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Vuran, Mehmet C., Wendi Heinzelman, Jun-Hong Cui, Gilles Y. Delisle, Martine Lienard, and Cedric Westphal. "Special Issue on Wireless Communications and Networking in Challenged Environments." Ad Hoc Networks 11, no. 4 (June 2013): 1433–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2013.03.011.
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Hughes, Janette Michelle, Laura Jane Morrison, and Cornelia Hoogland. "You Don’t Know Me: Adolescent Identity Development Through Poetry Performance." in education 20, no. 2 (October 24, 2014): 59–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.37119/ojs2014.v20i2.160.
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Our study concerns adolescents using poetry writing as an interrogative and creative means of shaping and creating “voices” or “identities.” Toronto-based high school students were challenged to be creators (rather than solely consumers) of available social practices within a digital landscape using mobile devices and social networking platforms. The students engaged in the processes of creating poetry that included experimentation with form (including spoken word, found, and rhyming couplet poetry), research, and writing-induced challenges of received ideas. Their creations of their multiple “Resonant Voices,” which in some cases were powerful statements of self-discovery and social criticism, were further amplified because they occurred in a formal educational setting.Keywords: adolescents; identity; digital literacies; multiliteracies; poetry; social practices; social networking sites; Facebook; pedagogy; mobile devices; Android app; poetic inquiry; metacognitive
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Jonathan, Victoria. "Social Networking of Owner-Managers in Small Accommodation in Malaysia: Implications for HRD." Journal of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development 3, no. 2 (June 14, 2018): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.33736/jcshd.784.2018.
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Small accommodation providers are challenged to grow their business due to their limited resources. Although social networking is suggested to assist organization growth, few studies have focused on how owner-managers in the Malaysian hospitality industry network and the value they attach to it. This paper presents findings of 10 in-depth interviews of social networking motivation and barrier of owner-managers of small accommodation in Kuching, Malaysia. The findings show that the owner-managers were motivated by the perceived organizational and personal benefits of networking with others. However, issues such as social competence and business concerns were identified as barriers that may limit their participation in networking. To overcome these issues, it is suggested that educators, policymakers, and trade associations work together with the owner-managers to address their specific development and resource needs.
Keywords: Social networking; small firm; SME; entrepreneur; Malaysia
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Oishi, Shigehiro, and Selin Kesebir. "Optimal Social-Networking Strategy Is a Function of Socioeconomic Conditions." Psychological Science 23, no. 12 (November 5, 2012): 1542–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797612446708.
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In the two studies reported here, we examined the relation among residential mobility, economic conditions, and optimal social-networking strategy. In Study 1, a computer simulation showed that regardless of economic conditions, having a broad social network with weak friendship ties is advantageous when friends are likely to move away. By contrast, having a small social network with deep friendship ties is advantageous when the economy is unstable but friends are not likely to move away. In Study 2, we examined the validity of the computer simulation using a sample of American adults. Results were consistent with the simulation: American adults living in a zip code where people are residentially stable but economically challenged were happier if they had a narrow but deep social network, whereas in other socioeconomic conditions, people were generally happier if they had a broad but shallow networking strategy. Together, our studies demonstrate that the optimal social-networking strategy varies as a function of socioeconomic conditions.
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Lent, Ricardo. "A Cognitive Anycast Routing Method for Delay-Tolerant Networks." Network 1, no. 2 (July 30, 2021): 116–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/network1020008.
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A cognitive networking approach to the anycast routing problem for delay-tolerant networking (DTN) is proposed. The method is suitable for the space–ground and other domains where communications are recurrently challenged by diverse link impairments, including long propagation delays, communication asymmetry, and lengthy disruptions. The proposed method delivers data bundles achieving low delays by avoiding, whenever possible, link congestion and long wait times for contacts to become active, and without the need of duplicating data bundles. Network gateways use a spiking neural network (SNN) to decide the optimal outbound link for each bundle. The SNN is regularly updated to reflect the expected cost of the routing decisions, which helps to fine-tune future decisions. The method is decentralized and selects both the anycast group member to be used as the sink and the path to reach that node. A series of experiments were carried out on a network testbed to evaluate the method. The results demonstrate its performance advantage over unicast routing, as anycast routing is not yet supported by the current DTN standard (Contact Graph Routing). The proposed approach yields improved performance for space applications that require as-fast-as-possible data returns.
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Eicker, Friedhelm, and Martin Hartmann. "Regional Network Learning in Vocational Education and Training." Industry and Higher Education 16, no. 6 (December 2002): 369–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000002101296531.
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The vocational education system in Germany is challenged by the wide range of societal demands made on it. The current organizational structure of the ‘Dual System’ of vocational education is too rigid. Teaching in vocational schools and the parallel company apprenticeships are too isolated from each other. Educational provision thus follows the systemic logic of this separation: there is inadequate and only superficial cooperation between school and firm. This paper recommends a change in approach from cooperation to networking. Based on the theoretical instrument of a ‘reflection step model’, an approach for bringing the two sectors together is developed. Examples are given of two research projects that indicate the potential of this approach.
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Belgaum, Mohammad Riyaz, Zainab Alansari, Shahrulniza Musa, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, and M. S. Mazliham. "Role of artificial intelligence in cloud computing, IoT and SDN: Reliability and scalability issues." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 11, no. 5 (October 1, 2021): 4458. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v11i5.pp4458-4470.
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Information technology fields are now more dominated by artificial intelligence, as it is playing a key role in terms of providing better services. The inherent strengths of artificial intelligence are driving the companies into a modern, decisive, secure, and insight-driven arena to address the current and future challenges. The key technologies like cloud, internet of things (IoT), and software-defined networking (SDN) are emerging as future applications and rendering benefits to the society. Integrating artificial intelligence with these innovations with scalability brings beneficiaries to the next level of efficiency. Data generated from the heterogeneous devices are received, exchanged, stored, managed, and analyzed to automate and improve the performance of the overall system and be more reliable. Although these new technologies are not free of their limitations, nevertheless, the synthesis of technologies has been challenged and has put forth many challenges in terms of scalability and reliability. Therefore, this paper discusses the role of artificial intelligence (AI) along with issues and opportunities confronting all communities for incorporating the integration of these technologies in terms of reliability and scalability. This paper puts forward the future directions related to scalability and reliability concerns during the integration of the above-mentioned technologies and enable the researchers to address the current research gaps.
