Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Curative services'

L'émergence de nouvelles plateformes décentralisées pour la création de données, tel que les plateformes mobiles, les capteurs et l'augmentation de la disponibilité d'open data sur le Web, s'ajoute à l'augmentation du nombre de sources de données disponibles et apporte des données massives sans précédent à être explorées. La notion de curation de données qui a émergé se réfère à la maintenance des collections de données, à la préparation et à l'intégration d'ensembles de données (data set), les combinant avec une plateforme analytique. La tâche de curation inclut l'extraction de métadonnées implicites et explicites ; faire la correspondance et l'enrichissement des métadonnées sémantiques afin d'améliorer la qualité des données. La prochaine génération de moteurs de gestion de données devrait promouvoir des techniques avec une nouvelle philosophie pour faire face au déluge des données. Ils devraient aider les utilisateurs à comprendre le contenue des collections de données et à apporter une direction pour explorer les données. Un scientifique peut explorer les collections de données pas à pas, puis s'arrêter quand le contenu et la qualité atteignent des niveaux satisfaisants. Notre travail adopte cette philosophie et la principale contribution est une approche de curation des données et un environnement d'exploration que nous avons appelé CURARE. CURARE est un système à base de services pour curer et explorer des données volumineuses sur les aspects variété et variabilité. CURARE implémente un modèle de collection de données, que nous proposons, visant représenter le contenu structurel des collections des données et les métadonnées statistiques. Le modèle de collection de données est organisé sous le concept de vue et celle-ci est une structure de données qui pourvoit une perspective agrégée du contenu des collections des données et de ses parutions (releases) associées. CURARE pourvoit des outils pour explorer (interroger) des métadonnées et pour extraire des vues en utilisant des méthodes analytiques. Exploiter les données massives requière un nombre considérable de décisions de la part de l'analyste des données pour trouver quelle est la meilleure façon pour stocker, partager et traiter les collections de données afin d'en obtenir le maximum de bénéfice et de connaissances à partir de ces données. Au lieu d'explorer manuellement les collections des données, CURARE fournit de outils intégrés à un environnement pour assister les analystes des données à trouver quelle est la meilleure collection qui peut être utilisée pour accomplir un objectif analytique donné. Nous avons implémenté CURARE et expliqué comment le déployer selon un modèle d'informatique dans les nuages (cloud computing) utilisant des services de science des donnés sur lesquels les services CURARE sont branchés. Nous avons conçu des expériences pour mesurer les coûts de la construction des vues à partir des ensembles des données du Grand Lyon et de Twitter, afin de pourvoir un aperçu de l'intérêt de notre approche et notre environnement de curation de données<br>The emergence of new platforms for decentralized data creation, such as sensor and mobile platforms and the increasing availability of open data on the Web, is adding to the increase in the number of data sources inside organizations and brings an unprecedented Big Data to be explored. The notion of data curation has emerged to refer to the maintenance of data collections and the preparation and integration of datasets, combining them to perform analytics. Curation tasks include extracting explicit and implicit meta-data; semantic metadata matching and enrichment to add quality to the data. Next generation data management engines should promote techniques with a new philosophy to cope with the deluge of data. They should aid the user in understanding the data collections’ content and provide guidance to explore data. A scientist can stepwise explore into data collections and stop when the content and quality reach a satisfaction point. Our work adopts this philosophy and the main contribution is a data collections’ curation approach and exploration environment named CURARE. CURARE is a service-based system for curating and exploring Big Data. CURARE implements a data collection model that we propose, used for representing their content in terms of structural and statistical meta-data organised under the concept of view. A view is a data structure that provides an aggregated perspective of the content of a data collection and its several associated releases. CURARE provides tools focused on computing and extracting views using data analytics methods and also functions for exploring (querying) meta-data. Exploiting Big Data requires a substantial number of decisions to be performed by data analysts to determine which is the best way to store, share and process data collections to get the maximum benefit and knowledge from them. Instead of manually exploring data collections, CURARE provides tools integrated in an environment for assisting data analysts determining which are the best collections that can be used for achieving an analytics objective. We implemented CURARE and explained how to deploy it on the cloud using data science services on top of which CURARE services are plugged. We have conducted experiments to measure the cost of computing views based on datasets of Grand Lyon and Twitter to provide insight about the interest of our data curation approach and environment

