Dissertations / Theses: 'Quality of journal'

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Otten, Samuel, and Ryan Andrew Nivens. "Assessing Journal Quality in Mathematics Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/215.

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Nivens, Ryan Andrew, and Samuel Otten. "Assessing Journal Quality in Mathematics Education." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/246.

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Xu, Fang. "Bibliometric assessments of research output quality within the HEFCE framework." Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.590068.

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In this thesis we propose a feasible bibliometric assessment framework of research output quality derived from the definition of research proposed by Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Based on this basic framework, we show that research output can be assessed from two elements: significance of new insights and effectiveness of sharing based on the new insights. We investigate this issue from two levels: research publication's quality assessment and academic journal's quality assessment. With regard to measurement of research publications, we confirm citation information is accepted as a measure of effectiveness of sharing regardless of various reasons of citation behavior. On the other hand, we observe there are no sufficient studies on bibliometric indices for significance of new insights, based on information other than citations. In this thesis, we theoretically develop some non-citation based bibliometric measurements via utilizing journal characteristics (e.g. journal acceptance rate (JAR) or journal rejection rate (JRR)). Their strength and weakness are shown in our empirical studies. Furthermore, we believe a more complete assessment for research output quality can be achieved by combining information from the two elements. Several combination approaches such as function combination (i.e. production of two indicators) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach are proposed and testified on real data sets like the Association of "- Business School (ABS) journal ranking and Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). Secondly, we utilize a part of the HEFCE framework for journal quality assessment from wider perspectives. To this end two ranking approaches are introduced to serve different stakeholders, and Operational Research/Management Science (OR/MS) journals are employed in the empirical studies. Finally, we report a real project of the 3E (i.e. Efficacy, Efficiency, Effectiveness) theory in an international research institute ranking, jointly carried out by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, and the Centre for Evaluation of Research Performance (CERP), University of Kent, UK.

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Petrovská, Jana. "Analýza řízení jakosti ve společnosti Brněnské vodárny a kanalizace a. s." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-221812.

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This diploma thesis analyzes the present state of a quality system inside the joint – stock company Brněnské vodárny a kanalizace. On the basis of comparison with choice modern continual improvement‘s methods of quality systems this diploma work availeble method, which leads to improvement of the quality system in the test lab of sewage works Brno-Modřice, as part of water quality control’s section.

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Hirst, Andrew S. "Measuring journal quality : developing a multi-item measure and investigating its usefulness in marketing." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1999. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7174.

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The research journal especially in marketing, is now not only the primary communication method, but is also used to evaluate an academic's research contribution. Measuring the quality of research journals has also become more complex as a result of the rapid increase in the number of journals published. In marketing research, scientists have professed the use of sophisticated or more sensitive techniques yet little has been done to improve the measurement of research journals. This thesis investigates the use of alternative measurement techniques to explore this important aspect of the academic environment. Historically two dominant methodologies have been used to measure the quality ofjournals: Peer review and Citation Analysis. However these methods have been criticised and academics have been sceptical of the results, taking the opinion that these methods create, bias in the results. Previous methods have also taken a one-dimensional view of journal quality with little time devoted to uncovering the criteria that governs that quality. The research applied marketing methodologies that combined qualitative and quantitative research techniques to explore the problem. Four critical research questions were examined in this study. What are the important elements of journal research standing? 38 items were found to be important elements ofjoumal research standing. Is journal research standing a multi-dimensional construct? Three underlying dimensions represented the construct journal research standing, these were Reputation, Reviewing Standards and Content Quality. Do academics acknowledge the multiple dimensions of journal research standing? Academics acknowledged the -differences -between dimensions for ten selected marketing journals. What moderating factors affect academic opinions of journal research standing? Academic attitudes towards a joutnal's research stdtiding are moderated by their country of origin, familiarity and research fit. Attitudes towards a journal may also be moderated when academics have a paper rejected from that particular journal.

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Sparring, Erik, and Elisabeth Lu. "Sjuksköterskors uppfattning av elektronisk dokumentation avseende tidsåtgång, teknik och vårdkvalitet." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-154251.

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Documentation in electronic journals is perceived as time consuming and sometimes technically difficult to handle, but also leads to an improved quality of care. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate nurses' perceptions of documentation with a focus on timing, technique and quality of care and whether any differences in these perceptions were dependent on age. Method: Quantitative descriptive cross-sectional study in the survey form, 28 nurses at a university hospital in central Sweden participated in the study. Regression analysis was performed with Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. Results: Electronic documentation takes 30 to 60 minutes for most nurses and half of them considered it a reasonable time. Computer skills were good enough for most, but the computers and the electronic patient record system Cosmic were experienced to work less well or badly in half the study group. Two-thirds of the studygroup agreed partly or more to that the quality of care is adversely affected because of the time documentation takes from the patient care. However, about half of the study group agreed that electronic patient records increase health care quality and patient safety. Care plans were used to a great extent. Young nurses rated themselves significantly better than the older ones to handle a computer in their daily work. Conclusion: A variety of problems and perceptions exist in connection with electronic documentation. Continuous development of technology, documentation systems and the use of care plans can contribute to the continuing high quality of care and patient safety. Dokumentation i elektronisk journal uppfattas som tidskrävande och ibland tekniskt svår att hantera, men leder även till en ökad vårdkvalitet. Syfte: Studiens syfte var att undersöka sjuksköterskors uppfattningar av dokumentering med fokus på tidsåtgång, teknik och vårdkvalitet samt om eventuella skillnader i dessa uppfattningar fanns beroende på ålder. Metod: Kvantitativ deskriptiv tvärsnittsstudie i enkätform, 28 sjuksköterskor vid ett universitetssjukhus i Mellansverige deltog i studien. Sambandsanalys utfördes med Spearmans rangkorrelationskoefficient. Resultat: Elektronisk dokumentation tar 30 till 60 minuter för de flesta sjuksköterskorna och hälften ansåg att detta var en rimlig tid. Datorvanan var tillräckligt god hos de flesta, men datorerna och dokumentationssystemet Cosmic upplevdes fungera mindre bra eller dåligt hos hälften av undersökningsgruppen. Två tredjedelar instämde delvis eller mer i att vårdkvalitén påverkas negativt på grund av den tid dokumentation tar från patientvården. Ungefär hälften instämde i att elektronisk dokumentation bidrar till en ökad vårdkvalité samt patientsäkerhet. Vårdplaner används i hög utsträckning. Yngre sjuksköterskor skattade sig signifikant bättre än äldre på att hantera en dator i det dagliga arbetet. Slutsats: Flera olika problem och uppfattningar föreligger i samband med elektronisk dokumentation. Kontinuerlig utveckling av tekniken, dokumentationssystemen och användandet av vårdplaner kan bidra till en fortsatt hög vårdkvalitet samt patientsäkerhet.

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ENNAS, GIANFRANCO. "Technological cycles, Meta-Ranking and Open Access Performance." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11584/266821.

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This thesis consists of three essays, linked by innovation, classification and change. In the first paper, I analyze a theoretical problem regarding the reemergence and affirmation of a technological paradigm over the others; in the second article, I propose a framework to aggregate journal rankings and classify academic journals; in the third essay I analyze the performance of Open Access journals, considered an innovative form of publishing, with the aim of identifying the main features of top-rated ones. More specifically, the first essay deals on the technological life cycle which explains how the battles between competing technologies sooner or later end with the dominance of one over the others, or, under certain conditions, with their coexistence. However, the practice points out that, sometimes, beaten technologies can re-emerge in the market. Firms dealing with technology investment decisions need to completely understand the competing technologies dynamics, because the emergence of an alternative and potentially superior technology does not necessarily mean the failure of the incumbent, and different scenario would be traced. Starting from the analysis of the microprocessor market and considering the relationships with complementary companies, I show how the battle for dominance between two rival technologies can be reopened with a new era of ferment. While factors of dominance have been explored by a great amount of literature, little has been said on this question. In particular, I find a non-conventional S-curve trend and I seek to explicate its managerial implication.The second chapter deals with ranking academic journals, an issue that during the years received several contribute from literature of Business and Management [DuBois and Reeb, 2000, Franke et al, 1990, Serenko and Bontis, 2004, Tüselmann et al, 2015, Werner, 2002]. Ranking journals is a longstanding problem and can be addressed quantitatively, qualitatively or using a combination of both approaches. In the last decades, the Impact Factor (i.e., the most known quantitative approach) has been widely questioned, and other indices have thus been developed and become popular. Previous studies have reported strengths and weaknesses of each index, and devised meta-indices to rank journals in a certain field of study. However, the proposed meta-indices exhibit some intrinsic limitations: (i) the indices to be combined are not always chosen according to well-grounded principles; (ii) combination methods are usually unweighted; and (iii) some of the proposed meta-indices are parametric, which requires assuming a specific underlying data distribution. I propose a data-driven methodology that linearly combines an arbitrary number of indices to produce an aggregated ranking, using different learning techniques to estimate the combining weights. I am also able to measure correlations and distances between indices and meta-indices in a vector space, to quantitatively evaluate their differences. The goal of the third essay, is to identify the features of top-rated gold open access (OA) journals by testing seven main variables: languages, countries, years of activity and years in the DOAJ repository, publication fee, the field of study, whether the journal has been launched as OA or converted, and the type of publisher. A sample of 1,910 gold OA journals has been obtained by combining SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) 2012, the DOAJ, and data provided by previous studies [Solomon, 2013]. I have divided the SJR index into quartiles for all journals' subject areas. First, I show descriptive statistics by combining quartiles based on their features. Then, after having converted the quartiles into a dummy variable, I test it as a dependent variable and in a binary logistic regression. This work contributes empirically to better understanding the gold OA efficacy, which may be helpful in improving journals' rankings in the areas where this is still a struggle. Significant results have been found for all variables, except for the types of publishers, and for born or converted journals.

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Poncio, Thiara Guimarães Heleno de Oliveira. "Avaliação da qualidade de vida do portador de hemofilia e implementação do diário de infusão." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/17/17155/tde-19072018-102650/.

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Pacientes com hemofilia apresentam predisposição a sangramentos, tanto póstraumáticos como espontâneos, que ocorrem, principalmente nas articulações (hemartroses) e quando recorrentes podem contribuir para o estabelecimento de artropatia hemofílica, o que torna a doença potencialmente incapacitante e dolorosa, e afeta consideravelmente a qualidade de vida (QV) dos portadores. Avaliar a QV desses pacientes dá-nos subsídio para propor medidas visando a melhoria da assistência prestada e o seu bem-estar. Nesse sentido, uma importante ferramenta é o diário de infusão. O objetivo do estudo foi avaliar a QV dos portadores de hemofilia acompanhados pelo ambulatório da Fundação HEMOMINAS no Hemonúcleo Manhuaçu, utilizando ferramentas específicas e implementar o uso do Diário de Infusão como estratégia para incrementar a assistência. Trata-se de um estudo quantitativo descritivo. Para a avaliação da QV, optou-se, por utilizar o modelo de classificação de saúde, denominado CIF proposto pela OMS. Os instrumentos utilizados incluem: questionário sociodemográfico; Haem-A-Qol; Haemo-Qol; HAL, PedHAL; HJHS e FISH. Participaram da pesquisa 30 pacientes, do sexo masculino, portadores de Hemofilia, o que representou 90,9% da amostra elegível. Nos pacientes maiores de 18 anos (n=24), a média de pontuação do Haem-A-Qol foi de 53,39. No HAL, a média foi de 67,26. Já no HJHS, a média foi de 37,33. No FISH, a média foi de 25,96. Nos menores de 18 anos, (n=06), o Haemo-Qol foi respondido por pacientes e seus pais. No questionário respondido pelo paciente o escore médio foi de 50,36, já dos pais, foi de 55,16. No PedHAL, o escore médio dos pacientes foi 88,59 e dos pais 83,15. A pontuação média no HJHS foi de 5,67. Com relação ao FISH, todos atingiram nota máxima. O Diário de Infusão foi construído e implantado como ferramenta para incrementar a assistência com vistas a estimular a melhora progressiva da QV. A QV dos pacientes acompanhados obteve resultados diferentes nas faixas etárias avaliadas, sendo que pacientes mais jovens alcançaram escores melhores. A realidade do manejo da hemofilia é desafiadora. É necessário reorientar o cuidado, o foco não deve ser a doença, é preciso olhar para o indivíduo, que deve ser assistido integralmente e de maneira holística. Patients with hemophilia are predisposed to bleeding, both post-traumatic as spontaneous, occurring mainly in the joints (hemarthrosis) and, when recurrent, they may contribute to the establishment of hemophilic arthropathy, which makes the disease potentially disabling and painful, and considerably affects the quality of life (QoL) of patients with the disease. Evaluate the QoL of these patients gives us the subsidy to provide measures that aim to improve the assistance provided and the patients well-being. In this regard, through an important edition of the infusion journal it is possible to follow the care provided. The aim of the study was to evaluate the quality of life of hemophilia patients followed by the HEMOMINAS Foundation clinic in Manhuaçu, using specific tools and implement the use of an Infusion Diary as a strategy to increase assistance. This is a descriptive quantitative study. For the evaluation of QoL, it was used the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health) proposed by the WHO. The tools include: a sociodemographic questionnaire; Haem-A-Qol; Haemo-Qol; HAL, pedHAL; HJHS e FISH. 30 male patients with hemophilia joined the study, which represented 90.9% of the eligible sample. In patients older than 18 years (n = 24), the Haem-A-Qol average score was 53.39. In the HAL, the average was 67.26. In the HJHS, the average score was 37.33. In the FISH, the average score was 25.96. In patients under 18 (n = 06), the Haemo-Qol was answered by patients and their parents. In the questionnaire answered by the patient the average score was 50.36, and in the parents\' score was 55.16. In PedHAL, the average score of the patients was 88.59 and their parents 83.15. The average score in the HJHS was 5.67. Regarding FISH, all patients under 18 years of age (n = 06) reached a maximum score and performed all activities without assistance. The journal of infusion was built and implemented as a tool to enhance the assistance, aiming to stimulate the progressive improvement of the quality of life. The quality of life of patients followed was different, younger ones with better results. The reality of hemophilia management is challenging. It is necessary to reorient care, the focus should not be in the disease, it is necessary to look for the individual, who should be fully assisted in the holistic way.

