This is a 6-page Policy Brief regarding the Potentials of 4IR Technologies in Nigeria's Agricultural Sector

AbstractBlended teaching has emerged as a trend in the digital learning environments of the post-COVID-19 era. In recent years, discussions on ’principled eclecticism’ have arisen in the field of foreign language education. Principled eclecticism advocates for teachers to integrate various teaching methods, techniques, and strategies, tailoring them to learners’ goals, needs, and situations to create diverse and flexible foreign language classes. Learner-centered diversified teaching not only aligns with the concept of hybrid teaching in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era but also coincides with the ’teaching in accordance with aptitude’ (yīncáishījiào) advocated in Confucius’ thought. A literature review revealed that ’principled eclecticism’ was proposed in 2000 and has been discussed in the context of English teaching. This study employed Boolean Logic to search for relevant Chinese and English terms in major academic research databases (Taiwan’s online Airiti Library, ERICDATA, National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan, China Academic Journals Full-text Databas (CJFD), China Masters’ Theses Full-text Database (CMFD), China Dissertations Database, EBSCOhost, ProQuest and ERIC- Education Resources Information Center), however, very little discussion on the application of principled eclecticism in the Chinese language teaching. A systematic literature review on the core concepts of principled eclecticism in foreign language education has been conducted in this study to fill the knowledge gap in Chinese language teaching research and practice. Applying principled eclecticism, this study has also developed a lesson plan, taking ’Wàngzǐchénglóng Wàngnǚchéngfèng’ (Hope children will have a bright future) as an example, for Chinese language teaching, as well as a checklist with 22 items for principled eclectic Chinese language teaching that can be applied in future research and practice.

Having read, with interest, an article by Allison Howell and Melanie Richter-Montpetit, “Is securitization theory racist? Civilizationism, methodological whiteness, and antiblack thought in the Copenhagen School”, I discovered that it contains a most fascinating example of academic racialization that a scholar of race and ethnicity would find hard, if not outright impossible, to ignore. Setting the ambitious goal of deconstructing the securitization theory and unveiling its “racist foundations” to the world for the first time, the authors undertake painstaking work: they extract rather startling elements from the theory they are working with (one of the central elements among them is “silence”), in order to assemble them into racist discourse and then subject said discourse to crushing criticism. In this brief essay, I shall attempt to deconstruct the aforementioned deconstruction, and thereby demonstrate that: 1) the theory criticized by A. Howell and M. Richter-Montpetit, is in fact new racist discourse; 2) the aim of racializing the securitization theory was to accrue academic capital; 3) the racialization of theories that were not originally racist adds more racism to the academic discourse.

This article examines the benefits of scenario analysis and futures thinking in assisting systematic change, as well as the effects and challenges of new disruptive digital technologies. New approaches to education and schooling should be considered in identifying the objectives and goals for young Australians’ education today and in the future in order to address and achieve such aims. It has been proposed that there are a number of moments when educators are ‘touching the future,’ and that scenario analysis and futures thinking can help predict the new shape of Australian education.

Financial metrics are used to evaluate the business’ activities and strategies. This study aims to determine the value relevance of financial metrics by using cross-sectional data. The sample of the study includes 300 publicly listed firms in both NYSE and NSDAQ. A correlation analysis reveals that the firm’s effectiveness is significantly related to liquidity, solvency, revenue growth, profitability and dividend metrics. The firm’s market value is significantly related to liquidity, solvency, profitability and dividends. The firm’s stock performance suggests mixed results wherein change in MPPS is influenced by liquidity, profitability, dividends and the firm’s effectiveness. A regression analysis of the firm’s effectiveness found that the financial metrics are relevant factors to the ROA however they are not relevant to the ROE. On the firm’s market value, the 12-month sales growth, 12-month EPS, and ROA are relevant to the P/S. In addition, the CR and DE are relevant to the P/B and the quarterly EPS and expected EPS are relevant to the PEG. Conversely, the financial metrics are not relevant to the P/E of the firm. On the firm’s stock performance, the financial metrics are relevant to the changes in MPPS in different periods. Primarily, the ROA is relevant to the change in MPPS in periods of 3 months, 6 months, and YTD. In a period of one (1) year, the DY and ROA are relevant to the change in MPPS. The findings empirically establish the value relevance of financial metrics and these give implication to firms and stakeholders.

Creativity and the ability to innovate are commonly pointed to as being core attributes of the competencies that organizations need to differentiate themselves and obtain comparative advantages in the competitive world of contemporary business. This premise has led to countless organizations requiring that the professionals they employ be creative, as opposed to having purely a command-control profile. Given this context, the main objective of this article is to investigate a sample of 7,924 graduates of executive development programs. These were alumni from more than 40 year-groups of executive education courses that were offered by a business school headquartered in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, and who between 2010 and 2016 underwent a MBTI instrument, a device for measuring individual psychological preferences (Myers & Myers, 1997) that was developed from Jung’s psychological types (Jung, 2013a). The expectation was that it would be possible to see by how much the profiles of these alumni had changed over the period investigated, with an increase in the psychological function, Intuition, as either dominant or auxiliary in the psychological types. The results, however, demonstrate a high preponderance of the Thinking and Sensing preferences, which are associated with command-control type professional profiles. The Intuition and Perceiving profiles, which are commonly related to creativity and innovation, had the lowest incidences throughout the historical series that was investigated.

