ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
Abstract This report and the information presented in it is structurally a systematic review. Researchers note a systematic review “uses systematic and reproducible methods to identify, select and critically appraise all relevant research, and to collect and analyze data from the studies that are included in the review” ( Systematic reviews in the health sciences , 2020, para. 1). This systematic review will observe articles on the topic of “of stress management in university students.” Introduction Students turn to various stress management tactics such as coping, psychotherapy, exercise, and pet therapy to minimize stress and anxiety patterns, and depression symptoms, which are due to many stress factors in the educational process. It is possible to note that “at the most basic level, stress is our body’s response to pressures from a situation or life event” ( Stress , 2020, para. 2). Researchers state that “stress has a way of becoming chronic as the worries of everyday living weigh us down” ( What Is Stress Management ? 2018, para. 5). Researchers are exploring the interconnectedness of stress management methods and stress levels of university students to identify the most effective strategy for improving the psychological state. The purpose of this systematic review is to investigate how stress management research techniques have changed in the PICOS framework and tendencies in stress levels and stress factors in the period of the last ten years. Methodology Eligibility Criteria The eligibility criteria of selected studies of the systematic review are the PICOS (Population, Intervention, Control/Comparator, Outcome, and Study Design) framework. It is because “without a well-focused question, it can be very difficult and time-consuming to identify appropriate resources and search for relevant evidence” ( PICO Framework , 2019, para. 1). The PICOS framework allows formulating the research question and selects the competent data sources and highlights information that interests the researcher. Studies should include university students as a population, socio-psychological surveys, and physical activities as intervention
Leadership is one of the most significant aspects of advanced nursing, included in most educational programs’ curriculum and inevitably occurred in practice. Indeed, solving a problem identified in a healthcare organization enables a practitioner to develop convincing arguments to encourage others to take actionEast Orange General Hospital, create plans and execute them, and evaluate the efficiency of interventions (Hickey & Giardino, 2021). In my practicum site, East Orange General Hospital, the problem of the impoverished population’s refusal to attend the follow-up visits with their doctor has been recently identified. Consequently, my practice hours completion is focused on creating interventions and solutions to the issue, and creating a plan with proper strategies is vital for success. This paper aims to explore the project management design and leadership styles appropriate for the efficient addressing of the issue of the impoverished population skipping the follow-up appointments. The problem of the impoverished beneficiaries who do not attend their follow-up visits is critical for the East Orange General Hospital because most patients represent that population, and their behavior negatively influences the services’ quality. Skipped appointments are severe for the organizations because they reduce efficiency, increase costs, and waste the previous treatment results (Dantas et al., 2018). The issue must be addressed on the healthcare organization’s end with the practitioners, physicians, and administrators involved. The initiative’s implementation requires an execution design that includes diverse leadership approaches and project management techniques where multiple activities can be performed and evaluated simultaneously. The SMART objectives and evidence-based practice implementation are the design approaches for creating a project to address the problem of impoverished patients skipping their follow-up visits (Sipes, 2020). For instance, the objectives must be formulated based on the recent evidence, with the related actions necessary to achieve them. The strategy’s focus is the population that needs an intervention to change their behavior towards attending the doctor. As the beneficiaries interact with their physicians, nurses, and administrators, a change in their practice is required
Design ideologies have in the past listening carefully to the foundation of the technical and methodical rules of the delivery process. Certainly, good contribution engineering design involves many parameters in the lead that the success of the project depends on, each of which has its own subset of laws, standards, practices, codes and conventions. Nevertheless, basically all these more specialized constraints and directives are principles that are even more fundamental associated with the original decision-making process, which provide the full framework for good design. These ideologies may be well known to experienced designers, but may not have been communicated to students, yet understanding them is essential if design decisions are to produce desirable results. They are not the simply scientific, obvious principles, such as the laws of static or thermodynamics, which are already part of the engineering curriculum, but obtain more