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LIFEPLAN® follows a path of core lecturing exercises and activities that build knowledge, promote interpersonal skills and trust through contact and sharing, build thinking and planning skills and build motivation and commitment to action. The programme activities comprise presentations, interactive activities and discussion. Overall a participatory approach focusing on mobilizing participant participation, contact and collaboration will be employed. This will be accomplished using a range of course participatory activities and focused inputs by the persons facilitating the process.

The paper aims to examine the impact of training and development (T&D) programmes on perceived employee performance by adopting a case approach to the study of Agriculture Development Bank Ltd of Nepal. Based on the survey method, the study collected the data through a structured questionnaire administered from February to March of 2018 on a sample of 112 employees (hierarchical strata of junior and assistants, and junior officers) drawn from a population of 185 through a random, stratified sampling method. Using descriptive statistics and regression analysis, the study discovered a statistically significant impact of T&D constituents on the perceived performance of junior officers and assistant level employees of the studied bank. Among the four predictors (T&D constituents), the impact of attitude and behaviour change was found to be significant whereas that of other three (training content and deliverability, instructional design, and skills, knowledge and ability development of employees) was not significant. What ensues from the data results is that the ADBL management needs to ensure training contents, deliverability and instructional design to enhance competency and productivity of employee. Furthermore, the ADBL management needs to ensure that T&D strategies bring about positive change on attitude and behaviour to enhance their HR performance.

Abstract The world is going through a rapid transformation process in all fields. Those countries, which cannot keep up with this process, face numerous problems in terms of maintaining the living standards of their citizens. With the priority of enhancing the lives of individuals, the field of education is greatly affected by this process. Therefore in line with Turkey’s ambition to become a full member of the European Union (EU), it has been determined that vocational technical secondary education needs “restructuring”. Key indicators of the need for this is a mismatch between what the education sector can deliver and demands for a suitably qualified workforce. This is coupled with an increasing demand for higher education and close cooperation between the sector and industry. The EU membership process already specifies certain elements which will shape the future organization of vocational and technical education in Turkey. These concern progression from primary education to vocational-technical education, the general structure, content and evaluation of programs, adoption of a more flexible and modular vocational education structure, and establishing curricula with basic vocational standards. These elements have therefore become key determinants of the “restructuring” process. In this article, the current structure of the vocational-technical secondary education system in Turkey is discussed, and the general specifications of the system are compared with that of EU countries. Moreover, certain recent studies, which can be evaluated within the scope of the restructuring, are analyzed and suggestions are made

Homebound older adults constitute a “hardly reached” population with respect to health communication. Older adults also typically suffer from health literacy challenges, which put them at increased risk of adverse health outcomes. Suboptimal interactions with providers are one such challenge. Interventions to improve interactive health literacy focus on training consumers/patients in question preparation and asking. Meals on Wheels volunteers are uniquely suited to coach their clients in such interaction strategies. Seventy-three Meals on Wheels volunteers participated in workshops to train as health literacy coaches. The 3- to 4-hour workshops included units on communicating with older adults, on the nature of health literacy, and on the process of interactive health literacy coaching. Participants viewed and discussed videos that modeled the targeted communication behaviors for older adult patients interacting with physicians. They role-played the coaching process. After 9 months,...

Given the prevalence of School Resource Officers (SROs) in American schools, it is surprising that relatively little is known empirically about SRO training, including with regard to their questioning of students suspected or accused of offending in schools. We surveyed 287 eligible SROs from the U.S. We focused on how SROs are trained with respect to questioning students in schools and how this is related to SROs??? developmental knowledge and questioning practices in the schools. We conceptualized training as reported attendance of the Reid interrogation training (RIT) or child/youth-specific interviewing/interrogation training (DIT: developmental interrogation training). Overall, RIT and non-RIT SROs demonstrated similar developmental knowledge and used similar questioning tactics. The few differences that emerged suggest that RIT SROs are using more advisable techniques than non-RIT SROs. Moreover, DIT SROs demonstrated less knowledge concerning children???s comprehension of the...

Os projetos pedagógicos dos cursos de engenharia de produção e de administração trazem em suas matrizes curriculares disciplinas que abordam assuntos relacionados à gestão da produção. Estes projetos pedagógicos procuram, com isto, desenvolver competências nesta área e, para tal, a maioria dos professores tem buscado este desenvolvimento por meio de aulas expositivas e de exercícios. Estas estratégias pedagógicas podem não ser suficientes para que competências para a solução de problemas pouco estruturados (inerentes à profissão de gestor da produção) possam ser desenvolvidas. Além disso, estas estratégias tradicionais contemplam apenas os estilos de aprendizagem de alunos que Kolb classifica como \\"assimiladores\\" e \\"convergentes\\". Neste trabalho é explorada a contribuição que a simulação pode trazer para o desenvolvimento de competências em gestão de produção e para a adequação de estratégias pedagógicas complementares a alunos com estilos de aprendizagem \\&q...

