Abstract:This study investigates the adoption of AI-powered learning tools among students from universities in Malaysia (TESL) and Indonesia (TEFL), using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) framework. A quantitative method was employed where a questionnaire was administered via online to both groups of participants. A total of 95 students participated, with 59 TEFL (Indonesia) and 36 TESL students (Malaysia). The reliability and validity of the scale were satisfactory. Findings indicate that TESL students consistently reported higher scores across all UTAUT constructs compared to TEFL students, including Performance Expectancy (PE) (TESL: 3.38, TEFL: 2.89, p < 0.001), Effort Expectancy (EE) (TESL: 3.38, TEFL: 3.08, p = 0.013), Social Influence (SI) (TESL: 3.06, TEFL: 2.54, p < 0.001), Facilitating Conditions (FC) (TESL: 3.36, TEFL: 3.01, p = 0.002), Behavioural Intention (BI) (TESL: 3.45, TEFL: 3.03, p < 0.001), and Usage Behaviour (UB) (TESL: 3.39, TEFL: 2.80, p < 0.001). The crosscultural comparison revealed that Malaysian TESL students demonstrated higher adoption rates and usage of AI tools, suggesting that institutional and cultural factors significantly influence adoption. Implications highlight the importance of infrastructural support, training, and fostering a supportive environment to enhance AI adoption. Limitations include the relatively small sample size and the lack of qualitative data on personal experiences. Future research should focus on expanding the sample, incorporating qualitative insights, and exploring the impact of AI adoption on teaching practices.
Abstract:The findings from this qualitative study provide a comprehensive typology of Instagram users and elaborate their discourse portraits through analyzing Instagram posts, comments, and profiles. This study explores the ways in which Instagram users express themselves within the digital landscape. By analyzing the interplay between visual and textual elements, the semiotic mechanisms that users employ to convey their personal and social identities are uncovered. The discourse portraits of Instagram users are shaped by their choice of language, in particular, the selection of the appropriate role, time and space deixis reflecting the three types of Instagram users-creators, attractors and participants. Through the application of profiling method in linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this research identifies key themes and patterns in user-generated content, revealing how the identities are articulated on Instagram social media platform. This integrated approach allows for a nuanced understanding of how Instagram users construct and maintain their online identities. This investigation aims to enhance the understanding of the dynamic and performative nature of online identity in contemporary digital culture. The study also highlights the role of Instagram as a platform for social interaction and identity performance, where users navigate the tensions between self-expression and audience expectation. This paper contributes to the understanding of digital identity construction by demonstrating how the profiling method in linguistics provides a framework for analyzing the dynamic and complex ways in which users engage with and contribute to the evolving discourse on social media. Ultimately, this research underscores the importance of considering both linguistic and visual elements in the study of online communication and the construction of contemporary digital identities.
Abstract:Introduction: Transcultural care has gained importance with the increase in migration worldwide. The aim of this study is to investigate and explain the feelings, thoughts and experiences of midwifery students towards transcultural midwifery approaches in health service provision. Methods: The interviews were conducted between January 2024 and June 2024 with students studying in the Department of Midwifery at the Faculty of Health Sciences of a university. Qualitative research design was used in the study. Qualitative content analysis method steps were used in the interviews. Qualitative Research Reporting Standards (SRQR) were followed. The data were analyzed in the qualitative research software package ATLAS.ti 9. The data were analyzed in depth by interpreting and making inferences and codes were created. Results: A total of 3 categories and 12 sub-categories were obtained from the interviews. Three categories were obtained: Implementation Difficulties, Emotional Reactions and Student Perceptions. Conclusion: Midwifery students' experiences of transcultural midwifery approaches in health service provision showed various results. Students were excited by the opportunity to work with patients from different cultures and to learn their perspectives. However, they may also be concerned that they do not have enough knowledge and skills or do not know how to care for a patient from a different culture. The main problem in this sense is the language barrier and lack of knowledge.
