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    Possible Gardens: cosmopolitical worlds

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    This article presents some of the reflections produced by the Possible Gardens research, which explores the world of gardens where living beings interact directly, creating multispecific worlds. It is directed toward everyday gardens, which are still very present in Brazilian cities. It uses comparative case studies of multiple exemplar cases throughout the Arrudas River territory in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The aim is to present the contributions of the Possible Gardens, this expanded category of garden understood as cosmopolitical worlds, to the thinking of contemporary cities based on ecological practices derived from urban daily life. In addition, it opens an understanding of the potential of gardens as a culturally relevant element, as an example and catalyst for environmental policies

    TeamSTEPPS and Organizational Culture

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    Patient safety issues remain despite several strategies developed for their deterrence. While many safety initiatives bring about improvement, they are repeatedly unsustainable and short-lived. The index hospital’s goal was to build an organizational culture within a groundwork that improves teamwork and continuing healthcare team engagement. Teamwork influences the efficiency of patient care, patient safety, and clinical outcomes, as it has been identified as an approach for enhancing collaboration, decreasing medical errors, and building a culture of safety in healthcare. The facility implemented Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS), an evidence-based framework which was used for team training to produce valuable and needed changes, facilitating modification of organizational culture, increasing patient safety compliance, or solving particular issues. This study aimed to identify the correlation between TeamSTEPPS enactment and improved organizational culture in the ambulatory care nursing department of a New York City public hospital

    Urbanised forested landscape: Urbanisation, timber extraction and forest care on the Vișeu Valley, northern Romania

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    By looking at urbanisation processes from the vantage point of the forest, and the ways in which it both constitutes our living space while having been separated from the bounded space of the urban in modern history, the thesis asks: How can we (re)imagine urbanisation beyond the limits of the urban? How can a feminine line of thinking engage with the forest beyond the capitalist-colonial paradigm and its extractive project? and How can we “think with care” (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017) towards the forest as an inhabitant of our common world, instead of perpetuating the image of the forest as a space outside the delimited boundaries of the city? Through a case study research, introducing the Vișeu Valley in northern Romania as both a site engaged in the circulation of the global timber flow, a part of what Brenner and Schmid (2014) name “planetary urbanisation”, where the extractive logging operations beginning in the late XVIIIth century have constructed it as an extractive landscape, and a more than human landscape inhabited by a multitude of beings (animal, plant, and human) the thesis argues towards the importance of forest care and indigenous knowledge in landscape management understood as a trans-generational transmission of knowledge, that is interdependent with the persistence of the landscape as such. Having a trans-scalar approach, the thesis investigates the ways in which the extractive projects of the capitalist-colonial paradigm have and still are shaping forested landscapes across the globe in order to situate the case as part of a planetary forest landscape and the contemporary debates it is engaged in. By engaging with emerging paradigms within the fields of plant communication, forestry, legal scholarship and landscape urbanism that present trees and forests as intelligent beings, and look at urbanisation as a way of inhabiting the landscape in both indigenous and modern cultures, the thesis argues towards viewing forested landscapes as more than human living spaces. Thinking urbanisation through the case of the Vișeu Valley’s urbanised forested landscape, the thesis aligns with alternate ways of viewing urbanisation as co-habitation with more than human beings, particularly those emerging from interdisciplinary research in the Amazon river basin (Tavares 2017, Heckenberger 2012) and, in light of emerging discourses on the rights of nature, proposes an expanded concept of planetary citizenship, to include non-human personhood

    Nudging towards autonomy:The effect of nudging on autonomous learning behavior in tertiary education

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    Systemic Circular Economy Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composites

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    This open access book provides an overview of the work undertaken within the FiberEUse project, which developed solutions enhancing the profitability of composite recycling and reuse in value-added products, with a cross-sectorial approach. Glass and carbon fiber reinforced polymers, or composites, are increasingly used as structural materials in many manufacturing sectors like transport, constructions and energy due to their better lightweight and corrosion resistance compared to metals. However, composite recycling is still a challenge since no significant added value in the recycling and reprocessing of composites is demonstrated. FiberEUse developed innovative solutions and business models towards sustainable Circular Economy solutions for post-use composite-made products. Three strategies are presented, namely mechanical recycling of short fibers, thermal recycling of long fibers and modular car parts design for sustainable disassembly and remanufacturing. The validation of the FiberEUse approach within eight industrial demonstrators shows the potentials towards new Circular Economy value-chains for composite materials

    Life in Health 2021: Research and Practice

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    This proceedings contain a selection of papers from the international interdisciplinary conference Life in Health 2021, which took place from 9 to 10 September 2021 in the Czech Republic at the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University. The papers focus on general as well as specific approaches to public health protection and promotion. The findings presented are based on research data and are applicable in health education and general education of children and the whole population

