bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Relationship among Clinical Practice Stress, Peer Group Caring Interaction and Teaching Efficiency in Nursing Students
Authors:   Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction, Kim Jin Young , Choi Hee-Soo , Kim Eun Jung
Published: November 2023

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of teaching efficiency and peer group caring in-teraction on clinical practice stress in nursing students.
Methods Data were collected through a structured questionnaire for 90 3rd graders who experienced clinical prac-tice among nursing students at a university in Gyeonggi-do. Using the IBM SPSS 26.0 program, the collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and Hierarchical re-gression analysis.
Results Results showed that teaching efficiency accounted for 4.45 points, clinical practice stress accounted for 2.07 points, and peer group caring interaction accounted for 4.08 points. Not only teaching efficiency and clinical practice stress, but also peer group caring interaction and clinical practice stress showed a negative correlation. As a result of hierarchical regression analysis, the factors significantly influencing the clinical practice stress were peer group caring interaction (β=-.28, p=.004) and teaching efficiency (β=-.26, p=.006), with a total explanatory power of 21.2% was(F=9.779 p<.001).
Conclusions It is required to develop and apply efficient education and programs to manage clinical practice stress using peer group caring interaction and teaching efficiency that affect clinical practice stress of nursing students.
Factors affecting high school students’ self-directedness
Authors:   Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction, Lee Jung Eun
Published: November 2023

Objectives This study explored the factors affecting the self-directedness of high school students in Korea by di-viding them into three areas: individual students, teaching method and schools, and parents. The theoretical basis for deriving specific strategies for strengthening students' self-directedness was presented.
Methods Using the 6th data of ｢Korean Education Longitudinal Study 2013｣, the relationship between directed-ness and variables in each area was analyzed. Frequency analysis and descriptive statistics were conducted to find out the general characteristics of the study subjects. ANOVA analysis was conducted and Scheffe's post hoc test was conducted to find out the differences in self-directedness and variables in each domain according to general characteristics. Pearson's correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were conducted to analyze the relationship between self-directedness and variables in each domain.
Results The level of self-directedness and related variables of high school students showed significant differ-ences according to the location and type of school. Students in metropolitan and large cities showed higher levels than those in small and medium-sized cities and townships. Male students showed higher self-directedness than female students. The individual factors affecting high school students' self-directedness were self-under-standing, self-identity, curiosity/adventurousness, inquiring spirit, and sports-related cultural literacy. Teaching method and school factors that affect high school students' self-directedness were student participation-type classes and the level of student opinion reflection. Parental factors that affect high school students' self-directed-ness were their parents’ academic support and emotional support.
Conclusions Methods for strengthening high school students' self-directedness should be sought at various lev-els such as individual students, teaching method and schools, and parents.
Astronomical observatory site selection using fuzzy AHP and BWM methods
Authors: Yılmaz A.
Published: November 2023

Establishing an observatory often involves complex decisions, such as choosing a site based on multiple conflicting criteria. In this study, we develop a multi-criteria decision analysis process by combining Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis with the (MCDA) Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and use this process to determine the most suitable sites for the construction of an observatory in the Malatya urban area. GIS was used to calculate, classify, and analyze criteria, while FAHP (Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Processes, Buckley's method) and BWM(MCDA type Best-Worst Method) methods were used to weight the decision criteria and determine their effects on alternative sites. While the Cloud Cover criterion in the BWM method was the most important criterion with 28%, the most important criterion for the FAHP method had a comparable value of 27.8%. Meteorological criteria were the most important criteria group with values of 50.4% according to the FAHP method and 44.6% according to the BWM method. The study is based on meteorological, geographic, and anthropogenic datasets, suggesting the most appropriate sites for the astronomical observatory within the boundaries of the study area. The proposed sites are the result of site selection, which is the first phase of site selection for astronomical observatories. This site selection is important to limit the number of field alternatives. It is necessary to conduct field tests among the proposed areas and select the final site according to the results. The successful use of GIS and more than one MCDA method will pave the way for the development of various methods for astronomical observatory site determination.
På jakt etter styring i arbeidsavklaringsprosessen
Authors: Åsheim Hilde
Published: November 2023

In this chapter, I show how I applied institutional ethnography to explore the work assessment process in the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (Nav) on behalf of young people with mental health issues. I show how institutional ethnography was helpful as a method of inquiry to explicate the assessment process and how central analytical concepts such as “work” can make ruling relations visible. Finally, I discuss the possibility of generalization and show how I developed the concept of “institutional perseverance” through conceptual generalization.
Institusjonell-etnografiske dreininger: Erfaringer fra forskning om sosial kontroll og vold i nære relasjoner
Authors: Magnussen May-Linda
Published: November 2023

