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Landlords and Lodgers
Authors: Pellow Deborah
Published: September 2024

Based on 25 years of research on and in Sabon Zongo, one of the oldest migrant communities in Accra, Ghana, this book is about the spatial and social production of this community within this urban setting. While Sabon Zongo is clearly part of the larger urban landscape of Accra, it is also culturally distinct, representing the melding of a migrant Hausa ethos, informed by Islam, its values and its institutions, and the metropolitan knowledge shared by all city dwellers. The author explores the interconnections of community residents to one another both in terms of built space—the boundaries of community, community structures, and compounds—and social space—the social networks, institutions, activities, and routines through which Sabon Zongo residents reproduce meaning as constituted by and in their built environment.

There is no body of data similar to this study's both in breadth and depth of understanding relating to this particular urban community. Much of the material has never been published. Both theoretically and substantively, this book makes a unique contribution to the literature on African urban life. Written in a clear, open style, this book will appeal to specialists and interested general readers alike.
Learning and Libraries in an Information Age
Authors: Stripling Barbara K.
Published: September 2024

Blending the latest research and educational theory with sound and effective practices, this book shows you how to create a learning-centered library for the new millennium. Some of the most respected authorities in the field have contributed their ideas and expertise to this important work. For example, Carol Kuhlthau discusses student learning in the information age; Jackie Mancall writes about collection development; Sheila Salmon describes what the library media specialist brings to the equation of standards-based learning; and Joy McGregor provides an informative article about learning theories and models. The result is a valuable combination of principles and implementation strategies for learning, information literacy, instructional design, library media program design, collaboration, teaching, collection development, assessment, and building communities of learning. Now is the time to step forward as an instructional leader and this is the book that will help you do it. A must read for libra
Lou Gehrig
Authors: Kashatus William C.
Published: September 2024

Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played stood for decades until Cal Ripken Jr. broke it in 1995. Most people remember Gehrig for this record, or for the disease that claimed his life (and now bears his name). But what many forget is how prolific a hitter he was. The son of German immigrants, Gehrig rose from inauspicious beginnings to become a scholar-athlete at Columbia University, and then moved to Major League Baseball, where he knocked in almost 2,000 runs and helped his team win six world championships. William Kashatus recounts the perserverance and poise of a life which ended tragically, yet heroically. Written in cooperation with George Pollack, the lawyer for the Gehrig estate, this biography provides a valuable addition to the study of an enduring American sports legend.

The final chapters analyze the creation of the player's legend through literature and film and also update the reader on the on-going fight against ALS.
Macho Man
Authors: Jones Randy , Bego Mark
Published: September 2024

The Vietnam War was over and America seemed in the midst of a nationwide party. The self-proclaimed Me generation was flocking to discotheques, recreational drug use was high, and sexual taboos were being shattered nationwide. Then The Village People appeared on the music scene. Never before had gay sexuality been as up-front and in the face of America. The Village People struck a cultural nerve and fueled a craze that had them playing to sold-out crowds at Madison Square Garden. Even today, few adults could not at least hum the tunes toY.M.C.A.andMacho Man. Because of the unique role they played in the United States of the late 1970s, The Village People are able to provide a powerful lens through which to view the emergence and development of gay culture in America. InMacho Man, readers can travel back with one of the first gay icons in popular music, and a top pop culture biographer, as they describe this complicated process of change.

In these pages, Randy Jones, the original cowboy in the band, takes us inside the time period, the discos, and the new musical style that was in many ways unprecedented in giving a voice to a previously closeted gay culture. Assisted by Mark Bego, one of the most popular and prolific pop culture authors working today, Jones shows how the fast-lane rise, fall, and rebirth of this novel band paralleled activities across the last 40 years within the gay culture and gay rights movement. The work concludes with a gayography — a listing of openly gay musicians and performers in the United States before and since The Village People - along with a discography and filmography. This work will interest pop culture and music enthusiasts, in addition to scholars in gay studies.
Managing Volunteers
Authors: Sakaduski Nancy
Published: September 2024

Volunteers are the backbone of many an organization. This practical, hands-on guide, filled with useful tips and everyday examples, will help those responsible for volunteers successfully recruit and manage this invaluable resource.

Anyone who supervises volunteers will find this book an indispensable guide for navigating the intricacies of managing unpaid workers. Underlying the content is the message that volunteers are a vital part of an organization's workforce and should be treated as valuable members of the team. Volunteers can work alongside paid staff members to help the organization run smoothly and efficiently—and cost effectively. The book is packed with easily implemented advice and proven techniques for successfully handling common situations. Concise and easy to read, it assumes neither previous volunteer management experience nor familiarity with business practices, yet even experienced volunteer managers will come away with fresh ideas and new approaches.