    Reshaping Higher Education for a Post-COVID-19 World: Lessons Learned and Moving Forward

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    Study spaces at ISEG : enhancing individual study in the library

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    Mestrado Bolonha em ManagementThe aim of this project is to understand the challenges that academic libraries are going through in this new digital era, where their main purpose is changing, from a place to store books to a more human centered space for people to gather, work and study. Particularly, it aims to understand how the current ISEG library can evolve and become a more relevant space for ISEG students for the times to come. Through a literature review, this project aims to understand how libraries around the world have been adapting, what philosophy they have been following to redesign their spaces to become more relevant and useful for their communities, and what conclusions have already been found for the renovation of libraries and study spaces to the current reality. A quantitative questionnaire was also used to gather more information for the project, allowing a deeper understanding of the current situation of ISEG's study spaces and its library. Through an online questionnaire, with 76 participants, it was possible to collect information on the study habits of ISEG students, understand their current needs in relation to the existing study spaces, and identify what are the needs for new services and resources. The analysis of these results confirmed that the library study spaces need to be updated, the library spaces at ISEG are used mainly to study and work, and not to access books or information, which reinforces the need to renovate these spaces, converting them into spaces more dedicated to study and work. At the end, potential solutions for the current ISEG spaces are presented, suggesting the best ways to adapt the ISEG library, based on all the information collected in literature and as well as based on the student’s opinions gather from the project questionnaire.O objetivo deste projeto é compreender os desafios que as bibliotecas académicas estão a enfrentar nesta nova era digital, onde o seu principal objetivo está a mudar, de um lugar feito para armazenar livros para um espaço mais centrado nas pessoas, onde estas se podem reunir, trabalhar e estudar. Este projeto pretende também compreender como a atual biblioteca do ISEG pode evoluir e tornar-se num espaço mais atrativo e relevante para os estudantes do ISEG para os tempos futuros. Através da revisão bibliográfica, este projeto pretende compreender como as bibliotecas ao redor do mundo têm vindo a adaptar-se, que filosofia têm seguido para redesenhar os seus espaços de modo a tornarem-se mais relevantes e úteis para as suas comunidades e que conclusões já foram encontradas sobre a renovação das bibliotecas e dos seus espaços de estudo para a atualidade. Foi também utilizado um questionário quantitativo para recolher mais informações para este projeto, permitindo uma compreensão mais profunda da situação atual dos espaços de estudo do ISEG e da sua biblioteca. Através de um questionário online, que contou com 76 participantes, foi possível recolher informações sobre os hábitos de estudo dos alunos do ISEG, compreender as suas necessidades atuais em relação aos espaços de estudo existentes e identificar quais são as necessidades de novos serviços e recursos. A análise destes resultados confirmou que os espaços de estudo da biblioteca precisam de ser atualizados, que são utilizados principalmente para estudar e trabalhar, e não para a consulta de livros ou informação, o que reforça a necessidade de renovar estes espaços, convertendo-os em espaços mais dedicados ao estudo e ao trabalho. No final, são apresentadas possíveis soluções para os atuais espaços do ISEG, sugerindo as melhores formas de adaptar a biblioteca do ISEG, com base em toda a informação recolhida na literatura e também com base nas opiniões dos estudantes recolhidas a partir do questionário do projeto.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

    A Closer Look into Recent Video-based Learning Research: A Comprehensive Review of Video Characteristics, Tools, Technologies, and Learning Effectiveness

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    People increasingly use videos on the Web as a source for learning. To support this way of learning, researchers and developers are continuously developing tools, proposing guidelines, analyzing data, and conducting experiments. However, it is still not clear what characteristics a video should have to be an effective learning medium. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of 257 articles on video-based learning for the period from 2016 to 2021. One of the aims of the review is to identify the video characteristics that have been explored by previous work. Based on our analysis, we suggest a taxonomy which organizes the video characteristics and contextual aspects into eight categories: (1) audio features, (2) visual features, (3) textual features, (4) instructor behavior, (5) learners activities, (6) interactive features (quizzes, etc.), (7) production style, and (8) instructional design. Also, we identify four representative research directions: (1) proposals of tools to support video-based learning, (2) studies with controlled experiments, (3) data analysis studies, and (4) proposals of design guidelines for learning videos. We find that the most explored characteristics are textual features followed by visual features, learner activities, and interactive features. Text of transcripts, video frames, and images (figures and illustrations) are most frequently used by tools that support learning through videos. The learner activity is heavily explored through log files in data analysis studies, and interactive features have been frequently scrutinized in controlled experiments. We complement our review by contrasting research findings that investigate the impact of video characteristics on the learning effectiveness, report on tasks and technologies used to develop tools that support learning, and summarize trends of design guidelines to produce learning video
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