Training Partner Research Articles

Strategies for effective CBL implementation: from company selection to course evaluation

In this study, we explore the key factors that educators must consider when designing challenges based on the Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) strategy, where the industrial sector serves as the educational partner. Building on our proposed definition of the CBL technique, we outline a methodology complete with practical suggestions to effectively tackle the challenges encountered during the strategy’s implementation. The recommended steps involve choosing a training partner, establishing the company’s role in the challenge, taking economic factors into account, and pinpointing crucial milestones in the course development, which includes recognizing the partner’s involvement and significance in the course evaluation. Our proposal draws from the authors’ experiences in applying this methodology within the context of an Industrial Automation course.

Impact of Policy Changes and Program Support on Family Planning Goals among Plastic Surgery Trainees.

In 2020, the American Board of Plastic Surgeons announced an update in the leave policy for plastic surgery trainees, extending personal leave to 12 weeks without delay in graduation. Simultaneously, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education announced their update in lactation policy. This study sought to understand the influence of the policy change on plastic surgery trainees' goals for family planning and lactation. An online 32-question survey was developed to evaluate plastic surgery trainees' perceptions of family planning and perceived program support in the United States. The survey was approved by the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons Research Committee and sent out to a total of 216 plastic surgery programs. One hundred thirty plastic surgery trainees completed the survey. Most respondents were women, between the ages of 30 and 34 years, and married. Forty-five (34.6%) respondents or their partners had experienced pregnancy or live birth during their training. More than 70% did not feel that they had adequate time for leave. Female trainees faced more barriers than men, including having a partner in training, concern for their pregnancy, and burdening their co-residents during leave. The majority stated that their decision to apply to plastic surgery residency was influenced by program support for family planning compared with policy changes. This survey highlighted that the new policies benefit trainees who consider starting a family during training. Despite this, there are still challenges that need to be addressed to help foster a fair environment for trainees to work and have a family.

Increased Understanding of Legal Awareness Regarding the Preparation of Written Sales and Purchase Agreements/Contracts in Order to Support Community Economic Activities in Tajun Village, Buleleng Regency

Agreements/contracts are very important in the business world, including in the buying and selling of agricultural and plantation products. In buying and selling transactions for agricultural and plantation products, farmers in carrying out transactions have very little understanding of written sales and purchase agreements and only use verbal agreements and are limited to notes/receipts with middlemen, wholesalers or exporters. There are still many practices that are underhand or carried out without being based on legal agreement/contract documents. The Tajun Village community's understanding of making sales and purchase agreements/contracts is still limited, as a result, activities that should be accompanied by legal documents in the form of agreements/contracts are not yet available. The aim of implementing this community service program is to: (1) increase the understanding of farmer groups in Tajun Village regarding the anatomy of contract agreements and the importance of sales and purchase agreements/contracts (2) train partners' skills in drafting sales and purchase agreements/contracts. The method used in implementing this community service program activity is a pick-up and drop-off system. The results show that the program has been implemented according to plan. From the implementation of this community service program, the target community benefits in the form of increasing partners' understanding regarding legal awareness and written sales and purchase agreements/contracts and being able to draw up simple sales and purchase agreements/contracts in order to support the economic activities of the community in Tajun Village.

Pengabdian Diversifikasi Olahan Ikan Slengek

Kawasan Kota Tuo is one of the coastal areas in Bengkulu City. Most of the livelihoods of the residents of Kawasan Kota Tuo are fishermen. One of the fish that many fishermen get from Tuo City is slengek fish. Slengek fish is a typical fish from the Bengkulu region which is usually obtained in large quantities. However, this fish has a fairly cheap price, which is around Rp. 5000, -/Kg. So it is necessary to have information and processing technology that can add added value and shelf life. Therefore, training and counseling were held on the processing of dimsum and nuggets made from slengek fish. After the service was carried out in Kawasan Kota Tuo, the community had obtained information and knowledge about the technology for processing slengek fish into products that have added value, namely dimsum and nuggets and the community had received digital marketing counseling that had never been received before and through this training partners were guided how to use social media as a forum for the promotion of its products so that it is expected to be a stimulant of economic growth.

