World Perspective Research Articles

An Ontological Framework to Facilitate Early Detection of 'Radicalization' (OFEDR)-A Three World Perspective.

This paper presents an ontology that involves using information from various sources from different disciplines and combining it in order to predict whether a given person is in a radicalization process. The purpose of the ontology is to improve the early detection of radicalization in persons, thereby contributing to increasing the extent to which the unwanted escalation of radicalization processes can be prevented. The ontology combines findings related to existential anxiety that are related to political radicalization with well-known criminal profiles or radicalization findings. The software Protégé, delivered by the technical field at Stanford University, including the SPARQL tab, is used to develop and test the ontology. The testing, which involved five models, showed that the ontology could detect individuals according to “risk profiles” for subjects based on existential anxiety. SPARQL queries showed an average detection probability of 5% including only a risk population and 2% on a whole test population. Testing by using machine learning algorithms proved that inclusion of less than four variables in each model produced unreliable results. This suggest that the Ontology Framework to Facilitate Early Detection of ‘Radicalization’ (OFEDR) ontology risk model should consist of at least four variables to reach a certain level of reliability. Analysis shows that use of a probability based on an estimated risk of terrorism may produce a gap between the number of subjects who actually have early signs of radicalization and those found by using probability estimates for extremely rare events. It is reasoned that an ontology exists as a world three object in the real world.

Otolaryngology education and training in the COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 digital era: a developing world perspective.

This article reviews the literature on the challenges to Otolaryngology training in the developing world, the solutions that have been implemented thus far and the role of technology in first the Digital, and now the Covid era. There is an increasing prevalence of Otolaryngological pathology in the developing world. Efforts to treat this are hampered by multiple factors including appropriate medical training. A number of solutions have been implemented for this both in terms of face-to-face as well as virtual training. The Covid era has created new challenges for Otolaryngology training in the developed world, sparking a huge shift in the delivery of education. Traditional forms of training have disadvantaged colleagues in the developing world and so this change in training modalities may benefit the developing world.

Approaches to critical care resource allocation and triage during the COVID-19 pandemic: an examination from a developing world perspective.

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Living Literacies in a Märchenwelt: World Building and Perspective Taking in a Fairy‐Tale Simulation Project

Because of their presumably familiar plot lines and character tropes, the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales are often included as one of the earliest literary selections in German language and culture curricula. However, for learners to engage more critically and interpretively with fairy‐tale genres, it is exactly their assumed familiarity with the classical versions that needs to be challenged. At the same time – and as multiliteracies approaches to language teaching can help explicate –, 19th‐century narrative conventions are linguistically and stylistically quite removed from the communicative and literacy practices typically encountered in the beginning levels of instruction, and the leap in discursive complexity from more everyday genres to even more familiar fairy tales requires pedagogical support. This article reports on a global simulation unit that was developed and implemented in a fourth‐semester German course focused on fairy tales to address these pedagogical concerns. Students were asked to not only read about but to live out the fairy‐tale worlds and personas depicted in the Grimms’ tales by engaging in perspective taking and world building activities, as they adopted a character from a Grimms’ fairy tale.

Real world perspective of coronary chronic total occlusion in third world countries: A tertiary care centre study from northern India

ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to determine the prevalence, clinical characteristics, angiographic profile and predictors of outcome for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) of coronary chronic total occlusions (CTO) in a tertiary referral centre of north India. BackgroundThere is no data on the prevalence and very few reports on clinical characteristics, angiographic profile and outcome of PCI in CTO from India. MethodsRetrospective analysis was done for the data of 12,020 patients undergoing coronary angiography (CAG) between January 2018 to January 2019 at our centre. Detailed baseline clinical, angiographic and revascularization data was collected. Outcome of CTO PCI was also noted. All baseline parameters were analysed for predicting the outcome of CTO PCI. ResultsCTO was identified in 16.3% (1968) patients undergoing CAG and in 24.4% of patients with hemodynamically significant CAD. CTO was predominantly found in LAD (48%) followed by RCA (42.9%) and LCx (25.3%) arterial distribution. Mean JCTO score was 1.93 ± 0.7. PCI as a management strategy was adopted in 456 of 1968 patients (23.1%) and was successful in 340 of 456 (74.6%) of patients. Almost all CTO PCI were attempted by an antegrade approach only. Increasing age, male sex, CTO in LCx arterial distribution and higher J CTO score were associated with poorer outcome in CTO PCI. ConclusionsCTO’s are commonly encountered during CAG procedures. In patients undergoing CTO PCI, a fair success rate can be achieved in a high volume experienced centre.

