bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
QUALIDADE FISIOLÓGICA DE SEMENTES E DESEMPENHO AGRONÔMICO DE CULTIVARES DE ALFACE DO GRUPO CRESPA
Authors: Santos Marlei Rosa dos , Santos Neto Wilson Ribeiro dos , Santos Ana Paula da Silva , Silva Ewerton Gasparetto da , Andrade Evandreyce Ferreira , Gomes Junior Francisco de Assis , Faria Tamara Santos Ferreira de
Published: May 2021

A alface é a hortaliça folhosa mais importante no mundo, sendo consumida principalmente in natura na forma de saladas. As maiores exigências ao clima são principalmente quanto a temperatura e luminosidade, embora seja reconhecida como planta típica de clima temperado, no entanto possui cultivares melhoradas geneticamente com maior tolerância a temperaturas elevadas, o que possibilita seu cultivo em diferentes regiões. Objetivo: Avaliar a qualidade fisiológica das sementes e o desempenho agronômico de cultivares de alface do grupo crespa nas condições edafoclimáticas do município de Uruçuí-PI. Métodos: foram conduzidos três experimentos: Experimento I – avaliação fisiológica das sementes de alface; Experimento II – produção de mudas de alface crespa, esses dois experimentos foram realizados com sementes de dez cultivares de alface. O experimento III – foi realizado com seis cultivares (Hanson, Grands Raptds TBR, Crespa Grand Raptds TBR, Elba, Crespa Repolhuda e Monica SF 31), que produziram mudas suficientes para serem transplantadas no campo. O delineamento experimental foi em blocos casualizados com quatro repetições. Resultados: No experimento I, as sementes das cultivares Grand Raptds TBR, Crespa Grand Raptds TBR, Crespa Repolhuda e Monica SF 31 mostraram qualidade fisiológica superiores e as três últimas apresentaram maior vigor pelo índice de velocidade de emergência de plântulas (Experimento II). As cultivares Hanson, Grand Raptds, Crespa Grand Raptds TBR, Elba, Crespa Repolhuda e Monica SF 31, foram as que apresentaram maior porcentagem de plantas normais (mudas). No cultivo em campo não houve diferença entre as cultivares para os parâmetros número de folhas e massa fresca da parte aérea. Conclusão: As cultivares Grand Raptds e Crespa Grand Rapts TBR, mostraram menos adaptadas para as condições de cultivo no município de Uruçuí-PI, no período entre março e julho de 2016.
Extensão Rural: práticas e pesquisas para o fortalecimento da agricultura familiar - Volume 2
Authors: Oliveira Robson José de
Published: May 2021

Esta obra constituiu-se a partir de um processo colaborativo entre professores, estudantes e pesquisadores que se destacaram e qualificaram as discussões neste espaço formativo. Resulta, também, de movimentos interinstitucionais e de ações de incentivo à pesquisa que congregam pesquisadores das mais diversas áreas do conhecimento e de diferentes Instituições de Educação Superior públicas e privadas de abrangência nacional e internacional. Tem como objetivo integrar ações interinstitucionais nacionais e internacionais com redes de pesquisa que tenham a finalidade de fomentar a formação continuada dos profissionais da educação, por meio da produção e socialização de conhecimentos das diversas áreas do Saberes.
Agradecemos aos autores pelo empenho, disponibilidade e dedicação para o desenvolvimento e conclusão dessa obra. Esperamos também que esta obra sirva de instrumento didático-pedagógico para estudantes, professores dos diversos níveis de ensino em seus trabalhos e demais interessados pela temática.
LEARNING FROM NONHUMAN ANIMALS: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF POSTHUMANITIES
Authors:   Research Scholar, Research & PG Department of English, All Saints’ College, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala., KRISHNA K RINU
Published: May 2021

Throughout the debated discourse of humanism, humans were considered as the only species endowed with reason and moral values. The result was an andro/anthropocentric humanism that divided everything into hierarchies and confined everything within boundaries. European model of higher education has undoubtedly been an enforcement of humanist ideas and ideologies which established certain humans as exceptional and superior to other ‘non-privileged’ humans and nonhuman animals. In this era of posthumanism all the imposed and imbibed boundaries between the human and nonhuman are being questioned, challenged and eliminated to create an open network of cross-species encounters. In this context this article through the theories of Posthuman philosophy and Critical Animal Studies proposes a shift towards posthuman ethics of inclusion and understanding in the field of classical humanities in India. This can be achieved by employing postontological methods to create and understand nonhuman representations. Theories and studies by posthuman scholars like Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Cary Wolfe, Graham Harman form the basis of this paper. This article is an acknowledgement as well as an advocation of the shift happening across disciplines from humanities to posthumanities, which however is yet to make a movement in education in India.
The Unreality of Time: A Critical Analysis
Authors:   Assistant Professor, Vivekananda Satavarshiki Mahavidyalaya Manikpara, Jhargram, WB- 721513, Afrin Sadiya
Published: May 2021

