Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-11T14:02:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aurelio Menezes.pdf: 945467 bytes, checksum: 1703733b16c0af4b0b95b32aa95aa34e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-22 / Large databases have been very common nowadays. These databases allow access to a huge amount of information. However, this scenario leads the task of finding a specific information among such a large amount of information, become very difficult. Systems of Information Retrieval (IR) have been widely used to sole this kind of problem. Among the many problems caused by the large amount of information available on databases, there is the problem related to competence searching. This problem occurs in the following context, given a profile, described as a set of competencies, one looks for finding researchers with similar profiles. In this work, we describe an IR method which provides support to find researchers taking into account competence information retrieved from a database a desired competency profile, the proposed method provides the curriculums more similar to the desired profile. The experiments were conducted using three proposed strategies: Sum of Similarities, Production and Borda Count. The results achieved show that the proposed successfully accomplishes its objective / Grandes bases de dados tem sido muito comum hoje em dia e tem permitido o acesso a uma grande quantidade de informação. Por outro lado, esse cenário torna dificil a tarefa de encontrar uma informação específica no meio de uma grande quantidade de informação. Sistemas de Recuperação de Informação (RI) têm sido largamente empregados para a solucionar este tipo de problema. Dentre os problemas ocasionados pela grande quantidade de informação disponível em bases de dados, existe o problema da busca de competências. Este problema ocorre no seguinte contexto, dado um perfil, descrito na forma de um conjunto de competências, procura-se descobrir pesquisadores com perfis similares. Este trabalho descreve um método de RI que fornece apoio à busca de pesquisadores a partir de informações sobre competências extraídas de uma base de currículos Lattes. Assim, dada uma consulta especificando um perfil de competência desejada, são selecionados os currículos com maior grau de similaridade com este perfil. Após a execução de experimentos em três estratégias propostas: Soma de Similaridades, Produção e Contagem de Borda, os resultados indicam o sucesso do método proposto

Orientador: Lucila Chebel Labaki / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T11:09:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_MarielaCristinaAyresde_M.pdf: 6854389 bytes, checksum: b57a8ee9716fad941cfcb623a482fdf3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 / Resumo: A preocupação com a avaliação de conforto no Brasil, em meados de 1930, procurava nos métodos, propostos e utilizados internacionalmente, condições de adaptá-los às variáveis brasileiras. Tem-se conhecimento do trabalho de dois pesquisadores brasileiros sobre índices de conforto térmico nessa época: Paulo Sá e Benjamim Alves Ribeiro. Estas pesquisas buscam estabelecer uma relação entre a sensação individual de conforto térmico e os índices obtidos pelos vários métodos utilizados na época, principalmente as catatemperaturas e a temperatura efetiva. O resgate e análise da pesquisa de Paulo Sá demonstram não apenas a abordagem científica e a obtenção de temperaturas de conforto térmico para a cidade do Rio de Janeiro, como também as dificuldades metodológicas e científicas existentes. Os valores encontrados pelas pesquisas de Paulo Sá e Benjamin Alves Ribeiro foram utilizados para cálculo do VME, proposto por Fanger, através do uso do software Conforto 2.02. O trabalho também apresenta a metodologia utilizada por Paulo Sá e Benjamim Alves Ribeiro, Fanger e Michael Humphreys em pesquisas realizadas em escolas ou com estudantes. Destes, apenas Fanger trabalhou com câmaras climatizadas. O ambiente escolar tem se mostrado propício a estudos de avaliação de conforto térmico, tanto pela importância do mesmo, como pela atividade desenvolvida, faixa etária e facilidade de implementação da pesquisa. Desse modo, uma descrição e comparação de metodologias relativas ao ambiente escolar são relatados neste trabalho / Abstract: The researches about thermal comfort evaluation in Brazil, in the middle of 1930, were searching for the internationally used and proposed methods, so that the conditions to adapt them to Brazilian environmental parameters could be achieved. The work of two Brazilian researchers who were researching thermal comfort indexes by that time are known: Paulo Sá and Benjamim Alves Ribeiro. In their researches they were working to establish a relationship between the individual thermal sensation and the indexes obtained by the several methods used at that time, mainly the catatemperatures and the effective temperatures. When analyzing the research of Paulo Sá, it can be shown his scientific approach and the obtaining of comfort temperatures for the city of Rio de Janeiro, as well as the existent methodological and scientific difficulties. The values found by those authors were used to the calculation of the PMV, proposed by Ole Fanger, through the use of the software Comfort 2.02. This work also presents the methodology used by Paulo Sá and Benjamim Alves Ribeiro, Fanger and Michael Humphreys in researches accomplished at schools or with students. Fanger worked with students in acclimatized cameras and the others with naturally ventilated environments. Schools are an appropriate environment to studies about thermal comfort evaluation not only due to the importance of the theme, but also for the developed activity, age group and easiness of implementation of the research. A description and comparison of different methods applied to the school environment are presented in this work / Mestrado / Edificações / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

