scholarly journals The effect of controlling the weight variable on the typeface attribute assessment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Žarko ◽  
◽  
Uroš Nedeljković ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Support ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The Subject

Certain characteristics specific for typeface design initiate different impressions on observers, but here arises a research problem where we cannot identify what specific or universal characteristics of the typeface initiate the impressions on certain attributes. A common problem encountered in previous researches is that fonts may vary in many variables and at the same time differ in width, weight, contrast, and structure. Therefore, it is difficult to determine and isolate which universal and specific characteristics of the typeface affect the impression. The subject of this paper is the isolation of the weight variable and the investigation of its relationship with typeface personality attributes. The main goal of this paper is to provide empirical support for theoretical assumptions, building on previous researches on the typeface personality and typographic rhetoric to show how specific typographic characteristics influence the experience of writing itself.

scholarly journals Empathy Measurement in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults: A COSMIN Systematic Literature Review

Assessment ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 107319112096456
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Harrison ◽  
Charlotte L. Brownlow ◽  
Michael J. Ireland ◽  
Adina M. Piovesana
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Support ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
Item Functioning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Clinical Conditions ◽  
Psychometric Quality

Empathy is essential for social functioning and is relevant to a host of clinical conditions. This COSMIN review evaluated the empirical support for empathy self-report measures used with autistic and nonautistic adults. Given autism is characterized by social differences, it is the subject of a substantial proportion of empathy research. Therefore, this review uses autism as a lens through which to scrutinize the psychometric quality of empathy measures. Of the 19 measures identified, five demonstrated “High-Quality” evidence for “Insufficient” properties and cannot be recommended. The remaining 14 had noteworthy gaps in evidence and require further evaluation before use with either group. Without tests of measurement invariance or differential item functioning, the extent to which observed group differences represent actual trait differences remains unknown. Using autism as a test case highlights an alarming tendency for empathy measures to be used to characterize, and potentially malign vulnerable populations before sufficient validation.

scholarly journals Linkage between interests and verbal fluency of primary school pupils

Psihologija ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slavica Maksic ◽  
Lazar Tenjovic
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Verbal Fluency ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Basic Characteristic ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Primary School Pupils

The incentive for studying the linkage between interests and creativity is based on the results of biographical studies that indicate that highly creative individuals had wider and more intensive interests than their peers already in the period of childhood. In the process of defining interests, the child tests his/her capacities and discovers the domain in which he/she will later provide creative contributions. The subject of this paper is the linkage between interests of primary school pupils and their verbal fluency, as basic characteristic of creative thinking. It was determined that the wideness of the span of interests is positively correlated with verbal fluency, whereby the correlation between interests and verbal fluency is somewhat higher for boys (r= 0.33, p = .007) than for girls (r = 0.24, p = .030). Also, the intensity of scientific interest of boys and girls is significantly correlated with their verbal fluency (for boys: = 0.39; for girls: r=0.35). But, when school achievement is statistically controlled, the correlation between the intensity of scientific interests and verbal fluency remains significant for boys, while it disappears for girls. It was concluded that the results confirmed the theoretical assumptions about the importance of interest in creativity and pointed out to the need for paying attention to the effect of gender. Besides the span and intensity of interests, the domain in which interests are manifested and creativity is measured is also important for the linkage with creativity.

scholarly journals Web Semântica no repositório BRAPCI

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nátalia NAKANO ◽  
Talita Cristina da SILVA ◽  
Maria José Vicentini JORENTE ◽  
José Eduardo SANTARÉM SEGUNDO
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Web Research ◽  
Productive Authors

