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Sudasna Na Ayudhya, Panornuang. "SPEECH PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF VOICING IN THAI NATIVE SPEAKERS USING ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE." Asia Proceedings of Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (December 3, 2019): 7–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.31580/apss.v5i1.1067.
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The study is aimed to discuss the two notions of relationship between speech perception and production. These two notions are perception precedes production or vice-versa. The notion of perception precedes production proposes that production of a new sound must follow the success of perception of this sound (Polivanov, 1931). Whereas, the notion of production precedes perception proposes that there are certain situations, in which perception of a new sound must follow the success of production of this sound (Neufeld, 1988; Borrell, 1990). This paper also illustrates the evidences obtained from the experiment of the perception and production of voiced and voiceless English sounds in 200 Thai native speakers. The results reveal the analysis of errors, which illustrated the relationship of speech perception and production.
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Al-Hilo, Asst Lect Mujtaba, and Professor Mohamad Marandi. "The Wandering Jew Phenomenon: A Post-Diaspora Success." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 59, no. 2 (June 15, 2020): 11–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v59i2.1111.
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For long, migration and diaspora have been perceived negatively, resulted from social and psychological turmoil. They are believed to produce devastating outcomes, as the loss of identity, cultural hybridity, psychological crises, and social instability. Theorists, as Homi Bhabha, believe that "unhomliness", having lost the feeling of possessing a home, may also result in migration and cultural diaspora, as Robin Cohen argues. Yet, it is an illegitimate overgeneralization. I tend to propose a new perspective in this regard. I believe that specific types of diasporas have come to collaborate hugely in the progress of individuals epistemologically, psychologically, socially, and intellectually. I have drawn a comparison between the falsely undisputed notions of home, migration, diaspora, hybridity, and "unhomeliness" on one side, and on the other side this "Wandering Jew" phenomenon, which I have proposed. Moreover, this title has been deliberately adopted to refer to the negatively perceived notion of the myth of the Wandering Jew, that he is the everlasting sufferer. Contrarily, he might be the wisest, the ultimate 'uncaged', free living individual. This notion will be applied on V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival, which aptly fits into this proposed phenomenon.
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Oreshkin, Victor. "The notion of success in the context of current education." Lifelong education: the XXI century 14, no. 2 (June 2016): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.15393/j5.art.2016.3130.
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Islas Mondragón, Damián. "Evaluating the Cognitive Success of Thought Experiments." Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science, no. 3 (December 22, 2017): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.24117/2526-2270.2017.i3.06.
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Thought experiments are widely used in natural science research. Nonetheless, their reliability to produce cognitive results has been a disputable matter. This study is conducted to present some rules of confirmation for evaluating the cognitive outcome of thought experiments. I begin given an example of a “paradigmatic” thought experiment from Galileo Galilei: the falling bodies. Afterwards, I briefly surveying two different accounts of thought experiments: James R. Brown’s rationalism and John D. Norton’s empiricism. Then, I discuss their positions and I show that none of them may tip the balance towards the rationalism or empiricism they try to defend. Finally, I put forward that the notion of confirmation, connected to the notion of increasing plausibility, can be used to develop some confirmation rules to compare the explanatory power of thought experiments in competition, regardless of their rational or empirical nature in which the discussion of this type of experiment has been engaged in recent years.
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Соколова, Христина. "Communicative and Sociocultural Features of the Perception of Success among Digital Consumers in Bulgaria." Rhetoric and Communications, no. 57 (October 29, 2023): 110–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.55206/gcej1079.
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Abstract: The paper presents the results of a survey among digital consumers in Bulgaria. The text proposes a concept of a four-dimensional model of the perception of success among digital consumers in the country. The model includes four sociocultural categories: well-being, happiness, achievement and social capital. The hypotheses are, first, that the sociocultural notion of success includes concepts belonging to at least one of the four dimensions of the success model; second, that the notion of success is associated with topics in respondents' daily lives, such as income size and employability. The aim of the study is to approbate whether and how many of the replicated associations fall into the four sociocultural categories. The study was conducted from January to June 2023, it covers 265 Bulgarian citizens who use the social networks Facebook (Meta) and LinkedIn. The methodology includes a combined questionnaire of a free association experiment and a close-ended questionnaire. The paper communicates some of the results of the free association experiment. According to the results the respondents’ answers belong to all four categories of success. There is a significant difference in the total number of reactions, produced by men and women, which belongs to the social capital category. The following conclusions are drawn at the end of the paper: the digital generation needs to understand its own values and attitudes to have a better quality of life; knowledge of notions of success is useful for team managers and HR professionals; and the new digital generation’s motivation differs from that of the so-called analogue generations. Keywords: success, sociocultural feature, digital users, associative experiment, achievement, well-being.
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Maaka, Margaret J., and Pamela A. Lipka. "Inviting Success in the Elementary Classroom." Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice 4, no. 1 (March 7, 2022): 51–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/jitp.v4i1.3883.
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The notion of a community of learners where all participants are treated as valuable, able, and responsible was investigated. This article reports on the findings of the first year of a two-year study that examined a range of practices designed to promote an inviting learning-centered classroom community, tailored to cater more effectively to the diverse needs of all participants. The findings are congruent with the tenet that the core of an effective school program is knowledgeable teachers who have the expertise and inclination to encourage all children to reach their potentials
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Baggs, Terry. "Current Issues: Understanding Personality: A Key to Supervisory Success." Perspectives on Administration and Supervision 22, no. 1 (March 2012): 4–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/aas22.1.4.
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The notion of clinical success has both a narrow and broad perspective. This article explores the idea that the personality of a clinician can impact clinical success from both perspectives. I present a summary of pertinent literature and a discussion of a realistic approach to successful supervision utilizing personality assessment.
