as their multiplicities change, in combination with the flexibility provided by the concept of control barrier function, to carefully design additional constraints that guarantee the resulting optimization-based controller is continuous and maintains network connectivity. The technical treatment combines elements from set-valued theory, nonsmooth analysis, and algebraic graph theory to imbue the proposed constraints with regularity properties so that they can be smoothly combined with other control constraints. We provide simulations and experimental results illustrating the effectiveness and continuity of the proposed approach in a resource gathering problem.

Evaluation of Forensic Medical Examination using the DEMATEL Method

Forensic medical examination is Searching for injuries and police to be used as evidence at trial Taking samples and A lawsuit following Sexual Assault Forensic Medicine The purpose of the test is to the victim's Health needs assessment Treatment of any injuries When consolidating and prosecuting Gather resources for potential use trial (US Department of Justice, 2004, pp. 30-2). Because the body is the scene of the crime, testimony is time sensitive and may only last until the victim has showered, washed, and/or urinated. (1) Examination by a health care provider is recommended even if no injuries are seen. As a result of the attack, (2) the victim did not want to collect evidence, or (3) the attack was not recent. In these cases, the victim may have injuries that are not obvious or serious or have associated health concerns Forensics in the criminal justice system Science is an important part. Forensic scientists at crime scenes and sources from elsewhere study commonly murder in major criminal cases including impeachment Guilt or innocence Forensic Science as a Factor in Determining was used. Forensic Medicine or Forensics Pathology is a branch of forensic science that helps in finding the results of crime evidence. Visualize by applying clinical facts to the situation. Course subjects help individuals become proficient in identifying the cause and time of death and other details about the deceased DEMATEL (Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory) They are divided into analysis using the Forensic Medical Examination Assessment of the victim, Informed consent, Medical, and gynecological history, Assault history, and Physical top-to-toe examination It is the interaction between the factors Visualized and assesses dependent relationships Through the structural model Also deals with identifying important.Assessment of the victim, Informed consent, Medical, and gynecological history, Assault history, Physical top-to-toe examination the assessment of the victim got the first rank whereas the Informed consent number is having the lowest rank.Forensic Medical Examination. Assessment of the victim is got the first rank whereas the Armed consent number is having the Lowest Rank

"What brought you in today?": Modeling patient-provider clinic visits to characterize rural providers' antibiotic treatment decisions.

Designing clinical decision support (CDS) tools is challenging because clinical decision-making must account for an invisible task load: incorporating non-linear objective and subjective factors to make an assessment and treatment plan. This calls for a cognitive task analysis approach. The objectives of this study were to 1.) understand healthcare providers' decision making during a typical clinic visit, and 2.) explore how antibiotic treatment decisions are made when they arise. Two cognitive task analysis methods were applied - Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) and Operations Sequence Diagramming (OSD) - to 39h of observational data collected at family medicine, urgent care, and emergency medicine clinical sites. The resulting HTA models included a coding taxonomy detailing ten cognitive goals and associated sub-goals and demonstrated how the goals occur as interactions between the provider and electronic health record, the patient, and the physical clinic environment. Although the HTA detailed resources for antibiotic treatment decisions, antibiotics were a minority of drug classes ordered. The OSD shows the sequence of events and when decisions are made solely at the provider level and when shared decision making occurs with the patient. Qualitative data from the observations informed a constructed vignette case example portraying select tasks from the HTA. These findings emphasize that the scope of disease states presenting to a generalist clinical setting is broad and could include acute exacerbations of rare diseases within a time-pressured environment. CDS must be accessible, time efficient, and fit within the resource gathering task before treatment decisions are made.

Enhancing Quality of Experience (QoE) in IM-Tahfiz Framework for Predictive Acceptance Influence of User Screening Test

Tahfiz teaching has become progressively more conventional and is growing as an essential educational course. This significance is in line with the prospect above that is placed on the ability of tahfiz schools to produce Quran-memorising students who can thrive and improve the nation’s Islamic education. Due to this endeavour, the tahfiz learning management process must satisfy the user QoE related to the increasing student intake issues. These issues impact this education process due to insufficient tahfiz resources, infrastructure, and facilities. This paper proposes the Integrated Management Tahfiz (IM-Tahfiz) Framework’s suitability for selected education satisfaction at the empirical level. The primary purpose of this framework is about the Quality of Experience (QoE) based on user satisfaction for the screening test of stakeholder decision in selecting tahfiz centre to educate students. This framework design was implemented in three phases; data selection, where instruments and experiment setup gather resources from the mobile to the server to finalize data; user QoE setup, where the users’ data is obtained by using the Mean Opinion Score (MOS) to determine this matter’s solution regarding the suitability of tahfiz students to tahfiz centers; and execution phase, where both phases combine to finalize the data output. The final result illustrates the initial research question (RQ) was the factor that had effects on the problem of the tahfiz center that can be solved accordingly.

