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Introduction: Concepts of Modelling Technology in mLearning   * Mobile learning is the development of mobile phones by the use of internet tools and technical features that support flash animation, simulation, video, and audio functions to enhance the learning process.   * M-Learning offers diversified learning and teaching environment.   * This form of learning has pedagogically connected the design of learning and device usability.   * Effective use of social technology has resulted in emergence of innovative ways of learning.   * For instance, Wireless Mobile Devices are wireless digital devices that are used to deliver pedagogical instructions in an attempt to bring about productive learning activities. Concepts of Modelling Technology in mLearning. Role of Pedagogical Considerations to Effective mLearning   * Mobile Learning is a subset of e-Learning that uses interaction technology of mobile computing devices to enable users to access information.   * These devices include smartphones, Portable Digital Assistants (PDAs), Podcasts, and Wireless Mobile Devices among other devices that use the current technologies.   * Ordinary learning that is conducted in classroom environments assumes a teacher-centred approach to learning.   * However, mLearning offers a learner-centred environment where the learner has adequate access to adequate sources of knowledge (Jones and Marsden 145).   * Various concepts are involved in mLearning. The Mobile Mole concept is the widely used modelling technology.   * It involves the replication of previous research that consists of designed and validated multimedia instruction packages on the wide platform of mobile application development.   * The instructional process involves the use links that contain simulation, animation, text, and audio data to enhance understanding of the Mole Concept (Quinn 202).   * Pedagogical choices and certain frameworks are developed to ensure that learning takes place effectively.   * The choice of whether an activity or course has a high or low transactional distance has been a challenge because the distance theory ensures that a course consists of several lessons.   * Quinn reveals that each lesson has different degrees of activity. This situation hardens the determination of high or low transaction levels (102).   * The choice of a wrong transaction distance for a particular course automatically affects information reliability.   * This situation affects mLearning development processes and can lead to failure of the system at its preliminary stage.   * Highly structured lessons demand more interactive levels than less structured lessons. However, less structured lessons create time for
Core business refers to the primary concern of an entity. In economics, the core business of an organization is central to the creation of value. Core business is the primary activity that an enterprise carries out in order to participate in the process of value addition. Usually organizations shed off things that do not constitute their core business. They may prefer to outsource activities, which are not part of their core activities. Global value chains refer to streams of production running across various parts of the world that improves the merit of a product or service. As raw materials move from the primary producer to manufacturers, followed by retailers and finally to consumers, its value increases. This happens either because of transportation in a region of greater demand, or by the addition of functionality or form to the product. The value of products that have a global value chain increases as the product passes through various international processing systems Non-equity modes of entry refer to the processes of getting access to markets without making an investment in those markets. I
Introduction For businesses, a major way to improve quality and operational performance is to adopt the process-oriented approach (Evans & Lindsay 2013); the ultimate goal of this strategy is to increase customer satisfaction. The process-oriented approach suggests that companies should analyze their operation in terms of sequences of activities, identify weaknesses, and eliminate any process components that do no comply with those companies’ strategic goals. A company that will be examined in the presented report is VS Middles East, which sells furniture and provides project management services in the UAE ( About us n.d.); the parent company is located in Germany. To provide recommendations for the company in terms of quality management, the presented research report will review relevant literature, collect data, and analyze it. Key Research Questions, Objectives, and Aims The goal of the presented research is to assess the policies and practices of VS Middle East associated with process-oriented quality management. The research questions can be formulated as follows: What are VS Middle East’s quality management systems and standards? What process-oriented strategies does the company adopt to achieve its quality management goals? The primary objective is to identify particular aspects of the quality management system based on the available materials and reports from the company. Before that, relevant literature should be explored so that a theoretical framework is established in which the company’s strategies can be assessed. The research aims to apply existing knowledge about process-oriented quality management to the operation of a particular company. This will allow not only identifying particular methods used by VS Middle East to manage quality successfully but also evaluating the effectiveness of the company’s activities in this regard. Insight into quality management in a particular company can provide valuable evidence currently missing from academic literature; moreover, when the assessment is completed, recommendations can be provided as per improving the system in place. Literature Review Academic literature has been reviewed to establish the theoretical framework for the research. First of all, according to Evans and Lindsay (2013, p. 205), a process is ‘a sequence of linked activities that are intended to achieve some result;’ there are various processes in organizations, and to enable effective process management, it is necessary to ensure that processes are repeatable and measurable. Three types of activities contribute to process management: design, control, and improvement. Quality can be improved by adopting the process-oriented approach as opposed to other possible approaches, such as the project-oriented, product-oriented, or potential-oriented approaches. The control component of process management has attracted a lot of academic a
