Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v12i1.300
Ozgur Demirtas, Neslihan Derin
Many businesses have come to realize that environmentally-aware applications have gained a competitive edge, even at increased competition environments. These businesses can make several investments to protect the environment. Contrary to our expectations, regarding environmental protection, there is no need for huge investments on issues such as waste recycling, reduction of emissions, and energy conservation. Businesses can become environmentally friendly by lean approach applications that are becoming widespread gradually. The idea of reducing any waste, the basis of the lean approach, can contribute to the protection of the environment by providing a safer use of scarce resources in the environment and by leaving a minimal amount of waste to the environment. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the usefulness and effects of lean multi-dimensional applications for managing environmentally sensitive businesses. This paper employs an analysis of the literature that examines the relationship between lean thinking and green management. A thorough analysis has indicated that businesses that combine lean approaches and green practices have a better chance to reach positive outcomes, and attain sustainable strategic competitive advantage in their organizational environment.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v12i1.299
R. Daghamin
A Passage to India is a seminal source, which has a clinical approach at the colonial outrages, racial traumas, and the multifarious ramifications of racism that the Anglo Indians perpetrated on the locals. The novel socially and psychologically explores the unhealthy dimensions of the colonizer-colonized relationships. The disgusting attitudes of the English expatriates as well as the hatred of the Indians, is the primary foundation of the racial tension between the two races. The antagonistic relationships between the two extreme communities made the social life in India unbearable and miserable. The miserable situation in colonized India deteriorated due to the violations of the values and rights of the indigenous Indians. In A Passage to India, the average Indian individual seems to consider mistrust and suspicion as his/ her best guide. However, Indian citizens are exploited by the colonizer’s rude demeanors and racial, condescending and frustrating attitudes which eat into the vitals of the Indian community, In A Passage to India, E. M. Forster, highlights these biased and prejudiced racial attitudes. E.M. Forster in the novel clinically excoriates the patronizing British ruling caste. He also condemns the intolerance of the Indian community represented by Dr. Aziz, who is guided by his intuitions, imagination and emotions rather than his sense of intellect and reasoning. This racial tension in the colonized Indian society can be condensed by adopting a sensible attitude based on adopting human values, such as interracial love, peace, harmony and understanding. This paper delineates how racism and its different multiple manifestations have an effect on the relationships between the characters of different races. Forster furthermore underscores various human values such as interracial tolerance, love and understating. The violations of these values, however, is considered as the root cause of the racial tensions in the British Raj. Forster channels his biting satire and harsh criticism against the British rulers due to their unbearable racist discriminations against indigenous natives. This study, therefore, critically highlights race relations and the traumatic effects of the British colonization.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v12i1.298
S. Silvestri
Since colonial times, Somalia has been going through authoritarian and/or democratic transitions. The transitory position of Somalia was determined by geography, religion, ethnicity, tribal origins, socio-economic, and political system. Somalia is one of the longest protracted crises in the world and recurrently victim of the violent extremism that breathes into the political, social and economic country’s unrest. Somalia remains a major threat to peace and stability in the Horn of Africa. More importantly, continuous uprisings, violence, and conflicts threaten peace, stability, and security in Somalia. This paper examines the root causes of these developments by considering international, regional and domestic actors in state security, peace, and stability. How tackling of terrorism, extremism and organized crime are conditioned by the effectiveness of the system of governance, the rule of law, economic growth and development and, more importantly, state security, police, and defense. This paper also placed the questions of terrorism and conflict within a global security framework and the fight against terrorism, organized crime, and illegal human trafficking and migrations.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v12i1.285
Ronald Elly Wanda, J. Muchemi, Nyandoro Kefa
This article analyses community participation in peace-building in the Mt Elgon area between 2007 and 2017. The article assesses the use of indigenous methods of conflict resolution embedded in restorative practices, as well as seeking to establish the role that Mount Elgon’s Residents Association (MERA) played in peace-building. The study adopts the theoretical work of Johan Galtung’s conflict analysis model and John Paul Lederach’s conflict transformation work on peace-building. The study reveals a yawning need for younger community members to be more involved in peace-building activities in the Mt Elgon area. It further reveals that community members aged between 35 and 54 years strongly believe that their traditional culture and indigenous practices are central to their peace-building efforts in their locality. The study found a majority of community members felt that their involvement has played an important role in disarming local militia groups and in peace-building. Overall, the community strongly pointed at land and “dirty politics” as issues being at the forefront of community conflict in Mt. Elgon.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v12i1.296
Bashkim Rrahmani, Veton Vula
The paper evaluates policies and practices in juvenile justice from a comparative perspective. It is focused on an analysis of juvenile justice taking into account also work of prosecutors and the judges. In many states of Europe as well as in Kosovo there are developed strategies for reforms of the juvenile justice which have noted qualitative changes and with this, a distinct level of convergence between systems of European states is noted. By using the qualitative methodology and with the use of the method of comparative analysis and method of historical analysis, the authors will be focused on the historical development of the juvenile justice system in Kosovo, under the context of the development of this field in various states of Central and Eastern Europe. The findings and recommendations in this paper could enhance scholarly and institutional tackling of juvenile justice.