The problem of the metaphysics of time is whether the time is real or unreal. This paper will introduce some of the major positions and arguments concerning the unreality of time. We all know the external world is constantly changing. ‘Change is the only constant in life’. We get trapped in the illusion of time and space. But in reality, the past isn’t here anymore, the future yet to be seen, only the present moment seems to be real. But present time also flies or passes away very rapidly. Whenever we try to grasp it, it slips away. Before discussing the unreality of time, it is necessary to mention that we will deal with the ‘experience of time’ in this chapter. The mathematical or physicist concept of absolute time would not be discussed here. Firstly, ‘Motion is impossible’ would be discussed from Zeno’s paradox, followed by an effort to connect it with McTaggert’s argument on ‘Unreality of Time’. Then presentism and eternalism would be discussed in reference to the unreality of time.
Sequential persuasion
Authors: Li Fei , Norman Peter
Published: May 2021

This paper studies sequential Bayesian persuasion games with multiple senders. We provide a tractable characterization of equilibrium outcomes. We apply the model to study how the structure of consultations affects information revelation. Adding a sender who moves first cannot reduce informativeness in equilibrium and results in a more informative equilibrium in the case of two states. Moreover, with the exception of the first sender, it is without loss of generality to let each sender move only once. Sequential persuasion cannot generate a more informative equilibrium than simultaneous persuasion and is always less informative when there are only two states.
Local agency costs of political centralization
Authors: Myerson Roger B.
Published: May 2021

We analyze a model of moral hazard in local public services, which could be efficiently managed by officials under local democratic accountability, but not by officials who are appointed by the ruler of a centralized autocracy. The ruler might prefer to retain an official who diverted resources from public services but contributed part to benefit the ruler. The autocratic ruler would value better public services only when residents reduce taxable investments, which become unprofitable without good public services. For local government to benefit local residents, they must have some decentralized power to punish an official who serves them badly even while serving the ruler well.
Evolution, heritable risk, and skewness loving
Authors: Heller Yuval , Robson Arthur
Published: May 2021

Our understanding of risk preferences can be sharpened by considering their evolutionary basis. The existing literature has focused on two sources of risk: idiosyncratic risk and aggregate risk. We introduce a new source of risk—heritable risk—in which there is a positive correlation between the fitness of a newborn agent and the fitness of her parent. Heritable risk was plausibly common in our evolutionary past and it leads to a strictly higher growth rate than the other sources of risk. We show that the presence of heritable risk in the evolutionary past may explain the tendency of people to exhibit skewness loving today.
Bounded rationality and limited data sets
Authors: Clippel Geoffroy , Rozen Kareen
Published: May 2021

Bounded rationality theories are typically characterized over exhaustive data sets. We develop a methodology to understand the empirical content of such theories with limited data, adapting the classic revealed‐preference approach to new forms of revealed information. We apply our approach to an array of theories, illustrating its versatility. We identify theories and data sets testable in the same elegant way as rationality, and theories and data sets where testing is more challenging. We show that previous attempts to test consistency of limited data with bounded rationality theories are subject to a conceptual pitfall that may lead to false conclusions that the data are consistent with the theory.
Trust and betrayals: Reputational payoffs and behaviors without commitment
Authors: Pei Harry
Published: May 2021

I study a repeated game in which a patient player wants to win the trust of some myopic opponents, but can strictly benefit from betraying them. His benefit from betrayal is strictly positive and is his persistent private information. I characterize every type of patient player's highest equilibrium payoff and construct equilibria that attain this payoff. Since the patient player's Stackelberg action is mixed and motivating the lowest‐benefit type to play mixed actions is costly, every type's highest equilibrium payoff is strictly lower than his Stackelberg payoff. In every equilibrium where the patient player approximately attains his highest equilibrium payoff, no type of the patient player plays stationary strategies or completely mixed strategies.
Lik Antigone v predmoderni literaturi
Authors: Širca Alen
Published: May 2021

