bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Pengaruh Service Quality Dan Kualitas Produk Tabungan Haji Terhadap Loyalitas Nasabah PT. BPRS Bhakti Sumekar Kab. Sumenep
Authors: Sofiyatul Madaniyah  , Nurul Setianingrum  , Retna Anggitaningsih
Published: March 2024

Tujuan riset ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan pengaruh service quality terhadap loyalitas nasabah, pengaruh kualitas  produk tabungan haji terhadap loyalitas nasabah, dan pengaruh service quality dan kualitas produk tabungan haji terhadap loyalitas nasabah secara simultan pada PT. BPRS Bhakti Sumekar Kab. Sumenep. Penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kuantitatif dengan menggunakan analisis linier berganda. Teknik analisis data dilakukan dengan metode regresi linier berganda dengan uji statistik terlebih dahulu. Pengolahan data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan alat bantu IBM SPSS Statistic 28. Simpulan riset menunjukkan: Secara parsial menunjukan bahwa variabel service quality berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap loyalitas nasabah, ditunjukkan dengan nilai signifikansi service quality sebesar 0,001 lebih kecil dari nilai alpha 0,05 dan nilai t hitung 3,355 lebih besar dari t tabel 1,665. Secara parsial menunjukan bahwa  variabel kualitas produk tabungan haji berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap loyalitas nasabah, ditunjukkan dengan nilai signifikansi kualitas produk tabungan haji sebesar 0,001 lebih kecil dari nilai alpha 0,05 dan nilai t hitung 4,522. lebih besar dari t tabel 1,665. Secara simultan menunjukkan bahwa variabel independen (service quality dan kualitas produk tabungan haji) mempunyai pengaruh F hitung sebesar 20,805, sedangkan F tabel sebesar 3,10. Maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa ke dua variabel independen berpengaruh signifikan secara simultan terhadap variabel dependen.
ÖRGÜTSEL SESSİZLİĞİN SANAL KAYTARMA DAVRANIŞI AÇISINDAN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ: AKÇAKOCA ÖRNEĞİ
Authors: Mesci Zeynep , Yıldırım Aylin
Published: March 2024

İşyeri içerisinde çalışanlara yüklenen fazla iş yükü ve yoğun çalışma saatleri çalışanların işyerinde sessizlik davranışı göstermelerine neden olmaktadır. Sesiz kalma eğilimi gösteren çalışanlar sanal kaytarma davranışına yönelmektedir. Araştırmanın amacı Düzce ilinin Akçakoca ilçesinde yer alan konaklama işletmelerinde çalışanların örgütsel sessizlik ile sanal kaytarma davranışları değerlendirilerek aralarındaki ilişkiyi belirlemektir. Bu araştırma nitel araştırma yöntemi içerisinde değerlendirilen görüşme tekniği ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda Akçakoca ilçesinde yer alan konaklama işletmelerinde çalışan 9 tane katılımcı ile görüşülmüştür. Araştırmanın verileri yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu aracılığıyla elde edilmiştir. Elde edilen veriler betimsel içerik analizi tekniği ile yorumlanmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda; Akçakoca konaklama işletmelerinde çalışanların işyeri içerisinde sessizlik algılamadıkları ve düşüncelerini açık şekilde ifade ettiği belirlenmiştir. Aynı zamanda sanal kaytarma davranışına yöneldikleri fakat bunu işlerini aksatmayacak şekilde yaptıkları bulgulanmıştır. Bu durumda örgütsel sessizliğin sanal kaytarma davranışı arasında ilişki bulunmadığı ve çalışanların sessizlik algılamadıkları halde sanal kaytarma davranışına yöneldiği ortaya çıkarılmıştır.
Agronomic Suitability for Oil Palm Growing in Uganda
Authors: Ddamulira Gabriel , Asiimwe Alex , Masika Fred , Amugoli Moses , Ddumba Gerald , Maphosa Mcebisi
Published: March 2024

The ever-increasing demand for vegetable oils with its products in Uganda, calls for new areas to be put under oil palm cultivation. A study was conducted to investigate the agronomic suitability of oil palm cultivation in six areas located within a 30 km radius off-shore, on the island and more than 30 km radius off-shore on the mainland. The experiment was superimposed on 45 × 45 m plots in oil palm adaptive trial plantations established in 2008 in Bugiri, Mayuge, Buvuma, Mukono, Kibaale and Masaka districts. The experiment was laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Data on number of oil palm bunches, bunch weight and yield was collected while climatic data (rainfall, temperature, relative humidity and radiation) was acquired from meteorological stations near the experimental locations. Rainfall data analyzed and dry season duration suggested that Mayuge, Masaka, Mukono, Buvuma and Kibaale were moderately favorable for oil palm growing, while temperature and radiation data indicated that all study locations were suitable for oil palm growing. Furthermore, based on relative humidity, Buvuma, Mayuge and Bugiri were suitable for oil palm cultivation but Kibaale, Masaka and Mukono were moderately suitable. Oil palm yield varied significantly (P < 0.05) across locations. The yield was much greater in Mukono (17.7 t/ha/yr) followed by Buvuma (13.8 t/ha/yr) and Kibaale (12.9 t/ha/yr) then Mayuge (10.7 t/ha/yr), Bugiri (10.2 t/ha/yr), and Masaka (10.3 t/ha/yr). The significantly high yield of oil palm observed in Mukono was attributed to the high rainfall received in this location. Based on research findings, Mukono, Masaka, Bugiri, Buvuma, Kibaale and areas within the 30 km radius of Lake Victoria are agronomically suitable for oil palm cultivation.
A RECONSTITUIÇÃO MEMORIALÍSTICA DA GUERRILHA DO ARAGUAIA PELA VEIA LITERÁRIA/TESTEMUNHAL
Authors: Silva Janaína Buchweitz e
Published: March 2024

