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AlRouji, O. "The Effectiveness of Blended Learning in Enhancing Saudi Students’ Competence in Paragraph Writing." English Language Teaching 13, no. 9 (2020): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v13n9p72.
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Blended learning approach has become an emerging trend in the field of education and has caught the attention and interest of many researchers as a new approach to encourage students in their learning process. The present study aimed at examining the effectiveness of blended learning in improving Saudi EFL students’ English paragraph writing at Shaqra University. The sample of the study consists of 70 EFL students at Shaqra University. The experiment was conducted for six weeks (2018). A pre-test and post-paragraph writing test was used to measure the effectiveness of the blended learning in enhancing paragraph writing skills. Results showed that there were significant differences in the mean scores of the control group (traditional teaching mode) and the experimental group (blended learning) in favor of the experimental group. This proved the effectiveness of blended learning approach in developing Saudi students’ competence in paragraph writing.
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Alnuhayt, Sarah S. "Investigating the Use of the Flipped Classroom Method in an EFL Vocabulary Course." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 9, no. 2 (2018): 236. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0902.03.
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This study investigated the efficacy of using the flipped classroom method in EFL vocabulary classes. The participants consisted of45freshmenstudents enrolled in the researcher's ENG.120 Building vocabulary course in the English program of Al-Mezahemiah Faculty of Education; Shaqra University. The control group was taught traditionally by lecture- style learning while the experimental group was taught using the flipped classroom method. Data collection instruments included pre-post test and a questionnaire. Findings of the test indicated that the experimental group outperformed the control group in the post- test. Findings of the questionnaire indicated that students in the experimental group had positive attitudes regarding using the flipped classroom method in the EFL vocabulary class.
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Ayed Al-Khaza’le, Bilal. "Exploring Language Learning Strategies of Saudi EFL learners at Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 10, no. 4 (2019): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.10n.4p.63.
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Among the effective learning tools that enhance the L2 learning process, learning strategies are considered the most vital and essential techniques could be used by the learners for improving their L2 achievement. The current study explored the preferred language learning strategies for group of Saudi EFL learners in Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia. The sample of the study included 60 male undergraduate students enrolled in English department in 2019 academic session. The sample responded to the Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) questionnaire by Oxford. Results were analyzed using SPSS program. Findings showed that the sample used almost all strategies in an average level. The findings showed that social strategy was used most frequently by this group of students followed by metacogntive strategy. Both strategy categories used with high range according to Oxford scale. While the rest of the strategies fell in the average range, compensation, cognitive, affective, except for the memory strategy which was used with low range. Based on the findings of the study, it is implied that training programs are suggested in this case to explain to the students the importance of using all LLSs as much as possible without focusing on one particular strategies and neglecting the others.
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Kassem, Hassan Mohammed. "The Effectiveness of a Blended Strategy based on Concept Mapping and Text Structure in Enhancing EFL Learners’ Writing Performance." Journal of Studies in Education 7, no. 2 (2017): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jse.v7i2.11259.
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The current study investigated the effect of a blended strategy based on concept mapping and text structure on EFL learners’ writing performance. An intact group (N = 42) of seventh level English majors at Thadiq Sciences and Humanities College, Shaqra University, KSA participated in the study in the first semester of the academic year 2016-2017. They were assigned to an experimental group and a control group, each consisting of 21 students. A writing pretest was administered to the two groups and scored by two raters using the Weir’s TEEP attribute writing scale (1990). An independent samples t-test performed on the pretest mean scores of the two groups showed that they were homogenous prior to the experiment. Concept mapping and text formatting (the proposed blended strategy) were integrated in the Advanced Writing course (Eng 413) for experimental group students. The control group received conventional instruction that did not include the proposed strategy. Independent and paired samples t-tests revealed that the experimental group outperformed the control group in all the sub-scales of Weir’s TEEP attribute writing scale, hence supporting the positive effect of concept mapping and text formatting on EFL learners’ writing performance. Pedagogical implications are offered.
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M. Kassem, Hassan. "The Effect of Communication Strategy Instruction on Saudi EFL Learners’ Strategy Use, Speaking Proficiency and Self-Efficacy." Journal for the Study of English Linguistics 7, no. 1 (2019): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jsel.v7i1.14649.
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The current study investigated the effect of communication strategy instruction on Saudi EFL learners’ strategy use, speaking proficiency and speaking self-efficacy. Two intact classes of EFL freshmen at Thadiq Sciences and Humanities College, Shaqra University, KSA participated in the study in the first semester of the academic year 2018-2019. They were assigned to an experimental group (N = 20) and a control group (N = 19). A speaking test and a speaking self-efficacy questionnaire were administered to the two groups. Students’ oral production and communication strategy use were assessed by independent raters. Independent samples t-tests performed on the pretest mean scores of the two groups showed that they were homogenous in strategy use, speaking proficiency and speaking self-efficacy prior to the treatment. Treatment group students were then taught four communication strategies: circumlocution, approximation, appeal for help, and fillers in the Listening and Speaking 2 (Eng 122) course. The control group received the teaching sequence adopted in the course’s textbook which includes no training on communication strategy. Independent and paired samples t-tests revealed that the treatment group outperformed the control group in all dependent variables, hence supporting the positive effect of communication strategy training on strategy use, speaking proficiency and speaking self-efficacy. Pedagogical implications are offered.
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Al-Husseini, Moujahed. "Update to Late Triassic – Jurassic stratigraphy of Saudi Arabia for the Middle East Geologic Time Scale." GeoArabia 14, no. 2 (2009): 145–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/geoarabia1402145.
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ABSTRACT This Note presents a formal update to the Middle East Geologic Time Scale 2008 (ME GTS) for the Late Triassic and Jurassic rock units of Saudi Arabia. It reviews their lithostratigraphic nomenclature, ranks and stage assignments, and proposes names for third-order chrono-sequences as compiled and/or interpreted from the published literature. The review starts with the Late Triassic (Late Norian – Rhaetian) Minjur Sandstone of the Buraydah Group, with the Triassic – Jurassic (TrJ) boundary positioned at its top. The Minjur Sandstone consists of two units, here ranked as members, which are interpreted as the Late Norian – ?Early Rhaetian Lower Minjur Sequence (Lower Minjur Member) and ?Late Norian – Rhaetian Upper Minjur Sequence (Upper Minjur Member). The Early Jurassic Unconformity - Hiatus (Hettangian, Sinemurian and Pliensbachian stages) separates the Minjur Sandstone from the Toarcian Marrat Formation of the Jurassic Shaqra’ Group. The Shaqra’ Group consists of seven formations, from base-up: (1) Marrat Formation consisting of the Lower, Middle and Upper units, here ranked as members. (2) Dhruma Formation consisting of eight units (D1–D5, Wadi ad Dawasir “delta”, D6 and D7). The Dhruma units have been named in the literature as Balum Member (D1 and lower part of D2 units), Dhibi Limestone Member (upper part of D2 unit), Uwaynid Member (D3), Barrah Member (D4), Mishraq Member (D5), ‘Atash and Hisyan members (D7); the D6 and Wadi ad Dawasir “delta” units are not formally named as members. (3) Tuwaiq Mountain Limestone consisting of the Baladiyah (T1 unit), Mysiyah (T2 unit) and Daddiyah (T3 unit) members. (4) Hanifa Formation consisting of the Hawtah and Ulayyah members. (5) Jubaila Limestone with J1 and J2 units. (6) Arab Formation consisting of D to A members. (7) Hith Anhydrite consisting of Main Hith Anhydrite Member and Manifa Reservoir/Member. The seven formations of the Jurassic Shaqra’ Group are interpreted as 11 third-order chrono-sequences: (1) Early Toarcian Marrat Sequence B (Lower and Middle Marrat members) and Mid- to ?Late Toarcian Marrat Sequence A (Upper Marrat Member), the latter containing Arabian Plate maximum flooding surface MFS J10. (2) Bajocian Lower Dhruma Sequence (Balum Member and Dhibi Limestone), formed by the Balum and Dhibi subsequences, the former containing MFS J20. (3) Late Bajocian – Mid-Bathonian Dhruma Sequence B (Uwaynid, Barrah, Mishraq members, and Wadi ad Dawasir “delta” unit), with the Mishraq containing MFS J30. (4) Late Bathonian – early Mid-Callovian Dhruma Sequence A (unit D6, ‘Atash and Hisyan members), with the Hisyan containing MFS J40. (5) Mid- to Late Callovian Tuwaiq Sequence (Tuwaiq Mountain Limestone) containing an undesignated MFS at the base the Daddiyah Member (T3 unit). (6) Early and Mid-Oxfordian Hawtah Sequence (Hawtah Member of Hanifa Formation) containing MFS J50. (7) Late Oxfordian – ?Early Kimmeridgian Ulayyah Sequence (Ulayyah Member of Hanifa Formation) containing MFS J60. (8) Kimmeridgian Jubaila Sequence (Jubaila Limestone) containing MFS J70. (9) Arab-D Sequence (Arab-D Member inclusive of the Arab-D Anhydrite) containing an undesignated MFS in the Arab-D carbonate. (10) ?Kimmeridgian – ?Tithonian Arab-C and B Sequence (Arab C and B members) containing fourth-order MFS J80 and J90 in the lower carbonates of the members; and (11) ?Kimmeridgian – Tithonian Arab-A - Main Hith Sequence (Arab-A Member and Main Hith Anhydrite below the Manifa Reservoir/Member) containing fourth-order MFS J100 in the Arab-A Member. The Tithonian Manifa Member (upper part of the Hith Anhydrite Formation) is interpreted as heralding a transgression (fourth-order MFS J110), which deposited the Late Jurassic – Early Cretaceous Sulaiy Formation of the Thamama Group. The Jurassic – Cretaceous (JK) boundary is placed in the Sulaiy Formation by stratigraphic position. Based on the Geologic Time Scale GTS 2004 and Arabian Orbital Stratigraphy (AROS), the ages in million years before present of the sequence boundaries and maximum flooding surfaces are estimated for these chrono-sequences.