An ACRL white paper from 2012 reported that, at that time, only a small number of academic libraries in the United States and Canada offered research data services (RDS), but many were planning to do so within the next two years (Tenopir, Birch, and Allard, 2012). By 2013, 74% of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) survey respondents offered RDS and an additional 23% were planning to do so (Fearon, Gunia, Pralle, Lake, and Sallans, 2013). The academic libraries recognize that the landscape of services changes quickly and that they need to support the changing needs of research and instruction. In their efforts to implement RDS, libraries often respond to pressures originating outside the library, such as national or funder mandates for data management planning and data sharing. To provide effective support for researchers and instructors, though, libraries must be proactive and develop new services that look forward and yet accommodate the existing human, technological, and intellectual capital accumulated over the decades. Setting the stage for data curation in libraries means to create visionary approaches that supersede institutional differences while still accommodating diversity in implementation. How do academic libraries work towards that? This chapter will combine an historical overview of RDS thinking and implementations based on the existing literature with an empirical analysis of ARL libraries’ current RDS goals and activities. The latter is based on the study we conducted in 2015 that included a content analysis of North American research library web pages and interviews of library leaders and administrators of ARL libraries. Using historical and our own data, we will synthesize the current state of RDS implementation across ARL libraries. Further, we will examine the models of research data management maturity (see, for example, Qin, Crowston and Flynn, 2014) and discuss how such models compare to our own three-level classification of services and activities offered at libraries - basic, intermediate, and advanced. Our analysis will conclude with a set of recommendations for next steps, i.e., actions and resources that a library might consider to expand their RDS to the next maturity level. References Fearon, D. Jr., Gunia, B., Pralle, B.E., Lake, S., Sallans, A.L. (2013). Research data management services. (ARL Spec Kit 334). Washington, D.C.: ARL. Retrieved from: http://publications.arl.org/Research-Data-Management-Services-SPEC-Kit-334/ Tenopir, C., Birch, B., & Allard, S. (2012). Academic libraries and research data services: Current practices and plans for the future. ACRL. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/whitepapers/Tenopir_Birch_Allard.pdf Qin, J., Crowston, K., & Flynn, C. (2014). 1.1 Commitment to Perform. A Capability Maturity Model for Research Data Management. wiki. Retrieved http://rdm.ischool.syr.edu/xwiki/bin/view/CMM+for+RDM/WebHome

Cordova (Curated Online Reference Database Of Variation Annotations) is an out-of-the-box solution for building and maintaining an online database of genetic variations integrated with population study information and pathogenicity prediction results from popular algorithms. Our primary motivation for developing this system is to aid researchers and clinician-scientists in determining the clinical significance of genetic variations. To achieve this goal, Cordova provides an interface to review and manually or computationally curate genetic variation data as well as share it for clinical diagnostics and the advancement of research.