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Gosling, Patrick. "« Rôle institutionnel et attribution de la réussite et de l'échec »." L’Orientation scolaire et professionnelle 16, no. 4 (1987): 307–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/binop.1987.1644.
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For the last thirty years, attribution theories have been much developping, especially in the U.S.A. Applications in educational psychology have studied determinants and consequences of attributions, about teacher-pupils interactions, predictions of success and failure, pupils’ motivation for a task. The present paper supports the hypothesis that the attributions of success and failure are linked to the institutional role ; specifically, the notion of role responsibility contributes to explain some results : the differences between teachers’ attributions about their pupils Vs in general. This notion can also explain the differences between attributions of teachers and counsellors.
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Hockley, C. J. "Design for success." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering 212, no. 6 (June 1, 1998): 371–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1243/0954410981532342.
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The idea of specifying reliability and maintainability (R&M) requirements in ways that accept the notion of random failure (i.e. MTBF) has outlived its usefulness. Design engineers do not design random failures and faults into products yet they occur and play havoc with the operational availability of military equipment. New ways must be found to deliver both mission reliability and guaranteed availability at the front line. Under the banner ‘Designing for Success’, the RAF is proposing a paradigm shift in the delivery of more certain and higher levels of R&M and these requirements are now progressively being specified for new equipments where appropriate. Equipment being procured under the philosophy of Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) will allow significant trade-offs between availability, maintainability and supportability. Yet it is the design process using the latest technology and concepts such as Systems Engineering which will give the ability to deliver guaranteed maintenance-free operating periods (MFOPs) for systems and platforms. Through parallel initiatives such as the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) Foresight Action Programme, industry has embraced the idea of a paradigm shift in reliability improvement under a programme called the Ultra Reliable Aircraft (URA). The Ministry of Defence (MoD) fully supports this initiative through specific activities as it will be a prime customer for its outputs.
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Cox, Julie Wolfram. "Success Talk: Narrative Accounts of Organizational Change." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 58, no. 1 (November 20, 2021): 157–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00218863211058465.
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Based on evidence from narrative accounts of organizational change, the potential of dialogic approaches that privilege joint construction of both change challenges and interventions appears very promising. This evidence also demystifies the notion of “well-planned” change, may further strengthen moves away from n-step programmatic approaches to change intervention, reminds readers of the importance of procedural fairness, and invites further research in terms of collective leadership. Where retrospective stories through which participants distinguished perceived success and failure provide the data for analysis, it is important that findings are understood within a narrative rather than an objective frame of reference.
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Tamrat, Wondwosen. "The Notion of Relevance in Academic Collaboration." International Journal of African Higher Education 9, no. 3 (December 24, 2022): 133–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.6017/ijahe.v9i3.16051.
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This article examines the notion of relevance in academic collaboration between North and South partners. It traces the history and nature of academic cooperation, and the major factors that determine the success of partnerships. It is argued that equitable, collaborative agenda setting, clear decision-making procedures, and consideration of the developmental goals that are the envisaged outcome of collaboration schemes are mechanisms that can be used to address issues of relevance. Failure to address relevance concerns could result in academics or institutions being diverted from addressing local or national priority areas. In turn, this could result in the relevance of the cooperation itself being questioned.
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Morris, Bethany. "Loud Ladies: Deterritorialising Femininity through Becoming-Animal." Deleuze and Guattari Studies 12, no. 4 (November 2018): 505–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/dlgs.2018.0327.
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Modern feminist movements run the risk of being appropriated by capitalist agenda and commodified for mass appeal, thus stripping them of their revolutionary potential. I would propose that in order for feminism to challenge this, movements may want to consider the subversion of subjectivity. Deleuze and Guattari's notions of becoming-animal and becoming-woman emphasise a subjectivity not confined by rigid identity, such as man/woman. However, feminists have challenged this theory, suggesting it is difficult to both fight for and dispel the very same notion, that is, woman. I argue that in first considering the feminine subject via the Lacanian understanding of ‘Woman’, it can be argued that feminine subjects can engage with becoming-animal to destabilise the notion of ‘Woman’. Riot Grrls, FEMEN and Pussy Riot all demonstrate tactics which could be said to utilise becoming-animal and have had varying success in avoiding commodification.
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Zalabardo, José L. "Kripke's Nonnativity Argument." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 27, no. 4 (December 1997): 467–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1997.10717482.
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In Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, Kripke presented an argument to the effect that there can be no facts as to what someone means by a linguistic expression. In this argument, a central role is played by the contention that meaning is a normative notion. Some of the most popular accounts of what meaning facts consist in are rejected on the grounds that they fail to accommodate the normative character of meaning. This aspect of Kripke's dialectic plays a crucial role in his rejection of dispositional accounts of meaning, and it is rightly perceived as undermining, if successful, currently fashionable information theoretic accounts of semantic notions. Assessments of its success vary widely. Whereas for some writers the normative character of meaning constitutes an insurmountable obstacle for dispositional accounts, advocates of the information theoretic program have generally failed to acknowledge that their proposals are invalidated by this aspect of the notion.
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Barbehön, Marlon, and Sybille Münch. "The politics of narrative (research): A »success story«." Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung, no. 2 (July 20, 2023): 358–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3262/zfd2202358.
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The notion of »narrative« has become ubiquitous in media coverage, political speeches and programs over the past years, in addition to being a prominent concept in discourse analysis. This article scrutinizes this current trend by asking how »narrative« is utilized and what symbolic functions it fulfils in public and political debates. We reflect on what »narrative’s success story« can tell us about the political culture of which it is part and what role it plays for the (changing) socio-political environment of our times. Finally, we discuss how the field of discourse studies might be involved in the increasing importance of »narrative«.
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Banerjee, Indrajit, Jared Robinson, Bhavna Munoosingh, Nidhi Jain, and Ramya Shanmugamurthi Amsadevi. "Meaning of Success: perception of medical students, and faculty-A Qualitative Study from a medical school in Mauritius." Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 10, no. 3 (September 30, 2020): 905–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v10i3.28424.
