Mutual Support System Research Articles

Pemanfaatan Platform Merdeka Mengajar dalam Praktik Baik Implementasi Kurikulum Merdeka

The lack of teacher involvement in independent training and the absence of references to good practices in implementing this curriculum pose significant obstacles. To address this, an educational platform known as the Merdeka Belajar Platform was developed, aimed at facilitating teachers' access to inspiration and references. This research examines the utilization of the Merdeka Belajar Platform in implementing the independent curriculum effectively, focusing on SMAS Muhammadiyah Toboali as a case study. The study's purpose is to uncover and analyze the use of the Merdeka Belajar Platform in facilitating effective implementation of the independent curriculum at SMAS Muhammadiyah Toboali. Descriptive qualitative research methods were employed, involving interviews, documentation studies, and observation for data collection. The findings revealed initial difficulties in comprehending the independent curriculum due to the rapid transition process. However, the implementation of the Merdeka Belajar Platform has led to positive changes, with the optimization of the school's learning community and the emergence of good practices among colleagues. This mutual support system among teachers has underscored those advancements in science and technology present opportunities and challenges rather than obstacles, thereby enhancing educators' capacity and capabilities.

‘I will never forgive him’: blame, precarious kinship, and illness in low‐income urban India

AbstractThis article examines the constitutive role of blame in kinship as a practice in a low‐income neighbourhood in India's capital city, Delhi. Using ethnographic data, I show how women with serious or chronic illness express blame towards kin for their failures in critical moments: for not providing care during illness, not fulfilling kinship obligations, and even for causing or exacerbating illness. As relationships rupture to reveal the underlying precariousness of kinship, women use blaming statements, accusations, and critique to leverage toeholds of power and take matters into their hands against their families’ wishes. Yet even as women forge a degree of agency through blaming practices, I show that these practices can lead, paradoxically, to the repair and reconstitution of kinship. This article builds upon existing scholarship that addresses both the failure of kinship as a system of mutual support and the work of kinship repair in similar marginal contexts in north India characterized by neglect, which render women vulnerable to negative effects. My focus on blaming acts offers a new angle on this intimate terrain, illustrating how women enact the social practice of blame to reshape the dynamics and terms of kinship relations, rather than reconciling themselves to kinship failings.

Gender, mobility and emotional infrastructures: Ikwe Safe Rides in Winnipeg – SI new frontiers

Ikwe is a grassroots ride-sharing group founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in January 2016 to serve a growing number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women—many of them poor and vulnerable—who felt unsafe taking taxis. It uses a Facebook group to connect its network of volunteer drivers with passengers. This article argues that Ikwe’s technical infrastructure—Facebook and cars—is supplemented by an emotional infrastructure through which drivers share and manage the feelings elicited by their work. This gendered emotional infrastructure is based on a network of social circulations that includes sharing information over the Drivers’ Log (a Facebook Messenger group that includes all Ikwe drivers) and telling funny and sad stories at the parking lot that the drivers call ‘Headquarters’. In this way, drivers seek to foster a system of mutual support and protection. It also challenges the standard notion of a rational, efficiency-maximizing commercial exchange between drivers and passengers, as drivers and passengers intimately engage with each other during rides, at Headquarters or over Facebook.

Балансування навантаження в розподіленій системі групової взаємопідтримки виконання поточних завдань

"The article is devoted to the development of a software platform for load balancing in a distributed system of group mutual support for the implementation of current tasks, approaches to visualizing progress and factors influencing the achievement of goals are determined. A comparative analysis of existing assistance services has been carried out. The basic requirements for the logical and functional components of the service being developed and the software for its implementation are substantiated. The architecture of the service being developed is designed, the structure of the personal profile of a user who has problems in terms of motivation, goal setting and planning is determined. A system of automatic selection of users, a calendar of tasks, a system of messaging has been developed. The programmatic result of the work is a web application with load balancing functionality. The developed web application consists of client and server parts and uses public cloud services. The purpose of the work is to develop a distributed system of service for group mutual support for performing personal tasks in the format of a web application using technologies for horizontal scaling of the load from the server side, and the development of the client part in the format of a single-page web application SPA (Single Page Application). The objectives of the research are to conduct a comparative analysis of modern software and instrumental platforms, to determine approaches to visualizing progress in setting up a group mutual support service and factors affecting the achievement of goals. Also, the main tasks should be noted the design of the architecture of the service being developed, the definition of the structure of the user's personal profile, the development of a subsystem for automatic selection of users, a calendar of tasks, a messaging subsystem, as well as the development of web applications, consisting of a client part in the form of SPA and distributed server software with load balancing functionality. To scale the software system, a preliminary division into separate microservices with their subsequent containerization was carried out, and a distributed architecture with placement schemes was designed."

