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Introduction To The Winter 2019 Special Issue Integrating International Students In Local (Student) Communities: A Theory-To-Practice Perspective, Christof Van Mol

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Winter 11(3) 2019 Special Issue: Integrating International Students in Local (Student) Communities: A Theory-to-Practice Perspective

Integrating International Students: The Missing Link In Portuguese Higher Education Institutions, Cristina Sin, Orlanda Tavares

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Special Issue

Possibilities And Constraints Of Fostering Deeper Study Abroad Experiences: The Lived Experiences Of 50 Years Of Us Students In Japan, Sarah R. Asada

Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education

Special Issue

Monological Practices, Authoritative Discourses And The Missing "C" In Digital Communities, Vicki A. Hosek, Lara J. Handsfield

Faculty Publications - College of Education

The purpose of this study was to examine teacher decisions surrounding opportunities for student voice, experiences and beliefs in digital classroom communities. The teachers’ decisions reflect monologic rather than dialogic teacher pedagogies which prompted the authors to ask the following question: What led to these teacher-centered practices in digital environments? Authoritative discourses in school policies and a missing connection between critical pedagogies and teachers’ technology practices are examined in light of teachers’ decisions to engage in monologic and/or dialogic teaching practices. The authors propose professional development and research that emphasize pedagogy that supports student voice as foundational to practices involving …

What’S The Point? The Missing Piece Of Criminal Justice Reform Through Consensus And Compromise, Jelani Jefferson Exum

Faculty Publications

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Criminal justice reform has had a firm place in news headlines for more than a decade. When the mass incarceration crisis came to the fore in 2008, with reports that one in a hundred adults in America was behind bars, there had already long been cries for reducing the prison and jail populations. Reform has mainly been sought through two approaches: consensus through ballot initiative or legislative compromise. But these modes of reform share a fundamental failure: both often lack a clear articulation of the purpose of criminal sentencing. In other words, “What’s the point?” Without an agreement on …

Worldwide Network For Blood And Marrow Transplantation Recommendations For Establishing A Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Program In Countries With Limited Resources, Part Ii: Clinical, Technical, And Socioeconomic Considerations, Mahmoud Aljurf, Daniel Weisdorf, Shahrukh Hashmi, Amr Nassar, Eliane Gluckman, Mohamad Mohty, Doug Rizzo, Marcelo Pasquini, Mehdi Hamadani, Salman Adil

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

The development of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) programs can face significant challenges in most developing countries because such endeavors must compete with other government health care priorities, including the delivery of basic services. Although this is may be a limiting factor, these countries should prioritize development of the needed expertise to offer state-of-the-art treatments, including transplantation, by providing financial, technological, legal, ethical, and other needed support. This would prove beneficial in providing successful programs customized to the needs of their population and potentially provide long-term cost savings by circumventing the need for their citizens to seek care abroad. The …

Adopting The Crowdsourcing In Activation Strategic Foresight For Leaderships Towards Managerial Reforming Strategies Selection A Suggested Study For Managerial Leadership, Alaa Ahmed Hasan

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Environmental data (whether pre-emptive or responsive perspective) impose management theories, through of which the organization can accommodating the most influential variables. As the information and communication technologies with its different generations led to the activation of the community role in strategic decision making in organizations, in this context, the research problem focused on the following questions: Is it possible for the reform process to take place and to choose one of its alternatives by direct crowdsourcing? Is it possible that the process of reform and alternative selection through the crowdsourcing of the collective after the passage of strategic insight? , …

The Adoption Of Iso 45001: 2018 In The Civil Aviation Establishment Test And Its Accessibility To The Standard, Qussay Abdul Qaleq Fadil, Mahmood Hasan Jumaah, Hayder Shaker Noory

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The current research aims to analyze the extent of the adoption of the standards of ISO 45001: 2018 for occupational safety and health management by the General Establishment of Civil Aviation. The research problem was the extent to which the General Establishment of Civil Aviation approved ISO 45001: 2018 for occupational safety and health management. The questionnaire was used as a primary data collection tool, the sample was distributed (50) form, they were selected from the category of employees of the establishment at different levels to represent the research community. Data were analyzed using the statistical package (SPSS), a number …

The Effect Of Authentic Leadership In Business Process Reengineering, Shifai Mohammed Ali, Ghada Tariq Zidan

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The present study aims at identifying the status of the two research variables in the organization under study and specifying the relationship and impact of the authentic leadership with all its four branch dimensions of (self-awareness, transparent relations, balanced processing of information and the moral perspective) on business process reengineering. The basic problem of the study lies in the attempt to present a new leadership style that is more responsive to the dynamic changes surrounding it based on the authentic leadership behaviors. This is because this pattern has an impact on the nature of the organization's work and its progress. …

