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Seidman, Joshua J. "Evaluation of the quality of consumer health information web sites diabetes tool development and impact of sponsorship characteristics /." Available to US Hopkins community, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/dlnow/3080762.
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Raward, Roslyn, and n/a. "A study of best practice design guidelines and the development of a usability analysis tool for the evaluation of Australian academic library web sites." University of Canberra. Information Management and Tourism, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050629.133643.
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The library profession is now heavily involved in providing access to
information through library web sites and it is a challenge to design a web
site that has reliable content and a user interface that is intuitive to those
who use it. As web accessibility and usability are major issues in the design
of library Web sites, this paper suggests that the design will be most
successful when a usability analysis tool is used throughout the design and
redesign of academic library web sites.
The research drew on the literature of Human-computer Interaction and
usability engineering examining best practice usability and accessibility
design guidelines. It identified those guidelines that were relevant to
academic library web sites. In order to establish the extent to which
Australian academic library web sites met usability guidelines a usability
analysis tool was developed and used to evaluate a randomly selected
sample of web sites. The web sites were categorised under higher education
institutional archetypes as suggested by DETYA (1998) and the results
were discussed in light of these groups. The research found that there was
no correlation of the usability of the web sites between the archetypes. In
fact the pattern of usability was randomly distributed across all institutions,
with the best and worst results appearing in each archetypical category. The
study concluded that the web has provided a whole new start for all
institutions and after examining the results, it suggested that the design of
early web sites was not based on the size or the past history of the
institution that it belonged to, but rather reflected those factors, already
established in the literature, that faced library web managers at that time,
when designing the library web page.
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Genc, Ahmet Sakir. "Web Site Evaluation." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607782/index.pdf.
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This thesis focuses on web site evaluation by using structural evaluation and scope
of business based content comparison. Firstly, web site measurement techniques
and evaluation methods are reviewed. Then a structural evaluation and content
comparison method introduced. This thesis also includes a web based
implementation of these methods for evaluating web sites which is partially
automated for structural evaluation method.
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Ebenezer, Catherine. "Usability evaluation of an NHS library web site." Blackwell Publishing, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105739.
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Objectives: To carry out a usability evaluation of the recently launched South London and Maudsley NHS Trust library website.
Methods: A variety of standard methodologies were employed; content and design evaluation of selected comparable sites; focus groups; a questionnaire survey of library and Web development staff; heuristic evaluation; observation testing; card sorting/cluster analysis, and label intuitiveness/category membership testing. All participants were staff of or providers of services to the trust. Demographic information was recorded for each participant.
Results: Test participants' overall responses to the site were enthusiastic and favourable, indicating the scope and and content of the site to be broadly appropriate to the user group. Testers made numerous suggestions for new content. Usability problems were discovered in two main areas: in the organisation of the site, and in the terminology used to refer to information services and sources. Based on test results, proposals for a revised menu structure, improved accessibility, and changes to the terminology used within the site are presented.
Conclusion: Usability evaluation methods, appropriately scaled, can be advantageously applied to NHS library web sites by an individual web editor working alone.
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Lyseng, Randall Dean. "A Web site, a tool for enhancing communication in Field Experience programs." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0002/MQ59758.pdf.
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Kenyon, Marc Wayne Jr. "Evaluation of a web-based tool for ungulate harvest management." Thesis, Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/kenyon/KenyonM0806.pdf.
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Hunting the female segment of a wild ungulate population is an effective wildlife management tool to control overpopulation. Most hunters prefer to harvest males however, limiting success in controlling overpopulation. Landowners attempting to manage wild ungulate overpopulation have expressed difficulty with finding hunters who wish to harvest female ungulates. Likewise, some hunters willing to harvest female ungulates have difficulty locating private landowners seeking hunters. The Montana State University Wildlife Extension Program created the DoeCowHunt website to help remedy this situation (www.DoeCowHunt.montana.edu). This website is a tool to facilitate contact between landowners and hunters for harvesting doe deer (Odocoileus spp.), doe pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) and cow elk (Cervus elaphus). The website has been available for the Montana 2003, 2004 and 2005 big-game hunting seasons, with over 40,000 visits and 2,500 registered users. The objectives of this study were to evaluate this website's effectiveness in providing an avenue for contact between landowners and hunters and to make any necessary improvements to the website. Measures of the website's effectiveness and improvements were identified from electronic mail questionnaires sent to the registered users of the website over three years. Surveys identified problems with the search and registration processes and low landowner use. After modifying the website, no differences in hunters' reported numbers of invitations to hunt, antlerless deer, elk and pronghorn harvested or the proportion of hunters planning to use the website the following year were detected. However, reported numbers of contacts by hunters differed across years (X² = 7.578, 2 df), as well as the numbers of successful hunts (X² = 7.107, 2 df) and the numbers of antlerless ungulates harvested (X² = 14.115, 2 df). Therefore, the modifications of the search and registration processes appear to have increased the capacity of the website to achieve its objectives. Recommendations for other management agencies developing similar programs are provided.
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Hu, Xiangqun. "Development and evaluation of a Web-based architectural design tool." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0023/MQ31588.pdf.
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Erdal, Feride. "Web Market Analysis: Static, Dynamic And Content Evaluation." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614694/index.pdf.
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Importance of web services increases as the technology improves and the need for the challenging e-commerce strategies increases. This thesis focuses on web market analysis of web sites by evaluating from the perspectives of static, dynamic and content. Firstly, web site evaluation methods and web analytic tools are introduced. Then evaluation methodology is described from three perspectives. Finally, results obtained from the evaluation of 113 web sites are presented as well as their correlations.
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Faure, Gaëlle Berriau Nathalie Monot Paul. "Evaluation et propositions d'évolution du site web du GIP Ascodocpsy refonte du site avec SPIP (système de publication pour Internet) /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2004. http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque/documents/dessride/rsfaure.pdf.
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Maier, Philipp. "Website Evaluation Model and Key Performance Indicators /." St. Gallen, 2008. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/04608352001/$FILE/04608352001.pdf.
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Strom, Stephen C. "An evaluation of barriers in communicating the gospel using an evangelistic web site." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Bjelkenstedt, Alf. "Web-Based Drawing Tool in GWT with Usability Testing and Usability Evaluation." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Programvara och system, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-104975.
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On behalf of Inspectera HK AB in Norrköping a web-based drawing tool has been developed in Java, mainlywith the library Google Web Toolkit (GWT). The purpose of this tool is to facilitate both the staff's at Inspecteraand their client's work with different types of drawings such as blueprints for pest control, fire protection andespecially drawings of the company's e-service of self-checks. Besides developing the drawing tool usabilitytesting and a usability evaluation has been performed.
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Pagounis, Michail. "Evaluation of the web-based energy calculation tool Miljöhuset and future perspectives." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekologi, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-33056.
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The residential sector was accountable for the consumption of 143 TWh in 2007, comprising35 % of Sweden’s total final energy use. The City of Stockholm has high ambitions in the environmental area. Miljöhuset is a web based energy calculation tool that helps to manage energy use, choose energy and cost efficient measures as well as present the environmental impacts of a building. This study had the aim to analyze the energy calculation tool from a scientific − and userperspective and to suggest potential further improvement of the tool. This was done in two maindirections: The first was to examine issues related to the tool itself such as user-friendliness,environmental impacts presentation, results transparency etc. The second direction was to explore potential future development possibilities for Miljöhuset and the possibility of using it asa support in energy declarations. The educational aspect of the tool was examined too, by attempting to identify whether there is a possibility for Miljöhuset to be utilized for this purpose too. In order to examine the aforementioned issues, a Stakeholders Opinion Assessment (SOA)method was used: 18 persons representing 18 different stakeholders answered a questionnaire and gave an interview. Through this procedure, it was possible to identify strengths and weaknesses of Miljöhuset and analyse stakeholders’ opinions on the same. The findings of this study are that Miljöhuset has a good user interface and a holistic approach towards the operation of a house by integrating economic, environmental and energy aspects into one tool. Furthermore, the participants’ perception is that Miljöhuset is understandable and itsvalues/parameters relevant. However, improvements will be necessary in order to increase itsacceptance. Such improvements include both user friendliness and accuracy of the results. A number of stakeholders that are interested in the tool have been identified and further discussions were suggested in order to specify the type of interest these stakeholders expressed. A morethorough discussion and analysis of suitable future target groups would be valuable since future development should be tailored to them. Such an analysis could also more clearly define the potential of Miljöhuset as an educational tool or as a support in energy declarations. The possibility of whether or not the introduction of a fee for Miljöhuset would be beneficial hasbeen studied. The results did not allow drawing firm conclusions about this aspect, however, and further research is suggested. Finally since there are other tools that fulfil similar functions as Miljöhuset, further study about the competition in the web based energy calculation environment is also suggested.www.ima.kth.se
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Kuhn, Hailey Franke. "The design and production of a World Wide Web site as a tool for educational outreach /." [Rohnert Park, Calif.], 1995. http://www.sonoma.edu/ArtGallery/.
