Designing a Research Project. The Basics of Biomedical Research Methodology. Analyzing Research Data. The Basics of Biomedical Research Methodology.

1983 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 569
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Research Project

scholarly journals Collaborative research and knowledge translation on road crashes in Burkina Faso: the police perspective 18 months on

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Dagenais ◽  
Michelle Proulx ◽  
Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux ◽  
Aude Nikiema ◽  
Emmanuel Bonnet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Road Traffic Crash ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Traffic Crashes ◽  
Road Traffic Crashes ◽  
Road Crashes

AbstractIn this commentary, we present a follow-up of two articles published in 2017 and 2018 about road traffic crashes, which is an important public health issue in Africa and Burkina Faso. The first article reported on a research project, conducted in partnership with local actors involved in road safety, carried out in Ouagadougou in 2015. Its aim was to test the effectiveness, acceptability, and capacity of a surveillance system to assess the number of road traffic crashes and their consequences on the health of crash victims. Several knowledge translation activities were carried out to maximize its impact and were reported in the 2018 article published in HRPS: monthly reports presenting the research data, large-format printed maps distributed to the city’s police stations, and a deliberative workshop held at the end of the research project. The present commentary presents our efforts to deepen our understanding of the impacts of the knowledge translation strategy, based on follow-up interviews, 18 months after the workshop, with the heads of the road traffic crash units in Ouagadougou police stations (n = 5). Several benefits were reported by respondents. Their involvement in the process prompted them to broaden their knowledge of other ways of dealing with the issue of road crashes. This led them, sometimes with their colleagues, to intervene differently: more rapid response at collision sites, increased surveillance of dangerous intersections, user awareness-raising on the importance of the highway code, etc. However, sustaining these actions over the longer term has proven difficult. Several lessons were derived from this experience, regarding the importance of producing useful and locally applicable research data, of ensuring the acceptability of the technologies used for data collection, of using collaborative approaches in research and knowledge translation, of ensuring the visibility of actions undertaken by actors in the field, and of involving decision-makers in the research process to maximize its impacts.

scholarly journals Using playful methods to understand children’s digital literacies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pekka Mertala
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Digital Literacies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Meaningful Research

This chapter is the final for Section 3 and in many ways stands as an example of how many of the individual elements presented thus far in the book, can come together in a holistic way. This chapter demonstrates how we can adopt play, make it unique to the project and the children and still arrive at meaningful research data. This chapter describes a research project wherein 3- to 6-year-old Finnish children’s digital literacies were studied and supported via playful methods. The key theses this chapter advocates are:-The use of playful methods in early childhood education (ECE) research is one way to acknowledge and respect the characteristics of the research context.-The ambiguity of play should be acknowledged when planning, conducting, and evaluating playful research projects.-Studying and supporting children’s digital literacies do not always require digital devices.The chapter is structured as follows. First, a reflective discussion on the ambiguity of play and the use of playful methods as a context-sensitive research approach is presented. Then, an overview of the research project and its objectives are provided. In the end, three concrete examples of how the children’s digital literacy was studied and supported using playful methods are given.

scholarly journals SPARC Data Structure: Rationale and Design of a FAIR Standard for Biomedical Research Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Bandrowski ◽  
Jeffrey S. Grethe ◽  
Anna Pilko ◽  
Tom Gillespie ◽  
Gabi Pine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Structure ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Imaging Data ◽  
Organ Specific ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Automated Tools

AbstractThe NIH Common Fund’s Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) initiative is a large-scale program that seeks to accelerate the development of therapeutic devices that modulate electrical activity in nerves to improve organ function. Integral to the SPARC program are the rich anatomical and functional datasets produced by investigators across the SPARC consortium that provide key details about organ-specific circuitry, including structural and functional connectivity, mapping of cell types and molecular profiling. These datasets are provided to the research community through an open data platform, the SPARC Portal. To ensure SPARC datasets are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR), they are all submitted to the SPARC portal following a standard scheme established by the SPARC Curation Team, called the SPARC Data Structure (SDS). Inspired by the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), the SDS has been designed to capture the large variety of data generated by SPARC investigators who are coming from all fields of biomedical research. Here we present the rationale and design of the SDS, including a description of the SPARC curation process and the automated tools for complying with the SDS, including the SDS validator and Software to Organize Data Automatically (SODA) for SPARC. The objective is to provide detailed guidelines for anyone desiring to comply with the SDS. Since the SDS are suitable for any type of biomedical research data, it can be adopted by any group desiring to follow the FAIR data principles for managing their data, even outside of the SPARC consortium. Finally, this manuscript provides a foundational framework that can be used by any organization desiring to either adapt the SDS to suit the specific needs of their data or simply desiring to design their own FAIR data sharing scheme from scratch.

scholarly journals THE DOCUMENTATION OF SELAYAH KERINGKAM EMBROIDERY PROCESS IN SARAWAK

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-79
Author(s):  
Adyatul Julkree ◽  
Genevieve Tsar Brennam ◽  
Nor Szashashiqhin Binti Zainal Ibidin ◽  
Qistina Donna Lee Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Status

This study aims to investigate theprocess of Selayah Keringkam embroidery inSarawak as well as understanding the intricacy ofart and expertise in producing the Keringkamembroidery that is now becoming the status ofMalay women in Sarawak. This study wasconducted to examine several types andprocessing stages of Selayah Keringkam, thus, tounderstand expertise in producing SelayahKeringkam embroidery in more depth in order tomaintain the uniqueness of Keringkam art for thepeople of Sarawak. The study involved Malaywomen in Sarawak who have experiences inprocessing and styling Keringkam. Theinformation obtained in order to meet theobjectives of this study was taken from websitesand journals that have been published and studiedfurther through research methodology andprevious studies. Research data were analyzedand displayed quantitatively and qualitatively.From the findings of this study, there are variousSelayah Keringkam embroidery processes thathave been researched and recorded in archives,journals and articles related to Keringkam.

Situating the Research Project

Journeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Susan L. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Project

Chapter 2 accomplishes two things. First, it outlines the research methodology conducted in the project, detailing the two groups of women that comprise the sample. Second, it explores the blurred boundaries between images of victims and survivors. Rather than an either/or dichotomy, the women talked about how victimization and survivorship exist on a continuum; the chapter further makes sense of the meanings adopted by the women and examines their implications.

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