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{"title":"Public-Private Partnership Arrangements for Boosting the Supply of Affordable, Adequate and Quality Houses: Lessons for Papua New Guinea","authors":"E. Ezebilo","doi":"10.5539/ass.v19n3p100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v19n3p100","url":null,"abstract":"Providing adequate, quality and affordable housing for its population have been a long-standing issue for governments of some countries. To address the issue, some of the governments have adopted Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with the hope of improving housing delivery. However, identifying the most suitable PPP arrangement for providing houses is often problematic. This paper reports on a study of the different PPP arrangements that can be applied in housing delivery, critical success factors and challenges associated with the arrangements. It also reports lessons that Papua New Guinea (PNG) can draw from other countries that have applied PPP extensively in housing delivery. The study is based on a historical narrative literature review that was analysed using manifest qualitative content analysis. The findings revealed that there are several PPP arrangements that can be used in providing houses such as the direct relationship ownership housing which is similar to the build-lease-operate-transfer. Another type of arrangement is the direct relationship rental housing which is similar to the build-own-operate. Critical success factors for a PPP project include the need for transparency at all stages of the PPP, risks must be allocated properly between the public sector and the private sector, the PPP should have adequate political and community support. The performance of a PPP arrangement can be restricted by high transaction costs, poor contracting and procurement procedures, the dominance of the public sector in the arrangement, poor communication between the partners and inadequate legal frameworks. The lessons that PNG can draw from other countries include the identification of PPP arrangements that are most suitable for the country and how to implement the arrangements in an effective manner. The findings provide more understanding on the application of PPP arrangements in housing delivery by considering the challenges and success factors associated with the arrangements.","PeriodicalId":89741,"journal":{"name":"Asian social science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46826275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effectiveness of a Training Program in Improving the Competencies and Skills of Female Specialists to Work with People with Visual Impairments","authors":"Shaden Khyalil Hussain Elewiat","doi":"10.5539/ass.v19n3p87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v19n3p87","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a training program in improving the competencies and skills of female specialists working with people with visual impairments and to determine if there were any statistically significant differences in the improvement of competencies and skills due to variables such as specialization, years of experience, prior knowledge of a blind person, and training courses in the field of visual impairment. The study sample consisted of 10 female specialists from special education, visual impairment, and early childhood in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. \u0000 \u0000A 70-item scale was used to measure the competencies and skills of female specialists before and after the training program. The scale was divided into five domains: knowledge of visual impairments and their impact on learning, communication and interaction strategies, adaptation of teaching materials and classroom environment, assessment and evaluation strategies, and collaboration and professional development. \u0000 \u0000The study's results revealed a significant improvement in the competencies and skills of female specialists after participating in the training program, with an average percentage improvement of 41.4%. No statistically significant differences were found in the improvement of competencies and skills due to the variables of specialization, years of experience, prior knowledge of a blind person, and training courses in the field of visual impairment. \u0000 \u0000In conclusion, the training program was found to be effective in improving the competencies and skills of female specialists working with people with visual impairments. The results highlight the importance of providing specialized training to professionals in this field to support better the learning and development of children with visual impairments.","PeriodicalId":89741,"journal":{"name":"Asian social science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47508874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Has the Asymmetric Effect of Oil Price Change in Inflation Expectations Been Impacted by the COVID-19 Outbreak? A Comparison Between the United States and China","authors":"Qing Nie","doi":"10.5539/ass.v19n3p55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v19n3p55","url":null,"abstract":"Economists and policymakers believe that households’ and firms’ expectations of future inflation are key determinants of actual inflation. This paper applies the ARDL model and nonlinear ARDL model to long-term inflation-targeting policy mechanisms in the United States and China to assess the impact of oil price dynamics and asymmetries on inflation expectations, as well as the difference of this impact before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to show the significant role of the COVID-19 outbreak, this paper includes the data from 2010 to 2021 and takes the pandemic period as a structural break. Taking oil price changes as a variable of interest, and introducing some other significant variables, we find that during the pandemic, the positive impact of oil price shock on U.S. inflation expectations has enhanced, whereas the positive impact on Chinese inflation expectations has weakened. There is also sufficient evidence of the existence of the asymmetric effects of oil price changes on inflation expectations in both countries, but the positive oil price change in the United States has always played a larger role than the negative oil price shock. In China, the impact of positive oil price shock was greater than