British Pakistani women have exceptionally high rates of obesity and yet are seldom heard in a research priority setting concerning weight management. The objectives of this study were (i) to ascertain what multisectoral professionals perceive to be the most pressing unmet obesity needs or topic areas that need more research in relation to Pakistani women living in deprived areas of Bradford and (ii) to determine the top 10 obesity health priorities for this group to develop an obesity research agenda. Methods: A two‐step process was adopted using the following: (i) a survey of a wide range of multisectoral professional stakeholders (n= 159) and (ii) a ranking exercise involving Pakistani women living in deprived areas of Bradford (n= 32) to select and prioritize their top 10 obesity health concerns and unmet needs from a list of 31statements identified in the survey and previous research. Survey data were analysed using inductive content analysis and themes were identified. Themes were translated into statements to be ranked by Pakistani women. The ranking exercise was conducted by telephone either via voice or video call. Data were analysed using a reverse scoring system. Results: Survey responses were grouped into statements reflecting the following three categories: education needs; healthy behaviour barriers and mental well‐being. The highest rankings were given by Pakistani women to statements on mental health and the need for education. The top 10 prioritized statements were developed with members of the public into an obesity research agenda that reflected the target population. Conclusion: Actively engaging British Pakistani women in setting research priorities provided a unique opportunity to understand the key areas they think are important for future research. The culminating research agenda can be used by researchers to advance the field of obesity research in Pakistani communities, thus producing research outputs that are relevant to and have impact in this population. Patient or Public Contribution: Participants in the ranking exercise collected data. Public contributors were involved in developing the prioritized statements into are search agenda. / NIHR, Grant/Award Number: NIHR200166;UKPRP, Grant/Award Number:MR/S037527/1

Yes / As far back as the industrial revolution, significant development in technical innovation has succeeded in transforming numerous manual tasks and processes that had been in existence for decades where humans had reached the limits of physical capacity. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers this same transformative potential for the augmentation and potential replacement of human tasks and activities within a wide range of industrial, intellectual and social applications. The pace of change for this new AI technological age is staggering, with new breakthroughs in algorithmic machine learning and autonomous decision-making, engendering new opportunities for continued innovation. The impact of AI could be significant, with industries ranging from: finance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, supply chain, logistics and utilities, all potentially disrupted by the onset of AI technologies. The study brings together the collective insight from a number of leading expert contributors to highlight the significant opportunities, realistic assessment of impact, challenges and potential research agenda posed by the rapid emergence of AI within a number of domains: business and management, government, public sector, and science and technology. This research offers significant and timely insight to AI technology and its impact on the future of industry and society in general, whilst recognising the societal and industrial influence on pace and direction of AI development.

submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Department of Chiropractic and Somatology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016. / Background: The recent increase in the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) in the Chiropractic profession and the call within the profession for validation of its claims has seen a growing interest in good quality research. It is advocated that the future of Chiropractic research and thus the success of the profession is dependent on future practitioner and student research endeavours. It was the aim of this study to evaluate the student research agendas at the Durban University of Technology (DUT). Secondly, local Chiropractors were asked what they perceived to be clinically relevant Chiropractic research agendas. The agendas that were under-studied by the students, but perceived as important by the practitioners, were recommended as suggestions for more clinically relevant future student research. The intention of this was that future student research would become more congruent with local and international Chiropractic research trends. Methodolody: The study was a prospective exploratory study, which utilised a mixed method approach. Documented evidence giving an overview of student research completed at the DUT was combined with a qualitative questionnaire that was circulated to all Chiropractors practicing in KwaZulu-Natal. The questionnaire aimed to give insight into the research agendas perceived to be most relevant for future research by Chiropractic professionals. Incongruence between the research completed at the DUT and the research that