How will tourism and hospitality education have to change in 5, 10 and 15 years' time for the global citizen student?

Higher Education within the UK is experiencing many changes, one of which is the changing nature of graduate profiles (Higher Education Academy, 2014). Traditionally Tourism and Hospitality education was predominately composed of home students. In recent years this has changed to include more international students. Our longitudinal research study of four years indicated that those international students’ encounter challenges when adapting to the UK University teaching systems, developing employability skills and integrating within the community. To address these challenges the lecturing team created a conceptual framework named The Learning, Assessment, Pastoral (LAP) conceptual Framework, which provides for a theoretical model perpetuating the concepts of incremental learning, critical thinking; volunteering, competitive spirit and mentoring. The entrenched framework formulation enables students to build confidence and a sense of belonging as well as an appreciation of the teaching, learning and assessment styles

The Lessons learned from Covid-19, and the Implications for LMS Use to Support Student Success

In order to smoothly transition to the online educational platforms, after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the integration of learning management systems (LMS) becomes vital for developing countries to keep up with the dynamic international educational context. With the worldwide lockdown, due to COVID-19, and the transition to online learning, some students are satisfied with the support provided by educational institutions. Still, deficient computer skills, and lack of teacher training (Toquero & Talidong, 2020) issues, regarding curriculum, assessment, and accountability, prevented them from perceiving their improved performances in the new teaching environment in most of the developing countries (Aristovnik et al., 2020). This paper will explore how to address these challenges, considered a result of the limited numbers of trained teachers, inadequate management systems for teacher recruitment, training, performance, evaluation, and a relatively outdated curriculum, and consider more effective instructional approaches with the incorporation of learning management systems (LMS)

The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Ontario University Educational Policies for International Graduate Students: A Conceptual, Institutional and Auto-Ethnographic Analysis

This study explored the role of emotional intelligence (EI) among international students adjusting to life in different universities in Ontario and the institutional support provided to them to develop their EI. The study included an in-depth review of literature based on different frameworks of cultural adjustments and EI, as well as a comprehensive analysis of the policy documents (e.g., policy management guide or handbook) available online of 3 similar-sized, student-focused, research-based universities in Ontario with significant international programs. The study also includes an auto-ethnographic account of the experiences I dealt with during my university years. I reflected on the hurdles and challenges I experienced in making my social and emotional adjustments here in Ontario. Overall, the data from the conceptual analysis and auto-ethnography afforded a cross-comparison of the 3 university policies and helped me establish a set of recommendations for universities to incorporate multiple components of EI into their international university policies services to develop components like mindfulness, self-regulation, and stress management for the future international graduate students

Saudis trust and confidence in information sources about chemical pollution

The presence of toxic chemicals in the environment has drawn increasing concern in Saudi Arabia in recent years. Public health officials recognize a direct link between health problems and exposure to these chemicals. To communicate information on chemical pollution health risks effectively, policy makers must know population source of information and the confidence level in this information. This study investigated the Saudis ratings of different sources of information about health risks posed by chemicals pollution, confidence in these information sources, responsibility for public health risk protection and fulfillment. A written questionnaire designed and developed as a descriptive survey, which was distributed to a random sample of 850 individuals in Al-Baha region. The overall response rate was 68%. Data analyses were conducted using SPSS. Participants described receiving "a lot" of information from television and radio (38%) followed by the internet (35%), and friends and relatives (31%) with females rating these three sources higher than men. National and state environmental groups (2%), local community groups (3%) and private industry (4%) were the least rated sources. Respondents most frequently had "a lot" of confidence in medical doctors (39%) followed by television and radio (31%), and friends and relatives (15%). Responsibility for protecting the public from health risks was found to rest mainly on municipality health departments and province levels of government. It has been obvious that private industry and individual citizens had low responsibility for health risks. Greater than 70% of respondents felt that the fulfillment of responsibility was not adequate for all groups. This indicates that there is a defect in health risks communication and no substantial satisfaction with health risks management.Key words: Information sources, health risk, confidence in source of information, responsibility for health protection

Pathways to inflated responsibility beliefs in adolescent obsessive-compulsive disorder: a preliminary investigation

Background: An inflated sense of responsibility is characteristic of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). No previous studies have investigated its origins. Five potential pathways to inflated responsibility beliefs have been proposed; these are tested in this study. Method: A novel measure, the Origins Questionnaire for Adolescents (OQA), was developed to assess experiences on these five pathways. Reliability of the OQA was investigated. The experiences on the five pathways to inflated responsibility beliefs of sixteen adolescents with a history of OCD were compared to sixteen adolescents with no history of OCD. Parents also reported on adolescents’ experiences on the five pathways. Results: Inter-rater reliability was high. The internal consistency of the subscales were only partly satisfactory. The groups differed on one pathway; the clinical group reported a higher sense of responsibility for significant incidents with a negative outcome prior to onset of OCD. Conclusions: An inflated sense of responsibility, in combination with the occurrence of specific incidents, might act as a vulnerability factor for development of OCD. Future research should consider how to measure the subtle effects of experiences of responsibility over the course of development

Nascent polypeptide chains exit the ribosome in the same relative position in both eucaryotes and procaryotes.

