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Journal articles on the topic "Shared family activities"
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Crosnoe, Robert, and Jenny Trinitapoli. "Shared Family Activities and the Transition From Childhood Into Adolescence." Journal of Research on Adolescence 18, no. 1 (March 2008): 23–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-7795.2008.00549.x.
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Berc, Gordana, Slavica Blažeka Kokorić, and Anita Dučkić Sertić. "Strengthening family cohesion through shared participation of family members in religious activities in Croatia." Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought 36, no. 3 (May 25, 2017): 326–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15426432.2017.1322931.
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Sobkin, Vladimir S., and Ksenia N. Skobeltsina. "Shared activities of parents with their preschool children during family pastime." Psychology in Russia: State of the Art 8, no. 2 (2015): 52–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.11621/pir.2015.0205.
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McAuley, Colette, Caroline McKeown, and Brian Merriman. "Spending Time with Family and Friends: Children’s Views on Relationships and Shared Activities." Child Indicators Research 5, no. 3 (September 2012): 449–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-012-9158-2.
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Lehto, Xinran Y., Xiaoxiao Fu, Hanliang Li, and Lingqiang Zhou. "Vacation Benefits and Activities." Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research 41, no. 3 (July 27, 2016): 301–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1096348013515921.
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Family as a travel unit is an emerging phenomenon in China. This market segment, however, has not received as much scholarly attention as it deserves. This study investigated the vacation benefits that Chinese families pursue and their destination activity participation. Factor analysis revealed four dimensions of vacation benefits sought, namely, Communication and Togetherness, Shared Exploration, Escape and Relaxation, and Experiential Learning for Children. Taking pictures and videos was noted to be the most prevalent activity that Chinese family travelers were engaged in. This study further explored the interrelationships between the benefit-sought domains and destination activities. The results identified significant linkages between the two. The uncovered associations suggested that vacation activities served as a functional means to an end for Chinese families. Theoretical and managerial implications of the findings were discussed, followed by recommendations for future research.
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Valdemoros San Emeterio, María Ángeles, Ana Ponce de León Elizondo, Rosa Ana Alonso Ruiz, Magdalena Sáenz de Jubera Ocón, and Eva Sanz Arazuri. "Grandparents’ and Grandchildren’s Shared Festive Leisure." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 16 (August 22, 2021): 8850. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168850.
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Festive leisure provides experiences that can generate intergenerational well-being. The study aimed to examine the festive leisure activities shared by grandparents and grandchildren, and the link with times, spaces, motives, and well-being that these activities bring to both generations. A cross-sectional telematic survey was carried out with 357 grandparents living in the northern part of Spain, who had grandchildren aged between 6 and 12 years. Both a descriptive and inferential analysis was performed. A high proportion of grandparents and grandchildren share festive activities, which occur on weekends and holiday periods. Private spaces, such as bars, cafeterias, and restaurants are the ones chosen for going out to eat or drink, and open public spaces like parks, squares, and streets are dedicated to traditional festivals, and are excellent scenarios for coexistence and intergenerational social interaction. The reasons that drive this practice are associated with the strengthening of emotional ties and family intimacy. Grandparents consider the practice of shared festive leisure to be beneficial for their personal development because they perceive that, thanks to this leisure, they improve their creativity, physical condition, their happiness and fun, the relationship with their grandchildren, and develop new manual and technical skills.
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Ekker, S. C., L. L. McGrew, C. J. Lai, J. J. Lee, D. P. von Kessler, R. T. Moon, and P. A. Beachy. "Distinct expression and shared activities of members of the hedgehog gene family of Xenopus laevis." Development 121, no. 8 (August 1, 1995): 2337–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/dev.121.8.2337.
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The hedgehog family of signaling proteins is associated with a variety of spatial patterning activities in insects and vertebrates. Here we show that new members of this family isolated from Xenopus laevis are expressed embryonically in patterns suggestive of roles in patterning in the ectoderm, nervous system and somites. Banded hedgehog is expressed throughout the neural plate and subsequently in both the nervous system and in the dermatome of somites. Cephalic hedgehog is expressed in anterior ectoderm and endodermal structures, and sonic hedgehog is expressed in patterns which parallel those in other species. Injection of RNAs encoding Xenopus hedgehogs induces ectopic cement gland formation in embryos. Similar to reported activities of noggin and follistatin, Xenopus hedgehogs share a common ability to induce cement glands in animal cap explants. However, hedgehog activities in naive ectoderm appear capable of acting independently of noggin and follistatin since, although all three are induced by activin in animal cap explants, X-hh expression does not induce noggin or follistatin.
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Pazil, Nur Hafeeza Ahmad. "Familiarity as a Family." Journal of International Students 9, no. 3 (August 15, 2019): 896–911. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jis.v9i3.732.
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The purpose of this study is to explore close friendships and intimacy practices of Malaysian students in the context of living abroad. Some of the new close friends, specifically co-national friends in the UK, are perceived as “family” although some of them have not yet acquired family-like qualities in their relationships. Due to the situation of living abroad, the students acquired the “familiarity as a family” relationship—a new concept introduced in this study to explain this complicated relationship, with co-national friends in the Malaysian community in the UK. A sense of belonging and homophily, and shared physical space and activities are two key factors that influenced these practices of intimacy, which will foreground the discussion in this paper.
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Omotayo, Funmilola Olubunmi. "Information activities of commercial taxi drivers in Saki, Nigeria." Information Development 34, no. 5 (August 2, 2017): 504–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266666917722584.
