scholarly journals A PROTOCOL TO COMMUNICATE SEISMIC RISK IN SCHOOLS: DESIGN, TEST AND ASSESSMENT IN ITALY

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (Vol 63 (2020)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Musacchio ◽  
Elena Eva ◽  
Massimo Crescimbene ◽  
Nicola Pino ◽  
Lorenzo Cugliari
Keyword(s):  
Situated Learning ◽  
Seismic Risk ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Risk Education ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

The best chance to achieve a future disaster-resilient society is through risk education in school: it has a great potential to strengthen capacity of communities to mitigate risks. The KnowRISK (Know your city, Reduce seISmic risK through non-structural elements) project gave the opportunity to implement a risk communication campaign for schools in Portugal, Italy, and Iceland. The idea was that suitably changes in people’s knowledge and attitude can trigger best practices. Crucial to reach such target is the raise of awareness on meaningful issues. The main challenge of the campaign was how to effectively address the mitigation of the vulnerability to earthquakes of non-structural elements, which is an issue considered to be of low priority even in the building regulations of many countries around the world. The campaign stood on a communication strategy that was systematized within a protocol, for 13-15 years old students, that specifies goals, contents, learning strategy, support material, and relies on face-to- face intervention of scientists in the classroom. This protocol had training sessions bounded by assessment sessions, ex-ante and ex-post, that allowed to validate its efficacy. The training made large use of flipped learning and Episode of Situated Learning (EAS) strategy to raise student’s motivation and increase achievements. To ensure its replicability, the protocol was tested in zones matching a wide range of seismic hazard in Italy. The assessment showed the protocol be effective and ready for a wide dissemination.  

scholarly journals Playing games for risk prevention: design, implementation and testing of serious games in recent European projects UPStrat-MAFA and KnowRISK

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (Vol 63 (2020)) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Solarino ◽  
Monica Amaral Ferreira ◽  
Gemma Musacchio ◽  
Elena Eva
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Risk ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Prevention Strategies ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Urban Disaster ◽  
Risk Education ◽  
Reduce Risk ◽  
European Projects ◽  
Standard Learning

In the last decade, bottom-up strategies of risk education have raised importance, making serious games to become an alternative or complementary teaching tool for enhancing skills for a collaborative and adaptive response to social-ecological challenges. This study describes issues and challenges of serious games implemented within the framework of two European projects, namely UPStrat-MAFA (Urban Disaster Prevention Strategies using Macroseismic Fields and FAult sources) and KnowRISK (Know your city, Reduce seISmic risK through non-structural elements); the goal is to instil in young people a proactive attitude towards the mitigation of seismic risk . The games were tested in some dissemination events focussed on fostering seismic risk preparedness in students and improving good practices. We discuss the performance of our games even against more standard approaches to risk education. Our experience shows a rise of students’ engagement compared to standard learning activities. The games were effective as students were able to grasp the most relevant actions to reduce risk.

Interventions to change clinician behaviour in relation to suicide prevention care in the emergency department: A scoping review protocol

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hwayeon Danielle Shin ◽  
Christine Cassidy ◽  
Janet Curran ◽  
Lori Weeks ◽  
Leslie Anne Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Allied Health Professionals ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Clinician Behaviour ◽  
Google Search

Objective: This review aims to explore, characterize, and map the literature on interventions implemented to change emergency department (ED) clinicians’ behaviour related to suicide prevention using the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) as a guiding theoretical framework. Introduction: An ED is a critical place for suicide prevention. Yet, many patients who present with suicide-related thoughts and behaviours are discharged without proper assessment or appropriate treatment. Supporting clinicians (who provide direct clinical care, including nurses, physicians, allied health professionals) to make the desired behaviour change following evidence-based suicide prevention care is an essential step toward improving patient outcomes. However, reviews to date have yet to take a theoretical approach to investigate interventions implemented to change clinicians’ behaviour. Inclusion criteria: This review will consider literature that includes interventions that target ED clinicians’ behaviour change related to suicide prevention. Behaviour change refers to observable practice changes as well as proxy measures of behaviour change including knowledge and attitude. There are many ways in which an intervention can change clinicians’ behaviour (e.g., education, altering service delivery). This review will include a wide range of interventions that target behaviour change regardless of the type but exclude interventions that exclusively target patients.Methods: Multiple databases will be searched: PubMed, PsycInfo, CINAHL and Embase. We will also include grey literature, including Google search, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, and Scopus conference papers. Full text of included studies will be reviewed, critically appraised and extracted. Extracted data will be coded to identify intervention functions using the BCW. Findings will be summarized in tables accompanied by narrative reports.

