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Childhood behaviour problems in urban Sudan
No full textExploring the role of culture in human development and psychopathy, the present thesis examined the relationship between Sudanese children's behaviour problems and their socio-cultural context. This involved two stages. First, a qualitative investigation into the Sudanese adult's views of normal and abnormal child development was undertaken. There was unanimity that religious and cultural beliefs mediate concepts of normal and abnormal development and intercede patterns of child-care. In the second stage a larger quantitative study was conducted with the aim of developing an instrument that would provide a valid and reliable measure to identify the children's behaviour deviance in the Sudanese context.Sudanese parents and teachers completed behaviour rating scales on a stratified sample of 300 children. These instruments were based on Conners' original questionnaires and were adopted to include items thought to be relevant to Sudanese culture. Following item analysis and exclusion, the reliability, factor structure and internal consistency of a 34 item teacher questionnaire and a 64 item parent questionnaire were explored.Both instruments produced an intuitively appealing and reliable factor structure. As far as linguistic and conceptual equivalence with previous studies in different cultures was concerned it appeared that the Sudanese teachers' views of problems mirrored their western counterparts more closely than did the parents. As with studies in other countries teachers ratings produced a clear distinction between externalising and internalising problems and within these bands, a distinction between hyperactivity and conduct problems and between anxiety and sadness/depression. However, the structure of parent's ratings did not produce such clear cut distinctions. For instance, there were no clear conduct problem or hyperactivity factors. In line with an ecological approach this thesis also examined the structural socio-demographic aspects and their effect on family structure, parenting, and patterns of child behaviour problems.</p
Analyzing and repairing overlapping work items in process logs
No full textContext: In real life logs, it often happens that some human resources appear to have more than one task active concurrently, thus resulting in human multitasking. However, tasks that require some intellectual effort cannot be executed in parallel in real life. This misalignment between what actually happens and what is registered in the logs, however, is not reflected in the output of the different log-based performance measuring approaches, thus compromising the quality of the computed metrics.
Objective: We introduce a novel approach to rewrite events in process execution logs for multitasking human resources. The approach is based on two typical human work patterns, the queuing and stacking patterns. The rewrite aims at serializing multi tasks for the same resource based on the work pattern detected. Thus, possibly better performance measures can be obtained.
Method: We defined a quantitative approach to detect multitasking human performers and resolve them by serialization. The approach is prototyped and evaluated on a set of real-life software development process logs.
Results: Our results show that the proposed approach contributes to find better results when log-based performance analysis techniques are applied to the repaired logs in comparison to the original logs.
Conclusions: The work shows that based on the human work patterns, stacking or queuing, logs can be enhanced, so as to be possibly closer to what happened in the reality and to allow for more accurate performance measures
Improve requesting medication by mail from pharmacy services rate in KFMC using FOCUS-PDCA methodology: Project report
No full textAbstract: The purpose of this study was to describe current users of mail pharmacy services and to evaluate factors associated with the use of mail pharmacy services.
Retrospective study at King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh, KSA, for six months' period; Oct 1, 2021 to Apr 1, 2022. Data were collected from EPIC (Health Care Operation System) and electronic patient satisfaction survey. the Methodology has been adopted is FOCUS-PDCA Methodology .60 surveys were mailed to a randomly generated list of eligible patients. A total of 44 (73.1%) patients responded. The percentage of the satisfaction were statistically significant. In conclusion, mail pharmacy service users were satisfied with service by 100% in this study. Advancing age, presence of chronic diseases, increasing level of education, and increasing distance to the nearest pharmacy were positively associated with the use of mail pharmacies. Further research is needed to better understand patient-specific reasons for choosing mail pharmacies or community pharmacies.
Keywords: Mail pharmacy; Pharmaceutical Services; Pharmacists; Pharmacy, Patient satisfaction, surveys.
Title: Improve requesting medication by mail from pharmacy services rate in KFMC using FOCUS-PDCA methodology: Project report
Author: Ghadeer faisal almutairi, Yasir Awad Ahmed
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, April 2022 - June 2022
Page No: 579-586
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 29-June-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6778470
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
DIA: User-defined interval analytics on distributed streams
No full textNowadays, modern Big Stream Processing Solutions (e.g. Spark, Flink) are working towards being the ultimate framework for streaming analytics. In order to achieve this goal, they started to offer extensions of SQL that incorporate stream-oriented primitives such as windowing and Complex Event Processing (CEP). The former enables stateful computation on infinite sequences of data items while the latter focuses on the detection of events pattern. In most of the cases, data items and events are considered instantaneous, i.e., they are single time points in a discrete temporal domain. Nevertheless, a point-based time semantics does not satisfy the requirements of a number of use-cases. For instance, it is not possible to detect the interval during which the temperature increases until the temperature begins to decrease, nor for all the relations this interval subsumes. To tackle this challenge, we present D^2IA; a set of novel abstract operators to define analytics on user-defined event intervals based on raw events and to efficiently reason about temporal relationships between intervals and/or point events. We realize the implementation of the concepts of D^2IA on top of Flink, a distributed stream processing engine for big data
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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