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Disman, Disman, Mohammad Ali, and M. Syaom Barliana. "THE USE OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHOD AND STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS IN DISSERTATION: AN EVALUATION STUDY." International Journal of Education 10, no. 1 (September 3, 2017): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/ije.v10i1.5566.
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Writing a dissertation is one of the requirements every postgraduate student has to accomplish in completing his/her doctorate program; and it is written based on research. This study addresses the problem concerning the pattern of weaknesses in the students’ research, particularly related to the use of research and statistical methods. Its objectives are to explore the weakness pattern of their research method and statistical data processing and analyze various causes of the pattern. The study is focused on the dissertations written by Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia’s School of Postgraduate Studies’ students that used a quantitative approach based on the review undertaken by the school’s commission from academic year 2012/2013 to 2013/2014. The study employed a qualitative approach and data analysis was done by using logical analysis of the review results. Findings of the study indicate there are various weaknesses in the students’ dissertations, particularly related to the way of thinking and inappropriate use of research method and statistical method. Inappropriate population, bias sampling technique, and inappropriate data analysis process and hypothesis testing are also found in the dissertations.
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Dastjerdi, Zahra Shirian, Helen Tan, and Ain Nadzimah Abdullah. "RHETORICAL STRUCTURE OF INTEGRATED RESULTS AND DISCUSSION CHAPTER IN MASTER’S DISSERTATIONS ACROSS DISCIPLINES." Discourse and Interaction 10, no. 2 (December 15, 2017): 61–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/di2017-2-61.
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Writing a dissertation is the most challenging task for students, especially the IntegratedResults and Discussion chapter. One solution would be to offer them a template of therhetorical flow of this chapter. However, to date, a limited number of studies have beenconducted on the rhetorical movement of this chapter. Therefore, the rhetorical units ofIntegrated Results and Discussion chapters of 40 Master’s dissertations in the hard and softscience disciplines obtained from a Malaysian local public university were investigated.The findings indicated that this chapter focused predominantly on presenting the resultsfollowed by commenting on them. Disciplinary variation was observed in the use of‘referring to previous research’ and ‘making overt claims or generalizations’ which wereobserved more in the dissertations in the soft sciences. Besides, ‘invalidating results’ wasfound more in the dissertations in the hard sciences. To conclude, knowing the prevalentmoves may heighten the awareness of novice postgraduate students to align their writing tothe academic writing conventions. Furthermore, awareness on the disciplinary variationsof the use of certain rhetorical moves would sensitize novice writers to the preferreddisciplinary style of writing Integrated Results and Discussion chapter.
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Kihn, Lili-Anne, and Salme Näsi. "Emerging diversity in management accounting research." Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 13, no. 1 (March 6, 2017): 131–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jaoc-01-2015-0005.
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Purpose Several scholars have recently highlighted the narrowness of accounting research regarding it as a threat to scholarly developments in the field. The aim of this study was to chart progress in management accounting research using a sample of doctoral dissertations published in Finland. In particular, the study examines the range and diversity of research strategic choices in Finnish dissertations over time, including the topics and methodological and theoretical approaches chosen. The authors also briefly compare findings over time and with other progress studies. Design/methodology/approach A longitudinal historical investigation was selected. All of the 80 management accounting doctoral dissertations published in Finnish business schools and departments during 1945-2015 were analysed. Findings The findings reveal that an expansion of doctoral education has led to an increasing diversity of research strategic choices in Finland. Different issues have been of interest at different times; so, it has been possible to cover a wide range of cost, management accounting and other topics and to use different methodological and theoretical approaches over time. Consequently, management accounting has become a rich and multifaceted field of scientific research. Research limitations/implications While this analysis is limited to doctoral research in Finland, the results should be relevant in advancing the understanding of the development of management accounting research. Practical implications Overall, the findings support the view that there have been, and continue to be, many ways to conduct innovative research in the field of management accounting. Social implications Dissertation research in this field has been extensive and vital enough to educate new generations of academics, guarantee continuity of the subject as an academic discipline and make management accounting a significant academic field of research. Originality/value The paper contributes to current research on management accounting change by an analysis of a sample of doctoral dissertations.
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Oliveira de Araujo, Thamiris, and Ana Amélia Amorim Carvalho. "Academic research on MALL in Brazil: a systematic review." LínguaTec 7, no. 1 (June 20, 2022): 22–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.35819/linguatec.v7.n1.5719.
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This paper aims at presenting an overview of academic research developed in Brazil on foreign language Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) from 2009 to 2019. A systematic review was conducted on the Catalog of Theses and Dissertations from CAPES. The search retrieved 15 publications, mostly published from 2017 to 2019. It was revealed that the majority of studies were developed on a Language Studies program of the Southeast region and that there are more dissertations (from master studies) than theses (from PhD studies) published on the subject matter. The objectives found were: (i) evaluation of language learning applications; (ii) evaluation of other types of electronic resources related to education; (iii) development of language learning application; (iv) systematic review; (v) survey on MALL; (iv) assessment of language learning activities mediated by mobile devices at schools. The results pointed out the need for modernizing language learning applications in terms of language views, methodologies, and game elements. The use of MALL in class was fruitful to improve linguistic proficiency, collaboration, and agency.
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Hirano, Gisele Saraiva Bispo, Camila Takáo Lopes, and Alba Lucia Bottura Leite de Barros. "Development of research on nursing diagnoses in Brazilian graduate programs." Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 72, no. 4 (August 2019): 926–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0259.
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ABSTRACT Objective: to characterize the development of research on nursing diagnoses in nursing graduate programs and verify the application of the results of these studies according to the perception of academic advisors. Methods: documental research on dissertations and theses available from the databases of Brazilian universities with graduate programs in nursing, and exploratory survey on the practical application of their results. Results: 216 dissertations and theses were analyzed. Most of them were descriptive studies, and the most widely used diagnostic taxonomy was NANDA International. Little practical use of the knowledge produced by the dissertations and theses was identified. Conclusion: Although there has been a considerable increase in research on nursing diagnoses, the survey stage revealed scarce practical application of their results, prompting the need for further studies in order to identify the barriers in the way of transposing theory to practice.
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Johnson, Karen, J. Medgar Roberts, Mary W. Stout, Michelle Susberry Hill, and Lisa Wells. "What educational leaders should know about social media, collaboration and doctoral learning." Research on Education and Media 9, no. 2 (December 1, 2017): 32–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rem-2017-0012.
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Abstract In a global society where knowledge, degrees, and credentials cross international borders, understanding what and how doctoral students think and communicate about learning is relevant to educational leadership. An implication could be in creating new solutions to the age-old problem of students completing coursework but not a dissertation, and therefore, not graduating. United States doctoral students are taking advantage of social media platforms to create, develop, or enhance Personal Learning Networks (PLN). A team of researchers using a qualitative research methodology studied both the views and experiences of nine doctoral students, who were members of a closed Facebook group created specifically as a PLN. The results of the research study confirmed that the students use social media for academic and personal communication, emotional support, and direction through the dissertation stage of doctoral studies. Thematic results concluded that the participants sought help with questions and answers about research, guidance on the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process, and celebrating achievements. Trust was also a significant factor in ensuring the completion of dissertations. The results provide educational leaders useful information and insight into the impact of social media on teaching, research, culture, and learning environmental designs.
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Schadl, Suzanne M., and Marina Todeschini. "Cite Globally, Analyze Locally: Citation Analysis from a Local Latin American Studies Perspective." College & Research Libraries 76, no. 2 (March 1, 2015): 136–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.76.2.136.
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This citation analysis examines the use of Spanish- and Portuguese-language books and articles in PhD dissertations on Latin America at the University of New Mexico between 2000 and 2009. Two sets of data are presented: The first identifies the use of Spanish- and Portuguese-language books and articles across 17 academic departments; and the second analyzes how well local holdings meet demands for a select geographical area—Mexico. These local data contradict conclusions in general citation studies of the humanities, social sciences and foreign languages. They prove that preconceived ideas about foreign language usage from general citation studies do not provide reliable templates for local acquisition decisions. Librarians need to look at their research communities and local usage habits instead of relying on general studies for answers.
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Yao, Xiaoxia, and YongChao Zhao. "Cooperative purchase and use: a study of the ProQuest full text database of dissertations and theses (PQDT)." Interlending & Document Supply 43, no. 2 (May 18, 2015): 94–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ilds-01-2015-0002.
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Purpose – To purpose of this study is to describe and to demonstrate the value of a consortium purchase of the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses full-text database (PQDT) in China. Design/methodology/approach – The authors provide a first-person account based on their professional positions at the China Academic Library & Information System Administrative Center. Findings – That the PQDT database has steadily increased the use of theses in China with more institutions subscribing every year. The PQDT full-text database has become one of the most cost effective databases cooperatively purchased in China. Originality/value – One of the few in-depth studies of the use of the PQDT database.
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Opondo, Philip R., Anthony A. Olashore, Keneilwe Molebatsi, Caleb J. Othieno, and James O. Ayugi. "Mental health research in Botswana: a semi-systematic scoping review." Journal of International Medical Research 48, no. 10 (October 2020): 030006052096645. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0300060520966458.
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Mental and substance use disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide. Despite this, there is a paucity of mental health research in low- and middle-income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. We carried out a semi-systematic scoping review to determine the extent of mental health research in Botswana. Using a predetermined search strategy, we searched the databases Web of Science, PubMed, and EBSCOhost (Academic Search Complete, CINAHL with Full Text, MEDLINE, MEDLINE with Full Text, MLA International Bibliography, Open Dissertations) for articles written in English from inception to June 2020. We identified 58 studies for inclusion. The most researched subject was mental health aspects of HIV/AIDS, followed by research on neurotic and stress-related disorders. Most studies were cross-sectional and the earliest published study was from 1983. The majority of the studies were carried out by researchers affiliated to the University of Botswana, followed by academic institutions in the USA. There seems to be limited mental health research in Botswana, and there is a need to increase research capacity.
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Bednyi, B. I., A. A. Mironos, and N. V. Rybakov. "How Russian Doctoral Education Fulfills Its Main Mission: Scientometric Assessments (Article 2)." Vysshee Obrazovanie v Rossii = Higher Education in Russia 28, no. 10 (November 1, 2019): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2019-28-10-9-24.
