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Demand for electronic products is growing, as is the volume of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). To reduce their environmental impact, particularly during their end-of-life, it is important to apply eco-design practices such as design for disassembly (DFD) and design for recycling (DFR) from the beginning of their development. However, these strategies are not systematically implemented by manufacturers due to several challenges, such as the complexity of the methods, the uncertainty and variability of the materials and components, and the lack of knowledge on DFD and DFR. This study aims to develop a body of knowledge (BOK) for DFD and DFR of electronic products to fill this gap. A systematic comparison of different BOKs has led to the proposal of a BOK composed of four main parts: Areas of Knowledge, Tools and Techniques, Skills and Abilities, and Terminology. The proposed framework was applied to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) as an example of electronic products that require high-tech solutions for their efficient and sustainable management. This approach is essential for high-tech products, as they often contain valuable and scarce materials that need to be recovered and reused in a circular economy. The results showed that the BOK was an effective tool in supporting the sustainable development of batteries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social companion robots are getting more attention to assist elderly people to stay independent at home and to decrease their social isolation. When developing solutions, one remaining challenge is to design the right applications that are usable by elderly people. For this purpose, co-creation methodologies involving multiple stakeholders and a multidisciplinary researcher team (e.g., elderly people, medical professionals, and computer scientists such as roboticists or IoT engineers) are designed within the ACCRA (Agile Co-Creation of Robots for Ageing) project. This paper will address this research question: How can Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) technology and co-creation methodologies help to design emotional-based robotic applications? This is supported by the ACCRA project that develops advanced social robots to support active and healthy ageing, co-created by various stakeholders such as ageing people and physicians. We demonstra this with three robots, Buddy, ASTRO, and RoboHon, used for daily life, mobility, and conversation. The three robots understand and convey emotions in real-time using the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence technologies (e.g., knowledge-based reasoning). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing use of triple helix arrangements to stimulate national systems of innovation (NSIs) for broader economic benefits has largely focussed on quantifiable and compliance‐based metrics to evaluate the 'success' of industry‐university strategic collaborative research ventures. This metrics‐focus largely ignores secondary, and even tertiary, outcomes of the collaborative ventures that are difficult to capture by research and innovation administrators with traditional metrics. A research project conducted on the Cooperative Research Centres—Projects (CRC‐P) Program in Australia found that, in a number of cases, secondary and tertiary outcomes were highly valued by participants, and provided important but hitherto officially unacknowledged socio‐economic benefits to the Australian NSI. This discussion proposes a typology of collaborative research outcomes beyond traditional compliance‐based metrics, and challenges policy makers and research and innovation administrators to consider the development of an 'Innovation Ecosystem Body of Knowledge' to inform future collaborative research projects and enhance the ability of actors to access this ecosystem in an efficient and productive manner in order to ensure that potential economic gains from collaborative research are maximised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose – The misalignment between the profile with the body of knowledge (BoK) and the graduates’ learning outcomes (LO) of the PAI Study Program has caused the unclear educational objectives of the PAI study program, requiring the reconstruction of the PAI curriculum. This study aims to examine the reconstruction process of the PAI curriculum including the Profile, BoK, and LO of the PAI. Design/methods/approach –The research was conducted qualitatively using survey, interview, and documentation methods packaged in seminars, guest lectures, workshops, and Focus Group Discussions. The subjects in this study were 83 PAI Study Program managers from Sumatra, Jakarta and Jabodetabek, DIY and Central Java, East Java, and the Eastern regions; the interviews were carried out with 15 study program managers. The obtained data was processed through the stages of reduction, display, and interpretation. Findings – The results showed: 1) there are 6 profiles of Indonesian PAI after being reduced from 51 profiles, namely PAI teachers in schools/madrasahs, educational consultants, research assistants, administrators of educational institutions, Da’i/muballigh, and edupreneurs, 2) PAI’s Body of Knowledge consists of four scientific families: PAI science (what to teach), teaching science (how to teach), education and psychology (how to discipline), Research methodology, philosophy, language, technology, edupreneur (how to produce), 3) Graduate learning outcomes include in-depth mastery of PAI science, teaching, pedagogic, and PAI development, as well as how to teach PAI science effectively. Research implications/limitations – This research has implications for the importance of preparing graduate profiles based on tracer studies, rather than based on ‘personal wishes’; and Learning outcomes must be adjusted to the standardized BoK of the Study Program. Originality/value – the importance of profile mapping based on tracer studies, the significance of PAI’s body of knowledge in achieving PAI goals, and the importance of graduate learning outcomes for the expertise of PAI graduates.

