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Single and not ready to mingle: The potential gentrification of student housing
No full textAs higher education tuition continues to rise in the United States and globally, other costs impacting students, such as fees, parking, and housing, are rising at a similar pace. Concurrently, more higher education institutions are focusing on creating boutique experiences for students, including the option for single-unit housing. This paper analyzed the costs associated with single-unit housing at the ten largest college campuses in the United States compared to the costs associated with multi-unit housing and off-campus living. The changes in preferences for students associated with their college experiences, when partnered with higher costs of living and off-campus housing, create an unsolvable, wicked problem
COVID-19 in Bangladesh: A systematic review of the literature from March 2020 to March 2021
No full textCOVID-19 has undoubtedly absorbed the global public\u27s angst. It has quickly disturbed global life and will have long-term and short-term consequences on several sectors. This comprehensive review study\u27s goal is to discover what research has been done in a year since the beginning of coronavirus in Bangladesh. Consequently, the current study examined the pervasiveness and affiliation of social and economic issues, health and psychological issues and individual perceptions, key challenges, strategies and policy systems, public health, online education, agriculture and food security, criminal activities related to outbreaks, Rohingya refugee issues, and the quality of domestic violence behaviors. The review used electronic databases such as Web of Science, PubMed, PubMed Central, and Scopus to find published material. This study reviewed chosen papers, removing redundancies and including 43 pertinent articles. Among the 43 study items, fourteen were qualitative (32.56%), six mixed (13.95%), and the rest were quantitative (53.49 %). This study helps to identify the issues with current documentation by focusing on interconnected factors and studying COVID-19 events and scenarios. Thus, governments and other stakeholders should reassess these controversial issues to formulate a policy that takes into consideration the situation in Bangladesh and other COVID-19 affected countries
Startup life may stop here: Helping women entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa
No full textA great emphasis exists in research on entrepreneurs who start small- to medium-size businesses and who are seizing opportunities outside the corporate world, especially in developing countries like Tanzania. Women entrepreneurs have the highest representation of all entrepreneurs in the Sub-Saharan region. Entrepreneurs everywhere face unique hardships that could determine the fate of their businesses. Women entrepreneurs in the Sub-Saharan region have additional struggles to start and sustain their businesses. The participants in this study were randomly selected from women entrepreneurs who participated in the 2017 NYIT Launch in Moshi, Tanzania. The researchers conducted virtual qualitative interviews and focus groups with 43 women entrepreneurs assembled in the Excel Education Foundation in Moshi, Tanzania. Findings suggest the main reason women entrepreneurs started their businesses was to gain financial freedom from their spouses and to be able to take care of their families. A major implication of this research is understanding the importance of education for women entrepreneurs in the Sub-Saharan region. The research contributes to knowledge of the challenges of women entrepreneurs in developing countries and suggests practical tips and policy recommendations to support women entrepreneurs
Equitable Healthy Aging in Community Health Improvement Practice
No full textThe Equitable Healthy Aging in Public Health Toolkit provides local health departments with guidance on advancing equitable healthy aging in community health improvement practice. The toolkit includes modules on foundational principles such as social justice, social determinants of health and intersectionality across the life course, age-friendly public health frameworks, and evidence-based actions to advance equitable healthy aging in community health improvement infrastructure, assessment, implementation planning, and practice. The toolkit is based on contemporaneous public health knowledge and practice on healthy aging and health equity along with advisory input from the Trust for America\u27s Health and the National Association of City and County Health Officials. The toolkit was informed by Florida Department of Health practitioners (n = 79) and further vetted and well received with a statewide master class of public health leaders (n = 29). The toolkit is publicly available and free of charge
Toward Culturally Relevant Literacies with Children and Families of Color
No full textFamily literacy education has arguably created change, ranging from a focus on sustaining informal family interactions among parents and children driven by the need to eliminate intergenerational cycles of poverty to more formal and federally funded programs driven by legislative definitions that advance traditional literacy skills, life skills as well as problem-solving skills deemed necessary to enhance opportunities for both parents and children in families to overcome challenges posed by illiteracy. Yet, a persistent concern lingers that family literacy programs can do much more to balance the development of programs with an adequate emphasis on the community and cultural practices of families of color, a dynamic critical to enhancing teachers\u27 capacity to support parents and children in and beyond schools, both in the United States and across the globe. To advance this argument in this chapter, we discuss family literacy and its evolution over time, taking into consideration local and global realities of families, and particularly, families of color. Following this, we describe family literacy implementation and programming in the US followed by a discussion of the same across the globe, highlighting the ways in which these initiatives may have potentially deterred the economic or social realities of families of color even while perceived as advancement. Subsequently, we discuss long-standing efforts to examine and support the literacies of families of color, pointing to key indicators that characterize these research and community practices. Finally, we identify key insights gleaned from our discussion by presenting certain culturally relevant literacy practices that can sustain the literacies of families of color and proposing a way forward for the field
