Thesis (MEd(Computer Integrated Education, Curriculum Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Proefschrift Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Στα πλαίσια της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας, πραγματοποιήθηκε η μελέτη, η σχεδίαση και η υλοποίηση του προσωπικού ηλεκτρονικού ιατρικού φακέλου, την παρουσία και χρήση του οποίου επιβάλλει η σύγχρονη πραγματικότητα και οι απαιτήσεις για γρήγορη και εύκολη πρόσβαση στην πληροφορία. Η εφαρμογή που αναπτύχθηκε είναι διαδικτυακή, με χρηστο - κεντρικό χαρακτήρα, προσδίδοντας ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στο χρήστη – ασθενή, παρέχοντας του συνεχής και εύκολη πρόσβαση. Το γραφικό της περιβάλλον επιδιώκει να την κάνει προσιτή προς κάθε χρήστη, ανεξαρτήτως επιπέδου γνώσεων τόσο γενικών, όσο και ειδικών που αφορούν στη χρήση ηλεκτρονικών υπολογιστών, παρέχοντας του, μέσω γραφικών, ενδείξεις και εργαλεία προκειμένου αυτός να φέρει εις πέρας επιθυμητές λειτουργίες που του προσφέρονται από την εφαρμογή, όπως ενημέρωση σχετικά με ιατρικά θέματα, αναζήτηση και εύρεση επαγγελματιών υγείας, υπολογισμό σημαντικών δεικτών σχετικών με την κατάσταση της υγείας του, ανταλλαγή απόψεων με άλλους χρήστες σε τόπο συζητήσεων, δημιουργία και ενημέρωση του προσωπικού ιατρικού του φακέλου. Πρόκειται, λοιπόν, για την ανάπτυξη μιάς φιλικής προς το χρήστη εφαρμογής, που πληρεί τις προϋποθέσεις ευχρηστίας και ασφάλειας των προσωπικών δεδομένων και δη σε έναν τομέα όπως ο ιατρικός, με το πληθος ευαίσθητων δεδομένων που διαχειρίζεται και υποχρεούται να διαφυλάσσει την ακεραιότητα και την εμπιστευτικότητά τους. Γίνεται αναφορά στα πρότυπα και στις κωδικοποιήσεις που υπάρχουν για τον ηλεκτρονικό ιατρικό φάκελο, καθώς και στις υπάρχουσες τεχνολογίες διαδικτύου, διαθέσιμες για το σχεδιασμό και την υλοποίησή του. / Research, design and implementation of personal health records.

Submitted by PEDRO LUIS BUENO BERTI null (p_berti@hotmail.com) on 2017-12-12T16:49:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação final.pdf: 3486193 bytes, checksum: 51d73640dc4cfc182bbdfa9c7a86778a (MD5) / Submitted by PEDRO LUIS BUENO BERTI null (p_berti@hotmail.com) on 2017-12-14T11:25:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação final.pdf: 3486193 bytes, checksum: 51d73640dc4cfc182bbdfa9c7a86778a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Minervina Teixeira Lopes null (vina_lopes@bauru.unesp.br) on 2017-12-14T13:31:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 berti_plb_me_bauru.pdf: 3486203 bytes, checksum: 72c4491d85beebe056472feffef50669 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-14T13:31:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 berti_plb_me_bauru.pdf: 3486203 bytes, checksum: 72c4491d85beebe056472feffef50669 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-30 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / À medida que a internet pode contribuir para revigorar a democracia, a projeção de opiniões e a circulação de ideias sobre gestão pública, portais web que exploram as potencialidades da conversação online têm sido objetos apropriados de pesquisas que buscam conhecer as características da deliberação pública online. Esta dissertação investigou a conversação online em duas iniciativas similares, em países diferentes: VotenaWeb (Brasil) e ISideWith (Estados Unidos), que permitem a expressão de preferências sobre projetos de lei em apreciação no Parlamento. Os dados foram analisados em seis categorias de compreensão: “‘justificação’”, “reciprocidade”, “reflexividade”, “respeito”, “informação” e “tópico”. Os objetivos específicos foram: a) identificar as características da conversação virtual e indicar possíveis condições favoráveis à deliberação; b) fornecer um quadro geral sobre as características da utilização dos dois portais como plataforma para expressão política; c) apontar as possíveis diferenças na exposição de argumentos e uso de fontes de informação pelos usuários. Do portal VotenaWeb foram coletados e analisados, no total, 26.664 comentários, e do portal ISideWith, 3.528 comentários. Os resultados apresentaram diferenças significativas no uso de fontes de informação e no ambiente deliberativo construído pelos usuários. / As far as the internet can contribute to reinvigorate the democracy, the projection of opinions and the circulation of ideas about public administration, web portals that explore potentialities of online conversation have been appropriate subjects of research seeking to understand characteristics of public online deliberation. This dissertation investigated two similar initiatives in different countries: VotenaWeb (Brazil) and ISideWith (United States), which allow expression of preferences concerning bills on appreciation at parliaments. The data were analysed in six categories of comprehension, each one admitting possibilities of classification: “justification”, “reciprocity”, “reflexivity”, “respect”, “information” and “topic”. The specific aims were: a) to identify the virtual conversation characteristics and indicate possible conditions favorable to deliberation present in the each analyzed portal, according to the specialized literature; b) to provide a general framework on the use of the characteristics of the two portals as a platform for political expression; c) to point out possible differences in the expression of opinions and in the use of sources of information by citizens of each country. From VotenaWeb portal 26.664 comments were collected and analysed, and from ISideWith portal 3.528 comments were collected and analysed. The results presented significative differences in the use of sources of information and in the deliberative environment created by users. / 2015/23669-9