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Hetzer, Susanne. "Informativ? Schnell? Unkompliziert? : der Webauftritt der Bibliotheken der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften : Evaluation der Website sowie des Angebots an elektronischer Fachinformation /." Berlin : Inst. für Bibliothekswiss. der Humboldt-Univ, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016959318&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Wolff, Peggy. "Evaluation ausgewählter Websites von Musikbibliotheken in Deutschland." [S.l. : s.n.], 2003. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB11675836.
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Morales, Rosanna. "Developing a Web Tool To Support Youth Tobacco Control." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2807.
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Objective: This study was designed to inform the development of a web tool to simplify access to and analysis of available evidence for youth tobacco control. This tool will support planning, evaluation and research related to youth tobacco control. Primary objectives were to examine useful functions and characteristics of potential end-users. Methods: A pilot-tested, web-based questionnaire was administered to potential end-users (N=43). A purposeful sample of participants was selected to represent individuals working in youth tobacco control from research, health, and education sectors in Western, Central, and Eastern Regions of Canada. Data were analyzed using frequency calculations and cross-tabulations by sector. Results guided the creation of a prototype. Interviews were conducted with a subset of participants (N=6) to validate the prototype and identify further functions. Data were analyzed using content analysis.
Results: Useful functions of the prototype identified varied slightly across sectors. Research participants felt that access to raw data was a useful function. Health sector practitioners were interested in accessing data and creating summary reports of data. Educators were mostly interested in obtaining summary information from data, through reports. Further, health and research participants felt the information resources function was redundant. This research has provided important insights that will guide the development of a functional web tool.
Implications: This tool can enable users to identify effective interventions, track the progress of school or health regions relative to benchmarks, and identify high risk schools or communities to target intervention efforts. This tool is an innovative way to maximize the use of available resources to link research, policy, and practice.
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Nassar, Mohamed Ahmed. "An evaluation of the World Wide Web (Web) as a strategic marketing tool for the Egyptian hotel sector." Thesis, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10369/5906.
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An analysis of the literature on web marketing of hotel websites reveals the potential of the World Wide Web (the Web) to enable small hotels to compete with international chain hotels in the global marketplace. However, the literature also emphasizes the importance of branding in determining consumer choice. Thus the Web presents an inherent dilemma for small (independent and multiple independent) hotels unless they effectively utilize the unique characteristics of the Web to positively enhance their images in the mind of customer, i.e. to build their brands. However, little attention has been paid to how a website can be used to build a hotel brand - an issue which is critically important to the survival of small hotels and the focus of this thesis. This constructionist study adopts a phenomenological perspective to evolve a model for the evaluation of small hotels websites in terms of their brand-building capacity and identifies 28 consumer-relevant features grouped into a pyramid of six considerations (accessibility; information; credibility; e-commerce; immediacy; customer relationship). Each feature is codified in terms of good, satisfactory and sub-optimal performance into an EXCEL spreadsheet set up to produce a radar plot for visual presentation of the results. From this, areas of weakness in website design can be determined and remedial action prioritized. The thesis then examines a case study of small Egyptian hotels and their exploitation of the Web as a strategic marketing tool. This is achieved through evaluating Egyptian hotel websites and interviewing Egyptian hotel marketers and web designers. The results of the evaluation of the websites show that: most of these hotels websites performed 'satisfactory' and 'sub-optimal' on many of the evaluated website design features; they are not designed as part of an integrated marketing strategy and therefore the Egyptian small hotels in this study do not exploit the unique characteristics of the Web to best advantage and face a branding dilemma in the global marketplace. The thesis concludes that there are considerable opportunities for enhancing the understanding of the potential of the Web to build the hotel brand and makes recommendations as to priorities for focus.
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Rubin, Margaret A. "Evaluation of the Wisconsin Career Pathways Web Site: A Comprehensive Plan for Ongoing Development." Thesis, NSUWorks, 2014. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fse_etd/58.
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An Evaluation of the Wisconsin Career Pathways Web Site: A Comprehensive Plan for Ongoing Development. Margaret A. Rubin, 2014: Applied Dissertation, Nova Southeastern University, Abraham S. Fischler School of Education. ERIC Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Career Exploration, Career Guidance, Evaluation, Web Sites. This research study was designed to provide for the ongoing development and improvement of the Wisconsin Career Pathways Web site. The Web site aids secondary educators in the development of secondary-to-postsecondary programs of study, assists middle and high school students in career exploration and academic planning, and helps middle and high school counselors and advisers guide students for success in college and careers by providing them with access to school-wide and individual student Web-site activity. The Web site was developed in phases following a year of planning during the 2008-09 fiscal year. The concept of programs of study is a relatively new and emerging school-reform initiative, and the Wisconsin Career Pathways Web site project was initiated as a Web-based dynamic data-driven resource to help Wisconsin stakeholders. The Web site has been in a constant state of development, expansion, upgrade, and improvement since the launch of its 1st phase in 2010. A developmental evaluation approach was utilized to address the evolving nature of the Web site. The writer developed online surveys to gather input from 3 stakeholder groups: technical college career-prep administrators, middle and high school counselors and advisers, and secondary program-of-study builders. Following quantitative and qualitative data analysis of the surveys, the writer developed a preliminary plan for the Web site's ongoing development and followed up with a focus-group session of interested survey participants representing each of the stakeholder groups. Based on the analysis of qualitative data collected at the focus-group session, the researcher finalized the preliminary plan. The final plan includes a discussion of the data collected and analyzed as well as recommendations for ongoing development and improvement of the Web site. The sequential mixed-methods approach was instrumental in exposing the satisfactory components of the Web site. In general, the data reflected satisfaction with the Web site, namely its user-friendliness, which was one of the project team's earliest goals for the Web site. The Web site is seen as an essential resource for Wisconsin stakeholders. To keep moving forward with Wisconsin's program-of-study and college and career planning initiatives, addressing the unmet needs of stakeholders will not only increase Web-site usage but will lead to a clearer understanding of those initiatives. Based on the results of this study, the researcher developed a comprehensive plan. The plan suggests that improving the online program-of-study builder tool, providing more training, building reporting capacity, developing a marketing plan, and increasing Web-site interactivity based on push-notification technology are necessary actions for the ongoing development and improvement of the Web site. The findings of the study will be submitted to the Wisconsin Technical College System.
