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Revisiting Diabetes with a Focus on Complications, Innovations, and Care Strategies
No full textDiabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic endocrine health issue characterized by persistent hyperglycemia resulting from impaired insulin excretion, insulin impact, or both. This condition poses significant challenges due to its associated complications, including macrovascular conditions like heart disease and stroke, as well as microvascular complications such as diabetic neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy, and cardiomyopathy. Specialist nurses are integral to comprehensive diabetes care, offering expertise that spans multiple domains. Their contributions include improving inpatient management by reducing hospital stays and enhancing clinical outcomes, providing outpatient support to foster self-management and monitor disease progression, and delivering specialized care in pediatric diabetes, diabetic foot ulcer prevention, and gestational diabetes management. Additionally, nurse-led interventions, including education programs, telehealth services, and telephone support, empower patients to better manage their condition (table 1). This paper also highlights the challenges specialist nurses face, such as limited scope of practice, inadequate remuneration, and the need for greater interprofessional collaboration. By addressing these barriers and leveraging the expertise of specialist nurses, healthcare systems can significantly enhance diabetes management, reduce complications, and improve the overall quality of life (QOL) for individuals with diabetes. The findings underscore the critical role of specialist nurses in addressing the global diabetes epidemic and the importance of supporting their continued involvement in patient-centered care
Influence of Manaoag Church in Tourist Motivation towards Religious Tourism
No full textThis research delves into the aspects of Religious Tourism. In the Philippines, the abundance of religious sites and activities plays an important role in fostering pilgrimage and enhancing the significance of religious tourism. This study examines the influence of Manaoag Church on tourists’ travel motivation. The primary aim of this study is to know the influence of Manaoag Church on tourist motivation towards Religious Tourism. A descriptive research approach and quantitative method were used for this study. In addition, the researchers conducted a convenience sampling survey with a total of 400 respondents, specifically 400 tourists visiting Manaoag Church. The study adapts the theory of Icek Ajzen – Theory of Planned Behavior and John Crompton – Destination Image Theory. The TPB is utilized to explore the motivations that drive tourists to visit the Manaoag Church, focusing on how attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control influence their intentions. Concurrently, Destination Image Theory is applied to assess how the Manaoag Church influences tourist motivations through beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. Based on the results, the researchers were able to identify the motivation of the tourists to visit Manaoag Church regarding leisure, perceived benefits, perceived risks, family and peer influence, religious community influence, accessibility of religious sites, financial resources, and previous experience. It showed that the majority of the visitors were females who are 21–30 years old, who are Roman Catholic and visited the site 1-3 times per year. It was also revealed that there was no significant difference in the respondents’ assessment of the influence of Manaoag Church in the tourist motivation towards religious tourism when grouped according to frequency of visit in terms of beliefs, emotions, and behavior. In other words, whether a respondent has visited the church once, several times, or more frequently, their assessment of the church’s influence on their motivation remains consistent. This could indicate that Manaoag Church’s role in religious tourism has a universal appeal or significance, transcending the number of visits a person has made
Empowering Voices: Critical Pedagogy and Translanguaging in Student Interactions in Malibud NHS Senior High School
No full textThis study examines the integration of critical pedagogy and translanguaging in fostering student empowerment and equity in Malibud National High School Senior High School, a rural and linguistically diverse setting. Grounded in Freire’s (1970) critical pedagogy, which emphasizes education as a means of liberation through dialogue and critical reflection, the research explores how these principles address systemic inequalities in marginalized communities. Complementing this framework is García and Wei’s (2014) concept of translanguaging, which leverages students’ full linguistic repertoire to enhance comprehension and inclusivity. Using qualitative and participatory methodologies, the study investigates multilingual practices, the role of translanguaging in classroom instruction, and the challenges of implementing these approaches in hinterland schools. Findings highlight the transformative potential of these pedagogies in validating cultural identities, amplifying student voices, and improving educational outcomes. The research contributes to broader discourses on educational equity, offering insights for similar contexts globally
