Levels of Environmental Uncertainty of a Site-Based Management School within a Minority/Majority Context

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Absael Antelo ◽  
Martha N. Ovando
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
Site Based Management ◽  
Uncertainty Index ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
A Site ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Perceived Environmental Uncertainty

The focus of this study was the perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU) of teachers in two selected elementary schools in a minority/majority context. It attempted to determine the sources of uncertainty that are perceived by teachers in a site-based management (SBM) elementary school and a non-site-based management elementary school. Specific items were examined to determine which indistrict and out-district matters were related to uncertainty and to explore whether or not the two groups of teachers in the selected schools were different regarding their perceived environmental uncertainty. A basic causal-comparative design was employed and the Perceived Environmental Uncertainty Index (PEUI) developed by Singh (1991) was used to collect data. Means, standard deviations and t-tests were calculated to quantify and summarize the data. Findings indicate that the PEU levels for the SBM school were lower than that of the non-SBM school; specific in-district and out-district items rated as most unclear and significant are different for both schools. However, both schools were concerned with the impact of state legislature on job. There is a significant difference in in-district PEU, out-of-district PEU and total PEU between the two schools. These results seem to suggest that site-based management is a viable alternative for reducing and coping with environmental uncertainty. However, further research needs to focus on other levels of school following a SBM approach. Additional studies should address correlations between perceived environmental uncertainty and student success.

scholarly journals Health Education to Reduce Helminthiasis: Deficits in Diets in Children and Achievement of Students of Elementary Schools at Pontianak, West Kalimantan

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Widyana Lakshmi Puspita ◽  
Khayan Khayan ◽  
Didik Hariyadi ◽  
Taufik Anwar ◽  
Slamet Wardoyo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Students ◽  
Learning Achievement ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact

Worms are still a serious problem for poor and developing countries. Children, especially school-age children, are more at risk of infection. Efforts need to be made to prevent the effects of worms. Prevention can be done through a promotive approach. This observational study with a pre-posttest and cross-sectional approach is aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of health education on healthy and helminthic behavior and analyzing the impact of helminthiasis on the deficit in the diet and children’s learning achievement. The number of samples is 60 students from five grade 3 and 4 elementary schools in North Pontianak, West Kalimantan. The sampling technique was carried out by proportional random sampling. Worm infection in elementary school students was 16.7%, anemia was 55%, and learning achievement scores were less than the average grade of 55%. There was a significant difference in health counseling towards a decrease in the worm number (p=0.046). There was a significant relationship between healthy living behavior and helminthiasis (p=0.005). There was a significant relationship between helminthiasis and anemia (p=0.017). There is a relationship between helminthiasis and learning achievement in elementary school children (p=0.017). There is a relationship between anemia and learning achievement (p=0.005). It is necessary for public health centers to provide treatment services for worms and health education about the effects of helminthiasis on health and learning achievement. The school should provide hand washing facilities in schools, and parents should play an active role in improving clean and healthy lifestyle habits at home.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Cyberstalking Behavior, Consequences, and Coping Strategies: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Sample of Italian University Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Begotti ◽  
Daniela Acquadro Maran
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Aims: The aim of this study was to compare victims of one type of cyberstalking (OneType) with victims of more than one type of cyberstalking (MoreType) regarding (1) the impact of cyberstalking and (2) attitudes related to telling someone about the experience of cyberstalking and the coping strategies used by victims. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to over 250 students at the University of Torino. Results: About half of the participants experienced at least one incident of cyberstalking. Among them, more than half experienced more than one type of cyberstalking. Victims suffered from depression more than those who had never experienced cyberstalking. No statistically significant difference emerged for anxiety. The coping strategies used by MoreType were more varied than those used by OneType victims of cyberstalking. Moreover, MoreType victims told someone about their victimization more than OneType victims. Conclusion: The work presented suggests implications for health care professionals, police officers, and government. For example, our suggestion is to pay attention to cyberstalking victims and provide flyers in schools, universities, and cafeterias that explain the risk of certain online behaviors and their consequences in physical and emotional spheres.

