Strategic Support Research Articles

Countermeasures for the development of industry-based university foundations in the new era

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China points out that education, science and technology, and talent are the basic and strategic support for the construction of a modern socialist country in all respects. It has pointed out the direction and development path for the development of universities as well as university foundations. Starting from the history, current situation and future development of university foundations, this paper proposes to fully understand the great significance of the new era and enhance the sense of mission in the work of university foundations; to deeply understand the connotation of the work and continuously deepen the understanding of the regularity of university foundations; to accurately grasp the development trend of the industry and continuously create a new situation for the development of university foundations. The industry-based university foundations should take the spirit of the 20th National Congress as the guide, combine the characteristics and discipline advantages of the university, focus on improving the quality of talent cultivation, scientific research and innovation level, and social service capacity, take multiple measures to comprehensively improve the governance capacity and contribute to the construction of a leading education country.

Research on High Quality Development of Foreign Trade in Central Region

With the acceleration of the process of globalization and the development of foreign trade, China has gradually formed a strategic situation of the rise of the central region, the great development of the east, the great revitalization of the northeast and the great development of the west. Because the central six provinces are in the inland area, the large transportation cost of foreign trade and the imperfect foreign trade infrastructure have led to the relatively backward development of foreign trade in the central region, and there is an "economic depression". This paper collects the import and export trade data of the central region from 2012 to 2022, analyzes the current situation of the overall development and structure, and explores the key factors restricting the current foreign trade development of the central region, and focuses on cultivating and expanding foreign trade entities, deepening regional cooperation, and enhancing the ability to attract investment. Deeply participate in the "Belt and Road" construction and other measures to improve the level of opening up in the central region, and provide important strategic support for promoting high-quality economic development in the central region.

Economic Sustainability Through Agritourism in Rural Communities: The Case of Native Chicken Beauty Contest in Isabela, Philippines

Agritourism is a promising industry in the Philippines. It is one among the backbones of Philippine economy. This study assessed the impact of the native chicken beauty contest as an agritourism initiatives in Isabela, Philippines based on the perceptions of 639 farmers and stakeholders. The participants are coming from different municipalities of the province. Data were gathered through an adapted survey. Findings revealed that the respondents have a positive perception on the impact of the initiatives in the aspect of economy. They believe that the initiative improves their financial status, and that they received strategic and financial support from the government through their political leaders. On the other hand, the participants’ concern was about peoples’ participations to the development and implementation of the initiatives, proper development of community image for branding towards international recognition. Hence, a policy on inter-agency and inter-cultural monitoring board is highly recommended.

The Image of Elderly Web Celebrities on the Tiktok

With the development of Chinas aging and digitizing, the elderly, as a vulnerable group on the Internet, are gradually marginalized in the wave of new media. However, the emergence of short videos provides a channel for the active communication of the elderly group, and many elderly web celebrities have risen on the Tiktok platform. This study takes the top 30 elderly web celebrities on Tiktok as the research object, and content analysis and literature review are used as the primary research methods. Based on Goffmans theory of drama, the study analyses content on short videos of elderly web celebrities explores the presentation method of their media image and provides strategic support for better guiding the image building and communication of elderly web celebrities. The study found that elderly web celebritys images on TikTok are rich in types, distinctive features, and positive images. According to the difference between the video content and the positioning of the characters, the research objects are classified into five kinds of characters, namely youthful images, intellectual images, down-to-earth images, humorous images, and other images. At the same time, it was found that the self-image of elderly web celebrities showed specific rules of belonging to the group. In terms of character image setting, plot setting, audience interaction, and so on, it shows the characteristics of the elderly web celebrities. Besides, it is necessary to solve these problems existing in the image building from the aspects of celebrities themselves, platforms, the government, and society, to make the image presentation of elderly web celebrities more valuable

Towards healthy food retail: An assessment of public health nutrition workforce capacity to work with stores

