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The Implementation of Active Learning Model for Preparing Pre-Service Teachers
Full text linkThe study aim at investigating the implementation of active learning model to increase pre-service teachers’ ability before they follow teaching practice. The study was conducted because based on observations most of the students still did not have appropriate skills and knowledge when they do teaching practice. The participant of the research are 6th semester students. This report reveals the result of the first step in research and development design. One of the results from research step is guideline for learning active model. In the guideline some aspects are highlighted. Those aspects among others: the characteristics of active learning, the structure of learning model, teaching material, the language appropriateness, and communicative factors. The study also shows that based on some test, students High Order Thinking ability are increase. This preliminary study shows that some further studies must be taken so that the active learning model could b
The Moderating Effects of Network Centrality between IT Initiatives and Firm Performance: An Empirical Study
Full text linkThe IS research community has accumulated a criticalmass of studies on IT business value, but the questions of howand why IT creates business values remain understudied. In thisstudy, we focus on the role of network centrality and conjecturethat network centrality moderates the effects of IT initiatives onfirm performance. We collected data of 26 public companiescross 19 industries over a period of 1994-2008 (15 years) andconducted a multiple-level analysis. The results of data analysisshow that IT initiatives are significantly, positively related to firmperformance only in the high network centrality situation
Developing Work-Ready Software Engineers using Real-world Team-based Projects as a Catalyst for Learning
Full text linkThe National Software Academy in Wales is a recentlyestablished collaboration between Cardiff University, WelshGovernment, the Alacrity Foundation and the technologyindustry. The aim is to address the gap in the skills market forwork ready software engineers. The Academy runs an industryfocused BSc degree in Applied Software Engineering that seeslocal and national industry partners actively participating in therunning of the program and gives students the opportunity towork on real-world team-based projects throughout their degreecourse. This paper reports on the first year of the program: thesuccess and positive engagement from industry partners, theintegrated style of delivery across program modules, and thechallenges faced going into year 2
Content Based Cross-Domain Recommendation Using Linked Open Data
Full text linkA recommender system, irrespective of theapproach that has been used to implement it suffers fromthe cold-start situation. Not being able to predict items to anew user due to not having access to his previouspreferences, and not being able to recommend a new item tousers due to not having any prior ratings on theparticular item is the two cold-start problems. Even thoughcontent-based recommender systems are immune to itemcold-start problem, they are comparatively less used due tolack of up-to-date data sources that provide item featuresand also due to the high amount of pre-processing requiredwhen using existing data sources for retrieving meta-data.In this paper we present a content-based cross domainrecommendation system using Linked Open Data toaddress the issue of cold-start situation. The evaluationproves that this approach can be used as a solution to a coldstartsituation and also the prevailing issue of content-basedrecommender systems which forced them to take thebackseat will no longer be applicable when Linked OpenData is used
National Identity in The Multicultural State
No full textThe concept of national identity has been conceived and used in different ways and for different purposes, especially within the context of a multicultural state. In the first instance, its primordialist interpretation, which sees national identity in terms of ‘blood relation’ can be used by politicians and technocrats to subvert the unity that is paramount to a multicultural state. On the other hand, the social constructivist view, which sees the concept as an ‘artificial contrivance’ can be used by a vicious leadership as a weapon of repression against dissenting voices. In this paper, we shall argue for a middle ground between the primordialist and social constructivist conceptions of identity. This middle ground position suggests that national identity is a dynamic and transformative concept and in the hand of a visionary and committed leadership, national identity is a tool for establishing unity, cooperation, solidarity and development in the multicultural state
Extended Study on Characterizing Business Angels and Their Impact on Start-up Success
Full text linkThe study is based on previous research that described angel investment and its possible effects in determining a start-up’s success through analyzing 2114 business angels by investigating their professional and entrepreneurial experience, academic formation and their demographic characteristics. This study introduces three new case studies and further broadens the scope of the previous research. The study aims at validating the previous theory that the business angels invest in start-ups that have close proximity to their academic and professional backgrounds. Additionally, this study verifies the previous founding that angel investors of established technology companies had invested in more than one start-up or had experience founding or managing start-ups themselves. Â