Razprava tematizira lik Antigone v evropski literaturi, in sicer od antike do konca srednjega veka. Po obdobju klasične grške tragedije (Ajshil, Sofokles, Evripid) je Antigona kot literarna figura doživela najizrazitejšo predelavo v rimski dobi, v Senekovi tragediji Feničanke in Stacijevem epu Tebaida. V obeh delih je Antigona kljub dokaj aktivni vlogi zaznamovana s stoiškim determinizmom. V srednjem veku je Antigona precej marginalen literarni lik. Nanjo naletimo predvsem v bolj ali manj svobodnih adaptacijah Stacijeve Tebaide, kot sta srednjeveško irsko prozno delo Togail na Tebe (Uničenje Teb) in francoska epska pesnitev Roman de Thèbes (Roman o Tebah). Na sporadične omembe Antigone pa naletimo tudi pri Danteju, Boccacciu in Christine de Pizan. Razprava ugotavlja, da gre v srednjeveški literaturi pri tematizaciji Antigone pogosto za preplet dveh mitoloških likov (in izročil), tebanske in (veliko manj znane) trojanske Antigone. Takšna literarna contaminatio (kontaminacija) obeh Antigon je najvidnejša v Chaucerjevi epski pesnitvi Troilus and Criseyde (Troil in Kresida). Razprava se na koncu dotakne tudi humanistične recepcije Antigone in opozori na hermenevtični problem literarne recepcije Antigone na splošno.
The Concretization of the Literary Work of Art: Elements for a Comparison between Roman Ingarden and Wolfgang Iser
Authors: Kryeziu Sazan
Published: May 2021

The notion of concretization introduced by Roman Ingarden in his seminal work The Literary Work of Art makes the reader the one responsible for the creation of the literary work of art as an aesthetic object. Prior to the act of reading, “the work itself,” in Ingarden’s analysis, is a structure of various strata: the stratum of verbal sounds, the stratum of meaning units, the stratum of schematized aspects, and the stratum of represented objectivities. The reader concretizes the work, turning the schematic formation into an accomplished aesthetic object. Concretization is accomplished by adding determinations to the schemata of the text on all strata. By way of their psychic operations readers fill in places of indeterminacy and establish the world of the literary work of art. Wolfgang Iser takes up Ingarden’s concept of places of indeterminacy to develop his own position. Iser recasts the concept of indeterminacy in the form of gaps or “blanks” which allow for more functions and forms than those stated in Ingarden’s analysis. For Ingarden, the process of reading moves in one direction: from the real world to the imaginary (intentional) world. For Iser the process of reading is two-directional: the reader fills in the blanks of the imaginary world using the memory traces collected in his or her mind that derive from the life-world. An attempt to clarify the main points of Ingarden’s phenomenology of reading, may, therefore, elucidate Iser’s contribution. In addition, the notion of concretization has seen many criticisms (R. Wellek, G. Poulet, S. Fish, D. Barnouw among others), and the topic deserves renewed attention.
Communicating in Media Dark Areas
Authors: Kumar Dinesh , Gupta Punam
Published: May 2021

Companies have to communicate with their consumers and deliver value. This is achievable in areas where consumers are educated and have access to media – and these conditions exist in markets in the developed world and also in urban areas in developing countries. But communicating to distant, scattered villages, or areas where the majority of the population is poor—areas called media-dark—poses a great challenge for business. Further, the target audience may also have no access to education or media. Communicating in these markets physically is simply not economical or feasible. This chapter describes the challenges of reaching consumers in media dark environments. It explores how companies are getting over these obstacles. Drawing on case studies describing innovative use of communication methods, it explains how initiatives can succeed in BOP areas using innovative approaches. A media communication mix is proposed for successfully reaching out to consumers in BOP markets.
Becoming Who You Are Through Authentic Organizational Communication
Authors: Jackson Ross
Published: May 2021

Business communication is comprised of standards designed for efficiency. Like commodities, official correspondences are often indistinguishable. Adherence to templates provides uniformity in arrangement if not also content. When this approach works well, it is both efficient and effective. However, the universal applicability of this paradigm is suspect. Such standardization stifles creativity. When one is responsible for communicating insights in business, a radical break with convention might be beneficial in terms of gaining attention and provoking thought. Deviating from established norms is risky. Further, while one learns key tenants of business communication at work and in college, one is seldom informed as to when to stop following the rules and forge a new communicative path forward. In this chapter, existential insights are combined with communication theory to illustrate how authentic organizational communication can assist in one becoming who one is while also communicating insights in a business in a way that the form and content are strategically aligned.
Inequities Revealed
Authors: Potter Rachel
Published: May 2021

With the onset of the pandemic associated with COVID-19 taking hold in North America in spring of 2020, higher education institutions responded swiftly to reduce virus transmission by shifting in-seat courses to virtual-only instruction. Many faculty and students had already been engaged in online teaching and learning from the semester's onset. Still, these students were not exempt from facing challenges and inequities directly related to, or coinciding with, the change in instructional delivery. This chapter serves to share the stories of a diverse group of four faculty and four students who were already engaged in online learning at the time of this mid-semester shift and identify key barriers experienced. The most common themes include parenting and childcare responsibilities, supporting colleagues and other learners, difficulty maintaining work and study routines, and the direct impact of illness.
Teaching and Learning During a Pandemic
Authors: Chapman Trevor , Bierbaum John , Hatt Beth
Published: May 2021