Este artigo tem por objetivo analisar a reconstituição memorialística da Guerrilha do Araguaia partindo do viés literário/testemunhal presente na obra Antes do passado, o silêncio que vem do Araguaia, lançado em 2012 por Liniane Haag Brum. A autora é sobrinha de Cilon Brum, um combatente da ditadura brasileira que ao militar na Guerrilha do Araguaia se tornou desaparecido político. Ao buscar elucidar as experiências que condicionaram o desaparecimento do tio, o texto de Brum atua como gesto de resistência ao esquecimento forçado imposto pelo Estado brasileiro durante a ditadura militar. À luz de autores como Gagnebin e Ricoeur, é analisado o testemunho de uma familiar de desaparecido político, que busca reconstituir a trajetória do tio através da narrativa dos outros, daqueles que sobreviveram para narrar.
Alfabetização financeira e planejamento de aposentadoria no Brasil
Authors: Dias Eric Ivantes , Silva Antonio Carlos Magalhães da
Published: March 2024

Baixos níveis de alfabetização financeira têm sido associados à maior probabilidade de impacto na qualidade de vida, bem-estar e, principalmente, na aposentadoria das pessoas. Os níveis insatisfatórios de alfabetização financeira também estão ligados às baixas taxas de poupança, que associados ao aumento e complexidade dos produtos financeiros, oferecem um maior desafio à população em um dos momentos mais relevantes de sua vida, a aposentadoria. Ao longo da pesquisa, foi realizada a investigação através da regressão linear múltipla por mínimos quadrados ordinários, com objetivo de analisar a alfabetização financeira e sua influência no planejamento de aposentadoria dos brasileiros. A alfabetização foi medida por meio de um modelo que compõe três dimensões: conhecimento financeiro, comportamento financeiro e atitude financeira. O planejamento de aposentadoria foi medido por um questionário que classificava os respondentes de acordo com seu comportamento de planejamento para aposentadoria. A amostra utilizada foi por conveniência de respondentes cariocas e obteve uma média alta de renda de alfabetização quando comparada ao nível brasileiro. O resultado da regressão demonstrou haver significância do impacto da alfabetização no comportamento de planejamento para aposentadoria. O comportamento de planejamento para aposentadoria foi confirmado em relação a seu impacto na taxa de poupança, assim como para a alfabetização financeira. A lacuna existente entre gêneros, que é vista em diversos estudos mundo afora, também está presente neste estudo, tendo mulheres maior propensão a participarem dos níveis mais baixos de alfabetização financeira.
Os rios urbanos da cidade de Manaus: uma análise a partir da bacia hidrográfica
Authors: Carmo Filho Odemar José Santos do , Fortes Mircia Ribeiro , Albuquerque Adorea Rebello da Cunha
Published: March 2024

O presente trabalho apresenta uma proposta metodológica aos estudos de classificação de bacias hidrográficas para a cidade de Manaus e reúne informações de modelos já existentes. Tem por objetivo realizar um estudo de caráter técnico e geográfico, fornecendo uma taxonomia aplicável para a hierarquização das diferentes escalas das bacias hidrográficas, em específico, para a cidade de Manaus – AM. Utilizando de Modelos Digitais de Elevação da plataforma do Serviço Geológico Norte Americano – USGS e de dados no formato shapefile da Agencia Nacional de Águas e Saneamento – ANA foi possível definir seis níveis taxonômicos: Regiões Hidrográficas, Nível 1 e 2 de Sub-Bacias, Sistemas Hidrográficos, Bacias Hidrográficas Urbanas e Bacias Tributárias. Assim, a taxonomia proposta pretende organizar em níveis e distinguir os diferentes conceitos atribuídos as bacias hidrográficas.
Procedimentos e considerações relevantes para a elaboração de orçamentos na construção civil
Authors: Gambati Antonia Caroline Mota , Da Silva Karina Ketley Melo , Vaz Letícia de Jesus , Augusto Paula de Alencar , Oliveira Thallita Kuira de Almeida de
Published: March 2024

O orçamento de obra é indispensável para a empresa ou profissional de construção civil que deseja realizar serviço de qualidade, sem surpresas ou contratempos. Além de auxiliar no processo de planejamento da obra e apoiar na formulação de diretrizes a serem seguidas no projeto e na execução. Na construção civil, o orçamento de obras é fundamental uma estimativa de custos estruturada, que se aproxime o máximo possível da realidade, visto que geralmente trata-se de altos valores. Esse artigo aborda os parâmetros fundamentais para que um orçamento seja considerado eficaz. Percebe-se que a realização das estimativas e controles dos custos em obras de construção civil é fundamental, já que a viabilidade de uma obra está intrinsecamente ligada ao seu custo.
Panorama da produção familiar e a prática de abate humanitário de peixes cultivados em Goianésia, município da Amazônia Oriental brasileira
Authors: De Freitas Hugo Luiz Cordovil , Lins Paulo Marcelo de Oliveira , Bispo Liede Ramos de Souza , Souza Janaína de Souza , Monteiro Paulo Augusto Pimentel , Souza Jaqueline de Souza
Published: March 2024