scholarly journals Evaluating the efficacy of technical measures: a case study of selection device legislation in the UK Crangon crangon (brown shrimp) fishery

2008 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom L. Catchpole ◽  
Andrew S. Revill ◽  
James Innes ◽  
Sean Pascoe
Keyword(s):  
Brown Shrimp ◽  
Crangon Crangon ◽  
Shrimp Fishery ◽  
The North ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Technical Measures

Abstract Catchpole, T. L., Revill, A. S., Innes, J., and Pascoe, S. 2008. Evaluating the efficacy of technical measures: a case study of selection device legislation in the UK Crangon crangon (brown shrimp) fishery. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 267–275. Bycatch reduction devices are being introduced into a wide range of fisheries, with shrimp and prawn fisheries particularly targeted owing to the heavy discarding common in these fisheries. Although studies are often undertaken to estimate the impact of a technical measure on the fishery before implementation, rarely have the impacts been assessed ex post. Here, the efficacy of the UK legislation pertaining to the use of sievenets in the North Sea Crangon crangon fishery is assessed. Three impacts were evaluated: on fisher behaviour (social), on the level of bycatch (biological), and on vessel profitability (economic). An apparent high level of compliance by skippers was identified despite a low level of enforcement. The estimated reduction in fleet productivity following the introduction of the legislation was 14%, equalling the mean loss of Crangon landings when using sievenets calculated from catch comparison trawls. Sievenets did reduce the unnecessary capture of unwanted marine organisms, but were least effective at reducing 0-group plaice, which make up the largest component of the bycatch. Clearly the legislation has had an effect in the desired direction, but it does not address sufficiently the bycatch issue in the Crangon fishery.

Gearbox (China) Ltd.: Will the Company's ERP System Support its Ambitious Growth Strategy?

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Reimers
Keyword(s):  
Operations Management ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Erp System ◽  
Organizational Behaviour ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mechanical Devices

This case describes the experience of a wholly foreign-owned manufacturing company in Tianjin/China regarding the use of its ERP system in its main functional departments, purchasing, production planning, sales/distribution, and finance. The company is part of a group which is a global leader in the manufacturing and distribution of mechanical devices, called gearboxes, that are needed to drive a wide range of facilities such as escalators and baggage conveyor belts in airports. It has entered China in 1995 and the Tianjin manufacturing facility has soon become a hub for the Asian market. The main challenge confronting the management team is to support the breakneck growth rate of this young company. The company's ERP system plays a crucial role in this task. However, it seems that middle managers are frequently hitting an invisible wall when trying to expand the use of the ERP system in order to cope with ever-increasing workloads and coordination tasks. This case serves to illustrate cultural issues implicated in the use of an enterprise wide information system in a medium size company operating in an emerging market economy. In addition, issues of operations management, global management, and organizational behaviour are addressed.