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Introducción: el apoyo a la toma de decisiones en salud facilita el automanejo de personas con enfermedades crónicas (EC). Ob- jetivo: validar la versión en español del DSAT-cdm: herramienta de análisis del apoyo en las decisiones para el manejo de EC, desa- rrollada por Stacey (2006). Materiales y métodos: estudio descriptivo que aplica un proceso sistemático que considera, entre otros: traducción-contratraducción, desarrollo de escenarios de simulación, entrenamiento de evaluadores, entrenamiento pacientes simulados y capacitación para participantes. Muestra: 15 profesionales y 2 jueces, obteniéndose 60 DSAT-cdm versión español aplicado (pre y pos capacitación). Resultados: el instrumento presentó confiabilidad aceptable en la aplicación entre-jueces y detectó la mejora en la calidad del apoyo a la toma de decisiones en los profesionales. Sin embargo, no se obtuvieron resultados que aportaran a la validez de criterio concurrente. Conclusiones: este estudio es la primera evaluación...

In any industry, recruitment, training and effective onboarding of a new staff is considered to be a challenging task. In the backwash of the coronavirus pandemic, however, the industry is now found in completely new landscape. The old followed practices for recruiting and training are no longer effective enough. There is complete new set of requirements established by the COVID-19.
Post the outbreak of pandemic, hospitality industry has witnessed a drastic change. Sudden lockdown and prolonged closure of the hotels has made the employees of the industry suffer a lot. From a busy working day to a day without any work has been a very unpleasant transition for everyone. However, post unlock hotels have started their operations slowly following all the new normal implemented post COVID-19.
Imagine, a crisis to forces hospitality industry to change their way of operations almost overnight. Notwithstanding initial fears and anxiety, industry has realized that these changes in operations could be
treated as a blueprint for upcoming years. This is what the industry leaders are finding across the globe as they respond to the COVID-19.
Housekeeping being a core department responsible for maintaining the upkeep of the hotel, is no longer responsible for just the cleaning jobs. The role haschanged 360 degrees and the department has truly
become a backbone of the hotels. In the difficult times of pandemic, staffs have reskilled and upskilled themselves to deal with this situation and create safe and hygienic environment for both staff and guest.
Lot of training programs have been implemented vigorously before the reopening of hotels, making their staff ready to take up the new challenges. These training programs have helped the staff members keep
their morals high and welcome guests with new energy and hope.

Police bicycle usage has grown to a point where bicycle patrols are a known phenomenon. Physical and mental advantages for the officer, superior tactical capabilities and statistically higher levels of interaction with the public head the litany of reasons to increase police bicycling

Basketball involves high-intensity bouts interspersed with brief/incomplete recovery periods. As a result repeated-sprint ability and change of direction training assume logical validity in basketball. Ball-drill games (BD) were suggested as a viable training to provide a range of specific physiological adaptation in basketball. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the effects of BD with Sprint Training (ST), and Generic Training (GT) on sprint ability and agility in basketball players. Thirty male regional-level players (17.3 \ub1 0.8 years, 74.2 \ub1 9.8 kg, 181.7 \ub1 7.3 cm) were matched according to VO2max and Anthropometrics and randomly assigned to 3 training groups: BDG (n=12, 4x4min 3 vs 3 at 95% of HRmax with 3-min passive recovery), STG (n=9, 3x6x20m shuttle running with 20-sec and 4-min recovery between bouts and series respectively) and GTG (n=9, control group, generic basketball technical/tactical exercises). Players were tested before and after 8 training weeks (2 sessions/week, 2hrs/session), for force platform Squat Jump and Countermovement Jump; Yo-Yo Intermittent Recovery Test level 1 (YYIRTL1); Agility T-test (forward, lateral, and backward running); Line sprinting over 5/10/20 m and Line drill (LD). No time x group differences were found in jumping and sprinting performance. Significant improvements were reported for YYIRTL1 in BDG (+21%, p<0.05) and STG (+30%, p<0.05). Agility T-test performance showed significant improvements in BDG (-3.4%, p<0.05) and STG (-4.7%, p<0.05). LD test performance was enhanced in the BDG (-1.3 %, p<0.05) and STG (-2.2%, p<0.05). No significant changes in performance occurred in the GTG. These results showed that BD and ST may enhance aerobic and anaerobic fitness if added to usual training. BD, promoting skill development, should be considered as a valuable training tool when pursuing a holistic performance development in basketball players. Researches addressing the concurrent use of BD and ST are warranted

V svojem magistrskem delu sem raziskovala ustreznost razvitosti prostovoljnega dela na področju dela s starimi ljudmi. Osredotočila sem se na način izbire prostovoljcev, njihove začetne razloge in nadaljnjo motivacijo, njihovo usposabljanje in usposabljanje mentorjev, na dojemanje prostovoljstva s strani prostovoljcev, mentorjev in starih ljudi ter na umeščenost socialnega dela v prostovoljskem delu. V ta namen sem izvedla kvalitativno raziskavo, ki sem jo opravila s prostovoljci, mentorji in starimi ljudmi. Intervjuvance sem spraševala po objektivnih dejstvih, mnenjih, izkušnjah, predlogih in spoznanjih o prostovoljskem delu s starimi ljudmi, ki so se nanašale na zgoraj omenjene teme. Vmes sem se obenem dotaknila projekta socialne aktivacije, kot tudi področja demence in nasilja ter zlorab nad starimi ljudmi, ki so, sploh v prostovoljskem delu, pogosto spregledane teme raziskav. Rezultati so razodeli izbiro prostovoljca preko uvodnega razgovora in odrejenega poskusnega dela, večins...

