Put your “big girl” voice on

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 617-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Stopfner
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The World ◽  
Compare And Contrast

Abstract Heckles are an illegitimate, yet common way of commenting directly and immediately on what is being said at the lectern. However, (non-)verbal interjections can also be used to disconcert the speaker, thus scoring points within the parliamentary arena. In these cases, female delegates are often confronted with discriminatory remarks and comments that border on sexism and even misogyny. Based on the extensive literature on gender and discourse, the following paper will focus on gender-related heckles and analyse argumentative structures and topoi that are grounded in sexist stereotypes and conservative role-models. Presuming that these incidents are not isolated instances, the paper will compare and contrast several examples from around the world that have caught public attention.

THE ROLE OF CHILDREN'S ARTISTIC LITERATUR IN THE ASSIMILATION OF PHILOSOPHICAL CATEGORIES BY PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
Ponomareva L.I. ◽  
Gan N.Yu. ◽  
Obukhova K.A.
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Culture And Health ◽  
Nature And Society ◽  
Good And Evil

In the presented study, the authors raise the question of the need to include in the educational process of a preschool institution to familiarize children with some philosophical categories. The educational system in which the child is included, starting from preschool childhood, provides him with the opportunity to gradually and continuously enter the knowledge of the world around him. It is in preschool childhood that the child is exposed to various relationships, values of culture and health, diverse patterns in the field of different knowledge. This contributes to a broader interaction of the preschooler with the world around him, which, in turn, ensures the assimilation not of disparate ideas about objects and phenomena, but their natural integration and interpenetration, which means understanding the integrity of the picture of the world. The authors prove the idea that the assimilation of philosophical categories by children contributes to the understanding of the structure of the surrounding world. The analysis of research is presented, proving that children's fiction in an understandable and accessible language, life examples and vivid images is able to explain to children the laws of the functioning of nature and society, as well as to reveal the world of human relations and feelings. Fiction surrounds the child from the first years of his life. It is she who contributes to the development of thinking and imagination, enriches the sensory world, provides role models and teaches you to find a way out in different situations. Philosophical categories such as "love and friendship", "beautiful and ugly", "good and evil" are represented in children's literature very widely, and the efficiency of mastering philosophical categories depends on the skill of an adult in conveying the content of a work, on correctly placed accents.

Larry Page’s Styles of Leadership

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-142
Author(s):  
Anggita Rachmanantya ◽  
Sari Wahyuni ◽  
Andi Nurrohman ◽  
Anansya Ralia ◽  
Aniek Martono
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Transformational Leader ◽  
Constructive Feedback ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Speak Up

Leaders are very important for organizations and businesses. The various characters of leaders can determine the success of an organization due to their role and responsibility for planning, organizing, and decision-making of organizational strategies to achieve their goals. One of the leaders whose characteristic is quite interesting and possibly become our role models is Larry Page, a co-founder of Google Inc. The researchers used qualitative research methods by descriptive research in explaining Larry Page style of leadership in leading Google Inc. Result of this study shows that Larry Page has a very open and equal way of leading, making him a democratic and transformational leader for an instance Larry believe in crazy ideas of their employees since he believes that insane ideas could change the world whereas not all the leaders can trust their subordinate. To hear the ideas, Larry always encourages his subordinate to speak up at every opportunity and instantly give them constructive feedback.

scholarly journals Unveiling Hidden Intentions

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (09) ◽  
pp. 13550-13555
Author(s):  
Gerardo Ocampo Diaz ◽  
Vincent Ng
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Short Description ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Machine Perception ◽  
The World

Recent years have seen significant advances in machine perception, which have enabled AI systems to become grounded in the world. While AI systems can now "read" and "see", they still cannot read between the lines and see through the lens, unlike humans. We propose the novel task of hidden message and intention identification: given some perceptual input (i.e., a text, an image), the goal is to produce a short description of the message the input transmits and the hidden intention of its author, if any. Not only will a solution to this task enable machine perception technologies to reach the next level of complexity, but it will be an important step towards addressing a task that has recently received a lot of public attention, political manipulation in social media.

scholarly journals Web Design Curriculum and Syllabus Based on Web Design Practice and Students' Prior Knowledge

10.28945/2961 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Krunic ◽  
Ljiljana Ruzic-Dimitrijevic ◽  
Branka Petrovic ◽  
Robert Farkas
Keyword(s):  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Novi Sad ◽  
Academic Year

The Advanced Technical School from Novi Sad set up a completely new study group for web design in 2004. The paper explains its organization and gives course descriptions. When it was established, there were not many similar groups in the world exclusively dealing with web design, whose programs could serve as role models, hence the curriculum and syllabus had to be based on our own experience. They cover inevitable web issues like usability, user-oriented web design, accessibility, privacy and security, which are briefly discussed in the paper. The purpose of the research referring to web accessibility and privacy presented in one of the sections was to help create the two documents. The students' prior knowledge was also an important parameter in their writing. The curriculum and syllabus have been updated recently, and the improved version given herein will be in use from the next academic year.

