scholarly journals The Participation of Small Museums in Visitor Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Casimar Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Research Practice ◽  
Future Planning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Visitor Research ◽  
Limited Application ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
Small Museums ◽  
Visitor Survey

<p>Visitor research appears to be a practice which currently has limited application in New Zealand, especially within small museums. There are challenges in undertaking such research, which have led to an emphasis placed upon collecting visitation numbers. Visitor research is a practice which can be used by museums for a range of purposes, such as improving exhibitions, future planning, or for funding bids. In this way, promoting a range of visitor research methods can enhance the overall value of data gathered. Using Museums Aotearoa’s National Visitor Survey as a starting point, this research explores the needs of small museums with regard to visitor research, and also looks into the ways in which these needs might be met. Seven face-to-face interviews were conducted with key people in small museums and galleries. Diversity within the research sample ensured opportunities for comparison, building a picture of differences and similarities in their perceptions of visitor research. The interview responses generated themes around current and ideal practice, funding and management, and community value and involvement. Many reasons emerged as to why small museums and galleries do not carry out visitor research. Shortages of money and staff were two of the main barriers identified. These and other limitations, such as a lack of experience with implementation and analysis, need to be addressed before an institution can seriously undertake valuable visitor research. The findings suggest that within this group of small museums and galleries there is generally a limited understanding about visitor research and the usefulness of the collected data, often restricting practice. There are a number of benefits which would result from access to experts to educate and support visitor research practice. However, there is also the need for funding, possibly in the form of “start up” grants. If more visitor research was undertaken using such support mechanisms, it could ultimately improve the operation of small museums, by creating benchmarks for reporting and potentially increasing funding.</p>

scholarly journals The Participation of Small Museums in Visitor Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Casimar Larkin
Keyword(s):  
Research Practice ◽  
Future Planning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Visitor Research ◽  
Limited Application ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
Small Museums ◽  
Visitor Survey

<p>Visitor research appears to be a practice which currently has limited application in New Zealand, especially within small museums. There are challenges in undertaking such research, which have led to an emphasis placed upon collecting visitation numbers. Visitor research is a practice which can be used by museums for a range of purposes, such as improving exhibitions, future planning, or for funding bids. In this way, promoting a range of visitor research methods can enhance the overall value of data gathered. Using Museums Aotearoa’s National Visitor Survey as a starting point, this research explores the needs of small museums with regard to visitor research, and also looks into the ways in which these needs might be met. Seven face-to-face interviews were conducted with key people in small museums and galleries. Diversity within the research sample ensured opportunities for comparison, building a picture of differences and similarities in their perceptions of visitor research. The interview responses generated themes around current and ideal practice, funding and management, and community value and involvement. Many reasons emerged as to why small museums and galleries do not carry out visitor research. Shortages of money and staff were two of the main barriers identified. These and other limitations, such as a lack of experience with implementation and analysis, need to be addressed before an institution can seriously undertake valuable visitor research. The findings suggest that within this group of small museums and galleries there is generally a limited understanding about visitor research and the usefulness of the collected data, often restricting practice. There are a number of benefits which would result from access to experts to educate and support visitor research practice. However, there is also the need for funding, possibly in the form of “start up” grants. If more visitor research was undertaken using such support mechanisms, it could ultimately improve the operation of small museums, by creating benchmarks for reporting and potentially increasing funding.</p>

Why Zumba?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Yeşer Eroglu
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Leisure Activity ◽  
Sports Management ◽  
Future Planning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Coaching Education ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Consistency Rate

This study was conducted to determine the reasons behind the students’ preferring an activity that would teach them how to perform and teach Zumba effectively and safely as a leisure activity and to what extent the activity met their expectations. The Subjects:This qualitative research consisted of 22 face to face interviews with students of the Rumeli University Faculty of Sport Sciences, Coaching Education, Sports Management and Recreation departments. Materials and Method:The participants were selected with the convenience sampling method and consisted of 16 women and 6 men between the ages of 18-22 years. The Zumba event included 8 one hour Zumba classes given by a specialist in this area. The data was coded separately by two researchers and the consistency rate was found to be 75 percent. Descriptive and content analysis was used and transferred to NVIVO 10 software for data analysis. The themes of reasons for participating in and expectations of students from the Zumba classes that resulted from the interviews conducted prior to and following the event were collected and evaluated. Conclusions: As a result of the data analysis prior to the event, the desire to become a specialist, adding another dimension to their specialty, being ready to branch out, importance future planning, increased financial expectation and popularity of Zumbaemerged as the leading themes in choosing Zumba. The participant’s thoughts after the event were that their initial expectations were met and extra themes of health protection and entertainment were added as gains from the event.

scholarly journals Metabolic Engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for Methanol Metabolism

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 2215-2225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Witthoff ◽  
Katja Schmitz ◽  
Sebastian Niedenführ ◽  
Katharina Nöh ◽  
Stephan Noack ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Corynebacterium Glutamicum ◽  
Biotechnological Production ◽  
Methanol Metabolism ◽  
Initial Oxidation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Oxidation Of Methanol ◽  
Bacillus Methanolicus ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Limited Application