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Background: The objective of this study was to find what undergraduate medical students and teaching faculty perceive success to be.
Methods: A descriptive phenomenological qualitative study was designed and conducted on faculty and medical students at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Medical College, Mauritius. NVivo 12 (Windows) Plus software was implemented for data analysis and thematic analysis was performed.
Results: The codes/nodes namely being: Satisfaction, Accomplishment, Actions, Motivations, Extrinsic Factors and Intrinsic Factors were identified in the transcribed data. Satisfaction was described as the positive emotions and notions intimately related as well as synonymously associated with success. Accomplishment as the attainment and fulfilment of any physical, mental, emotional, social, occupational, personal goal or desire by an individual. Actions was the arsenal of physical processes, acts of planning, goal setting or forethinking exercised by the individual. Motivations was the drive to attain the preset goal or notion be it positive or negative, applies to factors that enable a subject to strive forwards. Extrinsic Factors were the external determinants and definition of success perceived by the subject. Intrinsic Factors were the subject’s internal organic, comprehension and definition of success. The themes generated were: Products of Success, Mechanisms of Success and Concepts of success.
Conclusion: A tangible demarcation is noticeable between the preconceived general impression of success and the vast multifactorial cohort of intrinsic and extrinsic factors coupled to the highly emotional aspects which were brought forth.
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Voronin, Alexander. "The concept of the notion “pupil’s success in the process of sports training”." Vestnik of Samara State Technical University. Psychological and Pedagogical Sciences, no. 2 (42) (June 2019): 6–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.17673/vsgtu-pps.2019.2.1.
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Mahmood, Tahir, Ubaid Ur Rehman, Abdul Jaleel, Jabbar Ahmmad, and Ronnason Chinram. "Bipolar Complex Fuzzy Soft Sets and Their Applications in Decision-Making." Mathematics 10, no. 7 (March 24, 2022): 1048. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/math10071048.
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This article introduces the notion of bipolar complex fuzzy soft set as a generalization of bipolar complex fuzzy set and soft set. Furthermore, this article contains elementary operations for bipolar complex fuzzy soft sets such as complement, union, intersection, extended intersection, and related properties. The OR and AND operations for bipolar complex fuzzy soft set are also initiated in this study. Moreover, this study contains the decision-making algorithm and real-life examples to display the success and usability of bipolar complex fuzzy soft sets. Finally, the comparative study of initiated notions with some prevailing ideas are also interpreted in this study.
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Santibañez, Lucrecia, and Loris Fagioli. "Nothing succeeds like success? Equity, student outcomes, and opportunity to learn in high- and middle-income countries." International Journal of Behavioral Development 40, no. 6 (July 9, 2016): 517–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025416642050.
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A strong relationship between article background and educational outcomes fuels a negative inequality cycle. This paper explores the interplay between student socioeconomic status and educational outcomes, and the mediating role of Opportunity-to-Learn (OTL) in high- and middle-income countries. Using data from PISA 2012, we find that the relationship between OTL and mathematics achievement is mostly positive. The magnitude of this relationship is higher in more affluent societies. Our results raise the possibility that unobserved teacher quality, school leadership, or other features of schools in lower-income countries make OTL less productive than in more developed nations. This lends support to the “complementary process” hypothesis and the notion that success (or riches) begets success. The analysis also shows that OTL mediates the effect of individual socioeconomic and cultural background on educational outcomes. This finding lends support for a policy emphasis on classroom-level practices as one key lever for improving learning and upward mobility for disadvantaged students.
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White, Francis Ray. "Fucking failures: The future of fat sex." Sexualities 19, no. 8 (August 1, 2016): 962–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716640733.
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In the context of the obesity ‘epidemic’ fat people’s sex lives are cast as sterile, sexually dysfunctional or just plain non-existent. This article analyzes medical discourses of obesity and sex in order to argue that fat sex is constructed as a type of failure. Using insights from antisocial queer theory, fat sex is further shown to be queer in its failure to adhere to the specifically heteronormative dictates of what Edelman (2004) calls ‘reproductive futurism’. The analysis finally engages with Halberstam’s (2011) notion of queer failure to demonstrate how deconstructing notions of success and failure might offer fat political projects new ways to imagine the future of fat sex.
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Hussain Al-Hashimy, Hisham Noori, Tariq Tawfeeq Yousif Alabdullah, Essia Ries Ahmed, Muath Asmar, Mohamed Ibrahim Nor, and Kanaan Abdulkarim M. Jamal. "The Impact of Financial Management Elements and Behavioral Intention on the Financial Performance." International Journal of Scientific and Management Research 05, no. 12 (2022): 117–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.37502/ijsmr.2022.51210.
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To better understand how behavioural intention (BI) and financial management elements (FME) affect insurance companies' financial performance (FP), this study will examine the relationship. Two hundred seventy-seven insurance (277) firms in Iraq were questioned for this cross-sectional study. Using principal component analysis, we were able to minimise the number of variables and pinpoint the key parts that best represented the FME, BI, financial health and performance of insurance businesses. Apart from that, we proposed and evaluated two hypotheses regarding the significance of the association between these three insurance company characteristics. PLS-SEM, or partial least squares-structural equation modeling, was utilised to analyse the data. Note that a better financial success of insurance firms is correlated with robust FME. The results strongly correlate with the insurance companies' FP and BI. Additionally, it has been discovered that BI and FP have a strong positive link. The results proved that BI possess a mediating impact on the relationship between FP and FME. Despite the abundance of material on FP, FME, and BI, there is a dearth of work on effective conceptualisation. This could have impacted how the study was conceptualised and the vague notion of BI. As a result, we do not assert very sophisticated measuring notions in this study. In addition, while many of the studies that are now available have examined FP statistically, fundamentally qualitative process elements can better account for variations in the financial success concept. Hence, more research is required to hone the qualitative notions used in this study. The adoption of FME that give insurance businesses a persistent BI advantage over their rivals must coincide with management efforts to improve FP at insurance companies. This study demonstrates the importance of determining the role of BI in the association between FME and FP to understand the FP of insurance companies. It draws on social economics, management, and accounting strands. While many of the studies that are currently in existence have used quantitative methods to assess FP, process elements or antecedents that are fundamentally qualitative can be used to explain variations in the FP notion. Therefore, this study recommends improving the notion of FP and endogeneity accounting.