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Lamanauskas, Vincentas, Dragos Daniel Iordache, and Costin Pribeanu. "SOCIAL INFLUENCE AND DEPENDENCE IN THE FACEBOOK USE BY ROMANIAN AND LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS." Problems of Education in the 21st Century 75, no. 4 (August 20, 2017): 354–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pec/17.75.354.
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The time spent on Facebook by university students is continuously increasing. This fact is raising many questions as regards the relation between the social networking websites and the university. The educators are challenged to understand the factors that are driving the adoption of social networking websites, the characteristics of the daily use as well as the positive and negative effects on the university work. The social influence has been recognized as one of the factors that are driving the adoption of information systems. On another hand, the excessive use may lead to addiction. The first objective of this research is to explore the correlation between the social influence and the Facebook dependence. A model with these latent variables has been specified and tested on two samples of university students, the first from Romania and the second from Lithuania. The second objective of the research is to comparatively discuss the measures in each country. A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis has been carried on to test the configural and metric invariance. The comparison of means shows that university students reporting higher social influence have a higher risk of Facebook dependence. The comparative analysis revealed that for both variables, the mean values are higher for the Romanian sample. Keywords: e-learning process, Facebook dependence, invariance analysis, social influence.
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Griffin, Cassandra, Ricardo Vilain, Simon King, Sandy Nixon, Alisha Gooley, Samara Bray, James Lynam, Marjorie M. Walker, Rodney J. Scott, and Christine Paul. "Mind Over Matter: Confronting Challenges in Post-Mortem Brain Biobanking for Glioblastoma Multiforme." Biomarker Insights 16 (January 2021): 117727192110133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/11772719211013359.
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Over the past 10 years, there has been limited progress for the treatment of brain cancer and outcomes for patients are not much improved. For brain cancer researchers, a major obstacle to biomarker driven research is limited access to brain cancer tissue for research purposes. The Mark Hughes Foundation Brain Biobank is one of the first post-mortem adult brain banks in Australia to operate with protocols specifically developed for brain cancer. Located within the Hunter New England Local Health District and operated by Hunter Cancer Biobank, the boundaries of service provided by the Brain Bank extend well into the surrounding regional and rural areas of the Local Health District and beyond. Brain cancer biobanking is challenging. There are conflicting international guidelines for best practice and unanswered questions relating to scientific, psychosocial and operational practices. To address this challenge, a best practice model was developed, informed by a consensus of existing data but with consideration of the difficulties associated with operating in regional or resource poor settings. The regional application of this model was challenged following the presentation of a donor located in a remote area, 380km away from the biobank. This required biobank staff to overcome numerous obstacles including long distance patient transport, lack of palliative care staff, death in the home and limited rural outreach services. Through the establishment of shared goals, contingency planning and the development of an informal infrastructure, the donation was facilitated within the required timeframe. This experience demonstrates the importance of collaboration and networking to overcome resource insufficiency and geographical challenges in rural cancer research programmes.
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Pennington, Rosemary. "Social media as third spaces? Exploring Muslim identity and connection in Tumblr." International Communication Gazette 80, no. 7 (October 26, 2018): 620–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048518802208.
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Third spaces have been imagined as sites of resistance, where hegemonic and normative understandings of the world may be challenged. New media are often imagined to have this liberatory potential as well, particularly for those individuals who experience social, cultural, or political marginalization. This research considers whether social media might help facilitate third spaces. It takes as a case for exploring this topic the experience of 188 Muslim bloggers in social networking site Tumblr. Many of these individuals live in non-Muslim majority countries and say they sometimes feel stuck between identities. The qualitative analysis of their blogs, as well as interviews with 30 of the bloggers, seeks to understand how Tumblr can facilitate third spaces where these bloggers can explore the hybrid nature of their identities while connecting to others who share that experience.
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Klingelhöfer, Doris, Markus Braun, Dörthe Brüggmann, and David A. Groneberg. "The Pandemic Year 2020: World Map of Coronavirus Research." Journal of Medical Internet Research 23, no. 9 (September 8, 2021): e30692. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/30692.
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Background SARS-CoV-2 is one of the most threatening pandemics in human history. As of the date of this analysis, it had claimed about 2 million lives worldwide, and the number is rising sharply. Governments, societies, and scientists are equally challenged under this burden. Objective This study aimed to map global coronavirus research in 2020 according to various influencing factors to highlight incentives or necessities for further research. Methods The application of established and advanced bibliometric methods combined with the visualization technique of density-equalizing mapping provided a global picture of incentives and efforts on coronavirus research in 2020. Countries’ funding patterns and their epidemiological and socioeconomic characteristics as well as their publication performance data were included. Results Research output exploded in 2020 with momentum, including citation and networking parameters. China and the United States were the countries with the highest publication performance. Globally, however, publication output correlated significantly with COVID-19 cases. Research funding has also increased immensely. Conclusions Nonetheless, the abrupt decline in publication efforts following previous coronavirus epidemics should demonstrate to global researchers that they should not lose interest even after containment, as the next epidemiological challenge is certain to come. Validated reporting worldwide and the inclusion of low-income countries are additionally important for a successful future research strategy.
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Massing, Christine, Anna Kirova, and Kelly Hennig. "The Role of First Language Facilitators in Redefining Parent Involvement: Newcomer Families’ Funds of Knowledge in an Intercultural Preschool Program." Journal of Childhood Studies 38, no. 2 (February 17, 2016): 4–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/jcs.v38i2.15445.
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Involving immigrant and refugee families is a desirable goal of ECEprograms in Canada; however, families are typically brought into aprescriptive, defined space framed by Euro-North American standards of developmental appropriateness. Within this space, immigrant and refugee families’ funds of cultural knowledge are systematically marginalized. An intercultural preschool program, in which English was the common language alongside three otherlanguages, aimed at enhancing the children’s knowledge and pride intheir home languages and cultures; the program challenged the conventional view of parental involvement. First language facilitators and cultural brokers acted as conduits between home and preschool and supported social networking within each of the three cultural communities represented in the program. Drawing on data collected through ethnographic methods during a unit on babies as part of an emergent curriculum, the authors describe how the facilitators and brokers brought newcomer families’ knowledge funds into the classroom and curriculum, resulting in a culturally sustaining pedagogy.