To augment her own expertise and increase the diversity of viewpoints, the author interviewed volunteer managers from various types of organizations and shares their stories. Quotes and anecdotes throughout the book help readers relate to common problems and illustrate the challenges and rewards of managing volunteers.
Minority Protection in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Authors: Henrard Kristin
Published: September 2024

Accommodation of population diversity is a vital issue for any multinational society. The legacy of Apartheid in South Africa complicates this effort considerably. Henrard introduces a theoretical framework regarding how to accommodate minority protection in the most appropriate way and analyzes the respective contributions of individual rights, minority rights, and the right to self-determination. Subsequent chapters examine the case study of post-apartheid South Africa and attempt to investigate its constitutional development. Henrard finds that provisions within the 1996 Constitution do acknowledge an interrelation between these three important factors; however, implementation of minority protection policy is often quite a different matter.

In seeking appropriate means of minority protection, this study stresses inclusionism, integration, and the essential right to identity and real equality. While Henrard reviews and discusses the entire democratic transformation process in South Africa, she cautions that, because current developments are characterized by their unsettled nature, major transformation and flux, analysis of the implementation phase can be only indicative. The apartheid history does not in itself inhibit progressive stances on this important issue. Still, despite the promising nature of the 1996 Constitution, the picture that emerges in terms of policy development aimed at minority protection is ambivalent.
Multimedia Projects in Education
Authors: Ivers Karen S. , Barron Ann E.
Published: September 2024

This practical and easy-to-use resource will help teachers and library media specialists effectively integrate multimedia projects into their curriculum.

Like the three earlier editions,Multimedia Projects in Education: Designing, Producing, and Assessing, Fourth Editionaddresses the need to help students use their knowledge to analyze, create, solve problems, communicate, collaborate, and innovate. With 40 percent new materials and updates to everything else, it offers the perfect, hands-on approach to using multimedia in everyday practice.

The book is centered around the easy-to-use DDD-E model—Decide, Design, Develop, and Evaluate—coupled with practical advice on how to effectively integrate the development of multimedia projects into classrooms. Focus is on student learning outcomes and such issues as classroom management, grouping alternatives, computer scheduling options, design stages, and assessments. Readers will learn how to select and plan multimedia projects; use hypermedia programs and presentation and development tools; manage graphics, audio, and digital video; and create webpages. Project suggestions come complete with a scenario, overview, topics, and reproducible worksheets, and can be easily adapted for different grade levels.
Music of the Colonial and Revolutionary Era
Authors: Ogasapian John
Published: September 2024

The colonial days of America marked not only the beginnings of a country, but also of a new culture, part of which was the first American music publishers, entrepreneurs, and instrument makers forging musical communities from New England to New Spain. Elements of British, Spanish, German, Scots-Irish, and Native American music all contributed to the many cultures and subcultures of the early nation. While English settlers largely sought to impose their own culture in the new land, the adaptation of native music by Spanish settlers provided an important cultural intersection. The music of the Scots-Irish in the middle colonies planted the seeds of a folk ballad tradition. In New England, the Puritans developed a surprisingly rich—and recreational—musical culture. At the same time, the Regular Singing Movement attempted to reduce the role of the clergy in religious services. More of a cultural examination than a music theory book, this work provides vastly informative narrative chapters on early American music and its role in colonial and Revolutionary culture. Chapter bibliographies, a timeline, and a subject index offer additional resources for readers.

TheAmerican History through Musicseries examines the many different types of music prevalent throughout U.S. history, as well as the roles these music types have played in American culture. John Ogasapian's volume on the Colonial and Revolutionary period applies this cultural focus to the music of America's infancy and illuminates the surprisingly complex relationships in music of that time.
Music of the Great Depression
Authors: Young William H. , Young Nancy K.
Published: September 2024

Prior to the stock market crash of 1929 American music still possessed a distinct tendency towards elitism, as songwriters and composers sought to avoid the mass appeal that critics scorned. During the Depression, however, radio came to dominate the other musical media of the time, and a new era of truly popular music was born. Under the guidance of the great Duke Ellington and a number of other talented and charismatic performers, swing music unified the public consciousness like no other musical form before or since. At the same time the enduring legacies of Woody Guthrie in folk, Aaron Copeland in classical, and George and Ira Gershwin on Broadway stand as a testament to the great diversity of tastes and interests that subsisted throughout the Great Depression, and play a part still in our lives today. The lives of these and many other great musicians come alive in this insightful study of the works, artists, and circumstances that contributed to making and performing the music that helped America through one of its most difficult times.