scholarly journals Impact of uncertainty and decentralization on activity-based costing use

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 148
Author(s):  
Azzouz Elhamma ◽  
Hanen Moalla
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Vertical Structure ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Perceived Environmental Uncertainty

<p>The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of environmental and organizational factors on activity-based costing (ABC) use. These variables are studied respectively through the perceived environmental uncertainty, and the organizational structure represented by both horizontal and vertical decentralization.</p><p>Data were collected from 62 Moroccan firms, operating in different sectors, via a questionnaire survey. The findings indicated that ABC use is not associated with perceived environmental uncertainty and horizontal decentralization. However, firms with a high degree of vertical decentralization use more ABC than those with a centralized vertical structure (p&lt;10%).</p><p>This research adds to general knowledge and offers insights into management accounting since the study is conducted in a developing country that has specific environmental and organizational characteristics. Previous research has studied perceived environmental uncertainty in other contexts of innovations. In our paper, we investigate the case of ABC and we.analyse decentralization with both horizontal and vertical dimensions.</p>

Liability of Groundwater and Depth of Soil to Contamination by Pesticides and Other Organic Xenobiotics: Two Case Histories

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Muszkat ◽  
Daniel Raucher ◽  
Lina Bir ◽  
Mordeckai Magaritz ◽  
Daniel Ronen
Keyword(s):  
Organic Pollutants ◽  
Groundwater Pollution ◽  
Unsaturated Zone ◽  
Chemical Waste ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Clay Layers ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Impact

We discuss the penetration of organic pollutants into the depth of soil and into groundwater under different environmental and geological conditions. In one case a field study was conducted on the impact of prolonged irrigation by effluents on groundwater and vadose zone contamination. The studied site was rich in sandy soil which allowed vertical penetration of pollutants into the depth. A significant difference has been observed in the distribution of organic pollutants in the effluent irrigated site, where the pollution increased markedly while descending from the top soil into the unsaturated zone, compared to the two control sites, where the extent of pollution decreased strongly with the depth. It seems that detergents and other surfactants present in the effluents strongly enhance the transport of organic components via the unsaturated zone. The second case study deals with the transport of organic pollutants in a site where the subsoil is interspaced with clay layers. In this case groundwater pollution derived from the chemical waste of a pesticides plant. A long term follow up of groundwater pollution indicates that the typical contaminant distribution pattern remained unchanged during the years. The pollutants distribution indicates that in this area the penetration of organic pollutants does not occur vertically but rather by horizontal flow, due to inhibition of vertical migration by a thick clay layer present in this area.

scholarly journals EFEKTIFITAS JUICE SEMANGKA DAN SENAM KEBUGARAN TERHADAP PENURUNAN BERAT BADAN PADA ANAK OBESITAS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Priyo Priyo ◽  
Sigit Priyanto
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
T Test ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Wilcoxon Test ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Watermelon Juice ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

The culture of consuming instant food and reducing physical exercise result in increasing obesity in children today. The impact that occurs if not overcome can lead to the occurrence of various types of non-infectious diseases in the future such as: heart disease, hypertension, stroke and diabetes. To overcome the problem of obesity, behavioral changes are needed in childhood, namely fruit consumption and regular exercise. However, this behavior still becomes a national problem, especially in Magelang Regency. Consuming fruit juice and having exercise enables ones to lose weight.A kind of fruits that can be consumed is watermelon and the kind of sport that can be practiced is fitness exercise. The research is aimed to identify the difference in effectiveness between consuming watermelon juice and having fitness exercises in weight loss in obese children at Sawitan State Elementary School. The method used in this study is quasy-experiment. The number of samples was 24 respondents consisting of 12 respondents treated with watermelon juice consumption, and 12 respondents treated with fitness exercises. To take samples, it is used purposive sampling method. the treatment was carried out 3 times in a week. The results showed there was a decrease in weight lose in obese elementary school children, both with watermelon juice treatment and fitness exercises. The results of the independent t-test analysis, on watermelon juice therapy showed P ^ 0.00 and the Wilcoxon test on fitness exercises was P ^ 0.04, which means that both therapies have an influence in decreasing one’s weight. The result of the dependent T test on watermelon juice consumption and fitness exercise was P ^ 0.261, which means that the two therapies have no significant difference of influence. Health workers, especially nurses, are expected to be able to provide alternative therapies to reduce children’s overweight by using watermelon juice consumption or fitness exercises.  