Event-related collections, including both tweets and webpages, have valuable information, and are worth exploring in interdisciplinary research and education. Unfortunately, such data is noisy, so this variety of information has not been adequately exploited. Further, for better understanding, more knowledge hidden behind events needs to be unearthed. Regarding these collections, different societies may have different requirements in particular scenarios. Some may need relatively clean datasets for data exploration and data mining. Social researchers require preprocessing of information, so they can conduct analyses. General societies are interested in the overall descriptions of events. However, few systems, tools, or methods exist to support the flexible use of event-related collections. In this research, we propose a new, integrated system to process and analyze event-related collections at different levels (i.e., data, information, and knowledge). It also provides various services and covers the most important stages in a system pipeline, including collection development, curation, analysis, integration, and visualization. Firstly, we propose a query likelihood model with pre-query design and post-query expansion to rank a webpage corpus by query generation probability, and retrieve relevant webpages from event-related tweet collections. We further preserve webpage data into WARC files and enrich original tweets with webpages in JSON format. As an application of data management, we conduct an empirical study of the embedded URLs in tweets based on collection development and data curation techniques. Secondly, we develop TwiRole, an integrated model for 3-way user classification on Twitter, which detects brand-related, female-related, and male-related tweeters through multiple features with both machine learning (i.e., random forest classifier) and deep learning (i.e., an 18-layer ResNet) techniques. As guidance to user-centered social research at the information level, we combine TwiRole with a pre-trained recurrent neural network-based emotion detection model, and carry out tweeting pattern analyses on disaster-related collections. Finally, we propose a tweet-guided multi-document summarization (TMDS) model, which generates summaries of the event-related collections by using tweets associated with those events. The TMDS model also considers three aspects of named entities (i.e., importance, relatedness, and diversity) as well as topics, to score sentences in webpages, and then rank selected relevant sentences in proper order for summarization. The entire system is realized using many technologies, such as collection development, natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning. For each part, comprehensive evaluations are carried out, that confirm the effectiveness and accuracy of our proposed approaches. Regarding broader impact, the outcomes proposed in our study can be easily adopted or extended for further event analyses and service development.<br>Doctor of Philosophy<br>Event-related collections, including both tweets and webpages, have valuable information. They are worth exploring in interdisciplinary research and education. Unfortunately, such data is noisy. Many tweets and webpages are not relevant to the events. This leads to difficulties during data analysis of the datasets, as well as explanation of the results. Further, for better understanding, more knowledge hidden behind events needs to be unearthed. Regarding these collections, different groups of people may have different requirements. Some may need relatively clean datasets for data exploration. Some require preprocessing of information, so they can conduct analyses, e.g., based on tweeter type or content topic. General societies are interested in the overall descriptions of events. However, few systems, tools, or methods exist to support the flexible use of event-related collections. Accordingly, we describe our new framework and integrated system to process and analyze event-related collections. It provides varied services and covers the most important stages in a system pipeline. It has sub-systems to clean, manage, analyze, integrate, and visualize event-related collections. It takes an event-related tweet collection as input and generates an event-related webpage corpus by leveraging Wikipedia and the URLs embedded in tweets. It also combines and enriches original tweets with webpages. As an application of data management, we conduct an empirical study of tweets and their embedded URLs. We developed TwiRole for 3-way user classification on Twitter. It detects brand-related, female-related, and male-related tweeters through their profiles, tweets, and images. To aid user-centered social research, we combine TwiRole with an existing emotion detection tool, and carry out tweeting pattern analyses on disaster-related collections. Finally, we propose a tweet-guided multi-document summarization (TMDS) model and service, which generates summaries of the event-related collections by using tweets associated with those events. It extracts important sentences across different topics from webpages, and organizes them in proper order. The entire system is realized using many technologies, such as collection development, natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning. For each part, comprehensive evaluations help confirm the effectiveness and accuracy of our proposed approaches. Regarding broader impact, our methods and system can be easily adopted or extended for further event analyses and service development.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Historia<br>Seminario: Chile: La larga década de los sesenta, transformaciones culturales, políticas y económicas y la influencia del contexto internacional