The subject of the diploma thesis titled, "The Implementation Analysis of the Educational Portal with a Focus on Its Monetization" is the creation of a strategy that could be used for a new educational portal and subsequently its monetization. Primarily, the portal will be designed for university students. The theoretical part is focused on basic terms associated with issues of portals, web content monetization and operational expenses for running a website. In the practical part, there is a questionnaire survey, with the target audience being university students. Besides other things, this questionnaire survey also identifies the biggest competitors of the project. The competitors are analysed and their services and contributions to students are compared. After processing the questionnaire survey, a different strategy for a new educational portal is designed.

O objetivo deste trabalho é contribuir para uma compreensão mais clara sobre o desenvolvimento de intranets e portais corporativos nas organizações, através da análise do principal determinante do sucesso desses projetos: o uso efetivo da tecnologia. Para atingir esse objetivo, esta pesquisa adota uma visão multidimensional, considerando tanto a perspectiva individual como a organizacional. O suporte teórico advém de extensa revisão das pesquisas já publicadas sobre o tema, compreendendo elementos retirados da teoria da estruturação de Giddens e de modelos consagrados de aceitação da tecnologia, como UTAUT e TAM. A metodologia consiste de estudo de caso em três organizações do setor público, com estruturas bastante semelhantes, mas que desenvolveram suas intranets de modo independente. A análise dos contextos organizacionais demonstrou que o uso da tecnologia nos casos estudados, na prática, ainda é muito limitado. Os resultados da pesquisa revelam que esse uso é resultado da conjunção de complexos elementos. Além das deficiências na funcionalidade da tecnologia, os indivíduos não reconheceram a utilidade prática das intranets e, do mesmo modo, não se sentem estimulados a usar a tecnologia. Essa realidade é consequência de problemas na gestão da tecnologia, como a falta de participação efetiva de setores estratégicos, que aliados a aspectos estruturais das organizações, como a divisão entre os setores e a acentuada especialização funcional, contribuem para a manutenção desse quadro. Em sua maioria, esses elementos constituem práticas já institucionalizadas nas organizações, reforçadas pelo comportamento de seus membros no fluir de suas interações. / The goal of this paper is to help provide a clearer understanding of the development of intranets and corporate portals in organizations, by examining the main determinant behind the success of these projects: the effective use of technology. To achieve this goal, this study uses a multidimensional approach, considering both the individual and organizational perspective. The theoretical support is based on an extensive review of already published research on the subject, including elements drawn from Gidden's theory of structuration and renowned technology acceptance models, such as UTAUT and TAM. The methodology consists of a case study in three public sector organizations, with very similar structures, but which developed their intranets independently. The analysis of the organizational contexts demonstrated that the use of technology in the cases studied is still, in practice, very limited. The research findings show that using it is the result of a complex conjunction of elements. Besides the shortcomings in the functionality of the technology, people have not recognized the usefulness of intranets and, likewise, do not feel attracted to use the technology. This reality is a consequence of problems in technology management, such as lack of effective participation of strategic sectors, which combined with structural aspects of organizations, like the division between sectors and accentuated job specialization, contribute toward maintaining this state of affairs. Most of these elements are already institutionalized practices in organizations, reinforced by the behavior of their members in the course of their interactions.