Dubliners: Different Short Stories with One Place and a Pervading Theme
No full textThe city\u27s image acquired special prominence in many literary works related to modernist literature. In these works, the writers used the city details simultaneously to serve as symbols and references to the themes and issues that can appear in the works. This fact is especially actual in the case of James Joyce\u27s Dublin - the permanent setting of most works by this great Irish modernist. It is worth noting that Joyce took the steps forward to discuss his city with the bright and dark sides. Dubliners, the collection of short stories, belonged to this type of modernist literature focused on the city. James Joyce wrote this collection in the early period of his writing career, and its title highlighted the significance of Dublin – as a city and its people. In each story of the collection, the capital of Ireland was not a mere setting but a unifying factor to portray a complete and comprehensive image of the collection. In every story, Joyce presented a single issue or a merged collection of obstacles found in Dublin and affected the people. In general, Joyce represented the capital city as the center of paralysis, affecting its citizens despite their age. This paper examined the prominence and symbolic meaning of the city in the text. Joyce demonstrated detailed descriptions while mapping his city. For instance, the writer presented the characters while meandering around Dublin\u27s different types of streets. These incidents offered symbolic importance that the people of Dublin moved in circular routs in vain attempts to break the different layers of circles imposed over them at that time. Implicitly, this reference demonstrated the inability of the people of Dublin (the Dubliners) to escape the physical, cultural, political, and religious paralysis. Joyce\u27s portrayal of paralysis in his collection mirrored the entire country of Ireland\u27s broader social and political context during that time. Ireland was undergoing significant changes, yet it seemed imprisoned in inertia and stagnation. The characters and their stories served as microcosms to reflect the broader and extensive social condition, highlighting the challenges faced by the Irish people in breaking free from the paralysis that held them back without tangible outcomes
Obstetric Violence and its Impact on the Mental Well-being of Ecuadorian women: A Quantitative Approach
No full textObstetric violence refers to certain practices and behaviors carried out by health professionals towards women that belittle, violate and oppress them during pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium, whether in public or private settings. This type of violence is interpreted as a form of gender discrimination and represents a violation of human rights that has a direct impact on women\u27s mental well-being. It manifests itself mainly as an inequality of power between healthcare professionals and pregnant women, whether during childbirth or the puerperium. The World Health Organization has stressed the importance of eliminating these harmful medical practices, urging medical personnel to react appropriately through dialogue and support for pregnant women. A nationally representative sample of women aged 12 years and older from the 2018 National Health and Nutrition Survey was used. Multicollinearity tests were used to avoid redundant information in the models. Next, we used factor analysis to generate an index of obstetric violence and performed linear regressions to observe the correlation between obstetric violence and mental well-being of women in our sample. Finally, we addressed the heterogeneity observed in the proposed relationship by using quantile regression techniques to disentangle the heterogeneous relationship in the distribution of mental well-being and obtain correlation coefficients, with their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). Based on our findings, we highlight the urgent need to raise awareness and sensitize health professionals about this specific problem, since our main result indicates that there is a misleading correlation between obstetric violence and women\u27s mental well-being. It is crucial to modify those health practices that violate women\u27s rights. Another significant measure to improve the current situation would be the implementation of programs that give visibility to gender violence in the health sector, as well as the promotion of research focused on obstetric violence and the implementation of interventions that strengthen the autonomy of users
Women Peasants in India: Farmers or ‘Farmers’ Wives’?
