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Evaluating Healthcare Providers' Perception of the Value of Digital Technology in Supporting Healthcare Practices and Patient Wellness: Technology and Healthcare Delivery
Virtual Poster Sharon Laing
This study obtains healthcare providers perspectives on the role of digital technology in promoting health for low-resource patients. A focus group (fourteen providers) and key informant interviews (three providers) lasting sixty minutes were conducted. Respondents were medical doctors, behavioral health specialists, medical assistants, and nurse practitioners. The study questions the role of wearable devices in supporting health, the perceived barriers to incorporating patient health information from mobile devices into workflow, and the identification of information to support working with digitally-savvy patients. Responses were tape-recorded and later transcribed, data were analyzed for common themes, and respondents were offered $75 for participation. Healthcare providers (HCP) see benefits of mobile technology to promote patients’ health. They identify health status tracking capacity (depression, anxiety, blood pressure, and blood glucose) to be potentially valuable in advancing work with patients. Though interested in incorporating digital health data into healthcare practices, perceived barriers include added work load, and not knowing how to integrate new information into existing work systems. To effectively work with digitally-aware patients, HCP would benefit from information that helps to identify patients likely to use mobile technology, and information identifying evidence-based mobile devices, so that they can confidently recommend the devices to patients.
Exchange Rate Movements and Trade Balance in Four Association of Southeast Asian Nations' Emerging Markets
Virtual Poster Belinda S. Mandigma
Several studies were done in the past on the impact of the strengthening USD on emerging markets in general, but none specifically addressed how FX movement of domestic currencies in ASEAN-4 viz-a-viz the USD would affect exports and imports of goods and services. Since the sustained appreciation of the USD followed by a recent depreciation is anticipated to translate into financial spillovers to emerging markets like the ASEAN-4, this study measures this FX movements’ impact to the region particularly to the trade sector, which would consequently affect other sectors of the economy like the domestic consumers, OFWs and their beneficiaries, tourism sector, government, and private corporate sectors. This project will be of particularly significant help to sectors with USD stimulated economic, transaction and translation exposures at present and in the future. It is expected to enhance the understanding of individuals and companies on the real influence of exchange rates to ASEAN-4 foreign trade markets, thereby increasing their knowledge on how to mitigate their FX risks. That is, in any transaction involving the USD, they can explore alternative routes like choosing currency swap arrangements with other non- U.S. trading partners whose currencies are not pegged to the USD.
Sustaining Earth: Bringing Law, Society, and Sustainable Development Together
Virtual Poster Ravi Saxena
It is conceived that law has started regulating the multiple and continuously expanding territories of development. Resource management, integration of markets, global patterns of lifestyle, urbanization, and use of modern technology are viewed as the inseparable ingredients of human life and irrevocable elements of "development." History has proven that all human endeavors have conceived and acted upon some sense of development. Modern history is also a reference point where it seems that global society has come up with a concept of development that, in an unprecedented manner, interacts with the objective of achieving the goal of "human comfort." Such a design of development has received a global recognition by governments in particular and global society in general. Our social relations have primarily started emerging as of consumers and producers. The modern idea of development is conceived primarily as an economic one. It is understood as the primary indicator of national growth. It is narrowly defined in terms of GDP, national income, per capita income, and prosperity in general. Capital, concrete, and chip have become the cardinals of modern idea of development. Many discussions enquire into the relationship between law and the sustainability of the development-model are the backdrop of this critical commentary. As to how this modern development promises similar fruits to the many generations that are to come and how law can be an instrument in negating the ill-impact of this model of development, is the focal point of this research. What other factors are actually contributing to development?
Towards Shariah-compliant Credit Surety Funds: Identifying Opportunities and Challenges
Virtual Poster Ma. Josephine Theres Teves
Mindanao represents twenty-four percent of the Philippines’ population; yet, there are no Islamic financial products offered by any domestic institution, aside from Al Amanah Islamic Investment Bank (AAIIB). The recently enacted “Philippines’ Credit Surety Fund (CSF) Cooperative Act of 2015” offers a financing arrangement for those micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) experiencing difficulty in financing. This study determines the possibility of creating Shariah-compliant CSFs, compares Shariah-compliant financing characteristics with traditional financing, and investigates the existing Philippines’ Shariah screening methodology for financial products and services. The author conducted a one-on-one interview with the regulators from Cooperative Development Authority, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), and members of the Advisory Council of AAIIB regarding characteristics and objectives of the CSF and the methodologies and frameworks used in determining the Shariah compliance in financial products. Focused group discussions were done with Mindanao MSMEs representatives to gather issues and problems regarding their access to credit facilities. Results showed that the Philippines has no coherent, consistent, and inclusive set of regulations and standards for Shariah-compliant financial products and services. All regulatory decisions are on a per-industry basis and no universal methodology has been produced.
