scholarly journals Cultism and Violence in Nigerian Universities: A Paradigm for Achieving Religious Academic Excellence

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Ushe Mike Ushe
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Persistent Violence ◽  
The Government ◽  
Forms Of Violence

Nigerian universities and other institutions of higher learning have in recent times witnessed unprecedented insecurity, persistent violence and educational backdrop, leading to loss of many lives and properties worth millions of naira across the country. Part of the face out of this scourge is the prevailing case of cultism and other forms of violence in Nigerian universities and other higher educational institutions. This has resulted to gruesome arrest, expulsion and murder of many students on account of cult activities on the campuses and other forms of students’ violence which further exposed our universities to insecurity, ritual murders, drug abuse and use of dangerous weapons by cult groups, victimization and regime of terror against fellow students, lecturers, and anyone that stands in the ways of these cult groups on our campuses. This paper discusses the impacts of cultism and other forms of violence on university campuses in Nigeria as a search for achieving sustainable peace and academic excellence. To explore this change, the study employs survey design, questionnaires and face-to-face interviews in collecting data and analysis. The research findings have shown that cultism and other forms of violence are prevalence in Nigerian universities and have increased tremendously in recent decades, reoccurring almost on daily basis. The paper observed that students’ radical activism and union politics, incapability of university and state authorities to enforce minimum standard of students’ civil behaviors on campuses as well as rivalries between cult groups and the wider campus community has drastically affected educational or academic performance of students in contemporary Nigerian society. The paper recommends the restructuring of university educational policies and curriculum, provision of moral education and non-interference of the government and university authorities in the affairs of students’ union politics and activism.

scholarly journals Difusi Inovasi Pengolahan Lahan Basah Tanpa Bakar di Kalimantan Tengah

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-45
Author(s):  
Rani Diah Anggraini
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovation ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
Communication Channel ◽  
Central Kalimantan ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Government ◽  
Surrounding Areas

The haze disaster that hit the Central Kalimantan and surrounding areas in 2015 had a broad impact on various fields of life, such as economics, health, and education. The government prohibits land clearing by burning and launching a peat restoration program to prevent the occurrence of the smog haze again while restoring degraded peat ecosystems. However, the diffusion of innovations in peat restoration programs carried out by BRG in which there is PLTB program must deal with the habit of burning land that has been carried out for generations. The study about the process of diffusion of innovations in PLTB program in Central Kalimantan used a qualitative descriptive approach with a case study method. The face-to-face interpersonal communication channel is the main communication channel of the BRG in the process of diffusion of innovation in PLTB program and is considered the most effective. BRG maximizes the role of opinion leaders and change agents as a source of information. BRG also improved the function of Fasdes and established intensive communication with peatland farmers through the WhatsApp group to overcome uneven internet network constraints. Keywords: Peat Restoration, Land Processing without Burning, Diffusion of Innovations   ABSTRAK Bencana kabut asap yang melanda wilayah Kalimantan Tengah dan sekitarnya pada tahun 2015 berdampak luas pada berbagai bidang kehidupan, seperti ekonomi, kesehatan, dan pendidikan. Pemerintah melarang pembukaan lahan dengan membakar dan mencanangkan program restorasi gambut untuk mencegah bencana kabut asap kembali terjadi sekaligus mengembalikan ekosistem gambut yang terdegradasi. Namun, difusi inovasi program restorasi gambut oleh BRG di mana terdapat program PLTB harus berhadapan dengan kebiasaan membakar lahan yang telah dilakukan masyarakat secara turun-temurun. Penelitian tentang proses difusi inovasi program PLTB di Kalimantan Tengah ini menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif dengan metode studi kasus. Saluran komunikasi interpersonal secara tatap muka menjadi saluran komunikasi utama BRG dalam proses difusi inovasi program PLTB dan dinilai paling efektif. BRG memaksimalkan peran pemuka pendapat dan agen-agen perubahan sebagai sumber informasi. BRG juga meningkatkan fungsi Fasdes dan menjalin komunikasi intensif dengan petani-petani lahan gambut melalui grup WhatsApp untuk mengatasi kendala jaringan internet yang belum merata. Kata kunci: Restorasi Gambut, Pengolahan Lahan Tanpa Bakar, Difusi Inovasi

Text Features Related to Message Comprehension

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Gasiorek ◽  
R. Kelly Aune
Keyword(s):  
Risk Communication ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Message Processing ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Information Leaflets ◽  
Knowledge States ◽  
The Face ◽  
Text Features ◽  
The Government

