2,414 results on '"Unpacking"'
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152. Ethnic-Racial Identity and Adolescents’ Positive Development in the Context of Ethnic-Racial Marginalization: Unpacking Risk and Resilience
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Deborah Rivas-Drake and Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor
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Unpacking ,Risk and resilience ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Ethnic group ,Identity (social science) ,Gender studies ,Context (language use) ,Psychology - Abstract
We review theoretical and empirical evidence that helps us understand how a developmental competency, namely ethnic-racial identity (ERI), can promote positive youth development and, in doing so, can help address ethnic-racial disparities resulting from systemic racism. We review this work from a risk and resilience perspective, elucidating different mechanisms of promotion and protection in the context of ethnoracially based risk. Understanding the conditions under which (and the mechanisms by which) certain ERI domains promote and inhibit adjustment can help us support ERI development among youth of color. Ultimately, we argue that ERI development among youth of color is one important avenue toward reducing ethnic-racial disparities in key developmental outcomes and, thus, disrupting cycles of inequity caused and perpetuated by systemic racism.
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- 2021
153. Unpacking the Associations between Traumatic Events and Depression among Chinese Elderly: Two Dimensions of Aging Attitudes as Mediators and Moderators
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Chaoxin Jiang
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Unpacking ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Health Policy ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Psychology ,Mental health ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Clinical psychology - Published
- 2021
154. UNPACKING THE TPACK FRAMEWORK IN EFL CONTEXT: A REVIEW OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES FROM 2015 TO 2019
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Shelia Anjarani
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Unpacking ,Empirical research ,Systematic review ,Conceptual framework ,Mathematics education ,English as a foreign language ,Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge ,Context (language use) - Abstract
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) has been implemented as a conceptual framework for the knowledge domains that teachers need to master to successfully teach using technology and it has attracted a lot of attention across the field of education. Nonetheless, the framework has been criticized for not being practically useful. TPACK studies were mostly conducted in Mathematics and Science. Meanwhile, research on integrating English as a foreign language (EFL) into TPACK has been lagging behind. To better understand the critics, an investigation of general characteristics of TPACK studies in EFL context is needed. This paper is a systematic literature review of 20 peer-reviewed journal articles concerning the use of TPACK in EFL context published from 2015 to 2019.
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- 2020
155. Manual Unpacking 101 - Parte3: IAT Redirection
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Fernando Merces
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Unpacking ,Applied psychology ,Psychology - Abstract
Na edição anterior da H2HC Magazine [1], utilizamos a técnica de colocar um breakpoint de hardware em uma seção adicionada pelo packer para encontrar o entrypoint original do programa (OEP, Original Entry Point) e a partir dele, "dumpar" o processo (copiar da memória para o disco). Após o dump, mostrei como reconstruir os imports e corrigir o binário "dumpado", a fim de obter um binário funcional. Para ilustrar este processo, utilizei uma versão do Crackme do Cruehead comprimida com o MPRESS.
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- 2020
156. Unpacking vulnerability in academic writing and publishing: a tale of two non-native English speaker scholars in China
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Rui Yuan, Barry Bai, and Shumeng Hou
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Unpacking ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Vulnerability ,Media studies ,050301 education ,Lens (geology) ,Education ,Native english ,Publishing ,0502 economics and business ,Academic writing ,Sociology ,China ,business ,0503 education ,050203 business & management - Abstract
Adopting ‘vulnerability’ as an analytical lens and informed by a qualitative case study approach, the present study investigates two Chinese scholars’ academic writing and publishing practice. The ...
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- 2020
157. Building Peace in the Shadows of a Predator State: Unpacking the Work of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) in Zimbabwe
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Ched Nyamanhindi
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Unpacking ,State (polity) ,Work (electrical) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political science ,Commission ,Public administration ,media_common - Published
- 2020
158. From where does my support come? Unpacking the contribution of support for police
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Valentina Bruk-Lee, Stefany Coxe, and April D. Schantz
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Unpacking ,Public Administration ,05 social sciences ,050109 social psychology ,Criminology ,Burnout ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,Compassion fatigue ,0502 economics and business ,Well-being ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Psychology ,Law ,050203 business & management - Abstract
PurposeThe purpose of this research is to explore the structure and impact of police officers' social support network on health and well-being. Social integration promotes opportunities for regular positive experiences and a set of stable, socially rewarded roles within one's work and life domains. Identifying the structure and impact areas of police officers' social support network provide guidance for initiatives in improving psychological health for the department and individual officers.Design/methodology/approachSurvey of 162 police officers' sources of support provided a holistic representation of their social network across seven sources. Principle component analyses were conducted to explore the structure of one's social network. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine overall impact of one's social support network and relative contributions of support sources in terms of increased well-being and reduced strain.FindingsA three-component structure of social support was partially supported. Overall models of the impact of one's social support network related to increased well-being and reduced strain was supported. Relative contributions of support sources show different patterns based on outcome of interest.Practical implicationsProvides guidance for addressing the psychological well-being needs for officers holistically. In other words, treating officers as whole beings, whose system of support and psychological health is integrated, not piecemeal.Originality/valueExamination of principle effects of support provides a parsimonious approach to considering the holistic value of one's support system, apart from specific stressors or conditions.
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- 2020
159. Unpacking the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe's Public Sector
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Sharon R. T. Muzvidziwa-Chilunjika, Bismark Mutizwa, and Alouis Chilunjika
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Unpacking ,Economic growth ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,business.industry ,Political science ,Pandemic ,Public sector ,business - Abstract
The novel COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the entire world and its far reaching impacts have been felt across different regions and sectors world-over. Similarly, the Zimbabwean public sector has been equally affected by this pandemic. Using a qualitative methodology the research interrogates the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and proffers ways to deal with its impacts on the Zimbabwean public sector. Data was extensively collected from documentary sources such as books, journals, government publications etc. The study established that the Zimbabwean Health Sector (ZHS) is completely overwhelmed by the pandemic, that there is a decrease in revenue collection, poor social accountability, and corruption and that frontline employees and those working in environments that are exposed to the virus are psychologically affected. The research recommends that the government should capacitate the ZHS, revitalise industries and harnessing small to medium enterprises, embrace open Information Technologies (I.T) in parliamentary activities, strengthen the Watchdog institutions and create sustainable conducive working conditions for all.