scholarly journals Official Reporting of Religious Organizations as a Source of Empirical Data on the Activities of the Church: Some Questions of Theory and Practice of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden

2020 ◽  
pp. 135-145
Author(s):  
O. A. Balabeikina ◽  
N. M. Mezhevich ◽  
A. A. Iankovskaia
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Partial Solution ◽  
The State ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Reference Case ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The relevance of any material offered to the scientific and expert community depends on many factors. Objectively, the presence of this or that issue in the center of public attention has a positive effect on the actualization of this or that article. However, there is an obvious danger. Academic approaches that accidentally find themselves in resonance with global trends can fall victim to political conjuncture. Relevance in this case can fall victim to the political moment. Moreover, this or that topic, being in the center of public discussion, negatively affects the academic understanding of the problem. All this fully relates to the question of the relationship between the state and the church in modern Europe and Russia.A few words about global trends. Their essence boils down to the growing confrontation between supporters of new ideological approaches and traditionalists, among whom are many adherents.The relationship between religion and the state testifies to the fact that states and societies have not yet learned to draw an effective line between their interests and those of adherents. This fact presupposes careful state and public participation in the affairs of the church. However, acknowledging this circumstance is not enough. The state must clearly know what, where and how is happening in the church sphere of the life of society in cases where church affairs can affect public and state security.It is also known that almost all the leading churches, to a greater or lesser extent, provide official reporting to the state. However, working with this reporting, its scientific analysis is not always representative.Objective. The presented article is aimed at a partial solution of the problem of increasing the effectiveness of academic research of the church` activities. Moreover, it is made based on official church statistics.The author’s position is the following. States and societies have no right to let go of this vital sphere of life. The functions of the state, in this case, are at least controlling. The ineffective execution of its functions by the state can be revealed in many countries of the world. The situation in France is nothing more than a reference case of a problem that, to one degree or another, exists in most of the countries of the world, which are distinguished by ethnic and confessional heterogeneity.

scholarly journals Communicative Blame in Online Communication of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Computational Approach of Stigmatizing Cues and Negative Sentiment Gauged With Automated Analytic Techniques

10.2196/21504 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. e21504
Author(s):  
Angela Chang ◽  
Peter Johannes Schulz ◽  
ShengTsung Tu ◽  
Matthew Tingchi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Ethnic Discrimination ◽  
Online News ◽  
World Health ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Sentiment

Background Information about a new coronavirus emerged in 2019 and rapidly spread around the world, gaining significant public attention and attracting negative bias. The use of stigmatizing language for the purpose of blaming sparked a debate. Objective This study aims to identify social stigma and negative sentiment toward the blameworthy agents in social communities. Methods We enabled a tailored text-mining platform to identify data in their natural settings by retrieving and filtering online sources, and constructed vocabularies and learning word representations from natural language processing for deductive analysis along with the research theme. The data sources comprised of ten news websites, eleven discussion forums, one social network, and two principal media sharing networks in Taiwan. A synthesis of news and social networking analytics was present from December 30, 2019, to March 31, 2020. Results We collated over 1.07 million Chinese texts. Almost two-thirds of the texts on COVID-19 came from news services (n=683,887, 63.68%), followed by Facebook (n=297,823, 27.73%), discussion forums (n=62,119, 5.78%), and Instagram and YouTube (n=30,154, 2.81%). Our data showed that online news served as a hotbed for negativity and for driving emotional social posts. Online information regarding COVID-19 associated it with China—and a specific city within China through references to the “Wuhan pneumonia”—potentially encouraging xenophobia. The adoption of this problematic moniker had a high frequency, despite the World Health Organization guideline to avoid biased perceptions and ethnic discrimination. Social stigma is disclosed through negatively valenced responses, which are associated with the most blamed targets. Conclusions Our sample is sufficiently representative of a community because it contains a broad range of mainstream online media. Stigmatizing language linked to the COVID-19 pandemic shows a lack of civic responsibility that encourages bias, hostility, and discrimination. Frequently used stigmatizing terms were deemed offensive, and they might have contributed to recent backlashes against China by directing blame and encouraging xenophobia. The implications ranging from health risk communication to stigma mitigation and xenophobia concerns amid the COVID-19 outbreak are emphasized. Understanding the nomenclature and biased terms employed in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak is paramount. We propose solidarity with communication professionals in combating the COVID-19 outbreak and the infodemic. Finding solutions to curb the spread of virus bias, stigma, and discrimination is imperative.

scholarly journals CAIVAM KĀTTA CĀṈṞŌR [SCHOLARS – THE PROTECTORS OF SAIVISM]