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Change management in the field of training and certification of academic personnel implies a reliable information support in the form of statistical and sociological data that enable the monitoring of the effectiveness of the institution of doctoral education. The current system for monitoring the activities of doctoral schools does not fully meet these requirements, thus making it difficult to assess objectively the implementation of doctoral education’s main function – the training of researchers and faculty for higher education. The article attempts to fill this information lacuna by presenting an analysis of the database created by the authors which contains information about the defense of dissertations and research results of PhD students who graduated in 2013 from nine Russian universities over the five-year period after their graduation (N = 1178). Information on the results of each graduate’s research activities was obtained from open sources: the portal of the Higher Attestation Commission, the electronic catalog of the Russian State Library, Scopus and eLibrary.ru databases, as well as the database of the Industrial Property Institute. As a result of our research, it was established that the actual timeframe of doctoral students’ advancement to their academic degree is determined by discipline-related factors. In the sample as a whole, the share of persons who defended their dissertations was 45% of the total number of graduates, which is 1.7 times higher than the share of graduates who defended their dissertations in the course of their studies at the doctoral school. Approximately 90% of graduates defend their dissertations no later than two years after graduation from the doctoral school. The quantitative data of doctoral school graduates’ retention in the academic field are given, with the breakdown by discipline. On average, more than 60% of Candidate of Sciences degree holders continue their careers in academic positions. The obtained data on Russian doctoral school graduates are in good agreement with the results of monitoring doctoral programs’ graduates in Europe and the USA. The results of this work make it possible to take a fresh look at the methodology for diagnosing the effectiveness of university doctoral schools.
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Lou, Baocui. "A Corpus-Based Study of Evaluative That-Clause in Abstracts of Chinese Learners' Doctoral Dissertations." International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching 4, no. 3 (July 2014): 68–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcallt.2014070105.
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Evaluative language is one of the key features in academic discourse, which might cause difficulties for L2 writers. Based on a corpus of 150 English abstracts of Chinese doctoral dissertations in five disciplines, this paper studies the frequency, form and distribution of the evaluative that-clause, and compares the results with those in previous studies. The results show that Chinese learners use this structure significantly less frequently than experienced writers, which might be caused by learners' misunderstanding of the compositional feature of abstracts and lack of consciousness of the evaluative feature of abstracts. It is also demonstrated that verb-predicates occur most frequently in Chinese learners' abstracts among the three frequent word classes which introduce the proposition, that the stance feature expressed is mainly to confirm the findings and credit the study, and that the evaluated entity is mostly concerned with the writer's own research. We also design the feasible teaching procedures for pedagogical purposes.
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Varela, Miguel, Paula Lopes, and Rosa Rodrigues. "Rigour in the Management Case Study Method: A Study on Master's Dissertations." Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods 19, no. 1 (March 24, 2021): pp1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/ejbrm.19.1.2072.
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Many authors argue that the case study is a valid and advantageous research method for certain studies, having been used as a method of academic research in the field of social sciences as well as in management. This research method is an integrated system and offers the opportunity for a holistic view that combines data collection methods such as archival searches, interviews, questionnaires and observation. The data collection needed to build a case study is labour-intensive, can last months or even years, and data overload seems almost inevitable. The case study is an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within a real-life context. In this research method, qualitative data usually predominates, but quantitative data often appears in case studies. Some research studies consider the case study to be a research method for validating and constructing theory. Other research highlights that all social science studies must start with a theory based on a review of the literature relating to the subject under investigation and this theory must then be validated through the study of a specific object, phenomenon or social problem. The key point is that before a theory can be validated, it must be constructed. In other words, a theory or theoretical framework first emerges not through a deductive process but through the inductive approach of studying an empirical case or object, and finally all theories are initially based on a case or object. This type of research has traditionally been considered soft, due to the inexistence of criteria that allow to evaluate its validity as a method to study a phenomenon in its real context. The present work is part of this theme and intends to contribute to diminish the perception about the lack of rigour associated with the case study. The present research focuses on the analysis of the methodological rigour of defended master's dissertations. In this context an investigation was undertaken of master's dissertations in the management area of a higher education management institution that use the case study as the research method. In order to achieve our goals, four hundred and forty-two master's dissertations defended in management scientific master's degrees in a Portuguese higher education institution which specializes in the area of economic and business sciences were analysed. The results of the qualitative research indicate that 40.0% of the dissertations focus on case studies. The results obtained lead us to conclude that in general the dissertations analysed present a high level of methodological rigour with respect to the object of study and a moderate level with respect to data analysis and results. The most critical aspects are the way data are collected, namely the use of multiple sources of evidence in less than half of the cases, which makes triangulation of data impossible.
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Silva, José Francisco de Araújo, Marcos Antônio Leite do Nascimento, and Eduardo Adriani Rapanos. "Bibliometric analysis of the academic production on Geodiversity and related themes in the Federal Universities of Brazil." Terr Plural 16 (2022): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5212/terraplural.v.16.2219829.017.
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Research on geodiversity has been increasing in recent years, both internationally and in Brazil. This theme refers to the abiotic elements of the planet and has been the subject of studies since the 1990s, having developed nationally in the early 2000s. This work analyzed the academic research on geodiversity and related themes carried out in Brazil from 2000 to 2021, through a systematic search and bibliometric research in libraries, institutional repositories, and digital collections of the 69 Brazilian Federal Universities (HEI) and in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD). We searched the terms ‘geodiversity’, ‘geoconservation’, ‘geoconservationist/s’, ‘geotourism’, ‘geopark/s’, ‘geopatrimony’, ‘geosite/s’, and ‘geological heritage’. It was found 209 papers in 36 universities distributed in all regions of the country, with emphasis on the Northeast region, with 73 research in 9 institutions, followed by the Southeast region (65 papers in 12 HEIs), South (51 papers in 6 HEIs), Center-West (13 research in 6 HEIs) and North (7 publications in 4 HEIs). Regarding the number of papers, the Federal Universities of Minas Gerais (25), Pernambuco (20), Ceará (18) and Rio Grande do Sul (16) stand out, with the predominant being Dissertations (106), followed by Theses (57) and Final Papers (46). Written since 2003, there was a significant increase as of 2012, with 2016 standing out, and a decrease in 2020. Regarding the frequency of use of the keywords selected in the research, ‘geodiversity’ and ‘geoconservation’ prevailed. We highlight the master’s and doctoral courses in Geography, and undergraduate courses in Geology.
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Ivaniushina, Valeria, Vera Titkova, and Daniel Alexandrov. "Peer influence in adolescent drinking behaviour: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis of stochastic actor-based modeling studies." BMJ Open 9, no. 7 (July 2019): e028709. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028709.
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IntroductionAlcohol consumption is a considerable public health problem that is especially harmful to young people. To develop effective prevention programmes targeted at adolescents, it is important to understand the social mechanisms triggering alcohol consumption. Among such mechanisms, peer influence plays an important role. The effects of peer influence are very difficult to evaluate because of the entanglement with social selection, that is, a tendency of people to befriend others with similar behaviour. The recently developed stochastic actor-oriented models (SAOM) approach is designed to disentangle social influence from social selection. The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies employing SAOM methodology to evaluate the effects of social influence on adolescent drinking behaviour.Methods and analysisIn order to analyse the co-evolution of alcohol consumption and adolescent friendship networks, we will collect articles that use SAOM methodology through systematic electronic searches in Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, The Cochrane Library (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials), EBSCOhost (MEDLINE, SocINDEX, Academic Source, ERIC), ProQuest (ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global), PsycINFO (PsycNET), Excerpta Medica database (Embase) and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). We will collect the literature from academic journals, dissertations/theses, reports and conference materials. Three reviewers will retrieve and independently assess potentially relevant material in terms of whether they comply with prespecified criteria. Subsequently, we will summarise the results of the studies in a systematic review. If a sufficient number of studies can be found, SAOM quantitative results will be extracted and meta-analysed. The project will go from 1 December 2018 to 1 December 2019.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval will not be required as our work is based on published studies. A list of all the studies included in this work will be available for review. We plan dissemination in a peer-reviewed international scientific journal and through conference presentations. Our review will highlight the peer effect of peers in adolescent drinking behaviour and provide guidance for developing effective prevention and intervention programmes. We expect it to be informative for policy and practice, decision-making as well as for further research in public health and sociology of adolescents.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42019119836.
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Vogel, Huilquer Francisco, Ana Paula Weiwanko, and Jairo José Zocche. "ARTIFICIAL PERCHES FOR ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION: CONTRIBUTIONS OF BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES." Revista em Agronegócio e Meio Ambiente 11, no. 1 (March 29, 2018): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.17765/2176-9168.2018v11n1p143-160.
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The use of artificial perches as a nucleation technique is an alternative method of promoting the low-cost restoration of degraded environments in a short period of time. To better understand the results obtained from the use of artificial perches, this study aimed to: (1) quantify, (2) spatialize and (3) synthesize Brazilian academic literature concerning environmental restoration projects that used artificial perches. Twenty studies carried out between 1997 and 2014 were identified from several universities. Among them, 40% (n = 8) were undergraduate papers written at the end of the respective course, 35% (n = 7) constituted Master’s dissertations, 15% (n = 3) were Doctoral thesis, and 10% (n = 2) were monographs’ specialization. This research was distributed over four terrestrial Brazilian biomes, with 60% (n = 12) of the studies carried out in the Atlantic Rainforest biome and 20% (n = 4) in the Cerrado biome. The rate of publication was 1.17 per year, which demonstrates that studies on artificial perches in nucleation are scarce. Although most of the analyzed documents emphasized increased deposition of seeds under the perches, it is necessary to improve understanding of ecological filters in limiting the establishment of post-dispersal seedlings.
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Bojórquez Zapata, Martha Isabel. "Main Competitive Factors in European Hotel SMEs." Equidad y Desarrollo 1, no. 39 (December 5, 2022): 17–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.19052/eq.vol1.iss39.9.