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Geisler, Elise. "Élaboration d'une méthode de qualification du paysage sonore. Le cas des quartiers durables allemands Kronsberg et Vauban." Phd thesis, AgroParisTech, 2011. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00778754.

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Cette thèse cherche à faire progresser la prise en compte de la qualité de l'environnement sonore dans le cadre de projets de quartiers durables, en s'appuyant sur la notion de paysage et sur ses évolutions récentes. L'intégration de la dimension sonore du paysage dans la réflexion aménagiste permet de mieux comprendre les rapports que les habitants entretiennent avec leurs territoires de vie, et donc d'intervenir de manière opérationnelle avec plus de pertinence sur la qualité de vie en ville. La spécificité de cette recherche réside dans son approche, ni épidémiologique de l'environnement sonore telle qu'elle est menée actuellement par les politiques publiques, ni esthétisante du paysage, mais fondée sur le vécu sonore quotidien des habitants. Cette démarche nécessite la mobilisation d'outils appropriés pour décrire, interpréter et expliquer le paysage sonore dans sa globalité et à une échelle locale - celle du quartier. Une méthode de qualification du paysage sonore a donc été élaborée à partir du recoupement :* des discours d'acteurs des projets, recueillis lors d'entretiens semi-directifs et de l'étude de documents (le paysage raisonné) ;* d'un diagnostic urbanistique et paysager, effectué à partir de l'étude de documents, de relevés, de photographies et d'enregistrements audio (le paysage sonnant);* et pour la plus grande partie, d'entretiens auprès des habitants, de parcours commentés, de cartes mentales et de journaux sonores (le paysage auditif). L'ensemble a permis de qualifier les paysages sonores des quartiers durables allemands Kronsberg (Hanovre) et Vauban (Fribourg) à partir d'éléments comme les marqueurs sonores, les indicateurs de qualité sonore et une typologie sensible des lieux. Ces derniers sont révélateurs de la manière de vivre et de s'approprier l'environnement sonore des habitants et peuvent servir de leviers aux concepteurs et aux acteurs de l'aménagement dans le cadre de projets urbains et de paysage.

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Gorman, G. E., and Philip J. Calvert. "LIS Journal Quality: Results of a Study for the IFLA Library and Information Science Section presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA General Conference and Council, 1-9 August 2003, Berlin, Germany." IFLA, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105109.

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Cutler, Sarah L. ""An irresistible invitation" : enhancing academic publication in rhetoric and composition by inviting online peer commentary /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2945.pdf.

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Gratton, Carolane. "Requiem pour un journal Étude comparative de la qualité de l’information au Journal de Montréal et au journal électronique ruefrontenac.com." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30722.

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Avec la concentration de la propriété des entreprises de presse et la convergence du contenu et des ressources, les journalistes voient leur liberté professionnelle et leur autonomie de travail diminuer au profit de la liberté des entreprises de presse. Dans cette optique, notre projet de recherche se penche sur la question de l’impact du contexte organisationnel des entreprises de presse sur la qualité de l’information. Nous avons effectué une étude de cas qui compare le contenu d’articles publiés par un même groupe de journalistes au Journal de Montréal et à ruefrontenac.com, un site d’information qu’ils ont créé durant leur conflit de travail. Notre hypothèse était que la qualité de l’information était meilleure sous ruefrontenac.com qu’au Journal de Montréal parce que les journalistes y possédaient plus de liberté. Nous avons effectué des entrevues semi-dirigées avec 10 journalistes qui ont travaillé pour ces deux organes de presse et nous avons comparé la qualité de l’information d’articles qu’ils y ont publiés. Les résultats obtenus ont confirmé notre hypothèse de départ et ont indiqué que le principal indicateur affecté par le changement de contexte organisationnel était celui de l’intérêt public. Cette étude est pertinente et contribue à l’avancement des connaissances, puisqu’elle met en lumière comment différents contextes de travail peuvent affecter la qualité de l’information, le droit d’accès du public à l’information et, par le fait même, la démocratie.

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Zehrer, Anita. "Evaluating research performance in tourism the quality of tourism journals." Hamburg Kovač, 2005. http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-3062-1.htm.

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Hu, Xiao Xia Public Health &amp Community Medicine Faculty of Medicine UNSW. "Improving quality while reducing cost : an innovation journey." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, 2003. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20464.

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Background: Many innovative ideas have been proposed to manage and improve the quality and cost of clinical care. For many innovations, like Total Quality Management (TQM), the &quotblack box&quot of implementation process is not well understood. Empirical work on the process of innovation implementation in health care is limited. Objective: This study was designed to explore how one organisation, Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an acute and primary health care provider in the USA, innovates in implementing TQM organisation-wide to improve and manage clinical quality. More broadly, the study aims to identify factors that contribute to innovation implementation in health care for clinical quality improvement, and to generate a model of innovation implementation in health care for clinical quality improvement. Method: This thesis takes a case study approach using multiple research methods. The main methods used comprise interviews with key personnel, assessment of organisational documents and a survey of clinicians' and managers' attitudes and beliefs. Findings: The main finding of the research is that innovation implementation at IHC was a journey, not a destination. Embedded in the journey were five periods and many actions and interactions, grouped into eleven elements. The five periods were: exposing to an innovative idea, embracing the idea, extending knowledge and experience on the idea, emerging of strategies to implement the idea organisation-wide, and enacting and adapting the strategies. The eleven elements were: gestation, shocks, plan, proliferation, fluid participation, setbacks, criteria shift, top executive involvement, relationships and infrastructure building, and adoption. To implement TQM organization-wide, integrated structures and systems were being instituted. The study found that resistance to change came from not only some physicians but also hospital administrators. The study also found that supportive environments played a critical role in the journey. While the TQM implementation at IHC resulted in some cost savings and some behavioural changes including clinical practice change, cultural change at the level of values and beliefs had yet to occur. Conclusion: A process-oriented integrative model of clinical service management is proposed. The elements of an innovation, the temporal change processes, lead to formation and changes of the ongoing organisational processes, which in turn evaluate and improve the important clinical processes. These processes integrate TQM with other quality improvement approaches; also ensure that quality is part of the dialogue between key stakeholders who are responsible for managing and improving clinical quality and costs. These processes also are capable of dealing with dilemmas faced in health care and the constantly created managerial ideas and clinical knowledge. Key Words: Innovation, Clinical Outcomes, Knowledge, Quality and Costs, TQM Management

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Nortunen, T. (Terhi). "The teacher effect in quality ecec:a review into the concept of quality in four research journals in 2010–2016." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201611253114.

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Varhaiskasvatuslain uudistus vaikuttaa erityisesti varhaiskasvatuksen opettajien vastuuseen, osaamistarpeisiin ja työhyvinvointiin. Uudistuksen aikaan vallinneen laatukäsityksen hahmottamiseksi, tarkastellaan tutkielmassa laadun määritelmää viime aikaisessa kansainvälisessä tutkimuksessa erityisesti opettajan osaamisen merkityksen näkökulmasta. Tutkielma on kirjoitettu artikkelimuotoon. Tutkimukseen sovellettiin systemaattisen kirjallisuuskatsauksen menetelmää ja kuvattiin dokumentoidun prosessin vaiheet. Tuloksissa esiteltiin laadun määritelmät neljään näkökulmaan jaettuna, joista jokaisessa opettajalla on keskeinen rooli: 1. Opetuksen järjestämisen näkökulma: minkälainen opetusohjelma ja opetuksen järjestäjä on? 2. Oppimistulosten näkökulma: minkälaisia taitoja lapset oppivat? 3. Lasten elämänlaadun näkökulma: miten lapset kokevat varhaiskasvatuksen? 4. Merkityksen antamisen näkökulma: millaisia merkityksiä lapset saavat varhaiskasvatuksen tilanteissa? Tulokset osoittivat, että opettajien pedagoginen osaaminen vaikuttaa varhaiskasvatuksen laatuun laatu-käsitteen näkökulmasta riippumatta.

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Buchet, Brigette S. "Electronic publishing and information quality : academic journals and how the electronic medium changes them /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2004. http://www.unisg.ch/www/edis.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/2864.

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Blumtritt, Ute, and Martin Bauschmann. "Die Rolle der Universitätsbibliothek als Open Access Manager der Technischen Universität Chemnitz." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:ch1-qucosa-187588.

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Die Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz – als zentrale Informations-Service-Einrichtung der TU – stellt sich der wandelnden Entwicklung in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie durch die Möglichkeiten des Internets. Der Anteil der im Open Access veröffentlichten Artikel steigt weltweit. An der TU Chemnitz waren es 2014 bereits 10% des Gesamtartikelaufkommens. Das Open-Access-Team unterstützt die Wissenschaftler bei der Auswahl geeigneter Journale bzw. Verlage, berät bei der Klärung rechtlicher Fragen und bei der Finanzierung von Veröffentlichungen. Einfache Workflows, transparente Verfahren und standardisierte Softwareumgebungen kennzeichnen die Dienstleistung. Das Beratungs- und Marketingkonzept auf Basis der Qualitätssicherung, beinhaltet verschiedenste Kommunikationswege und vertieft damit das Verständnis und die Akzeptanz für die freie Verfügbarkeit wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse The University Library Chemnitz, as the central provider of information services at the TU Chemnitz, embraces the possibilities of the world wide web in changing the nature of information and communication patterns. The digital transformation is accompanied by the growth of Open Access publishing in the global scientific community. At the TU Chemnitz, 10 per cent of all research papers published in 2014 were immediately made available through Open Access. The Open Access Team of the University Library supports scientists and scholars by helping with the selection of suitable Open Access journals for publication, by funding Open Access publications and by providing guidance on licensing and legal technicalities. Clear and simple workflows, transparent procedures and standardised software platforms characterise the services activities. The consulting and marketing concept, through a distinct focus on quality assurance, serves to foster the comprehension and the acceptance for the free distribution of scientific knowledge among all members of the TU Chemnitz

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Chauvin, Anthony. "Développement et évaluation d'interventions visant à améliorer le processus de « peer-review » en recherche biomédicale The most important tasks for peer reviewers evaluating a randomized controlled trial are not congruent with the tasks most often requested by journal editors Impact of interventions to improve the quality of peer review of biomedical journals: a systematic review and meta-analysis A protocol of a cross-sectional study evaluating an online tool for early career peer reviewers assessing reports of randomised controlled trials." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCB215.