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Information behaviour of people differs according to the nature of their tasks and other activities they engage in. Therefore, the study of information behaviour is essential for different classes of individuals in the society. This study investigated the information behaviour of commercial taxi drivers in Saki, Nigeria. Survey design was adopted. Thirty-five taxi drivers were interviewed. The drivers had a variety of information needs, ranging from general information to specific information about their jobs. Interpersonal sources of information, which include discussion with friends, colleagues, and family members, were the preferred sources of information. They listened to radio and watched television, but at a very minimal level. The low educational status of the drivers was identified as a major cause of their reliance on interpersonal sources of information. The taxi drivers shared information among themselves during meetings, relaxation periods, and casual discussions. The use of the Internet to seek and share information was rare among the drivers.
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Holladay, Sherry, Rita Lackovich, Margaret Lee, Mindy Coleman, David Harding, and Desiree' Denton. "(Re)Constructing Relationships with Grandparents: A Turning Point Analysis of Granddaughters' Relational Development with Maternal Grandmothers." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 46, no. 4 (January 1, 1998): 287–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/00gv-5pwf-udnh-ehdv.
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This study explores how granddaughters account for the development of their relationships with their maternal grandmothers. The retrospective interviewing technique was used to elicit turning points in their relational histories. Analysis of the turning point content revealed several different types of turning points that reflected both normative and idiosyncratic events. Increases in relational closeness resulted from decreases in geographic separation, engaging in shared activities, deaths or serious illnesses in the family, and family disruptions. Decreases in closeness were associated with negative experiences with the grandmother, increases in geographic separation, and the transition to college. Granddaughters reported that turning points related to death or serious illness and participation in shared activities were the most significant ones in their relationships with maternal grandmothers.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Shared family activities"
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Houlberg-Laursen, Maria. "Promoting Shared, Home-based Family Activities with Interaction Design." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21402.
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This project focuses on the interaction between parents and children in their everyday practices as a family.It investigates how interaction design can help to engage both children and parents in shared home-based activities through digital media. The target group involved in this project is limited to boys aged 10-12 and their parents.The project contributions within the field of interaction design research as well as it presents two design suggestions for how this knowledge can be put to use as digital design concepts. It concludes that when designing digital media intended to enhance relations between parents and children, the main focus is face-to-face interaction and creating a space that allows for creativity, communication and physical presence.
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Philbrick, Peggy Lynne. "An Examination of Family Skiing and Its Relationship to Family Functioning." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2007. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/884.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between family downhill skiing patterns and family functioning. The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES II), was used to measure family functioning. Questions created by the researcher were used to measure the average number of family ski experiences per year (frequency) and how many years the family has skied together (duration). Satisfaction with family ski experiences was measured using the Satisfaction with Family Skiing Scale. The sample consisted of 110 family units from throughout the United States. The findings from this study found that frequency and duration of family ski experiences were not significant predictors of family functioning. The data did determine that satisfaction with family ski experiences was a significant predictor of family functioning from the youth, parent, and family perspectives.
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Fonseca, Ana Isabel Simões. "Competências académicas: relação entre a configuração familiar, auto-conceito e rendimento académico em alunos do 3º ciclo do ensino básico." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/12169.
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O presente trabalho tem como objectivo analisar a relação entre configuração
familiar, auto-conceito e desempenho académico. Participaram no estudo 287 sujeitos de
ambos os sexos, do 3º ciclo do Ensino Básico, da Escola Secundária Severim de Faria
em Évora, dos quais 158 eram rapazes e 129 eram raparigas com idades compreendidas
entre os 11 e os 17 anos (M=13,50;DP=1,08). Os alunos responderam aos Questionários
“Rendimento Escolar”, “Eu e a minha Família” e a “Escala de Auto-Conceito” de Susan
Harter. Os resultados revelam que não existe uma relação entre Tipologia Familiar e Auto-
Conceito. Todavia encontrou-se uma relação positiva entre o tipo de família nuclear e o
rendimento académico positivo. Não sendo um dado novo encontrou-se também uma
relação entre auto-conceito e rendimento académico, sendo que, quanto mais positivo é o
auto-conceito, maior é o rendimento académico. Por último aferiu-se uma relação positiva
entre as variáveis familiares; rendimento académico positivo e auto-conceito positivo; ### Abstract: The current study aims to analyse the relationship between Family Structures,
Self-Concept and Academic Achievement. This study involved 287 subjects from both
genders, of the 3 rd Cycle of Basic Education, from Severim Faria Secondary School in
Évora, from which 158 were boys and 129 were girls, aged between 11 and 17 years old
(M=13,50;DP=1,08). The Questionnaires applied were “Educational Achievement”, “My
Family and I” and “The Self-Concept Scale” of Susan Harter. The results don´t reveal any
relationship between the Family Structure and Self-Concept. However, we found a positive
relationship between the Nuclear Family and the Positive Academic Achievement.
Furthermore, although it´s not being a new data, we found a relationship between the selfconcept
and academic achievement, and the more positive self-concept is, the greater is
the academic achievement. Finally, the results have measured a positive relationship
between the family variables; positive academic achievement and positive self-concept.
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McAuley, Colette, C. McKeown, and B. Merriman. "Spending time with family and friends: children's views on relationships and shared activities." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6088.