The present research has been undertaken within a narrative approach which is based on social constructionism. For the purposes of fostering more effective communication between science and theology, I also adopt the postfoundationalist way of thinking which was suggested by Van Huyssteen. I made use of the seven movements that were proposed by J C Müller to present the research undertaken with four young adult Christians. Korea is a multi-religious society in which various religions coexist, such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Shamanism, Christianity and several new religions. In the religious background of Korea, people are free to choose their religion, but sometimes their religious freedom has been limited by the patriarchal family system. In particular, young adult Christians who are in the period of emerging adulthood may face an even more difficult situation when they practise a different religion from that of their family. They are still under the strong influence of their parents emotionally and financially, but they want to be adults with their own independent identity. Moreover, Korean social prejudice against Christianity causes the young adult Christians much difficulty in maintaining their faith life comfortably. In order to listen to their stories regarding their faith life, I selected four young adult Christians who have non-Christian family members in their household, who are unmarried, and are therefore still dependent on their parents. With the co-researchers, individual interview sessions and group interview sessions were held, and a web-activity devised in which their stories were told and developed in collaboration with various disciplines that were influencing their discourses within the stories. They were experiencing tensions with their non-Christian family members in maintaining their Christian faith life and were feeling powerless in the relationship with them. Furthermore, in their relationship with other Christians in the church the co-researchers complained about the lack of understanding, regarding their specific family background, shown by those believers who do have Christian relatives in their household. The narrative research process allowed the co-researchers to interpret their difficult stories and to think through the meanings of these and their effect. In this manner, they could reinterpret their painful stories and uncover new meanings that might assist them to be more satisfied in the future. Having discovered new meanings for their painful stories, the co-researchers are not powerless people any longer; instead, they are active people who are dreaming for, or envisioning, a better future with their non-Christian family. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Practical Theology / unrestricted