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This study aims to analyse the current state of the art regarding the competitiveness factors of small and medium-sized hotel companies, applying a systematic and international literary review focusing on Europe. This study opted for a systematic review involving the analysis of documents, articles, dissertations, and international academic works that presented theoretical and empirical research results. The research was conducted from January to May 2021 using online databases and search engines. The selected studies focus on finance, innovation and marketing as the main factors that generate competitiveness in hotel SMEs. Most have been published in European countries since 2014. Some characteristics coincide with various geographical contexts, such as the importance of profitability and financing, the use of financial information, product and process innovation, market positioning, knowledge of the competition and customer satisfaction. Some implications for Europe are also analysed.
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Singh, Rana P. B. "Professor R.B. Singh (1955-2021), an Icon of Indian Geography: A Passage on the Path of Lineage, Legacy and Liminality." Space and Culture, India 9, no. 2 (September 26, 2021): 6–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v9i2.1223.
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Professor R.B. Singh (1955-2021) had been the first Indian Geographer to have the dual distinction of holding the position of the IGU Secretary General and ICSU Scientific Committee Member. He was the first Indian and second Asian Secretary General and Treasurer of the IGU (2018-2022). Professor Singh was a distinguished geographer of 21st Century India who had made distinct academic contributions over the last five decades, illustrated with publishing 16 books, 40 anthologies, and around 260 research papers. He has covered and profusely published researches in 11 fields—Environmental Studies, Geoecology; Land resources, Land use/ Land cover; Water issues, Hydrology; Disaster, Natural Hazard; Quality of Life, Livelihood; Climatic Change, Air Pollution study; Urban Environment, Health, and wellbeing; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Environmental Monitoring; Geography, Development Studies R-U; Mountain Studies, Forestry, Tourism; and RS, GIS, Recent trends appraisal. He had supervised 39 PhD and 81 MPhil dissertations. This paper presents an appraisal of his life journey on the path of Lineage, Legacy and Liminality—a type of biographical highlights in the frame of his practising geography, while also emphasising various niches, distinctions, networks, and collaborative programmes.
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Djibril, Djamila, and Hüseyin Çakır. "The use of Mobile Augmented Reality in health education review." International Journal of Advanced Engineering, Sciences and Applications 2, no. 2 (July 31, 2021): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.47346/ijaesa.v2i2.85.
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This paper aims to present the analysis and synthesis of studies in Mobile Augmented Reality in health education, with a critical approach, and to develop suggestions for future researchers. The use of Mobile Augmented Reality technology has shown recently an improvement in teaching and instructing methods, several scientific articles and researches showed how this new technology has a positive impact on education and improving the learning and teaching methods and also has a positive impact on student’s performance. A basic qualitative method was used, Therefore, a total of 52 studies including theses and articles submitted electronically between 2010-2020, were obtained from the National Dissertation database and Dergi Park. The result of those articles has shown different relationships between variable factors selected in health education and Mobile Augmented Reality, and the findings indicated that most of the studies used the academic scale assessment tool to find out how this technology positively affected student’s performance and their academic achievement. In addition, the findings in this study suggest that there should be more experimental studies especially when there is a new development and models are being created every year to make the students experience more related to the real world, however, there were limitations identified, that the researches were limited between 2010-2020, which is carried out only in Turkey.
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GEREZ CANTİMER, Gülşah, and Sare ŞENGÜL. "INVESTIGATION OF STUDIES ON CASE STUDY METHOD IN EDUCATION." IEDSR Association 7, no. 17 (January 20, 2022): 148–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.46872/pj.463.
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In this study, it is aimed to examine the researches on the case study method in education through systematic review. Thus, a general framework from the descriptive features of the relevant researches from their aims to their results, was drawn and their tendencies were evaluated. In this study, a total of 48 documents which consisted of 24 articles, 17 master’s thesis and 7 doctoral dissertations published between 2010-2020 were analyzed. The researches were analyzed by content analysis and examined within the scope of the education area, purpose, method, sample, data collection tools and results in which the case study method was used. The obtained data is presented by giving the frequencies on the tables. As a result of the study; as the education area where the case study method is used, the most researches are made in the fields of teacher education, chemistry education and Turkish education; quantitative research methods are mostly preferred; working with students and teacher candidates; it was determined that scale and achievement tests were used. When the analyzed studies are evaluated within the scope of their aims, the effects of the use of the case study method on academic achievement are related to critical thinking, creative thinking, social problem solving, decision making, etc. in the field of education. It was observed that the effect on gaining skills was tried to be determined. Within the scope of the results obtained, the findings regarding the effects of the use of the case study method on knowledge, skills and affective areas were determined. In this direction, interdisciplinary studies on the use of the case study method in the field of education and different studies can be designed with student groups at all levels, starting from younger age groups, instructors who are the practitioners of the method, teachers and teacher candidates. The effect size of the method can be increased with the participation of parents by moving the application process to the home environment.
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Adema, Janneke. "Practise what you preach: Engaging in humanities research through critical praxis." International Journal of Cultural Studies 16, no. 5 (March 11, 2013): 491–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877912474559.
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This article explores how a cultural studies perspective can be used to critically analyse practices of conducting research within the (digital) humanities. It uses, among others, the example of the author’s PhD dissertation currently in process, which is set up as a theoretical and practical intervention into existing discourses surrounding the dominant form of formal communication within the humanities: the scholarly monograph. A methodology of critical praxis is seen as an integral part of the research project as well as an important step in developing academic or research literacy through actively engaging in the production of communicative norms and practices. Envisioning the book as a site of struggle over new forms and systems of communication within academia, the dissertation argues for alternative ways of thinking of and performing the monograph in an experimental manner. By making use of digital platforms, tools and media to share, remix and update the research as it evolves, the aim is to develop a digital, open and collaborative research practice. This will offer a practical critique of the dominant structures, politics and practices of producing and distributing research results. This article thus argues for the empowering potential of critically analysing and actively engaging with the dominant norms underlying communication in the humanities as well as with the structures that determine academic literacy and the established and accepted practices herein. By arguing for a potential new future for the book within scholarly communication as an emergent and evolving form, based on accessibility, sharing, process and change, this article makes a case for new ways of engaging a critical praxis that is more speculatory, open-ended and experimental.
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Shafiee, Mahmood. "Maintenance strategy selection problem: an MCDM overview." Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering 21, no. 4 (October 12, 2015): 378–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jqme-09-2013-0063.
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Purpose – Maintenance strategy selection (MSS) is considered as a complex multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem. The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive review on the use and application of MCDM approach and its associated case studies in the field of MSS. Design/methodology/approach – The paper systematically classifies the published literature of both researchers and practitioners and then analyzes and reviews it methodically. Findings – This paper outlines the important issues relevant to the subject, including the techniques used for data collection, the quantitative and qualitative criteria taken into account in decision making, the maintenance strategies considered for evaluation, the methods applied to find the solution, and the type of industries being studied. In each category, the gaps are identified along with recommendations for the future research work. Practical implications – Literature on classification of the MCDM models used to select the most appropriate maintenance strategy is very limited. The proposed classification scheme not only will be useful to researchers, but also assists maintenance professionals to find the models that fit their specific needs. Originality/value – The paper provides many references in the field, including the articles published in academic journals, conference papers, master and doctoral dissertations, text books, and industrial reports, and suggests a classification scheme according to various attributes.
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Smeyukha, Victoriya, and Natalya Grebennikova. "Women’s Press: Theory and Research Experience in Ukraine and Russia." Current Issues of Mass Communication, no. 17 (2015): 43–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2312-5160.2015.17.43-58.
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The main objectives of this research are: to summarize the studies in women’s press carried out by Ukrainian and Russian scientists in the late XX and early XXI centuries; to identify the main trends in research on this issue; to identify the common and different trends in Ukrainian and Russian studies; to define the ground for strengthening research interest to a segment of women’s press. The source base for this study consists of the Ukrainian and Russian dissertations, monographs and research articles. Methods. For this study the authors used the following methods: bibliographic; methods of comparison and classification; theoretical-typological and historical-typological methods; secondary analysis of data derived from other studies. Within the bibliographic review we analysed the academic works by Ukrainian and Russian scientists, who explored the women’s press. With that, the main focus was on those scientific works, which significantly contributed to the studies in women’s press or strongly indicated the formation of new trends in the relevant research process. The following electronic resources were used as the main source to find academic publications devoted to the women’s press: “Elibrary.ru”, “Man and Science – Library of Dissertations on Humanitarian Sciences”, “Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine”. The scientific papers devoted to the studies in women’s press were classified in accordance with the issues they mainly focused on. The papers were presented in chronological order, within the corresponding thematic areas. Comparison and classification methods were used to identify the similar and different trends in development of the studies in women’s press in Ukrainian and Russian science. Theoretical-typological method made it possible to correlate the research results with the typological conceptions of women’s periodicals. Historical-typological method was used to show the role of contemporary studies in the history of women’s press. Results and Conclusions. A bibliographic review of Ukrainian and Russian academic works dedicated to women’s press was performed. The authors analyzed research papers of the late XX and early XXI cent.; identified the main trends in research on this issue; found common and different trends in Ukrainian and Russian studies; defined the ground for strengthening research interest to a segment of women’s press. At present, the women’s press is a subject of many humanities studies in Ukraine and Russia; women’s periodicals are studied by philologists, historians, sociologists, in cultural studies. The strengthening of research interest to the field of women’s periodicals in Ukraine and Russia was mainly stimulated by the following factors: the developments in socio-political situation that influenced the system of media as a whole; and the expansion of women’s press segment, strengthening of its economic significance and of its impact on the audience. Some similar trends are observed in the development of women’s press in two countries that stipulates the similar trends in research on this subject. Scientists of the both countries mostly conduct the theoretical-typological, historical-typological, philological, gender, linguistic and sociological analysis of the women’s periodicals. Developments in the segment of women’s press and changes in its impact on the audience define the key areas of research process. During the first decade of the XXI century, scientists focused their studies on the typological transformation of the system of women’s press and on the developed of classification of the women’s periodicals. Later, the main interest refocused on the impact of women’s press on mental, behavioral and communication characteristics of the audience. The Ukrainian scientists perform better in the scientific theory of women’s press, because their studies are based not only on own theoretical experience, but also take into account the results of Russian colleagues, contributing to the breadth and quality of research, and making it possible to pay more attention to the new areas of research. At the same time, the majority of Russian scientists use in their research on women’s presses a narrower set of academic sources that leads to the certain uniformity and similarity of the results. The generalizations and conclusions of the current research can supplement the theoretical knowledge in the field of women’s press, facilitate tracing the dynamics of research interest on the corresponding subject in Ukraine and Russia, and contribute to the determination of the prospective areas of studies in women’s press.
