scholarly journals A Method for Examining SME Descriptions of Environmental Sustainability Online

2013 ◽  
pp. 15-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig M. Parker ◽  
Ambika Zutshi ◽  
Bardo Fraunholz ◽  
Merete R. Crofts
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Website Content

This chapter contributes to green ICT/IS research by presenting a content analysis method for analysing the environmental sustainability descriptions on small and medium enterprise (SME) websites. Past research focuses on large firms, and few past studies have explored how firms of any size describe sustainability online. The chapter presents the method’s four steps: 1) identifying sources of SME websites; 2) determining if websites describe sustainability; 3) archiving the website content for later analysis; and 4) coding the website content using a structured coding framework developed by combining the literature on IS and sustainability. The authors anticipate the method will be useful to researchers and practitioners. The chapter gives examples of these uses such as qualitative and quantitative research objectives and practical outcomes (e.g. SME website design guidelines for incorporating sustainability content) which could result from applying the method.

scholarly journals The website content as positioning strategy of the university in indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-180
Author(s):  
Amida Yusriana ◽  
Mutia Rahmi Pratiwi ◽  
Lisa Mardiana
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Positioning Strategy ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Content Strategy ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Website Content ◽  
The Way

University of Indonesia is granted as the number one campus based on the Webometrics rank. It cannot be separated from the way University of Indonesia in building a strategic content for its website thus can fulfill the four points score indexes of webometrics such as Presence, Impact, Openness, and Excellence. Never theless the way the website serves the menu and information can build the right point of the scores. At the same time, Dian Nuswantoro University is granted as the 31st rank for the Webometrics index. Hence, by analyzing the website content of University of Indonesia, later it can be a guideline for Dian Nuswantoro University in developing a better content. This research uses the Positioning Strategy Theory. This is a descriptive quantitative research with a content analysis method. The results shows that the University of Indonesia uses the functional concept positioning strategy as its website content strategy.

Design of Multi-Purpose Products: Guidelines From a User Perspective

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vimal Viswanathan ◽  
Shraddha Sangelkar
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Customer Preferences ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Shed Light

Multipurpose products are the artifacts with more than one intended or realized purposes. Abundance of multipurpose products in the market raises interesting questions about the desired customer preferences that lead to success or failure of such products in the market. This study aims to set the premise for developing design guidelines for multipurpose products. The study described in this paper is a qualitative content analysis of reviews of multi-purpose products available from online vendors. A traditional content analysis method is followed, where each sentence from the reviews is coded and categorized by three reviewers. Each category is then carefully analyzed and any redundancies are resolved. Finally, an interrater agreement is achieved between the three coders. The obtained categories shed light on customer expectations from multi-purpose products, their concerns, comments and experiences and their advice from the customer’s viewpoint for the design of such products. Each category identified here shows a potential research direction and a foundation for developing new guidelines for the development of such products.

scholarly journals CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTENCE OF BIOMIMICRY LIFES PRINCIPLES IN GREEN BUILDING INDEX MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Aziah Mohd Ariffin ◽  
Salwa Farag Gad
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Negative Impacts

Concerns about climate change and global warming have led many countries to initiate energy rating systems in the planning and development of the built environment. Although useful and novel, this paper contends that these ratings are only remedying and alleviating whatever negative impacts that development creates. Energy ratings are seemingly lacking in attempts to integrate and enhance the physical development of the natural environment. Instead, biomimicry is adiscipline that explores nature and tries to understand its bio-integration for the establishment of sustainable products, processes and systems. This paper postulates that with the integration of Biomimicry – Life’s Principles (BLP) into the Green Building Index (GBI) Malaysia, a higher level of environmental sustainability could be achieved. This paper attempted to explore the presenceand the extent of the presence of BLP in the existing GBI utilizing the content analysis method. This article concludes that although the presence of BLP in the GBI is high, the extent of the presence is low. The paper also recommends the areas of concern that could be improved within the GBI for a more effective rating system.

scholarly journals Models and Mathematical Modelling: What Do Teachers and Preservice Teachers Know?

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Yasar Akkan ◽  
Mesut Ozturk ◽  
Pinar Akkan ◽  
Zafer Cakir
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Modelling Process

The aim of the research is to examine the perspectives of teachers and preservice teachers in regard with models,mathematical models and mathematical modelling process in different variables terms and to compare them. In thisresearch that is having quantitative research design survey method, which is one of the descriptive research technic,survey method is used. Research is performed with 127 teacher and preservice teachers. It is benefitted from adifferent survey in the stage of data collection and open ended questions that is developed by the researcher. In theanalysis of the data, descriptive and inferential statistical methods and content analysis method were used. As a result,views of the teachers and preservice teachers regarding (mathematical) models and mathematical modelling showsdifferences according to some variables, however, it is not found out most significant differences in the views of theteachers and preservice teachers in regard with these subjects.

Optimizing Website Content to Improve Correctness of the Website Design

2016 ◽  
pp. 329-338
Author(s):  
G. Sreedhar
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Web Engineering ◽  
Website Content ◽  
The Web

Due to the unceasing growth of web sites and applications, developers and evaluators have interesting challenges not only from the development but also from the quality assurance point of view. The quality assurance was and is one of the challenging processes in software engineering as well as for the web engineering, as a new discipline. Although there exists many design guidelines, and metrics for the evaluation of web sites and applications, most of them lack a well-defined specification framework and even worse a strategy for consultation and reuse. The main theme of the chapter is to provide optimization techniques to improve the correctness of the website.

scholarly journals CONTENT ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTENCE OF BIOMIMICRY LIFE’S PRINCIPLES IN GREEN BUILDING INDEX MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Aziah Mohd Ariffin ◽  
Salwa Farag Gad
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
Sustainable Products ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Negative Impacts