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Teixeira, Paulo, Patrícia Leite Brandão, and Álvaro Rocha. "Promoting Success in the Introduction of Health Information Systems." International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems 8, no. 1 (January 2012): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jeis.2012010102.
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The significant number of publications describing unsuccessful cases in the introduction of health information systems makes it advisable to analyze the factors that may be contributing to such failures. However, the very notion of success is not equally assumed in all publications. Based in a literature review, the authors argue that the introduction of systems must be based in an eclectic combination of knowledge fields, adopting methodologies that strengthen the role of organizational culture and human resources in this project, as a whole. On the other hand, the authors argue that the introduction of systems should be oriented by a previously defined matrix of factors, against which the success can be measured.
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Avhustiuk, Maria. "METACOGNITIVE MONITORING ACCURACY AND LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT SUCCESS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS." Psychological Prospects Journal, no. 36 (December 30, 2020): 10–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.29038/2227-1376-2020-36-10-21.
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Purpose. The paper is focused on the theoretical analysis of some theoretical and methodological aspects of the relationship between metacognitive monitoring accuracy and learning achievement success of university students. In particular, we highlight some approaches to the relation between metacognitive monitoring accuracy and learning achievement success that is a quite common problem in the university learning activity. Methods. The theoretical and comparative methods of studying metacognitive monitoring accuracy and learning achievement success of university students have been used in the study. The necessity in studying some theoretical and methodological aspects of the notion has been caused by the impact of metacognitive monitoring accuracy on students’ learning activities. Results. The study aimed at revealing the role of metacognitive monitoring in the university learning activity, studying the extent to which changes in monitoring cause changes in the nature of the students’ control over their own cognitive activities, specifying the nature of relationship between levels of confidence and students successes in learning, etc. A noteworthy finding is that students are generally overconfident in their self-assessments and this overconfidence effect is greatest for students of poorer abilities as they are doubly cursed: they lack knowledge of the material, and lack the awareness of the knowledge that they do and do not possess. The erroneous belief that information is understood when it is not is regarded as the illusion of knowing or overconfidence in knowing; the notion can be a significant obstacle to the effectiveness of the learning activities. Conclusions. The results of the analysis found in the study can play an important role in the process of understanding the relationship between metacognitive monitoring accuracy and learning achievement success of university students.
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Cummins, Jim. "Identities in motion." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 38, no. 3 (January 1, 2015): 99–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.38.3.01cum.
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Recent scholarship within the field of applied linguistics highlights the fact that identities are not static but are fluid, multiple, changeable across time and space, and always constructed in relationship to interactions with others. In other words, identities are constantly in motion. This paper presents a framework for examining the notion of ‘identities in motion’ as a core analytic construct in understanding patterns of educational success and failure. This framework is contrasted with the implicit frameworks that have operated in many countries that consign notions of identity negotiation to the margins and focus on ‘educational effectiveness’ as a process of instructional and organisational efficiency in isolation from the historical and current social context.
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Rus, Mihaela. "Social Construction of the of Nowadays School Success from the Perspective of the Family Involvement in Educational Act." Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Social Sciences 10, no. 1 (December 20, 2021): 18–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumenss/10.1/54.
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The notion of “school success” is generally approached in antonymy with that of “school failure” and represents the superior performance that the student obtains in the learning activity, in correlation with the requirements of the school programs and with the aims of the national educational programs. Most of the time the student's school success is related to the activity of the school, as an institution providing education, but we must not lose sight of the fact that the factors that determine the student's education refer not only to the pedagogical influence of the school but also to the family, in the psycho-socio-physiological development of the student. In this sense, we carried out sociological research, on a sample of 24 subjects from Iaşi County, which had as fundamental objective the social construction of the notion of school success from the perspective of parents. The questions underlying the research were established in accordance with the objectives of the research and considered, in addition to defining school success, revealing the concrete ways in which the family is involved in achieving the child's school success and the relationship they establish with the school, in order to optimize school results. The research instrument was the comprehensive interview with the 24 subjects who participated in the research. Following the processing of the data obtained from the interviews, models were developed on the basis of which the theory was progressively developed.
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Aboiron, Jeremie. "Does Shared Leadership Eliminate the Notion of Followership in Organizations?" Journal of Psychology & Behavior Research 1, no. 1 (March 26, 2019): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/jpbr.v1n1p22.
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<em>This text explains the concept of leadership in the context of shared leadership within organizations by highlighting the model of followership in organizational change. Even if the shared leadership is established through the leader of the team, members of a team can have responsibilities and they can influence each other. But this theory of shared leadership raises limits such as the notion of trust for example. A good follower capacity of team member allows the success of this model; this is why we can use the term shared follower instead of shared leadership.</em>
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Cruz-Arcila, Ferney. "Rural English Language Teacher Identities: Alternative Narratives of Professional Success." Íkala 25, no. 2 (February 5, 2020): 435–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.v25n02a05.
