TRANSLATION MEMORY SOFTWARE AND TRANSLATION TEACHING

This research was concerned with the application of Translation Memory (TM) software to teaching translation at university level of education in Indonesia. This study employed quantitative and qualitative approach. Quantitative approach was intended to find out whether or not TM software improves students’ translation quality, and qualitative approach was applied to explore students' views on the classroom use of TM software. To find out whether or not TM software improves students’ translation, their translations were collected and analyzed quantitatively; and students’ views were analyzed from their journals and interviews. The results of the study offered an evidence that there was no significant difference between students who used TM software and those who did not. Even so, students viewed that TM software should be included into the process of translation teaching and learning activities

The Effect of COVID-19 on Family Support for Home-Schooling in Urban Areas

The objective of the study is to clarify that the family participated in COVID-19 as a home-schooling family. The sample was selected according to the geographical distribution of schools in the eastern region of Khartoum. Data was collected through a questionnaire and interviews. The most important result is that there is an increasing interest from parents to support home-schooling despite the challenges of continuing learning, such as the widening digital divide in technology, previous experience, and poor network connectivity. This research paper focused on the point of view of parents in the city of Khartoum on supporting home-schooling according to social variables related to both mother and father, and the paper concluded that parents of students in private schools are more supportive of home education. Also, most of the parents of students who support home-schooling have reached their university level of education and post-university and belong to the youth age group. Although parents emphasize the importance of home-schooling during the COVID-19 infection, there are challenges associated with providing home-schooling for their children. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2023-07-05-021 Full Text: PD

The relationship marketing as a determinant of customer satisfaction in Islamic banking services management

The purpose of this study is to identify the dimensions that determine whether customer satisfaction in Islamic banking services has been conducted at the Institusi Pengajian Tinggi Awam (IPTA) in Perlis involving two institutions, namely Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP) and Universiti Teknologi Mara (UITM) Perlis.The collection of the principal data was accomplished by using a survey paper to answer the study’s research questions.It involved 224 customers using the Islamic banking services.This study was analysed using the Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS) by applying descriptive analysis and inferential analysis (Independent T-test, One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Correlation Pearson). This study finds that there are some different relationships in terms of position at the university level of education in the demographic characteristics analysis towards customer satisfaction. Most of the dimensions related to customer satisfaction in the Islamic banking services are positively correlated with each other (commitment, product knowledge, competence, service encounter).This study proves that this research is useful to academicians by providing new empirical evidence of relationship marketing with customer satisfaction in the Islamic banking industry.The results of this study can encourage bank managers to learn how to improve commitment, product knowledge, competence and service encounter in Islamic banks’ services to customers

School Violence Prevention in High Secondary Education in Kosovo and the Role of School Psychologists

This present study explores the prevalence of school violence in the pre-university level of education in Kosovo. Despite the underreported cases, school violence is common and a distressing issue. Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEST) in Kosovo has adopted prevention-based approach towards school violence since 2014 (with a revision in 2018) and regulated that each school must have at least one School Psychologist (SP). Despite the reform efforts, the implementation of such regulations is incomplete. The current study hypothesized that school violence rates are higher in urban schools thus prevention-based programs are more likely to be implemented in these schools; and that SPs do not take part in the implementation of prevention-based programs. The results, based on an analysis of secondary and primary data, did not provide enough support that urban schools tend to have higher implementation levels of prevention programs; whereas the second hypothesis was confirmed by the data, in that SPs’ role is minimal to non-existent in school violence prevention. Since the role of SPs in violence prevention in Kosovo’s schools is an under researched topic, this present study provides insightful evidence and serves as a starting point for further research and discussion on this issue

Family planning: formal health care providers’ challenges in the district of Antananarivo Avaradrano

Background: Recorded contraceptive prevalence may not represent all the women using contraceptives. Nevertheless, it serves as a fundamental tool in decision-making at Ministry and international level. This study aims to determine the actual contraceptive prevalence and identify factors determining users’ positions about modern contraception and local services deliveries in the district of Antananarivo Avaradrano.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted, where an interviewer-administered questionnaire has been used to collect data. Targeted female respondents aged 18-39 were asked about their contraceptive use, knowledge and information sources on family planning, perception of social support and perception on the local health care providers.Results: Contraceptive prevalence is underestimated. Moreover, it is higher among women aged 35 to 39 and those having two children or more, but lower among those who have reached university level of education. Women who are able to tell two benefits of family planning, informed by the community health agents (CHA), and deciding with their partners on contraception use are more likely to use contraceptives on a regular basis. Women complain on their poor relationship with health care providers and doubt about their real competence.Conclusions: This study demonstrates the evidence of an underestimation of contraceptive prevalence. The challenge is how to collect reliable data, thus recording systems have to be improved. Besides, government efforts in increasing contraceptive use ought to be targeted on adolescents and young people aged 20-25, the couple itself, health-care provider – woman relationship, and on the CHA’s activities.