ObjectiveThis article aims to investigate the capacity of nutrition professionals to engage in food retail practice change to improve population diet. MethodsConvergent mixed method design was used that includes pre-interview surveys, in-depth interviews, and retrospective mapping of service provision. The study was conducted in organisations that provide a nutrition professional service to food retail stores in remote Australia. The study participants include 11 nutrition professionals and eight organisation representatives, including managers, organisation directors and policy officers. Systems-mapping and thematic analysis of the in-depth interviews were conducted using a capacity development framework. Descriptive analysis was applied to pre-interview survey and mapping data. ResultsA gap between the aspirational work and current capacity of nutrition professionals to engage effectively with stores was identified. Engagement with stores to improve population health was valued by organisations. Dominance of the medical health model limited organisation strategic support for store work and created barriers. Key barriers included the limited access to training, decision-support tools, information, financial resources and organisational structures that directed store work. ConclusionsProvision of adequate store-specific training, resources and organisational support may empower the nutrition professional workforce to be powerful leaders in co-design for healthy food retail. Implications for Public HealthBuilding capacity for this critical workforce to engage in food retail practice change must consider the influence of the broader health system and employer organisations and need for access to evidence-based decision-support tools.

Beyond the Crisis: Re-energizing Southeast Asian Studies

This article examines the main drivers of the fiscal crisis in Asian/Southeast Asian Studies and considers ways of overcoming or at least ameliorating it. In the Australian context, several leading scholars in Asian Studies have called for various new forms of strategic state financial support to help keep the field alive, including incentives and structural support for Asian languages at both school and university levels and priority in publicly-funded research grant schemes. However, re-energizing Asian Studies in fiscal terms will undoubtedly require efforts to make the field more appealing to prospective students because of the prevalence of higher education funding models in which money follows student enrollments. This will particularly be the case with Southeast Asian Studies, given the weakness of enrollments in this sub-field. In this respect, there may be some value in seeking to create new education pathways in Asian Studies that focus on cross-national issues and problems within the region as an alternative to the traditional country-focused area studies approach

Sustainable Facility Management in UN Development Goals

Facility Management (FM) is currently focusing on sustainability through the adoption of the newly recognised United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) when making business decisions. Strategic Sustainable FM has the potential towards the realisation of the 17 SDGs at all levels of organisation in the FM sector. However, the FM sector is also encountering potential barriers to the implementation of the relevant SDGs. Standardised and strategic level support is crucial for the smooth adoption of sustainable FM. This paper is aimed at discussing the role of facility management in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. This viewpoint paper, whereby content is dependent on the authors’ opinion and interpretation, focuses on new emerging disciplines that will affect the operations phase of buildings and the people working therein. The SDGs can help to objectively quantify the added value of FM to the core business and the global FM industry including impact of ISO standards and stakeholders (clients, service providers and researchers).

Empowering English as an Additional Language students through digital multimodal composing

AbstractWhile digital multimodal composing, underpinned by a critical literacies approach, provides opportunities for students to make informed semiotic choices and voice concerns about social issues, there is limited research exploring how digital multimodal composing is employed to interrogate and challenge the entanglements of language, immigration status and power. This article explores how 23 primary‐aged English as an Additional Language (EAL) students (Years 3–6) engaged in digital multimodal composing, in the context of an after‐school multiliteracies programme in one Australian school. Conceptualising critical literacies as a bridge to access and transform codes of power, the article explores how the participating students selected and used different semiotic resources for their digital texts while challenging and redefining dominant discourses based on their lived experiences and interests. The study found that both students and pre‐service teachers found value in students having access to digital technologies and experimenting with a range of multimodal and multilingual resources to create digital texts, which reflected cultural and linguistic identities. The findings illustrate how the creation of digital multimodal and multilingual texts allows for opportunities for students to reposition themselves as knowledgeable and active meaning‐makers with strategic support from teachers and peers.

