scholarly journals The Italian School at the Time of COVID-19—Implications for Students at the Personal and Didactic Level

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2 (20)) ◽  
pp. 89-107
Author(s):  
Bogdan Stańkowski
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Close Correlation ◽  
Italian School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact

The author takes up the problem of education in Italy in the time of COVID-19. The objective of this article is to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the progress of school and the lives of children and adolescents. To pursue this cognitive objective, the author conducted an analysis of the relevant literature published between February 2020 and January 2021, mainly in Italian. The author has also formulated three research questions that will help investigate the above problem. The article is written with the help of the analytical method and takes into consideration the literature on the subject dedicated to children and adolescents. The analysis of the literature allowed the author to formulate final conclusions, which were developed in close correlation with the accepted research questions.

scholarly journals The Influence of Confucianism on Corporate Environmental Investment: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 5941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xixiong Xu ◽  
Lingling Duan ◽  
Youliang Yan
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Informal Institution ◽  
Environmental Investment ◽  
Tremendous Progress ◽  
Internal Mechanism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Enterprise Survey ◽  
The Impact

While China’s economic development has made tremendous progress, it has also caused serious environmental pollution problems. This paper uses the date of the Chinese Private Enterprise Survey (CPES) to empirically investigate the impact of Confucianism on corporate environmental investment and its internal mechanism. The results show that: (1) Confucianism plays a significant role in corporate environmental investment. (2) In the areas where environmental regulation is relatively weak, Confucianism has a more significant effect on promoting corporate environmental investment. (3) The positive influence of Confucianism on corporate environmental investment is more obvious in heavy polluting industries. This paper’s conclusions deepen the theoretical cognition of the economic consequences of Confucianism and enrich the relevant literature on the subject of Confucianism. At the same time, this paper also expands the understanding of the determinants of corporate environmental investment from the perspective of the informal institution.

The Role of Living Labs in the Process of Creating Innovation

2017 ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Sabat ◽  
Anna Katarzyna Florek-Paszkowska
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Innovation Generation

The paper is based on the research carried out into Living Labs in Canada. The aim of the paper is presenting the essence of Living Labs as a concept facilitating innovation generation in businesses thanks to the cooperation of various actors, e.g. producers with users, inspiring the process of the development of new goods and services. The research questions raised pertain to the clarification how Living Labs create innovation in businesses. The Living Labs functioning in the Ontario region were the subject matter of the research. The described case study is theorygenic in character because of the early development stage of the knowledge. During the research process the multi-directional nature and the impact dynamics of the idea of Living Labs among peer partners of innovative processes have been noted, emphasizing the prosumer idea as well as the possibility of businesses cooperating in Living Labs.

The impact of AACSB accreditation on the autonomy and costs of limited resource institutions whose missions are primarily teaching

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bieker
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Limited Resource ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Source Premier ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of AACSB accreditation on the autonomy and costs of limited resource institutions whose missions are primarily teaching. Design/methodology/approach – To evaluate the research questions, a content analysis of all publications in the EBSCO Business Source Premier Database for the period January 1, 1990 through December 15, 2012 was conducted. Findings – The findings indicate that in the process of becoming AACSB accredited, faculty members of the subject institutions shift their focus more toward research and less toward teaching activities, and that the institutions become less autonomous and more like their benchmark AACSB institutions. In addition, the costs of AACSB accreditation are likely to be significant for the subject institutions. Research limitations/implications – The findings of the study point to the need for additional theoretical and empirical research related to the research questions. First, there is a need to formulate a conceptual framework for clearly identifying and measuring the implicit and explicit costs, including all of the opportunity costs, associated with accreditation. In addition, there is a compelling need to develop a conceptual framework and measurement system that will allow business schools to better assess their quality and productivity. For limited resource institutions whose missions are primarily teaching this system should comport with the schools’ teaching missions. Practical implications – The findings suggest that the subject institutions seeking AACSB accreditation should carefully consider a number of questions before pursing accreditation. First, is the institution's mission congruent with AACSB standards or will its mission have to be changed? If AACSB accreditation is deemed to be appropriate, how will the associated changes in resource needs and resource allocation serve to further the institution's mission? And, what are the incremental costs of accreditation, and does the institution have the resource base to sustain accreditation? Originality/value – The study is the first to conduct a detailed content analysis to evaluate some of the costs and benefits of AACSB accreditation for limited resource institutions whose missions are primarily teaching.

