scholarly journals Democratic and Educational Background of Information Poverty: The Case of Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Güler Demir
Keyword(s):  
Educational Background ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Multidimensional Approach ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Democratic Quality ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Information Poverty ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
Official Sources ◽  
Educational Conditions

Information poverty is one of the most significant characteristics of developing countries and its causes include multiple complex factors, including educational, scientific and technological contexts, political, social and cultural structures, democratic quality, and humanitarian conditions. The purpose of this study is to examine the situation of information poverty in Turkey, focusing on its democratic and educational aspects. In the scope of the study the basic concept of information poverty is briefly introduced. Then, the particular case of Turkey is presented based on domestic and international literature and other public and official sources. The study concludes Turkey is one of the countries which suffers from information poverty, because of failing to fulfill minimal democratic and educational conditions. Associated problems covered do not seem to be solved in the short term. Recommendations are that the first step in the amelioration of information poverty must be awareness-raising by targeting all governmental and societal segments. A multidimensional approach that addresses all segments and policies of the country may be useful, because there is no single factor that explains the information poverty. Finally, librarians and other intellectual workers have a significant role to play in this process.

A Multidimensional Approach to Marketing Performance Evaluation

2006 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-102
Author(s):  
László Sajtos
Keyword(s):  
Market Orientation ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Financial Indicators ◽  
Multidimensional Approach ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Marketing Performance ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
Investment Companies ◽  
Marketing Resources ◽  
The Right

Companies usually like to claim that they are market-oriented; however, many studies reveal that businesses typically rely on short-term financial indicators, only a small percentage of firms consider time spent on consumers as important, and marketing is considered as a cost rather than an investment. Companies, however, need to understand their own and their environment's operations in order to set the right objectives, manage their tangible and intangible resources, and achieve the best possible performance. This paper focuses on performance measurement and its relation to market orientation, marketing activity, objectives and marketing resources. This research reveals that though marketing's role in the organisation seems to be significant managers' commitment to marketing often remains at an attitudinal level, and they tend to overestimate their marketing efforts. Furthermore, customer-based measures seem to be good indicators of market-orientation, still managers consider financial and market performance measures to be more important. This paper supports the finding that market orientation and business success are strongly related to one another.

scholarly journals Leadership succession in politics: The democracy/autocracy divide revisited

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 328-346
Author(s):  
Ludger Helms
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Leadership Succession ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Chief Executives ◽  
Democratic Quality ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
Political Succession ◽  
Major Attention ◽  
Key Aspects

Leadership succession marks a truly ubiquitous phenomenon with manifold and wide-ranging implications, which explains the major attention that issues of succession have received in the international literature. Most contributions to the field continue, however, to focus on political succession in either democratic or non-democratic regimes. This article develops an integrated perspective on key aspects of leadership succession at the level of political chief executives in democracies and autocracies. A comparative assessment across time and space reveals several features that challenge established notions, and stereotypes, of leadership succession in democratic and autocratic regimes. The empirical ambivalences identified suggest that the way leaders come to and fall from power should be made a more explicit part of conceptualisations of political regimes, and comparative evaluations of their respective democratic quality.

Theatricalization of enterprise education: A call for “action”

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
Gospel Onyema Oparaocha ◽  
Pokidko Daniil
Keyword(s):  
Educational Background ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Large Share ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Enterprise Education ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Short Term Forecasting

Changing environment requires not just creativity, but disruptive creativity. The traditional planning paradigm within business organizations heavily relies on long- and short-term forecasting in order to predict the future and plan accordingly. However, a large share of business development is now characterized by rapid changes, inconsistency and unpredictability. Taking that into account a key task for managers is to explore and innovate in chaotic conditions, but how can owner–managers, business leaders and the employees respond to such rapid changes without the appropriate skillset and educational background? This study calls for the modernization of enterprise education systems in order to provide students and graduates with tools relevant to the changing requirements of the business environment. We argue that such needed mastery of unconventional innovative thinking and acting “as if” rather have a lot in common with art education concepts and theatrical skills. Using videography as an example, we illustrate how advances in digital technology can help incorporate such theatrical concepts into enterprise education. As a contribution we provide insights and falsifiable propositions toward a renewal and revitalization of enterprise education pedagogy.

scholarly journals Disseminated cutaneous cryptococcosis in a patient with AIDS

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 353-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Lopes Mattos e Dinato ◽  
Marcelo Mattos e Dinato ◽  
Carla Patrícia Nakanishi ◽  
José Roberto Paes de Almeida ◽  
Ney Romiti
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Amphotericin B ◽  
Molluscum Contagiosum ◽  
Therapeutic Effectiveness ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Cutaneous Infection ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Immune State ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Cutaneous Cryptococcosis

The authors study a patient carrying Aids, with exuberant dermatological manifestations of cryptococcosis. They stress the therapeutic effectiveness of short-term amphotericin B. The authors reviewed cases of cutaneous infection with Cryptococcus reported in the national and international literature, verifying that the frequency has increased with the AIDS epidemic. Also, they discuss about the differential diagnosis with some cases of dermatosis, particularly with the disseminated giant molluscum contagiosum. In relation to the therapy, they affirm that the choice of drug depends on the organ involved, as well as the immune state of the patient.