Many of us who are using institutional ethnography have done “IE turns” in our research, and even within certain research projects. Several of us have also experienced that we, for different reasons, cannot do our research fully in line with institutional ethnography, but have allowed insights and tools from institutional ethnography to shape our research as much as possible. Since we agree with Widerberg (2007) that such insights and tools have the capacity to improve qualitative research in general, we believe it is important to use institutional ethnography even if we cannot do an institutional ethnography. In this chapter, we show work we did to let institutional ethnography shape research we did on social control and violence, and the difference it made. Explicating such work may make the “IE effect” particularly visible to ourselves, and hopefully also to others.
The Effect of Effortful Swallow with Progressive Resistance on Swallow Function in Post-Stroke Dysphagia: A Case Study
Authors: Chandrashekaraiah Bilvashree
Published: November 2023

Background: Dysphagia management is vital in individuals reporting swallowing difficulties post-stroke. The literature review recommends the effortful swallow maneuver as a simple technique with multiple benefits for treating patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia due to stroke. No studies have documented the effect of effortful swallow and progressive resistance in individuals with swallowing difficulties post-stroke. Aim: To investigate whether the effortful swallow with added progressive resistance helps alleviate the swallowing function in individuals with dysphagia following stroke. Case report: In this case report, we describe a 30-year-old male who presented with left middle cerebral artery infarction and subsequent swallowing difficulty. The treatment procedure included 20 sessions of swallowing therapy incorporating effortful swallow with progressive resistance. Conclusion: Following 20 sessions of swallow treatment, significant improvement was seen in oro-facial measurements such as anterior and posterior tongue strength, anterior and posterior tongue endurance, and typical and effortful swallow tongue pressure. Functional oral intake level, dysphagia outcome and severity levels also improved significantly, contributing to better quality of life. Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) examination showed improved swallow safety and efficiency post-therapy. Conclusion: Effortful swallow with progressive resistance effectively improved oro-pharyngeal swallow functions in an individual who presented with dysphagia following stroke. The case study highlights the effect of effortful swallow with progressive resistance in treating swallowing difficulties in a participant who presented with dysphagia following stroke.
Dropper Systems: A Short Review of Experimental and CFD Simulation Studies
Authors: DO Maionchi
Published: November 2023

Dropper-type dosing systems are responsible for most everyday applications, such as intermittent doses and eye drops, in addition to the preparation of solutions in scientific circles. However, careful evaluation of physical influences such as viscosity, surface tension, temperature, pressure and density related to a dosage it is not taken into account in the leaflets or tables of the drops/mL ratio. The present work presents a review of the available literature to identify and understand the factors present in this type of measurement, as well as the methods and analyzes normally used according to the Pharmacopoeia. Furthermore, in this work it is proposed the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to model and simulate this flow problem in order to predict the dripping phenomenon as a function of the physical conditions of the system. For that, researcher was made on the following topics: drip and dosage-related issues, CFD applied to dosing systems and data collection necessary for modeling and solving of the studied system. It was identified a deficiency in the standardization of dropper instruments. Data of physical characteristics of fluids that can be dosed in droppers were collected. The proposal to use CFD for the simulation and analysis of these cases is valid and used by several works related to laminar flows and the presence of drops.
Unlocking HAMKA's Insights on Inner Peace in Tafsir al-Azhar
Authors: Rahmah Syarifah , Rosyadhi Rozi Irfan
Published: November 2023

This life is like a chain of problems that will continue until the world ends. So, as long as humans still live in the world, they will be faced with problems. However, what differentiates one human from another is the way they deal with problems. Some face it with anxiety, but some can get through it calmly. This calm is an essential discussion of this research. Considering that HAMKA is a mufassir and figure of Sufism, of course, his interpretation is also very much needed to find the essence of mental peace. There is also a research objective, namely, to find out the concept of mental peace according to HAMKA in the Tafsir al-Azhar book. The method used in this research is qualitative with a descriptive-analytical approach. This research uses thematic interpretive research with ontological, epistemological, and axiological analysis. After conducting research, the results were obtained, namely the concept of mental peace from the word sakinah, namely feeling optimistic because you are confident in help from Allah when facing a critical or unfavorable situation. Meanwhile, from the word ithmi'nân, mental calm is a balanced condition that a person feels. The way to achieve peace of mind is to put your trust in Allah and always recite the dhikr of Allah. Meanwhile, the positive impact of mental peace is being wise in making decisions, being kept away from feelings of anxiety, and being able to live life well. Meanwhile, the negative impact if the soul is not calm is that feelings of doubt and anxiety arise and take unwise actions because they are carried away by lust.
Phenomena of Identity Politics in Indonesia: Interaction Analysis between Religion and Ethnicity in West Sumatera
Authors: Ibrahim Risnaldi , Yusoff Mohammad Agus , Asrinaldi Asrinaldi , Pinto Julio Tomas , Irayanti Irma
Published: November 2023