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Sociologists of childhood have stressed the importance of children’s experience in the present and children as agents who actively construct their own lives and influence relationships with family and friends. Current thinking in the field of child well-being emphasises the need to consult children as experts in their own lives. Findings from research with children have led to important insights about what contributes to well-being. Relationships with family and friends have been found to be central to well-being whilst bullying by peers deeply impacts on their well-being. Shared activities appear to be the context for children to not only master competences but also learn about and negotiate relationships. The Growing Up in Ireland interviews with 9 year old children were re-analysed with a view to exploring these crucial domains and how they impact on the children’s well-being. The children were found to have a wide circle of family connections and were particularly close to their mothers although also close to their fathers. Grandparents played a significant role in their lives and their relationships with siblings were often positive but did fluctuate. Reasons for closeness centred around trust. Lack of availability due to work was a key contributor to children feeling less close to a family member. The children were involved in a wide range of structured activities after school and at the weekend, This was usually balanced with free time although some ‘hurried’ children had frenetic lifestyles. Involvement in unstructured activities such as free play was particularly associated with time with friends and choice. Friendship was characterised by sharing and trust. On the other hand, bullying by peers had been experienced by many of the children and almost all were conscious of the danger of becoming bullied. The wider issues of work-family balance and its impact on children, the predominance of bullying and children’s right to be heard are reflected upon.
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PRŮCHOVÁ, Dominika. "Úrazy dětí v domácnosti a při volnočasových aktivitách (se zvláštním zaměřením na shaken baby syndrom)." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-175790.
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The injuries happening to children in the household or during leisure time activities constitute the most frequent injury types. The injuries caused by shaking constitute a specific group. The information of lay public in the Czech Republic with regard of the Shaken Baby Syndrome is almost at zero level. The basic precondition to reduce the injury rate consists in identification of risk factors causing the origination of the injury or making the individual vulnerable. The factors include environment, health, behaviour, socio-demographic and social factors. The goal of the thesis consists in mapping children injuries in the household and during leisure time activities. A partial goal consists in mapping the use of protective devices for injury prevention. Another goal of the thesis consists in mapping the information of the parents on the Shaken Baby Syndrome, as well as in mapping the techniques of comforting crying babies and the related parents' feelings. The research method consists in quantitative prospective research; two structured questionnaires are used for data collection. The data collection took place in 2009-14. The first questionnaire is focused on acquisition of information on child injuries in the household and during leisure time activities. The goal of the study consists in analyzing children's injuries in ages from 0 to 18 years. The second questionnaire is focused on the Shaken Baby Syndrome and consists of several partial areas: child crying, techniques of managing and comforting child crying, parents' feelings and level of information on Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS). Based on the research results, the approach to primary prevention of children's injuries can be improved by increased observation of the child, by increased efficiency of preventive procedures, by increased dispensarization, control or increased efficiency of implemented primary injury prevention.
Books on the topic "Shared family activities"
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Hewitt, Doug. The joyous gift of grandparenting: 101 practical ideas & meaningful activities to share your love. New York: Hatherleigh, 2008.
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Hewitt, Doug. The joyous gift of grandparenting: 101 practical ideas & meaningful activities to share your love. New York: Hatherleigh, 2008.
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illustrator, Brierley Mark, ed. Family fun for Christmas: 30 advent and Christmas activities for families to share. Abingdon: Bible Reading Fellowship, 2012.
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The Family Christmas Book (Shared Learning Activities). Longman Higher Education, 1990.
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Family Fun For Summer 30 Holiday Activities For Families To Share. BRF (The Bible Reading Fellowship), 2012.
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Family Fun For Easter 30 Lent And Easter Activities For Families To Share. BRF (The Bible Reading Fellowship), 2011.
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Martins, Marielza R. Ismael. Transtornos de Aprendizagem: A abordagem multidisciplinar. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-557-6.
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The themes included in this book, involving active collaborators, confirm the need to fill the gap for health and education professionals. By presenting information from reliable sources and step-by-step activities to implement interventions with visual and phonological, dysgraphic, dyscalculic and ADHD dyslexics, it aims to provide effective procedures for screening, evaluation, intervention selection and monitoring. Issues examined such as visual dyslexia analyze developmental dyslexia as a condition that has been associated with motor difficulties, but little is known about what is shared or differentiated between its subtypes. The assessment of dyscalculia, which is often neglected, is clearly presented providing a tool for assessment and addressing family or support networks of students with Learning Disorders deepens our understanding Understanding the development of the school allows us to recognize specific situations that are often ignored. All activities have multisensory instruction, that is, students use more than one sense at a time, and multisensory instruction offers students more than one way to make connections and learn concepts The contributors to this book are active researchers in the teachinglearning process and the objective was to expand information on Learning Disorders with content chosen in a selective manner, giving relevance to the multidisciplinary team.
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Quantrell, Angie. Families on Mission: Ideas for Teaching Your Preschooler to Love, Share, And Care. New Hope, 2006.
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Williams, Tami. “How I Became a Film Director”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038471.003.0001.
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This chapter explores Germaine Dulac's family background, drawing on personal records, memoirs, and correspondence. Her early upbringing and encounters with certain people, events, and tendencies during France's Belle Époque later impacted Dulac's political and aesthetic views and the many alternatives and choices that shaped her film career. These include the influence of moderate socialism on her views of class, gender, sexuality, and national politics, and the impact of nineteenth-century symbolist and naturalist tendencies on her inventive rhetorical and representational strategies as they contributed to her filmmaking and activism. The chapter examines Dulac's “women's portraits,” as well as her early political activities and nonfiction writings as a pacifist and feminist from 1906 to 1913.
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Weinreb, Alice. Modern Hungers. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190605094.001.0001.
