Challenges facing students in writing theses at the Jordanian universities

The study examined the challenges facing students in the process of writing theses and identify differences in these challenges in light of gender, qualifications, mental status, career status, type of university. A survey descriptive design was employed as a questionnaire was a administrated to a random sample consisting of (438) master degree students. To achieve the study objectives, a questionnaire was used. The study showed that the level of challenges students face when writing thesis was moderate, and statistically significant differences in the level of challenges students face when writing thesis in light of gender, in favor of females; specialization, in favor of science; marital status, in favor of married; career status; in favor of employed, while there were no statistically significant differences in light of type of university. The main conclusions of the study is that material challenges were the most prevalent in the Jordanian universities. In light of the results, some recommendations were suggested Keywords: Challenges, Writing Thesis, Jordanian Universities, University Students, Jordan.

Podiatry as a career in the UK - what attracts Generation Z? A qualitative exploration with university and college students

Background Training for a career in podiatry is reported to provide graduates with excellent employability, alongside professional autonomy and suitable renumeration. Yet, there has been an ongoing decline in the number of those applying to study the subject. There is limited literature associated with this topic and we sought to explore the factors that attract ‘generation Z’ (those born 1995–2010) to a potential career in podiatry. Method A qualitative design framework underpinned by phenomenological principles used four focus groups over a two-year period to generate data from participants at University and in Further Education. Focus group conversations were led by external facilitator, recorded, independently transcribed verbatim and anonymised prior to thematic analysis. This was followed by external, independent verification of themes. Results Four main themes were determined from the analysis i) a lack of awareness of podiatry; ii) podiatry: accessible course, accessible career; iii) career status; iv) breadth/opportunity of the scope of practice. Both positive and negative experiences were reported and highlighted key gaps in how the attractiveness of a career in podiatry is portrayed. Conclusion The chronic lack of awareness of podiatry as a career clearly needs to be addressed, ideally with more positive role modelling in mainstream and popular media. The career status offered together with the breadth of, and opportunity associated with, the scope of practice should continue to be celebrated.

The nature of rapid response to COVID-19 in Latin America: an examination of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico

PurposeThe coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic mobilized the international scientific community in the search for its cure and containment. The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of the rapid response to the COVID-19 of the scientific community in selected Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) in the period running from January to August 2020. Rapid response is reconceptualized from its original meaning in health policy, as the swift mobilization of existing scientific resources to address an emergency (DeVita et al., 2017).Design/methodology/approachThe paper explores the rapid response of the Argentinian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian and Mexican scientific communities from the perspective of bibliometric and altmetric data. The authors will examine scientific publications indexed to the Web of Science (WoS) dealing with COVID-19. Besides patterns of scientific output and impact as measured by citations, the authors complement the analysis with altmetric analysis. The aim is to verify whether or not factors that explain the extent of scientific impact can also be identified with respect to the wider impact made evident by altmetric indicators (Haustein, 2016).Findingshe authors identified a somewhat limited response of the Argentinian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian and Mexican scientific communities to COVID-19 in terms of quantity of publications. The authorship of publications in the topic of COVID-19 was associated with authorship of publications dealing with locally relevant diseases. Some factors appear to contribute to visibility of scientific outputs. Papers that involved wider international collaborations and authors with previous publications in arboviruses were associated with higher levels of citations. Previous work on arbovirus was also associated with higher altmetric attention. The country of origin of authors exerted a positive effect on altmetric indicators.Research limitations/implicationsA limitation in the analysis is that, due to the nature of the data source (WoS), the authors were unable to verify the career status and the productivity of the authors in the sample. Nonetheless, the results appear to suggest that there is some overlapping in authors conducting research in Arboviruses and COVID-19. Career status and productivity should be the focus of future research.Practical implicationsIn the context of countries with limited scientific resources, like the ones investigated in our Latin American sample, previous efforts in the study of locally relevant diseases may contribute to the creation of an expertise that can be applied when a health emergency brings about a novel disease.Originality/valueThe originality of the paper rests on the fact that the authors identified that previous work on arbovirus contributed to the scientific visibility of publications on COVID-19.

Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family

This study adapts a multi-level view of culture, including society- and family-based gender norms and the family embeddedness perspective, to predict the career status of a sample of 2897 young Europeans (aged 18–35) from 11 countries, with at least one self-employed parent. We find that gender identity is associated with career status such that a woman is more likely than a man to be an employee vs. a successor to a family firm but no less likely to be a founder as compared with either being an employee or successor. However, certain family and society-level culture variables combined with gender identity reverse these trends. A woman with caring responsibilities is more likely to be a successor than either a founder or employee. Also, while two-way interaction effects for traditional gender norms and having a self-employed mother are weak or not significant, the study finds that in combination, a woman reporting both traditional gender norms and having a self-employed mother is more likely to be a successor than being either an employee or a founder, reversing gender identity main effects. Incorporating the family embeddedness perspective and the role of culture in occupational choice, we develop a better view of the gender gap in entrepreneurship, finding that the family may serve as a stronger influence than society when implied norms of these two levels of culture clash. By examining actual rather than intended career choice, we also contribute to the occupational choice literature on youth employment.