TheAmerican History through Musicseries examines the many different styles of music that have played a significant part in our nation's history. While volumes in this series show the multifaceted roles of music in our culture, they also use music as a lens through which readers may study American social history. The authors present in-depth analysis of American musical genres, significant musicians, technological innovations, and the many connections between music and the realms of art, politics, and daily life.
Music of the Postwar Era
Authors: Tyler Don
Published: September 2024

At the end of WWII, themes in music shifted from soldiers' experiences at war to coming home, marrying their sweethearts, and returning to civilian life. The music itself also shifted, with crooners such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra replacing the Big Bands of years past. Country music, jazz, and gospel continued to evolve, and rhythm and blues and the new rock and roll were also popular during this time. Music is not created without being influenced by the political events and societal changes of its time, and the Music of the Postwar Era is no exception.

*includes combined musical charts for the years 1945-1959 *approximately 20 black and white images of the singers and musicians who represent the era's music
Muslims in the United States
Authors: Ba-Yunus Ilyas , Kone Kassim
Published: September 2024

As a minority religion in a predominantly Christian country, America's Muslims face many difficulties - lack of understanding of their cultural traditions by the majority of their fellow citizens, threats to their civil liberties based on their beliefs and ethnicity, and challenges to retaining a Muslim identity within their community.Muslims in the United Statesclarifies this complex situation by explaining for a non-Muslim audience the basic teachings and practices of Islam, the history of Islam in the United States, and a discussion of how and where Muslims live in this country. The volume concludes with a discussion of the problems that Muslims have adjusting to American culture, and a description from the Muslim perspective of 9/11 and its aftermath.

Muslims in the United Statesprovides an objective overview of what it's like to live as a Muslim in the United States: ; Includes a history of Islam in America and a summary of what is known about the diversity of the Muslim population ; Examines the centrality of faith for the Muslims of the United States ; Analyzes the importance of women and the family ; Probes the troubles that Muslims have endured after 9/11
New Archetype for Competitive Intelligence
Authors: McGonagle ,   Jr. John J. , Vella Carolyn M.
Published: September 2024

McGonagle and Vella maintain that competitive intelligence as we know it is just the first step toward the creation of true corporate intelligence. Their book thus explores ways in which new channels of communication and new uses of information and intelligence will change corporations, and how these changes can be anticipated now in an organization's strategic planning, crisis management, benchmarking, reverse engineering, and defensive intelligence activities. In doing so, they introduce readers to new techniques, such as shadow benchmarking and fractal management analysis. Readable, with useful checklists, forms, reminders, and drawing from real world cases, this book will be essential reading for executives in the public and private sectors, and their colleagues in the academic business community.

Vella and McGonagle premise their book on the evidence that modern companies throughout the world are undergoing radical, involuntary transformations, the result of an explosion of raw information suddenly available to them. Not only does this demand new ways to collect, process, and use information, but also a new way to look at and link information sources that until now have been unconnected. After discussing the importance of intelligence today and its greater importance tomorrow, Vella and McGonagle develop the concept of Cyber-Intelligence(TM), then show how it applies to strategy-creation, marketing, crisis management, benchmarking, and other organizational functions. They turn next to data gathering in the context of their Cyber-Intelligence(TM) concept, ending with a thoughtful discussion of where C-I is going next.
Nonprofit Management Education
Authors: O'Neill Michael , Fletcher Kathleen
Published: September 2024

The rapidly growing trend of higher education programs specially tailored for managers of nonprofit agencies is no more than fifteen years old, but now these programs include thousands of students at nearly one hundred universities and colleges worldwide. Business management education developed at the turn of the century, and public management began education in the 1930s; now nonprofit management education is emerging in a comparable way. This book charts the growth of and addresses the major issues and controversies surrounding this new field.

The collection includes both academics and practitioners reporting their research findings and experiences with nonprofit management education. Major issues include the growth of nonprofit management as an academic field, the academic and political problems facing the field, curricular and instructional issues including new technologies such as distance learning, and the debate over whether such programs should be housed in schools of business, public administration, or in their own separate programs. The book also explores ways and means by which nonprofit management education can most effectively serve nonprofit practitioners.
Of the People, by the People, for the People
Authors: Baldino Thomas J. , Kreider Kyle L.
Published: September 2024

In this book, primary source documents, including Constitutional provisions, federal and state laws, and U.S. court decisions, explain our voting rights and show how the law governs disputed elections and electoral reforms.

The hotly disputed election of 2000 roused a generally complacent electorate to recognize the erosion of a basic rite of citizenship many had long taken for granted: the exercise of their right to vote. Since then, controversial technology for casting and counting ballots, as well as numerous initiatives intended to increase voter participation (or, in the case of voter identification laws, arguably to restrict it), have ensured that possible flaws in our electoral system are never far from public consciousness. We perceive these troubling developments as new, yet from the colonial period onward, our history has been marked by fierce political battles over who is entitled to vote and how. With over 100 documents, this book presents and analyzes the documentary record of this ongoing struggle.