In earth observation and climatological sciences, data and their data services grow on a daily basis in a large spatial extent due to the high coverage rate of satellite sensors, model calculations, but also by continuous meteorological in situ observations. In order to reuse such data, especially data fragments as well as their data services in a collaborative and reproducible manner by citing the origin source, data analysts, e.g., researchers or impact modelers, need a possibility to identify the exact version, precise time information, parameter, and names of the dataset used. A manual process would make the citation of data fragments as a subset of an entire dataset rather complex and imprecise to obtain. Data in climate research are in most cases multidimensional, structured grid data that can change partially over time. The citation of such evolving content requires the approach of "dynamic data citation". The applied approach is based on associating queries with persistent identifiers. These queries contain the subsetting parameters, e.g., the spatial coordinates of the desired study area or the time frame with a start and end date, which are automatically included in the metadata of the newly generated subset and thus represent the information about the data history, the data provenance, which has to be established in data repository ecosystems. The Research Data Alliance Data Citation Working Group (RDA Data Citation WG) summarized the scientific status quo as well as the state of the art from existing citation and data management concepts and developed the scalable dynamic data citation methodology of evolving data. The Data Centre at the Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA) has implemented the given recommendations and offers since 2017 an operational service on dynamic data citation on climate scenario data. With the consciousness that the objective of this topic brings a lot of dependencies on bibliographic citation research which is still under discussion, the CCCA service on Dynamic Data Citation focused on the climate domain specific issues, like characteristics of data, formats, software environment, and usage behavior. The current effort beyond spreading made experiences will be the scalability of the implementation, e.g., towards the potential of an Open Data Cube solution.

O Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), por meio do princípio da integralidade, desencadeia um processo de ampliação nos serviços de saúde oferecidos à população brasileira, incluindo a assistência odontológica, que é garantida pela Política Nacional de Saúde Bucal. A avaliação dos serviços de saúde aliado à qualidade prestada apresenta-se como campo de conhecimento específico, e sua avaliação por meio do modelo centrado nos componentes de Estrutura, Processo e Resultado torna-se fundamental para a concretização da integralidade na atenção primária à saúde (APS). O Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade da Atenção Básica (PMAQAB) busca institucionalizar os processos de avaliação da qualidade como atributo fundamental a ser alcançado no SUS. Diante desse contexto, essa dissertação se propôs a realizar uma avaliação das principais ações curativas realizadas pelo cirurgião-dentista na atenção primária, avaliadas por meio da estrutura e processo das unidades básicas de saúde. Para isso, foi conduzido um estudo transversal com base em dados de 18114 centros de APS com equipes de saúde bucal (ESB). O desfecho foi criado por meio da associação da realização de uma série de procedimentos curativos realizados pelo cirurgião-dentista (CD), associado a uma estrutura mínima pré-estabelecida. As covariáveis foram referentes à unidade de saúde e ao cirurgião-dentista. Os resultados demonstram que 1190 ESB não apresentaram equipamentos mínimos para a assistência odontológica e somente n=2498 (14,8%) apresentaram a qualidade máxima esperada. Quanto às características da unidade de saúde, a prevalência positiva para a qualidade foi apresentada nas ESB com maior número de profissionais, as que apresentaram maior carga horária de trabalho, as que a gestão disponibilizou informações para análise de situação de saúde, assim como as que realizaram monitoramento dos indicadores de saúde bucal e também as que planejaram e programaram as ações de saúde bucal mensalmente com a equipe de atenção primária. Quanto ao cirurgião-dentista, maior qualidade foi constatada nos que apresentaram melhores vínculos empregatícios, que possuíam plano de carreira, pós-graduação em saúde pública e realizaram educação permanente. Sugere-se a melhoria da infraestrutura dos consultórios odontológicos da APS, bem como o incentivo à implementação dos resultados apontados nas unidades de saúde e às características referentes aos profissionais da saúde do SUS, para que possam refletir na melhoria da qualidade da assistência curativa prestada.<br>The Unified Health System, through the principle of Integrality, aims to expand the health services offered to the population, including dental care, which is guaranteed by the National Oral Health Policy. The evaluation of health services combined with the quality provided presents itself as a specific field of knowledge, and its evaluation through the model centered in the Structure, Process and Results becomes fundamental for the realization of the integrality in primary health care. The National Program for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Health Care (PMAQ-AB) seeks to institutionalize the processes of quality assessment as a fundamental attribute to be reached in the Unified Health System. In this context, this dissertation proposes to conduct an assessment of the main curative actions carried out by the dentist in primary care through the structure and process of basic health centers. For this, a cross-sectional study was conducted based on data from 18114 centers of primary health care with oral health services. The outcome was created by means of a series of curative procedures performed by the dentists associated with a minimum structure predetermined. The covariables were related with characteristics of the health center and with the dentist. The results show that 1190 oral health services did not present minimum equipment for dental care and only n=2498 (14,8%) had the maximum quality expected. With regards of the health center characteristics, a positive prevalence for quality was presented in the oral health services with the most professional, which presented greater workload, which the management provided information for health situation analysis, which carried out monitoring of indicators of oral health and which planned and programmed the oral health actions monthly with primary care team. With regards of the dentist, was observed higher quality in that who showed better employment ties, which had career plan, post graduate in public health and accomplish continuing education. It is suggested the necessity to improve the infrastructure of the dental offices of primary health care, as well as incentives to the implementation of the results presented in the health centers and that relating to the SUS health professionals, so that the changes can reflect on improving quality of curative care provided.