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This book explores Germany’s role in the two world wars and the Cold War to analyze the food economy of the twentieth century. It argues that controlling food supply and determining how and what people ate shaped the course of these three wars. Because Germany played a central role in these conflicts, the political and economic ambitions of its changing governments had international ramifications. At the same time, focusing on changing methods of cooking, shopping, and eating reveals the politics that shape everyday life, especially women's daily activities. Each chapter focuses on a specific era to unpack particular components of the modern food system. The book argues that hunger was key to military strategy in the First World War and to discourses human rights during the Allied occupation, while showing how food rationing shaped race during the Third Reich. The second half of the book compares East Germany (GDR) and West Germany (FRG), revealing similarities as well as differences between the socialist and capitalist food systems. Bringing together a diverse array of sources ranging from cookbooks to complaint letters, political speeches to nutritional studies, Modern Hungers offers historical context for many key concerns of the current age, from food aid and the struggle to end famine to contemporary obesity epidemics
Book chapters on the topic "Shared family activities"
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Plainer, Zsuzsa. "Segregated Schools, “Slow Minds” and “Must Be Done Jobs”: Experiences About Formal Education and Labour Market in a Roma Community in Romania." In Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People, 39–52. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52588-0_3.
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AbstractBased on a long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this study applies the cultural-ecological theory to understand reasons for making and maintaining a segregated school in a Romanian town, and those community forces which track and maintain Roma children there. As findings indicate, creating and sustaining such an institution reflects the flipsides of Romanian national policies, which due to the financing strategies and centralized curricula—involuntarily—block the chances to provide quality education to marginal groups. Tracking and staying of Roma children into such schools is a result of their parents’ ambivalent experiences with formal economic activities and formal education. Experiences with work and schooling shared by this urban group of Roma reveal that parents have clear expectations towards school: transmission of practical knowledge, good treatment and isolation of the school problems from family life, which not always can be fulfilled by the educational units.
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Muddiman, Esther, Sally Power, Chris Taylor, Esther Muddiman, Sally Power, and Chris Taylor. "Politicising family food practices." In Civil Society and the Family, 141–58. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447355526.003.0008.
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This chapter describes the role of family mealtimes and shared food practices in fostering skills and values that may be of benefit to civil society. A number of scholars have emphasised the importance of food and mealtimes for family life, and the chapter extends this argument by outlining the ways in which skills and values developed in family food spaces can shape and inform political and civic activities. Indeed, the relationship between families and food is one of the most socially significant, highly charged, and politically contested issues in contemporary Britain. The chapter then demonstrates how shared family meals provide an important environment for civic and political socialisation. It also considers the provision of food itself as symbolic of care both within and beyond the family home, before turning to moral and ethical values attributed to certain foods.
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Rocca, Della. "Family Life in the Digital Age." In Parenting for a Digital Future, 29–58. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190874698.003.0002.
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The frame of a single day is used to reveal the multiple ways in which parents move between and among the genres of digital parenting within the day. Through negotiating the now-mediated activities of getting up, homework, family time, and bedtime, parents articulate their values not only about digital technologies but also, importantly, about family life. The authors contrast public policy that, problematically, exhorts parents to police their children’s “screen time” with parents’ efforts to sustain a more democratic mode of family life that respects their and their children’s interests in digital technologies. Eschewing the myth of parents as unremittingly digitally ignorant, this chapter reveals how their own interest in and hopes for digital technologies lead them to seek new modes of parenting, surprisingly often focused on shared digital pleasures.
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Hogg, Steve. "An Informal Use of Facebook to Encourage Student Collaboration and Motivation for Off Campus Activities." In The Social Classroom, 23–39. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4904-0.ch002.
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Facebook has become the students’ communication tool of choice. Instant messaging and online presence and the fact the “everyone you know” is on Facebook makes email look slow and clunky. Tutors may well be Facebook users themselves for those very same reasons, and as a way of keeping in touch with friends and family. Indeed, not to have a Facebook and Twitter account may be seen to be out of touch. At the same time, the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is embedded deeply into the higher education landscape. The VLE is an integral part of the student learning experience. The role of the VLE is well established and recognized as the place the students go to access learning materials associated with their unit of study. The VLE used at Southampton Solent University, UK, is MyCourse. A look at the patterns of usage of a selection of media students at SSU suggests that students access the VLE periodically, between classes, to review or preview learning materials and to review assignment briefs. However, by contrast, the students are connected to Facebook for long periods of the day. The VLE offers communication and collaboration tools, but does the “always connected, always checking in” nature of Facebook provide a more effective way of facilitating communication and collaboration? Similarly, the VLE offers the facility to share work via forums and message boards. However, do the instant update, commenting, and like features, combined with the fact that Facebook is a place the students choose to go, have an impact on student motivation if work is shared on a Facebook group?
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Woodhouse, Barbara Bennett. "The Magic of Mesosystems, Seedbeds of Solidarity." In The Ecology of Childhood, 74–94. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814794845.003.0004.
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Chapter four explores how the activities and relationships occurring in the spaces where microsystems overlap function as seedbeds of solidarity, generating a shared sense of identity, fostering social cohesion and transforming “other people’s children” into “our children.” The author focuses on interactions among the primary social institutions comprising children’s microsystems: family, faith community, school, peer group, and neighbourhood. Drawing on observations from the villages under study, the author illustrates the dynamic created when these social institutions cooperate, collaborate and even engage in friendly competition in support of the community’s children. The chapter highlights the role of rituals and traditions in building community identity and solidarity in both villages. It explores how village identity can endure across time and distance in migrants’ attachments to their home towns. In closing, it predicts further erosion of community identity due to global economic policies and divisive political movements.