Organized chronologically, this volume traces the legislative evolution of the franchise in America, as well as the significant federal and state court decisions that interpret the law to either extend or contract access to the vote. In each chapter a distinctive section offers examples of disputed elections (presidential and congressional) and the reform proposals that resulted, such as proposed constitutional amendments to eliminate the Electoral College.
Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends
Authors: Narayan Kirin
Published: September 2024

A long-lost collection of Indian fairy tales transcribed by the daughter of the British governor of Bombay.

In the cold months of 1865, young Mary Frere and her father, Bartle Frere, British governor of Bombay, set out in a caravan across the Deccan province of south central India. During their journey Mary transcribed 24 popular Hindu folktales told to her by her nursemaid. That collection of tales, which she published as Old Deccan Days, not only became the first Indian folklore collection in English, it established a new genre of writing about British India.

These marvelously imaginative tales from the Indian oral tradition are peopled with beautiful, smart, outspoken women; restless, adventuresome men; gods who take on human form; and animals who know the secrets of human destinies. Evil magicians cast spells on humans, changing them to plants, and demonic, ogre-like Rakshases savor human flesh.
Practical Approaches to Using Learning Styles in Higher Education
Authors: Dunn Rita , Griggs Shirley A.
Published: September 2024

Dunn and Griggs challenge the traditional instructional process of lecture/discussion in college classroom and describe the theory, practice, and research that support a wider variety of approaches to better accommodate the learning-style preferences of each student. Twenty-five practitioners from varied backgrounds and disciplines, representing 14 colleges and universities, outline alternative strategies they use with diverse students in their institutions of higher education. Some of these practitioners have been using learning-style for decades. Others have conducted research to test the various tenets of the Dunn and Dunn Learning- Style Model, and a few, only for the past five years, have begun providing instructional strategies that are congruent with their students' preferences.

A road map is provided for college faculty to assist them in moving toward accommodating students' learning-style strengths by comparing the major theories of learning styles that range from uni- to multi-dimensional in scope. Strategies include: identifying and administering valid and reliable instruments for assessing college students' learning styles, interpreting assessment results so that each student becomes aware of his/her own strengths and is provided a computer-generated prescription for improving their study skills and successfully completing assignments, designing instruction to respond to both global and analytic students' processing styles, developing course content and materials to accommodate the learning-style preferences of college students, and evaluating the impact of learning-styles-based instruction.
Healthy Eating
Authors: Brehm Barbara A.
Published: September 2024

What we eat is important, but what does healthy eating look like and how can we create dietary habits that nourish us physically and emotionally?

Part of theQ&A Health Guidesseries, this book offers a broad introduction to healthy eating – a topic that is often shrouded in confusion and misinformation. The book’s 53 questions cover the basics of nutritional science, how diet affects physical and mental health, common dietary approaches, concerns about particular foods, and barriers that may prevent individuals from establishing and maintaining healthy eating habits.Healthy Eating: Your Questions Answeredsynthesizes the vast field of nutritional science into a compact and easy-to-digest volume that offers readers common-sense, evidence-based suggestions to improve their eating habits and steer clear of potentially harmful fad diets.

Augmenting the main text, a collection of 5 case studies illustrate key concepts and issues through relatable stories and insightful recommendations. The Common Misconceptions section at the beginning of the volume dispels 5 long-standing and potentially dangerous myths about healthy eating, directing readers to additional information in the text. The glossary defines terms that may be unfamiliar to readers, while the directory of resources curates a list of the most useful books, websites, and other materials. Finally, whether they’re looking for more information about this subject or any other health-related topic, readers can turn to the Guide to Health Literacy section for practical tools and strategies for finding, evaluating, and using credible sources of health information both on and off the internet.
Translating the Nonhuman
Authors: Robinson Douglas
Published: September 2024

Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation.

The so-called "fictional turn" in translation studies has staked out territory previously unclaimed by translation scholars – territory in which translators are portrayed as full human beings in their social environments – but so far no one has looked to science fiction for truly radical explorations of translation.Translating the Nonhumanfills that gap, exploring speculative attempts to cross the yawning chasm between human and nonhuman languages and cultures.

The book consists of three essays, each bringing a different theoretical orientation to bear on a different science-fiction work. The first studies Samuel R. Delany’s 1966 novel,Babel-17, using Peircean semiotics; the second studies Suzette Haden Elgin’s 1984 novel,Native Tongue, using Austinian performativity and Eve Sedwick’s periperformative corrective; and the third studies Ted Chiang’s 1998 novella, “Story of Your Life,” and its 2016 screen adaptation,Arrival, using sustainability theory. Themes include the 1950s clash between Whorfian untranslatability and the possibility of unbounded (machine) translatability; the performative ability of a language to change reality and the reliance of that ability on the periperformativity of “witnesses”; and alienation from the familiar in space and time and its transformative effect on the biological and cultural sustainability of human life on earth.