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Elborolosy, Samah Ahmed Mohammed. "Using Drama Approach and Oral Corrective Feedback in Enhancing Language Intelligibility and Oral Fluency among English Majors." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 10, no. 11 (2020): 1453. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1011.16.
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The present paper investigated the effect of drama approach and oral corrective feedback on improving English majors intelligibility and oral fluency at Shaqra’ University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The tools of the present paper were an interview, pre-posttests, a rubric of the scoring scale and an observation checklist. The participants of the paper were thirty English majors. The paper compared the conventional method to the intervention based on two types of drama approach strategies and three types of oral corrective feedback. Data were statistically analyzed to test the hypotheses. The results indicated that there were no significant differences between the paper groups due to the conventional method in the pretest, whereas there were significant differences in the posttest in favor of the experimental group due to the intervention. Findings of the observation techniques indicated that thought tracking was preferred by the students to soundscape and clarification request mostly used by the teacher.
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Elborolosy, Samah Ahmed Mohammed, and Aziza Abdullah Abdulaziz Al Thenyan. "Improving Flunked English Majors Performance through Enhancing Students' Perception of Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectancy at Shaqra University." English Language Teaching 13, no. 9 (2020): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v13n9p83.
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Teachers have to support flunked English majors emotionally, academically and use creative methods to improve their academic performance. The present research examined the effect of self-efficacy and outcomes expectancy on improving the performance of flunking English majors at Shaqra’ University. The instruments required for the research were a follow-up interview, pre-posttests and a questionnaire of self-efficacy and outcomes expectancy. The sample size was thirty of flunking English major students. The research compared eight techniques to enhance self-efficacy and outcomes expectancy to regular method. To test the hypotheses, data were collected and statistically analyzed. The results showed that there was no significance difference between the control group and experimental related to regular method in the pre-tests, whereas there was a difference in the post-tests in favor of the experimental group attributed to the treatment. The findings of the questionnaire proved that students' perception of self-efficacy and outcome expectancy were crucial to enhance students' academic performance. The research suggested further investigations to examine the effect of self-efficacy and outcome expectancy on enhancing language oral and written skills.
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Alshammari, Reem Fuhaid. "The Effect of Inquiry-Based Learning Strategy on Developing Saudi Students’ Meta-Cognitive Reading Comprehension Skills." English Language Teaching 15, no. 5 (2022): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v15n5p43.
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The main aim of the present study is to develop first year university students' meta-cognitive reading comprehension using inquiry-based learning strategy. Subjects of the study were 106 (53 males, 53 females) first year university students enrolled in two classrooms at colleges representing urban and sub-urban areas in Shaqra University. The present study adopted a quasi-experimental design with one-group. The results of present study showed that first year university students should have the following reading comprehension skills: guessing, description, analyzing and identifying the main idea. Accordingly, the suggested strategy was designed and used to develop these identified meta-cognitive reading comprehension skills. A reading comprehension test, based on the identified skills, was designed and used as a pretest and posttest. Findings of the present study showed that there were statistical differences between the students’ mean score on the pretest and posttest in favor of the posttest, and there were statistical differences between the students’ mean score on the posttest at the level of .05. This can be attributed to the effectiveness of using the inquiry-based learning strategy in developing students' meta-cognitive reading comprehension skills at the university stage.
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Aisyah, Siti, Wahyu, and Noorhapizah. "The analysis of Early Childhood Education Teacher Professional at Shabha Amanah Banjarbaru." Journal of K6 Education and Management 4, no. 3 (2022): 331–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.11594/jk6em.04.03.07.
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The purpose of this study was to identify and describe pedagogic competence, personality competence, social competence, and professional competence of PAUD teachers in Shabha Amanah Banjarmasin. And also to find out the differences in pedagogic competence, personality competence, social competence, professional competence possessed by PAUD teachers at Shabha Amanah Banjarmasin. The method used in this research is descriptive quantitative by conducting tests on 16 PAUD teachers at Shabna Amanah Banjarbaru. Data collected technique using questionnaires. The results of this study indicate that pedagogic competence, personality competence, and competence teachers' social skills are included in the good category. And there is no difference in the personality competence of teachers based on educational background. However, there are differences in social competence and professional competence of teachers based on educational background. This study concludes that the competencies possessed by PAUD teachers at Shabna Amanah Banjarbaru are good, but to maintain and improve the quality of their competencies they need to participate in activities such as the Teacher Working Group (KKG), Subject Teacher Consultations (MGMP), attending education, training, and seminars.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Shaqra Group"
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Couper, Amy. "Understanding perceptions of human-wildlife conflict and policy responses: An examination of the Western Australia shark hazard mitigation drum line program 2013-2014." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/204256/1/Amy_Couper_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines stakeholder perceptions of shark bite events and policy responses by using a Western Australian shark hazard mitigation policy as a case study. It determined that stakeholder groups use different techniques to create social problems that can influence policy outcomes and that there is a disconnect between policy and scientific evidence regarding cases of human-wildlife conflict.
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Buffard, Roland. "Un rift intracontinental du précambrien supérieur : le Shaba méridional (Zaïre) : évolution sédimentaire et tectonique du Supergroupe de Roan au Groupe du Kundelungu inférieur (Supergroupe du Kundelungu)." Le Mans, 1988. http://cyberdoc.univ-lemans.fr/theses/1988/1988LEMA1005.pdf.