Counseling involves manipulation of the human brain ideologies in order to bring out a clear conviction from an individual. It involves finding solutions to issues that are conflicting in a human’s brain. It sometimes necessitates the counselor to convince the client to change his/her behavior and lifestyle through advice offered. It necessitates the counselor to feel his/her client’s emotions through deep concentration on the facts derived from the client. He then derives the problem and its possible solutions, which he instills in his client through advice. Counseling involves advice on diverse sectors that assist human beings to cope with personal problems depicting from abuse, self-esteem, career development or depression (Makinde, 1984). It necessitates the building of policies to govern the counselors. The most prominent policy that has to be input in the counseling institution is privacy to customer information. The entity has to ensure that each customer is a remarkable person and entitles to secrecy on his/her case. The counselors should take an oath of privacy before embarking on employment as a counselor. This ensures that the customer builds trust between the counselor and himself. Counselors should avoid giving details about what his client came to seek advice about to anyone, even close relatives such as spouses or parents without the customer permission. The information should be confidential to the counseling professional and his counterparts. For access to client information, a grant has to be permitted through written and signed evidence to enable filing. Privacy should have exceptions such as an order from the law courts to release information that could display the client’s cause of behavior, or when his/her actions may cause a threat to society, which requires that he should be placed in a protection institution. Information recorded by trainees and students for purposes of learning through tape recordings has to be destroyed. It should not be posted on the SIUE counseling site for master’s and doctorate training. Attendance policies should be put in place for counselors and clients to follow. The client should communicate with the counselor on the preferred date of appointment as well as the counselor’s availability. This ensures that there are no run-on incidences as well as bouncing appointments, which may make the client de-motivated to continue with the counseling sessions. Clients may shy from attending counseling sessions. The counselor should try to make contact with clients who do not show up and encourage them to set up another appointment. However, they should not use coercion to make the client attend the counseling session. Clients may show the need of treatment through medication in severe cases. This should be assessed through thorough interaction between the client and the counselor. The counselors should then direct them to psychiatric attention from a professional. Psychiatric attention should be provided to clients who go through continuous counseling sessions. This increases the client’s chances of recovering and at faster rates. The institution should communicate with the p
The healthcare setting typically incorporates a plethora of factors that cause nurses significant stress. Specifically, nurses must manage very tight schedules, handle a tremendous amount of information, and tend to the needs of a large number of patients. The need to provide constant support to patients and ensure that they receive emotional support has necessitated the development of coping mechanisms that shield nurses form stress to an extent. Learned optimism, which can be defined as a conscious effort to recognize pessimistic ideas and choose not to be consumed by them is one of such responses. At first glance, learned optimism might seem as an artificial attempt at avoiding confrontation with real-life concerns. However, on further inspection, especially after considering the challenges that nurses must confront regularly in the workplace, one will have to recognize the need for a tool that allows nurses to keep their resilience (Chang & Daly, 2015). In this respect, learned optimism as the means of keeping one’s composure and maintaining a positive outlook in the settings that involve high levels of stress and pressure is vital for maintaining mental and emotional well-being. Therefore, as a coping mechanism for managing stress levels in the workplace, learned optimism allows a nurse to avoid a range of complications associated with mental health. For example, the use of learned optimism an as coping mechanism for stress management can prevent a workplace burnout from developing. In turn, workplace burnouts currently represent a major threat for nurses due to the continuous rise in the number of patients and the extent of workload. Therefore, the application of learned optimism as the means of releasing tension and reducing stress rates leads to a drop in the probability of a burnout (Kahlert & Brand, 2017). Finally, one must mention the positive effects that learned optimism has on the emotional well-being of nurses. Due to emotional exhaustion, working in the healthcare setting implies dealing with devastation that may lead to emotional numbness (Chang & Daly, 2015). The specified outcome is particularly dangerous for nurses since providing emotional response and being empathetic to the needs of patients is one of the facets of a nurse’s workplace performance and, thus, one of the key requirements to meet. In turn, with the rise in the levels of a workplace burnout, a nurse is unlikely to meet the described requirement, which may lead to a drop in the quality of healthcare services and the resulting drop in the efficacy of the treatment administered to a patient. Therefore, it is vital for a nurse to keep the extent of motional responsiveness high and be capable of empathizing with patients and their needs for a better rapport with them. Learned optimism has a tremendous effect on nurses’ well-being, mostly due to the effects that it has on nurses’ ability to perform under significant stress, as well as the increased influence of negative factors that increase the risk of a wo
Modern science is in a constant progress in order to contribute to the increased people’s demands. Every day the speed of the public’s life grows, it becomes more intensive and involves more elements. Today, to address all the people’s needs, it is necessary to have a lot of technological devices which function separately and makes the society’s life better. Nevertheless, can the results of the technological progress improve the quality of the people’s life? What is the risk of developing the negative effects of technologies? Nowadays, the technological development is mainly discussed from the perspective of the progress of nanotechnology, but there are a lot of controversial questions which are connected with the aspects of ethics. Is the impact of the developed and improved technologies on the society with references to ethics positive or negative? Although the development of nanotechnology is significant for the general technological progress of the contemporary science and it can meet the people’s needs, from the perspective of their impact on humans, the achievements in nanotechnology are connected with a lot of ethical questions, and it is important to find the balance between the ethical issues and the effects of nanotechnology. Some decades ago, the progress of technologies was discussed from many sides with references to the possible benefits and harms for humans. In this case, science and its achievements were closely associated with the questions of ethics because of the impact of the technologies on the humanity. The next challenge was the accents on the researches