Through these close readings and varied theoretical approaches,Translating the Nonhumanprovides a tentative mapping of science fiction's usefulness for the study of human-(non)human translation, with translators and interpreters acting as explorers of new ways to communicate.
Der genaue Blick auf die Anwendung entscheidet: Roboter oder Lineareinheit?
Authors:   Philipp Fleig
Published: September 2024

Für eine effiziente und wirtschaftliche Montage und Handhabung setzenFertigungsunternehmen auf Automatisierung. Industrieroboter haben sich in vielenAnwendungen als zuverlässiges Tool bewährt. Doch nicht immer sind sie dierichtige Wahl. So lassen sich auch mit leistungsstarken Linearsystemen speziellePraxisanforderungen optimal erfüllen. Welche Lösung wirtschaftlicher ist, hängtindividuell von der Anwendung ab. Doch wann passt welches System besser?
Vereinfachtes Sauggut-Handling in der Dämmstoffproduktion: Vakuumzelle ergänzt Absauganlage
Authors:   Heiko Holtkamp
Published: September 2024

In seinem Werk in Bernburg setzt Knauf Insulation am „heißen Ende“ der Produktion,d.h. beim Erschmelzen des Grundmaterials für einen innovativen Dämmwerkstoff, einezentrale Absauganlage von Ruwac ein. Jetzt wurde die Anlage durch eine Vakuumzelleergänzt. Das erleichtert die Rückführung des aufgesaugten, hauptsächlich aus Altglasbestehenden Sauggutes in den Produktionsprozess.
Determination of Physico-chemical Parameters Bibinagar Lake, Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, Telangana
Authors:   Department of Environmental Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500007, Telangana, India., Krishnaveni B. , Shailaja K. ,   Department of Environmental Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500007, Telangana, India., Chapla J. ,   Department of Environmental Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad-500007, Telangana, India.
Published: September 2024

The present study on the Physico-chemical parameters of water quality of Bibinagar Lake is a Mandal in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, State of Telangana, India. During the period from May 2020 to April 2021 at three sampling stations, seasonal variations in air temperature, turbidity, pH, electrical conductivity, TDS, dissolved oxygen, hardness, nitrates, chlorides, calcium and magnesium were recorded. The various Physico-chemical parameters of Bibinagar Lake were calculated. The results of this study revealed that the concentration of the nutrients, turbidity, electrical conductivity and TDS increased with a decreasing trend of dissolved oxygen in all the sampling stations during the monsoon season. Thus, degradation in the water quality of the lake resulted in the monsoon season. The present study was carried out to determine various Physico-chemical parameters and the water quality index of Bibinagar Lake to study the quality of water for public consumption, recreation and other purposes. This study deals with the influence of environmental factors as well as domestic activities in the water quality in the related area.
Analisis Kemampuan Representasi Matematis dalam Menyelesaikan Soal Matematika Ditinjau dari Tipe Kepribadian Extrovert dan Introvert
Authors: Jaelani Abd. Kadir , Ilhamuddin Ilhamuddin , Arriyah Fathrul , Syamsuadi Ahmad , Tahir Sitti Rahmah
Published: September 2024

Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian jenis kualitatif deskriptif. Tujuan penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui kemampuan representasi matematis dalam menyelesaikan soal matematika ditinjau dari tipe kepribadian extrovert dan introvert pada siswa kelas VII SMP Negeri 1 Bajeng Barat. Subjek pada penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VII A SMP Negeri 1 Bajeng Barat sebanyak 2 orang yang dipilih berdasarkan pengkategorian tipe kepribadian, yaitu 1 siswa yang memiliki tipe kepribadian extrovert dan 1 siswa yang mewakili tipe kepribadian introvert dengan pertimbangan siswa yang dipilih memiliki nilai ulangan tengah semester genap mata pelajaran matematika yang setara. Instrumen yang digunakan pada penelitian ini yaitu angket tipe kepribadian Eysenck Personality inventory (EPI), tes kemampuan representasi matematis, dan pedoman wawancara. Adapun teknik analisis datanya menggunakan teknik analisis data model Miles dan Huberman, yaitu reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa subjek dengan tipe kepribadian extrovert lebih mampu dari subjek tipe kepribadian introvert dalam hal kemampuan representasi matematis dalam menyelesaikan soal matematika. Subjek dengan tipe kepribadian extrovert hanya mampu memenuhi dua indikator kemampuan representasi matematis, yaitu representasi visual dan representasi simbolik, dan tidak mampu memenuhi indikator representasi verbal. Sedangkan subjek dengan tipe kepribadian introvert mampu memenuhi ketiga indikator kemampuan representasi matematis, yaitu representasi visual, representasi simbolik, dan representasi verbal.
Enhancing organizational learning with e-learning capabilities: A systematic literature review
Authors: Cavus Nadire , Hussain Omar , Ubah Adaeze , Muhammad Isa Adam , Oluwasusi Victor
Published: September 2024

