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Patricia Caratozzolo
Patricia Caratozzolo is an Electronic Engineer from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (UBA). She completed her doctoral studies at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Spain, at the Institute of Industrial Robotics, with a Ph.D. thesis on electric generation systems for hybrid vehicles in June 2003. She worked for several years at the National Center for Technological Research and
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Destination Social Responsibility and Environmentally Responsible Behavior
The critical factor for sustainable destination development is the role of stakeholders as essential players in the process of sustainable destination development. Tourists have been acknowledged as significant stakeholders in destination management, exerting a substantial influence on the sustainability of tourism. It is possible that tourists, as members of society, have the same ethical and value-based perspectives that are advocated for by destination social responsibility (DSR) projects. Understanding the key factors contributing to environmentally responsible behavior (ERB) is imperative.
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Promoting AI Literacy for Children
The advancement of generative AI technologies underscores the need for AI literacy, particularly in elementary Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) education.
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Social Function of Emotional Contagion
The way to establish intimate social bonds is usually embedded in daily interactions, especially emotional interaction. Our emotions are often spontaneously influenced by others during an interaction. Researchers have broadly defined the phenomenon of emotion transferring from expressers to observers as “emotional contagion”. Emotional contagion is considered functional, as it facilitates interpersonal understanding, closeness, and coordination. Evidence supporting the social functioning perspective has revealed an association between emotional contagion and the quality of social bonds. 
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Artificial Intelligence Course Design Planning Framework
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become key in numerous domains, emphasizing the need for education in this field. The interdisciplinary nature of AI and its relevance across various sectors call for an integration of AI topics into university curricula. This article introduces the "AI Course Design Planning Framework", a comprehensive tool designed to structure the development of domain-specific AI courses at the university level. The AI Course Design Planning Framework forms a visual and practical tool for instructors and course developers in the higher education or professional education context with a special focus on non-computer science (non-CS) students. It can be used as a means to gather ideas, innovate, plan and communicate ideas for domain-specific AI courses. The framework can be used as a self-contained instrument for individuals, in tandem with AI and domain experts or in a workshop setting with multiple people. Scholars suggest filling it from left to right, first considering the questions on AI in the domain, the learning environment of the course and last, the course implementation.
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Assessment Tools Measuring Fundamental Movement Skills of Children
Childhood is the most sensitive period for the development of fundamental movement skills (FMS). The assessments also help identify strengths and weaknesses in coordination, balance, agility and other important skills.
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Women’s Leadership and COVID-19 Pandemic
International and national crises often highlight behavioral patterns in the labor market that illustrate women’s courage and adaptability in challenging times. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting changes in the workplace due to social distancing, remote work, and tele-communications protocols showcased women’s power of authenticity and accessibility (interpersonal and personalized experiences) to engage with their constituents effectively.
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Importance of Digital Platforms for Portuguese Local Media
In an era dominated by digital platforms and news applications, the media faces many challenges, mainly because they are no longer the only ones to control the ecosystem of news production and distribution. In this context, for news outlets, these digital platforms of we can include, between others, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, “become powerhouses of news distribution and production”, a “key for the success of news stories, and “the most effective way to cultivate new audiences”. Therefore, distribution has gained particular importance “as the owners of networks and content aggregators increasingly assert themselves as key players in negotiating power and ability to influence consumer and browsing behavior”.
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Enhanced Math Efficacy and Performance of Minority Students
Teacher support plays a crucial role in enhancing students’ mathematical performance as previous research has consistently shown. Given that students’ math performance in the United States has historically lagged that of other nations, it is imperative to investigate the teacher’s role in math education. Furthermore, it is essential to examine the impact of teacher support on academically at-risk students.
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Managing the Expectations of Doctoral Students and Their Supervisors: A UK Perspective
The management of expectations in doctoral education relates to the negotiation and agreement of a learning contract denoting actions and initiatives between a student and a supervisor. A learning contract is a set of understandings of what things, actions and initiatives might reasonably be expected from whom, in the course of learning, where there is a natural power imbalance. This is important so that both scholarly and material progress can be made along all points of the doctoral learning experience, i.e., that learning is personalised, professional and productive towards an original contribution of knowledge. It is the evidencing of this continual learning process through research that is deemed to be doctoral at the final examination stage. A doctoral student is a learner on the highest degree pathway that is available at all UK universities. This typically results in a thesis, marking the end point of being supervised whereupon an assessment or examination takes place, which, in UK universities, is called a viva voce (Latin: the living voice). This is a verbal account or defence of the thesis document by the student, made to two or three examiners who comprise the examination team. In the UK, the viva examination is a private event, while elsewhere, for example, across Europe and North America, the examination can be a public event. A student on a doctoral programme usually has a period of registration that is 3 years full-time or 6 years part-time. Other terms that can be used interchangeably around doctoral supervision are candidate (for the student) and candidature, which is their period of registration. Supervisors also have roles denoted as the Director of Studies (DoS) or Principal Investigator (PI). The supervision team is led by a Director of Studies (or PI) who is often the most experienced scholar who teaches, guides and mentors their student’s learning through the research they conduct. There are usually at least two supervisors in a supervision team in the UK, but there can be more as required depending upon the specialisms and topics being researched. Expectations formed by either the student or the supervisor(s) can be about physical resources to embark upon a passage of learning through a doctoral programme, or more typically, the discussion of expectations relates to managing the behaviours of students and supervisors in their respective roles. Managed expectations help to achieve a balance between the intellectual sharing of expertise by the supervisor with the self-directed initiatives for learning, which are taken by the student. The aim of managing expectations is to help a student move from dependence in their learning at the start of their programme to becoming an independent doctoral-level scholar who, once graduated as doctor, can act autonomously to conduct their own research, or even embark upon supervising others’ research in the future.
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