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2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Lasater ◽  
Meghan Scales ◽  
Kelley Sells ◽  
Meleah Hoskins ◽  
Jordan Dickey

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how rural schools and communities responded to the COVID-19 pandemic through compassionate care. Design/methodology/approach This paper provides “compassion narratives” (Frost et al., 2006, p. 851) from five educators (i.e. the authors) working and/or living in rural communities. Each narrative describes how compassion was witnessed and experienced from various professional positions (which include classroom teacher; building-level leader; district-level leader; special services director and school psychologist; and assistant professor of educational leadership). Findings The compassion narratives described in this paper demonstrate how various organizations and communities responded to COVID-19 through compassionate care. They also provide a lens for considering how rural schools and communities might sustain compassion in a post-pandemic world. Originality/value This paper extends disciplinary knowledge by considering the healing, transformative power of compassion within rural schools and communities – not just in response to COVID-19 but in response to all future adversities.


2022 ◽  
pp. 283-294
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asim Qayyum ◽  
Mohamed Taher

A Whole Person Approach (WPA) can be used in various parts of LAM (Libraries, Archives, and Museums) sector to provide effective services for underserved groups of society to achieve civic engagement with the communities it serves. WPA is a relatively new theoretical framework in the fields of social science and healthcare. It highlights the necessity and importance of having a holistic view in dealing with different life matters and challenges. This chapter focuses on the special services that LAM sector can offer to facilitate the way towards achieving the goal of enhanced civic engagement, as serving the unserved groups of society is an urgent priority for the sector. Several Creative strategies will be discussed that can be implemented in the current services to make sure the special needs of communities that a sector serves are considered and met. A limitation of this chapter is that it is not a case study, nor is it based on field experiences. It is in fact a critical exploration of the concepts to facilitate in building a theory in an interdisciplinary perspective.


2022 ◽  
pp. 188-224
Author(s):  
Aşkın Özdağoğlu ◽  
Murat Kemal Keleş ◽  
Barış Işıldak

Technological and social developments cause the birth and death rates to decrease. This has a direct effect on the increase in the rate of old age in the total population. In Turkey like in other countries, they face various problems in transportation in addition to education, health, justice, and social security. Therefore, the airline companies should provide some special services to elderly individuals in terms of accessibility and usability for their websites. This chapter aims to examine the accessibility of websites of airline companies for 65 and older individuals. Then, the second aim of this chapter is to determine the criteria for accessibility and alternatives. Then the next aim of this chapter is to determine the weights of these criteria and evaluate the alternatives with multi-criteria decision-making methods. The best airline company for airline website according to OWA, WASPAS, WSM, and WPM methods is Alternative 1.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-28
Author(s):  
Piotr Chlebowicz

The article attempts to describe the use of organised crime to achieve the political goals of the Russian Federation. This phenomenon escapes unambiguous scientific classifications and has an eminently interdisciplinary character. This is because organised crime is usually analysed in the classical criminological literature as a pathology the state fights. However, it turns out that organised crime structures can be an element of the foreign policy carried out by covert and illegal means. Therefore, the criminological perspective should be supplemented with a viewpoint of political and security sciences. The direct inspiration for this paper came from the analyses carried out by Galeotti, an expert in security and international relations. It refers to the practical manifestations of the activities of Russian special services: SVR, GRU and FSB, in which Russian-speaking criminal networks are used. The author believes it can be analysed in terms of the concept known in the Anglo-Saxon scientific circle as a so-called state crime.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Setya Raharja ◽  
Meilina Bustari ◽  
Rahmat Fadhli

To implement inclusive education, schools need to provide a range of services for students with disabilities. One component that must be adapted is the school library, which must also create an inclusive environment so students with disabilities can access it. This research aimed to examine and explore school libraries’ readiness to provide services for students with disabilities. This was qualitative research. The research was conducted in five school libraries in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. Data were collected through library accessibility checklist forms from IFLA, in-depth interviews, and documentation analysis. Ten informants participated, while documentation was examined from school-owned documents, websites, and school library profile videos. The results showed that only two school libraries were well prepared to provide services for students with disabilities, one of which already provided special services for people with disabilities. In contrast, other libraries have not provided services for students with disabilities because there is no need for internal schools. However, some of the school libraries have done mapping and planned the needs for developing disability services to optimize library services. Keywords: school library, library service, accessibility, students with disabilities