ABSTRACTMethanol is already an important carbon feedstock in the chemical industry, but it has found only limited application in biotechnological production processes. This can be mostly attributed to the inability of most microbial platform organisms to utilize methanol as a carbon and energy source. With the aim to turn methanol into a suitable feedstock for microbial production processes, we engineered the industrially important but nonmethylotrophic bacteriumCorynebacterium glutamicumtoward the utilization of methanol as an auxiliary carbon source in a sugar-based medium. Initial oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde was achieved by heterologous expression of a methanol dehydrogenase fromBacillus methanolicus, whereas assimilation of formaldehyde was realized by implementing the two key enzymes of the ribulose monophosphate pathway ofBacillus subtilis: 3-hexulose-6-phosphate synthase and 6-phospho-3-hexuloisomerase. The recombinantC. glutamicumstrain showed an average methanol consumption rate of 1.7 ± 0.3 mM/h (mean ± standard deviation) in a glucose-methanol medium, and the culture grew to a higher cell density than in medium without methanol. In addition, [13C]methanol-labeling experiments revealed labeling fractions of 3 to 10% in the m + 1 mass isotopomers of various intracellular metabolites. In the background of aC. glutamicumΔaldΔadhEmutant being strongly impaired in its ability to oxidize formaldehyde to CO2, the m + 1 labeling of these intermediates was increased (8 to 25%), pointing toward higher formaldehyde assimilation capabilities of this strain. The engineeredC. glutamicumstrains represent a promising starting point for the development of sugar-based biotechnological production processes using methanol as an auxiliary substrate.

scholarly journals Proactive Health Support: Exploring Face-to-Face Start-Up Sessions Between Participants and Registered Nurses at the Onset of Telephone-Based Self-Management Support

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 233339362093002
Author(s):  
Susanne Winther ◽  
Mia Fredens ◽  
Marie Brund Hansen ◽  
Kirstine Skov Benthien ◽  
Camilla Palmhøj Nielsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Continuous Contact ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Health Support ◽  
The Relationship

Proactive Health Support (PaHS) is a large-scale intervention in Denmark carried out by registered nurses (RNs) who provide self-management support to people at risk of hospital admission to enhance their health, coping, and quality of life. PaHS is initiated with a face-to-face session followed by telephone conversations. We aimed to explore the start-up sessions, including if and how the relationship between participants and RNs developed at the onset of PaHS. We used an ethnographic design including observations and informal interviews. Data were analyzed using a phenomenological–hermeneutical approach. The study showed that contexts such as hospitals and RNs legitimized the intervention. Face-to-face communication contributed to credibility, just as the same RN throughout the intervention ensured continuity. We conclude that start-up sessions before telephone-based self-management support enable a trust-based relationship between participants and RNs. Continuous contact with the same RNs throughout the session promoted participation in the intervention.

scholarly journals From Frankfurt’s distraction of perception to the effect of decentration in the network

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-163
Author(s):  
Kamil Lipiński
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Temporal Compression ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

The article retraces the epistemological debates occurring in mass communication, from the problem of dispersed perception in the Frankfurt School to accelerated decentration in the theory of immaterial labour. The analysis covers, first of all, the theses of the Frankfurt School representatives concerning the disappearance of aura and distraction as a starting point for theoretical reflection on the problem of perception dispersion and, subsequently, the abolition of face-to-face communication in the decentralized internet. The purpose of following Hans Belting’s concept of “the presence of the absent places image” is to outline the tendency for acceleration and progressive decentration associated with the spatio-temporal compression and the flow of information posing a threat to material co-presence.

Impoliteness as a Model for Virtual Speech Community Building

2010 ◽  
pp. 523-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy R. LeBlanc
Keyword(s):  
Community Building ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Conversational Behavior ◽  
Place And Identity

The aim of this chapter is to account for linguistic strategies of breaking into a virtual speech community, particularly the community the author refers to here as the Pen community. Virtual communication necessitates accommodations not otherwise engaged in face-to-face conversation, and the Pen community is both virtual and leet. Being leet necessitates interactional behavior consisting of techie knowledge, leet speak fluency, and a shared interest in the venture of building and maintaining a leet identity online. The goal for this ongoing research is to understand virtual conversational behavior and its role in leet speech community building. With a brief discussion of the literature on sociolinguistic perspectives as well as pragmatic theories pertaining to conversational behavior (Watts, Ide, & Ehlich 2005; Culpeper, 1996), exchanges from three threads of discourse from the Pen virtual speech community are accounted for. The notable features of discourse are the strategies employed by participants in order to create, build, foster a sense of place and identity, and strengthen said communities. The Pen community’s discourse permits examples of strategies undertaken for this collective effort through attempting to enter into the community and become a member, topic shifting behavior, and flaming. The author operationalizes each of these examples via Culpeper’s Impoliteness model. Included here are a brief review of relevant literature, a discourse analytical approach to the interactional behavior found in The Pen community, and conclusions about how a leet speech community is built virtually. The Impoliteness model serves well here as a starting point for further research on virtual speech community building.

