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Beyond early: Decision support for improved typhoon warning systems
2015
International audience; Warnings can help prevent damage and harm if they are issued timely and provide information that help responders and population to adequately prepare for the disaster to come. Today, there are many indicator and sensor systems that are designed to reduce disaster risks, or issue early warnings. In this paper we analyze the different systems in the light of the initial decisions that need to be made in the response to sudden onset disasters. We outline challenges of current practices and methods, and provide an agenda for future research.To illustrate our approach, we present a case study of Typhoon Haiyan. Although meteorological services had issued warnings; relief …
Anàlisi sobre la figura/institució del Comissionat del menor: Pare d'Òrfens contemplada a la Llei 12/2008 de Protecció a la infància i l'adolescència…
2012
The concept / institution of the Commissioner for Children ' 'Pare d'Òrfens' appears for the first time in Valencia with Law 12/2008 on Protection of Children and Adolescents. The purpose of this article is to inform readers of the existence of this concept / institution, analysing the regulatory development that has taken place and comparing its performance with other similar concepts/institutions existing in other Spanish regions, in order to critically assess the work done in recent years. To close the paper, we give a number of conclusions drawn after completing the research on this concept / institution, including several general recommendations in the form of constructive criticism.
Challenging Transmission Modes of Teaching in Science Classrooms : Enhancing Learner-Centredness through Dialogicity
2017
There is an ongoing reform towards more inquiry-based teaching in school curriculum policy in South Africa. Reform towards more inquiry-based approaches is already integrated in pre-service teacher education programmes. As inquiry-based approaches have been gaining momentum worldwide, there is an increasing concern that dialogic interaction in classroom communication is being neglected. This is especially within teacher-orchestrated classroom interactions that should foster greater learner centredness and thus authentic scientific inquiry. In learner-centred teaching approaches, student contributions should be explicitly taken into account as part of classroom interactions in science. Learn…
Sharing and Other Illusions : Asymmetry in "Moments of Meeting"
2023
This chapter tackles the question of interpersonal understanding from the point of view of so-called “moments of meeting.” Coined by Daniel Stern and his colleagues, this term refers to specific and particularly intense experiential situations, where two (or more) persons attune to each other’s affective experiences, thus “cocreating” an experiential area that exists to these two individuals exclusively—a “shared private world,” as Stern puts it (Stern, 2004). While moments of meeting have attracted a lot of interest in research on psychotherapeutic change, clinical effectivity, and outcome, the usefulness of the concept in nonclinical discussions has been overlooked. The chapter fills in t…
Relations between Kindergarten Teachers’ Occupational Well-being and the Quality of Teacher-child Interactions
2020
Research Findings The aim of this study was to examine associations between two aspects of teachers’ occupational well-being, i.e., teaching-related stress and work engagement, and the quality of teacher–child interactions in Finnish kindergarten classrooms. Participants were 47 kindergarten teachers with their classrooms of 6-year-old children. Teacher–child interactions (i.e., emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support) were observed twice during the kindergarten year (fall and spring), using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS). In addition, teachers completed questionnaires on stress and work engagement. The results indicated that teaching-related st…
Examining Consumers’ Usage Intention of Contactless Payment Systems
2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a conceptual model that combines the modified Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) with a consumer brand engagement (CBE) model to predict consumers’ usage intentions toward contactless payment systems in a developed country. Design/methodology/approach The authors cooperated with a contactless payment service provider in Finland and reached out to 22,000 customers, resulting in 1,165 usable responses. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings The study shows that the UTAUT2 and the CBE model together explain approximately 70 percent of the variance in usage intention. Of the…
Reinforcement of brand relationships in an omnichannel environment: a qualitative study on clothing shopping
2022
Today’s brands operate in an omnichannel environment consisting of different online and offline channels where the brand can be experienced. This qualitative study investigates brand relationship reinforcement in the omnichannel environment among customers of a Finnish clothing brand, R-Collection. The data collection was conducted in 2021 by interviewing ten customers of R-Collection. We examined the brand relationship reinforcement in four channels: brick-and-mortar (B&M), online store, social media, and second hand. The findings show that brand relationships can be rein-forced differently in these channels. In B&M stores, sensing the quality of clothing, a customer experience that meets …
Jaunāko skolēnu vērtību izpratni veicinošu literāro darbu izvēle
2021
Bakalaura darba autore: Baiba Mežule Darba temats: ir : „ Jaunāko skolēnu vērtību izpratni veicinošu literāro darbu izvēle”. Darba mērķis - pētīt literāru darbu izvēles nosacījumus saistībā ar vērtību izpratnes veicināšanu jaunākiem skolēniem un veikt praktisko pētījumu. Pētījuma uzdevumi: Darbā tiek analizēta literāru darbu izvēle sākumskolēnu jaunāko klašu vērtību izpratnes veicināšanai. Tika veikts pētījums, kurā aprakstīta jaunāko klašu skolēnu vērtību attīstības dinamika, vērtību veicināšanai izmantojot literārus darbus. Pētījuma bāze: Sākumskolas 4. klases 15 skolēni. Galvenie rezultāti: Empīriskā pētījuma rezultāti apstiprināja izvirzīto hipotēzi, ka skolēnu vērtību izpratne attīstās…
Kształcenie akademickie a niepełnosprawność - aktualny problem współczesnej edukacji
2018
Wybór kierunku kształcenia, dokonywany przez młodego człowieka, powinien być determinowany jego indywidualnymi predyspozycjami, możliwościami psychofizycznymi oraz sprecyzowanymi potrzebami i celami życiowymi. Powyższe założenie odnosi się również do osób z niepełnosprawnością. Zgodnie z przyjętą i propagowaną ideą normalizacji, to nie sam człowiek, ale środowisko go otaczające ma zostać przygotowane tak, aby każdy student mógł kształcić się na wybranym przez siebie kierunku. Zatem uczelnie wyższe zaczęły otwierać się dla osób z niepełnosprawnością, a kształcenie na tym poziomie stało się oczekiwanym standardem. Celem artykułu jest ukazanie znaczenia możliwości kształcenia na poziomie wyższ…