scholarly journals Beyond cultural and geographical proximity: delving into the factors that influence the dynamics of academic relationships between students in higher education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José-Vicente Tomás-Miquel ◽  
Jordi Capó-Vicedo
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Academic Networks ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Specific Stage ◽  
The University ◽  
Proximity Dimensions ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractScholars have widely recognised the importance of academic relationships between students at the university. While much of the past research has focused on studying their influence on different aspects such as the students’ academic performance or their emotional stability, less is known about their dynamics and the factors that influence the formation and dissolution of linkages between university students in academic networks. In this paper, we try to shed light on this issue by exploring through stochastic actor-oriented models and student-level data the influence that a set of proximity factors may have on formation of these relationships over the entire period in which students are enrolled at the university. Our findings confirm that the establishment of academic relationships is derived, in part, from a wide range of proximity dimensions of a social, personal, geographical, cultural and academic nature. Furthermore, and unlike previous studies, this research also empirically confirms that the specific stage in which the student is at the university determines the influence of these proximity factors on the dynamics of academic relationships. In this regard, beyond cultural and geographic proximities that only influence the first years at the university, students shape their relationships as they progress in their studies from similarities in more strategic aspects such as academic and personal closeness. These results may have significant implications for both academic research and university policies.

scholarly journals Psychological Restorative Potential of a Pilot On-Campus Ecological Wetland in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
Lai Kuan Lee ◽  
Nor Azazi Zakaria ◽  
Keng Yuen Foo
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
University Students ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Satisfaction Level ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
High Risk Populations ◽  
The University ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study examines the perceptions and engagement tendencies of 788 university students, as well as their relationship with psychological distress, with respect to an on-campus ecological wetland. The students’ awareness, understanding, perceived importance, satisfaction level, and engagement tendency towards the ecological wetland were evaluated using a structured questionnaire. The psychological symptoms were assessed using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem and depression, anxiety, and stress scales, and the predictors of psychological distress were determined. The majority of the students were actively engaged (62.3%), aware (88.3%), and satisfied (51.0%) with the ecological wetland. Gender, age, educational attainment, engagement, perceived importance, and satisfaction level towards the ecological wetland were the predictors of psychological distress. The results outlined the environmental and mental restorative values of the ecological wetland in mediating psychological distress among the university students. These findings shed light on the necessity of preserving the sustainability and integrity of the on-campus ecological wetland. Longitudinal investigations to explore the restorative values of built environments and psychological wellbeing among high-risk populations are warranted.

scholarly journals Co-evolution patterns of university patenting and technological specialization in European regions

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Caviggioli ◽  
Alessandra Colombelli ◽  
Antonio De Marco ◽  
Giuseppe Scellato ◽  
Elisa Ughetto
Keyword(s):  
Regional Scale ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Economic Region ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Technological Specialization ◽  
Substantial Heterogeneity ◽  
Unique Dataset

AbstractThis paper provides novel evidence on co-evolution patterns of the technological specialization of innovation activities of firms and academic institutions located in the same European region during the years from 2003 to 2014. We exploit a novel and unique dataset merging data on EU-funded R&D projects, universities, patents, and economic region-level data for a large sample of universities and firms co-located in geographical areas at the third level of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS3), which correspond to a sub-regional scale of analysis. Our results indicate the presence of substantial heterogeneity across the analyzed EU regions with respect to the co-evolution of industry and academia specializations. In particular, we find that the specialization into a new technological domain is led by the local academic research system only in a few cases. We also document that a number of factors, at both the university and region levels, are associated with convergent or divergent processes in the relative specialization of the innovation activities carried out by firms and universities co-located in the same region.

Scopus Analysis of the Academic Research Performed by Public Universities in Galicia and North of Portugal

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-38
Author(s):  
Noelia Araújo Vila ◽  
Jose Antonio Fraiz-Brea ◽  
Lucília A Cardoso ◽  
Alexandra Matos Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Public Universities ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University

Scopus is recognized by experts as one of the best, most rigorous, and most complete bibliometric databases. The present work used Scopus-based bibliometric analysis and Pearson correlation coefficients to analyse the research output of three universities in the Galicia region of Spain and three public universities of North of Portugal. The purpose of this study was to understand the current state of Galician and Northern Portugal academic and scientific research, to identify the main research fields in which the region stands out, and to compare and contrast the academic production of the six universities. The main conclusion to be drawn from this study is that scientific production in the Euroregion Galicia-North of Portugal is not concentrated on a few study fields, but covers a wide range of subjects, from medicine and chemistry, to computer science or engineering. The University of Porto stands out, both in scientific production and in the number of researchers.

scholarly journals Grateful Experience and Upstream Reciprocity Behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Shueh-Chin Ting
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
University Students ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Mutual Help ◽  
The Relationship

In a utilitarian society, advocating gratitude is very important. Gratitude can improve social harmony. Enhancing gratitude should start from education. However, in academic research, some gaps in gratitude have yet to be clarified. The focus of the present study is the relationship between grateful experiences and upstream reciprocity behavior. Past research has shown that gratitude promotes reciprocity but mainly emphasizes mutual help between benefactors and beneficiaries. The present study expands on the concept of upstream reciprocity, which is reciprocating help to a third party instead of returning it to one’s benefactors, to explore whether university students rich in grateful experiences are more likely to display upstream reciprocity behaviors. Using questionnaires, the present study collected a total of 681 valid questionnaires to conduct an empirical study. The present study found grateful experiences of university students enhance their upstream reciprocity behaviors.

scholarly journals Research of binary neutron star merger phenomenon by high speed sweeping observation