Modelling the long-term sustainability impacts of coordination policies for urban infrastructure rehabilitation

Due to structural and hydraulic deterioration, urban water pipe networks have annual rehabilitation needs. Worldwide, these needs are often significantly larger than the actual amount of rehabilitation being performed, leading to increased risks of serious failures, lower performance and a growing techno-financial burden for future generations. It is well accepted that, in order to limit the multiple impacts of utility works in the urban environment, rehabilitation projects should be coordinated between water, transport, energy and telecommunication infrastructures. In practice, such coordination means that public utilities must rehabilitate assets earlier or later than technically needed, in order to engage in joint projects in which digging and resurfacing expenditures are shared. Hence, at the municipal scale, such coordination influences two variables that are key to strategic decision support: average costs (€/metre) for asset rehabilitation, and the service lifetimes of those assets. However, current models for strategic asset management do not enable practitioners to estimate how changes in the coordination process may influence the long-term financial and environmental impacts of infrastructure rehabilitation. The present study aimed at addressing this methodological gap by introducing the concept of a coordination window that quantifies to what extent utilities compromise asset rehabilitation times in order to join multi-utility projects. An algorithm for modelling the influence of the coordination window size on long-term sustainability costs is presented and applied to one Swedish municipality. The results suggested that total capital costs and carbon emissions can be lowered by 34% and 16% with a coordination window of 35 and 25 year, in comparison to the no-coordination case.

Co‐designing conservation interventions through participatory action research in the Indian Trans‐Himalaya

Abstract Community‐based conservation, despite being more inclusive than fortress conservation, has been criticized for being a top‐down implementation of external ideas brought to local communities for conservation's benefit. This is particularly true for Changpas, the pastoral people of Changthang in trans‐Himalayan India who live alongside unique wildlife. Our main aim was to co‐design conservation interventions through participatory action research. We worked with two Changpa communities, to understand the issues faced by them. Subsequently, we co‐designed context‐sensitive interventions to facilitate positive human–nature interactions. We did so by integrating the PARTNERS (Presence, Aptness, Respect, Transparency, Empathy, Responsiveness, Strategic Support) principles with the Trinity of Voice (Access, Standing and Influence). In Rupsho, we facilitated focus group discussions (FGDs) led by the community. We found livestock depredation by wildlife was primarily facilitated by the weather. This led to co‐designing of a new corral design, which was piloted with seven households, safeguarding 2385 pashmina goats and sheep. Approximating the value of each sheep/goat to be USD125, this intervention amounts to a significant economic protection of USD c. 42,500 for each household. This is along with intangible gains of trust, ownership and improved self‐esteem. In Tegazong, a restricted area adjoining the Indo‐China border with no previous research records, we worked with 43 Changpa people to co‐create research questions of mutual interest. Wildlife presence and reasons for livestock loss were identified as areas of mutual interest. The herders suggested they would record data in a form of their choice, for 6 months, while they live in their winter pastures. This participatory community monitoring revealed nutrition and hypothermia to be a key cause of livestock death. Subsequently, we delimited two previously untested interventions: lamb cribs and provisioning of locally sourced barley as a feed supplement. The wildlife monitoring recorded the first record of Tibetan Gazelle Procapra picticuadata, outside of their known distribution, in Tegazong. We aim to highlight the benefits of co‐designing projects with local communities that link research and conservation, while also discussing the challenges faced. Ultimately, such projects are needed to ensure ethical knowledge generation and conservation, which aims to be decolonial and inclusive.

CRITERIA AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC LIFE QUALITY MANAGEMENT (WORLD EXPERIENCE)

Quality of life is a socio-economic systems management category. Management’s efficiency is associated with allocation of all required performance evaluation criteria and further measurement procedure. The achieved result directly depends on optimality of criteria selection and further measurement. Accordingly, this paper explores main approaches to measuring quality of life, identifies their advantages and disadvantages. The study also highlights criteria for assessing wellbeing based on an objective, subjective, and integral perception of quality of life in countries with a higher level of wellbeing. Based on systematization of theoretical approaches to determining the structure of quality of life, its aspects (structural blocks) most common in international practice, recognized as the minimum required are identified. In accordance with the proposed structure, conclusion recommends using indicators correctly determining changes in the wellbeing and strengthening of the impact of society on a decision-making process to improve the quality of life. Recommendation takes into account the fact that in today's Kazakhstan the degree of satisfaction with the quality of life remains low as there is a multitude of systemic problems associated with uneven income distribution; housing security and credit burden; state of strategic life support facilities, including heat supply (thermal power plants) and public highways (of republican, regional, and district significance); environmental situation in regions and cities of republican significance, and other aspects of quality of life negatively affecting the level of confidence in socio-economic institutions.