Combining Webduino Programming With Situated Learning to Promote Computational Thinking, Motivation, and Satisfaction Among High School Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 073563312110399
Author(s):  
Ting-Ting Wu ◽  
Jian-Ming Chen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Programming Languages ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Significant Difference

Many countries have incorporated computational thinking (CT) and programming languages into their science and technology courses. Students can improve their CT ability by learning programming languages. Moreover, situated learning enables students to generate knowledge and master problem-solving skills through interaction with situations. This study incorporated Webduino learning and the situated learning strategy into a programming course and analyzed its impact on high school students’ CT ability, learning motivation, and course satisfaction. A quasi-experimental research method was adopted, wherein the experimental group was subjected to the situated learning strategy and the control group was subjected to a traditional teaching method. The study results revealed that integrating Webduino programming with situated learning could effectively improve five categories of CT skills; moreover, the activity models of situated learning enhanced the value and expectation dimensions of learning motivation. In addition, satisfaction with the course content and self-identity slightly improved. However, because teachers were required to elaborate on stories to promote learner engagement with life situations, the time available for programming was limited. Thus, no significant difference was observed in teaching satisfaction.

scholarly journals A political ecology of transdisciplinary research

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 500
Author(s):  
Hali Healy
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
European Research ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sustainability Problems ◽  
Science In Society

Transdisciplinary research (TDR) is widely regarded as a promising, and even essential, means of addressing complex sustainability problems, whilst delivering beneficial outcomes for scientists and the non-academic actors with whom they engage. Premised on the 'ecological modernisation' of Europe, regional funding for TDR under Framework Programmes such as FP7 and more recently Horizon 2020 have sought to support academic engagement with a wide range of research stakeholders through calls for transdisciplinary research  in order to better address Europe's "grand societal challenges" (EC 2013). This article, based on doctoral research, consists of an ex-post study of three European Union funded transdisciplinary projects (CREPE, EJOLT and GAP2) implemented under the Seventh Framework's (2007-2013) Science in Society program. Its focus is on how issues of power and governance permeate TDR projects, giving rise to tensions, challenges and ultimately struggles over the very meaning of official projects and their outcomes, despite the most egalitarian of intentions and underlying principles of mutual benefit. These tensions, this article argues, should be understood not merely as cultural, methodological or cognitive challenges, but as essentially political conflicts that manifest and flow across multiple scales. In light of these inherent challenges, the article argues that TDR is always conducted on a terrain of political ecology, and concludes by making recommendations for potential collaborators, as well as for European research policy makers, with the objective of enabling participants and funders alike to realise the transformative potential of this promising mode of research.<p><strong>Keywords</strong>: Political ecology of transdisciplinary research, power, governance, Science in Society, European research agenda, agro-ecology, environmental justice, fisheries          </p>

scholarly journals Title Assessment of the Knowledge Level of Cabbage Growers for an Enhanced Production Technology

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Irfath Rashid ◽  
Quadri Javeed Ahmad Peer ◽  
S. A. Saraf ◽  
Farah Farooq ◽  
Tariq Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Intensive Training ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Enhanced Production ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cultivation Practices

Cabbage is one of the most popular vegetables in the world because of its adaptability to a wide range of climatic conditions and soil type, ease of production and storage, and its food value. Commercial cultivation of Cabbage is very successful due to high market demand and its medicinal importance to treat gout, deafness, headache and hangovers in the early days. The present study aimed to assess the Knowledge level of cabbage growers towards the recommended package of practices in Budgam District of Jammu and Kashmir, India during the year 2017-18. Ex- post- facto research design was adopted. The study was carried out in purposively selected Zone Chadoora of district Budgam of Jammu and Kashmir State, as having maximum area under cabbage crop. A sample of 120 cabbage growers was selected by proportionate allocation method from randomly selected six villages. The data was collected with the help of a well structured interview schedule. Data derived from the growers was analyzed by employing suitable statistical methods. Twelve independent variables were categorized and studied in relation to dependent variable i.e. knowledge   level about cabbage cultivation practices. Majority of the growers had medium knowledge level regarding the recommended package of practices for cabbage cultivation given by SKUAST-Kashmir. Correlation analysis revealed that education, occupation, operational land holding, area under cabbage, experience in cabbage cultivation, net income, mass media exposure and scientific orientation  had significant relationship with the knowledge level of cabbage growers whereas the remaining independent variables starting with age had a negative and significant relationship with the knowledge whereas, family size, innovation proneness and extension contact had no significant relationship with the knowledge level of cabbage growers. The identified gaps in farmers practices and recommended cultivation practices may help to give directions to the field level extension workers to manipulate the appropriate factors so as to increase the adoption level. The results of the study will be useful to extension personnel and administrators so that they could know the extent of knowledge and adoption behaviour of cabbage growers. The results could also be used to bridge the gap through intensive training and organizing of other extension activities.

