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Environmental Education and its Role in Enhancing Intention to Separate Waste: Evidence from Higher Education in Vietnam
Full text linkObjective: Environmental education fosters awareness, behaviors, and actions towards environmental sustainability. This research used the Theory of Planned Behavior to investigate the determinants of intention for waste separation at Vietnamese universities toward enhancing awareness related to environmental activities.Methods: The study collected data from 490 responses from students from higher education institutions in Vietnam and employed quantitative methods to analyze factors affecting the intention to separate waste at higher education campusesResults: The finding indicates that higher education institutions have formal activities in their training programs and extracurricular activities to raise awareness of environmental issues. The findings also reveal that attitude toward environmental issues, subjective norms, perceived behavior control, and environmental education positively affect the intention to separate the campus waste.Conclusions: This study contributes to the growing body of evidence reinforcing environmental education\u27s role in improving the intention to address environmental issues. The results imply that promoting environmental education activities will help increase environmental intentions, helping higher education institutions green their training program
Role of Eco-Club in Fostering Environmental Sustainability Awareness Among School Students
Full text linkIntroduction: the concept of environment is highly intertwined with life and its interactions with the natural world. Environmental education deals with man’s association with nature and man-made environs (Abdela). The concept of an environmental club (Eco-Club) emerged under this circumstance, and its main motto is to learn and conserve the environment by focusing on sustainable developmental features. These clubs in school aid as a platform for students to actively participate in meaningful environmental activities from the elementary level onwards. By participating in Eco-Clubs, students can extend their level of environmental awareness from their behaviour to their family, peer group and society
Adapting Pedagogy in the Post-Pandemic Era: The Role of Hybrid Learning in Shaping Educational Quality
Full text linkIntroduction: The pedagogical practice of the pandemic and post-pandemic periods shows a significant impact of hybrid forms of education on the quality of education. The study aims to determine their effectiveness and identify the most effective pedagogical transformations for further implementation in pedagogical practice.Methods: The study used questionnaires, a comparison of learning outcomes, a pedagogical experiment, and a statistical evaluation of the results of the pedagogical experiment. Three levels of effectiveness of post-pandemic transformations in pedagogy are outlined: low, medium and high. The questionnaire revealed that an increase in the share of independent work, work with digital learning tools, mixed forms of learning outcomes assessment have an average impact on the quality of learning, while the restriction of social contacts due to the prevalence of distance learning formats, a sharp transition to online learning, an increase in the workload of teachers and a reduction in practice for natural science have a negative impact and should be excluded from the educational process.Results: The article compares the impact of hybrid forms and post-pandemic transformations on the quality of education for the control and experimental groups before and after the experiment. It is determined that the mixed form of learning, open educational resources, and adaptive technologies for personalisation of learning are the most effective hybrid forms that can be enforced in the post-pandemic period.Conclusions: The analysis of the learning outcomes of higher education students in the testing group after the experiment showed that implementing the outlined hybrid forms of education increases the number of students with excellent, already good and good learning outcomes and decreases the number of students with low levels of learning
Clinical and diagnostic differences between Graves\u27 disease and Hashimoto\u27s Thyroiditis
No full textGraves\u27 disease and Hashimoto\u27s thyroiditis are two autoimmune disorders that affect the thyroid gland. However, although they may seem similar, their origins and clinical manifestations are surprisingly opposite. What happens when one disorder causes an excess of thyroid hormones, while the other progressively eliminates them? How can we distinguish between two such complex conditions when both can present seemingly identical symptoms, and their diagnosis depends on details that only specialists can detect?The challenge for doctors and radiologists is significant, as these diseases, although with completely different mechanisms, can share confusing characteristics in imaging studies, such as ultrasounds. In Graves\u27 disease, thyroid enlargement with excessive vascularization can be confusing, whereas, in Hashimoto\u27s thyroiditis, signs of fibrosis and low blood flow present a different picture. The specific antibodies of each disorder are crucial for making an accurate distinction, but how can we ensure a precise diagnosis?This article explores the differences and similarities between these autoimmune diseases, highlighting the importance of an accurate diagnosis and how advances in ultrasound and laboratory testing are revolutionizing medical approaches
Parental Educational Anxiety and Its Effects on Academic Self-Efficacy among Primary School Students in Zhejiang Province