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Brinkley, Julian, and Nasseh Tabrizi. "A Desktop Usability Evaluation of the Facebook Mobile Interface using the JAWS Screen Reader with Blind Users." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 61, no. 1 (September 2017): 828–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541931213601699.
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Social networking sites (SNSs) like Facebook are widely used and have been broadly studied but despite years of investigation, accessibility complaints from individuals with visual impairments continue to persist. To investigate this issue we have conducted a quasi-ethnographic usability evaluation of Facebook involving blind participants, the mobile interface ( m.facebook.com ) and the JAWS screen reader on a desktop computer; a configuration that has been suggested in the related literature but insufficiently investigated. Six participants attempted 18 tasks designed to be representative of common SNS user activities. Of the features evaluated participants were most severely challenged by the process of creating a user profile and identifying other users with whom to establish relationships; two of the three core activities commonly viewed as characterizing SNSs. These findings suggest that despite recent progress additional research may be needed to make Facebook truly accessible for individuals with visual impairments.
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Osman, Mohammed, and Josep Mangues-Bafalluy. "Hybrid SDN Performance: Switching between Centralized and Distributed Modes under Unreliable Control Communication Channels." Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks 10, no. 3 (August 20, 2021): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jsan10030057.
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Software-defined networking generally assumes ideal control channels between controller and network nodes. This may not be the case in challenged environments that are becoming more common due to dense and reduced-coverage 5G deployments and use cases requiring cost-effective wireless transport networks. In this paper, we evaluate the impact on network performance of unreliable controller-to-node communication channels, propose a hybrid SDN (hSDN) solution that switches between centralized and distributed operational modes depending on network conditions, and evaluate this solution under a variety of network scenarios (e.g., link impairments or packet loss ratios) designed to assess its operational limits. The results show that the proposed solution substantially improved the aggregated throughput, particularly when control channel packet loss ratios increased, while only showing a slight increase in average latency (e.g., 28% throughput improvement for 20% control packet losses). This enables network operation in hard conditions under which a canonical centralized SDN control would result in a nonoperational network.
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Al-Salman, Saleh M. "Has the Power of Language been Compromised by the Influence of Social Media?" Studies in English Language Teaching 5, no. 2 (April 5, 2017): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/selt.v5n2p172.
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<p><em>In discrete linguistic terminology, the power of discourse hinges on hedging together a host of key elements including conversational maxims, speech acts, situational context, reference, pragmatics, and language functions. The main instruments which lend power to these elements feature an elaborate array of lexis, grammar, phonology, and graphology. Another source of power in discourse resides in the personal characteristics of the participants/interlocutors in persuading and reaching out to their audience. In the last decade, however, the pure linguistic influence on discourse has been minimized and challenged by the growing power of social media in shaping and influencing all discourse types.</em></p><p><em>This study investigates the role of social media and its networking websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. in influencing discourse. The study builds on the hypothesis that the different modes of social media communication have been effective in determining an individual person’s or a party’s power of discourse. Social media can create an alternative source of power which supports the creation of ideologies, cultural attitudes, and political views.</em><em></em></p><p><em>The data for the present study have been compiled from materials and information shared on You Tube, Facebook and other social networking applications. The data have also been drawn from tweets on political, social, cultural, human rights issues, presidential campaigns, recent waves of immigration, etc. The data were analyzed to show how the sharing of social media memes has done the work more efficiently than the most linguistically eloquent discourse.</em></p>
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Suárez-Varela, José, Miquel Ferriol-Galmés, Albert López, Paul Almasan, Guillermo Bernárdez, David Pujol-Perich, Krzysztof Rusek, et al. "The graph neural networking challenge." ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 51, no. 3 (July 11, 2021): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3477482.3477485.
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During the last decade, Machine Learning (ML) has increasingly become a hot topic in the field of Computer Networks and is expected to be gradually adopted for a plethora of control, monitoring and management tasks in real-world deployments. This poses the need to count on new generations of students, researchers and practitioners with a solid background in ML applied to networks. During 2020, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has organized the "ITU AI/ML in 5G challenge", an open global competition that has introduced to a broad audience some of the current main challenges in ML for networks. This large-scale initiative has gathered 23 different challenges proposed by network operators, equipment manufacturers and academia, and has attracted a total of 1300+ participants from 60+ countries. This paper narrates our experience organizing one of the proposed challenges: the "Graph Neural Networking Challenge 2020". We describe the problem presented to participants, the tools and resources provided, some organization aspects and participation statistics, an outline of the top-3 awarded solutions, and a summary with some lessons learned during all this journey. As a result, this challenge leaves a curated set of educational resources openly available to anyone interested in the topic.
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Cuervo, Javier Calero, and Ka U. Cheong. "Protecting the survival of local SMEs during rapid tourism growth: ongoing lessons from Macao." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 9, no. 3 (June 12, 2017): 316–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-02-2017-0009.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how rapid tourism growth in Macao affected local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The liberalization of the gaming industry to multinational corporations (MNCs) in 2002 led to a sevenfold increase in foreign direct investments (FDI) in Macao. Design/methodology/approach A survey grounded in issues concerning how SMEs adapt to the effects of FDI in Macao was carried out by interviewing managers of local SMEs, MNCs and an SME association. Information from various published sources was also consulted to complement and update the analyses. Findings Findings revealed that the emergence of investments by MNCs in Macao brought favorable and unfavorable effects to local SMEs. Local SMEs were challenged in terms of recruiting and retaining human resources, given the attractive salaries and training offered by MNCs. Equally challenging for local SMEs was the effect of economic growth on the costs of property space in Macao’s small territory. However, local SMEs have advantages when collaborating with MNCs as the former serves as important partners in networking. Local SMEs can collaborate quicker with their network of local stakeholders which MNCs lack and need. The government and various stakeholders will need to continue their role in developing the capacities and capabilities of local SMEs. Research limitations/implications The research study has important public policy implications on structuring the foreign labor and property needs of local SMEs. Originality/value This paper provides insights on the challenges SMEs in small-open economies experience during rapid tourism growth fueled by MNCs, and some policy recommendations are proposed.
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Teutsch, Doris, Philipp K. Masur, and Sabine Trepte. "Privacy in Mediated and Nonmediated Interpersonal Communication: How Subjective Concepts and Situational Perceptions Influence Behaviors." Social Media + Society 4, no. 2 (April 2018): 205630511876713. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305118767134.