Corporate e-learning refers to the use of online learning technologies to provide professional training to employees. E-learning offers many benefits for organizations, including cost savings, flexibility, and provide consistent, up-to-date training to a diverse workforce. Implementing corporate e-learning programs can improve corporate learning, but also presents challenges such as developing effective content, engaging learners, and measuring the impact of the training. This study was conducted as a systematic literature review to find the missing gaps in corporate e-learning research by collecting past research articles from 4 scientific research databases in the last decade. In total 7,285 records were collected across the 4 databases which went through the PRISMA and rigorous process of inclusion and exclusion, and selection processes. In conclusion, 21 research articles were chosen for inclusion in the final review. This SLR found that e-learning has become increasingly popular in corporate learning over the past 15 years despite challenges in implementation, also offering benefits such as cost reduction, ease of access, comfort, learning ability, and speed, which improves productivity and efficiency in organization. Hopefully, the results of this SLR will benefit researchers who seek insight in the field of corporate e-learning and assist organizations to make informed decisions in deploying or improving e-learning in their establishments.
Business Students’ Perceptions of Employability Skills: An Exploratory Study in Saudi Arabia
Authors: ABOU HAMAD Maher
Published: September 2024

In light of the increasing changes in the global economic context, research has indicated that educational institutions and the job market are facing many challenges, one being the required employability skills of graduates upon recruitment. This study aimed to explore undergraduate business students’ perceptions as to the extent to which they agree certain employability skills important for job recruitment. The research method was a quantitative and qualitative one with 123 business students participating in a questionnaire and 20 participants in a semi-structured interview in one university in Saudi Arabia. Main findings indicated that the participants considered all the mentioned employability skills highly important according to the students’ university year or choice of future job but there were no significant differences. However, Sophomore level students showed a high positive significant difference in considering leadership as the most important skill over their junior and senior year counterparts. The findings further indicated that although the participants found the communication and leadership skills more important than the other skills, life-long learning, tolerance and language, considered of high importance in the research literature, were viewed not as important. Further, the interview responses indicated insufficient knowledge of how to develop their own skills to meet the market needs and sustainable employment. Implications of the present study show that there is a need for urgent collaboration between the educational institution and the job market to identify the required employability skills. Future research on matching stakeholders’ employability skills is recommended.
The Gender Wage Gap by Age in The Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
Authors: VOJINIC Perica , BECIC Marija , DALMATIN Nina
Published: September 2024

Although the equalisation of women’s and men’s rights implemented by the Republic of Croatia and the European Union through its equal opportunities policy is leading to an increasingly better situation for women in the labour market, the gender pay gap persists in all EU countries. Closing the gender pay gap requires intensive efforts by policy makers and employers to tackle the underlying problems. At the same time, Europe is facing an ageing population due to increasing life expectancy, declining birth rates and rising retirement ages. The persistence and widening of the gender pay gap in certain age groups highlights the importance of removing structural barriers and adopting policies that promote gender equality in the labour market at all stages of a person’s career. The aim of this paper is to examine the gender pay gap for selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries for the period 2013-2022 and to analyse how it differs across age groups, with a particular focus on Croatia. The results of the descriptive analysis and ANOVA indicate that the gap in Croatia is most pronounced among workers in the 45-54 age group, reflecting the disadvantages accumulated over a lifetime, including lower lifetime earnings and lower pension provision for women. In other CEECs, this difference is greatest in the younger age group (35-44). This study adds to the existing knowledge and contributes to the literature on the gender pay gap by age.
Central Bank’s Announcements Effects on the Romanian Market
Authors: ZAHARIA-ROTARU Alina
Published: September 2024

This study examines the effects of domestic monetary policy rate change announcements made by the central bank on the stock market returns and volatility in Romania. By utilizing event study methodologies under the Market Model, the analysis captures stock price reactions to these announcements in the 2003-2023 period, catching multiple phases of the financial and business cycles. The analysed period also captures multiple important events that marked the Romanian economy, including the 2008 crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, therefore offering a robust understanding of the market participants reactions to the central bank’s interventions, decisions and tools. Furthermore, this research enhances the application of event study techniques in emerging markets. Overall, the analysis reveals that Romania’s market reactions to monetary policy announcements often skew negative, reflecting cautious sentiment and scepticism about the implemented monetary policy measures, aligning with the findings of the economic literature focused on developed economies. However, the overall response magnitude in Romania is modest, indicating that positive reactions occur often. These findings suggest that the market’s conservative behaviour stems from precautionary measures. As Romania integrates further into the global financial system, these insights are vital for policymakers and investors, highlighting the need for continuous monitoring and adaptation in monetary policy to better navigate the complex economic landscape. By analysing a country located in the CEE region, this study adds to the economic research concerning the impact of monetary policy decisions, which has predominantly focused on the developed economies and regions until now, remaining scarce on the developing ones.
Circular Economy – How Viable is this Model in a Market Economy
Authors: BUCATA Nicoleta SEICARU , MARCUTA Liviu
Published: September 2024