The aim of this study was to analyze the association between coaches’ experience and their perceptions on the implementation of a long-term athletic development (LTAD) model created in 2016 by the Portuguese Swimming Federation. Eighty-six swimming coaches were assembled in groups according to their experience level: “novice” (n = 24), “intermediate” (n = 26), and “experienced” (n = 36), and they answered a questionnaire with the following items: (i) awareness of the existing model (ii) acceptance (iii) usefulness for practice, and (iv) implementation of this model by their peers. Regardless of experience, ~67% of the coaches were aware of the model. Among those, a large number showed acceptance (~95%) and confidence in its usefulness (~83%) for their daily practice. Most coaches (92%) showed concerns about the fact that their peers do not respect the model frameworks, declaring the search for their swimmers’ immediate success (~58%) as the main cause for such behavior. The results ...

BESOINS DE FORMATION DES TRAVAILLEURS SOCIO-CULTURELS - Il y a quelques mois, le CRILUX s’est associé à l’Institut de Recherche, Formation et Action sur les Migrations (IRFAM) pour mener une enquête sur les besoins des intervenants sociaux en matière de développement de leurs compétences interculturelles en province de Luxembourg. Pour consulter les résultats de cette enquête, c'est ici.

As single volume nested within a handbook for all of psychology, our purpose was to provide the depth and breadth that would capture the domain of industrial and organizational psychology in a way valuable for scholars and students in that field. We also hoped to create a volume to which those outside the field could turn in order to gain an appreciation of the latest thinking and research in the area. This opening chapter first discusses some of the major accomplishments and new directions that have advanced this field since publication of the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Dunnette & Hough, 1990). These “milestones” include the elaboration of models of job performance; completion of Project A, a long-term selection and classification research program in the U.S. Army; development of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a database of occupational information about job requirements; advances in thinking about levels of analysis; renewed interest in viewing workers as individuals and as members of teams; considerable progress in learning about relations between variables using meta-analysis and other methods; and increased consideration of topics within a strategic human resource management framework. Finally, we commented on each of the 23 topical chapters, providing a preview of this volume's content. Keywords: industrial and organizational psychology; job performance; job satisfaction; leadership; personnel selection; training; work motivation

O processo de introdução de práticas de e/b-learning nas instituições de ensino, nem sempre é formalizado e assumido pela instituição desde o início do processo. Frequentemente, as primeiras práticas de e/blearning surgem como manifestações voluntárias de docentes que têm algum tipo de afinidade ou formação prévia com as tecnologias educativas. O desenvolvimento efectivo de uma política de formação em modalidade de e/b-learning, por parte de uma instituição, implica dar lugar a práticas formalizadas que sejam assumidas como “opção estratégica”, para serem incorporadas, de forma sistemática e sustentada, na prática pedagógica dos seus profissionais. Este trabalho pretende dar a conhecer os desafios da integração das tecnologias educativas numa instituição de ensino superior, mostrando de que forma uma gestão centralizada e uma formação dos docentes pode contribuir para uma integração eficaz de práticas de e/b learning.The initiation of e/b-learning practices in educational institutio...

This study was undertaken to find out the extent to which cycle training is delivered across the various Local Authorities in the United Kingdom (UK), and the most effective ways of sustaining them. A total of 60 local authorities across the UK took part in a telephone/online survey where the cycle training officers were asked questions on their scheme contents, processes and outcomes. The results show that they all operated cycle training with majority complying with the National Cycling Standard (Bikeability). The courses were all on-road based with little classroom training involving demonstration and talks. There was no technology or interactive video. It was also found that the schemes had little parental involvement in the training element except where volunteers were parents. Most of the schemes were delivered intensively over a period of one to two weeks rather than spreading them over four to five weeks which is a best practice. There was no formal evaluation and assessment...

Service-learning in engineering has been gaining attention as an effective way to provide students the opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge to solve realworld problems faced by communities (Oakes et al., 2002; Soto & Dzwonczyk, 2015). At the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the past few years have seen increasing numbers of non-engineering students taking service-learning subjects offered by the engineering departments, and working on engineering-type projects alongside students majoring in engineering. This is especially significant for international projects working in developing regions. This paper presents a project conducted in Cambodia in June 2016 as a case study as to how to integrate students from very different disciplines into the same project. Challenges that we faced during the training are discussed, followed by the outline of the course model, which may help educators develop a course to maximize the potential of international service-learning in engineer...

