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PurposeThis paper aims to find a suitable structure for a practitioner's handbook that addresses the structural elements of the business continuity (BC) practice.Design/methodology/approachThe case study using the mixed method, quantitative with a questionnaire and conceptual research approach was what has been chosen. The four steps to the research process are outlined: one, choosing the topic, two, collecting relevant literature, three, identifying specific variables and four, generating a structure. The design brought on by years of experience, should be put into an organised system and handbook that can be reused, without having to reinvent the wheel.FindingsA BC handbook should be as relevant to the executives and management as to their employees. By adopting a BC practice in a government department, state-owned entity, agency or municipality. Assurance will be ascertained for reliable, improved service delivery and reputation with much less interruption. Therefore a handbook with a "cradle to the grave” BC approach should outline, with examples of standards, awareness, policy, BC programme plan, BC structures, business impact and risk analysis, strategy, budgets, scorecards, monitoring and evaluation, recovery and BC plans, together with the audit and an International Standards Organization (ISO) 22301 certification process.Research limitations/implicationsThe research was limited to literature, questionnaires and identified variables pertaining to BC management (BCM) in the South African Government.Practical implicationsThe implications of the case study is that out of the variables identified and the relevant literature and standards, a structure for a relevant post-COVID-19 government practitioner's handbook could be made available.Social implicationsThe use of a BCM handbook for government would assist in the continuation of services through manmade and natural disasters. The service to the citizen, including but not limited to water, electricity, sanitation, medical and health services, and the food supply chain are just a few areas that can be positively impacted upon by good BCM. By implication the reliance of government structure are treated most in time of disasters as experienced through the two year period of the COVID-19 pandemic.Originality/valueThe government departments in South Africa do not have or have not implemented BCM due to the lack of clear guidelines. The COVID-19 pandemic however had accelerated the requirement for a top down BCM approach. To ensure that the scope of BCM is not limited, the possibility of having a set handbook for the government practitioner will ensure that service quality remains intact. Such a handbook related to government BCM practice is long outstanding.
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Carter reviews Arts Therapies and the Mental Health of Children and Young People: Contemporary Research, Theory and Practice edited by U. Herrmann, M H. De Zárate, & S. Pitruzzella.
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The book was written with the COVID-19 pandemic as a backdrop and discusses the ways in which virtual ministry has impacted how priests do their work, and the Catholic community as whole. The editor, Peter Lah an associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, devotes several pages to a historical overview of how new technologies have been used in the church over the decades, allowing for lasting change and globalization opportunities. Unlike other chapters in this book, here we see a deeper explanation of social media concepts and an explanation for this overarching study, before diving into the case study. In the final case study, Researcher Olivier Gangola focused on the Archdiocese of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is quite large.
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Since July 2020, nearly five thousand downloads of articles have been recorded on the journal site, accessed by readers from hundreds of locations around the globe. [...]my AI advisor warned me that, "This research can be time-consuming and requires a strong foundation in Jewish history, literature, and culture, as well as the ability to interpret and contextualize the information gathered." Diane Mizrachi, Ivan Kohout, and Michal Bušek describe in their article how the University of California Los Angeles Library handled the discovery of Nazi-looted books in its stacks not only by returning the physical items to their lawful owners-the Jewish Religious Community Library in Prague, under the auspices of the Jewish Museum-but also by engaging the public in problems of historical provenance and raising awareness of similar cases in the academic context. Applying legal concepts of tangible, moveable property to rare books and considering post-custodial methodologies and digital technologies, Kiron proposes reconciling the conflict between private property rights and public cultural heritage interests by collaborating on open digital spaces that allow access to cultural treasures while preserving-or even increasing-their market value.
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[...]IRRODL has been including articles reflecting the educational community's response to the pandemic. Innab, Albloushi, Alruwaili, Alqahtani, Alenazi, and Alkathiri in their COVID-19 related paper The Influence of Sense of Community and Satisfaction With E-Learning and Their Impact on Nursing Students' Academic Achievement underscore the importance of student-student interaction and engagement in providing quality online programs. [...]in our Notes section, Rawson, Okere, and Tooth in Using Low-immersive Virtual Reality in Online Learning: Field Notes from Environmental Management Education explore the role of low-immersive VR as a desktop tool for online distance learning students.