from experience, practice or pragmatism. Therefore, they are the very substance of professional engineering judgment. The period selected for analysis in the 1990s-2000. this period was marked by a unique change in technology and sustainable design parameters applied to all social and business spheres. No one can deny that in order to make environmentally friendly products, everyone involved in the product developing process has to consider the environmental aspects. Therefore, there are other aspects such as economics, function, quality etc. the environmental issue has to be implemented all through the whole process. Moreover, it is very significant to assist the designers to make decisions that ultimately lead to environmentally sound products. It is clear that the core of decision-making in any technical project is the design strategy. It is the essential creative process of engineering different from science, which calls for imagination, application of technical expertise and experience, and skillful use of materials. Paradoxically, however, because engineers are so good at delivering the given necessities of the project, they are often not involved in the design element of the process, which is seen as part of the development of decisions made by others. On the other hand, this means that engineers are not participating in primary decision-making as usefully as they could. It is significant that practicing engineers and engineering students understand the synergy between engineering design and high-level decision-making. Consequently, it is mainly important that the general and interdisciplinary aspects of design be demonstrated at every stage in the design process. The Eco-Housing assessment criteria and rating system, developed after studying other national and international green rating systems, is applicable only to residential projects. The voluntary rating system incorporates global best practices to help developers and architects design and evaluate the green quotient of new residential projects. On the other side, to determine the environmental performance of a building, the Eco-Housing
High Design To the objects of high design belong exclusive furniture pieces and interior elements elaborated from modern materials. In his “Culture of Design” Julier states that high design objects may be divided “into two categories: heavenly goods, being objects designed for the rich to buy; and tokens , objects bought by the ‘wish-the-were-rich’.” (Julier 2000) Heavenly objects may be regarded as a combination of exclusivity and high performance; they are the objects which astonish the viewers with their intricate design. What is the most complicated about the heavenly goods is that one and the same object cannot be changed in a way which would distinguish it greatly from the objects of the same kind. “Beyond a certain, relatively low price, the rich cannot buy a better performing camera or home kettle than the wider public.” (Julier 2000) It is hard to satisfy exigent people when it comes to the elements of the interior; heavenly goods are able not only to be expensive, but to look expensive as well. Thus, exclusivity has to be an essential feature of heavenly goods. “Precious metals, unusual leathers or exotic timbers may be incorporated into the product to boost this quality.” (Julier2000) Tokens, in their turn, are the products which strike with their high price rather than exclusivity as such; buying tokens “may be an act in the performance of design tourism: it is the souvenir bought at the end of a day’s cultural sightseeing.” (Julier 2000) A person who indeed knows something about design and who has excellent taste will always be able to differentiate between heavenly goods and tokens. A chair in picture 1 may be regarded as an object of high design. It is a child-high chair manufactured by Eames Hack. It can be called an object of high design due to its exclusive shape. Child high chairs, irrespective of their price or quality, are all of approximately the same shape. Eames highchair is unique both by its shape and material it is manufactured from (plywood). Its look is special and, which is more important, it combines exclusivity and comfort, which is sometimes difficult to achieve for the high design objects. This high chair may be called an object of high design because it is one of its kind; it is exclusive and is designed for people who can really appreciate it. Denotation and Connotation Sometimes it is difficult to affirm what exactly this or that image means. It is often the case that the image (for instance, in photography) was intended to produce an opposite impression on the viewers, rather than the one it produces indeed. As Chandler puts it, “Even the most ‘realistic’ image is not a replica or even a copy of what is depicted. It is not often that we mistake a representation for what it represents”. (Chandler 2006) In this case, it is necessary to distinguish between denotative and connotative meanings. Denotation is the literal meaning of a word; it is what the word exactly