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Le processus de « peer-review » est considéré comme la pierre angulaire de la publication scientifique. Or, des travaux ont démontré que les évaluations des peer-reviewers sont souvent discordantes, qu’ils ne parviennent pas à détecter la fraude, les erreurs et que leur évaluation est influencée par les résultats. L’objectif de ce travail de thèse était d’explorer et de repenser le processus de la peer-review éditoriale. Dans un premier temps, nous avons identifié les tâches attendues des peer-reviewers lors de l'évaluation d'un manuscrit rapportant un essai contrôlé randomisé et, comparé l’importance de ces tâches selon le point de vue des peer-reviewers et des éditeurs. Notre étude a permis de démontrer que les tâches les plus importantes pour les peer-reviewers n'étaient pas conformes aux tâches les plus souvent demandées par les éditeurs. Dans un deuxième temps, nous avons réalisé une revue systématique ainsi qu’une méta-analyse des essais contrôlés randomisés évaluant une intervention visant à améliorer la qualité de la peer-review dans les journaux biomédicaux. Nous avons identifié 22 essais contrôlés randomisés qui ont évalué 5 interventions. Ces essais incluaient un faible nombre de participants, étaient pour la majorité monocentriques, et avaient des biais qui limitaient l’interprétation de leurs résultats. Enfin, nous avons développé et évalué un outil d’aide à la réalisation de la peer-review d’essais randomisés, associé à une formation en ligne. Cet outil vise spécifiquement à évaluer la qualité de la présentation des essais, c’est-à-dire le respect des recommandations du CONSORT statement (i.e., recommandations internationales exigées par les éditeurs pour rapporter les essais randomisés de façon complète et transparente). Nous avons comparé la performance de jeunes peer-reviewers formés utilisant l’outil, avec la performance de reviewers ayant évalué le manuscrit dans le cadre du processus de peer-review classique. Nous avons inclus 120 essais contrôlés randomisés. Nos résultats ont mis en évidence que l'outil a amélioré le nombre d’items correctement classés par manuscrit par les jeunes peer-reviewers. Cette constatation suggère que l'utilisation d'une checklist de type CONSORT se focalisant sur certains items précis pourrait améliorer la qualité du processus de peer-review, et donc la qualité du manuscrit publié. À l’issue de ce travail, nous proposons de repenser le processus de peer-review qui pourrait être réalisé en 2 étapes avec : des peer-reviewers juniors évaluant le respect des recommandations du CONSORT statement et des reviewers expérimentés évaluant la méthodologie et la pertinence de la question The peer-review process is a cornerstone of biomedical research publication. However, studies have shown that peer-reviewers' evaluations are often discordant, that they fail to detect fraud, errors and that their evaluation is influenced by the results. The objective of this thesis work was to explore and rethink the process of peer-review editorial. As a first step, we identified the tasks expected of peer-reviewers when evaluating a randomized controlled trial report and compared the importance of these tasks from the points of view of peer-reviewers and editors. Our study showed that the most important tasks for peer reviewers were not congruent with the tasks most often requested by journal editors in theirs guidelines to reviewers. In a second step, we conducted a systematic review and a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials evaluating an intervention aimed at improving the quality of peer-review in biomedical journals. We identified 22 randomized controlled trials that evaluated 5 interventions. These trials included a small number of participants, were mostly monocentric and had biases that limited the interpretation of their results. Finally, we have developed and evaluated a tool to help achieve the peer-review of randomized trials associated with online training. This tool is specifically aimed at evaluating the quality of the reporting that means the compliance with the recommendations of the CONSORT statement (i.e., international recommendations required by publishers to report randomized trials in a complete and transparent manner). We compared the performance of young trained peer-reviewers using the tool with the performance of reviewers evaluating the manuscript as part of the usual peer-review process. We included 120 randomized controlled trials. Our results showed that the tool improved the number of items correctly classified per manuscript by young peer-reviewers. This finding suggests that the use of a CONSORT checklist focusing on specific items could improve the quality of the peer-review process, and thus the quality of the published manuscript. At the end of this work, we propose to rethink the peer-review process that could be carried out in 2 stages with junior peer-reviewers assessing compliance with the recommendations of the CONSORT statement and experienced reviewers evaluating the methodology and relevance of the question

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Nascimento, Carla Cristina do. "Revistas científicas: a busca pela qualidade e indicadores bibliométricos." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27151/tde-19012015-161302/.

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Revisar a literatura científica com vistas à análise do conceito e dos critérios de qualidade para revistas científicas, quais os principais trabalhos, quais tipos de mensuração ou quantificação da qualidade são apresentados, além de estudo bibliométrico da literatura recuperada. Método: O tipo de estudo foi documental utilizando uma abordagem parcial da revisão integrativa. A coleta de dados foi realizada nas bases Web of Science, SciELO, Scopus, BVS, Portal de Periódicos CAPES, E-Lis, LISA, ISTA e BRAPSI abrangendo o período de 2003 a 2013. A cobertura sobre a temática compôs um corpus de 69 artigos originais de pesquisa. Resultados: O conceito de qualidade é pouco mencionado pelos os pesquisadores. Os critérios de qualidade estão baseados no cumprimento dos aspectos formais, na seleção do melhor conteúdo e na eficiente gestão dos processos. Vários indicadores bibliométricos estão sendo pesquisados, mas muitos com foco em índices de citação; os que tiveram reconhecimento pela comunidade científica já foram incorporados às bases de dados. A Espanha é o país que lidera as pesquisas sobre a temática, principalmente com trabalhos realizados pela Universidade de Valência e pelo Conselho Superior de Pesquisas Científicas. Conclusão: A profissionalização da gestão das revistas é a forte tendência para conquistar e manter a qualidade nas perspectivas dos leitores, autores, editores e avaliadores. A literatura reflete que grande parte das revistas brasileiras ainda não cumpre os aspectos formais. Na Espanha, o foco é a questão do conteúdo científico e indicadores bibliométricos. Em países da América do Norte, Europa e Ásia o foco atual são os indicadores bibliométricos. To review the scientific literature with a view to analyzing the concept and criteria of quality for scientific journals, which major works, what types of measurement or quantification of quality are presented, as well as bibliometric study of literature retrieved. Method: The study was kind of document using a partial approach to integrative review. Data collection was performed in the Web of Science, SciELO, Scopus, VHL Journal Portal CAPES, E-Lis, LISA, ISTA and BRAPSI bases covering the period 2003-2013. Coverage on the subject composed a corpus of 69 original research articles. Results: The concept of quality is somewhat explained by the researchers. The quality criteria are based on compliance with formal aspects in selecting the best content and the efficient management of processes. Several bibliometric indicators are being researched, but many focused on citation indexes; the recognition that the scientific community had already been incorporated into the database. Spain is the country that leads the research on the topic, especially with work carried out by the University of Valencia and the Higher Council for Scientific Research. Conclusion: The professionalization of management journals\' strong tendency to gain and maintain the quality from the perspectives of readers, authors, editors and reviewers. The literature reflects that most Brazilian magazines still does not meet the formal aspects. In Spain, the focus is the question of the scientific content and bibliometric indicators. Countries in North America, Europe and Asia are the current focus on bibliometric indicators.

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Agha, Riaz Ahmed. "Developing evidence-based plastic surgery : the role of research registration, protocols and reporting quality." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e09e93bd-6856-4108-8e4b-9bb48fb52bc2.

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BACKGROUND: Evidence-based medicine has had a profound impact on healthcare. In the field of Plastic surgery, powerful examples include; less radical skin cancer excision margins and skin-sparing or even nipple-sparing mastectomies and microsurgical reconstruction. Sustained progression of the field, relies on the development of a high-quality evidence base, with strong use of peer-reviewed research protocols, which are publicly registered and completed studies transparently reported. The extent of compliance with these principles is currently unknown and the author hypothesised that it would be low. The author further hypothesised that registration could be improved by the development of a new global research registry and reporting quality can be improved by the mandatory implementation of reporting guidelines in a journal. METHODS: This thesis incorporated 11 studies. The first two studies used a literature review to determine; the levels of evidence, rates of study registration and protocol publication in the recent Plastic Surgery literature. Thirdly, the design, build and launch of a new global research registry to boost compliance with registration and to determine barriers to it using a survey amongst users. This would be followed by systematic reviews to determine compliance with the STROBE and PRISMA guidelines respectively. An analysis of each guide for authors (GFA) of the surgical journals listed in the Thomson Reuters journal citation report for surgery to determine support for reporting guidelines. The impact of the mandatory implementation of reporting guidelines in a surgical journal would be assessed using a before and after design. Finally, to develop a reporting guideline for surgical case reports (SCARE) and surgical case series (PROCESS) using a DELPHI consensus exercise amongst an expert panel. RESULTS: Protocols were registered in 4% of 595 recent research studies and 0.5% were published. There was a mean compliance of 12/22 for the STROBE guideline (n=94) and 16/27 for the PRISMA guideline (n=79). The Research Registry® was launched in February 2015. Analysis of the first 500 previously unregistered studies, showed they came from 57 countries and included 1.77 million patients. Key barriers to registration were a lack of awareness of the need to register and lack of time (n=149). In addition, 45% registered their study at the time of journal submission. The GFA analysis showed 62% didnât mention reporting guidelines at all (n=193). Subsequent mandatory implementation in a single surgical journal, increased compliance with STROBE by 12% (n=152), with CONSORT by 40% (n=13) and with PRISMA by 58% (n=28). The SCARE and PROCESS reporting guidelines were developed and published in late 2016. According to Google Scholar, they have accumulated over 200 citations at the time of writing. CONCLUSION: Study registration, protocol use and reporting quality are poor in plastic surgery. Potential solutions to these long-standing problems have been developed and explored within this thesis. These include the development and use of the Research RegistryÂ® and the mandatory implementation of reporting guidelines, with both measures front-loaded within a gatekeeper framework for journals. It is now for Plastic Surgeons and the wider surgical community to pick up the gauntlet and drive forward high-quality research, evidence-based surgical practice and better outcomes for their patients and society at large.

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ETEMADY, QESHMY DANIAL, and JACOB MAKDISI. "Human error management 4.0 : Augmented Reality Systems as a tool in the quality journey." Thesis, KTH, Industriell Management, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-239544.

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The manufacturing industry is shifting, entering a new era with smart and connected devices. The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) is promising increased growth and productivity by the Smart Factory and within the enabling technologies is Augmented Reality (AR). This is a technology that can be used to augment the reality with digital information. At the same time as the technology is introduced, errors in manufacturing are a problem which are affecting the productivity and the quality. The errors can be caused by humans and companies strive to eliminate the errors caused by humans. This research aims to find the main causes of human errors in assembly lines and thereafter explores whether AR is an appropriate tool to be used in order to address those issues. Based on a literature review that identified and characterized a preliminary set of root causes for human errors in assembly lines, these causes were empirically studied in an exercise that covered an in-depth case study at a multinational automotive company. Data in form of interviews and deviation reports have been used to identify the causing factors and the result showed that the main causes of human errors are the amount of thinking, deciding and searching for information which affected the cognitive load of the operator and in result their performance. Several interviews with experts in AR allowed to verify if this technology would be feasible to solve or mitigate the found causes. Besides that, in repetitive manual assembly operations, AR is better used showing the process in order to train new operators, at the same time as for experienced operators AR show information only when an error occurs and when there is a need of taking an active choice is more appropriate. Nevertheless, while theoretically able to managing human error when fully developed, the desired application makes the augmentation of visual objects redundant and increasingly complex for solving the identified causes of errors which questions the appropriateness of using AR systems. However, the empirical findings showed that for managing human errors, the main bottleneck of an AR system is the software and AI. Den tillverkande industrin skiftar och går in i en ny era där smart och uppkopplad teknologi introduceras i de operativa delarna av tillverkningen. Denna fjärde industriella revolution (Industry 4.0) som den även kallas för med smarta fabriker, utlovar ökad produktivitet och tillväxt. Bland de teknologier som representeras i detta nya landskap återfinns Augmented Reality (AR), vilket är en teknik som används för att förstärka verkligheten med digital information. I samband med att denna nya teknik introduceras, är avvikelser i produktion ett problem som påverkar företags produktivitet och kvalitet. Den mänskliga faktorn är en bidragande del till detta problem och företag strävar efter att eliminera felen orsakade av människor. Denna studie syftar till att hitta orsakerna till att människor orsakar fel i produktion och därefter utforska om AR är ett lämpligt verktyg att använda för att råda bot på dessa orsaker och därmed eliminera felen. Genom en litteraturstudie har det identifierats ett antal faktorer som påverkar den mentala belastningen hos människor i produktionssammanhang. Dessa faktorer har därefter undersökts genom en fallstudie hos en multinationell tillverkare av kommersiella fordon. Datainsamling i form av intervjuer och avvikelsedata har använts för att identifiera de påverkande faktorerna och resultaten pekade på att behovet av att behöva tänka, leta efter information och fatta beslut påverkade den mentala belastningen mest. Intervjuer hölls med forskare och montörer för att definiera en lämplig AR funktion som sedan undersöktes genom flera intervjuer med forskare inom AR för att verifiera om AR är en lämplig teknik att använda för de identifierade orsakerna. I termer av AR i en arbetsmiljö med repetitiva aktiviteter efterfrågas en funktion som visualiserar fel för montörer som är erfarna medan det för oerfarna montörer är bättre med visualisering av hela arbetsprocessen. Men, trots att systemet i teorin är lämpligt att använda för att hantera orsakerna till att felen uppstår så är den efterfrågade funktionen överflödig då visualisering kommer visas väldigt sällan samt att tekniken är väldigt komplex. Detta gör att det går att ifrågasätta hela funktionen av att använda AR system i det fall som studerades. Dessutom visade sig tekniken vara olämplig att använda i den miljö fallet utspelar sig i på grund av svårigheter med artificiell intelligens (AI).