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- 2020
160. Unpacking teacher challenges in understanding and implementing cognitively demanding tasks in secondary school mathematics classrooms
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Mourat Tchoshanov and Angelica Monarrez
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Unpacking ,Applied Mathematics ,010102 general mathematics ,05 social sciences ,050301 education ,01 natural sciences ,Education ,School teachers ,Mathematics (miscellaneous) ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,Mathematics education ,0101 mathematics ,0503 education ,Qualitative research - Abstract
Literature suggests that students need to be exposed to cognitively demanding tasks (CDT). In this qualitative study, we examined in-service secondary school teachers’ challenges in understanding (...
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- 2020
161. Digital Discretion: Unpacking Human and Technological Agency in Automated Decision Making in Sweden’s Social Services
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Agneta Ranerup and Helle Zinner Henriksen
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Unpacking ,Automated decision making ,Social work ,Actor–network theory ,business.industry ,Actor-network theory ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Public sector ,Discretion ,General Social Sciences ,Social Welfare ,Library and Information Sciences ,Public administration ,Process automation system ,Computer Science Applications ,Agency (sociology) ,Robotic process automation ,Business ,Law ,media_common - Abstract
The introduction of robotic process automation (RPA) into the public sector has changed civil servants’ daily life and practices. One of these central practices in the public sector is discretion. The shift to a digital mode of discretion calls for an understanding of the new situation. This article presents an empirical case where automated decision making driven by RPA has been implemented in social services in Sweden. It focuses on the aspirational values and effects of the RPA in social services. Context, task, and activities are captured by a detailed analysis of humans and technology. This research finds that digitalization in social services has a positive effect on civil servants’ discretionary practices mainly in terms of their ethical, democratic, and professional values. The long-term effects and the influence on fair and uniform decision making also merit future research. In addition, the article finds that a human–technology hybrid actor redefines social assistance practices. Simplifications are needed to unpack the automated decision-making process because of the technological and theoretical complexities.
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- 2020
162. Unpacking the relationship between procedural justice and job performance
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Dirk De Clercq, Muhammad Umer Azeem, and Inam Ul Haq
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Improvisation ,Unpacking ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,Conservation of resources theory ,Procedural justice ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Public relations ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,Job performance ,0502 economics and business ,050211 marketing ,Psychology ,business ,050203 business & management - Abstract
PurposeThis study investigates the mediating role of improvisation behavior in the relationship between employees' perceptions of procedural justice and their job performance, as evaluated by their supervisors, as well as the invigorating role of their organization-based self-esteem in this process.Design/methodology/approachSurvey data were collected in three rounds among employees and their supervisors in Pakistan.FindingsAn important factor that connects procedural justice with enhanced job performance is whether employees react quickly to unexpected problems while carrying out their jobs. This mediating role of improvisation is particularly salient to the extent that employees consider themselves valuable organizational members.Practical implicationsFor organizations, this study pinpoints a key mechanism—willingness to respond in the moment to unanticipated organizational failures—by which fair decision-making processes can steer employees toward performance-enhancing activities. It also reveals how this mechanism can be activated, namely, by ensuring that employees feel appreciated.Originality/valueImprovisation represents an understudied but critical behavioral factor that links employees' beliefs about fair decision-making procedures to enhanced performance outcomes. This study shows, for the first time, how this beneficial role can be reinforced by organization-based self-esteem, as a critical personal resource.
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- 2020
163. Unpacking Normative Resonance: The Attitudinal Panopticon and the Implementation Gap of LGBT Rights in Serbia
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Slootmaeckers, K.
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Unpacking ,05 social sciences ,Social change ,JN ,050801 communication & media studies ,HN ,0506 political science ,Gender Studies ,0508 media and communications ,Political science ,050602 political science & public administration ,Panopticon ,Normative ,Resizing ,JZ ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Law and economics - Abstract
Although equality policies have been promoted by the European Union in its enlargement process, their implementation often remains weak. While normative resonance is considered as a key factor for their proper implementation, why it matters remains theoretically underexplored. Addressing this gap, the article develops the notion of the attitudinal panopticon. Through the analysis of the implementation gap of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights in Serbia, I demonstrate how the lack of normative resonance and social change becomes a disciplining environment that prevents people from using equality measures out of fear of further and more severe violations of their rights.
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- 2020
164. UNPACKING THE EXPERIENCE OF THE BIOSPHERE RESERVE TOURISM FROM THE ACADEMIC TOURISTS’ PERSPECTIVES: A CASE OF TASIK CHINI
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Hamzah Jusoh, Ah Choy Er, Mushrifah Idris, and Habibah Ahmad
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Unpacking ,Geography ,Biosphere ,Environmental planning ,Tourism - Abstract
Biosphere reserves are well recognized as a ‘learning site’ for reconciling conservation, development, and learning functions. Being a learning site, the Biosphere reserves received many visitors, including academic tourists. This article aims at uncovering what academic tourists perceived as the biosphere reserve tourism of Tasik Chini Biosphere Reserve. Based on the academic tourists’ surveys conducted in 2012 and 2014, this study shows that the conservation, socio-ecological learning, and problem-solving experiences are key components of the Biosphere Reserve tourism. The context of entertainment, education, esthetic, and escapism experiences varied among academic tourists. While the academic tourists have ranked the first two components; entertainment and education at a high level of achievement, the esthetic and escapism components on the other part have been ranked at lower achievement. In bridging these contradictory achievements, the study suggests the holistic learning approach. The realistic integration of entertainment, education, esthetics, and escapism is meant to fulfil the needs of the academic tourist's needs during their visit to the Biosphere reserve sites, hence, responded to the rising of experiential tourism and experience economy.