Entrepreneurship as emancipation: a process framework for female entrepreneurs in resource-constrained environments

PurposeThe aim of this research is to determine the stages that women in resource-constrained environments go through in order to emancipate themselves through entrepreneurial activities. Based on their fieldwork, the authors develop a process framework of emancipation-through-entrepreneurship.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews were conducted with 57 female entrepreneurs in two resource-constrained countries in West Africa. Non-participant observations were employed as a secondary data collection technique to provide important sources of information for triangulation.FindingsThis study's findings indicate that the process of female emancipation through entrepreneurship begins with the perception of one's personal motivations, followed by the choice of economic activities, the gathering of various necessary resources, and finally the commencement and running of a venture to bring about the desired emancipation. Various factors, such as family, the external environment, personal qualities and ease of operations, were found to influence the choice of entrepreneurial activities. We also found that human, social, cultural and political capital interact to produce economic capital, a central form of capital for the starting and running of ventures in resource-constrained environments.Originality/valueAlthough extant studies have shown that entrepreneurship can be a vehicle for women to liberate themselves from various constraints, it is as yet unclear which process these women follow to achieve such emancipation. The development of a process framework of emancipation-through-entrepreneurship is the key contribution of this paper. Despite extant research demonstrating that entrepreneurship can assist women in financially limited settings to achieve economic independence, the specific steps these women take in the process remain unclear. Thus, this paper presents a process framework that focuses on women in constrained environments and their journey to emancipation through entrepreneurship.

Analyzing the mediating role of industrial structure in the spatial spillover effects of financial agglomeration on carbon emission and regional heterogeneity.

In China, achieving financial agglomeration necessitates both the gathering of financial resources and the reduction of carbon emissions and the interrelation between these two goals is significant. In this research, sophisticated econometric models are applied to examine the correlation between financial agglomeration and per capita carbon emissions in China, such as spatial econometric, mixed OLS, and stationary panel models. The research sample is composed of data from 30 provinces and cities in China from 2010 to 2020 and examines both temporal and spatial distributions of these two factors and how they influence each other. The direct effect of financial agglomeration on carbon emission is analyzed through spatial panel model, while indirect effect is analyzed by examining the role of industrial structure upgrading as a mediating variable through mediating effect model. This study also looks at how these effects vary regionally, both directly and indirectly. Generally, the study discovered that financial agglomeration and per capita carbon emissions have significantly positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient in all provinces and cities in China, indicating path dependence and spatial spillover. In terms of distribution trends, financial agglomeration shows an upward trend over time, while per capita carbon emissions grew faster in the early stage, but gradually achieves a steady decrease in recent years. In terms of the impact of financial agglomeration on carbon emissions, the relationship between financial agglomeration and per capita carbon emissions is in the form of "inverted U-shaped." Financial agglomeration indirectly influences the intensity of per capita carbon emissions through the advanced industrial structure, which acts as a mediator. In the test of industrial structure serving as a mediating variable, different regions exhibit different impacts due to regional heterogeneity, with a clear distinction between the central region and the eastern and western regions.

Participative epidemiology and prevention pathway of health risks associated with artisanal mines in Luhihi area, DR Congo

BackgroundHealth issues are associated with artisanal mining in the DR Congo. The scenario is worst when artisanal mining is done informally or with limited material and technical resources.This paper argues that the adoption of healthy practices by artisanal miners might be limited given that it involves unrealistic socio-economic, and administrative aspects and access to health risk prevention means.Making a conceptual framework on the feasibility of revolutionizing artisanal mining practices linked to health risks in the DR Congo requires trans-disciplinary interventions and researches. This case study aims at co-analyzing with actors in the Luhihi artisanal gold mine, the epidemiology of health issues. It also aims at describing the dynamics of resources that mining actors mobilize or think they can mobilize in order to prevent health risks.MethodsA “socio-anthropological” qualitative study with “transdisciplinary methods” was carried out the Luhihi artisanal mining. Data collection tools and methods included an exploratory survey, semi-structured interviews. Focus groups (FG) mixed with proportional piling were used to support the open-ended interview discussions. The actors interviewed were selected by “convenience sampling” and the saturation principle indicated the size of the sampling. In total, 67 persons were interviewed and 5 FG each consisting of 5 to 10 mining actors were organized. Data were triangulated among respondents to ensure their veracity and an “inductive thematic data analysis” was applied.ResultsKey findings are the role of actors involved the organization system at the Luhihi artisanal mining site; a description of a participative epidemiology and determinants of health issues; presentation of the importance of health risks as perceived by mining actors; the constraints in the common illenesses treatment; and opportunities of collective actions for gathering resources required for the organization of healthcare services.ConclusionThe results are translated into a grid of powers and interests in relation to the mobilization of resources for the prevention and treatment of health issues. The dialogue for change regarding the ignorance of the actors to exposure to chemical risks such as to exposure mercury, silica, carbon monoxide, and cyanide also entailed the translation of the results. In addition, an analysis of the ability of artisanal mining actors to implement health risk prevention services was made.