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This paper problematizes the notion of professional success in English language teaching as constructed in language policy in Colombia. This is done by examining one of the most underexplored social diversities in the field: rural schools. Stemming from a narrative study on how rural English language teachers configure their professional identities vis-à-vis the situated circumstances of their work settings and external pressures, this analysis shows that teachers’ sense of professional success is negotiated in creative, complex, and multiple—although not always consistent—ways, which represent alternative constructions of good teaching to those promulgated in policy. It is argued, then, that a reconfiguration of the belief systems of what teachers should know and do is necessary
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Riordan, James. "Chinese Women and Sport Success, Sexuality, Suspicion." Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal 9, no. 1 (April 2000): 87–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.9.1.87.
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Never have women athletes made such rapid progress in a wide range of events in such a short time — some two or three years — or improved world records by such remarkable margins. The reasons for the progress of Chinese women athletes are examined in this article. One of the reasons is an absence in China of a number of deep-seated prejudices in regard to sexuality that have been common in western historical develoment — prejudices centred on the notion that sport was a ‘male preserve’.The major factors that have facilitated Chinese women’s progress in sport have to be sought in various elements intrinsic to Chinese society and shaped by historically-conditioned attitudes to sport and women that differ markedly from those that have formed the dominant values of sport in western society, at least since the time of Ancient Greece.Insosfar as world-wide women’s sporting attainments are reflecting, reinforcing and sometimes even precipitating processes of social change in the role and status of women, the Chinese women’s example offers exciting prospects for the future of women in all societies, particularly the modernising communities of Asia and Africa.
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VanDerSchaaf, Hans, and Tugrul Daim. "Critical Factors Related to Student Success Technology." International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management 17, no. 06 (October 2020): 2050045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219877020500455.
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This study examines university students’ perspectives on student success technology. Efforts to improve graduation and retention rates for undergraduates (i.e. “student success”) and initiatives to enhance the overall student experience are critical for higher education administrators, faculty and staff. These actors are significantly dependent on technology and technology-mediated services. To help understand student perspectives on online services related to student success, this study uses data from a 2016 survey of ABC University students about the importance and satisfaction that students placed on accomplishing key tasks online ([Formula: see text] respondents). The main questions in this inquiry are: (1) What, if any, factors, or latent variables, are in the data set? (2) If there are latent variables, what might they tell us about students’ perspectives on accomplishing critical online tasks? The study’s main findings are that five factors — navigation, tactical, funding, personalization and planning - are present in the data and statistically significant. The findings also suggest that a sixth factor, funding, is not significant. This study contributes to the literature by supporting the notion that there is harmony between the technology that universities utilize to support students and the value that students derive from such tools.
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Solodoha, Eliran. "How Much Is Too Much? The Impact of Update Frequency on Crowdfunding Success." Administrative Sciences 14, no. 12 (December 2, 2024): 324. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14120324.
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This research seeks to clarify the uncertainty in crowdfunding literature regarding the relationship between the number of updates and campaign success. By integrating signal theory and the notion of information overload, this study posits a curved, inverted U-shaped relationship between the number of updates and campaign success. Empirical evidence to support this hypothesis is drawn from an analysis of 2852 projects sourced from a reward-based crowdfunding platform. The aim of this inquiry is to provide insights into the intricate dynamics that influence how the number of updates impacts the results of crowdfunding campaigns.
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Möschel, Mathias. "The Legal Construction of the Notion of Anti-White Racism in France." French Politics, Culture & Society 39, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 136–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2021.390207.
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This article focuses on the legal construction of the notion of anti-White racism in France. By analyzing cases litigated under criminal law, it describes how a right-wing NGO has been promoting this notion via a litigation strategy since the late 1980s, initially with only limited success. Public debates in mainstream media in the 2000s and intervention by more traditional antiracist NGOs in courts have since contributed to a creeping acceptance of anti-White racism both within courtrooms and in broader public discourse. This increased recognition of anti-White racism is highly problematic from a critical race and critical Whiteness perspective.
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Aziz Dasan, Rafat. "Driving Strategy Implementation to Success." Global Journal of Economics and Business 12, no. 1 (February 2022): 118–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31559/gjeb2022.12.1.7.
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Under the pressure to improve strategy implementation effectiveness and organizational performance, several government officials look for new tools and methods to have greater public organizational performance. By improving the public organizations' performance, public value and citizens trust in government will be improved. Saudi Arabia is a country in Western Asia and one of the Middle East countries which depends on its natural resources (i.e. oil and gas production) as the primary source of income (Such countries are named rentier states). However, Saudi Arabia was trying to reduce its dependence on oil and to have a diverse set of products that feed its income since the ’70s of the last century. This notion has been injected by Saudi government officials into their national strategies (i.e. 5- year national development plans). However, several contemporary analyses show that Saudi still depends on oil as the primary source of income, which means that its national strategies implementation is not achieving its foremost objectives. Not achieving the strategic objectives keep the organisational performance low which accumulatively will have an impact on the whole government and the country’s economy. Based on a sample from Saudi public organisations, the research describes the strategy implementation dynamics and issues along with the drivers that have an impact on implementing effectiveness that leads to the organisational performance improvements in which -at the end- will lead to improvements in the economic performance of the country. One of the key findings of the research indicates that having a coordinated body for the strategy implementation activities across the organisation is the first ranked driver for having successful strategy implementation.
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RARENKO, A. A. "On the lexical meaning of the notion «success» (Basing on Russian explanatory and terminology dictionaries)." SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN LITERATURE. SERIES 11: SOCIOLOGY, no. 2 (2020): 9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.31249/rsoc/2020.02.02.
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Cheng, Li, Mei Tan, and Zhengkui Liu. "Adverse Environments and Children's Creativity Development: Transforming the Notion of “Success in Adversity” in China." New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 2015, no. 147 (March 2015): 93–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cad.20078.
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Soules, William P., Rebecca L. Beatty, and Terri L. Hopper. "ACT Scores Predict Success on the Pre-Professional Skills Test." NACADA Journal 13, no. 1 (March 1, 1993): 23–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.12930/0271-9517-13.1.23.