that of negative oil prices before the epidemic and the effect of negative oil price shocks has increased significantly in the COVID-19 regime.","PeriodicalId":89741,"journal":{"name":"Asian social science","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135626107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Healthy Self Esteem and Mental Health","authors":"Alejandro Ochoa Pimienta","doi":"10.5539/ass.v19n3p45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v19n3p45","url":null,"abstract":"The seconds, the minutes, the hours, the days, the weeks, the months, the years, the lustrum, and the decades, are ways of measuring and specifying the location in time of man's events. Its use allows one to situate oneself at any moment in life, and for the same reason, they serve as references to remember events. Memories are ways of reliving the past, and these memories generate sensations that give rise to emotions, some very pleasant and others unpleasant. This ability that humans have to remember past events is challenging to control since, to a large extent, evocations are the product of present stimuli that are similar to past experiences. We are so used to this pattern of action that we have learned to live without questioning whether those past practices can mark our present. It is even possible to maintain that regardless of how positive or negative the experience may have been, all occasions, in one way or another, have left legacies or riches that translate into learning, which gradually build us for better or worse. \u0000 \u0000On various occasions, these legacies, the product of what we have learned, are reflected in our spirit to face daily demands. Many experiences can work as spurs that stimulate the habitual walk, but the opposite sometimes happens. The experiences resemble large concrete slabs that limit and hinder the daily pilgrimage. The weight of these tiles is not due to their mass or volume; this burden is manifested in the subject's morale, which can be observed in the human being by how he faces daily chores; that is, in attitudes of pessimism or positivism towards life. This emotional response can equally limit or boost motivation for the way of life that is led. \u0000 \u0000The issues dealt with here have an intimate relationship with the dynamics. And even better, this reading is accompanied by practical suggestions, which are easy to apply immediately. After this possible use, resources or skills are obtained that facilitate and allow oneself to develop first as a person, and after this, you can enjoy what you do. An attempt is made to provide personal coping tools so that the reader can control all those actions inherent to his performance. That is, to access and benefit the impulse of the power and essence of whoever reads this, and based on this impulse, increase self-knowledge and self-respect to promote self-care, and thus gradually achieve that they assimilate the concept \"adaptation\" so that it transcends as the constant to be preserved, to adapt to one's existence systematically.","PeriodicalId":89741,"journal":{"name":"Asian social science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47481736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Zakat Restrictions: Religious, Social, Institutional, and Political. Case Study: Qatar","authors":"Ola Alkahlout","doi":"10.5539/ass.v19n3p32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v19n3p32","url":null,"abstract":"Since the early of Islam, zakat - compulsory Islamic almsgiving - has received widespread interest in religious, social, institutional as well as political fields. Zakat distribution, theoretically, comes in the form of providing eight beneficiaries through projects of religious, educational, and medical foundations, provision of military weapons, and so on. However, the annual estimates of zakat indicate that zakat is exposed to factors that restrict its mechanism (collections and distributions). A combination of the theoretical frameworks of the sociology of religion/Islam and political sociology helps to discover and understand these factors. The quantitative method in this research through the interviews conducted with Muslim scholars, charitable organisations’ staff, and Qatari Muslims (citizens and residents), show that zakat distribution is affected by Muslim scholars’ interpretations of ‘for the cause of Allah’ zakat beneficiary, the behaviour of zakat payers in paying individually and conditional zakat projects, Qatar’s tribal culture (citizens), family bonding (residents), the behaviour of charitable organisations in promoting specific projects, and interests of the Qatari state. Furthermore, most participants agreed that the purpose of zakat is to support the less fortunate, rather than personal interests, conflicts, or wars. Any defect in zakat applications is considered a significant loss, especially since the world witnessed a rise in zakat beneficiaries such as the poor and refugees, whether they result from natural or war disasters.","PeriodicalId":89741,"journal":{"name":"Asian social science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44468418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using the CEFR for Improving Pre-service Teachers’ Communicative Competence","authors":"Mutar Sabeeh Naser, N. Ali","doi":"10.5539/ass.v19n3p15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v19n3p15","url":null,"abstract":"The study investigated the effects of implementing \"the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages\" \"CEFR\" in the English courses in a teacher education program at one Iraqi public university. An intensive 288-hour CEFR-informed program focusing on communicative language competence was designed. The data collection consists of two phases: pre-CEFR and post-CEFR implementations. A total of 150 fourth-year pre-service teachers participated in the study. The questionnaire was the only instrument used for the data collection, which consisted of two parts: the CEFR Self-Assessment Grid and Bachman and Palmer’s linguistic test. The CEFR Self-Assessment Grid was used to access participants self-assessments of their English proficiency. In addition, the linguistic test examines 13 criteria of language knowledge: language vocabulary, syntax, phonology/graphology (grammatical knowledge), knowledge of cohesion, rhetorical organization, conversational