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New communication media such as social networking sites (SNSs) and instant messengers (IMs) challenge users’ privacy perceptions. Technical infrastructures and the flow of digital information lead to novel privacy risks that individuals are often not acquainted with. Users’ subjective perceptions of privacy may thus be flawed and lead to irrational behavior. In this work, we investigated a concept that has been addressed only implicitly in academic research on privacy: the user’s subjective perception of a given level of privacy. We examined the literature on how privacy perceptions have been conceptualized in traditional theories of privacy and how these conceptualizations are challenged in social media communication. We first qualitatively explored laypeople’s privacy concepts and investigated their subjective perceptions of privacy levels and subsequent private disclosures in different mediated and nonmediated communication settings. Interviews with N = 33 Germans revealed that, similar to academic privacy theories, they tend to conceptualize privacy as control over social, physical, and psychological boundaries. However, trust and other-dependent privacy emerged as important novel aspects for understanding privacy regulation in online communication. We further found that individuals consistently perceived a high level of privacy in face-to-face situations and a low level of privacy in public communication on SNSs. With regard to IMs, however, their answers were mixed: Uncertainty regarding digital communication properties and audiences as well as limited control over the communication setting prevented a reliable and shared perception of the privacy level. With regard to privacy behavior and private disclosures, we found that people tend to adapt their sharing of private information to the perceived level of privacy.
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Lin, Chien-nai, Yu-Tzu Lin, and Ching-Cha Hsieh. "Unfolding the Diminishing Image Control in Online Self Presentation." International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking 3, no. 1 (January 2011): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jvcsn.2011010103.
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As the young generations grow up using applications like Facebook and as fans of social networking technologies, understanding the presentations of self in a virtual community becomes a worthwhile topic to be addressed. Drawing on the theory of dramaturgical theory (Goffman, 1959), this interpretive research was conducted to observe the self presentation of the participants in a virtual community to analyze their online behaviors and interactions. The observations found that only in the early stage of interaction, people can have a high degree of control over the ideal images creation; however, the clues to reveal actual images are accumulated over time and across cyberspaces. This research suggested that personal control over image delivery in a virtual community weakens over time, which challenged the assumption made by prior literature regarding how people have greater control in creating ideal images in the virtual community. The findings of this research could provide insight for people who use virtual community to search for credible personal information or to build ideal images. Besides, this research suggested that although Internet technologies facilitate access to a rich source of information, the convenience in information acquisition and verification comes at the expense of personal privacy.
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Davidson, Patricia M., Phillip J. Newton, Caleb Ferguson, John Daly, Doug Elliott, Caroline Homer, Christine Duffield, and Debra Jackson. "Rating and Ranking the Role of Bibliometrics and Webometrics in Nursing and Midwifery." Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/135812.
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Background. Bibliometrics are an essential aspect of measuring academic and organizational performance.Aim. This review seeks to describe methods for measuring bibliometrics, identify the strengths and limitations of methodologies, outline strategies for interpretation, summarise evaluation of nursing and midwifery performance, identify implications for metric of evaluation, and specify the implications for nursing and midwifery and implications of social networking for bibliometrics and measures of individual performance.Method. A review of electronic databases CINAHL, Medline, and Scopus was undertaken using search terms such as bibliometrics, nursing, and midwifery. The reference lists of retrieved articles and Internet sources and social media platforms were also examined.Results. A number of well-established, formal ways of assessment have been identified, includingh- andc-indices. Changes in publication practices and the use of the Internet have challenged traditional metrics of influence. Moreover, measuring impact beyond citation metrics is an increasing focus, with social media representing newer ways of establishing performance and impact.Conclusions. Even though a number of measures exist, no single bibliometric measure is perfect. Therefore, multiple approaches to evaluation are recommended. However, bibliometric approaches should not be the only measures upon which academic and scholarly performance are evaluated.
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Adlung, Shari, Margreth Lünenborg, and Christoph Raetzsch. "Pitching Gender in a Racist Tune: The Affective Publics of the #120decibel Campaign." Media and Communication 9, no. 2 (March 23, 2021): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i2.3749.
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This article analyses the changed structures, actors and modes of communication that characterise ‘dissonant public spheres.’ With the #120decibel campaign by the German Identitarian Movement in 2018, gender and migration were pitched in a racist tune, absorbing feminist concerns and positions into neo-nationalistic, misogynist and xenophobic propaganda. The article examines the case of #120decibel as an instance of ‘affective publics’ (Lünenborg, 2019a) where forms of feminist protest and emancipatory hashtag activism are absorbed by anti-migration campaigners. Employing the infrastructure and network logics of social media platforms, the campaign gained public exposure and sought political legitimacy through strategies of dissonance, in which a racial solidarity against the liberal state order was formed. Parallel structures of networking and echo-chamber amplification were established, where right-wing media articulate fringe positions in an attempt to protect the rights of white women to be safe in public spaces. #120decibel is analysed and discussed here as characteristic of the ambivalent role and dynamics of affective publics in societies challenged by an increasing number of actors forming an alliance on anti-migration issues based on questionable feminist positions.
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Goreczny, Sebastian, Ziyad M. Hijazi, Shakeel A. Qureshi, Mario Carminati, Damien Kenny, and Gareth J. Morgan. "Molding the shape of congenial and structural interventional cardiology: interviews with directors of major congresses." Cardiology in the Young 29, no. 8 (June 27, 2019): 1009–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s104795111900132x.
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AbstractThe range and number of educational and networking events that are available for fellows, trainees, and junior faculty to attend grows every year. Each meeting useful in its own way; each adding value to the development and the growth of an interventionist. Within paediatric, congenital, and structural heart disease, three of the standout meetings are: Pediatric and Interventional Cardiac Symposium (PICS-AICS), Congenital and Structural Interventions (CSI), and International Workshop on Interventional Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiology (IPC). All of these were started by leaders in our field; people known to be passionate educators and innovators. International congresses focusing more broadly on congenital cardiac disease in children and adults are rare. These forums allow more interdisciplinary discussions between the interventionist, surgeon, and non-invasive specialists. Purely interventional meetings are essential to allow colleagues to debate and explore the nuances and intricacies of technique and approach, developing concepts to be challenged in wider forums. During the recent 21st PICS-AICS meeting Prof. Ziyad M. Hijazi, Shakeel A. Qureshi, Mario Carminati, and Dr Damien Kenny shared their time to engage in frank, recorded conversations which provide a unique insight in to the process and concepts behind three of our most important educational congresses.
