scholarly journals Breaking the Tyranny of the Semester: A Phase-Gate Sprint Approach to Teaching Colorado School of Mines Students Important Engineering Concepts, Delivering Useful Solutions to Communities, and Working on Long Time Scale Projects

2014 ◽  
pp. 222-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jered H Dean ◽  
Douglas L Van Bossuyt
Keyword(s):  
Poor Quality ◽  
Colorado School ◽  
Capstone Courses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Phase Gate ◽  
Humanitarian Engineering ◽  
Academic Year

The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) hosts the oldest Humanitarian Engineering (HE) minor program in the USA, originally started in 2004.  During the 2012/2013 academic year the program was overhauled and new curriculum was introduced.  Several deficiencies in senior capstone courses were noted including poor quality of designs resulting from the tyranny of the rigid semester schedule; students focusing on the technical aspects of a design project while largely ignoring the social, financial, and sustainable aspects; and a loss of knowledge between academic terms due to turnover of students.  These were addressed in the development of the Projects for People course through several methods.  The course has been offered for two semesters and will be offered in multiple sections in the immediate future.  Students, CSM faculty, and NGO partners have all found the course to be useful and rigorous, and the HE faculty have found the resulting designs to be of high quality.

scholarly journals From “the Moon Is Rounder Abroad” to “Bravo, My Country”: How China Misperceives the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haifeng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
Chinese Public

AbstractFor a long time, since China’s opening to the outside world in the late 1970s, admiration for foreign socioeconomic prosperity and quality of life characterized much of the Chinese society, which contributed to dissatisfaction with the country’s development and government and a large-scale exodus of students and emigrants to foreign countries. More recently, however, overestimating China’s standing and popularity in the world has become a more conspicuous feature of Chinese public opinion and the social backdrop of the country’s overreach in global affairs in the last few years. This essay discusses the effects of these misperceptions about the world, their potential sources, and the outcomes of correcting misperceptions. It concludes that while the world should get China right and not misinterpret China’s intentions and actions, China should also get the world right and have a more balanced understanding of its relationship with the world.

Improving The Effectiveness Of Teaching Social Innovation Through Social Learning Model Inquri In Class Vi Sdn 12 Jurai Limes Tower District Iv Academic Year 2013/2014

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Jafni Rianson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
The Social ◽  
Classroom Action Research ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Year 2013

From the scope according to the teaching function of the Social Sciences seems clear concept (Expanding Communnity Approach)  which starts from the things nearest to the students (families) to the further (global). The fact that the case is still much do teachers in the field, a learning process that dominates without regard to the basic ability of students, (Teacher Contered) without involving students actively in it . In general problem in this research is the extent to which the effectiveness of the inquiry model of ' social' can improve learning outcomes of students in the Social Sciences in the sixth grade at SDN 12 Jurai Limes Tower District IV District, the South Coast, in the academic year 2013/2014? This type of research is classroom action research (classroom action research), which has the ultimate objective is to improve the quality of learning in schools, educational relevance, quality of the education, education management efficiency. The research location is in the sixth grade at SDN 12 Limes Tower District IV Jurai, South Coastal District , the school year 2013/2014 . research subjects are students of class VI SDN 12 Limes Tower , Genab the semester, academic year 2013/2014. The final goal of teaching social studies is the formation of the learner as an intelligent social actors (Socially Intelligent Actor) which is formed from a touch of pedagogy . Based on the research showed an increase in the quality of students in the sixth grade value SDN No. 12 Limes Tower, in the academic year 2013/2014, the graph continues to rise, excellent 61%, good 9.5% and quite 23% and increased sense of solidarity between friends, group shows real changes that have an impact on everyday life including relationships with people such as interviews and visits. Of the overall activities carried out can be concluded that the model of the inquiry socially very suitable to be applied to examine the social phenomena that arise in the community, a fact primary school age children third grade had been able to carry out the stages of the inquiry by the hypothesis as the direction in problem solving and uses the fact as a hypothesis.    

scholarly journals Epidemiologic, humanistic and economic burden of hepatocellular carcinoma in the USA: a systematic literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. HEP27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdalla Aly ◽  
Sarah Ronnebaum ◽  
Dipen Patel ◽  
Yunes Doleh ◽  
Fernando Benavente
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
Systemic Treatment ◽  
Advanced Disease ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Disease Stage ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Humanistic Burden

