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Impacts of marine cloud brightening scheme on climatic extremes in the Tibetan Plateau
Get PDFAs an ecologically fragile plateau and major water source in Asia, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) has grown warmer over recent decades, contributing to frequent occurrence of extreme climate events. It is urgently needed to find a suitable option to mitigate climate change impacts in the TP. The marine cloud brightening (MCB) scheme is proposed to mitigate global warming through the increasing cloud droplet number concentration of low marine clouds to reflect some solar radiation back into space. Until now, impacts of MCB scheme on the TP have not been investigated. In this study, we utilized 13 Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices to assess the evolution of climate extremes over the TP with/without MCB implementation. We found that although the MCB is implemented over ocean only, it would cause significant changes on climate extremes in the TP which is very far from oceans and much higher than sea level. During 2030–2059, MCB implementation can decrease warm temperature extremes, leading to a significant decrease in the TXx index by 6–18°C, the TX90p index by 15–45 days, and the TN90p index by 15–50 days. MCB implementation would also have some cooling effects on cold temperature extremes, leading to an increase in the ID index by 30–80 days, the TX10p index by 22–32 days, and the TN10p index by about 12 days and a decrease in the TNn index by 0.5–1.5°C. Although MCB implementation would not have much impacts on precipitation extremes, it would significantly increase the area of the region with <10% drought frequency, and increase the drought intensity in the west of Lhasa city
Passion and intention among aspiring entrepreneurs with disabilities: the role of entrepreneurial support programs
No full textPurpose: This study examines the relationship between entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial support programs and entrepreneurial intention, and the moderating role of entrepreneurial support programs in the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial intention, among students with physical disabilities in Nigerian tertiary institutions. Design/methodology/approach: This study used a closed-ended questionnaire survey, composed of previously validated scales, to sample 209 students with physical disabilities at tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Hierarchal regression was performed to assess the relationships between the variables and test the hypotheses. Findings: Both entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial support programs were found to be significantly positively related to entrepreneurial intention, and entrepreneurial support programs also moderated the relationship between entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial intention. Research limitations/implications: This research paper identifies that developing entrepreneurial passion and providing accessible and inclusive entrepreneurial support programs are valuable in supporting and facilitating a passage into entrepreneurship for those with disabilities. Originality/value: This research paper addresses calls for further understanding of how those with disabilities can be supported into entrepreneurship, by identifying supporting factors. The research paper provides further understanding of the entrepreneurial passion and intention nexus by exploring the relationship within those with a physical disability, where significant barriers exist and within a developing country context where entrepreneurship might be a necessity rather than driven by passion
A computing education challenge on information retrieval impact and pedagogic research
No full textThis approach had been crossed subject area, involved with PG and UG students at CSEE of HEI, School of Art, private companies, NHS, and so on; including Copilot, Canvas, ChatGPT, Midjourney, DiscoDisuffsion, Med-PaLM, Bard etc. on Information Retrieval. As an updated generalised Information Retrieval experient, most of the work were emphases on information data effective collection and security storage effectively. We were focused on the positive impact on UK HEI Education and Pedagogic Research. Further development will be on data analysis and shown the updated results. Furthermore, to suggest a Teaching & Learing strategy, and suggestion to serve both HEI and the non-HEI users in our society in the worl
'Letting you share when you need to share': navigating the potential and precarity of friends and peers for UK young people after sexual abuse in adolescence
Get PDFThis article explores the rarely considered role of friends and peers supporting young people after sexual abuse experienced in adolescence, drawing on participatory research with 32 young people in the UK with lived experience. The article considers ways in which relationships with friends and peers interplay with recovery from abuse. This includes friends and peers as recipients of disclosure, conduits to professional support, sources of emotional support and distraction, and embroiled in often challenging, precarious peer cultures that young people navigate post-abuse. The article explores young people’s rationale for, and experiences of, reaching out to friends and peers. It considers what young people seek and gain from these relationships in the aftermath of abuse, while acknowledging complex risks and precarity of these relationships. It argues that support from friends offers something distinct to family and professionals. It explores benefits of these relationships, but also potential for peer responses to undermine wellbeing if not sufficiently supportive or informed. The article ends by arguing for professionals to better recognise and respond to these relational contexts and consider whether there are safe and appropriate ways to ‘support young people to support’ without responsibilisation, and recognising welfare needs of those providing such support
Gut microbiota and time-restricted feeding/eating: a targeted biomarker and approach in precision nutrition