In 2024 Indonesia will again hold General Elections. This national political succession has become a magnet for all Indonesian people to talk about it in conversations in various public spaces. Interestingly, the public discussion of each candidate who advances in the general election is inseparable from the religious and ethnic background that will determine the people's choice of a candidate. The problem that arises is that religious and ethnic issues tend to cause hostility among potential supporters. This study aims to analyze how identity politics, especially religion and ethnicity, influences people's choice of a candidate. This research uses qualitative methods with phenomenological and ethnographic approaches. Sources of data are taken from various communication theories, mass psychology, political communication theory, and results of analysis of various previous research results that examine these issues and problems in different contexts and issues. All the findings in this study will be discussed in an interesting way and based on phenomena that occur in society.
Patterns of Parenting Kebhayangkaraan Character for NCO Education Students
Authors: Sandro Frans , Nurhayati Sri
Published: November 2023

Non-commissioned officers are part of the Polri members who are the foremost public servants in carrying out their police duties so the success of the Polri is largely determined by the level of competence possessed by each personnel, including aspects of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, especially from elements of leadership in stages in the unity. The method used in this research is the qualitative method. Data collection techniques were carried out by researchers using observation, interviews, and documentation. Based on qualitative research methods, all facts, both written and oral, from primary and secondary data sources are described as they are and then studied to be reduced as concisely as possible to answer the problem. Data analysis techniques in this study include data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and concluding. In carrying out character education, the role of caregivers is vital in developing student character because they have to accompany students every day and are fully responsible for the development of students until they graduate with a minimum score obtained of 65 based on Perkap Number 02 of 2017.
Implementation of Merdeka Belajar Curriculum at the Early Childhood Level in Insan Cemerlang Kindergarten Magetan
Authors: Irawati Sutiyah Nova , Haidar M
Published: November 2023

The Merdeka Belajar Curriculum is a government program in the education sector which aims to provide freedom and creativity to students, educators and educational units in developing their own and environmental potential. This curriculum also applies to early childhood (AUD), which is an important period for children's physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. This research aims to describe the implementation of the Merdeka Belajar curriculum at the AUD level at Insan Cemerlang Magetan Kindergarten. The research method used is a case study with a qualitative approach. Data was collected through observation, interviews and documentation. The research results show that Insan Cemerlang Kindergarten Magetan has implemented an Merdeka Belajar curriculum with several strategies, including: (1) developing a curriculum based on children's needs and interests; (2) using active, creative, effective and fun learning methods (PAKEM); (3) empowering the environment as a learning resource; (4) involving parents and the community in the learning process; and (5) carry out evaluations holistically and authentically. The implementation of the Merdeka Belajar curriculum at Insan Cemerlang Magetan Kindergarten has had a positive impact on the development of children's basic competencies, such as the ability to think critically, communicate, collaborate and have a positive attitude. The recommendation of this research is to improve coordination and supervision of the education department related to the implementation of the Merdeka Belajar curriculum at the AUD level.
Efforts to Improve Community Economy Through Utilization of Young Coconut Waste Into Cocofiber and Cocopeat on the Beach Sunur Pariaman Indonesia
Authors: Natsir MHD , Solfema Solfema , Dasa Putri Lili , Tanwir M
Published: November 2023

This paper aims to describe the utilization of young coconut waste into coco fiber and coco peat on Sunur Beach Pariaman, Indonesia. This training activity is based on the lack of optimal waste management at Sunur Pariaman Beach. Even though it has good enough facilities, the awareness of keeping a clean environment has not been implemented well by the community. This causes visitors to feel uncomfortable with the trash everywhere and smashes the beautiful view of Sunur Beach. Young coconut waste is the most common waste found. The lack of trash cans and information boards that can educate people about clean living is one of the problems that must be resolved. Likewise, there is a lack of awareness of society's charms. The problems experienced by the community will surely hinder the process of developing Sunur Beach as a marine tourism location that is of interest to tourists. Based on this problem, training activities were carried out on the use of young coconut waste to make it economically valuable by turning it into coco fiber and coco peat. This activity seeks to contribute to waste management, especially young coconut waste, and educate the public about clean living by creating information boards and providing rubbish bins by utilizing the potential of local communities by providing training on processing young coconut waste into coco fiber and coco peat, education on clean living, and making information boards on cleaning living education, and throwing rubbish in its place. An active and participatory learning and KAP (Knowledge, Attitude, Practice) model approach is used to implement this program. The impact of this training is increasing public awareness of clean living, being able to utilize young coconut waste into cocopeat and coco fiber, improving families' economy, and supporting the realization of Sapta Pesona.
The Role of Non-Formal Education in Elderly Schools and The Implementation of Lifelong Learning
Authors: Suryadi Suryadi , Nursahidin Nursahidin , Kamil Mustofa , Saepudin Asep , Saripah Iip
Published: November 2023