O setor aquícola tem se destacado com acelerado crescimento, sobretudo quando comparado a outros setores de produção de proteína de origem animal. O estado do Pará apresenta um grande potencial para o desenvolvimento da piscicultura, porém encontra diversos problemas que diminuem seu avanço, dentre eles destacamos a questão do abate. Sendo assim o presente artigo apresenta uma pesquisa exploratória sobre a piscicultura no município de Goianésia do Pará, com ênfase às formas de abate dos peixes, como fator importante a ser considerado para uma melhor preservação da qualidade do pescado. Foi possível perceber que os piscicultores se enquadram como produtores familiares, e que apesar de terem noção que o abate influencia diretamente na qualidade do produto comercializado, não o praticam em sua maioria, optando assim por práticas que não priorizam o bem-estar do animal no momento em que serão abatidos.
116 123 – Helpline for Adults in Emotional Crisis: Option of supporting people in crisis remotely
Authors: Bilska Ewa
Published: March 2024

The article presents the concept of a psychological crisis and the specificity of crisis intervention as a form of support during a crisis. It outlines the organizational principles of the 116-123 phone service, the issues clients bring to the phone, methods of providing support, and the effects of telephone assistance. It also emphasizes the role the phone plays in filling the gap in stationary crisis assistance, as evidenced by hundreds of people from all over Poland using the 116-123 phone service daily.
Early support for the development of the prenatal child and its family in pedagogical practice. Individual case study
Authors: Zalewska Paulina
Published: March 2024

The article addresses the problem of early support for the development of a child in the prenatal period and its family experiencing an unfavorable prenatal diagnosis. The intensive development of medicine and prenatal diagnostics is an inspiration and challenge for researchers and practitioners dealing with the earliest period of human life. Interest in the situation of parents experiencing an unfavorable diagnosis of their unborn child is constantly growing, and research explorations imply considerations on the practical dimension of the issue and solutions that could be part of the activities of educators. The article describes the activities and results undertaken as part of my own pedagogical practice in the area of early support for the development of the prenatal child and his family. The leading research strategy was a single internal case study, which resulted from the research goal of comprehensively describing the phenomenon with full consideration of the situational context. The conclusions and results obtained constitute an incentive for further exploration of the issue and the development of pragmatic solutions in the practice of systemic activities supporting early child and family development.
Isolation, molecular characterization and antibiogram of Lactic acid bacteria from dairy cattle sources of Mizoram, India
Authors: GOWTHAM M , DEKA D
Published: March 2024

A total of 250 samples of dairy cattle sources comprised of 100 cattle faeces, 75 raw milk, and 75 fermented milk samples which were randomly collected from different areas of Aizawl district of Mizoram that have been analyzed bacteriologically for enumeration and isolation of Lactic acid bacteria (LAB). The 90 phenotypically positive LAB isolates were further analyzed molecularly by 16S-rRNA gene analysis and 42 isolates were found positive. A total of 20 PCR positive LAB isolates were randomly selected and sequenced, out of which 11 isolates were positive for LAB after sequence analysis, belonging to six species of LAB, namely Lactibantibacillus plantarum (4), Lactobacillus fermentum (2), Lactobacillus brevis (2), Bacillus coagulance (1), Enterococcus faecium (1) and Weissella cibaria (1). The phylogenetic tree was constructed to check the relatedness of the strains with other referral LAB strains from NCBI gene bank. These 11 isolates were further analyzed for antibiogram. All 11 LAB strains tested for antibiotic sensitivity were 100% resistant to kanamycin, whereas intermediate resistance was shown by Lactobacillus brevis FM046 to clindamycin and three strains namely Lactobacillus fermentum FM011, Bacillus coagulans FM033 and Lactobacillus brevis FM046 to penicillin. All the 11 LAB strains were 100% sensitive to most of the tested antibiotics namely amikacin, ampicillin, azithromycin, cefoxitin, cefpodoxime, ceftriaxone, erythromycin, gentamicin and rifampicin. The LAB strains detected from the dairy cattle sources of Mizoram with sensitive antibiogram might be further studied for their probiotic potential.
Privacy-Preserving Image Storage on Cloud Using An Unified Cryptographic Authentication Scheme
Authors: S Manikandan , Manivannan R. , Venkateshwaran G. , Sivakumar S. , Hema Kumar M. , Jacob Minu Susan
Published: March 2024