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- 2020
165. Unpacking sensitive research: a stimulating exploration of an established concept
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Sam Murphy, Sharon Mallon, and Erica Borgstrom
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Unpacking ,History ,Movement (music) ,George (robot) ,Media studies ,General Social Sciences - Abstract
We are living in turbulent times. The hashtag #MeToo went viral in 2017; the death of George Floyd propelled the Black Lives Matter movement back into international headlines; and the emergence of ...
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- 2020
166. User activities and the heterogeneity of urban space: The case of Dahiyat Al Hussein park
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Ahlam Ammar Sharif
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Unpacking ,Archeology ,Actor–network theory ,media_common.quotation_subject ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,0507 social and economic geography ,User activity networks ,02 engineering and technology ,Space heterogeneity ,Architecture ,Ethnography ,Regional science ,Sociology ,Spatial translations ,Relational patterns ,lcsh:NA1-9428 ,media_common ,05 social sciences ,021107 urban & regional planning ,Building and Construction ,Urban Studies ,Negotiation ,Scholarship ,Al Hussein ,lcsh:Architecture ,050703 geography ,Urban space - Abstract
Urban researchers have maintained a constant interest in the complexity and continuity of urban space usage. Some have applied actor–network theory (ANT) to investigate the heterogeneity of spaces and present them through the networks of their users’ activities. However, these accounts are predominantly limited in examining the extent to which these spaces may be heterogeneous when exploring such networks. This paper draws on recent ANT scholarship, which employs an ethnographic research conducted in a main park in a housing project at Dahiyat Al Hussein in Amman, Jordan. The findings describe the complex and unpredictable negotiations that occur within spaces by documenting the varieties and interrelations among user activity networks within this common and shared urban space. This research reveals the extent to which spaces, parks in this case, may be heterogeneous by unpacking their usage. The conclusions and insights assert the necessity of paying attention to design detail and creating designs that are responsive to evolving user activities.
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- 2020
167. Profile of Student's Mathematical Representation Translation on the Verbal Problem
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Nizaruddin, St. Budi Waluyo, Rochmad, and Isnarto
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Unpacking ,Structure (mathematical logic) ,Symbol ,Mathematical problem ,Process (engineering) ,Group (mathematics) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Representation (mathematics) ,Equivalence (measure theory) ,Linguistics ,Education ,media_common - Abstract
Translation among forms of representation defines as changing process one form of representation to other representations. Translation activities from one representation (source) to another (target) are very important in expressing mathematical ideas. In translating among representations, students are not only interact with the basic concepts contained in the information, but also they must be able to connect parts of these basic concepts with different things related to the intended representation. The purpose of this qualitative research is: 1) to analyze the tendency of mathematical representations to be used in solving mathematical problems given in verbal representations, and 2) to analyze the translational structure of the target representations made. The research subjects were 3rd year students of Mathematics Education at Universitas PGRI Semarang. The research data were taken by means of tests and interviews immediately after solving the math problems given in the form of verbal representations. The results showed that the group students who were solving the verbal questions indicated that they tended to translate from the verbal representations to symbolic representations in presenting definitions and in proof. However, this symbolic representation still contained verbal representations such as in the source problems. The stages of representation in this research followed the translation stages: unpacking the source, preliminary coordination, constructing the target, but left for determinant of equivalence. High-ability group of students in solving the questions tend to translate from verbal representation to symbolic representation. Further, some of them translate verbal to visual representation to increase understanding. The translation stages are unpacking the source, preliminary coordination, constructing symbol representation, constructing visual representation, determining the equivalence of the visual representation to verbal representation, and determining the equivalence of the symbol representation form to verbal representation.
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- 2020
168. Tales from the countryside: Unpacking 'passing the environmental buck' as hypocritical practice in the food supply chain
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Jane Glover and Anne Touboulic
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Marketing ,Unpacking ,Supply chain ,Hypocrisy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Chain (unit) ,Power (social and political) ,Economic cost ,0502 economics and business ,Agency (sociology) ,050211 marketing ,Business ,Rural area ,050203 business & management ,media_common - Abstract
Using a critical power lens and the concept of organisational hypocrisy, we explore how actors across the supply chain have been able to pass risk and responsibility for environmental impacts down the supply chain, in addition to associated economic costs. We use vignettes to relay farmers’ experiences and voices, which remain seldom heard in both practice and research. We argue that the main effect of the hypocritical practice of ‘passing the environmental buck’ is a removal of the farmers’ agency, paradoxically coupled with an increase in their responsibilities. We see this approach by large corporations as a mechanism that helps to mask their increasing dependence on this group to achieve their environmental goals.
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- 2020
169. Unpacking the Relationship Between Teachers’ Perceptions of Professional Learning Communities and Differentiated Instruction Practice
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Sally Wai-Yan Wan
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Unpacking ,05 social sciences ,Differentiated instruction ,Professional development ,Exploratory research ,050301 education ,Participative decision-making ,lcsh:LB5-3640 ,Education ,lcsh:Theory and practice of education ,Professional learning community ,0502 economics and business ,Pedagogy ,Leadership style ,Teacher leadership ,Psychology ,0503 education ,050203 business & management - Abstract
Purpose: This exploratory study investigates the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of professional learning communities (PLCs) and their differentiated instruction (DI) practice in a Hong Kong primary education context. Design/Approach/Methods: Three subsidized primary schools participated in the study. A total of 121 teachers completed surveys regarding their perceptions of PLC engagement and DI practice. Findings: Using principal component analysis, three dimensions of PLC engagement were identified: student learning, reflective dialogue, and shared and supportive leadership. Two distinctive PLC engagement profiles were generated based on cluster analysis: high PLC engagement and low PLC engagement. Teachers’ PLC engagement profiles were correlated with their DI practices. Originality/Value: The findings have implications for fostering teacher engagement in PLCs. Increased teacher participation in PLCs has great potential for promoting the use of DI.