Abstract:Background: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an autoimmune, chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology that mainly affects the sacroiliac joints and spine. Considering that a significant proportion of ankylosing spondylitis cases in women occur in reproductive age, it is important to determine PMS symptoms and their effects on quality of life in these women. Objectives: This study was conducted to examine the relationship between premenstrual symptoms and quality of life in women diagnosed with AS. Design and setting: This study is a descriptive and correlational research. It was conducted in a private physiotherapy center in Turkey. Methods: In this study, 84 women diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis were included. The premenstrual symptoms of the participants were examined with the "Premenstrual Symptom Scale (PMSS)" and quality of life with the "Ankylosing Spondylitis Quality of Life Scale (ASQoL)". Results: The mean age of the participants was 35.30±5.15 years. The mean duration of AS was 7.26±4.86 and 60.7% of the women were married. The results showed that PMS symptoms decreased with increasing age (r=-0.282, p=0.009) and duration of AS (r=-0.210, p=0.097). The mean ASQOL score was 9.40±3.03. According to the results of multiple linear regression analysis, it was determined that quality of life was negatively affected as PMSS score, age and age at menarche increased. Conclusion: The presence of PMS in women with AS has been found to be a factor that reduces quality of life. Therefore, reducing PMS in women with AS should be part of interventions to improve quality of life.
Abstract:The interaction between mother and child is one of the factors that can have a positive or negative effect children`s development. It is known that parents` interaction skills are particularly important in for promoting language, cognitive and social development. Research emphasizes that children with positive parenting skills have better development and school readiness. The current study was conducted using a quasi-experimental pre-test post-test single-group design. For the pilot study, 10 mothers with 13-28 month-old babies who agreed to participate in the study received the 6-week PICCOLO-TR intervention program. The data were collected using the PICCOLO Mother-Child Interaction Observation Form to measure parent-child interaction, as a pre-test and post-test, and the Parent Opinion Form was also used. The Shapiro-Wilks test was used to test the normal distribution of the post-test scores. The results of the study (X=46.70) showed that the PICCOLO subgroup and total scores of the mothers participating in the 6-week early intervention program increased compared to the pre-test scores (X=35.30). It is recommended that the positive results demonstrated in the current study should be tested with larger groups. Moreover, the PICCOLO parent-child interaction assessment observation method can be added to the protocols to monitor and support the development of children. Finally, other intervention approaches that support positive parenting skills can be used in further studies.
Abstract:Police work is in need at night. This may have adverse effects on police officers involved. This study aims to assess police officers stress, sleep quality, and cognitive performance using Spielberger Police Stress Survey, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Cognitive Functioning Self-Assessment Scale respectively. Data were obtained from 307 police officers at one of the Gulf countries. Levene`s test of equal variances, t-test, analysis of variance, Cronbach`s alpha and Spearman`s rank correlation were used to analyse the data. Results showed that shift work has negative consequences on sleep quality, cognitive performance and, to a lesser extent, on stress. Results also showed that shift officers reported struggling more to stay awake than non-shift officers. Moreover, alarmingly short sleep duration and long time to fall asleep of many police officers, regardless of their roster, were reported. Cronbach`s alpha outcome indicated that the results are reliable. This paper presents a novel work on shift work effects on police officers in developing countries. Based on the results, recommendations to help police officers cope with the negative effects of night work and improve their performance and sleep quality are given at the end.
Abstract:This article was prepared based on the thesis developed Program in Education at the University of Vale do ItajaÃ, within the line of research Policies and Practices of Curriculum and Management. The aim of this study was to evaluate the contribution of teaching methodologies/strategies used in the Nursing Undergraduate Course to the achievement of interdisciplinarity. It seeks to answer the question: which methodologies/strategies utilized by the Undergraduate Nursing Course promote interdisciplinarity? The hypothesis of this study is that the use of active methodologies, from an interdisciplinary perspective, does not necessarily result in an interdisciplinary construction. To this end, a quantitative study was applied, using multiple correspondence analysis. The research subjects were 27 teachers of a Nursing Course, who taught a total of 36 theoretical subjects, over a total of 2,220 hours, comprising 86% of all the subjects taught on the Course. The data collection was carried out in the classroom through observation, as the object of this thesis relates to the dynamics of the activities carried out as part of the teaching and learning process, in the classroom. At least two observation sessions were carried out in each subject class, totaling 326 hours (105 classes observed), making up 14.7% of the total hours of the theoretical subjects of the course. For the data analysis, the following authors were used as theoretical reference: for the concept of curriculum, Pacheco (2003, 2001), Ball (1994, 2010) and Sacristán (2000, 2007); for the interdisciplinary construction and approach, Fazenda (1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2011, 2017); Japiassu (1993); Santomé (1998); Freire (1991, 1992, 2006); for higher education teaching, Cunha (1998, 2000), Ball (1994), PNE (2014), Masetto (2008, 2012), Cunha (2006), Freire (2015), Gadotti (1999) and for methodologies, Anastasiou (2010), Freire (2003, 2005, 2015), Berbel (2011). Based on the data analysis of the data, it can be inferred that the practice of transmission, the passive methodology, the mobilization of inadequate cognitive processes and the authoritarian attitude of the teacher, all hinder interdisciplinarity. Thus, an attitude of interdisciplinary requires a teaching practice that promotes discussion, permeated by the use of active methodologies, with the mobilization of adequate cognitive processes and a democratic relationship between the teacher and the students.