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Anbarasan Arunachulan ◽  
Gajendran Karunanithi
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Ancient India ◽  
The World ◽  
Supreme Being

Saivism is one of the world’s ancient religions. It is believed that the Tamils of ancient India who embraced Saivism have been worshipping Sivaperuman as their Supreme Being for a good 10,000 years. However, this religion is facing many challenges to expand due to the influences of other theological ideologies especially the Vedic Religion, Jainism and Buddhism. Three consequential Scholars namely Thirunyanasambanthar, Thirunavukkarasar and Suntharar have played a pivotal role in the efforts to revive Saivism from the brink of extinction. Thirunyanasambanthar and Thirunavukkarasar have performed miraculous wonders to prove the majestic divinity of Saivism to the world. Their fruitful efforts were proven when some of the atheistic kings and people of the Tamil kingdoms reverted to Saivisim. With an ardent belief, tenacious virtue and grace of Sivaperuman, the Scholars have successfully thwarted the propagation of other ideologies by benedictory actions. Those Scholars have also been established as exemplary role-models in the daily lives of all Saivites.

Barriers to Adoption of Commercial Green Buildings in India: A Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 097493062110584
Author(s):  
Sayani Saha ◽  
Rahul B Hiremath ◽  
Sanjay Prasad ◽  
Bimlesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Green Building ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Environmental Aspect ◽  
The World

The global construction sector accounts for 13.2% of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP). It not only contributes to the economic growth engine of the world but also climate changes due to its high energy footprint. Sustainable buildings have the potential to reduce the adverse impacts of the construction industry, but their adoption is slow due to hindrances. The aim of this paper is to study literature on barriers to green building adoption to date and highlight the overlapping and unique barriers specific to India in comparison to a few prominent countries, and provide solutions and recommendations for future research. The methodology has been an extensive literature review of the barriers to green building (GB) adoption. The key findings, namely barriers, were classified under economic, governmental, organizational and social perception, information, technology and material categories. Barriers unique to India and a few other developing countries are an extension of project schedules, lack of research and developmental works, lack of public motivation, poor building code enforcement, high payback period, uncertain supply of green materials, improper implementation of policy framework and performance of green building technologies (GBT’s). The GB construction sector is fragmented around the world. Even the GB definition is not the same across the globe although the environmental aspect is the same. Similarly, there are unique and overlapping challenges in GB adoption globally. Buildings in usage perspectives can be classified into residential and non-residential. This study looks only at non-residential GBs due to their homogenous nature. There is a dearth of specific studies related to the adoption of GBs in India. This study aims to fulfil the gap of India’s standing in the barriers to GB adoption with respect to the developed and developing countries. JEL Classification: I18

Adoption of Social Media as Communication Channels in Government Agencies

2018 ◽  
pp. 773-807
Author(s):  
Reemiah Alotaibi ◽  
Muthu Ramachandran ◽  
Ah-Lian Kor ◽  
Amin Hosseinian-Far
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Channel ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Level Of Use ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Social media has become an integral part of many people's lives around the world. The main use of this communication channel is to connect with social circles. It is also widely used for commercial and business purposes. Governments are also keen to use social media as an alternative to the traditional communication channels. Nonetheless, when the level of use of social media in the government is compared to other fields, a clear gap becomes apparent. This chapter investigates the adoption of social media as a communication channel between citizens, public agencies and government departments; and considers a wide range of factors that affect the issue from the perspective of public agencies. This chapter presents an extensive literature review and proposes a framework that organises the critical factors that affect public agencies' efforts while implementing social media. We also provide a list of hypotheses to validate and evaluate the significance of these factors.

A Study of Eco-Friendly Supply Chain Management at Cement Industries of Chhattisgarh

2012 ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Gazala Yasmin Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Cement Industry ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Corporation Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Growth Rates

India has experienced one of the fastest economic growth rates in the world which has been a dramatic driver in the nature and scale of impact on the country’s environment and natural resources. Environmental risks and problems are widening. The issues of managing environment impacts are capturing public attention. Modernization and technology up-gradation is a continuous process for any growing industry and is equally true for the cement industry. With increasing awareness of environmental protection worldwide, the green trend of conserving the Earth’s resources and protecting the environment is overwhelming, thereby exerting pressure on corporations in India. The pressure and drive accompanying globalization has prompted enterprises to improve their environmental performance (Zhu and Sarkis, 2006). Consequently, corporations have shown growing concern for the environment over the past ten years (Sheu, et al., 2005). The pressure on corporations to improve their environmental performances comes from globalization rather than localization (Sarkis and Tamarkin, 2005). Increasing environmental concern has gradually become part of the overall corporation culture and, in turn, has helped to reengineer the strategies of corporations (Madu, et al., 2002).

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