scholarly journals Perfil de los usuarios de centros deportivos según sus expectativas

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Pilar Aparicio-Chueca ◽  
Amal Elasri-Ejjaberi ◽  
Xavier Triadó-Iverm
Keyword(s):  
Classical Theory ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Anova Analysis ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Service Expectations

Las necesidades de los usuarios de centros deportivos han ido cambiando en los últimos años. Por este motivo se hacen necesarios tanto el análisis del perfil de usuarios como la evaluación de la satisfacción de los clientes y su relación con las expectativas del servicio. Analizado desde la teoría clásica de la desconfirmación de expectativas, el presente estudio tiene como objetivo revisar los perfiles de tres grupos de usuarios en centros deportivos: aquellos para quienes no se cumplen sus expectativas, los que sí las ven satisfechas y aquellos que creen que se han superado. Los datos fueron recogidos mediante una encuesta a usuarios de tres centros deportivos municipales de Barcelona. Un análisis ANOVA revela que la edad es una variable clave, siendo los usuarios jóvenes los que tienen una percepción más positiva de la oferta, mientras que el grupo de usuarios de edad media ven cumplidas sus expectativas en un grado menor. Además, los resultados demuestran que existe un conjunto de usuarios que a pesar de haber manifestado que el centro no cumple con sus expectativas, siguen como abonados en el mismo, contradiciendo la teoría de la desconfirmación de expectativas. Se exponen, finalmente, un conjunto de aplicaciones prácticas dirigidas al análisis y la gestión de las expectativas de los usuarios y el establecimiento de políticas de permanencia. The needs from users of sports centers have been changing in recent years. For this reason, it is necessary to analyse users’ profile and its relationship with service expectations. Analysed from the classical theory of disconfirmation of expectations, the present study aims to review the profiles of three user groups in sports centers: those for whom their expectations are not met, those who seems satisfied and those who believe that they have been overcome with the service. The data was collected through a survey of users of three municipal sports centers in Barcelona. An ANOVA analysis reveals that age is a key variable, with young users having a more positive perception of the offer, while the group of middle-aged users seems fulfil their expectations in a lesser degree. In addition, the results show that there is a set of users who despite having stated that the center does not meet their expectations, continue as subscribers in it, contradicting the theory of disconfirmation of expectations. Finally, a set of practical applications aimed at the analysis, and management, of user expectations. Also, some fidelity policies are exposed.

scholarly journals UseDa - a new database tool on ethnobotanical uses of West African plant species

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 42-48
Author(s):  
Karen Hahn ◽  
Marco Schmidt ◽  
Anne Mette Lykke ◽  
Adjima Thiombiano
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Ethnobotanical Uses ◽  
Set Up

Knowledge about useful plants and their various applications in West Africa is scattered over many publications and often in form of grey literature difficult to access. Several online-databases compile large scale information from these sources and provide comprehensive summarized descriptions of plant usages. Our aim is to additionally build up a database (UseDa) for primary ethnobotanical interview data. Thus, quantitative data can be extracted and synthesized and data sets can be treated according to different research questions analyzing for example uses in specific areas, of different ethnic groups or user groups, which is essential for practical applications on a local level. In this article we give an overview on the technical structure and the content of the database and discuss at the end the possible output for practical application. The database was set up in the frame of the EU-funded Project UNDESERT.

scholarly journals EFL Students’ Perspective on the Usefulness of ICT based Learning in Indonesian Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Muhammad Basri ◽  
Muhammad Azwar Paramma
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Acceptance Model

The study explores the perception of the EFL students in English Language Teaching through ICT based learning at Universitas Negeri Makassar. It employs a descriptive study using purposive sampling techniques by taking 57 respondents from university students. The online questionnaire used to collect data on the perception of students on the ICT based Learning of English Language Teaching. The method of descriptive in terms of percentage has been used for data processing, and the deduction method has been used to analyze and interpret data. The result of this study indicates the positive perception those university students hold on the use of the Learning Management System in English Language Teaching. Further study can refer to this Acceptance Model in determining a suitable ICT integrated learning program between the reality and user expectations of the program used.

scholarly journals Research on Products with the Feel of "Moe" Based on User's Cognitive Psychology

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanheng Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Important Impact ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
User Groups ◽  
The Aesthetic

In the current society, "Moe" has become a new trend of best-selling products. The young user groups, especially the female users, are more inclined to choose "cute" products for their aesthetics. "Moe" is not only a sense of resonance that arises because of certain characteristics of things, but also some characteristics that make people have protective desires, stimulate people's childlike innocence, produce good feelings and love for them, and satisfy people's self-realization of young things, the need for value, and the need for aesthetics about cute and beautiful things. From the perspective of user’s cognitive psychology, this paper summarized the concept of "Moe", and discussed how "Moe" resonates with users and affects users' expectations. By comparing various types of robots and child robots in case studies, how “Moe” produces an impact based on the user's cognitive psychology was summed up. And this article demonstrated that products with a strong feel of "Moe" in the appearance meet the aesthetic needs of users, and are more likely to have empathy with users, which has an important impact on reducing the user expectations.

