Current Continuing Professional Education Practice among Malaysian Nurses by Mei Chan Chong, Karen Francis, Simon Cooper, Khatijah Lim Abdullah

“…Only 80% (562) of the nurses had engaged in CPE activities during the past 12 months. …”
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Conversational Health Bots for Telemedicine Services: Survey by Sura Mahmood Abdullah, Abbas Mohsin Al-bakry, Alaa Kadhem Farhan

“…These conversational bots can engage in natural conversations and can be merged into websites, mobile apps, and messaging platforms. …”
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Multi-Modal Social Robot Behavioural Alignment and Learning Outcomes in Mediated Child–Robot Interactions by Paul Baxter

“…The results show that an adaptive robot is capable of engaging in behavioural alignment, and indicate that this leads to greater learning gains for the children. …”
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Factors influencing the sustainability of university-incubated agribusinesses: the role of stigma failure, personality and motivation in Kenya by Racheal Gladys Nakiganda, Dickson Otieno Okello, Hillary Kiplangat Bett

“…These could lower entrepreneurial opportunity cost and encourage more students to engage in sustainable agribusiness ventures.…”
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Landscape exposure and exercising for health: exposure to natural versus urban landscapes promotes walking for health by Hui-Ju Wu, Yevvon Yi-Chi Chang, Wen-Bin Chiou

“…In this task, the selection of a meeting point at a greater or lesser distance, along with the additional distance walked, were used as indicators of health-oriented walking behaviour.Results Participants exposed to natural settings were more likely to choose a distant meeting point for returning the pedometer and engaged in greater additional walking than those exposed to urban settings. …”
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Knowledge and Attitudes Relating to Women's Rights to Land Ownership by Lilian Oryema, Colbert ZZiwa Tamale, Brian Makabayi

“…Despite legal reforms, women in Africa, particularly Uganda, face discrimination and barriers in land ownership due to sociocultural norms and implementation gaps which has caused a problem of low numbers of women engaged in matters of their rights to land ownership yet women’s rights to land ownership are very important in the development of the country given their role in agriculture and the role they play in society. …”
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Bridging the cultural gap in Bible translation as a case in point by C. Nord

“…Together with my husband, Klaus Berger, who is a New Testament scholar at Heidelberg University, I was engaged in a fascinating project: We translated the texts of the New Testament plus a large number of apocrypha from the original Greek (and Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, and Arabic) into German. …”
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LABORATORY ELECTROCHEMISTRY “MYSTERY BOX”: FROM PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ OBSERVATIONS TO INFERENCES THROUGH PREDICT-OBSERVE-EXPLAIN STRATEGY by Carla Morais, Cidália André, Joana Alves, Gildo Girotto Jr.

“…Given the challenges associated with understanding electrochemistry content by engaging in prediction, observation, and explanation, laboratory activities can foster active participation and critical thinking, enabling individuals to proactively confront and revise their understanding. …”
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A Stylistic Analysis of Ṣeun Ògúnfìdítìmí’s Songs by Temidayo Akinrinlola

“…There have been multiple studies on traditional African songs. Such studies have engaged traditional African songs mostly from the non-linguistic perspectives. …”
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Reasons for school dropouts in suburban areas near Villupuram district: A retrospective study by D. Arthi, M. Rajalakshmi, Kalaiselvan Ganapathy

“…In general, those who struggle to engage behaviorally and/or academically drop out of school. …”
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Beyond Distribution: Critique of Spatial Justice Theories—Case Study of Shanghai’s 15-Minute City by Shengxi Xin, Qingyuan Guo

“…These disruptions diminished their capacity and willingness to engage with the new space, fostering a persistent sense of injustice. …”
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Fostering social participation among older adults: Perspectives of stakeholders by Maria Löfgren, Anneli Nyman, Ellinor Larsson, Gunilla Isaksson

“…Background Fostering social participation for active and healthy ageing among older adults is an urgent issue in a changing society that requires new approaches from occupational therapists as well as from society at large.Aim To explore possibilities to foster social participation for older adults in society from the perspective of stakeholders.Material and methods A qualitative design was applied. 18 key informants, engaged in supporting older adults in their organisational roles as either professionals or volunteers, participated in five different focus groups discussions.Results The results involved two overarching themes that reflects different perspectives on key informants’ possibilities to foster social participation for older adults. …”
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THE POLITICS OF INSECURITY REPORTAGE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by ISA SA’IDU

“…With the use of the Political Economy of Communication, Framing, Social Responsibility, and Agenda Setting Theories, the paper reviewed relevant literature and established how Nigerian media used their organisations to report the phenomenon of insecurity both for and against the country’s national interest.The study found that many media outlets, both new and conventional, have over the years engaged inan unethical practice that both exacerbates security challenges as well as threatens Nigeria’s corporate existence. …”
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Word wall media in teaching vocabulary to junior secondary school students: teacher’s practices, benefits, and challenges by Syamsul Huda, Windhariyati Dyah Kusumawanti

“…The application of word wall also benefited the EFL teacher in designing vocabulary teaching and learning that suited the students’ language target and managed the class in a more engaged way. Further, the teacher encountered some challenges in applying the word wall media, including student teamwork, application consistency, and the learning media’s practicality.…”
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IMPLEMENTING ETHNIC TOURISM AS A TOOL CONTRIBUTING TO THE DESTINATION COMMUNITY WELL-BEING IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, VIETNAM by Thi Thanh Kieu Nguyen

“…First, local wisdom and genuine characteristics of naivete, honesty, friendliness, and hospitality need to be promoted to attract visitors, while local residents need to be educated and trained to build capacity for improving tourism services and to actively engage in the tourism decision-making process. Second, improvements in political capital were strongly suggested to tackle common barriers to community empowerment and collaboration, tourism organizational structure, local policies, standards, and assessment procedures. …”
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Using the realistic mathematics education (RME) approach with scaffolding to enhance mathematical representation ability by Rizki Wahyu Yunian Putra, Sugeng Sutiarso, Nurhanurawati Nurhanurawati

“…During implementation, the model demonstrated practicality as students actively engaged with learning activities and gradually developed independence in problem-solving. …”
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La non-réciprocité d’un tiers induit la méfiance chez les singes capucins by James R Anderson, Benoit Bucher, Margaux Levasseur, Kazuo Fujita

“…In other words, the monkeys took a binary decision to engage preferentially with one actor at the expense of the other. …”
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The effectiveness of virtual journal clubs on evidence-based practices application by Beth Elenko

“…EBP integration is a cornerstone of entry-level healthcare curricula. Engaging students in VJCs provides them with opportunities to explore and apply learned skills independently and collaboratively, aligning with contemporary learning preferences.   …”
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A response to criticism of the global mental health movement. How polarization can be overcome in theory and in west African social psychiatric practice by Michael Huppertz

“…The following text primarily summarizes, classifies and critically engages with the basic arguments of the aforementioned critique. …”
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Measuring women's empowerment in aquaculture in northwestern Bangladesh using a project level women's empowerment in fisheries index (pro-WEFI). by Rahma I Adam, Surendran Rajaratnam, Farha Deba Sufian, Lucy Njogu

“…Drawing on a survey conducted in north-western Bangladesh, we examined quantitative pro-WEFI data collected from 217 households engaged in aquaculture. Only 33% of the women and 48% of the men in the sample achieved empowerment in aquaculture, attaining scores of 0.75 and above. …”
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