The Extent Of Adopting A Number Of Green Processing Chain Management Activities In Industrial Companies An Analytical Study Behind A Sample Of Workers In Kirkuk Cement Factory, Suzan Abdul Ghani Ali, Ayad Fadhil Mohsin

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The research is based on the basic idea that companies today are moving towards a new trend towards protecting the environment coupled with the increasing wareness of the pollution damage caused by these companies due to their operations and activities in the environment. The two main reasons that led the researchers to choose this subject is the need to adapt the companies themselves in response to successive developments, The great development was that companies moved from the sole economic responsibility of the business to social responsibility by emphasizing socially responsible profit. The problem of research is the knowledge of the …

Effect Of The Inspiring Leadership To Achieve Organizational Health In The Iraq Organization Field Research In The Iraqi Ministry Of Culture, Alia Jawad Mohammed

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The aim of the research is to know the characteristics of both variables in order to be able the to construct the integrated framework of its paragraphs through the available information on both inspirational leadership and organizational health. as fundamental variables of research, as well as the extent of the influence of the inspirational variable as an independent variable in the organizational health variable as a variable in its three physical, mental and social dimensions. The research is important to stimulate the behavior side of the staff. Which is one of the top concerns of senior management in the ministry, …

Adopting Statistical Methods For Controlling The Quality Of Drinking Water To Achieve Customer Satisfaction, Ahmed I. I. Hussein

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The current research aims to adopt production quality decisions as the most important decisions , because they are accompanied by customer satisfaction through monitoring the quality of drinking water in iraq which reach through the pipeline network associated with water treatment projects of Tigris and Euphrates rivers. One of the indicators of quality control was the drawing of the C-chart by specifying the central line and the upper and lower limit of the control and the diagnosis of whether the production system as a whole within the scope of quality control or not and determine the strength and significance of …

Quality Transformation In The Arab Commercial Banks, Nima Abbas Al-Khafaji

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The purpose of the research is interpretation of what quality transformations In the Arab commercial banks' management, and determine which fields that have been achieved in the third millennium, and elicitation the governance trends for future vision to manage them and estimate the expected value for these transformations, the importance of the idea of ​​research in investment the implicit and the apparent of practical knowledge stocks in the minds of managers by specialized language with the application of electronic business philosophy in response to the challenges of the information age and who should occupies those banks the center of Arab …

The Role Of Training Human Resources In The Elements Of Administrative Innovation, Ammar Jabbar Kadhim

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The current research aims to identify the nature of the relationship between training human resources in administrative innovation elements In the General Directorate for the education of the third Rusafa one of the formations of the Iraqi Ministry of Education in Baghdad, In order to achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher provided a comprehensive theoretical framework and the preparation and development of a questionnaire as a tool for collecting data based on the prepared measurements and benefit from previous studies, which contains (28) For the purpose of obtaining realistic results for the variables of the research, the researcher …

Analysis The Consistency Between The Tariff And The Exchange Rate And Their Reflection On The Trade Balance In Iraq, Emad Mohammed Ali Abdullatif, Buraq Hussein Muhi

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The trade balance is considered as a way to join the national economy with the world, So it is the mirror that reflect the economic center of the country and it is point to competitive ability of it, The tariff and the exchange rate perform a great role to motivate the domestic production and improve the trade balance if we direct them to achieve the same purpose. The Iraqi economic has trade balance which achieve overabundant during the years of studying because of the oil exports, while the other exports represent a small percentage it is hardly remember, and expansion …

Evaluation Of Waste Sorting And Recycling Laboratory In Mahmudiya (Case Study), Taameem Mohamad Sallom, Khalil Ibrahim Nour

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The daily practices of humans produce various types of waste, which are a threat to the health and environment surrounding it, especially after the increase in quantities as a result of population growth and technological development, and here came the need for recycling solid waste as one of the modern concepts that achieve environmental benefits,The aim of the research is to evaluate the project of sorting and recycling of solid waste in the district of Mahmoudiya and whether its work is sustainable ,Conforming to modern standards, using standard checklists to determine the gap between the current laboratory reality and the …

The Role Physical Service Factors In Achieving Customer Satisfaction, Saadoon Hammood Chitheer Al-Rubaiawi, Fares Ahmed Abdel-Abadi