With the increasing number of older people, this community’s protection, welfare, and independence must run well. This research will then be carried out to see how the implementation of elderly schools can empower the elderly to stay healthier and independent through non-formal education. This research will be carried out using a qualitative approach. The data obtained are sourced from various research results and studies that are relevant to this research. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of elderly schools in Central Java province has been carried out for a long time. The implementation of this elderly school is the implementation of lifelong education policies by participating in non-formal education, which is carried out regularly and well planned. Then in its implementation, the elderly school also provides various facilities such as mentors and health and social services carried out by various local institutions.
Unique Pattern of Hypertension Fingerprints
Authors: Syamsurizal S. , Sudarni  , Badriyya Elsa , Putri Sintia
Published: November 2023

The fingerprint pattern (dermatoglyphics) of each individual is not the same. Fingerprint patterns are often used as an identification tool in criminal cases and disease diagnosis. Fingerprint patterns for health diagnosis are usually diseases caused by genetic factors, for example hypertension. The purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of fingertip dermatoglyphics of hypertension patients. The research sample was 60 people consisting of 30 people with hypertension who visited the DR. M. Djamil Padang and controls 30 non-hypertension (normal) people from Biology FMIPA UNP students. Simple random sampling. The research variables are tendril patterns on the fingertips. The Chi-square test was used to analyse the tendril pattern data of hypertension patients. The results showed that the arch fingerprint pattern is a unique character in hypertensive patients.
Dermatoglyphic analysis of asthma sufferers in a population of students at the faculty of mathematics and science, Universitas Negeri Padang
Authors: Salsabil Velina , Achyar Afifatul , Ahda Yuni
Published: November 2023

Asthma is a disease defined as chronic inflammation of the airways which is characterized by recurrent coughing and shortness of breath. Dermatoglyphs are the appearance of tendrils and tendril patterns on the fingers, palms, toes and soles. Dermatoglyph is used as an aid in the detection of a number of diseases that have a strong heritable basis and is also used to detect abnormalities. This study aims to analyze and compare the patterns of dermatoglyphics in asthma sufferers and non-asthmatics on the fingertips. This type of research is descriptive research with cross sectional sampling method. Samples were taken from the student population of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Padang State University as many as 100 samples of fingerprint patterns. The results obtained showed that there was a significant difference in the number of arch fingerprint patterns of asthmatics compared to normal individuals. Seeing this significant difference in numbers indicates a possible link between fingerprint patterns and asthma phenotypes.
The New Oil Order: The Post Staples Paradigm and the Canadian Upstream Oil and Gas Industry
Authors: Brownsey Keith
Published: November 2023

The history of the industry can be divided in four different phases: the semi-colonial period of 1867-1930; the era of multinational domination, 1930-1969; the withdrawal of the multi-nationals and the Canadianization of the industry, 1969-1985; and a fourth, current, era in the evolution of Canada’s oil and natural gas industry beginning with the switch to non-conventional oil recovery, the rise of natural gas as the dominant segment of the industry and the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement which guaranteed a reliable market for Canada’s oil and natural gas The re-entry of the federal government into the provincial oil and gas industry through the Kyoto Protocol has challenged the free-market continentalism that has dominated the Canadian oilpatch since the mid 1980s and the beginning of a new phase of environmental regulation in the industry.
Introduction to Special Issue on Canada's Staples Industries
Authors: Howlett Michael , Brownsey Keith
Published: November 2023

No longer tied exclusively to the original staples industries, Canada has become an advanced economy but one which remains different from the typical model of advanced manufacturing and services found in Europe, the US and Japan. The base of the Canadian economy retains its roots in early staples industries but with many new activities grafted into, and onto, those traditional sector. This transformation of the old staples political economy has ushered in some elements of a new political and social order at the same time that it as exacerbated or worsened many elements of the old. The contributors to this volume provide an overview of these changes in the political economy of Canada’s contemporary primary sector.
The 2007 Provincial Election in Prince Edward Island
Authors: Mackinnon Wayne
Published: November 2023

The 2007 provincial election in Prince Edward Island on May 28 was characterized both by a desire for a change and by a defining moment which contributed to the final result. In the end, that inchoate desire for change, coupled with more than a garden variety displeasure with an increasingly tired, sluggish, third term government perceived as lacking energy, imagination and perhaps political will, led to a dramatic turnaround in the election outcome. The Progressive Conservative government of Pat Binns, first elected in 1996, had easily won the preceding election in 2003 with a 23-4 majority. It now saw that outcome exactly reversed, with the Liberals under Robert Ghiz winning 23 of the 27 seats. Even many Liberals were surprised by the extent of the shift
Making Biggest Bigger: Port Metro Vancouver’s 21st Century Re-Structuring – Global Meets Local at the Asia Pacific Gateway
Authors: Ginnell Kevin , Smith Patrick , Oberlander H. Peter
Published: November 2023

