scholarly journals Selected Aspects of Assessment/Improvement of Academic Research Quality, Also of Industrial Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (37) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Marek Jemala
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Statistical Research ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Industrial Management ◽  
Adequate Quality

Abstract In terms of publishing and commercialisation of academic research results, there may be more preferred qualitative research in the long term. But, not every research can be focused only on the quality of its outputs, but each output of the research, however, should have an adequate quality and added value. The main research question of this article may be determined as follows – How can the quality of academic research be better evaluated and thus improved, also in the area of Industrial management? It is not the intention of this article to perform statistical research in the field yet, but this study is based on empirical data and results.

Patients' experiences of nurse case management in primary care: a meta-synthesis

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Askerud ◽  
Jenny Conder
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Long Term Conditions ◽  
Nurse Case Management ◽  
Primary Health

The health system in New Zealand and Australia requires health practitioners to prepare for the challenge of long-term conditions. Wagner’s 1998 Chronic Care Model advocates a move away from the traditional acute model of primary health care to a model that addresses the long-term episodic nature of chronic disease. Nurse case management has been developed over the last 2 decades as a means to coordinate health services for people with long-term conditions. This meta-synthesis combines the results of 15 qualitative research studies that have a similar research question regarding peoples’ perceptions of nurse case management. The research synthesises the experiences of people with long-term conditions on the quality of care under a nurse case management model of primary health care. Over 1000 people were represented across the studies, and the results suggest that people had a high degree of confidence and trust in their nurse case manager, were better able to manage their health conditions with nurse case management support, and had better access to appropriate health care. This research suggests that nurse case management is an effective model of care and may contribute to improved quality of life and better health care for those with long-term health conditions.

scholarly journals Quality of Academic Life during COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Taibah University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 120-149
Author(s):  
Areej Yousef Ahmed Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Academic Support ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Academic Satisfaction ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Academic Practices

The current study aimed to identify the quality level of academic life during COVID-19 pandemic from students' perception of Taibah University, Yanbu branch. To this end, a descriptive approach was used to answer the following main research question: What is the quality level of academic life during COVID-19 pandemic from students' perception of Taibah University? The study tool consisted of a questionnaire to measure the quality level of the students’ academic life. The tool was ensured for reliability and validity and composed of three sections that contained indicators to measure the quality of academic life; academic practices, academic satisfaction, and academic support. The sample of the study consisted of 187 male and female students. Results showed high perceptions for the respondents in the quality of academic practices section (M=4.15, SD=1.03). The statement No.9 entitles “Rate the precautionary actions provided to you to activate the online education as an alternative to face-to-face education during COVID-19 pandemic” obtained the highest rank (M=4.63). The second section that measured the level of academic satisfaction recorded (M=1.76, SD=1.10), obtaining 58.71%. The statement 6 entitles “I felt my love to home increased during COVID-19 pandemic” obtained the highest rank (M=4.63, SD=.81, 98.93%). The academic support dimension recorded (M=4.33, SD=.93), Indicating that the level of academic support for students during COVID-19 pandemic was excellent (86.65%) as perceived by the study sample. The statement 5 which entitles “Rate the extent to benefit from academic counseling during COVID-19 pandemic” got the highest rank (M=4.67, SD=.72, 93.485). The most challenges encountered the students gradually categorized from the highest to the lowest were the poor Internet network, non-availability of laptop computers, low experience in working with blackboard, and poor technical experience. The study recommended the significance of academic support and suggested doing further studies on and the reality of quality of academic life from faculty members perspectives and the role of precautionary health during COID-19 pandemic to enhance the national loyalty for the university students.

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRANSLATIONS PREPARED BY STUDENTS WITH AND WITHOUT LEGAL QUALIFICATIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 85-115
Author(s):  
Márta LESZNYÁK ◽  
Dorka BALOGH
Keyword(s):  
Information Transfer ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
The University ◽  
Made In

In our paper, we present the results of the second phase of a study conducted in collaboration between two higher education institutions in Hungary with different types of translator training: a postgraduate (MA) course at the University of Szeged (SZTE), Faculty of Arts, and a postgraduate specialist training course at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest (PPKE JÁK), Faculty of Law and Political Sciences. At SZTE, students do not have any legal qualifications, while at PPKE JÁK, students are all qualified legal professionals. Our main research question was whether there are significant differences in the quality of legal translations carried out by students with and without legal qualifications. We analyzed and evaluated the global (holistic) quality of the translations using a five-point scale as suggested by Kiraly (1995: 83), and compared types of errors made by the two groups of students with the help of a special error typology. Our results show that students with legal qualifications perform better in terms of both global and analytic indicators, with significantly less errors made in information transfer and in legal register. 