Attitude Survey of Youth for Mutual Aid Support System for Local Community Using Sensitivity Analysis of Bayesian Network

Attitude Survey of Youth for Mutual Aid Support System for Local Community Using Sensitivity Analysis of Bayesian Network

The Impact of Village Rules and Formal Environmental Regulations on Farmers' Cleaner Production Behavior: New Evidence from China.

Village rules and formal environmental regulations are of great significance for standardizing farmers’ cleaner production behavior, promoting green transformation of agriculture and realizing sustainable development of agriculture. Based on the survey data of 946 farmers in five provinces of China, taking seed coating technology, soil testing and formulated fertilization technology, subsoiling tillage technology, green technology for pest and disease control and straw returning technology as examples, this article empirically analyzes the impact of village rules and formal environmental regulations on farmers’ cleaner production behavior by using the multivariate probit model. When formal environmental regulations are relatively lacking or weak, village rules can be used as a useful supplement to formal environmental regulations to promote farmers’ participation in cleaner production. Based on this, this article argues that the important reason for formal environmental regulations falling into relative system failure is that village rules have not been paid enough attention in promoting farmers’ cleaner production behavior. In the future, we should not only continue to strengthen the role of formal environmental regulations in farmers’ cleaner production, but also cultivate the informal institution represented by the village rules, and build the regulatory system of mutual support between informal institution and formal institution.

Property rights and wrongs: Land reforms for sustainable food production in rural Mali

Agricultural land reforms are crucial to promote investments in sustainable land management and food production amidst accelerating urbanization and increasing population growth. However, notable gaps remain in the literature regarding how land reforms designed at the national level are implemented in localized contexts, especially as they interplay with customary tenure regimes. Adopting an institutional bricolage perspective, we explore interactions between local tenure arrangements and government land reforms and the resulting implications for food production in rural Mali. We show that specific market-based land tenure arrangements in the study area emerged from a combination of urbanization pressures and government-designed land reform. We find that tenure security is linked to agricultural investment decisions, as also documented by previous studies. We likewise show that anxieties and ambiguities stemming from state-mandated land registration foster the emergence of monetized forms of access to collective land. These new market-based systems drive greater out-migration of productive community members, leading to labour shortages and weakening the social cohesion and mutual support systems upon which the most vulnerable depend. The findings show that top-down land reforms in rural Mali lead to disruptions of the social fabric, along with re-organizations of tenure systems to accommodate social norms and priorities. We illustrate how, in the context of centralized policy making with limited local consultation, community members resist cooperating and creatively search for alternatives to achieve their social goals. Empirical investigations of socio-institutional challenges such as land tenure arrangements are critical for effective scaling of agricultural innovations and sustainable food production.

Application of supply chain approach to improving hazard-resilient health services: framework analysis for ASEAN and options of implementation.

Infectious diseases such as SARS and COVID-19, like other natural hazards, underline the interconnectedness of the countries. Both manufacturing and services sectors in the economies of Asia have outsourced supplies from different countries in order to gain a competitive advantage through effective value chain management. The motivations for this outsourcing are to achieve technological innovations, reduce end-product prices, and strengthen strategic competitiveness. This paper applies a supply chain approach to develop the concept of a hazard-resilient healthcare system (HRHS) and to explore ways how this might be achieved. After reviewing the current international thinking on HRHS, which has narrowly focused on building national capacities with national capabilities, it argues that a supply chain approach may provide a better, more robust, and in many ways more realistic, approach to enhance the hazard resilience of national healthcare systems. Within such an approach, capabilities of the local actors (local health authorities and healthcare providers) in a pandemic or disaster-prone situation remain important and should be further strengthened, but international support and assistance in times of emergency should also be a key plank of the system. In a changing world with more frequent high-impact pandemics and disasters, such international support need not be one way, but both ways. A system of mutual support may be developed by forming an effective international common pool of capability in responding to the health needs when a major disaster occurs anywhere in a region or globally. Even though serious limitations exist in the current thinking on HRHS, significant progress has been made on the international humanitarian assistance front, especially in the ASEAN region. While developments on this front have not been a part of the purview of the current international thinking on HRHS, it is argued that they may well form an important corner stone in a typical future national HRHS.

ДИСКУРСЫ ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫХ ПОТОКОВ МЕЖДУНАРОДНОЙ МИГРАЦИИ В СЕГМЕНТАХ СОЦИАЛЬНЫХ МЕДИА РОССИИ И СТРАН ЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО СОЮЗА

The purpose of the article is to present the basic results of a social media analysis of the specifics of online communications about migration in the Runet space and digital environments in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Research methods: carried out by structural and logical methods of content analysis of messages relevant to the subject of the study of online conversations and data interpretation of automated statistical options of the blog hosting sites «VKontakte» and «Facebook». As a result of the analysis, a characteristic common for digital communications about the migration of the Russian and European segments of social media was revealed, associated with the intensive circulation of information flows created by informal online network leaders and opinion centers and aimed at the formation of an unofficial system of mutual assistance and support by migrants. each other and the indigenous population. A key characteristic of social and media flows about migration and migrants in European segments of digital communication is their focus on discussing the possibilities of volunteer assistance to migrants from the indigenous population.