With the proliferation of several cutting-edge technologies such as the Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), cloud technology is gaining colossal popularity in recent years. Despite the general publicity on the theme across the digital world, defending user data kept in the cloud database is the most decisive problem. Recent potential cyber attacks reveal that storing private images entails more unique care related to other types of information on the cloud. As the cloud customer who has kept their images has no control over their data the cloud service provider has to ensure better security against cyber threats. Cryptography algorithms are the best choice to secure pictorial data in the cloud. These techniques transform images into an inarticulate form to keep confidentiality over undependable and vulnerable social media .In this paper, we aim to propose an approach for improving image security on the cloud using cryptography algorithms. We developed a cohesive approach, called Unified Cryptographic Image Authentication (UCIA) to protect user images on a cloud platform. The proposed UCIA approach includes two phases: (i)UCIA engenders a cipher text through a Data Encryption Standard (DES) by providing a key and a message as input, and (ii)UCIA implements a Twofish algorithm to encipher the pictures by applying cipher text. The enciphered picture data is then stored in the cloud database and can be recovered when the customer requests it. The effectiveness of both enciphering and deciphering procedures are analyzed using the evaluation metrics including time for enciphering, deciphering, cloud storage, and enciphering throughput. Experimental results reveal the better performance and strength of the UCIA approach.
Internationalization of the curriculum: Connectivism approach supported by relational leadership. A case study
Authors: Cuevas Álvarez María Cruz , Pérez Mendoza Marcos , Rojas León Perla del Rocío , Zetina Pérez Carlos David , Eslava Gómez Hilda Ofelia , Maldonado Guillén Jeniffer Yajabibe
Published: March 2024

Introduction: previous to the world pandemic covid-19, professors from a Mexican Public HEIs, located in the south of the country, had been implementing educative platforms as an internationalization of the curriculum strategy to include technology in their teaching, specifically in DACEA division. The first institutional platform implemented in 2004 was Moodle, Socrative, and Edmodo was the second step by a group of 20 out of 250 professors until 2020 when Microsoft Teams became the institutional educative platform.
Method: the objective of this qualitative article is to characterize the roles and responsibilities of educational actors in the new digital management derived from the covid-19 pandemic in a Mexican Public HEI.
Results: The findings indicate that the institution homologated the use of an educative platform at an institutional level, a training on the use of this new platform was given only covering the technical aspects, but there was still the pedagogical training missing for Flipped Classroom Methodology. The Syndicate leader with the aid of a small group of active professors, provided an online training course oriented towards the certification of digital competences with the participation of 120 professors from the 12 areas of the university. This work between the main educative actors: the institution and the syndicate leaders along with the professors has created the foundations for university engagement and a new administrative culture of collaboration.
Conclusion: it is concluded that all educative parties when properly engaged can lead to the completion of objectives avoiding change resistance that sometimes arises specially when professors migrate from present mode to a distance mode
Desindustrialización en Argentina y países desarrollados
Authors: Graña Juan M. , Terranova Lucas
Published: March 2024

Este artículo examina la vigencia de los procesos de desindustrialización de un grupo de países desarrollados y de Argentina, desde 1992 a 2017. Considerando las dinámicas de la competencia capitalista, se propone una actualización del debate sobre dichos procesos de forma agregada, a la vez que se realiza un estudio entre los distintos estratos de tamaño que presentan las empresas en cada uno de los países. A partir de ello, las comparaciones al interior de cada uno y entre ellos permiten identificar diversas trayectorias, aun en procesos de desindustrialización “positiva”. Al mismo tiempo, exhibe las diferencias existentes con las desindustrializaciones “prematuras”, como la del caso argentino.
Descent, Culture, and Self-Determination: States and the Definition of Indigenous Peoples
Authors: De Costa Ravi
Published: March 2024

Canada’s concept of “status” – the definition of who is an Aboriginal person under the Indian Act – has its analogies in the administrative practices of many countries. However, the European colonial expansion produced great variety, with contemporary states now relying on multiple categories of definition; descent from an enrolled historical population is often arbitrarily combined with particular cultural or demographic attributes. Effective activism has, in recent decades, pushed states towards policies of Indigenous self-definition. However, this remains constrained and uneven. While the initial goal here is a critical survey of definitions of Indigenous status in the “settler states” of Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa and the US, the paper examines practices in Latin America, Scandinavia and Russia as well as Asia and Africa. It concludes with a discussion about ongoing challenges for state practices of definition, including the implications of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
To Determine Factors Affecting Dietary Practices and Nutritional Status of Pregnant Adolescent Age 13-18 Years in Ol’lessos Village.
Authors:   Ol’lessos Technical Training Institute, Sugut Ednah Cherotich
Published: March 2024

Background: Dietary practices are an aspect of dietary quality that indicates general nutritional adequacy. Lack of diversified diet is a severe problem in the developing world, where diet are predominantly starchy staples with few animal products, seasonal fruits and vegetables. The nutritional status of a woman during pregnancy is important as a suboptimal diet impact negatively on the health of the mother, and the newborn. There is limited knowledge in the area of dietary practices and nutritional status of pregnancy factors affecting it among pregnant women despite evidence showing that maternal nutrition has important direct and /or indirect consequences for all other age cohorts. The study aimed to asses factors affecting dietary practices and nutritional status of pregnant adolescents. Method: Cross sectional analytic design was used and the study was carried out in Ol’Lessos village. A Sample size of 129 pregnant women was targeted with the first respondent being randomly selected and thereafter systemic sampling was used until the required sample was reached. Mid upper arm (MUAC) of the left arm of the respondents of the women were measured to determine the nutritional status. Data were collected using researcher administered questionnaires and focus group discussion guide. Data collected using 24-hour recall was analyzed by Nutrisurvey. Results: There were significant differences in the mean macronutrients and micronutrients with regard to the dds where respondents with a higher DDS (.> six) were more likely to have a higher macro and micronutrient intake compared with those who had a lower. The mean energy intake was 1909 Kcal +630 which is below the Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA)of 2400 kcal for pregnant women. Based on MUAC cut offs, 31.7 percent were malnourished (MUAC< 21.0 CM) while 68.3 percent of the respondents were normal (MUAC >21.0cm). MUAC was positively correlated with the socio-economic status. Based on the WHO cut offs,73.6 percent were anaemic. Regression showed that the age of the mother and the numbers of births were significant predictors of the MUAC of the pregnant women (p=0.001). Conclusion: It’s is recommended that guidelines for nutrition and diets be carried out through practical demonstrations in the community and health facilities. The findings of the study may be used by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation (MOPHS) and other organizations to promote and implement programs aimed at improving dietary practices and nutrition status among pregnant in the county. Key words: MUAC-Mid Upper Arm Circumference, MOPHS-Ministry of Public Health Sanitation.
An assessment of the impact of indigenous knowledge and plant-based diet on morbidity and mortality rates among Seventh Day Adventist church faithfuls
Authors:   Department of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics, Kenyatta University, Mokua Alice G.
Published: March 2024

