Arthroplasty registers: A review of international experiences

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (01) ◽  
pp. 63-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Serra-Sutton ◽  
Alejandro Allepuz ◽  
Mireia Espallargues ◽  
Gerold Labek ◽  
Joan M. V. Pons
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Orthopaedic Society ◽  
Governmental Funding

Objectives:Registers have proven to be a valuable instrument in the evaluation of arthroplasty procedures and the performance of implants. The aim of this study was to describe the structure, functioning, and content of arthroplasty registers in Europe and other parts of the world.Methods:A search of technical reports was carried out through the Internet and in Medline/PubMed. The exhaustiveness of the information was confirmed using the links to Web pages of other registers and contacts with key people. Aims, methods in data collection and evaluation, internal structure and organization, participants, validity of the data, and other variables were assessed for each arthroplasty register using a qualitative content analysis of the texts.Results:Fifteen arthroplasty registers were identified which published sufficient information to conduct a comparative analysis. Eight additional registers were identified but no information was available on the Internet or in English. Most registers were initiatives of an orthopaedic society receiving governmental funding. Data were collected using standardized clinical forms and additional information from clinical-administrative datasets or other registers (mortality, implant costs, hip fractures). The main outcome measure of these registers is survival of the prostheses. Registers use the Internet and their annual reports as the main strategy for the dissemination and feed-back of their results.Conclusions:Scientific or professional societies and the public health administration should collaborate in the development of arthroplasty registers. To adequately assess the results of observational data information on the structure, the process of arthroplasty interventions and patients characteristics should be collected.

Evidence of an Open Government Data Portal Impact on the Public Sphere

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Pedro Lourenço
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Open Government ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Public ◽  
Open Government Data ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Google Search ◽  
The Impact

Data portals are being created as part of open government strategies to increase transparency. But although the potential of the internet to increase transparency (as data disclosure) has been widely considered in the literature, there is no reported evidence of any of the released data actually being used by their ultimate recipients (citizens) for public accountability purposes. This descriptive research effort aims to find evidence of the impact of open government portals, asserting whether data is indeed being used and for what purposes. One contract portal was selected and Google Search was used to find portal references on the internet. A qualitative content analysis approach was adopted, whereby references were examined with respect to its main purpose and data usage. Evidence was found of contract data being used, among others, to identify possible situations of corruption, nepotism and misusage of public resources, support argumentation on public policy debates and, in general, to hold public officials accountable in the public sphere through ‘blame and shame' sanctions.

‘La radio émouvante, divertissante, intéressante?’

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lien De Cang ◽  
Katia Segers
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

How to serve the audience? The Belgian National Radio Institute (N.I.R.) in search of putting into practice the public service remit through its music and audience policy before the era of television (1930-1953). How to serve the audience? The Belgian National Radio Institute (N.I.R.) in search of putting into practice the public service remit through its music and audience policy before the era of television (1930-1953). This article questions in what way the Belgian radio-broadcaster was searching how to put into practice the central public service remit through its music and audience policy from the start of the institute in 1930 till the launch of television in 1953. Departing from a theoretical reflection on the concept of Public Service Broadcasting, this article presents the results of a qualitative content analysis of policy documents (minutes, annual reports) as well as writings of key members of the N.I.R.-staff. It reveals a shared paternalistic vision on the public service remit as well as oppositional views upon the audience and how to serve it.

scholarly journals Artikel

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-394
Author(s):  
Jenny Cisneros Örnberg ◽  
Hildigunnur Ólafsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
National Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
International Pressures ◽  
The Eu

The growth of the EU internal market has made it more difficult to maintain effective national regulation in the area of public health. The EEA agreement and EU membership of the Nordic countries resulted in the abolition of all of the monopolies on alcohol except at the retail level. The article examines how the Nordic alcohol retail monopolies have developed and reacted to national and international pressures on their activities from the mid 1990s to 2006. The article also analyzes what effects the changing surroundings of the Nordic alcohol monopolies have had on the monopolies' present tasks, positions and political aims. The method used in this study is document analysis and interviewing. The material analysed includes annual reports of the Nordic alcohol monopolies, their web pages, reports and brochures, and the laws and regulations pertaining to the monopolies. The article shows that the monopolies have worked purposefully to make themselves popular with the public, with an increased focus on customer service. These changes are based upon both international pressures and changes in perspective within politics in general, where a slow transition from a collectivist solidarity perspective to a more individualistic lifestyle perspective can be discerned.

Electronic communications and communities

Antiquity ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (274) ◽  
pp. 1049-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Surveys ◽  
Electronic Communications ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Barriers To Communication ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Web

The barriers to communication between scholars and between scholars and the public have been falling as the Internet has grown. Although most of the publicity goes to the web, surveys show that the email is used by more people. Since it is based on characters rather than graphics, bandwidth and modem speed are less problematic than they are for web pages. In addition, while the web is the best way to disseminate information on the internet, electronic conferences and newsgroups are still the best way to interact on the internet. Electronic conferences for archaeologists began in 1986 when Sebastian Rahtz and Kris Lockyear created the ‘Archaeological Information Exchange.’ Four years later AIE begat ARCH-L and the number of archaeologists participating has grown steadily. Today ARCH-L has about 1800 subscribers in 44 different countries; most subscribers are in the US and the UK. ARCH-L now averages about 16 messages a day; just under 3000 messages were posted in the first 6 months of 1997. In addition to ARCH-L, there now are at least 40 other electronic conferences and newsgroups covering different aspects of archaeology.