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The development in the presentation and presentation of the service in order to distinguish them from the same, was one of the most important reasons to choose the current issue to upgrade the level of service, especially in the Iraqi restaurant sector, which has become today of the important sectors successful. The problem of research was to try to answer a range of questions: to what extent are Iraqi restaurants interested in physical service factors? Do Iraqi restaurants apply physical factors in a way that leads to customer satisfaction? Are Iraqi restaurants interested in the satisfaction of their customers? The …

Use Generalized Pareto Survival Models To Estimation Optimal Survival Time For Myocardial Infarction Patients, Iftikhar Abdulhameed Al Naqash, Marwah Ali Maklef

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The survival analysis is one of the modern methods of analysis that is based on the fact that the dependent variable represents time until the event concerned in the study. There are many survival models that deal with the impact of explanatory factors on the likelihood of survival, including the models proposed by the world, David Cox, one of the most important and common models of survival, where it consists of two functions, one of which is a parametric function that does not depend on the survival time and the other a nonparametric function that depends on times of survival, …

Use Principal Component Analysis Technique To Dimensionality Reduction To Multi Source, Asmaa G. Jaber, Asil Muslim Issa

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

This paper tackles with principal component analysis method (PCA ) to dimensionality reduction in the case of linear combinations to digital image processing and analysis. The PCA is statistical technique that shrinkages a multivariate data set consisting of inter-correlated variables into a data set consisting of variables that are uncorrelated linear combination, while ensuring the least possible loss of useful information. This method was applied to a group of satellite images of a certain area in the province of Basra, which represents the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Shatt al-Arab in the province of Basra. In …

Using Markov Chains To Forecast The Exports Of Iraqi Crude Oil, Nazik Jaafar Sadik, Saad Obaid Jameel

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

In this paper, the topic of forecasting the changes in the value of Iraqi crude oil exports for the period from 2019 to 2025, using the Markov transitional series based on the data of the time series for the period from January 2011 to November 2018, is real data obtained from the published data of the Central Agency Of the Iraqi statistics and the Iraqi Ministry of Oil that the results reached indicate stability in the value of crude oil exports according to the data analyzed and listed in the annex to the research. Keywords: Using Markov chains

The Role Of Internal Audit In Promoting Social Performance Reports, Bushra Fadhil Khudhair Al-Taie, Ali Dakhil Maarij

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The research aims to demonstrate the impact of internal audit in Iraqi economic units on enhancing social performance reports, through the statistical models used, as a survey list (for the independent variant) of the search, which contains five axes of each axis, contains a set of The questions were prepared on the basis of the standards issued by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and were distributed to a sample of internal auditors, as for (for the approved variable) the researcher obtained numerical data represented by the financial statements of the research sample and used statistical models such as model …

Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Internal Control Systems And Their Role In Providing An Effective Governance Framework In Sudanese Banks, Mohyeeeldin Mohamed Ibrahim, Ibrahim Yagoub Ismail, Sadiq Adam Muhammad Abkar

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The study aimed to find out the relationship between the dimensions of internal control systems and the availability of an effective governance framework in the Sudanese banks. The study used descriptive and analytical method for collecting and analyzing the study data using SPSS program. The questionnaire was used as an analysis tool. The target sample of Sudanese bank employees, the study found several results, including that the bank avoids methods that lead to the rational use of available resources, and identifies and separation of tasks among employees, in addition to rapid response to reports The study found several recommendations, including …

Application Of The Holonic Manufacturing System Using The Genetic Algorithm: Case Study In Lab 7 Of The General Company For The Leather Industry, Yousef Hajim Al-Taie, Suha Gamal Mawlood

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The study aims to achieve several objectives, including follow-up scientific developments and transformations in the modern concepts of the Holistic Manufacturing System for the purpose of identifying the methods of switching to the entrances of artificial intelligence, and clarifying the mechanism of operation of the genetic algorithm under the Holonic Manufacturing System, to benefit from the advantages of systems and to achieve the maximum savings in time and cost of machines Using the Holistic Manufacturing System method and the Genetic algorithm, which allows for optimal maintenance time and minimizing the total cost, which in turn enables the workers of these …

The Impact Of Brand Identity In Achieving Marketing Objectives Applied Study In The International Company For Smart Card "Key Card", Sarmad Hamza Jassim, Samaa Ali Abdel Hussein

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Each organization has values ​​and objectives, tangible and intangible properties of its products. The reflection of properties on the brand constitutes the identity of the brand that contributes to building the customer's convictions about the products or services provided by any organization and its brand in a positive or negative way. This is reflected in purchasing behavior, which may push forward the progress towards marketing goals or deviation from them. Therefore, the current research came to identify the brand identity, its types and the factors affecting them and how they affect to achieve each of the marketing goals. At a …

Organizational Monitoring And Reflex Of Suffocation Of Work: An Opinions Study Of Sample Workers In Manufacturing Of Isphelt Dohuk, Sultan Ahmed Khleaf, Nidhal Ali Sulaiman

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The study aims to determine the organizational monitoring mechanism in target organization as well as knowing the suffocation of work. The study depends on a questionnaire as a tool of collecting data on distributed random sample involved (45) person from different levels in manufacturing isphelt Dohuk. The study depends on some hypothesis, the most significant one is that there is not impact of organizational monitoring of suffocation especially on the target organization.