Indigenous knowledge on a plant based diet has contributed to low morbidity and mortality rates among the Seventh Day Adventist church members. The dominant explanation for this trend is reliance on organic farming and a consistent indulgence in a vegetarian diet. Previous studies of the relation of vegetarian dietary patterns to health and disease risk has primarily relied on cross-sectional data thus has been unable to distinguish between ordinary vegetarians and the faith-based adventist vegetarians health status. Here we review initial published findings with regard to adventist vegetarian diets and several health outcomes. Vegetarian dietary patterns are associated with lower body mass index, lower prevalence and incidence of diabetes mellitus, lower prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its component factors, lower prevalence of hypertension, lower all-cause mortality, and in some instances, lower risk of cancer. Reviewed too, are findings with regard to factors related to vegetarian diets and bone health. These initial results show important links between vegetarian dietary patterns and improved health. Adventist Health Studies have demonstrated that a vegetarian diet is associated with longer life and better health. Key words: vegetarian dietary patterns, organic farming, health status
Community Food Systems and The Nutritional Status of Children 6-24 Months in Obunga Slums, Kisumu Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Study
Authors:   Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute, Mbae-Mugambi Umotho Kinya ,   Maseno University, Onyango Christine Agatha ,   Maseno University, Okeyo David Omondi ,   Kenya Nutritionists and Dieticians Institute
Published: March 2024

Kenya is grappling with many public health problems; one of the most critical is childhood malnutrition. Underweight rates are 11%, stunting at 26%, and wasting at 4%. In Obunga slums, stunting was 40.2% for children below sixty months, underweight at 10.2%, and wasting at 9%. Globally, children between 6-24 months have the highest contribution to malnutrition among under-fives. Nevertheless, after 24 months, stunting, an indicator of chronic malnutrition, is irreversible. Obunga slums, compared to other slums in Kenya, registered the highest levels of stunting at 40.5%, despite various interventions. Some of the risk factors that recurrently exist as determinants of nutritional status in urban slums are socio-demographic factors. Other potential factors which seem to be ignored are the food systems-related socio-demographics, which seem to be in constant aetiology. This study determined the relationship between food systems, socio-demographic factors, and the nutritional status of children between 6-24 months. Specifically, to assess the nutritional status and determine the relationship between the community food system and nutritional status. A cross-sectional design was adopted, and households with a child aged 6-24 months in Obunga slums were included. A sample of 189 children was selected through a simple random sampling technique. A questionnaire was used to collect data on community food systems. The anthropometric assessment was used to collect data on the nutritional status of the children. Data analysis was done through descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression. The results reveal that the study had 189 children, 108 males and 81 females. Prevalence of wasting was at 3.2%, overweight at 6.9%, stunting at 27.0%, and underweight at 7.4%. Community Food Systems; wasting was associated with the frequency of buying foods from hotels/restaurants (O.R. = 0.32, C.I. =0.219 – 0.934) and consumption of food from restaurants and hotels (A.O.R = 14.522, C.I. =1.390 -151.712). Stunting was associated with purchasing food from restaurants/hotels (O.R. 0.0134, C.I. =0.020 -0.904. This study enumerated insight that may allow appropriate intervention programs to help align community food systems and mitigate child malnutrition in Obunga slums and other urban slums. Keywords: Community Food Systems, Nutritional Status, Urban Slums, Stunting
EL RETRATO DEL ANALFABETISMO Y LA INVISIBILIDAD DE LA PERSONA: diálogos entre Colombia y Brasil
Authors: HONORATO HERCULES GUIMARÃES , DUARTE-HERRERA MARCELA
Published: March 2024