Why has Japanese Global Competitiveness Been Declining in the Automobile Industry? Comparative Analysis of Korea

The paper is to study the reasons why the global competitiveness of the Japanese industry has weakened significantly in the automobile industry. Four leading causes will be analyzed to weaken Japanese global competitiveness regarding technical, market, policy, and corporate factors. Above all, the human element, which is consisted of the dynamics of entrepreneurs, workers, experts, politicians, and administrative bureaucrats, is the most critical in analyzing the technical, market, policy, and corporate factors of global competitiveness in each industry. In Japan, workers and experts were responsible for technology transfer within the industry. Japan was far ahead of Korea regarding technological equipment, but there were frequent cases of human leaking. Japanese automakers’ entrepreneurs failed to the quality management of the overseas workforce while promoting a growth-centered corporate strategy, resulting in a massive recall in 2009. As for the Japanese automobile industry, global competitiveness has been weakened due to the inability of the technicians to supply an overseas workforce to cope with the boom period of the worldwide market. In addition, politicians and bureaucrats, via the government's industrial support or policy, played an inevitable role in enhancing the competitiveness of Japan in early development. As an industry incumbent, Japan formed an industrial ecosystem while pursuing industrial development through government-led industrial policy. Thus, when the economy came into a recession, especially macroeconomic stagnation, there should have been timely action or policy support at the government level. With the technological development of products, the market of the industry was booming or depressed at that time, along with the government's policy and strategic support to develop each sector and to maintain its global competitiveness. The Japanese government failed to take advantage of the market due to the wrong choice of investment period and, thus, caused to lessen the gap with Korea. The investment reduction or cost reduction decided by entrepreneurs as one of the main factors, explained in detail by the corporate factor as the internal cause, is noteworthy among the four factors of weakening global competitiveness. The biggest reason Toyota lost global competitiveness, mainly due to its massive recall in the automobile industry, is that it made small investments during critical periods, delayed investments, or impractical cost reduction strategies in significant investment periods. The technology, market, and policy factors are the leading causes because of the necessary-to-sufficient relationship with the investment or cost reduction. With the decision-making process for investment or cost reduction by entrepreneurs, Toyota Motors would have avoided the massive recall in the global arena.

Efficiency Evaluation and Influencing Factors of Sports Industry and Tourism Industry Convergence Based on China’s Provincial Data

As sunrise industries, green industries and happiness industries, the sports industry and the tourism industry have natural convergence, and the convergence of the sports and tourism industries is not only a new strategic support point for the sustainable development of the two industries but also an important way to drive healthy and sustainable development of related industries. We measure the efficiency of sports–tourism convergence in 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in China from 2013 to 2019 using the benevolent cross-efficiency DEA model and the qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method and conduct a configuration analysis of the influencing factors. The research indicates: (1) the efficiency of the development of sports–tourism convergence is low and its role in the sustainable development of the tourism and sports industries needs to be improved. (2) The efficiency of sports–tourism convergence shows spatial distribution characteristics of decreasing efficiency in the eastern region–central region–western region. (3) Industrial structure, transportation conditions, openness to the outside world, political support and their combination are the core driving factors affecting integration of sports and tourism.

