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Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, International economic integration, Economic geography

Developing business developing careers : how and why employers are supporting the career development of their employees

This publication sets out the case for employers to engage with the idea of career development

La eficacia de los programas para la infancia temprana

Con la creación e implementación de programas y políticas efectivas para la infancia temprana, la sociedad puede asegurarles a los niños cimientos sólidos para un futuro productivo. Cuatro décadas de investigación en evaluaciones han identificado programas innovadores que pueden mejorar una amplia gama de resultados con impactos que se prolongan hasta la edad adulta. Las intervenciones efectivas se fundamentan en la neurociencia y en la investigación sobre el desarrollo infantil y se guían por la evidencia sobre qué funciona y para qué propósito. Si se presta especial atención a su calidad y mejoramiento continuo, estos programas pueden ser costoefectivos y producir resultados positivos para los niños

Information professionals and copyright literacy: a multinational study

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present findings from a multinational survey on copyright literacy of specialists from libraries and other cultural institutions. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is based on a multinational survey of copyright literacy competencies of Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals and those who work in the cultural heritage sector (archives and museums), conducted in 13 countries, namely Bulgaria (BG), Croatia (CR), Finland (FI), France (FR), Hungary (HU), Lithuania (LT), Mexico (MX), Norway (NO), Portugal (PT), Romania (RO), Turkey (TR), UK and USA in the period July 2013-March 2015. An online survey instrument was developed in order to collect data from professionals regarding their familiarity with, knowledge and awareness of, and opinions on copyright-related issues. Findings: Findings of this study highlight gaps in existing knowledge of copyright, and information about the level of copyright literacy of LIS and cultural sector professionals. Also attitudes toward copyright learning content in academic education and continuing professional development training programs are investigated. Originality/value: This study aimed to address a gap in the literature by encompassing specialists from the cultural institutions in an international comparative context. The paper offers guidance for further understanding of copyright in a wider framework of digital and information literacy; and for the implementation of copyright policy, and the establishment of copyright advisor positions in cultural institutions. The recommendations support a revision of academic and continuing education programs learning curriculum and methods

From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts : A science-based approach to building a more promising future for young children and families

Half a century of program evaluation research has demonstrated repeatedly that effective early childhood services can improve life outcomes for children facing adversity, produce important benefits for society, and generate positive returns on investments. Policymakers and practitioners often invoke this evidence base to build support for existing programs, but the average magnitude of intervention effects has not increased substantially in 50 years, while the challenges most current programs were originally designed to address have become even more complex. During this same period, scientific understanding of the early origins of lifelong health and development has been advancing rapidly. These discoveries offer a compelling opportunity to generate creative, new approaches to problems that are not being resolved by existing services. The time has now come to raise the bar and leverage the frontiers of 21st-century science to pursue a bolder vision. While proposed solutions to these social and economic challenges fuel hotly contested partisan debates, knowledge about the foundations of healthy development is politically neutral and clear—whatever the source of the adversity, experiencing too much of it early in life without adequate support from adult caregivers (both inside and outside the home) is detrimental to child well-being. Although the full consequences of family structure, labor market transformations, K-16 education reform, and the cumulative toll of stress caused by discrimination and other social disadvantages all require serious attention, a deeper analysis of these issues is beyond the scope of this report. Instead, the document presents a research and development (R&D) approach that transcends partisan disagreement because it is built on a rigorously peer-reviewed, sciencebased understanding of how the foundations of learning, behavior, and health are built or weakened over time. Advances in neuroscience, molecular biology, and epigenetics offer an unprecedented opportunity to stimulate new responses to these complex social, economic, and political challenges by explaining why young children facing adversity are more likely to have disrupted developmental trajectories. Neuroscience is also producing extensive evidence suggesting that the later we wait to support families with children who are at greatest risk, the more difficult (and likely more costly) it will be to achieve positive outcomes, particularly for those who experience the biological disruptions of toxic stress during the earliest years. More specifically, at a time when the discourse around early childhood investments is dominated by debates over preschool for 4-yearolds, the biological sciences cry out for attending to a missing niche in the field—new strategies in the prenatal-to-three period for families facing adversity

Developing Comprehensive Diabetes Education Materials for Structured Patient Education Programs in Primary Care Setting