A Post-WTO International Legal Order: Utopian, Dystopian and Other Scenarios

In their Preface, the editors explain how the 16 chapters of this excellent book resulted from a series of conferences on what might be the consequences or potential responses if the World Trade Organization (WTO) collapsed or became largely irrelevant. The book project ‘was premised on the view (i) that the WTO and its commitment to a rule-of-law form of multilateralism is worth saving, even if it is not perfect and even if it needs some substantial reform and (ii) that the insights generated by exploring a post-WTO world, in both dystopian and utopian perspectives, would likely be helpful in trying to save the WTO from potential collapse or stagnation’ (p. v). The Introduction by J. Nakagawa and C.B. Picker explains these conference objectives in more detail, for instance, by listing what some observers might view as ‘fundamental negative features of the WTO’, ‘successful aspects of the WTO’, the ‘horrors...

Pandemic Era (COVID-19) and Higher Education in the Philippines against the World Perspective: A Literature Survey Analysis

The objective of the study is to analyze the situation of Higher Education during the Pandemic Era of COVID-19 in the Philippines from the World perspective. The literature survey analysis is limited to published articles and studies. Literature survey analysis is a type of literature review aimed as broadly described, more or less systematic, way of collecting and synthesizing previously chosen researches supposed identified in accordance to a chose to focus. Popular search engines were used browsing through ScienceDirect, Research Gate, and Web of Science was used to generate the information. This health emergency of COVID-19 raised to a pandemic level had changed and kept on affecting millions of lives of astounding magnitude with multidimensional implications. The pandemic placed the whole world at a standstill, interventions putting countries into a shutdown as most if not all nation’s leaders chose strict quarantine restrictions to all social and economic activities. Higher education is one social institution affected just the same as others. The safety of students, teachers, and administrators was put at a priority thus forcing the entire educational system into a challenge of continuing the teaching-learning process without compromising the health conditions of everyone involved in the process. Alternatives were identified towards the more impersonal and indirect methodology of continuing the learning process. Online education, distance education, e-learning, and other alternative modes of learning delivery by any means necessary just to be able to continue on with the “new normal” in the academic institutions. The technology was more than welcome into these alternative models. The internet, social media applications, and even the more traditional television and radio were utilized to supplement the more popular ones. There were also revisions made in the curriculum being implemented to suit the “new needs” as required by the restrictions and challenges of students and teachers being safely tucked in their home environments. Teachers and learners were also made to adopt the more “impersonal” means of communicating and connecting making the most of the present strategies to work to their own advantages. New competencies for teachers to teach online and students developing new skills to survive the virtual learning models made available by most schools and universities.

Dewesternising the South African social security law: a leap towards an Afrocentric legal curricular