Vancouver’s Port is Canada’s biggest. On January 1, 2008, it got bigger - restructuring the Port of Vancouver, the Fraser River Port Authority and the North Fraser Port Authority, into a single Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, marketed (as of June, 2008) as Port Metro Vancouver. This new entity was the culmination of a process of divestiture, re-organizational adjustment, shift to market orientation and consolidation that has played out over several decades across Canada’s ports. This article examines some of this recent history – both in terms of (i) divestiture and increased market orientation and (ii) more recently, major port consolidation - and governmental responses to ensure Vancouver remains Canada’s busiest port and a central part of the country’s Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative. (APGCI)
Cascadia Revisited from European Case Studies: the Socio-Political Space of Cross-Border Networks
Authors: Dupeyron Bruno
Published: November 2023

In this paper, I seek to analyse how cross-border spaces are constructed through the activities and strategies of established and emerging cross-border networks. In order to observe cross-border actors and public policies, I use three case studies, two in the European Union, i.e. the Rhineland Valley, also known as Upper Rhine (France-Germany-Switzerland) and the Mediterranean Euroregion (France-Spain), and one in North America, i.e. Cascadia (Canada-United States). I propose to draw our theoretical approach from a model suggested by P. Bourdieu, so that it is possible to compare a series of factors that structure these borderlands. The ultimate goal of this paper is to sketch the socio-political space of these networks in each cross-border region and eventually to suggest new research lenses for Cascadia.
Quebec’s Family Medicine Groups: Innovation and Compromise in the Reform of Front-Line Care
Authors: Pomey Marie-Pascale , Martin Elisabeth , Forest Pierre-Gerlier
Published: November 2023

At their origin, public healthcare systems were designed mainly for the treatment of acute illnesses. For many years, therefore, public health care focused on services offered in healthcare establishments and primary care was allowed to evolve on the periphery of hospitals, with doctors free to follow their own conception of how best to provide and follow up on care. As hospital costs grew, however, and new challenges regarding the provision of care began to emerge, governments felt increasingly responsible for organizing the front line (Nolte and McKee 2008). How doctors would be called upon to participate in the new configuration of services—particularly in Canada, where physicians function as independent entrepreneurs—is the subject of this article, which investigates the decision to introduce family medicine groups (FMGs) to the province of Quebec.
Subsystem Structures, Shifting Mandates and Policy Capacity: Assessing Canada’s Ability to Adapt to Climate Change
Authors: Craft Jonathan , Howlett Michael
Published: November 2023

Adapting to climate change requires governments

to design and implement policies capable of dealing with

long-term problems. This poses significant policy design and

implementation challenges since policies must also be multilevel

and multi-sectoral in nature given the cross-sectoral

and international character of climate change issues. Responsive

policy-making on climate change issues thus requires

both sophisticated policy analysis as well as an institutional

structure which allows problems to be dealt with in

a way which corresponds with changing organizational mandates,

resources and network structures. Designing such

policies requires matching policy analytical resources in

relevant government departments and agencies with new

and expanded mandates, a process which is not always necessarily

successful. This introductory article presents the

framework utilized in a collaborative study of climate change

adaptation capacity in four Canadian policy sectors (agriculture,

finance, infrastructure, and transportation) and one US

case (the energy sector in Colorado). The study framework

and subsequent analysis examine policy from a three-level

perspective including (1) the macro nature of the subsystem

involved, (2) the meso level of the organization or leadagency

in charge of the issue and (3) the micro level nature

of policy work being undertaken in each sector.
Shifting Mandates and Climate Change Policy Capacity: The Forestry Case
Authors: Rayner Jeremy
Published: November 2023

The original hypothesis is that forests will be a

policy subsector in which the challenges of climate change

adaptation lead to broader policy mandates but that the

declining role of the industry in the Canadian economy will

cause departmental resources to be stable or decreasing. The

result will be ineffective policy capacity, leading to adaptation

policies that are poorly designed, incomplete or missing

altogether. This paper provides some evidence to support

this hypothesis, though the situation is complicated by the

dominant role played by the provinces in both ownership

and jurisdiction. While the leading federal department,

Natural Resources Canada, has shed other mandates to focus

on climate change, provincial agencies are already caught

between the added costs of addressing climate change impacts,

notably wildfire, and the need to plan for and implement

long term adaptive policies with stable or declining

resources. Much will depend on coordination between First

Nations, the provinces and the federal government in a

policy subsector with a history of conflict between the different

orders of government.
Leadership, Partisan Loyalty, and Issue Salience: The 2011 Provincial Election in Saskatchewan
Authors: McGrane David , White Stephen , Berdahl Loleen , Atkinson Michael M.
Published: November 2023