PEMBUATAN SISTEM PENCATATAN STOK PADA TOKO AGUNG JAYA DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN APLIKASI MICROSOFT ACCESS

This community service was carried out with the aim of designing a Microsoft Access-based stock recording system to make it easier for Toko Agung Jaya, which is a store that provides building materials, to operate. Agung Jaya Store, which has been operational for 21 years, still does not have a correct stock recording method, so storage management still seems messy. In order to correct deficiencies in the shop, a system was designed to suit the partners’ needs, starting with collecting information using observation and interview methods. After obtaining the required information, the next step is to develop a system based on the data that has been collected. Apart from that, testing is carried out to see whether the system is suitable for use and can make things easier for partners. The implementation stage is carried out by converting partner storage data into a stock recording system that has been designed. The final stage of this service is training partners in using the system and making reports. The designed system has been successfully implemented and is able to meet the needs of partners so that this service to the community is considered successful.

Therapeutic potential of robots for people who stutter: a preliminary study.

Growing anecdotal evidence suggests the feasibility of robotic intervention for people who suffer from disorders related to state anxiety. Few studies have been conducted on utilizing robots for persons who stutter (PWS). The present study examines the feasibility of using a robot for speech therapy for PWS. We prepared four settings (i.e., interviews with unfamiliar persons, interviews with unfamiliar communication robots, reading sentences aloud with a tandem robot that can utter the same words as a user by repeating the user's voice after a short delay, and reading sentences aloud while being alone). We assessed the potential of the robots as both interlocutors and practice partners in training with delayed auditory feedback (DAF) for PWS. Moreover, we assessed the relationship between the trait of stuttering and the participants' affinity to the robots. Eleven PWS participated in the study. Eight (72.7%) participants had fewer stuttering-related psychological symptoms when they communicated with robots than when they communicated with humans. Spearman's rank correlation analysis revealed that there was a significant negative correlation between the Modified Erickson Communication Attitude scale (S-24) and the difference between the scores for stuttering-related psychological symptoms pertaining to the communication robot and humans (p < 0.01). Six participants (54.5%) had fewer stuttering-related psychological symptoms when they read aloud with the tandem robot than when they read aloud alone. There were significant positive correlations between S-24 and the differences between the scores for stuttering-related psychological symptoms when reading aloud with the tandem robot and those when reading aloud alone (p < 0.01). The communication robot and tandem utterance robot can sometimes be burdensome, although both robots were always easier to talk to for PWS in this preliminary study. The participants with positive speech-related attitudes were more inclined to decrease stuttering-related psychological symptoms when communicating with CommU than when communicating with humans. The participants whose speech-related attitudes were negative were more inclined to show a decrease in stuttering-related psychological symptoms when reading aloud with the tandem robot. Further studies are needed to provide more detailed information.

Optimalisasi Pemasaran Media Sosial Tiktok Dan Pelatihan Tiktok Shop Di Desa Bernung Pesawaran

Emping is a sort of dish prepared from melinjo fruit, which is highly common in Indonesia due to its distinct flavor and ease of production. In Bernung Village, Pesawaran Regency, it is also a home industry. The potential for the emping snack business in Bernung Village is quite large, but this is not matched by the community's knowledge and skills in mastering technology and using the right information technology, particularly digital marketing, which truly helps home industries expand their marketing reach and increase their sales results. The strategy employs a participative approach through training partners. In order to optimize marketing, the stages of this program are based on field conditions in the emping melinjo house business in Bernung village, specifically in Taman Rejo hamlet. Material supply, mentoring, and development are among the steps. The educational results from the post-test results obtained that 70% of participants were able to answer questions correctly, were able to demonstrate operational applications using social media, and participants were already practicing the use of digital content on social media were said to be successful, as seen in the enthusiasm and motivation of the participating business actors to continue marketing online. Keywords: emping melinjo; home industry; social media; tiktok content