Borderlands of Coffee: Between Climatic Changes, Environmental Policies, and Market Volatility on the Chiapas-Guatemalan Border
Virtual Poster Celia Ruiz de Oña
Growing coffee has been until recent times the main source of income for thousands of people in Mexico and Latin America. Climatic changes, local environmental degradation, unusual pest outbreaks, and social and political disorganization are configuring highly vulnerable landscapes, where local and global scales are interacting in a myriad of pathways, depending on local culture and historic particularities. However, international market volatility and its associated uncertainty is a common feature to all of them. Such vulnerability is here explored in the borderlands of Chiapas and Guatemala, belonging to the Tacana Volcano Biosphere Reserve. Post-colonial legacies, the influence of environmental international policies, and a political culture of governmental clientelism and paternalism come into play in a high mountain ecosystem, hit regularly by seismic and volcanic activity, together with increasing natural disasters. Coffee productivity, impacts of coffee leaf-rust, climatic variability perceptions, and scientific-local knowledge interactions are some of the topics explored through ethnographic methods along with questionnaires, as a part of an ongoing project whose final objective has to do with interactions between global discourses and local narratives regarding climate change in the Tacana hills on both sides of the border.
Cause-related Marketing in a Cross-cultural Context: Awareness of and Attitudes towards Cause-related Marketing among Young Consumers from Different Cultures
Virtual Poster Delia Jackson, Silke Maria Engelbart
Corporate social responsibility and cause-related marketing are increasingly used by brands and NGOs as both gain from such partnerships. This strategy has worked well in individualistic cultures, mainly the USA. Vaidyanathan et al (2013) asked if the “impact of tying products to social causes translates across cultures?” Most of the research into CSR has been carried out with participants from one culture and there appears to be a paucity of research into a comparison of how CSR is regarded within different cultures. Therefore, this paper asks how aware are consumers from different cultures in Europe and Asia about the existence of CSR and what values do they attach to CSR? This paper will build on the research by Vaidynathan et al (2013), using student participants in focus groups from the Czech Republic, France, and China. The paper will be of importance to practitioners and marketers operating in different cultures who are engaging in cause related marketing.
The Relationship among Different Types of Children's Aggression, Empathy, and Self-Control
Virtual Poster Helen Vrailas Bateman
Children's aggressive behavior is a major problem in our society and in our schools. Aggressive children display lower levels of academic achievement, are more likely to engage in other types of deviant behavior, and more likely to drop out of school. Understanding the mechanisms through which aggressive behavior is generated can help us create interventions aimed at reducing aggression in children. This study examines the mechanisms that drive aggressive behavior in school-age children. We are particularly interested in examining the relationship among different types of aggressive behaviors (physical and relational, proactive and reactive) and children's empathy and self-control. Seventy middle-school children from a rural school located in the Southeastern United States participated in the study. Students completed a series of self-report measures including measures in social skills and aggressive behavior. We hypothesized that children who displayed higher levels of aggressive behavior (both physical and relational) would display lower levels of empathy and self-control. Our findings offered support to our hypothesis. More specifically, we found that children's aggressive behaviors (proactive physical, reactive physical, proactive relational, reactive relational) were negatively correlated with children's empathy and self-control. Our findings suggest that one of the mechanisms through which we could reduce the levels of both physical and relational aggression in children is to teach children empathy and self-control skills.
Heteronormativity, Sexuality, and Gender in The Ring of the Dove by Ibn Hazm of Cordoba
Virtual Poster Raul Ruiz Cecilia, Borjan Grozdanoski
The main objective of this study is to decode the hidden heteronormative discourses as well as to uncover issues related to sex and gender in The Ring of the Dove by Ibn Hazm of Cordova. At the same time, we are discussing the feminine voice and the homoeroticism of the author and the characters. This work tends to uncover the hidden queer identities, gender, and sex within the verses. The methodology applied in the research consists of selective literary analysis which enabled us to find the specific lines where the above mentioned aspects are to be found. As a result of our investigation we have realised that this treatise is abundant with scenes and descriptions which demonstrate the consciousness of sexual rights and liberties in Andalusian society. In conclusion, unlike the rest of Europe, the society of Al-Andalus was very liberated from medieval dogmatic shackles in respect of sexuality and gender affiliation.
Racism in Schools: Analysis of the Attitudes of Fifth Grade Spanish and Greek Students Towards Refugee Children
Virtual Poster Georgia Angelidou, Eva María Aguaded-Ramírez
In 2015, in Europe developed the largest refugee crisis since the World War II, with the increase of people who crossed the Mediterranean Sea, seeking protection. It is estimated that half of the refugees and asylum seekers corresponds to children. In order for these minors not to lose opportunities, host countries worked in order to have refugee children access education both into the refugee camps and in public schools. However, not in all cases, they were welcome. The objective of this research is to measure the attitudes of Spanish and Greek students of the fifth grade towards refugee children and to check whether they accept the schooling of the refugee minors. A survey was conducted, in which 188 Spanish and 120 Greek students, from schools in the city of Granada and Alexandroupolis, participated, applying quantitative methods. Results show the students generally accept the schooling of the refugee children in the classes, believe that their arrival can be enriching, and respect refugee´s rights. In conclusion, the vast majority of respondents have a positive attitude towards refugee children.