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Pendell, Ann Chalmers. "A Home and School Community." In Learning Together. Oxford University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195097535.003.0009.
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I put my first child in the OC because I wanted to be part of her school life. When my husband and I chose to adopt her, it was because we wanted the experience of raising her. We didn’t want to shuttle her off to a day care or school for someone else to raise. When Alysha was old enough to attend preschool, I found a parent co-op, and when she was old enough to attend elementary school, I heard about the OC and was glad to be able to continue participating in her education. The OC community became important not only as a support in educating our children but also as a community of families with similar goals—helping our children to get the best education we can provide. Other committed parents provide activities for our kids that the teacher and my husband and I cannot. David and I are both artists and can provide techniques and insights for their creative efforts, but we also want them to be able to work with adults who are dedicated to and enthusiastic about math, science, history, ecology, and other aspects of today’s world. The community extends beyond educating our children at school. For 10 years, our family has gone on OC class camping trips sponsored and planned by parents, exploring places we might have never seen on our own. With our children’s classmates and their families we have hiked, shared food, and shared good experiences and bad, warm and cold, the joy of discovery and of watching our children grow. We have learned about children and how they learn and about how to work with other adults. We have developed deep friendships with other families in our children’s classes and have memories and photo albums full of good family experiences that include our OC community. The children’s learning is enhanced by the caring evident in the OC community. For example, the community supports its members in times of family crisis by providing emotional support and practical support—bringing meals, providing child care, and helping with carpools and other responsibilities.
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Nasution, Muhammad Dharma Tuah Putra, Cut Kesuma Pahlufi, and Ku Halim Ku Ariffin. "Succession Planning on Muslim Family Enterprises." In Advances in Logistics, Operations, and Management Science, 139–57. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-6892-7.ch008.
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In Islamic faith and ideology, tremendous emphasis is paid to leadership as an essential instrument for realizing an ideal society which is built on fairness and compassion. Muslims practice the Islamic faith, which Islamic law regulates the faithful's way of life, from moral issues to etiquette and business conduct. Established laws governing the Muslim's behaviour and activities are included in Sharia decisions, and many Islamic teachings deal with business activities. The business etiquettes and rules of succession are contained in Sharia laws. Sharia law offers guidelines on integrity, fairness, risk, fraud, bribery, and kindness in business activities. The family business culture is influenced by the business element of the enterprises, which offers principles, mutual goals, commitment towards a prosperous future, and complimentary relationships between enterprises. The family enterprises are considered in a socio-cultural and religious environment in which the business is operated to gain a greater awareness of leaders' succession and successor development.
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Ika, Siti Rochmah, and Ari Kuncara Widagdo. "Ownership Structure and Intellectual Capital Performance." In Corporate Leadership and Its Role in Shaping Organizational Culture and Performance, 203–28. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8266-3.ch010.
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The objective of this study is to examine the impact of ownership structure on intellectual capital performance. Ownership structure used in this study consists of family control, government ownership, and foreign ownership. Family control was measured by two proxies, namely the number of shares owned by a family and the presence of family on the boards. Meanwhile, this study uses the Value-Added Intellectual Coefficient to measure intellectual capital performance. Ninety-two bank observations listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2013-2016 are used as a sample. Results of panel data regression indicate that the number of shares owned by the family positively associated with VAIC, on the other hand, the presence of families on the boards has no association with IC performance. The result indicates that a high degree of family ownership is likely to encourage managerial incentives to improve value creation activities. Government ownership and foreign ownership are also found to have a positive association with IC performance indicating that state-owned banks and foreign-owned banks in Indonesia tend to focus their attention more towards activities that can increase value creation than privately owned and domestic owned banks. This research provides insight into the role of the business owner to the capital market regulator in scrutinizing the efficiency of value creation activities.
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Fredericks, Sarah E. "Evidence of Environmental Guilt and Shame." In Environmental Guilt and Shame, 25–44. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842699.003.0002.
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Chapter 2 compiles evidence for the existence of environmental guilt and shame in the contemporary Western developed world, particularly the United States, from blogs and discussion boards; environmental self-help books and memoirs; broader indicators of cultural trends including comics, TV shows, newspaper articles, marketing studies, and counseling programs; and the few academic studies of the topic. I demonstrate that environmental guilt and shame are commonplace in parts of contemporary U.S. American society, particularly among middle- and upper-class environmentally conscious people. People feel guilt and shame about a wide range of daily activities including their choice of grocery bag, food, and transportation. People experiencing these moral emotions often do so both as individuals and as parts of a collective whether family, community, nation, species, or sometimes diffuse collective (i.e. “industrialized people”). Confessions of and responses to environmental guilt and shame take a religious cast as people confess their wrongs, ask for help in changing their actions, and particularly desire assistance in dealing with the existential ramifications of their actions, and subsequently shape their individual and collective identities.
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Wilson, Lisa, Eldin Fahmy, and Nick Bailey. "Social participation and social support." In Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK: Vol. 2. Policy Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447334224.003.0006.
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Townsend argued that poverty is a key barrier to social participation as it limits people’s ability to participate in social activities and to maintain social relationships or networks. The results in this chapter support this argument finding that poverty acts as a barrier to social contact, particularly with friends; that it constrains participation in a range of social activities, and; that it shapes perceptions of support and satisfaction with relationships. People experiencing social and material deprivation have less social contact than they would like, and attribute this to cost or affordability problems, although other factors such as health or caring responsibilities can play a role too. That said, the importance of contact with family in particular emerges clearly in this analysis. For those groups where there are likely to be additional needs for support as a result of poverty, caring roles or health problems, contact with family tends to be significantly higher - likely reflecting the importance of family as both the central source of financial resources and of practical and emotional support. Households in these groups who lack access to such family networks may face particular disadvantages. All in all, the study finds that people experiencing poverty are often in effect excluded from widely accepted norms of social participation in the UK today.