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Simonsen, Irene. "Collocations in Academic Language in German and Danish." Kalbotyra 73 (December 28, 2020): 150–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/kalbotyra.2020.8.
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This study compares the collocational use of the different word forms of five roots of academic language in German and Danish, considered essential for the realization of obligatory moves in the academic abstract, namely *analy*, *untersuch*/*undersøg*, *method*/*metod*, *theor*/*teor* and *empiri*. The aim of the comparison is to uncover differences and similarities in the expert norm of the two languages in order to gain insights that may help to inform the teaching of German-speaking students who must learn written standard Danish as part of their studies in Denmark. The study places special emphasis on the topic of variation, since variation reflects interculturally different uses of language specifically and is a major theme in academic language in general. The frequency and distribution of the five roots as verb, noun and adjective are compared in the collocations: noun + verb, verb + noun, adjective + noun in a study of two corpora of 100 dissertation abstracts from each of the two languages (approx.145.000 tokens), using the Word Sketch function of the corpus tool Sketch Engine. The LogDice measure has been used to identify the collocations, and variation is operationalized as the type-token ratio, computed for each syntactic relation. The results show general differences between the two languages. The use of different collocations with word forms from the five word families is greater in academic language in German than in Danish, despite a very similar distribution of the collocations in the languages and despite higher frequencies in Danish. The collocational use of the words in Danish therefore seems to be less varied and more restricted than in academic language in German.
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BOBLOVSKYI, Oleksandr. "ACADEMIC INTEGRITY – A GUARANTEE OF TRAINING HIGHLY QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS." Ukrainian Journal of Applied Economics 6, no. 1 (February 24, 2021): 44–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.36887/2415-8453-2021-1-5.
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The article considers the issue of academic integrity at the university. The origins of dishonesty starting from the school desk and ending with higher education institutions are analyzed. It is established that excessive workload of students pushes them to use the Internet, not only as a source of knowledge, but also as a source of finished work, which is published as their own work. It is stated that the basic principles of academic integrity are honesty, trust, justice, respect, responsibility, courage, which must be followed by all participants in the educational process. The main violations of academic integrity are: in the field of educational activities – extortion or provocation of money, gifts, personal services in various forms of student assessment, lack of fair evaluation of plagiarized educational and qualification work, performance for payment of such work to order, forced purchase of educational and methodical literature, underestimation of grades and coercion to additional educational services and consultations, updating of equipment at the expense of students or purchase by students of various consumables, stationery; in the field of scientific research – preparation and publication of scientific, educational and methodical texts with the help of plagiarism; falsification of experimental data underlying scientific publications; inclusion in the list of authors of persons who did not make a proper contribution to the results; approval of research or dissertations on topics that have no scientific, practical, social and other significance; providing positive reviews and feedback on works that, according to their scientific results, do not deserve it; obtaining unjustified preferences in the provision of scientific and educational grants; misuse of his official position. The rights and responsibilities of each participant in the educational process in the field of compliance with the requirements of academic integrity are given. Virtue in the modern civilized world is the cornerstone that forms the foundation of the inner harmony of man, the stability of his character and the consistency of the moral image. Higher education through teaching and research actually binds this foundation with elements of academic integrity. Academic integrity must be formed from the beginning of university studies and adhere to its principles throughout the period of study. For this purpose, the documents adopted by the KhNTUSG – the Code of Honor and the Regulations on Academic Integrity of Participants in the Educational Process, and the Ethics and Professional Commission and the Commission on Academic Integrity are created. This will not only train a highly qualified specialist, but also form a highly conscious member of society. Keywords: academic integrity, university, University honor code, professional activity, highly qualified specialists.
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Guo, Jiaxing, Huhe Bao, Lideer, Xiyu Ni, Yaxin Zhao, and Guanwen Sun. "Efficacy and safety of tibial cortex transverse transport for diabetic foot: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis." PLOS ONE 17, no. 11 (November 4, 2022): e0277269. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277269.
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Introduction Diabetic foot (DF) is one of the most serious chronic complications of diabetes. In recent years, the use of the tibial cortex transverse transport (TTT) technique has enabled great progress in microcirculation reconstruction and achievement of good outcomes in DF treatment. The objective of this systematic review protocol is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of TTT for DF. Methods Literature search was conducted using the Cochrane Library, Embase, PubMed, Web of Science, China Science Technology Journal Database (VIP), Wanfang Data, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Biomedical Literature Service System (SinoMed), and Chinese Biomedical Literature Service System (CBM) from inception until March, 1st 2022. In addition, our reviewers will retrieve dissertations, grey literature, systematic reviews, and reference lists of the relevant studies. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) which compared the TTT for DF with conventional treatment will be included. Our reviewers will perform subgroup analysis, sensitivity analysis, and publication bias analysis to evaluate the heterogeneity and robustness. RevMan 5.3 software and Stata V.16.0 software will be used to analyze the available data. Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval was not required because this protocol neither collected private information, nor involved animal experiments. The research was disseminated by academic journals or related meetings. PROSPERO registration number CRD42021279717.
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Mohammed, Rabiu Nurudeen. "POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOUR IN THE FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES, BAYERO UNIVERSITY, KANO, NIGERIA." American International Journal of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research 6, no. 4 (December 19, 2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.46281/aijmsr.v6i4.916.
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The study examines postgraduate student’s information seeking behavior in the faculty of management sciences, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. Information play critical role in human daily activities such as school life, work, marital life and any other kind of scenario. The concept of information seeking behavior has attracted researchers’ attention and has been of great concern to stakeholders in the academia. Academic libraries avail information from different sources and formats. Objectively the study examines postgraduate students’ information seeking behavior in order to understand students’ information seeking behavior and provide guide to improve the quality of education and performance. Survey research design were use and the population consist of the entire postgraduate students in the faculty of management sciences at Bayero University, Kano, due to difficulty to reach all the population, purposive sampling were applied which result to the selection of (200) respondents comprising of (50) respondents from each of the four departments and questionnaire were issued to them. From the findings it is obvious that in the course of carrying out their studies postgraduate students seek information as a result of activities they engage such exam preparation, dissertation/thesis work, updating knowledge, lecture notes update, personal reading and general reading. However, the result implies that majority of the respondents use library for information concerning exam preparation while the lowest is for general reading to improve their knowledge. The study conclude that postgraduate students do engage in information seeking behaviour for various reasons even though these are hinder by some obstacles. The study recommends the need for management to improve service delivery in the aspect of electronic library, researchers should be guided easily and educated so as to facilitate easy collection of library materials, users should also be guided to enhance easy retrieval of information, continuous training of library staff should be given attention in order for them to be friendly and give quality service to information seekers and finally problem of poor electricity supply should be addressed to make the environment conducive for learning.
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Kreuz, Kelly Karine, and Fabiane de Andrade Leite. "Recontextualização de discursos curriculares: um olhar a partir da epistemologia Fleckiana." Revista de Estudios Teóricos y Epistemológicos en Política Educativa 5 (2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5212/retepe.v.5.16617.024.
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In order to identify hues of thought about the recontextualizing curricular discourses process, we conducted a qualitative approach research, under an epistemological bias, from the Ludwik Fleck´s epistemology (2010). Using academic researches as target, which use the Recontextualizing category by Hybridism proposed by Alice Casimiro Lopes. We look for aspects that can contribute for understandings qualification about the Brazilian curricular public policies construction/implementation process. Through content analysis in a master’s dissertation and two doctoral theses, it appears that there are changes in the discourses about the Recontextualizing by Hybridism category, that characterize hues of thought. The identified hues do not change significantly the meaning proposed by the author. However, the discussion raised throughout the research contributes to the epistemological debate, strengthening the perspective use in studies dealing with curriculum in Brazil.
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Kreuz, Kelly Karine, and Fabiane de Andrade Leite. "Recontextualização de discursos curriculares: um olhar a partir da epistemologia Fleckiana." Revista de Estudios Teóricos y Epistemológicos en Política Educativa 5 (2020): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5212/retepe.v.5.16617.024.
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In order to identify hues of thought about the recontextualizing curricular discourses process, we conducted a qualitative approach research, under an epistemological bias, from the Ludwik Fleck´s epistemology (2010). Using academic researches as target, which use the Recontextualizing category by Hybridism proposed by Alice Casimiro Lopes. We look for aspects that can contribute for understandings qualification about the Brazilian curricular public policies construction/implementation process. Through content analysis in a master’s dissertation and two doctoral theses, it appears that there are changes in the discourses about the Recontextualizing by Hybridism category, that characterize hues of thought. The identified hues do not change significantly the meaning proposed by the author. However, the discussion raised throughout the research contributes to the epistemological debate, strengthening the perspective use in studies dealing with curriculum in Brazil.
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Bruce, M. L., P. K. Coffer, S. Rees, and J. M. Robson. "Write on the edge: using a chemistry corpus to develop academic writing skills resources for undergraduate chemists." Chemistry Education Research and Practice 17, no. 3 (2016): 580–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6rp00005c.
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Many undergraduate students find the production of an extended piece of academic writing challenging. This challenge is more acute in the sciences where production of extended texts is infrequent throughout undergraduate studies. This paper reports the development of a new English for Academic Purposes (EAP) workshop and associated resources for third year undergraduate chemists to support their dissertation module. The workshop is designed to utilise a searchable database of student texts (a corpus) developed as part of the FOCUS project at Durham University. This novel use of data-driven learning (DDL), common in second language pedagogy, transfers well to the chemistry classroom as the processes of research and discovery (of words rather than chemicals) involved in DDL parallel similar processes in chemistry research. Our workshop and online consolidation activities have been positively evaluated by both staff and our current cohort of students. The project is being rolled out across other departments at Durham as well as the corpus tool being utilised at other UK HEIs. This corpus-based approach to academic writing in chemistry offers a unique perspective on the interplay between language and scientific literacy.
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Taherdoost, Hamed. "Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT): A Systematic Review." Information 14, no. 1 (December 31, 2022): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info14010026.