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Mahmoud, Siham Mukhtar. "Evaluating and enhancing websites : a case study of an Eritrean state owned media website - shabait.com." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49952.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2004.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Ministry of Information of Eritrea is basically aimed at providing the society with news, information, education and entertainment. In addition to its service presentation through radio, TV and printed press the Ministry of Information has taken the initiative to present its services in the digital way by publishing a website known as shabait.com. But as the technique is new to the country as well as to the organization, it is to be expected that there will be inaccuracies in the way the website was designed. Hence, evaluating and redesigning shabait.com with the goal of making it informative, attractive and easy to use will be very beneficial to the organization as well as to users of the website. This recently launched website is not very attractive and not successfully directed to its users. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to assess and find the best way of presenting information digitally to the Eritrean society, as well as to anyone interested in finding out about Eritrea through the State owned media website. This study was firstly approached by gathering previously written relevant information from books, journals, and the Internet. In addition to that interviews with concerned people in Eritrea were held to understand the aim, difficulties and challenges of the website. Subsequently the website was assessed according to the evaluation criteria developed, based on the literature review. The evaluation of the website assumed three different approaches of qualitative as well as quantitative types. A usability test with both quantitative and qualitative questions was done through a questionnaire, which was analyzed statistically. A competitive analysis, of qualitative type with two international websites was also made. In order to create a good quality website, it is essential to have clearly specified goals, policies and strategies, and adequate advanced human as well as technological resources, so that it will be easy to overcome the common challenges such as competition, diversity of users, budget constraints, and inadequacy of policy instruments. The findings of the evaluation of shabait.com indicate that the website is not attractive, is user unfriendly, of low content quality as well as with low download speed and, more importantly, was not advertised well. Therefore, shabait.com is not fit to be considered as a sole first hand information provider website for the Eritrean society as well as for anybody who is concerned about Eritrea. At the end of the study recommendations of how the website can be modified to be successful are listed.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doelwit van die Ministerie van Inligting van Eritrea is om nuus, inligting, opvoeding en vermaak aan die gemeenskap te verskaf. Bykomend tot die radio, TV en die gedrukte media, het die Ministerie van Inligting nou ook besluit om 'n digitale diens te lewer deur middel van 'n webwerf bekend as shabait.com. Aangesien die betrokke tegnieke vir die land sowel as vir die organisasie iets nuuts is, kan daar verwag word dat die ontwerp van die webwerf onakkuraathede sal toon. Dus moet shabait.com evalueer en verbeter word om dit sodoende aantreklik en gebruikersvriendelik te maak; dit sal tot die voordeel strek van die organisasie so wel as die gebruikers. Hierdie jong webwerf is tans nie baie aantreklik of maklik om te gebruik nie. Dus is die doelwit van hierdie studie om die beste wyses te vind om die gemeenskap van Eritrea, sowel as ander belangstellendes, deur middel van 'n webwerf wat deur die staat beheer word, digitaal van inligting te bedien. Relevante geskrewe inligting is bekom deur middel van boeke, joernale en die Internet. Daar is ook onderhoude gevoer met mense betrokke by shabait.com om sodoende die doelwitte, probleme en uitdagings van die webwerf beter te verstaan. Daarna is die webwerf evalueer volgens ontwikkelde kriteria gebaseer op die literatuuroorsig. Vir die evaluasie is drie benaderings gebruik, beide kwalitatief en kwantitatief. 'n Bruikbaarheidstoets is deur middel van 'n vraelys gedoen met kwalitatiewe sowel as kwantitatiewe vrae en die antwoorde is statisties ontleed. Twee internasionale webwerwe is ook ontleed sodat hulle gehalte met dié van shabait.com vergelyk kon word. Om 'n webwerf van goeie gehalte te ontwerp, is dit noodsaaklik om duidelik omskrewe doelwitte, beleide en stategië, asook genoegsaam opgeleide mense en gevorderde tegnologiese hulpbronne te hê sodat die uitdagings soos kompetisie, verskeidenheid van gebruikers, begrotingsbeperkings en swak beleidsinstrumente oorkom kan word. Die bevindinge van die evaluasie van shabait.com toon dat die webwerf onaantreklik en gebruikersonvriendelik is, die inhoud is van swak gehalte, die aflaai spoed is laag en en die werf is nie goed adverteer nie. Daarom is die werf nie geskik om beskou te word as die enigste eerstehandse inligtingsverskaffer webwerf vir die gemeenskap van Eritrea sowel as ander belangstellendes nie. Aan die einde van die studie is daar aanbevelings vir die verbetering van die webwerf.
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Chiasson, Mary Shannon C. "Site Visitation: School Leaders' Perceptions of a Diagnostic Tool for School Improvement." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1908.
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This case study explored the use of site-visitation as a diagnostic tool for school improvement. Nine charter schools in New Orleans were selected for the study. Based on qualitative research and systems theory, a within- and cross-case analysis of nine semi-structured interviews with school leaders were conducted. The school leaders’ experiences with the state-run site-visitation model and their use of the findings for school improvement was explored. The findings led to the development of a hybrid accountability model that encompasses the components school leaders believe will lead to school improvement. This study aims to assist educators, policy makers, and researchers to better understand site-visitation and its role in school improvement.
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Morrall, Andrew J. "A usability study of a language centre web site." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25474108.
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Hung, Wei-Hsi (Frank). "Supporting Organisational Critical Activities From Web Sites: An Evaluation Methodology Development." The University of Waikato, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2545.
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quot; Organisational critical activities quot; (OCAs) are activities which must be conducted by the organisation constantly in order to be successful in the industry. They are recognised as being essential to short, medium, and long-term success in that industry, have been significantly resourced and receive regular senior management monitoring and direction. Although these activities are extremely important, some empirical studies have shown that they are not well supported by organisations, particularly in the area of Web support. This thesis develops an evaluation methodology called the quot;organisational critical activity Web support evaluation methodology quot; (OCAWSEM) which can be utilised to elicit OCAs from organisations, evaluate whether an organisation acutes; OCAs are being supported by its Web site, and provide guidance on how the organisation can improve its Web site. To develop the OCAWSEM, this thesis reviews the relevant literature and proposes a prototype OCAWSEM. A new iterative case design (ICD) approach has been used in order to further develop the prototype, and then to test the improved OCAWSEM. The selected field cases were eight universities in New Zealand. In total, 43 semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior teams, middle level managers, and Web teams. A systematic review of these universitiesacute Web sites was performed from the provideracutes, rather than the useracutes perspective. The outcome shows that the Developed OCAWSEM is a valid and reliable methodology for the evaluation of the support for OCAs from Web sites in the universities in New Zealand. This thesis provides useful lessons, drawn from the development and testing processes, as the basis from which to develop more specific OCAWSEMs for use in other organisational and industry contexts. Both practitioners and academicians can gain a deeper understanding of the notion of OCAs, better elicit OCAs from management, conduct Web site evaluations, and discuss the support of the Web sites for the OCAs.
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Balasubramanian, Venkatramanan. "Design and evaluation of a web-based training tool for the User Action Framework Explorer." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35742.
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explosion in the use of computing and interactive systems of all kinds. This growth has brought with it an awareness among developers of interactive systems about the importance of user centered design and usability. In the Virginia Tech Usability tools lab, efforts are underway to develop tools and processes that assist in usability evaluation. This has led to the development of the User Action Framework (UAF) (Andre et al., 1999), a framework that forms the basis of several usability inspection tools like the Explorer, UPI (Usability Problem Inspector), UPC (Usability Problem Classifier) and the usability problem database. The UAF explorer is the tool in the toolkit, which allows users to explore and learn the structure of the UAF. The framework, in its final stages of development, is based on an interaction cycle derived from Norman's action model (1986). For its acceptance, the user action framework, which is based on human factors and cognitive concepts, needed a training program to make it accessible and understandable to the usability practioners in industry and academia.
This thesis addressed the following research activities: (1) Developing a web-based training tool for the User Action Framework explorer and (2) Evaluating a web- based training tool using various formative evaluation techniques and a final summative evaluation to measure effectiveness of the training, transfer of training, knowledge/skill acquisition and reaction to the training.
The summative evaluation used a pretest-posttest between subjects experimental design to determine the effectiveness of the training tool with the use of lecture-based training as a control group. The data collection included objective measures of performance and subjective measures through questionnaires and rating scales. The summative evaluation found no significant differences between gain scores on lecture-based training and web-based training under controlled conditions.
Opportunities for future research were identified and the training tool is expected to contribute to the efforts of the VT usability tools lab towards educating usability professionals and researchers alike on the usefulness of the User Action Framework and its associated tools. This work also seeks to proliferate the use of web based training methods as a valuable way to train remote learners on such developing frameworks and toolkits.Master of Science
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Beck, Laura. "Evaluation of a Mind-Body Website by Women with Breast Cancer." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5904.