is perceived to be of highest professional relevance by Chiropractors in KwaZulu-Natal was determined. All the Chiropractors practicing in KwaZulu-Natal as per the AHPCSA list received the questionnaire. A neutral third party at DUT collected the returned questionnaires and data analysis followed. The student research completed at the DUT between 1994 and 2013 was obtained from the Institutional Repository (IR) and library archives. These studies were descriptively analysed and compared with the respondents’ perceptions of clinically important Chiropractic research. Data analysis highlighted the overlap of agendas and gaps in the research. Following this was a statistical analysis of the questionnaire responses using Pearson’s chi square tests for two independent samples. A p value of ≤ 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. The results were interpreted using frequency tables and bar charts for categorical variables, while summary statistics such as mean, standard deviation and range were used for continuous variables. A descriptive comparison was performed to determine the congruency between the student research agendas and the research perceived to be of relevance by Chiropractors practicing in KwaZulu-Natal. Results: The response rate of 66.3 % was regarded as representative of the entire Chiropractic population. The overall practitioner perception of research was positive with 64.4% of the respondents perceiving improved Chiropractic abilities due to previous research experience. The prevailing practitioner reason for research conducted was that it increased recognition as an EBP, increased development within the profession and validated its claims and theories. An investigation into the student studies found that the majority of the research agendas recommended by the respondents had been undertaken at DUT. Future research into the following areas is encouraged:  Neurological testing.  Orthopaedic testing.  Reduction of posture related disorders.  Gross anatomical changes as a result of the Chiropractic manipulation.  Range of Motion (ROM) assessment.  Muscular testing, motion and/ or static palpation.  Gait and posture assessment. The respondents were asked to give recommendations for future Chiropractic research; the majority was willing to contribute a database of shared research ideas. It was anticipated that the sharing of the practitioner ideas with the students would result in more clinically relevant student research being produced. Conclusion: A comparison of the DUT student research agendas and those of Chiropractors in KwaZulu-Natal highlighted an incongruence of purpose between the two. The research agendas recommended by the Chiropractic respondents were recommended for future student uptake. A shared database of student and practitioner research ideas aimed to encourage future student research that is more clinically relevant and in line with local and international research trends. / M

Introdução: A Saúde Coletiva articula múltiplas disciplinas, incluindo as Ciências Sociais, no intuito de proporcionar maior poder explicativo ao processo saúde-doença. Apesar da institucionalização da Enfermagem evidenciar profícua experiência na formação de doutores e de sua importante participação na produção do conhecimento, além da atuação no processo de produção dos serviços de saúde, ainda persistem lacunas no percurso reflexivo referente à apropriação da complexidade epistemológica do campo da Saúde Coletiva. Objetivos: Analisar a contribuição da produção acadêmica no âmbito do Doutorado em Enfermagem dos Programas de Pós-Graduação Senso Estrito em Enfermagem para a constituição do campo da Saúde Coletiva. Material e métodos: Trata-se de pesquisa documental, com base na hermenêutica dialética. A amostra foi composta por 87 teses de Doutorado de 15 programas de pós-graduação, no período 2011-2012. Após leitura compreensiva, o material empírico foi decomposto em temas que constituem o corpus dos objetos de estudo. A análise hermenêutica também compreendeu a identificação do marco teórico-referencial, sujeitos que constituíram as populações de estudo e locais de ocorrência. Resultados: Os oito temas encontrados foram: Práticas em saúde (26,4%), Avaliação das políticas e serviços de saúde (16,1%), Tecnologias em saúde (13,8%), Sentidos e representações vividos pelos usuários (12,6%), Informação em saúde (10,3%), Violência em saúde (8,1%), Saúde, ambiente e trabalho (8,1%), e Formação em saúde (4,6%). Os três primeiros temas concentraram 56,3% dos estudos. As práticas em saúde tiveram como foco o cotidiano do enfermeiro associado ou não à prática de outros profissionais de saúde. O tema Avaliação das políticas e serviços de saúde refere-se à produção de estudos sobre acesso das pessoas aos serviços de saúde em associação à operacionalização das redes de atenção e políticas de controle da tuberculose, DST/Aids, entre outras. O tema Tecnologias em saúde refere-se, substantivamente, ao desenvolvimento de manuais ou instrumentos para intervenção individual ou coletiva em espaços institucionais específicos, orientados a aprimorar principalmente as práticas à saúde da mulher e DST/Aids. Conclusões: Os temas encontrados contribuem majoritariamente na explicitação e na compreensão das ações de cuidado desenvolvidas no micro espaço das relações interpessoais do enfermeiro com os usuários e outros profissionais da saúde em prol do direito