Cette thèse s’intéresse à la construction de carrières des chercheurs et universitaires effectuant de la recherche dans un « petit » pays, le Niger. Cette étude cherche en particulier à comprendre les principaux déterminants des choix de carrières et les moyens mobilisés pour réaliser leurs études et poursuive leur activité de recherche. Cette recherche est fondée sur une enquête qualitative réalisée au Niger au sein de trois institutions où se déroulent des activités de recherche : l’Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey (UAM), l’Institut National de Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN) et le Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL). Au moyen d’entretiens semi-directifs et de récits de vie auprès de plus de 15% des chercheurs et universitaires nigériens, cette étude met en relief leurs trajectoires, leur leurs expériences, leurs points de vue sur leur profession.Les principaux résultats de cette recherche montrent que l’Etat nigérien, à travers sa politique de programmation menée jusque dans les années quatre-vingt avait promu la formation d’une grande quantité de jeunes ver l’enseignement supérieur. Ces personnes ont poursuivi le travail de recherche qu’ils avaient, à quelques exceptions près, réalisé lors de leurs études à l’étranger. Ainsi, alors que l’Etat s’intéressait avant tout à former des enseignants pour l’Université en les envoyant se former à l’étranger, en finançant leurs bourses et choisissant l’institution dans laquelle ils devraient exercer leur métier à leur retour, la recherche prenait racine au sein de l’Université. Après la crise de la dette et des programmes d’ajustement structurel, l’Etat a du abandonner cette forme de soutien dirigée avant tout à renforcer le personnel employé dans les administrations publiques, les écoles et l’université. La bourse ne devient plus synonyme d’emploi et moins encore d’orientation vers l’enseignement supérieur ou la recherche.Pourtant la situation dramatique de l’université changera de manière importante. C’est à cet instant aussi que, grâce à la lutte syndicale menée par les universitaires, l’Etat nigérien porte de nos jours un grand intérêt à la recherche et se concentre l’UAM qui bénéficie désormais de financements nationaux de recherche. Même si ces derniers ne sont pour l’instant pas suffisants, ils permettent de créer de véritables projets de recherche. La thèse examine les conditions de ce changement.Il découle aussi de cette étude que recherche se développe, en dépit des difficultés auxquelles est confrontée, et manifestement augmente si on en juge par les publications en croissance. / This thesis is investigating the construction of scientific careers of researchers and academics in Niger, a « small » scientific country. We try to understand the main determinants of career choices et means used to do their studies and continue in performing research. Our investigation is based on qualitative field work done in Niger in three institutions : Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey (UAM), Institut National de Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN) and the Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL).With interviews and life stories in a sample that represents around 15% of researchers of the country, we examine their trajectories and professional experiences, as well as their opinions on the institutions and research activities in the country.The main research results show that the State of Niger, through its programming policy until the early eighties had promoted training of a great quantity of young people in foreign countries towards higher education, in order to create its own public service. These persons continue their research activities in the same disciplinary domains they were trained, when returning in Niger. When programming existed, the State chose the domains and the institutions in which they would pursue their professional activity. In this way research slowly took roots in the national institutions and the university. After the crisis and structural adjustment programmes, the State had to abandon this programming activity. Scholarships were no more a means to secure a job and didn’t guarantee one would find a position into the higher education system or research.Nonetheless, the very bad salaries and working conditions have changed, largely because of the pressure of the professional union of university personnel. Today the State of Niger is paying close attention to the working conditions of the university and attributes also funding to research, and even if these funds are insufficient, they permit to undertake some research, often in close collaboration with foreign partners as is evidenced by the growth of scientific publications.

Submitted by Nadir Basilio (nadirsb@uninove.br) on 2016-06-16T20:19:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Christian Daniel Falaster.pdf: 961254 bytes, checksum: 4378ba9444bd6eecc1a95ba8455547e3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-16T20:19:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Christian Daniel Falaster.pdf: 961254 bytes, checksum: 4378ba9444bd6eecc1a95ba8455547e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-18 / Os acadêmicos de Administração precisam pesquisar e publicar seus estudos para seguir as regras institucionais e avançar em suas carreiras, o que torna a publicação de artigos um assunto de grande importância para toda a academia. Esta dissertação traz múltiplos estudos que se destinam a investigar os fatores internos e externos que influenciam a publicação dos pesquisadores brasileiros na área da Administração. Para tanto, quatro etapas são traçadas, que consistem em quatro estudos distintos e interligados. Eu exploro a publicação de artigos, as competências essenciais para a publicação de artigos de alto nível, fatores de rejeição e as diferenças entre rankings de periódicos. Esta dissertação tem implicações para três públicos principais. Primeiro, para os pesquisadores que são capazes de entender melhor os fatores que influenciam sua produtividade. Em segundo lugar, os programas de doutorado são capazes de saber quais são os fatores mais importantes na formação de futuros pesquisadores. Em terceiro lugar, as agências institucionais podem repensar demandas institucionais de publicação e suas verdadeiras implicações. / Scholars need to conduct research and publish their studies to cope with institutional rules and advance in their career, which makes publishing a subject of great importance for all the academy. In this dissertation I conduct multiple studies that investigate a set of internal and external factors that influence research publication of Brazilian researchers in the field of Management. For this, four steps are used, consisting in four distinct and interconnected studies. Therefore, I explore the publication of articles, core competencies for top-level publication, rejection factors, differences between journal ranks. The studies contained in this dissertation have implications to three main audiences. First, scholars are able to better understand what influences their productivity. Second, doctoral programs are able to know what are the most important factors in the training of future researchers. Third, institutional agencies can rethink institutional demands for publication and their true implications.

