An Evolutionary Textual Environment

This article introduces the notion of evolutionary textual environment as the outcome of a digital experiment. The experiment consisted of transforming a digital archive of Fernando Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet into a changing textual space sustained by role-playing interactions. As conceptual and technical artifact, this living archive expresses an innovative model not only for the literary acts of reading, editing and writing, but also for reimagining the book as a network of reconfigurable and dynamic texts, structures, and actions. The programmed features of the LdoD Archive can be used in multiple activities, including leisure reading, study, analysis, advanced research, and creative writing. Through the integration of computational tools in a simulation space, this collaborative archive provides an open exploration of the procedurality of the digital medium itself. The “unfinished machine” metaphor suggests the open-endedness both of the evolving textual environment and of the computational modeling of literary performativity that sustains the whole experiment.

Modelling Mobile Experience in Chinese Language Learning

To model mobile experience is one of the three-step 3M approach proposed by Xu for mobile experience research. Equipped with the three-step 3M approach and based the factor-stage-dimension framework, this chapter proposes an innovative model to locate predictors of mobile experience in applying mobile technologies to Chinese language learning. By refining the factor-stage-dimension frame and the proposed innovative model, this chapter invites further global efforts to compare mobile learning experience in Chinese language learning for securing further discoveries of more effective and powerful ways to describe, explain, and predict mobile learning experience.

FH&P RATING MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION WITHIN THE SLOVAK SPA ENTERPRISES

The aim of the paper is to propose a suitable structure of the newly designed Financial Health & Prediction (FH&P) rating model, and by putting it into practice in Slovak spa enterprises, to contribute to the development of financial management concepts for spa facilities operating in the field of tourism. The quantification of individual dimensions of the FH&P rating model was based on the calculation of selected ten key financial ratio indicators and prediction models. The values (in different units of measure) were converted to points using compiled transformation tables which formed the final score of the FH&P rating model and subsequently the proposed A-FX rating. Based on the results, Kúpele Bojnice, Inc. (SE03), Špecializovaný liečebný ústav Marína, s.e. (SE21) and Kúpele Nimnica, Inc. (SE07) received the best rating. This innovative model provides financial managers actual, simple and understandable overview of the financial health of a spa company and its future financial perspective. With a several adjustments, the FH&P rating model is easily applicable in any economic sector of Slovakia.

TSF radio live - the journalistic coverage of the Chiado fire in Lisbon (1988)

On 25 August 1988, a fire broke out in the Chiado area of Lisbon. It is considered one of the biggest fires in an urban area in Portugal, having destroyed a vast built historical heritage and caused several victims. The Portuguese news radio, TSF, was the first media outlet to report the news by starting a long special live emission putting into practice an innovative model of radio journalism for that time in Portugal which was based on the priority given to live informative reporting. The experience of this long live report was replicated in the following years by TSF in the coverage of other events. In this article, we analyse TSF's live coverage of the fire and reflect on the role of this experience in the journalistic model implemented by the radio in the following years.

Developing environmental integration teaching materials to improve cognitive flexibility

This study aims to develop an innovative model of environmental integration learning in boosting cognitive flexibility. The research method used a Research & Development with the Dick and Carey development model. The sampling technique uses random sampling techniques. There are two groups of teachers. Data analysis used descriptive statistics and t-test to verify product differences and effectiveness. The output is in the form of teaching materials for environmental education learning strategies. Results showed that there was a very significant difference between the post-pre-test treatment score 19.68, higher than the post-pre-test score of the control 9,12. There was an increase in teachers' cognitive flexibility about environmental integration learning effectively and significantly after reading the teaching materials.

Pharmacists and telemedicine: an innovative model fulfilling Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The lack of access to safe medicines and quality healthcare services in peri-urban and rural areas is a major challenge driving a health system to innovate new models of care. This commentary will discuss the implementation and impact of the “Guddi baji” tele-pharmacy model, a project piloted by doctHERs, one of Pakistan’s leading telemedicine organizations. This innovative model has described the reintegration of women into the workforce by leveraging technology to improve the level of primary health care services and contributes to safe medication practice in a remote area. Our intervention proposed the deployment of technology-enabled, female frontline health workers known as the Guddi baji (meaning The Good Sister) in a rural village. They serve as an “access point to health care” that is linked to a remotely located health care professional; a licensed doctor or a pharmacist within this model.

System arrangement of labor motivation and methodological approaches to the comprehensive assessment during the stage of innovative changes

Purpose of the research. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the basic theoretical provisions of the formation of labor motivation and methodological approaches to its complex assessment at the stage of innovative changes in the economy. Methodology. In the course of the research general theoretical methods were used: dialectical for knowledge of economic processes; systematic and institutional approaches for the implementation of theoretical generalizations and conclusions in determining the components of the system of labor motivation and factors of its development, to assess the experience of developed countries in the construction of a system of labor motivation in the conditions of an innovative model of the economy. Results. The essence and peculiarities of formation of the mechanism of labor motivation in the conditions of innovative development are investigated in the article. The system of methods, which application will increase the level of motivation of employees, is distinguished. The necessity of objective evaluation of the effectiveness of methods of work motivation and the system of work motivation using quantitative and qualitative indicators is proved. Practical meaning. The proposed methodology of comprehensive evaluation of the system of labor motivation can be used in the formation and improvement of the system of labor motivation, taking into account the peculiarities of innovative development of the economy and the innovative direction of the activities of economic entities. Prospects for further research. The prospect of further research should be to improve the socio-economic mechanism of labor motivation in the conditions of formation of an innovative model of economy.