Aim: To describe the epidemiologic, humanistic and economic burdens of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the USA. Materials & methods: Studies describing the epidemiology and economic burden from national cohorts, any economic models, or any humanistic burden studies published 2008–2018 were systematically searched. Results: HCC incidence was 9.5 per 100,000 person-years in most recent data, but was ∼100-times higher among patients with hepatitis/cirrhosis. Approximately a third of patients were diagnosed with advanced disease. Patients with HCC experienced poor quality of life. Direct costs were substantial and varied based on underlying demographics, disease stage and treatment received. Between 25–77% of patients did not receive surgical, locoregional or systemic treatment. Conclusion: Better treatments are needed to extend survival and improve quality of life for patients with HCC.

scholarly journals Politics versus Policy: Technocratic Traps of Russia’s Policy Reforms

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Gel’man
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Policy Proposals

A number of policy reforms in post-Soviet Russia have been conducted within the framework of the technocratic model. Policy proposals have been developed and to some extent implemented by certain teams of professionals appointed by legitimate political leaders. The leaders, in turn, have tended to monopolize policy adoption and evaluation and to insulate the substance of reforms from public opinion. This article is devoted to a critical reassessment of the technocratic model of policy-making in the context of changes of the 1990s–2010s. The main focus of the analysis is on the political and institutional constraints of policy-making resulting from the influence of interest groups and mechanisms of governance within the state apparatus. Poor quality of governance and rent-seeking aspirations of major actors create significant barriers for reforms, while insulation of policy-making, although beneficial for technocratic reformers themselves, has resulted in an increase to the social costs of reforms and distorted their substantive outcomes. In the conclusion, possible alternatives to the technocratic model are discussed.

scholarly journals Het belang van sociaal tolken als instrument van tolerantie in het kader van de huidige vluchtelingen- en arbeidsmigratie

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Pavlína Knap-Dlouhá ◽  
Kateřina Křížová
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
New Perspective

As a result of social changes in society in Western Europe at the end of the 20th century, it was recognised that a new perspective on interpreting science was needed. For a long time, community interpreting was ignored or considered inferior in comparison to the dominant interpreting mode, namely, conference interpreting. Intensifying trade contacts and labour migration within the European Union have, in combination with the current influx of refugees, led to a high demand for interpreting services in the field of social and legal interpreting. Additionally, there is only a limited number of qualified interpreters available on the market, especially in combinations of less widely-spoken languages. The lack of qualified community interpreters and translators has direct consequences for delays in the functioning of certain government bodies and social services. The same applies to the quality of healthcare provided and to the social climate. Increasing the scale of interpreting and translation assignments, changing the professional profile of the interpreter and raising the demand for the provision of language services in specific language combinations are clear signals for small philological departments to offer their students the opportunity to specialise in this area. For this reason, two projects are presented in this article, both of which aim at promoting know-how in the field of social interpreters and at developing modules in social interpreting and translation.

scholarly journals South Asia in the 21st Century Global Order: Problems, Promises and Positioning

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Munim Kumar Barai
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Order ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
It Knowledge

The world is passing through a crossroad as the multipolarity in the world order is now a distinctive possibility in the 21st Century. In that emergence, the center of global economic gravity is seemingly moving toward the Asia Pacific zone. The USA, the sole superpower in the present order, is increasingly facing challenges from China, Russia and other rising powers like India and Brazil. The success of the EU as an economic and political experiment will determine its role in the future context. This paper tries to assess a place for South Asia as a unit in the 21 century global order and finds a number of persisting problems like poverty, population, corruption, poor quality of education, disruptive political discourse, weak democratic governance, indiscipline, religious and ethnic tensions that impede their future progress. At the same time, the paper sees immense future potentials for South with their growing economies, demographics, diversity, diasporas, IT knowledge, and dynamism. However, the Indo-centric geographic identity of South Asia is both a problem as well as a promise. This paper argues that to reap the benefits of commonality, they need to approach their future collectively and cohesively.

FORMATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE OF RURAL TERRITORIES IN ENSURING THE SOCIAL MISSION OF FELLOW COUNTRYMEN

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Gulusya G. Khaydarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Potential ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fixed Assets ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Wear And Tear ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Current Stage

The current stage of socio-economic transformations has shown that the main competitive advantage of countries and regions is associated with the quantity and quality of human resources. In such a situation, the issue of creating conditions that ensure the life of people and the development of human potential becomes of paramount importance. In this context, the special significance of the social infrastructure of the region (the functioning of which is aimed at meeting the most important needs of the population) is due to its ability to provide and expand opportunities for the development of human potential, thereby affecting the socio-economic development of the region as a whole. However, for a long time, the regions' capabilities for main-taining infrastructure facilities were limited, the degree of wear and tear of fixed assets increased, the direction of using social infrastructure facilities changed, and the volume and quality of services provided decreased. De-stimulation of the processes of renewal of social infrastructure has led to a decrease in the potential for its development.