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Le Protérozoique supérieur du Shaba au Zaire (ou Katanguien) constitue un énorme complexe sédimentaire et volcano-sédimentaire disposé au Sud-Est en un arc (Arc plissé du Shaba) se prolongeant vers le Nord-Est en un ensemble sub-tabulaire. L'analyse détaillée de ces formations fortement tectonisées d'âge Roan à Kundelungu inferieur a montré qu'elles appartenaient à un graben en extension intracontinentale et en voie de structuration. Son compartimentage est matérialisé par la mise en place d'un certain nombre d'entites structurales : gradins et môles à complexes récifaux stromatolithiques et tidalites délimitant un fossé principal (Fossé de Fungurume) et des bassins côtiers (Musonoi et Kipushi) à sédimentation euxinique, détritique de nature turbiditique (Mwashya supérieur) ou à caractère tillitique (Grand Conglomérat) ou franchement évaporitiques de type "sebkha". Dans ce dernier cas, elle a pu contribuer d'une maniere notable à la mégabréchification ultérieure de la couverture. Enfin la répartition lithologique et géographique des très importantes minéralisations cupro-cobaltifère (Roan) ou cupro-zincifère (Kundelungu inférieur) et leurs variations qualitative et quantitative ont pu être explicitées a partir de ce modèle<br>The Upper Proterozoïc Shaba of Zaire constitues a great sedimentary and volcanic sedimentary complex suddivides in two parts : a southeastern folded arc (Shaba arc) and northeastern subtabularies beds. The detailed analysis of these faulted formations from Roan to lower Kundelungu age has shown they belonged to intracontinental rift in extension. It gives some structural units : tilted blocks and horsts with reef and tidalite facies, subsiding area (Fungurume) and coastal basins and lagoons (Musonoi, Kipushi) with confined sediments, turbidite sandstone facies (Upper Mwashya), tillitic deposits (Great Conglomerate), or evaporitic sequence sebkha facies. The latter has played an important role in the post brecciation of the sedimentary cover. The lithological and geographical distribution of the very important Cu-Co (Roan) and Cu-Zn (Lower Kundelungu) ore deposits and their qualitative and quantitative variations have been explained thanks to this model
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Guňka, Pavel. "Fundamentální analýza." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-222723.
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This thesis deals with a fundamental share analysis of the Czech ČEZ Group. The theoretical part summarizes the most frequent techniques and methods of a fundamental share analysis. In the practical part these findings are used to analyze the shares of ČEZ. The core of the fundamental analysis itself lies in the calculation of the intrinsic value of the share. And finally, investment recommendations are proposed on the basis of the comparison between the acquired intrinsic value and the current market price of the shares.
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Alves, Luiz Ernesto Fonseca. "O Compartilhamento do conhecimento nas organizações: um estudo desconstrucionista." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/3877.
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Previous issue date: 2005<br>Organizations have shown a speech focused on Knowledge Management and share of knowledge that reveal the relevance of both the age of knowledge and the capture and transference of individual and colective knowledge. Due to its continued repetition, the speech has been legitimated, not establishing, however, what can be shared, which methods shall provide it and which personal and corporate reasons can stimulate sharing the knowledge. This speech tries to convince that the implementation depends exclusively on the actions promoted by the firm. It also admits the presence of necessary environment conditions to make share of knowledge possible. The speech makes one believe that individuals and teams, formal or informal, are prepared and desire to share their knowledge, not considering feelings, wishes or availability to do so. The research has revealed the difficulty of sharing knowledge within service companies, which are strongly results oriented, due to the competition among employees in order to catch better jobs, the fight to retain power and the lack of time to develop daily tasks. Such organizations prevent people from the desire and the availability to share knowledge.<br>Existe um discurso dominante nas organizações a respeito da Gestão do Conhecimento e do compartilhamento do conhecimento que afirma a existência de uma era do conhecimento e que assevera a importância da captura e disponibilização do conhecimento individual e coletivo. Trata-se de um discurso que, de tão repetido, revestiu-se de legitimidade, não tendo evidenciado, contudo, o que pode ser compartilhado, que métodos garantem o compartilhamento, e os motivos, pessoais e empresariais, que podem incentivá-lo. Este discurso faz crer ser esta uma disciplina cuja implementação depende unicamente da efetividade das ações conduzidas pela empresa. Admite, igualmente, que as condições ambientais necessárias ao compartilhamento do conhecimento estão presentes. O discurso parte da premissa de que as pessoas, equipes e grupos, formais e informais, estão preparados e desejosos por compartilharem seu conhecimento, desconsiderando os seus sentimentos e sua vontade ou disponibilidade para tanto. A pesquisa, contudo, revelou a dificuldade para o compartilhamento do conhecimento em organizações prestadoras de serviços fortemente orientadas para resultados, pois as condições de trabalho em organizações deste tipo são pautadas por uma competição interna ferrenha na luta pelos melhores cargos e funções, pela disputa de poder e pela escassez de tempo para o desenvolvimento das atribuições básicas dos cargos. Nestas organizações, em geral, os indivíduos não encontram vontade nem disponibilidade para compartilhar conhecimento.
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Newlon, Christine Mae. "The effect of shared dynamic understanding on willingness to contribute information| Design and analysis of a mega-collaborative interface." Thesis, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10159859.
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<p> Collaborative helping via social networking conversation threads can pose serious challenges in emergency situations. Interfaces that support complex group interaction and sense-making can help. This research applies human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), and collaboration engineering in developing an interactive design, the Mega-Collaboration Tool (MCT). The goal is to reduce the cognitive load of a group’s growing mental model, thus increasing the general public’s ability to organize spontaneous collaborative helping. </p><p> The specific aims of this research include understanding the dynamics of mental model negotiation and determining whether MCT can assist the group’s sense-making ability without increasing net cognitive load. </p><p> The proposed HCI theory is that interfaces supporting collaborative cognition motivate contribution and reduce information bias, thus increasing the information shared. These research questions are addressed: 1. Does MCT support better collaborative cognition? 2. Does increasing the size of the shared data repository increase the amount of information shared? 3. Does this happen because group members experience 1) a greater sense of strategic commitment to the knowledge structure, 2) increased intrinsic motivation to contribute, and 3) reduced resistance to sharing information? </p><p> These questions were affirmed to varying degrees, giving insight into the collaborative process. Greater content did not motive group members directly; instead, half of their motivation came from awareness of their contribution’s relevance. Greater content and organization improved this awareness, and also encouraged sharing through increased enthusiasm and reduced bias. Increased commitment was a result of this process, rather than a cause. Also, MCT increased collaborative cognition but was significantly hampered by Internet performance. This challenge indicates MCT’s system components should be redesigned to allow asynchronous interaction. These results should contribute to the development of MCT, other collaboration engineering applications, and HCI and information science theory.</p>
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Babáčková, Markéta. "Posuzování synergických efektů u vybraného konsolidovaného subjektu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-234711.
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The thesis focuses on the methods of assessment of synergies established in a consolidated entity. The text includes a definition of a consolidated unit based on theoretical grounds and a draft set of indicators suitable for the analysis of the achievement of synergies. Synergies are monitored through a comparison between the consolidated unit and the mother company made in several selected areas. Results of the analysis of the draft indicators are assessed to determine whether synergies were achieved.
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Avelar, Pedro Alexandre Santos. "Hotel industry growth trends –the case of intercontinental hotels group." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/105523.
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IHG is considered one of the biggest companies fromhotelindustry.Its presence is spread worldwide, accounting with more than 5,600 franchised, managed, owned and leased hotels. Its revenues are reported according to three regions –Americas, EMEAA and Greater China.IHG has been developingexpansionist strategies, improving its business models and aligningits corporate goalsin order to obtain long-term sustainability. We performedananalysis of IHG business modelsandvalue drivers, researched about its majorcompetitors andincorporated the mainindustry trendsin the forecast.It was adopted the DCFmethodology in order to determine the FY20 share price.
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Ganhão, Gonçalo Almeida Pélico Veiga. "BMW group equity research - a shift in gear." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/133499.
