Set Of Skills Research Articles

JobEdKG: An uncertain knowledge graph-based approach for recommending online courses and predicting in-demand skills based on career choices

Modern job markets often require an intricate combination of multi-disciplinary skills or specialist and technical knowledge, even for entry-level positions. Such requirements pose increased pressure on students, new graduates, and job seekers to find suitable sources of information to enhance their employability. Unlike standard competence management systems, this paper presents JobEdKG, which helps job seekers from various backgrounds choose online courses based on their prospective careers in addition to predicting different skills that may be required in their chosen career path. While existing solutions focus on internal institutional data, such as previous student experiences and a fixed set of skills provided by curated datasets, JobEdKG considers external data, recommending online courses that best cover the knowledge and skills required by selected job roles, in addition to extracting and predicting skills of that particular job roles. To achieve this, we first extract skills from job postings and online courses. These skills are linked to job titles, online courses, and other concepts in order to create a knowledge graph (KG). We assign an uncertainty score to each fact in the KG based on the prevalence of the fact in the source data (i.e. job listings and online courses), which results in an uncertain KG (UKG). Finally, we model the constructed UKG in order to infer different relations between the different concepts. The code and the data are available on our GitHub repository (https://github.com/team611/JobEd) and a user interface to browse the KG is available at (http://jobed.datanets.org/).

Independence and Interdependence: A Comparative Case Study of Individuals From Two Institutions in Mainland China and Hong Kong

<p style="text-align: justify;">There has been a clear shift in higher education to prepare and empower the current students for a future quite different and more complex than that faced by previous generations. In particular, it is expected that they will possess comprehensive abilities to deal with challenges arising from new employment demands and beyond. While liberal arts education has a long history in the West, it has been increasingly implemented more recently in East Asia as one response to the need for educational reform. The research reported here is an empirical study of how liberal arts education has affected individuals from two institutions with distinctive interpretations of “liberal arts education” - University N, the first Sino-foreign joint university in mainland China, and University L, the only public liberal arts university in Hong Kong. Drawing on Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, this study illustrates the interplay and balance among students’ practical concerns, their sense of social obligation fostered through liberal arts education elements and the wider social structure. Semi-structured interviews with senior students, fresh graduates, and educators were conducted to gather in-depth primary data. These reveal that, by providing interdisciplinary knowledge and transferable skill sets, a liberal arts education experience does enhance individuals’ personal agency and intellectual competencies in a professional context - they are trained to become independent thinkers and learners. Moreover, the “humanistic” aspect of liberal arts is also relevant: having engaged in various activities and programs, students in both universities are encouraged to care, cooperate, and make positive differences in their increasingly interconnected communities.</p>

Transitions in Video Laryngoscope Technology to Improve First-Pass Success.

Prehospital intubation is a high-risk, relatively low frequency procedure. Provider experience plays a key role in first-pass success rates, especially in the setting of a difficult airway. While strong foundational knowledge is necessary to equip providers with an adequate understanding of intubation procedures and the skill set needed to manage a difficult airway, effective equipment may provide an extra boost in first-pass success for novice airway providers. First-pass success is correlated with decreased adverse events and should be maximized in the prehospital setting. After evaluating overall first-pass success of 66% to 83% from 2016 to 2020, AHN LifeFlight enacted changes in education, training, and video laryngoscopy equipment to successfully increase first-pass success to over 90%.

Skills of future workforce: skills gap based on perspectives from academicians and industry players

<span lang="EN-US">Apart from having specific knowledge, graduates are expected to possess a set of soft and hard skills to be employed. This study aims to identify soft and hard skills relevant to the future workforce in the electrical and electronic (E&E) industry based on two perspectives; academicians from public higher education institution (HEI) and E&E industry players. Further, the study aims to investigate skills gaps between two stakeholders. A total of 50 academicians and 31 industry players in Malaysia were surveyed using a structured questionnaire. Statistical analysis was performed using an independent t-test. In terms of soft skills, analytical thinking skills, communication skills, and discipline were more perceived by academicians, whereas decision-making skills, teamwork skills, and discipline were more favored by industry players. For hard skills, both players favored technology use, except for organizational capabilities which were perceived more by academicians while troubleshooting was favored more by industry players. This study contributes to the collaboration between public HEI and the E&E industry to address the skills gaps, which will benefit all stakeholders. This study focuses on the skills that are perceived more by both stakeholders.</span>