A majority of the extant literature in health and risk message processing focuses—for obvious reasons—on social influence and compliance-gaining. Interpersonal and relational issues with doctors and patients are a secondary focus. In contrast, research that specifically addresses comprehension of health and risk messaging is somewhat scant. However, other domains (e.g., cognitive psychology, reading studies) offer models and studies of comprehension that address message processing more generally. This material can usefully inform research in a health and risk context. An important aspect of any communicative event is the degree to which that event allows interactivity. This can be described in terms of a continuum from static messaging to dynamic messaging. Message features may affect simple comprehension (in the former case) and active understanding (in the latter case) of messaging along this continuum. For static messaging, text features are the dominant focus; for dynamic messaging, how communicators cooperate, collaborate, and adjust their behavior relative to each other’s knowledge states is the focus. Moderators of these effects, which include sources’ dual goals informing and influencing targets, are also important to consider. Examples of this include direct-to-consumer-advertising (DTCA) of pharmaceutical medicines and pharmaceutical companies, which must meet the demands of the government regulatory bodies (e.g., fair and balanced presentation of benefits and risks) while simultaneously influencing the message processing experience of the target to minimize negative perceptions of their products. Impediments to creating understanding can arise in both the highly interactive setting of the face-to-face doctor-patient context as well as more static messaging situations such as PSAs, pamphlets, and pharmaceutical package inserts. Making sense of message comprehension in health and risk communication is complex, and it is complex because it is broad in scope. Health and risk communication runs the gamut of static to dynamic messaging, employing everything from widely distributed patient information leaflets and public service announcements, to interactive web pages and massively connected social networking sites, to the highly interactive and personalized face-to-face meeting between doctor and patient. An equally comprehensive theoretical and methodological tool box must be employed to develop a thorough understanding of health and risk communication.

Legal Interpretation of Face-to-Face Consultation in Telemedicine

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32
Author(s):  
Yasumitsu Tomioka
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Come

In legal studies on telemedicine, the requirement of face-to-face consultation emerges as a major concern. Although the legal basis of the “face-to-face consultation” requirement is often assumed to come from Medical Practitioners Law Article 20, it is actually from a notice issued on 24/12/1997 in Health Policy Publication No. 1075 by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW). In this article, through analysis of how the court made a judgment in regard to “face-to-face consultation” in previous rulings related to the Medical Practitioners Law Article 20, the authors clarify that judgment is based on these “notices”. In addition, through analysis of what policy on telemedicine the MHLW announces in the government ministries’ response issued on 20/10/2009 to the questionnaire from the members of a task force in the IT Strategic Headquarters, it is ascertained that interpretation of the “face-to-face patient care” in telemedicine becomes broader than the “notices”. This paper accelerates the broader interpretation and establishes a legal system defining telemedicine independently.

scholarly journals Hand Trauma Virtual Clinics Prove Effective During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hand ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 155894472110172
Author(s):  
Dardan Popova ◽  
Kieron Young ◽  
Dorian Hobday ◽  
Ted Welman ◽  
Gurjinderpal S. Pahal
Keyword(s):  
Waiting Times ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Health Care Staff ◽  
Hand Trauma ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Face ◽  
Hospital Resources ◽  
The Government

Background Due to the devastating and far-reaching impact of the novel COVID-19 pandemic, hospital resources have been redirected to protect patients and health care staff, thereby vastly reducing the capacity for outpatient follow-up within a busy Plastic Surgery and Hand Trauma center. Through the use of telephone and video technology, virtual clinics were rapidly introduced to reduce hospital footfall. Methods This retrospective cohort study analyzed patient experiences in virtual and traditional face-to-face clinics through the month of April 2020, from the second week of the government-imposed lockdown. A 5-point Visit-Specific Satisfaction Questionnaire was used to subsequently collect patients’ feedback regarding their appointments. Results A total of 107 hand injury–related follow-up appointments were recorded during the 4-week period. Sixty (56.0%) appointments were performed as a virtual consultation, and 47 (43.9%) face-to-face consultations were carried out on site. It was possible to discharge 43.3% from the virtual clinic group and 57.4% from the face-to-face group. We identified no significant difference in patient satisfaction ( P = .368, Mann-Whitney U test) between the 2 cohorts. Conclusion Virtual clinics appear to be safe and effective for the follow-up of patients with traumatic hand injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic. This approach may prove beneficial in terms of workforce organization, reducing waiting times, and providing an alternative for patients unable to attend physical appointments.

scholarly journals A Comparison of a Client’s Satisfaction between Online and Face-to-face Counselling in a School Setting