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Khanna, Rebecca E. "The journey of course approval : hitting the target but missing the point?" Thesis, Coventry University, 2011. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/b0cdf6c8-7963-4e7a-8f50-b4312f0a9c50/1.

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Whilst a significant body of research exists related to quality assurance in UK higher education (HE), few questions appear to have been raised about the commonplace practice of validation or approval of degree courses. Overall, current research tends to focus on complications arising from the procedural effects of the process, rather than exploring ways that staff dealt with the demands of these systems. This study examined staff experiences of course approval within Allied Health Profession degree courses in a UK university. The research focused on how governance structures surrounding the regulation of health professionals and universities shaped the practice(s) of approval, alongside ways in which this experience affected staff. Influenced by the work of theorists in critical and social theory traditions, this indepth study adopted narrative inquiry. Purposive sampling was used to locate twelve participants and included academics, manager-academics, staff who worked in professional bodies and within teams supporting quality in HE. In order to examine the issues related to the approval process, data was collected through interview conversations, participants’ drawings and prose, along with documentary analysis. This research revealed the narrative of approval as complex and akin to a journey involving a series of challenges, contradictions and multiplicity of stakeholders. Interpretation of the data illustrated that those participating were both constituted by, and contributed to the nature of approval. In other words, rather than being docile recipients’ of policy, it was apparent that staff appeared to take various approaches to thinking, acting and relating. A sense of adopting a position (termed here as positional identities) emerged and influenced not only participants’ journey through the approval process, but also that of others, as well as the shape and nature of courses being approved. Four positional identities were identified, namely: the Governance Trustee, Professional Guardian, Enabling Strategist and Boundary Broker. Each of these positions was subsequently explored through an exploratory conceptual map of positional identity. The emergent map stimulated the re-assessment of current conditions. Consequently, future possibilities in which approval scenarios may evolve are presented. Considering how policy changes within HE have promoted increasingly performative practices, and the ways in which participants in approval events have presented them ‘selves’, it is likely that the positional identities adopted by staff here may have resonance for academics across the sector, and that this study will inform wider debates about policy and validation of courses within HE in general.

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Müller, Uwe Thomas. "Peer-Review-Verfahren zur Qualitätssicherung von Open-Access-Zeitschriften." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15885.

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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Problematik der Qualitätssicherung beim wissenschaftlichen Publizieren umfassend diskutiert. Dabei werden die spezifischen Charakteristika hervorgehoben, die sich aus dem elektronischen Publizieren, Open-Access-basierter Geschäftsmodelle und insbesondere bei der Realisierung von Open-Access-Zeitschriften ergeben. Aus den unterschiedlichen Ansätzen, die für die Qualitätsbewertung und deren wesentliche Zielstellung – die Herausfilterung relevanter und geprüfter Informationen – infrage kommen, werden vor allem die Peer-Review-Verfahren näher betrachtet. In diesem Zusammenhang werden Schwachpunkte und prinzipielle Kritik an Peer Review aufgezählt und in den Kontext der bisherigen Untersuchungen auf diesem Gebiet gesetzt. Wesentlicher Bestandteil der Arbeit ist eine Klassifikation von Peer-Review-Verfahren anhand unterschiedlicher Eigenschaften und deren möglicher Ausprägungen. Obwohl Peer Review seit Jahrzehnten Gegenstand teils grundsätzlicher Kritik ist, wird dieser Ansatz noch immer als Mittel der Wahl für die vor der Publikation stattfindende Qualitätssicherung betrachtet. Währenddessen stehen die stets an Bedeutung gewinnenden Open-Access-Zeitschriften unter dem Verdacht, geringere Qualitätsmaßstäbe anzusetzen und Artikel zu publizieren, die zuvor keine oder eine weniger strenge Kontrolle durchlaufen haben. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurde für die vorliegende Arbeit eine umfassende Studie durchgeführt, die darauf abzielt, Peer-Review-Verfahren wissenschaftlicher Open-Access-Zeitschriften zu untersuchen. Unter Nutzung der durch das Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) bereitgestellten Daten wurden mehr als 3.000 Herausgeber befragt. Mit einer Rücklaufquote von mehr als 40 % können die gefundenen Ergebnisse als durchaus repräsentativ betrachtet werden. Sie zeigen deutlich, dass die meisten Open-Access-Zeitschriften Peer-Review-Verfahren einsetzen und legen außerdem nahe, dass eine große Bandbreite unterschiedlicher Verfahren und Eigenschaften von Peer Review existieren – etwa die gegenseitige Anonymität von Autoren und Gutachtern, der Informationsfluss, das Verfahren zur Auswahl der Gutachter und formale Regelungen in Bezug auf mögliche Interessenkonflikte. Dabei hängt das Aussehen eines konkreten Peer-Review-Verfahrens wesentlich von dem Wissenschaftsgebiet und der Art des Verlegers der betreffenden Zeitschrift ab. Darüber hinaus können Zusammenhänge zwischen externen Qualitätsindikatoren und Peer-Review-Eigenschaften beobachtet werden. The present work broadly discusses the problem of quality assurance in the field of scholarly publishing. It highlights the specific characteristics resulting from electronic publishing, business models based on Open Access, and particularly Open Access Journals. Out of the different approaches for quality assessment and its fundamental purpose – filtering relevant and audited information – mainly peer review processes are examined in detail. In this context weak points and basic criticisms on peer review are enumerated and subsequently discussed with respect to known studies in this field. As a major part the present work contains a classification of peer review processes regarding different properties and its potential values. Although it has been subject to fundamental criticism for decades peer review is still widely considered to be the method of choice for pre-publication quality assurance in scholarly publishing. Meanwhile, open access journals which increasingly appear within the scholarly publication market regularly raise suspicion to follow lower quality standards and to publish articles which have passed no or less rigorous editorial examination. Against this background the present work presents a comprehensive survey which aims at analyzing peer review processes of scholarly open access journals. Using the data provided by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) more than 3.000 editors have been asked to participate. With an overall return rate of about 40 % the resulting findings can be considered as highly representative. They clearly show that most open access journals actually apply peer review processes. Moreover, the analysis indicates that there exists a broad variety of different procedures and characteristics constituting peer review, includ-ing reciprocal anonymity between authors and reviewers, information flow, the reviewer selection process, and formal settlements as for conflicts of interest. Thereby, the nature of the applied peer review process strongly depends on the scholarly discipline of the respective journal and its publisher. In addition, correlations between external quality indicators and peer review properties could be observed.

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Hong, Wai-fong Kuby. "From the chef's table : a case study on the TQM journey of the largest inflight caterer in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19872409.

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Skea, Derek. "Community based care and quality of life in learning difficulties and dementia : a research journey." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2018. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/620808/.

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This commentary aims to convey my publications on community based care and Quality of Life (QOL), in Learning Difficulties (LD), and Dementia care. My rationale through this journey aims to critique my earlier observation, assessments, and interview findings and theory, in research care practices and policy. I further argue for reconceptualising care and QOL research methodology, underpinned by phenomenological theory and research focussing on service user lived experience and open dialogue between care disciplines. My contributions to knowledge in LD focuses on service user life experiences and varying QOL in private sector care homes, and observation of differences in quality of interaction in day-centre settings. Life experiences in LD residential care significantly changes over time in relationships; opportunities and freedom of choice, comparing poorly with the general population. The LD residential care research and LD day-centre observation is critiqued drawing on Social Role Valorisation (SRV) theory, and objective and subjective QOL. My Dementia research compares traditional, enhanced traditional and social models of care by setting. The social model provides more choice, control, recreation, privacy and social interaction, than traditional and enhanced-traditional models. Further work shows significant gender differences in interactions with staff in Dementia care. A lack of implementation of policy concerning a normal community based life in LD, is noted in residential and day-centre care. The social model setting's policies and practice in Dementia care, is noted as more 'enlightened' and showing more positive interaction. Gender disparity findings in care interactions in Dementia is salient to practice and policy intervention, and my subsequent training program relates directly to practice by addressing quality of interaction training. My epistemic 'shift' escapes the 'natural sciences' method by proposing discursive and phenomenological enquiry into lived experiences of service users, in a practice and policy context of trans-disciplinary discourse promoting relational and compassionate care.

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Frickx, Gretchen P. "The Academic Quality Improvement Program Journey| The Impact of Continuous Improvement Practices on Effectiveness Measures." Thesis, Benedictine University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10035900.

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Higher education institution performance has been brought to the forefront of the public policy arena by the spread of performance funding, the articulation of the Completion Agenda, and Congressional hearings on higher education. Debate over which entities should be responsible for monitoring the performance of higher education institutions as well as which measures are to be used has intensified. Currently, this oversight falls to institutional accrediting agencies that require institutions to meet established criteria, including the development of a culture of evidence and the pursuit of institutional effectiveness. To achieve and maintain accreditation, institutions must provide evidence demonstrating their adoption of a continuous improvement process. Higher education institutions have a variety of continuous improvement frameworks from which to choose to improve quality and effectiveness in their processes and ultimately, their outcomes. There is; however, little research to identify how a framework might relate to organizational effectiveness performance. Accreditation provides a unique framework to higher education. The Higher Learning Commission-North Central Association (HLC), a regional accrediting agency, has created the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), an integrated approach to developing a culture of continuous improvement and supplying institutional accountability information. This study investigated the relationship between higher education institutions’ continuous improvement planning processes and institutional performance measures of graduation, transfer out and first year retention rates for AQIP participating institutions, using a correlational explanatory research design and publicly available secondary data sets. The target population for this study consisted of US higher education institutions utilizing continuous improvement frameworks or similar professional standards. The sample selected was a purposeful convenience sample consisting of all 186 institutions currently participating in the AQIP accreditation process in the Higher Learning Commission region. The AQIP Systems Appraisal Reports were analyzed and the continuous improvement planning evaluations aggregated to develop independent variables. The dependent variables of graduation, transfer out and first year retention were selected to represent organizational effectiveness measures. Graduation, transfer out and retention rate data are collected annually as part of the IPEDS survey. Findings showed that institutional characteristics such as sector, size and location had a greater impact on organizational effectiveness measures than continuous improvement practices. In addition, this study explored a unique approach to inter-rater reliability with respect to team generated documents.

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Wahlig, Jeni L. "Journey to success: Lessons from successful same-sex couples." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1485771121708431.

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Mohlin, Daniel, and Thomas Borgmäster. "A Qualitative Journey : How to develop the quality of Swedish public bus transport by public-private cooperation." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-180250.

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The Swedish public bus transport sector is showing a negative development as costs are escalating and the number of passengers is stagnating. Based on theories in Public-Private Partnerships and inter-organizational cooperation, this paper presents an exploratory study how the cooperation between public and private actors affects the quality of public bus transport. Evidence shows that the negative development in the sector is mainly due to the nature of the contracts between public and private actors. Despite the contracts, two of four cases have increased their quality and public welfare through cooperation between the actors.The results highlight the importance of customizing the cooperation based on each actors´ driving force in the contract. Additionally are detailed goal setting and a clear inter-organizational structure strongly correlating with increased quality, finally is trust identified as a corner stone for the construction of a successful cooperation.

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Whitehead, Clifford R. "Describing the journey to total quality management in public education : a qualitative study of three public schools /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488196781732036.

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MAUCERI, MANUELA. "Journey through fields of ageing perceptions, experiences and representations in different environmental contexts, in Italy and Spain." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Catania, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11769/490842.

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Today more than ever, ageing represents not only a demographic challenge, but also a psycho-social one. In fact, conscious of the quantitative substance of phenomenon it is more than important how to add quality to a much longer present life than in the past. Hence, issue should be coped with in terms of subjective well-being and life environment as well. We conducted two researches. In the first one, we aimed at deepening ageing from the elderly people s point of view; firstly, we conducted a study involving 220 elderly people who lived in Sicily (Italy); secondly, we replicated the same study in a different context, involving 120 elderly people who lived in Extremadura (Spain). In the second research, we were interested in exploring ageing and elderly from younger people s point of view. Also in this case, primarily we conducted a study involving university students who lived in Sicily and then, the same study was replicated involving university students who lived in Extremadura. Taken together, researches showed that a general social context that welcomes seniors may result in individuals who live their age better and this would be true also for the elderly. In other words, a favorable life environment, both in objective and subjective and inter-subjective terms may result in elderly individuals having a better self-perception.

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Lajeunesse, Lyse. "La perception de la qualité de la langue au Québec de 1960 à 1992 d'après les opinions publiées dans la Presse." Sherbrooke : Université de Sherbrooke, 1997.