Concussion History, Career Status and Cumulative Years of Football Exposure Influence Concussion Assessment Performance in Elite Football Players

ObjectiveTo explore relationship of concussion history, career status, and cumulative years of contact football exposure on total symptoms, symptom severity, neurocognitive function, and balance in elite football players.Background61% of retired football players report sustaining a concussion during their professional career. However, the influence of concussion history, career status and cumulative years played on total symptoms, symptom severity, neurocognitive function, and balance is largely unexplored.Design/MethodsElite football players (n = 102; age M = 27.75 ± 6.95 years) without a concussion (>30 days) underwent SCAT-3 assessments. Players were placed into a low (0–1) or multiple concussion (2+) history group and categorized by career status (draft prospects, active professional players and retired professional players). Data were analyzed using negative binomial regression and multiple linear regression analyses.Results58.8% of players reported symptoms. Most common symptoms were fatigue (33.3%), trouble falling asleep (31.4%), difficulty remembering (29.4%), and difficulty concentrating (20.6%). Multiple concussions group reported 3.07 times greater total symptoms (p < 0.001), 3.58 times higher symptom severity (p < 0.001), and lower SAC scores (1.42 points) (p = 0.033) compared to low concussion group. Professionals reported 1.88 times greater total symptoms (p = .038) and 2.35 times higher symptom severity compared to draft prospects (p = 0.001). Retired players reported 7.07 times greater total symptoms (p < 0.001), 8.97 times higher symptom severity (p < 0.001), lower SAC scores (1.98 points) (p = 0.025), and 3.67 more m-BESS errors (p = 0.002), compared to draft prospects. Players with 11–19 years football exposure reported 3.83 times higher symptom severity compared to players with <11 years football exposure (p = 0.001). Players with >19 years football exposure had 6.87 times higher symptom severity than players with <11 years football exposure (p < .001).ConclusionsRetired players with multiple concussions and 19+ years of contact football exposure are likely to have more symptoms, higher symptom severity, and lower neurocognitive scores.

END OF THE MINISTER'S LEGAL STATUS IN PALESTINIAN LAW

<p>The Palestinian law laid down a set of legal rules regulating the Minister's legal status and his relationship with the career status. In accordance with the Palestinian law, the Minister's legal status shall be established through several stages, procedures and decisions between the initial and another end which has the legal effect in the establishment of this legal status, as well as end of Minister's legal status shall be in the availability of one of the cases stipulated by the Palestinian law, either to be the resignation of the government as a whole or to withhold confidence, resignation or dismissal of the Minister or the vacancy of the ministerial position. In view of the fact that there are no limited cases of the end of the Minister's legal status within a single Palestinian law, the researcher, through the results and recommendations of this research, will attempt to solve this problem by analyzing and explaining some legal legislations and books. Therefore, the study will address the on Minister's legal status in the Palestinian law, considering that this matter has a legal effect on the future application.</p>

Concussion History and Career Status Influence Performance on Baseline Assessments in Elite Football Players

ObjectiveTo determine if concussion history and career status is associated with neurocognitive performance in elite football players.MethodsThe study design was a cross-sectional single assessment. Fifty-seven elite football players (age 29.39 ± 7.49 years) categorized as draft prospects, active professional players, and retired professional players were assessed on the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool – third edition (SCAT-3), in an outpatient therapy setting.ResultsCommon symptoms were the following: fatigue (45.6%), trouble falling asleep (35.1%), difficulty remembering (33.3%) and irritability (22.8%); 36.8% reported no symptoms. The low concussion (0–1) group reported fewer symptoms (U = 608.50, p &lt; .001), less symptom severity (U = 598.00, p = −.001), and produced greater scores on the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC) total scores compared to the multiple concussion (2+) group (U = 253.00, p = .024), but no differences were observed on modified Balance Error Scoring System (m-BESS) scores (U = 501.50, p = .066) on the Mann–Whitney U test. The Kruskal–Wallis test and post-hoc analysis indicated retired players were significantly different from draft prospects and current professional players for total symptom scores (p &lt; .001), total symptom severity (p &lt; .001), SAC total scores (p = .030), and m-BESS (p &lt; .001).ConclusionsConcussion history and career status appear associated with total symptoms, symptom severity, performance on the SAC, and the m-BESS in elite football players. With this in mind, future research is recommended to determine longitudinal impact for elite football players.

MEASURING THE PROSPECTIVE FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY IN NORTH MACEDONIA

This research contains eclectic analyses of the theory of human resources development along with the founding’s from the empirical research with the main goal to determine the pros­pects for career development in the hospitality industry in North Macedonia. By using a sample of employees from different gender, age and education, the differences in perception have been evaluated and analyzed. Based on the founding’s, the researchers identified the current compe­tencies, the future training needs as well as the career status of the employees in the hospitality industry in North Macedonia. Additionally, the research investigated the differences in the evaluated competencies among different groups of employees (gender, age, education, career status). The measured competencies were divided into six groups: Leadership/Assertiveness, Ethics/Professionalism, Teamwork/Communication, Orientation towards success, Self-management (stress, emotions) and Learning and development. By conducting the set of questionnaires, the quanti­tative analyses were conducted on the different variables that have been analyzed by computing different statistical methods like descriptive analyses, t-test ANOVA and correlation analyses. The paper also explores the necessity for developing the human resources departments into the organizations from hospitality industry where the educated and experienced professionals will be involved in providing services for competences and career development of each employee based on the organizational and individual needs. This practical approach should increase the awareness of the leaders in the hospitality industry in North Macedonia to invest in the knowledge and development of human resources as the main resource for organizational success and development.