Listening to ShotSpotter: Acoustics and Predictive Policing in Chicago

This project hopes to highlight a moving, multidirectional story about acoustic surveillance tools and how they are used to predict and conduct the future. I focus on ShotSpotter Inc’s occupation in Chicago, which has grown omnipresent following the signature of the city’s current contract with ShotSpotter for $33 million in the summer of 2021, lasting through August 2023 (Del Vecchio and Chapman 2022).2 Chicago is now blanketed with microphones and Strategic Decision Support Centers (“SDSC’s”) installed to 21 of the city’s 22 police districts. (Ibid and CBS 2020)3. Chicago accounted for 14% of ShotSpotter’s total revenue in 2021, as the company’s second largest customer (MarketScreener 2022)4. Activists in the city have protested this relationship, especially after ShotSpotter acquired predictive policing company HunchLab in 2018.5 Legislation in Illinois has yet to adequately grapple with advanced acoustic surveillance and predictive policing techniques, further ripening this moment for this dialogue.6 This project is not a study of the borne and exacerbated ills of ShotSpotter’s collaborations with Chicago Police and their rise of their technocratic methodologies, nor is the project much concerned with ShotSpotter’s credence as a technology that is successful even by its own objectives.7 Rather, this project is an experimental inquiry into how our futures may be patrolled by means of acoustic capture and prediction. I explored this by placing ShotSpotter’s approach in contrast with other shapes and styles of listening that nurture the past, present, and future.

Exploring the Philosophical Meaning and Contemporary Value of The Idea of Community of Human Destiny

The idea of community of human destiny has a rich theoretical connotation, and its proposal not only follows the trend of the development of the times, but also closely follows the pulse of social development. It not only takes Marxist world history thought, community thought and Engels' theory of historical synergy as the doctrinal support, but also has a profound philosophical basis. It provides a modern interpretation of historical materialism, materialistic dialectics, and the law of cognitive development, and outlines its unique contemporary value in three dimensions. The idea of the community of human destiny is the "new dynamic energy" for the development of global productivity, the "strategic support" for the realization of the Chinese dream, and the "pointer" for the development of human society.

Sustainable digitalisation and implementation of ISO standards for facilities management

PurposeThis viewpoint paper aims to discuss sustainable digitalisation of facilities management (FM) through the implementation of the newly recognised International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standards within the ISO 41000 series.Design/methodology/approachThis viewpoint paper provides a review of the literature of the recent ISO documents and academic study. The content is also dependent on the authors’ opinions and interpretation.FindingsFM is currently shifting emphasis towards a strategic focus through the adoption of the new recognised international ISO standards that consider sustainable digitalisation in business decisions. However, the FM sector is encountering potential risks to the implementation of the new recognised international ISO standards. Digitalisation is one kind of force that has shaped the management of the built environment and FM recently and rapidly, especially in the Covid-19 period. This is impacting the FM industry. As standardisation aims at establishing a constantly evolving baseline of proven practices, standardisation can be considered a part of sustainable FM. It is believed that standardised and strategic level support is crucial for the smooth adoption of sustainable FM practices and processes. Standards such as the ISO standards, applied to the global FM industry, help in objectively quantifying the added value of FM to the core business. Advanced technology and digitalisation can contribute to the sustainability of any profession and industry, but it also requires a community to tackle the problems.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the FM industry by making recommendations for improvement in the use of digitalisation. In summary, the significant finding of this viewpoint paper is that digitalisation offers both possibilities and problems in the application of the new recognised international ISO standards within the FM industry.

FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE AND THE JOURNAL OF ANTI-CORRUPTION LAW

Thank you for inviting me to open this conference. I am privileged to be here. The conference programme contains some timely and important discussions that we should have. I therefore hope to participate in some of the discussions which will take place in the parallel sessions of this conference.Before I proceed with my address, I would like to mention the late Professor Lovell Fernandez, one of the founders of the Journal of Anti-Corruption Law and a member of the Department: Criminal Justice and Procedure. I met him in 1999 when he supported South Africa’s first National Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Bulelani Ngcuka, whom I worked for at the time. I was an office assistant then to the National Director of Public Prosecutions. This was more than 30 years ago. I recall that Professor Fernandez provided important strategic support to the National Prosecuting Authority. He led the drafting process of the National Prosecuting Authority’s first prosecution policy. To my dismay, the policy has not undergone significant amendment since then.