universal à saúde e em consonância ao projeto político do SUS. A predominância da Estratégia Saúde da Família como local de pesquisa confirma a iniciativa do governo federal em promover a reorganização das práticas na atenção primária em saúde. Ademais, a potência analítica dos estudos pode auxiliar a subárea acadêmica Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva na elaboração de pesquisas com novos objetos e inovações teórico-metodológicas em correspondência às necessidades e problemas de saúde da população brasileira. / Introduction: Collective Health articulates multiple subjects, including social Sciences to provide a more comprehensive understanding on the health-disease process. Although Nursing institutionalization presents a profitable experience in doctoral formation and an important participation in production of knowledge, beyond his performance in the process of health services production, gaps still persist in the reflexive course to the epistemological complexity appropriation in the field of Collective Health. Objectives: To analyze the contribution of the academic production from Doctorate in Nursing to the Collective Health field. Material and methods: It is a documental research, based on dialectical hermeneutics. The sample was composed of 87 Doctoral thesis of 15 graduate programs, from 2011 to 2012. After a comprehensive reading, the empirical data was decomposed in themes that constitute the corpus of the study objects. The hermeneutics analysis also comprised the identification of theoretical-reference, subjects that constituted the population of study and places where studies were developed. Results: We found eight themes: Health practices (26.4%), Evaluation of politics and services in health (16.1%), Technologies in health (13.8%), Senses and representations experienced by the users (12.6%), Information in health (10.3%), Violence in health (8.1%), Health, environment and work (8.1%), and Training in health (10.3%). The first three themes focused 56.3% of the studies. The health practices had as focus the nursings everyday associated or not to the practice of other health professionals. The Evaluation of politics and services in health theme refers to studies about the people access to health services in association to the network attention in health and tuberculosis, STD/Aids control policies, among others. The Technologies in health theme refers, substantively, to the development of manuals or tools to individual or collective intervention in specific institutional spaces, mainly oriented to improve the practices in womans health and STD/Aids. Conclusions: The themes mostly contribute to elucidate and to understand care actions in the micro space of interpersonal nursing relationships with patients and other health professionals, in order to benefit the universal right to health and in accordance to the SUS Unified Health System in Brazil. The predominance in Familys Health Strategies as a research place confirm the federal government initiative to promote the reorganization of practices in primary health care. Moreover, the analytic strength of the studies can help the academic subarea of Nursing in Collective Health on the formulation of researches with new objects and theorical-methodological innovations in correspondence to the health needs and of the Brazilian population.

Introdução: A Saúde Coletiva articula múltiplas disciplinas, incluindo as Ciências Sociais, no intuito de proporcionar maior poder explicativo ao processo saúde-doença. Apesar da institucionalização da Enfermagem evidenciar profícua experiência na formação de doutores e de sua importante participação na produção do conhecimento, além da atuação no processo de produção dos serviços de saúde, ainda persistem lacunas no percurso reflexivo referente à apropriação da complexidade epistemológica do campo da Saúde Coletiva. Objetivos: Analisar a contribuição da produção acadêmica no âmbito do Doutorado em Enfermagem dos Programas de Pós-Graduação Senso Estrito em Enfermagem para a constituição do campo da Saúde Coletiva. Material e métodos: Trata-se de pesquisa documental, com base na hermenêutica dialética. A amostra foi composta por 87 teses de Doutorado de 15 programas de pós-graduação, no período 2011-2012. Após leitura compreensiva, o material empírico foi decomposto em temas que constituem o corpus dos objetos de estudo. A análise hermenêutica também compreendeu a identificação do marco teórico-referencial, sujeitos que constituíram as populações de estudo e locais de ocorrência. Resultados: Os oito temas encontrados foram: Práticas em saúde (26,4%), Avaliação das políticas e serviços de saúde (16,1%), Tecnologias em saúde (13,8%), Sentidos e representações vividos pelos usuários (12,6%), Informação em saúde (10,3%), Violência em saúde (8,1%), Saúde, ambiente e trabalho (8,1%), e Formação em saúde (4,6%). Os três primeiros temas concentraram 56,3% dos estudos. As práticas em saúde tiveram como foco o cotidiano do enfermeiro associado ou não à prática de outros profissionais de saúde. O tema Avaliação das políticas e serviços de saúde refere-se à produção de estudos sobre acesso das pessoas aos serviços de saúde em associação à operacionalização das redes de atenção e políticas de controle da tuberculose, DST/Aids, entre outras. O tema Tecnologias em saúde refere-se, substantivamente, ao desenvolvimento de manuais ou instrumentos para intervenção