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Ahmadu Bolanle,, Folami,. "THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE MORALITY OF MUSLIM YOUTHS IN NIGERIA." Addaiyan Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 7, no. 7 (September 12, 2020): 10–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.36099/ajahss.2.7.2.
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The study aims at shedding light on the positive and negative effects of social media on the lives of Muslim youths’ in Nigeria. although, it is an avenue to reach out to people, gather and spread information to one another in the Muslim domain. However, the youths have also lost their dignity through it, because it is another avenue for fraudulent activities. The work examines the effects of both electronic and print media on the socio-religious spheres of Muslim youths. The ability to use the media for “ networking” has played a significant role in the lives of these youths. As technology continues to evolve, including the means to connect and communicate in cyberspace, young Muslims see it as an opportunity for them to be heard. The researcher employed the use of qualitative and quantitative data analysis in carrying out this study as well as conducting structural interviews inorder to elicit useful information. The research finally suggests that, despite the positive effects of social media on Muslim youths’ through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram WhatsApp, e.t.c in passing meaningful information across the board its negative effect of promoting moral decadence like character assassination, media violence, nudity, obscene movies and videos that have challenged the moral values of a practicing Muslim were not to be overlooked.
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RAMADANI, Ibrahim, Etnike DIBRANI, Dardan HOTI, and Ferim GASHI. "Opportunities for the development of cross-border tourism in South-East Europe: The case of Kosovo-Albania border." European Journal of Geography 11, no. 3 (December 13, 2020): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.48088/ejg.i.ram.11.3.43.55.
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This paper examines the regional and institutional opportunities for cross-border cooperation, networking and tourism development at the Kosovo- Albania border, which is one of the internal borders of the Albanian ethnic territory. Completion of the study confirms the hypothesis that closure of states within the classical boundaries causes obstacles, not only for the development of cross-border tourism, especially when viewed from the perspective of sustainable tourism development in this region. While, on the other hand, cross border cooperation enables exchanges of experiences, Ideas between communities, etc., and all this reflects on the economic prosperity of these areas. In the process of developing the countries of southern Europe, particular importance has been paid to settlements and infrastructure away from border areas, while border regions have remained underdeveloped and without prospects. Development has been challenged in many border areas, including all Balkan states, while these areas were abolished as a result of the population's departure. The idea in this case study, aims to "create" the unique tourist zone "Green Albania" between the two countries, with its unique natural characteristics, leading to economic, cultural and national integration, as well as preservation and advancing the natural and cultural values of the cross-border territory.
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Ford, Simon. "The disorder of things: the postmodern art library." Art Libraries Journal 18, no. 3 (1993): 10–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200008403.
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Postmodernism has stimulated a ‘new art history’, which challenged, and then displaced, the highly selective canon of the ‘Old Masters’ and ‘Modern art’ with a broader approach, recognising a wider range of art and interested in investigating both the contexts of art, and the nature of art history itself. The new art history is represented on the shelves of art libraries, but a ‘new art librarianship’ must do more than passively reflect this cultural shift. A new art librarianship will expect of art librarians that they should be aware of the ways in which art libraries legitimise certain books and artworks, thus reinforcing the hegemony of the dominant culture, and that they should be prepared to use the power of art libraries knowingly and productively. Instead of imposing order through inflexible classification schemes, the new art librarianship will embrace the ‘disorder’ of a vast complex of knowledge seen from multiple viewpoints, accommodated by hypertext, for example. It is possible that electronic networking will eventually liberate information from the custody of libraries; the new art librarianship will not resist this, but will in parallel with such developments re-value art books, and books as art, as historical artefacts, reviving a more museum-like function from the history of librarianship, while continuing to serve as a manifest symbol of the wealth of human knowledge.
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Tsatsou, Panayiota. "Social Media and Informal Organisation of Citizen Activism: Lessons From the Use of Facebook in the Sunflower Movement." Social Media + Society 4, no. 1 (January 2018): 205630511775138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305117751384.
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The literature embraces several arguments regarding the influence of online communication platforms and practices on communicative, semantic, affective and organisational elements of citizen activism. Although organisational matters are inherent in most discussions in this area, there is a need for empirical insight into under-explored cases of citizen activism that can contribute toward addressing questions about the informal organisation of citizen activism and the associated role of social media. This paper presents an interview study of the role of Facebook in the informal organisation of the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan. The study found that participants in the Sunflower Movement engaged more with Facebook’s information-spreading and information-sharing functions than with its networking affordances. They used these functions to enhance the public’s engagement with the movement and recruit new participants, as well as to initiate, support and coordinate offline action. In addition, in the context of the Sunflower Movement, Facebook appeared to support the largely self-organised and loosely structured character of the coordination of offline action. It also fostered movement participants’ actions and feelings of ‘altruism’ toward other participants as well as their desire to ‘awaken’ other groups and the public at large. Regarding leadership, the study shows that leadership structures still exist in technologically mediated citizen activism, but they are often challenged by activists, while decision-making is a lot more complex and multi-layered than in the past.
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Sidorcuka, Irina, and Madina Nigmatullaeva. "THE NEED FOR CROSS-CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF INTERNSHIP FOR THE CHINESE SUBSIDIARY OF DANONE." CBU International Conference Proceedings 6 (September 26, 2018): 433–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v6.1194.
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Multinational corporations with subsidiaries worldwide are challenged by the need to communicate with and manage people different in their beliefs, behaviors, cultural values. This paper is focused on the case of Chinese interns in Danone, France. Danone is facing a severe shortage of skilled workforce in China for that reason that the company is willing to “groom” professionals externally for their Chinese subsidiary by engaging Chinese studens in internship programs within its headquarters in France. Despite the high number of Chinese students joining the internship programme each year, only few of them demonstrate a willingness to join the company upon accomplishment of the internship. Therefore the task of this study was to investigate the reasons behind such poor motivation of Chinese interns to stay in Danone through an analysis of French and Chinese cultural dimensions, proposed by key researchers in the field, as well as the empirical research of Chinese interns dissatisfaction causes through qualitative and quantitative research. The study reveals the key cultural values and attitudes of Chinese interns that have caused their dissatisfaction within french management and demonstrates that there is a mismatch between the expectations and preferencies of Chineses interns in communication and networking, time management, job distribution and staff reward and other job-related issues and the way these are dealt with in Danone.