This paper highlights potential health and safety issues which may emerge in workplaces engaging migrant workers, particularly as effected by social distancing during training prior to employment, such as experienced by international students.  There are a number of factors that can contribute to the ways in which a migrant worker applies health and safety in their workplaces, including language and culture, that are commonly addressed through training, socialisation and workplace engagement.  With these opportunities limited due to social distancing, migrant workers have less opportunity to contribute to and embrace organisations’ safety culture.  This onus then falls onto employers to ensure that safe practices are learned, imbued and correctly and consistently applied with an objective of fostering a strong safety culture where employees go above and beyond what is expected in terms of safety performance that is mutually understood and shared.

Sports have great importance in human life. In this present day, no importance was attached to sports in the country. But, now it was realized that sports are very useful. So, every educational institution of the country provides sports for all. The purpose of the study effects of isolated and combined strength and yogic programme on corporeal and physiologicalvariables among inter collegiate cricket players. The study was selected 60 male cricket students selected from various colleges. Their age ranges between 18 to 25 years .the subjects were randomly assigned into four groups, namely experimental group I (strength training), Experimental group II (yogic training), experimental group III (strength and yogic training) and control group. In order to ensure the full cooperation from the subjects, the scholar had a meeting with them and explained the purpose of the study. It was made clear by explanation in order to ascertain that there was no ambiguity among the players regarding the effort, which they had to put in for the successful completion of this study. Experimental group I participated for a period of 8 weeks resistance training with game specific training. Experimental group II participated for a period of 8 weeks yoga practices with game specific training. Experimental group III for a period of 8 weeks resistance and yoga training with game specific training and Control group only game specific training. The subjects were tested on selected criterion variables physical fitness variables shoulder Muscular Strength, physiological variables Resting heart rate before the training and after 8 weeks of training.

With workplace safety, operators have to put more effort to understand a need to create a conducive while maintaining competitive working environment. Through various regulations, the Malaysian government has made efforts on executing safety and health policies through the enforcement of guidelines as well as conducting site safety seminars and certifications. Yet, existing record indicated that the present Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) situation in the workplace is still very much adverse and below expectation. This paper therefore aimed to call attention on the issue about the elements that contribute to the workplace accidents among workers at workplace. This paper further examined the relationship between individual factors and job factors that contribute to the workplace accidents. After assessing through the homogeneity and heterogeneity of the population, The proportionate stratified sampling was performed in ensuring the generalizability of the study. Using 177 sample...

This document "TrainingInTheEOSC_WorkshopReport_01_00.pdf" is the output of a three-day workshop on Training in the EOSC, 26-28 February 2020, The Hague, The Netherlands. The workshop was organised by DANS in collaboration with EUDAT, EGI and OpenAIRE. It provides recommendations regarding Rules of Participation for training as well as recommendations regarding practical guidance for training service providers.

La formacion humanista es de vital importancia para el exito del proyecto nacional que se construye en Cuba, pues la sociedad requiere de hombres y mujeres dignos, que luchen por la total emancipacion del ser humano y concentren sus esfuerzos en el logro de la realizacion individual, a partir de la lucha constante por el bienestar comun. En este sentido, la universidad debe convertirse en un centro formativo, o sea, en una institucion cientifica y humanista, capaz de conjugar lo academico, lo investigativo, lo cultural y lo educativo en un todo armonico en funcion de la formacion integral del hombre. La sociedad demanda de la Educacion Superior vias y metodos mas atractivos y significativos para dotar al hombre de los conocimientos, sentimientos, valores y convicciones necesarios para desarrollar un estilo de pensamiento y actuacion en funcion del bienestar humano. Para el logro de este proposito se requiere de un humanismo diferente, mas cercano y vivencial para el estudiante, en e...

En estas notas editoriales se hace un reconocimiento al maestro como forma y sujeto de la educación contemporánea que sobrevive a los embates de la mercantilización y el mercado que circula en la sociedad —en términos generales— y en la educación —como caso particular—. De aquí que el maestro contemporáneo que pretenda serlo no solo debe ubicarse en el cuidado, la inquietud de sí como ejercicio de transformación del otro, sino que a la vez se ubica en el ejercicio del decir veraz que implica no solo un acompañamiento cercano, sino la posibilidad de ruptura frente a la tragedia de la verdad a las verdades que consolidan el ejercicio pedagógico y las prácticas educativas contemporáneas.

Although patients with cancer are often accompanied by a relative during medical interviews, to the authors' knowledge little is known regarding the efficacy of communication skills training programs on physicians' communication skills in this context. The objective of the current study was to assess the efficacy of 6 consolidation workshops, 3 hours in length, that were conducted after a 2.5-day basic training program. After attending the basic training program, physicians were assigned randomly to consolidation workshops or to a waiting list. Training efficacy was assessed through simulated and actual interviews that were recorded on an audio tape at baseline, after consolidation workshops for the consolidation-workshops group, and 5 months after the end of basic training for the waiting-list group. Communication skills were assessed according to the Cancer Research Campaign Workshop Evaluation Manual. Patients' and relatives' perceptions of and satisfaction with physicians' communication performance were assessed using a 15-item questionnaire. Sixty-two physicians completed the training program. Compared with physicians who participated to the basic training program, when addressing the patient, physicians who were randomized to the consolidation workshops used more open, open directive, and screening questions (P = 0.011 in simulated patient interviews and P = 0.005 in actual patient interviews) and elicited and clarified psychologic concerns more often (P = 0.006 in simulated patient interviews and P < 0.001 in actual patient interviews). When they addressed the relative, physicians who were randomized to the consolidation workshops gave less premature information (P = 0.032 in simulated patient interviews and P < 0.001 in actual patient interviews). When they addressed the patient and the relative simultaneously, physicians who were randomized to the consolidation workshops used more empathy, educated guesses, alerting to reality, confronting, negotiating, and summarizing (P = 0.003 in simulated patient interviews and P = 0.024 in actual patient interviews). Patients, but not relatives, who interacted with physicians in the consolidation-workshops group were more satisfied globally with the interviews (P = 0.022). Six 3-hour consolidation workshops resulted in improved communication skills addressed to patients and to relatives. The current results showed that the transfer of skills addressing relatives' concerns remained limited and that consolidation workshops should focus even more systematically on the practice of three-person interviews.