This article seeks to provide an understanding of the historic success of the Saskatchewan Party and the historic failure of the NDP in the 2011 Saskatchewan provincial election. Drawing on telephone survey data from the 2011 Saskatchewan Election Study, we argue that leadership, partisan loyalty, and issue salience best explain the Saskatchewan Party’s dominance over the NDP. On election day, the Saskatchewan Party benefitted from the carefully cultivated popularity of Brad Wall, the development of a loyal base of voters who believed in the party’s vision of a ‘New Saskatchewan’, and the confidence of the electorate with the party’s handling of key issues. The NDP’s loss of seats and the drop in its popular vote can be attributed to the unpopularity of the party’s leader, its overreliance on a relatively small base of party loyalists, and its inability to connect with voters on issues that were of most importance to them.
Potential health effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields exposure
Authors: Razek Adel
Published: November 2023

There are diverse effects in consequence of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF). The interactions of fields and the exposed body tissues are related to the nature of exposure, tissue comportment, field strength and signal frequency. These interactions can crop different effects.
A importância da educação financeira como disciplina curricular
Authors: Anjos Layanne Mesquita dos , Rufino Marta Cacilda de Carvalho
Published: November 2023

O endividamento financeiro é um fator que acarreta diretamente no desconforto em todas as áreas da vida de um indivíduo, e buscar conhecimento financeiro é o melhor caminho para evitar tais transtornos, e quanto mais cedo o indivíduo for familiarizado com este assunto, mais eficaz será sua mudança de comportamento, perante suas aquisições de produtos e serviços. Este trabalho tem como objetivo, analisar através de pesquisa bibliográfica a relevância da inclusão de disciplinas voltadas à Educação Financeira na grade curricular das unidades de ensino, abrangendo crianças e adolescentes, de modo a conscientizá-los sobre o combate ao endividamento financeiro, a importância de economizar e gastar menos do que se ganha. A metodologia aplicada foi através de pesquisa bibliográfica com recorte temporal entre os anos de 2017 a 2022. Como critério de inclusão artigo científicos, monografias, dissertações e teses que tenham aderência com o tema e estejam no recorte temporal, como critério de exclusão artigos publicações se m aderência com o tema e estejam foram do recorte temporal. Ao todo foram inclusos  9 publicações. Com base nos resultados  dos artigos selecionados, os autores afirmam  a importância da inclusão da educação financeira na matriz curricular  nas escolas, para que os alunos possa compreender a importância de se gerenciar os recursos financeiros, não gastando mais do que se ganha, aprender  sobre guardar um percentual do que  se ganha com isso este aluno  poderá melhorar na fase adulta seu controle financeiro e através deste proporcionar  a qualidade de vida  no ambiente familiar, os autores ainda apontam sobre a notabilidade de se iniciar ainda na infância sobre como saber planejar suas finanças para se tornar um adulto mais responsável e consciente financeiramente.
“Taking Haig-Brown Seriously”: Implications of Indigenous Thought on Ontario Educators
Authors: Cherubini Lorenzo
Published: November 2023

Haig-Brown’s paper offers a definitive statement of the bi-epistemic implications of Indigenous and mainstream knowledge paradigms as they influence curriculum studies. For Ontario educators its impact centers ultimately in forcing them to make sense of their own epistemic experiences in light of Indigenous ontologies and curricular policies. The aim of this paper is to apply the descriptive points of view that Haig-Brown presents into a more extended conversation as it applies to a provincial context. More specifically, it first offers a conceptual analysis of the tension between the principles of integrating Indigenous Knowledge into mainstream curriculum practices and the realities of their integration in the context of Ontario Aboriginal education policy. Second, it discusses how Indigenous Knowledge has the potential to “reframe and decentre” educators’ paradigms of curriculum, teaching and learning from the same policy context (Haig-Brown, 2008, p. 13). Last, this paper comments upon how the Ontario policy has the potential to dismantle the “border-world” that Indigenous epistemologies have been relegated to by colonial understandings of teaching and curriculum (Haig-Brown, 2008, p. 14). This analysis represents a response to the ideological pressure on public school educators in Ontario to implement the curricular focus of the policy Framework into their school’s classrooms. Yet, Haig-Brown’s warning to seriously consider the implications of Indigenous Knowledge eclipses to a much greater extent the politics behind the rhetoric of the policy. The underlying effect of Haig-Brown’s position implicates educators’ ideologies as they plan and exercise the respective policy interventions into their curriculum.
Reflexive Graffiti Remixing: Curriculum, Corsican Language, and Critical Pedagogy
Authors: Cotnam-Kappel Megan
Published: November 2023