Jamming for System Change: Towards Wellbeing and Flourishing for All

This paper uses the metaphor of the musical jam to identify a working set of holistic core guidelines and norms useful for transformation catalysts—and participants in transformation systems who are collectively stewarding organizing purposeful, whole system transformative change. Since purposeful whole system change involves bringing together actors and initiatives outside the context of conventional hierarchical organizations, it requires a set of skills and design guidelines associated with musical jams. Jams are musical sessions that enable musicians who do not necessarily play together as a formal group to produce good music over significant periods of time when certain norms are followed. Similarly, system change makers, operate in systems where change agents and initiatives voluntarily come together around (emergent) shared aspirations and actions. Doing that well means that transformation catalysts need to employ a constellation of key skills synthesized here as improvisation, stewardship, pattern recognition, collaboration, connection, generativity, and presence.

Facilitators and barriers to the development of giftedness in children

Giftedness can be interpreted as a multifactorial set of special abilities and skills, that the individual begins to express from an early developmental age. Many believe that the concept of giftedness goes beyond and includes not only IQ but also other factors. The purpose of this literature review is to collect recent data according to factors other than socio/cultural and economic that may influence the expression of giftedness in children. In the introduction giftedness is discussed according to several elements that may intervene in the acceptance of a universal definition and identification of this specific population and the main part explores several factors that may prevent giftedness through inhibition of cognitive and emotional aspects of daily living of children including children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Innovative Pedagogical Practices In Teacher Education

Teacher education is a program that is related with teacher proficiency and competency to equip future teacher(pre-service) with the required set of knowledge, attitude and skill to face new challenges and training should be provided to in-service teachers to upgrade their knowledge and to make them competent to face new challenges by using innovative pedagogy. The main purpose of this paper is to explain the new changes that has been incurred in teacher education and gives overview of recent trends and innovative pedagogical practices that used in the teaching learning process that is need of the hour. Some of the innovative pedagogical practices like constructivist approach, flipped classroom, blended learning, personalized system of instruction or self-learning, team teaching, experiential learning, reflective teaching, competency-based approach, improving critical teaching skill, peer tutoring, multicultural education and some of the practices like importance on emotional intelligence, multidisciplinary approach, professional development through digital platform, recruitment of senior or retired teachers and involvement research-based teaching (Recommended by NEP-2020) etc. needs to be reflected in teacher education program that greatly helps in producing quality output in teaching learning process. To face the challenges in 21st century the teacher should have the skill and competency in different innovative methods and approaches to make the teaching learning process active, meaningful and enjoyable. That greatly helps the students to be a problem solver, decision maker and discoverer of knowledge.

Ten Ways to Improve Getting a Scientific Manuscript Accepted.

Scientific publication is the cornerstone to academic and private practice advancement in patient management and outcomes. Writing a manuscript requires a certain discipline and skill set that can be achieved with diligence and hard work. Anecdotal and review. Several factors must be considered in scientific writing and journal manuscript submission and acceptance. Choosing where to submit the manuscript; understanding the instructions to authors; disclosing ethically; formatting correctly; never plagiarizing; supplying high quality appropriate images; creating meaningful tables; curating a pertinent but thorough bibliography; having valid, supported conclusions; andrespecting timelines. A discussion of relevant components in manuscript writing and journal submission to improve your chances of acceptance.

A pilot conceptualisation of the data space ecosystems for cultural heritage

The digital heritage sector is among the nine common European data spaces out- lined in the EU Data Act: Health, Industrial, Agriculture, Finance, Mobility, Green Deal, Energy, Public Administration, and Skills. The data space concept is complex, and being linked with the data ecosystem brings together methodologies and techniques from numerous domains: artificial intelligence (AI), text/data mining, data visualisation, mapping, image analysis, audio analysis, network analysis, and rights management. There is a need for clarifying data terminology in use for the GLAM field and transferable methodology to strengthen its’ ongoing datafication and digital skill set. The paper offers a comprehensive literature review (incl. EU Data (space) policy documents) on data spaces and data ecosystems aimed at (1) formulating the main challenges in data collection, data processing, and data maturity for heritage-related information systems and (2) justification of the necessary mindset and digital skill set change for a mature museum. General conclusions are made as well as rec- ommendations for the Bulgarian GLAM sector.