Improving Thermal Comfort through Vertical Greeneries in Transitional Spaces for the Tropical Climate: A Review
No full textThis paper reviews the potential of transitional space inbuilding for improving thermal comfort by using VerticalGreeneries System (VGS). Transitional space could be defined asa space that is indirectly occupied, located in between the interiorand exterior environment. This place acts as both buffer spacesas well as the circulatory routes. In reality, transitional space iscommonly used for communal area in public building andutilised for domestic purposes in residential building, such as inbalcony. Based on this issue, balcony could be optimised forreplacing the greeneries on the ground level since thedevelopment of infrastructure in the urban areas hassignificantly reducing the quantity of green spaces. To overcomethis issue, integrating vertical greeneries in building is apromising solution although there space is limited. In order tomaximise the VGS performance, multi-layer plant canopyconcept could be introduced. It is believed that multi-layer plantcanopy could improve the thermal quality instead of using singlelayer plant canopy
Nurses Caring for Patients at the End of Life in Intensive Care Unit : A Literature Review
Full text linkThis article explored nurses caring for patients at the end of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). A literature review was conducted by analyzing 56 scholar papers including research articles, thesis/dissertation, and books which met the inclusion criteria. Data were searched through PubMed, ProQuest, Wiley Online Library and Science Direct. Searches used combination of following keywords: ‘ICU nurse’, combined with ‘caring’, ‘end of life’, ‘end of life care’. The result of the analysis presented the need of the patients and their families at the end of life, the nurses’ goals of caring at the end of life, the nurses’ role, problems and barriers in caring at the end of life in the ICU. Culture and religion have an influence in caring for patients at the end of life. The knowledge from this literature review can be guided the nurses to develop an effective caring model at the end of life in the ICU
Nursing Diagnosis and Collaborative Problem among Hospitalized Patients in University of Sumatera Utara Hospital, Medan
Full text linkBackground: The research regarding nursing diagnosis and collaboration problems were not very often conducted in Indonesia. Therefore, it is need to establish researches in standardized nursing language. Aims. The aim of this research was identified the nursing diagnosis and problem collaborations among hospitalized patients in University of Sumatera Utara Hospital, Indonesia. Method. This study is a quantitative research with cross-sectional approach. The data collection conducted through the nursing assessment with six steps of diagnostic reasoning method. The sampling technique was total sampling which involved hospitalized patients from March until May 2016; consisting 72 patients in inpatients unit which 19 pediatric patients, 36 adult patients, six maternity patients and 11 intensive care unit patients. The data analysis was frequency distribution from nursing diagnosis and problem collaborations. Result. The result revealed that there were 38 nursing diagnosis and collaborative problems found among pediatric patients, 56 nursing diagnosis and collaborative problems found among adult patients, 47 nursing diagnosis and collaborative problems found among intensive care patients and only eight nursing diagnosis found among maternity patients. The risk for infection was the most common nursing diagnosis among pediatric and maternity patients with thrombocytopenia as the most common collaborative problem found among pediatric patients. Acute pain was the first rank of nursing diagnosis found among adult patients. And, bleeding was the main problem collaboration. The risk for disuse syndrome was the most nursing diagnosis established among patients in intensive care unit, with pneumothorax as the common collaborative problem. Conclusion: It was found that the most common nursing diagnosis found among hospitalized patients was the risk for infection with various collaborative problems. Therefore, it is needs to establish infection precaution in every unit in the future. In fact, the nursing intervention regarding the infection control should be done in every unit
Problems of the Contact Window Structure and Building Envelope
No full textDifferent behavior of the construction materials indynamic boundary conditions causes deformations of thermalfield of the window structure detail in envelope structure.Numerical thermal field analysis verified by the experimentalmeasurement in experimental outdoor chambers is used forrecognize the real heat-air-moisture behavior in the variousstructures. Window sill of brick walls is one of the most criticalplaces in a connection of two envelope types objectively. If thereare the transparent and opaque parts present together, theconnection is much more complicated