The 60-Minute MVP

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-386
Author(s):  
Doan Winkel ◽  
Justin Wilcox ◽  
Atul Teckchandani
Keyword(s):  
Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Iterative Process ◽  
Technical Expertise ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Critical Aspects

The 60-minute minimum viable product (MVP) exercise teaches critical aspects of the entrepreneurial mind-set and lean start-up methodology, namely, the iterative process of hypothesis testing through the creation of MVPs. In 60 minutes, with no prior technical expertise, students will work in teams to design a landing page, create a teaser video, and set up a way to gather information from prospective customers. The resulting low-fidelity MVP can subsequently be shared with prospective customers to gauge interest and be used as a starting point for the hypothesis testing process used in the lean start-up methodology. This is an immersive exercise that activates students, builds confidence, and teaches important entrepreneurial principles.

Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda *

2013 ◽  
Vol 129 (2) ◽  
pp. 697-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Blattman ◽  
Nathan Fiala ◽  
Sebastian Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Training ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Grant Proposals ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We study a government program in Uganda designed to help the poor and unemployed become self-employed artisans, increase incomes, and thus promote social stability. Young adults in Uganda’s conflict-affected north were invited to form groups and submit grant proposals for vocational training and business start-up. Funding was randomly assigned among screened and eligible groups. Treatment groups received unsupervised grants of $382 per member. Grant recipients invest some in skills training but most in tools and materials. After four years, half practice a skilled trade. Relative to the control group, the program increases business assets by 57%, work hours by 17%, and earnings by 38%. Many also formalize their enterprises and hire labor. We see no effect, however, on social cohesion, antisocial behavior, or protest. Effects are similar by gender but are qualitatively different for women because they begin poorer (meaning the impact is larger relative to their starting point) and because women’s work and earnings stagnate without the program but take off with it. The patterns we observe are consistent with credit constraints.

scholarly journals Pemberdayaan Perempuan Melalui Pelatihan Menjahit di Desa Sukosono Jepara

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Hadi Putra Hardiyanto ◽  
Azzah Nor Laila ◽  
Lutfiyanti Axmi Reza ◽  
Desi Maila Fira
Keyword(s):  
Free Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Service Business ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Correct Technique ◽  
Training Service

The Covid-19 pandemic has an impact on the weak economy of families, many workers have been laid off, and businesses are not running optimally. On the other hand, the group of mothers has free time, the potential to be productive independently by working from home, but they do not have the skills. So to overcome these problems the service team carried out sewing training service activities. This service activity aims to empower women, increase creativity, and independence of women in Sukosono, Kedung, Jepara.. This service method is socialization, training, and sewing assistance which includes pattern making, cutting and sewing. This service activity is carried out face-to-face or offline while adhering to health protocols. Sewing training is carried out in several stages. First, participants are trained to make patterns using cardboard paper and then apply them to the fabric. Second, participants are taught to cut cloth properly. Third, participants are trained to sew with the correct technique, so that the results are neat. The fabric used is Troso woven cloth, so that participants will be able to use Jepara's local products. The response of the participants to this dedication showed that in the material aspect 95% considered it very good, 90% of the facilitator aspect considered it very good, and the rest responded well. The results of this dedication showed that 85% of the participants were successful in sewing skills, seen from the success of the participants in making a sewing service business start-up and convection from fabric after participating in service activities.

scholarly journals Pre-Service Teachers’ Levels of Adaptations to Remote Teaching and Learning at A University in A Developing Country in the Context of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Lydia Mavuru ◽  
Oniccah Koketso Pila ◽  
Anesu Gelfand Kuhudzai
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Online Delivery ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
The Rich

The outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic has not only caused fear and uncertainty in the education systems across the globe, but it brought about a fundamental paradigm shift in the mode of teaching and learning. Higher education drastically transitioned to remote/ online delivery even for the students who had enrolled for face-to-face mode of teaching and learning. The paper is premised in the context of a developing country that such a drastic change could have widened the digital divide between students from privileged homes and those from disadvantaged families as students did not receive adequate technological training and to even acquire the necessary electronic devices. Consequently, the study sought to establish the levels of adaptation to remote teaching and learning by university students herein referred to as pre-service teachers. Following a quantitative research design, an online questionnaire survey was administered to 157 pre-service teachers enrolled in a Life Sciences Methodology module at a South African university. Data was analysed using SPSS version 26 and descriptive statistics, exploratory analysis of the questionnaire constructs and One-Way ANOVA tests were conducted to compare pre-service teachers` perceptions, experiences and preparedness. The results showed that the disparities and inequalities that exist in different South African contexts in which pre-service teachers hail from, dictated their levels of adaptations to remote teaching and learning. Those from disadvantaged backgrounds were less adapted as they struggled more when it comes to acquisition of electronic gadgets and connectivity to facilitate remote learning compared to those from advantaged backgrounds. This study affirms the call for education institutions and governments to rethink ways of closing the gap between the poor and the rich in education in terms of resource and other support mechanisms.

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