This dissertation reports on a study that investigated the functions and services that are rendered at the library of ARC-Small Grain Institute in Bethlehem. The study was directed by the research questions that included the investigation in library services and sources globally; the information seeking behaviour of the patrons of the library as well as the skills and competencies needed by librarians to render an effective service in a constant changing environment. These components served as a foundation for the development of a proposed service model, which reflects the incorporation of the changing roles of librarians in a research library. The current services and sources of the ARC-SGI library were discussed and compared to other libraries. A systematic review of the literature included the information seeking behaviour and information needs of researchers as well as the skills and competencies of librarians. A mixed-method approach, using both qualitative and quantitative methods, has been applied in the study. Data was collected through questionnaires and fifteen semi-structured interviews were held with selected patrons of ARC-SGI. The findings showed that information needs depends mostly on the different stages of research and flows directly from the type of work that they do. Attention was given to preferred source choices and problems experienced during information seeking. Training needs were addressed as well as the needs for additional information needed from the library. Based on the results, the study proposed a service model for an agricultural library. The model displays the library within the setting of an organisation as it supports the mission and vision of the parent organisation. It illustrates all the interdependent components that are essential for a successful agricultural library. The model also outlines the strategies of on-going evaluation and monitoring of the library services; the information needs and information seeking behaviour of the patrons as well as the challenges facing the library. The study concluded by making certain recommendations that can benefit the library of ARC-SGI, which will be an improvement added to the current services. A few suggestions are made for future research, which have definite advantages for an agricultural library within an organisation. / Dissertation (MIS)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Information Science / unrestricted

The purpose of this youth participatory action research (YPAR) project was to challenge the pedagogy of traditional literacy instruction for low-income Latino/a students, particularly the overuse of scripted curricula and standardized tests mandated through the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. Twelve student participants served as co-teachers and co-researchers as they created, implemented, and evaluated a critical literacy class based on the theoretical frameworks of critical pedagogy and critical literacy and the methodology of youth participatory action research (YPAR). The YPAR Critical Literacy Group and research took place at one of a network of small, independent-study alternative schools called Future Horizons Charter High School (FHCHS, a pseudonym), located in southern California. Critical pedagogy and critical literacy formed a theoretical foundation upon which the students and teacher built a class based on the tenets of dialogue, problem-posing, and generative themes based on the interests of the student co-researchers. This alternative practice of co-creating knowledge with students was paramount in facilitating young peoples’ learning to think critically about their positionality within their political and social spheres. Critical literacy does not focus simply on the development of decoding and comprehension skills for reading, but students of critical literacy must “read the word and the world” (Freire & Macedo, 1997), grounding their acquisition of literacy skills through their own experiences and social contexts. This research examined the capacity of critical literacy and YPAR methodology to transform both learner and teacher. The YPAR Critical Literacy Group at FHCHS positively impacted the student coresearchers. Elements of qualitative research, including interviews and transcription positively impacted the students co-researchers’ traditional literacy skills. Student coresearchers evaluated the course as a positive experience throughout, and engaged in and comprehended texts far above their traditionally-defined decoding and reading comprehension reading levels. Attendance and engagement in the class for the 4-month period was consistently higher in the critical literacy class than in other reading classes offered at the school. The students experienced preliminary transformation and early stages of critical consciousness from the beginning to the end of the course, evidenced by the evolution of their reflective writings and progressively sophisticated analyses of social injustice at the school and within the broader community.