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This Work Project consists of an Equity Research, focused on the intrinsic valuation of the company BMW AG. A sum of the parts valuation model is used to quantify the value of the firms’ businesses that range from car and motorcycle manufacturing to financial services. Although BMW enjoys a strong branding power, challenges in the form of innovative competition in the EVs segment, production disruption due to a shortage of semiconductor chips and possible government intervention in key regions severely decrease growth possibilities. We forecast a sales growth in the region of 1.2%-3.0% after 2022 and slightly increasing margins. Our result yields a HOLD recommendation with 5.1% shareholder return for FY2022.
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Pardal, Maria Ana Marques Moreira da Costa. "Equity valuation of Burberry Group Plc." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/35307.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to determine Burberry’s price per share as of 31st of March 2021. Based on the current share price, an investment recommendation was issued. The valuation was supported by a current macroeconomic analysis, an industry overview, the company’s business strategy and past financial performance. The share price was obtained through the combination of two valuation methods: the Discounted Cash Flow method and the Relative Valuation method. The valuation was then stressed through an alternative scenario analysis and a sensitivity analysis to acknowledge the uncertainty in the market. In the end, a price of £19.96 is achieved. When comparing with the share price as of 11th December 2020, a Hold recommendation is issued, with a potential upside of 10%.<br>O objetivo desta dissertação é calcular o preço por ação da Burberry a 31 de março de 2021. Com base no preço atual uma recomendação de investimento foi emitida. A avaliação vai ser suportada por uma análise do atual ambiente macroeconómico, uma análise da indústria, e por fim, uma análise da estratégia e desempenho financeiro da empresa. O preço foi obtido através de dois métodos de avaliação: Discounted Cash Flow e Relative Valuation. A avaliação foi testada através de uma análise de cenários e uma análise de sensibilidade, de forma a ter em consideração a incerteza vivida no mercado. Foi alcançado um preço de £19.96 por ação. Ao comparar o valor intrínseco com o preço de mercado a 11 de dezembro de 2020, é emitida uma recomendação para manter a ação, representando um ganho possível de 10%.
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Marín, Daniela Rodríguez. "Approximation of Merck group value using two valuation methods: discounted free cash flow and multiples." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/127201.
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The purpose of this paper is to valuate Merck Group, an important and recognized German pharmaceutical company for December 2020. To do so, two valuation methods were used: Discounted Free Cash Flow (DFCF) and Multiples. After obtaining different share prices from those methods it was evidenced that both are on the same ranges of prices and therefore both of them are valid, both results are very close to the company ́s share price clousure as of December 2020. Furthermore, it was concluded that Merck group is a robust and strong company in which and investor or stakeholder can make a positive investment decision.
Books on the topic "Shaqra Group"
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Milne, George R. A niche share approach for assessing brand performance and identifying competitive groups. Marketing Science Institute, 1994.
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Sharks, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Technical Working Group on the Conservation and Management of. Report of the FAO Technical Working Group on the Conservation and Management of Sharks: Tokyo, Japan, 23-27 April 1998. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1999.
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Garzaniti, Marcello, and Lorenzo Pubblici, eds. CeSecom. Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-316-8.
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Cesecom was founded by bringing together a group of scholars who are experts in the study of the several regions that are between Central Europe and Caucasus, including Central Asia. Our attention is focused on the centuries before the fall of Constantinople and the discovery of America, a fundamental period in order to understand the roots of the problems and conflicts that are still tormenting this region of the world today. CeSecom was created to meet the exigencies of scholars in order to furnish a tool for research and also provide an open space for discussions, to exchange ideas and share the outcomes of one's studies. The website will be an open resource, whose aim is to improve diverse specializations, sharing and delving in them. We hope that this initiative will meet your liking and will favor communication of our scientific work.
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Meade, Douglas S., ed. In Quest of the Craft. Firenze University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-820-0.
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INFORUM is a research project started more than forty five years ago by Clopper Almon. The focus is on the development of dynamic, interindustry, macroeconometric models to forecast the economy in the long run. Over the last 30 years, the Inforum approach to model building has been shared by economists in many different countries. Researchers have focused much of their efforts to developing a linked system of international interindustry models with a consistent methodology. A world-wide network of research associates use similar methods and a common software obtaining comparable results to produce studies of common interest to the group. Inforum partners have shared their research in an annual conference since 1993. The XXII Inforum World Conference was held in Alexandria, Virginia in September 2014 and this book contains a selection of papers presented during the sessions. All these contributions share an empirical and pragmatic orientation that is very useful for policymakers, business, and applied economists. Some papers are devoted to specific topics (productivity, energy, international trade, demographic changes) and some others are oriented to model building and simulations.
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Collins, Stephanie. Group Duties. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840275.001.0001.
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Moral duties are regularly attributed to groups. We might think that the United Kingdom has a moral duty to defend human rights, that environmentalists have a moral duty to push for global systemic reform, or that the affluent have a moral duty to alleviate poverty. This book asks (i) whether such groups are apt to bear duties and (ii) what this implies for their members. It defends a ‘Tripartite Model’ of group duties, which divides groups into three fundamental categories. First, combinations are collections of agents that do not have any goals or decision-making procedures in common. Combinations cannot bear moral duties. Instead, we should re-cast their purported duties as a series of duties—one held by each agent in the combination. Each duty demands its bearer to ‘I-reason’: to do the best they can, given whatever they happen to believe the others will do. Second, coalitions are groups whose members share goals but lack decision-making procedures. Coalitions also cannot bear duties, but their alleged duties should be replaced with members’ several duties to ‘we-reason’: to do one’s part in a particular group pattern of actions, on the presumption that others will do likewise. Third, collectives have group-level procedures for making decisions. They can bear duties. Collectives’ duties imply duties for collectives’ members to use their role in the collective with a view to the collective doing its duty.
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Report of the Technical Working Group on the Conservation and Management of Shark (Fao Fisheries Reports). Food & Agriculture Org, 1999.
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Bonnay, Denis. A Clustering-Based Approach to Collective Beliefs. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190680534.003.0008.
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In this chapter, I argue in favor of a new approach to collective beliefs in unorganized groups, in terms of doxastic clustering. When a group does not have dedicated mechanisms for production of collective beliefs, and when individual beliefs of members of the group are diverse, it does not make much sense to attribute to the group some average beliefs or any other kind of collective beliefs produced by aggregating individual beliefs. Rather, beliefs are meaningfully attributed to coherent subgroups of individuals who share similar opinions. In this case, attribution of collective beliefs involves both clustering, that is partitioning the group into coherent doxastic units, and aggregation, that is aggregating individual opinions within coherent clusters. Adapting standard judgment aggregation theory, I propose a formal framework for doxastic clustering and provide an axiomatic characterization of majoritarian intra-cluster aggregation.
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Smedley, Julia, Finlay Dick, and Steven Sadhra. Medically unexplained occupational disorders. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199651627.003.0016.
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Post-conflict illness in military personnel 332Sick building syndrome 334Karoshi: death from overwork 336In the aftermath of every major conflict over the past century, some returning personnel have complained of ill health. Some have symptoms of physical origin, others psychiatric disorder including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, there is a third group characterized by vague and non-specific symptoms, for which (despite extensive investigation) no cause is found. Different names have been ascribed to this third group, including Agent Orange syndrome and Gulf War illness. These syndromes share many common features. There are also similarities with other medically unexplained symptoms, including chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome and neurasthenia. All groups have definitive health care needs....
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Orentlicher, Diane. Living in Compulsory Denial (Bosnia). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190882273.003.0008.