Corsica is an island covered in graffiti. These painted messages devastate/decorate the walls of cities, towns, schools and homes. They have also spread to natural sites that include rocks, trees and mountains. A number of curricular questions arise in regards to graffiti as literacy and in particular regarding the corsican endangered language: Is graffiti a performance of the aesthetics of vulnerability of a minority language? Could graffitied symbols represent a linguistic affirmation of Coriscan identity? And what could engaging with these graffiti bring to canadian curricular studies regarding minority languages? The following auto/ethno/graphy attemps to answer these curricular questions as it (de)constructs a bricolage of personal photographs taken of Corsican graffiti as well as my narrative as a Canadian doctoral candidate studying in Corsica. It begins by tracing the a/r/to- and auto/ethno- graphic research framework that shapes my research and analysis. Subsequently, this paper explores various methods of researching graffiti which include reading graffiti as praxis, marginalia and empowerment. I also discuss students’ possible roles in (re)reading graffiti as an opportunity to remix and as an opening for developing critical literacy skills. In order to share my ongoing reflexive process as a researcher, my personal narrative is included throughout the paper. I have chosen to relate this narrative in French – my mother tongue and one of two minoritized languages that are at the heart of my research. This paper therefore (re)mixes English, French and Corsican throughout with as little translation possible to engage readers in a plurilingual reading experience.
Big Ideas and Dissipative Effects
Authors: Hlebowitsh Peter
Published: November 2023

Response to Anchor Article
Book Review- Simon, Roger I. (2014). A pedagogy of witnessing: Curatorial practice and the pursuit of social justice. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Authors: Taylor Lisa
Published: November 2023

Book Review
Book Review Frontispiece
Authors: St Georges Darlene E
Published: November 2023

This arts-integrated work, "Branch," reflects the image of the book review as reaching out, connecting to, and sharing ideas.
The Arts, Loose Parts and Conversations
Authors: Smith-Gilman Sheryl
Published: November 2023

Educators today are being asked to design curricula whereby learners’ abilities to analyze, question, problem-solve, evaluate and reflect are being provoked. The quest lies in uncovering suitable teaching approaches that will allow critical thinking skills to emerge organically and meaningfully. I argue that an integration of loose parts can offer a methodology and a provocation that makes way for open-ended, divergent and creative thinking skills to be activated. “Loose parts” can be open-ended materials that are manipulated, designed, dismantled and reconstructed in multiple ways. I also see “loose parts” as a mindset, a process-oriented approach whereby meaningful conversations emerge unexpectedly and add significantly to learning. This article presents two stories to show how arts-based approaches and mindfulness to loose parts can unearth thought-filled and caring conversations. The discussion is inspired and written via a reflective lens of personal encounters, first, in a longitudinal research project with young children in an Indigenous First Nations Community, and, second, with preservice teachers in a university class. It is within these periods that students, teachers and families were impacted by loose parts whereby materials and conversations made way for new perspectives in understanding the world.
Loving Kindness and Capability in the Mathematics Classroom
Authors: Markle Josh
Published: November 2023

I imagine mathematics to be a place of loving kindness and capability. Loving kindness is a way of being together, one that affords and sustains capability; and making the (math) classroom a place of loving kindness consists in taking an active interest in one other. Nussbaum (2011) characterizes capability as an answer to the following question: “What is each person able to do and to be?” (p. 18). Drawing on Nussbaum’s (2011) capabilities approach as a broad, normative framework for characterizing individual well-being in the context of teaching and learning, I inquire into my experience teaching a mathematics class in which we cooperatively built 14-foot Prospector canoes. I explore the potential for a hermeneutic pedagogy as a means to both interpret and cultivate capability, and to identify three specific, significant capabilities that emerged in our work together—autonomy, affiliation and hermeneutic imagination—as valuable in and of themselves, yet also essential to cultivating and securing additional capabilities, and to furnishing a space for loving kindness in the mathematics classroom.
Investigating Figurative Language Usages and the Dictions on the Instagram Platform
Authors: Isnaini Nur Alfiana
Published: November 2023