Conference papers on the topic "Shared family activities"
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Haley, Philip J. "Advanced Turbine Technology Applications Project (ATTAP): Overview, and Ceramic Component Technology Status." In ASME 1991 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/91-gt-367.
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The automotive gas turbine’s (AGT) significant potential payoffs in fuel economy, emissions, and alternate fuels usage continue to motivate development activities worldwide. The U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored, NASA-managed Advanced Turbine Technology Applications Project (ATTAP) focuses on developing critical AGT structural ceramic component technologies. The area of greatest challenge is that of cost-effective, near-net-shape, high-volume, high-yield manufacturing processes. Process physics modeling and Taguchi analyses are affording substantial progress, and new processes are being explored. Laboratory characterization is building a shared materials data base among Allison, Garrett, Government labs, and ceramic manufacturers. General Motors (GM) has logged over 700 test hours with ceramic components in hot gasifier rigs during ATTAP. A key ATTAP milestone was addressed by successfully demonstrating full goal temperature and speed (2500°F rotor inlet at 100% shaft speed) with ceramic components. Fast-fracture ceramic component design tools are well correlated. Although time-dependent data and mechanistic models exist, a validated design system for such phenomena does not, and is a pressing need. Damage tolerance and impact resistance have been substantially addressed through tailored component designs, tougher monolithic ceramics, and increased ceramic strengths. Ceramic turbine rotors are now continuing to run after various substantial impacts, and after chipping damage. Ceramic-ceramic and ceramic-metal interfacing is being addressed by minimizing components’ joints, and by other DOE-sponsored work on joining models, processes, and materials. The extruded regenerator disk is a continuing goal which requires both forming process and materials technology development. Controlling turbine tip clearances and tolerating tip rubs are key technologies. GM has demonstrated clearance control schemes, as well as rotor survivability to high speed/temperature tip rubs. Several noteworthy ceramic materials reflect the rapid progress over the past decade of monolithic ceramics, especially the Si3N4 family. GM forecasts achieving ATTAP engine cyclic durability goals.
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Park, Jaeil, and Timothy W. Simpson. "Development of a Production Cost Estimation Framework for Product Family Design." In ASME 2004 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2004-57175.
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The main task of a product family designer is to decide the right components/design variables to share among products to maintain economies of scale with minimum sacrifice in the performance of each product in the family. The decisions are usually based on several criteria, but production cost is of primary concern. Estimating the production cost of a family of products involves estimating the production cost of each product in the family including the cost effects of common and variant components/design variables in the family. In this paper, we introduce a production cost estimation framework for product family design based on Activity-Based Costing (ABC), which is composed of three stages: (1) allocation, (2) estimation, and (3) analysis. In the allocation stage, the production activities that are necessary to produce all of the products in the family are identified and modeled with an activity table, a resource table, and an activity flow. To allocate the activities to products, a product family structure is represented by a hierarchical classification of the items that form the product family. In the estimation stage, production costs are estimated by converting the production activities to costs using key cost drivers that consume main resources. In the analysis stage, components/design variables for product family design are investigated with resource sharing methods through activity analysis. As an example, the proposed framework is applied to estimate the production cost of a family of cordless power screwdrivers.
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Siddique, Zahed. "Estimating Reduction in Development Time for Implementing a Product Platform Approach." In ASME 2001 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2001/cie-21238.
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Abstract Many market forces are driving companies to improve their targeting of increasingly small market niches. To accomplish this efficiently, products are organized into product families that typically share common platforms. In industries with short product lifecycles, the decision to move towards a common platform approach, even for some components, requires estimating the reduction in development time. One of the problems encountered in estimating development time is that initially, before implementing a platform approach, hard information related to product family design and development is not available. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the design and development time using simple activity models, when moving towards a platform approach. The product family models are developed from existing single product design activities, which are modified and extended to reflect activities related to development of product platform and subsequent product members of the family from the platform. Uncertainty associated with time for each activity is also included in the model, which is solved using Monte Carlo simulation. The approach is demonstrated using a hard disk drive spindle motor platform development for a family of hard disks.
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Runcan, Remus. "TURNING FARMERS INTO SOCIAL FARMER ENTREPRENEURS FOR DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE." In NORDSCI International Conference. SAIMA Consult Ltd, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.32008/nordsci2020/b1/v3/31.
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According to Romania’s National Rural Development Programme, the socio-economic situation of the rural environment has a large number of weaknesses – among which low access to financial resources for small entrepreneurs and new business initiatives in rural areas and poorly developed entrepreneurial culture, characterized by a lack of basic managerial knowledge – but also a large number of opportunities – among which access of the rural population to lifelong learning and entrepreneurial skills development programmes and entrepreneurs’ access to financial instruments. The population in rural areas depends mainly on agricultural activities which give them subsistence living conditions. The gap between rural and urban areas is due to low income levels and employment rates, hence the need to obtain additional income for the population employed in subsistence and semi-subsistence farming, especially in the context of the depopulation trend. At the same time, the need to stimulate entrepreneurship in rural areas is high and is at a resonance with the need to increase the potential of rural communities from the perspective of landscape, culture, traditional activities and local resources. A solution could be to turn vegetal and / or animal farms into social farms – farms on which people with disabilities (but also adolescents and young people with anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide, and alexithymia issues) might find a “foster” family, bed and meals in a natural, healthy environment, and share the farm’s activities with the farmer and the farmer’s family: “committing to a regular day / days and times for a mutually agreed period involves complying with any required health and safety practices (including use of protective clothing and equipment), engaging socially with the farm family members and other people working on and around the farm, and taking on tasks which would include working on the land, taking care of animals, or helping out with maintenance and other physical work”
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Peter, Cruickshank, Hazel Hall, and Bruce Ryan. "Information literacy as a joint competence shaped by everyday life and workplace roles amongst Scottish community councillors." In ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference. University of Borås, Borås, Sweden, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47989/irisic2008.