Environmental Prediction in Cold Chain Transportation of Agricultural Products Based on K-Means++ and LSTM Neural Network

Experiments have proven that traditional prediction research methods have limitations in practice. Proposing countermeasures for environmental changes is the key to optimal control of the cold chain environment and reducing the lag of control effects. In this paper, a cold chain transportation environment prediction method, combining k-means++ and a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network, is proposed according to the characteristics of the cold chain transportation environment of agricultural products. The proposed prediction model can predict the trend of cold chain environment changes in the next ten minutes, which allows cold chain vehicle managers to issue control instructions to the environmental control equipment in advance. The fusion process for temperature and humidity data measured by multiple data sensors is performed with the k-means++ algorithm, and then the fused data are fed into an LSTM neural network for prediction based on time series. The prediction error of the prediction model proposed in this paper is very satisfactory, with a root-mean-square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), mean squared error (MSE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and R-squared of 0.5707, 0.2484, 0.3258, 0.0312 and 0.9660, respectively, for temperature prediction, and with an RMSE, MAE, MSE, mean absolute percentage error and R-squared of 1.6015, 1.1770, 2.5648, 0.2736 and 0.9702, respectively, for humidity prediction. Finally, the LSTM neural network and back propagation (BP) neural network are compared in order to enhance the reliability of the results. In terms of the prediction effect of the temperature and humidity in cold chain vehicles transporting agricultural products, the proposed model has a higher prediction accuracy than that of existing models and can provide strategic support for the fine management and regulation of the cold chain transportation environment.

Investigating the prospect of cleaner production in informal enterprises: A scientific assessment of environmental burdens and economic efficiency

The present study aims to assess the prospects for cleaner production (CP) and sustainable development (SD) of informally operated small manufacturing enterprises, which are frequently blamed for uncontrolled waste disposal and causing pollution to the environment. The economic efficiency level of these firms has been explored to this end, and the metallic pollution loads in the surrounding environment have been scientifically analyzed to investigate the nexus between these two. DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis)-Tobit analysis has been employed, and a pollution load index (PLI) of heavy metal pollution comprising two environmental compartments (soil and water) has been constructed based on the concentration level of metalloid pollutants in the samples collected from the surrounding areas of the studied informal firms in Bangladesh. The study disproves CP practice in majority of the informal firms in Bangladesh by observing a positive relationship between firm-level efficiency and pollution load sourced from their production activities. Afterwards, this study estimates the eco-efficiency level of firms by considering pollution load as an undesirable output and minimizing its impact in an input-oriented DEA model. Applying the eco-efficiency scores in censored Tobit regression analysis, the outcome endorses the prospect of CP for informally operated enterprises in Bangladesh. However, the CP prospect can only materialize if and only if firms are provided with adequate technical, financial, and strategic support for achieving eco-efficiency in their production. The informal and marginal nature of the studied firms restricts them from getting access to the facilities and support services needed for implementing CP and moving towards sustainable manufacturing. Therefore, this study recommends green practices in informal manufacturing and limiting the informal firms by bringing them gradually under the coverage of formalization, which is in line with the achievement of the targets mentioned in Sustainable Development Goal 8.

Literature Study: Educational Management Strategies In Rural Schools

Educational resources are relatively scarce in rural areas, and many abandoned children are in rural areas. Therefore, it needs to be clarified in education and teaching. This study uses a qualitative method with a literature study approach. Data is taken in the form of books and journals taken from Google Scholar with specific keywords according to the needs of the article. From this study, it was found that improving the level of education and management of primary and secondary schools in rural areas is a problem that educators must consider and focus on. Primary and secondary schools should improve relations and update strategies based on different national policies to meet the needs of teaching reform. Improve implementation methods and education management strategies, and provide appropriate strategic support for managing primary and secondary schools in rural areas of different perspectives so that students can improve their cognition and enable them to receive a good education. Based on this, the effective strategy for managing rural primary and secondary education is mainly analyzed further.