In 2001 Tim Berners-Lee revealed to the world what he wanted for the future of Web - man and machine working together to develop complex tasks, and that the Web could leverage the way human knowledge is acquired. Since then researchers from different fields of knowledge have engaged in scientific and empirical research to make this dream come true. In this context, the research problem of this article is established: What is the current situation of Semantic Web research in Brazil in Information Science? Who are the researchers of this theme in our country? What are the institutions that support these studies? The present study aimed at listing the most productive authors, institutions that support their research and the specific issues of their investigations. We conducted a literature review in Base de Dados Referencial de Artigos de Periódicos em Ciência da Informação (BRAPCI). We retrieved 41 articles, excluded five for not belonging to Brazilian authors and Brazilian institutions. From the analysis of this corpus, we realized the need to include additional keywords to better understanding of specific studies encompassed by the theme. Thus, we included the keywords: SPARQL, SKOS, RDF and ontology. It was concluded that the studies on the Semantic Web under the aegis of Information Science mostly perform theoretical and philosophical studies, while the computer science professionals seek practical applications of the topic. It was also concluded that a study including other databases could reveal other authors and institutions relevant to the subject of study.

scholarly journals Droga, której nie znamy – opowieści uchodźcze

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-39
Author(s):  
Kala Dobosz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Anthropological Research

The presented story, which the reader and the reader will find in the text (when I am silent), comes from interviews collected during my research in the Netherlands in 2013. The research problem I chose at that time – the issue of the identity of Tamils from Sri Lanka in the Netherlands – I decided to investigate using a modified version of the biographical method, which is increasingly used in sociological research. Such a model of analysis is common today also in studies on migration processes, and especially in studies on the problem of refugee. Using this method, in the analytical part, I present the refugee life cycle based on the schema of the rituals of passage by Arnold van Gennep. Therefore, I use a model drawn from anthropological research, namely the pattern of individuals going through certain stages in their development and in the process of social functioning. After the first part, where I outline the research methodology and the main theoretical assumptions, I provide a first-person narrative of one of the people who left Sri Lanka, and her life was inextricably intertwined with the local nearly 30-year civil war.

scholarly journals Teoretyczne założenia crowdfundingu oraz jego regulacje prawne w Unii Europejskiej i w Polsce

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 97-114
Author(s):  
Michał Biela
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Third ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Desk Research

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest prezentacja założeń teoretycznych oraz praktycznej implementacji koncepcji alternatywnych źródeł finansowania społecznościowego w Polsce i Unii Europejskiej ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem aspektów formalno-prawnych crowdfundingu. Artykuł składa się z trzech części: w pierwszej opisano założenia definicyjne i koncepcyjne crowdfundingu, w drugiej przedstawiono propozycję zmiany ram regulacyjnych finansowania społecznościowego, przygotowanych przez instytucje Unii Europejskiej, natomiast trzecia zawiera uregulowania prawne finansowania społecznościowego w Polsce. W artykule jako metodę badawczą zastosowano desk research, której implementacja umożliwiła analizę istniejącej literatury przedmiotu. Theoretical assumptions of crowdfunding and its legal regulations in the European Union and in PolandThe aim of this article is to present the theoretical assumptions and practical implementation of the concept of alternative sources of funding in Poland and in the European Union, with emphasis on the formal and legal aspects of crowdfunding. The article consists of three parts. The first part describes the definition and conceptual assumptions of crowdfunding. The second part presents a proposal to change the crowdfunding regulatory framework at the European Union level. The third part includes legal regulations for crowdfunding in Poland. In the article, desk research was used as a research method, the implementation of which enabled the analysis of the existing literature on the subject.

scholarly journals Improving the Efficiency of the Regional Road Services – Middle Euphrates Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nada Mohammed Abid
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
Passenger Vehicle ◽  
Spatial Allocation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Public Road ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
The Subject

Services are one of the important indicators that reflect the welfare of the society and its development. Due to the increase in various means of transport and the increase in internal and external traffic, the provision of basic services for the regional road users has become a necessity that should be studied in a thorough and accurate manner to reach the appropriate mechanism for the spatial allocation of these services. The research problem lies in the lack of interest in the optimal spatial allocation of the public road services because of the overlap between the powers and authority of the municipalities and the directorates of roads and bridges preventing to study the subject comprehensively. In addition, there is a lack of roads in general and regional roads in particular for service stations and passenger vehicle stopping spaces, with standard specifications. Therefore, this research is aimed at identifying the sufficiency of spatial allocation of regional road services and studying the current situation of these services, analyzing the efficiency of these services and finding the shortage. We also set plans and strategies to develop the level of services and invest in a manner that achieves the required sufficiency. Furthermore, some research hypotheses were set: the sufficiency of the spatial allocation of the public road services in the regional roads improves the road level of service by identifying a set of factors that directly affect this sufficiency.