Determinants of COVID Induced Repatriation of Emigrant Labourers from GCC Countries to Kerala, India: An Econometric Analysis

The COVID-induced repatriation of the emigrant labourers from GCC countries to Kerala, India, unprecedentedly unfolds more significant ramifications for the Kerala economy. The study empirically estimated the significant determinants behind the abrupt decision to repatriate emigrant labourers from GCC countries to their country of origin, India. The data compiled from COVID-induced repatriated emigrant labourers using Logistic regression revealed that factors like age, marital status and status of family migration at the destination were the compelling reasons for the distress of return emigrant labourers. The repatriated labourers belonged to the younger age group with acquired experience and skill sets at their destination, giving them an added advantage to get them remigrated to GCC countries rather than be a part of the domestic labour market.

Translators’ and interpreters’ engagement with professional development in Australia: An analysis of key factors

Professional development aims to facilitate the maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skills, and has become a standard or even compulsory component of professional practice for many occupational groups. This paper traces the uptake of professional development amongst certified translators and interpreters in Australia, where in 2014 it was introduced as a requirement for newly-certified practitioners only, and in 2019 for all holders of translation or interpreting certification from the national certifying authority. Based on responses gained from a sample of 3,268 practitioners, we report high uptake overall with little variation according to level of qualifications. Slightly lower uptake rates are recorded only amongst ‘newcomers’ with less experience while for all others, it is consistently high. Lower uptake rates are recorded amongst those who work 1-10 hours per week and those earning up to A$10,000 per year compared to others working more hours and those earning more. A desire for more work does not co-occur with elevated levels of PD uptake. The data presented reflects the reported experiences of those who had already been required to engage with PD, those for whom this requirement was new with a three-year time window to undertake PD, as well as those for whom it still remains optional. These findings contribute to our understanding of PD uptake amongst a professional group whose engagement with post-certification training has been under-studied. Findings may inform relevant stakeholders in other countries considering measures to arrest atrophy and extend the skill sets of practising translators and interpreters.

The Future of Material Scientists in an Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Material science has historically evolved in tandem with advancements in technologies for characterization, synthesis, and computation. Another type of technology to add to this mix is machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Now increasingly sophisticated AI-models are seen that can solve progressively harder problems across a variety of fields. From a material science perspective, it is indisputable that machine learning and artificial intelligence offer a potent toolkit with the potential to substantially accelerate research efforts in areas such as the development and discovery of new functional materials. Less clear is how to best harness this development, what new skill sets will be required, and how it may affect established research practices. In this paper, those question are explored with respect to increasingly more sophisticated ML/AI-approaches. To structure the discussion, a conceptual framework of an AI-ladder is introduced. This AI-ladder ranges from basic data-fitting techniques to more advanced functionalities such as semi-autonomous experimentation, experimental design, knowledge generation, hypothesis formulation, and the orchestration of specialized AI modules as stepping-stones toward general artificial intelligence. This ladder metaphor provides a hierarchical framework for contemplating the opportunities, challenges, and evolving skill sets required to stay competitive in the age of artificial intelligence.

The role of collaboration in educating the global pediatric anesthesia workforce.

An estimated 1.7 billion children and adolescents do not have access to safe and affordable surgical care, and the vast majority of these are located in low-middle-income countries (LMICs). Pediatric anesthesia, a specialized field that requires a diverse set of knowledge and skills, has seen various advancements over the years and has become well-established in upper-middle and high-income countries. However, in LMICs, due to a multitude of factors including severe workforce shortages, this has not been the case. Collaborations play a vital role in increasing the capacity of pediatric anesthesiology educators and training the pediatric anesthesia workforce. These efforts directly increase access for children who require surgical intervention. Collaboration models can be operationalized through bidirectional knowledge sharing, training, resource allocation, research and innovation, quality improvement, networking, and advocacy. This article aims to highlight a few of these collaborative efforts. Specifically, the role that the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, the Safer Anesthesia from Education program, the Asian Society of Pediatric Anaesthesiologists, Pediatric Anesthesia Training in Africa, the Paediatric Anaesthesia Network New Zealand, the Safe Pediatric Anesthesia Network and two WhatsApp™ groups (global ped anesthesia and the Pediatric Difficult Intubation Collaborative) have played in improving anesthesiology care for children.