Concerns over valuation accuracy and variance cannot be over-flogged, given the somewhat fluid nature of these concepts. It is however, more apt to dig into their fundamental causative factors. This paper realizes that specialist valuer or appraiser has a chain of sequential tasks anchored on his distinguishing competencies. At the heart of this is sufficient knowledge of the attributes of his subject of valuation. Twenty-two (22) Nigerian valuers based within Lagos Metropolis were made to carry out valuation assessment of selected landed and non-landed property assets and were also examined on their perception of the adequacy of their acquired Body of Knowledge (BOK) relevant to each asset category. The variation/dispersion in their valuations is revealed by the Standard Deviation of the distribution, for Landed Property, being 7.77 while that of Non-Landed Property is 32.24; By employing the 10% maximum variation rule of Glover (1985), 9% of the valuers fall outside the limit in respect of Landed Property whereas, the figure rose to 64% for Non-Landed Property assets. This is indicative of remarkably higher internal inconsistencies among respondent valuers on Non-Landed Property Assets. Multiple regression analysis of the results indicated that all the adaptive knowledge variables exert positive influence on valuer’s competence in valuation of both Landed Property and Non-Landed Property Assets. In view of these findings, there is urgent need to review and expand underlying curriculum for training prospective valuers towards aligning theory with practice and enhance their competence across property types.

This review highlights the lack of sexual health research within Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) publications over the past 13 years. The search included the Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences, the Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences Education, and the Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal. Selected review themes include sex education, family communication, and professional practice. Results show from 2009-2022, limited research on sexual health has been published in FCS journals. This trend indicates that FCS practitioners need to engage in the scholarship of sexual health and can do so by conceptualizing sexual health as a component of well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many countries and regions consider off-site construction a modern construction method that facilitates sustainability in the construction industry. Sustainability research in off-site construction (SROSC) is crucial for its development and is a nonnegligible part of its management. However, an in-depth understanding and critical analysis of SROSC to summarize recent research and inform future research directions are lacking. In this study, we address this issue by offering a mixed-review method integrating scientometric analysis and systematic review to explore state-of-the-art SROSC. We aim to uncover sustainability themes and topics, distinguish research trends, and identify gaps in knowledge that can be addressed in future research. Scientometric analysis was used to perform statistical analysis and visual map research on the knowledge landscape formed by 272 related studies of SROSC. The systematic review was used to identify and analyze six major knowledge themes (e.g., environmental, economic, social, decision-making, optimization, and industry management) and 21 knowledge topics for SROSC. We proposed possible future research directions based on the resulting structured body of knowledge. This research contributes to the body of knowledge by visualizing and analyzing the state-of-the-art of SROSC, as well as identifying the future research directions in this area to improve architectural, engineering, and construction practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a summary of the proceedings of a panel on the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) held under the auspices of the Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2022), as well as the discussion that ensued thereafter among the panelists. In this regard, a synopsis of the underlying motivation and structure of SWEBOK is given, and the means for integrating SWEBOK in software-intensive organizations and educational institutions offering software engineering-related courses are highlighted and illustrated by pedagogically-oriented examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the main characteristics of the profile "Cybersecurity and artificial intelligence" for the direction of training 02.03.02 Fundamental Informatics and Information Technology (FIIT). The concept and history of the creation of the basic direction of FIIT, its purpose as a multidisciplinary standard designed to train highly qualified IT professionals in a wide range of IT areas are considered. It is noted that FIIT meets modern trends in the development of IT and IT education, in particular, the spirit of the documents ComputingCurricula 2005 and ComputingCurricula 2020. The main principles of development and architecture of the code of knowledge of the curriculum of the discipline "Cybersecurity" are considered, on the basis of which the profile "Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence" is developed. A description of the general characteristics of this profile is given, including: goals, mission, professional competencies as expected learning outcomes.

To answer the question if the Geohealth domain requires a body of knowledge (BoK), we need a general understanding of concepts associated with this field. Two years ago, the United Nation (UN) committee of experts on global geospatial information management identified “semantic- and ontology-linked data” as something that “will become essential to support the next generation of autonomous systems” (UN-GGIM, 2020). The term ontology is closely related to BoK. Unlike data models, ontologies are independent of application; they are generic, can be used in different ways and have clear advantages but they are challenging to create and even more difficult to maintain. The brief description below summarizes what ontologies are, why they are needed to support linked data, what the role of the semantic web is, what is already going on within the Geohealth domain on ontologies and how a BoK can assist.