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of an Instrument to Measure Staff Nurses’ Perception of Uncertainty in the Hospital Environment

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Salyer
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Hospital Environment ◽  
Individual Response ◽  
Health Care Environment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Perceived Environmental Uncertainty

Perceived environmental uncertainty is an individual response to stimuli in the internal and/or external environment. The measurement of uncertainty in the health care environment is important in order to characterize the impact of this phenomenon on nursing practice. This study describes the development, pilot testing, and initial psychometric evaluation of the Perceived Environmental Uncertainty in Hospitals Scale (PEU-H) in a sample of 95 hospital staff registered nurses. Principal components analysis of the PEU-H was conducted and indicated that the factor structure represented one factor that explained 37.3% of the variance. Internal consistency reliability using Cronbach’s alpha was .83, which is acceptable for a scale in the early stages of development.

Modeling employee-based brand equity (EBBE) and perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU) on a firm’s performance

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 490-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasios Poulis ◽  
Zazli Wisker
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Brand Equity ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Perceived Environmental Uncertainty

Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of employee-based brand equity (EBBE) and perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU) on firm performance. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through an e-mail survey from fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) firms in the UK and UAE. Sample sectors included cosmetics and toiletries, household care products, packaged food, soft drinks and tobacco firms. Quantitative data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings The results suggest strong support for the hypothesized relationships, thereby providing strong validation for the proposed model. One interesting finding was that the PEU affected employee brand equity significantly stronger in the UK than in the UAE. This phenomenon is explained in the discussion section. Research limitations/implications Although several studies have indicated several other elements for EBBE, such as brand commitment and brand citizen behavior, the authors borrowed King et al.’s (2012) EBBE concept and limited their variables on EBBE for brand endorsement, brand allegiance and brand consistent behavior. Practical implications Knowledge is expanded through an empirical study validating the proposed model, which provides meaningful insights for developing training tools for internal brand management. Firms have to increase the brand manager’s commitment to increase the employee brand equity, which in turn increases the firm’s performance. Originality/value This paper makes three imperative contributions to the branding literature: expanding the existing brand equity literature to incorporate employee brand equity; being the first known empirically tested PEU on employee brand equity; and empirically testing employee brand equity, which has been ignored in branding literature on firm performance.

scholarly journals Pre-Primary Education: Its Impact on Academic Achievement of the Learners Learning at an Elementary Stage in Odia Language Subject in Odisha

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Rasmi Ranjan Puhan ◽  
Swagatika Ray ◽  
Sunakar Das
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
School Level ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Elementary Stage ◽  
Oral Test ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact

This paper discussed the impact of Pre-Primary Education on the academic achievement of the learners learning at an elementary stage in Odia language subject. The study dealt with the Descriptive Survey method in order to study the problem. The sample of 120 elementary learners of the class consisted of 60 boys and 60 girls using random sampling technique for this study. The investigator prepared a tool of Achievement test questionnaire with the help of the investigator and experts. The test questionnaire was prepared on Odia language subject for Class-I. This test measured the performance of the learners with and without Pre-Primary education in Odia Language subject. For the present study, the investigator used statistical techniques such as mean, standard deviation and t-test in order to compare the academic achievement of the learners. The findings of the study revealed that the learners learning in elementary level receiving Pre-Primary Education do better in their oral and written test in Odia Language subject than the learners receiving no Pre-Primary Education. There exists a significant difference between the performance of boys learning at elementary school level in Odia language subject both written and oral test with and without receiving pre-primary education. There exists a significant difference between the achievement of girls learning at elementary school level in Odia language subject both written and oral test with and without pre-primary education.

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