scholarly journals Algorithms and bots applied to journalism. The case of Narrativa Inteligencia Artificial: structure, production and informative quality

2019 ◽  
pp. 213-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
María José Ufarte Ruiz ◽  
Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
News Item ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Artificial Structure ◽  
Start Up

This research analyses the organization, work processes and quality of the information produced by Narrativa Inteligencia Artificial, the only company in Spain that writes journalistic texts using the software known as Gabriele for distribution to various media. The study was conducted over a six month period using in-depth, semi-structured interviews with four company professionals with complementary profiles, as well as participant observation during the process of creating an automated news item, and an online questionnaire filled out by 145 journalists (N=145) to assess the quality of the texts produced. The results show that the start-up company fulfils the demands of different sectors such as communication media, and has been increasing the productivity of its content, although it still does not generate complex texts, as this is one of many human qualities that robots continue to lack.

Eating strategies – a qualitative study of how frail, home-dwelling older people in Denmark develop strategies to form meaningful eating situations

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 590-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
TENNA JENSEN ◽  
LIV GRØNNOW ◽  
ASTRID PERNILLE JESPERSEN
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Older People ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Frail Older People ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Public Care ◽  
Older Men And Women ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACTThis article analyses the strategies that frail, home-dwelling older people who receive food from public institutions develop and use during eating situations, to gain an insight into how older people mobilise resources in relation to eating. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews and participant observation sessions with 25 home-dwelling frail older men and women, aged 72–101, who live in Copenhagen and receive food from the municipality. Like healthier older people, frail older Danes develop and use strategies to create acceptable eating situations. The strategies are linked to the arrangement of the eating situation, their former lives and experience with food and eating, and their perception of their own body. The focus on strategies enables insights into how frail older people manage to mobilise resources to create meaningful eating situations. However, even though they mobilise resources to create and maintain eating strategies, these are not all equally appropriate with regards to supporting a healthy nutritional status. The eating strategies used by frail older people and the resources they entail are key to their experience with eating. Focusing on these strategies is useful when developing public care initiatives as this will precipitate an awareness of the resources of this group and how these are activated and contribute to or detract from a healthy nutritional status and a high quality of life.

scholarly journals Rencana Pengembangan dan Kesiapan Sivitas Akademika UIN Raden Intan Lampung Menuju AUN-QA

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Deden Makbuloh ◽  
Sucipto Sucipto ◽  
Ruswanto Ruswanto
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Quality Improvement Process ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Meaning Analysis

Raden Intan Lampung State Islamic University (UIN RIL) as a State Islamic Religious College in Indonesia needs to gradually carry out various efforts to improve the quality of continuing education. The long-term quality of UIN RIL does not only cover national level competition, but also internationally. This study aims to examine the quality improvement process that has had a development and readiness plan for AUN-QA for the Academic Community of UIN RIL. Data collected is qualitative data. In accordance with the research design in order to find an overview of the planned development of UIN RIL and its readiness towards AUN-QA. The data sources in this study were taken from strategic planning documents and the opinions of the academics. Techniques for collecting data through documentation studies, deep interview, and participant observation. Non-structured interviews, so that data sources actively construct the cognitive world, and researchers try to capture the realm of that meaning. Analysis of data is collected simultaneously while collecting data with the principle of verstehen. The results of the study concluded that since the form changed from IAIN to UIN RIL development plans were discussed which were discussed in several stages and involved various stakeholders directed to the campus as an international reference. This can be seen in the vision, mission and objectives of UIN RIL. Likewise in priority programs and target targets there are points towards international scale achievements. The academics have welcomed with joy the change in form of IAIN to UIN RIL. All have stated that this is an opportunity to further develop the campus to reach international competition. Thoughts and energy were mobilized to develop UIN RIL towards becoming superior and competitive.

scholarly journals RENORMALIZATION OF THE NURSES’ WORK IN HEMOTHERAPY: BETWEEN PRESCRIPTION AND REALITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Rejane de Senna Frantz ◽  
Mara Ambrosina de Oliveira Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Managerial Work ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The North ◽  
Methodological Triangulation ◽  
Work Method