Orientador: Luciana Patrícia Fernandes Abbade<br>Coorientador: Valéria de Castilho Palhares<br>Banca: Márcia Aparecida Nuevo Gatti<br>Banca: Magda Cristina Queiroz Dell'Acqua<br>Resumo: Introdução: Feridas cutâneas constituem sério problema de saúde pública e para a assistência de enfermagem. Há poucos estudos avaliando o conhecimento do enfermeiro relacionado aos cuidados com feridas. Objetivos: Identificar o conhecimento dos enfermeiros sobre cuidado com pacientes com feridas na rede de atenção pública à saúde. Método: Estudo transversal, descritivo e analítico, com 166 enfermeiros que atuam nas instituições públicas de assistência à saúde do município de Bauru, os quais responderam questionário estruturado, no período de maio a setembro de 2014, elaborado por dois especialistas, e as respostas consideradas adequadas de acordo com revisões sistemáticas e guidelines. Variáveis de natureza categórica foram representadas pelas frações percentuais e comparadas entre os subgrupos pelo teste do qui-quadrado. Estes foram comparados por modelos lineares generalizados. Como produto, proposto desenvolvimento de um curso temático de curta duração em ambiente virtual para capacitação na área de feridas. Resultados: Predominância do sexo feminino (88%), média de idade 37,2 anos; 10,7 anos de graduação e 9,9 anos de função. A grande maioria era de instituições particulares de ensino. O local de trabalho predominante foi na Rede Hospitalar (41,6%), e 85,5% dos participantes desempenham funções assistenciais. A formação durante a graduação foi considerada de regular a boa para 82%, e 64,5% informaram que se atualizam de alguma forma sobre feridas. Ainda 86,3% dos enfermeiros declararam que atendem feridas e 62,7% que existem protocolos de curativos na sua instituição; 65,1% responderam que o enfermeiro realiza consulta de enfermagem e prescreve curativo padronizado; e 91,6% informam que o curativo é realizado pelo auxiliar/técnico de enfermagem. De acordo com 74,7%, o profissional que realiza o curativo segue a prescrição do enfermeiro. Entre métodos terapêuticos, a pomada colagenase...<br>Abstract: Introduction: Ulcers or wounds are a serious problem for public health and nursing care. There are few studies assessing the knowledge that nurses have about wound care. Objectives: To identify the knowledge of wounds that nurses from the public health care system have. Method: It is a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study, with 166 nurses who work in public health assistance institutions in Bauru and answered a structured questionnaire from May to September 2014. The questionnaire was developed by two experts, and the answers were considered appropriate according to / in accordance with systematic reviews and guidelines. Categorical variables were represented by percentage fractions and compared among subgroups using the chi-square test. The subgroups were compared using generalized linear models. As a final product, it was proposed and developed a thematic short course in a virtual environment for training in wounds care. Results: There was a predominance of females (88%), average age of 37.2 years; 10.7 years after graduation; 9.9 years of professional activity. Most of them graduated from private educational institutions. The predominant workplace was the hospital network (41.6%) and 85.5% of the participants perform care functions. The knowledge acquired during graduation was considered from regular to good by 82%, and 64.5% mentioned some kind of update on wounds. In addition, 86.3% of nurses said that they assist patients with wounds; 62.7% declared that there are dressing protocols in their institutions; 65.1% answered that the nurse performs a nurse consultation and prescribes a standardized dressing; and 91.6% informed that the dressing is performed by an auxiliary or nursing technician. According to 74.7% of the participants, the health professional performs the dressing following the nurse prescription. Among the therapeutic methods, the collagenase ointment is the most known (96.4%) and used (78.9%). The Unna ...<br>Mestre