scholarly journals Differences in the Perception of Birth Policies by the Middle aged and the Elderly in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S6) ◽  
pp. 265-269
Keyword(s):  
Final Analysis ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Negative Perception ◽  
Aged Group ◽  
Aged People ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The One

Because of the drastic changes in China’s birth policies, it is anticipated that the middle-aged and the elderly would view the policy of ‘one household, two children’ differently. As such, this study seeks to identify such a difference between the middle-aged and the elderly. There were 320 sets of data for the elderly generation and 305 for the middle-aged generation used for the final analysis. The study shows that, unlike the elderly generation, the middle-aged group has a negative perception towards the ‘one household, two children’ policy. Second, for the elderly generation of China, there was a significant difference in their perception towards the ‘one household, two children’ policy and ‘preferred gender of children’ depending on what the gender of the respondent’s child was. The elderly with only daughters had a rather negative perception towards the policy, and their preferred gender for children was also ‘sons’. Third, middle aged people with daughters had a more positive perception towards the policy

Analysis of Vibrating Micropolar Plate in Contact With a Fluid

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Najafi ◽  
F. Daneshmand ◽  
S. R. Mohebpour
Keyword(s):  
Classical Theory ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Ritz Method ◽  
Theory Of Elasticity ◽  
Material Point ◽  
Mode Shapes ◽  
Micropolar Theory ◽  
Fluid Structure ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Micropolar Plate

Micropolar theory constitutes extension of the classical field theories. It is based on the idea that every particles of the material can make both micro rotation and volumetric micro elongation in addition to the bulk deformation. Since this theory includes the effects of micro structure which could affect the overall behaviour of the medium, it reflects the physical realities much better than the classical theory for the engineering materials. In the micropolar theory, the material points are considered to possess orientations. A material point carrying three rigid directors introduces one extra degree of freedom over the classical theory. This is because in micropolar continuum, a point is endowed with three rigid directors only. A material point is then equipped with the degrees of freedom for rigid rotations, in addition to the classical translational degrees of freedom. In fact, the micropolar covers the results of the classical continuum mechanics. The micropolar theory recently takes attentions in fluid mechanics and mathematicians and engineers are implementing this theory in various theoretical and practical applications. In this paper the fluid-structure analysis of a vibrating micropolar plate in contact with a fluid is considered. The fluid is contained in a cube which all faces except for one of the lateral faces are rigid. The only non-rigid lateral face is made of a flexible micropolar plate and therefore, interacts with the fluid. An analytical approach is utilized to investigate the vibration characteristics of the aforementioned fluid-structure problem. The fluid is non-viscous and incompressible. Duplicate Chebyshev series, multiplied by boundary functions are used as admissible functions and the frequency equations of the micropolar plate are obtained by the use of Chebyshev-Ritz method. Also the vibration analysis of the plates modeled by micropolar theory has been done. This analysis shows that some additional frequencies due to the micropolarity of the plate appears among the values of the frequencies obtained in the classical theory of elasticity, as expected. These new frequencies are called micro-rotational waves. We also observed that when the micropolar material constants vanish, these additional frequencies disappear and only the classical frequencies remain. Specially, we observed that these additional frequencies are more sensitive to the change of the micro elastic constants than the classical frequencies. The frequencies and mode shapes of the coupled fluid structure interaction problem are obtained in the present study based on the micropolar and classical modeling. The numerical results for the problem are compared with those obtained by the analytical method for their differences and to confirm the proposed method. The microrotatinal wave frequencies and mode shapes are also developed. The results show that the natural frequencies and mode shapes for the transverse vibrations of the problem are in good agreement with the classical one and our knowledge from the physical nature of the problem.

Statistical mechanics of nucleation: A review

2004 ◽  
Vol 218 (8) ◽  
pp. 883-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
I J Ford
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Classical Theory ◽  
Transition State Theory ◽  
State Theory ◽  
Computational Effort ◽  
Molecular Cluster ◽  
Rate Equations ◽  
Wet Steam ◽  
Kinetic Rate ◽  
Practical Applications

The principles of statistical mechanics have been used to develop a theory of the nucleation of a phase transition, but a number of subtle questions remain and are highlighted in this review. A central issue is the cluster definition, the mathematical scheme which distinguishes a molecular cluster from a collection of separate molecules. There is also the question of whether thermodynamic transition state theory is suitable to describe the process, or whether the development of kinetic rate equations describing cluster growth and decay is a better approach. The classical theory of nucleation is flawed but appears to provide useful estimates in some cases, including water. Phenomenological extensions of the classical theory can improve matters. However, improvements in the theory from microscopic considerations are not simple to apply, require major computational effort and suffer from uncertainties due to lack of knowledge of the fundamental intermolecular interactions. Calculations of the nucleation rate of water droplets are especially difficult since this substance is notoriously difficult to model. Nevertheless, as capabilities improve, accurate calculations should come within reach, which will offer better understanding of the process for practical applications such as the transition from dry to wet steam.