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A study of 521 students who took the Pre-Professional Skills Test (PPST) from 1988–1990 revealed that students with American College Test (ACT) composite scores of 21 or higher had a high probability of passing all three parts of the PPST on the first attempt at a cutoff score of 169. That is, they had demonstrated their mastery of the basic skills tested by the PPST. High correlations (.473 to .816) between the ACT and PPST support the notion that they are testing similar skills. As a result of the findings, the state board of education approved a change to the university's program that exempts students who have an ACT composite score of 21 or higher from taking the PPST.
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Nejadihassan, Sanaz, and Ali Arabmofrad. "A Review of Relationship between Self-regulation and Reading Comprehension." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 6, no. 4 (April 5, 2016): 835. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0604.22.
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Over the past three decades, researchers have found that motivational variables have an effective role in language skills and in academic achievement and success (Khajavi & Abbasian, 2013). An attempt was made in the present research to review the relationship between self-regulation as one of the motivational variables and reading comprehension. Moreover, the present paper is organized in the way that some of the significant notions of self-regulation and cyclical phases, and some models of self-regulated learning Pintrich’s model and characteristics of self-regulated learners will be explained. Then, the notion of reading comprehension and different purposes of reading will be defined. Finally, some empirical studies on the relationship between self-regulation and reading comprehension will be elaborated.
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Kovbasyuk, Olga, and Angelina Dolgaya. "Online education: creating conditions for students to succeed." E3S Web of Conferences 291 (2021): 05009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202129105009.
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This paper focuses on a key success factor in higher education, which is its management, related to creating conditions for successful education. The notion “successful education” is complicated and it has not been analyzed conceptionally. We argue that successful education is the one which provides students with experience to succeed in life. The models of successful online education should aim at supporting students’ experience rather than at providing admission to the technology itself. Management in higher education, in this case will be built on organization students’ experience which leads to successful education. X culture model has proved to serve this purpose.
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Shanmugam, Merlin Mythili. "Impact of parenthood on women’s careers in the IT sector – a study in the Indian context." Gender in Management: An International Journal 32, no. 5 (July 3, 2017): 352–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-11-2016-0177.
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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to analyse the impact of certain factors (such as working mothers’ attitudes towards career role salience, notion of career success, work-life balance and the impact of organisational support systems available for childcare) on career persistence, despite parenthood, and career re-entry after parenthood. It is conducted in relation to new age, young working mothers of the booming IT sector in India. Design/methodology/approachA survey questionnaire was administered to 138 working mothers in the IT sector to analyse the impact of working mothers’ career role salience, notion of career success, work-life balance and the impact of organisational support systems available for childcare on career persistence, despite parenthood. FindingsThe findings state that re-entry is also a growing phenomenon, in as much as career breaks are an accepted reality. Career role salience and notions of career success are important predictors of career re-entry of young mothers. Most importantly, this study highlights the significant role of the trusted, extended family support system, that is characteristically unique to Indian social fabric, in enabling women’s career persistence and career re-entry after motherhood. Research limitations/implicationsLike most survey research, this study’s validity is also limited to the findings on the self-reported responses. Nevertheless, the study points to new areas to be researched, such as the possibility of the same findings with older mothers who have spent considerable years in their careers, or whether the same sample would answer differently after a few years. Practical implicationsThe paper includes implications for society and organisations, concerning opting out, and for undertaking genuine initiatives to enable and support women to re-enter their careers after breaks, so that the decision to persist, exit or re-enter their careers remains the privileged choice of women employees. Originality/valueThe paper fulfils an identified need to study how parenthood affects women’s careers in the IT sector and need for organisations in India to understand the practicality of women employees’ needs to integrate work and life.
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Belair-Gagnon, Valerie. "News on the fly: journalist-audience online engagement success as a cultural matching process." Media, Culture & Society 41, no. 6 (November 22, 2018): 757–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443718813473.
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Looking at web analytics in newsrooms, journalism studies scholarship has explored the notion of success in using web analytics and metrics in measuring journalist-audience engagement. Scholars have looked at the role of organizational structures, cognition, and emotion in defining success with analytics. This article analyzes how journalists interpret journalist-audience engagement success using web analytics and what this reliance on web analytics might mean for contemporary news production. Using direct observation of newsrooms and interviews with news media workers, this article argues that media workers interpret success in audience engagement using web analytics as a process of cultural matching between web analytics companies, media workers, and audiences. This article shows that analytics in journalism have highlighted some of the shared values and practices across the matchers and revealed the challenges of measuring success in audience-journalist engagement.
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Perera, A. S. "A Battle for Sweet Success in the Dessert Premix Category in Sri Lanka: With Special Emphasis on Brand Equity Perspective." Sri Lanka Journal of Marketing 9, no. 1 (July 12, 2023): 168–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljmuok.v9i1.122.
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The Sri Lanka’s Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector has embarked upon in practicing different marketing management elements, given the fact due to, stiff competition prevails in the industry sphere. This paper endeavors to look at the importance of building brand equity in managing a brand with a practical perspective by considering the dessert premix category. This looks at what has made Motha reign as an undisputed leader in the concerned category over competition. Colossal amount of prior research articles has provided ground reviewing theories on the notion of brand equity, but this case study article attempts highlight the practical notions attentive to dessert premix category in Sri Lanka. The author has conducted one on one personal discussion with concerned professionals in the organization. However, since there weren’t any direct articles found related to branding in dessert premix, writer has gone through previous related articles, research data to ascertain certain information to the best of ability.
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Vollet, Lucas Ribeiro. "A PHILOSOPHICAL RECAP OF THE NOTION OF SEMANTIC VALUE." Revista Ideação 1, no. 45 (June 23, 2022): 33–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/ideac.v1i45.7450.