individual ou coletiva em espaços institucionais específicos, orientados a aprimorar principalmente as práticas à saúde da mulher e DST/Aids. Conclusões: Os temas encontrados contribuem majoritariamente na explicitação e na compreensão das ações de cuidado desenvolvidas no micro espaço das relações interpessoais do enfermeiro com os usuários e outros profissionais da saúde em prol do direito universal à saúde e em consonância ao projeto político do SUS. A predominância da Estratégia Saúde da Família como local de pesquisa confirma a iniciativa do governo federal em promover a reorganização das práticas na atenção primária em saúde. Ademais, a potência analítica dos estudos pode auxiliar a subárea acadêmica Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva na elaboração de pesquisas com novos objetos e inovações teórico-metodológicas em correspondência às necessidades e problemas de saúde da população brasileira. / Introduction: Collective Health articulates multiple subjects, including social Sciences to provide a more comprehensive understanding on the health-disease process. Although Nursing institutionalization presents a profitable experience in doctoral formation and an important participation in production of knowledge, beyond his performance in the process of health services production, gaps still persist in the reflexive course to the epistemological complexity appropriation in the field of Collective Health. Objectives: To analyze the contribution of the academic production from Doctorate in Nursing to the Collective Health field. Material and methods: It is a documental research, based on dialectical hermeneutics. The sample was composed of 87 Doctoral thesis of 15 graduate programs, from 2011 to 2012. After a comprehensive reading, the empirical data was decomposed in themes that constitute the corpus of the study objects. The hermeneutics analysis also comprised the identification of theoretical-reference, subjects that constituted the population of study and places where studies were developed. Results: We found eight themes: Health practices (26.4%), Evaluation of politics and services in health (16.1%), Technologies in health (13.8%), Senses and representations experienced by the users (12.6%), Information in health (10.3%), Violence in health (8.1%), Health, environment and work (8.1%), and Training in health (10.3%). The first three themes focused 56.3% of the studies. The health practices had as focus the nursings everyday associated or not to the practice of other health professionals. The Evaluation of politics and services in health theme refers to studies about the people access to health services in association to the network attention in health and tuberculosis, STD/Aids control policies, among others. The Technologies in health theme refers, substantively, to the development of manuals or tools to individual or collective intervention in specific institutional spaces, mainly oriented to improve the practices in womans health and STD/Aids. Conclusions: The themes mostly contribute to elucidate and to understand care actions in the micro space of interpersonal nursing relationships with patients and other health professionals, in order to benefit the universal right to health and in accordance to the SUS Unified Health System in Brazil. The predominance in Familys Health Strategies as a research place confirm the federal government initiative to promote the reorganization of practices in primary health care. Moreover, the analytic strength of the studies can help the academic subarea of Nursing in Collective Health on the formulation of researches with new objects and theorical-methodological innovations in correspondence to the health needs and of the Brazilian population.

Yes / Participation of community stakeholders in health research priority setting is an emerging trend. Despite this, the involvement of marginalised groups in research prioritisation is limited and where they are involved, sample sizes are small, where individuals are merely consulted with, rather than coproducing the research agenda. Without addressing power dynamics inherent in research prioritisation with marginalised groups, their engagement in the research process can be tokenistic and the resulting research agenda unreflective of their needs. This article, therefore, aims to generate knowledge on how feminist participatory action research was used to co-produce an obesity research agenda with British Pakistani women, a seldom heard population, living in deprived areas. The methodology enabled Pakistani women to be involved in all stages of the project, culminating in the co-production of an obesity research agenda that accurately reflects their unmet needs. Women’s engagement in the project led to their increased confidence, the formation of relationships that lasted beyond the research project, improvements to their lifestyles, and engagement in further research. Feminist participatory action research may be used by researchers as a guiding methodology due to its ability to improve women’s lives and develop research agendas for women’s health. / National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Yorkshire and Humber [NIHR200166], the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) - [MR/S037527/1], the NIHR Clinical Research Network, NIHR ARC Yorkshire and Humber / Research Development Fund Publication Prize Award winner, Jul 2023.