Software Evaluation From the Perspective of Patients and Healthcare Professionals

2019 ◽  
pp. 238-251
Author(s):  
Rui Pedro Charters Lopes Rijo ◽  
Domingos Alves
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Information System ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Research Issue ◽  
Software Evaluation ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact

Healthcare software evaluation is a complex process. Specifically, in the health information systems, focusing on the patients' health and on the healthcare professionals' motivation is particularly important. Doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals use software that indirectly affects the patients. Does software improve the patients' health, their satisfaction, or the healthcare professionals' commitment/job satisfaction? How can the impact of an information system be measured from the perspective of the patients, the doctors, the nurses, or the supporting staff? Some relevant efforts have been made in the last years to measure healthcare software impact. Nevertheless, the decision to extend a study to different fields may lead to many difficulties as far as its conclusions are concerned. By identifying the research questions and the most relevant works, as well as indicating the open research issue, this chapter is a revision of the literature on the subject. This work may be expected to be useful to all those wishing to contribute by their research in this field.

Software Evaluation From the Perspective of Patients and Healthcare Professionals

2018 ◽  
pp. 3782-3793
Author(s):  
Rui Pedro Charters Lopes Rijo ◽  
Domingos Alves
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Information System ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Research Issue ◽  
Software Evaluation ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Impact

Healthcare software evaluation is a complex process. Specifically, in the health information systems, focusing on the patients' health and on the healthcare professionals' motivation is particularly important. Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals use software that indirectly affects the patients. Does software improve the patients' health, their satisfaction, or the healthcare professionals' commitment/job satisfaction? How can the impact of an information system be measured from the perspective of the patients, the doctors, the nurses or the supporting staff? Some relevant efforts have been made in the last years to measure healthcare software impact. Nevertheless, the decision to extend a study to different fields may lead to many difficulties as far as its conclusions are concerned. By identifying the research questions and the most relevant works, as well as indicating the open research issue, this article is a revision of the literature on the subject. This work may be expected to be useful to all those wishing to contribute by their research in this field.

African Diasporas: History and Historiography

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Bashir Salau
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Atlantic Trade ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

People of African descent who migrated from their “homelands” constituted, and still constitute, important forces in many African cultures outside of their “homelands” as well as in many other cultures outside of the African continent. Historically, the migration of people of African descent from their “homelands” is mainly linked to the pre-20th century Muslim or Asian trade and the Atlantic trade as well as to the post 1980 globalization of the capitalist system. Even before the post 1980 globalization of the capitalist system deepened the crises in African states and resulted in the migration of skilled and unskilled Africans to places like the United States, Canada, Britain and the Middle East, some scholars had written on people of African descent in several parts of the world. Although the earliest among those who wrote on the subject before the 1980s did not employ the term “African diaspora” in their analysis, an increasing number of scholars who wrote after 1950 have used the term in question in their study of people of African descent in various parts of the world. The relevant literature written after 1950 features disagreement over the meaning of the concept “African diaspora” and point to diverse methodologies that are useful in working on the subject. This particular literature can be divided into three broad categories: works that deal with the Old African diaspora, works that deal with the New African diaspora and works that deal with both the Old and New African diasporas. The historiography shows that works situated in all of these three categories mainly offer competing view over three fundamental questions: why did Africans leave their “homelands” and settle elsewhere? What was the impact of this process on the societies they left? How did Africans who left their “homelands” integrate into their host societies or preserve their unique identities; or, more broadly, what was the impact of their arrival on the host society they entered? Despite the rapid strides that have been made since the 1960s in regard to addressing these questions or in regards to the scholarly study of the African diasporas in general, there is still no firm definition of the term “African diaspora.” Moreover, there are still other gaps in the scholarly knowledge of the subject.

scholarly journals Frequency of Television Watching and Gender Stereotypes in Children and Adolescents A Review in the Context of Cultivation Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (17) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Cultivation Theory ◽  
Tv Viewing ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
The Impact

Widespread use of television has brought with it the examination of the effect of exposure to TV content on its viewers. One of the most remarkable approaches put forward in this context is the Cultivation Theory developed by Gerbner (1969). The theory, which focuses on the impact of TV viewing on individuals perceptions of reality, assumes that as the frequency of exposure to messages presented in TV increases, individuals’ perceptions of the real world are shaped according to these messages. The development of gender stereotypes and beliefs in gender equality in children and adolescents may also be fed by the “cultivation” function of TV, which is widely used by them also. The aim of this study is to systematically review the studies focuses on the relationship between frequency of watching TV and children’s or adolescents’ gender-based stereotypes in the context of Cultivation Theory. A total of 23 studies conducted between 1960 and 2020 were reviewed in this context and it was determined that both children and adolescents had more traditional beliefs and attitudes about gender roles with the increase in the frequency of watching TV. Findings were discussed in the light of the relevant literature. Keywords Cultivation Theory, gender roles, watching tv, children, adolescents