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Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.21533/epiphany.v12i1.323
Nilüfer Kart Aktaş, Hande Sanem Çınar
At every stage of human history, people migrate by force or by their own will. Both forced and willing migrations are caused by wars, poverty and a higher expectation for better living standards, employment, residence, social status, quality life, education, and others. In Turkey, migration from rural to urban areas that took place between the 1950s and 1980s has caused millions of people to migrate to cosmopolitan cities, like Istanbul. One of the main reasons for immigration to the city was due to the quality of life in the city and rural areas. This geographically displaced process of millions of people has influenced economic, social and cultural change and transformation in both the city and the village. Migrants often migrate to cities without proper knowledge, skills, and expertise, which significantly affect their economic, social and cultural status in the city where they have moved. For this reason, immigrants usually use their own "integration strategies". Most of the migrants could not adapt to the rapid life of the metropolis, so they preferred to live in shanties by isolating themselves from metropolitan life, which became one of the major urban problems. The Urban regeneration process, which entered our life rapidly as a result of the great earthquake that occurred in 1999, led to rapid changes in both the social and physical space and even the transformation in Istanbul. Thus, this study aims to analyze the physical, spatial and social changes in the urban regeneration process of the regions where the first shanty was established in Istanbul. An assessment of this shanty in Istanbul is significant because it received the biggest number of migrants between the 1950s and 1980s. Consequently, urban, economic, social and cultural effects of these changes continue to shape present-day Istanbul’s urban system and urban identity.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-10DOI: 10.21533/EPIPHANY.V11I1.283
A. Hasanagić
Procrastination is defined as the act of “putting off or delaying an action to a later time.” (Bachrach, 2012). Measuring procrastination is important for better understanding of this so common habit, but also, for diagnosing and therapy of it. Lay (1986) matched procrastination with traits, big 5 theory, perfectionism, anxiety, agitation, dejection, and self-discrepancy etc. His scale General Procrastination Scale (GPS) consists of 20 items. Responses across items are summed to obtain a single score, and according to the instructions of GPS, the scale is one-factor only scale, with Cronbach alpha of 0,82 (Lay, 1986) and a retest reliability of 0,80 (Ferrari, 1989). The purpose of this research is to explore psychometric characteristics of procrastination scale by Lay (1986). For this purpose, scale was applied to 480 undergraduate students. Results of this study conformed the evidence of high reliability of scale (α= 0.876). Factorial analysis at first showed five factors that were not interpretable, but rotated factorial analysis by employing Equamax rotation with Kaiser’s Normalization, showed clearer structure. According to this, there are 5 components of this scale: Factor 1. Good planning: items 8, 14, 15, 18, and 20. Factor 2. Delaying: items 5,9,11,12 and 19. Factor 3. Doing things in last minute: items 16 and 17. Factor 4. Good time management: items 3,4,6 and 13. Factor 5: Poor time management: items 1,2,7 and 10.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-10DOI: 10.21533/EPIPHANY.V11I1.262
Bello, Muhinat Bolanle, Yusuf Abdulraheem, A. Ismail
This study investigated the perception of economics undergraduate on non-usage of university's ICT platform in teaching economics at the University of Ilorin. Descriptive research of survey type was adopted in this study. The population of this study consists of all Economics undergraduate in the departments of Economic and Economics Education (of the social sciences education department) which is estimated at 937 students. A sample of 278 respondents was drawn randomly in this study. A Researcher’s Designed questionnaire with psychometric properties of content validity and 0.71r was used to elicit the needed. Data collected were analysed with descriptive statistics of frequency counts, percentages, means and standard deviation while the hypotheses formulated were tested using inferential statistics of t-test and ANOVA at 0.05 alpha level. The study revealed that lecturer’s philosophy, lack of appropriate skills, incompatible classroom environment, limited lecture hours and non-satisfaction with ICT results, among others are perceived as reasons for non-usage of ICT platforms for teaching economics. The study, therefore, recommended that the use of visual Google classroom at all levels of the teaching by the university administration should be encouraged. Keywords: Perception, Reasons, ICT Platforms and Non-Usage.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-10DOI: 10.21533/EPIPHANY.V11I1.280
Enedina Hasanbegović-Anić, A. Sandić, Sabina Alispahić
Adolescence is developmental period during which, most commonly, use of substances begins. Thus majority of preventive initiatives target child population and youngsters. With regards that many traditional and widely utilized preventive programs turned out to be ineffective, scientists have put much effort into development of much more efficacious, contemporary approaches in evidence based prevention during the last decades. Although the number of available evidence based preventive programs significantly raised during the past several years, there are still obstacles in recognition of importance in their implementation, as well as obscurities about what that term actually stands for. This paper provides a review of most important scientific insights about substance abuse in population of youngsters, which are foundation of good practice in the field of prevention, as well as more specific definition of programs that bear “evidence based” label. Key traits of efficacious substance abuse preventive programs targeting family, school and community are presented, as well as examples of good practice. Keywords: substance abuse in children and adolescents, preventive programs, evidence based approaches
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Pub Date : 2019-01-10DOI: 10.21533/EPIPHANY.V11I1.282
J. Nafi, Randa Hilal, Farah Rasheed Jayousi
This paper is an attempt to analyze the poetry of Miss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) in order to reveal the extent of mysticism in it, and it focuses on the concept of "theology." Mysticism involves a deep, almost obsessive, concern with such problems as death, the existence of the soul, immortality, the existence of God and heaven, salvation or redemption, etc. The critical approach was used to analyze some of Dickinson’s major poems. A glance at her poetry reveals that it shows an extreme preoccupation with the effect of death and explores various themes such as the nature of the soul, the problem of immortality, the possibility of faith and the reality of God. The researchers also tried to reveal the internal and external influences that shaped Dickinson’s poetry. The paper concluded that the theme of death was inexhaustible for her. If her poetry seldom became “lyrical,” seldom departed from the colorless sobriety of its bare iambics and toneless assonance, it did so most of all when the subject was death. Although Dickinson’s poetry contains some mystical elements, mystical poetry, in the traditional sense, at least, is not her special poetic gift.
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