Submitted by Barbara Coelho Neves (barbaracoelho2000@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-01-07T20:52:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE DE BARBARA COELHO NEVES_TIC E EDUCAÇÃO.pdf: 5219251 bytes, checksum: 31f5da11ecf23d1b2b90508008abc184 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora da Silva Lopes (silopes@ufba.br) on 2016-01-13T16:57:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE DE BARBARA COELHO NEVES_TIC E EDUCAÇÃO.pdf: 5219251 bytes, checksum: 31f5da11ecf23d1b2b90508008abc184 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-13T16:57:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE DE BARBARA COELHO NEVES_TIC E EDUCAÇÃO.pdf: 5219251 bytes, checksum: 31f5da11ecf23d1b2b90508008abc184 (MD5) / FAPESB / Esta tese tem como tema os fundamentos e a agenda da inclusão digital na educação no Brasil, cujo o objeto vislumbrado é a produção científica desenvolvida pela pós-graduação sobre inclusão digital, exclusivamente, as teses e dissertações defendidas a partir dos anos 2000 a 2011. O problema foi o de investigar como a inclusão digital vem sendo estudada e fundamentada, ao longo dos anos 2000, no que concerne a sua agenda de pesquisa para a educação brasileira? O objetivo geral analisou como a inclusão digital vem sendo estudada e fundamentada, ao longo dos anos 2000, no que concerne a sua agenda de pesquisa para a educação brasileira. Para alcançar esse objetivo geral, buscou-se como objetivos específicos mapear como o tema inclusão digital tem sido estudado na área de Educação no Brasil; observar aspectos ligados a tendências teóricas conceituais e metodologias que envolvem o tema inclusão digital na Educação; analisar os níveis de articulação paradigmática dos resultados de pesquisa em educação que abordam o tema; e sugerir alternativas de consolidar uma agenda de pesquisa neste campo. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir de uma amostra composta de teses (08) e dissertações (23) após atribuição de critérios de seleção. Se caracteriza como um estudo de nível analítico com abordagem qualitativa e quantitativa, com adoção do método de infometria e bibliográfico. As conclusões se referem à formação de seis linhas de estudo; a existência de um grupo de elite da fundamentação teórica, a apresentação do diagrama multidisciplinar da inclusão digital na educação, levando a que o pesquisador tenha um perfil potencialmente multidisciplinar. Referem-se também ao conceito de inclusão social que sustenta o tema, as opções metodológicas e as principais teorias que fundamentam os estudos neste campo. / ABSTRACT This thesis has as its theme the fundamentals and the agenda of digital inclusion in education in Brazil, the object is glimpsed scientific production developed by graduate on digital inclusion exclusively theses and dissertations from the 2000s The problem It was to investigate how this digital inclusion has been studied and reasoned, over the 2000s, with regard to its research agenda for Brazilian education? The objective examined how digital inclusion has been studied and reasoned, over the 2000s, with regard to its research agenda for Brazilian education. The specific objectives as to map the theme digital inclusion has been studied in Education in Brazil; to observe aspects of the conceptual theoretical trends and methodologies involving digital inclusion issue in education; and analyze the paradigmatic articulation levels of the search results in education that address. The survey was conducted from a sample of theses (08) and dissertations (23) after award selection criteria. It is characterized as an analytical level study with qualitative and quantitative approach, with adoption of Infometrics and bibliographic method. It was found the formation of six study lines; the elite group of theoretical basis, the development of multidisciplinary diagram of digital inclusion in education, the concept of social inclusion supports the theme, methodological options and main theories. The conclusion discusses the researcher has a potentially interdisciplinary profile.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Research in the field of computer assisted language learning and teaching has discussed the necessity of defining a research agenda in area. Because of this, some of these studies have focused on the analysis of research reports to identify the objectives of studies, the methodologies and the themes in order to identify the state of the art. By using a methodology of a research synthesis, this work describes the research practice of the Computer Assisted Language Learning and the discourses which come out this investigation field in relation to what researchers from this area conceive about language and about English as a foreign language teaching and learning. To do that, I collected 123 research articles from specific international journals in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning and 14 reports from Brazilian journals in the same field which were published from 2005 to 2009. By analyzing the research articles, I have also analyzed the content of the selected articles, the methodology and the results. Then, after the textual analysis, I elaborated an interview through e-mail with the authors of the articles to confirm or deny the data obtained in the textual analysis. The textual and contextual