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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are gaining in popularity and are already extensively implemented. New use cases for NFTs are constantly developing. NFTs may prevent counterfeiting since each token carries the owner’s digital signature and is thus unique. For the usage of NFTs to progress in an institutional environment, the potential for using NFTs must be investigated in detail. This discovery prompted a comprehensive examination of NFTs developed between 2012 and 2022. The scope is confined to the journal and the keywords “Blockchain”, “Block-chain”, “Non-fungible Token”, and “NFT” are used. Also excluded are studies based on interviews, articles in the press, non-English articles, reviews, conferences, book chapters, dissertations, and monographs. This evaluation includes 34 papers from the last decade. This research examines the current state and development trends of NFT. In addition, the gaps and difficulties in the related literature have been explored, with an emphasis on the limits. These results highlight many unsolved research questions and potential future research avenues that would likely be beneficial to academics and professionals.
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L Geesa, Rachel, Kendra Lowery, and Kat McConnell. "Mentee Perspectives of a First-Year Peer Mentoring Program for Education Doctoral (EdD) Students." International Journal of Doctoral Studies 13 (2018): 471–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4148.
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Aim/Purpose: In this paper, we examine how first-year education doctoral (EdD) students in a peer mentoring program may be supported in the academic and psychosocial domains to increase timely degree completion, decrease attrition, and improve the EdD program for students and faculty. Background: EdD students often face unique trials based on academic, social, professional, and personal challenges that arise during their degree program. The paper addresses how peer mentoring programs may help students overcome these challenges while completing their EdD program. Methodology: To investigate the effectiveness of a peer mentoring program for students, we focused on a single case study of an EdD peer mentoring program with 11 first-year EdD students who participated in the program. Using mixed methods, we collected and analyzed data from pre- and post-surveys, individual interviews, and a focus group. Contribution: Few studies about peer mentoring programs for EdD students exist. This study is unique because it focuses on first-year EdD students’ perspectives and, unlike other studies on peer mentoring programs, peer mentors are defined as graduates of the EdD program or current EdD students who are further along in the program. Whilst many studies of peer mentoring recommend peer mentoring for new students, our findings suggest that in the case of EdD students, extended or later peer mentoring may be more beneficial. Findings: From the quantitative and qualitative data results, five themes related to mentee perspectives of the benefits of EdD peer mentoring program emerged: 1) receiving academic advice and program support; 2) focusing on the future; 3) receiving emotional support and work-life balance advice; 4) having an experienced and relatable mentor; and 5) needing more mentoring to derive benefits. While mentees reported positive feelings about the mentoring program, many expressed that they did not yet have a need for mentoring. Considering that most mentoring studies focus on early program mentees, these results present the possibility of a need for extended or later-program mentoring. Based on the data, we identified a need for additional research which focuses on determining the correct timing for EdD students to begin peer mentoring program since students take coursework during their first year and have not begun work in the dissertation phase of the program. Recommendations for Practitioners: Sustainability of peer mentoring programs can present challenges based on the time and needs of mentees, mentors, and faculty. Doctoral faculty should evaluate the benefits of an EdD peer mentoring program for mentees on a regular basis to ensure that the program effectively supports and guides mentees to degree completion. Recommendation for Researchers: Literature and research on the evaluation, impact, and value of peer mentoring programs for EdD students and first-year doctoral students are limited. Researchers could study further the perspectives of mentees in an EdD peer mentoring program throughout their degree program from taking coursework to writing a dissertation. The benefits of early-program mentoring in comparison to later-program mentoring could be investigated further. Impact on Society: Providing mentoring opportunities to EdD students may help them overcome academic, social, and emotional challenges, and in turn, allow more education leaders to successfully complete their EdD and use their education to improve their school communities. Future Research: Future studies should examine other options of mentoring programs for first-year EdD students and EdD students who completed their EdD coursework and are working on their dissertation. Longitudinal studies are also needed to track mentees’ progression throughout the program.
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C. Heriot, Kirk, Andres Jauregui, Tobias Huning, and Michael Harris. "Evaluating the legitimacy of entrepreneurship and small business as a field of study." Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 8, no. 1 (March 4, 2014): 4–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jec-07-2013-0021.
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Purpose – The paper aims to clarify a debate about the legitimacy of entrepreneurship as a field of study. Katz and Kuratko continued this discussion by evaluating the legitimacy as an academic discipline. Their work extends the earlier contributions of Stephenson, Meyer, Finkle et al., and Fiet. Their research focused on the use of secondary data to consider this research question. This study uses an empirical evaluation of the actors that form the basis of this field of study, the faculty that teach entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach – This study used an online survey to ascertain the academic background, dissertation subject, doctoral course work, teaching assignments, and research output of individuals that described themselves as entrepreneurship faculty. Findings – The results show that a significant percentage of the sample of college instructors did not have a doctorate in entrepreneurship, nor did they study entrepreneurship in their curriculum thereby potentially undermining perceptions of legitimacy. Research limitations/implications – This study was based upon feedback from 112 faculty. A test using a χ2 goodness-of-fit showed there was no significant difference between the geographic location of respondents to non-respondents. The findings paint a distressing picture of the academic qualifications of the faculty assigned to teach entrepreneurship. In addition, the results were disappointing for the research productivity of faculty in the field. The fact that so many of them view themselves as entrepreneurship and small business faculty reinforces the significance of the findings. In general, the authors find empirical evidence in the sample that entrepreneurship and small business may not be viewed as a legitimate field due to the lack of academic credentials and the extensive professional credentials of their instructors. Practical implications – The findings demonstrate that entrepreneurship is likely not considered legitimate, in part, due to a lack of academic preparation or research productivity of instructors within the field of entrepreneurship. The lack of doctoral preparation is a critical problem. This issue would not be paramount where faculty publishing solely in the field. However, the findings demonstrate self-described entrepreneurship instructors publish in other fields of study. Thus, the fact that faculty do not solely teach in the field is also testimony to the challenges of legitimacy faced by individuals that teach entrepreneurship. Originality/value – The authors are not aware of any studies that specifically evaluate the academic background, dissertation subject, doctoral course work, teaching assignments, and research output of individuals that teach entrepreneurship.
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Wittich, Walter, Sarah Granberg, Moa Wahlqvist, M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, and Elina Mäki-Torkko. "Device abandonment in deafblindness: a scoping review of the intersection of functionality and usability through the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health lens." BMJ Open 11, no. 1 (January 2021): e044873. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044873.
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ObjectivesAbandonment of vision, hearing or mobility aids suggests common barriers and facilitators to ongoing device use. However, the possible interactive effects of combined hearing and vision disabilities on device use by those living with deafblindness are unclear. Here we summarise existing knowledge on variables influencing assistive technology use from the perspective of persons living with deafblindness. We used the WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework to contextualise the findings, asking ‘What is currently known about variables influencing the (non-)use of assistive devices recommended for persons with deafblindness?’DesignA scoping review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews Checklist.Data sourcesPubMed; ProQuest: ERIC; ProQuest Dissertation; ProQuest: Sociological Thesaurus; Web of Science; Scientific Electronic Library Online; Bielefeld Academic Search Engine; Pascal & Francis; APA PsycINFO and Ebsco for CINAHL were searched through 9 November 2020.Eligibility criteriaWe included peer-reviewed studies that reported on assistive technology, device abandonment/utilisation and provided data from persons living with deafblindness.Data extraction and synthesisFour team members independently scored 83 studies for eligibility.ResultsTen articles were chosen for data extraction. The emerging variables replicated established categories of barriers and facilitators: personal, device-related, environmental and intervention variables. The use of the ICF highlighted how an intermediate variable (eg, device acceptability) was necessary in order for a variable to become a barrier or a facilitator to device use.ConclusionsThe variables influencing device use by persons with deafblindness followed the same categories described for single impairments. Usability was challenged in devices that rely on the ‘other’ sense. Haptic and tactile aids are rarely studied. The limited available information and the dire need for assistive technologies for people with deafblindness emphasises the urgency of research and technology development for this marginalised population.
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Odhiambo, Julius Nyerere, and Benn Sartorius. "Spatio - temporal modelling assessing the burden of malaria in affected low and middle-income countries: a scoping review." BMJ Open 8, no. 9 (September 2018): e023071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023071.
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IntroductionSpatio - temporal modelling of malaria has proven to be a valuable tool for forecasting as well as control and elimination activities. This has been triggered by an increasing availability of spatially indexed data, enabling not only the characterisation of malaria at macrospatial and microspatial levels but also the development of geospatial techniques and tools that enable health policy planners to use these available data more effectively. However, there has been little synthesis regarding the variety of spatio - temporal approaches employed, covariates employed and ‘best practice’ type recommendations to guide future modelling decisions. This review will seek to summarise available evidence on the current state of spatio - temporal modelling approaches that have been employed in malaria modelling in low and middle-income countries within malaria transmission limits, so as to guide future modelling decisions.Methods and analysisA comprehensive search for articles published from January 1968 to April 2018 will be conducted using of the following electronic databases: PubMed, Web of Science, JSTOR, Cochrane CENTRAL via Wiley, Academic Search Complete via EBSCOhost, MasterFILE Premier via EBSCOhost, CINAHL via EBSCOhost, MEDLINE via EBSCOhost and Google Scholar. Relevant grey literature sources such as unpublished reports, conference proceedings and dissertations will also be incorporated in the search. Two reviewers will independently conduct the title screening, abstract screening and, thereafter, a full-text review of all potentially eligible articles. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis Protocols guidelines will be used as the standard reporting format. A qualitative thematic analysis will be used to group and evaluate selected studies around their aim, spatio - temporal methodology employed, covariates used and model validation techniques.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval is not applicable to this study. The results will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed journal and presented in conferences related to malaria and spatial epidemiology.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42017076427.
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Chapman, Karen, and Alexander E. Ellinger. "An evaluation of Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar citations in operations management." International Journal of Logistics Management 30, no. 4 (November 11, 2019): 1039–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlm-04-2019-0110.