Histological And Physiological Studies On The Long-Term Effect Of Different Concentrations Of Energy Drink (Tiger) On The Renal And Hepatic Systems Of Young Mice, Luma Qasim Ali

Baghdad Science Journal

The present study aims to investigate the long-term histopathological, and physiological effects of different concentrations of a commercially available energy drink (Tiger) on liver and kidney of young mice. Sixteen Balb/c male mice,6 -week old, were divided into 4 groups (n=4). Two groups consumed the energy drink at a concentration of 28µl energy drink/ml water. One group were killed after 10 days (T1), another group were killed after 20 days (T2). Other group of mice consumed the energy drink at a final concentration of 14µl/ml for 20 days (T3). The last group was provided only with water and served as …

Effect Of Bifidobacterium Probiotic In The Treatment Of Giardiasis Infection In Mice, Israa Mohammad Abd Al-Khaliq

Baghdad Science Journal

Metronidazole therapy is recommended in the treatment of giardiasis,athough some clinical reports mention the resistance to this drug from many pathogens. Many studies were applied to show the effect of probiotic to prevent or to heal diseases of gastrointestine, but only few is known about probiotic activity against infections of protozoa. This study aims to evaluate the efficiency of Bifidobacterium against infection with Giardia lamblia in experimental mice. It was found that daily application of viable Bifidobacterium cells with a single dose (0.1ml∕mice∕day) significantly reduced the shedding of Giardia lamblia parasite cysts in feces, and infection completely disappeared at the …

Preparation And Characterization Of (Hyacinth Plant / Chitosan) Composite As A Heavy Metal Removal, Ali A .Taha, Nahida .J.Hameed, Farah .H. Rashid

Baghdad Science Journal

In this study, the preparation and characterization of hyacinth plant /chitosan composite, as a heavy metal removal, were done. Water hyacinth plant (Eichhorniacrasspes) was collected from Tigris river in Baghdad. The root and shoot parts of plant were ground to powder. Composite materials were prepared at different ratios of plant part (from 2.9% to 30.3%, wt /wt) which corresponds to (30-500mg) of hyacinth plant (root and shoot) and chitosan. The results showed that all examined ratios of plant parts have an excellent absorption to copper (Cu (II)). Moreover, it was observed that 2.9% corresponds (30mg) of plant root revealed highest …

Colorimetric Assay Of Thiamine Hydrochloride In Pharmaceutical Preparations, Nief Rahman Ahmad, Farha Khalaf Omar

Baghdad Science Journal

A simple, rapid, accurate and sensitive spectrophotometric method for the determination of thiaminehydrochloride has been developed. The method is based on the formation of the Schiff’s base between the primary amino group present in thiamine hydrochloride and aldehyde group present in the vanillin reagent to produce a yellow colored complex having maximum absorption at 390 nm. Beer’s law has obeaid over the concentration range of 2-28µg/mL, with molar absorptivity of 0.96x104L/mol.cm. The average recovery which is a measure of accuracy is 100±1.3% and the relative standard deviation (RSD) is less than1.5 .The present method is considered to be simple because …

Studying The Crystal Structure, Topography, And Anti-Bacterial Of A Novel Titania (Tio2 Nps) Prepared By A Sol-Gel Manner, Ali Abdullah Fayyadh, Abbas Fadhel Essa, Shatha Shammon Batros, Zinah Shakir Shallal

Baghdad Science Journal

In this research, titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) were prepared through the sol-gel process at an acidic medium (pH3).TiO2 nanoparticles were prepared from titanium trichloride (TiCl3) as a precursor with Ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH) with 1:3 ratio at 50 °C. The resulting gel was dried at 70 °C to obtain the Nanocrystalline powder. The powder from the drying process was treated thermally at temperatures 500 °C and 700 °C. The crystalline structure, surface morphology, and particle size were studied by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The results showed (anatase) phase of titanium dioxide …