This chapter encompasses the lived experiences of a high school teacher, high school administrator, and college professor. Each worked through the trials and tribulations of teaching and learning in a pandemic. The authors' narratives provide a vivid account of the initial shock of the pandemic announcements and the life changes that ensued. Written through an equity lens, this chapter explains how instruction is delivered in remote and hybrid settings; the importance of building communication with students, families, and staff; access to technology for learning; and the importance of building relationships with the students and families. This chapter aims to contextualize inequities that existed before the pandemic, how they were exacerbated as schools closed down, and how students' well-being became the necessary focus. The chapter's discussion frames how we can redefine our roles and responsibilities as educators to encourage student agency and the potential of trauma-sensitive schools as a means to help students heal from the wounds caused by this pandemic.
Wearing All Our Hats at Once
Authors: Clarkson Kelsey Ann , Lawton Carrie A. , Roehrig Amy E.
Published: May 2021

Women in academia often wear many hats, mainly those of teacher, academic, and caretaker. Feminist standpoint theory—the use of women's personal stories as a lens to view unique circumstances of their social group—has guided the authors' use of personal accounts to highlight the challenges faced by women wearing these hats during the pandemic. The authors' stories detail struggles in the female experience, creating the learning environment favored during in-person instruction, navigating unprecedented changes to the doctorate program, and addressing feelings of inadequacy as caretakers. The authors hope that women can see themselves in these stories and find a sense of empowerment as part of this unique social group. The authors' stories should open conversations about supporting women as they teach, research, and create a work-life balance during an unprecedented time.
Supporting Students Through Online Learning
Authors: Carlson Kristen
Published: May 2021

With the onset of a pandemic, there were opportunities and challenges for supporting learners. Schools and universities were physically closed while interaction shifted to a distance learning modality. In some instances, courses became asynchronous, while other courses met synchronously using video conferencing. Educators were adaptable when the pandemic occurred, quickly setting up home offices to meet their learners' needs. This occurrence showed that it was in educators' best interest to understand distance best practices. Distance learning has been utilized at institutions in the United States for the past two decades. However, it has not been widely adopted as mainstream because of the inequities that arise for learners. This chapter will address solutions for systematically addressing inequity from the educator's perspective, maintaining academic rigor, building a community of learners, creating a workflow for educators to interact with learners, and how to amplify learner engagement in the online learning environment.
Keep Me Connected
Authors: Reid Alexander James , Correa Elaine
Published: May 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented changes to the way college faculty and students are expected to teach and learn. For vulnerable populations, remaining virtually connected is an additional burden that students must navigate, along with financial instability, food insecurity, and familial responsibilities. College students who do not have access to computers or reliable internet access at home and depend on university onsite resources must seek alternative venues to continue their studies. Guided by Bourdieu's social and cultural capital theories, digital quality, and no-cost resources in mitigating a growing divide are examined. College students' learning needs in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of open educational and technology-based resources on students' learning experiences and academic outcomes are discussed. Survey results highlight students' concerns regarding the transition to a virtual university. Affordable and accessible solutions are presented to address these concerns to keep college students connected.
Online Learning for All
Authors: Scigliano Deborah A. , Parker David
Published: May 2021

The current pandemic has brought to light two areas of the online American educational system that need to be improved. One is the need to promote a greater sense of online teaching efficacy, leading to the ability to navigate the online teaching environment to promote student learning. The other is addressing the disparities that the pandemic uncovered associated with involving all learners in the online environment. Online learning for all learners and structures/systems that support equity is needed to have a seat at the table, whether that table is face-to-face or online. This chapter will address best practices of engaging learners in an online environment that can positively impact teacher online self-efficacy. The institutional culture and climate which led to the disparities that left many institutions rushing to make sure that all their learners would be served will be examined.
Student Preferences After Taking Online, Face-to-Face, and Hybrid Courses on Educational Technology
Authors: Samsonov Pavel
Published: May 2021

A survey-based study aimed at improving the course of educational technology was conducted with undergraduate students from 2018 through 2020. The study is based on an online survey. The results suggest that there is no “one-size-fits-all” mode of teaching; a considerable fraction of responses suggest a preference for online instruction, while the responses demanding face-to-face assistance are less numerous. The largest proportion of choices suggest demand for the blend of both. The study also looked at age and gender as factors influencing the preference of a teaching mode. Teacher presence in online/hybrid courses was found critical. Recommendations for designing an online course based on the study are offered.
Strategies for Meeting the Needs of All Learners Online
Authors: T. Gopikrishnan
Published: May 2021