Beyond the Bedside: Navigating Concerns Within a Nursing Department
No full textHospital nursing departments are paramount to the organization’s ability to deliver quality patient care.Employee burnout and retention continue to be an ongoing challenge. The manner in which nursing leadership addresses nurse team members’ concerns often falls short of staff expectations.The clinical environment has the potential to enhance staff performance, job satisfaction, and quality of care. The purpose of this study was to better understand concerns expressed by nursing department employees within a multi-hospital system in the Midwestern United States. A MANOVA was conducted to examine significant trends across groups. The independent variable was the nurse employee role. The dependent variables were the following categorized concerns: 1) compensation and benefits; 2) staffing; 3) workplace conflicts; 4) policies and procedures; 5) management and 6) performance. One criterion was found to be statistically significant: 1) Overall, nursing staff members (23%) reported having issues with “performance concerns” (p\u3c0.05). Means by role indicated that nursing assistants (28%) and staff nurses (20%) were more likely to have concerns than managers (12%). These findings suggest that nursing personnel are the ones who make the most contributions to patient care and may provide insight on systems and processes that are lacking.These data provide essential information that may give insight into which nursing roles may observe issues in performance at the highest rate. Hospital work environments may have implications in staff performance, job satisfaction, and quality of care. Efforts toward addressing the concerns in a nursing department may aid in the increase of positive healthcare outcomes and patient wellness
SNOW CRASH: How the upcoming METAVERSE changes the nature of ADVERTISING for both CONSUMERS and BUSINESSES
No full textOver the past few years, we’ve seen a meteoric rise in Web3, metaverse, and decentralized technology. This paper delves into commentary and interviews sourced from industry leading experts to understand how the metaverse will affect consumers in business and advertising
Caring for Patients without Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Material Conditions as Multidimensional Cascading Triggers for Resilience Processes
No full textGuided by communication theory of resilience (CTR), we analyze 453 narrative accounts by Reddit user healthcare workers (HCWs) of their experiences with COVID-19-related personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages between March and May 2020. Via thematic analysis and sensitized by CTR concepts, we examine PPE shortages as a disruptive trigger event that catalyzes the enactment of resilience processes. Findings problematize PPE shortages as material, discursive, and symbolic triggers and explore how HCWs communicatively construct resilience given PPE shortages. This study extends CTR by: (a) underscoring the multidimensional nature of disruptive trigger events, (b) distinguishing the temporal element in cascading trigger events during periods of sustained disruption, and (c) attending to the transformational processes within the adaptation-transformation dialectic with the inclusion of a sixth resilience process, critiquing and resisting the status quo. Critiquing and resisting the status quo interrelates to other resilience processes of maintaining and using communication networks, employing alternative logics, and affirming identity anchors. Practical implications are offered
Mg records of two stalagmites from B7-Cave (northwest Germany) indicating long-term precipitation changes during Early to Mid-Holocene
No full textTwo stalagmites from B7-Cave in northwest Germany, which is part of the same cave system as the intensively studied Bunker Cave, were re-dated by multi collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICPMS) 230Th/U-dating. Furthermore, the concentration of Mg, Sr, Ba, P, Y, Zn, and Al were determined at high-resolution by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS). Stalagmite B7-1 grew from 10.8 to 5.8 ka BP. Stalagmite B7-7 grew during three growth phases from 11.0 to 6.2, 3.13 to 2.86 (late Bronze Age), and 1.27 to 1.15 ka BP (early Medieval Period). Aluminium is a proxy for detrital material and corresponds very well with the visible detrital layers in stalagmite B7-1 and the oldest growth phase of stalagmite B7-7. The two younger growth phases of stalagmite B7-7 are very clean and show very low Al concentrations. Phosphorus, Y, and Zn show positive correlations in both stalagmites and all growth phases, but do not show a relationship to temperature or precipitation. This may be related to the elevated detrital content in both stalagmites. Barium and Sr also show a positive correlation in both stalagmites and all growth phases, which is related to their dependency on growth rate. Magnesium is most probably influenced by prior calcite precipitation and therefore a proxy for past precipitation/infiltration. The Mg records of stalagmite B7-1 and of the oldest growth phase of stalagmite B7-7 show decreasing Mg concentration with time reflecting decreasing prior calcite precipitation and therefore increasing precipitation during the Early to Mid-Holocene. This is consistent with other climate reconstructions from Central Europe
Editorial
No full textI am pleased to present the third issue of Journal of Global Hospitality and Tourism (JGHT), Volume 2, Issue 1. This issue focuses on ensuring the journal’s scope and strengthening its position in both conceptual developments and practical applications in global hospitality and tourism through publication of five quality manuscripts and 2 academic viewpoints: five full papers that underwent rigorous double-blind reviewing, an academic viewpoint, and an industry viewpoint. The present issue of JGHT contains five full papers, written by fourteen authors located in four different countries and affiliated with eight different universities