Sari and Anugerah (773) conducted a research to determine the effect of political influence and corporate transparency on firms’ performance in Indonesia’s listed companies. Sari and Anugerah gave various evidences from the listed companies in Indonesia. They selected a sample of seventy three large public firms in Indonesia and collected data for corperate transparency from the year 2005 to the year 2007; these data were collected from the annual reports of the firms. Sari and Anugerah used the amount of information disclosed by a company yearly report as the corporate transparency index. The report is mainly based on the Annual Report Award (ARA) which is a reward meant for companies which are listed and also non-listed ones in Indonesia. They also used the firms’ performance using two indicators: the Return on Assets (ROA) and the Tobin-Q. Government ownership and the existence of politicians in the Board of Directors (BOD) of companies are the two proxies for the political influence variable in the research. The aim of Sari and Anugerah in their experiment was to examine the effect of political influence on corporate transparency, political influence on a firm’s performance, the effect of corporate transparency on a firm’s performance and the mediating effect of corporate transparency on the relationship of political and firm performance. Sari and Anugerah used literature from a wide variety of areas to establish their hypotheses. From their literature reviews, they found out that issues such as management, control, transparency and accountability information are provided by disclosure of the firms. According to the authors, corporate disclosure provides information to its users so that they can easily determine firms with bad or good governance practices. They have viewed political influence in two different perspectives. First, they view political influence as a positive thing or an advantage to the company through lower costs of debts and rent while the second, they view political influence as a disadvantage or an inefficiency to the company. They describe the ways in which political influences arise in companies; it can be through state ownership, affiliation to people in political capacities in the government and finally through golden share allocation to the government. Through the political research literature done by Sari and Anuger
Introduction Alaska Airlines is a Seattle-based air company dating back to the 1930s. The company survived the World War, the Great Depression, and several crises. The most recent one occurred at the beginning of the new millennium when the company’s performance almost hit the rock bottom. The present paper is aimed at reviewing the case study “Alaska Airlines: Navigating Change” in terms of change management. The background of the company will be given, the case and the issues faced by Alaska Airlines will be summarized, and an analysis will be conducted. Case Study Background: History of Alaska Airlines The company now known as Alaska Airlines was started as a small private enterprise by Linious McGee in 1932. Two years after his first flight as “McGee Airways,” he went into the joint with Star Air Service to become the biggest Alaskan airline, with 22 jets in function. It was the era of bush flights with no fixed schedules and practically no service to speak of. The years 1937 and 1938 changed the situation: the company bought another airline and was then successfully sold to become Star Air Lines, and the Civil Aeronautics Authority was created for regulatory purposes (“Alaska Airlines History by Decade” par. 1). The 1940s saw further expansion of the company, despite the lack of human resources during the World War. The issues faced by Star Air Lines (which was renamed to Alaska Airlines in 1944) were of financial and regulatory character, but the company, undauntedly, was making its way towards becoming the world’s leading charter operator. In the 1950s, the company received permission from Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) to carry passengers to Seattle and Portland. CAB also implemented a management change to strengthen the company’s fiscal ground, appointing a new CEO, a pilot by training, and a marketer by talent. By the 1960s, the new management improved the company’s image by adopting a creative approach to shaping the customers’ experience (Serling 15). In the 1970-1980s, the company was once again saved from collapse. A new CAB-appointed CEO ensured stability for some time. Along with the deregulation of U.S. skies, the expansion over a number of states including California and Arizona, the company saw unprecedented growth in revenue. The steep profitability rise of 1973 lasted for just under two decades until the company found itself facing significant performance and accountability issues (Avolio, Patterson, and Baker 1). Case Summary The case focuses on the story of Alaska Airlines since the 1990s when an array of problems occurred on several levels. The authors start with the culture problems, which may or may not mean that they consider it the major cause of performance and accountability issues met by the company. They note that the corporate culture adopted a laissez-faire approach to the basics of service (namely, the timeliness). The leadership, it seems, was the one to blame because it openly opposed th