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Many Bosnians hoped the Tribunal would dispel denial and forge a shared understanding among their country’s ethnic communities about wartime atrocities. During a period of robust international engagement in the early years of the twenty-first century, there was significant progress in Serb acknowledgment of Serb atrocities, as well as acknowledgment by other ethnic groups that members of their in-group committed war crimes. Since 2006, however, there has been a sharp rise in nationalist rhetoric, which has included strident rejection of ICTY judgments. Moreover public opinion surveys reflect sharp cleavages among Bosnia’s major ethnic groups concerning beliefs about wartime atrocities. This chapter explores factors behind these trends, including the dynamics of competitive victimhood, the polarizing incentives of governance structures established in the Dayton Peace Agreement, and the retreat of the Office High Representative from robust engagement in Bosnia at a time of rising nationalism.
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Leonard, Bill J. Baptists in North America. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199683710.003.0010.
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This chapter considers an unlikely trio of groups who opposed the Evangelical Protestant mainstream in nineteenth-century America: the Unitarians, the Quakers, and the Shakers. Each had to navigate two different forms of dissent: the external and the internal. When deciding how best to revise or contradict the hegemonic forms of Protestantism, these groups had certain goals and methods for interacting with those outside their fellowship. In time, they each also had to face a more pernicious adversary, the second generation of dissenters that grew within their own ranks. While these disparate traditions may appear to have little in common, each body faced many of the same questions as they asserted their distinct form of external cultural and religious correction. When articulating a theological vision that went against the mainstream, they had to determine how to serve that particular vision in a culture that did not share their theological views. Some withdrew from contact with outsiders and used their enclaves as a way to practise and preserve their vision of orthodoxy and orthopraxy. On the other hand, there were groups that deliberately sought to model correct religion for others, and thereby hoped to transform other religious groups by disseminating their theological vision beyond the confines of any type of self-imposed seclusion. As the decades passed, though, both sorts of groups were surprised by the inevitable challenges to their founding orthodoxy from within their own membership. This dissent among dissenters was, of course, an outgrowth of the very impulse that stood behind the earlier establishment of the group. Subsequent generations of membership often failed to realize that belonging to a group of dissenters might require adherence to a detailed theological vision. This tension between founding theology and ongoing interpretation could leave a Dissenting group hierarchy in the awkward position of having to restrict innovation, an irony not lost on subsequent generations of members. This chapter asks how Unitarians, Shakers, and Quakers in nineteenth-century America addressed these two aspects of Dissent: external and internal. How did each group perceive their relationship to American culture and other more mainstream religious groups? How did they encounter and negotiate dissent from within their ranks? In each group there was an evolution over the course of the nineteenth century that complicates any interpretation of these multifaceted embodiments of Protestant Dissenting traditions in the United States.
Book chapters on the topic "Shaqra Group"
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Burnett, Kevin. "Impact Fee Focus Groups." In Proportionate Share Impact Fees and Development Mitigation. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003336075-35.
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Wirajaya, Asep Yudha. "Group Alms Management as a Sustainable Community-Based Fundraising Model." In Proceedings of the 1st International Seminar on Sharia, Law and Muslim Society (ISSLAMS 2022). Atlantis Press SARL, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-81-7_8.
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Marchal, Roland. "Rivals in Governance." In War and Peace in Somalia. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190947910.003.0031.
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This chapter discusses what Al-Shabaab delivers in the areas it controls. It focuses on three main sectors: preaching and education, organizing civil society, and justice. Al-Shabaab uses religion to enhance its legitimacy and as a means of social control. The group promotes religious education in Quranic schools, and exalts dogmatism and righteousness, which undermines tolerance and open-mindedness. On taking control of a community, Al-Shabaab will declare that Sharia, rather than xeer, will be applied. It therefore tends to disempower elders, while sometimes promoting and manipulating the role of other groups such as women, teenagers, and traders. The group enforces harsh rules of behaviour, but they are predictable. It also establishes courts that are generally considered to be non-corrupt and whose judgements are enforced.
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Sharma, Aru. "ASSESSMENT OF AWARENESS, KNOWLEDGE AND COMPLIANCE OF PRESCRIBED ANTIBIOTIC USE AMONG EMPLOYEES OF DECISION RESOURCE GROUP." In BEST PRACTICES IN HEALTH AND HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT. GRF Books, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.52458/9788197040856.2024.eb.ch-06.
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Saeed, Sadia. "Islam, Modernity, and the Question of Religious Heterodoxy." In Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530016.003.0002.
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This chapter undertakes a comparative and historical inquiry to address the role of sharia in shaping concrete state responses toward managing “heterodox” religious communities across time and space. The aim of this inquiry is, first, to undertake a critique of civilizational analyses that seek to capture supposedly essential features of Muslim societies, and second, to underscore the marginal role of sharia in adjudicating issues related to religious heterodoxy in both early modern empires and modern Muslim states. It analyzes, first, how Muslim rulers in two early modern Muslim empires, Safavid Iran and Mughal India, dealt with the same heterodox group, the Nuqtavi Sufi order. Next, it focuses on how two contemporary Muslim-majority states that emerged from these empires, Iran and Pakistan, have sought to regulate and discipline “heretical” groups in their midst—Baha’is in Iran and the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan. The analysis opens space for formulating alternative accounts of transitions to modernity that are not beholden to teleological Eurocentric notions that normalize notions of unredeemable and non-usable pasts and always-already open and progressive futures.
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Al-Hamad, Abu Malik Shayba. "Jumbled Words and Authentication for the Important Period Prior to Shaykh Al-Shekawi’s Allegiance Which Made the Umma Happy." In The Boko Haram Reader. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190908300.003.0064.
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(27 MARCH 2015) [Trans.: David Cook] Posted at: https://twitter.com/ifRk23 (suspended) This document is presented as reminiscences by Abu Malik Shayba al-Hamad (@ shaiba_ha) of the Tunisian-based Anṣār al-Sharī‘a, who claims to have facilitated the union between Boko Haram and ISIS. Hamad appears to have been something of a clearing-house in connection with a wide range of West African and European groups, probably because Tunisia during the period 2011–14 allowed freedom to Salafi-jihadis. The document is placed here out of chronological order because it describes events that occurred in 2014 and early 2015. Only selections of the seven-page document are translated here, as the bulk of it concerns other groups in Africa. Note that it was the capture of the Chibok girls which provoked the admiration of the writer, and made him realize that Boko Haram is a truly jihadi group...
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Taber, Douglass F. "Organic Functional Group Interconversion." In Organic Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190646165.003.0004.
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Gojko Lalic of the University of Washington developed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 6473) conditions for the preparation of the fluoride 2 by SN2 displacement of the triflate 1. Ross M. Denton of the University of Nottingham showed (Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 799) that a polymer-bound phosphine oxide activated with oxalyl bromide would convert an alcohol 3 to the bromide 4. The polymer could be filtered off and reactivated directly. Jonas C. Peters and Gregory C. Fu of Caltech devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 2162) a photochemically-activated Cu catalyst that mediated the displacement of the bromide 5 by the amide 6 to give 7. Mark L. Trudell of the University of New Orleans used (Synthesis 2014, 46, 230) an Ir catalyst to couple the amide 9 with the alcohol 8, leading to 10. Tohru Fukuyama of Nagoya University converted (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 727) the unsaturated aldehyde 11 into the ester 12. As the transformation proceeded via protonation of the enolized acyl cyanide, the less stable diastereomer was formed kinetically. Brindaban C. Ranu of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science developed (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 1040) conditions for the coupling of an alkenyl halide 13 with a phenol, leading to the vinyl ether 14. Inter alia, this would be a convenient way to hydrolyze an alkenyl halide to the aldehyde. Vinyl ethers can also be oxidized directly to the ester, and to the unsaturated aldehyde. Pallavi Sharma and John E. Moses of the University of Lincoln observed (Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 2158) that the cyanation of the alkenyl halide 15 delivered 16, with retention of the geometry of the alkene. Jitendra K. Bera of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur uncovered (Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 1444) “on water” conditions for the hydrolysis of a terminal alkyne 17 to the methyl ketone 18. Jiannan Xiang and Weimin He of Hunan University prepared (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 2668) the keto phosphonate 20 by hydrolysis of the alkynyl phosphonate 19. Ken-ichi Fujita of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology cyclized (Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 3013) the alkyne 21 with CO₂, leading to 22.