Forward Singapore: Strengthening SkillsFuture

This practitioner note provides an overview of developments in the SkillsFuture movement. Particularly, it details how innovations in the skills ecosystem are shifting lifelong learning to a higher gear and enabling greater ownership of one’s skills and career health. Frequent tech disruptions, shortened half-life of skills and knowledge, and new job roles emerging every day mean our workforce must retool at scale and at speed. To be nimble and adaptable enough to support the timely reskilling and upskilling of Singapore’s 2.5 million resident workforce, SkillsFuture Singapore is working with training, industry, and tripartite partners to enhance the understanding of what skills we need as a national workforce, and use this knowledge as an advantage to stay ahead of the curve. However identifying skills in demand is not enough in this dynamic job market. To achieve agility and responsiveness of the skills ecosystem, there are collective efforts with industry leaders, training providers, and skills-tech providers to strengthen the skills demand-supply coordination. As part of the Forward Singapore agenda, this collective awareness of skill trends and enhanced demand-supply coordination will ultimately strengthen Singapore’s competitive advantage, and workforce mobility and resilience.

On-field physical activity of Special Olympics athletes and Unified Partners during the 2022 Special Olympics World Unified Cup.

Special Olympics is a sport organisation spearheading efforts to increase physical activity accessibility through inclusive sport. The Unified Sports® initiative brings together Special Olympics athletes (with intellectual disabilities) and Unified partners (without a disability) in sport training and competition on the same team. The study aims to objectively evaluate differences in on-field physical activity levels between athletes and partners during the 2022 Special Olympics World Unified Cup, an international soccer (i.e., football) competition. Participants were Special Olympics athletes (n=96; 44 females, 52 males) and Unified partners (n=70; 34 females and 36 males) competing in the women's and men's tournaments. On-field actigraph accelerometry measured physical activity from 166 players, over 29 matches, and totalling 493 player-matches. In the women's tournament, nearly identical estimates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity levels (MVPA) were observed between athletes and partners (P=.409). However, a significant group difference was observed within a specific physical activity intensity category as partners accrued more minutes of very vigorous physical activity than athletes (P<.001). In the men's tournament, no significant differences were also observed between athletes and partners for minutes of MVPA (P=.341), but athletes engaged in significantly more vigorous physical activity (P<.001), and partners had more minutes of very vigorous physical activity (P<.001). The results suggest that on-field physical activity levels were similar between players with and without intellectual disabilities during Unified Sports competition.

Diseminasi Platform Online Shop berbasis Website dan Situs Belanja Online

This service was created with the aim of training partners who have businesses to develop their businesses by creating websites. Where the Website is one of the promotional media which is quite influential in this increasingly sophisticated technological era compared to other promotional media which still use paper such as brochures, posters and others. Websites are the cheapest, most effective and efficient promotional media if they can be managed properly. From any point of view, promotional media using websites still has more advantages, both from the point of view of distributing information, speed of information delivery, and even the price. The idea is to use pantheon.io as a hosting creation page and use several plugins to support website creation, both design and uploading product photos. The partners involved in this activity are online entrepreneurs engaged in selling fragrance products (perfume). The method we use in creating websites is the RAD (Rapid Application Development) method. As a result of this training and mentoring, partners will be able to take advantage of the use of websites and online shopping sites, so that the websites created can be useful for partners who have businesses to increase the target market for their products even wider.

Developing a multimodal maternal infant perinatal outpatient delivery system: the MOMI PODS program.

Progress in maternal child health has been hampered by poor rates of outpatient follow up for postpartum individuals. Primary care after delivery can effectively detect and treat several pregnancy-related complications and comorbidities, but postpartum linkage to primary care remains low. In this manuscript, we share the experience of implementing a novel mother-infant dyad program, the Multimodal Maternal Infant Perinatal Outpatient Delivery System (MOMI PODS), to improve primary care linkage and community resource access postpartum via integration into pediatric care structures. With a focus on providing care for people who are publicly insured, we designed a program to mitigate maternal morbidity risk factors in postpartum individuals with chronic disease or pregnancy complications. We discuss the systematic process of designing, executing, and evaluating a collaborative clinical program with involvement of internal medicine/pediatric, family medicine, and obstetric clinicians via establishing stakeholders, identifying best practices, drawing from the evidence base, designing training and promotional materials, training partners and providers, and evaluating clinic enrollment. We share the challenges encountered such as in achieving sufficient provider capacity, consistent provision of care, scheduling, and data tracking, as well as mitigation strategies to overcome these barriers. Overall, MOMI PODS is an innovative approach that integrates outpatient postpartum care into traditional pediatric structures to increase access, showing significant promise to improve healthcare utilization and promote postpartum health.