As technology proliferates and becomes indispensable to all functions of society, so does the need to ensure its security and resilience through cyber defense training, education, and professional development. This paper presents a layered model that supports cyber defense training progressively through the development of technology services, digital context, performance assessment, and impact analysis. The methods used were applied to college laboratories associated with cybersecurity classes, defense training exercises, cyber based competitions, and graduate research program designs. The service layer presents methods for developing the technical infrastructure and agile deployment necessary to support cyber defense training. This, then, is layered with conceptual frameworks to guide teams as they immerse into scenarios within cyberspace. To enhance team performance in this space and to enhance the value of the training process itself, psychometric feedback, Agile methods, and quantitative assessments are used to track efficacy and facilitate future development. The final layer represents active incident response and ongoing collaborative efforts between institutions and across disciplines. The work is presented as a progression and illustrates a decade of research from 2010 to 2020. The context has been updated here with the intention that it can be used as a guide for designing a broad range of collaborative cyber defense and cyber range programs. The influence of socio-behavioral factors increasingly illuminates the path forward

Challenges and new opportunities for the integration of biostatisticians in multidisciplinary teams are a major concern in the field. New forms of broader training in the life sciences, collaborations with other scientists, and strategic partnerships in research, all appear as essential means towards success for young professionals in Biostatistics. This article is novel in that it provides a young biostatisticians perspective on what many experienced colleagues have been discussing for years, i.e., what the future will bring to the profession and how we will be best trained to face it. The vision emerged from a unique forum comprising six authors with completely different backgrounds and work experience in the field, and is complemented by the discussion generated in a roundtable.

El presente libro aborda los textos de Peter Sloterdijk en busca de nociones teórico-metodológicas para pensar los problemas de la educación, de la pedagogía y de la filosofía misma desde otras perspectivas. Al asumir la filosofía como una labor de problematización, emergen nociones como antropotécnica y ejercicio para dar forma a nuevas preguntas y a nuevasmaneras de preguntar en el ámbito de la filosofía de la educación. La lectura de los textos de Sloterdijk lleva a escritos que indagan sobre las formas ejercitantes que rodean la enseñanza, el ser maestro, el aprendiz, el aprender y los cuerpos esculpidos por prácticas deportivas, la escritura y la lectura. Mediante estas técnicas, espacios y mecanismos, los seres humanos se hacen lo que son: humanos. Operar con problemas bajo esta perspectiva teórico-metodológica significa explorar las potencialidades de las herramientas para hacer uso de ellas e, incluso, para forjar otras aplicaciones, formas y posibilidades. Sin embargo, este...

El artículo presenta a la educación continua como un recurso fundamental y eficiente del currículo universitario y su mecanismo innovador es el empleo de las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación en todas las modalidades de estudio, metodologías y/o procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje. El estudio tiene como objetivos analizar a la educación continua como eje integrador de las competencias del currículo universitario y difundir resultados oficiales del proceso. Para lo cual, se realizó un análisis conceptual y un análisis descriptivo cuantitativo con un diseño no experimental longitudinal. La investigación registró datos de una Institución de Educación Superior desde el año 2014 hasta el 2019 con un total de 190 cursos con 9276 personas capacitadas y puntualmente el último año con 46 cursos y 1559 participantes. Los resultados del estudio evidencian un crecimiento en el número de cursos, horas y participantes al proceso formativo continuo. Se identifican tendencias actuales de l...

This study investigated the effect of a 16-week maintenance training program which directly followed a high-dose 9 week initial training intervention, as part of a biomechanically informed ACL injury prevention program. Three-dimensional kinematic and kinetic data of elite female hockey players (n=16) were collected at baseline, post initial training and post maintenance training during unplanned sidestepping. Maintenance training was effective in retaining reduced peak knee valgus moments in a ‘high-risk’ subgroup elicited from the initial training program. Conversely, although the total group demonstrated no benefits following initial training, they displayed a reduction (?-26.3%, g=0.30) in peak valgus knee moments following maintenance training, suggesting a prolonged albeit moderate dose of training was effective for this population.