scholarly journals Modeling the processes of aerogasdynamics of structural elements of a supersonic aircraft

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.S. Studennikov
Keyword(s):  
Stress Transfer ◽  
Aerodynamic Characteristics ◽  
Wind Tunnels ◽  
Transfer Model ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Base Region ◽  
Supersonic Aircraft ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sharp Cone ◽  
Semi Empirical

The purpose of the research was to study the aerodynamic features of the flow around the simplest structural elements of an aircraft, such as sharp and blunt-nose cones. For calculations we applied the perfect gas model. To describe flows with large adverse pressure gradients, we used the Menter's shear stress transfer model. We analyzed changes in the aerodynamic characteristics of the cones in a wide range of angles of attack α and flow Mach M∞ numbers. Furthermore, we investigated the parameters of the base region of the sharp cone at transonic and supersonic speeds, and compared the simulation results with the data of a physical experiment both in wind tunnels and on a ballistic installation. The comparison showed good agreement with the experimental data. Numerical simulation data can be applied to form the external appearance of aircraft for various purposes, to study the influence of the temperature factor on the flow around bodies, and to create semi-empirical models for calculating the parameters of the base region of conical bodies.

scholarly journals Project-based Learning for Environmental Sustainability Action

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Bramwell-Lalor ◽  
Keith Kelly ◽  
Therese Ferguson ◽  
Carol Hordatt Gentles ◽  
Carmel Roofe
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Teaching Learning

The quest for social and economic development coupled with a growing population has led to complex and unsustainable interactions between humans and the natural resources of planet Earth. One approach to addressing complex, ‘wicked’ problems involves closing the gap between the sustainability knowledge of individuals and the competencies for positive environmental behaviours. Projectbased learning is one teaching-learning strategy which provides opportunities for cultivating a wide range of sustainability competencies to close this gap. Two cases are presented in this paper in which project-based learning was used for fostering environmental competencies and advancing sustainability. One relates to teachers in a graduate course, and the other, to students using an online learning platform. Evaluation of various qualitative documents and artefacts produced by participants revealed that i) teachers and students were motivated and enabled to take action on environmental and sustainability issues through project-based learning ii) participants’ environmental knowledge and sustainability competencies such as communication and collaboration skills were enhanced. School administrators should therefore encourage a culture where project-based learning is infused into the curriculum, and teachers’ collaborative efforts regarding projects are supported.

On the move to stay current: Knowledge cycling and scheduled labor mobility

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svjetlana Pantic-Dragisic ◽  
Jonas Söderlund
Keyword(s):  
Situated Learning ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Project Organization ◽  
Knowledge Process ◽  
Knowledge Processes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Technical Consulting

Technical consulting plays an increasingly important role in developing and transferring knowledge in a wide range of industries and sectors. We present a case study of Swift Tech, a leading Scandinavian technical consulting firm, to identify and assess the importance of knowledge cycling—a knowledge process based on scheduled and recurrent rotation of technical consultants among organizational and problem-solving contexts. Our study identifies four main phases of knowledge cycling: entering an assignment, building experience, contributing to the project, and shifting to a new assignment. These phases underpin our model of knowledge cycling, which demonstrates that two aspects of local knowledge processes are critical: project task familiarization and project organization familiarization. We show that knowledge cycling relies on a dynamic interaction between client organization, consulting firm, and individual consultant in the ongoing transfer of knowledge among distinct contexts and communities. Knowledge cycling demonstrates the significance of “mobile knowledge” for the development of situated knowledge; hence, our results have important implications for situated learning theory.

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