Online learning is the new education method; it may be termed distance education. The classes will be held online, and the educational materials are made available to the students through the internet. The recordings of the classes may be stored for future reference. This chapter elaborates the factors, related problems, and solutions that are important to be met to fulfill the needs of the online learners. The listed factors are electricity, sanitation, social peace and safety, economy, literacy, communication and devices, internet, religion, abhorrence, and intellectual expert group. Apart from the listed factors, there may be factors that are region-specific, unknown, and hidden factors, but the majority of the discussed factors have a global impact. The inference of the global scenario for online education decocts the observations of this chapter and provides amicable solutions. The feasibility of online education is analyzed from a global perspective to get suitable solutions.
No Student Left Behind
Authors: Charamba Erasmos
Published: May 2021

The end of 2019 was punctuated by the emergence of an infectious disease spread through human-to-human transmission. This resulted in the suspension of contact classes as countries tried to contain the widespread virus. institutions were thus left with only one option: e-learning. E-learning entails the electronic delivery of learning experiences through the use of electronic mail and can either be synchronous or asynchronous. Through sociolinguistic lens embedded in the funds of knowledge and Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy, this chapter reports on a qualitative study that sought to delve into the pivotal role language play in the e-learning of multilingual undergraduate science students at a university in Zimbabwe. The students received e-learning lessons in the form of videos and narrated slides in English with subtitles in Shona and Ndebele languages. Data was collected through focus group interviews held via Microsoft Teams. This study suggests commendatory cognitive and socio-cultural benefits of multilingual e-learning pedagogy and espouses its use in higher education.
Digital, Decentralized Supply Chain and Its Implication for B2B Marketing
Authors: Ray Subhasis
Published: May 2021

This chapter discusses the possible effects of decentralized, digital supply chains on B2B marketing. Traditional buying and selling functions will change once large organizations decide to procure from digital platforms. Using the case study of medikabazaar.com, an Indian start-up, the chapter shows that while medical supply purchase will become decentralized, digital platforms will create a new centralization of suppliers and have a significant impact on industrial buying particularly for high value medical equipment purchase in small towns or small hospitals. Organizational buying process will be impacted and companies that choose to supply products directly to hospitals will have to change their marketing strategy suitably.
A Mobile Application (App) Based on Realistic Mathematics Education
Authors: Laubscher Dorothy Joy , Blignaut A. Seugnet , Nieuwoudt Hercules D.
Published: May 2021

Persistent poor results in mathematics can be ascribed to the content being taught so that it is removed from reality. This chapter reports on the design of a mobile application based on the realistic mathematics education approach. A purposeful stratified sample yielded participants from a group of in-service teachers enrolled for a post-graduate degree in mathematics education. A qualitative design-based research method was followed. The research produced a mobile application which serves as an intervention tool for practicing mathematics teachers to make the content more relevant and realistic. Various design principles were also formulated that could assist in future mobile app design projects. The mobile application can be used in a blended learning context, especially in underprivileged communities since accessibility to mobile devices is common. The availability of the app for free on Google Play store has the potential to assist mathematics teachers and learners from any context to improve their achievement in mathematics.
Exploring the Use of Universal Design for Learning to Support In-Service Teachers in the Design of Socially-Just Blended Teaching Practices
Authors: Fovet Frederic
Published: May 2021

This chapter examines the pivot to online and bended learning which occurred during the COVID health crisis and highlights how blended learning has emerged by far as the most popular and sustainable delivery option. The COVID pivot has also demonstrated, however, that blended learning too often ignores social inequities, and as a result allows them to become exacerbated. The chapter examines ways to support K-12 teachers as they seek to support social justice objectives within blended learning environments and suggests that universal design for learning can serve as a user-friendly and hands-on framework to address learner diversity in these innovative hybrid learning environments. The chapter further explores the repercussions this reflection has in relation to pre-service teacher training, in-service professional development, and leadership culture.
Arrangements for Online Engagements of Distance Learners in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Amponsah Samuel , Aheto Simon-Peter Kafui , Anapey Gideon Mensah , Kwapong Olivia Oatf
Published: May 2021

The University of Ghana Distance Education Programme was not spared from the disruptions brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Management of the Department needed to make a radical move to shift from its hybrid system of delivery to a full-fledged online delivery. In spite of the limited time for this move, a lot of creative planning had to go into this, which led to a virtual training of 340 tutors, through four modules, to prepare them adequately for the task. Aside from assessing the planning and the virtual training aforementioned, this reflective paper also delves into other important issues such as the rolling out of a virtual/online academic and counselling support and architecture for monitoring of all the 228 courses that were moved onto the online space. This paper has implications for both policy and institutions that might be faced with similar circumstances, and it makes suggestions for exploration of other useful tools for delivery and monitoring that would contribute to better online engagements.
Investigating the Readiness of a Developing Country to Adopt Blended Learning as a Pedagogical Approach During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Marevesa Tobias , Mavengano Esther
Published: May 2021