The circular economy is a very important subject nowadays. Many try to show the advantages of the principle “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle” of circular economy against the principle “take-make-use-dispose” of the traditional linear economy. But also, some critiques have been raised. We want everything to be circular but in this run we can see that society is not yet prepared. At the same time, producers must be more responsible, even forced by the rules. The products must be designed to be re-used. Recent advances in technology, like AI and Industry 4.0 may help in this direction. Another important issue is the illegal export of waste (especially e-waste) to poor countries. In this article we try to address these issues, starting with available literature research and to find solutions.
The Livestock Production as One of The Factors Shaping the Agro-Forest Space – Dilemmas for Sustainable Regional Development
Authors: MUSIAŁ Kamila , SOWULA-SKRZYŃSKA Elżbieta
Published: September 2024

The conservation, and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems is essential for sustainable development. Biodiversity is at the centre of the 15th sustainable development goal, and is particularly related to crop and livestock agriculture. That refers not only to the whole country, but especially to individual regions, that build a whole system. Agro-forest space is a transition zone between agricultural land and a forest community, and it is considered as one of the most contrasting borders in cultural landscape. For the whole studied area located in southern Poland, which is rich in various forms of nature conservation, trends in cattle farming were decreasing, and for sheep were both stagnant and recessive. Moreover, the summer grazing of ruminants on pastures was assessed as insufficient. Such recessive livestock production may be in fact growing dilemma for the local sustainable development, as it enhances visible recessive processes, that disturb the agro-forest space. In all studied communes there have been indicated some changes in the rural-forest boundary over the last 20 years. There has been found a decrease in acreage of grassland vegetation of different types, which is especially valuable due to high biodiversity. In that specific region, livestock agriculture is not only important for the regional economy, but may be also responsible for nature conservation, provided that animal production is maintained at a sufficient level.
ATUAÇÃO DO ENFERMEIRO NO RECONHECIMENTO E INTERVENÇÃO DA DEPRESSÃO PÓS-PARTO: REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA
Authors: Santos Glenia Cardoso da Silva , Lopes Júnior Hélio Marco Pereira , Silva Luana Guimarães da
Published: September 2024

Esse artigo buscou discutir sobre os meios de atuação do enfermeiro para o reconhecimento e intervenção da DPP. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa e descritiva amparada por revisão de literatura integrativa. Possui como coleta de dados pesquisas realizadas em bases de dados acadêmicos-científicos, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Literatura Latino Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS). Observa-se que o enfermeiro, devido ao contato constante com puérperas, é identificado como o profissional mais apto para realizar a triagem e oferecer aconselhamento sobre depressão pós-parto. Além de utilizar escalas como a Escala de Depressão Pós-parto de Edimburgo, observando a interação mãe-filho e analisando a comunicação não verbal para identificar sinais de depressão. Nota-se que, a detecção precoce e as intervenções adequadas podem prevenir agravamentos decorrentes da DPP e melhorar o bem-estar da mãe e do bebê, por meio da atuação da enfermagem na promoção do atendimento humanizado e acolhedor decorrente da implementação de estratégias de autocuidado é possível proporcionar um ambiente seguro e acolhedor, onde as mães possam expressar seus medos e dúvidas.
IMMANUEL KANT: OS FUNDAMENTOS DA ÉTICA KANTIANA E SUA RELEVÂNCIA PARA O DIREITO
Authors: Fujarra Eliane Nunes Pereira , Araujo Urbano Cícero Fleury
Published: September 2024

O presente artigo tem como objetivo investigar a contribuição do filósofo Immanuel Kant para os fundamentos éticos e jurídicos contemporâneos, utilizando-se de uma metodologia bibliográfica. A pesquisa aborda inicialmente a concepção kantiana de Direito, que se baseia na ideia de liberdade e na coexistência das liberdades individuais sob um sistema de leis justas. Em seguida, examina-se a ética kantiana, centrada nos imperativos categóricos, os quais estabelecem a moralidade a partir de regras universais, independentes de inclinações pessoais ou consequências. O estudo ainda analisa o legado de Kant para o Direito, destacando a influência de suas ideias nos princípios jurídicos fundamentais, como a autonomia da vontade e a dignidade humana. Por fim, o artigo ressalta a relevância da filosofia kantiana na construção de uma moral jurídica pautada pela justiça, racionalidade e respeito aos direitos fundamentais.
Modeling homogeneous ice nucleation from drop-freezing experiments: impact of droplet volume dispersion and cooling rates
Authors: Addula Ravi Kumar Reddy , de Almeida Ribeiro Ingrid , Molinero Valeria , Peters Baron
Published: September 2024