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This thesis analyses the policy of curative health service delivery in North Darfur State, Sudan. Several authors have analyzed health service delivery issues, mainly focusing on controlling the spread of common diseases. No work has been done that focuses on the health policy aspect and its contribution to improving curative health service delivery, especially in areas affected by conflict since 2003. This study contributes to the body of knowledge on the nature and the evolution of health service delivery systems management, as well as policy implementation, thereby widening the discussion about the further projections of this field of study. The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate how to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of curative health service delivery systems management, as well as policy implementation, in fostering socio-economic development in North Darfur State. The study focuses on how the national health system and national health policy of Sudan have been managed and implemented in North Darfur State. This thesis identifies the different health sectors, public, private and international NGOs, that provide curative health services in North Darfur State, and the difficulties that have been facing the population in accessing these health facilities. Investigations showed that curative health services are not adequate in the public sector, and that they are very expensive in the private sector. The exception is the NGO sector but it is not guaranteed to be sustainable in providing curative health services to poor and conflict-affected people. This thesis also identifies the mechanisms of health system management and policy implementation, by means of co-ordination and collaboration between the various government sectors, federal, state and district, in a decentralized system working in concert with international NGOs. The results show that there is poor co-ordination between the three levels of government, especially at district level, as well as poor collaboration between government and international NGOs, caused by government‟s lack of human and financial capacity. The potential for improvement in curative health service delivery are explored, particularly at district level. This is essential so that quality curative health services can be delivered to the population, thereby contributing to socio-economic development in North Darfur State.<br>Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2012.

Curative primary health care nurses are the first level of contact with health personnel the patient has when entering the district-driven health system of South Africa. It is imperative that these nurses are competent, or patients may suffer. Several factors exist as barriers to competent curative care. Donabedian's structure-process-outcome framework has been used in the study of these factors. Literature were selected from international and national studies of nursing to discover barriers and enablers in general nursing care but also specifically in curative primary health care. The curative primary health care nurses in the Southern Cape/Karoo region were used as a sample for the study. Data gained from questionnaires were organised to present the findings: Barriers to a curative PHC service seem to be multifactorial, with scarce resources causing great stress for the workforce. This have a negative impact on relationships between employer and employee, CPHCNs and their patients, the type of managing that take place, and the quality of the examination and treatment of patients. Slow changes frustrates workers, causing more stress and poor attitudes, feelings of not being valued, and not being motivated (internally and externally). Enablers examined showed that although the workforce may be discontented and overworked, they still try to deliver their best, with few medical mistakes. Patients still have a lot of respect for their healthcare deliverers, but this trend may not continue for much longer. Patients are already returning more often to clinics, causing even more stress for staff.<br>Health Studies<br>M.A. (Health Studies)

The purpose of this study was to explore the level of integration of health promotion and disease prevention services with the curative care provided at hospitals and health centres in Addis Ababa, and to propose recommendations that could improve such an integrated health service. A quantitative approach, using an exploratory and descriptive design was applied at 22 public health facilities in Addis Ababa followed by the Delphi technique to reach consensus on ways to improve the integration of health promotion, preventive and curative care. An integrated health service (IHS) framework was used as the conceptual framework upon which the study was based. Multistage sampling involving stratified simple random sampling was applied to select hospitals and health centres while a systematic sampling technique was used to sample patients from the outpatient and inpatient medical departments. Data was collected by means of two questionnaires from patients and health service managers, respectively, following which two Delphi rounds with experts resulted in agreement on a contextually accepted integrated framework. The findings revealed that promotive and preventive services for chronic diseases were not optimally integrated in the routine health care services of the health facilities. Most health facilities lacked skilled health professionals, adequate medication and equipment to provide a comprehensive integrated service. The study emphasized the need for health service providers to undergo a paradigm shift and additional training in order to provide a comprehensive, patient-centred, integrated health service instead of only treating patients’ complaints. To assist this approach, the study affirmed the Integrated Health Service (IHS) framework as a tool which comprehensively demonstrates the cause, effect and progression of chronic diseases and the appropriate interventions which health professionals can apply in managing diseases or their risk factors. Recommendations for effective, integrated promotive and preventive health care, included the development of guidelines, protocols and policy documents for cultivating a healthy lifestyle, adopting effective disease prevention approaches, re-designing medical school curriculums, and staffing health facilities with trained and specialized staff, capacitating health facilities with the necessary equipment, medication and supplies that would enable the provision of an integrated health care service.<br>Health Studies<br>D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