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence: Implication on Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Koteswara Rao Ballamudi
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Necessary Evil

The advancement in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is surging and it is at the center of improved output. Consequent to the advancement in the science of AI, human-to-machine interactions are facilitated, business models and logic now vary, and the lifestyle, as well as the living standards of humans, has changed. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as a complex unit. There are many descriptions and numerous more impressions of what makes up Artificial Intelligence. The risk implications of Artificial Intelligence vary and it’s dependent on the degree of its usage. The advantages of artificial intelligence outnumber the risks it conveys, particularly in the world of business usage and its application is resulting in a world that is innovative and smarter. With the expectation that professions will be impacted, it conveys immediate effect on firms, their workers, and organizational management. The current study sought to answer some research questions; Is there knowledge about the effects of Artificial Intelligence on management? What is the current prediction for the future of management as it relates to the emergence of Artificial Intelligence? Does the current study specify the duties of middle managers in the future following the rise in AI? It adopted the systematic literature review approach where relevant literature is selected and used for the analysis.  Following Jesson, Matheson & Lacey (2011) approach to systematic review to include; (a) Mapping the area through a scoping review, b) Detailed domain search, c) Quality appraisal, d) Data gathering e) Synthesis, and f) Report writing, over 100 papers on the subject were selected. On screening, it was reduced to about 15 papers with a direct relationship on the subject. The study found out that; AI is a necessary evil to and for the future of firms.  It will have varying degrees of effect on management. AI technology will discharge managerial assignments and will be helpful in addressing management challenges. Managers and management, therefore, need to get new competencies and skills to tap into new frontiers that are AI-based.

scholarly journals The impact of exercise interventions concerning executive functions of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Liang ◽  
Ru Li ◽  
Stephen H. S. Wong ◽  
Raymond K. W. Sum ◽  
Cindy H. P. Sit
Keyword(s):  
Executive Functions ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Exercise Intervention ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Moderate Intensity ◽  
Exercise Interventions ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Previous studies found that exercise interventions have positive effects on executive functions of the general population. However, studies seldom target executive functions of children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This study aimed to synthesise empirical studies regarding the effects of exercise interventions on executive functions of children and adolescents with ADHD. Methods A systematic search of the relevant literature was conducted in March 2020 through six electronic databases: CINAHL Complete, Eric, MEDLINE, PsychINFO, SPORTDiscus with Full Text, and Web of Science. Randomised controlled trials/quasi-experimental designs that applied exercise interventions and assessed executive functions through neurocognitive tasks among children and adolescents with ADHD were included. Altogether, 314 studies were identified, from which 31 full texts were independently assessed by two authors for eligibility. Finally, 21 studies underwent systematic reviews and 15 were selected for meta-analysis. Data extraction procedures and risk of bias analysis were conducted by two independent authors using the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale. Results The findings indicated that exercise interventions improved overall executive functions of children and adolescents with ADHD (SMD = 0.611, 95% CI [0.386 to 0.836], p < 0.01). Exercise interventions had a moderate-to-large positive effect on inhibitory control (g = 0.761, 95% CI [0.376 to 1.146], p < 0.01) and cognitive flexibility (g = 0.780, 95% CI [0.331 to 1.228], p < 0.001). Likewise, during the subgroup analysis, intervention intensity and sessions of exercise (acute vs chronic) significantly moderated exercise intervention rather than intervention type. Conclusions Chronic sessions of exercise interventions with moderate intensity should be incorporated as treatment for children with ADHD to promote executive functions.

scholarly journals The Importance of Office Layout for Employee Productivity

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-171
Author(s):  
Nurbarirah Ahmad ◽  
Aziean Jamin ◽  
Raja Mayang Delima Mohd Beta ◽  
Shafinar Ismail ◽  
Siti Rosnita Sakarji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Good Condition ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Office Layouts ◽  
Finance Department ◽  
The Impact

This study was conducted to explain the impact of open and enclosed plan office layouts on employee productivity.  The subject area for this study was in Amanah Saham Pahang Berhad (ASPA). This study involved 52 respondents from Administration Department, Finance Department, Logging, Planning and development of Forest Department and Investment Department. Data collection method used a questionnaire, and descriptive analysis is used to data analysis. The results showed that the condition of employee productivity was in good condition, but the office layout did not affect employee productivity. Moreover, the results from the findings showed that only enclosed plan office had significant positive relationships and it answered research questions and supported the hypotheses presented in this research study.  As a conclusion, this research study helps the other researcher to explore the impact of office layout on employee productivity. This research study result was supported by previous results presented at every research finding.

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