O.5.2-10 Barriers to physical activity among parous women postpartum: a qualitative study in Denmark

Abstract Purpose Physical activity (PA) among parous women postpartum has multiple health benefits to mother and child. Knowledge of the barriers to PA among parous women postpartum is necessary to support future health-enhancing PA interventions. The purpose of this study was to explore the barriers to PA in parous women six to 10 months after giving birth. Methods In this qualitative study, we used a phenomenological–hermeneutic approach to explore barriers to PA among parous women six to 10 months postpartum. Semi-structured interviews were conducted including 16 parous women from Central Denmark Region. These women were physically active before pregnancy; had a mean age of 29 years; differed in level of education; and represented both vaginal birth and caesarian section. The women were recruited from two sources. 1) a video on Facebook, which had &amp;gt;10.000 views, and 2) the Department of Health Visitors at Aarhus Municipality. Nvivo was used for analysis. We used open and closed coding, and quotes from the interviews were used to support claims and illustrate the identified barriers. Results Three categories of barriers were identified. 1) The individual level: lack of motivation to engage in PA, insufficient self-efficacy in PA, limited economical resources, and bodily physical changes. 2) The interpersonal level: lack of a training partner, childcare, and missing community-based activities in sports clubs. 3) The structural level: lack of guidance and directions on PA from the healthcare system, lack of training facilities, the accessibility of training facilities, and the weather. Fourteen of the 16 included women felt “lack of guidance on PA from the healthcare system” as a barrier to PA postpartum. Conclusions 11 barriers to PA among parous women were identified. On a policy level, “lack of guidance and directions from the health care system” is a modifiable barrier, calling for intervention. Health-enhancing PA in parous women postpartum may be improved by addressing this barrier, when future maternity care programs are developed. Support/Funding No funding source was applied for this study.

Faktor Penerapan Fintech Untuk Perkembangan dan Eksistensi Koperasi di Kabupaten Lombok Tengah

The development of cooperatives in central Lombok in the last five years has increased every year. Technological developments force financial institutions to always innovate to increase efficiency and effectiveness in the institution's operational activities. several cooperatives in Central Lombok district have not yet used fintech in their institution's operational activities. Based on the findings and several previous studies, an approach is needed regarding the nature of cooperatives that have not used financial technology to facilitate operational activities, facilitate transactions, and reach a wider range of customers in cooperatives in Central Lombok district. The selected qualitative approach is related to phenomena that occur in society so as to understand the subject matter. In this study, the research object was given a code to make it easier for researchers and readers to categorize research objects. The findings from this study include cooperative constraints in implementing fintech in the form of application development used and parties that can develop fintech applications that can be explored for collaboration by cooperatives. Lack of education about fintech to cooperative employees and cooperative partners. Therefore it is necessary to develop and train cooperative employees and partners.

Assessing Professional Development Training for Library Leader Candidates

Library, as a place holding pivotal roles to support instructions at schools, should be led by a competent and qualified leader. The present research is purposefully conducted to assess the training program intended for school library leader candidates. Qualitative method was employed by the implementation of CIPP (Context, Input, Process and Product) model. The data were collected through observations, interviews and document analysis. Snowball sampling technique was utilized to choose the research participants. The participants involved in this research were the head of assurance council, the head of training program, and the training partners. The present research indicates the following findings. Generally, the training is regarded as successfully implemented. To be more specific, 1) context evaluation assesses legal standing, objectives, and target of the training; 2) input evaluation assesses resource of the training; 3) process evaluation assesses trainee recruitment, teaching and learning process, and monitoring-evaluation of the training; and 4) product evaluation assesses cognitive, affective and skill domain of the trainees. The present research implies program segmentation for each level of education due to different problems encountered in reality. Training resource aspect also needs special attention.