Evaluating the Challenges Facing Small-Scale Sugarcane Farmers (Sugarcane Outgrowers) In Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Chiredzi District in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe

The study was based on the evaluation of the challenges facing small-scale sugarcane farmers (sugarcane outgrowers) in Zimbabwe and focusing on Chiredzi District. Consequently, the research used phenomenological philosophy to study this phenomenon and the sample was made of 50 persons comprising of 20 sugarcane outgrowers, 5 Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development officials, 5 Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises, 5 Agritex, 5 Village heads and 10 spouses. Accordingly, the findings from the study show that small-scale sugarcane farmers in Chiredzi District are facing a myriad of challenges and that the government should intervene in order to save the industry. Likewise, microfinance institutions should help sugarcane outgrowers with the much-needed funds for their day-to-day operations. Thus, it was suggested that Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development officials and the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises should help sugarcane outgrowers with establishing a workable relationship with Tongaat as the current one is unhinged in favour of Tongaat Hullets. Similarly, sugarcane outgrowers are playing a vital role in developing Zimbabwe economically. Therefore, should be equipped with the much need entrepreneurship prerequisite skills sets though up-to-date trainings in order to equip sugarcane outgrowers with extant and suave entrepreneurial skills in order for them to increase production and meet the expectations of their miller through capacity building.

Understanding unique employability skill sets of autistic individuals: A systematic review

AbstractIn recent years, several publications and media outlets have highlighted how the skills and interests of autistic individuals may benefit organizations. However, there is scant empirical research on the topic. The present study's authors conducted a systematic review to find which potential employability skills, strengths, and interests of autistic individuals available research has highlighted. Data extraction methods identified 51 papers related to skills in this population. The skill sets autistic individuals may possess and the research behind these findings were organized, evaluated, and summarized. Based on these findings, investigators discuss implications for employment counseling and future research.

Stress-coping strategies among bankers in Southwest Nigeria

ABSTRACT Background: Work-related stress is the reaction individuals may have when faced with work expectations and forces that are not in tandem with their skill set and capacities and which frustrate their ability to cope. Coping strategies are paradigms used to limit the impact of stressful experiences, thus inhibiting the psychological and physical responses and making it more possible to maintain normal functioning at the time. Aim: This study aims to determine how bankers cope with stress from work in Ado-Ekiti, Southwest Nigeria. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was done among three hundred and two bankers in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti state. A sociodemographic questionnaire was designed to obtain data on the sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents, while coping with work-related stress was assessed with The Brief Coping Orientation to Problems Experienced (Brief-COPE). Results: Two hundred and ninety-eight respondents (98.7%) used adaptive coping strategies, while four (1.3%) did not use them. One hundred and ninety-seven respondents (65.2%) used maladaptive strategies, while one hundred and five respondents (34.8%) did not cope with them. In essence, the majority of the respondents used adaptive strategies to cope with stress. Conclusion: Most of the bankers utilized adaptive strategies in coping with work-related stress.

COMMODITY, NATURE, AND TASTE: THE MAKING OF TAIWAN’S HIGH-MOUNTAIN TEA

ABSTRACT This article explores Taiwan’s high-mountain tea as a commodity as well as a cultural product centering on the notions of nature, place, and taste. High-mountain tea, or gaoshancha, started in Taiwan in the 1980s, grew quickly in production and popularity, and has now become a signature Taiwanese tea. I will examine the process in which Taiwan’s tea sector connects gaoshancha with the fresh taste of the high-mountain’s natural environment, and how such a connection has led to the “greening” (lighter level of oxidization) of gaoshancha, which unwittingly narrows the tea’s taste, reduces the agency and skill set of tea makers, and even bring about negative effects on the consumers’ body. At the same time, some tea makers produce a variety of teas outside the gaoshancha-centric commodity grid, engaging in tea-making based on their sensitive interactions with the tea leaves, allowing agency of both themselves and the tea leaves. Both modes of tea-making are nature-constituted and place-based, yet with constraining effects when nature and place are reduced into “green” and “mountain,” or enabling effects when the tea leaves’ complex materialism is engaged fully. This case study sheds light on the importance of cultural meanings of nature and place, including the particular ways cultural meanings are produced and exercised, in the future of food.