This research aims to understand about the different usages of figurative language, the dictions on the Instagram platform and how both of those terms are used. However, the object of this research are two selected accounts that fit to this research, those are @moodcewekk and @test-psikologi. This research also applied the descriptive-qualitative research, because the data has been analyzed by describing the results and its forms are written text. Besides, the theory that used in this research is the sociolinguistic theory. Meanwhile, the way the researcher collected the data is through capturing the captions (screen shoot). Then, for data analysis, the writer used the annotating and heeding method to get differences of the data. Therefore, after doing the analysis towards the data, the researcher found the results of this research are personification which has two kinds, both of them are using complete sentences and other used subject and predicate only. For hyperbole, it has several usages, such as the prohibition, the declarative or statements, and the advices. Then, for metaphor, it contains of direct and indirect sentence. Besides, for Hypernym-Hyponym, @moodcewekk is less using the dictions than @test-psikologi. Finally, the polysemy can be categorized as noun, verbs and adjective.
اليقظة الذهنية وعلاقتها بدقة الاستقبال لدى لاعبي منتخب تربية نينوى لكرة الطائرة
Authors: عبد العزيز نجم علي
Published: November 2023

هدف البحث:

التعرف على اليقظة الذهنية للاعبي الكرة الطائرة في منتخب تربية نينوى .

التعرف على دقة الاستقبال للاعبي الكرة الطائرة في منتخب تربية نينوى .

التعرف على العلاقة بين اليقظة الذهنية و دقة الاستقبال للاعبي الكرة الطائرة في منتخب تربية نينوى.

استخدم الباحث المنهج الوصفي بأسلوب العلاقات الارتباطية كونه يلائم طبيعة البحث .

اما عينة البحث فشملت (12) لاعبا من منتخب تربية نينوى وقد تم اختيارها بالطريقة العمدية لضمان التزامها وتواجدها وضمان أجراء الاختبار لهم.

واستنتج الباحث :

ان افراد عينة البحث لديهم مستوى منخفض من اليقظة الذهنية

ان افراد عينة البحث لديهم مستوى منخفض في دقة الاستقبال .

وجود علاقة ارتباط عكسية بين اليقظة الذهنية ودقة الاستقبال بالكرة الطائرة.
A Double Bond Between Two Molecules
Authors: Kino Shota , Ukai Shusaku , Fukui Norihito , Haruki Rie , Kumai Reiji , Wang Qian , Horike Satoshi , Phung Quan Manh , Sundholm Dage , Shinokubo Hiroshi
Published: November 2023

π-Conjugated molecules with one electronic spin often form π-stacked dimers via molecular-orbital interactions between the two unpaired electrons. These interactions are recognized as intermolecular single bonds between two π-conjugated systems. This then raises the question if a double bond between two such molecules is possible. To answer this question, we have synthesized an antiaromatic Ni(II) bis(pentafluorophenyl)norcorrole. Its dimer adopts a face-to-face-stacked structure with an extremely short stacking distance of 2.97 Å. Importantly, an intermolecular double bond does indeed exist in this system and this bond involves four bonding electrons between the two molecules. The bonding electrons were experimentally observed via synchrotron X-ray diffraction analysis and corroborated by theoretical calculations. The intermolecular interaction of the molecular orbitals imparts the stacked dimer with an aromatic character that is distinctly different from that of its monomer.
Optimisation of Process Parameters on Compressive Strength of 3D-Printed Polylactic Acid Parts
Authors: Akpakpavi M. K. , Sackey S.M. , Asante-Afrifa M. K.
Published: November 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to optimise the influence of 3D printing processing parameters on the ultimate compressive strength of 3D-printed polylactic acid (PLA) parts. The objective is to develop the predictive models to help predict and attain optimized compressive strength integrity of 3D printed parts.

Design/Methodology/Approach: In the present study, 3D printed PLA samples were modelled and fabricated using carefully selected processing parameters-processing speed, processing temperature and nozzle diameter. Compressive tests were performed by ASTM D695-15 standard. Two characteristics response optimisation models based on the Taguchi Technique and multi-linear regression models were developed to optimize the process parameters and the ultimate compressive strength of the 3D printed samples.

Findings: Results of this study reveal that ultimate compressive strength is significantly affected by the Nozzle diameter. The ultimate compressive strength of the 3D-printed PLA sample was found to be significantly higher than the strength of the original PLA filament printed.

Research Implications/Limitations: In this study, only three critical 3D printing processing parameters including, processing speed; processing temperature and nozzle diameter were implemented concurrently.

Practical implication: By optimising process parameters, such as layer thickness, infill density, printing speed, and processing temperature, manufacturers can produce 3D-printed PLA parts with higher compressive strength. This leads to higher product quality and reliability.

Social implication: It can empower local communities and small businesses to manufacture parts and products that meet their specific needs. This can reduce dependence on centralized manufacturing and promote economic self-sufficiency.

Originality / Value: In this work, Nozzle diameter, which is a not too much studied 3D printing processing parameter, is implemented simultaneously with processing speed, and processing temperature to 3D print PLA filament to achieve an ultimate compressive strength value significantly higher than the strength of the original filament.