Get PDFEach individual has a unique gut microbiota; therefore, the genes in our microbiome outnumber the genes in our genome by about 150 to 1. Perturbation in host nutritional status influences gut microbiome composition and vice versa. The gut microbiome can help in producing vitamins, hormones, and other active metabolites that support the immune system; harvest energy from food; aid in digestion; protect against pathogens; improve gut transit and function; send signals to the brain and other organs; oscillate the circadian rhythm; and coordinate with the host metabolism through multiple cellular pathways. Gut microbiota can be influenced by host genetics, medications, diet, and lifestyle factors from preterm to aging. Aligning with precision nutrition, identifying a personalized microbiome mandates the provision of the right nutrients at the right time to the right patient. Thus, before prescribing a personalized treatment, it is crucial to monitor and count the gut flora as a focused biomarker. Many nutritional approaches that have been developed help in maintaining and restoring an optimal microbiome such as specific diet therapy, nutrition interventions, and customized eating patterns. One of these approaches is time-restricted feeding/eating (TRF/E), a type of intermittent fasting (IF) in which a subject abstains from food intake for a specific time window. Such a dietary modification might alter and restore the gut microbiome for proper alignment of cellular and molecular pathways throughout the lifespan. In this review, we have highlighted that the gut microbiota would be a targeted biomarker and TRF/E would be a targeted approach for restoring the gut-microbiome-associated molecular pathways such as hormonal signaling, the circadian system, metabolic regulators, neural responses, and immune-inflammatory pathways. Consequently, modulation of the gut microbiota through TRF/E could contribute to proper utilization and availability of the nutrients and in this way confer protection against diseases for harnessing personalized nutrition approaches to improve human health
Impact of video-based learning in business statistics: a longitudinal study
Get PDFMany undergraduate business students in the United Kingdom (UK) find themselves during the initial stages of their degree programmes required to study numerical subjects which, for many, have not been encountered since completing compulsory education. This paper considers the utilisation of a technology-based approach in order to support first year undergraduate students engage with and achieve in the business numeracy subject area. The purpose of this paper is providing background introduction to new pedagogy through the use of technology. Through a longitudinal study conducted within a modern university in the UK over a 11-year period (2006-2017), this paper qualifies the impact of a Video Based Learning (VBL) approach on the achievement profiles of first year undergraduate students within a modern business school. Results indicate that the use of a VBL approach such as that adopted within this study supports not only improvement in the number of students gaining an overall pass, but also an overall improvement amongst higher achieving students within business numeracy. Findings also demonstrate those characteristics of a VBL approach that support continuation of student engagement with the subject matter throughout their studies. Whilst the findings offer a range of benefits to both students and educators in enhancing student achievement, this finding served the purpose of introductory of the new learning model within the next researches
Editorial: Burnout in the health, social care and beyond: integrating individuals and systems
Get PDFEditorial on the Research Topic Burnout in the health, social care and beyond: Integrating individuals and systems This Research Topic aimed at widening our knowledge base on occupational burnout, with the emphasis on interdisciplinary studies. The Topic includes 13 papers from various fields (e.g., health services, service and hospitality sectors and education), that looked at links between individual vulnerabilities, systemic failures and burnout
A review of data-driven techniques for neuromarketing
No full textRecent years, Fusion neuroscience and cognitive science applied in psychology, sociology, economics, management become the new research fields. Combined with the latest marketing condition, using the method of neural cognitive science to explore Subjects’ behaviour and dig out the decision-making principle of the subject’s neural activity level, and make a deep interpretation of the subject’s behavior. Then the appropriate marketing strategy was produced. In this paper, based on the latest international papers published in this field, researchers analyzed the research mechanism of neuromarketing, and reviewed the data driven technology of neuromarketing from three parts: data acquisition, preprocessing & analysis, and fusion analysis architecture. Then the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques are discussed. We expect the paper may have some reference for subsequent research
Race and gangs: towards a Black criminology
No full textSuzella Palmer argues that much of (mainstream) UK gang research has obscured the ‘relevance of racism’, choosing instead to pathologies young black males. Although the implicit aim of this research is to reduce serious youth violence, it is hampered, she contends, by a failure to capture the lived realities of young black men; how they make sense of their experiences, how this informs their world view and how it shapes their behaviour. Her belief is that ‘Despite the numerous studies commissioned and conducted, numbers crunched, analysis and re-analysis of official statistics, and papers churned out on this issue, mainstream criminology in Britain is, for the most part, ‘out of touch’, with the Black communities that it has repeatedly scrutinised’. As a result, she argues, what is needed is a ‘Black criminology’ that identifies the unique, racially specific, conditions rooted in concentrated disadvantage in segregated communities, racial socialisation by parents, experiences with and perceptions of racial discrimination, and disproportionate involvement and unjust treatment in the criminal justice system
The changing outlook on management research
No full textIt is a truism to state that all activity in any society takes place through people acting together. It is unsurprising therefore that so much attention has been devoted over the last century and a half to a consideration of how organisations fit within society and how they can be structured to improve the contribution they make to society and to the improvement (or otherwise) of all our lives. And contributions are from all over the world, reflecting both the fact that management and its future is a worldwide concern and also the fact that best practice can be found in many parts of the world. Financial management also concerns the management of the resources of the organisation in the present so that it will be possible to continue to create value in the future
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