analysis is theoretically based on Genre Analysis and on Critical Discourse Analysis, which helped to describe the theoretical-methodological procedures adopted in this investigation field. The results suggest a field oriented by the investigation of four main themes which are: language, participants, technologies and online pedagogy. The investigation discourses in CALL suggest the existence of an area interested in the analysis of practices such as teach, read and write, virtually speak and communicate, which are done through the Internet. However, the predominant discourse about language in the research has been conceived as a cognitive and social phenomenon. The description of the Research Agenda suggested in this dissertation describes the main themes investigated in CALL, the social and discursive practices which are realizable in the cyberspace and examples of researches oriented by different language concepts. / Pesquisas na área de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas mediados por computador têm discutido a necessidade do estabelecimento da agenda de pesquisa nessa área. Devido a isso, algumas pesquisas têm centralizado na análise de relatos de pesquisas para identificar os objetivos dos estudos, as metodologias e os temas de interesse nessa área de investigação com vistas a identificar o estado da arte. Usando a metodologia de pesquisa de síntese, este trabalho descreve a prática de pesquisa em Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) e os discursos que emergem dessa área de investigação com relação ao que os pesquisadores dessa área concebem por linguagem e pelos processos de ensino e aprendizagem de inglês como língua estrangeira. Para tanto, coletei 123 relatos de pesquisa em periódicos internacionais específicos da área e 14 relatos em periódicos brasileiros sobre a temática de ensino de inglês mediado por computador, os quais foram publicados entre os anos de 2005 a 2009. Na análise textual, analisei o conteúdo dos artigos acadêmicos selecionados, a metodologia e os resultados. Em seguida, elaborei entrevistas via correio eletrônico com os autores dos artigos, para confirmar ou refutar dados obtidos na análise textual. A análise textual e contextual está ancorada teoricamente pela Análise de Gêneros e pela Análise Crítica do Discurso, as quais ajudaram a descrever os procedimentos teórico-metodológicos adotados nessa área de investigação. Os resultados sugerem uma área orientada pela investigação de quatro eixos temáticos, os quais são: a linguagem, os participantes, as tecnologias e a pedagogia online. Os discursos de investigação em CALL sugerem a existência de uma área com interesse na análise de práticas tais como ensinar, ler e escrever, falar e se comunicar virtualmente, que são realizadas na Internet. Porém, o discurso predominante sobre linguagem nas pesquisas é como um fenômeno cognitivo e social. A descrição da Agenda de Pesquisa sugerida nesta tese descreve os temas principais investigados na área de CALL, as práticas sociais e discursivas realizáveis no ciberespaço e exemplos de pesquisas orientadas por diferentes concepções de linguagem.

Submitted by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2016-09-27T14:02:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissGRO.pdf: 1949409 bytes, checksum: db095c27a40ca0db42bd9916c024e4e8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2016-09-27T14:03:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissGRO.pdf: 1949409 bytes, checksum: db095c27a40ca0db42bd9916c024e4e8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (ronisp@ufscar.br) on 2016-09-27T14:03:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissGRO.pdf: 1949409 bytes, checksum: db095c27a40ca0db42bd9916c024e4e8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-27T14:03:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissGRO.pdf: 1949409 bytes, checksum: db095c27a40ca0db42bd9916c024e4e8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-20 / Não recebi financiamento / Brazil is a country with a wide range of socais problems that need to be resolved so that it can be considered a developed nation. In this sense many social problems could be studied by public research in order to mitigate social inequality. This research aims to identify and understand the obstacles and possibilities for the formation of the research agenda of the public university demands from the local community. The methodology was qualitative and exploratory, which is outlined in literature and literature. The literature encompassed thematic as science, technology and innovation policy (PCT&I); channels of communication between university and society; social technology; and territorial development. The result of the survey pointed out as an obstacle to the construction of the university agenda based on the demands of local communities PCT&I developed based on international models; political control centered in the hands of a few actors, especially scientists; research agenda aimed at an international science, business or particular demands; lack of communication channels and strategies and exchange of knowledge between universities and local communities; little research on the research agenda of Brazilian scientists. As possibilities the search result pointed adherence by the PCT&I concepts such as: social technology; regional development; solidarity