Concerns about climate change and global warming have led many countries to initiate energy rating systems in the planning and development of the built environment. Although useful and novel, this paper contends that these ratings are only remedying and alleviating whatever negative impacts that development creates. Energy ratings are seemingly lacking in attempts to integrate and enhance the physical development of the natural environment. Instead, biomimicry is adiscipline that explores nature and tries to understand its bio-integration for the establishment of sustainable products, processes and systems. This paper postulates that with the integration of Biomimicry – Life’s Principles (BLP) into the Green Building Index (GBI) Malaysia, a higher level of environmental sustainability could be achieved. This paper attempted to explore the presenceand the extent of the presence of BLP in the existing GBI utilizing the content analysis method. This article concludes that although the presence of BLP in the GBI is high, the extent of the presence is low. The paper also recommends the areas of concern that could be improved within the GBI for a more effective rating system.

Sosyal medyada Suriye’li sığınmacılara yönelik algı: bir sözlük değerlendirmesi

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Servet Kardeş ◽  
Çağla Banko ◽  
Berrin Akman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Negative News ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Made In

Bu araştırmada sığınmacılara yönelik paylaşımların yapıldığı sosyal medyada yer alan sözlüklerden birinde sığınmacılara yönelik algıya bakılmıştır. Yöntem olarak nitel desende olan bu çalışmada, bir sosyal medya sitesinde yer alan paylaşımlar içerik analizi yoluyla derinlemesine incelenip yorumlanmıştır. Araştırmanın sonucunda sosyal medya kullanıcılarının sığınmacıları büyük bir güvensizlik ortamı ve huzursuzluk yaratan bireyler olarak gördükleri saptanmış, sığınmacılarla yaşanan deneyimlerin ve medyadaki haberlerin bu düşüncelerin oluşmasında etkisinin olduğu belirlenmiştir. Bunun yanında sosyal medya kullanıcılarının devletin sığınmacılar konusunda yanlış politika izlediğini düşündükleri ve sığınmacılar için etkili bir planlama yapılmadığını ifade ettikleri görülmüştür. Çalışmanın sonuçları doğrultusunda medyada sığınmacılar hakkında çıkan haberlerde olumsuz ve şiddet temalı haberlerin azaltılması, Suriyeli sığınmacıların durumu, sahip oldukları haklar ve topluma yansımaları hakkında doğru ve bilgilendirici kamu spotları hazırlanması ayrıca sığınmacıların topluma entegre olma sürecinin her basamağında daha planlı ve etkili bir yol izlenmesi önerilebilir.ABSTRACT IN ENGLISHPerceptions about Syrian refugees on social media: an evaluation of a social media platformIn this research, posts which are about Syrian refugees were published in a social media platform, called as “sözlük” were investigated. The research is a qualitative research. The posts in this platform are analyzed with content analysis method. According to results of analyses, social media users see Syrian refugees as people who create an insecure and a restless environment. The experiences people had with them and news have an effect on this view. In addition, social media users think that government made inappropriate policies and ineffective plans about Syrian refugees. It is suggested negative news about Syrian refugees should be decreased and government should make safer policies. In addition, adaptation of refugees to society should be made in more planned and effective way.

Personality Processes Related to the Development and Resolution of Alcohol Use Disorders

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Sher ◽  
Andrew Littlefield ◽  
Matthew Lee
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorder ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorders ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Life Transitions ◽  
Is Research ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Adult Role ◽  
Static View

This chapter discusses relations between personality and alcohol use disorder (AUD). After reviewing basic terms and concepts in personality research, two major areas of contemporary research are discussed. The first area concerns how personality traits are implicated in etiologic pathways to AUD. This highlights the centrality of personality to conceptualizing AUD and related psychopathology. The second area is research emphasizing movement beyond a static view of personality, recognizing that personality traits are dynamic and change as a function of human development and life transitions. In particular, whereas past research on “maturing out” of AUD emphasized salutary effects of young adult role transitions, recent evidence reveals normative patterns of developmental personality maturation and supports these as additional influences on maturing out. The chapter discusses ways that contextual role effects and personality maturation can perhaps be integrated into a broader model of maturing out of AUD. Implications for future investigation are presented.

scholarly journals Engineering Design Process of Face Masks Based on Circularity and Life Cycle Assessment in the Constraint of the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4948
Author(s):  
Núria Boix Rodríguez ◽  
Giovanni Formentini ◽  
Claudio Favi ◽  
Marco Marconi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
New Device ◽  
Engineering Design Process ◽  
Life Cycle Perspective ◽  
Different Types ◽  
3D Printed ◽  
Negative Impacts

Face masks are currently considered key equipment to protect people against the COVID-19 pandemic. The demand for such devices is considerable, as is the amount of plastic waste generated after their use (approximately 1.6 million tons/day since the outbreak). Even if the sanitary emergency must have the maximum priority, environmental concerns require investigation to find possible mitigation solutions. The aim of this work is to develop an eco-design actions guide that supports the design of dedicated masks, in a manner to reduce the negative impacts of these devices on the environment during the pandemic period. Toward this aim, an environmental assessment based on life cycle assessment and circularity assessment (material circularity indicator) of different types of masks have been carried out on (i) a 3D-printed mask with changeable filters, (ii) a surgical mask, (iii) an FFP2 mask with valve, (iv) an FFP2 mask without valve, and (v) a washable mask. Results highlight how reusable masks (i.e., 3D-printed masks and washable masks) are the most sustainable from a life cycle perspective, drastically reducing the environmental impacts in all categories. The outcomes of the analysis provide a framework to derive a set of eco-design guidelines which have been used to design a new device that couples protection requirements against the virus and environmental sustainability.

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