El objetivo de este estudio es mostrar los factores psicosociales y estructurales de lassociedades brasileña y colombiana, que limitan la visibilidad analfabetismo. Para ello,se realizó una investigación de corte cualitativo tipo estudio de caso, donde se realizauna revisión documental de la problemática en ambos países, y se contrasta, pormedio de una encuesta en línea, con la perspectiva de los maestros(as) de Educaciónpara jóvenes y adultos (EJA), sobre la problemática del individuo analfabeta, así comode los sistemas y políticas educativas. En los resultados, se encuentra que elanalfabetismo es considerado por los gobiernos de ambos países como una situaciónde poca incidencia, asociada a marginación y falta de oportunidades, donde existenmedidas de atención a la población limitadas o intermitentes. Lo anterior, plantea unreto para los dispositivos educativos, requiriendo medidas más efectivas para elejercicio pleno de la ciudadanía desde una perspectiva de derechos.
GAMIFICAÇÃO COMO FERRAMENTA POTENCIALIZADORA NO PROCESSO DE ENSINO E APRENDIZAGEM: uma realidade plausível de forma presencial e remota
Authors: TAVARES PHILIPPE DRUMOND VILAS BOAS , FONSECA KARINA DA COSTA , GOMES3 CECÍLIA , SILVEIRA DAIANE DE SOUZA , NUNES JUCEIA BATISTA
Published: March 2024

Diante da mudança do perfil dos estudantes e a popularidade da tecnologia digital dainformação e comunicação (TDIC), ocasionada pelos dispositivos móveis, algumasestratégias didáticas têm surgido na sala de aula, dentre elas, a gamificação, cujopropósito é motivar e engajar os estudantes no processo de aprendizagem. Oobjetivo do presente trabalho é apresentar a proposta de gamificação, para oenvolvimento e desenvolvimento dos estudantes do 1º ano do Ensino Fundamental, apartir da exemplificação de uma atividade interdiscilplinar que congrega os princípiosda gamificação. A metodologia utilizada foi a pesquisa bibliográfica e comoinstrumentos tecnológicos digitais dispomos das plataformas, CNEC - Sistema deensino - Noas, Google Meet, Classroom, Youtube, WhatsApp. A gamificação estáaliada à ludicidade, desta forma, surge a oportunidade de potencializar aaprendizagem, pois ela utiliza diversas ferramentas no processo de ensinoaprendizageme faz com que o professor trabalhe e desenvolva inúmeras habilidadesnos estudantes. Assim, por meio da gamificação é possível criar a condição dearticular teoria e prática aos conceitos sistematizados na educação de forma lúdica,dinâmica e envolvente buscando promover a (re) construção do currículo escolar paraatender às necessidades da nova geração.
Stigma Perceptions of Public Employees Concerning Covid-19 Disease
Authors: SARAÇ Elif , CAN Remziye , YILDIZ Esra
Published: March 2024

Abstract

Aim: The Covid-19 pandemic has caused people to be exposed to negative attitudes and stigma. The aim of the study was to investigate the stigma perceptions of public employees concerning Covid-19 and to determine variables thought to be related.

Materials and Methods: Study adopted descriptive design was conducted between 4/11/2021 and 1/1/2022. 351 employees in two public workplaces responded to the research. The Stigmatization of Covid-19 Questionnaire was delivered to the employees through online platform. The participation rate was 63.8%. Data were analyzed using the SPSS 20.0 Package program.

Results: The majority of the participants (42.5%) fell within the age group of 36-45 years. 69.2% of them were male, and 61.8% were workers. While the mean score of self-stigma associated with Covid-19 was 50.61±9.73, stigma toward others was 78.68±13.01. There was a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of age, gender, education, marital status, history of previous Covid, and stigma toward others.

Conclusion: Self-stigma perceptions of employees were low while the toward others were high. The factors such as age, gender, education, marital status, previous experience of Covid-19 affected employees’ perceptions of stigma associated with Covid-19. The findings of the study highlight the importance of intervening early to provide psychological or social support for employees.
Anthropometric Study Via Digital X-Rays of the Obturator Foramen in Surgical Treatment of Urine Incontinence in the South-Western Adult Female Population of Iran
Authors: Ahmadifard Zahra , Kogani Mohamad , Karimi Afrooz , Fakhredini Fereshtesadat , Karimi Samaneh
Published: March 2024

Background: The trans-obturator tape (TOT) procedure is an efficient treatment option that provides support for the urethra in cases of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Objectives: This research aimed to ascertain the accuracy of anthropometric parameters of the female pubic arch and the obturator foramen (OF) and their application in clinical anatomy. Methods: In this cross-sectional observational research conducted from October 2021 to September 2022, the morphometric characteristics of the pubic arch and the OF were measured on digital pelvic radiographs of 500 adult women from southwestern Iran. They were grouped into three age categories, namely, 18 - 34, 35 - 50, and more than 50 years old, and compared within and between the groups. Results: Significant differences were observed in computed parameter indices of the OF and pubic arch based on age. Parameters such as inter-obturator foramina distance, pubic symphysis length, pubic ramus width, and length increased significantly with age (P ≤ 0.05). Additionally, as women's ages increased, their subpubic angle decreased significantly (P = 0.001). However, other parameters, such as the OF area and the anterior urogenital triangle area, did not show a significant increase with age (P ≥ 0.05). These findings indicate that anatomical pelvic measurements change significantly with age in women. Conclusions: The present study revealed a wide range of variant bony pelvic anatomy in southwestern Iranian adult women, distinct from norms in other groups. Our findings could be utilized in surgical approaches and the production of trans-obturator kits by companies.
Effectiveness of Positive Psychology Training and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Improving Psychological Distress and Motivational Beliefs in Students with a Parental Death Experience: A Quasi-experimental Study
Authors: Molamohseni Fatemeh , Marashian Fatemeh Sadat , Bavi Sasan
Published: March 2024