economy; social technology park; sustainable development; and actions as public policy development: municipalities, states (master plan) and urban planning. / O Brasil é um país com um vasto leque de problemas socais que precisam ser resolvidos para que ele possa ser considerado uma nação desenvolvida. Nesse sentido muitos problemas sociais poderiam ser estudados pelas pesquisas públicas a fim de amenizar a desigualdade social. A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo identificar e compreender os obstáculos e as possibilidades para a formação da agenda de pesquisa da universidade pública a partir de demandas da comunidade local. A metodologia adotada foi a qualitativa e exploratória, sendo esta delineada em levantamento bibliográfico e pesquisa bibliográfica. O levantamento bibliográfico abarcou tematicas como: política científica, tecnológica e de inovação (PCT&I); canais de comunicação entre universidade e sociedade; tecnologia social; e desenvolvimento territorial. O resultado da pesquisa apontou como obstáculo para a construção da agenda da universidade com base nas demandas das comunidades locais: PCT&I elaborada com base em modelos internacionais; controle político centrado na mão de poucos atores, com destaque aos cientistas; agenda de pesquisa direcionada a uma ciência internacional, ou as demandas particulares empresariais; falta de canais e estratégias de comunicação e troca de conhecimento entre universidade e comunidades locais; poucas pesquisas sobre a agenda de pesquisa dos cientistas brasileiros. Como possibilidades o resultado da pesquisa apontou a adesão por parte da PCT&I de conceitos como: tecnologia social; desenvolvimento territorial; economia solidária; parque tecnológico social; desenvolvimento sustentável; e ações como elaboração de políticas públicas: municípios, estados (plano diretor) e planejamento urbano.

Cloud computing is a technology that has gained increasing attention because of its considerable benefits, which include reduced costs, reduced complexity and increased flexibility. To obtain these benefits, cloud computing utilizes existing technologies, such as grid computing, virtualization and web services, for online delivery of scalable information technology (IT) services, frequently on the basis of a pay-per-use pricing model. In 2008, the Gartner Group predicted that cloud computing would reach the mainstream within two to five years. However, in their latest hype cycle for emerging technologies, they stated that cloud computing had not yet reached the plateau of productivity but rather was still in the trough of disillusionment. The reason for this situation may be that cloud computing continues to face skepticism because of various concerns regarding, e.g., data privacy and security. In particular, (enterprise) customers transfer (sensitive) data to cloud computing providers, and the end-user rents the right to use cloud computing services via a web browser with minimal need to interact or even without the necessity of interacting directly with a sales assistant. These two aspects result in a strong unilateral dependency and require a high degree of trust in the provider. Additionally, publicity regarding the PRISM program has brought these aspects to the forefront of public interest. Consequently, specific requirements regarding, e.g., security, privacy, accountability, and auditability, must be met to fulfill the expectations of business partners and to build long-term business relationships. Thus, overcoming information asymmetry, enhancing transparency and eradicating behavioral uncertainty is of high importance to build trust between cloud computing providers and their (prospective) customers. Therefore, although most research to date has focused on technical aspects and aimed to improve the actual security of cloud computing services, there is also an urgent need to understand the factors that affect the adoption of cloud computing services from the points of view of both private users and companies. If cloud computing is to reach its full potential, a clear understanding of the factors that influence its adoption is mandatory to improve both present and future cloud computing services. Motivated by these considerations, the aim of this doctoral thesis is to explore, describe, analyze and explain the factors that influence the adoption of cloud computing using various qualitative and quantitative research methods, i.e., by employing a mixed-methods analysis. As a first step, a serious game is conducted to explore various factors that influence the adoption of cloud computing services. Based on these initial findings, the factors explored during the serious game and some additional factors are described and analyzed in detail. These factors include the cloud computing market, costs, trust, affectedness, shadow IT, and sustainability. Furthermore, the factor of information asymmetry, especially regarding bridging the information asymmetry with various information presentation methods, is explained. Following these findings, a research agenda, which contains a recommended research design and lists the theories that are relevant in the context of the adoption of cloud computing, is proposed. Subsequently, a synthesis of the research findings in terms of their implications for practice and research, including limitations, are discussed.