Varje dag behöver individer, grupper och organisationer fatta olika typer av beslut relaterade till affärsverksamhet- och privatlivsaktiviteter. Framgången för dessa beslut beror ofta på mängden och kvalitén på information som är tillgänglig för beslutsfattaren. Om det finns en stor mängd information, utöver begränsad tid till exempel under kriser, blir beslutsprocessen så komplex att det blir nödvändigt att använda datoriserade beslutsstödsverktyg. I denna studie föreslås, designas och implementeras en prototyp för gruppbaserat beslutsfattande för att stödja beslutet att hitta liknande forskarprofiler i krissituationer för forskare som vill samarbeta. Syftet med studien är att undersöka den potentiella påverkan på hur ett gruppbaserat beslutsstödssystem kan möjliggöra matchning av liknande forskarprofiler. Syftet är även att beskriva hur processen går till när en artefakt skapas och att förtydliga de olika delarna av denna innovativa process. Studien vill kunna utvärdera systemets potential genom att studera systemets funktionalitet som prototyp och fördjupa vår kunskap om hur användarna upplever systemet genom en kvalitativ analys. Ett experiment genomförs som använder den kvantitativa metod som gör det möjligt för författarna att undersöka syftet med denna studie. Studien avslöjade, som förväntat, att den största fördelen med ett gruppbaserat beslutsstödsystem är att minska den genomsnittliga tiden som krävs för att hitta en matchning mellan liknande forskarprofiler. Resultaten visar att det gruppbaserade beslutsstödsystem som tagits fram hade en positiv inverkan på möjligheterna till tidsbesparingar samt potentialen för relevans och hög kvalitet på matchning av profiler. Om en mer utvecklad algoritm hade utvecklats, skulle det resultera i fler möjligheter att matcha profiler, bland annat skulle forskarprofiler kunna matchas på underkategorier. / Each day individuals, groups and organizations need to make different types of decisions related to business activities and private life activities. The success of these decisions often depends on the amount and quality of information available to the decision maker. If there is a large amount of information, in addition to limited time, e.g., during crises, the decision-making process becomes so complex that it becomes necessary to make use of computerized decision support tools. In this study, we propose, design and implement a prototype for group-based decision making to support the decision of finding similar researcher profiles in crisis situations for researchers that wish to collaborate. The purpose of the study is to investigate the potential impact on how a group-based decision support system can enable matching of similar researcher profiles. The purpose is also to describe how the process goes when an artifact is created and to clarify the different parts of this innovative process. The authors want to be able to evaluate the potential of the system by studying the system's functionality as a prototype and deepening our knowledge of how users experience the system through a qualitative analysis. An experiment was designed which allows the authors to investigate the purpose of this study. The study uncovered, as we expected, that the main benefit of a group-based decision support system is reducing the average time required to find a match between similar researcher profiles. The results show that the group-based decision support system that was developed had a positive impact on the potential for time savings as well as the potential for relevance and high quality of matching profiles. If a more developed algorithm had been developed, it could result in more opportunities to match profiles, e.g., based on subcategories. This thesis will be written in Swedish.

No description available.

Introduction. This thesis analyzes how researchers views the data management plans, how they use them and how they interact with the data support functions at the university. Theory & Method.  The theoretical underpinnings of the study are Janken Myrdals theory of the research method as signifier of natural or humanistic research, and the research method is semi-structured interviews. The study’s empirical material consists of six interviews with researchers from four different scientific fields, which have been transcribed and processed through a qualitative thematic and comparative analysis. Results & Analysis. Five main themes have been identified: (1) bureaucratic demands, (2) a lack of support or a lack of interest?, (3) the data management plans connection to ethical review, (4) the impact of the method on the view of the data management plan, (5) time constraints and the plan as support in the research work. Conclusions. Researchers experience of working with data management plans does not give an unambiguous picture: some see it as an administrative burden or as something of a time sink. Others view it as something that benefits both their own work and when collaborating with colleagues. Moreover divided views exist regarding the support offered by the university when working with data management plans. Some respondents view it as adequate while others suggest that researchers needs to inform themselves on how to write the plan.