Abstract:Science teaching is often seen as complex. It is necessary to use different methodologies to facilitate understanding. According to the literature in the area, experimentation is relevant for teaching science to unite theory with practice, facilitating student understanding and the practice of teaching. This study proposes to analyze the use of experimentation as a pedagogical tool used in the teaching-learning process of teaching Natural Sciences, with the aim of gathering and synthesizing similar characteristics in publications in relation to the use of experimental activities in teaching Science in high school. Seeking to identify the methodological conceptions of teachers who are publishing on the concept of experimentation in science teaching, relating the possible contributions to the teaching-learning process, in addition to verifying the main results achieved by this use, within the scope of science teaching. To achieve this, this study was based on a systematic review with qualitative meta-synthesis of works from the existing literature. Using the methodological process proposed by Kitchenham et al. (2007), on scientific productions: theses and dissertations that referred to the topic, published between 2019 and 2023. The field of this investigation was composed of 438 texts initially found, in the 2 databases: Portal Capes (253), Biblioteca Brazilian Digital Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) (185). The publication period analyzed was from 2019 to 2023, all of which were national literature. After data collection, 31 studies were selected and analyzed in full. As a result of this study, it was possible to infer that the use of experimentation as a pedagogical tool helps in the teaching-learning process in a significant way, arousing the interest of students, motivating them to seek problem resolutions in a critical and active way, configuring relevant to the teaching-learning process and, therefore, to effective teaching practice regarding the construction of scientific knowledge in the secondary education stage.
Abstract:Soils hosting the plantations of two forest species threatened with extinction, Pericopsis elata Harms Van Meeuwen (Fabaceae) and Entandrophragma cylindricum Sprague (Meliaceae), were compared to determine the effects of four silvicultural methods, Layon, Blanc-Etoc, Martineau and assisted forest management (FAM), setteled in 1938 in Yangambi, following Split Plot statistical layout. A resilient management method would combat deforestation through shifting agriculture and forest degradation, thus rationally preserving Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (RBY). It turned out that for the two acid-tolerant forest species as compared to mixed forest control (FM), acidifying parameter values have significantly characterised 0-10cm soil depth ranges under silvicultural treatments. Under Pericopsis elata, Martineau has increased effective exchange cation capacity (ECEC) with 10.7 meq/100g, Blanc Etoc increased exchangeable acidity to 5.60meq/100g, FAM increased available phosphorus to 15.46 ppm and silvicultural plantaions decreased calcium with 0.26-0.4 meq/100g. Under Entandrophragma cylindricum, silvicultural methods have increased pHKCl to 3.21-3.32, pHH2O 3.75-4.35 and increased potassium 0.105-0.135meq/100g. They decreased nitrogen to 0.13-0.15%, carbon 1.51-1.98% and phosphorus 5.16- 13.98ppm; while Blanc Etoc increased ECEC to 6.2 meq/100g and exchangeable acidity to 5.71 meq/100g. For the three soil depth ranges (0-10cm, 10-30cm and 30- 50cm), the silvicultural plantation soils under the two forest species are less weathered, so deficient in clay and silt. Soil parameters synchronized with the two species dendrometries will determine an appropriate silvicultural method.
Abstract:This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of using Likari application (five \nwords a day) in improving students` Japanese vocabulary. The main reason is because \nof the development of technology which is growing so rapidly. It makes learning applications become very popular media that help the students in learning Japanese. \nThis study involved 100 Senior High School students in Padang City who were taken \nby random sampling where they used Likari application during 60 days. This study was \ndesign as development research method used pre-test and post-test as instrument to \nmeasure the increasing of students` ability in mastering Japanese vocabulary. The \nresults of this study showed that the average scores of the students in mastering \nJapanese vocabulary was increased 40%. In addition, the results of interviews with \nstudents revealed that 90% of students felt more motivated and active in using the \napplication compared to conventional learning which was quite boring for students\nwhich popular called as generation Z. These findings indicated that Likari as a learning \napplication can be an effective solution in improving students` vocabulary mastery, \nespecially in learning Japanese.