Background: The loss of a parent significantly affects the academic performance, social interactions, and overall well-being of students. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of positive psychology training and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in reducing psychological distress and improving motivational beliefs among students who have experienced the loss of a parent. Methods: This quasi-experimental study adopted a pretest-posttest follow-up design and included two experimental groups and one control group. The research focused on female secondary school students in Ahvaz, Iran, who were grieving the death of a parent. Sixty participants who met the inclusion criteria were selected through purposive sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group (n = 20 each). Data were analyzed using repeated measures ANOVA with SPSS 23. Results: The findings indicated that both positive psychology training and ACT significantly impacted the participants' psychological distress and motivational beliefs. There were significant differences between the effects of positive psychology training and ACT, with positive psychology training showing a more substantial influence on reducing psychological distress and enhancing motivational beliefs than ACT. Conclusions: This study concludes that both positive psychology training and ACT are effective in boosting motivational beliefs and mitigating psychological distress among students grieving the loss of a parent.
Speak for Yourself? Power and Hybridity in the Cross-Cultural Classroom
Authors: Williams Bronwyn T.
Published: March 2024

In this article I use the lens of postcolonial theory to reflect on my uses of a varied series of writing pedagogies in cross-cultural classrooms at an international college. Such reflection helps reveal how relations of power between teacher and students and underlying ideological assumptions about knowledge and discourse often resulted in hybrid responses of mimicry, frustration, incomprehension, and resistance. A pedagogy constructed against the backdrop of postcolonial theory might provide both students and their teacher in such a cross-cultural setting with a more complex and useful way of understanding issues of power, discourse, identity, and the role of writing.
Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments
Authors: Hocks Mary E.
Published: March 2024

This essay illustrates key features of visual rhetoric as they operate in two professional academic hypertexts and student work designed for the World Wide Web. By looking at features like audience stance, transparency, and hybridity, writing teachers can teach visual rhetoric as a transformative process of design. Critiquing and producing writing in digital environments offers a welcome return to rhetorical principles and an important pedagogy of writing as design.
Composition As Experience: John Dewey on Creative Expression and the Origins of “Mind”
Authors: Crick Nathan
Published: March 2024

Although the Bartholomae/Elbow debate is often framed as a modern conflict between the advocates of â€œacademicâ€ and â€œpersonalâ€ writing, it is more appropriately viewed as the most recent manifestation of the historical clash between expressivism and constructivism. However, both sides of this conflict, which split over whether to see writing as a product of the mind or of an external discourse, rest upon a dualist assumption that the primary task of language is to provide linguistic representations of a transcendental ego. This essay first draws from the work of Richard Rorty and John Dewey in order to critique the dualist legacy of the expressivist/constructivist debate and then explicates Deweyâ€™s views on mind, language, and experience in order to reconstruct a pragmatic philosophy of communication and a progressive composition pedagogy.
Education Reform and the Limits of Discourse: Rereading Collaborative Revision of a Composition Program’s Textbook
Authors: Ross Christine
Published: March 2024

This article links failed reform to failed education through a case study of an annual collaborative revision of a program textbook in the Composition Program at the University of California at Irvine. Review of successive editions of the programâ€™s Student Guide to Writing at UCI reveals a progressive retreat from the programâ€™s pedagogical commitments and the reappearance of product-oriented instruction.
Changing Missions, Shifting Positions, and Breaking Silences
Authors: Logan Shirley Wilson
Published: March 2024

An earlier version of this article was delivered as the Chairâ€™s Address at the Opening General Session of the CCCC convention in New York, March 2003. I review the current mission and position statements of the organization by calling attention to the ways in which our current social and political climate challenges our ability to meet our goals and support our positions. I weave into my text the â€œvoicesâ€ of historical black women who called for response in their own time and even in ours.
From the Editor
Authors: Cooper Marilyn M.
Published: March 2024

The moment when I first really identified with CCCC, when I first knew that this was an association I wanted to be part of and contribute to, was during David Bartholomae’s chair’s address in 1988. He was speaking of the maturation of composition as a discipline.
Reimagining the Functional Side of Computer Literacy
Authors: Selber Stuart A.
Published: March 2024

Although computer literacy amounts to a complex set of interconnected capacities, teachers of writing and communication have tended to ignore functional issues, which are crucial to many aspects of online work. This essay reimagines the functional side of computer literacy, arguing for an approach that is both effective and professionally responsible.
Transgender Rhetorics: (Re)Composing Narratives of the Gendered Body
Authors: Alexander Jonathan
Published: March 2024

This essay attempts to demonstrate how transgender theories can inspire pedagogical methods that complement feminist compositionist pedagogical approaches to understanding the narration of gender as a social construct. By examining sample student writing generated by a prompt inspired by transgender theories, the author’s analysis suggests how trans theories might usefully expand and extend—for both instructors and students—our analysis of the stories we tell personally, socially, and politically about gender. Ultimately, the author argues that trans theories and pedagogical activities built on them can enhance our understanding of gender performance by prompting us to consider gender as a material and embodied reality.
Revisiting the Promise of Students' Right to Their Own Language: Pedagogical Strategies
Authors: Kinloch Valerie Felita
Published: March 2024

