Some Implications for Policy

2018 ◽  
pp. 313-318
Author(s):  
Bruce P. Dohrenwend
Keyword(s):  
Relative Importance ◽  
Policy Recommendation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Chronic Ptsd ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Post War ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
The U.S

This chapter underlines research findings from previous chapters that provide useful background for developing future policies for post-Vietnam wars. A major policy recommendation is prioritizing procedures for reducing harm by the U.S. military to civilians and prisoners when fighting wars amongst the people. Research findings point to the importance of keeping the most vulnerable soldiers out of severe combat and other highly stressful assignments. This chapter supports policies designed to provide returning veterans with programs that increase the relative importance of their post-war activities compared to their war-time experiences. Other recommendations advocate equalizing the assignment to combat units of individuals from majority and minority racial-ethnic groups and providing help to the family members of veterans with chronic PTSD. For the benefit of individuals serving in our military, it urges policy makers to commit our military forces to fight only in just wars that merit popular support.

scholarly journals Jernang Etnobotani Jernang Masyarakat Pedalaman Bireun

Biota ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-168
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ridhwan
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Findings

Jernang is one of the wild trees that are from the family of rattan with the genus of Daemonorops. The objective of this research is to know the availability, user, harvest, and conservation of the Jernang as well as the barrier faced by the jernang hunters, jernang harvest, and jernang conservation. This study is the done using descriptive research methodology. Respondents were chosen by purposive sampling. They were chosen with special considerations such as they must be the jernang hunters or the people who well understand the jernang. The data were collected through interview and participant observation and then analyzed descriptively. The research findings showed that the respondents still hunted the jernang in the forest and they sold to the buyers in their villages. Jernang fruits were processed by extracting them to get their substances. The conservation efforts have many threats due to the expansion of the palm plantation. The lack of people knowledge of good jernang for the seed is also one of the barriers of conservation.

scholarly journals Quantitative study on medicinal plants used for the treatment of respiratory diseases in chontales of Nacajuca, Tabasco, Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 019-026
Author(s):  
Miguel Alberto Magaña Alejandro ◽  
Merly Iveth Magaña Rodríguez ◽  
Manuel Sánchez Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Lung Diseases ◽  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Respiratory Problems ◽  
The People ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
Sambucus Mexicana

The results of an evaluation of the traditional knowledge of the use of medicinal plants for the treatment of respiratory diseases among the inhabitants of five communities of Nacajuca, Tabasco, Mexico are presented. The study was conducted using ethnobotanical methods applied to 26 key informants. A total of 22 species used for respiratory diseases were recorded. Of the informants, 61.5% are traditional doctors, recognized by the people, the rest are people who only use them at home. Of these, the species that had the greatest relative importance due to their frequency of mention in the interviews were the Jícara (Crescentia cujete), the toad grass (Epaltes mexicana), the purple maguey (Tradescantia spathacea) and the elderberry (Sambucus mexicana). The part that they use the most are the leaves as tea. 77% grow them within their home gardens, others collect them in the field and only one buy them in the markets. Of the species reported for respiratory problems, most have other uses, being also ornamental, edible and timber. The greater participation of women is observed during the study, since they are the head of the family and have knowledge of the use of medicinal plants for lung diseases. This shows that traditional medicine continues to be of great importance for Chontal communities in solving respiratory problems.

scholarly journals Empirical evidence against U.S. H1-B visa restrictions, the case of employment in the manufacturing industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erjon Gjoci
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Supply Shocks ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Evidence For Policy ◽  
The U.S

Abstract This empirical research paper provides ample evidence for policy makers to readdress the immigration policy--especially H1-B visa cap restrictions. The paper is focused on employment shifts and human capital achievement for two groups: the U.S. born and foreign-born working within the United States manufacturing industry. The manufacturing industry is the largest industry employer in the country, and it is in the brink of being at a disadvantage in the global stage due to labor shortage as the workforce ages. The paper uses data for three-year periods--2000, 2010, and 2019--from U.S. Census, The American Community Survey (ACS), Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files, thus providing an overview in labor trends and the human capital needed for the industry to be competitive. The paper builds from the Mincer (1974) earnings function to determine hourly wages for the two groups and then uses the Oaxaca-Blinder (1973) method to measure potential bias between the U.S. born and foreign-born employees in the manufacturing industry. The results in this paper align with other recent research findings (Gest et al., 2021; Eckstein & Peri, 2018) that show immigration as a tool to economic competitiveness. The data trends and findings in this paper synchronize with Borjas and Edo (2021) insights indicating that the native-born may respond to supply shocks of immigration by moving to other labor markets that are not directly affected by immigration.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN DESTINASI WISATA KLENIK TAMAN NASIONAL ALAS PURWO DI KABUPATEN BANYUWANGI

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Lilit Biati ◽  
Abdul Aziz ◽  
Moh. Imam Khaudli
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
National Park ◽  
Marketing Theory ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Individual