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Despite having access to volumes of information, women newly diagnosed with breast cancer report a moderate level of distress related to their diagnosis, treatment, life expectancy, threat to current roles, and life-changing surgery and treatment choices. Web sites designed to teach people strategies to reduce distress are readily available online. The online format may be useful and practical for women who can access the site at their convenience, learn the components of the interventions at their own pace, and practice the strategies in the comfort of their home.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate an online Mind-Body web site (http://www.www.preparingforyoursurgery.com) designed to reduce distress related to surgery for its usability, practicality, and appropriateness for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. Results of this study will be used to either adopt use of the web site into standard of care at our cancer center or explore development of a similar web site to meet the needs of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer.
Women recently diagnosed with breast cancer, who had breast cancer surgery in the past 60 days, were asked to evaluate an online Mind-Body web site and then respond to an online questionnaire measuring the web site usability, practicality, and appropriateness.
Thirty-one women evaluated the web site and completed the online survey. The majority of women agreed the web site is useful, practical, appropriate, and would recommend to others. There was no significant relationship between age, income, level of education, frequency of Internet use, or experience with Mind-Body techniques and women who agreed the web site is useful, appropriate, or practical compared to women who were neutral or disagreed the web site
is useful, appropriate, or practical. The results of this study suggest the web site could be introduced to women newly diagnosed with breast cancer at our cancer center regardless of age, income, education, frequency of Internet use, or experience with Mind-Body techniques.D.N.P.
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Tilden, Daniel Steven. "Design and Evaluation of a Web-Based Programming Tool to Improve the Introductory Computer Science Experience." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23149.
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Introductory computer science courses can be notoriously difficult for students, especially those outside of the major. There are many reasons for this, but the programming software itself may play a significant role. To address this issue, we have developed Pythy, a web-based programming environment that allows students to write, execute, and test programming assignments from within the familiar interface of a web browser. In this work, we discuss various aspects of Pythy in detail, including the rationale behind its design, the system architecture on which it is built, and the various functions offered by the software. Next, we discuss an evaluation of Pythy\'s effectiveness during a programming course for non CS-majors offered at Virginia Tech, comparing it to a different software solution used in another programming course. Results suggest that Pythy was successful in several target areas, including making it easier to get started with programming and providing feedback about program behavior. Access log data from Pythy itself reveals details about how students used the system. Finally, we conclude with a summary of key contributions and suggest some potential future directions for the system.Master of Science
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Matti, Erik. "Evaluation of open source web vulnerability scanners and their techniques used to find SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177606.
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Both for its simplicity and efficiency to search for the most critical security vulnerabilities that could exist within a web application, a web vulnerability scanner is a popular tool among any company that develops a web application. With the existence of many different scanners that are available to use, one is unlikely the same as the other and the results attained when evaluating these scanners in relation to each other are often not the same. In this thesis, three different open source web vulnerability scanners are evaluated and analysed based on their ability to find SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. The scanners were used on several open source deliberately broken web applications that acted as benchmarks. The benchmarks that caused much diversity in the results from the scanners were further investigated. When analysing the scanners based on the results, both the actual results were analysed on what caused the diversity but most of all the source code of the scanners were explored and investigated. It could be found that the techniques used by the scanners were essentially similar but contained several minor differences that caused the diversity in the results. Most differences were dependant on the variation of the predefined payloads injected by the scanners, but it could also be found that the approaches used to determine if a vulnerability was detected or not could vary as well. The finalised result concluded in a report that reveals and demonstrates the different approaches that any web vulnerability scanner could use and the limitations of them.
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Van, der Merwe Rian. "E-commerce web site evaluation : developing a framework and method for the systematic evaluation of e-commerce web sites and using correspondence analysis to represent the results graphically per industry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52248.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The corporate web site is essential to companies who use the Internet for e-commerce purposes. For these companies, the web site is the platform used to communicate with customers and facilitate business transactions. Internet companies will not be able to do business successfully with an ineffective web site, because this implies that the only contact point that the company has with customers is not functioning properly. It is, however, extremely difficult to identify what an effective e-commerce web site constitutes of. A great need therefore exists for a comprehensive and accurate method to evaluate the performance of the web sites of Internet companies, not only individually but also in comparison with the web sites of other companies in the same industry. Managers of Internet companies would certainly like to know how their web sites perform, what they can do to increase their performance, and which web sites in their industry can be used as a benchmark in certain areas. This thesis aims to address these needs by fulfilling three objectives: ► To develop a framework and criteria for the comprehensive evaluation of e-commerce web sites. ► To use this framework and sound statistical reasoning to develop a method that can be used to evaluate e-commerce web sites quantitively, and represent the results graphically per industry. ► To implement this method by developing computer software that enables users to evaluate web sites and plot the results. To accomplish these objectives, the following methodology was followed: ► Review the research done in the field of web site evaluation for both general and e-commerce web sites. ► Review the research on different techniques in the field of Multidimensional Scaling, and identify an appropriate technique for developing two-dimensional plots of web site evaluation data. ► Expand the web site evaluation research and develop a framework and objective criteria for the evaluation of e-commerce web sites, based on solid business principles. ► Develop a method to gather web site evaluation data that is grouped within industries, and to represent the results graphically using an appropriate Multidimensional Scaling technique. ► Implement the method by developing computer software to automate the process. This document describes the course of the methodology in detail. It reports on the e-commerce web site evaluation framework that was developed; Correspondence Analysis as the Multidimensional Scaling technique used to analyse the evaluation data; the development of the e-commerce web site evaluation method; and the software that was developed in Microsoft Visual Basic to implement the evaluation method. All three objectives were fulfilled in this thesis, in spite of some concerns that are also discussed. The evaluation framework and accompanying software can be used to evaluate all aspects of e-commerce web sites, and the output can be used to draw meaningful conclusions about how these sites can be improved.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die korporatiewe webwerf is onontbeerlik vir maatskappye wat die Internet vir e-handel doeleindes gebruik. Die webwerf is vir hierdie maatskappye die platform wat gebruik word om met kliente te kommunikeer en om saketransaksies te fasiliteer. Internetmaatskappye sal nie in staat wees om suksesvol sake te doen as hulle webwerwe oneffekti'ef is nie, omdat dit sal impliseer dat die enigste raakpunt wat die maatskappy met kliente het, nie behoorlik funksioneer nie. Tog is dit moeilik om te identifiseer waaruit 'n effektiewe e-handel webwerf bestaan. Daar is dus 'n groot behoefte aan 'n omvattende en akkurate metode waarvolgens die werkverrigting van die webwerwe van Internetmaatskappye geevalueer kan word, nie net individueel nie, maar ook in vergelyking met die webwerwe van ander maatskappye in dieselfde industrie. Bestuurders van Internetmaatskappye sal beslis wil weet hoe goed hulle webwerwe funksioneer, wat hulle kan doen om die werkverrigting van webwerwe te verbeter, en watter webwerwe in hulle industrie as uitstaande voorbeelde in sekere areas kan dien. Hierdie tesis spreek die bogenoemde behoeftes aan deur drie doelstellings uit te voer: ► Om 'n raamwerk en kriteria vir die omvattende evaluasie van e-handel webwerwe te ontwikkel. ► Om hierdie raamwerk en gegronde statistiese beredenering te gebruik ten einde 'n metode te ontwikkel wat gebruik kan word om e-handel webwerwe kwantitatief te evalueer, en om die resultate grafies per industrie uit te beeld. ► Om hierdie metode te implementeer deur rekenaarprogrammatuur te ontwikkel wat gebruikers in staat stel om webwerwe te evalueer en die resultate te plot. Die volgende metodologie is gevolg om hierdie doelstellings te laat slaag: ► Bestudeer die navorsing gedoen in die veld van webwerf evaluasie van sowel algemene as e-handel webwerwe. ► Bestudeer die navorsing oor verskillende tegnieke in die veld van Multidimensionele Gradering (Multidimensional Scaling), en identifiseer 'n toepaslike tegniek vir die ontwikkeling van tweedimensionele grafiese voorstellings van webwerf evaluasiedata. ► Brei die webwerf evaluasienavorsing uit en ontwikkel 'n raamwerk en objektiewe kriteria vir die evaluering van e-handel webwerwe, gebaseer op stewige sakebeginsels. ► Ontwikkel 'n metode om webwerf evaluasiedata te versamel wat in industriee gegroepeer is, en stel hierdie resultate grafies voor deur die gebruik van 'n toepaslike Multidimensionele Graderingstegniek. ► Implementeer die metode deur die ontwikkeling van rekenaarprogrammatuur om die proses te outomatiseer. Hierdie dokument beskryf die verloop van die metodologie in detail. Dit lewer verslag oor die e-handel webwerf evaluasieraamwerk wat ontwikkel is; Assosiasie-analise {Correspondence Analysis) as die Multidimensionele Graderingstegniek wat gebruik is om die evaluasie-data te analiseer; die ontwikkeling van die e-handel webwerf evaluasiemetode; en die programmatuur wat ontwikkel is in Microsoft Visual Basic om die evaluasiemetode te implementeer. Al drie doelstellings is in hierdie tesis bereik, ten spyte van sommige probleme—wat ook bespreek word. Die evaluasieraamwerk en meegaande programmatuur kan gebruik word om alle aspekte van e-handel webwerwe te evalueer, en die resultate kan gebruik word om betekenisvolle gevolgtrekkings te maak oor die wyse waarop hierdie webwerwe verbeter kan word.