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Considering how many materials and formats can fall under the rubric of "special collections,” it seems like a daunting endeavor to compile a single handbook which covers all their management and care, but Alison Cullingford has done so with great finesse. The book is patently a product of its time: in the introduction the author addresses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and how "the rapid digital pivot or shift meant remote access to collections and metadata became more important than ever, for staff and users” (xix). In addition, the "voices for Black Lives Matter” have made the special collections community reexamine practices where "Special Collections have been shaped by legacies of empire, colonialism and slavery” (xix). Throughout the text the impact of this zeitgeist can be seen.
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Book Review Book Review ;The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, by Hannah Zeavin (MIT Press, 2021) Elizabeth Ellcessor University of Virginia eae2f@virginia.edu We are surrounded by remote or "virtual” therapy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, remote therapy services have been increasingly promoted by insurance companies, podcast advertisements, Reddit forums, and corporate wellness offices as a plausible solution to the rising rates of depression and other mental health concerns exacerbated by death, unemployment, and endless uncertainty. For people with interest or experience using telehealth or app-based mental health services, the last two chapters offer analyses of computer-driven and self-directed therapies. Efforts to broader access to therapy have often relied upon increased mediation to reduce costs and simultaneously reduce the availability of dedicated professional attention.
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Sugimoto and Larivière's unique scientometric approach gained recognition within medicine when they coauthored a bibliometric analysis on gender and authorship in The Lancet's 2019 theme issue on advancing women in science, medicine, and global health. [...]despite women being more than half of all medical and science undergraduates for many years, Sugimoto and Larivière estimate that very slow growth in women's representation among scientists in clinical medicine means gender parity in authorship will not be reached in that field before 2049. By contrast, women science leaders typically advance early career researchers, share credit, and lead gender diverse teams, which have higher scientific impact. An acknowledged limitation is the use of one aspect of social identity, gender, in the binary assignment available in current classification systems and they were unable in most cases to include race or ethnicity indicators except where national census data allowed. The simple recognition of the editorial process being a social one—involving judgement, priority setting, negotiation, inevitable bias, and all the other aspects that define human behaviour—gives rise to seeing how decisions about what to publish and which messages to showcase are the product of a social process in which diverse sets of individuals applying high standards of editorial quality and scientific excellence nevertheless deploy agency, make choices, and exercise privilege.
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This theme-based book review considers four recent titles related to the intersection of business and government: Outsourcing in the UK: Politics, Practices and Outcomes, by Janice Morphet;Public Financial Management in the European Union: Public Finance and Global Crises, by Marta Postula;Handbook of Business and Public Policy, edited by Aynsley Kellow, Tony Porter, and Karsten Ronit;and European Public Procurement: Commentary on Directive 2014/24/EU, edited by Roberto Caranta and Albert Sanchez-Graells.
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[...]Pennycook states that the purpose of the volume is not only to provide a comprehensive and collaborative overview of the ideological forces that shape CAL, but to advocate for changes to applied linguistics, namely, decolonization and the incorporation of ideas from the Global South. Pennycook takes the field of second language acquisition to task for viewing language as a cognitive phenomenon and removing it from its social context by ignoring factors of identity such as gender, class, and race, and in the end argues that language must be considered as embodied. [...]the seventh chapter briefly explores ways in which critical applied linguistics can be incorporated into education, research, and activism, especially via a means of critical pedagogy. [...]the ideal audience for this book is the linguist, language researcher, or instructor that has a curiosity or appetite for criticality, a keen interest in society and power, and a desire to change the status quo in the world of applied linguistics, as well as society.
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The chapter then proceeds to focus on the negative impact of neoliberalism, privatisation and marketisation on the care home system and the domiciliary care sector, noting the precarious status of adult social care and health-care workers. Chapter 5 aims to link the themes discussed in previous chapters to empirical data collected by the author in three small-scale, UK-based case studies: a study into experiences of physical activity in later life;a study into the responses by paramedics when people fall or are at risk of falling, and a study examining end-of-life conversations and services. Simmonds uses the case studies to argue that cuts in services, ageism, intersectionality and differentials in capital possessed by older people impact negatively on access to and quality of services, especially in navigating a health and social care system made increasingly complex by marketisation and privatisation.