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaida Nor Zainudin ◽  
Siti Aishah Hassan ◽  
Nor Aniza Ahmad ◽  
Yusni Mohamad Yusop ◽  
Wan Norhayati Wan Othman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Short Form ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Counselling Needs ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Government ◽  
Experimental Group

During the current Covid-19 pandemic, the social relationship between humans has changed. As noticed, lockdowns and social distancing have become new norms. Unavoidably, counselling services were also affected with social distancing rules, especially in the school setting. Thus, online counselling or e-counselling has begun to gain in popularity, allowing counsellors to offer their services in an alternative way. In order to evaluate the suitability of e-counselling during the current pandemic, a client’s satisfaction towards e-counselling and face-to-face counselling needs to be investigated. This study aims to explore the effectiveness of these two counselling approaches using the level of the client’s satisfaction and its implication towards counselling practises during the outbreak. Quantitative data were obtained using the Client’s Satisfaction Inventory Short-Form (CSI-SF) questionnaire. The experimental design consisted of a total of 60 study subjects in two groups, namely the control group using the face-to-face Counselling method and the experimental group using the e-Counselling method. Based on the results, the difference in mean score showed that the mean difference in the experimental group was slightly higher than the control group. This finding indicates that e-counselling clients have a higher satisfaction compared to the face-to-face approach. The implications of this data are discussed on the role of school, school counsellor, and the government in enhancing the service of e-counselling during the current pandemic.

scholarly journals Corporate Environmentalism in Malaysia: Exploring the Media’s Pressure on Businesses

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOHD RAFI YAACOB
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Corporate Environmentalism ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government

A business pertaining to the environment has three basic issues. First, in order to produce products it takes too much from the environment and does so in a harmful way; second, the product it makes require excessive amounts of energy, toxins, and pollutants; and finally, the method of manufacture and the products themselves produce extraordinary waste and cause harm to present and future generations of all species including humans. The only way out of the unsustainability of business practices is through re-engineering business activities inline with the principle of ecology. Hence, it is crucial for businesses to take a fresh look at the damages that they have done to the natural environment and their far-reaching impacts to human survival. Businesses will not do so, unless there is an increasing pressure from the stakeholders including the public and the government alike to improve their corporate environmentalism. In order to exert an influence on the industry, the media needs to be more proactive in reporting and investigating environmental issues pertaining to business activities. This paper tries to unfold the efficacy and the role of the media in Malaysia as a pressure group towards corporate environmentalism in the Malaysian businesses. This report involves a qualitative study of four major newspaper agencies in the country – two vernacular daily newspapers, one daily English newspaper and a bi-monthly newspaper. Four senior reporters involved in the face-to-face interviews. The conversations were audio-taped and then were analysed using the NVivo Version 7 software programme. This report highlights amongst other things the media challenges pertaining to environmental issues, and the media approaches to exert pressure on businesses. It also investigates the efficacy of the media to exert influence on the Malaysian industries to be more environmentally responsible and forward ways to improve media pressure against unscrupulous business activities.  

scholarly journals The Complexity of Arabic Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic at MIN 1 Yogyakarta | Kompleksitas Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19 di MIN 1 Yogyakarta (Masalah, Kurikulum, Keterlibatan Orang Tua)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182
Author(s):  
Mustolikh Khabibul Umam ◽  
Rifka Khoirun Nada
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of Parents

The realization of Arabic language learning that is generally done face-to-face today must be done online. Not without reason, we realize how the pandemic that began to spread massively led the policy authorities to stop any kind of movement identified with mass social activities. Learning in all institutions from RA/TK level to university level should be discontinued and replaced with online-based learning through internet assistance. This research is categorized as qualitative research and uses data collection techniques in the form of interviews, documentation and analyzed with descriptive analysis strategies.  This study is intended to investigate how educational institutions, especially mi education level prepare the arabic learning model applied, researchers want to uncover how the learning steps used by teachers in online-based Arabic learning, student problems during the online learning process and obstacles faced by teachers when the government requires learning to be done online. This research has a purpose direction as a response to the policyholders in overcoming the obstacles of online learning in schools, especially in MIN 1 Yogyakarta. The results obtained in this study are problems faced by educators and students relative to the internal problems of each individual. Educators need to delve deeper into the knowledge of the technology used when learning online, disarming that learners must also focus more on online learning so that the lessons delivered by educators can be absorbed properly. The role of parents is also quite significant in directing and monitoring their children during online learning activities. In addition, the curriculum released by the government in the face of the emergency situation of covid-19 has been quite effective, but in its implementation still requires monitoring and evaluation from policy makers as the initiator of the emergency curriculum.