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- 2020
170. Unpacking the Intellectual Basis of China’s Policy toward Japan: Chinese Strategic Thought Spectrum and Strategic Perceptions of Japan since 2000
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Yun Zhang
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Unpacking ,Perception ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Political economy ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Development ,China ,media_common - Abstract
Although Sino–Japanese relations have been on a recovery course, the deterioration of ties in the first one and a half decades since 2000 should not be forgotten. This article aims to unpack China’...
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- 2020
171. ‘Old’ tools in a new era: unpacking the roles of promotional and informational resources in scaled-up preventive interventions
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Mandy Williams, Lina Persson, Victoria Loblay, Christine Innes-Hughes, Penelope Hawe, Amanda Green, Kathleen P. Conte, and Sisse Grøn
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Unpacking ,030505 public health ,business.industry ,Energy (esotericism) ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Complex interventions ,Public relations ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Health promotion ,Preventive intervention ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Health information ,Business ,0305 other medical science - Abstract
As health promotion as a field progresses further into the 21st century, it may seem backward-looking to devote research energy to the study of health information leaflets and program resources. Ho...
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- 2020
172. Brahman women as cultured homemakers – unpacking caste, gender roles and cultural capital across three generations
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Shraddha Chickerur
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Unpacking ,05 social sciences ,Brahman ,Caste ,050109 social psychology ,Gender studies ,Cultural capital ,Gender Studies ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,050903 gender studies ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,0509 other social sciences ,Three generations ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Privilege (social inequality) - Abstract
Caste privilege is invisible in the lives of so-called upper caste, middle-class women. This paper offers critical insight into Brahman women’s lives, mapping evolving gender roles but examining th...
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- 2020
173. 'Unpacking Routine Program Monitoring-Sustainability of Agricultural Projects Funded by Non-governmental Organizations Nexus. An empirical Study in Bungoma County, Kenya'
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Emmanuel Muli, Dorothy Ndunge Kyalo, and Raphael Nyonje
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Medical Terminology ,Unpacking ,Empirical research ,Program monitoring ,Agriculture ,business.industry ,Sustainability ,business ,Environmental planning ,Nexus (standard) ,Medical Assisting and Transcription - Abstract
Guided by systems theory, this study investigated how routine program monitoring influences the sustainability of agricultural projects. The analysis included the following tests: means, frequencies and standard deviations for descriptive analysis while inferential statistics was conducted by the use of correlations, and linear regression. The study had the following findings: Sustainability of agricultural projects had a general mean (GM) of 24.7080 and a general (SD) of 4.30998 showing that agricultural projects were not sustained. Small standard deviation showed a consensus among participants on this issue. For routine program monitoring, the general mean score for all items was 31.2336 with a general standard deviation of 4.82984. The implication of this mean score and standard deviation in respect to the study is that there was general agreement in opinion among participants that organizations utilized monitoring and evaluation system in terms of routine program monitoring. The results from interview guides supported the quantitative results, by agreeing that organization indeed utilized monitoring as required. Project managers were convinced that organizational monitoring system was in good condition, the only challenge that was expressed by project managers concerning monitoring system is poor utilization of collected data to take corrective measures. It was said that data collected from monitoring was rarely used to make project improvements. Routine program monitoring was found to have a very small positive correlation with the sustainability of agricultural projects which was not statistically significance. H0: was not rejected with r= 0.059, . This shows that the regression model was not fit.
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- 2020
174. Unpacking the 'Female Advantage' in the Career and Economic Impacts of College
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Gregory C. Wolniak and Tiffani M. Williams
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Unpacking ,Labour economics ,Higher education ,business.industry ,Human capital theory ,Economic impact analysis ,business ,Psychology - Published
- 2020
175. Unpacking the idea of democratic community consent-based siting for energy infrastructure
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Seth Tuler and Thomas Webler
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Unpacking ,Government ,Community engagement ,Process (engineering) ,Strategy and Management ,media_common.quotation_subject ,General Engineering ,General Social Sciences ,ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING ,Public administration ,Democracy ,Energy infrastructure ,Energy facilities ,Business ,Facility siting ,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ,media_common - Abstract
We highlight issues relevant to a consent-based siting process for energy facilities with the intent to inform government officials, planners, and stakeholders on potential critical issues and chal...
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- 2020
176. Susceptibility to Inattention: Unpacking Who is Susceptible to Inattention in Energy‐Based Electronic Billing
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Nicky Harrison, Madeline Venable, Galib Rustamov, and Cali Curley
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Unpacking ,Public Administration ,Computer science ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Energy based ,Electronic billing ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Computer security ,computer.software_genre ,computer - Published
- 2020
177. Beyond parasitism: Unpacking land rentiership relations in Magaluf (Majorca, Spain)
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Ismael Yrigoy
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Unpacking ,Sociology and Political Science ,Political economy ,05 social sciences ,Premise ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,0507 social and economic geography ,Economics ,021107 urban & regional planning ,02 engineering and technology ,050703 geography ,Corporation - Abstract
Land rentiers are commonly labelled as ‘parasitic’ and ‘unproductive’ in political economy. Yet such premise does not fully grasp the complexity of the relations between income-producers and rentiers taking place in specific places in different historical periods. By analyzing the land rentiership relations occurring in those hotels managed by Melia in Magaluf from the 1950s until 2018, the article claims that land rentiership in Magaluf was not only beneficial for land rentiers, but for most of its history, also for Melia, an income-producer corporation. Therefore, it is argued that land rentiership relations should not only be considered to be ‘parasitic’, but also as ‘cooperative’ relations, as such rentiership relations can be beneficial for both land rentiers and income-producers.