Femtocells for Public Safety Communications

2012 ◽  
pp. 215-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Mutafungwa ◽  
Zhong Zheng ◽  
Jyri Hämäläinen ◽  
Mika Husso ◽  
Matti Laitila
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Service ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Underlying Network ◽  
Stringent Quality ◽  
Public Safety Communications

The increased adoption of rich multimedia solutions in public safety communications is enhancing information sharing for improved situational awareness as well as boosting operational efficiency. However, the aforementioned benefits also place increasingly stringent quality-of-service demands on the underlying network infrastructure. In this chapter, the authors review the added value of utilizing femtocells for various public safety communications scenarios. To that end, a detailed case study on the exploitation of femtocellular resources for emergency telemedicine applications is presented as an illustrative example. Simulations carried out for an Long Term Evolution (LTE) network environment demonstrate significant improvements in terms of achievable throughput for the emergency response personnel when access to subscriber-owned residential LTE Home eNode Bs available in the indoor emergency sites is allowed, compared to the conventional option of accessing only operator-owned macro eNode Bs.

Should We Worry about Partisan Electoral Interventions? The Nature, History, and Known Effects of Foreign Interference in Elections

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Dov H. Levin
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
History Of ◽  
Election Results

Ever since the exposure of the Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections for the Donald Trump campaign, there has been much discussion of its causes mixed with deep concerns about the possibility of future meddling of this kind by Russia. There has been far less discussion, however, about the wider phenomena this particular intervention is just one recent example of. This chapter provides an overview of what scholars have found so far about partisan electoral interventions. It first describes the main methods through which foreign powers are known to have tried to intervene in elections in other countries in order to determine their results, as well as the long history of such efforts, going back to the very start of competitive national-level executive elections. The chapter then briefly summarizes the current academic research on the effects of such interference on the target, from its immediate effects on the intervened election results to their medium- and long-term post-election effects on the targets welfare (such as the quality of its democracy). Both parts illustrate that concerns about such foreign interference are indeed quite justified—it is a common, multifaceted phenomenon that can, in many cases, cause serious harm to its unfortunate targets.​

Leaching of Heavy Metals Using TCLP and SPLP Method from Fired Clay Brick Incorporating with Mosaic Sludge

2016 ◽  
Vol 857 ◽  
pp. 352-357
Author(s):  
Aeslina binti Abdul Kadir ◽  
Nur Athirah Ideris ◽  
Ahmad Shayuti Abdul Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Compressive Strength ◽  
Metal Concentration ◽  
Drainage System ◽  
Heavy Metal Concentration ◽  
Clay Brick ◽  
Adequate Quality

Mosaic sludge is sewerage from mosaic industrial activities such as cutting, polishing and grinding. This sludge mostly will be disposed directly to landfill and some of it was discharged in drainage system without proper treatment. Therefore, in this study, mosaic sludge from the mosaic industry were reused and incorporated into fired clay brick in order to provide alternative disposal method, producing adequate quality of brick as well as minimizing the heavy metal leachability to the environment. First, X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) was conducted to determine the heavy metal concentration from two types of mosaic sludge. The results indicate that the highest element concentration in mosaic sludge (BS and PS) shows that Barium is the highest with 3253ppm and 3260ppm. On the raw sludge, the lowest obtained in BS and PS is Cesium with 14ppm and 17ppm. SPLP and TCLP also conducted in this study and the results show that, even though the element such as ferum (Fe) and cadmium (Cd) was not detected in XRF but in SPLP and TCLP, it shows that these two elements exist in clay, BS and PS with low concentration. In term of properties, compressive strength was conducted by incorporating 0%, 1%, 5%, 10%, 20% and 30% bodymill and polishing sludge into fired clay brick. The results show that compressive strength of BS brick was stronger than PS brick. Lastly, Static Leachate Test (SLT) was conducted to measure the long term leachability of heavy metals from different percentages of mosaic sludge brick. In SLT result, ferum (Fe) shows the highest value of heavy metal concentration among other elements. The results for control brick, BS brick and PS brick show the same pattern and far from the limit set by USEPA.