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Purpose Ongoing deliberation about how research productivity should be measured is exacerbated by extensive disparity between the number of citations for scholarly works reported by commercial academic search engines and Google Scholar (GS), the premier web crawling service for discovering research citations. Disparities identified in citation comparison studies have also led to disagreement about the value of the higher number of citations for social sciences and business scholarly articles consistently reported by GS. The purpose of this paper is to extend previous database citation comparison studies by manually analyzing a sample of unique GS citations to a leading operations management journal (i.e. citations found only in GS and not the commercial search engines) to reveal just where these additional citations are coming from. Design/methodology/approach In addition to comparing citation counts for the three databases, unique GS citation data for the sample of journal articles was manually captured and reviewed. The authors’ approach provides a much more in-depth examination of the provenance of GS citations than is found in previous studies. Findings The findings suggest that concerns about the value of unique GS citations may not be warranted since the document types for the unique GS citing documents identified in the analysis are dominated by familiar scholarly formats. Predominantly authentic and validated journal publications, dissertations, conference papers, and book and book chapters accounted for the large majority of the unique GS citations analyzed. Practical implications The study lends further credence to contentions that the use of citations reported in GS is appropriate for evaluating research impact in disciplines where other formats beyond the English-language journal article are valued. Originality/value Developing a more informed understanding of the provenance of unique GS citations in the authors’ field is important because many scholars not only aspire to publish in elite journals with high impact factors based on citation counts provided by commercial databases to demonstrate quality, but also report the larger number of citations for their publications that are reported by GS to demonstrate impact. The in-depth manual analysis suggests that GS provides a more nuanced and comprehensive representation of research impact and international scope than the commercial databases.
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Morrill, Kristin E., Rogelio Robles-Morales, Melissa Lopez-Pentecost, Raigam J. Martínez Portilla, Ahlam A. Saleh, Meghan B. Skiba, Taylor S. Riall, et al. "Factors associated with cancer treatment delay: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis." BMJ Open 12, no. 6 (June 2022): e061121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061121.
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IntroductionTreatment delays are significantly associated with increased mortality risk among adult cancer patients; however, factors associated with these delays have not been robustly evaluated. This review and meta-analysis will evaluate factors associated with treatment delays among patients with five common cancers.Methods and analysisScientific databases including Ovid MEDLINE, Elsevier Embase, EBSCOhost CINAHL Plus Full Text, Elsevier Scopus and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global will be searched to identify relevant articles published between January 2000 and October 2021. Research articles published in the USA evaluating factors associated with treatment delay among breast, lung, prostate, cervical or colorectal adult cancer patients will be included. The primary outcome of the meta-analysis will be the pooled adjusted and unadjusted odds of treatment delay for patient, disease, provider and system-level factors defined according to specified time intervals. The secondary outcomes will be mean or median treatment delay for each cancer site according to first treatment and the influence of factors on the pooled mean treatment delay for each cancer site (via meta-regression analyses). Results from qualitative and mixed-methods studies will be narratively synthesised. Three reviewers will independently screen records generated from the search and two reviewers will independently extract data following a consensus agreement. Statistical heterogeneity will be assessed with a standard I2 test and funnel plots will be conducted to evaluate publication bias. Risk of bias will be assessed independently by two authors using validated tools according to the article’s study design.Ethics and disseminationFormal ethical approval is not required because the work is being carried out on publicly accessible studies. The findings of this review will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed scientific journal, academic conferences, social media, and key stakeholders.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42021293131.
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van der Maas, Mark, Jing Shi, Tara Elton-Marshall, David C. Hodgins, Sherald Sanchez, Daniela SS Lobo, Sylvia Hagopian, and Nigel E. Turner. "Internet-Based Interventions for Problem Gambling: Scoping Review." JMIR Mental Health 6, no. 1 (January 7, 2019): e65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mental.9419.
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Background This study seeks to give an overview of academic research on internet-based interventions that are used to address problem gambling. The rate of treatment seeking has been demonstrated to be low across several research environments. This is in part because of the systemic barriers that treatment seekers face to accessing traditional face-to-face treatment. Making treatment resources for problem gambling available through the internet is one way to reduce the impact of those systemic barriers. The use of internet-based resources to address problem gambling has been growing, and a field of research evaluating it has developed as well. However, little has been done to summarize this collection of research. Objective This study aimed to provide a scoping review of the use of internet-based interventions for problem gambling treatment and prevention to provide an understanding of the current state of the field. Methods A scoping review was performed for 6 peer-reviewed research databases (Web of Science, PsycINFO, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, MEDLINE, Social Science Abstracts, and Scopus) and 3 gray literature databases (MedEdPortal, Proquest: Dissertations, and OpenGrey). Article inclusion criteria were as follows: published over the 10-year period of 2007 to 2017, including an intervention for problem gambling, and involving the use of internet to deliver that intervention. Results A total of 27 articles were found that met the review criteria. Studies were found from several different areas, with particularly strong representation for Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia. Cognitive behavioral therapy was the most common form of internet-based intervention. Internet-based interventions were generally shown to be effective in reducing problem gambling scores and gambling behaviors. A wide range of interventions that made use of internet resources included text-based interactions with counselors and peers, automated personalized and normative feedback on gambling behaviors, and interactive cognitive behavioral therapies. A lack of diversity in samples, little comparison with face-to-face interventions, and issues of changes in the treatment dynamic are identified as areas that require further investigation. Conclusions Internet-based interventions are a promising direction for treatment and prevention of problem gambling, particularly in reducing barriers to accessing professional help. The state of the current literature is sparse, and more research is needed for directly comparing internet-based interventions and their traditional counterparts.
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Babina, Agata. "Flash Fiction Story, an Authentic Text for Literacy Development in Spanish as a Foreign Language." Sustainable Multilingualism 21, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 197–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sm-2022-0018.
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Summary The present study is based on flash fiction texts as a tool for literacy. Literacy has been highlighted as one of the main ideas in the new Educational Standard of Latvia (in force since September 2020). This fact, followed by Solvita Berra’s recent research on original texts in foreign language teaching, leads to the exploration of flash fiction stories (sp. microrrelatos) as an authentic text and a perfect tool for promoting literacy in the Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) classroom, since it blends perfectly with a variety of creative writing exercises. The flash fiction is a narrative genre that has had a great impact on the Spanish academic field in recent decades. The introduction of flash fiction in the ELE classroom has so far been proposed in several master’s dissertations, but its research at a scientific level is still very scarce. The benefits of the introduction of this literary genre in didactics have been treated at the doctoral thesis level by Belén Mateos Blanco (University of Valladolid) and later published in the manual “The flash fiction as a didactic tool in the teaching of ELE”, and few others. However, flash fiction stories are good socio-cultural references and serve both, for the teaching of different literary, linguistic and sociocultural aspects, as well as for the promotion of literacy. In addition, they represent a great variety of Spanish, since they have been written by authors from almost all Spanish-speaking countries. The empirical part of the article presents two didactic Units developed based on the use of flash fiction stories for the A1–A2 and B1 Spanish acquisition level. These two units form part of a 20-unit didactic material created as a result of a doctoral thesis. Here published proposal has been proved in the classwork with University of Liepaja students of the 1st and 2nd year of Spanish studies.
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Nori, Hanna, Marja H Peura, and Arto Jauhiainen. "From Imposter Syndrome to Heroic Tales: Doctoral Students’ Backgrounds, Study Aims, and Experiences." International Journal of Doctoral Studies 15 (2020): 517–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4637.
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Aim/Purpose: The aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive picture of doctoral students’ dissertation journeys using Finland as a case country. More specifically, the article examines (1) the students’ backgrounds, (2) their study motives and experiences, and (3) whether or not these elements are related. Background: Despite the massification of higher education (HE), there is a shortage of detailed mixed-methods studies about PhD students’ backgrounds and their experiences of doctoral study. Existing research does not give a clear indication of the extent to which home background is reflected in PhD applications and whether or not that background is related to the subsequent experience of doctoral students. Methodology: This paper is based on both quantitative and qualitative data. We utilize a person-based register (N = 18,585) and a survey (n = 1,651). Our main methods are k-means cluster analysis, t-test, and directed content analysis. Our theoretical approach is Bourdieuian. We use the concept of doctoral capital when evaluating the backgrounds, resources, and success of PhD students through the dissertation process. Contribution: This study uses a mixed-methods approach and is the first to incorporate quantitative data about the entire doctoral student population in Finland. In addition, open-ended responses in the survey make the PhD students’ own experiences visible. By approaching our research subject through a mixed methods lens, we aim to create a comprehensive understanding about their dissertation journeys. With this study, we also contribute to the debate initiated by Falconer and Djokic (2019). They found that age, race, and socioeconomic status (SES) do not influence academic self-efficacy and academic self-handicapping behaviors in doctoral students. However, in this study, a link was found between the PhD students’ backgrounds (age and parents’ SES), and their study aims and experiences. Findings: Cluster analysis revealed three different groups of PhD students: Status Raisers, Educational Inheritors, and Long-term Plodders. PhD students in these groups have different resources, experiences, and chances to survive in the academic community. There are two main findings. First, the influence of the childhood family extends all the way to doctoral education, even in Finland, which is considered to have one of the most equal HE systems in the world. Some PhD students from low-educated families even experienced so-called imposter syndrome. They described experiences of inadequacy, incompetence, and inferiority in relation to doctoral studies and fellow students. Second, the influence of family background may diminish with age and life experiences. In our study, many mature doctoral students had become empowered and emancipated to such an extent that they relied more on their own abilities and skills than on their family backgrounds. Many felt that their own persistence and resilience have played an important role in their doctoral studies. There were also a few ‘heroic tales’ about hard work and survival in spite of all the hurdles and distresses. Recommendations for Practitioners: PhD students are a very heterogeneous group. Their motives and goals for applying for doctoral studies vary, and their backgrounds and life situations affect their studies. There are three critical points educational practitioners should pay special attention to (1) supervision and support (mentoring), (2) length of funding, and (3) granted research periods. Recommendation for Researchers: Because Finland and the other Nordic countries have a long tradition of equal educational opportunities, we need comparative studies on the same topic from countries with higher educational disparities. Impact on Society: Inequalities in educational opportunities and experiences originate at the very beginning of the educational path, and they usually cumulate over the years. For this reason, the achievement of educational equality should be promoted not only through education policy but also through family, regional, and social policy decisions. Future Research: The Bourdieuian concepts of cultural, social, and economic capitals are also relevant in doctoral education. PhD students’ family backgrounds are reflected in their motives, experiences, and interpretations in the academic community. Future research should explore how to best support and reinforce the self-confidence of doctoral students from lower SES backgrounds.