in biotechnology. Even today there are no strict answers to the issues of genetics and possibilities of biotechnology in the context of ethics. The progress of nanotechnology is the following stage of the scientific development which connects the modern world with the world of the future. According to Ebbesen, Andersen and Besenbacher, “the leading industrialized countries consider research in nanotechnology to be vital to economic and technological competitiveness in the 21 st century, and it is said that nanotechnology may lead to the next industrial revolution” (Ebbesen, Andersen and Besenbacher 452). The researches in the field of nanotechnology are important because the standards of the future society are stated today, and according to them, the demands of people increase, and the requirements to the humans’ abilities also change. The focus is made on the highly-developed world, qualified and skillful people. The necessary investigations in nanotechnology make this shift to the highly-developed world be the reality. However, many ethical questions which were discussed during the development of the first achievements in biotechnology, genetics, and the other fields still remain to be unsolved. Can it be possible that making a lot of discoveries and increasing the degree of the technological achievements, scientists break the law
Advertising is described as a form of communication that focuses around persuasion as a mode of selling products, services or an idea in terms of ideology. The resultant factor of advertising is to drive consumer behaviour in respect to a product. Advertisement works by branding of an image or name to a product, this in itself causes consumer to associate some qualities to the product in question. Advertisement has over the years taken a dramatic metamorphosis that has seen it going global in a matter of seconds; this has been facilitated by the web and the introduction of online advertising. Although advertisement is largely used in a product market as being the best mode of selling in a competitive market, it has been adopted in the world of politics as the surest way of selling one’s ideology to the masses. In America, politics over the years have moved from the conventional way of campaigning where candidates used to move from one state to another to advocate for their manifesto and ideology. Today all it needs for an aspirant is to set up a web page and any one in the world can access it. Campaigners use advertisement as a form influencing the voter’s decision making process. Campaign advertising generally takes two forms; it can take either emotional advertisement that focuses around empathy of the voters by persuasion where a particular person or party tries to be associated with the voter’s grievances. The other form of advertisement takes the form of attack where a person discredits his opponents based on their record or ideas and tries to sell himself and ideas as being the most viable and geared towards elevating the burden of the masses. Attack advertisements are also referred to as smear campaigns although they form the basis of what is referred to as dirty campaigns; they are legal as they criticize the opponent views and ideas as not being viable. Over the years this mode of attack campaign has progressed and moved to a high platform. The most popular and widely watched of this form of advertisement is the head-to-head debate that is viewed by millions across America on the local television channels. Although campaigning dynamics have changed over the past few years, what has remained the same is the fact that most political association or grouping employs the services of political scientists to design their campaign strategies as a means of carrying them towards achieving their goals. The question that arises then from the discussion is how the public view political campaigns and the strategies employed. A good example is a case where people dislike negative campaigns. Such people are of the view that it lucks the gist of being informative thus it is mostly ignored as being untruthful and thus voters cannot relate to. Another school of thought is that of the view that positive campaigns although it does not change its “tone” may not be truthful and thu
Load test tools are software assessment software and equipment that observes and understands the behavior of certain applications when under specific expected loads. Essentially, they are able to illustrate the performance of an application at both normal and peak conditions. This is especially prevalent within web testing, in which performance is often related to smaller web clients and large loads of concurrent users. The following paper observes a number of functions of two load testing tools, JMeter and Locust. JMeter is an Apache-owned property that aims to analyze and measure a diverse set of services, though it focuses on web applications. Locust is an open-source testing tool but is more scriptable and scalable, making it easier to manipulate to the tester’s needs. Within this paper, a literature review of a number of articles will be utilized to determine the ways in which JMeter and Locust interact with load tests for small or medium-sized web client applications through methodologies that include concurrent virtual users and its effects on increases or decreases in the usage of hardware consumption for memory. JMeter’s ability to interact with concurrent users and the effect on hardware consumption can be observed through the offered testing models provided by the tool. The testing tool provides a number of load models, of which the closed model is able to construct a process by which concurrent users are limited to prevent crashing. On the other hand, the open model continues to observe the flow of virtual user arrivals to a website despite anything else happening on the tested system. As such, JMeter creates a space in which the users are independent of each other, and in the case of SUT slowing, the flow of new users will continue (Gomes Rodrigues et al., 2019). In the case of memory consumption, JMeter provides additional functions through their JProfiler software, which runs technical tests. The testing tool is able to provide memory dumps of the application at the beginning and end of the test. JMeter does so to ensure that the more recent version of the tested website or application does not consume as much memory as its prior version. A number of methods exist to change the memory consumption that occurs during load tests within the JMeter tool. These include excluding listeners from JMeter scripts, increasing Java heap size, and tune JMeter SaveServices, which can reduce the amount of data being written during a load test. The solutions mentioned hint at the sources of memory consumption that may occur during load testing for small or medium-sized web client applications. The overflow is often related to monitoring servers and controllers, recording sampler information, and the reduction of local memory consumption. As such, JMeter does observe substantial excessive usage in terms of hardware and memory consumption but is able to navigate these issues with a number of alternative functions. The Python-based scenarios and open-source nature of