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Nassar, M. A. M. "An evaluation of the World Wide Web as a strategic marketing tool for the Egyptian hotel sector." Thesis, Swansea University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.638295.
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An analysis of the literature on web marketing of hotel websites reveals the potential of the World Wide Web (the Web) to enable small hotels to compete with international chain hotels in the global marketplace. However, the literature also emphasizes the importance of branding in determining consumer choice. Thus the Web presents an inherent dilemma for small (independent and multiple independent) hotels unless they effectively utilize the unique characteristics of the Web to positively enhance their images in the mind of customer, i.e. to build their brands. However, little attention has been paid to how a website can be used to build a hotel brand - an issue which is critically important to the survival of small hotels and the focus of this thesis. This constructionist study adopts a phenomenological perspective to evolve a model for the evaluation of small hotels websites in terms of their brand-building capacity and identities 28 consumer-relevant features grouped into a pyramid of six considerations (accessibility; information; credibility; e-commerce; immediacy; customer relationship). Each feature is codified in terms of good, satisfactory and sub-optimal performance into an EXCEL spreadsheet set up to produce a radar plot for visual presentation of the results. From this, areas of weakness in website design can be determined and remedial action prioritized. The thesis then examines a case study of small Egyptian hotels and their exploitation of the Web as a strategic marketing tool. This is achieved through evaluating Egyptian hotel websites and interviewing Egyptian hotel marketers and web designers. The results of the evaluation of the websites show that: most of these hotels websites performed 'satisfactory' and 'sub-optimal' on many of the evaluated website design features; they are not designed as part of an integrated marketing strategy and therefore the Egyptian small hotels in this study do not exploit the unique characteristics of the Web to best advantage and face a branding dilemma in the global marketplace.
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Martins, João Manuel Abrantes. "O interface do Web site: Um modelo heurístico para estratégias, usos e avaliação." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/16007.
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A tecnologia world wide web permitiu às organizações re-equacionar as suas estratégias de atuação no mercado, do relacionamento entre clientes e fornecedores e numa nova maneira de comprar e vender - o negócio eletrónico. - O dilema da web continua a ser encontrar aquilo que se procura por entre as inúmeras fontes de informação. Os desenvolvimentos têm sido na melhoria da estrutura de pesquisa nos interfaces de utilizador, na navegação facilitada por um ecrã eficaz e por uma estrutura de links que reduzem o número de passos até encontrar o que se procura. Vários frameworks foram desenvolvidos com o objetivo do processo de pesquisa ser mais visível, compreensível e controlado pelo utilizador. São, assim, identificados os pilares críticos para implementação de interface de utilizador de um web site corporativo. As fundamentações teóricas e pragmáticas passam pela gestão dos objetos do interface: a interatividade, a usabilidade e, mais recentemente, a personalização e customização. Foi desenvolvido um novo modelo heurístico, que incorpora características de usabilidade (e outras), chaves críticas de sucesso para cada característica e despectivas ponderações, permite fazer uma avaliação comparativa (benchmarking) da eficiência de web site de organizações típicas. O teste de exploração e validação do modelo foi na área telecomunicações móveis. O objetivo é avaliar qual o nível de personalização, customização e comércio eletrónico. Como referido estas características podem fazer a diferença neste tipo de mercado fortemente concorrencial. /ABSTRACT - The World Wide Web technology allows the organizations to reframe their market strategies, the relationship between customers and suppliers and, within a new way of doing business -the e-commerce. The web's dilemma is, therefore, to find what you are looking for among the uncountable information sources. Until now, development was made in the improvement of the search structure in user interfaces, in the navigation easy of use by an efficient display and with a link structure that reduces the number of steps we need until we find out what we are looking for. Several frameworks were developed with the goal of optimizing the navigation process, making it more understandable and offering the control to the user. Some critical ways were identified to implement the user interface of a web site. The theoretical and pragmatic grounds are the management of interface objects, interactivity, the usability and, more recently, the personalization and customization processes. A new heuristic model for the evaluation of web sites was developed within some usability characteristics and some weighted critical success factors. This model enables an efficient benchmarking of web sites of some typical organizations. The models deploy and evaluation was made in web sites of mobile telecommunications operators. The goal is to evaluate the level of personalization / customization and e- commerce each web site can provide to their customers. As mentioned, in a very competitive market, these characteristics can make a difference between organizations.
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Viviers, Johanna Christina. "Development of an impact assessment methodology and decision making tool to assist in the evaluation of site suitability for on-site sanitation systems / Johanna Christina Vivier." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1895.
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Mekonnen, Addisu Dereje. "Wind Farm Site Suitability Analysis in Lake Erie Using Web-Based Participatory GIS (PGIS)." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1392975809.
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Clouet, Ghuilaine. "Evaluation ergonomique de produits et services : le cas du web marchand." Phd thesis, Université Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis, 2005. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00109013.
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Cette thèse se situe dans le champ de l'évaluation ergonomique de produits et de services. Une bonne évaluation doit répondre à deux types de critères qui ne sont pas nécessairement convergents : d'une part, ceux relatifs à la production de résultats scientifiquement valides et, d'autre part, ceux relatifs à l'utilisation des résultats par les professionnels destinataires. Nous explorons les deux dimensions. Nous produisons des connaissances sur la nature de la production verbale et la productivité de deux techniques utilisées en vue de la construction d'un questionnaire d'évaluation dans le domaine du commerce électronique : l'entretien individuel et le focus group. Par ailleurs, nous construisons un outil d'aide à l'élaboration d'évaluations pour des professionnels du commerce électronique qui produisent des résultats et les utilisent pour transformer leur site Web marchand.
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Pate, Karen Denise. "Developing a Framework for Evaluation of Corporate Non-Transactional Business-to-Consumer Web Sites: A Descriptive Study." NSUWorks, 2010. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/356.
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During the soaring information economy of the last decade, organizations spent large sums of money on the development of Web sites without much knowledge of their performance value. In time, organizations realized that measuring Web site performance to determine value was fundamental. For transactional, e-commerce Business-to-Consumer (B2C) Web sites, this effort is straightforward because value is attached to sales. Measuring performance to determine the value of non-transactional B2C Web sites (i.e., sites that provide information, not sales) is more complex.
This study examined the underexplored subject of evaluating non-transactional Web sites. Performance was defined as outcomes ranging from site visitor attributes to business impacts. Value was defined as the degree to which the site contributed to achieving business objectives.