Prevalence and Predictors of Smoking in a Mining Town in Kitwe, Zambia: A 2011 Population-Based Survey

Smoking is one of the major preventable causes of death and non-communicable diseases which include hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and cancers. The aim of the study is to establish prevalence and predictors of smoking so that interventions specific to these communities can be executed to prevent smoking. A cross sectional study was conducted using a modified World Health Organizations Global Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) Surveillance Initiative NCD-STEPs 1 and 2. Multivariate logistic regression was used to examine the determinants of tobacco smoking. A total of 1627 individuals participated in the survey, of which 42.3% were males. About half of the participants were of age 25-34 years (56.0%), and 41.7% had attained secondary level of education. Overall, 8.7% of the participants (18.1% among males and 1.8% among females) currently smoked any tobacco product. Female respondents were 71% (AOR = 0.29, 95%CI [0.21, 0.39]) less likely to smoke cigarettes compared to male respondents. Compared to respondents who had no formal education, respondents who had attained primary level of education were 45% (AOR = 1.45, 95%CI [1.02, 2.08]) more likely to smoke, and those who attained college or university level of education were 57% (AOR = 0.43, 95%CI [0.28, 0.65]) less likely to smoke. Respondents who did not consume alcohol were 50% (AOR = 0.50, 95%CI [0.41, 0.61]) less likely to smoke compared to those who consumed alcohol. The study showed that sex, education, and alcohol consumption were independently associated with Smoking. These are the key determinants which should be considered when designing a health education and awareness campaign to the residents

Sources of Information about Dietary Fibre: A Cross-Country Survey

Dietary fibre (DF) has been recognized as a major determinant for improvement of health. Hence the means of information through which people become aware of its benefits are crucial. This work aimed at studying the sources of information about DF, as a means to educate people about aspects related to healthy eating. Factors such as gender, level of education, living environment or country were evaluated as to their effect on the selection of sources and preferences. For this, a descriptive cross-sectional study by means of a questionnaire, applied to a non-probabilistic sample of 6010 participants from 10 countries in different continents (Europe, Africa and America), answered after informed consent by all participants. For the analysis were used several descriptive statistics tools, crosstabs and chi square test to assess the relations between some of the variables under study. The results showed that mostly the information about DF comes from the internet, but the participants recognize that television might be a most suitable way to disseminate information about DF. The results also indicated differences between genders, levels of education, living environments and countries. The internet, the preferred source of information, got highest scores for Hungary, for urban areas, for university level of education and for female gender. The radio, the least scored source of information, was preferred in Egypt, for men and with lower education (primary school). As a conclusion, people get information through the internet due to easy access. However, it is to some extent a risk given the impossibility to control de information made public on the internet. The role of health centers and hospitals as well as schools should definitely be increased, as a responsible way to ensure correct information

Progression and management of Prediabetes by socioeconomic status and health care consumption. The Tromsø Study 2007-2016

Background: Socioeconomic status and healthcare consumption are considered predictors of diabetes development and quality of blood glucose management. However, studies on the association between socioeconomic status and healthcare consumption in people with prediabetes and these outcomes are scarce. Objective: To examine the relationship between the development of diabetes in people with prediabetes and socioeconomic status as well as healthcare consumption. Furthermore, blood glucose management in people with prediabetes is also examined as diabetic complications usually occur before the diagnosis of diabetes and can be prevented by screening and early management. Methods: I used a cohort study using data from two waves of the population-based Tromsø Study utilizing socioeconomic variables, anthropometric variables, healthcare consumption, exercise, and smoking information collected from the questionnaire, and HbA1c data collected from laboratory data along with demographic and information on personal and family history of diabetes. These variables are analyzed using binary logistic regression analysis, linear regression analysis, and mediation analysis. Main results: From the 2690 participants with prediabetes included in wave 6 of the Tromsø Study, 304 representing 11.3% of participants had developed diabetes at follow up 7-8 years later (wave 7 of the Tromsø Study). Those with an upper secondary level of education had 54% higher odds of a diagnosis of diabetes relative to those with four or more years of college/university level of education. While there was a 0.06-unit change in HbA1c levels in participants with the lowest levels of education compared to those with the highest. Furthermore, those with 5 or more GP visits over the 12 months prior to Tromsø 6 had 74% higher odds of getting diagnosed with diabetes than those with 1 visit. Conclusions: While the association of healthcare consumption on the progression of the disease in the study participants is not established, there is a socioeconomic association with the development of diabetes and glycemic management

Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Identity: a French-Argentine Comparative Study

This study forms part of the author’s longstanding research regarding social, educational and professional mobility observed in Argentina across three generations, associated with the factor of Education and with the greater flow of immigrants in the last century. This research encompasses various smaller studies. Here we mention one, a French-Argentine comparative study in which we worked with PhDs from different institutions and different social science PhD programs. Our objective was: a) to analyze what factors (quantitative) and what reasons (qualitative) positively and negatively impacted professional pathways (career mobility); b) to observe the level of educational mobility present in families with PhDs, taking the issue from different paradigms (reproductionist/interactionist): University of elites? University of the masses? The methodology was both quantitative and qualitative, using semi-structured surveys (which included open-ended statements so respondents could expand); the hierarchical evocation technique and interviews. Results: a) we observed the intergenerational educational mobility of PhDs (quantitative-descriptive level); b) we understood some of the “reasons” and “sense” that underlie said mobility and that have either acted as driving forces or have not acted as driving forces of social and cultural-educational promotion (qualitative level). c) We found similar levels of intergenerational educational mobility for PhDs in France and Argentina (graduates of various PhD programs). This result is interesting in the face of well-held myths of educational “hypo mobility” , intergenerational drops in mobility, stagnation, a lack of educational/cultural promotion under “plafond” effects, or a saturation of degree holders, above all in developed countries. From the point of view of identity, this high level of intergenerational educational mobility impacted national, institutional and micro individual identity; three planes in sustained interaction using the author’s theory: The Three Dimensional Spiral of Sense ((2015 a and b).Fil: Aparicio, Miriam Teresita. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mendoza; Argentin