Optimization of Gross Margin in Outsourcing of Management of Inventory of Spare Parts of Production Equipment

2014 ◽  
Vol 708 ◽  
pp. 173-177
Author(s):  
Stanisław Brzeziński ◽  
Katarzyna Grondys
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Spare Parts ◽  
Production Equipment ◽  
Gross Margin ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual

The subject of the paper is the presentation of the case-study of the company outsourcing the spare parts stock. As the result of the changes in the agreement between the outsourcer and the large commissioning company, the task of the outsourcing company was to standardize the margin for the individual groups of products, so far highly diversified. The research problem was to analyze the development of margins using CVA (Cash Value Added) analysis and to establish such a level of the above which will satisfy the client’s requirements and provide further employment and generating profit for the outsourcing company.

DETERMINANTS OF CONSUMERS’ ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORS IN THE NOVEL FOOD MARKET AS INDICATORS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN THE FOOD MARKET

2018 ◽  
Vol XX (6) ◽  
pp. 181-188
Author(s):  
Aneta Ocieczek ◽  
Joanna Bartkowicz ◽  
Katarzyna Żyłka
Keyword(s):  
Food Products ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Evolutionary Changes ◽  
Food Market ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Specific Food

The aim of the study was to organize definitions and relations between the concepts of the consumers’ attitudes and behaviors. The work also included a synthetic discussion of the conditions for the development of the novel food market. The concept of changes taking place in the food market, which was based on the Darwinian economics, was an important part of the paper. Some researchers focused only on the assessment of the frequency and / or volume of consumption, i.e. on the assessment of behavior or on the assessment of knowledge on the subject. However, the research problem concerning the assessment of attitudes towards a specific type of food has been omitted. The results of a few studies on attitudes towards specific food products indicate that the attitudes of the respondents correspond with the frequency and volume of consumption of specific food products, thus indicating that there is a relationship between attitudes and consumer behavior in the food market, including market of new products.

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY OF ENTERPRISES. PART I: THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Olimpia Grabiec ◽  
Agnieszka Górka-Chowaniec
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The Subject

Due to the growing competitiveness, it is necessary to gain an advantage over competition, therefore, a necessary condition for obtaining it is continuous undertaking of various investment projects. The article discusses issues related to the investment activity of enterprises. In the publication, the author presented the theoretical approach to issues related to the investments of enterprises. The main purpose of this article is to analysis the investment activity of enterprises in terms of the subject literature.

scholarly journals Cultural determinants of employee relationship management

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Joanna M. Moczydłowska ◽  
Urszula Widelska
Keyword(s):  
Power Distance ◽  
Relationship Management ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
National Context ◽  
Small Power ◽  
Transnational Organizations ◽  
Cultural Determinants ◽  
Employee Relationship ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Support Relations

Abstract culture context of employee relationship management is the subject of the analysis undertaken in this article. The authors based on the assumption that the knowledge of what values and standards culturally conditioned guides nationalities or ethnic groups constitutes the foundation of people management in transnational organizations. The article contains results of a critical analysis of the concept of Employee Relationship Management (ERM) and its culture context. The research problem undertaken in the article is: how does the cultural and national context influence the process of employee relationship management. On the basis of carried out analyses, it has been concluded that it is possible to distinguish dimensions of culture which support relations building in the workplace. Relationship management with employees is supported by: small power distance, femininity, collectivism and high contextuality

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