The article describes the basic principles of the development and architecture of educational and methodological material in the form of a guide for the development of educational programs for training highly qualified professional personnel in cybersecurity (information security). Such guidance in foreign sources is called a curriculum. As in any curriculum, the main content of this manual is the definition of the cybersecurity body of knowledge (CBK) in the form of a multi-level hierarchical structure of didactic units that determine the content of training. In addition, the manual includes the definition of the minimum required amount of knowledge (core of the CBK) for educational programs in cybersecurity, a description of the set of expected characteristics of graduates and learning outcomes, recommendations for practice-oriented training of students, a system of didactic parameters that determine the recommended hourly workload when studying individual elements of the CBK and the level of knowledge transfer in the development of the required skills and other materials. This guide is developed on the basis of the Cybersecurity Skills Model described in the authors' previous article "The Cybersecurity Skills Model 2020". It can serve as a methodological basis for the development of educational programs on cybersecurity at all levels: bachelor's, specialist's, master's. The guide can also be used in the development of continuing education programs, individual curricula and professional self-study programs related to cybersecurity.

In the context of assertions that defining a map is an illogical and futile exercise, this paper examines the distinctiveness of the discipline of cartography and the success of the human endeavour that has produced 'things' called maps. We contend not only that cartography is a coherent and distinctive discipline (although we do consider the semantics involved in, and rationale for, referring to it by that name), but that human society cannot function without maps. The major reason for this is that each map is created for a human or societal purpose – and this purpose defines the nature and utility of the map. The role of a map defines the very nature of a map itself, and we reflect on the creation, functionality, and success of mapping activity. This leads us to conclude with pointers to functional definition of the map. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To support societal problem solving, transdisciplinary research (TDR) uses knowledge co-production focusing on relevance and validity in a studied case and its particular social–ecological context. In the first instance, the resulting situated knowledge seems to be restricted to these single cases. However, if some of the knowledge generated in TDR could be used in other research projects, this would imply that there is a body of knowledge representing this special type of research. This study used a qualitative approach based on the methodology of grounded theory to empirically examine what knowledge is considered transferable to other cases, if any. 30 leaders of 12 Swiss-based TDR projects in the field of sustainable development were interviewed, representing both academia and practice. The transferable knowledge we found consists of the following: (1) Transdisciplinary principles, (2) transdisciplinary approaches, (3) systematic procedures, (4) product formats, (5) experiential know-how, (6) framings and (7) insights, data and information. The discussion of TDR has predominantly been focusing on transdisciplinary principles and approaches. In order to take knowledge co-production in TDR beyond an unmanageable field of case studies, more efforts in developing and critically discussing transferable knowledge of the other classes are needed, foremost systematic procedures, product formats and framings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the lead society for environmental engineering and similarly named programs accredited by ABET (formerly the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, Inc.), the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientist (the Academy) welcomes a conversation on the training and credentialing of environmental engineers. Faculty of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (the Association) and the Environmental Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (the Society) have a vested interest in this conversation. We encourage you to engage in this conversation and contribute your views as we refresh our shared definition of the environmental engineering body of knowledge and explore how our self-regulating process of licensure and credentialing may best protect the safety, health, and welfare of the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the framework and the issues of an unexpected encounter between ‘les Cafés-cartographiques’ and an unknown Palestinian Laboratory of Ideas: the Battir Landscape Management Plan2 , a citizen-based palestinian experience recognized as one of the most relevant contemporary digital mapping projects. From heterogeneous topographic data handled on the spot at the end of April 2012, an unexpected universal topo-cartographic adventure took place, spreading ever more the simple complexity of the meaning ‘to be a cartographer’. Offering a visible definition of what is ‘a topographic map’, a huge and complete collective work, usually confidential, followed-up. Managed from the local aerial photography, AutoCad primarily and ArcGis files were at first opened in ®Illustrator, then harmonized through art mapping in order to render accessible training tools in cartography. The students of the National School of Geographic Sciences cleaned the original databases and rectified the data through the orthophotography of the region, geolocating its informations. Since then, this local topo-mapping works in correlation with all our professional cartographic systems, through all possible cartographic aspects and uses. Battir self-produced the very first space topographic data of its country, Palestine, where no institutional data was available. Working in cartography at small scales in order to produce the best map aiming at informing its readers, our trades have always remained confidential. The commonal result is visible, not the means to reach it. Today, when all seems to be available through a keyboard click, this body of knowledge shifts dangerously. Battir provides an exceptional efficient range of living tools that demonstrate this.

