Search results for "AHA"

Drivers and outcomes of consumer engagement : Insights from mobile money usage in Ghana

2019

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the drivers of consumer engagement and its consequences via the experiences of mobile money services’ users in Ghana and to discuss its implications for the society, financial service innovation, delivery and operations. Design/methodology/approach A pre-tested survey instrument was used with a sample of 595 mobile money services users in Ghana. SmartPLS application was used to analyze the data and report findings. Findings The study shows that perceived risk, consumer empowerment, subjective norm, performance expectancy and effort expectancy influence the affect component of consumer engagement and explain around half of its variance. The ef…

Interacting effects of simulated eutrophication, temperature increase, and microplastic exposure on Daphnia

2020

The effects of multiple stressors are difficult to separate in field studies, and their interactions may be hard to predict if studied in isolation. We studied the effects of decreasing food quality (increase in cyanobacteria from 5 to 95% simulating eutrophication), temperature increase (by 3 °C), and microplastic exposure (1% of the diet) on survival, size, reproduction, and fatty acid composition of the model freshwater cladoceran Daphnia magna. We found that food quality was the major driver of Daphnia responses. When the amount of cyanobacteria increased from 5 to 95% of the diet, there was a drastic decrease in Daphnia survival (from 81 ± 15% to 24 ± 21%), juvenile size (from 1.8 ± 0.…

Teachers as frontline agents of integration: Finnish physical education students’ reflections on intercultural encounters

2018

Background and purpose: This article focuses on how future Physical Education and Dance teachers may be better prepared to work in increasingly diverse education environments. It also discusses how tertiary institutions might address issues of social inclusion and cultural pluralism within their programmes, courses and assignments. The authors critically reflect on an experiential learning intervention in Jyväskylä, Finland, in which trainee PE teachers facilitated kinaesthetic language-learning workshops for asylum seekers. The applied use of physical education and dance in this context was aimed at providing a distinct opportunity to consider a PE teacher’s professional competence and rol…

Online Density Estimation of Heterogeneous Data Streams in Higher Dimensions

2016

The joint density of a data stream is suitable for performing data mining tasks without having access to the original data. However, the methods proposed so far only target a small to medium number of variables, since their estimates rely on representing all the interdependencies between the variables of the data. High-dimensional data streams, which are becoming more and more frequent due to increasing numbers of interconnected devices, are, therefore, pushing these methods to their limits. To mitigate these limitations, we present an approach that projects the original data stream into a vector space and uses a set of representatives to provide an estimate. Due to the structure of the est…

Šaha uzdevumu ģenerēšana

2020

Bakalaura darbā aprakstīta šaha uzdevumu uzbūve un to veidošanas nosacījumi, tiek uzskaitītas uzdevumu kvalitātes iezīmes. Tiek pētīta šaha uzdevumu ģenerēšanas problēma un dažādās pieejas problēmas risināšanai. Darbā apskatītas jau esošas šaha uzdevumu ģenerēšanas metodes, kurās dažādos veidos tiek veikta arī attiecīgā šaha uzdevuma kvalitātes novērtēšana un veidotas jaunas pozīcijas, no kurām veidot uzdevumus. Tiek piedāvāts praktisks risinājums šaha uzdevumu ģenerēšanas problēmai, kā arī aprakstīti sarežģītākie aspekti un to iespējamie risinājumi un uzlabojumi uzdevuma izpildē. Atslēgvārdi: šaha uzdevums, šaha uzdevuma estē…

Ciało, trup, śmierć w utworze "Götz i Meyer" Davida Albahariego

2019

The article investigates the broadly understood record of Jewish death that emerges from the text of the Serbian prose writer David Albahari. Emphasizing the dominance of economy in the Nazi system, the author indicates those procedures described in Albahari’s book which justify such an assessment (e.g. human reification, the body as debris, technical syntax used by German officials). Additionally, these considerations on death representation are supplemented with an endeavor to establish the Belgrade dwellers’ attitude towards the fortunes of the Jews. According to the author, the novel explicitly marks the spatial opposition (enclosure vs. opening, the camp vs. the city center) that is re…

Maahanmuuttajille rakentuvat ryhmät ja roolit asiantuntijapuheessa

2012

La participación en asociaciones de los inmigrantes africanos. Vías de interpretación del distanciamiento asociativo

2013

This article is focused on the reasons for non-participation of African population in immigrant associations. To understand this question, we conducted semi-structured interviews with persons who decided consciously no to participate in associations and organizations that worked with immigrants. All this work was developed in Catalonia, Valencia and Navarra, from a multilocal research perspective. We interpret the associative detachment, as a voluntary distancing based on the absence of information, lack of time, disenchantment, proprietorship activism, passively waiting, or because they are the only user population. Nevertheless, there are other factors of greater significance, as the poli…

Literacy and literacy practices: Plurilingual connected migrants and emerging literacy

2021

Abstract Recent migration towards Europe is characterized by the massive presence of adults whose educational paths have been interrupted and who are thus developing literacy for the first time in a new language. A literacy test elaborated at the University of Palermo, Italy, showed that, on a sample of 774 migrants, about 30 percent could not read and/or write short words. This test assessed the learners’ abilities to read and write, whether in the Roman alphabet or in other writing systems, and whether in Italian or in other languages of learners’ repertoires. These learners with emergent literacy mostly came from sub-Saharan Africa, an area characterized by diverse forms of multilinguali…

A Life Cycle Model of XML Documents

2014

Electronic documents produced in business processes are valuable information resources for organizations. In many cases they have to be accessible long after the life of the business processes or information systems in connection with which they were created. To improve the management and preservation of documents, organizations are deploying Extensible Markup Language (XML) as a standardized format for documents. The goal of this paper is to increase understanding of XML document management and provide a framework to enable the analysis and description of the management of XML documents throughout their life. We followed the design science approach. We introduce a document life cycle model…