The study aimed to explore and describe factors which impacted on the satisfaction of patients using the curative component of primary health care in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan area. A qualitative, explorative and contextual design was followed in this study. Focus group interviews were used to collect data from clients, nurse clinicians and community health committee members. Findings indicated that there was lack of facilities, resources and supplies, lack of safety and security measures, negative attitudes of nurse clinicians, lack of community involvement and lack of clinic management involvement. Suggestions were made by the groups on how to improve the curative primary health care service and intervention strategies were identified from the suggestions made. The implementation of these strategies will help with the improvement of the service delivery at the clinic for primary health care.<br>Health Studies<br>(M.A. (Health Studies)

Poster from University of Arizona 2016 IT Summit<br>Are you or the researchers you work with writing a grant proposal that requires a data management plan? Are you working on a research project and have questions about how to effectively and efficiently manage your research data? Are you interested in sharing your data with other researchers? We can help! For the past several years, the University of Arizona (UA) Libraries, in collaboration with the Office of Research and Discovery and the University Information Technology Services, has been providing data management services and resources to the campus. We are interested in tailoring our services and resources to what you need. We conducted a research data management survey in 2014 and are currently working on the Data Management and Data Curation and Publication (DMDC) pilot. This poster will describe what data management and curation services we are currently providing, and ask for your feedback on potential new data management services and resources.

Many scholars lament of poor infrastructure to manage and preserve digital records within the public sector in South Africa to support electronic government (egovernment). For example, in South Africa, the national archives’ repository and its subsidiary provincial archives do not have infrastructure to ingest digital records into archival custody. As a result, digital records are left to the creating agencies to manage and preserve. The problem is compounded by the fact that very few public sector organisations in South Africa have procured systems to manage digital records. Therefore, a question is how are digital records managed and stored in these organisations to support e-government? Do public organisations entrust their records to the cloud as an alternative storage given the fact that both physical and virtual storages are a problem? If they do, how do they ensure accessibility, governance, security and long-term preservation of records in the cloud? Utilising the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Lifecycle Model as a guiding framework, this qualitative study sought to explore digital curation of records in the cloud to support e-government services in South Africa with the view to propose a framework that would guide the public sector to migrate records to the cloud storage. Semi-structured interviews were employed to collect data from the purposively selected Chief Information Officers in the national government departments that have implemented some of the electronic services such as the Department of Arts and Culture, Department of Home Affairs, Department of Higher Education and Training and the Department of Basic Education. Furthermore, the National Archives and Records Services of South Africa was also chosen as it is charged with the statutory regulatory role of records management in governmental bodies. So is the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), a public sector ICT company established in 1999 to consolidate and coordinate the state’s information technology resources in order to achieve cost savings through scale, increase delivery capabilities and enhance interoperability. Interview data were augmented through document analysis of legislation and policies pertaining to data storage. Data were analysed thematically and interpreted in accordance with the objectives of the study. The key finding suggests that although public servants informally and unconsciously put some records in the clouds, government departments in South Africa are sceptical to entrust their records to the cloud due to a number of reasons, such as lack of policy and legislative framework, lack of trust to the cloud storage, jurisdiction, legal implications, privacy, ownership and security risks. This study recommends that given the evolution of technology, the government should regulate cloud storage through policy and legislative promulgation, as well as developing a government-owned cloud managed through SITA in order for all government departments to use it. This study suggests a framework to migrate paperbased records to cloud storage that is controlled by the government.<br>Information Science<br>D.Lit. et Phil. (Information Science)