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Costa, Ana Ludmila Freire. "Publica??o e avalia??o de peri?dicos cient?ficos: paradoxos da classifica??o Qualis em Psicologia." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2006. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/17430.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:38:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaLFC.pdf: 456581 bytes, checksum: f65ab373e503e63de2629bbf3e41ce90 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-06-23 Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico Recently, Brazilian scientific production has increased greatly, due to demands for productivity from scientific agencies. However, this high increases requires a more qualified production, since it s essential that publications are relevant and original. In the psychological field, the assessment scientific journals of the CAPES/ANPEPP Commission had a strong effect on the scientific community and raised questions about the chosen evaluation method. Considering this impact, the aim of this research is a meta-analysis on the assessment of Psychological journals by CAPES to update the Qualis database. For this research, Psychology scientific editors (38 questionnaires were applied by e-mail) were consulted, also 5 librarians who work with scientific journals assessment (semi-structured interviews) and 8 members who acted as referees in the CAPES/ANPEPP Commission (open questions were sent by e-mail). The results are shown through 3 analysis: general evaluation of the Qualis process (including the Assessment Committee constitution), evaluation criteria used in the process and the effect of the evaluation on the scientific community (changes on the editing scene included). Some important points emerged: disagreement among different actors about the suitability of this evaluation model; the recognition of the improvement of scientific journals, mainly toward normalization and diffusion; the verification that the model does not point the quality of the journal, i.e., the content of the scientific articles published in the journal; the disagreement with the criteria used, seemed necessary and useful but needed to be discussed and cleared between the scientific community. Despite these points, the scientific journals evaluation still is the main method to assure quality for Psychology publications A produ??o cient?fica brasileira tem passado por intensas mudan?as visando atender ?s demandas por produtividade dos pesquisadores. Entretanto, a multiplica??o de produtos acad?micos explicita a necessidade de qualifica??o dessa produ??o, uma vez que ? imprescind?vel a publica??o de material relevante e inovador. Na Psicologia, a avalia??o de peri?dicos empreendida pela Comiss?o CAPES/ANPEPP gerou grande repercuss?o na comunidade cient?fica e suscita questionamentos em torno do modelo de avalia??o utilizado. Considerando este impacto, o objetivo do trabalho ? fazer uma meta-avalia??o sobre o processo de avalia??o de peri?dicos cient?ficos utilizado nas revistas de Psicologia pela CAPES para alimenta??o da classifica??o Qualis. Para a pesquisa, foram consultados editores de revistas de Psicologia (n=38, question?rio enviado por e-mail), bibliotec?rios envolvidos com avalia??o de peri?dicos (n=5, entrevistas semi-estruturadas) e pesquisadores que participaram/participam da Comiss?o de Avalia??o (n=8, quest?es abertas via e-mail). Os resultados foram agrupados em 3 eixos tem?ticos: avalia??o geral sobre o processo de avalia??o Qualis (incluindo posicionamento sobre constitui??o das Comiss?es de Avalia??o), crit?rios de avalia??o utilizados no modelo adotado e os efeitos decorrentes das avalia??es para a comunidade cient?fica e mudan?as percebidas no quadro editorial. Alguns aspectos centrais ficaram evidenciados: a diverg?ncia entre os atores envolvidos quanto ? adequa??o do modelo em retratar a realidade editorial da ?rea; a discord?ncia em rela??o aos crit?rios adotados, que s?o vistos, simultaneamente, como necess?rios e ?teis; o reconhecimento da melhoria das revistas, principalmente no que se refere ? normaliza??o e difus?o; a indica??o de que esse modelo de avalia??o n?o aprecia a qualidade da revista propriamente dita, ou seja, o conte?do dos peri?dicos por meio dos artigos. Apesar desses pontos, a avalia??o dos peri?dicos em Psicologia continua a ser o principal instrumento para garantir um padr?o m?nimo de qualidade nas publica??es da ?rea

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Mauceri, Manuela. "Journey through fields of ageing perceptions, experiences and representations in different environmental contexts, in Italy and Spain." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/1504.

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Today more than ever, ageing represents not only a demographic challenge, but also a psycho-social one. In fact, conscious of the quantitative substance of phenomenon it is more than important how to add quality to a much longer present life than in the past. Hence, issue should be coped with in terms of subjective well-being and life environment as well. We conducted two researches. In the first one, we aimed at deepening ageing from the elderly people s point of view; firstly, we conducted a study involving 220 elderly people who lived in Sicily (Italy); secondly, we replicated the same study in a different context, involving 120 elderly people who lived in Extremadura (Spain). In the second research, we were interested in exploring ageing and elderly from younger people s point of view. Also in this case, primarily we conducted a study involving university students who lived in Sicily and then, the same study was replicated involving university students who lived in Extremadura. Taken together, researches showed that a general social context that welcomes seniors may result in individuals who live their age better and this would be true also for the elderly. In other words, a favorable life environment, both in objective and subjective and inter-subjective terms may result in elderly individuals having a better self-perception.

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Hong, Wai-fong Kuby, and 康惠芳. "From the chef's table: a case study on the TQM journey of the largest inflight caterer in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31268845.

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Calvert, Philip J., and G. E. Gorman. "Testing Article Quality in LIS Journals: The Search Continues presented at the 68th IFLA Council and General Conference, August 18-24, 2002, Glasgow, UK." IFLA, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106305.

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This is a presentation of the IFLA Section on Library and Information Science Journals, which is organized to bring together library and information science specialists to promote high standards for professional journals by encouraging the free flow of information and the exchange of ideas among editors, publishers, librarians and readers of library journals. This is a report of a pilot study on quality in LIS journals.

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Adolfsson, Elin, Julia Edström, and Wilma Övringe. "Three clicks away : A multiple case study of how technologies change the customer journey in the retail furniture sector." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-105486.

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The digital world is constantly growing. This contributes to increasing expectations and demands in the technical aspect. Digitization is powerful, but it further contributes to a number of challenges, such as the coordination of physical and digital stores. During the corona pandemic, the digital transformation has accelerated for companies to adapt to customers. Therefore, the purpose of the research is to understand how swedish retailers can manage technological touchpoints in customer journeys in the furniture sector. Further the purpose is to investigate how retailers can use technological touchpoints to change the quality and customer engagement in the customer journey. To be able to answer the empirical findings, six semi-structured interviews were obtained through a multiple case study. The theory from previous research and the empirical results were then discussed in the analysis. The conclusion of the thesis resulted in the management of digital touchpoints is different depending on whether it concerns companies using physical stores or e-commerce. This thesis has identified that retailers in the furniture sector manage technological touchpoints to create a seamless customer experience, increase customer satisfaction, more easily engage customers and to be able to integrate with customers in several ways. Digital touchpoints have made it easier for companies to measure results and to be able to improve the customer journey. One identification was that customer engagement has increased in relation to the increased digitalization, but also that the researched companies believe that digitization is vital for increasing customer engagement. Due to the technology, opportunities are created to be able to develop the quality of the customer journey. Further, by being able to measure the customer journey, the companies gain an insight into what should be constantly improved.

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Lapido, Fabiana Montanari. "Área de biodiversidade: adversidades na avaliação da produção científica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27151/tde-07032014-150119/.

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Conhecer as especificidades da comunicação científica em biodiversidade, por meio da avaliação dos periódicos que veiculam resultados de pesquisa na área. O estudo partiu dos periódicos científicos, nacionais e estrangeiros, classificados pelo Programa Qualis da Área de Biodiversidade, referente ao ano 2012, pertencentes às áreas de botânica, oceanografia, zoologia e ecologia. Para a avaliação dos periódicos, definiu-se um plano metodológico composto por duas etapas. A primeira incluiu a análise dos periódicos a partir dos indicadores bibliométricos, realizada a partir da porcentagem captada pela janela de citações de dois anos do Fator de Impacto e do próprio Fator de Impacto no período de 2007 a 2011, utilizando quartis para identificação dos periódicos de maior e menor posição no ranking da área, segundo cada um destes indicadores. A segunda etapa teve como objetivo realizar a análise dos aspectos formais dos periódicos, e considerou: tempo de existência ou duração, pontualidade, periodicidade, quantidade de artigos publicados por ano, porcentagem de artigos de pesquisa, datas de recebimento e aprovação, revisão por pares e idiomas de publicação. Dentre os principais resultados obtidos a partir da análise dos indicadores biblométricos, estão: os periódicos classificados pelo Qualis Biodiversidade apresentam uma baixa média, tanto da porcentagem da janela de citação, como do próprio Fator de Impacto; e 75% dos periódicos BOZE possuem índices abaixo de 20% para a janela de citação de dois anos. A análise dos aspetos formais não revelou diferenças significativas entre os periódicos, porém revelou a necessidade de uma revisão da qualidade dos periódicos classificados nos estratos B3 e B4. Constatou-se que as áreas BOZE apresentam diferenças significativas quanto à dinâmica de citações da produção científica, com destaque para as áreas de ecologia (maior obsolescência da literatura) e zoologia (menor obsolescência da literatura) que demonstraram desempenhos extremos. Knowing the specifics of scientific communication in biodiversity, through the evaluation of journals that present research results in the area. The study was based on scientific journals, domestic and foreign, sorted by the 2012 Qualis Program for Biodiversity pertaining to the areas of botany, oceanography, zoology and ecology. A two steps method for the evaluation of journals was defined. The first included the analysis of the journals from the bibliometric indicators, carried out based on the citation percentage by quartile in a two year window of citations measuring the variation in impact factors over the years. The second aims to perform the analysis of the formal aspects of the journals, in particular: time of existence or duration, punctuality, frequency, number of articles published per year, percentage of research articles, dates of receipt and approval, review by peers and number of languages it is published in. Among the results of the study, it was found that the areas BOZE significant differences in the dynamics of scientific citations, highlighting the areas of ecology (greater obsolescence of literature) and zoology (lower obsolescence of literature) who demonstrated extreme performances.

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Koebsch, Elaine Cristina Miranda. "Estudo da área de turismo: em busca da adequação dos critérios de avaliação Qualis." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27151/tde-07072017-132943/.

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O objetivo da pesquisa é analisar a comunicação científica da área de Turismo para fornecer subsídios à política científica na avaliação da produção com base nas suas características. Parte do questionamento sobre a adequação dos critérios de avaliação da área de Administração, Ciências Contábeis e Turismo, analisando se as três subáreas são atendidas da mesma maneira. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória descritiva com abordagem quantitativa dos dados, baseada na análise dos documentos das grandes áreas de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas e Humanas, dos periódicos classificados na área Administração, Ciências Contábeis e Turismo e dos currículos Lattes dos pesquisadores dos PPG\"s da área de Turismo. Está estruturada em seis capítulos, sendo o primeiro a introdução e o último as conclusões. O capítulo 2 inicia traçando um panorama da evolução da ciência para, em seguida, tratar da comunicação científica e da avaliação. Para tanto se utiliza do conhecimento da Ciência da Informação. O terceiro capítulo apresenta alguns estudos sobre como a área de Turismo e suas abordagens, bem como algumas considerações sobre a comunicação científica na área e a avaliação. Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados são apresentados no capítulo 4, e as análises dos dados no capítulo 5. Os resultados apontam que, Administração, Ciências Contábeis e Turismo são áreas em diferentes estágios de desenvolvimento, o que resulta em magnitudes incomparáveis, de número de programas de pós-graduação, de pesquisadores e de produção científica, e que redunda em uma estrutura de comunicação científica mais consolidada, com periódicos melhor estabelecidos - os critérios utilizados favorecem a ADM, cujos periódicos predominam nos estratos mais altos. Observou também que os pesquisadores de Turismo têm grande parte das suas publicações em eventos, seguida de artigos em periódicos nacionais, na maioria classificados no estrato B3 do Qualis. Destaca o fato que essas características podem levar a uma subavaliação da sua produção. Conclui que é necessária uma adaptação do modelo de avaliação Qualis da Capes para a área que considere seu estágio de desenvolvimento e sua produção, que considere a participação em eventos, e valorize a sua identidade social e humana, não sendo somente uma atividade econômica. The objective is analyze the scientific communication of the Tourism area research to provide subsidies for scientific research in the evaluation of production at the national level based on its characteristics. It starts questioning about the adequacy of the evaluation criteria of the tourism area, comparing it with Administration and the Accounting Sciences the other subareas that are classified together, to identify if they correspond at the same way to the three subareas. This is a descriptive exploratory research with a quantitative data approach that was carried out through analyzes of the area documents from the major areas of Applied Social Sciences and Humanities, through the periodicals classified in the area of Administration, Accounting and Tourism and analysis of Lattes data of the researchers from the postgraduate programs of the Tourism area. It is structured in six chapters, the first makes and introduction and the last present some conclusions. Chapter 2 begins by drawing a panorama of the evolution of science and scientific knowledge and then dealing with scientific communication and evaluation. To do so, the tools of Information Science were used. The third chapter presents some of the main studies on tourism and its approaches, as well as some considerations about scientific communication in the area and evaluation. The methodological procedures were presented on chapter 4 and the data analyzes were done in chapter 5. The results point out to the Administration, Accounting Sciences and Tourism are areas at different stages of development and the criteria used are better for Administration, a larger area. It also notes that tourism researchers have a large part of their publications in events, followed by articles in national journals, most of them classified as B3. It draws attention to the fact that these characteristics could lead to underestimation of their production. It concludes the Capes Qualis evaluation model needs to be adapted, based on other types of criteria, more qualitative rather than quantitative, that valorize the human and social aspects of tourism.

