scholarly journals Justifying Research as Conscious Intervention in Social and Educational Life: Activating Transformative Potential

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma R. A. Romm
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Inquiry Process ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Web

In this article, I expand on Mertens' advocacy of the transformative paradigm for social research, where research is consciously geared to the advancement of social justice. I indicate certain links with Indigenous paradigmatic approaches to "knowing," where legitimate knowing is rooted in a quest to enhance relationality in the web of relations in which we as knowers and actors are enmeshed. In considering how we might justify associating knowing with transformative-directed (interventionist) intent, I suggest that the justification rests on us recognising that the research enterprise is always more or less consciously implicated in the continuing unfolding of the worlds of which it is a part. I spell out what is involved in recognising that research is world shaping. I furthermore propose that taking a transformative perspective on the research enterprise allows us to reinterpret other paradigmatic positions (e.g., constructivism, and critical realism, and even some renditions of postpositivism) by looking at their potential to cater for an inquiry process that enables participants, concerned stakeholders, and wider audiences to participate in envisioning and enacting possibilities for enhancing the quality of our existence. I provide some examples from the educational arena.

(Re)Considering Information Science Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 286-306
Author(s):  
Norma Ruth Arlene Romm ◽  
Patrick Ngulube
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Ethical Justification ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Social Scientific

This chapter provides an epistemological and ethical justification for (re)considering information science in terms of its potential to contribute to the way in which “information” and “knowledge” become co-constructed in social life in view of social justice aims. The chapter refers to and extends arguments for viewing information science as an interdisciplinary and indeed transdisciplinary endeavor. This is discussed in relation to transformative and indigenous-oriented paradigms for social research considered more generally and also considered specifically in relation to information science (as a social scientific approach). The chapter provides a detailed example of how the transformative potential of information science might be realized. This example can serve as a resource for information science researchers and for information systems practitioners who may find that it has some relevance to their continued work. The chapter also offers suggestions for expanding the research possibilities (co-inquiry options) provided by the example.

Review of The Quality of Life: Valuation in Social Research.

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 1008-1008
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Research

Web Services Architecture Model to Support Distributed Systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sawsan Ali Hamid ◽  
Rana Alauldeen Abdalrahman ◽  
Inam Abdullah Lafta ◽  
Israa Al Barazanchi
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Web Service ◽  
Distributed System ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Service Description ◽  
Architecture Model ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Evolving Model ◽  
The Web

Recently, web services have presented a new and evolving model for constructing the distributed system. The meteoric growth of the Web over the last few years proves the efficacy of using simple protocols over the Internet as the basis for a large number of web services and applications. Web service is a modern technology of web, which can be defined as software applications with a programmatic interface based on Internet protocol. Web services became common in the applications of the web by the help of Universal, Description, Discovery and Integration; Web Service Description Language and Simple Object Access Protocol. The architecture of web services refers to a collection of conceptual components in which common sets of standard can be defined among interoperating components. Nevertheless, the existing Web service's architecture is not impervious to some challenges, such as security problems, and the quality of services. Against this backdrop, the present study will provide an overview of these issues. Therefore, it aims to propose web services architecture model to support distributed system in terms of application and issues.

Readability, understandability, and quality of retinopathy of prematurity information on the web

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma Hilal Yılmaz ◽  
Mahmut Sami Tutar ◽  
Derya Arslan ◽  
Ayhan Çeri
Keyword(s):  
Retinopathy Of Prematurity ◽  
The Web

scholarly journals A MODEL BASED ON FUZZY LINGUISTIC INFORMATION TO EVALUATE THE QUALITY OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES

2010 ◽  
Vol 09 (03) ◽  
pp. 455-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. CABRERIZO ◽  
J. LÓPEZ-GIJÓN ◽  
A. A. RUÍZ ◽  
E. HERRERA-VIEDMA
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Linguistic Information ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Global Quality ◽  
Fuzzy Linguistic ◽  
The Web

The Web is changing the information access processes and it is one of the most important information media. Thus, the developments on the Web are having a great influence over the developments on others information access instruments as digital libraries. As the development of digital libraries is to satisfy user need, user satisfaction is essential for the success of a digital library. The aim of this paper is to present a model based on fuzzy linguistic information to evaluate the quality of digital libraries. The quality evaluation of digital libraries is defined using users' perceptions on the quality of digital services provided through their Websites. We assume a fuzzy linguistic modeling to represent the users' perception and apply automatic tools of fuzzy computing with words based on the LOWA and LWA operators to compute global quality evaluations of digital libraries. Additionally, we show an example of application of this model where three Spanish academic digital libraries are evaluated by fifty users.