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This paper is an assessment of the scientific role of the study of semantics to represent the technical types of consensus produced in human practice. We propose that "meaning" should not be understood as a projection of success, canonized as an absolute rational method; but rather as a series of strategies of meaning, which develop circularly in the historical sphere of communication. With this we intend to bring up the problem of meaning outside the comfortable sphere of a simple, synchronic and a-historical line between meaning and pseudo-meaning. In the conclusion we will reach a reflective take on the philosophical spaces where the problem of meaning is conciliated to the problem of consensus and its formation, and then we will suggest a philosophical reflection on “failure” to mean. Among these philosophical spaces of reflection, we will discuss transcendentalism and dogmatism, and suggest the question on whether semantics can escape these so to speak atavistic patterns of philosophical expression.
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Berger, Jonah, Yoon Duk Kim, and Robert Meyer. "What Makes Content Engaging? How Emotional Dynamics Shape Success." Journal of Consumer Research 48, no. 2 (February 23, 2021): 235–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucab010.
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Abstract Some cultural products (e.g., books and movies) catch on and become popular, while others fail. Why? While some have argued that success is unpredictable, we suggest that period-to-period shifts in sentiment—what we term sentiment volatility—enhance engagement. Automated sentiment analysis of over 4,000 movies demonstrates that more volatile movies are evaluated more positively. Consistent with the notion that sentiment volatility makes experiences more stimulating, the effect is stronger in genres where evaluations are more likely to be driven stimulation (i.e., thrillers rather than romance). Further, analysis of over 30,000 online articles demonstrate that people are more likely to continue reading more volatile articles. By manipulating sentiment volatility in follow-up experiments, we underscore its causal impact on evaluations, and provide evidence for the role of stimulation in these effects. Taken together, the results shed light on what drives engagement, the time dynamics of sentiment, and cultural analytics or why some cultural items are more successful.
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Müller, Nico Dario. "Rational Hope for the Animal Rights Movement." Journal of Animal Ethics 13, no. 2 (October 1, 2023): 111–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21601267.13.2.02.
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Abstract Animal ethicists have worried that hoping for the success of the animal rights movement is epistemically irrational because it contradicts our best evidence and practically irrational because it makes animal rights advocates complacent. Against these worries, this article defends the claim that animal rights advocates can rationally hope for the success of their movement despite grim prospects. To this end, the article draws on Philip Pettit's (2004) account of hope to articulate the novel notion of “careful substantial hope.” Hope in this sense is a cognitive strategy of thinking as if movement success is likely because the right strategies and tactics will be employed. The article concludes with suggestions for how philosophers can encourage this kind of hope.
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Kapoor, Anuj, Rahul Bhaskar, and Au Vo. "Pioneering the Health Care Quality Improvement in India Using Six Sigma." Journal of Cases on Information Technology 14, no. 4 (October 2012): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jcit.2012100104.
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In India, the notion of Health Care Quality has become a relevant topic. Even though Quality Management processes such as Six Sigma have been proven in the health care industry in the United States, there is little record of Six Sigma implementation in India. Despite the lack of proven success in the country, Simplified Health Care, a prominent health care provider in North India, launched successful Six Sigma implementation, which was supplemented with other IT initiatives including Electronic Health Care Records. Simplified Health Care success is a testament for Six Sigma, despite challenges ahead.
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Saher, L., and I. Vakulishyna. "LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION AS THE MAIN FACTORS OF TRADE SUCCESS." Vìsnik Sumsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu, no. 1 (2019): 129–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/1817-9215.2019.1-17.
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The issue of logistics locations and distribution policies is already well known, but few have considered them at the same time. Such different and at the same time close parts of the firm's activity are quite well combined in the notion of trade logistics. At the present time, many works (textbooks, articles) are known regarding this type of logistics. Everything is considered in the complex and little attention is paid to the components of the system. What makes it necessary to consider its components in more detail. This article describes the location of logistics and distribution policies as one of the key factors for success. The main purpose is to uncover the interaction of these areas of activity and integrate them in the concept of trade logistics. Keywords: logistics, marketing distribution policy, success factors, trade logistics.
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Mercier, Thomas Clément. ""The Force of the Event": Performative Failures and Queer Repetitions in Austin, Butler, and Derrida." Síntesis. Revista de Filosofía 5, no. 1 (August 12, 2022): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.15691/0718-5448vol5iss1a374.
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Much has been written on Derrida’s and Butler's discussions of Austin’s speech act theory, but one thing at least remains unclear: why does performativity hinge on the notion of “force,” and what “force” are we here talking about? For Austin, the force of the performative signals a performative enforcement, a validating repetition of prior conditions of legitimation: it testifies to the “felicity” or “success” of the performative event.According to Derrida, this articulation between force and success closes off the eventness of the event; it implies an ontological reduction and reconstruction, that is, an appropriation of the event in the form of performative power. However, the performative, if it is to truly produce an event, must exceed prior conditions of validation and transform, in its performance, the conditions of validity it was meant to repeat. Eventness must remain beyond and without power. In this perspective, the article explores the “force” which Derrida describes as “force of the event”: an excessive force in the face of which “performative force” must fail. At bottom undecidable, “the force of the event” suggests the fallibility of force and the force of fallibility. I compare this self-deconstructive notion of force with Butler’s subversive politics of the performative, which theorizes “performative force” as the force of a failure – but a successful failure – to comply with the norm: a non-normative repetition and a reappropriation that forces change, and of which “queer” is at once the example, the model, and the very name. While Derrida’s is an attempt to think the uncanny force of a strange, non-appropriable, non-ontologizable, and perhaps “queer” event or quasi-event, characterized by fallibility and undecidability, Butler’s theory of power and her notion of “performative force” reverse, but fundamentally maintain, Austin’s ontological oppositions between success and failure, legitimacy and illegitimacy, repetition and change.