The implications of the Students’ Right to Their Own Language resolution on classroom teaching and practices point to a continual need to reevaluate how communicative actions—linguistic diversities—of students are central aspects of the work within composition courses. This article revisits the historical significance and pedagogical value of the resolution in its critique of student-teacher exchanges, in its advancement of strategies that invite language variations into composition courses, and in its proposal to support the expressive rights of students.
Visible Disability in the College Classroom
Authors: Mossman Mark
Published: March 2024

Investigates how disability is discovered, constructed, and performed in a certain type of cultural practice, that is, in a postmodern, undergraduate college classroom. Argues that the implementation of an autobiographical pedagogy must extend beyond the dimensions of race, gender, and sexuality and must include disabled persons in these discussions as well.
Befriending the Medieval Queer: A Pedagogy for Literature Classes
Authors: Zeikowitz Richard E.
Published: March 2024

Analyzes Grendel ("Beowulf"), the Green Knight ("Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"), and the Pardoner ("The Canterbury Tales"). Notes that they are all "queer" characters in that they are not typical men of the time and they all pose a challenge or threat to normative homosocial desire. Suggests that traditional readings of these characters have obscured their disruptive queerness.
Counterpublics in Public Housing: Reframing the Politics of Service-Learning
Authors: Coogan David
Published: March 2024

Describing a service-learning project in Chicago public housing, the author argues for a reconception of counterpublics that takes the individual (and individual development) as the primary unit of analysis. The real question for service-learning educators, he suggests, is not whether the private and the public can inform each other, but whether we are prepared to discern the ways in which they already do inform each other in the communities we wish to serve. The students in the project developed a much broader conception of themselves as members of the human family, with the consequence that, although social problems in public housing were not changed, public discourse and private convictions about race in those communities were altered, suggesting that cultural difference may be less of a problem and more of a resource in service learning courses.
A Bakhtinian Buzz about Teacher Talk: Discourse Matters in “What Difference Does Difference Make?”
Authors: Dyson Anne Haas
Published: March 2024

Revisits the author’s efforts to deliberately craft words that surfaced in conversations with others. Reflects on the writing of “What Difference Does Difference Make,” which won the author the Emig Award. Emphasizes two qualities of pedagogical storytelling that are critically important when that talk is about “difference.”
Tensions between Traditions: The Role of Contexts in Learning to Teach
Authors: Bickmore Steven T. , Smagorinsky Peter , O’Donnell–Allen Cindy
Published: March 2024

In this article we report a study of a teacher, Jimmy, making the transition from his university teacher education program to his first job. We explore what we characterize as tensions between traditions in his effort to develop a conception to inform his teaching of high school English.
Speaking My Mind: A Moral Education and Nazi Persecution
Authors: Martin Paul L.
Published: March 2024

What do we do when a student writes on a topic that we don’t agree with, even abhor?
Selling Shakespeare
Authors: Milburn Michael
Published: March 2024

Considers how the successful teaching of Shakespeare represents the ultimate challenge for many English teachers, one that measures their ability to enlighten and inspire. Discusses how his colleague approaches teaching Shakespeare to eight graders. Describes how he approaches teaching Henry V to her ninth grade students.
Multiple Voices, Multiple Genres: Fiction for Young Adults
Authors: Gillis Candida
Published: March 2024

Candida Gillis discusses several Young Adult novels written in multiple voices or multiple genres and gives suggestions and activities for teaching them.
Using Graphic Novels, Anime, and the Internet in an Urban High School
Authors: Frey Nancy , Fisher Douglas
Published: March 2024

Using forms of popular culture not frequently found in schools, the authors encouraged urban English-language learners and native English speakers to improve their written communication. Excerpts from students’ stories demonstrate the success of this approach.
Using Film to Increase Literacy Skills
Authors: Vetrie Michael
Published: March 2024

Popular culture is about more than just the current time and place, notes high school teacher Michael Vetrie. Connecting classical Greek and Elizabethan theater to contemporary film, he shows how at-risk students can increase their literacy skills through reading film as text.
Teaching the Mock Printz Novels
Authors: Hipple Ted , Scherff Lisa , Claiborne Jennifer , Sullins Amy Cinci , Waters Patricia
Published: March 2024

After brief annotations of noteworthy novels for young adults, the authors provide tips for teaching these books and others like them.
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
Authors: Wenk Michael
Published: March 2024

Believing that traditional summer school programs are largely ineffective, Michael Wenk and his colleagues developed a summer academy for high school students. With a two-week session and small class sizes, the academy provided an environment for teachers to address standards while promoting lasting change in students’ approach to their education.
Improving Writing for College: The Conditions to Do It Well
Authors: Simmons Jay
Published: March 2024

Through a study of writing by high school seniors and first-year college students, Jay Simmons became convinced that classroom conditions were a large factor in student improvement. Larger class sizes in high school and less time devoted strictly to writing were found to be the chief detriments to improvement in the seniors’ writing.
Teaching Literature and Language through Guided Discovery and Informal Classroom Drama
Authors: DeBlase Gina
Published: March 2024

Gina DeBlase describes how two teachers use collaborative dramatic activities to help students make connections to the text and become empowered by language. The activities can be used with plays as well as other types of literature.
Snapshots: Letters from the Past
Authors: Taylor Kristin A.
Published: March 2024

“Snapshots” offers insights about teaching and learning through teacher stories about a particular classroom event.
Speaking My Mind: The New Writing Assessments
Authors: Newkirk Thomas
Published: March 2024

“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.