This study investigated the effect of a 16-week maintenance training program which directly followed a high-dose 9 week initial training intervention, as part of a biomechanically informed ACL injury prevention program. Three-dimensional kinematic and kinetic data of elite female hockey players (n=16) were collected at baseline, post initial training and post maintenance training during unplanned sidestepping. Maintenance training was effective in retaining reduced peak knee valgus moments in a ‘high-risk’ subgroup elicited from the initial training program. Conversely, although the total group demonstrated no benefits following initial training, they displayed a reduction (?-26.3%, g=0.30) in peak valgus knee moments following maintenance training, suggesting a prolonged albeit moderate dose of training was effective for this population.

Editors' Note: Somewhere along the way toward widespread teach-ing of interest-based concepts, Ebner and Efron argue, the teaching of negotiation has lost something – a tough-minded focus on what to do when the pie can't be enlarged, the competing interests of the parties ...

This paper addresses some measurement issues concerning intangible assets (IA) by stemming from a recent pilot survey carried out on a sample of Italian firms. The survey has been sponsored by Isfol, the Italian Institute for the Development of Vocational Training for Workers (a public research body), with the technical co-operation of Istat, the Italian National Institute of Statistics. The aim of the paper is twofold: presenting the results of the pilot survey (although not being the realised sample representative of the population of Italian enterprises) and discussing some guidelines for future \u201cintangible assets\u201d surveys to be undertaken in the EU or OECD context. With a broader perspective, the proposal for a standard survey on the \u201cIntangible Assets\u201d in enterprises will be discussed by considering potential synergies, as well as infrastructural barriers, associated with the inclusion of an IA survey in the framework of official business statistics

Background: Numerous studies have reported long and short term effects of Yoga training on reaction time (RT), but few have evaluated differential effects of training in asana and pranayama. Hence the present study was done to elucidate effects of such differential training on RT in health professions students attending Yoga training. Materials: 134 healthy young adults studying BSc Nursing at KGNC were recruited for the study and informed consent obtained from them. 89 from 1st year were randomly divided into two groups and 44 of them received one week of training in asana while 45 received parallel training in pranayama. 45 control subjects were recruited from 2nd year that didn’t receive Yoga training but were coming to CYTER for clinical posting. Auditory and visual RT (ART and VRT) were measured before and after the one week study period and appropriate statistical methods applied for intra and inter group comparisons. Results: Both asana and pranayama training resulted in sign...

Today Internet is more popular for many users and business applications such as banking, social networks, education, entertainment, scientific research, and recently cloud computing. The number of services provided by the internet service providers through Internet is rapidly increasing. For many applications security has become a serious issue for anyone connected to the Internet. Security should be provided by the ISPs to the Internet users in the form confidentiality, integrity, and authentication. These can be provided through IDS. In our paper we have proposed a simple, easy and efficient approach for building IDS using integrated model of Bayes Net with Hidden Markov Model. The first phase of the model is to build the Bayesian network using the dataset. Once the network is built the conditional probability or joint probability for each node can be determined. The Bayes network has been used as state transition diagram for HMM. The HMM parameters can be estimated using the Baye...

Despite being on the path of growth in the last few decades and witnessing a surge in the number of new enterprises, India's growth has been skewed gender-wise, with most enterprises being run and owned by men. Micro and small enterprises are poised to accelerate growth in the country; therefore, it is critical to include women in increasing numbers to encourage inclusive development. Before COVID-19 hit, the cosmetics and grooming market was expected to reach USD 20 billion by 2025 (ASSOCHAM, 2016). Reports in India's wellness sector indicated that the workforce requirement in the beauty and salon segment would grow to 12.1 million in 2022 (KPMG, 2020). LabourNet is one of India's leading skill training providers, having trained over 60,000 women in this sector. 'Beautypreneurs' is one of their flagship programs, which claims that 70% of their trainees are from low-income families. With rising unemployment due to automation and other factors, jobs are on the low. Entrepreneurial training offers a meaningful way to create jobs for the future. This study analyses whether the future of work is entrepreneurial and examines the role of agency and training as a determinant of success in the case of the Beautypreneurs. The training, which usually happens in a face-to-face mode, was adapted to be delivered online, as a result of the COVID safety norms. This research focuses on two key strands of inquiry-1) analysing the micro-entrepreneurial model among women in underserved communities in India, and 2) assessing how the training providers managed to leverage technology in the conduct of their training online as a response to COVID, especially in underserved communities.