Artistic expression as a property of resonant musical experience: an interview study with upper secondary school music teachers

Background The concept of artistic expression is present in the curriculum for upper secondary school music program in Sweden. Being a criterion for assessment, no definition is provided by the National Agency of Education and there exists no consensus of how to interpret artistic expression among music teachers and music teacher students. Methods In order to explore how teachers understand, teach, and assess the concept and phenomenon of artistic expression, twelve qualitative interviews with music teachers were conducted and analyzed through an open coding process. Results The findings show that the concept of artistic expression is multifaceted and evasive. The results focus on two analytic threads: (i) situatedness and (ii) entanglement. (i) AE is situated due to context-specific parameters which underpins the meaning of the concept in this particular educational setting. (ii) Furthermore, the phenomenon of artistic expression is entangled (a) with the ongoing relationship between teacher and student, and (b) in a temporally unfolding and interactive musical event. The phenomenon of artistic expression as entangled is discussed, primarily through Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance, which brings into focus the intersubjective character of aesthetic experience. Doing so questions understandings of – and assessment procedures surrounding – artistic expression that relies on skill-based interpretations or reductions of entanglement. One example of such reduction is assessment of recordings of student performances which limits the (a) relational perspective (if assessed by a third person) or (b) the entanglement with the musical event. The perspective of resonance brings forth the teacher’s role during a student performance as characterized by self-efficacy and active listening, thus co-constitutive of artistic expression. Conclusions The article concludes with reflections on how the findings may contribute to the continuous discussion on how scientific grounding and proven experience may inform both the music education at upper secondary school and music teacher education. The concept of resonance provides a possibility to reframe conceptions of artistic competence in art education as being grounded in intersubjective and relational terms, rather than being reified as a set of measurable skills, an understanding which in turn risks replacing learning with criteria compliance.

Consensus-derived Recommended Skills for Transition to Residency Courses.

Transition to residency (TTR) courses facilitate the medical student-residency transition and are an integral part of senior medical student training. The authors established a common set of skills for TTR courses and an expected level of entrustment students should demonstrate in each skill on TTR course completion. A modified Delphi approach was used with 3 survey iterations between 2020 and 2022 to establish skills to be included in a TTR course. Nine TTR experts suggested general candidate skills and conducted a literature search to ensure no vital skills were missed. A stakeholder panel was solicited from email lists of TTR educators, residency program directors, and residents at the panelists' institutions. Consensus was defined as more than 75% of participants selecting a positive inclusion response. An entrustment questionnaire asked panelists to assign a level of expected entrustment to each skill, with 1 indicating observation only and 6 indicating perform independently. The stakeholder panel initially consisted of 118 respondents with representation across educational contexts and clinical specialties. Response rates were 54% in iteration 2, 42% in iteration 3, and 33% on the entrustment questionnaire. After 3 iterations, 54 skills met consensus and were consolidated into 37 final skills categorized into 18 clinical skills (e.g., assessment and management of inpatient concerns), 14 communication skills (e.g., delivering serious news or having difficult conversations), 4 personal and professional skills (e.g., prioritization of clinical tasks), and 1 procedural skill (mask ventilation). Median entrustment levels were reported for all skills, with 19 skills having a level of expected entrustment of 4 (perform independently and have all findings double-checked). These consensus skills can serve as the foundation of a standardized national TTR curriculum framework. Entrustment guidance may help educational leaders optimize training and allocation of resources for TTR curriculum development and implementation.

Hierarchical Classification of Transversal Skills in Job Advertisements Based on Sentence Embeddings

This paper proposes a classification methodology aimed at identifying correlations between job ad requirements and transversal skill sets, with a focus on predicting the necessary skills for individual job descriptions using a deep learning model. The approach involves data collection, preprocessing, and labeling using ESCO (European Skills, Competences, and Occupations) taxonomy. Hierarchical classification and multi-label strategies are used for skill identification, while augmentation techniques address data imbalance, enhancing model robustness. A comparison between results obtained with English-specific and multi-language sentence embedding models reveals close accuracy. The experimental case studies detail neural network configurations, hyperparameters, and cross-validation results, highlighting the efficacy of the hierarchical approach and the suitability of the multi-language model for the diverse European job market. Thus, a new approach is proposed for the hierarchical classification of transversal skills from job ads.