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Kokkonen, Pellervo, and Anja Tuohino. "The Challenge of Networking." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 8, no. 1 (February 2007): 44–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000007780007407.
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Small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMTEs) face the challenges of renewing business models to maintain competitiveness in the global economy. SMTE networking and product innovations are typical responses to these challenges. SMTE innovation processes and networking dynamics were analysed in the Saimaa Holiday network in the Savonlinna region of Finland. The Finnish Nationally Networked Centre of Expertise for Tourism (CET) networking model was used for the analysis. It was confirmed that innovation in SMTE networks was a synthetic process consisting of product, process and resource innovation. The network and its links to the university increased innovation potential and creativity in product innovation. Problem areas included business process development and ICT utilization.
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Husniddin, Burxanov. "Challenges And Necessity Of Developing The National Internet Networking Segments In Uzbekistan." American Journal of Social Science and Education Innovations 02, no. 08 (August 29, 2020): 557–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/tajssei/volume02issue08-92.
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DALZIEL, ROBERT, and MARTIN WILLIS. "Capacity building with older people through local authority and third-sector partnerships." Ageing and Society 35, no. 2 (November 11, 2013): 428–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x13000779.
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ABSTRACTIn May 2010 a Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition Government was elected in the United Kingdom, which immediately started to plan a programme of wide-ranging cuts in public spending. However, in the face of severe economic problems the new government retained the outgoing government's emphasis on active ageing. This paper examines capacity-building partnerships between local authorities and third-sector organisations in LinkAge Plus (LAP) pilot areas in England, which were set up to find better ways to meet the needs of older people and empower them to become active citizens. The study on which this paper reports used theory on partnerships and collaboration to interrogate LAP pilot evaluation reports, along with current thinking on capacity building and work designed to improve services and outcomes for older people. The main findings are that capacity building in partnerships stimulated joined up working, which resulted in improved knowledge and skills in providing existing services. At the same time, new services emerged that meant older people were more involved in networking activities and social capital was created through their engagement in policy making, identifying needs, service design and finding solutions to problems. However, there were few instances of ideological activity that challenged established values and ways of working to go beyond traditional health and social care approaches in the delivery of services for older people. The potential impact of ongoing cuts in public spending are also considered.
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Mannheimer, Sara, Scott W. H. Young, and Doralyn Rossmann. "On the ethics of social network research in libraries." Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 14, no. 2 (May 9, 2016): 139–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jices-05-2015-0013.
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Purpose In this paper, faculty librarians at an academic institution explore the ethical dimensions of conducting research with user-generated social networking service (SNS) data. In an effort to guide librarian-researchers, this paper first offers a background discussion of privacy ethics across disciplines and then proposes a library-specific ethical framework for conducting SNS research. Design/methodology/approach By surveying the literature in other disciplines, three key considerations are identified that can inform ethical practice in the field of library science: context, expectation, and value analysis. For each of these considerations, the framework is tailored to consider ethical issues, as they relate to libraries and our practice as librarian-researchers. Findings The unique role of the librarian-researcher demands an ethical framework specific to that practice. The findings of this paper propose such a framework. Practical implications Librarian-researchers are at a unique point in our history. In exploring SNSs as a source of data to conduct research and improve services, we become challenged by conflicting and equally cherished values of patron privacy and information access. By evaluating research according to context, expectations, and value, this framework provides an ethical path forward for research using SNS data. Originality/value As of this paper’s publication, there is no existing ethical framework for conducting SNS research in libraries. The proposed framework is informed both by library values and by broader research values, and therefore provides unique guidelines for the librarian-researcher.
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Pratapwar Tejas, Kadam Sanjivani, Shrivastav Anushka, Ankur Kumar, Polshettiwar Satish, and Nimbalkar Vidya. "Impact of COVID-19 on Healthcare and Lifestyle-an E-survey on Indian Population." International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences 11, SPL1 (December 21, 2020): 1925–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.26452/ijrps.v11ispl1.4751.
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The 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is one of the most complex viruses that challenged humanity and became pandemic. Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19, the Indian government announced a lockdown. Strategies like social distancing, implementing travel bans, closing crowded public places and school, colleges etc., were used by Government to prevent individuals from getting infected. Sudden lockdown resulted in limitation on outdoor activities and disturbance in the daily routine of people, which affected their physical as well as mental health. Considering all this, an E-survey was conducted to analyse the changes related to healthcare and lifestyle amongst the Indian population. The E- the survey was conducted from 22nd September to 9th November 2020, among the Indian Population using Google forms accessible through any device. The link to Google form was circulated via e-mails and social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp etc. Participants were informed about the aim of the project. After submission of the Google forms by the participants, their responses were analysed in a Microsoft Excel sheet. A total of 904 individuals responded for the survey. The basic observations included increased positive mentality of people towards their health. There were few instances where this pandemic affected the people in a negative way, some of which includes increased cases of anxiety, depression and increased screen time etc. There were many positive as well as negative outcomes of pandemic amongst Indian population, despite various limitations, many important aspects were taken into consideration.
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Abramovitz, Linda Z., Rehana Punjwani, and Julia Challinor. "International Society of Paediatric Oncology Nurses Working Group: Supporting and Learning From Colleagues in Limited-Resource Countries." Journal of Global Oncology 2, no. 3_suppl (June 2016): 29s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.2016.004572.
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Abstract 44 Purpose: Globally, nurses caring for children and adolescents with cancer work in diverse practice settings. Nurses in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) are challenged by the limited scope of their professional practice, resources and education. Opportunities for education, networking and professional growth inspire and empower nurses to improve the care of patients and families. Nurses are key members of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), which provides ongoing professional development. In 2010, the SIOP Pediatric Oncology in Developing Countries Committee's Nursing Working Group was formed to support and learn from nurses working in LMIC. Methods: Utilizing the Cure4Kids website from St Jude, the group holds monthly business and educational meetings and continues to network and collaborate on numerous projects. PODC Nursing Working Group recently published baseline standards for pediatric oncology nursing care in LMIC. A survey will now assess the implementation of baseline standards. LMIC nurses are being mentored to write abstracts and grants to increase global recognition of their work. In addition, an education repository of teaching materials is being established. Summary: The PODC Nursing Working Group and project groups are well established and achieving project deadlines. Educational programs including topics on abandonment, nursing in LMIC and abstracts have been well received by both nurses and physicians from LMIC and HIC. Challenges have included internet connectivity and scheduling meetings during daylight hours across the multiple time zones. Following the launch of monthly meetings in late 2015, our membership has increased by 20% from 61 to 76 members from 29 countries. Conclusions: The SIOP PODC Nursing Group has created a sustainable nursing community and continues to work collaboratively beyond the annual conference. The compassion and commitment to support patients and their families by providing the best care possible is the common thread for pediatric oncology nurses. AUTHORS' DISCLOSURES OF POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: No COIs from the authors.