Ontology, an explicit specification of a shared conceptualisation, captures knowledge about a specific domain of interest. The realisation of ontologies, revolutionised the way data stored in relational databases is accessed and manipulated through ontology and database integration. When integrating ontologies with relational databases, several choices exist regarding aspects such as database implementation, ontology language features, and mappings. However, it is unclear which aspects are relevant and when they affect specific choices. This imposes difficulties in deciding which choices to make and their implications on ontology and database integration solutions. Within this study, a decision-making tool that guides users when selecting a technology and developing a solution that integrates ontologies with relational databases is developed. A theory analysis is conducted to determine current status of technologies that integrate ontologies with databases. Furthermore, a theoretical study is conducted to determine important features affecting ontology and database integration, ontology language features, and choices that one needs to make given each technology. Based on the building blocks stated above, an artifact-building approach is used to develop the decision-making tool, and this tool is verified through a proof-of-concept to prove the usefulness thereof. Key terms: Ontology, semantics, relational database, ontology and database integration, mapping, Web information portal. / Information Science / M. Sc. (Information Systems)

De um território livre, construído em torno dos princípios da liberdade e da colaboração um ambiente onde pode ser exercida a liberdade de ser (ou parecer), de dizer (ou escrever) e de ouvir (ou ler), para o bem ou para o mal, a massificação do uso da Internet tem constituído um espaço social (virtual) contraditório e diversificado, onde forças cuja vocação parece ser homogeneizar (e possivelmente pasteurizar) esse território livre da diferença têm sido postas em cena. Dentre essas forças, lugar especial é ocupado pelo que se convencionou chamar portais de interesse geral. Tais sites, ao procurar responder a diferentes interesses, de modo a assegurar que o máximo possível de anseios de seus usuários seja satisfeito sem a necessidade de navegarem para fora dos seus domínios, são construídos como empreendimentos cujo sucesso requer o controle do comportamento de navegação dos usuários o que, neste caso, não pode ser feito senão através do discurso (persuasivo). A hipótese que salta aos olhos é evidente: e se este não for apenas um controle pelo discurso, mas um controle do discurso? A premissa é, evidentemente, que tais sites constituem uma categoria especial de artefatos de linguagem produzidos no interior de eventos comunicativos bem determinados, isto é, um gênero emergente do discurso. Assim, o objetivo primário da presente pesquisa consistiu em determinar como o modo de funcionamento discursivo do portal contribui para afetar os hábitos de navegação dos seus usuários, curvando e distorcendo o ciberespaço nas suas vizinhanças. Para isso procuramos abordar o que chamamos atratores retóricos, isto é, aquelas estratégias (discursivas) destinadas a seduzir, convencer ou mesmo fraudar os usuários de modo a assegurar sua permanência na órbita dos portais, fazendo desses websites vetores da ordem do discurso, um elemento de controle do caos típico do ciberespaço, um agente de exorcismo da diferença e subjugação do discurso desenfreado. / The starting point for this reasearch is a free-space built around principles of freedom and cooperation, an environment where may be exerted freedom of being (or pretend), of saying (or writting) and of listening (or reading). The massive growth in use of Internet has built, for better or worse, a social (virtual) contradictorial and varied space. Here certain strenghths have been at work, whoose purpose seems to be homogenise (or possibly pasteurise) a land-free-of-difference. Among these, a special place is occupied by what has been called general interests portals. The latter websites seek to provide answers to several desires. Their aim is to ensure that the most probable wishes of its users are satisfied inside its domains. Thus these websites are built as enterprises, whoose success depends upon the users navigational behavior control. In this particular case this cannot be achieved except by (persuasive) discourse. My research hipothesis might thus have easily seen: what if this is not just a control done through discourse but also a control of discourse? What we assume here is, evidently, that such websites form a special category of language artifacts created inside determined communicative events, e. g., an emerging discoursive genre. Thus the primary objective of the present research was to determine whether the portals discourse functioning mode contributed in altering the navigation habits of its users, bending and distorting cyberspace in its surroundings. Therefore, an effort was made to focus on what have been defined as rhetoric atractors. These are those (discoursive) strategies meant to seduce, convince or even deceive the users in order to assure their permancence in the portals orbit. These strategies, in turn, make the same websites carriers of the order of discourse, an element that controls the typical chaos of the cyberspace, an agent of exorcism of difference and domination of the un restrained discourse