Abstract Allelopathy is an interaction between organisms of the same or different species where chemical substances produced by one organism exert an effect on the physiological processes of a plant. The observed effects may be negative or positive. Allelopathy plays a vital role in plant interactions as well as species distribution. This experiment aimed to determine allelopathy in the germination and growth of sunflower seeds ( Helianthus annuus ). Sunflower seeds were subjected to density treatments by growing them at a density of one seed per pot in the control and three seeds per pot in the experimental group. A total of 36 seeds were used in each group. The germination rate and mean shoot height were measured after 7 days. The treatment group had a higher germination rate and mean shoot height (84.26% and 9.49 cm respectively) compared to the control (77.77% and 6.47 cm respectively). The differences in the mean shoot heights between the groups were statistically significant ( p <0.05). These effects were attributed to the role of gibberellins as allelochemicals in the germination of sunflower seeds. Introduction An interesting observation in nature is that specific plants only grow in certain areas. This occurrence could be explained by the fact that environmental conditions and soils in certain areas do not favor the growth of some plants. However, studies have shown that apart from soils and climatic conditions, chemical interactions between different plant species also contribute to this observation (Jabran, Mahajan, Sardana, & Chauhan, 2015). Allelopathy is a widespread biological occurrence where one living organism secretes chemical substances that affect the development, existence, and propagation of other organisms (Duke, 2015). These biochemicals are referred to as allelochemicals and are often non-nutritive materials secreted by plants as secondary metabolites or decomposition upshots of microorganisms. Their effects on other plants may either be positive or negative. Therefore, plants that produce these substances are called allelopathic plants. Allelopathy, which falls under chemical ecology, is a sub-discipline that relates to the consequences of chemicals secreted by living organisms on the growth and dissemination of other plants in different ecologies. Consequently, allelopathic interactions are considered among the major aspects that account for species distribution and dominance of intrusive plants (Mod, Heikkinen, Le Roux, Väre, & Luoto, 2016). The positive effects of plant allelopathy include the regulation of agricultural practices such as weed management, crop defense mechanisms, and re-establishment of crops (Cheng & Cheng, 2015). Therefore, allelochemicals can hypothetically serve as growth control agents, herbicides, antimicrobial agents, and insecticides. In contrast, the adverse consequences of allelopathy include soi
Introduction Stereotyping plays a great role in the peoples’ perceptions of other groups, religions, countries, and cultures. They range from innocent to the outright insulting, depending on who they are about or what the subject is. Politicians, Mass Media, the marketing, and advertising industries all use stereotypes to promote certain economic and political agendas. We all know that Germany produces quality products, and that everything made in China is prone to breaking, that democracy is good and communism is bad, that Europeans are cowards and the Middle East is full of terrorists and religious fundamentalists. Or do we? When one asks oneself where this “knowledge” comes from, many struggle to give a coherent answer. That is because stereotypes are formed from bits and pieces of knowledge accumulated for a long period of time, starting from early childhood, and transform into “knowledge” when the formation of a person is formed. Children animation and movies have a great impact on the perceptions of new generations towards other people, religions, and cultures. The purpose of this paper is to examine the stereotypes enforced by a popular Disney Motion Picture, titled Aladdin. The Theory of Stereotyping Contrary to popular belief, stereotyping is not inherently bad. In fact, it is a necessary construct needed for the understanding and perception of information. When a storyteller cannot afford to spend a lot of time to describe every person and every object in detail, they resort to stereotypes – an assembly of images and qualities assigned to a specific person or a specific object in a specific background. It helps save time and keep the story on point, instead of allowing it to become lost in a sea of non-essential details. The downside of stereotyping is that it forces us to generalize and ignore the differences between different people. They lead to social categorization, which in turn leads to prejudice and injustices committed on the grounds of negative generalization. For that reason, the very word “stereotype” is considered to be a pejorative, with an inherently negative meaning. In doing so, the word self-demonstrates its own meaning. Aladdin – General Info Aladdin is a romantic fantasy adventure movie filmed by Disney in 1992 (“Aladdin,” n.d.). Its story is based on an Arab folktale from One Thousand and One Nights. It revolves around Aladdin, a “street rat” and a thief with a heart of gold who steals only what he cannot afford and tries to get by with his pet monkey Abu while avoiding greedy merchants and bloodthirsty guards. He discovers a magical lamp with a Genie inside and uses it to embark on a quest of marrying the Sultan’s beautiful daughter, Jasmine, while thwarting the attempts of the evil vizier, Jafar, to do the same and establish a dictatorship over the peaceful Arabic nation of Agrabah. The movie was a commercial hit, earning over 700 million dollars in the first week of release, worldwide (“Aladdin,” n.d.). In addition, the picture was nominated multiple times for numerous awards, most of which were related to the music. The title won 2 Oscars and wa