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Smith, J. M. "Selected challenges in computer networking." Computer 32, no. 1 (1999): 40–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.738302.
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Eissenstat, SunHee Jang, and Kristen Nadermann. "Examining the Use of Planned Happenstance With Students of Korean Cultural Backgrounds in the United States." Journal of Career Development 46, no. 4 (March 28, 2018): 455–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894845318763955.
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Students of Korean cultural backgrounds seek to enter the U.S. workforce, yet they face various career development challenges. One challenge is building relationships and engaging in career networking, a crucial career development skill. Also, work values are often explored in practice, but little information exists about how work values influence networking behavior for students with Korean cultural background. This study examined the relation of intrinsic and extrinsic work values and career networking and how planned happenstance mediates these concepts. This study found that planned happenstance mediates intrinsic work and networking, but it does not mediate the relation between extrinsic work value and networking. This study suggests that applying planned happenstance theory to students of Korean cultural backgrounds may help students to expand their professional networks. Also, career intervention programs can be developed with planned happenstance theory and based on assessment of work values.
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Cheng, Xiang-rong, Wei Zhao, Wen-le Dong, and Guo-wei Le. "Chemical Space Charting of Different Parts of Inula nervosa Wall.: Upregulation of Expression of Nrf2 and Correlated Antioxidants Enzymes." Molecules 25, no. 20 (October 19, 2020): 4789. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules25204789.
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The edible and medicinal part of Inula nervosa Wall. (Xiaoheiyao) is confined to its root without sufficient phytochemical and biological investigation. In this study, the secondary metabolites of root, stem, leaf, and flower of I. nervosa Wall. were visualized using Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS), MolNetEnhancer, XCMS(xcmsonline.scripps.edu) analysis, and `ili mapping based on high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) data to reveal their chemical differences. Among the 11 kinds of chemical repertoires annotated by MolNetEnhancer and 16 hits against the GNPS library, 10-isobutyryloxy-8,9-epoxythymol isobutyrate (1) was revealed as the most dominant and responsible marker between the roots and the other parts. Moreover, a battery of unique MS features as well as differential markers were discovered from different parts of the plant. The chemical differences contribute to the bioactivity differences, which presented in the 2,2-diphenyl-1-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH)assay and H2O2-insulted HepG2 cells and were in significant correlations with the contents of 1. real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)results demonstrated that I. nervosa Wall. extracts upregulated the mRNA expression of nuclear factor E2-related factor 2(Nrf2), heme oxygenase 1(HO-1), NAD(P)H quinone dehydrogenase 1 (NQO1), manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), and glutamate-cysteine ligase catalytic subunit (GCLC) actors involved in antioxidative response in H2O2-challenged HepG2 cells. These findings support the roots of I. nervosa Wall. as active parts of Xiaoheiyao, and also indicate the potential antioxidant activities of other parts.
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Heller, Monica. "Actors and discourses in the construction of hegemony." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2003): 11–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.13.1.01hel.
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In this paper, I will examine one aspect of a Gramscian notion of hegemony, one which focusses on the way in which hegemony is about “collectively attaining a single cultural “climate””, at least in part through language. This assumes discursive struggle in which some views end up marginalizing others. I will examine this struggle in terms of some of the ways in which the trajectories of actors and of discourses are connected, such that discursive resources are (or are not) available to actors with different positions with respect to unequally distributed symbolic and material resources, and are used in practice in ways which make sense given the sets of interests these actors have. This attempt at operationalizing an ethnography of hegemony is based on an analysis of discursive shift in between ethnonational forms of hegemonic discourse and practice being challenged by commodification, economic networking, and multiple affiliations, under conditions of economic shift from primary and secondary resource economies to tertiary ones, and of the re- shaping of the State’s relationship to civil society and the private sector. It has specifically to do with current shifts in ideas about what constitutes the category francophone in Canada, or put differently, what it might mean to do being “francophone”. In particular, I will examine the ways in which the institutionalized structures related to that categorization have been called into question by ongoing political economic change, and how actors involved in those structures act in, on and through the process of change to produce new ways of doing la francophonie, at least on the local level.
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Ruiz-Mafe, Carla, Jose Martí-Parreño, and Silvia Sanz-Blas. "Key drivers of consumer loyalty to Facebook fan pages." Online Information Review 38, no. 3 (April 29, 2014): 362–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-05-2013-0101.
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Purpose – With the rapid expansion of social networking sites, researchers and practitioners are challenged to understand drivers of customer loyalty in fan pages. The purpose of this paper is to identify the main drivers of Facebook fan page loyalty in order to promote the creation of affective links and long-term relationships with users. Design/methodology/approach – The impact of trust, fan page content dependency, attitude and consumer beliefs on loyalty to fan pages was tested through structural equation modelling techniques. The sample consisted of 691 Spanish Facebook users. Findings – Data analysis shows that attitude appears as a key variable in increasing loyalty to fan pages. The empirical study also found a significant positive influence of perceived usefulness, attitude, trust and dependency on loyalty in fan pages, and an indirect influence of perceived ease of use mediated by perceived usefulness and attitude. Practical implications – This research enables managers to know what aspects to highlight in their communication strategies to increase fan page use and positive word-of-mouth. Research findings show managers that Facebook fan page content should provide valuable information, be fun and foster user interactions in order to improve user attitude and loyalty. Practical recommendations to reinforce consumer trust on Facebook fan pages are also provided. Originality/value – There are still too few studies that analyse the effects of trust and fan page dependency on fan page users’ loyalty. This work aims to combine the influence of dependency on fan pages, trust, attitude and Technology Acceptance Model beliefs in order to construct an improved model for fan page loyalty formation.
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Sathya Prakash, R., and K. Arun Kumar. "Challenges in Internet of Things Networking." International Journal of Advanced Scientific Technologies in Engineering and Management Sciences 3, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22413/ijastems/2017/v3/i1/41310.