Full text linkParental educational anxiety refers to the emotional distress that parents experience related to their children’s academic performance and future success. In recent years, this phenomenon has gained significant attention, where educational pressures are high in China. The objective of the research is to investigate parental educational anxiety affects the academic self-efficacy of primary school students. It surveyed 487 students along with their parents in elementary schools. Participants were collected among various schools across the Province of Zhejiang. The structured questionnaire assessing parental anxiety, psychological control, and self-efficacy was used as an instrument to collect the data. The survey measures parental educational anxiety, which was analyzed through surveys of anxiety and stress about the child\u27s academic success. Parental psychological control is measured by over-involvement and restrictive behaviors. Parental educational anxiety (PEA), parental supportive involvement (PSI), parental confidence (PC), positive parent-child communication (PCC), academic self-efficacy (ASE), parental mental health support (PHMS), and educational workshops for parents (EWP) were all measured by the questionnaire. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is utilized to evaluate the mediating effects of variables. Additionally, ANOVA was employed to assess differences in the outcomes. The analysis revealed that higher levels of parental educational anxiety negatively affected students’ academic self-efficacy, with psychological control as a mediator. It underscores the importance of addressing parental educational anxiety to improve the ASE of primary school students in Zhejiang province
Digital Transparency at Risk: An Empirical Assessment of Usability, Accessibility, and Regulatory Compliance in the Web Portals of Ecuador’s Provincial Decentralised Autonomous Governments (GADPE)
Full text linkThis study examines the level of accessibility, usability, and regulatory compliance of the web portals of Ecuador’s Provincial Decentralised Autonomous Governments (GADPE) to determine whether these dimensions are related to compliance with the Organic Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information (LOTAIP). A mixed-methods approach was applied, combining automated evaluation and manual review, using TAW 3,1 for accessibility, the Sirius Model and Prometheus 2,0 for usability, and a structured checklist for regulatory compliance. Results show low accessibility (17 %), relatively uniform usability (70 %), and predominantly partial compliance with LOTAIP (1,08), revealing significant gaps between the legal requirements and the information actually published. The Mann–Whitney U test confirmed no significant differences in accessibility (p=0,115) or usability (p=0,976) between compliant and non-compliant groups, indicating that digital transparency does not depend on the technical quality of portals but rather on institutional, administrative, and governance factors. The study concludes that digitalisation alone does not ensure transparency; therefore, stronger oversight mechanisms, enhanced technical capacities, and improved document management processes are required to guarantee citizens’ effective and timely access to public information
Influence of mobile microlearning on the retention of specialised knowledge in university courses
Full text linkThe incorporation of mobile technologies in higher education transformed teaching and learning processes, enabling new modalities such as mobile microlearning. This study aimed to determine the influence of mobile microlearning on the retention of specialized knowledge among university students. The research followed a quantitative approach with qualitative elements, based on an empirical, quasi-experimental design, conducted in three Ecuadorian universities: Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, and Universidad de Guayaquil. The sample included 200 students and 30 faculty members. A seven-item questionnaire was administered as a pretest and posttest for students, while semi-structured interviews were conducted with faculty. Pretest results indicated medium or slightly negative levels of knowledge retention through mobile microlearning. Conversely, posttest findings revealed significant improvements, showing highly positive perceptions of comprehension, motivation, and specialized knowledge retention. Faculty interviews confirmed the positive impact of mobile microlearning on student motivation, academic interaction, and digital competence development. In conclusion, mobile microlearning positively influenced the retention of specialized knowledge, establishing itself as an effective, flexible pedagogical strategy aligned with contemporary technological demands in higher education
Artistic and humanitarian approaches in shaping the contemporary cultural model
Full text linkIntroduction: The article is dedicated to exploring the model of culture through the lens of contemporary artistic and humanitarian approaches within the current cultural discourse. Objective: The text describes cultural models at various stages of humanity\u27s diachronic development, defines the essence of meaning-making processes underlying the artistic-humanitarian approach to the culture model, and examines the relationship between components of the contemporary culture model.Methods: The study employed the method of analysis and synthesis, historical method, structural-functional method and method of generalisation. The article is an original research of a theoretical nature, and its conclusions may be valuable for the implementation of cultural and language policy. The article analyses 25 bibliographic sources that form the methodological basis of the study.Results: The research proves that the contemporary synchronous cultural model has three dimensions: cognitive, evaluative, and regulatory. Various approaches are used to analyse it, including descriptive, axiological, activity-based, psychoanalytic, civilizational, existential, artistic, and humanitarian, which includes semiotic and hermeneutic approaches. The humanitarian approach involves two levels of understanding: interpretation of texts and the construction of explanations and theories. In the context of the humanitarian approach to cultural models, it is important to have an orientation towards understanding another culture, way of life, or behaviour. When examining issues of cultural interaction, the contemporary cultural model is characterized by assimilation, colonization, modernization, cultural exchange, and partial assimilation.Conclusions: Thus, the culture model is viewed through the prism of five meaning-making processes: representation, identity, creativity, interpretation, and regulation, according to the artistic-humanitarian approach.
