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Motivational Impact of Environmental Management on the Environmental Awareness in a Workplace
2021
PURPOSE: The aim of this article is to determine the level of motivational impact of environmental management (EM) on the environmental awareness of employees.
Ergonomics Awareness and Employee Performance: An Exploratory Study
2017
The study examined the effects of ergonomics on employee performance by ascertaining the level of ergonomics awareness in Nigerian organizations, identifying the factors hindering the use of ergonomic, and the best practices and methods adopted by various organizations across industries. Despite a knowledge of importance to a growing number of researchers in Nigeria, there is still a dearth in knowledge of ergonomics design and its implementation in Nigeria. This can be observed in the low level of its adoption. The study adopted an exploratory approach through the review of literature. It was seen that several factors have hindered the efficient implementation of ergonomics in Nigeria whic…
FINDR: Low-Cost Indoor Positioning Using FM Radio
2009
This paper presents an indoor positioning system based on FM radio. The system is built upon commercially available, short-range FM transmitters. The features of the FM radio which make it distinct from other localisation technologies are discussed. Despite the low cost and off-the-shelf components, the performance of the FM positioning is comparable to that of other positioning technologies (such as Wi-Fi). From our experiments, the median accuracy of the system is around 1.3 m and in 95% of cases the error is below 4.5 m.
Social support for collaboration and group awareness in life science research teams
2019
Background Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have revolutionarily reshaped the landscape of ’-omics’ research areas. They produce a plethora of information requiring specific knowledge in sample preparation, analysis and characterization. Additionally, expertise and competencies are required when using bioinformatics tools and methods for efficient analysis, interpretation, and visualization of data. These skills are rarely covered in a single laboratory. More often the samples are isolated and purified in a first laboratory, sequencing is performed by a private company or a specialized lab, while the produced data are analyzed by a third group of researchers. In this scenario, …
A model of Cyber Threat Information Sharing with the Novel Network Topology
2021
The digitized environments are particularly vulnerable to various attacks. In such a situation of a security attack, detecting and responding to attacks require effective actions. One of the most significant ways to improve resilience to security attacks is to obtain accurate and timely situational aspect of the security awareness. The efficient production and utilization of situation information is achieved by sharing information with other actors in the information sharing network quickly and reliably without compromising the confidential information of one's own organization. At the same time, it should also be possible to avoid a flood of irrelevant information in the sharing network, w…
An Iterative Information Retrieval Approach from Social Media in Crisis Situations
2019
During to past few years, social media have gained a pivotal role in crisis communication. Its usage has ranged from informing the public about the status of a crisis and what precaution need to be taken, to family members checking on the safety of loved ones. Despite the widespread use of social media in crises situations and the clear potential benefit from collecting potential critical information from social media, emergency management services (EMSs) are still reluctant to use social media as a source of information to improve their situational awareness. One of the reasons for the reluctance is that crises management are typically overloaded with information. Adding social media will …
El Proyecto de Innovación SAME: el fomento de la Responsabilidad Social Universitaria en el alumnado de la Universidad de Valencia.
2018
[EN] Nowadays, the right to quality education remains an aim within the international agendas. In the mission to defense this right, the Global Campaign for Education arises, as an initiative of civil and political awareness for the entitlement. Through the Educational Innovation project of the Global Action Week for Education (GAWE), which is included in this international campaign, from the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the University of Valencia and in collaboration with the Coordination of the campaign in the Comunidad Valenciana we intend to give visibility to the fight for the right to quality education. Among the activities developed to achieve this goal, workshops …
Emotion Regulation and Mentalization in Somatoform Disorders
2010
Alexithymia, characterized by deficits in the awareness and differentiation of emotional states, is hypothesized as underlying somatoform disorders. Mentalization as a construct investigated in cognitive psychology is defined as the ability to refer mental states of others in order to predict their behavior. Developmental psychologists claim that the ability to represent emotions mentally is the cornerstone for the emergence of mentalizing capacity. Therefore, linking alexithymia and mentalization, it is argued that patients with somatoform disorders may not only be hampered in their ability to be consciously aware of their emotions, but may also suffer from deficits in mentalizing capacity…
Lisää taitoja ja mahdollisuuksia varhaiskasvatukseen: Tavoitteena tasa-arvoisempi ja kielitietoisempi varhaiskasvatus
2021
Kasvatuksellisen ja koulutuksellisen tasa-arvon toteutuminen monikielistyvässä Suomessa edellyttää entistä kielitietoisempaa varhaiskasvatusta (Puukko ym., 2019). Monikulttuurisuuden kohtaaminen on arvioitu yhdeksi keskeisimmäksi varhaiskasvatuksen tulevaisuuden osaamistaidoksi (Karila ym., 2013), ja monikielisyyden lisääntyminen haastaa ja kannustaa kehittämään entistä sensitiivisempiä, vuorovaikutuksellisia pedagogisia käytänteitä (Karila, 2016). Teimme keväällä 2017 verkkokyselyn, jonka tavoitteena oli kerätä tietoa ja näkökulmia monikielisyyden kohtaamisesta sekä kielitietoisista työskentelytavoista suomalaisessa varhaiskasvatuksessa. Kysely oli suunnattu monikielisessä lapsiryhmässä ty…
Letter knowledge predicts Grade 4 reading fluency and reading comprehension
2008
Abstract The present study examined the predictors of fourth graders' reading skills (reading comprehension, text reading and word chain reading). Reading skill antecedents of 158 children of 5–6 years of age were measured at the beginning of kindergarten; students' reading skills were measured in kindergarten and in Grades 1 and 4. The results showed that children's letter knowledge at the beginning of kindergarten was the most powerful predictor of their reading skills at the end of Grade 4. Other predictors were metacognitive awareness, gender, mother's level of education, and visual attention. Phonological awareness at kindergarten affected reading skills at Grade 4 through reading skil…