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Al Agha, Khaldoun, Walter Grote, and Yutaka Takahashi. "Home networking: performance and architecture challenges." annals of telecommunications - annales des télécommunications 63, no. 9-10 (September 20, 2008): 453–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12243-008-0051-4.
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K., Jekishan, and Ankit Desai. "IoT: Networking Technologies and Research Challenges." International Journal of Computer Applications 154, no. 7 (November 17, 2016): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5120/ijca2016912181.
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Giordano, S., and W. W. Lu. "Challenges in mobile ad hoc networking." IEEE Communications Magazine 39, no. 6 (June 2001): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mcom.2001.925680.
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Mishra, Amitabh, Raj Jain, and Arjan Durresi. "Cloud computing: networking and communication challenges." IEEE Communications Magazine 50, no. 9 (September 2012): 24–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mcom.2012.6295707.
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Kaur, Baljeet, and Dharam Veer. "Translation Challenges and Universal Networking Language." International Journal of Computer Applications 133, no. 15 (January 15, 2016): 36–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5120/ijca2016908220.
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Ndjiongue, Alain R., Telex M. N. Ngatched, Octavia A. Dobre, and Ana G. Armada. "VLC-Based Networking: Feasibility and Challenges." IEEE Network 34, no. 4 (July 2020): 158–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mnet.001.1900428.
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Coenen, Reinhard. "Challenges of networking in technology assessment." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 51, no. 1 (January 1996): 49–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0040-1625(95)00048-8.
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Haas, Zygmunt J., Timothy L. Culver, and Kamil Sarac. "Vulnerability Challenges of Software Defined Networking." IEEE Communications Magazine 59, no. 7 (July 2021): 88–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mcom.001.2100128.
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Shoa, Dame Dereba, and Gutema Imana Keno. "The Influences of Facebook on High School Students’ Pattern of Social Life: The Case of Harar City." Journal of Society and Media 4, no. 1 (April 20, 2020): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.26740/jsm.v4n1.p66-90.
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In today’s world, it seems that social media and youngsters are destined for each other as both are young, fast paced and ever changing. It has become very challenging to cultivate and socialize youngsters with patterned social norms due to the influences of media like television and Facebook. Educators are challenged more seriously than ever before to teach youngster, as students are using Facebook at school and home. The aim of this study was to investigate the multifaceted influences of Facebook on youth's pattern of social life. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection were employed to collect the data. Questionnaire, interview schedule and key informant interviews were data collection tools used to collect the quatitative and qualitative data respectively. The study founded that, Facebook is a social medium that discourages social bond in one way and encourages in the other way. By networking peers online, it enhances strong affiliation among Facebook friends while by letting them ignore people who are nearby, it debilitates face to face to face personal interactions. Anonymous Facebook users can meet in ‘chat rooms’ and discuss on topics of their choices with the person they do not know before and this type of electronic friendship and interaction may grow up and leads to virtual physical face-to-face contacts. Facebook is therefore, a platform for youths to discuss and interact on the issues of mutual curiosity which could enhance and promote synchronization of friends on the one side and inflammatory rhetoric conflicts on the other side, which implies the inevitable and multidimensional influences of Facebook on the youth’s social life
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Muir, Clive. "Rethinking Job References: a Networking Challenge." Business Communication Quarterly 72, no. 3 (July 31, 2009): 304–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1080569909340687.
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Watson, Kayleigh, Pauric McGowan, and James A. Cunningham. "An exploration of the Business Plan Competition as a methodology for effective nascent entrepreneurial learning." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 24, no. 1 (January 8, 2018): 121–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-05-2017-0158.
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Purpose Business Plan Competitions (BPCs) are readily prescribed and promoted as a valuable entrepreneurial learning activity on university campuses worldwide. There is an acceptance of their value despite the clear lack of empirical attention on the learning experience of nascent entrepreneurs during and post-participation in university-based BPCs. To address this deficit, the purpose of this paper is to explore how participation in a university-based BPC affords entrepreneurial learning outcomes, through the development of competencies, amongst nascent entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach Underpinned by a constructivist paradigm, a longitudinal qualitative methodological approach was adopted. In-depth interviews with nascent entrepreneur participants of a UK university-based BPC were undertaken at the start and end of the competition but also six months after participation. This method enabled access to the participant’s experiences of the competition and appreciation of the meanings they attached to this experience as a source of entrepreneurial learning. Data were analysed according to the wave of data collection and a thematic analytical approach was taken to identify patterns across participant accounts. Findings At the start of the competition, participation was viewed as a valuable experiential learning opportunity in pursuit of the competencies needed, but not yet held, to progress implementation of the nascent venture. At the end of the competition, participants considered their participation experience had afforded the development of pitching, public speaking, networking and business plan production competencies and also self-confidence. Six months post-competition, participants still recognised that competencies had been developed; however, application of these were deemed as being confined to participation in other competitions rather than the routine day-to-day aspects of venture implementation. Developed competencies and learning remained useful given a prevailing view that further competition participation represented an important activity which would enable value to be leveraged in terms of finance, marketing and networking opportunities for new venture creation. Research limitations/implications The findings challenge the common understanding that the BPC represents an effective methodology for highly authentic, relevant and broadly applicable entrepreneurial learning. Moreover the idea that the competencies needed for routine venture implementation and competencies developed through competition are synonymous is challenged. By extension the study suggests competition activities may not be as closely tied to the realities of new venture creation as commonly portrayed or understood and that the learning afforded is situated within a competition context. Competitions could therefore be preventing the opportunities for entrepreneurial learning that they purport they offer. Given the practical importance of competition participation as a resource acquisition activity for nascent entrepreneurs, further critical examination of the competition agenda is necessary as too is additional consideration about the design of such competitions and how such competitions should feature within university policy to support new venture creation. Originality/value This study contributes to the limited literature and studies on BPCs by focussing on its effectiveness as a means of providing entrepreneurial learning for participants. The key contribution taking it from an individual nascent entrepreneur participant perspective is that the competencies afforded through competition participation are more limited in scope and application than traditionally promoted and largely orientated towards future BPC participation. Learning is mainly situated for competition sake only and about participants securing further resources and higher levels of visibility. As the nascent entrepreneurs intended learning outcomes from competition participation are subsequently not realised, the study highlights a gap between the intended and actual outcomes of competition participation.