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-02-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:33:29Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 gense_jmc_me_prud.pdf: 4152247 bytes, checksum: 02b1823130a61047c6dab9d960047ef4 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Inserida na Linha de Pesquisa “Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação e Educação” do Programa de Mestrado em Educação da FCT/Unesp-Presidente Prudente-SP, esta pesquisa objetiva estabelecer princípios norteadores para a criação de aulas de Língua Inglesa para a Educação Básica com a inclusão de tecnologias digitais sugeridas no Portal do Professor. Tal portal educacional se propõe a ser espaço de suporte para autoria colaborativa em rede visando à formação permanente de professores e a ampliação das possibilidades de exploração dos recursos educacionais e das variadas formas de desenvolver o trabalho pedagógico. É uma investigação de natureza qualitativa. Seu pano de fundo são as propostas da abordagem Comunicativa para ensino de Línguas Estrangeiras, que entende a língua como um conjunto de eventos comunicativos centralizados na aquisição da competência comunicativa e as propostas da abordagem Construcionista para o uso do computador na Educação, que enfatiza a construção do conhecimento com o uso das Tecnologias baseada na realização concreta de uma ação que produz um produto... / As part of the FCT/Unesp-Presidente Prudente-SP Education Master’s Program research area entitled “Information and Communication Technologies and Education”, this research aims at establishing planning guidelines for English Language classes for Basic Education including the digital technologies suggested in Portal do Professor (Teacher’s Portal). This educational portal intends to be a supporting space for collaborative net authoring, aiming at teacher’s permanent formation and also at widening the educative resources and the various ways of developing the pedagogical work possibilities of exploitation. It is a qualitative investigation. It’s basis are the proposals of Communicative Approach for Foreign Language Teaching, which understands language as a collection of communicative events focused in the communicative competence acquisition and in the Construcionism approach for the use of computers in Education which emphasizes knowledge building with technologies based in an action that produces an object of interest of the one who produces it, being that such product is linked too the reality of the person or of the place where it is produced and used. An analysis of offered by Information and Communication technologies ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

O objetivo deste trabalho é contribuir para uma compreensão mais clara sobre o desenvolvimento de intranets e portais corporativos nas organizações, através da análise do principal determinante do sucesso desses projetos: o uso efetivo da tecnologia. Para atingir esse objetivo, esta pesquisa adota uma visão multidimensional, considerando tanto a perspectiva individual como a organizacional. O suporte teórico advém de extensa revisão das pesquisas já publicadas sobre o tema, compreendendo elementos retirados da teoria da estruturação de Giddens e de modelos consagrados de aceitação da tecnologia, como UTAUT e TAM. A metodologia consiste de estudo de caso em três organizações do setor público, com estruturas bastante semelhantes, mas que desenvolveram suas intranets de modo independente. A análise dos contextos organizacionais demonstrou que o uso da tecnologia nos casos estudados, na prática, ainda é muito limitado. Os resultados da pesquisa revelam que esse uso é resultado da conjunção de complexos elementos. Além das deficiências na funcionalidade da tecnologia, os indivíduos não reconheceram a utilidade prática das intranets e, do mesmo modo, não se sentem estimulados a usar a tecnologia. Essa realidade é consequência de problemas na gestão da tecnologia, como a falta de participação efetiva de setores estratégicos, que aliados a aspectos estruturais das organizações, como a divisão entre os setores e a acentuada especialização funcional, contribuem para a manutenção desse quadro. Em sua maioria, esses elementos constituem práticas já institucionalizadas nas organizações, reforçadas pelo comportamento de seus membros no fluir de suas interações. / The goal of this paper is to help provide a clearer understanding of the development of intranets and corporate portals in organizations, by examining the main determinant behind the success of these projects: the effective use of technology. To achieve this goal, this study uses a multidimensional approach, considering both the individual and organizational perspective. The theoretical support is based on an extensive review of already published research on the subject, including elements drawn from Gidden's theory of structuration and renowned technology acceptance models, such as UTAUT and TAM. The methodology consists of a case study in three public sector organizations, with very similar structures, but which developed their intranets independently. The analysis of the organizational contexts demonstrated that the use of technology in the cases studied is still, in practice, very limited. The research findings show that using it is the result of a complex conjunction of elements. Besides the shortcomings in the functionality of the technology, people have not recognized the usefulness of intranets and, likewise, do not feel attracted to use the technology. This reality is a consequence of problems in technology management, such as lack of effective participation of strategic sectors, which combined with structural aspects of organizations, like the division between sectors and accentuated job specialization, contribute toward maintaining this state of affairs. Most of these elements are already institutionalized practices in organizations, reinforced by the behavior of their members in the course of their interactions.