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- 2020
178. Unpacking the Managerial Blues: How Expectations Formed in the Past Carry into New Jobs
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Nishani Bourmault and Michel Anteby
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Unpacking ,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ,050402 sociology ,Strategy and Management ,05 social sciences ,Job design ,Blues ,0504 sociology ,Carry (investment) ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,0502 economics and business ,Business ,Marketing ,Imprinting (organizational theory) ,050203 business & management - Abstract
Becoming a manager is generally seen as a highly coveted step up the career ladder that corresponds to a gain in responsibility. There is evidence, however, that some individuals experience “managerial blues,” or disenchantment with their managerial jobs after being promoted. Although past scholarship points to individual differences (such as skills inadequacy) or the promotion circumstances (such as involuntary) as possible explanations for such blues, less is known as to how the expectations that people carry with them from past jobs—such as expectations about what responsibility entails—may shape their first managerial experience. To answer this question, we compare the experiences of supervisors coming from different jobs—that is, former Paris subway drivers (working independently and impacting the lives of others) and station agents (working interdependently with limited impact on others’ lives)—that left them with distinct sets of expectations around responsibility. Drawing on interviews and observations, we find that former drivers developed a deep sense of “personal” responsibility. After promotion, their perceived managerial responsibility paled in comparison with their expectations of what it felt like to have personal responsibility, leading the majority to experience managerial blues. In contrast, former agents had few expectations of what responsibility entailed and reported no disenchantment once they joined the managerial ranks. Overall, we show how imprinted expectations shape people’s future managerial experiences, including their managerial blues, and discuss the implications of our findings for literatures on job mobility and job design.
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- 2020
179. Vocationalizing Education
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Sammy Khoza
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Unpacking ,0508 media and communications ,05 social sciences ,Pedagogy ,ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ,050301 education ,050801 communication & media studies ,Sociology ,0503 education - Abstract
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges continue to struggle to fulfill their mandate of skills development among the youth. This is so because TVET colleges still lag behind in integrating information and communications technology (ICT) in their classrooms, which has made inroads in industries. Qualitative approach was used to investigate the TVET college lecturers' instructional practices in their classrooms. Four TVET colleges as well as eight lecturers were purposefully and conveniently selected for the study. The technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) framework was used as an underpinning framework. Findings reveal that lecturers are not keen in integrating ICTs in their teaching and some are not encouraged to do so. It was also found that not all lecturers are adequately qualified to teach in the vocational field. The study recommends that teaching resources be sought in order for colleges to align their practices with industrial practices. Lecturers too should be capacitated in integrating technology in their lessons.
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- 2022
180. Unpacking the Trump administration’s grand strategy in Europe: power maximisation, relative gains and sovereignty
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Linde Desmaele, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and Political Science
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Unpacking ,Power (social and political) ,Sovereignty ,Grand strategy ,Foreign policy ,Political economy ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,Administration (government) - Abstract
Observers continue to disagree on what, if anything, constituted the overarching logic guiding American foreign policy under the Trump administration, i.e. on how to describe Trump’s grand strategy. Rather than assessing the Trump administration’s statecraft on its own terms, however, most scholars fast forward to prescribing potential alternative approaches. To that end, they often cherry-pick different bits of empirical data to support their argument, without a clear theoretical or methodological justification. This is problematic, for the crucial question of whether Trump’s grand strategy was feasible and consistent with US interests cannot be properly answered without a shared baseline of what it precisely entails. In response, this article analyses factors from a variety of methodological perspectives–preferred modes of action, institutional commitments and discourses. An analysis of these factors in the context of Europe reveals that Trump pursued an onshore balancing strategy that built on three interrelated elements: power maximisation, relative gains and sovereignty. When transposing these elements to the European theatre, it appears that Trump's team pushed for a Europe that was divided, weak and relatively inconsequential as Washington sought to outcompete Beijing in order to retain global primacy.
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- 2022
181. A Psychology of Ideology: Unpacking the Psychological Structure of Ideological Thinking
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Zmigrod, Leor, Zmigrod, Leor [0000-0001-8270-7955], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
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Structure (mathematical logic) ,Unpacking ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Politics ,ideology ,ideological cognition ,Morals ,Epistemology ,Cognition ,Attitude ,Humans ,Ideology ,Psychology ,GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries) ,political psychology ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,General Psychology ,identity ,Prejudice ,media_common - Abstract
Funder: Gates Cambridge Trust; FundRef: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005370, The psychological study of ideology has traditionally emphasized the content of ideological beliefs, guided by questions about what people believe, such as why people believe in omniscient gods or fascist worldviews. This theoretical focus has led to siloed subdisciplines separately dealing with political, religious, moral, and prejudiced attitudes. The fractionation has fostered a neglect of the cognitive structure of ideological worldviews and associated questions about why ideologies-in all their forms-are so compelling to the human mind. Here I argue that it is essential to consider the nature of ideological cognition across a multitude of ideologies. I offer a multidimensional, empirically tractable framework of ideological thinking, suggesting it can be conceptualized as a style of thinking that is rigid in its adherence to a doctrine and resistance to evidence-based belief-updating and favorably oriented toward an in-group and antagonistic to out-groups. The article identifies the subcomponents of ideological thinking and highlights that ideological thinking constitutes a meaningful psychological phenomenon that merits direct scholarly investigation and analysis. By emphasizing conceptual precision, methodological directions, and interdisciplinary integration across the political and cognitive sciences, the article illustrates the potential of this framework as a catalyst for developing a rigorous domain-general psychology of ideology.
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- 2022
182. Unpacking the Library Catalog: How to make Authors talk from across the Stacks
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Todd Michelson-Ambelang
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Cultural Studies ,Unpacking ,World Wide Web ,Literature and Literary Theory ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Computer science ,Library catalog - Published
- 2021
183. Unpacking the influence of flight booking websites to e-loyalty: empirical evidence from South East Asian Millennials
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Donny Susilo
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Product (business) ,Unpacking ,Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management ,Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) ,Generalizability theory ,Advertising ,Business ,Brand equity ,Empirical evidence ,Location ,Southeast asian ,Structural equation modeling - Abstract
This study aims to understand how Southeast Asian Millennials become loyal to a flight booking website, using the results of an online survey and a E-loyalty model, and structural equation modeling. The findings show that good utilitarian features of websites can significantly increase brand equity and positive online experience (flow) of website users while good hedonic features of websites can significantly increase positive online experience and trust of website users. Brand equity, positive online experience and trust have a direct and significant effect on e-loyalty. When the brand equity of a website, positive online experience and trust of website users are higher, the e-loyalty of millennial customers towards the website is higher. The effect of utilitarian features on trust and hedonic features on brand equity are found to be insignificant. Nevertheless, all the other hypotheses are accepted. This study has successfully expanded Bilgihan’s E-loyalty model application to a different product (flight booking websites) and geographical location (Southeast Asia), proving its generalizability.