Linguocultural aspects of expressing emotive concepts in English and Kyrgyz artistic discourse
Full text linkIntroduction: Emotions and feelings, being the most important part of the inner world of a person, constitute the most important subject of depiction in artistic texts. The subject-logical meaning of each word is surrounded by a special expressive atmosphere, which fluctuates depending on the context. All elements of the structure of the artistic image are aimed at this: verbal and non-verbal means of representing emotions. Extralinguistic phenomena, such as the background and cultural knowledge of the authors, also work to interpret emotional meanings when perceiving a literary text. Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine the problem of representation of emotions in artistic discourse through the linguocultural aspect.The object of the study is some somatisms of emotions and emotional state in the novel by W. Scott "Rob Roy" and Syngan kylych by T. Kasymbekova.Methods: To solve the tasks set before the study, the following methods were used: the method of continuous sampling to identify emotive lexemes; the method of classifying lexical and phraseological means of language expressing human emotions in a literary text; the interpretative method, the method of comparative typology and the method of systematizing a group of somatisms and lexemes denoting emotions in the English and Kyrgyz languages.Results: The article examines the features and complexities of conceptualizing the concept of "emotion" in the context of the formation of a national image of the world; a partial selection of verbal and non-verbal ways of expressing emotions from the novels of the English classic W. Scott "Rob Roy" (1817) and the Kyrgyz writer T. Kasymbekov "Syngan Kylych" (1966, 1971) is conducted. The characteristics of the linguocultural aspects of expressing some somatisms in the Kyrgyz and English artistic discourse are given.Conclusions: By analyzing and comparing lexical means of emotiveness based on a literary text, it is possible to identify and compare common and different components of the linguistic picture of the world in different languages and linguacultures and determine the features of the linguistic consciousness of the compared peoples. In the conditions of modern intercultural communication, this kind of research expands the information exchange, provides an opportunity for a more objective presentation of another culture, awareness of its history and familiarity with literature allows one to obtain a mutual understanding of one\u27s own culture
Conciseness and Derivatives of Moonlighting Intentions in India\u27s Pharmaceutical Industry
No full textFactors influencing Moonlighting Intentions (MI) in India’s Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) include organizational culture, work-life balance, and employee engagement. In this paper, we examine the factors determining the MI of employees in the IPI and how organizational dynamics, employee engagement, work-life balance, and organizational culture influence MI. The research studies the direct links between these variables and the probability of employees exploring supplementary employment using quantitative and qualitative methods. The data were obtained by interviewing Human Resource (HR) professionals and senior management using organized questionnaires. By highlighting the relationship between organizational culture, work-life balance, and employee visits to MI, the results illustrate significant positive features of organizational culture and work-life balance and the negative impact of employee engagement in MI. In addition, the paper determines that organizational assurance moderates the link between work-life balance and moonlighting. The implications of these results for IPI attempting to manage the phenomenon of moonlighting while sustaining employees and structuring organizational commitment are of value. Through these dynamics, companies can develop policies for reducing the effects of moonlighting and increasing actual employee output. It turns out that 8 out of 25 employees with poor work-life balance primarily work on the requirement for moonlighting, and organizational culture considerably impacts the figure.
Methods: A well-crafted questionnaire was used to gather the necessary data for the study, which looked at the factors influencing employees\u27 MI (Moonlighting Intentions) in the India’s Pharmaceutical Industry (IPI) as well as how organizational dynamics, employee engagement, work-life balance, and organizational culture affect MI. The essential hypotheses regarding the study\u27s goals were articulated, and each was examined with the aid of pertinent statistical instruments.Results: According to research findings, work-life balance, corporate culture, and organizational commitment all have a significant role in employee engagement teams\u27 decisions to moonlight.Conclusions: The study concludes that to reduce the likelihood that workers may look for outside employment, IPI companies should prioritize good HR procedures, work-life balance policies, and a favourable corporate culture. Employee retention, satisfaction, and overall organizational productivity are all expected to rise with such a strategy