organization (textual knowledge), ideational knowledge, manipulative knowledge, instrumental knowledge, imaginative knowledge (functional knowledge), knowledge of dialects, registers, and idiomatic expressions. It was hypothesized that there would be an improvement in pre-service teachers' performance after the implementation of the CEFR as a teaching framework. All the participants took the pre-CEFR and post-CEFR tests to examine their English language competency. The questionnaire was used in pre- and post-tests. The pre-CEFR test results showed that a significant percentage of the participants did not have adequate proficiency to be an English teacher (CEFR A2 and B1). Consequently, a course was designed to enhance pre-service teachers' communicative competence level required for them to be effective teachers, which is considered the main goal of teaching and learning English in the Iraqi colleges of education. The results were estimated according to the CEFR self-assessment grid and Bachman and Plamer’s (1996) checklist. The results of the post-test proved that the pre-service teachers had made more progress in their language proficiency as a result of implementing the CEFR compared to their levels before.","PeriodicalId":89741,"journal":{"name":"Asian social science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47771502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research on Sustainable Development Planning Strategies Under the Background of Rural Revitalization: Taking Yichang Cultural Tourism Town as an Example","authors":"Wen Kangshu","doi":"10.5539/ass.v19n3p26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v19n3p26","url":null,"abstract":"Under the background of \"promoting rural revitalization in an all-round way,\" it is of great significance to study the sustainable development planning strategy of cultural tourism towns to realize rural revitalization. Taking the current situation of the development of cultural tourism towns in Yichang City as an example, this article deeply analyzes the development of cultural tourism towns in Yichang City. It also examines the phenomenon of blindly following the trend and homogenization in the development of rural cultural tourism towns in Yichang, including the hollowing out of town characteristics and the vulnerability of transition relying on a single tourism industry to market fluctuations. \u0000 \u0000The article proposes a good job in the integrated development of cultural tourism towns and urban tourism resources to realize the outstanding characteristics of small towns, tap the potential of the physical industry of cultural tourism towns, do a good job in the cultivation and development of cultural and creative industries, and support the sustainable development of cultural tourism towns through planning strategy. The research results show that adopting a reasonable sustainable development planning strategy, focusing on the scientific planning and construction of cultural tourism towns, can effectively promote the coordinated development of rural and urban areas.","PeriodicalId":89741,"journal":{"name":"Asian social science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45851425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aspects of Emotional Intelligence Based on the Noble Qurʾān: An Analytical Study","authors":"Abdelali Bey Zekkoub, Yasser Mohamed Abdelrahman Tarshany, Fouad Bounama","doi":"10.5539/ass.v19n3p1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v19n3p1","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most important fields of research is the effort to develop human abilities in various areas and to use them for the advancement of life and the improvement of one's livelihood. The Qurʾān, which Muslims believe that was the last book revealed by Almighty Allāh (God), gives many examples of how emotions help people and make them happier. The Qurʾān is a book that deals with emotions by using its guidance and helps refine people's emotions which were stated its various Sūrahs (chapters). This research makes an attempt to understand emotional Intelligence (EI), and to determine its aspects and skills based on Qurʾānic wisdoms. To investigate this issue, this study uses a qualitative data using both deductive and inductive approaches. The findings presented in this article are the outcomes of a thematic analysis of Qur'ānic verses (texts) related to the EI. This research identifies five aspects of EI: Religious, Psychological, Social, Environmental, and Divine Laws. It also identifies forty basic skills derived from Qurʾānic verses. Finally, it suggests further studies to come up with more EI skills that encompass all human aspects and achieve its goals and meet its needs.","PeriodicalId":89741,"journal":{"name":"Asian social science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46134900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patterns and Cultural Identity of \"Chang'an Prevailing Features\" from the Perspective of Concept History","authors":"H. Cui, Xiangyang Bian, Yan Ting","doi":"10.5539/ass.v19n3p11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v19n3p11","url":null,"abstract":"\"Chang'an Prevailing Features\" is the inner spirit that integrates the temperament of the times, the national spirit, the ideology and the aesthetic concept reflected in ancient Chang'an. This article takes \"Chang'an Prevailing Features\" as the exposition content, uses the \"unit concept\" of the history of ideas, takes the popular pattern cases in Chang'an area as the research object, studies its existence and operation methods under different cultural field concepts, in order to broaden the design implication of the clothing pattern and the research horizon of \"Chang'an Prevailing Features\".","PeriodicalId":89741,"journal":{"name":"Asian social science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46118037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for Asian Social Science, Vol. 19, No. 2","authors":"Jenny Zhang","doi":"10.5539/ass.v19n2p119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v19n2p119","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for Asian Social Science, Vol. 19, No. 2 2023.","PeriodicalId":89741,"journal":{"name":"Asian social science","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135787806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}