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Dagher, Munqith, Karl Kaltenthaler, Michele J. Gelfand, Arie W. Kruglanski, and Ian McCulloh. "Life under ISIS." In ISIS in Iraq. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197524756.003.0006.
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Abstract One of the most asked questions about ISIS during its occupation of large swathes Iraq is this: What was it like to live under the governance of the group? Using data collected from ordinary Iraqis, the chapter attempts to give a picture of everyday life in ISIS-occupied Iraq. Most Sunni Iraqis who experienced the arrival of ISIS, particularly in Mosul, say the group was largely accepted at first, as an alternative to what was viewed as a corrupt, abusive, and sectarian Iraqi state. In retrospect, however, many of the people interviewed about ISIS’s governance thought that although ISIS was superior in some aspects of governance to the Iraqi state, the group largely wore out its welcome through its brutal imposition of an interpretation of sharia that was far more extreme than even relatively conservative Sunni Iraqis were willing to accept.
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Taber, Douglass. "Best Synthetic Methods: Functional Group Transformation." In Organic Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199764549.003.0007.
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François Morvan of the Université de Montpellier, using the inexpensive dimethyl phosphite, optimized (Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 3288) the free radical reduction of 1 to 2. Pawan K. Sharma of Kurukshetra University found (Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 48, 8704) that NaBH4 in the presence of a catalytic amount of RuCl3.xH2 O reduced monosubstituted and disubstituted alkenes, such as 3, to the corresponding alkanes. Note that benzyl ethers were stable to these conditions. Ken Suzuki of Asahi Kasei Chemicals and Shun-Ichi Murahashi of Okayama University of Science established conditions (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 2079) for the oxidation of primary amines such as 5 to oximes. Both ketoximes such as 6 and aldoximes were prepared using this protocol. Primary and secondary alcohols were stable to these conditions. Three noteworthy procedures for the oxidation of an aldehyde to the acid oxidation state were recently reported. Jonathan M. J. Williams of the University of Bath demonstrated (Chem. Commun. 2008, 624) that crotonitrile could serve as the hydrogen acceptor in the oxidation of an aldehyde 7 to the methyl ester 8. Note that isolated alkenes were stable to these conditions. Vikas N. Telvekar the University Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai improved (Tetrahedron Lett . 2008, 49, 2213) the oxidative amination of an aldehyde 9 to the nitrile 10. G. Sekar of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras effected (Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 1083) oxidation of an aldehyde 11 to the acid 12, under conditions that would be expected to not oxidize a primary or secondary alcohol. J. S. Yadav of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad observed (Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 3015) that the activation of a thiophenol 14 with N-chlorosuccimide generated a species that added regioselectively to a ketone 13 to give the thioether 15. Oxidation of the sulfide 15 followed by heating of the resulting sulfoxide would give the enone 16. This appears to be an easily scalable procedure. It is well known that an acid 17 and an amine 18 will condense at elevated temperature to give the amide 20.
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Hasyim, Syafiq. "The Secular and the Religious." In Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199496693.003.0005.
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Chapter four highlights two crucial issues that modern Indonesia has faced as a nation state: a systematic and passionate inclusion of Sharia into the legal and public sphere of this country (Shariatization), and secularization, applied to guard Indonesia, which fulfils the standard of a democratic modern state. These two are problematic considering Indonesia is neither an Islamic nor a secular State. As a non-theocratic State, in fact, Indonesia remains unable to completely stop several efforts of Shariatization promoted by some groups of Muslim society, and as non-secular State, Indonesia cannot adopt a total separation of religion and politics either. This chapter traces the first moment of Indonesia adopting Sharia on one hand and selecting compatible aspects of secularism on the other hand, and analyses how both are maintained in the configuration of the Indonesian nation state.
Conference papers on the topic "Shaqra Group"
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Trethewey, K. R., S. Phillips, and P. R. Roberge. "Development of a Knowledge Elicitation Shell for Materials Performance Evaluation in Seawater Systems." In CORROSION 1994. NACE International, 1994. https://doi.org/10.5006/c1994-94378.
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Abstract It has been shown that people have a considerable aggravating influence on system failure by corrosion. In the 21st century, when the emphasis is expected to fall firmly on conservation of valuable resources and more economic use of energy - issues likely to be governed by law - KBSs will have a considerable role to play in reducing the incidence of premature failure by corrosion. Knowledge elicitation is a precursor to the construction of knowledge based systems (KBSs) but represents a serious difficulty for software developers. The complex transformation of lifetime industrial expertise into software requires the willing and active participation of domain experts, frequently unfamiliar with computers and not necessarily inclined or able to share the details of their thought processes. Whilst knowledge and experience can be shared by a group of people, expertise is uniquely tinted by the expert’s own individuality. This paper discusses the strategies for the formulation of expert knowledge applicable to each of the groups of people involved in corrosion failure.
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Hiremath, Nandeesh, Dhwanil Shukla, Vrishank Raghav, and Narayanan Komerath. "A Summary of Flowfield Around a Rotor Blade in Reverse Flow." In Vertical Flight Society 72nd Annual Forum & Technology Display. The Vertical Flight Society, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4050/f-0072-2016-11383.
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Prior work from our group presented 3-D velocity field measurements obtained using stereo particle image velocimetry (SPIV) under the sharp edge of a rotor blade in reverse flow. These showed the presence of a strong attached vortex reminiscent of that over a sharp-edged delta wing at angle of attack. The evolution of this sharp edge vortex (SEV) as the blade moves with decreasing yaw, dominates the aerodynamics of the blade in reverse flow. In this paper, we report new measurements that complete the picture. Data below the rotor blade, sufficiently resolved in space to permit interpolation to satisfy the continuity equation, enable extraction of the surface pressure field and the local circulation. This paper closes the loop and shows why a model of reversed flow rotor aerodynamics based on the formation and evolution of a strong sharp-edged vortex resolves several mysteries and provide a self-consistent explanation of observed phenomena. Further, logical argument shows that this test case is physically representative of what will be encountered on full-scale blades in flight.
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Novikov, Mikhail, Artem Krylov, and Konstantin Roginskiy. "RECEIVER FUNCTIONS APPLICATION FOR STUDYING THE DEEP STRUCTURE OF THE LENA DELTA REGION." In 24th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference 24. STEF92 Technology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2024/1.1/s05.64.
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Receiver function analysis is a critical tool in seismology, used to study the deep structure of the crust and upper mantle. Information about the deep structure of the crust and seismicity is important initial data for developing a source model and seismic hazard assessment. The presence of sharp discontinuities beneath the monitoring station induces the generation of converted body waves, which propagate at slower velocities than those of the primary P-wave. Receiver function analysis utilizes the lag between the arrival times of converted waves to estimate the depths of interfaces. Furthermore, by using various inversion algorithms, including receiver function inversion and surface wave group velocity inversion, a shear wave velocity model under the station can be inferred. This study seeks to examine the depth-velocity structure of the Lena Delta by analyzing receiver functions and surface-wave data. Receiver function analysis was performed using waveforms from the TIXI station, a component of the Yakutsk Regional Seismic Network of the Russian Federation. For the analysis, 245 large earthquakes (Ml > 7) occurring between 2000 and 2024, and located at distances ranging from 20� to 100� from the station, were initially selected. The iterative deconvolution was then used to obtain radial and transverse receiver functions. Three different inversion algorithms were used to attain the velocity model: receiver function inversion (rftn96), Rayleigh group wave velocity inversion (surf96), and joint inversion (joint96). A wide peak lasting from 3 to 5 seconds after the initial P-wave arrival and a sharp peak at 7.5 seconds were observed on the radial receiver function. The presence of two distinct peaks complicates the application of conventional H-k stacking analysis, which assumes a single discontinuity. Rayleigh wave group velocity inversion only showed one sharp increase in shear wave velocity at 15 km, while both receiver function inversion and joint inversion showed step-like increases at 15, 30, and 40 km, which indicates the presence of layer boundaries at these depths. The obtained values are consistent with existing data on the region, including deep seismic sounding profiles and crustal models. Previous research, along with the findings of this study, indicates that 15 km is most likely the boundary between the upper and the lower crust, 30 km is a transition to the anomalous mantle, and 40 km is the Moho boundary.