Development of Information and Communication Technology Learning Media

This study aims to produce instructional videos on subjects that are feasible to be implemented as learning media for Postgraduate students and investigate the feasibility of learning videos at the UNJ location so that they are feasible to implement. as a learning medium. The development of learning videos for the State University of Jakarta uses a mix method approach using the Research & Development method by Allesi & Trollip, which consists of three development steps, namely planning: determining needs and goals, gathering resources, and generating ideas; design: making flowcharts and storyboards and drafting scripts; and development: producing video and audio, programming materials, preparing supporting components, evaluating, and revising. The results of development research are in the form of learning videos which are assessed by media experts, material experts, and students as media users. Overall the trial showed good results in the category according to the following details from material experts the average score of 5.55 was included in the appropriate category, from media experts the average score of 3.5 is included in the appropriate category, from small-scale trials involving students, an average score of 3.5 was obtained which was included in the appropriate category; and from large-scale trials involving students, an average score of 3.19 was obtained which was in the appropriate category. Based on the assessment of the feasibility of the media, it can be concluded that learning videos are suitable for use as learning media at UNJ.

Unravelling Narratives of Empire in No Man’s Sky

Many scholars have looked at how players engage with games of Empire in ways that both reproduce and subvert capitalist-colonial narratives of resource accumulation, war, and conquest. This article examines the 2016 release of No Man’s Sky, and how the colonial conquest and resource gathering that are central to the gameplay quickly unravelled as players spent time with the game. Firstly, this article will explore how the release of No Man’s Sky initially replicated the myth of terra nullius, as well as an understanding of the environment as resources-in-waiting. This is contrasted with the fact that No Man’s Sky did not replicate the traditional triple-A structure of action, which leads the player to a playthrough that focuses on ‘bearing witness’ to the environment, rather than harvesting its resources to strengthen the player-character and progress through the game. However, major updates to No Man’s Sky fundamentally changed the player’s relationship to the game-world, further obscuring many of the moments of speculation that the initial release provided. This analysis demonstrates how games of Empire can create affective experiences that can inadvertently challenge the very narratives that they are enmeshed in. These moments are fleeting but provide a valuable insight into the role that games play in the crises of the Anthropocene.

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY NETWORK TO SUPPORT FAMILY CAREGIVERS

Abstract In 2021, 114 Caregiver Resource Sites were established in Taiwan to provide case management and services for family caregivers who may experience caregiving burnout due to long-term care. Each Caregiver Resource Site is responsible for serving 60-100 caregivers. An effort was made to recruit volunteers and gather resources so caregivers can be surrounded in the care-friendly community network, including care counseling, support groups, caregiving skill classes, relaxation activities, caregiver café, and in-home coaching for hard-to-care moments. By forming this community network to support caregivers, it has reduced caregiver burnout and avoided possibly negative tragedies due to caregiving.

Playing remotely: The COVID-19 pandemic and mobile locative gaming in Northeast Brazil.

Mobile locative games consist of a subset of mobile games that encourage players to go outside, by promoting outdoor activities and physical meetings. Because of this, their gameplay breaks the core of social distancing strategies implemented since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, developers implemented changes in their locative games supported by the mobile game revenue model, which enabled a strategy called “playing remotely” that encourages the players to spend their money with microtransactions. This study analyses the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in mobile locative gaming, by examining the preferences and behavior of players from the Northeast Brazil, a region with socioeconomic inequalities and urban violence, among other issues that shape mobility practices.Accordingly, we pose a research question: how do players living in Northeast Brazil manage the mobile game revenue model for playing remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic? With this in mind, we have conducted an online survey among communities of players located in Northeast Brazil, by sharing a questionnaire with 21 questions. Seventy-four players from the region responded to our survey. The sample's age was from 16 to 58 years old, and they lived in seven of the nine states that form Northeast Brazil. We have found that players’ preference is to invest their time in gathering resources by playing the game, instead of spending their money in microtransactions for playing remotely. Moreover, we have found that mobile communication plays a significant role in keeping players in touch during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing players to expand their networks to other cities and countries. We have concluded that playing remotely represents an important strategy to support the development of locative games and other location-based applications, which can help us to prepare for the next pandemic.