Abstract The primary purpose of this study was to find out the attitudes of trainers and trainees towards the 8-4-4 power mechanics course offered in secondary schools in Kenya. The attitudes and other related aspects obtained from the trainers and trainees were used as evaluative devices for the course and hence the graduates of the course. A comparison between the 8-4-4 power mechanics graduates and non power mechanics trainees was done to establish how well they fit into the job market in the automotive industry and in further training institutions.All the automotive engineering trainers in middle level training institutions and the automotive industry, and 31 secondary school graduates of the power mechanics course were used as subjects. They were selected from institutions and industries in Nairobi, Thika and Mombasa towns. Likert types of questionnaires were used to obtain the required information for the attitude evaluation study. Data were analysed using: percentages, means, standard deviations, variances, t-test for the difference of mean, chi-square and the analysis of variance (ANOVA) statistical methods. Tests for significance were carried out at the 0.05 level of significance testing. It was found that there is no significant difference between the attitudes of the trainers and trainees towards the course and the graduates. In addition, the positive attitudes of both the trainers and the trainees were independent of the respondent’s level of education. It did not matter whether the respondent was a trainee or a trainer. A significant difference was realised in the following areas: job performance, trainability, and performance in training examinations between the 84-4 power mechanics secondary school graduates and their non-power mechanics counterparts. The 8-4-4 power mechanics graduates were superior in all the above measured aspects. However, despite the 8-4-4 power mechanics secondary school graduates being better in comparison to others who had not taken the course, they were lacking in supervisory skills, creativity, mathematics, application of knowledge to practical situations, independence at work, innovativeness, and interpersonal skills.

El presente articulo ofrece a los docentes, supervisores y profesores orientadores responsabilizados con la formacion profesional de los estudiantes de la carrera de Economia de la Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabi del Ecuador (Uleam), una metodologia para la formacion de la competencia en marketing en los estudiantes de la carrera de Economia. Fue concebida mediante la aplicacion del metodo de enfoque de sistema. Esta propuesta puede generalizarse al proceso de formacion de profesionales de las carreas de las Ciencias Economicas con flexibilidad y adaptabilidad a las condiciones por medio de las cuales se desarrolla.

The capacity to focus one's attention for an extended period of time can be increased through training in contemplative practices. However, the cognitive processes engaged during meditation that support trait changes in cognition are not well characterized. We conducted a longitudinal wait-list controlled study of intensive meditation training. Retreat participants practiced focused attention (FA) meditation techniques for three months during an initial retreat. Wait-list participants later undertook formally identical training during a second retreat. Dense-array scalp-recorded electroencephalogram (EEG) data were collected during 6 min of mindfulness of breathing meditation at three assessment points during each retreat. Second-order blind source separation, along with a novel semi-automatic artifact removal tool (SMART), was used for data preprocessing. We observed replicable reductions in meditative state-related beta-band power bilaterally over anteriocentral and posterior ...

The capacity to focus one's attention for an extended period of time can be increased through training in contemplative practices. However, the cognitive processes engaged during meditation that support trait changes in cognition are not well characterized. We conducted a longitudinal wait-list controlled study of intensive meditation training. Retreat participants practiced focused attention (FA) meditation techniques for three months during an initial retreat. Wait-list participants later undertook formally identical training during a second retreat. Dense-array scalp-recorded electroencephalogram (EEG) data were collected during 6 min of mindfulness of breathing meditation at three assessment points during each retreat. Second-order blind source separation, along with a novel semi-automatic artifact removal tool (SMART), was used for data preprocessing. We observed replicable reductions in meditative state-related beta-band power bilaterally over anteriocentral and posterior ...

Problématique : La formation des patients simulés (PS) est nécessaire pour répondre aux critères d’authenticité de la simulation. Dans le cadre de cliniques simulées, nous avons mis en place un nouveau format de briefing des PS, créé à partir d’un modèle de formation issu des arts du théâtre, combiné au briefing habituel du monde de la simulation. Objectif : Décrire les effets perçus du briefing en cinq étapes sur la préparation des PS à la pratique simulée. Méthodes : Étude qualitative et descriptive. Dix-sept PS ont répondu à un questionnaire en ligne. L’analyse inductive des données a été effectuée par trois chercheurs. Résultats : Les PS perçoivent une meilleure compréhension du scénario, une amélioration de leurs habiletés d’interprétation et de mémorisation ainsi qu’un renforcement de leur sentiment d’appartenance. Conclusion : Le briefing en cinq étapes répond au besoin d’avoir une formation courte, ponctuelle, ciblée sur le cas et propice à un encadrement sûr des PS. Il est ...

International expert groups have identified the largest problems in the world. This address will connect these disparate global problems, showing how corruption either created them or made them much worse. The world has turned to structural reforms to institutions, laws, and policies to control corruption, but success has been uneven, as unethical people continue to exploit both corrupt and non-corrupt environments, aggravating the world's largest problems and creating new ones. A commitment to ethics education and training can generate more ethical choices and principled responses that would increase individual accountability. It is argued that the largest problems in the world can be reduced in size only through more ethical decisionmaking, which is a precursor to reducing corruption, as the common feature of the world's largest problems.

El presente artículo analiza las políticas de educación cinematográfica implementadas pordiversos festivales cinematográficos del espacio iberoamericano en el periodo 2005-2019. El objetivoes identificar y analizar diversas iniciativas de educación no formal dirigidas al desarrollo de dosaspectos de la alfabetización cinematográfica: (1) la creación de nuevas audiencias y (2) la capacitaciónde nuevos creadores/as y profesionales. El estudio combina el análisis cuantitativo, basado en larecopilación de datos (para el mapeo de festivales), con metodologías cualitativas, como la observaciónparticipante y la realización de entrevistas (para el análisis de prácticas y ejemplos concretos). La muestraanalizada incluye 178 festivales del ámbito iberoamericano (120 generalistas y 58 especializados enaudiencia joven/infantil), y ofrece ejemplos detallados de España y Chile. Los resultados muestranuna proliferación y consolidación de (1) festivales especializados en jóvenes audiencias; y sesio...