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Zegout, Kamel. "La presse dite « de qualité » en Grande-Bretagne : des mutations formelles à la diversification rédactionnelle - une analyse du Times et de l'Independent, 1999-2009." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030123.

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« Presse de qualité » ou encore « presse de référence » constituent autant d'expressions dont les référents varient en fonction du contexte géographique. Le contexte de la presse britannique est caractéristique de la prégnance de la relation entre les médias et la société. Confrontée à l'érosion de son lectorat et aux évolutions d'un secteur médiatique ultra-concurrentiel, la presse quotidienne britannique dite « de qualité » a entrepris des changements durant les années 2000 qui témoignent d'une prise en considération de la pluralité des contextes qui interagissent sur les modalités de son fonctionnement. A partir de 2003, les mutations formelles du Times et de l'Independent tendent à traduire une volonté d'adaptation du journal à l'évolution des modes de vie et plus particulièrement aux habitudes de lecture. En s'appuyant sur un modèle théorique des changements journalistiques sur un temps long ainsi que ! sur des tendances à l’œuvre depuis 1945 au sein de la société britannique, notre thèse analyse les mutations du Times et de l'Independent à l'ère d‟un « journalisme de communication ». En établissant une focale sur le traitement de la chose politique au sein des deux quotidiens analysés, cette thèse vise à explorer les processus de réappropriation des normes des quotidiens dits « tabloids » par les quotidiens britanniques dits « de qualité » « Quality press » or « elite press » are expressions which differ according to the geographic context. The context of the British press is typical of the salience of the relation between media and society. Faced with the erosion of its readership and developments in the ultra-competitive media sector, the British daily « quality » press has launched changes in the 2000s that reflect a series of contexts that interact on performance. From 2003, The Times and The Independent’s changes in format tend to reflect a willingness to adapt the journal to changing lifestyles and particularly to reading habits. Based on a theoretical model of journalistic changes over a long time as well as trends in British society since 1945, our thesis analyzes The Times and The Independent’s changes in an era of « communication journalism ». By focusing on the journalistic treatment of politics in the two daily newspapers here analyzed, this thesis aims! to explore the process of the reappropriation of the journalistic standards of the « tabloids » by the « quality » daily newspapers

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Nilsson, Eddie, and Tobias Grieg-Halvorsen. "The experienced value journey of slow fashion consumers: from pre-purchase to post-purchase of apparel." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96179.

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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to explore how consumers of slow fashion experience value of apparel in relation to price, quality, appearance and style, awareness, and trust.Research questions: How do the extrinsic cues in relation to slow fashion influence the value journey of slow fashion consumers? What is the experienced value journey of slow fashion consumers from pre-purchase to post-purchase of apparel?Methodology: data was collected through semi-structured interviewing with eight participantsFindings: The research identified that slow fashion consumers undergo a value journey based on five components: their knowledge, altruistic concerns, personal investment, expectations, and their emotional connection. Their knowledge is formed by how much the slow fashion consumers know about the production process of the apparel, the material quality of the apparel, and themselves in terms of their personal preferences. Their altruistic concerns involve influences how they consume and use clothes based on their ethics. Their personal investment is determined by how much time, effort, and resources they are willing to spend on pieces of apparel. The slow fashion consumer then set an expectation on how well the piece of apparel satisfies these three components through its usage in a post-purchase context. If the piece of apparel exceeds their expectations, they form an emotional connection. This emotional connection again determines their next line of consumption of apparel in a pre-purchase context. These five components determine therefore the process of slow fashion consumers’ perceived value pre-purchase to the perceived value-in-use post-purchase.

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Njoh, Kome Ferdinand. "Approche sociolinguistique des titres à la une des journaux camerounais francophones." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00458211.

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Le titre de presse au Cameroun est devenu à la fois l'une des formes privilégiée d'exposition langagière et l'un des modes de lecture les plus courants. Ce travail intitulé Approche sociolinguistique des titres à la une des journaux francophones du Cameroun voudrait, dans une approche dite de la complexité, à la fois examiner les spécificités de ce genre textuel particulier et comprendre pourquoi le titre de presse illustre une identité sociale et linguistique camerounaise. Ainsi, la structure textuelle du titre à la une d'un journal est variable, avec cependant une constance autour d'une structure linguistique tripartite : le titre, le sous-titre et le surtitre. Cette structure linguistique peut fonctionner en cohérence avec une structure iconique et une structure verbo-iconique. Les fonctions (épiphanique et incitative) du genre titre dans le multitexte qu'est le journal favorisent la simplicité de son lexique et de sa syntaxe. Il est un lieu d'interactions langagières et sociales particulières et le reflet des pratiques linguistiques de la société camerounaise. On peut donc y retrouver une hiérarchisation de la francophonie linguistique du Cameroun sur un continuum allant de l'irréel qu'est le français standard à l'indéfinition qu'est le français (vernaculaire) camerounais. Hiérarchisation à laquelle s'identifie le lecteur camerounais. Ce lecteur se retrouve aussi dans les représentations socio-discursives reflétant les discours et les attitudes dans la société camerounaise moderne. En somme, le titre de journal au Cameroun est devenu un espace de rencontre ethno-sociolinguistique

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Sales, Denise Peres. "Critérios de avaliação da produção científica em Ciências Sociais Aplicadas: inquirindo as bases de dados." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27151/tde-26052015-122438/.

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O processo de avaliação dos programas de pós-graduação brasileiros foi iniciado pela Capes na década de 1970, consolidando-se com o sistema Qualis, cujo objetivo é classificar os milhares de cursos existentes atualmente no país. Mais especificamente, são nomeadas comissões de área, cujo papel consiste na definição e aplicação de critérios para assegurar o mérito científico dos programas, no que tange à sua proposta, ao seu corpo docente, à titulação de novos mestres e doutores e à publicação da pesquisa em veículos reconhecidos. Como um reflexo do que vem acontecendo mundialmente, o periódico científico se sobressai em relação aos outros tipos de documento, como decorrência de um processo histórico que culminou nas bases de dados, tornando-se a principal fonte de informação para avaliação de produção científica. Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo geral contribuir com o processo de avaliação da produção científica nacional, por meio de análise das fontes de informação que compõem os critérios de classificação dos periódicos utilizados nas áreas de ciências sociais aplicadas. Os objetivos específicos foram: 1) identificar as fontes de informação que podem ser classificadas efetivamente como base de dados, segundo critérios específicos que permitam atestar a qualidade científica e/ou editorial periódico; 2) identificar as fontes de informação que possuem critérios de seleção específicos que permitam atestar a qualidade científica e/ou editorial dos periódicos e os disponibilizam em seus sites; 3) analisar o uso que tem sido feito dessas fontes nas diferentes áreas de avaliação dos programas de pós-graduação. Os resultados permitiram observar que das 17 fontes de informação analisadas somente 7 foram reconhecidas como bases de dados e declaram utilizar critérios de seleção de periódicos. Todas as fontes de informação que não mencionam critério de seleção eram utilizadas pela área de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas I, no triênio de 2007-2009, consistindo de fontes temáticas de Ciência da Informação e Comunicação, que deixaram de figurar entre os critérios da área no documento que os atualiza, publicado em 2012. Entre todas as áreas de avaliação que compõem a grande área de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas destacou-se o uso das bases com cobertura internacional (Web of Science e Scopus) e regional (SciELO, LATINDEX e REDALYC). Outro aspecto importante foi o uso do Fator de Impacto para classificação dos periódicos pelas áreas de Economia e Administração, Ciências Contábeis e Turismo, a partir do triênio de 2004-2006. Por fim, observou-se que, do ponto de vista dos profissionais que atuam nas bases de dados, existe uma percepção mais aguçada dos quesitos sobre a qualidade esperada de um periódico científico. Por outro lado, quem está ligado ao meio editorial e às comissões das áreas não necessariamente percebe os detalhes fundamentais à efetividade da comunicação científica, quais sejam: existência de critérios de seleção de periódicos, presença de um conselho editorial atuante, diversidade geográfica dos autores, revisores ad hoc e membros do conselho editorial e informações sobre a lista de títulos dos periódicos indexados pela fonte de informação. The evaluation of graduation, by Capes, from 1970s, when it began a process that has been developed since then, resulting in the Qualis, whose goal is to assess thousands of postgraduate programs in Brazil. Specifically, there are trained committees, whose objective is to define and apply the criteria to ensure the scientific merit of the programs in terms of their proposal, its faculty, titration of new teachers and doctors, and the publication of research findings in recognized publishing vehicles. As a reflection of what is happening worldwide, the scientific journal stands in relation to other types of document, because of a historical process which culminated in the databases as the main source of information for evaluation of scientific production. This research aims to contribute to the process of evaluation of national scientific production, through the analysis of information sources that make up the criteria for classification of the scientific journals used in the areas of applied social sciences. The specific objectives were: 1) to identify the sources of information that can be classified effectively as a database, according to specific criteria that allow to test the scientific and/or editorial quality, 2) to identify which information sources have specific selection criteria that allow to test the scientific and/or publishing quality and if they are provided on their websites, and 3) to evaluate the use that has been made of these sources in different areas of assessment. Results showed that, from the 17 sources of information analyzed, only 7 were recognized as databases and were declaring to use criteria for selecting the scientific journals. All sources of information that were not mentioned a selection criteria were used for the area of Applied Social Sciences I in the triennium 2007-2009, consisting of thematic sources of Information Science and Communication, these sources are no longer available among the criteria in the area of the document that updates the criteria of the area, published in 2012. Among all evaluation areas that comprise the large area of applied social sciences, the use of bases with international coverage is the most important (Web of Science and Scopus) and regional (SciELO, LATINDEX and REDALYC) in most areas. Another important aspect was the use of the Impact Factor for the scientific journals classification, the areas of Economics and Business Administration, Accounting and Tourism, since the three-year period from 2004-2006. Finally, it was observed that, from the professional\'s point of view, there is a better perception regarding questions about the criteria that analyzes the expected quality of a scientific journal. On the other hand, who is linked to the editorial and area committees, cannot necessarily perceive the details that are critical to the effectiveness of scientific communication: the existence of periodic selection criteria, the presence of an active editorial board, the existence of a geographic diversity of the authors, ad hoc reviewers and editorial board members and information about the list of titles of the scientific journals indexed by the source of information.

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Fernández, Abenoza Roberto. "Improving Travel Satisfaction with Public Transport." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Systemanalys och ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-200734.