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Introduction: This paper addresses the information practices of hyperlocal democratic representatives, and their acquisition and application of information literacy skills. Method: 1034 Scottish community councillors completed an online questionnaire on the information-related activities they undertake as part of their voluntary roles, and the development of supporting competencies. The questions related to: information needs for community council work; preparation and onward dissemination of information gathered; factors that influence community councillors’ abilities to conduct their information-related duties. Analysis: Data were summarised for quantitative analysis using Microsoft Excel. Free text responses were analysed in respect of the themes from the quantitative analysis and literature. Results: Everyday life and workplace roles are perceived as the primary shapers of information literacy as a predominantly joint competence. Conclusion: The focus of information literacy development has traditionally been the contribution of formal education, yet this study reveals that prior employment, community and family roles are perceived as more important to the acquisition of relevant skills amongst this group. This widens the debate as to the extent to which information literacy is specific to particular contexts. This adds to arguments that information literacy may be viewed as a collective accomplishment dependant on a socially constructed set of practices.
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Pirmoradi, Zhila, and G. Gary Wang. "Recent Advancements in Product Family Design and Platform-Based Product Development: A Literature Review." In ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2011-47959.
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Increase of demand on product variety has pushed companies to think about offering more and more product variants in order to take more market shares. However, product variation can lead to cost increase for design and production, as well as the lead time for new variants. As a result, a proper tradeoff is required between cost-effectiveness of manufacturing and satisfying diverse demands. Such tradeoff has been shown to be manageable effectively by exploiting product family design (PFD) and platform-based product development. These strategies have been widely studied during the past decades, and a large number of approaches have been proposed for covering different issues and steps related to design and development of product families and platforms. Verification and performance of such approaches have also been traced through practical case studies applied to several industries. This paper focuses on a review of the research in this field and efforts to classify the recent advancements relevant to product family design and platform development issues. A comprehensive review on the state-of-the-art research in this field was done by Jiao et al. in 2007; therefore the main focus of this paper is on the research activities from 2006 to present. Mainly, the effort of this paper is to identify new achievements in regard with different aspects of product family design such as customer involvement in design, market driven studies, new indices and metrics for assessing families and developing the desired platforms, issues relevant to product family optimization (i.e., new algorithms and optimization approaches applied to different PFD problems along with their benefits and limitations in comparison to previously developed approaches), issues relevant to development of platforms (i.e., platform configuration approaches, joint platform design and optimization, and factors effective on forming proper platform types), and issues relevant to knowledge management and modeling of families and platforms for facilitating and supporting future design efforts. Through a comparison with previous research, new achievements are discussed and the remaining challenges and potential new research areas in this field are addressed.
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Dejana, E., F. Breviario, F. Bussolino, L. Mussoni, and A. Mantovani. "PLEIOTROPIC EFFECT OF INTERLEUKIN-1 ON ENDOTHELIAL CELLS." In XIth International Congress on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Schattauer GmbH, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1643984.
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Inflammatory processes are often associated with pathological alteration of the vessel wall and sometimes with local or disseminated thrombotic phenomena. Interleukin-1 (IL-1), a monokine produced by activated cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage and responsible of most of the changes associated with the inflammatory acute phase response, appears to dramatically' modify several endothelial cell (EC) functions. Some groups including ours (for review 1) have shown that IL-1 stimulates prostacyclin (PGI2), platelet activating factor (PAF), plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAi), thromboplastin (PCA) synthesis by cultured human EC in vitro. In addition IL-1 can act directly on EC to increase neuthophil and other leukocyte adhesion on their surface (2). All these effects, in contrast to previously described inducers, require a long time of interaction (30 min to 4 hours) of IL-1 with EC to be apparent and then last for several hours (4 to 12 hours). The IL-1 effects are concentration dependent (minimal active concentration being about 1 unit/ml) and require protein and RNA synthesis. To better define the structural requirement for IL-1 induced modification of EC functions we compared the activity of different IL-1 molecular species. Our approach is based on the observation that IL-1 is indeed a family of polypeptides biochemically different(3). At least two dissimilar gene products have been cloned with very limited homology (denominated α and β). These molecules, though biochemically different, share common activities and possibly the same receptor in different cell types. On EC we investigated whether the αand β IL-1 forms have similar biological activities (4). All the IL-1 preparations used were active on thymocyte costimulatory assay and comparison was made on the basis of the concentrations of these agents equally active on this assay.Human recombinant IL- αandβ (hr IL-1 α and hr IL-1 β) were both active in stimulating PGI2, PCA, PAi production and in increasing neutrophil adhesion to EC. In contrast PAF synthesis was Stimulated by hr IL-1 α but not by hr IL-1 β. Murine recombinant IL-1 (mr IL-1 α highly homologous with hr IL-1 < α, at concentrations able to maximally activate thymocytes was inactive on PGI2, PCA and in increasing neutrophil adhesion to EC. In contrast, mr IL-1 α was equally effective on PAF production as hr IL-1 α. A short peptide fragment of hr IL-1β (fragment 167-171) was synthesized on the basis of its predicted exposure on the surface of the molecule (5). This peptide is also located in a region (150-186) of high homology between hr IL-1α and β sequences. While the peptide showed high thymocyte activation capacity it was inactive on EC activities. Overall these results indicate that the α and β forms of human IL-1 elicit largely but not completely overlapping patterns of response in EC. In addition they suggest that the structural requirement for activation by IL-1 is not identical for thymocytes and EC. These results might provide some clues to novel strategies for modulation of IL-1 vascular and immunological activities.1. Mantovani A. and E. Dejana (1987) Biochem. Pharm. 36:301.2. Bevilacqua M. et al. (1985) J. Clin. Invest. 76:20033. Dinarello C.A. (1985) J. Clin. Immunol. 5:287.4. Dejana E. et al. (1987) Blood 69:695.5. Antoni G. et al. (1987) J. Immunol, (in press).