SUMMARY Recent calls to dewesternise the curricular are especially pertinent to the teaching of Social Security Law in South Africa, which has traditionally been dominated by the Eurocentric canon. This article argues that South African Social Security Law is a western-centric phenomenon and dewesternising it is necessary for the decolonisation of legal education. On this score, it provides a critique of the South African Social Security Law in search of pragmatic ideas that can advance the project of decolonising it and creating Third World perspectives. The article unsettles the dominant Eurocentric model on the origin of South Africa Social Security Law which marginalise the role that indigenous knowledge play in the development of this area of law. It argues that placing indigenous knowledge systems on the epicentre of the historiography of teaching South African Social Security Law will lead to some epistemic disruption of the current historic paradigm, a project necessary for the decolonisation of the legal mind and intellectual landscape. The article re-contextualising the orthodox social security theory in the historical scene of colonial and post-era; constructing alternative social security historiography; offering an Africanised dialogue on the origins of the informal strands of social security law; the elaboration of alternative methodologies of actualising the constitutionally protected right to have access to social security. The paper also contends with concepts and ideas such as the deemed trans-colonial importation of social security origins, decolonial philosophy as an epoch of transforming legal education in the context of South African Social Security Law.

Determinants of enterprise risk management disclosures: Evidence from insurance industry

The aim of this study is to determine if there is a relationship between the number of commissioners on the committee, ownership concentration, the Risk Management Committee, business size, and leverage on enterprise risk management. Take, for example, insurance companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Purposeful sampling was used in the sampling process. Supplementary data was obtained from the website of the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Panel data regression analysis was used as the research method. Although business size had an effect on enterprise risk management transparency, board size, stake concentration, the risk management committee, and leverage had little effect. By integrating the variables Board of Commissioners Size and Ownership Concentration, as well as employing dynamic equation modeling to examine the above relationships, which have been overlooked in previous analyses, and analyzing more recent evidence from a developed world perspective, this study contributes to the management accounting literature and organization theory. The findings would be useful to Indonesian practitioners, especially those in management positions in insurance companies and financial institutions.

Signifikansi Umat Islam Indonesia Dalam Konteks Perdamaian Dunia

This discussion is about how the position of Indonesian Muslims in a global or world perspective in contributing to creating world peace in general and especially in countries with conflicts between fellow Muslim countries. It cannot be denied that the position of Indonesian Muslims from an international point of view has a strategic position, because Indonesia is a country with the largest number of Muslims in the world. So that this position has the potential and strength to be able to contribute significantly in creating world peace by providing education about the great benefits of peace between fellow believers through calls for peace and real examples in everyday life through social interactions between people. show tolerance and mutual respect that need to be fostered. So that this makes Indonesian Muslims become role models and references for other countries in creating and maintaining world peace. In this study the author uses qualitative research with a library research approach and is descriptive in nature, where the writer wants to reveal more deeply the position of Indonesian Muslims has a significant influence in the realization of world peace. The result of this study is that efforts to participate in creating world peace are carried out by collaborating through related parties, such as government elements by giving attention and helping resolution to countries experiencing conflict, elements of Islamic organizations, such as NU, Muhammadiyah and others by providing support. and take a religious cultural approach to countries experiencing conflict and give conviction to people around the world that Islam is very supportive of world peace

At Beijing 25+ Battling the Backlash in the Post-COVID World: A Perspective from the Third World

In this paper, I am interrogating the global women’s human rights paradigm envisioned under BPfA from my location as a feminist researcher and a practitioner situated in the Global South, connecting it with the ground realities here. At the outset, I convey that twenty-five years back an extraordinary event took place that has not only created a space for advocating women’s rights while paving the way for new resolutions, conventions, and declarations that deal with significant issues relating to the life and everyday realities of each woman. This framework of rights reaffirmed a commitment to substantive equality, intersectionality, inclusivity, and challenging stereotypical norms. Indeed, the language of rights and justice has raised hopes and optimism to transform women’s lives.However, when I locate the framework of the BPfA in the Global South, I realize that the narratives of progress are interwoven with the realities of oppression. At the ground level, the advancement made at the front of women’s rights seems illusory. The promise of emancipation and universalism appears to be myopic as seemingly progressive laws and policies boomeranged resulting in an environment that severely oppresses women. The dissidence and rebellious spirit of women’s rights are being crushed by the grand ambitious developmental projects, that occupied the spaces for rebellion and resistance while suppressing the voices and the agency of women. More specifically, from the Third World perspective, the human rights projects led to NGO-ization of resistance and have harmed the women’s rights agenda brutally.