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (5) ◽  
pp. 13-15
Author(s):  
Toshikazu Shigeyama ◽  
Shigeyuki Sako
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Binary Neutron Star ◽  
New Information ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Astronomical Research ◽  
The University ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Shed Light

The pursuit of astronomical research has vastly expanded and illuminated our understanding of physics and the laws of the universe. This, in turn, is knowledge useful to a wide range of applications, many that would not have been foreseen in the original research. Astronomy helped create accurate navigation and mapping whilst technologies developed in the pursuit of the stars can be found in many key, everyday devices. Despite millennia of combing the night skies, there are still many mysteries about the universe that we do not yet understand. Professor Toshikazu Shigeyama and Associate Professor Shigeyuki Sako based at the Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU) and Institute of Astronomy (IoA), The University of Tokyo, Japan, are two astronomers working to uncover new information about our universe. They have led a team of researchers who were responsible for creating a new astronomical camera, the Tomo-e Gozen. This device will be capable of helping to shed light on several unknowns through the use of sensors able to capture images much closer together in time than ever before.

scholarly journals Evolving Persistent Archives and Digital Library Systems: Integrating iRods, Cheshire3 and Multivalent

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reagan Moore ◽  
Arcot Rajasekar ◽  
Paul Watry ◽  
Fabio Corubolo ◽  
John Harrison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Management ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Distributed Data ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Data Preservation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
The University

This paper describes work undertaken by Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center (DICE) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Liverpool on the development of an integrated preservation environment, which has been presented at the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), at the National Science Foundation, and at the European Commission. The underlying technology is based on the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS), which implements a policy-based approach to distributed data management. By differentiating between different phases of the data life cycle based upon the evolution of data management policies, the infrastructure can be tuned to support data publication, data sharing, data analysis and data preservation. It is possible to build generic data management infrastructure that can evolve to meet the management requirements of each user community, federal agency and academic research project. In order to manage the properties of the data collections, we have developed and integrated scalable digital library services that support the discovery of, and access to, material organized as a collection.The integrated preservation environment prototype implements specific technologies that are capable of managing a wide range of preservation requirements, from parsing of legacy document formats, to enforcement of preservation policies, to validation of trustworthiness assessment criteria. Each capability has been demonstrated and is instantiated in multiple instances, both in the United States as part of the DataNet Federation Consortium (DFC) and through multiple European projects, primarily the FP7 SHAMAN project.

TEM study of boron additions to cobalt aluminide

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Feldewerth
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Turbine Engines ◽  
Major Drawback ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ordered Alloys ◽  
The University ◽  
Very High

In recent years an increasing emphasis has been placed on the study of high temperature intermetallic compounds for possible aerospace applications. One group of interest is the B2 aiuminides. This group of intermetaliics has a very high melting temperature, good high temperature, and excellent specific strength. These qualities make it a candidate for applications such as turbine engines. The B2 aiuminides exist over a wide range of compositions and also have a large solubility for third element substitutional additions, which may allow alloying additions to overcome their major drawback, their brittle nature.One B2 aluminide currently being studied is cobalt aluminide. Optical microscopy of CoAl alloys produced at the University of Missouri-Rolla showed a dramatic decrease in the grain size which affects the yield strength and flow stress of long range ordered alloys, and a change in the grain shape with the addition of 0.5 % boron.

Sentence-Based Experience Logging in New Hearing Aid Users

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3S) ◽  
pp. 631-637
Author(s):  
Katja Lund ◽  
Rodrigo Ordoñez ◽  
Jens Bo Nielsen ◽  
Dorte Hammershøi
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
Online Tool ◽  
Rehabilitation Process ◽  
Hearing Rehabilitation ◽  
Clinical Observations ◽  
Hearing Aid Use ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light

Purpose The aim of this study was to develop a tool to gain insight into the daily experiences of new hearing aid users and to shed light on aspects of aided performance that may not be unveiled through standard questionnaires. Method The tool is developed based on clinical observations, patient experiences, expert involvement, and existing validated hearing rehabilitation questionnaires. Results An online tool for collecting data related to hearing aid use was developed. The tool is based on 453 prefabricated sentences representing experiences within 13 categories related to hearing aid use. Conclusions The tool has the potential to reflect a wide range of individual experiences with hearing aid use, including auditory and nonauditory aspects. These experiences may hold important knowledge for both the patient and the professional in the hearing rehabilitation process.

Towards an interdisciplinary knowledge exchange model

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago DE FRANCISCO ◽  
Diego MAZO
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University ◽  
Common Situation

Universities and corporates, in Europe and the United States, have come to a win-win relationship to accomplish goals that serve research and industry. However, this is not a common situation in Latin America. Knowledge exchange and the co-creation of new projects by applying academic research to solve company problems does not happen naturally.To bridge this gap, the Design School of Universidad de los Andes, together with Avianca, are exploring new formats to understand the knowledge transfer impact in an open innovation network aiming to create fluid channels between different stakeholders. The primary goal was to help Avianca to strengthen their innovation department by apply design methodologies. First, allowing design students to proposed novel solutions for the traveller experience. Then, engaging Avianca employees to learn the design process. These explorations gave the opportunity to the university to apply design research and academic findings in a professional and commercial environment.After one year of collaboration and ten prototypes tested at the airport, we can say that Avianca’s innovation mindset has evolved by implementing a user-centric perspective in the customer experience touch points, building prototypes and quickly iterate. Furthermore, this partnership helped Avianca’s employees to experience a design environment in which they were actively interacting in the innovation process.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document