What mechanism design helps to realize the innovation function of maker-spaces: A qualitative comparative analysis based on fuzzy sets.

Most of the existing studies on maker-space focus on internal subjects (such as makers) or external factors (such as policy support, ecological environment, and more). There has been relatively little discussion on the design of a series of mechanisms of maker-space. This paper theorizes the operating mechanism for platform services, resource gathering, network connections and endogenous cultural protection for the maker-space. It uses the method of fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to analyze data from 63 maker-spaces in Zhejiang Province. The study proposes a reasonable mechanism design scheme for maker-space. The results show that the innovativeness of a maker-space is the result of the synergistic effect of various operating mechanisms. Among them, the platform service function, the channel for gathering resources, the formal linkages, and the culture for sharing achievements are indispensable support mechanisms for maker-spaces. Two effective ways to promote innovation in maker-space are outlined: first, preventing interventions from external resource providers; second, building an inclusive culture of trial and error.

A Classification Method for National Culture Propagation Using Deep Learning

This paper combines the artificial intelligence (AI) and deep leaning technologies to classify the spread of national culture. First, we use the Python language to build a crawler technology in order to obtain the sample data of national culture from authoritative websites. Then, we use the natural language processing (NLP) expertise to analyze and preprocess the text of national diversity. In this way, we realize vectorization and the feature word extraction of the text related to national cultural resources based on the doc2vec technology. The vectorized texts of national cultural resources are clustered based on the K-means clustering technique. Moreover, the elbow rule process is implemented to determine the optimal number of clustering clusters. Finally, the text association relationship of the national cultural resources is obtained. Moreover, this paper adopts the unsupervised training method, which can reveal the semantic information contained in the text of national cultural resources. This can also help us during the identification process of the category connection amongst the texts of national cultural resources and provide us with methodological support for the gathering, storing, and other smart services of enormous national cultural resources. The outcomes demonstrate that the correctness rate of the suggested algorithm is greater than the accuracy of the linear regression and can reach up to 80%.

Fostering a healthy organizational performance through entrepreneurship capital of the service industry in Nigeria

The study investigated entrepreneurship capital and organizational performance in the service industry. The study gathered data from the National Pension Commission from 2004 to 2019 to estimate entrepreneurial capital and organizational performance in the service industry (NPC). The study hypothesis was: that there is no significant difference between entrepreneurship capital and organizational performance in the service industry. A P-Value of 0.05 was used to determine the level of significance. However, the public sector pension contributions amount was the dependent variable. The study adopted linear regression the model with Minitab and also used SPSS for ANOVA analysis this is to further confirm if there will be variations in the result of the two analyses. It was revealed in the study that there is a significant difference between entrepreneurial capital and organisational performance in the service industry which is a clear indication that the alternate hypothesis is accepted as the sig =0.00 which is less than 0.05 level of significance. As a result, the study made the following recommendation: Since gathering resources is another step in the entrepreneurial process, entrepreneurial should be objective in resources. For business undertakings, daily operations including capital land, human resources, and so forth are necessary.

After All Is Said and Done: On Fluid Solidarity and Survival

After All Is Said and Done: On Fluid Solidarity and Survival

Gender and Other Vulnerabilities to Water–Energy Accessibility in Rural Households of Katsina State, Northern Nigeria

Water and energy are essential resources for all people. However, despite the availability of sufficient water and energy resources, men and women continue to be subject to unequal rights to both water and energy in terms of access, allocation, gathering, and quality of resources. Socio-economic parameters, which include gender, income, and location, are determinant factors of water and cooking energy accessibility in this study. The research aims to assess the accessibility of water and cooking fuels across female-headed households, and evaluate particular vulnerabilities and challenges faced by women and children in rural areas of Katsina State in circumstances of water and energy insecurities. A study involving a questionnaire covering 550 rural households across 11 areas in Katsina State, north-western Nigeria, was conducted. A Pearson product correlation analysis was performed to measure the strength of association between the respondents educational level and income. A chi-square test of independence was carried out to measure the degree of dependence of the households’ resources accessibility. The authors assessed the disproportionate threats and health risks linked to fetching water and gathering of fuel resources. The research findings indicate that water and energy uncertainty among women in rural households is due to unequal responsibilities associated with water- and energy-related household duties that are potentially linked to disadvantages for females, including violence, security threats, diseases, and disempowerment. To address these challenges, water and energy interventions, and important pathways for beneficial change, are proposed for rural regions in sub-Saharan Africa. This should lead to more gender equity associated with water and energy.