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184. Connectivity in times of control: writing/undoing/unpacking/acting out power performances
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Whitney Stark, Beatriz Revelles-Benavente, and Olga Cielemęcka
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Cognitive science ,Unpacking ,Acting out ,05 social sciences ,050801 communication & media studies ,Undoing ,Gender Studies ,Power (social and political) ,Individualism ,0508 media and communications ,050903 gender studies ,Sociology ,0509 other social sciences ,Control (linguistics) ,Constellation - Abstract
In this collectively written article, the authors interrogate contemporary power constellations that run between control and connectivity. Regimes of individualism, hierarchies of assumed classifications and imperialistic subjectivities sustain the basis for political control that organises connections and divisions used to justify hierarchical dominations and distributions. This makes anti-oppression practices that value differing forms of connectivity and intra-dependence (between humans, more than humans, disciplines, all things considered to be of different bodies) nearly unimaginable. The authors offer/reconfigure/understand connectivity as a practice acting in and at odds with those controlling political regimes that organise and classify matter(s), while experimenting with their own writing methodology aimed at staying connected. Informed by new materialist feminist practices and ideas, the authors discuss the political stakes of multiple ideas of connectivity within three empirical scenarios: academic labour practices, social media and a digitally established mutual aid community. We trace entangled forces of separation and control shaped by global imperialism, processes of individuation and technological apparatuses and how they perform within these scenarios. This approach is mirrored in our practice of writing together. In an alternative to traditionalised ways of writing, we expand upon an embodied praxis, elaborating on multiple engagements while offering our own connections with these differing situated knowledges. In light of this, the authors write in a diffractive, collective fashion that lies somewhere between a conversation and the strict linearity of typical narratives.
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185. The Structure and Evolution of the International Human Rights Network:Unpacking the Influences of Countries’ Contextual Factors and Network Configurations
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Aimei Yang and Rong Wang
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Structure (mathematical logic) ,Unpacking ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Human rights ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,02 engineering and technology ,0506 political science ,World-systems theory ,Political Science and International Relations ,050602 political science & public administration ,Polity ,Economic geography ,Sociology ,Network analysis ,media_common - Abstract
Guided by the multi-theoretical, multilevel (MTML) framework, this study draws from the World Polity Theory and World System Theory to examine factors shaping the structure and evolution of an inte...
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186. Unpacking the emergence of born global founders: A careers perspective
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Daniel Richard Clark, Yejun Zhang, Margaret A. Shaffer, and Robert J. Pidduck
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Unpacking ,Entrepreneurship ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,Strategy and Management ,Political economy ,0502 economics and business ,05 social sciences ,Perspective (graphical) ,New Ventures ,050211 marketing ,Sociology ,General Business, Management and Accounting ,050203 business & management - Abstract
New ventures that internationalize aggressively from or near founding have been of continued interest in international entrepreneurship. A rich literature now exists in which researchers make numer...
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187. Unpacking teachers’ concerns about CT‐based pedagogy: The case of software education in Korea
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Hyo-Jeong So, Da Hyeon Ryoo, and Dongsim Kim
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Unpacking ,Software ,General Computer Science ,business.industry ,Pedagogy ,General Engineering ,Sociology ,business ,Education - Published
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188. Unpacking the ‘why’ behind strategic emotion expression at work: A narrative review and proposed taxonomy
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Dirk Lindebaum and Deanna Geddes
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Unpacking ,Strategy and Management ,05 social sciences ,Interpersonal communication ,Emotion management ,Emotive ,Phenomenon ,0502 economics and business ,Expressed emotion ,050211 marketing ,Narrative review ,Display rules ,Psychology ,050203 business & management ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
Strategic emotion expression constitutes a common-thread phenomenon in emotion regulation and emotion management research across multiple behavioral and social science disciplines. Despite this prevalence, less is known about the “why” behind these observable emotion displays within organizations. Exemplary research is reviewed reflecting the variety of motives behind strategic emotion displays. We argue that significant theoretical opportunity exists with acknowledging motivational differences underlying expressed emotion at work. Our narrative review helps generate a comprehensive and multilevel taxonomy of individual motives (personal and interpersonal), organizational emotion display rules or norms, and socio-cultural emotionologies that reflect dynamic societal expectations and conventions regarding appropriate emotion displays. Strategic emotion expression in organizations reveals the intersection of self- and other-imposed prescriptions and/or restrictions on emotional episodes and distinguishes the nature and purpose of emotive behaviors at work.
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189. Unpacking the relationship between employee brand ambassadorship and employee social media usage through employee wellbeing in workplace: A theoretical contribution
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Georgia Sakka and Mohammad Faisal Ahammad
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Marketing ,Unpacking ,Empirical work ,Conceptual framework ,business.industry ,Stakeholder ,Social media ,Sociology ,Public relations ,Set (psychology) ,business ,Relationship - Employee - Abstract
This paper aims to explore the importance of SM in fostering employee wellbeing and promoting through this relationship employee brand ambassadorship in new innovative lines. In this paper, we have proposed a conceptual framework on the role of SM usage to advance the theoretical understanding of SM usage and employee wellbeing, and employee brand advocacy. In doing so, we have framed a model embracing the effect of SM usage on employee wellbeing and employee brand advocacy, and how employee brand advocacy can act as vital communicational activity with various stakeholders of the organization. This study contributes in the literature, as the ending point of this paper is the theoretical formulation of a new relationship between SM employee usage with employee wellbeing and employee advocacy. This paper is proposing a model embracing the effect of SM usage on employee wellbeing and advocacy and, set up the boundaries for future empirical work.