How big is the positive effect of assonance on the recall of L2 collocations?

2014 ◽  
Vol 165 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Lindstromberg ◽  
June Eyckmans
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Sorting Task ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Formulaic Sequences ◽  
Strong Bond ◽  
Term Operation ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Positive Effect

High proficiency in L2 partly depends on acquiring many formulaic sequences (FSs), yet post-childhood learners find this difficult. Ways of accelerating the acquisition of FSs would be welcome. Small-scale studies have indicated that assonance (e.g., strong bond) makes studied FSs especially retrievable if, during exposure, assonance is made the object of teacher-instigated awareness-raising and attention direction. However, questions remain about effect size and duration. In two new experiments a mnemonic effect of assonance was detected after 5–10 minutes. This was despite a sorting task thought likely to direct participants’ attention particularly to the control collocations. The effect appeared to fade over an hour and disappear after a day. A small-scale meta-analysis indicates the effect is initially of medium size. We discuss how short-term operation of such an effect could facilitate the fuller acquisition of partly learned assonant FSs. We propose avenues for research into means whereby the mnemonic effect of assonance might be exploited in learning materials. We touch on effects of item frequency, mutual information, and concreteness-imageability of meaning.

Homer to the Rescue a New Method in Beginners' Greek

1950 ◽  
Vol 19 (55) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Raymond V. Schoder
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Special Method ◽  
Intensive Study ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Great Loss ◽  
The Past ◽  
Term Basis ◽  
A New Technique ◽  
Educational Conditions

The trouble with Greek is that too few are taking it. This is a great loss, for Greek has unique cultural value and is in itself the most educative item on the highly varied menu for young minds which our schools set forth. A small percentage of students are taking Greek, and finding it a real benefit. But there are surely many more who could be profiting from a substantial helping of Greek yet are not. Why? And can anything be done to remedy the situation?I would like to diagnose the ill and suggest a feasible cure—one which has worked out quite satisfactorily in practice in over ninety schools of the United States and Canada where a new technique has been used the past few years. Considerable interest in this experiment has developed in England and Scotland, and it has been repeatedly suggested to me that I describe the innovations entailed, for wider notice and under-standing on the part of those who might find it adaptable to their own needs. The following report endeavours to meet this desire.It is a harsh fact, in Britain as across the Atlantic, that under present educational conditions and economic urgencies the proportion of able young students who can afford to devote six or more years to intensive study of Greek is very small. Why not take up their problem and work out a compromise? If we can assure them that on a special method and programme they could in only two years (at four or five hours a week) learn enough Greek to read a substantial portion of at least one major author before the two years are up, would not many of them accept the opportunity and take that much Greek at any rate? It would mean, too, in practice, many more students taking Greek, if only on a short-term basis.

UM PANORAMA SOBRE A INOVAÇÃO SUSTENTÁVEL NAS PEQUENAS E MÉDIAS EMPRESAS: REVISÃO DA LITERATURA E PRINCIPAIS DESAFIOS

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-60
Author(s):  
Diego Augusto De Jesus Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Short Term ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Innovative Behaviour ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
And Training ◽  
Term Management

The debate on eco-innovation, although recent, is gaining relevance in the practical context of business and academia. The purpose of this research is to identify the characteristics and determinants of eco-innovation in SMEs from a systematic review of the literature. After reviewing the literature on eco-innovation in databases, it was possible to identify a list of relevant aspects on eco-innovation in the field of SMEs. Some of the main conclusions point to the need to contemplate in eco-innovation projects the three dimensions Of sustainability: economic, social, and environmental; The lack of neutrality in regulation and policies, which prioritises large companies to the detriment of SMEs; Specific actions for SMEs, technological advice, and awareness-raising, and training programs should be taken to improve cooperation with external stakeholders. Among the main barriers were the lack of resources (capital, knowledge, and skills), the focus of short-term management and the difficulty in radically innovating. Finally, the determinants and critical factors are associated with the innovative behaviour of SMEs in using networks to overcome their shortcomings, the role of the owner in driving innovation and its orientation towards sustainability within the enterprise, the long-term orientation of firm and, above all, the need for greater investment in innovation. 

Training Reform: Back to Square One?

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hampson
Keyword(s):  
Market Failure ◽  
Training System ◽  
Budget Constraints ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Training Policy ◽  
National Coalition ◽  
Correct Market Failure ◽  
National Training

A number of recent inquiries into Australia's national training system have found it to be on the sick side. This article seeks the causes of this in the recent evolution of training policy, which commenced in the late 1980s. The article traces the demise of the first moderately interventionist National Training Reform Agenda, which union reformers played a role in shaping, through the increasing marketisation of training policy. Under the Liberal National Coalition, budget constraints and the short term interests of employers have increasingly driven training policy. The drift of policy is against the grain of prescriptions drawn from the international literature, which shows the need for interventionist measures to correct ‘market failure’, and to ensure adequate expenditure and the integrity of qualifications.

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