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Elf Learners‟ Attitude and Practice of Learning Listening Skills and Factors Affecting Their Learning Grade 8 Students Dureso Donke Primary School in Focus
No full textThe main purpose of the study was to EFL learners’ attitude and practice learning listening skill
and factors affecting their learning Dureso Donke primary school focus on grade eight. The
researcher employed descriptive survey design to gather quantitative and qualitative data from
respondents. The population of the study was 104 grade eight students and 4 EFL teachers. The
researcher selected 30 student samples using systematic random sampling. For students, the
researcher used comprehensive sampling for the questionnaires. For interview and observation,
three sample teachers were used. Observation, questionnaires and interview were the main data
gathering instruments for this study. The findings of the study reveal that EFL learners’ attitude
and practice learning listening skill and factors affecting their learning; however, they practiced
the listening lessons activities presented in grade eight EFL textbook rarely. In addition, their
practices of listening skill lessons were low. Moreover, teachers’ interview data showed that
students and material related factors were the major problems hindering the teaching learning
of listening skill lessons in grade 8 EFL classes. The focus of this study was EFL learners’
attitude, practices and factors affecting learning listening skills they encounter: Dureso Donke
primary school, grade Eight in focus. Listening problems related to listener originated from
student’s poor English proficiency such as limited English vocabulary, lack of back ground
knowledge of spoken text, poor knowledge of grammar
An investigation of EFL teachers’ beliefs on teaching grammar and reading and their practices in secondary schools in Ethiopia
Full text linkGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Development of an analytics platform for Myhealthbox (Medtrend - Healthcare Analytics)
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALEmyHealthbox è una delle più grandi fonti indipendenti di informazioni digitali sui prodotti sanitari e fornisce informazioni adatte sia per il grande pubblico che per gli operatori sanitari (medici, infermieri, farmacisti, ecc.). Il motore di ricerca di myHealthbox fornisce agli utenti un facile accesso ai fogli illustrativi digitali di tutti i prodotti per la salute dai farmaci a ricetta a quelli a libera vendita, dai prodotti per terapie alternative ai dispositivi medici, dalle creme agli integratori alimentari, oltre a tutti i prodotti per la salute degli animali e delle piante. Le informazioni fornite aiutano pazienti e professionisti ad utilizzare questi prodotti per la salute in modo più sicuro.
Ogni interazione con myHealthbox (ad es. termini di ricerca, prodotti visualizzati e documenti letti) viene registrata. Per ogni interazione con la piattaforma vengono salvate le seguenti informazioni: luogo, data e ora, sito di provenienza, termini di ricerca, pagine visitate, lingua, documenti visualizzati e tempo trascorso su ogni pagina.
Col termine “data analystics” si intende il processo scientifico di trasformazione dei dati in informazioni utilizzabili poi per prendere decisioni migliori e trovare il percorso ottimale per il target / obiettivo desiderato. Lo sviluppo di una soluzione di analisi dei dati comporta spesso lo studio di dati storici alla ricerca di possibili scenari ripetitivi, per analizzare gli effetti di certe decisioni o eventi, o per valutare le prestazioni di un determinato strumento o scenario. L'obiettivo di uno studio di analisi dei dati è quello di migliorare gli obiettivi aziendali per l'estrazione di conoscenza che può essere poi usata per fare miglioramenti o modifiche e ridurre i costi.
MedsTrends è uno strumento di analisi dei dati sviluppato per acquisire conoscenze sui dati raccolti da ogni interazione con la piattaforma myHealthbox. Si tratta di una applicazione “web based” costruita utilizzando le seguenti tecnologie: PHP, MySQL, Apache, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON.
MedsTrends può essere utilizzato per identificare i prodotti più popolari o gli ingredienti attivi piùricercati in ogni paese, regione, città o codice postale in uno specifico lasso di tempo (settimana, mese o anno); una tipica interazione col sistema potrebbe essere: "trovare i primi dieci prodotti più popolari a Milano, Italia nel mese di novembre 2016". Un'altra query comune implica il recupero dei paesi in cui uno specifico prodotto è più utilizzato; questo tipo di interazioni può anche evidenziare differenze stagionali nell'utilizzo dei prodotti.
I dati ottenuti da MedsTrends possono essere visualizzati in modalità tabella, grafica o mappa.