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190. Dumb money or smart money? Meta‐analytically unpacking corporate venture capital
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Ravi Madhavan and Peiyuan Huang
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Unpacking ,Economics and Econometrics ,Financial economics ,Strategy and Management ,Corporate venture capital ,Business ,Business and International Management - Published
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191. Compassionate celebritization: Unpacking the 'True feelings' of the Danish people in the media reporting on a deportation case
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Asta Smedegaard Nielsen
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Unpacking ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Communication ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,celebritization ,nation ,050801 communication & media studies ,Gender studies ,migration ,Affect (psychology) ,language.human_language ,Gender Studies ,Danish ,Deportation ,0508 media and communications ,Feeling ,affect ,050903 gender studies ,whiteness ,language ,Sociology ,0509 other social sciences ,media_common - Abstract
This article introduces the concept of compassionate celebritization as a framework for analyzing how Danish media reporting on a deportation case enacted a transformation of its subjects, a young child, and her mother, from deportable migrants to celebritized Danish citizens. I suggest that the reporting subjected the migrants to a process of celebritization premised on the affectivity of the white Danish public’s compassionate intervention in their situation. The analysis demonstrates how celebritization unfolded compassion as a “true feeling” of the Danish people, orientating emotionally towards the migrants as worthy objects of white Danish compassion, most significantly through the positing of the figure of “the innocent child.” Additionally, the reporting framed the compassionate intervention as a restoration of a forgotten Danish humanitarianism. This happened through a displacement of the object of emotion to the Danish public itself, and an orientation towards it of pride and being moved by the efforts made to intervene. The celebritization also became a celebrated revelation of the “true” character of the Danish people, which gained the momentum to act as a force for good in the face of the inhuman decision made by the state authorities.
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192. Becoming a bona fide cosmopolitan: unpacking the narratives of Western-situated degree-seeking transnational students in China
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Kris Hyesoo Lee
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Cultural Studies ,Unpacking ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,0507 social and economic geography ,021107 urban & regional planning ,Gender studies ,02 engineering and technology ,Degree (music) ,Situated ,Narrative ,Sociology ,China ,050703 geography ,Qualitative research - Abstract
This qualitative study offers an exploration of the ways in which transnational, degree-seeking, undergraduate students from Anglophone and European countries make sense of their experiences of stu...
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193. Comparison of Machine Learning Performance Using Analytic and Holistic Coding Approaches Across Constructed Response Assessments Aligned to a Science Learning Progression
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Jack A. Cerchiara, John Merrill, Jennifer H. Doherty, Mark Urban-Lurain, Kevin C. Haudek, Emily E. Scott, and Lauren N. Jescovitch
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Unpacking ,Computer science ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,General Engineering ,050401 social sciences methods ,050301 education ,Rubric ,Machine learning ,computer.software_genre ,Education ,0504 sociology ,Constructed response ,Workbench ,Artificial intelligence ,Science learning ,business ,0503 education ,Classifier (UML) ,computer ,Kappa ,Coding (social sciences) - Abstract
We systematically compared two coding approaches to generate training datasets for machine learning (ML): (i) a holistic approach based on learning progression levels and (ii) a dichotomous, analytic approach of multiple concepts in student reasoning, deconstructed from holistic rubrics. We evaluated four constructed response assessment items for undergraduate physiology, each targeting five levels of a developing flux learning progression in an ion context. Human-coded datasets were used to train two ML models: (i) an 8-classification algorithm ensemble implemented in the Constructed Response Classifier (CRC), and (ii) a single classification algorithm implemented in LightSide Researcher’s Workbench. Human coding agreement on approximately 700 student responses per item was high for both approaches with Cohen’s kappas ranging from 0.75 to 0.87 on holistic scoring and from 0.78 to 0.89 on analytic composite scoring. ML model performance varied across items and rubric type. For two items, training sets from both coding approaches produced similarly accurate ML models, with differences in Cohen’s kappa between machine and human scores of 0.002 and 0.041. For the other items, ML models trained with analytic coded responses and used for a composite score, achieved better performance as compared to using holistic scores for training, with increases in Cohen’s kappa of 0.043 and 0.117. These items used a more complex scenario involving movement of two ions. It may be that analytic coding is beneficial to unpacking this additional complexity.
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194. Unpacking the Meaning of Work for Individuals Living With Serious Mental Illness
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Erna Sally Rogers, Sharon Pritchett, William Costa, Kathryn Hintz, Carina Teixeira, Philippe Bloch, Tracy Woods, and Uma Chandrika Millner
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Unpacking ,030506 rehabilitation ,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ,05 social sciences ,Mental illness ,medicine.disease ,Education ,Developmental psychology ,050106 general psychology & cognitive sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Work (electrical) ,medicine ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Meaning (existential) ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,General Psychology ,Applied Psychology - Abstract
Individuals diagnosed with serious mental illnesses continue to experience work-related disparities despite the existence of evidence-based practices. Understanding the meaning of work among these individuals is key to developing interventions grounded in career development theory and practice. This qualitative inquiry adapted a consensual qualitative research approach and utilized a participatory component to conduct an in-depth exploration of the meaning of work among a national sample of young adults and older adults living with serious mental illness. The psychology of working perspective was applied to the results after analyses. Results revealed categories that clustered within four overarching domains pertaining to work as central to survival, social connectedness, self-determination, and mental health recovery as proposed by the theory. Implications for services, research, and policy are discussed.