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Segal-Halevi, Erel, and Warut Suksompong. "Democratic Fair Allocation of Indivisible Goods." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/67.
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We study the problem of fairly allocating indivisible goods to groups of agents. Agents in the same group share the same set of goods even though they may have different preferences. Previous work has focused on unanimous fairness, in which all agents in each group must agree that their group's share is fair. Under this strict requirement, fair allocations exist only for small groups. We introduce the concept of democratic fairness, which aims to satisfy a certain fraction of the agents in each group. This concept is better suited to large groups such as cities or countries. We present protocols for democratic fair allocation among two or more arbitrarily large groups of agents with monotonic, additive, or binary valuations. Our protocols approximate both envy-freeness and maximin-share fairness. As an example, for two groups of agents with additive valuations, our protocol yields an allocation that is envy-free up to one good and gives at least half of the maximin share to at least half of the agents in each group.
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Jursa, Aleksejs. "Productivity difference between a foreign direct investment and domestic capital firms in Latvia in the agricultural, forestry and fishing sector: a firm-level analysis." In 24th International Scientific Conference. “Economic Science for Rural Development 2023”. Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. Faculty of Economics and Social Development, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.22616/esrd.2023.57.014.
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This study examines firm-level panel data to determine the productivity level per employee between domestic capital firms and their foreign counterparts in the agricultural, forestry and fishing sector in Latvia during the 2014-2021 period. Two groups of firms were created. The first firm group represents firms in which at least 10% of the share capital belongs to foreign direct investors. While the second group represents firms whose share capital is fully owned by the residents of Latvia. Productivity indicators are calculated for both groups. To assess the productivity differences across domestic firms and firms with foreign capital in Latvia, the author has combined a rich firm-level dataset using ORBIS and Lursoft IT Ltd. data. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the firms with foreign capital are, on average, more productive than the firms whose share capital is only Latvian capital. The difference in productivity is especially visible in the forestry and logging sub-group in small size firms.
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Gomes, João Emanoel Ambrósio, and Ricardo Prudêncio. "Educational Social Network Group Profiling: An Analysis of Differentiation-Based Methods." In IV Brazilian Workshop on Social Network Analysis and Mining. Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5753/brasnam.2015.6777.
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Social media communities are usually formed by similarities among users. In educational social networks, several factors propitiate the user group generation, e.g. share the same academic environment or interested in common curricular. In order to explain the group formation resulted from educational social network, we applied two group profiling methods based on differentiation. Wilcoxon rank-sum test and PART rules algorithm were applied to a dataset available, the OJE educational social network. The performed experiments showed that the methods were effective to group profiling generation, characterizing 81.81% and 100% of groups, respectively.
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Buck. "Share Your Gifts." In SIGGRAPH '19: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference. ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3302502.3317582.
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Rohner, Christoph A., Simon J. Pierce, Clare E. M. Prebble, et al. "Caught in the net: A small, resident group of whale sharks feeding among fishing boats." In The 4th International Whale Shark Conference. Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press), 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qproc.2016.iwsc4.53.
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Manurangsi, Pasin, and Warut Suksompong. "Ordinal Maximin Guarantees for Group Fair Division." In Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-24}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/324.
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We investigate fairness in the allocation of indivisible items among groups of agents using the notion of maximin share (MMS). While previous work has shown that no nontrivial multiplicative MMS approximation can be guaranteed in this setting for general group sizes, we demonstrate that ordinal relaxations are much more useful. For example, we show that if n agents are distributed equally across g groups, there exists a 1-out-of-k MMS allocation for k = O(g log(n/g)), while if all but a constant number of agents are in the same group, we obtain k = O(log n / log log n). We also establish the tightness of these bounds and provide non-asymptotic results for the case of two groups.
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Li, Bin, Dong Hao, Dengji Zhao, and Tao Zhou. "Customer Sharing in Economic Networks with Costs." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/51.
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In an economic market, sellers, infomediaries and customers constitute an economic network. Each seller has her own customer group and the seller's private customers are unobservable to other sellers. Therefore, a seller can only sell commodities among her own customers unless other sellers or infomediaries share her sale information to their customer groups. However, a seller is not incentivized to share others' sale information by default, which leads to inefficient resource allocation and limited revenue for the sale. To tackle this problem, we develop a novel mechanism called customer sharing mechanism (CSM) which incentivizes all sellers to share each other's sale information to their private customer groups. Furthermore, CSM also incentivizes all customers to truthfully participate in the sale. In the end, CSM not only allocates the commodities efficiently but also optimizes the seller's revenue.
Reports on the topic "Shaqra Group"
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Stewart, Hayden, Sabrina K. Young, Diansheng Dong, and Anne T. Byrne. Trends in U.S. fruit consumption relative to recommendations in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 2024. https://doi.org/10.32747/2024.8754754.ers.
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Using 2005–20 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data, this report finds that a stable share of the U.S. population—about 23 percent of children and 15 percent of adults—has been consuming enough fruit to satisfy Federal dietary recommendations since at least the mid-2000s. However, a growing share of the population is consuming below a quarter of the recommended amount. This group totaled almost 29 percent of children and 40 percent of adults at the beginning of the 2020s. Estimation of a statistical model revealed little association between either household income or fruit prices and the likelihood that someone met the recommendations or consumed less than 25 percent of them. Factors more closely associated with falling into one of these two groups included behaviors such as smoking, exercising, and awareness of MyPlate (USDA’s official symbol of the five food groups), which indicate a consumer’s level of concern for health as well as knowledge of what constitutes a healthy diet.
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Patrick, Sarah, Grahame Hardie, Brendan Hawdon, et al. Dundee Research Interest Group Open Doors Day Event Report 2025. Edited by Esther Sammler and Andy Howden. University of Dundee, 2025. https://doi.org/10.20933/100001369.
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Around 100 researchers, People with Parkinson’s, and carers came together at the Dundee Research Interest Group (DRIG) Open Doors Day 2025 in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Dundee to discuss the latest Parkinson’s research, tour different labs and facilities, and meet one another over lunch and refreshments. This event summary aims to share our learnings and outputs from the day. Members of the DRIG have written lay summaries of the talks, shared their highlights from the event, and written poems to capture the day. Feedback quotes are included in the report to share specific attendee highlights too.
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Teo, Chua Tee, and Khiok Seng Quek. Pedagogical change for training teachers: Adapted flipped classroom approach. National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2020. https://doi.org/10.32658/10497/23256.
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This pilot quasi-experimental project examines the effectiveness of an adapted flipped classroom approach for the teaching of 2 teacher education courses over a semester of 13 weeks. Both the experimental and control groups would be matched at programme level. The control group would be two comparable classes not using the flipped classroom approach but using the didactic or traditional approach of teaching. The flipped classroom approach is also known as the Thayer Method or the inverted classroom or reverse teaching. It involves interactive student-centred engagement pedagogy with individualised online learning before the course. In the adapted flipped classroom, additional guiding questions and power-point slides would be deployed. Students learn content online through e-worksheets and guided discovery before face-to-face classroom time. Students worked through activities, watched videos, navigate websites, read up on articles and answered questions posed to them in the lesson worksheets. In class, students would share their prior learning with each other and they would be encouraged to ask questions of each other and with the tutor. Concepts, theories, controversies and ambiguities will be discussed with the aid of power-point slides. The students in the control group would receive lectures through power-point slides during class time, and learning activities would be conducted. Students in the control group would have no pre-lesson learning activities. The effectiveness of the flipped classroom lessons will be assessed through newly developed surveys, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews of participants in the experimental and control groups. Results will be analysed using paired sample t tests, ANCOVA and thematic analyses. Findings will enable the lecturers to review and re-design the flipped classroom lessons and thus make evidence based pedagogical changes for the following semester.