Sport and communication have existed since humans began interacting with one another, with organized sport and planned communication formalized for hundreds of years. However, social science scholars have only taken a high-level of interest in sport communication over the past decade. Over the past 10 years, much has been written and researched in the field, and its formalization continues, justifying a need for a review of its current status and the articulation of its future directions. Thus, this article identifies and critically discusses the developments in the field of sport communication in terms of its academic infrastructures and the resulting body of knowledge. It also assesses how the field's developments are affecting scholarly advancements and identifies areas of "disciplinary pain." The work concludes by providing suggestions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the field of art history, critical modes of inquiry prompt the production of new areas of analysis and discovery. Black feminist thought, African art and curatorial history, for instance, offer models for reinterpreting the experiences of hidden and marginalised voices that tend to be overlooked. For women artists and scholars of African descent, the lack of critical artist voices in art-historical scholarship is often detrimental – perpetuating the ways in which communities of colour feel excluded from knowledge production. In this regard, scholars across interdisciplinary fields have proposed artist interviews to be important strategies for documenting and re-narrating art-historical narratives (Jordan; Kreamer; Obrist; Walker; Whitehead). In this article, the researcher will analyse audio/audio-visual recordings and transcripts of interviews with African American artists conducted for narrative inquiry, oral history and documentary film. The paper assesses the potential for artist interviews to be sites for reframing, reclaiming and rewriting art histories by women artists of African descent.

The paper outlines the case for a body of knowledge for civil engineering systems engineers to include, alongside its primary focus on engineering and technology, supplementary strands from the liberal arts. A case is made for future thought leaders in civil engineering systems to be exposed to a body of knowledge that goes well beyond current UK engineering undergraduate content, providing the formation for a lifetime career in the design, planning, development and administration of infrastructure and cities systems. This would equip systems engineers with empathy and understanding of the social, economic, governance, cultural, philosophical, historic, and business context behind complex civil engineering systems and enhance skills in analysis, synthesis, collaboration, leadership, and communication skills. A set of exemplar modules is provided to complement the engineering and technology content of post-graduate systems courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has developed three editions of a Body of Knowledge (BOK) to define the professional practice of civil engineering. The process has taken close to two decades so far and has established a pattern of continuous change and improvement. The development has been accelerated by two events, The Summit on the Future of Civil Engineering – 2025 in 2006 the ASCE Civil Engineering Education Summit, Mapping the Future of Civil Engineering Education in 2019. This paper reviews this development and its implications for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper outlines what is believed to be a robust systems framework, suitable for the development of a Body of Knowledge in Civil Engineering Systems (BOK-CES). The proposed framework is structured in six parts, which are amplified and explained in the paper. The framework embodies, or is common to, all people's views on systems, provided terminology is revisited. The six parts are System; System Variables; System Models; Systems Modelling/Investigation; Systems Analysis; and Systems Synthesis. The framework has been tested on multiple pursuits. It applies whether the matter is probabilistic/deterministic, dynamic/static, discrete/continuous and other categorisations. It applies to both qualitative treatments and quantitative treatments. It is extendable beyond engineering. The paper is intended to promote discussion and debate on Civil Engineering Systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The formulation of the National Policy on Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR4.0) and Internet of things signals the Malaysian government readiness to come up with the necessary policy framework for the digitalised era. It has been said that universities’ curriculum structure and instructional design must also be revisited to ready the graduate to face the onslaught of technological revolution. Through content analysis of relevant literature, this paper analyses the myriad ways in which legal education has been impacted by IR4.0 both in terms of the ‘body of knowledge’ as well as the ‘skill sets’ required for law students to survive in the era of automatous systems. The paper is structured to first explain the concept of IR4.0 and how some national countries leverage the digital technology to improve their economy or facilitate social transformation. The paper proceeds with a discussion of how autonomous system, artificial intelligence and data analytics can enhance the instructional design of teaching and researching law. In terms of the body of knowledge, most of the legal principles drawn for the brick and mortar environment are no longer relevant in the IR4.0 era. The paper reveals that the traditional method that focuses on the training of law graduates to think like a lawyer by understanding the reasoning in the judgement of cases or the preparation of conveyancing and court documents are no longer relevant in the IR4.0 era as these activities could easily be undertaken by bots. Instead, law students should be imparted with a multiplicity of human skills that could not be performed by autonomous systems such as those involving conscience, high level thinking, and emotion such as mediation, negotiation, counselling, court prosecution, advocacy, witness examination, plea mitigation as well as social skills, resource management skills, technical skills and most importantly system skills.