No full textEven though there is an increasing trend towards the ‘feminisation of agriculture’, especially among the small and resource-poor farm households due to the increasing long-term migration of men, women’s work on the family farm is invisibilised to a very large extent in most parts of the country. One of the reasons for the absence of gender issues in the literature on agriculture is that women are not even regarded as farmers due to the absence of property rights for them. This paper is based on fieldwork conducted in villages of Punjab, Rajasthan and Telangana. It brings to light lesser-known facts about women’s ownership of land and their changing status in rural India. Based on data collected through primary research from 100 households in each of the three states, this paper concentrates on the less researched aspects of women in agriculture in India. The study focuses on women’s role as farmers, their control over land, their participation in agricultural activities on family farms, and decision-making, including decisions relating to the family. The analysis of data shows that there are regional differences in these aspects, which are mainly due to the differences in cultural factors relating to women’s status in society
The Influence of Compensation and Work Discipline on Employee Performance at PT Sygma Exa Grafika
No full textIn today\u27s fiercely competitive business environment, a company\u27s success in the competition is closely tied to its human resources. Companies must enhance the quality of their human resources to emerge victorious in this competition. Effective management and development of human resources within an organization are essential to improve the performance of individuals, enabling them to contribute to the company\u27s goals. Numerous factors influence human resource performance, either enhancing or hindering it. Compensation and work discipline are two factors that can significantly impact human resource performance. This study aims to understand the implementation of compensation and work discipline at PT Sygma Exa Grafika, as well as the performance of human resources in the company. The research also seeks to determine the extent of the influence of compensation and work discipline on human resource performance at PT Sygma Exa Grafika, both simultaneously and individually. Data for the study were collected using a questionnaire distributed to 100 individuals, employing a saturation technique covering the entire population. The data analysis utilized Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Partial Least Squares (PLS). The results reveal that employee compensation at PT Sygma Exa Grafika is rated at an average of 375.6 or 75%, falling into the "good" category. Work discipline at the company averages 314.8 or 74%, also categorized as "good." Hypothesis testing indicates that compensation has a moderate impact of 0.225 on employee performance, while work discipline has a significant impact of 0.470. In summary, both compensation and work discipline, individually and collectively, have a positive and significant influence on human resource performance. This research provides insights into the conditions at PT Sygma Exa Grafika, offering a basis for improvement and system development within the company
Optimizing Marketing Strategies with RFM Method and K-Means Clustering-Based AI Customer Segmentation Analysis
No full textRetrospectively, an organization’s capacity to comprehend the distinct needs of its clients will undoubtedly provide it with a competitive advantage in terms of delivering targeted client services and tailoring personalized marketing initiatives. This research investigated the efficiency of the k-means clustering algorithm as a technique for efficient consumer segmentation. The k-Means algorithm consolidated with RFM analysis is globally accredited as a profound partitioning clustering technique that has proven to be highly efficient in various business settings. The experimental outcomes provided persuasive evidence of the algorithm\u27s performance in terms of consumer segmentation. The overall cluster purity evaluation was computed to be 0.95. This value demonstrated that the k-Means clustering algorithm incorporated with the RFM analysis attained a relatively high accuracy rate of 95% in terms of precisely and accurately segmenting the consumers based on their shared behaviors and characteristics. The high purity value of 0.95 illustrated the efficiency of the k-Means clustering algorithm in terms of accurately segmenting and categorizing the clients. This showcased that the algorithm efficiently organized and pinpointed consumers into distinct clusters based on their similarities, facilitating targeted marketing strategies and personalized approaches
Monetary Policy Challenges and Strategies in the Globalization: An Analysis of the Federal Reserve\u27s Approach to the Trilemma
No full textThis study explores the Federal Reserve\u27s (Fed\u27s) approach to the financial trilemma in the era of globalization, emphasizing the trade-offs between monetary policy autonomy, exchange rate flexibility, and open capital markets. It delves into the challenges posed by increased global financial integration and the effectiveness of traditional and innovative monetary tools. The paper advocates for the adoption of a macroprudential policy framework to enhance financial system stability without compromising policy objectives. The findings highlight the Fed\u27s strategic use of macroprudential measures alongside conventional tools to navigate the trilemma, illustrating the importance of flexibility and innovation in central banking practices amidst global financial complexities
Human Resource Green Practices Towards Sustainability: The Case of Foxconn Company in China
No full textThis paper mainly studies whether Foxconn\u27s green human resource management can bring benefits to Foxconn and puts forward suggestions on the problems existing in the implementation of green human resource management in Foxconn. The data for this chapter comes from Foxconn employees in Yantai, Shandong Province. Foxconn\u27s HR green practices include green recruitment, green training, green performance, green compensation and green participation. After analysis, it is concluded that the education level of Foxconn employees is generally low, which is not conducive to the implementation of green human resources practices. Foxconn did not give full play to the leading role of supervisors in green participation practices. This study believes that enterprises should play the role of supervisors when implementing human resource green practices, and supervisors should give support and guidance when employees participate in environmental protection activities. Foxconn should focus on improving the education level of its employees. The research results of this paper are helpful for enterprises to achieve the goal of green development, help enterprises to further understand the green practice strategy of human resources, make the development of enterprises meet the requirements of green environmental protection, and improve the competitive advantage of enterprises