Face-to-face as a model of instruction is most preferred by instructors in Zimbabwe and particularly those at Great Zimbabwe University. Lecturers at this institution feel more comfortable and confident delivering their content through lectures. Therefore, the transformation from face-to-face instruction to blended learning is a challenge that requires serious academic conversations. Knowles' adult learning theory is utilised in this study to interrogate the preparedness and readiness of both staff and students at the Great Zimbabwe University to pave the way for a pedagogical shift from face-to-face instruction to blended learning in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. The major contention in this study is that the conception of blended learning and its didactical and pedagogical approach is still a problematic transition for instructors at the Great Zimbabwe University. It was concluded that while this may be the case, blended learning could still be a panacea to the problems of the outbreak of coronavirus disease.
Towards a Mentoring Model That Enhances Academic, Social, and Cultural Capital in Turbulent Times
Authors: Williams M. , Green C.
Published: May 2021

Academically at-risk students may doubt their ability to persist and succeed because of some or all of the following: socioeconomics, low self-esteem, identity crises, negative family histories, socio-emotional concerns, poor living situations, or negative messages about school and education. Currently, the aforementioned issues are further compounded by turbulent times, which include but are not limited to a pandemic that disproportionately affects people of color and the impoverished, along with continued civil unrest and demands for rapid societal change. Therefore, this population would benefit from the enhancement of its academic, social, and cultural capital. In order to accomplish those goals simultaneously, the authors propose a mentoring model that integrates aspects of advising, tutoring, mentoring, peer-to-peer interaction, metacognition, positive psychology, current events, and emotional wellness to support academically at-risk students in their pursuit of academic and personal excellence.
Teaching and Re-Imagining the Role of Medical Sociology in South Africa During COVID-19
Authors: Obuaku-Igwe Chinwe
Published: May 2021

The outbreak of COVID-19 of the SARS-COV virus family took the world by storm beginning February 2020 and became an international health crisis. Due to its unknown origins and manner of transmission, the South African government implemented lockdown measures to curtail the spread of the virus in March. These measures led to the closure of businesses across the country and sectors, including schools. The closure of schools resulted in the migration to online learning for most institutions of higher learning in South Africa. It brings with it challenges, opportunities for innovation, and reimagining pedagogical approaches, particularly in low resource settings. This chapter reflects on the nature and extent of the author's engagement with students enrolled in a health and medical sociology course during the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa. Here, they reflect on the challenges encountered while moving a course that was designed to be delivered in person (face-to-face) to an online environment.
Reimagining Children's Spaces in the Urban Nightlife
Authors: Andal Aireen Grace
Published: May 2021

This work explores the socio-spatial relations, urban practices, and institutional arrangements that contribute to the inclusivity of urban nightlife to children. Through a survey of selected literature, this work shows that while there are efforts to address issues of children's overnight experiences, some urban practices also downplay children's urban night experiences. The most significant discussions that emerged from this interest are related to the meaning of public spaces at night; differences in cities' inclusion of children during the day versus the night; privileged and underprivileged childhoods at night; and attention to adults who work on behalf of children, such as women, educators, and neighbourhood communities. Together, the literature reveals the importance of urban policies and research toward children's social integration in the city nightlife. Finally, this chapter proposes the “ethics of care” in everyday life as a framework in creating urban spaces in which children are integrated into the conviviality of the city nightlife.
‘Urban-Gamification' as a Collaborative Placemaking Toolkit in Nighttime
Authors: Azali Negin Najjar
Published: May 2021

Despite increasing interest in the 24-hour city, the effective human bonds with a place at this time have received little attention. Place experience is an amorphous and psychological theory with relevance to individual citizens interaction with their environment. During the nighttime, this interaction declines dramatically. As a solution, urban planners suggest collaborative placemaking and believe, since in collaborative process citizens directly participate in decisions, positive experiences toward the city increase amongst them. However, motivating citizens to participate in voluntary actions is not a straightforward task. To respond to this gap, this chapter first reviews the relevant literature to explore the role of collaborative placemaking in boosting place experience in the nighttime. Then, it introduces the state-of-art gamification as an approach/toolkit that can prepare a platform to motivate citizens to participate as volunteers in the collaborative process. In conclusion, the chapter defines a framework that urban games can use as a civic toolkit at nighttime.
Digital Urban Art in Historic City Centers in Times of Democratic Transition
Authors: Tira Yasmine
Published: May 2021