Economics as a system of thought and body of knowledge is constructed based on certain philosophical foundations derived from a particular worldview. The term worldview, which originated from the German Weltanschauung (composed of Welt, ‘world’, and Anschauung, ‘view’ or ‘outlook’) refers to a world perception, or the concept and framework of ideas through which human interprets the human life and world. The term worldview, in general, refers to belief, doctrine, perspective and values in the sense that it supplies views, assumptions and images of how to perceive things. The worldview which is the perspective in understanding the existence and realities decorates the scientifc atmosphere, its direction as well as objectives. The worldview is also fundamental in supporting the development of a science and its progress. Mainstream economics is developed from the foundation of Secular Worldview which is characterized as materialist (excluding the metaphysics), reductionist (reducing the epistemological basis on positivism with atomistic perspective) and individualist (isolating individual from society). Islamic economics, on the other hand, is developed on the basis of Islamic worldview. The Islamic worldview is claimed to be more comprehensive, integrative and holistic in nature. This would make Islamic economics having a potential to answer the shortcoming found in conventional economics. The paper would explore the nature of worldview in Secular and Islamic tradition and its implications in developing discipline of economics and Islamic economics. The paper also seeks to develop some foundations for Islamic economics to be a distinct discipline.

Globally Home Economics and Family and Consumer Sciences foundation is the ecological theory that embraces family capacity-building practices. However, research documents that gaps exist between knowledge of these concepts and actual practice with preservice students. Professionals are challenged to incorporate knowledge from position statements, body of knowledge, theory and current literature to promote research to practice. To address these gaps, higher education programs should prepare preservice professionals with active/contextual learning methodologies that incorporate both the International Federation of Home Economics position statement and the Family and Consumer Sciences body of knowledge, in course content. Active/contextual learning strategies with abstracts concepts such as theory may enhance preservice professional's working knowledge and lead to expanding family capacity-building. As an example, a case study is presented applying a thorough understanding of the ecological theory and family capacity-building. With this knowledge home economics professionals gain an understanding the uniqueness of the family, as well as help families' view problems and solutions within the contextual layers of the family's environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Professional associations (gateways to the profession) are voluntary organizations that connect and sustain professionals who in turn sustain the association and profession as contributing members by promoting research and work to broader audiences, leveraging research outcomes, and influencing stakeholders. After discussing the topics of professional associations, young professionals, bodies of knowledge (BOK), and professional and academic cultures, eight recommendations were developed that professional associations can consider should they choose to entice young professionals to remain aligned with the profession's culture and the association's BOK after graduation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bodies of knowledge (BOK) contain relevant knowledge for several areas. Knowledge representation for BOK is essential to understand the true context and the possible application of BOK in science. Knowledge can be symbolically represented in many ways, and in this paper graphs and software design patterns were chosen to develop knowledge representation techniques for BOK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Raising the well-being of communities in Thailand needs to be based on the application of knowledge, from both outside and within the community, as a guideline in practice. It also requires effective knowledge management. Hence, the main objective of this research is to examine factors affecting knowledge management efficiency of local leaders such as leadership, behavior of people in the community, information technology management, organizational culture, and infrastructure. The 400 samples of this study were village headman, and headman in central region of Thailand derived from multi-stage sampling. Questionnaire was employed as a research tool to collect the data in August 2016. The received 399 questionnaires represented a response rate of 99.75 percent. The data then were analyzed using multiple regression analysis. The findings indicated that leadership, information technology management had a positive impact on knowledge management efficiency. However, behavior of people in the community, organizational culture, and infrastructure had no impact on knowledge management efficiency. The researchers suggested that development to enhance the community through effective knowledge management in central region should focus on creating leadership. Related agencies should pay attention on the needs of local residents and promote learning activities in the community. According to the behavior of people in the community, expressing opinions in knowledge management among people in the community should be promoted. For information technology management, information storage, appropriate and sufficient channels should be provided for the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Model-Based Software Engineering (MBE) is a widely accepted Software Engineering (SE) discipline, no agreed-upon core set of concepts and practices (i.e., a Body of Knowledge) has been defined for it yet. With the goals of characterizing the contents of the MBE discipline, promoting a global consistent view of it, clarifying its scope with regard to other SE disciplines, and defining a foundation for the development of educational curricula on MBE, this paper proposes the contents for a Body of Knowledge for MBE. We also describe the methodology that we have used to come up with the proposed list of contents, as well as the results of a survey study that we conducted to sound out the opinion of the community on the importance of the proposed topics and their level of coverage in the existing SE curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]