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Oleg G. Karpovich

Abstract: Russia consistently supports the return of interstate cooperation to the framework of generally recognized principles and norms of international law with the central coordinating role of the United Nations. Russia insists on stopping the "hunting" of American special services for Russian citizens in third countries, returning them to their homeland, who were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in the United States under far-fetched pretexts. It is necessary to correct the problems artificially created by Washington with cooperation on legal assistance, to normalize the conditions for the functioning of our diplomatic and consular institutions in the United States.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Dian Palupi Restuputri ◽  
Giant Robby Nugroho

Person with disabilities who are referred to as disabled people, are often regarded as unproductive citizens, unable to carry out their duties and responsibilities so that their rights are ignored. About 15 percent of the world's population are people with disabilities - more than one billion people. They are considered the largest minority group in the world. Persons with disabilities are often excluded from education, vocational training and employment opportunities. In reality, there are not many public facilities or special services provided to persons with disabilities. One of them is in the aspect of education. In public facilities, namely education, there are not many education buildings or educational providers that have facilities and infrastructure that can support people with disabilities. As for mobility equipment that can help people with disabilities on both legs, namely crutches, walking sticks, walkers, and wheelchairs that aim to help and facilitate their mobility. But the wheelchair that is available in the market today only has a limited function of moving left, right, and spinning, the function can not be maximized to help the movement of persons with disabilities there are some activities that cannot be done such as reaching higher objects, moving the body from a wheelchair to another seat, through the stairs / steps. Therefore we need a product design that starts from the preparation of product concepts from old products that will be modified into a new product to meet the needs of the market / people with disabilities.


Author(s):  
Ganna Sabadosh

In article theoretical and empirical methods of research have been used: essence of the concepts «innovation», «innovative activity», «innovative process», etc. are considered by the author. Classifications of innovations by various signs are investigated. Introductions of an innovative component to technology of food and the offer of special services, application of the interactive (electronic) menu of the screen tablet on tables, the touch display, application of a QR code in marketing of the enterprise, the LED technology of the notification, food 3-D printers, touch producers of food, use of three-dimensional projections for demonstration of preparation of dishes, automation and informatization of processes at the enterprises, use of web and telecommunication technologies is analyzed in the article. The main directions of development of modern technologies in institutions of restaurant economy are: creation of restaurants as Free Floor; opening of food-courts; creation of the conceptual enterprises of restaurant economy; expansion of a network of the virtual restaurants providing the order on the Internet and delivery to the consumer; preparations of dishes in the presence of visitors; organization of service for system catering and others. New ideas, advanced restaurant products and services, technological processes, forms of the organization and management will be result of innovative development of institutions of restaurant economy. Introduction of innovations isn`t cheap, however having offered exclusive menus and services for clients, restaurant institutions are capable to ensure a survival and profit. Processes of high-quality transformation of the sphere in general and ensuring competitiveness of her separate objects are result of introduction of innovative technologies of rendering of services and formation of service according to modern requirements. Innovative development of restaurant technologies increases competitiveness of an institution in modern severe conditions. It is necessary to pay attention to the main current trends of development of science and equipment, a novelty and the invention in food sphere and in the market of services.


Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6(75)) ◽  
pp. 307-324
Author(s):  
Mateusz Kolaszyński

Civilian Control Over Secret Services in Poland from the Perspective of Three Decades of Their Operation The article aims to analyze the current status of civilian control over intelligence services. The years 1990-1991 marked the beginning of a comprehensive transformation of this area of state activity. The article analyses the following issues: how hev the critical problems of civilian control over intelligence services been resolved across the three decades of their operation and to what extent the political system has been transformed in this area? The article consists of four main parts. The first discusses the concept of “special services” which signify specific institutional solutions in Poland. The following parts are organized according to the basic types of civilian control, i.e., executive control, parliamentary oversight, and independent oversight. The considerations focus on the institutional dimension of security. The article is analytical. It is prepared based on the available sources and literature.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-800
Author(s):  
Ardiyansah Yulinar Firdaus

Each student has different characteristics, so different services are needed in optimizing their potential and minimizing their limitations, one of which is the slow learner. Slow learners are not stupid children, they are only slow in learning because of the obstacles and limitations they have. Slow learner also has potential that can be developed, so that special services are needed in learning, for example with the help of media that is in accordance with the problem at hand. For this reason, the authors are interested in developing media that can facilitate slow learner students at SD Negeri Sen Asen 1. This media development uses the ADDIE model design, namely analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. The result of this development is in the form of MMB AR media based on Augmented reality which can be operated via a smartphone as an effort to facilitate the limitations of slow learner students in understanding whole number material. From the results of the validation, MBB AR media is very feasible to use and in its implementation, MBB AR media is very effective, because it can improve numeracy literacy in whole number material, can greatly improve digital literacy and is very good at increasing the character of self-confidence, discipline, and slow learner student cooperation.


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