The resulting qualitative, exploratory study involved 45-60 minute semi-structured interviews conducted with 15 employees from four corporations across diverse industries regarding evaluation of non-transactional sites. Each interview was recorded with participant consent and transcribed.
Interview results were aggregated, analyzed, and grouped based on themes and patterns. Logical groupings of participant opinions on topics such as associating Web initiatives to company business strategy, how Web success is defined, comfort with subjective measurement, and value placed on subjective measurement were identified and placed on several continuums.
The study's result is a three phase process to evaluate non-transactional Web sites. Phase one is comprised of four components: 1) identify the company's Web belief system, 2) clarify the company's level of expectation for non-transactional Web sites, 3) determine which viewpoint (business, customer, or both) the company will use to evaluate Web site effectiveness and success, and 4) identify the purpose of evaluating the performance of Web sites. Phase two includes two components: 1) select applicable metrics and 2) collect appropriate data. To supplement Phase two, three tools/guides were developed: 1) expectations/evaluation considerations matrix, 2) sample business viewpoint metrics and 3) sample customer viewpoint metrics. Phase three consists of two components: 1) analyze the data and identify insights and 2) act upon the results. Together, this three phase process and accompanying tools constitute a practical framework for evaluating non-transactional Web sites.
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Noll, Hannah M. "Where Google Scholar Stands on Art: An Evaluation of Content Coverage in Online Databases." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/499.
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This study evaluates the content coverage of Google Scholar and three commercial databases (Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Bibliography of the History of Art and Art Full Text/Art Index Retrospective) on the subject of art history. Each database is tested using a bibliography method and evaluated based on Péter Jacsó’s scope criteria for online databases. Of the 472 articles tested, Google Scholar indexed the smallest number of citations (35%), outshone by the Arts & Humanities Citation Index which covered 73% of the test set. This content evaluation also examines specific aspects of coverage to find that in comparison to the other databases, Google Scholar provides consistent coverage over the time range tested (1975-2008) and considerable access to article abstracts (56%). Google Scholar failed, however, to fully index the most frequently cited art periodical in the test set, the Artforum International. Finally, Google Scholar’s total citation count is inflated by a significant percentage (23%) of articles which include duplicate, triplicate or multiple versions of the same record.
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Bronstein, Dawn M. "The Efficacy of a Web Site Evaluation Checklist as a Pedagogical Approach for Teaching Students to Critically Evaluate Internet Content." NSUWorks, 2007. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_etd/424.
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Although the growth of the Internet has provided access to an enormous amount of previously inaccessible information, a large amount of information of dubious credibility appears online. Prior to the proliferation of the Internet, much of the informational material that a person came into contact with had been subject to a system of editorial checks and balances. Anyone can now publish information online for millions of people to access.
In response, several educational associations have proposed that the teaching of information literacy be a priority in our schools. A common method provided for teaching Web site evaluation is the evaluation checklist. The checklists that currently exist in the literature tend to differ widely in their design.
This evaluative research study utilized a systems approach to evaluation to create a valid and reliable Web site evaluation checklist for use with secondary level students. Students and teachers were asked to evaluate a selected set of Web sites using the checklist. The data was analyzed and conclusions were drawn as to the design elements that were most appropriate for inclusion in a checklist instrument as well as how students' and teachers' evaluations of Web sites compared when using the checklist.
The results suggested that the criteria included for evaluation in this checklist were appropriate for evaluation in this context. A comparison of teacher and student responses identified areas where students had difficulty evaluating the information they encountered. Student responses suggested that they had particular difficulty in identifying persuasive elements and bias when they were present on Web site used for classroom research.
Guided practice with real world problems is one strategy utilized in secondary level classrooms to assist students in developing their skill in critical thinking. The results here suggest that students need additional practice with critical thinking skills in the context of Web site evaluation and that this checklist can be an appropriate tool for guiding students in this pursuit if it is part of a structured classroom activity that includes modeling and guidance. Additionally, several recommendations were made for further study of this checklist and for alternate designs of checklists.
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Cresswell, Martha. "Evaluation of a web-based tool designed to prepare people for treatment decisions and advance care planning : applicability in oncology." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55851.
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Health care delivery is structured around patient-centered care and the expectation that patients will exercise autonomous medical decision making, however many oncology patients who access health care have no preparation for making informed treatment decisions or engaging in advance care planning (ACP) conversations. Engagement in ACP conversations facilitates patient-centred care that is consistent with the care and treatment the patient wants and enables in-the-moment medical decisions during treatment and at end of life. Patient engagement in ACP is associated with a measure of high quality care delivery by legal standards, clinical guidelines and ethical consensus. The majority of Canadians acknowledge the importance of ACP, but do not benefit from it because they are not engaging in ACP discussions or documentation. This study addressed the need to find an acceptable and relevant means to engage cancer patients in ACP.
PREPARE is a promising web-based intervention aimed at preparing patients to engage in ACP discussions that was developed with community dwelling seniors in the United States. It had not been evaluated for use with an oncology population. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to evaluate the acceptability, applicability, and understandability of PREPARE for cancer patients. Data was collected via cognitive interviewing, followed by a brief semi-structured interview with 21 participants to gather a meaningful account of their experience with the PREPARE website. Content analysis resulted in a comprehensive summary of what the participants liked and did not like about the resource, as well as suggestions for change.
The active cancer treatment patients enrolled in this study indicated that the PREPARE website was acceptable, applicable, and understandable for an oncology population. Importantly, this was the case for both older and middle aged participants.
Some participants had difficulty with the life limiting language of “life not worth living or worse than death” and this requires follow-up in order to determine whether changes to the resource are needed. However, overall, PREPARE was found to be a useful reflective resource for cancer patients that merits further consideration for implementation.Health and Social Development, Faculty of (Okanagan)
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Vogts, Dieter. "The evaluation of a pedagogical-program development environment for Novice programmers : a comparative study." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/638.
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It is an acknowledged fact that many novice programmers experience difficulty in the process of learning to program. One of the contributing factors to this difficulty is the Program Development Environment (PDE). Professional-PDEs are those developed specifically for professional programmers, but are often used by educational institutions in the instruction of programming. It has long been accepted that such environments are inappropriate in the instruction of programming due to unnecessary complexity and lack of support for novice programmers in the learning process. Numerous pedagogical-PDEs supporting the mechanics of programming have been developed in response to this. A review of literature, however, indicates that very limited empirical studies comparing pedagogical-PDEs and professional-PDEs have been conducted. The current study investigates whether there are measurable benefits to using a pedagogical-PDE supporting the mechanics of programming in the instruction of programming instead of a professional-PDE. A comparative study of this nature requires a representative pedagogical-PDE and representative professional-PDE be compared with one another. The first part of the current study determines a set of requirements that a pedagogical- PDE should adhere to based on literature. A set of representative features for a pedagogical-PDE is derived by examining the features of existing PDEs in conjunction with the set of requirements. Based on these features, a pedagogical-PDE, known as SimplifIDE, is developed that implements the representative set of features and that meets are the requirements for a pedagogical-PDE. The second part of the current study is the specification and administration of an empirical experiment in which SimplifIDE and Borland© DelphiTM are compared with one another. A holistic approach in determining the differences between the PDEs is taken and three main areas are examined, namely academic performance, perceptions and programming behavior.
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Danielson, Jared Andrew. "The Design, Development and Evaluation of a Web-based Tool for Helping Veterinary Students Learn How to Classify Clinical Laboratory Data." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28511.
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Veterinary students face the difficult task of learning to classify clinical laboratory data. In an effort to make this task easier, a computer and web based tool known as the Problem List Generator (PLG) was designed based on current literature dealing with learning theory and medical education which are reviewed in chapter 1. Chapter 2 describes the design and the development process for the PLG. The PLG allows the students to access any number of cases (determined by the professor) of increasing complexity which provide signalment, history, physical exam, and laboratory data for a number of patients. Using the PLG, students analyze the data, identify data abnormalities and mechanisms, arrange them in a problem list, diagnose the problem, and compare their problem list and diagnosis to an expert problem list and diagnosis. The PLG was evaluated using a four step evaluation process involving an expert review, one-to-one evaluations, small group evaluations, and a two-part field trial, and was evaluated in terms of clarity, feasibility, and impact. The PLG is usable, in terms of clarity and feasibility, though fixes are recommended. There is no evidence to infer, statistically, that the PLG has any effect on learning outcomes. However, trends in the quantitative data and logical inference based on the context of the evaluation suggest that the PLG might help students, particularly those of low and average ability to produce more accurate problem lists.Ph. D.