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The news is full of reports of catastrophic ambulance delays, months-long waits for urgent care, and falling satisfaction with the UK's National Health Service (NHS). The authors document thousands of hospital beds removed, the costs of Private Finance Initiative deals to the NHS, and cuts to social care creating a system running on thin air. The book also includes chapters by contributors who bring different perspectives of the COVID-19 crisis, including teachers and union leaders, with some of greater insight than others.
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Varieties of Atheism in Science, by Elaine Howard Ecklund and David R. Johnson is reviewed.
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[...]it is impossible to master everything in such a considerable mass of documentation on a global scale (covering Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia): this poses a real challenge, according to the author’s own introduction! With J.F.D. Shrewsbury on the Bubonic plague in the British Isles (1971), or the documentary trails produced by Philip Ziegler (1969) or Rosemary Horrox (1994), David Herlihy (1965–91), Élisabeth Carpentier (1963) and M. Livi Bacci for Italy (1978), Marie-Hélène Congourdeau for the Byzantine territory (1988–98) or Michael Dols (1974–82) and Mohammed Melhaoui (Paris, 2005, not cited) for the Arabic world (Egypt and North Africa) provide a base of capital data. The main purpose is to trace the outbreak and spread of the pandemic: its origin, its modes of diffusion, the epidemic progress, in order to better understand the epidemiological mechanism, its nature, and to evaluate its incidence of lethality and mortality. While the first evidence from the genetic examination of dental pulp dates the origins of the plague back to around 5,100–4,900 years ago in Sweden (p. 98), the emergence of research in palaeobiology, in particular on DNA (Hinnebusch, 2002–17, Bos, Holmes, Callaway, in Nature, 2011, Wagner, Lancet, 2014), has provided a very supportive context for knowledge renewal: a ‘molecular history’ (McCormick, 2007) is open!
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The organizational choice of grouping chapters by verbs was appropriate given the book's title and focus, but given the genre of an edited collection growing from a conference, often the chapters read as individual pieces rather than a conversation about agency that is picked up in a new way by each contributor. [...]the book mirrors the realities of a broad conference, and I find myself wishing for the Q&A section where the contributors are invited to make connections across disparate case studies and interests-one can sense these connections, but they are not explicit. The authors link the Women's Building, a Los Angeles-based women's art collective in the late twentieth century, to early modern women's social networks and consider the ways that traditional digital network mapping does not work for women artists. [...]the book gestures to discussions of agency within enslavement and colonialism in the introduction, but this is noticeably absent from individual chapters.
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Published in 2017 and originally planned in as a 2020 summer break read, feminist philosopher Miri Rozmarin’s second book, Vulnerable Futures, Transformative Pasts: On Vulnerability, Temporality, and Ethics, turned into an even more timely, provocative reading experience than initially expected because of the global eruption of the now so familiar-feeling COVID-19 crisis. [...]vulnerability is contradicted to the basic conditions for a person’s agency, and thus associated with the lessening of personhood. [...]an approach does not instantaneously label vulnerability as the negative mirror image of agency (and vice versa), but, based upon Levinasian theory, regards the phenomenon as a ‘sensitivity’ (50) that is typical for human intersubjective relations. Butler’s approach has mostly been spotlighted in Precarious Life ([2004] 2006)her post-9/11 book that articulates an ethics of non-violenceand later works (see e.g. Butler 2009;2016) in which the distinction between ontological precariousness and precarity, or the specific socio-economic and political conditions that have rendered certain subjects more vulnerable to injustice, poverty, and the like is made more intelligible.
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With the advent of technology, Sentiment polarity detection has recently piqued the interest of NLP researchers. Sentiment analysis determines the profound meaning of an article. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, online shopping is the safest way of shopping. Moreover, there are product quality and service issues. Our target is to analyze the book reviews which provide positive and negative reviews in Bangla language. For this, a total of 5500 user generated Bengali reviews are collected from various book review pages of social media. In order to get the best possible result, sentiment analysis is used. Thereafter, five different algorithms are applied to predict with almost high accuracy. Among them, the Random Forest provides us the maximum accuracy which is 98.39%. © 2022 IEEE.