Ecodesign is a well-known concept that receives considerable attention from environmental specialists and designers; however, in the case of the ceramics sector, there is a lack of know-how and training materials to support the systematic integration of environmental considerations in the development and design of ceramic products with the objective of reducing their environmental impacts in their life cycle. The InEDIC project, www.inedic.net, (2009-2011) was an EU Life Long Learning – Leonardo da Vinci funded project aiming at the development of ecodesign training materials and tools to improve the ecoefficiency of ceramic products and build capacity amongst ceramic designers and product developers, thus contributing to the competitiveness of the sector. The project involved an international partnership (Portugal, Spain and Greece) adding up to 18 partners (research centres, training institutions, associations and companies) with proven expertise in the area of ecodesign and in th...

In this paper, we present our approach towards dependency parsing of Hindi language as a part of Hindi Shared Task on Parsing, COLING 2012. Our approach includes the effect of using different settings available in Malt Parser following the two-step parsing strategy ie splitting the data into interChunks and intraChunks to obtain the best possible LAS1, UAS2 and LA3 accuracy. Our system achieved best LAS of 90.99% for Gold Standard track and second best LAS of 83.91% for Automated data. KEYWORDS: Hindi ...

The quality and relevance of nanosafety studies constitute major challenges to ensure their key role as a supporting tool in sustainable innovation, and subsequent competitive economic advantage. However, the number of apparently contradictory and inconclusive research results has increased in the past few years, indicating the need to introduce harmonized protocols and good practices in the nanosafety research community. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate if best-practice training and inter-laboratory comparison (ILC) of performance of the 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-5-(3-carboxymethoxyphenyl)-2-(4-sulfophenyl)-2H-tetrazolium (MTS) assay for the cytotoxicity assessment of nanomaterials among 15 European laboratories can improve quality in nanosafety testing. We used two well-described model nanoparticles, 40-nm carboxylated polystyrene (PS-COOH) and 50-nm amino-modified polystyrene (PS-NH2). We followed a tiered approach using well-developed standard operating procedures (SOPs) and s...

This exploratory research examined a four-day interpreter training program in Japan for impacts on participants’ self-reported increases in knowledge and skills. Pre-, during-, and post-training open-ended questionnaires were administered to all 17 participants. Results showed the training program was effective at increasing knowledge of interpretation's definitions, principles, and goals. Participants indicated extended opportunities for understanding the profession as a whole, as well as how to operationalize interpretation and develop strategic outcomes would increase the overall effectiveness of trainings. Future training programs could use a strategic reflection process to emphasize skill development in the design and delivery of interpretation. Results derived from this empirical research provide a guideline for developing a training framework contextualized to the practice of interpretation in Japan.

ObjectivesTo identify the availability and variability of learning opportunities through patient presentations on an acute medical placement at a teaching hospital.DesignA prospective study evaluating all acute admissions to the Acute Medical Unit over 14 days (336 hours). Clinical presentations and the day and time of admission were recorded and compared with the learning outcomes specified in the medical school curriculum.SettingAn Acute Medical Unit at a London teaching hospital.Outcomes(1) Number of clinical presentations to the Acute Medical Unit over 14 days and (2) differences between the availability and variation of admissions and presentations between in-hours and out-of-hours.ResultsThere were 359 admissions, representing 1318 presentations. Of those presentations, 76.6% were admitted out-of-hours and 23.4% in-hours. Gastrointestinal bleeding, tachycardia, oedema and raised inflammatory markers were over three times more common per hour out-of-hours than in-hours. Hypoxia...

Organisation’s primary focus after recruiting talent employees is to retain them. But in today’s competitive environment, organisation is struggling hard to design a suitable strategy that could improve the retention rate and pulls the turnover rate downward. One such suitable strategy an organisation could be considered of improving employee’s skills by providing training. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the training and development on employee retention and ascertain the extent of influence of training and development on employee retention. The study was carried out by using descriptive research design and adopted stratified random sampling method to collect data. Results suggest that there is a relationship between training and development on employee retention and training has an impact on employee retention

The article we are presenting has two parts: a theoretical introduction reviewing the previous Latin America-wide library cooperation efforts and another describing the actions carried out over two years of continuous work. On the occasion of the commemoration of the Quincentennial of the Discovery of America the first far-reaching international library cooperation plan was initiated, embracing not only joint projects but also dealing with the problems the libraries themselves are currently facing. Plan participants include libraries from countries with a shared history, and with common languages and cultures; namely, the National Libraries of Latin America. Within this project, Spain and Portugal are the two countries which belong both to Latin Amlerica as well as to Europe, thereby serving as the nexus uniting the two domains through participation in the Asociacion de Bibliotecas Nationales de Ibiroamerica (ABINIA) and the European Network of Latin American Documentation and Infor...