scholarly journals Reducing waste in nutritional epidemiology: review and perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Hawwash ◽  
Chen Yang ◽  
Carl Lachat
Keyword(s):  
Added Value ◽  
Nutritional Epidemiology ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Research Reporting ◽  
Research Priority ◽  
Nutrition Research ◽  
Research Cycle ◽  
Stage 4 ◽  
Stage 1

We discuss efforts in improving the value of nutrition research. We organised the paper in five research stages: Stage 1: research priority setting; Stage 2: research design, conduct and analysis; Stage 3: research regulation and management; Stage 4: research accessibility and Stage 5: research reporting and publishing. Along the stages of the research cycle, varied initiatives exist to improve the quality and added value of nutrition research. However, efforts are focused on single stages of the research cycle without vision of the research system as a whole. Although research on nutrition research has been limited, it has potential to improve the quality of nutrition research and develop new tools and instruments for this purpose. A comprehensive assessment of the magnitude of research waste in nutrition and consensus on priority actions is needed. The nutrition research community at large needs to have open discussions on the usefulness of these tools and lead suitable efforts to enhance nutrition research across the stages of the research cycle. Capacity building is essential and considerations of nutrition research quality are vital to be integrated in training efforts of nutrition researchers.

Extensive Quality Model of Semantic Standards

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-41
Author(s):  
Erwin Folmer
Keyword(s):  
Product Quality ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Quality Measurement ◽  
Standard Setting ◽  
Process Quality ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Quality Aspects ◽  
Hierarchical Trees

A problem survey, including 34 semantic standard setting organizations (SSOs), gives the evidence that quality of standards can be improved, but for the improvement of a quality measurement an instrument is needed. The main research question in this work is: What are the characteristics of an instrument to measure the quality of semantic standards that will aid standard developers in improving their standards? The presented quality model consists of in total 100 quality aspects structured within three hierarchical trees; product quality (intrinsic), process quality (the organization of the standard), and quality in practice (application of the standard).

scholarly journals A Systematic Literature Review on the Quality of MOOCs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5817
Author(s):  
Christian M. Stracke ◽  
Giada Trisolini
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Massive Open Online Courses ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Quality Framework

This paper presents the findings from a systematic literature review on the quality of massive open online courses (MOOCs). The main research question was “How can the quality criteria for MOOCs identified in the analysed studies from the systematic literature review be best organised in a categorisation scheme?” The systematic literature review was conducted using the PRISMA procedures. After conducting the screening and eligibility analysis according the pre-defined criteria, 103 studies were finally selected. The analysis was done in iterative cycles for continuous improvements of the assignments and clustering of the quality criteria. The final version was validated in consensus through the categorisation and assignment of all 103 studies in a consistent way to four dimensions (pedagogical, organisational, technological, and social) and their sub-categories. This quality framework can be re-used in future MOOC research and the discussion of the analysed studies provides a current literature overview on the quality of MOOCs.

scholarly journals Quality of research as source and signal: revisiting the valorization process beyond substitution vs complementarity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bonaccorsi ◽  
Brigida Blasi ◽  
Carmela Anna Nappi ◽  
Sandra Romagnosi
Keyword(s):  
Research Funding ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Research Activities

AbstractIn recent years, the growing interest of universities in valorization of research activities (tipically through technology transfer—patenting and licensing—and academic entrepreneurship) has generated a debate on its impact on scientific knowledge production. There have been controversies on the potentially negative effect of university research valorization on public research, in terms of quality, long term vs short term orientation, and accessibility. The debate has been traditionally framed in terms of substitution vs complementarity between public research and valorization. In this paper we argue that the key to understand the relation between public research and valorization lies in the role of research funding, particularly: (a) competitive public research funding; (b) third party commercial funding. If the funding system (both public and private) takes the value of academic research as signal of quality, then high quality researchers are able to attract extra-funds beyond ordinary endowment. In turn, these additional funds can be used as a source to organize an effective and long-term division of labor in laboratories in order to support inventions and licensing (patents) and entrepreneurial activities (spin-off companies). In this case academic quality and commercialization are strong complement and positive feedback loops are generated. This interpretation on the role of funding is strongly supported by original data from the Italian Evaluation of Research Quality VQR 2011–2014 dataset. The paper is based on a unique and novel dataset, that integrates data on valorization of research activities at individual and institutional level on all the Italian universities and microdata on research quality on 32,616 researchers in STEM disciplines.

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