Diabetes education is a key factor for a successful diabetes care. Comprehensive diabetes education materials for conducting structured diabetes education programs were rarely found in primary care setting in Indonesia. There was a need for developing new, comprehensive diabetes education materials for low-literate readers. Developing these education materials followed standard steps in developing print materials, and took account tips for writing low literacy materials for poor readers. The new diabetes education materials consisted of ten various leaflets, also printed as14 posters and 14 x-banners. The ten diabetes leaflets were pre-tested to 5 people with type 2 diabetes (T2D). After minor revisions, the leaflets were printed and distributed to 88 people with T2D attending two structured diabetes education programs in Yogyakarta City. These 88 people were requested to evaluate the leaflets using an evaluation form consisting of four items on language usage, font size, use of pictures, and diabetes information with a 1-10 rating scale; and an open-ended question for improvement. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the results. Most participants thought that the leaflets were easy to understand and read, interesting, and simple. Majority of participants (79.7%) gave favorable comments without providing suggestions for improvement, such as: “The diabetes leaflets are already good and easy to understand” One third of the participants gave suggestions for improvement. The comprehensive diabetes leaflets developed were well received and highly appreciated by people with T2D attending diabetes education programs

Developing Students? Writing Skill on Recount Text by Using Photograph and Group Grid Technique

Kemampuan menulis adalah kemampuan yang sangat sulit bagi para murid Sekolah Menengah Pertama. Mereka kesulitan untuk menuliskan ide-ide mereka karena mereka merasa tidak percaya diri dalam menulis kalimat berbahasa Inggris. Olehkarena itu, peneliti menggunakan teknik group grid dan media foto untuk merangsang para murid mendapatkan ide-ide mereka dalam menulis bahasa Inggris.Penelitian ini adalah untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menulis para murid dalam menulis teks recount dengan teknik group grid dan media foto. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas. Peneliti menggunakan dua siklus. Setiapsiklus terdiri dari empat tahap yaitu perencanaan (planning), tindakan (acting), observasi (observing), dan refleksi (reflecting). Metode yang digunakan dalam pengumpulan data adalah tes, observasi, wawancara, dan kuesioner. Penelitian inimenggunakan teknik group grid dengan menggunakan media foto untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menulis para murid dalam menulis teks recount serta untuk mengetahui pencapaian dan respon para murid selama proses pembelajaran.Temuan dalam penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan dalam penguasaan murid dalam menulis teks recount. Hal itu dapat dilihat dari nilai rata-rata murid dalam pre-test yaitu 40.56. Kemudian, nilai rata-rata di posttest 1 adalah 72.93, dan nilai rata-rata post-test 2 adalah 78.12. Persentase kelas untuk murid yang nilainya diatas KKM dari post-test 1 adalah 53% dan post-test 2 adalah 84%. Respon para murid dalam implementasi teknik group grid dan media foto sangat bagus. Hal tersebut juga dapat dilihat dari hasilkuesioner dengan persentase nilai total tertinggi 96% dan nilai terendah 70%. Ratarata persentase yang didapat adalah 84%Berdasarkan perhitungan dari hasil data, bisa disimpulkan bahwa implementasi teknik group grid dan media foto dapatmeningkatkan kemampuan para murid dalam menulis teks recount

Developing criminal personas for designers

This paper describes a research method used to develop criminal personas for use by designers in a process called Cyclic Countering of Competitive Creativity (C4). Personas rather than profiles are developed to encourage designer ownership, to improve the level of engagement with countering the criminal mind, and encourage the responsibility to keep the personas live and developing, rather than be adopted as simple checklists built from available criminal profile data. In this case study indirect access to offender details was used to develop the personas. The aim was to give particular focus to the offenders’ ‘creative prompts’, which enable designers to more effectively counter their own design solutions, by a role-play approach to critical review and counter design. The C4 process enables learning through failure, and strengthens the development and selection that takes place within the design process, but C4 does rely upon the development of relevant and engaging personas to be effective

Developing Extensive Reading Material For Semester 2 Students Of YOGYAKARTA University Of Technology

This research study was aimed at developing extensive reading material for semester 2 students of Yogyakarta University of Technology. This research was a Research and Development study that included the steps of needs analysis, course grid design, product development, product validation, product revision, try-out, and study of the final product. This research developed ten units of extensive reading material. The extensive reading material was developed according to the needs analysis data.  The need of semester 2 students of Yogyakarta University of Technology is to improve their reading skills. The appropriate extensive reading material are describe the language skills clearly, look nice, give a lot practice, give feedback and let the learners know how to complete the tasks, give examples and tell the learners how to learn best. The needs-related appropriate extensive reading material in terms of their components are: the goal of learning reading is to improve the students' reading skills; the input presents interesting pictures and vocabulary list; the procedure presents interesting and enjoyable activities; the learners' role is as the active reader; the teacher's role is the feedback giver; and the setting is individual work. The needs-related arrangement of the components of appropriate extensive reading material in terms of their organisations are arranged into three stages, namely: introduction, exercises, and evaluatio