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Goldberg, Linda S., and Oliver Hannaoui. Drivers of Dollar Share in Foreign Exchange Reserves. Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.59576/sr.1087.
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The share of U.S. dollar assets in the official foreign exchange reserve portfolios of central banks is sometimes taken as an indicator of dollar status. We show that the observed decline in the aggregate share of U.S. dollar assets does not stem from a systematic shift in currency preferences away from holding dollar assets. Instead, a small group of countries with large foreign exchange reserve balances drive the dollar share decline observed in aggregate statistics. This arises either due to countries conducting monetary policy vis-à-vis the euro or due to preference shifts away from dollars. Regression analysis shows that interest rate differentials between traditional and nontraditional reserve currencies can tilt portfolio composition, particularly in relation to the scale of investment tranches within overall central bank portfolios. Geopolitical distance from the United States and financial sanctions are associated with lower U.S. dollar shares, especially if the primary foreign currency liquidity needs of the central bank are already satisfied.
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Steinmann, Peter. Is peer education an effective method for HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries? SUPPORT, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.30846/1608092.
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Peer education uses individuals to convey specific information to members of a peer or target group with the aim of improving awareness or behaviours. Peer educators must share common key characteristics with those being targeted, but may either come from inside or outside the targeted group.
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Frisancho, Verónica. Signaling Creditworthiness in Peruvian Microfinance Markets: The Role of Information Sharing. Inter-American Development Bank, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011416.
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Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper evaluates the effect on borrowers' access to credit of FINCA's decision to share information on individual outstanding debt records (positive information) as well as group default records (negative information). Since all borrowers were simultaneously exposed to the same policy, the paper develops a creative identification strategy that relies on the exogenous variation of the opening and closing dates of loan cycles across lending groups. A credit expansion effect is identified for some borrowers in FINCA who looked more creditworthy after their positive records were exposed, suggesting that other lenders targeted FINCA clients with good credit records. This credit expansion effect seems to have hurt FINCA through higher default rates as its better clients were skimmed off.
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Scartascini, Carlos, and Paula Zamora. Do Civil Servants Respond to Behavioral Interventions?: A Field Experiment. Inter-American Development Bank, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003753.
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Introducing financial incentives to increase productivity in the public sector tends to be politically and bureaucratically cumbersome, particularly in developing countries. Behavioral interventions could be a low-cost alternative, both politically and financially, although evidence of their effectiveness remains scarce. We evaluate the effect of redesigning the notice requiring civil servants in Buenos Aires to comply with citizens requests under Argentina's freedom of information act. The new notice, sent to the treatment group, attempts to exploit salience, deterrence, clarity, and social norms to increase adherence to deadlines. The results show an increase in the share of requests fulfilled by the second deadline, possibly because of a strong anchoring effect. These findings indicate that behavioral interventions can affect civil servants' actions. The fact that the intervention occurred at the same time as a civil service training program with sessions attended by members of both the control and treatment groups allows us to evaluate spillover effects. The evidence suggests that the time it takes a members of the treatment group to respond to a request increases with her interactions with members of the control group at the workshops. These findings have implications for policy design. First, they indicate that behavioral interventions could affect task compliance and productivity in the public sector. Second, they provide evidence that workshops may not always have the intended consequences, particularly when they increase interactions among employees with high and low incentives for task compliance.
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Lazdane, Gunta, Dace Rezeberga, Ieva Briedite, et al. Sexual and reproductive health in the time of COVID-19 in Latvia, qualitative research interviews and focus group discussions, 2020 (in Latvian). Rīga Stradiņš University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25143/fk2/lxku5a.
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Qualitative research is focused on the influence of COVID-19 pandemic and restriction measures on sexual and reproductive health in Latvia. Results of the anonymous online survey (I-SHARE) of 1173 people living in Latvia age 18 and over were used as a background in finalization the interview and the focus group discussion protocols ensuring better understanding of the influencing factors. Protocols included 9 parts (0.Introduction. 1. COVID-19 general influence, 2. SRH, 3. Communication with health professionals, 4.Access to SRH services, 5.Communication with population incl. three target groups 5.1. Pregnant women, 5.2. People with suspected STIs, 5.3.Women, who require abortion, 6. HIV/COVID-19, 7. External support, 8. Conclusions and recommendations. Data include audiorecords in Latvian of: 1) 11 semi-structures interviews with policy makers including representatives from governmental and non-governmental organizations involved in sexual and reproductive health, information and health service provision. 2) 12 focus group discussions with pregnant women (1), women in postpartum period (3) and their partners (3), people living with HIV (1), health care providers involved in maternal health care and emergency health care for women (4) (2021-02-18) Subject: Medicine, Health and Life Sciences Keywords: Sexual and reproductive health, COVID-19, access to services, Latvia
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Nkwenti, Michael N. Viable Learning Pathways Back into Schooling for Out-of-School Youths in Cameroon. Edited by Tony Mays. Commonwealth of Learning (COL), 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.56059/11599/5230.
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The share of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) is the proportion of young people who are not in education, employment or training among the population of the corresponding age group: youth aged 15–24, people aged 15–29, or both age groups. The data show an increasing proportion of Cameroonian youth NEET. Incomplete schooling is likely to be one of the causes of their status. According to the Census and Economic Information Centre (CEIC) statistics, the share of youth NEET has been steadily increasing among female youth and fluctuating among male youth. There are about three times more female than male youth NEET. This report therefore explores the challenge of out-of-school children and youths in Cameroon. Various attempts have been made in the past to address the challenge but have not had significant impact on improving the situation. This report therefore proposes the establishment of a virtual open school — Cameroon National Open School (CAMNOS) — that can provide a virtual backbone for both online and blended provision, with the latter making use of existing day schools as after-hours support centres.
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Mayne, Alison, Christina Noble, Paula Duffy, et al. Navigating Digital Ethics for Rural Research: Guidelines and recommendations for researchers and administrators of social media groups. DigiEthics: Navigating Digital Ethics for Rural Research, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.57064/2164/22326.
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Social media creates new spaces for connecting people digitally and provides a forum for the exchange of information and discussion. Online spaces such as Facebook groups (FGs) have become part of the fabric of social interaction in many rural areas, with both residents and others living away from the community maintaining a connection in the virtual space. Community FGs are routinely used to share place-based information about resources, events or issues, and to discuss topics of shared interest. In research, these groups allow researchers to connect directly with people who have an interest in what happens within specific communities and offer rich opportunities for participants to likewise engage with research. We can reflect on how FGs in rural communities have the potential to enhance and/or complement existing approaches by making research with dispersed communities more accessible and affordable, while considering challenges around confidentiality and digital inclusion given the characteristics and size of the population. Social media has developed at pace during the last decade, and digital ethics is a shifting methods sub-field that poses challenges to social sciences and humanities researchers. Apart from platforms’ changing terms and conditions, research with and on social media groups has specific ethical challenges (e.g. around anonymity, confidentiality, and data access) that require tailored consideration. In particular, when approaching netnography and similar methods with social media groups, dialogic approaches which aim to engage, respect and protect participants are critical. There is consensus on the need to agree the access conditions with the group administrator as a first step, but there is no guidance on good practice on developing these conditions. To create these guidelines, we have worked collaboratively across disciplines and with administrators of Facebook groups to explore what such process could look like: aspects to address, pros and cons of potential approaches, and potential challenges and solutions.