Presented at the University of Arizona 2016 IT Summit<br>The past several years has seen an increasing emphasis on providing access to the results of research, both publications and data. The majority of federal grant funding agencies require that researchers include a data management plan as part of their grant proposal. In response, the University of Arizona Libraries, in collaboration with the Office of Research and Discovery and the University Information Technology Services, has been providing data management services and resources to the campus for the past several years. In 2014, we conducted a research data management survey to find out how UA researchers manage their research data, determine the demand for existing services and identify new services that UA researchers need. In the fall of 2015, the Data Management and Data Publication and Curation (DMDC) Pilot was started to determine what specific services and tools, including training and support and the needed technology infrastructure, researchers need to effectively and efficiently manage and curate their research data. This presentation will present what data management services we currently are offering, discuss findings from the 2014 survey, and present initial results from the DMDC pilot.

碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>圖書資訊學研究所<br>100<br>Sharing and preservation of research data attracts lots of attention in the academic environment because of the trend of interdisciplinary and transnational research. Data Curation provide a good solution to data sharing and preservation. Data Curation, which involves maintaining, preserving and adding value to research data, can help researchers to access and reuse the data as well as to maximize its value and reduce resource waste. How to preserve and manage large amounts of data effectively is a very important issue for the academic institutions because of the trends of data-intensive research. The researchers who produce and use the research data will be the main target of data curation service, so what researchers want and need is very important to the academic institutions which try to develop the data curation service. This thesis investigates the professors’ attitudes towards the concept of data curation and what they want or need for the data curation service . “Interviewing” is applied from the qualitative perspective and 12 of the professors of National Taiwan University were interviewed from the August, 2011, through the May, 2005. Following conclusions are derived by analyzing the interviewing results. 1. The development of data curation in United Kingdom and the United States can be the best practice for academic libraries in Taiwan which want to develop the data curation service 2. High diversity in the resource of research data. 3. The sharing of research data can not affect the current research. 4. Researchers’ attitude toward data publication is negative. 5. Data curation service should provide feedback to their research.

碩士<br>國立中興大學<br>圖書資訊學研究所<br>103<br>The purpose of data curation is preserving, presentation, adding value, using and reusing research data. Through data curation, research data can be used more widely, reducing the cost of duplication of research data creation, adding long-term value of existing research data, and reducing the risk of long-term research value mitigation and research data obsolescence. There are few discussion about data curation in Taiwan, and no exactly example of data curation services, therefore, academic libraries and researchers of Taiwan have weak concept of data curation. This study taking basic medical sciences for example and using questionnaire and interview to explore the perception and attitudes of academic librarians and researchers about data curation, and the relationship of their perception and attitude. Furthermore, this study design the metadata of data curation. This study explored that: 1. Academic librarians have weak concept of data curation, the attitudes of librarians in data curation are positive, librarians can play the role of data curator or data librarian, and librarians do not have skills that researchers expect for; 2. Researchers usually store their research data in private PCs, researchers have many considerations for making their research data public, reducing researchers’ doubts will let them share research data, researchers don’t know the word “data curation”, but have related concept, there are different attitudes between researchers; 3. Only librarians’ perception about data curation will influence researchers’ perception, the attitudes of librarians and researchers will influence each other; 4. The data curation metadata designed by this study can almost fit researchers’ need, and researchers suggested adding some elements, including “research repeat time”, “connection to research result”, “open element”, etc. This study give suggestions based on the study results, including that adding incentives to make researcher joining in data curation services; Government should make related policies to develop data curation; enhance librarians’ perception of data curation and related skills; Library should overall consider funds and human resource; Researchers can increase the frequency of interaction with librarians; Researchers and librarians can design and handle data curation services together.