WorldCat, the Other ETD Database: An Exploratory Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron W. Procious
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
The Other

scholarly journals Estudo preliminar da anáfora num corpus de interpretação simultânea

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sílvia Araújo ◽  
Ana Correia
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Simultaneous Interpreting ◽  
Sensitive Areas ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Interpreter Training ◽  
The One ◽  
Anaphoric Relations

In this paper, we propose an exploratory study about the usefulness of multilingual corpora in areas related to the study of language, translation and, in particular, of simultaneous interpreting. After a brief overview of corpus-based interpreting studies as well as of some existing electronic interpreting corpora, we move on to describe the compilation stages of a bidirectional multimedia corpus (PT--EN/EN--PT). This is followed by an example of how the corpus can be explored, which focuses on the issue of anaphoric relations. The aim of this study if twofold: on the one hand, to convey the relevance of this type of resource as a repository of authentic simultaneous interpreting data; and, on the other hand, to demonstrate that by analysing it from a linguistic perspective it may be possible to identify sensitive areas in simultaneous interpreting (e.g. anaphora), which may prove an important contribution for interpreter training.

scholarly journals Motivations Influencing the Surgeon’s Healthcare Unit Choice to Perform Surgery: A Confirmatory Study in Portugal

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Nora ◽  
Diogo Guedes Vidal ◽  
Lilian Monteiro Ferrari Viterbo ◽  
Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis ◽  
Hélder Fernando Pedrosa Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Surgical Practice ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
Health Institutions

Quality surgical practice is a fundamental subject in health institutions, and it is important to understand the structural and organizational conditions of the operating room (OR). The present exploratory study sought to understand the motivations that underlie the choice of surgeons for the best healthcare unit to perform surgery, as well as the characteristics of those professionals regarding age, years of work experience, and sex. A questionnaire survey was administered to a convenience sample of 99 surgeons, 67.3% male and 32.7% female, aged 37 to 66 (M = 23.7; Std = 8.92). The results show that at the top of the surgeons' motivations to perform surgery is the 77.8% attributed to the human resources and equipment available and at the other extreme the 3% to the previous online visit to facilities. This study opens important clues to the development of more in-depth and comparative approaches, necessary for the continuous improvement of the healthcare provided in the context of surgical practice.

Perspectives on Research-related Anxiety among BSW Students: An Exploratory Study

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora S. Gustavsson ◽  
Ann E. MacEachron
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Math Anxiety ◽  
Computer Anxiety ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
The Other ◽  
Methods Course ◽  
Strengths Perspective ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Library Anxiety

Using a convenience sample of BSW students enrolled in a required research methods course, we explore two alternative perspectives on research-related anxiety. One perspective emphasizes the fear dimension of anxiety (math anxiety, library anxiety, and computer anxiety), and the other perspective emphasizes a dimension reflecting “eagerness to do well.” Our exploration of these alternative dimensions finds that both have empirical support. By looking at student anxieties about research from a strengths perspective, however, we may find additional innovative ways to engage students in learning and using research.

An exploratory study of exclusively heterosexual, primarily heterosexual, and mostly heterosexual young men

Sexualities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 16-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ritch C Savin-Williams
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Gender Nonconformity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Mostly Heterosexual ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Additional Point

Kinsey argued that sexuality exists along a continuum from exclusive attraction to one sex or the other, with degrees of gradations of nonexclusivity in-between. Other than bisexuality and, recently, mostly heterosexuality, possibilities within the nonexclusive spectrum are seldom investigated, especially among men. In two studies presented here, an additional point, primarily heterosexual, in-between exclusively heterosexual and mostly heterosexual, is proposed. The three were distinguished among 92 young men based on self-reports of three sexual indicators (attraction, fantasy, genital contact); two romantic indicators (infatuation, romantic relationship); and sexual identity. Exclusively heterosexuals differed from the other two in having lower levels of pupil dilation to same-sex (but not other-sex) pornographic stimuli and of gender nonconformity, a proxy for sexual orientation. Primarily and mostly heterosexuals did not differ from each other on either measure but did differ in the extent to which mostly heterosexuals were considerably more likely to endorse same-sex sexuality. Results supported the uniqueness of mostly heterosexual men and, descriptively, primarily heterosexual men. The second longitudinal study found the exclusively heterosexual point was the most stable. Across the three, there was greater movement toward same-sex than other-sex sexuality. This is interpreted in light of the increasing acceptance of same-sex sexuality within the millennial generation.

Stigmatizing the other: An exploratory study of unintended consequences of eating disorder public service announcements

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina A Iles ◽  
Anita Atwell Seate ◽  
Leah Waks
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Public Service Announcements ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Public Service Announcement ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Practical Implications

This research explores the intended and unintended consequences of eating disorder public service announcements. We assessed participants’ attitudes toward eating disorders and people with eating disorders, willingness to interact with people with eating disorders, and experience with eating disorders (covariate) at Time 1. At Time 2, participants were randomly assigned to watch a stigmatizing or a non-stigmatizing eating disorder public service announcement. Exposure to the stigmatizing public service announcement resulted in more negative attitudes toward eating disorders and in less willingness to interact with people with eating disorders, but not in significantly more negative attitudes toward people with eating disorders. The discussion highlights the practical implications for health communication campaigns.