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195. Unpacking legitimacy in regional development: asymmetric justification and the functioning of regional development agencies
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Marco Pütz, Joost Jongerden, and Yasmine Willi
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Unpacking ,justification ,regional development agency ,05 social sciences ,Geography, Planning and Development ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,0507 social and economic geography ,legitimacy ,WASS ,021107 urban & regional planning ,02 engineering and technology ,Public administration ,16. Peace & justice ,Rural Sociology ,regional governance ,Regional development ,Carry (investment) ,Political science ,Political Science and International Relations ,regional development processes ,Rurale Sociologie ,050703 geography ,Switzerland ,Legitimacy - Abstract
In recent years, policy-makers and researchers have identified regional development agencies as the most suitable actors to carry out public tasks. One of these tasks has been the coordination of regional development processes. Both practitioners and researchers argue that legitimacy is a prerequisite for these regional actors to function properly. Although legitimacy is a key issue, little is known about the challenges that arise while producing it. Selecting six regional development agencies in Switzerland and applying an interview-based research method, this explorative study analyses how regional development agencies deal with legitimacy issues. The findings indicate that the main problem with which regional development agencies struggle is not procedural rightfulness but means–end coordination. By proposing a clear distinction between legitimacy and justification, we aim to stimulate the debate on how to operationalize legitimacy and further the discussion of the functioning of regional development agencies. Consequently, we introduce the concept of ‘asymmetric justification’ to the debate on regional development processes in order to shed a light on the functioning of regional development agencies.
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196. Unpacking the dynamics of a contested practice: the case of executive compensation and the shareholder value orientation in the USA
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Edward J. Zajac and Edward J. Carberry
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Unpacking ,Executive compensation ,Sociology and Political Science ,05 social sciences ,Shareholder value ,0506 political science ,Microeconomics ,Dynamics (music) ,Orientation (mental) ,0502 economics and business ,050602 political science & public administration ,Business ,General Economics, Econometrics and Finance ,050203 business & management - Abstract
The corporate scandals and market crashes of the 2000s generated significant criticism of the shareholder value orientation (SVO) in the USA. We offer a sociopolitical analysis of how this criticism triggered changes in stock-based executive compensation, a central practice associated with the SVO. We first analyze how corporate stakeholders redefined different forms of stock-based compensation, motivated new regulations and wielded direct challenges to specific firms. We then predict how firm-specific differences in external challenges and intra-firm power relationships were related to changes in the use of stock options and restricted stock grants (RSGs), testing our predictions using a longitudinal dataset of S&P 500 executives between 2002 and 2012. We find that firms facing negative media coverage of their executive compensation practices made less use of both forms of stock-based compensation, while firms facing shareholder activism only made less use of stock options, the form that was more heavily criticized. In addition, firms with more powerful CEOs utilized RSGs more heavily and did so even when facing media criticism. Our findings demonstrate that while stock options were vulnerable to change, stock-based compensation remained resilient because the structural power of CEOs, a core corporate governance feature of the SVO, also remained resilient.
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197. Geography, great power rivalry and the precarious survival of Iran, 1860–1914
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Abolghasem Bayyenat
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Great power ,Unpacking ,Geography ,Political Science and International Relations ,Economic geography ,Location ,Rivalry - Abstract
This paper examines how buffer status or geographic location between two rival great powers, namely Imperial Britain and Russia, affected Iran’s survival chances from 1860 to 1914. By unpacking sur...
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198. Unpacking the Aesthetics of Working in Public Space in Malaysia and Southeast Asia through the Lens of Art-Led Participative Processes
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Jay Koh
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Cultural Studies ,Unpacking ,Public space ,Visual Arts and Performing Arts ,Reciprocity (social psychology) ,Political science ,Media studies ,Intersubjectivity ,Through-the-lens metering ,Southeast asia - Abstract
This article examines the organisation and methodologies of current art and cultural collectives in Malaysia, with resonance for Southeast Asia, through the lens of socially engaged and public part...
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199. Oh, Sufferah Children of Jah: Unpacking the Rastafarian Rejection of Traditional Theodicies
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Anna Kasafi Perkins
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Unpacking ,060303 religions & theology ,History ,theodicy ,radical suffering ,05 social sciences ,Religious studies ,050109 social psychology ,jamaica ,06 humanities and the arts ,Religion (General) ,corporate evil ,0603 philosophy, ethics and religion ,Rastafarian ,religion.religion ,religion ,babylon ,Theodicy ,BL1-50 ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,rastafari - Abstract
The article maintains that the theological perspectives of RastafarI continue to be under-researched in the Caribbean context with perhaps more attention being paid to their contributions to the racial, musical and linguistic traditions of the region. In particular, Rasta theodicies are not as clearly articulated as other elements of its belief system even as it is recognised that RastafarI mansions and individual members do not hold homogenous beliefs about many things. The discussion takes as its starting point two prior reflections, “Just Desert or Just Deserts?: God and Suffering in these Perilous Days” (Perkins 2016) and “The Wages of (Sin) is Babylon: Rasta Versus Christian Religious Perspectives of Sin” (Perkins 2012); the former reflection highlights the insufficiency of traditional theodicy to answer the question: “if God is good, why does evil exist?” No one answer can sufficiently do justice to the many dimensions of the question. In that regard, Perkins (2016) argues for attention to the important “answer” that the radical suffering perspective offers to the discussion (Sarah Anderson Rajarigam (2004) too emphasises divine suffering or theopathos, as the response to radical suffering. She frames theopathos not just as an option within theodicy but as an alternative to theodicy, which she derides as “the spoilt child of enlightenment that self-destructively craves for theoretical and philosophical remedies for radical human suffering” (27).). Perkins (2012) explicates a particular Rasta understanding of sin and evil, which are important elements of any theodicy. For Rasta, sin is tri-dimensional – personal, inherited and corporate. Sin in its corporate or social dimension is the most salient as it is moral evil – a rejection of Jah’s will – which leads to the oppression of Jah’s people.
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200. Unpacking the self
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Manju Sharma
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Unpacking ,Psychoanalysis ,Self ,Narrative ,Biography ,Sociology - Abstract
In this essay, visual artist and writer Manju Sharma reflects on the use of autobiography as a methodology for storytelling in the visual arts. She focuses on the methods that she uses to explore the self and its relatedness to the world that she wishes to grasp. She also sheds light on how autobiography fits into her artistic practice as a means of finding hidden narratives and to keep the personal narrative related to the world. The essay touches upon the use of personal stories, cross-linking and note-taking to unpack everyday sensitive issues that can allow people to find their voice and to speak out.
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- 2020
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