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The existing link between PT travelers’ satisfaction, ridership and loyalty prove the relevance of improving overall trip satisfaction. The thesis present an array of approaches and methodologies aiming at increasing overall satisfaction with PT door-to-door trips while covering important issues that previous research has failed to address. These knowledge gaps include: disregarding the different needs and priorities of different type of travelers; overlooking the evolution over time and across geographical areas that overall satisfaction and satisfaction with specific service attributes may experience; and, neglecting the importance of access and egress legs. Based on the Swedish customer satisfaction barometer (2001-2013), an investigation of the determinants of PT satisfaction and their evolution over time (I) shows that: a) the deterioration of overall satisfaction with PT in Sweden in recent years is driven by a decrease in satisfaction with customer interface and length of trip time; b) these two service aspects as well as operation are found as key determinants of overall satisfaction which users consistently rate among the least satisfactory. The diversity of needs and priorities of SKT travelers was reduced into 5 distinctive multi-modal travelers’ groups (II). These travelers’ groups exhibited geographical disparities and an in between-groups overall similarity in the importance attached to the service attributes. Nevertheless, some noticeable differences could be observed. The service attributes’ importance levels reveal overall changes in appreciations and consumption goals over time. A number of both normative and heuristic satisfaction aggregation rules are tested on METPEX dataset for different types of trip configurations (III). The results show that normative rules can better reproduce overall travel satisfaction than heuristic rules, indicating that all trip legs need to be considered when evaluating the overall travel experience. Kontinuerlig urban tillväxt, miljöproblem, konkurrens om begränsat utrymme, längre pendlingsavstånd samt behovet av att främja rättvisa och jämlikhet i samhället är de främsta anledningarna till förbättringar av kollektivtrafikens (KT) tjänster och attraktionskraft för att få fler resenärer att byta från bil till KT och därmed en viktig politisk fråga i många länder över hela världen. Den befintliga kopplingen mellan KT-resenärens tillfredsställelse, antalet passagerare och lojalitet visar betydelsen av att förbättra resans övergripande tillfredsställelse. De tre artiklar som ingår i denna licentiatavhandling presenterar en rad tillvägagångssätt och metoder som syftar till att öka den totala tillfredsställelsen med KT i ”från dörr till dörr”-resor samt täcker viktiga frågor som tidigare forskning har misslyckats med att ta itu med. Dessa kunskapsluckor inkluderar de olika behov och prioriteringar som olika typer av resenärer har, utveckling över tid och över geografiska områden som total tillfredsställelse och tillfredsställelse med specifika serviceattribut kan påverkas av samt försummelsen av resans av- och påstigningsdelar. Baserat på den svenska kundtillfredsställelsebarometern Svensk Kollektivtrafikbarometer (SKT) visar en undersökning av bestämningsfaktorerna för KT- tillfredsställelse och deras utveckling över tiden för KT-användare under åren 2001-2013 att (Artikel I): a) det skett en försämring av den sammanlagda tillfredsställelsen med KT i Sverige under de senaste åren som drivits av en minskning av tillfredsställelsen med kundgränssnittet och resans tid; b) att dessa två serviceaspekter samt drift är helt avgörande för övergripande tillfredsställelse och som resenärer konsekvent graderar bland de minst tillfredsställande. Mångfalden av behov och prioriteringar för SKT-resenärer reducerades till 5 distinkta multimodala resenärsgrupper (Artikel II). Dessa resenärsgrupper uppvisade geografiska skillnader och en i mellan-grupper övergripande likhet i vikt som fästs vid serviceattribut. Likväl kan några märkbara skillnader observeras. Serviceattributens betydelse avslöjar övergripande förändringar i uppskattnings- och konsumtionsmål över tid. De mer frekventa KT-användarsegmenten är mer nöjda över hela spektret och kännetecknas av en mer balanserad fördelning av attributens betydelse, medan en av grupperna – bilpendlare på landsbygden - är markant missnöjda med service- och driftattribut. Ett antal både normativa och heuristiska regler för aggregerad tillfredsställelse testas på METPEX-data (A Measurement Tool to determine the quality of the Passenger EXperience) för olika typer av resekonfigurationer (Artikel III). Detta görs för att förstå hur resenärer kombinerar delresors tillfredsställelse i en övergripande utvärdering av hela resan och för att undersöka den relativa betydelsen av tillfredsställelse med påstignings-, huvud- och avstigningsdel för hela reseupplevelsen i ”från dörr till dörr”-resor. Resultaten visar att normativa regler bättre kan återge övergripande resetillfredsställelse än heuristiska regler, vilket tyder på att alla resans delar måste beaktas när man utvärderar den samlade reseupplevelsen. I synnerhet ger viktning av tillfredsställelse med individuella delresor och de upplevda delresornas restider den bästa predikatorn för övergripande resetillfredsställelse, särskilt vid tillämpning av en väntetidsvikt på 3 eller 4 gånger i fordons- eller gångtid. Denna uppsättning artiklar skulle kunna hjälpa myndigheter att bättre utvärdera och tillgodose resenärernas behov genom att stödja tilldelning av resurser och prioriterandet av åtgärder i den mest effektfulla delen i en ”från dörr till dörr”-resa. El rápido crecimiento urbano, problemas medioambientales, la competencia por el uso de espacios cada vez más limitados, el aumento de la distancia en los viajes pendulares así como la necesidad de fomentar una sociedad más equitativa e igualitaria, son algunas de las principales razones que hacen de la mejora de los servicios de transporte público (TP) y del trasvase de usuarios del transporte privado motorizado al TP una política clave en muchos países del mundo. La relación existente entre la mejora de la satisfacción del usuario de TP con el incremento de usuarios y de su fidelidad, prueban la importancia de mejorar la satisfacción global del usuario con el viaje. Los tres artículos incluidos en esta tesis de mitad de doctorado, en Suecia Licentiate thesis, presentan un variedad de enfoques y métodos que tienen como objetivo incrementar la satisfacción global con los viajes de puerta a puerta (desde el origen hasta el destino final) en los que el transporte público está involucrado, a la par de cubrir cuestiones importantes que no han abordado estudios previos. Estas lagunas de conocimientos incluyen: ignorar las distintas prioridades y necesidades de distintos tipos de viajeros; pasar por alto que tanto la satisfacción global con el viaje como la satisfacción con los atributos específicos del servicio pueden experimentar cambios a lo largo del tiempo y entre diversas zonas geográficas; y, el obviar la importancia que otras etapas del viaje (acceso y egreso), diferentes a la principal, pueden ejercer sobre la valoración global del viaje. Basado en el barómetro sueco de satisfacción del usuario de transporte público (SKT), se estudian los determinantes de la satisfacción con el TP y su evolución temporal, para usuarios de TP y para el período 2001-2013 (Artículo I). El artículo muestra que: a) el deterioro de la satisfacción global con el TP sueco experimentado en los últimos años se debe a la disminución de la satisfacción con el modo en el que la agencia de TP gestiona las quejas y el trato con los usuarios (customer interface), y de la duración del viaje (length of trip time); b) frequencia y la fiabilidad del servicio (operation) se suman a los dos ya mencionados atributos del servicio como factores determinantes de la satisfacción global con el TP. Son precisamente estos tres atributos los que consistentemente reciben unas valoraciones situadas entre las menos satisfactorias. Basándose en las características de tipo socio-económico, en las del viaje y en coeficientes de accesibilidad, se obtienen cinco grupos de viajeros multimodales relativamente homogéneos, los cuales ayudan a simplificar la complejidad existente, en términos de necesidades y prioridades, de todos los viajeros suecos - SKT (Artículo II). Los cinco grupos de viajeros exhiben disparidades geográficas y, en general, una semejanza entre grupos en la importancia atribuida a los atributos del servicio. Sin embargo, existen algunas diferencias notorias. A lo largo del tiempo, los niveles de importancia de los atributos del servicio revelan cambios generales en las apreciaciones y objetivos de consumo. Los grupos de viajeros que viajan más frecuentemente con transporte público están, de forma generalizada, más satisfechos con el viaje y muestran una distribución más equilibrada de la importancia dada a los atributos del servicio. Se hace destacable la marcada insatisfacción que uno de los grupos – los automovilistas rurales pendulares (rural motorist commuters)- muestran con los atributos relacionados con la operación (fiabilidad y frequencia). Una serie de reglas de agregación de la satisfacción del viajero, tanto normativas como heurísticas, son examinadas en el conjunto de datos de METPEX (Una herramienta de medición para determinar la calidad de la experiencia del viajero) para distintos tipos de configuraciones de viaje (Artículo III). El objetivo de este artículo es; entender como los viajeros combinan la satisfacción con cada una de las etapas del viaje en su valoración global del viaje, e investigar la importancia relativa que cada una de las tres etapas del viaje (acceso, principal y egreso) tienen sobre la experiencia de un viaje completo de puerta a puerta. Los resultados muestran que, en comparación con las reglas heurísticas, las reglas normativas pueden reproducir de una mejor manera la satisfacción global con el viaje; indicando que todas las etapas del viaje necesitan ser consideradas cuando se evalúa la experiencia global del viaje. En particular la ponderación de la satisfacción con cada una de los segmentos del viaje[1] con la duración percibida para cada una de los segmentos del viaje produce el mejor indicador de la satisfacción global del viaje, especialmente cuando se aplica una penalización por cada minuto de espera equivalente a 3 o 4 veces el tiempo en movimiento y/o caminando. Éste conjunto de artículos pretende ayudar a las operadores y autoridades pertinentes a evaluar y proveer de la mejor manera posible las necesidades de los viajeros mediante la priorización de medidas y asignación de recursos a la parte más relevante del viaje multimodal puerta a puerta. [1] Un segmento del viaje (trip leg) es la parte más pequeña en la que se descompone un viaje de puerta a puerta. Una etapa del viaje puede estar compuesta de uno o más segmentos del viaje. QC 20170202

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Black, Alofi S. "eHealth-as-a-Service: A service based design approach for large scale eHealth architecture." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/119154/1/Alofi_Black_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis is an in-depth exploration of a multi-methodological design science approach to develop a purposeful eHealth-as-a-Service (eHaaS) design artifact, with potential to improve information quality in primary care settings. This was achieved by first, deriving abstract meta-requirements from an ethnographic examination of care pathways to establish the technical goals of the solution. Then, defining the functions, organization, and structure of an eHaaS conceptual model as an example of how service-based architectures might deliver high quality information services. Finally, establishing the validity of the conceptual model with the development of a novel evaluation strategy to explain the predicted change produced by eHaaS architecture. Given that, eHaas provides the foundation for developing a link between the patient and their information that is available to multiple healthcare professionals when needed.

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Apelman, Linnea. "Hur beskrivs sensoriska egenskaper inom deskriptiv analys? : En kvantitativ tvärsnittstudie av artiklar publicerade 1974-2019." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kost- och måltidsvetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-179774.

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Bakgrund Deskriptiv sensorisk analys (DSA) syftar till att beskriva sensoriska egenskaper (attribut) hos livsmedelslprodukter. En bedömarpanel analyserar ett produktprov genom att identifiera, namnge och mäta intensiteten hos ett antal attribut. Syfte Syftet med undersökningen var att studera hur attribut identifieras, beskrivs och presenteras inom vetenskaplig tillämpning av DSA. Metod Sjuttiofyra artiklar, publicerade i vetenskapliga tidskrifter mellan 1974 och 2019, analyserades kvantitativt med hjälp av deskriptiv statistik. Sjutton variabler användes för datainsamling. Samband mellan variablerna analyserades med hjälp av statistiska tester. Resultat Av artiklarna var 96 % publicerade i tidskrifter utan specifik inriktning mot sensorisk analys. I två tredjedelar av artiklarna tillämpades generisk deskriptiv analys (GDA). I fler än hälften av artiklarna avvek panelen från vad som rekommenderas kring bedömarantal eller tid för träning. I snitt användes 1,4 ord för namngivning av attributen. I hälften av artiklarna definierades inte attributen. I två tredjedelar av artiklarna presenterades inte några referensprodukter för att illustrera skalstegen. I tre fjärdedelar av artiklarna presenterades attributen i metodbeskrivningen. Meddelandelen substantiv var 68,2 % och 31 % adjektiv. En måttlig negativ korrelation mellan andelen substantiv och tiden för träning av bedömarpanelen var statistiskt signifikant. Slutsats I många vetenskapliga studier utförs DSA utan att gällande rekommendationer kring bedömarpanelen följs. I artiklar publicerade i vetenskapliga tidskrifter presenteras attributen inprecist nog att ifrågasätta användbarheten hos resultaten. Att ge den kvalitativa delen av undersökningen, identifiering och namngivning av attributen, status resultat skulle kunna öka intresset för att definiera attributen och illustrera skalstegen, vilket är en förutsättning för att tolka det kvantitativa resultatet (intensitetsmätningen) på ett meningsfullt sätt. Background Descriptive sensory analysis (DSA) aims to describe the sensory attributes of food products. A panel of assessors analyze a sample of the product to identify and name a set of attributes and estimate their intensity. Objective The aim of the study was to research how attributes are identified, described and presented in the scientific use of DSA. Method By using descriptive statistics, 74 articles published in scientific journals between 1974 and 2019 were analyzed quantitatively. Data collection was conducted using 17 variables. Correlations between variables and differences between groups were analyzed using statistical tests. Results Of the articles 96 % were published in non-sensory-specific journals. Generic descriptive analysis (GDA) was used in two thirds of the articles. In more than half of the articles the number of assessors, or the time spent on assessor training, differed from what is recommended. An avarage of 1.4 descriptive words were used to name each attribute. In half of the articles no definitions of the attributes were given. In two thirds of the articles no reference products were presented to illustrate the attributes or different points of the scale. In three quarters of the articles the attributes were presentet in the section of method description, and not the results. The avarage share of nouns was 68.2 % and 31 % adjectives. A moderate negative correlation between the share of nouns and the time spent on panel training was significant. Conclusion Sometimes DSA is used without panel recommendations being followed. There are scientific articles where the sensory attributes are presented vaguely enough to question the usability of the results. To interperet naming of the sensory attributes as a qualitative results could motivate a more defined presentation, which would benefit the quantitative result (intensity assesment) by explaining what is meassured.