“Inter. Pol. by Post” or international relations and foreign policy from the Open University

1976 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Carey
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Open University ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Part Time Students ◽  
The Face ◽  
Part Time

When Philip Reynolds opened the first issue of the British Journal of International Studies with an examination of the “state of the art” in Great Britain,2 he omitted any mention of the Open University as a source of such studies. In the sense that Reynolds was seeking establishments with full-time students of International Studies, the omission was justified; in the sense that the Open University forms a seat of learning whose students are concerned with the study of International Relations, it was not. Indeed, it is possible that the Open University may have, at any one time, more students reading International Relations than any other single institution in the United Kingdom. These several hundreds of part-time students, pursuing the single course under review, are distributed rather unevenly across the face of Great Britain. They have varying access to library facilities; the greatly varying environment of their own homes in which to work; greatly varying amounts of contact with their tutors, either on a “face-to-face” basis or by letter or telephone. In short, the student for whom this course is designed is different – he represents, perhaps, the “new actor” in academic life in Great Britain. He is ignored at our – the traditional academics, – peril, for whilst we may be concerned with standards of academic excellence there are many in high places who now judge success by such criteria as staff-student ratios, cost effectiveness, and the like.

scholarly journals The Effect of Population Behavior on New Renewable Energy in Primary Energy Mix for 2025 National Target: Sumedang Regency Review, West Java

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Handoko Handoko ◽  
◽  
Adianto Adianto ◽  
Siow Chee Loon ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Primary Energy ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Energy Mix ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Logistic Analysis ◽  
Indonesian Population ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government

The results of the Study of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology in 2018 estimated the primary energy mix target of renewable energy at 23 (twenty three) percent by 2025 will not be reached. It is estimated that only reach 12.9 (twelve point nine) percent. The use of renewable energy, especially biomass and biogas by the population independently has not been included in the calculation of meeting the energy mix target by the government. Even though the potential of primary energy of bio energy in Indonesia is 32,653.8 MW. This study examines the behavior of the population towards the use of renewable energy, especially biomass and biogas in meeting their needs for cooking and business. The face-to-face research was carried out on 85 (eighty-five) respondents and online as many as 16 (sixteen) respondents in 17 (seventeen) villages in 7 (seven) districts in Sumedang Regency. The study was also conducted on 574 (five hundred seventy four) respondents both online and face to face in 366 (three hundred sixty six) villages in 240 (two hundred forty) districts in 91 (ninety one) districts / cities in 22 (twenty two) provinces. From the results of research and analysis of characteristics, descriptive analysis, logistic analysis and calculations; shows that: (a) trends in 2025, Sumedang residents choose to use biogas fuel, (b) trends in 2025, Indonesians choose to use solid fuels, (c) minimum contribution or potential contribution of Indonesian population to achieving energy mix targets primary New and Renewable Energy of 3.80 (three point eight) percent in 2018 and increased to 8.16 (eight point sixteen) percent in 2025 or about 35 (thirty five) percent of the target of the New and Renewable Energy mix. Thus, this research needs to be followed up and encourage the government through the National Energy Council to conduct more comprehensive research in all regions in Indonesia.

The Face-to-Face War Information Service of the Federal Government

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1027-1040
Author(s):  
Walter H. C. Laves
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Information Service ◽  
The United States ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Information Program ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
Office Of Civilian Defense ◽  
Civilian Defense

The face-to-face war information program of the federal government came to a close on July 15, 1943. On this date the Organizations Service Division of the Office of Civilian Defense was abolished by James A. Landis, director of OCD. Thus ended the last remaining organized effort of the national government to insure full civilian understanding of the war through methods found only in democratic countries, viz., discussions, forums, town meetings, etc. This change in the conduct of the war deserves the attention of political scientists and others interested in the operations of democratic government. The way in which the program was conceived, the manner in which it was administered, as well as the deliberate way in which it was abolished, throw important light on the home-front policies of the government. They also indicate the prospects for a democratic civic education program in the United States.Origin of the Face-to-Face War Information Program. The Organizations Service Division was established in the Office of Civilian Defense by Administrative Order No. 30, dated January 4, 1943. The face-to-face war information program, which was the primary responsibility of the Organizations Service Division, had been delegated to OCD after a series of negotiations extending from June 12 to December 15, 1942, and involving the Office of War Information; Coördinator of Inter-American Affairs, OCD, Office of Education, and the Bureau of the Budget.

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