Attitude Survey of Youth for Mutual Aid Support System for Local Community Using Bayesian Network

Attitude Survey of Youth for Mutual Aid Support System for Local Community Using Bayesian Network

Integrating the Informal Social Security Arrangements into the Formal Sector in Botswana

This paper makes an attempt to define informal social security and discusses the role of traditional support systems and extended family as social security institutions. Self organised mutual support systems which are neighbourhood or community-based informal systems that go beyond kinship and family ties are discussed. The African traditional values such as “botho” “ubuntu” and “harambee” are discussed. The idea that formal and informal social security systems having the same goal is advanced and that it is possible to build synergies between the two systems. Finally that an integrative approach needs to be adopted between the nonformal and the formal systems of social security.

The Influence of Social Isolation on the Preventive Behaviors for Non-Communicable Diseases in Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Japan.

This study aimed to examine the relationship between one’s physical status related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and social isolation, and to identify lifestyle behaviors for the prevention of NCDs associated with social isolation among community-dwelling older adults in Japan. A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate lifestyle behaviors for NCD prevention associated with social isolation in Japanese adults aged 60 years and above in a community setting. Out of 57 participants, 17.5% were not socially participative, 66.7% hardly ever, 29.8% sometimes, and 3.5% often felt loneliness. Non-social participation and loneliness were negatively related to the frequency of vegetable and fruit intake. Additionally, loneliness was positively associated with one’s duration of smoking and current smoking habits, and negatively associated with the frequency of moderate-intensity activities, with marginal significance. Those with non-social participation or loneliness were less likely to eat a healthy diet and live a smoke-free lifestyle. The findings of this study suggest that a mutual health support system in the community and the development of community-based approaches for the prevention of NCDs among Japanese older adults are needed.

The Impact of Modernization on the Traditional Social Status of Senior Citizens in Pakhtun Culture

This paper reflects the impacts of modernization on the social status of senior citizens in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The Pakhtun culture dominated by patriarchal traditional values embedded in the Pakhtunwali is under the influence of modernization. To know the impact of modernization on the social status of senior citizens in Pakhtun culture, data was collected through in-depth interviews/ interview guide in Hayatabad district Peshawar of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .The respondents were identified through purposive sampling technique. The traditional status of elders is rapidly changing owing to the changing trends in attitudes, familial relations, individualism, women empowerment and migration as attributes of modernity and technological advancement. This change of the traditional structure puts immense pressure on the economic status of senior citizens. Thus due to the weakening of traditional authority, mutual support system and lack of pension schemes, senior citizens are now on one hand confronted with poverty and lower economic positions while on the other hand they are unable to catch up with the changing circumstances. Further, low economic position of the senior citizens is intertwined with other problems such as non-involvement in the decision making processes at home, abuse and torment, ageism, inappropriate medication and care, substandard diet and accommodation.

Energy-environmental efficiency of clean energy in China: Integrated analysis with regional green growth

Green growth has become an increasingly important paradigm for sustainable economic growth, resource development, and environmental protection. As the main focus in energy led green growth is a move away from fossil energy to clean energy, sustainable green growth resource development needs to measure both energy and environmental efficiencies. As the largest global energy consumer and carbon emitter, China has had to deal with serious energy and environmental issues in recent years, with its regional green growth performances being poorly assessed. Therefore, green growth clean energy-environmental efficiency assessments were examined in this paper, for which an integrated principal component analysis-data envelopment analysis based analysis approach was developed. It was found that while China's green growth has had a significant increasing trend in recent years, overall it was still at a low level, with the imbalances in China's regional economic development being reflected in its green growth. However, the excellent development and utilization of clean energy in most regions have significantly promoted a continuous improvement in China's green growth and the move toward sustainable resource development and utilization is contributing to long-term green growth. Green growth has also placed new demands on sustainable resource development in China. Therefore, underdeveloped regions that have sustainable resource endowments need to develop industrial systems that have clean energy as the main axis, and developed regions need to develop high-end industries that have low energy consumption and encourage mutual support systems between regions to ensure optimal sustainable resource, green growth development patterns.