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Jacon, Maria do Carmo Moreira. "Base Qualis: uso e qualidade dos peri?dicos cient?ficos no Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Psicologia da Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas (1997-2002)." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2006. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/763.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria do Carmo.pdf: 764852 bytes, checksum: 968183313b0bdac5395f283ad9337362 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-08-02 The present research, of exploratory nature, aims at verifying whether the Qualis base, once implemented, has led to the use of thejournals classified herein, especially the ones of A concept, published nationwide. For that aim, we have defined, as the object of study, Qualis journals in Psychology, and as the context, the Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Psicologia da Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas (Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas Psychology Post-Graduation Program). The universe we have researched composed of a sample of thesis and dissertations claimed between 1997-2002 and a population of mastering and doctorate people enrolled in the Program. The methodological procedures employed herein are the citation analysis and questionnaire application. The analysis of results has shown that a maximum grade does not necessarily lead to effective use. Therefore, it is concluded that consensus (pair evaluation) on which the base is laid does not reflect on the consensus of the segments (professors and alumni) at the Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas Psychology Post-Graduation Program, in the aforementioned period. The present investigation contributes to reflexion about the methodology used for qualifying journals as scientific assessment instrument for postgraduation programs, as well as it opens understanding possibilities to Qualis base from its use; that is necessarily integrated in the referencial knowledge set which is present in postgraduation formation A presente pesquisa, de natureza explorat?ria, objetiva verificar se a base Qualis, uma vez implementada induziu o uso dos peri?dicos nela melhor classificados, especialmente peri?dicos de conceito A, de abrang?ncia Nacional. Para tal objetivo, definiu-se como objeto de estudo peri?dicos Qualis da ?rea de Psicologia e como contexto o Programa de P?s- Gradua??o em Psicologia da Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas. O universo pesquisado constou de uma amostra de teses e disserta??es defendidas no per?odo 1997- 2002 e uma popula??o de mestrandos e doutorandos matriculados no referido Programa. Os procedimentos metodol?gicos empregados foram a t?cnica de an?lise de cita??o e aplica??o de question?rio. A an?lise dos resultados apontou que a atribui??o de conceito m?ximo n?o induz necessariamente o uso efetivo. Conclui-se a partir desse fato que o consenso (avalia??o pelos pares) que fundamenta a base n?o se reflete no consenso dos segmentos (docentes e discentes) do Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Psicologia da Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, no per?odo assinalado. A presente investiga??o contribui para uma reflex?o sobre a metodologia utilizada para classifica??o de peri?dicos como instrumento de avalia??o cient?fica dos programas de p?s-gradua??o e abre possibilidades de entendimento da base Qualis a partir do seu uso, o que necessariamente a integra no conjunto referencial do conhecimento presente na forma??o em p?s-gradua??o

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Oliveira, Mariella Silva de. "Saude da mulher em revistas semanais brasileiras : conteudo e qualidade cientifica." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/313657.

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Orientador: Aarão Mendes Pinto Neto Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T15:04:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_MariellaSilvade_M.pdf: 918679 bytes, checksum: 1516332440b4c03d917dccde332d75a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 Resumo: Objetivos: avaliar o conteúdo e qualidade científica de textos informativos sobre saúde da mulher apresentados em revistas semanais brasileiras. Métodos: pesquisa de corte transversal, a partir da coletânea de textos sobre saúde da mulher, difundidos pelas três revistas semanais do segmento atualidades (Veja, Época e IstoÉ), pelo período de um ano, entre agosto de 2005 e julho de 2006. Inicialmente, foi identificado o tema em saúde da mulher presente no texto jornalístico, como saúde reprodutiva, prevenção, riscos e cuidados, beleza e estética, sexualidade, saúde mental, violência, menopausa e saúde geral. Em seguida, outras variáveis foram identificadas, como o gênero informativo do texto, que poderia ser nota, notícia, reportagem ou entrevista; a presença de ilustração; o tipo de fonte que deu informações ao repórter, seja ela científica, empresarial, governamental e a região geográfica de origem da informação. Para avaliar a qualidade científica dos textos, 80 unidades foram analisadas de forma independente por dois médicos e dois jornalistas, através de questionário Index Of Scientific Quality, adaptado para o português e submetido à prova piloto e reteste. Após a análise dos textos, foi verificada a consistência interna dos itens do questionário (medida pelo alfa de Cronbach) e a concordância inter e intra-observador (através do índice Kappa) para cada um dos oito itens do questionário, que variam de um a cinco pontos e medem a aplicabilidade, opinião versus fato, validade, alcance, precisão, coerência, conseqüência e um item global, que resume os outros itens e cuja mediana foi considerada para avaliação da qualidade. Resultados: Foram coletados 987 textos sobre saúde, sendo que 14,8% deles foram classificados como textos sobre saúde da mulher. Houve predomínio do assunto saúde reprodutiva (26,7%) e gênero informativo nota (45,2%). O tema menos referido foi a menopausa, com 4,8% do total do espaço. A maioria dos textos foi ilustrada (87,7%), com fontes científicas (41,1%) e informações de origem internacional (41,1%). Ao buscar a qualidade científica dos textos foram encontradas medianas que variaram de 2 a 4 em sete itens do questionário sendo que a referente ao item global foi igual a três. A consistência interna dos itens do questionário variou entre 0,81 e 0,96. A concordância inter-avaliadores foi de - 0,03 a 0,48 e a intraobservador variou entre 0,27 e 0,34. (IC 95%). Conclusões: A saúde da mulher ocupou pouco espaço nas revistas semanais brasileiras de generalidades e apareceu mais relacionada a aspectos reprodutivos. Os itens do questionário mensuraram a qualidade científica de forma adequada, porém a baixa concordância inter e intra-observadores indica a necessidade de novos estudos para avaliar a versão brasileira do ISQ. A qualidade científica dos textos foi moderada. Palavras-chave: jornalismo científico, saúde da mulher, periódicos brasileiros, comunicação de massa e mulheres, saúde na comunicação de massa, saúde e qualidade de vida Abstract: Objectives: To evaluate the content and scientific quality of informative texts on women¿s health published in weekly Brazilian news magazines. Methods: A cross sectional study carried out by evaluating all the texts on women¿s health published in three weekly current affairs magazines (Veja, Época and Istoé) over a period of one year. Content was expressed as variables describing topics of women¿s health, e.g. reproductive health, prevention, risks and healthcare, beauty and esthetics, sexuality, mental health, menopause and general health; the format of the report, e.g. a brief note, headline, article or interview; whether it was illustrated; the source of information, e.g. whether scientific, commercial, governmental or other; and the geographical origin of the information. To evaluate the scientific quality of the texts, 80 units were independently analyzed by two physicians and two journalists using the Index of Scientific Quality (ISQ), adapted for use in Portuguese and submitted to a pilot test and retest. Following analysis of the texts, internal consistency was measured using Crombach¿s alpha, and inter- and intra-rater agreement using the Kappa index for each one of the eight items in the questionnaire. Items received from 1 to 5 points and measured applicability, opinion versus fact, validity, scope, precision, coherence and consequence, as well as providing an overall median that summarized the other items and represented an evaluation of quality. Results: A total of 146 texts on the subject of women¿s health were found, comprising 14.8% of the total space devoted to health in general. The most commonly reported subject was reproductive health (26.7%) in the format of a brief note (45.2%). The least common subject was menopause, comprising only 4.8% of the total space. Most of the reports were illustrated (87.7%), originated from scientific sources (41.1%) and were of international origin (41.1%). The scientific quality of the texts received a median score that ranged from 2 to 4 in seven items of the questionnaire, while the overall median score was 3. Internal consistency of the items in the questionnaire ranged from 0.81 to 0.96. Inter-rater agreement varied between -0.03 and 0.48, while intra-rater agreement ranged from 0.27 to 0.34 (95%CI). Conclusion: Little space is allocated to women¿s health in weekly news magazines and reports appear to be related predominantly to subjects concerning reproduction. The items comprising the questionnaire provide an adequate measurement of scientific quality; however, low inter- and intra-rater agreement indicates a need for further studies to evaluate the Brazilian version of the ISQ. The scientific quality of the texts was evaluated as moderate. Key words: scientific journalism; women¿s health; Brazilian journals; mass.media and women; health in mass media; health and quality of life Mestrado Tocoginecologia Mestre em Tocoginecologia

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Nourmohammadi, Hamzehali. "Über die szientometrische Bedeutung des Impact-Faktors." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15622.

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Auf der Basis des Impact-Faktors, entsprechend der Definition Eugene Garfields, werden die Implikationen dieses IF für szientometrische Überlegungen und deren Folgen für das Zeitschriftenwesen untersucht. Die Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Arbeit zeigen: Der Impact-Faktor ist ein Wert, der einen Hinweis auf den durchschnittlichen Bekanntheitsgrad eines Beitrags in einer vom SCI erfassten Zeitschrift gibt. Der Impact-Faktor ist ein Wert, der in hohem Maße vom Umfang des SCI bestimmt ist. Über die dort erfassten Zitationen wird ermittelt, wie oft eine Zeitschrift zitiert worden ist. Der Impact-Faktor ist in hohem Maße davon bestimmt, in wieweit die Quellen zugänglich sind, die zitiert werden. Der lineare Zusammenhang, den R. Rousseau und G.V. Hooydonk (1996) zwischen dem Impact-Faktor von Zeitschriften und der Zahl der darin erschienenen Aufsätze (Produktion) hergestellt haben, gilt nur in dem von ihnen untersuchten Bereich des Impact-Faktors 0,5 – 3. Bei höheren Werten kommt es zu einer Abflachung, bei Werten über 7 sogar zu einer Umkehr der Steigung. Es gibt einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Höhe des Impact-Faktors und seinem jährlichen Zuwachs im SCI. Je höher der IF, desto höher ist auch sein jährlicher Anstieg. Bei genauerer Analyse zeigte sich, dass der Zuwachs, zum Zeitpunkt der vorliegenden Untersuchung, gegen einen Grenzwert von 0,42 ging. Die Impact-Faktoren von Zeitschriften und deren Preise für die Abonnements hängen statistisch nur schwach voneinander ab. Ob Zeitschriften erworben werden müssen ist weitaus stärker von den Zitationen abhängig, die diese Zeitschriften auf sich versammeln. Der IF steigt mit der Auflagenhöhe von Zeitschriften, wenn diese bereits einen höheren IF aufweisen. Für wissenschaftliche Autoren ist der Druck, in Zeitschriften mit einem hohen IF zu publizieren, beobachtsam. Je höher dieser allgemeine Druck ist, desto geringer ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit für einen einzelnen Autor wiederholt in derartigen Zeitschriften publizieren zu können. The current thesis investigates the Impact Factor (IF) in scientific journals and its consequences for scientometric considerations. The results are: The Impact Factor is a value for Journals listed in the Science Citation Index, which show the average degree of acquaintance in the scientific community. It is much less a sign of quality than often believed. The IF is highly determined by the degree of the extent of the SCI. The Impact Factor is also, to a considerable degree determined by the availability of the cited sources. Methodological the IF depends strongly on the topical adjustment of the SCI. A linear correlation, found by R. Rousseau and G.V. Hooydonk (1996) between the Impact Factor and the number of papers per journal, is only valid in the analysed range of 0.5 - 3 examined by these authors. At higher IF values it comes to a flattening, and for values greater 7 even to a reversal of the curve. There is an annual increase of the Impact Factor in the SCI, in which the annual rate is rising as higher the IF is. More exact analyses have shown that the increase had an upper of 0.42, at the investigated time. Impact factors of Journals and prices for their relations depend only on a weak statistic from each other. Whether Journal is acquired, depends by far more strongly on the citations, which meets these magazines on itself. The IF rises with the number of copies of magazines if these already exhibit a higher IF. A clear separation between a cause and effect cannot be recognized here. It would be both possible that Journals with high IF experience increased demand, so that the copy number thereby rises and that the IF rises, because the Journal enjoys a high interest. Scientific authors are under pressure to publish in journals with Ifs as high as possible. The higher this general pressure is the smaller is the probability for an author to publish in such journals repeatedly. Exceptions are the publishers or editors of these Journals.

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Rosenberg, Eureta, and Mucha Togo. "Journal development, scholar development and quality." 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67314.

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publisher version In reflecting on the contributions to Volume 33, it is evident that a variety of theories about learning and social change inform the scholars in environmental education, ranging from behaviourist, to social behavioural, constructivist and social constructivist learning theories, social and critical realism, and more. What unites these papers is a shared concern about learning in relation to the future well-being of the planet and its people. New scholars entering the field of environmental and sustainability education have the task of mastering not only the social– ecological subject matter of the field, but also their chosen learning theories. In this regard, drawing on the back copies of the SAJEE can be of great value. Much research and writing has already been done on curriculum, education and learning inside and outside of formal institutions, yet many more questions remain. The field is best advanced by noting and building on, challenging and advancing past studies and existing scholarship. The fact that all 33 Volumes of the SAJEE are available online, just a ‘few clicks away’ from any student or supervisor with Internet access, is therefore an enormous boon. We encourage readers and future authors to draw on the work in this and other environmental education journals as they conceptualise, design and reflect on their own studies.

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HUANG, QING-YING, and 黃慶營. "Studies on the dynamic quality of journal bearings." Thesis, 1990. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68384079380869469521.

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