Private accommodation in tourist destination offer - the case of Dubrovnik

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-263
Author(s):  
Ana Portolan
Keyword(s):  
Negative Influence ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Efficient Procedure ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Tourist Accommodation

For a long time basic accommodation capacities represented the dominant type of accommodation in tourist offer, while at the same time complementary accommodation capacities were neglected. However, recently there has been a growing interest for complementary, substitute types of tourist accommodation, both in the Republic of Croatia and in Dubrovnik, where since 2000 a significant increase of over night stays has been registered, especially in private accommodation. In this paper rooms, apartments, studio apartments and holiday houses owned by physical entities are referred to as private accommodation. Private accommodation enables tourists to engage in everyday life of local residents, learn about history, tradition and culture of a destination. Thus, a tourist may experience and taste the beauties and attractions of a place, truly enjoy autochthonous products and services, as well as obtain genuine knowledge on authentic attractions and tourist offer of a destination. Inadequate offer of private tourist accommodation has negative influence when forming the overall tourist offer of a destination. Poor quality of accommodation units, unprofessional conduct of holders of tourist accommodation offer towards consumers and lack of interest for the needs and wishes of the consumer of this complementary accommodation have all contributed in creating a bad image on this kind of accommodation in tourist offer. Consequently, this paper aims, by analysing the consumers of private tourist accommodation, to point out the importance of private accommodation in overal tourist offer of a destination, to prove that private accommodation tourist offer attracts an increasing number of tourists, and propose to local tourist administration directives on how to create a more efficient procedure in order to ensure a more efficient and better quality administration of tourist private accommodation offer, aiming to improve the overall tourist offer at a destination.

Age-Specific of Relationship Between Stress Tolerance and Empathy in Social Workers in the Context of a Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
L.D. Starostina ◽  
◽  
D.A. Nishovskaya ◽  
A.A. Kvitkovskaya ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stress Tolerance ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Age Related ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Emotional Burnout ◽  
First Time

psychological research is devoted to the study of the nature of the relationship between the indicators of empathy and the level of stress resistance of the personality of a social worker. For the first time, a comparative analysis of test data of respondents by age criterion is presented. Today the profession of a social worker is one of the most widespread in the world and in Russia. As social problems grow in society and the level and quality of life of the population decreases, the number of socially vulnerable categories of the population increases, the profession of a social worker will remain in demand for a long time. The study revealed the danger of the development of emotional burnout and professional deformations of social workers with the aggravation of the sanitary and epidemiological situation with COVID-19. As a result, age-related conditionality in indicators of stress tolerance and empathy among representatives of the “social worker” profession was proved.

scholarly journals Single and multiple solution algorithms to scan asteroid databases for identifications

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (S236) ◽  
pp. 269-280
Author(s):  
Maria E. Sansaturio ◽  
O. Arratia
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Multiple Solution ◽  
Minor Planet ◽  
Solution Algorithms ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Great Advance

AbstractThe process of cataloguing the minor planet population of the Solar System has experienced a great advance in the last decades with the start-up of several surveys. The large volume of data generated by them has increased with time and given rise to huge databases of asteroids with uneven qualities.In fact, a significant fraction of these objects have not been enough observed, thus leading to the computation of very poor quality orbits as to carry out useful predictions of the positions of such asteroids. As a result, some objects can get lost, which is particularly embarrassing for those with Earth crossing orbits.When this situation persists for a long time, the aforementioned databases end up contaminated in the sense that they contain more than one discovery for the same physical object and some kind of action must be taken. The algorithms for asteroid identifications are thought precisely to mitigate this problem and their design will depend upon the quality of the available data for the objects to be identified.In this paper we will distinguish two cases: when both objects have a nominal orbit and when one of them lacks it. In addition, when the available data poorly constrain the solution, other orbits in the neighbourhood of the nominal one are also compatible with the observations. Using these alternative orbits allows us to find many identifications that otherwise would be missed. Finally, we will show the efficiency of all these algorithms when applied to the datasets distributed by the Minor Planet Center.

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