scholarly journals PEMAKNAAN DAN PENGALAMAN SEBAGAI TRANSGENDER

2021 ◽  
pp. 1361
Author(s):  
Rosalina Rosalina ◽  
Anindya Dewi Paramita ◽  
Evanytha Evanytha
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
The Public ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Biological Gender ◽  
Male To Female ◽  
Cover Up

This study aims to get an overview of the meaning and experience of being transgender.  This study use a qualitative research method, researcher conducted interviews with two subjects, one female to male transgender subject and one male to female subject. This research we will see how the dynamics that transgenders go through and feel. The description of meaning and experience as transgender is seen based on the dynamics that occur in the lives of each subject.  The results showed that each subject had a discrepancy between their gender identity and their biological gender identity and had different fluctuations since childhood, continued to develop as adults, but both chose to cover up their gender identity for fear of the consequences. This research can be used for additional information on health administration and education in educating the public about transgender needs. The results showed that the two subjects had similar meanings but different experiences.Individu transgender adalah individu yang identitas gendernya berbeda dengan jenis kelamin biologis yang terberi, sehingga pemaknaan terhadap identitas gender dengan jenis kelamin biologisnya juga mengalami perbedaan dan seringkali memberikan penglaman yang tidak sederhana bagi individu tersebut. Oleh karena itu, tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui gambaran pemaknaan dan penglaman sebagai seorang transgender. Pendekatan kualitatif dilakukan terhadap satu orang transgender female to male dan satu orang transgender male to female yang dipilih secara purposive. Data untuk penelitian ini diperoleh dari wawancara semi terstruktur. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kedua subjek memiliki pemaknaan yang serupa namun pengalaman yang berbeda.

Conceptual modelling of the public sphere in public libraries

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 591-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael M. Widdersheim ◽  
Masanori Koizumi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to construct a conceptual model of the public sphere in public libraries. Various international authors over the past 20 years have associated the public sphere with public libraries, but these associations have yet to be clarified and synthesized in a comprehensive way. Design/methodology/approach – This study used qualitative content analysis to identify the dimensions of the public sphere in public libraries. The study’s scope included annual reports from an urban US public library system from 1900 to 2010. Findings – Six dimensions of the public sphere in public libraries are described with examples. The dimensions are: core criteria; internal public sphere; external public sphere; collect and organize discourse; perform legitimation processes; and facilitate discourse. Three of these dimensions are newly identified. The six total dimensions are synthesized into a comprehensive conceptual model with three discourse arenas: governance and management; legitimation; and commons. Originality/value – This study is distinctive because it used a data-based, empirical approach to public libraries to an abstract sociological concept. Three dimensions of the model are new to library studies literature and therefore represent new potential areas of inquiry. The resulting conceptual model is useful for both practitioners and researchers in the public library sector. Further, the model contributes to existing social and political theory.

scholarly journals A mixed methodology to view internal audits internal control functioning

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-311
Author(s):  
Christo Ackermann
Keyword(s):  
Internal Control ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Internal Audit ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
Audit Committees ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
The Public ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Role Players ◽  
Control Work

The purpose of this paper is to holistically examine internal audit’s internal control functioning, by adopting a data transformation triangulation design. This entailed using questionnaire data and transformed qualitative content analysis data, to perform triangulation. It was found that internal audit functions (IAFs) are important role players in assisting audit committees in their internal control oversight responsibility and that a broad range of internal control work is performed by internal audit. However, in the public eye, there is scant information on IAFs’ functioning and a gap exists between what IAFs actually do and what is presented in public annual reports. The methodology used can be useful for future mixed method studies exploring the broad field of internal auditing. The results of this paper can be used as a starting point to create guidance on internal audit disclosure in public reports and to cultivate further research in the area of internal audit disclosure.

Evidence of an Open Government Data Portal Impact on the Public Sphere

2020 ◽  
pp. 701-719
Author(s):  
Rui Pedro Lourenço
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Open Government ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
Open Government Data ◽  
Government Data ◽  
The Public Sphere

Data portals are being created as part of open government strategies to increase transparency. But although the potential of the internet to increase transparency (as data disclosure) has been widely considered in the literature, there is no reported evidence of any of the released data actually being used by their ultimate recipients (citizens) for public accountability purposes. This descriptive research effort aims to find evidence of the impact of open government portals, asserting whether data is indeed being used and for what purposes. One contract portal was selected and Google Search was used to find portal references on the internet. A qualitative content analysis approach was adopted, whereby references were examined with respect to its main purpose and data usage. Evidence was found of contract data being used, among others, to identify possible situations of corruption, nepotism and misusage of public resources, support argumentation on public policy debates and, in general, to hold public officials accountable in the public sphere through ‘blame and shame' sanctions.

Detecting “DeepFakes” in H.264 Video Data Using Compression Ghost Artifacts

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 116-1-116-7
Author(s):  
Raphael Antonius Frick ◽  
Sascha Zmudzinski ◽  
Martin Steinebach
Keyword(s):  
Image Forensics ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Video Sequences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Video Content ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Public

In recent years, the number of forged videos circulating on the Internet has immensely increased. Software and services to create such forgeries have become more and more accessible to the public. In this regard, the risk of malicious use of forged videos has risen. This work proposes an approach based on the Ghost effect knwon from image forensics for detecting forgeries in videos that can replace faces in video sequences or change the mimic of a face. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is able to identify forgery in high-quality encoded video content.

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