This study of realpolitics that perennially occurs in Civic elections.

The data consist of comparing literature search with www.maex.nl database analysis.

Our findings suggest that learning mathematical concepts through i-Maths leaves favorable outcomes in distinct cognitive performance domains in young kids. Further research would need to unravel neurodynamics involved in such improvements.

We are… So, to reframe the inquiry: who are we on a metaphysical level? Which aspects of ourselves are the most universally representative of who we are? How do we fare in the face of the passage of time? For decades, philosophers have debated the concept of diachronic personal identity, which focuses on the question of what keeps us alive. An intricate debate has developed between those who hold the body view (animalism) and those who hold the psychological view (memory) on the question of who we are. The two groups will eventually become so firmly set in their views that they will be unable to compromise. Hylomorphic animalism, or the view that humans are rational animals, living bodies made of prime matter and a rational soul, is an alternative answer to this divisive question that I propose in this study, following in the footsteps of Aristotle and Aquinas. We only survive if matter and rational souls do.

The study examines how self-created women's informal social networks serve as avenues to learn and participate in entrepreneurship activities in developing countries.

This case study discusses research aspects relating to a Real Options model that values the strategies to lend or to idle a loan portfolio in a chaotic system. Here, discussion focuses on associating events with changes in data, and advocates the basis of data interpretations upon practices and events in the real world. The study examined data from annual reports for actively traded Philippine Universal Banks during an eight-year window of observation, from 2008 to 2015. A Real Options model was developed and forwarded to examine the lending behavior of these formal lending institutions as affected by income inflows, contingent claims, time, volatility, growth rates, a discount rate, and information asymmetry. This study expressed that actively traded Philippine Universal Banks should create more micro lending and risk mitigation facilities to encourage a more inclusive banking system.

The paper attempts to deconstruct the leadership phenomenon, with emphasis on competencies needed by leaders to thrive in turbulent situations. Leadership has been a topic that has garnered a lot of interest from researchers over the years and as a result of this, there are significant number of literatures on the subject matter. However, there have been discrepancies in definition on the role of leaders, specifically on leadership styles and which style of leadership can be considered the best for all situations. While, there are several discussions amongst scholars on the most appropriate leadership style for all situations, the paper attempts to elucidate that one major thing scholars agree on is that leadership is involves inspiring followers to achieve organizational objectives specifically evaluating the role of leaders as organizational stewards and their ability to restore the balance between an organization and its environment in turbulent times.

The purpose of this study is to explore the mediating mechanism of peer attachment in regulating internet addiction among rural adolescents. The method used the Likert five point self-report scale for field sampling, SPSS 25.0 software for data analysis, two tailed Pearson correlation analysis, and regression analysis. As a result, peer attachment has a direct impact of 0.36 on internet addiction and 0.48 on loneliness. Loneliness has a direct impact of 0.52 on internet addiction, with a mediating effect of loneliness is 0.249(0.48*0.52) ,it is a partial mediator. The impact of the interaction between high and low shyness and high and low peer attachment on loneliness is 0.44 and 0.12, respectively. In the moderated mediating effect, the indirect moderating effect of high shyness was 0.26, low shyness was 0.11, and the difference between the two groups was 0.15.Conclusion:Peer attachment has a positive impact on internet addiction among rural adolescents. Loneliness plays a mediating role in peer attachment and internet addiction. Shyness plays a differential regulatory role in the relationship between peer attachment and individual loneliness, and the indirect impact of peer attachment on internet addiction will be enhanced or weakened by the strength of the mediating effect of shyness’s differential regulation of loneliness.

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This article briefly discusses the accommodative politic of Indonesia’s Islamic civil society from the perspective of ideological background, society and role point of views during the period of New Order regime. During that time, Muslims was the group of societies that mostly experienced suppressions by the regime. To keep their existence, the Islamic civil society used a political approach that was accommodative to encounter the regime’s policy and diffuse within the government. Surprisingly, this ideological politic remained useful and grew during the New Order regime period, leading the main element in triggering the democratization process. The findings of this study show that the peoples’ social background and level of understanding on ideology, politic and sociological reality contributed to the effectiveness of the accommodative politic implementation. Furthermore, the Islamic society played a vital role as “driving” force in the democratization process in Indonesia, indicating that Islamic ideology is apparently in agreement with Democracy

When customers complain, they express their dissatisfaction with a company or a service provider and request that their complaints are processed. Accordingly, this paper tries to determine the role of perceived responsibility in managing complaints following a service dysfunction. After a review of the relevant literature, we propose a research model that estimates how perceived responsibility mediates the contribution of justice dimensions to customer satisfaction and this latter’s effect on the relationship between perceived quality and perceived justice dimensions. The proposed model is tested on a sample of 350 patients from several private clinics located in Tunis.

We use a broad range of material such as policy outlines, academic literature, and journalistic research to look at the impacts of natural disasters on critical infrastructures as well as on developments in creating resilient infrastructures, focusing on examples in the United States and Canada with a focus on a case study on Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017. This case study is based on a scoping review of the academic and grey literature on Hurricane Maria, its impacts on Puerto Rico and the response and recovery to the crisis.