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Yildiz, Ismail. "Effects Of Scaffolding Strategies Embedded Within Web-based Peer Evaluation System On Pre-service Teachers." Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614181/index.pdf.
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The educational community is increasingly concerned about the limitations of traditional teacher education programs to support teachers&rsquoprofessional development. Beside the theoretical knowledge, the importance of the experience cannot be debated. The main problem of the teacher education institutions is that they fail to close the gap between the theoretical principles taught in the faculties of education and the experiences of teachers in the classrooms. Microteaching is the most popular method to prepare the PSTs for real-world teaching profession. However, literature showed that there are some barriers that PSTs face during the microteaching process, including limited and unreflective peer-feedback (Huang, 2001). In order to facilitate PSTs&rsquo
peer-interaction and reflective thinking during their microteaching process, a web-based video analysis environment was designed. In addition, in teacher education observation has a critical place. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of question prompts embedded within this environment on PSTs&rsquo
reflective thinking and self-efficacy levels. For this purpose, a true experimental study was designed and applied. 55 pre-service teachers were enrolled in this study. First finding of this study is that the use of question prompts embedded in a web-based video analysis system have a positive significant effect on pre-service teachers'
reflective thinking level. Second finding of this study is that the use of question prompts embedded in a web-based video analysis system did not have a significant effect on pre-service teachers'
self-efficacy. However, there was a significant linear trend indication for all types of self-efficacy factors for both control and experimental group over the time. For both groups this linear trend showed that self-efficacy scores of instructional strategies, classroom management, and student engagement developed over the time.
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Yilmaz, Harun. "Identification of Academic Program Strengths and Weaknesses through Use of a Prototype Systematic Tool." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26774.
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Because of the rapid development of the use of computers in education, as well as the introduction of the World Wide Web (WWW), a growing number of web-based educational applications/tools have been developed and implemented to help both educators and administrators in the field of education. In order to assist program directors and faculty members in determining whether or not there is a gap between the current situation of the program and the desired situation of the program and whether or not program objectives meet accreditation standards, there is a need for a tool that works effectively and efficiently. However, literature review showed that there is no automated tool specifically used for determining strengths and weaknesses of an academic program, and there is a lack of research in this area.
In Chapter 1, the authorâ s intent is to discuss the purpose behind this developmental research and to provide a literature review that serves as the basis for the design of such an automated tool. This review investigates the following issues: objectives related to programs and courses, taxonomies of educational objectives, curriculum evaluation, accreditation and standards, automated tools, and a brief collaborative create-adapt-generalize model. Chapter 2 discusses the design and development of the automated tool as well as methodology focusing on the instructional design model and its steps. Chapter 3 presents the results of the expert review process and possible solutions for the problems identified during the expert review process. Also the Appendices include the documentation used during the expert review process.Ph. D.
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Rowe, Joshua Luke, and josh@email nu. "Improving internet usability - a framework for domain name policy evaluation." RMIT University. Business Information Technology, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091111.101705.
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A domain name is a unique alphanumeric designation that facilitates reference to sets of numbers which actually locate a particular computer on the Internet. Domain names are a fundamental part of the Internet's user interface. Improving the usability of the Internet depends upon effective domain name policy. This study is intended to contribute to improvement in Internet usability for the end users of domain names. Benefits of more usable domain names include: higher sales, customer satisfaction and productivity, and reduced support costs. Domain name policies worldwide vary considerably. Consequently, end users are inconvenienced by contradictory domain name policies, diminishing the predictability of an entity's domain name, and thus decreasing usability for end users. The study objective was to develop criteria with which policy makers can evaluate their domain name policies, in order to improve the usability of domain names for end users. The main research question posed was: What are the criteria for an effective domain name policy? The research methodology included a literature review, domain name policy examination and an ethnographic narrative. The literature review found existing research examining either domain names or usability in isolation. However, research examining the intersection of the two is scarce. The existing research describes domain names as part of the web user interface. In practical terms, this is about how people use domain names to access web sites, email addresses and other Internet resources. It was established that the predictability (and thus usability) of domain names relies on effective domain name policy. The non-standardised and widely delegated process of domain name policy development leads to unpredictable and inconsistent domain names. The narrative recollection presented the researcher's inside perspective on the domain name industry, with a focus on domain name usability. The researcher provided first-hand insights into the evolution of the industry and policy development process, from Australian and international perspectives. To address the problem of poor domain name usability, a framework for domain name policy evaluation is proposed. The framework extends the current research that treats domain names as a user interface by proposing criteria which address usability concerns. The framework allows policy makers to critically assess domain name policies with end users in mind. Examples of the criteria include: understanding who are its intended and untended users, and whether it's consistent with other domain names. The framework has the potential to set an international standard for the critical evaluation of domain name policy, and become the basis for further research. This study was developed from the researcher's perspective as a participant in the domain name industry. A secondary lens regarding the usability of domain names was then applied. This study has only scraped the surface in terms of how the research fields of domain names and usability may be considered together. The research methodology for this study was primarily qualitative and interpretive. A quantitative study of domain name policies globally could provide further insight into areas including: the differences in second level country code domain names, and language implications of domain names.
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Bredemeier, Christian [Verfasser]. "Laser-induced chlorophyll fluorescence sensing as a tool for site-specific nitrogen fertilization – evaluation under controlled environmental and field conditions in wheat and maize / Christian Bredemeier." Aachen : Shaker, 2005. http://d-nb.info/1181614112/34.
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Pomahač, Lukáš. "Vybrané nástroje projektového managementu - analýza a praktická aplikace." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85300.
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The main goal of the theses is the analysis and selection of open-source, web-based project management tools for support of project management. The theoretical chapter focuses on basic project management definitions and functions. The methodological chapter briefly describes multi-criteria decision-making and other methods used in the practical section. The practical chapter includes a short summary of the IQUAP Czech Republic, Ltd. Company, then research on available project management tools, two round multi-criteria evaluation of the selected tools, selection and pilot testing of the final tool TeamLab, evaluation of the pilot testing by using questionnaires. The main benefit of the theses is the analysis and evaluation of the project management tools in relation to the utilization within practice.
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Dou, Jie. "Evaluating Microsoft .NET technology: Implementation online store." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3060.
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The purpose of this project is to design, develop and implement an e-commerce shopping cart system based on Microsoft.NET technology and to evaluate ASP.NET technology by developing a shopping cart system.
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Liu, Xiaohui. "Web-Based Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Spatial Trade-Offs between Enivironmental and Economic Implications from Hydraulic Fracturing in a Shale Gas Region in Ohio." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1402969071.
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Zaina, Luciana Aparecida Martinez. "Acompanhamento do aprendizado do aluno em cursos à distância através da Web: metodologias e ferramenta." Universidade de São Paulo, 2002. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3141/tde-13012003-095336/.