Leonardo: A ‘mind space’ in transit

This ultimate Archaeology celebrates the legacy of Leonardo, an idea that became a Journal that developed into a global transdisciplinary community. The author reflects on the last half century of innovation in the practice of art and science that has galvanized generations of creative practitioners entangled in the turbulence of transdisciplinary thinking. In tracking the emergence of this mind space, this Archaeology projects to the future where Leonardo has a vital role to play in engaging and shaping new world perspectives.

30 Years of Translational Mobility Medicine: November 19th to 21st, 2020 Padua Muscle Days go virtual from Euganean Hills

In the autumn of 2019, the 2020 Padua Muscle Days (PMDs) were planned to be held from March 18 to March 21, 2020. The program listed Scientific Sessions to occur over three full days at either Padova University or the Hotel Augustus on Euganei Hills (Padova), Italy. Abruptly, however, in early January the Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak started in China and changed the world perspectives. In Italy, the epidemia had the first Italian cases and victims in an area south of Milan and in a Village of the Euganei Hills (Vo Euganeo, Padova). Thus, it was a mandatory decision to post-pone the PMDs meeting to 19-21 November, 2020. Luckily, almost all chairs, speakers, and attendees accepted the decision and have assured their presence in late November by long-distance communications. Thus, the Collection of s were e-published in 30(1) 2020 Issue of the European Journal of Translational Myology (EJTM) together with the many EJTM Communications submitted by speakers and attendees of the 2020 PMDs Here we add a few new entries and the detailed Program of the 2020 Virtual PMDs to be organized November 19-21, 2020 from the Hotel Petrarca of Euganei Hills (Padova), Italy. The Program of the 2020 Virtual PMDs ends with invitation by Zipora Yablonka-Reuveni and myself to the 2021 (Virtual) Padua Muscle Days, March 25-27, Euganei Hills (Padova), Italy.

Transurethral Resection of Prostate (TURP) and Vesicolithotomy for Large Bladder Stone in Single Session: The Third World Perspective.

ObjectiveTo study the effectiveness and safety of combined transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) and open vesicolithotomy in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and massive vesical calculi in a single session.MethodsA descriptive study conducted at the Institute of Kidney and Diseases, Peshawar Pakistan from March 2013 till December 2019. In total, 43 patients were selected by nonprobability conventional sampling. We included patients with occluding enlarged prostate size of 30–60g and bladder stones of more than 35 mm which was not amenable to cystolitholapaxy or cystolithotripsy. Conventional TURP followed by formal vesicolithotomy was performed in all patients in a single session. All the preoperative, perioperative and postoperative data were documented on structured Proforma. The data analysis was done on SPSS.ResultsThe average age of the patients included was 65 ±7.5 years. Mean size of prostate was 45.5±6.8 g and mean stone size was 38.4±4.2 mm. The majority of patients [60.4% (n=26)] presented with refractory urinary retention. On average the operation time was 66.3±5.5 minutes. The mean resected volume of prostate was 23.5±6.8g and the average hospital stay was 5.5±1.2 days. Mean trial of removal of catheter was 5±0.6 days. The trial of removal of catheter was successful in all patients. Significant improvement in maximum flow and average flow was recorded in all patients (p = 0.001). On average, the complication rate noted was 6.9% (n = 3). There was no need for blood transfusion. No mortality was recorded in the study.ConclusionThe combined TURP and open vesicolithotomy in a single session is an efficacious, safe and viable treatment modality for large bladder calculi secondary to moderately enlarged prostate.

"Finding oneself after critical illness": voices from the remission society.