The Klenik Tourism of the Alas Purwo National Park is visited by many groups of people especially shamans who come to the Alas Purwo National Park from various regions and various religious identities. They did not come alone but by bringing their men to Alas Purwo National Park to perform rituals in the caves and Pancur Beach in the Pancur Resort. In the caves they do semedi also bring the necessary equipment such as incense, flowers, and incense. Because the place is indeed in the forest and still sacred, they still come back to Alas Purwo National Park with certain needs including seeking peace, penance, rituals with a specific purpose. obstacles encountered in efforts to develop the occult destinations of the Alas Purwo National Park, Analyze and Explain the factors that support the success in the development of the occult destinations of the Alas Purwo National Park in Banyuwangi Regency. That is why this research was conducted using qualitative research methods and the analysis used an interactive model (Miles and Hubermen), namely by reducing data, presenting data and drawing conclusions. From several research findings, it was concluded that there were factors that triggered them to do heresy including: insufficient economic needs, repentance or calming down to pray, meditation with specific goals, economic adequacy, shifting life in the family. The occult process is basically the same as people doing rituals, meditation or the like in different ways and places according to the stability of the individual with all kinds of equipment that they think are important for example by bringing offerings, flower flowers, flower flowers, telon flowers, incense or incense. According to the study of occult marketing theory conducted by visitors of the Alas Purwo National Park, it can add to the income of the Alas Purwo National Park, this can be proven by looking at visitor data through the increasing entrance of Rowobendo, due to the increasing number of people from various regions visiting the Park The Alas Purwo National Park which was invited by previous visitors who had performed the ritual by directly speaking to the people who had never visited Alas Purwo National Park, so that those who had never been to the Alas Purwo National Park had a curiosity by joining with those who have performed rituals in Alas Purwo National Park with various successes which according to them have changed their lifestyle after visiting Alas Purwo National Park.

Should social care staff be Facebook friends with the people they support?

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bates ◽  
Sam Smith ◽  
Robert Nisbet
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Common Policies ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Rule Making

Purpose – Local policies often prohibit care staff from online contact with the people they support. The purpose of this paper is to review the reasons put forward for this ban and seek explanations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines relevant literature on the use of social networking by disabled and nondisabled people. This paper offers a critique of common policies and justifications and poses a challenge to those who impose such regulations. Findings – The paper finds no support for current policies. Research limitations/implications – The authors found only a limited amount of research in this area, and research findings were not commonly utilised by policy makers. Practical implications – Policy makers and regulators need to take a more rigorous and person-centred approach to rule making in respect of social media. Social implications – A widespread ban on the use of social media in communications between staff and the people they support is exposed as paternalistic and exacerbating infantilisation and exclusion rather than seeing disabled people as digital citizens. Regulators and those with responsibilities for safeguarding need to adopt a more empowering and person-centred approach. Originality/value – This paper will only make a difference if regulators and those with responsibilities for safeguarding adopt a more empowering and person-centred approach rather than the fear-based blanket prohibitions that have applied to date.

Materialism and Green Purchase Intention: A Study of Urban Vietnamese Consumers

2017 ◽  
pp. 89-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mai Nguyen Thi Tuyet ◽  
Hung Nguyen Vu ◽  
Linh Nguyen Hoang ◽  
Minh Nguyen Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Tpb Model ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The Impact

This study focuses on examining the impact of three components of materialism on green purchase intention for urban consumers in Vietnam, an emerging economy. An extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is applied as the conceptual framework for this study. The hypotheses are empirically tested using survey data obtained from consumers in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. The regression results show support for most of our hypotheses. The findings indicate that two out of three facets of materialism are significant predictors of green purchase intention. Specifically, success is found to be negatively related to purchase intention, while happiness is related positively to the intention. All three antecedents in the TPB model, including attitude towards green purchase, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control are also found to have positive impacts on purchase intention. The research findings are discussed and implications for managers and policy makers are provided.

Information Practices of Baby Boomers as Caregivers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khuan Seow ◽  
Nadia Caidi
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Baby Boomers ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Maladie D’Alzheimer ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Age Related ◽  
The Family ◽  
Growing Age

Canada has an aging population with the fastest growing age groups (80 and 45-64 years old) vulnerable to age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Caregiving responsibilities often fall to the family members of the afflicted without much attention and consideration being placed on the information needs of these caregivers. We call for a better understanding of these caregivers' information needs and uses by social policy makers as well as information providers.La population du Canada a tendance à vieillir considérablement, avec la hausse la plus rapide dans les groupes d’âge (80 et 45 à 64 ans). Les personnes âges sont très vulnérables à toute sorte de maladies, telles que la maladie d’Alzheimer. La responsabilité revient souvent aux membres de la famille qui doivent prendre soin des personnes atteintes de cette maladie. Or, nous ne connaissons que peu de chose sur les besoins en information des personnes qui prennent soin de ces malades de l’Alzheimer : qui sont-ils ? Quelles sont leurs sources... 

Nine Problems (and Even More Solutions) for Powers Accounts of Possibility

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Pawl
Keyword(s):  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Short Call

One way of putting powers to work is to use them to ground (at least some) modal truths. One might hold that truths of possibility are true because of the powers of objects. For instance, that it is possible that one more person be in this room is true because of the ambulatory powers of the people in the adjoining rooms. That it is possible that Slow Steve run a fifteen-minute mile is true because of the locomotive powers that Steve has (perhaps along with other powers, such as his respiratory powers). Call the family of stronger or weaker views which hold that possibility claims are true because of powers the ‘Powers Accounts of Possibility,’ or ‘Powers Accounts’ for short. Call a proponent of a Powers Account a ‘Powers Accountant.’ In this paper I present nine objections to Powers Accounts of Possibility and show how a Powers Accountant can respond to them. I begin by providing an exceedingly strong Powers Account and offering three objections to it. The objections will prove useful for forming a more moderate Powers Account. I then subject the more moderate Powers Account to six further objections. In the end, I vindicate a Powers Account of Possibility against all nine objections.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document