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Steenbeek, Audrey, Chris Giacomantonio, Arlene Brooks, Camilla Holmvall, Ziwa Yu, and Melissa Rothfus. "Resilience support to enhance positive health outcomes for police officers in five Anglosphere nations: a scoping review protocol." BMJ Open 10, no. 12 (December 2020): e038895. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038895.
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IntroductionLaw enforcement involves exposure to threatening situations and traumatic events that place police officers at risk for negative physical and mental health outcomes. Resilience support, among other elements of training, may help mitigate these risks, yet little is known about which aspects of resilience support help officers achieve better health and quality of life outcomes.Methods and analysisThis review will consider all literature that examines the links between resilience support, physical/mental health and quality of life outcomes for police officers in five Anglosphere nations: Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. This review will include all literature (including those that show null or negative links) involving any public policing agency that has a formal rank structure and includes a localized, uniformed emergency response function. Resilience support may include, but is not limited to: tools, policies, models, frameworks, programmes and organizational features that seek to promote positive, physical/mental health and quality of life outcomes at three levels of resilience: (1) readiness and preparedness, (2) response and adaptation, (3) recovery and adjustment. Peer reviewed and grey literature examining resilience support since 2000 that focuses on police officers are eligible for inclusion. Databases/sources to be searched will include: PsycINFO, Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, Public Affair Index, Campbell Collaboration, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, Business Source Complete, Scopus and Google. Retrieval of full-text, English-language studies (and other literature), data extraction, data synthesis and data mapping will be performed independently by two reviewers, following Joanna Briggs Institute methodology.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval is not required for this scoping review, and the literature search will start in November 2020 or upon acceptance of this protocol. The findings of the scoping review will be available [April 2021] and will be published in a peer reviewed journal.
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Goettke, Emma, Clare Coultas, Michelle White, and Andrew J. M. Leather. "Conceptualising sustainability in the surgical work of non-governmental organisations in low and middle-income countries : a scoping review protocol." BMJ Open 11, no. 12 (December 2021): e048046. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048046.
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IntroductionSustainability remains poorly defined in global surgery, yet is, nevertheless, crucial to the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) aimed at strengthening access to, and quality of, surgical and anaesthesia care. The objective of this protocol is to outline a scoping review that maps what is known in the literature about sustainability in NGO surgical work in LMICs.MethodsThe application of Arksey and O’Malley’s six-stage methodological framework is described: identifying research questions; identifying relevant publications; selecting publications; charting the data; reporting results; and stakeholder consultation. The review will include all study designs, as well as editorials, commentaries, sources of unpublished studies and grey literature. Three electronic databases will be searched. Two reviewers will use predefined and iteratively refined selection criteria based on the ‘Population–Concept–Context’ framework to independently screen titles and abstracts of citations from the search. Disagreements will be resolved together by the reviewers. Full-text screening will also be carried out independently by two reviewers. Disagreements at this stage will be resolved with a third party. The search strategy for grey literature will include searching in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses and the websites listed in a surgical NGO database. Further relevant citations will be identified by screening the reference lists of the included papers.Ethics and disseminationThis review will undertake a secondary analysis of data already collected and does not require ethical approval. The results will be disseminated through journals and conferences targeting surgical NGO stakeholders and global health academics.
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Blythe, Kurt. "A Faceted Catalogue Aids Doctoral-Level Searchers." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 3, no. 3 (September 3, 2008): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8jk6v.
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Olson, Tod A. “Utility of a Faceted Catalog for Scholarly Research” Library Hi Tech 25.4 (2007): 550-61.
Objective – To learn whether a faceted catalogue and word cloud aids in the discovery process.
Design – User study.
Setting – Large academic research library in the United States.
Subjects – Twelve PhD candidates in the humanities, the majority of whom are engaged with researching, proposing, or writing their dissertations.
Methods – The library’s entire catalogue of 5.2 million records was loaded into the AquaBrowser OPAC search interface. A pilot study was conducted using three humanities graduate students employed by the library. Following the pilot, the main study was conducted using graduate students in the humanities. Graduate students in the social sciences were desired for the study, but were not able to be contacted due to time constraints. Once selected, the test subjects were asked to use an interface that offered both facets and tag clouds for enhanced search quality. Test subjects were allowed to choose the topic they would like to research; all chose to research their dissertation topic. A moderator and recorder facilitated research conducted with the faceted catalogue. The moderator ensured that students commented on their findings, cleared up any confusion with using the interface, and kept the students on task. Only when students remarked that a new discovery had been made were those discoveries noted. The impact to the discovery process of faceted navigation and AquaBrowser’s word cloud was studied while the impact of relevance ranking was not.
Main Results – The article asserts that results from both the pilot and main study were sufficiently similar to justify combining them for the paper, but the advantage that students employed by the library might have over other students is not discussed. Nine of the twelve students used in the study found new results using the faceted catalogue and word cloud. The responses of the user group to the faceted catalogue and word cloud were “overwhelmingly positive” (555). However, since students were allowed to move freely between the word cloud and faceted navigation tool, it is difficult to attribute new discoveries solely to one or the other. However, when a new discovery could be “attributed primarily to one factor or another” (555) it was noted. The faceted navigation tool aided discovery at least four times and the word cloud aided discovery at least six.
Conclusion – A faceted catalogue interface with a word cloud feature clearly aids in the discovery process for more advanced researchers—those with specialized subject knowledge, familiarity with their library’s collection, and experience in researching their area. However, facets and word clouds have limitations: records with limited cataloguing have little to offer faceted navigation; catalogue records from diverse providers introduce controlled vocabularies beyond LCSH and MeSH into search returns, resulting in the same word potentially appearing multiple times in the same return albeit with different meanings; the word cloud may contain certain words that researchers feel to be irrelevant. Despite these issues, the use of word clouds and faceted navigation (and relevance ranking) appears to be beneficial to research conducted by experienced subject searchers in the humanities.
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Strokova, T. А. "BUILDING RESEARCH COMPETENCE OF PHD STUDENTS: AN ANALYSIS OF EXPERIENCE OF A PHD SCHOOL." Education and science journal 20, no. 10 (December 31, 2018): 9–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17853/1994-5639-2018-10-9-30.
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Introduction.Postgraduate education of the Russian higher school is traditionally considered as a strategic reserve, which provides the continuity of academic and teaching personnel and the efficiency of education of future experts. However, the total number of this key resource of the higher education system, which guarantees its stable functioning and further forward development, has been reduced in recent years. Postgraduate admission has decreased, in particular, pedagogical training programmes. What is most important, the PhD student quality has substantially dropped.Theaimof the present publication was to identify the level of research skills of PhD students of pedagogical specialisation and present the most productive ways for the formation of skills to carry out research activities.Methodology and research methods.The study was based on the ideas of systemic-activity approach, competency-based approach and major provisions of the theory of action. Scientific publications on research projects of PhD students and the concept of “new” post graduate school in the Russian education were analysed. Online survey and questionnaire survey of PhD students, their supervisors and members of dissertation boards were conducted. The assessment of results of research conducted by PhD students, synthesis and description of productive teaching practices and positive pedagogical experience gained at Tyumen State University (TSU) were applied.Results and scientific novelty.Based on the classical interpretation of nature and contents of human activity, a definition of research activity is formulated. It constitutes as the grounds for development of the contents and procedure for the list of research tasks for PhD students to master in order to successfully complete their PhD studies (as yet, the similar register has been compiled and scientifically based only for a bachelor degree). Insufficient competence of many PhD students to organise and conduct an independent scientific and pedagogical search is proved. Unstable components of their research competence are revealed: inability to use the most important elements of the methodology corpus and problems in writing scientific texts. Practically verified methods and means to develop the research competence of PhD students, doctoral candidates, applicants on academic degrees and their research supervisors are described: methodological seminars of the education department, a group analysis of scientific texts for publication, group visits and discussion of open lectures and seminars for teachers of the education department and PhD students, role mini-plays, public preliminary dissertation defense, participation in the events held by the department, etc.Practical significance.Knowledge of the gaps in research competence of PhD students will allow their supervisors to selectively improve the students’ skills, which are necessary for writing and defending the dissertation. Creative application and systematically scientific-pedagogical work will help achieve a significant improvement in building PhD student competence for scientific and teaching activities.
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Afzaal, Muhammad, Kanglong Liu, Baoqin Wu, Rahiba Sayyida, and Swaleha Bano Naqvi. "An Investigation of Abstract and Discussion Sections in Master’s Dissertations." International Journal of English Linguistics 10, no. 1 (December 28, 2019): 220. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v10n1p220.
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This study analyzes the differences between the academic writing of undergraduate students belonging to two Pakistani universities, one located in an urban setting and the other in a rural locale, in an attempt not only to identify why these differences may arise but also how such learners may be encouraged to more readily adopt academic writing techniques in their theses. Data comprises the abstract and discussion sections of undergraduate students’ dissertations. The study uses Swales’ CARS model to analyze the academic writing proficiency demonstrated in the selected data. The study finds that the occurrences of a particular move were more frequent in the dissertations of the rural area students. In contrast, the instantiation of hedges was significant in the dissertations of learners from the urban area university. These observed differences confirm the perception that in terms of academic writing “quality”, the universities in rural settings in Pakistan are not sufficiently competitive with peer institutions in urban settings. The study further reveals that dissertations from rural setting universities reflect poor use of rhetorical moves associated with good academic writing, while in line with Swales’ CARS model, students from the urban university show significant linear patterns and accuracy in their academic writing.
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Cristiano Lanza Savegnago, Lorena Inês Peterini Marquezan, and Daniel Luís Arenhardt. "Knowledge management in the context of academic libraries: the state of the art in brazilian studies." Revista Tempos e Espaços em Educação 13, no. 32 (March 27, 2020): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.20952/revtee.v13i32.13069.
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The objective is to identify and analyze, based on the state of the art, how Knowledge Management (KM) has been approached in university libraries. This is a bibliographic search, based on theses, dissertations and papers available in the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations of the Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination, as well as in the Journal Portal, from 2009-2018. We found 13 papers (dissertations and theses), of which 6 were selected due to their proximity to the research theme. In the Journal Portal were recovered 584 papers that, after a “floating reading”, were selected 9. The results show that Knowledge Management has been approached through comparative study, instrument proposition to diagnose or manage information and knowledge in an integrated way, experience reports on Knowledge Management practices, among others. However, in most of the investigated institutions, KM is adopted in a non-systematic way, decreasing it effectiveness.