The number of people who survive critical illness is increasing. In parallel, a growing body of literature reveals a broad range of side-effects following intensive care treatment. Today, more attention is needed to improve the quality of survival. Based on nine individual stories of illness experiences given by participants in two focus groups and one individual interview, this paper elaborates how former critically ill patients craft and recraft their personal stories throughout their illness trajectory. The analysis was conducted from a phenomenological perspective and led to the meaning structure; a quest to find oneself after critical illness. In this structure, illness represented a breakdown of the participants' lives, forcing them to develop a new understanding of themselves. Despite acute illness, they felt safe in hospital. Coming home, however, meant a constant balancing between health and illness, and being either in or out of control. To gain a deeper understanding of the participants' narratives of survival, the meaning structure was developed from a phenomenological life world perspective, Heidegger's concept of homelikeness and Arthur Frank's typologies of illness narratives. In conclusion listening to and acknowledging the patients' lived experiences of critical illness may support the patient efforts to establish the newly defined self and hence be vital for recovery. Phenomenology is one approach facilitating care tailored to the patients' lived experience of critical illness and its aftermaths.

Tourism education in an emerging digital economy: World experience and perspectives in Uzbekistan

Worldwide tourism education is being promoted by various national and international agencies to achieve sustainable development goals. The presence of tourism education is tremendously growing in international universities. The results suggest that as per the academicians alongside with tourism professionals, the tourism education is highly relevant for economic development. It also shows that tourism education in Uzbekistan, is general a matter of course and specialization-based tourism programs are near to absent.
 This article is not focused on the criticism of reforms in legislation and their functionality, but rather on introducing possibilities which may present an alternative to developing and realizing projects along the lines of innovation in Uzbekistan. The question is how vocational training schools and institutes of higher education, specifically training programmes in tourism and hospitality, have changed and are changing now that the new laws on education, on vocational training. What kind of future can these institutions look forward to, what will they be teaching and in what conditions, especially, in time and after pandemic CoViD-19? This question applies equally to theoretical and practical training.

A New Dawn for the Second Sex: Women’s Freedom Practices in World Perspective, by Karen Vintges

A New Dawn for the Second Sex: Women’s Freedom Practices in World Perspective, by Karen Vintges

Tendencies and Possible Application Model of the Domed Skylights in the Construction Sector

Domed skylights are the most actively used kind of skylight constructions. This article analyzes the main possibilities of domed skylights application, the latest world trends and perspectives are systemized and highlighted. The priority indicators of the efficiency are determined, a model of the possible use of domed skylights with a graphical 2D drawing after the expert survey is developed. The three-layer dome skylight model interconnects a set of characteristics and a complex of integrated technological solutions. In summary, proposals submitted for the representatives of the construction sector, i.e., businesses, building developers, designers and architects, and skylight manufacturers.

Denaturalizing the Monroe Doctrine: The rise of Latin American legal anti-imperialism in the face of the modern US and hemispheric redefinition of the Monroe Doctrine

AbstractThe Monroe Doctrine was originally formulated as a US foreign policy principle, but in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it began to be redefined in relation to both the hemispheric policy of Pan-Americanism and the interventionist policies of the US in Central America and the Caribbean. Although historians and social scientists have devoted a great deal of attention to Latin American anti-imperialist ideologies, there was a distinct legal tradition within the broader Latin American anti-imperialist traditions especially concerned with the nature and application of the Monroe Doctrine, which has been overlooked by international law scholars and the scholarship focusing on Latin America. In recent years, a new revisionist body of research has emerged exploring the complicity between the history of modern international law and imperialism, as well as Third World perspectives on international law, but this scholarship has begun only recently to explore legal anti-imperialist contributions and their legacy. The purpose of this article is to trace the rise of this Latin American anti-imperialist legal tradition, assessing its legal critique of the Monroe Doctrine and its implications for current debates about US exceptionalism and elastic behaviour in international law and organizations, especially since 2001.

World Perspective of Divorce in Selected Countries : A Sociological Appraisal

World Perspective of Divorce in Selected Countries : A Sociological Appraisal