Communication strategies to support decision-making by persons with aphasia: A scoping review.

An individual's ability to make autonomous decisions is fundamental to self-determination. The presence of neurological pathology, for example, aphasia, and its associated difficulties with language and/or cognition, may affect an individual's capacity to make decisions, or their ability to reveal their capacity to make decisions. Decision-making by persons with aphasia (PWA) can be enhanced when communication partners are trained and if communication supports are provided, for example, supports that reduce the linguistic and cognitive demands of the task, and/or that facilitate expression. The main aim of this review is to identify the types of decisions for which persons with post-stroke aphasia receive support, the communication partners involved in supporting decision-making by PWA and the communication strategies implemented to support decision-making by PWA. A multifaceted search strategy was used. Specific keywords were used to search seven electronic databases. Hand-searches of two journals, as well as ancestral searches of the reference lists of selected articles was also performed. Through the application of predefined selection criteria, 16 journal articles, spanning from 1998 to 2021, were selected from the initial yield of 955 articles for inclusion in this review. Data pertaining to the aims of the study were extracted using a data-extraction form. This review shows that most of the research to date has focused on supporting persons with post-stroke aphasia in decisions pertaining to discharge planning or accommodation, and decisions pertaining to informed consent for participation in research. The communication partners cited most frequently as supporting decision-making by PWA are speech-language pathologists and family members. A range of communication strategies, most of which are components of Supported Conversation Techniques for Adults with Aphasia (SCA™), support decision-making by PWA. The most frequently listed strategies include augmenting information with different modalities, acknowledging the competence of the PWA, thereby inviting initiation and collaboration by the PWA, and the allocation of sufficient time for the decision-making process. This review presents research trends regarding the support of PWA in decision-making. Future research should focus on the effectiveness of the different strategies identified, and on the support of PWA in the making of a greater variety of complex decisions. What is already known on the subject PWA have the right to be given the opportunity to participate in personally relevant decision-making through all stages of life. Research has shown that decision-making can be enhanced with trained communication partners and if supports are provided that reduce the linguistic and cognitive demands of the task, and that support the expressive abilities of PWA. What this study adds to existing knowledge This scoping review is the first to synthesize the findings of research regarding the types of decisions for which persons with post-stroke aphasia receive support, the communication partners supporting PWA in making these decisions and the communication strategies implemented to support decision-making by PWA. What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work? Clinicians working with PWA may be sensitized to the role they can play in supporting decision-making by PWA, the current state of the literature regarding types of decisions that may need to be supported, communication partners who can provide such support and communication strategies that may be helpful in this regard.

Improving Zero-Shot Coordination Performance Based on Policy Similarity

Over these years, multi-agent reinforcement learning have achieved remarkable performance in multi-agent planning and scheduling tasks. It typically follows the self-play setting, where agents are trained by playing with a fixed group of agents. However, in the face of zero-shot coordination, where an agent must coordinate with unseen partners, self-play agents may fail. Several methods have been proposed to handle this problem, but they either take a lot of time or lack generalizability. In this paper, we firstly reveal an important phenomenon: the zero-shot coordination performance is strongly linearly correlated with the similarity between an agent's training partner and testing partner. Inspired by it, we put forward a Similarity-Based Robust Training (SBRT) scheme that improves agents' zero-shot coordination performance by disturbing their partners' actions during training according to a pre-defined policy similarity value. To validate its effectiveness, we apply our scheme to three multi-agent reinforcement learning frameworks and achieve better performance compared with previous methods.

Training with AI: Evidence from chess computers

AbstractWe suggest that AI can help decision‐makers learn; specifically, that it can help them learn strategic interactions by serving as artificial training partners and thus help them to overcome a bottleneck of scarce human training partners. We present evidence from chess computers, the first widespread incarnation of AI. Leveraging the staggered diffusion of chess computers, we find that they did indeed help chess players improve by serving as a substitute for scarce human training partners. We also illustrate that chess computers were not a perfect substitute, as players training with them were not exposed to and thus did not learn to exploit idiosyncratic (“human”) mistakes. We discuss implications for research on learning, on AI in management and strategy, and on competitive advantage.