In the present ultra-numeric era, urban heritage faces a threat of losing local identity in some places around the globe. This fact creates a perplexity in how any local community perceives and uses information communication technologies (ICTs) in historical sites. However, several historic city centres are still giving their visitors a charming ‘experience of place'. Combining the tangible urban heritage with ephemeral urban digital art and original visual experiences creates a novice way of expressing public spaces. The argument here confirms the importance of the acceptance of democratic values during times of democratic transition. The way that the areas of cultural heritage are characterised in the current digitised world presents ephemeral nightlife experiences, an ensemble of the expressionist simulacrum. A brief overview of the relation between urban heritage and ephemeral urban art events is reflected through the lens of digital urban art. Given the results from the case of the Medina of Tunis, the festival's lighting in the historic city centre can provide a charming atmosphere.
Gender Inequality in Work Organizations
Authors: Aktepe Safak Oz
Published: May 2021

In this chapter, the author aims to present, through a review of literature, that the gender equality assumption of the human resource management (HRM) approach is not taken for granted. It seems there exist two sides of the same coin, one representing the HRM approach and the other representing the gendered approach to HRM practices. This chapter reviews HRM practices in work organizations as the potential facilitator of gender inequalities in organizations. In addition, the contentious function of HRM practices in maintaining gender inequalities within work organizations is reviewed. In spite of knowing the implication of HRM practices on being a gender-diverse organization, there remain few studies on the relationship between HRM practices and gender inequality in work organizations. Such research will add a different perspective to HRM practices and contribute to the awareness related to the gendered nature of organizations and their organizational practices.
Gender Inequity in the United States Surgical Workforce
Authors: Heisler Christine A. , Stephens Elizabeth H. , Temkin Sarah M. , Miller Pringl
Published: May 2021

Despite the consistently reported gender parity among accepted applicants to US medical schools, upstream parity in surgical training, academic promotion, leadership positions, pay equity, grant funding, and efforts to promote wellness specific to the needs of women surgeons is seriously lacking. Along with these known disparities, women surgeons disproportionally suffer from gender bias, micro-aggressions, bullying, discrimination, and harassment that together create an unjust, unsafe, undignified, intolerable if not hostile work environment. This chapter will explore these issues and offer a landscape that will set the stage for future initiatives to invoke change.
A Critical Review of Gender Parity and Voice Dispossession Among Executive Women in Higher Education Leadership
Authors: Stewart Tricia , Throne Robin , Evans Lesley Anne
Published: May 2021

Postsecondary organizational statistics show women remain limited and underrepresented within presidential and provost appointments, and progress has slowed into the 21st century. This chapter presents a critical review of the current scholarship of gender parity among higher education executive leadership specifically for a construct of voice dispossession. In past work, the authors have discussed how voice dispossession occurs among a dominant past culture and imbalanced power domains amid hierarchical structures for evolving organizational cultures as women often adopt a filtered voice or make attributional accommodations amidst challenges within these power and gendered organizational structures. This chapter extends the conversation by examining this focus within the larger body of research into women in higher education executive leadership to reveal limits of access and career success. While these power domains have historically been predominant across North America, parallels exist among other continents.
Re-Complicating Intersectionality Considering Differences in Language and Personality Type When Considering Strategies for African American Women's Career Development
Authors: Lewellen Chelesea , Bohonos Jeremy W. , Henderson Eboni W. , Colón Gliset
Published: May 2021

The purpose of this chapter is to use mini case studies as a method to explore how diversity in race and gender can affect the work-lives and career trajectories of African American women, and to suggest individual and organizational strategies to facilitate career growth of individuals whose identities intersect with multiple forms of diversity. This chapter will begin with a discussion of Black feminist thought and then proceed to discussions of research regarding African American women in the American workforce, personality type differences and linguistic diversity, and then proceed to a mini case study-based discussion of how these various forms of difference can dynamically interact to form highly nuanced sets of obstacles for African America women and other protected class categories whose identities intersect with one or more intersectional identities. Finally, the authors conclude with a discussion of coping and resistance strategies to improve the career trajectories of African American women.
Latina Efficacy
Authors: Rodriguez Sonia
Published: May 2021

School systems are notorious for resisting change and this causes moral and ethical dilemmas for those seeking equality within these settings. The primary barrier to current social movements is often the weariness of school organizations. Leaders who are tired of seeing the inequality in schools become the voice of change. Their mission is to make a difference, but ethical dilemmas may heighten when confronting social injustice within school systems. Although the Hispanic enrollment is schools has increased, Latina leadership remains unnoticed, and Latina superintendents are underrepresented in the superintendency. This chapter focuses exclusively on Mexican American female superintendents and portrays their ethical dilemmas while leading schools in what some may consider challenging school districts. There are distinct patterns in the types of school districts that Mexican American female superintendents choose to lead and they demonstrate a personal drive and commitment for improving educational opportunities for all children, regardless of social economic status and ethnicity.
Secure Healthcare Monitoring Sensor Cloud With Attribute-Based Elliptical Curve Cryptography
Authors: Dwivedi Rajendra Kumar , Kumar Rakesh , Buyya Rajkumar
Published: May 2021