ABSTRACT Objective: to characterize the work process of nurses in hemotherapy in terms of prescribed procedures, antecedent norms and real work. Method: a qualitative study, carried out from February to December 2017, in a blood center in the North of the country, involving a sample of twenty-two nurses. Methodological triangulation with data collected through semi-structured interviews, institutional documents and protocols, participant observation and notes in a field diary were used. For data treatment and analysis, the resources of the Atlas.ti 8.2.1 software (Qualitative Research and Solutions) and the fundamentals of Historical Dialectical Materialism and Ergology were used. Results: the results showed that nurses work in different activities, recreating work according to the needs of the service. The assistance, educational and managerial work permeates the activities developed and is carried out in accordance with the legislation, seeking to guarantee the donor's health, the quality of the products and transfusion safety. Conclusion: the work situations of these professionals indicate that its uses are present in their daily lives, promoting dynamism between the previous norms and the renormalizations.

scholarly journals An Investigation of the E-Services Quality provided by Kuwait Government Portal

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 907-915
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Online Portal ◽  
Service Quality Evaluation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Portal ◽  
High Level

The unlimited development and extensive use of ICT has helped governments around the world to innovate and improve public services through the advantages of egovernment services. First step of this study was an attempt to measure the quality of e-services provided by the usercentric Kuwait Government Online Portal through investigating the quality standards of e-government services and different quality dimensions of e-government services as identified in the literature. Post examining E-service quality models one model was selected and used to validate the quality of e-services provided by the Kuwait Government Online Portal. A survey was presented to 486 valid participants through an online questionnaire. The result of the survey in general showed a diverse quality results which was around the range of “Neutral”. This could be due to having a large number of diverse e-services provided by more than 60 government agencies all enclosed in the Kuwait Government Online Portal. The second step of this study was to validate the result from the survey through conducting a semi-structured interviews by the authors with three top management officials at the government entity responsible for implementing e-government program in Kuwait. The interviews have revealed interesting insights, namely the existence of strong presence of silo-mentality in government entities which could be the main cause for not achieving integrated e-services. Future work will include studying specific e-services and defining suitable categorization that helps in determining their quality. The model that was used in this study was based on high-level dimensions that needs to be broken down into subdiminutions that could contribute to increasing the accuracy of the results of e-service quality evaluation. In addition, measuring the effect of silo-mentality of the government over the quality of e-services in Kuwait is desirable.

scholarly journals Homeless persons and villages: drugs, social marginalization, and territory of care

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aline Basso da Silva ◽  
Agnes Olschowsky ◽  
Cristiane Kenes Nunes ◽  
Fabrício Soares Braga ◽  
Mariane da Silva Xavier Botega
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Homeless Persons ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Social Marginalization ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Ways Of Life

ABSTRACT Objective: to recognize villages as territories of care and daily resistance to social marginalization. Methods: a descriptive study with a qualitative approach based on the methodological framework of ethnography inspired by Interpretative Anthropology. Two-year field research (from the second half of 2015 to the first half of 2017). Participant observation and semi-structured interviews with four privileged interlocutors and a field diary have been used. Data systematization was carried out throughout field work. Results: three categories emerged: Interlocutors talking about their life in villages; Villages as a care device; and Drugs in villages. Final considerations: the results reveal the challenge for health and nursing to recognize the need to understand the contexts of urban life of homeless persons. Nurses need to include cultural elements in their work processes, promoting bonding and understanding the ways of life of homeless persons.

IMPACTOS DO ECOTURISMO SOBRE A AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR NA RESERVA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL MAMIRAUÁ, AM

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Nelissa Peralta
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

Ecotourism was developed as an economic alternative to part of the resident population of the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in Amazonas, Brazil. Its objective was to decrease pressure on natural resources, incentive conservation and improve the quality of life of local people. This study aimed to investigate the social changes promoted by ecotourism in two villages in the area. Combinations of qualitative and quantitative methods were used, such as participant observation, oral history, as well as structured interviews and descriptive statistical analysis. The study showed that, although the activity was not designed to substitute more traditional economic activities, with the increase in revenue generated by ecotourism, the opportunity costs of agricultural activity was raised, and therefore there was a decrease in the production of manioc flour for consumption in some young families involved with ecotourism.

scholarly journals Ecotourism, social and human capitals, and identity valorization: the communities of Tapajós (PA), Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismar Borges de Lima ◽  
Anne-Marie D'Hauteserre
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Central Amazonia ◽  
Social Capitals ◽  
Academic Debate