Study on the Construction of "Self-ization" of female family role Cognition in Mainland female documentaries

In the new century, with the rapid development of digital technology, Chinese documentaries become more and more diversified. Andre Bazin mentioned in Ontology of Photographic Image that simple machine recording would destroy the original authenticity of the picture if someone participated in it. Here, "people" in documentaries are often materialized into certain objects, so the essence of documentaries is the representation of reality. Female-themed documentary is also a popular documentary type in some online video platforms such as Tencent and iQiyi. The purpose of shooting female-themed documentary is to reshape the diversified "new media female image", and to change the previous single, rigid and even educational shooting style. The endless emergence of female-themed documentaries also provides certain research materials for the "self-ization" research on the cognition of female family roles. Documentaries can truly record the diversified shaping of female family roles in the new era. From the traditional roles, the role of "tutor", "family nutrition hygienist", "professional children's training partner", "family relationship tutor" and other new "family" occupations have been extended. The documentary uses its unique lens language to capture the diverse "self" shaping of women's cognition of family roles, and also provides certain help for the maintenance of gender relationship and parent-child relationship. At present, the research on female-themed documentaries mainly focuses on four aspects: the research on the creation of the director of female-themed documentaries, the research on the construction of female image in female-themed documentaries, the research on the narrative strategy of female-themed documentaries and the expression of female consciousness in female-themed documentaries. At present, there are few researches on the construction of female family role "self-ization" in female-themed documentaries, and there is a broad research space. This paper discusses the research on the construction of "self-ization" of female family role cognition in female documentaries. This paper mainly discusses the concept and definition of female documentaries, the challenges faced by women's identity in documentaries, the self-reshaping of family women in documentaries, the ways of women's self-reshaping of family roles in films, the balance between women's self-reshaping and traditional family roles, and the shortcomings of the thesis and the prospect of the future.

Pembuatan Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) Pada Kegiatan Belajar Dan Pendampingan Masyarakat Di Desa Oeletsala

Oeletsala Village also has several excellent potentials in the plantation sector which can be managed as a source of increasing the income of the village community, one of which is coconuts which are very abundant, where almost every community house in Oeletsala Village has coconut trees that thrive. The local people are still not aware of utilizing the potential of coconuts and lack of knowledge in the process of producing coconuts into a product that has a high selling value such as Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO), so many coconuts are wasted. The solution offered to partners in solving the problem is to conduct training on making Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) for the people of Oeletsala Village, in this case youth groups, representatives of disability groups and Oeletsala Village officials, thereby increasing people's income and training partners in utilizing online media as a means of to sell and promote VCO products, with the expected outcome through this activity is the creation of a Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) product that is packaged in an attractive way and determines the selling price and the use of online marketing media such as Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp as a means of product marketing.

Fitness Use Innovativeness, Usage Patterns and Revisit Intention: The Moderating Role of Other-Efficacy.

Extant research has confirmed the importance of consumer innovativeness toward innovation adoption, but relatively little is known about the relationship between fitness use innovativeness, post-adoption behavior and the moderating role of fitness consumer's efficacy belief. This study aims to examine the moderating role of other-efficacy on the relationships between the fitness player's usage patterns (usage variety and usage frequency) under the influence of use innovativeness, and revisit intention within the context of fitness services. This study utilizes the diffusion model for conceptual development. The proposed hypotheses are empirically tested using fitness players from a public sports center. There were 205 valid questionnaires obtained for quantitative data analysis. The findings confirm that the fitness player's use innovativeness has a direct impact on usage variety and usage frequency, while the player's training partner efficacy positively moderates the usage patterns and revisit intention. Based on the extent of fitness use innovativeness and training partner efficacy, we categorize fitness customers into four segments. The managerial implications for each segment are then discussed.