Reports on the topic "Shared family activities"
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Dominguez, Ximena, Elizabeth Rood, Danae Kamdar, Tiffany Leones, and Kayla Huynh. Splash and Bubbles for Parents App: Field Study Report. Digital Promise, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/119.
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This report prepared for The Jim Henson Company shares findings of a field study examining the promise of the Splash and Bubbles for Parents app, a second-screen digital resource designed for parents and caregivers to support young children’s learning of ocean science. The study conducted in 2020 involved a two-group, quasi-experimental design in which family participants were randomly assigned to either the intervention condition (who watched the show and used the app) or the comparison condition (who watched the show but did not have access to the app). Findings from this study provided information about how the app supported families to talk about science together; what science concepts and practices children learned through engaging with the app and related science activities; and how families shifted their attitudes, beliefs, or practices around science and media. Another finding highlighted parents and caregivers’ need for support around ways to engage with and use the app given that this represents a new type of digital tool.
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Aiginger, Karl, Andreas Reinstaller, Michael Böheim, Rahel Falk, Michael Peneder, Susanne Sieber, Jürgen Janger, et al. Evaluation of Government Funding in RTDI from a Systems Perspective in Austria. Synthesis Report. WIFO, Austria, August 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.22163/fteval.2009.504.
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In the spring of 2008, WIFO, KMU Forschung Austria, Prognos AG in Germany and convelop were jointly commissioned by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth to perform a systems evaluation of the country's research promotion and funding activities. Based on their findings, six recommendations were developed for a change in Austrian RTDI policy as outlined below: 1. to move from a narrow to a broader approach in RTDI policy (links to education policy, consideration of the framework for innovation such as competition, international perspectives and mobility); 2. to move from an imitation to a frontrunner strategy (striving for excellence and market leadership in niche and high-quality segments, increasing market shares in advanced sectors and technology fields, and operating in segments of relevance for society); 3. to move from a fragmented approach to public intervention to a more coordinated and consistent approach(explicit economic goals, internal and external challenges and reasoning for public intervention); 4. to move from a multiplicity of narrowly defined funding programmes to a flexible, dynamic policy that uses a broader definition of its tasks and priorities (key technology and research segments as priority-action fields, adequate financing of clusters and centres of excellence); 5. to move from an unclear to a precisely defined allocation of responsibilities between ministries and other players in the field (high-ranking steering group at government level, monitoring by a Science, Research and Innovation Council); 6. to move from red-tape-bound to a modern management of public intervention (institutional separation between ministries formulating policies and agencies executing them, e.g., by "progressive autonomy").
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The COVID Decade: understanding the long-term societal impacts of COVID-19. The British Academy, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bac19stf/9780856726583.001.
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The British Academy was asked by the Government Office for Science to produce an independent review on the long-term societal impacts of COVID-19. This report outlines the evidence across a range of areas, building upon a series of expert reviews, engagement, synthesis and analysis across the research community in the Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (SHAPE). It is accompanied by a separate report, Shaping the COVID decade, which considers how policymakers might respond. History shows that pandemics and other crises can be catalysts to rebuild society in new ways, but that this requires vision and interconnectivity between policymakers at local, regional and national levels. With the advent of vaccines and the imminent ending of lockdowns, we might think that the impact of COVID-19 is coming to an end. This would be wrong. We are in a COVID decade: the social, economic and cultural effects of the pandemic will cast a long shadow into the future – perhaps longer than a decade – and the sooner we begin to understand, the better placed we will be to address them. There are of course many impacts which flowed from lockdowns, including not being able to see family and friends, travel or take part in leisure activities. These should ease quickly as lockdown comes to an end. But there are a set of deeper impacts on health and wellbeing, communities and cohesion, and skills, employment and the economy which will have profound effects upon the UK for many years to come. In sum, the pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities and differences and created new ones, as well as exposing critical societal needs and strengths. These can emerge differently across places, and along different time courses, for individuals, communities, regions, nations and the UK as a whole. We organised the evidence into three areas of societal effect. As we gathered evidence in these three areas, we continually assessed it according to five cross-cutting themes – governance, inequalities, cohesion, trust and sustainability – which the reader will find reflected across the chapters. Throughout the process of collating and assessing the evidence, the dimensions of place (physical and social context, locality), scale (individual, community, regional, national) and time (past, present, future; short, medium and longer term) played a significant role in assessing the nature of the societal impacts and how they might play out, altering their long-term effects.