scholarly journals Financing Companies using Financial Technology an Exploratory Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-68
Author(s):  
Sadiq Jafar Kadhum Al-Atabi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Exercise Activity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Low Costs ◽  
The One ◽  
Financial Technology

         The modern technology to finance investments, of leasing, and the wide attention in the industrialized countries due to their particular flexibility, as well as their low costs often thus making them an alternative to compete with other traditional financing methods. It is noted in this regard that developing countries, especially Arab ones for the most part what relatively late still in the application of this type of financing , companies are leasing is still very low compared with the industrialized countries due to traditional methods control of funding for financial institutions, and non-acceptance risk in new areas of funding, lack of professionalism in the financial and banking field and then dodging relatively active participation in economic development; this study examine the decision to leasing the Iraqi environment as a source of funding for projects to identify extent the desire of the Iraqi projects and their ability to exercise Activity leasing, as well as the desire of the Iraqi banks and their ability to finance the leasing projects, According hypotheses of the study using a model according to the measure " Likert " questionnaire, the first model to the Iraqi projects, as leasing , and was (50) projects , in the face of the second model to the branches of Iraqi banks, as leased, the (40) bank. The study concluded the following results:  The desire of the Iraqi projects, and their ability to exercise Activity leasing, as well as a statistically significant relationship between the knowledge of the project of leasing activity and flexible lease process, and pledges to the tenant project against for financing its assets on the one hand, and between the desire of the projects, and their ability to exercise leasing activity on the other.

scholarly journals Narcissism and Defending Self-Esteem. An Exploratory Study based on Self-characterizations

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Guido Veronese ◽  
Rossella Procaccia ◽  
Giovanni M. Ruggiero ◽  
Sandra Sassaroli ◽  
Marco Castiglioni
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Other ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Structural Analogy ◽  
Threats To Self

The present qualitative study aims at investigating the role of socio-relational variables in the construction of threats to self-esteem, grandiosity, and relaxation in a non-clinical sample of 35 young university students. The work provides fresh experimental evidence of the structural analogy observed in clinical settings between constructions of threat to self-esteem and grandiose fantasies. We hypothesize that the relational dimension would be more strongly present than either biological or psychological dimensions.The results show that descriptions of relaxation differ significantly from their characterizations of the other two domains. Specifically we found greater continuity and narrative connection between the aspects of threat and grandiosity, while the domain of relaxation showed a more “isolated” pattern.

scholarly journals Effects of creativity on aesthetic experience7

Psihologija ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-339
Author(s):  
Ivan Stojilovic
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Random Effects ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Multilevel Regression ◽  
Aesthetic Preference ◽  
Crossed Random Effects ◽  
The Aesthetic

It is often neglected that the experience of artwork is a creative act, and one which requires the audience to be creative. This exploratory study aimed to examine whether creative activity and measures of pe rson`s creativity are correlated with the aesthetic experience of paintings. Eighty-two participants rated 21 paintings, including 7 figural traditional paintings, 7 semi-abstract works, and 7 abstract works. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two experimental groups. One group first created collages and then rated the paintings on five aesthetic preference scales, while the other group first rated the paintings and then created collages. Multilevel regression analysis with two crossed random effects (participants and paintings) was used. Results showed that performing a creative activity prior to rating artwork positively influenced ratings of artwork creativity. In addition, collage creativity was positively correlated with ratings of (semi)abstract paintings as beautiful. It is hypothesized that people become more open to new, unusual experiences, are more flexible and act more freely in their decisions when performing a creative activity, which reflects positively on stronger preferences of paintings.

scholarly journals Social Researchers’ Approaches to Research Ethics During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Exploratory Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 155626462110550
Author(s):  
Adrianna Surmiak ◽  
Beata Bielska ◽  
Katarzyna Kalinowska
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
New Situation

The global COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine/distancing measures have forced researchers to cope with a new situation. This paper aimed to analyze how the pandemic and its associated constraints have affected social researchers’ approach to research ethics. Drawing on an online qualitative survey with 193 Polish social researchers conducted in April and May 2020, we distinguished three approaches: nothing has changed, opportunity-oriented, and precautionary. According to the first, the pandemic was not regarded as a situation that required additional reflection on ethical issues or changes in research approaches. By contrast, the other two were based on the assumption that the pandemic affected research project ethics. The difference was in the assessment of changes in the area of ethics. The pandemic presented an opportunity and a threat to the ethicality of research, respectively. We discuss the implications of all three approaches for research and education.

scholarly journals BUSINESS STUDENTS CAREER INTEREST IN ACCOUNTING PROFESSION: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY IN TURKEY

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1620-1627
Author(s):  
Mahmut Yardimcioglu ◽  
Sebnem Ada
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Outcome Expectation ◽  
Career Interests ◽  
Career Interest

Accounting is a very important profession in todays contemporary business environment. On the other hand, it is also becoming more difficult to find qualified graduates specialized in accounting. Therefore, in order to foster students to be interested in accounting, it is of utmost importance to identify the factors that determine students interest in this field. This study identifies and investigates the factors (i.e., career outcome expectation, career challenge, social influence, and academic performance in accounting)  that are likely to influence students career interests in the field of accounting. A structured survey was administered to university students located in a province in Turkey. The findings of this research study reveal that students that aim to pursue a challenging career; that are influenced by other people related to their career decisions; and that have greater academic performance in accounting will be interested in pursuing a career in the field of accounting.

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