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Mercier, Thomas Clément. ""The Force of the Event": Performative Failures and Queer Repetitions in Austin, Butler, and Derrida." Síntesis. Revista de Filosofía 5, no. 1 (August 12, 2022): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.15691/24524476vol5iss1a374.
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Much has been written on Derrida’s and Butler's discussions of Austin’s speech act theory, but one thing at least remains unclear: why does performativity hinge on the notion of “force,” and what “force” are we here talking about? For Austin, the force of the performative signals a performative enforcement, a validating repetition of prior conditions of legitimation: it testifies to the “felicity” or “success” of the performative event.According to Derrida, this articulation between force and success closes off the eventness of the event; it implies an ontological reduction and reconstruction, that is, an appropriation of the event in the form of performative power. However, the performative, if it is to truly produce an event, must exceed prior conditions of validation and transform, in its performance, the conditions of validity it was meant to repeat. Eventness must remain beyond and without power. In this perspective, the article explores the “force” which Derrida describes as “force of the event”: an excessive force in the face of which “performative force” must fail. At bottom undecidable, “the force of the event” suggests the fallibility of force and the force of fallibility. I compare this self-deconstructive notion of force with Butler’s subversive politics of the performative, which theorizes “performative force” as the force of a failure – but a successful failure – to comply with the norm: a non-normative repetition and a reappropriation that forces change, and of which “queer” is at once the example, the model, and the very name. While Derrida’s is an attempt to think the uncanny force of a strange, non-appropriable, non-ontologizable, and perhaps “queer” event or quasi-event, characterized by fallibility and undecidability, Butler’s theory of power and her notion of “performative force” reverse, but fundamentally maintain, Austin’s ontological oppositions between success and failure, legitimacy and illegitimacy, repetition and change.
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Schempp, Paul G., Bryan A. McCullick, Matthew A. Grant, Cornell Foo, and Kelly Wieser. "Professional Playing Experience Does Not Lead to Professional Coaching Success." Journal of Coaching Education 3, no. 3 (December 2010): 72–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jce.3.3.72.
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between coaches’ professional playing experience and their professional coaching success. The sample (n = 134) included coaches who had the equivalent of three full seasons of head coaching experience in either Major League Baseball (MLB) (n = 46), the National Basketball Association (NBA) (n = 38) or the National Football League (NFL) (n = 50) as determined by the total number of games coached between the years 1997-2007. ANOVAs revealed no significant differences between coaches with more or less professional playing experience and professional coaching success as determined by professional winning percentage. Further, no significant relationship was found between professional playing experience and professional coaching success in MLB (r = -0.16), NBA (r = -0.05) or NFL (r = 0.00). It was concluded that professional playing experience was not a predictor of professional level coaching success. These findings support the notion that sources of knowledge other than playing experience may be necessary and useful in developing coaching expertise.
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Susiatiningsih, Hermini, Budi Setiyono, Sheiffi Puspapertiwi, Jumadil Saputra, and Teuku Afrizal. "A Study of Good Governance Innovation of Javanese Leadership in Indonesia." WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 17 (April 15, 2021): 342–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.37394/232015.2021.17.34.
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In developing countries, the government faces many problems related to good governance. Also, there is a lack of understanding of good governance innovation. Thus, this study focuses on the local context. In practice, many developing countries take the notion of good governance for granted, therefore it without critical views. This situation leads to the gap between expected outcomes and realization, which cause the sub-optimal implementation of good governance. Of these, the present paper argues that the implementation of good governance innovations by considering the theory or ideology context. The design of this study is a qualitative study through systematic literature review analysis. Two factors are influencing the success of good governance innovations, namely leader and leadership in Javanese culture. The result of this study found that the success of good governance innovation is supported by the existence of leaders and leadership style which conform to Javanese culture and philosophy. In conclusion, the output embodies the notion of good governance; the process is a unique combination of good governance and local wisdom, which is Javanese philosophy.
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Ivaldi, Antonia, and Susan O'Neill. "Talking ‘Privilege’: barriers to musical attainment in adolescents’ talk of musical role models." British Journal of Music Education 26, no. 1 (March 2009): 43–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265051708008267.
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Using a discursive approach, this study explores the ways that adolescents construct the notion of social status and ‘being privileged’ through their talk about musician role models. Drawing on social identity theory (see Tajfel, 1978), we examined how adolescents moved between the relational ‘in’ and ‘out’ groups of being privileged versus being disadvantaged as a framework for discussing classical and popular musician role models. Seven focus groups were conducted, each composed of male and female adolescent musicians and non-musicians aged 14–15 years. Participants were asked to discuss 19 pictures of famous classical and popular musicians, commenting on whether they were familiar or unfamiliar figures, and whether they were liked or disliked and the reasons why. Through their talk, the adolescents constructed and negotiated a complex understanding of musical subcultures, whereby high levels of expertise and success were perceived within the notion of privilege. Findings suggest that adolescents' perceptions of privilege may act as a barrier or constraint to their exploration of alternative conceptualisations of musical expertise and success, thereby limiting their own musical aspirations.
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de Mul, Jos. "The Living Sign. Reading Noble from a Biosemiotic Perspective." Biosemiotics 14, no. 1 (April 2021): 107–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12304-021-09426-y.
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AbstractThe author argues that the reductionist illusions of the Modern Synthesis, which Noble criticizes in his target article, are to a large extent resulting from a mere syntactical notion of biological information, neglecting the pragmatic and semantic dimension of information. Although the syntactical notion, introduced by Shannon, has been applied with much success in information theory and computer technologies, it is too narrow to understand biological reality. Biosemiotics can help to clarify the problems identified by Noble, and offers a more adequate biological information concept, which not only may help to overcome these problems in the life sciences, but may also serve to integrate natural-scientific and humanities approaches to life.