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Estrêla, Walcymar, and Rosangela Caetano. "Homeopathy in Brazil: inquiry into its academic production." International Journal of High Dilution Research - ISSN 1982-6206 12, no. 42 (December 3, 2021): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.51910/ijhdr.v12i42.623.
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Background: according to the WHO, there is an increasing demand for traditional medicines (TM) that must be answered by governmental health authorities. Although homeopathy is the modality of TM best institutionalized in Brazil, it still faces some obstacles among which the controversial results of meta-analyses of homeopathic clinical trials. Aims: to map out the state of clinical research in homeopathy in the Brazilian university milieu as reflected in doctoral and master dissertations. Methods: specialized databases were searched seeking for doctoral and master dissertations related to homeopathy produced in Brazil between 1985 and 2006. Dissertations were analyzed according to institution; year; research area; type of production; regional distribution and research subject. Dissertations dealing with evaluation of the efficacy/effectiveness of homeopathic treatment were further evaluated as to their aims, methods and results. Results: in the 20 years between 1985 and 2006, 161 dissertations were defended related to homeopathy. Most academic productions dated from the 2000s, particularly 2005-6; 77% were related to master degrees; there was a dramatic concentration (92%) in the Southern and South-Eastern regions of Brazil; they covered 10 different areas, the maximum being physical-biological research (20.4%) and the minimum, clinical research (3.7%); from 6 dissertations dealing with the evaluation of the efficacy/effectiveness of homeopathic treatment, 3 employed qualitative methods; 1 employed quantitative methods but was in the stage of project; 1 was a standard RCT which evinced positive results of homeopathic treatment in gastroesophageal reflux not related to hiatal hernia; the sixth study was a meta-analysis of the methodological quality of 132 RCTs of homeopathy in infectious disease. Conclusions: The number of projects related to the efficacy/effectiveness of homeopathic treatment is insignificant and their methods are chiefly qualitative. This suggests that researchers might believe that standard quantitative studies are improper or insufficient to assess the efficacy/effectiveness of homeopathic treatment or to grasp its dimension of integrality.
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Silva, Francisco Jonh Lennon Tavares da, and Cláudia Maria Sabóia de Aquino. "TEMAS E TENDÊNCIAS DA GEOGRAFIA FÍSICA NO CONTEXTO DO PPGGEO/UFPI (2013-2018)." Revista da Casa da Geografia de Sobral (RCGS) 21, no. 2 (September 30, 2019): 1179–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.35701/rcgs.v21n2.595.
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O artigo teve como objetivo geral analisar a produção científica da Geografia Física no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geografia da Universidade Federal do Piauí, entre 2013 e 2018. Os objetivos específicos contemplaram: (i) identificar os estudos com ênfase em Geografia Física; (ii) verificar os enfoques temáticos das pesquisas e (iii) indicar as demais particularidades e tendências da produção científica no PPGGEO. A metodologia pautou-se em pesquisa bibliográfica com foco nas dissertações. Os resultados apontaram que os estudos de Geografia Física perfazem aproximadamente 27% da produção científica do PPGGEO. Entre os enfoques temáticos abordados, destacam-se: (i) impactos socioambientais urbanos; (ii) degradação ambiental; (iii) vulnerabilidade ambiental; (iv) ambiente e saúde; (v) levantamento pedológico; (vi) mapeamento geomorfológico/cobertura das terras; (vii) morfodinâmica litorânea e (viii) patrimônio geológico-geomorfológico. O atual estágio desta produção acadêmica indica as seguintes tendências: (i) aplicação da abordagem sistêmica; (ii) concentração de estudos nas Mesorregiões Centro-Norte e Norte do Estado do Piauí; (iii) prevalência dos estudos em escala local; (iv) forte direcionamento dos estudos à questão ambiental; (v) recorrente emprego das geotecnologias.Palavras-chave: Geografia Física. Pós-Graduação. Temas e tendências. ABSTRACTThe aim objective of this article was to analyze the scientific production of Physical Geography in the Postgraduate Program in Geography of the Federal University of Piauí between 2013 and 2018. The specific objectives contemplated: (i) to identify the studies with focus in Physical Geography; (ii) to verify the thematic approaches of the researches and (iii) to indicate the other peculiarities and trends of the scientific production in the PPGGEO. The methodology was based on bibliographical research focusing on the dissertations. The results showed that the studies of Physical Geography account for approximately 27% of the scientific production of PPGGEO. Among the thematic approaches addressed, the following stand out: (i) urban socio-environmental impacts; (ii) environmental degradation; (iii) environmental vulnerability; (iv) environment and health; (v) pedological survey; (vi) geomorphological mapping/land cover; (vii) coastal morphodynamics and (viii) geological-geomorphological heritage. The current stage of this academic production indicates the following tendencies: (i) application of the systems approach; (ii) concentration of studies in the North and Central-North Meso-Regions of Piauí State; (iii) prevalence of local scale studies; (iv) strong focus of studies on the environmental issue; (iv) recurrent use of geotechnologies.Keywords: Physical geography. Postgraduate. Themes and trends. RESUMENEl objetivo general del artículo fue analizar la producción científica de Geografía Física en el Programa de Posgrado en Geografía de la Universidad Federal de Piauí, entre 2013 y 2018. Los objetivos específicos incluyeron: (i) identificar estudios con énfasis en Geografía Física; (ii) verificar los enfoques temáticos de las investigaciones y (iii) indicar las otras peculiaridades y tendencias de la producción científica en PPGGEO. La metodología se basó en la investigación bibliográfica centrada en disertaciones. Los resultados mostraron que los estudios de Geografía Física representan aproximadamente 27% de la producción científica de PPGGEO. Entre los enfoques temáticos abordados se encuentran: (i) impactos socio-ambientales urbanos; (ii) degradación ambiental; (iii) vulnerabilidad ambiental; (iv) medio ambiente y salud; (v) encuesta pedológica; (vi) mapeo geomorfológico/cobertura del suelo; (vii) morfodinámica costera y (viii) patrimonio geológico-geomorfológico. La etapa actual de esta producción académica indica las siguientes tendencias: (i) aplicación del enfoque sistémico; (ii) concentración de estudios en las Mesorregiones Centro-Norte y Norte del Estado de Piauí; (iii) prevalencia de estudios a escala local; (iv) fuerte enfoque de estudios sobre temas ambientales; (v) uso recurrente de geotecnologías.Palabras clave: Geografía física. Posgraduación. Temas y tendencias.
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Duwal, Bal Ram. "Students’ Satisfaction on Training cum Workshop Programme on Thesis Writing and General Research Skill Development." Journal of Nepalese Business Studies 13, no. 1 (December 31, 2020): 147–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jnbs.v13i1.34726.
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Faculty of Management, Tribhuvan University's Master of Business Studies level is not fully based on a research course that's why for many students thesis writing task is being the first attempt in their academic life. This study aims to determine students' satisfaction with the training cum workshop programme on their thesis writing and general research skills development and to assess the model that determines general satisfaction with the programme. Results showed that the participants are only satisfied to some extent with the training cum workshop programme. It was discovered that students show their disagreement on time allocated for every session, about following the time schedule by resource persons, resource persons’ use of practical ways, examples, and exercises in the session. However, they felt the method of thesis format, American Psychological Association styles of citation, and referencing are useful and the programme is going to help them more productively in near future. The step-wise regression model has also been used to set the model. The fitted model has been found to be significant. The model adequacy test has also been performed which shows the data satisfied the assumption of multicollinearity, normality of residuals, and homoscedasticity while no outliers were identified. The study between trained students and non-trained students' perceptions after the completion of their dissertation work can be carried out by future research. Likewise, a longitudinal study before the programme and after the thesis work can be performed in this area too.
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Paskali, Ljubomir, Lidija Ivanovic, and Dragan Ivanović. "Use analysis of the digital library of PhD dissertations defended at the University of Novi Sad." Electronic Library 39, no. 1 (February 8, 2021): 97–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/el-11-2019-0268.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the digital library usage patterns as a means of improving the system, as well as the user experience, to give appropriate recognition to the most popular dissertations’ authors and to measure the interest of non-academic users for dissertations defended at the University of Novi Sad (UNS). Design/methodology/approach A logging module of the digital library of theses and dissertations of University of Novi Sad (PHD UNS) application has been implemented. The module recorded the messages relating to the search queries and downloads over a three-year period from 2017–2019. These logs are analysed using the Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana (ELK) technology stack and the results are shown using graphs and tables. Findings The analysis determined the perfect time for weekly maintenance of the system, defined a recommendation for improving the system and revealed the most popular dissertations. A significant number of downloads and queries originated from citizens, i.e. users outside the academic community. Practical implications The conducted analysis defined recommendations for the system improvement which can be used by PHD UNS research and development (R&D) team and revealed the most popular dissertations which are used for the promotion of its authors through faculties’ websites. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study of ELK based log analysis of a Serbian language documents’ repository. Besides, the value of results for the PHD UNS R&D team and UNS rector team, the study proves that PhD digital library presents an important Open Science communication channel for presenting scientific results to the citizens.
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Belkhir, Sadia. "Personification in EFL learners’ academic writing: A cognitive linguistic stance." Glottodidactica. An International Journal of Applied Linguistics 48, no. 2 (December 30, 2021): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/gl.2021.48.2.01.
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The paper offers a report of a small-scale corpus investigation into some advanced EFL learners’ use of personification in academic writing within a higher education context (Mouloud Mammeri University). Its main objective is to shed light on the extent of the occurrence of this phenomenon in their writings. The question raised is whether the examination of their dissertations would reveal extensive use of personification. Conceptual Metaphor Theory constitutes the theoretical framework featuring in this research. Relying on the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) (Pragglejaz Group 2007), six master’s dissertations are selected for examination, and a quantitative analysis of the identified metaphorically used words is conducted. The results of the study reveal an overwhelming manifestation of personification. These findings may constitute a small contribution to the field of education, as offering useful data to educational practitioners and researchers.