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O crescimento de cursos a distância oferecidos através da Web tem promovido uma grande reflexão sobre como acompanhar a evolução do aluno através deste curso. Em um curso presencial o docente possui meios mais seguros e concretos de observar e gerenciar o processo de aprendizagem já que os participantes estão em contato físico constante. Além disto, normalmente em um curso a distância, o aluno faz seu horário de estudo o que resulta num esforço ainda maior por parte do docente para acompanhar os alunos, pois terá que analisar momentos diferentes do curso ao mesmo tempo. A escolha de métodos para acompanhar a evolução do estudante em um curso on-line é sempre muito difícil de ser realizada e deve ser adequada as necessidades específicas do contexto estudado. Este trabalho apresenta além de conceitos pedagógicos relacionados a avaliação da aprendizagem presencial ambientes de gerenciamento de cursos a distância através da Web, sendo estes os alicerces das propostas realizadas nesta dissertação. As alternativas apresentadas, dentro de um ambiente interativo e através de testes objetivos, para realização de uma avaliação formativa tem como principal objetivo acompanhar o desenvolvimento do aluno no processo de aprendizagem. Como resultado da aplicação da metodologia para a construção de testes objetivos obteve-se uma ferramenta denominada AvaliaOnline, cuja finalidade é criar e aplicar questões do tipo múltipla-escolha em problemas que possuem valores numéricos e fórmulas ou algoritmos relacionados a sua resolução. A ferramenta permite que os valores numéricos que constituem o enunciado de uma questão sejam modificados toda vez que a mesma é apresentada, através do sorteio aleatório destes valores que serão utilizados para resolução do problema. Ou seja, a resposta correta da questão é gerada no momento da exibição da mesma. Além disto, é possível realizar uma dependência entre as questões que constituem o teste, construíndo uma árvore de questões onde o docente verifica o caminho percorrido pelo aluno durante o teste, dando subsídios para um acompanhamento mais detalhado sobre a resolução do estudante. Finalizando este trabalho, são apresentados exemplos práticos da utilização das ferramentas interativas para acompanhamento do aluno e da criação e aplicação de um teste desenvolvido através da ferramenta AvaliaOnline.The increase in the number of distance courses in the Web has caused much reflection on how to track the students evolution through this course. In a live course it is possible for the teacher to observe and manage the learning process through safer and more concrete ways, once the participants are in constant physical contact. In addition, in a distance course the student usually determines how many hours he must study as well as when he will be studying. This will demand a bigger effort on the part of the teacher to track students once he may have to analyse different moments of the course at the same time. The choice of methods to track the stucents evolution in an on-line course is always very difficult to be made and it must be suitable to the specific needs of the studied context. This work presents pedagogical concepts related to tradicional learning evaluation as well as distance course managing environments through the Web, having these as the foundations of the proposals made in this dissertation. The alternatives presented, in an interactive environment and through objective tests, in order to have a formative evaluation, have as their main goal to track the development of the student in the learning process. As a result of the application of methodology for the construction of objective tests, a tool named AvaliaOnline was obtained, whose aim is to create and apply multiple-choice type questions to problems that have numerical values and formulas or algorithms related to their resolution. The tool allows the numerical values in the description of a question to be modified every time it is presented, through random sorting out of these values, which will be used for the resolution of the problem, that is, the correct answer of the question is produced at the moment of its exhibition. Besides, it is possible to establish dependence among the test questions, building a tree of questions where the teacher verifies the path followed by the student during the test, providing support for more detailed tracking on the resolution of the student. At the end of this work, practical examples are presented on the use of interactive tools to track the student and on the creation and application of a test developed through the tool AvaliaOnline. The experiments made show the potencial of such alternatives once they are used in a suitable context and under teacher tracking with.
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Abdelsadek, Youcef. "Triangle packing for community detection : algorithms, visualizations and application to Twitter's network." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LORR0310.
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De nos jours, nous générons une quantité immensément grande de données juste en accomplissant nos simples tâches quotidiennes. L'analyse de ces données soulève des challenges ardus. Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons à deux aspects des données relationnelles. En premier lieu, nous considérons les données relationnelles dans lesquelles les relations sont pondérées. Un exemple concret serait le nombre commun de suiveurs entre deux utilisateurs de Twitter. Dans un deuxième temps, nous abordons le cas dynamique de ces données qui est inhérent à leur nature. Par exemple, le nombre de suiveurs communs pourrait changer au fil du temps. Dans cette thèse nous utilisons les graphes pour modéliser ces données qui sont à la fois complexes et évolutives. Les travaux de cette thèse s'articulent aussi autour de la détection de communautés pour les graphes pondérés et dynamiques. Pour un utilisateur expert, l'identification de ces communautés pourrait l'aider à comprendre la sémantique sous-jacente à la structure du graphe. Notre hypothèse repose sur l'utilisation des triangles comme ossature pour la détection de communautés. Cela nous a amenés à proposer plusieurs algorithmes : Séparation et évaluation, recherche gloutonne, heuristiques et algorithme génétique sont proposés. En se basant sur cet ensemble de triangles, nous proposons un algorithme de détection de communautés, appelé Tribase. L'idée conductrice de cet algorithme est de comparer les poids des communautés, permettant aux communautés dominantes d'acquérir plus de membres. Les résultats de l'étude comparative sur le benchmark LFR montrent que l'algorithme que nous proposons parvient à détecter les communautés dans les graphes dans lesquels une structure de communautés existe. De plus, l'applicabilité de notre algorithme a été testée sur des données réelles du projet ANR Info-RSN. Dans l'optique d'accompagner l'utilisateur expert dans son processus d'acquisition de l'information, une application visuelle et interactive a été implémentée. NLCOMS (Nœud-Lien et COMmunautéS) propose une panoplie de vues synchronisées pour la représentation de l'information. Par ailleurs, nous proposons dans cette thèse un algorithme de détection de communautés pour les graphes pondérés et dynamiques, appelé Dyci. Dyci permet de gérer les différents scénarios de mise à jour possibles de la structure du graphe. L'idée principale de Dyci est de guetter au cours du temps l'affaiblissement d'une communauté (en termes de poids) dans le but de reconsidérer localement sa place dans la structure, évitant ainsi une réindentification globale des communautés. Une étude comparative a été menée montrant que l'algorithme que nous proposons offre un bon compromis entre la solution obtenue et le temps de calcul. Finalement, l'intégration dans NLCOMS des visualisations adéquates pour la variante dynamique a été effectuéeRelational data in our society are on a constant increasing, rising arduous challenges. In this thesis, we consider two aspects of relational data. First, we are interested in relational data with weighted relationship. As a concrete example, relationships among Twitter's users could be weighted with regard to their shared number of followers. The second aspect is related to the dynamism which is inherent to data nature. As an instance, in the previous example the number of common followers between two Twitter's users can change over time. In order to handle these complex and dynamic relational data, we use the modelling strength of graphs. Another facet considered in this thesis deals with community identification on weighted and dynamic graphs. For an analyst, the community detection might be helpful to grasp the semantic behind the graph structure. Our assumption relies on the idea to use a set of disjoint pairwise triangles as a basis to detect the community structure. To select these triangles, several algorithms are proposed (i.e., branch-and-bound, greedy search, heuristics and genetic algorithm). Thereafter, we propose a community detection algorithm, called Tribase. In the latter, the weights of communities are compared allowing dominant communities to gain in size. Tribase is compared with the well-known LFR benchmark. The results show that Tribase identifies efficiently the communities while a community structure exists. Additionally, to asset Tribase on real-world data, we consider social networks data, especially Twitter's data, of the ANR-Info-RSN project. In order to support the analyst in its knowledge acquisition, we elaborate a visual interactive approach. To this end, an interactive application, called NLCOMS is introduced. NLCOMS uses multiple synchronous views for visualizing community structure and the related information. Furthermore, we propose an algorithm for the identification of communities over time, called Dyci. The latter takes advantage from the previously detected communities. Several changes' scenarios are considered like, node/edge addition, node/edge removing and edge weight update. The main idea of the proposed algorithm is to track whether a part of the weighted graph becomes weak over time, in order to merge it with the "dominant" neighbour community. In order to assess the quality of the returned community structure, we conduct a comparison with a genetic algorithm on real-world data of the ARN-Info-RSN project. The conducted comparison shows that Dyci algorithm provides a good trade-off between efficiency and consumed time. Finally, the dynamic changes which occur to the underlying graph structure can be visualized with NLCOMS which combines physical an axial time to fulfil this need
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Kenyon, Jr Marc Wayne. "Evaluation of a web-based tool for ungulate harvest management." 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/kenyon/KenyonM0806.pdf.
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Hern, Lorinda Alvira. "The balanced scorecard approach as a web site evaluation tool : a qualitative analysis of 5-star lodges in South Africa." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26566.
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