The ESRC Growing Older research programme, 1999–2004

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 657-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN WALKER
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Full Capacity ◽  
The Uk

This article introduces the seven specially commissioned papers in this special issue of Ageing & Society from the projects funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Growing Older Programme. The ESRC Programme has been the largest single investment in social sciences research on ageing in the United Kingdom. It comprised 24 projects and, when operating at full capacity, 96 researchers. The article details the background to the Programme, its commissioning process, its eventual structure and how it operated. Then a selection is made of some of the ways in which the Programme has contributed new knowledge to social gerontology. No attempt is made to achieve comprehensive coverage of the Programme's topics but rather a selection is presented of the new insights generated under its six themes: defining and measuring quality of life, inequalities in quality of life, technology and the built environment, healthy and active ageing, family and support networks, and participation and activities in later life. The projects were spread unevenly across these themes but important new knowledge has been produced under each theme. The conclusion emphasises the scientific contribution of the Programme and especially the extent to which older people's own attitudes, aspirations and preferences have been at the forefront, but it questions whether or not policy makers and practitioners will use this major evidence base.

scholarly journals Resources and Capabilities from Their Very Outset: a Bibliometric Comparison Between Scopus and the Web of Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mileidy Alvarez-Melgarejo ◽  
Martha L. Torres-Barreto
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Bibliometric Method ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Web

The bibliometric method has proven to be a powerful tool for the analysis of scientific publications, in such a way that allows rating the quality of the knowledge generating process, as well as its impact on firm´s environment. This article presents a comparison between two powerful bibliographic databases in terms of their coverage and the usefulness of their content. The comparison starts with a subject associated to the relationship between resources and capabilities. The outcomes show that the search results differ between both databases. The Web Of Science (WOS), has a greater coverage than SCOPUS has.  It also has a greater impact in terms of most cited authors and publications. The search results in the WOS yield articles from 2001, while Scopus yields articles from 1976, however, some of the latter are inconsistent with the topic being searched. The analysis points to a lack of studies regarding resources as foundations of firm´s capabilities; as a result, new research on this field is suggested.

scholarly journals Model of the omni-channel Interaction in the Web 4.0 environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 00023
Author(s):  
Anna Chernikova ◽  
Sergey Krasnov ◽  
Sergey Sergeyev
Keyword(s):  
Global Markets ◽  
Entire Group ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Channel Interaction ◽  
Complex Topology ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
On Line ◽  
Cloud Servers ◽  
The Web

The practical implementation of the concept “Industry 4.0” entirely depends on the level of coordination between businesses, organizations and the entire group of consumers. The dominating comprehension of such interaction as a net of complex topology where nodes act as objects that have an interface a surface for contacts, results in a neuro-net-concept or the Web 4.0. Within the framework of the Russian national program “National Technological Initiative”, the development of this direction is considered as one of the main priorities. The quality of implementation of the system interaction in this paradigm is greatly influenced by algorithms used in the cloud servers of the nodes included into the structure of the Web 4.0. Besides, operation of businesses in the conditions of global markets will take place in the situation of strict competition and solutions forming the basis of the software have to be based on the scientific approach with the use of the methods of optimization and mathematical models. As the competition in the commercial sphere turned into the contest between the economic efficiency of on-line platforms, this work proposes a particular implementation of the algorithm of omni-channel interaction formed on the basis of a mathematical model.

scholarly journals PREDICTION OF DESIGN ASPECTS OF WEB PAGE BY HTML PARSER

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Satinder Kaur ◽  
Sunil Gupta
Keyword(s):  
User Interaction ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Design Quality ◽  
Automated Evaluation ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Web

Inform plays a very important role in life and nowadays, the world largely depends on the World Wide Web to obtain any information. Web comprises of a lot of websites of every discipline, whereas websites consists of web pages which are interlinked with each other with the help of hyperlinks. The success of a website largely depends on the design aspects of the web pages. Researchers have done a lot of work to appraise the web pages quantitatively. Keeping in mind the importance of the design aspects of a web page, this paper aims at the design of an automated evaluation tool which evaluate the aspects for any web page. The tool takes the HTML code of the web page as input, and then it extracts and checks the HTML tags for the uniformity. The tool comprises of normalized modules which quantify the measures of design aspects. For realization, the tool has been applied on four web pages of distinct sites and design aspects have been reported for comparison. The tool will have various advantages for web developers who can predict the design quality of web pages and enhance it before and after implementation of website without user interaction.

scholarly journals Implementation of the Principles of Social Justice in Modern social Policy (on the Example of the National Project «Human capital»)

Vestnik NSUEM ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
A. I. Gretchenko ◽  
N. A. Kaverina
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
National Project ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article discusses the principles of social justice in time and space. The emphasis is on transforming the understanding of social justice in Russia’s social policy. Currently, the principle of social justice is implemented by the state in programs for the preservation and development of human capital. The national project «Human Capital» is focused on improving the level and quality of life of citizens, the accessibility of material and social capital, creating opportunities for self-realization and disclosing the talent of each person, and developing a system of social elevators. The authors analyze the change in perception of social justice in Russia for a long time. It is noted that at the beginning of the Soviet period the concept of «social justice» was practically not used. The term «justice» appeared in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia only in 1953, which is currently one of the most popular in public policy. Combining the economy with politics, social policy determines the direction of the main political forces and trends in the Russian Federation.

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