We located the polypeptide nascent chain as it leaves cytoplasmic ribosomes from the plant Lemna gibba by immune electron microscopy using antibodies against the small subunit of the enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase. Similar studies with Escherichia coli ribosomes, using antibodies directed against the enzyme beta-galactosidase, show that the polypeptide nascent chain emerges in the same relative position in plants and bacteria. The eucaryotic ribosomal exit site is on the large subunit, approximately 75 A from the interface between subunits and nearly 160 A from the central protuberance, the presumed site for peptidyl transfer. This is the first functional site on both the eucaryotic and procaryotic ribosomes to be determined

Rotor Current Control Design for DFIG-based Wind Turbine Using PI, FLC and Fuzzy PI Controllers

Due to the rising demand for electricity with increasing world population, maximizing renewable energy capture through efficient control systems is gaining attention in literature. Wind energy, in particular, is considered the world’s fastest-growing energy source it is one of the most efficient, reliable and affordable renewable energy sources. Subsequently, well-designed control systems are required to maximize the benefits, represented by power capture, of wind turbines. In this thesis, a 2.0-MW Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) wind turbine is presented along with new controllers designed to maximize the wind power capturer. The proposed designs mainly focus on controlling the DFIG rotor current in order to allow the system to operate at a certain current value that maximizes the energy capture at different wind speeds. The simulated model consists of a single two-mass wind turbine connected directly to the power grid. A general model consisting of aerodynamic, mechanical, electrical, and control systems are simulated using Matlab/Simulink. An indirect speed controller is designed to force the aerodynamic torque to follow the maximum power curve in response to wind variations, while a vector controller for current loops is designed to control the rotor side converter. The control system design techniques considered in this work are Proportional-Integral (PI), fuzzy logic, and fuzzy-PI controllers. The obtained results show that the fuzzy-PI controller meets the required specifications by exhibiting the best steady-state response, in terms of steady-state error and settling time, for some DFIG parameters such as rotor speed, rotor currents and electromagnetic torque. Although the fuzzy logic controller exhibits smaller peak overshoot and undershoot values when compared to the fuzzy-PI, the peak value difference is very small, which can be compensated using protection equipment such as circuit breakers and resistor banks. On the other hand, the PI controller shows the highest overshoot, undershoot and settling time values, while the fuzzy logic controller does not meet the requirements as it exhibits large, steady-state error values

A Survey on Phishing Attacks in Cyberspace

Phishing is a type of cyber attack in which cybercriminals use various advanced techniques to deceive people, such as creating fake webpages or malicious e-mails. The objective of phishing attacks is to gather personal data, money, or personal information from victims illegally. The primary aim of this review is to survey the literature on phishing attacks in cyberspace. It discusses different types of phishing attacks, such as spear phishing, e-mail spoofing, phone phishing, web spoofing, and angler phishing, as well as negative consequences they may cause for people. Phishing is typically carried out through different delivery methods such as e-mail, phone calls, or messaging. Victims of phishing are usually either not sensitive to privacy protection or do not have enough knowledge about social engineering attacks to know they are at risk. In addition, this paper introduces different methods for detecting phishing attacks. The last section discusses certain limitations of existing studies on phishing detection and potential future researc

Consumer’s Attitude towards Purchasing Green Food

Green marketing is a new trend which is now growing worldwide; and green food producing by green agriculture is the part of green marketing. This paper aims to analyze consumers’ attitude toward green food in Bangladesh. A survey of 50 respondents was conducted in Dhaka city through a structured questionnaire. Then this study identified the factors of consumers’ idea about green food, its perceived benefits, risks, consumers’ willingness to buy green food etc. This paper also tries to identify how consumers evaluate this new concept of green food. The researchers want to know whether consumers of our country will buy green food or they will reject it if this type of product will be being available in our country and to what extend the price will be important in this case. The customers responded very positively towards the green marking. Some implications and suggested actions are provided to the suppliers and producers, government, and consumers to develop the market of green food in Bangladesh. Keywords: China Insurance Industry, Foreign Fund, Challenge

Oxo/dioxo-vanadium(V) complexes with Schiff base ligands derived from 4-amino-5-mercapto-3-phenyl-1,2,4-triazole

Vanadium complexes containing Schiff base ligands are of great importance and have numerous applications. A series of Schiff base ligands derived from 4-amino-5-mercapto-3-phenyl-1,2,4-triazole and different aldehydes were synthesized and combined with ammonium metavanadate in 2:1 and 1:1 molar ration to yield oxo- and dioxo-vanadium(V) complexes NH4[VO(La-f)2] and NH4[VO2(Lg-h)2], respectively. The structure of the synthesized compounds was confirmed by elemental analysis, UV, IR, NMR, MS and TGA. Complexes with bidentate and tridentate ligands were expected to possess a distorted square-pyramidal structure. The ligands and their complexes have been examined for antimicrobial activity against six types of bacteria and one kind of fungus that widely distributed in Albaha region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The results indicate that some of the complexes were active against C. albicans fungus when used as powder, and no sound activity were shown against any type of tested bacteria