Poiché i dati analizzati non comprendono solo i termini di ricerca, ma anche le informazioni reali su ciò che è stato letto dagli utenti, vi è una differenza fondamentale nell' affidabilità e pertinenza dell'analisi dei dati basata su MedsTrends. La maggior parte delle soluzioni oggi note non considerano la "rilevanza" come una variabile da utilizzare nel definire la qualità dei dati e i pochi sistemi che provano a definire questa variabile stanno ancora cercando un approccio robusto a questo problema.
Gli utenti MedsTrends in genere appartengono ad una delle seguenti categorie:
1. Product managers di aziende o capi di strutture sanitarie che lo utilizzano per mappare ed analizzare il livello di interesse per il loro proprio prodotto o per prodotti della concorrenza, macro tendenze nell'utilizzo dei prodotti o in tematiche della salute o per monitorare l'interesse in specifiche classi di farmaci.
2. Responsabili delle politiche di assistenza sanitaria per monitorare focolai di malattie o livelli di interesse verso farmaci specifici o argomenti di salute.myHealthbox is one of the largest, independent, sources of digital information on healthcare products, it provides information suitable for both the general public and healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc.). The myHealthbox search engine provides users with easy access to digital information leaflets for a big selection of health-related products ranging from traditional pharmacy medicines to over-the-counter and alternative therapies, from medical devices and topical creams to nutritional supplements, veterinary and plants products. Ultimately the information provided helps patients and professionals use medicines and health products in a safer way.
Every interaction with myHealthbox (i.e. searches, data and documents access) is recorded and logged. For each interaction with the platform the following information is collected: location, timestamp, referrer, search terms, accessed pages, language, documents viewed and time spent on each page/action.
Data analytics is the scientific process of transforming data into insight for taking better decisions and finding the optimal path to the desired target/goal. The development of a data analytics solution often involves studying past historical data to research potential trends, to analyze the effects of certain decisions or events, or to evaluate the performance of a given tool or scenario. The goal of data analytics is to improve the business goals by extracting knowledge which can be used to make improvements or changes and reduce costs.
MedsTrends is a data analytics tool developed to gain insights into the data collected from each interaction with the myHealthbox platform. It is a web based application built using the following technologies: PHP, MySQL, Apache, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, JSON.
MedsTrends is used to identify the most popular products or active ingredients in every country, region, city or zip code area is a specific timeframe (i.e. week, month or year); a typical query could be: “find the top ten most popular products in Milan, Italy in November, 2016”. Another common query implies the retrieval of the location where a specific product is mostly read about; this in turn can help highlight season differences in product use or other season-related patterns.
MedsTrends data can be visualized in table, chart or map mode.
As the data analyzed includes not just search terms but also the actual information read by users, there is a fundamental difference in the reliability and relevance of the data MedsTrends' analysis is built upon. Most known solutions do not consider “relevance” as a variable in defining data quality and the few systems that do are struggling to find a useable approach to this problem.
MedsTrends users typically belong to one of the following categories:
1. healthcare marketing or products managers to map and analyze interest in their own or competitor's products, highlight health trends or monitor interest in specific medicines classes.
2. healthcare policy makers to monitor disease outbreaks or levels of interest towards specific medicines or health topics
Collaboration of Parents and EFL Teachers to Enhance Children’s Motivation towards Reading Skills: Focus to 1st Cycle of Primary Schools in Jimma Zone
No full textThe goal of this study is to investigate to what extent parents and an EFL teachers work collaboratively to boost
children’s motivation to reading skills. To achieve this aim, the First Cycle of Primary Schools (1-4) of Jimma
zone, two woredas ( Kersa and Mana) and one special town (Jimma) were taken as an example. Clear and
measurable attempts were made to investigate the extent to which parents work with EFL teachers to increase
their children’s motivation to the direction of reading skills. In order to achieve the targeted objective mixquestionnaire and semi-structured interview for teachers, an FGD with parents, and classroom observation were
made on the current views of parents involvement to maximize students’ motivation of reading and teachers’
role as well. Results of the study show that the parents and EFL teachers hardly work cooperatively to enhance
students’ motivation towards reading skill. They do not have an effective communication way in which they
exchange constructive information about the students’ reading motivation. There are clearly seen mismatches
between the intended curriculum that vehemently sets parents and teachers should work together so as to make
students are motivated toward reading skill of English
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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