This article deals with the role of community-based ecotourism for strengthening human and social capitals as well as for enhancing culture and forest livelihood of riverbank dwellers in the Tapajós region, in central Amazonia. The research was done based on the premise that ecotourism can be a potential avenue for putting in evidence local culture, identity and singular lifestyles as while it can contribute to strengthen the local networks which can result in collective material and immaterial advantages. The analysis examines the hypothesis that outsiders (the tourists) once they travel to and stay with local communities, they become the primary agents who are in a position to perceive the main aspects of values, beliefs and routines as particularities of an Amazonian livelihood. Even though the visitors usually stay a few days in a certain community, they end up paying enough attention to what the locals tell and do. This way, the tourists involuntarily put the locals at the centre of their visit, to the extent the locals start realizing how important their forest lifestyle is. This argument certainly does not aim at validating the “spetacularisation” of forest people, of their environment and of their culture. Instead, the authors are rather interested in the processes through which outsiders can direct or indirectly – as ecotourism participants - contribute to improve the quality of life and to raise self-esteem of riverbank dwellers. Some Amazonian peoples (of remote areas) usually have a feeling of periphery and of marginalization, because they do not take part in the ‘developed metropolitan world’. The self-esteem factor gets relevance in an academic debate, because the Amazonian peoples hold a feeling of being periphery and marginal in reason of not being part of a ‘developed metropolitan world’; and this may cause adverse effects on their attitude and expectations. The investigation has a qualitative approach in order to produce descriptive data. Open and semi-structured interviews and participant observation were the main methods used for getting information from the riverbank dwellers.

scholarly journals PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHERS RA AL HIJRAH BADRUL ULUM ON TEACHER CERTIFICATION POLICY IN IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rifa'i
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Perceptions ◽  
Teacher Certification ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Teacher's Perception

This paper aims to analyze teacher perceptions of teacher certification policies in improving the quality of education. The focus of the discussion of this study is how the teacher's perception of RA Al Hijrah Badrul Ulum regarding teacher certification policies in improving the quality of education. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method, while the data collection techniques used are participant observation, structured interviews and document analysis (documentation study). The results of this study indicate that the establishment of teacher certification policies helps teachers improve their skills and competencies as professionals, and helps from the welfare aspect that has been complained of by teachers. Even so, there are also bad effects that are commonly displayed by teachers, ranging from teaching only limited to fulfilling mandatory hours, to looking at certification from the aspect of welfare and lifestyle improvement.

scholarly journals ‘A Slow Build-Up of a History of Kindness’: Exploring the Potential of Community-Led Housing in Alleviating Loneliness

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11323
Author(s):  
Jim Hudson ◽  
Kath Scanlon ◽  
Chihiro Udagawa ◽  
Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia ◽  
Mara Ferreri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Research Project ◽  
History Of

This article explores the potential of community-led housing (CLH) in combatting loneliness, and represents a mixed-methods research project carried out from just before the beginning of the pandemic, through 2020. Methods comprised a nationwide quantitative online survey of members of CLH groups (N = 221 respondents from England and Wales), followed by five case studies of communities representing a range of different CLH models. This qualitative element comprised participant observation, and semi-structured interviews at each group. The article also considers data from a smaller research project carried out by the same team in July 2020, that aimed to capture the experience of the pandemic for CLH groups, and comprising an online questionnaire followed by 18 semi-structured interviews. We conclude that members of CLH projects are measurably less lonely than those with comparable levels of social connection in wider society, and that such benefits are achieved through combinations of multiple different elements that include physical design, social design and through social processes. Notably, not all aspects of communities that contribute positively are a result of explicit intentionality, albeit the concept is considered key to at least one of the models.

scholarly journals Gestão da informação e registros de enfermagem na atenção básica: estudo descritivo

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 527
Author(s):  
Dorquelina Augusta Maia Rodrigues de Oliveira ◽  
Geilsa Soraia Cavalcanti Valente
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Healthcare Setting ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Nursing Professionals ◽  
The City ◽  
Quality Of Nursing

This is a Professional Master’s dissertation project on Education in Health, Fluminense Federal University. Aims: to identify the work processes of professionals in the Primary Care context as regards the production and use of health records; to discuss the importance of information management in a healthcare setting and its relevance to the quality of nursing records. Method: this is a descriptive exploratory study using a qualitative approach of three healthcare units in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The subjects are 12 nursing professionals who operate in these units. Data will be collected by semi-structured interviews between December 2015 and January 2016, and will be processed using content analysis.

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