Sensor networks are integrated with cloud in many internet of things (IoT) applications for various benefits. Healthcare monitoring sensor cloud is one of the application that allows storing the patients' health data generated by their wearable sensors at cloud and facilitates the authorized doctors to monitor and advise them remotely. Patients' data at cloud must be secure. Existing security schemes (e.g., key policy attribute-based encryption [KP-ABE] and ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption [CP-ABE]) have higher computational overheads. In this paper, a security mechanism called attribute-based elliptical curve cryptography (ABECC) is proposed that guarantees data integrity, data confidentiality, and fine-grained access control. It also reduces the computational overheads. ABECC is implemented in .NET framework. Use of elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) in ABECC reduces the key length, thereby improving the encryption, decryption, and key generation time. It is observed that ABECC is 1.7 and 1.4 times faster than the existing approaches of KP-ABE and CP-ABE, respectively.
Towards an Intelligent Framework for Cloud Service Discovery
Authors: Ali Abdullah Marish , Shamsuddin Siti Mariyam , Eassa Fathy E. , Saeed Faisal , Alassafi Madini O. , Al-Hadhrami Tawfik , Elmisery Ahmed M.
Published: May 2021

The variety of cloud services (CSs) that are described, their non-uniform naming conventions, and their heterogeneous types and features make cloud service discovery a difficult problem. Therefore, an intelligent cloud service discovery framework (CSDF) is needed for discovering the appropriate services that meet the user's requirements. This study proposes a CSDF for extracting cloud service attributes (CSAs) based on classification, ontology, and agents. Multiple-phase classification with topic modeling has been implemented using different machine learning techniques to increase the efficiency of CSA extraction. CSAs that are represented in different formats have been extracted and represented in a comprehensive ontology to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the framework. The experimental results showed that the multiple-phase classification methods with topic modeling for CSs using a support vector machine (SVM) obtained a high accuracy (87.90%) compared to other methods. In addition, the results of extracting CSAs showed high values for precision, recall, and f-measure of 99.24%, 99.24%, and 99.24%, respectively, for Java script object notation(JSON) format, followed by 99.05%, 97.20%, and 98.11% for table formats, and with lower accuracy for text format (90.63%, 86.57%, and 88.55%).
Board Information Technology Governance and Business Agility
Authors: Kozlica Admir
Published: May 2021

The goal of this paper is to empirically investigate and analyze the board's involvement in the information technology governance (ITG) function and how the ITG degree has implications for enterprise agility and financial performance. The analysis primarily relies on perceptual metrics. That is board members' views on the importance and impact of the decisions considered and made on the business outcome. The contribution is reflected in the relation of several of the most significant enterprise resources in complex conditions. The approach seeks to determine whether enterprise agility and business performance are the result of a higher degree of ITG or are critical elements of contingency. The test results show that enterprise agility has a significant indirect impact between ITG attainment and performance and that predefined IT role factors drive this relationship. The limitation of the research is that the capital market is not sufficiently developed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the responsibilities of the IT supervisory and audit bodies are not fully formulated.
Fuzzy Decoupling Energy Efficiency Optimization Algorithm in Cloud Computing Environment
Authors: Wang Xiaohong
Published: May 2021

With the vigorous development of information technology, cloud computing, as a distributed computing technology, has become a research hotspot in the industry. The cloud computing system has a huge resource pool. In order to meet user-specific quality of service requests, it needs to perform reasonable scheduling of various tasks. Under the premise of ensuring high computing performance and better service quality in the cloud computing environment, system energy efficiency optimization has become a key issue to be promoted in the promotion of cloud computing. The research purpose of this paper is to study the fuzzy decoupling energy efficiency optimization algorithm in cloud computing environment. This paper designs a fuzzy decoupling energy efficiency optimization scheme.
The Contribution of the Knowledge Areas to Project Success
Authors: Gomes Jorge , Carvalho Helena , Romão Mário José Batista
Published: May 2021

An increasing number of organizations operate through projects to achieve their strategic objectives. The main objective of this study is to analyse the degree of dissemination of the project management (PM) practices and their contribution to projects success. A survey performed to project managers aims to identify the extent to which the different knowledge areas and their respective PM practices are implemented and linked to projects success. The results achieved underlines that the practices related with cost, time, and scope management are the most well stablished. Furthermore, the study highlighted that other knowledge areas had an effect on projects success. Moreover, the project managers pointed out other less immediately reachable criteria for project success like end-customers and project team satisfaction or fulfilment of organizational objectives. The use of a multidimensional analytical approach to PM makes an important contribution in the analyses of the practices and factors that most contributed to project success.