Research methods and professional issues

The paper is about the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the field of smart agriculture

Research Methods And Professional Issues

The paper is a report for my unit assessment (Bournemouth University)

Teleworking

This chapter examines teleworking and the important relationships that must be created and/or nurtured in successful organizations. The chapter also highlights teleworking best practices of communication, flexibility, standards, and team building. Communication requires managing both face-to-face and online situations, while flexibility helps in achieving work-life balance. Standards are required to build effective, collaborative relationships, and team building is enhanced when organizations can adjust to new or distributed operations. The best practices are driven by a set of rules for operating that should be developed collaboratively with all members of the team. Clear rules that are combined with supervisor and employee shared understanding should lead to success. To achieve that success, organizations must focus on the assumptions, approaches, personal vs. professional issues, e-leadership, and modeling discussed herein.

Introducing Machine Translation in the Translation Classroom: a Survey on Students’ Attitudes and Perceptions

The translation sector is going under major changes that will undoubtedly be accentuated in the future owing to the development of automation and artificial intelligence, and more specifically, of machine translation. Technology also plays a crucial role in the translation process and has a significant impact on translation competence. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that translator programs incorporate new translation technology into their curriculums in order to ensure that students are made aware of their usefulness in order to fulfil industry employment needs. This piece of research strives at mapping how and what for translation students use MT, and what are their attitudes and perceptions towards its use. Findings of a qualitative analysis indicate that undergraduate students have a positive general attitude towards MT and its many advantages, whereas they show preoccupation when MT professional issues are addressed.

Quantity surveyor's ethical responsiveness on construction projects: issues and solutions

PurposeStudies showed that construction consultants' ethical negligence is a contributing factor to the time and cost over-run of projects. There is limited research on the issues that may have hindered construction consultants' ethical responsiveness during contract administration. Studies regarding influencing factors in the context of Nigeria's quantity surveyors' (QS) ethical responsiveness are rare. Thus, the study aims to investigate the perceived issues and proffers initiatives to promote QSs' ethical responsiveness on construction projects in Nigeria.Design/methodology/approachTo determine the perceptions of QS regarding ethical responsiveness, a phenomenologically driven perspective via face-to-face interviews was conducted with 12 senior professionals in Lagos and Abuja that showed interest in participating in the study and were interviewed. A thematic approach was adopted to analyse the collated data.FindingsEconomic, societal and professional issues emerged as the three groups of issues that hindered QS's ethical responsiveness on construction projects in a developing country setting such as Nigeria. Findings show that for ethical responsiveness to be expressed on projects, key stakeholders should be ethically responsible. This is currently missing, especially in public construction projects. Initiatives that can promote key stakeholders' ethical responsiveness on construction projects are examined in this paper.Practical implicationsThe paper embraces an important practical implication because practices associated with QS's unethical responsiveness and behavioural impacts on construction projects were identified. This will stir both the regulatory professional bodies and policymakers to enforce and implement feasible initiatives that can promote key stakeholders' collaborative ethical responsiveness on construction projects.Originality/valueThis paper is amongst the few papers that attempted to uncover issues that hinder QS's ethical responsiveness on construction projects in a developing country setting via a qualitative approach. Since these issues are rampant in developing countries, findings from this paper can be used to promote QS's ethical responsiveness in other nations with similar unethical issues.

Implementation of the competence-activity approach in teaching the Russian language (level B2)

The article is devoted to the implementation of the competence-activity approach in teaching the discipline "Russian language" to students of all specialties of the Almaty Technological University. The article reveals the concept of "competence-activity approach", which is taken as the basis of the training strategy, as well as the specifics of key competencies. The author presents a typology of educational tasks, built taking into account the type of speech activity and the aspect of language, aimed at working out linguistic facts at all levels of the language system. The author comes to the conclusion that the development of the didactic material and the lessons given competence-activity approach ensures students ' readiness to expand knowledge in the field of professional disciplines through the implementation of research activities on professional issues with the use of Russian language sources in both print and electronic versions.

Authentic Leadership Education: An empirical discussion from Pakistani higher education

The authentic style encourages leaders to be mindful of their strengths, weaknesses, and emotions, using practical methods for improving their leadership abilities. Identifying an authentic leader is a description of those who have positive beliefs, lead from the heart, set the highest standards of ethics and morality, and go beyond their interests for their followers' well-being. It is critical to understand where one stands on important moral and professional issues to become an authentic leader and then act on that knowledge. Authentic leaders, although specific characteristics, such as positive psychology, self-awareness, morals and ethics, and a person, transparency, and balanced processing; this study explores authentic leadership strengths and weakness empirically. The link between theory and practice applied settings and helps practitioners add value to professional growth has been discussed. The study also shed light on the importance of workforce development action plans, but the ties outlined herein show that casual relations and additional tests would help confirm the connections.

A clínica da psicose: um estudo de caso

Este é um estudo de caso realizado em 2018, com o objetivo de descrever a proposta de atendimento de uma paciente com estrutura psíquica psicótica. O casoé oriundo da proposta de atenção psicanalítica em uma clínica social, no modo individual e grupal, por um período superior a oito anos. Os encontros grupais e as sessões individuais ocorriam semanalmente. No modo grupal, com a participação de quatro analistas, havia além uma tríade social: pacientes, mamãe e papai. No modo individual, a relação se dava analista-analisando. De um começo pouco participativo no grupo e nas sessões individuais, a paciente (Rebeca – nome fictício), evoluiu melhorando sua sociabilização, sua relação familiar, e até mesmo as questões profissionais.A clínica da psicose é uma árdua tarefa, mas Rebeca conseguiu se posicionar e se descolar da família. Atualmente, está trabalhando, tem mantido um bom contato social com os demais membros do grupo terapêutico (Grupo Vida) e com seus colegas de trabalho. Essa clínica é cativante porque, de alguma forma, o vínculo com os pacientes permanece; é uma análise interminável, que exige coragem e determinação do analista.Aponta-se a importância da viabilidade da clínica da psicose, na proposta psicanalítica, via transferência ativa.This is a case study carried out in 2018. It aims to describe the proposal for the care of a patient with a psychotic psychic structure. The case comes from the proposal of psychoanalytic care in a social clinic, in the individual and group mode, for a period of more than eight years. Group meetings and individual sessions took place weekly. In group mode, with the participation of four analysts, there was also a social triad: patients, mom and dad. In the individual mode, the relationship took place as an analyst-analyzed. From a little participatory beginning in the group and in the individual sessions, the patient (Rebeca - fictitious name), evolved improving her socialization, her family relationship, and even her professional issues. The psychosis clinic is an arduous task, but Rebeca managed to position herself and detach herself from the family. Currently, she is working, has maintained good social contact with the other members of the therapeutic group (Grupo Vida) and with her co-workers. This clinic is captivating because, in some way, the bond with patients remains; it is an endless analysis, which requires courage and determination from the analyst. The importance of the viability of the psychosis clinic is pointed out, in the psychoanalytic proposal, via active transference.