Liquidity Support in Financial Institutions

We document a novel support mechanism by banks through coordinating the investments of their clients in their affiliated mutual funds that experience excessive withdrawals. New inflows from bank clients limit the adverse effects of financial distress on fund performance and further mitigate strategic complementarities in investor redemption decisions. Thus, banks serve as a coordination device for the investments of their clients and enable them to earn a premium from participating in this support mechanism. Overall, our results demonstrate the existence of a mutual support system within financial institutions and highlight the potential benefits of bank-affiliation for fund investors.

THE EFFECTS OF A DECADE OF CHANGE IN THE YOUNG-OLD POPULATION IN A MARGINAL COMMUNITY IN JAPAN

Population aging is occurring throughout the world, with an estimated 82 countries expected to have more than 20% of their population age 65 or older by 2050. Communities in which these older adults live face significant challenges in maintaining residential services. Japan is on the leading edge of this phenomenon. In Japan, marginal communities are defined as those where over 50% of the population is 65 years of age or older and face difficulties maintaining the traditional mutual support system in the community. The old-old population might have vulnerabilities because of a lack of resources for daily living. Documenting the changes in these communities over time may help to identify solutions to how to be an inclusive community. we examine the effects of a decade of change using surveys completed in a marginal community in Japan in 2009 and 2019. Data were collected from a cohort of 65 to 74 year olds in 2009 (n=45) and 75 to 84 year olds in 2019 (n=26) in one marginal community. Analysis by Fisher’s exact test shows decreasing the exchange of information and decreasing discussion of the future of the community with family and relatives over time. In 2009, respondents surveyed brought up issues such as the shortage of care services and lack of bank facilities, while in 2019 these issues were not mentioned. Results suggest that decisions made regarding the viability of those communities should include input from the elderly to optimize the effects of aging in place.

Mutual waterworks support system based on Japanese earthquake disaster experience

Abstract Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, as well as experiencing other natural disasters arising from its geography, physiography and weather. The country has frequently experienced major disasters and it has been pointed out that it could be struck by large-scale earthquakes in the future, in areas such as the Nankai trough and Chishima trenches, and directly below Tokyo. Against this backdrop, the Japan Water Works Association (JWWA) has used its organizational strength to develop a mutual support system for recovery from disasters. In this paper the mutual support system's mechanism is described with an explanation of how JWWA developed it through its activities in recent disasters like the Great East Japan and Kumamoto earthquakes, in 2011 and 2016 respectively.

Mixed Training: A New Perspective of Post-Service Training for Teachers

The effectiveness of teacher training has been criticized. To change this situation, it is advisable to use mixed training instead of single training mode. Mixed training combines the advantages of various training modes, expands the learning space of teachers, constructs a system of mutual support among teachers, forms a three-dimensional model of teacher training and normalization of teacher training, and effectively promotes the professional development of teachers.

Narativi o starosti u vremenu tranzicije

The period of transition in post-Yugoslav countries has left its mark on various cultural and artistic practices, with tropes and themes indicating the changes and turns in the perception of reality. One of the aspects of rendering of reality in literature relates to old age, as one of the less frequently covered topics, albeit important for understanding the consequences of the times. Drawing on the findings of age studies, the paper discusses the elements of representation of old age and aging in Serbian short stories that deal with this period. The literary analyses of the selected stories by D. Albahari, Lj. Đurđić, V. Marković, G. Petrović, and M. Vujičić, have shown that although some of the stereotypical traits in depiction of old age are still present, the authors have, by following the lives of their protagonists in turbulent times, offered a rendering of old people who do not have the opportunity to settle into a routine of quiet life (which is probably expected to happen due to their age), but rather struggle to find some sense in times of confusion. The juxtaposition of old and young does not put the two groups at opposite poles - in the stories they create a mutual support system, sometimes even unintentionally. The paper covers the topics of male and female aging; of chronological and biological age; of cultural constructs supporting the stereotypes in contemporary Serbian short prose.

The Impact of Modernization on the Traditional Social Status of Senior Citizens in Pakhtun Culture

This paper reflects the impacts of modernization on the social status of senior citizens in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The Pakhtun culture dominated by patriarchal traditional values embedded in the Pakhtunwali is under the influence of modernization. To know the impact of modernization on the social status of senior citizens in Pakhtun culture, data was collected through in-depth interviews/ interview guide in Hayatabad district Peshawar of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .The respondents were identified through purposive sampling technique. The traditional status of elders is rapidly changing owing to the changing trends in attitudes, familial relations, individualism, women empowerment and migration as attributes of modernity and technological advancement. This change of the traditional structure puts immense pressure on the economic status of senior citizens. Thus due to the weakening of traditional authority, mutual support system and lack of pension schemes, senior citizens are now on one hand confronted with poverty and lower economic positions while on the other hand they are unable to catch up with the changing circumstances. Further, low economic position of the senior citizens is intertwined with other problems such as non-involvement in the decision making processes at home, abuse and torment, ageism, inappropriate medication and care, substandard diet and accommodation.