scholarly journals Conjoint analysis of mobility plans in the city of Dresden

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Maas
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Conjoint Analysis ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Enhancing Effect ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The Past ◽  
Actual Behaviour ◽  
Bike Sharing ◽  
User Groups ◽  
The City

AbstractThe past years brought massive changes in the transport and mobility market, accompanied by the rise of concepts such as Mobility as a Service. An enormous increase in publications on this topic documents the growing importance of multimodal mobility solutions for daily transport, but practical applications of the concept are rare. In addition to challenges in the organization of players, this is due to an unclear conception of the service offer and which particular services should be included to what extent. This paper presents the results of an empirical study in the city of Dresden, Germany, where participants could choose out of various bundles of mobility services in a conjoint analysis. The survey provides evidence for the great importance of public transport for the evaluation of mobility bundles as well as for the benefit-enhancing effect of car and bike sharing. A comparison among different user groups reveals a very homogeneous picture of mobility plans, which, however, only partly reflects actual behaviour.

Ion Beam Induced Interfacial Reactions in Molybdenum Thin Films on Silicon

1981 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 162-163
Author(s):  
L. J. Chen ◽  
L. S. Hung ◽  
J. W. Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Ion Beam ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Interfacial Reactions ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Microelectronic Devices ◽  
Recent Emergence ◽  
Chemical Vapor Deposited ◽  
Atomic Mixing ◽  
Silicon Interface ◽  
Kinetics Of

When an energetic ion penetrates through an interface between a thin film (of species A) and a substrate (of species B), ion induced atomic mixing may result in an intermixed region (which contains A and B) near the interface. Most ion beam mixing experiments have been directed toward metal-silicon systems, silicide phases are generally obtained, and they are the same as those formed by thermal treatment.Recent emergence of silicide compound as contact material in silicon microelectronic devices is mainly due to the superiority of the silicide-silicon interface in terms of uniformity and thermal stability. It is of great interest to understand the kinetics of the interfacial reactions to provide insights into the nature of ion beam-solid interactions as well as to explore its practical applications in device technology.About 500 Å thick molybdenum was chemical vapor deposited in hydrogen ambient on (001) n-type silicon wafer with substrate temperature maintained at 650-700°C. Samples were supplied by D. M. Brown of General Electric Research & Development Laboratory, Schenectady, NY.

1250-kilovolt scanning transmission electron microscope

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 624-625
Author(s):  
T. Imura ◽  
S. Maruse ◽  
K. Mihama ◽  
M. Iseki ◽  
M. Hibino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Voltage ◽  
Electron Probe ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope ◽  
Pressure Vessels ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Voltage Generator ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
New Applications ◽  
High Voltage Generator

Ultra high voltage STEM has many inherent technical advantages over CTEM. These advantages include better signal detectability and signal processing capability. It is hoped that it will explore some new applications which were previously not possible. Conventional STEM (including CTEM with STEM attachment), however, has been unable to provide these inherent advantages due to insufficient performance and engineering problems. Recently we have developed a new 1250 kV STEM and completed installation at Nagoya University in Japan. It has been designed to break through conventional engineering limitations and bring about theoretical advantage in practical applications.In the design of this instrument, we exercised maximum care in providing a stable electron probe. A high voltage generator and an accelerator are housed in two separate pressure vessels and they are connected with a high voltage resistor cable.(Fig. 1) This design minimized induction generated from the high voltage generator, which is a high frequency Cockcroft-Walton type, being transmitted to the electron probe.

Characterization of intergranular cuprous oxide in polycrystalline YBa2Cu3O7-x

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 880-881
Author(s):  
Bradley L. Thiel ◽  
Chan Han R. P. ◽  
Kurosky L. C. Hutter ◽  
I. A. Aksay ◽  
Mehmet Sarikaya
Keyword(s):  
Grain Boundary ◽  
Cuprous Oxide ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Boundary Phase ◽  
Spectroscopic Techniques ◽  
Transition Width ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Thin Foils ◽  
Superconducting Oxides

The identification of extraneous phases is important in understanding of high Tc superconducting oxides. The spectroscopic techniques commonly used in determining the origin of superconductivity (such as RAMAN, XPS, AES, and EXAFS) are surface-sensitive. Hence a grain boundary phase several nanometers thick could produce irrelevant spectroscopic results and cause erroneous conclusions. The intergranular phases present a major technological consideration for practical applications. In this communication we report the identification of a Cu2O grain boundary phase which forms during the sintering of YBa2Cu3O7-x (1:2:3 compound).Samples are prepared using a mixture of Y2O3. CuO, and BaO2 powders dispersed in ethanol for complete mixing. The pellets pressed at 20,000 psi are heated to 950°C at a rate of 5°C per min, held for 1 hr, and cooled at 1°C per min to room temperature. The samples show a Tc of 91K with a transition width of 2K. In order to prevent damage, a low temperature stage is used in milling to prepare thin foils which are then observed, using a liquid nitrogen holder, in a Philips 430T at 300 kV.

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