Abstract. Homogeneous nucleation is the prominent mechanism of glaciation in cirrus and other high-altitude clouds. Ice nucleation rates can be studied in laboratory assays that gradually lower the temperature of pure water droplets. These experiments can be performed with different cooling rates, with different droplet sizes, and often with a distribution of droplet sizes. We combine nucleation theory, survival probability analysis, and published data on the fraction of frozen droplets as a function of temperature to understand how the cooling rate, droplet size, and size dispersity influence the nucleation rates. The framework, implemented in the Python code AINTBAD (Analysis of Ice nucleation Temperature for B and A Determination), provides a temperature-dependent nucleation rate on a per volume basis, in terms of approximately temperature-independent prefactor (A) and barrier (B) parameters. We find that dispersion in droplet diameters of less than an order of magnitude, if not properly included in the analysis, can cause apparent nucleation barriers to be underestimated by 50 %. This result highlights the importance of droplet size dispersion in efforts to model glaciation in the polydisperse droplets of clouds. We also developed a theoretical framework, implemented in the Python code IPA (Inhomogeneous Poisson Analysis), to predict the fraction of frozen droplets at each temperature for arbitrary droplet size dispersions and cooling rates. Finally, we present a sensitivity analysis for the effect of temperature uncertainty on the nucleation spectrum. Our framework can improve models for ice nucleation in clouds by explicitly accounting for droplet polydispersity and cooling rates.
Retrieval of pseudo-BRDF-adjusted surface reflectance at 440 nm from the Geostationary Environmental Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS)
Authors: Sim Suyoung , Choi Sungwon , Jung Daeseong , Woo Jongho , Kim Nayeon , Park Sungwoo , Kim Honghee , Jeong Ukkyo , Hong Hyunkee​​​​​​​ , Han Kyung-Soo
Published: September 2024

Abstract. In satellite remote sensing applications, enhancing the precision of level 2 (L2) algorithms relies heavily on the accurate estimation of the surface reflectance across the ultraviolet (UV) to visible (VIS) spectrum. However, the mutual dependence between the L2 algorithms and the surface reflectance retrieval poses challenges, necessitating an alternative approach. To address this issue, many satellite algorithms generate Lambertian-equivalent reflectivity (LER) products as a priori surface reflectance data; however, this often results in an underestimation of these data. This study is the first to assess the applicability of background surface reflectance (BSR), derived using a semi-empirical bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) model, in an operational environmental satellite algorithm. This study pioneered the application of the BRDF model to hyperspectral satellite data at 440 nm, aiming to provide more realistic preliminary surface reflectance data. In this study, the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) data were used, and a comparative analysis of the GEMS BSR and GEMS LER retrieved in this study revealed an improvement in the relative root mean squared error (rRMSE) accuracy of 3 %. Additionally, a time series analysis across diverse land types indicated a greater stability exhibited by the BSR than by the LER. For further validation, the BSR was compared with other LER databases using ground-truth data, yielding superior simulation performance. These findings present a promising avenue for enhancing the accuracy of surface reflectance retrieval from hyperspectral satellite data, thereby advancing the practical applications of satellite remote sensing algorithms.
Marine cloud base height retrieval from MODIS cloud properties using machine learning
Authors: Lenhardt Julien , Quaas Johannes , Sejdinovic Dino
Published: September 2024

Abstract. Clouds are a crucial regulator in the Earth's energy budget through their radiative properties, both at the top of the atmosphere and at the surface; hence, determining key factors like their vertical extent is of essential interest. While the cloud top height is commonly retrieved by satellites, the cloud base height is difficult to estimate from satellite remote sensing data. Here, we present a novel method called ORABase (Ordinal Regression Auto-encoding of cloud Base), leveraging spatially resolved cloud properties from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument to retrieve the cloud base height over marine areas. A machine learning model is built with two components to facilitate the cloud base height retrieval: the first component is an auto-encoder designed to learn a representation of the data cubes of cloud properties and to reduce their dimensionality. The second component is developed for predicting the cloud base using ground-based ceilometer observations from the lower-dimensional encodings generated by the aforementioned auto-encoder. The method is then evaluated based on a collection of collocated surface ceilometer observations and retrievals from the CALIOP satellite lidar. The statistical model performs similarly on both datasets and performs notably well on the test set of ceilometer cloud bases, where it exhibits accurate predictions, particularly for lower cloud bases, and a narrow distribution of the absolute error, namely 379 and 328 m for the mean absolute error and the standard deviation of the absolute error, respectively. Furthermore, cloud base height predictions are generated for an entire year over the ocean, and global mean aggregates are also presented, providing insights into global cloud base height distributions and offering a valuable dataset for extensive studies requiring global cloud base height retrievals. The global cloud base height dataset and the presented models constituting ORABase are available from Zenodo (Lenhardt et al., 2024).