33 research outputs found
Findability and Discoverability of Qualitative Research Data in Social Sciences. An Explorative Study Using re3data API and Systematic Evidence Searching
No full textThis thesis explores the findability and discoverability of qualitative research data within the social sciences, focusing on three key domains: discipline-specific repositories, scholarly journal articles, and scholarly journals. Employing an explorative and descriptive approach, the study investigates the extent to which data management practices support the finding and discovery of qualitative datasets. The research identifies that while repositories commonly use persistent identifiers (PIDs) and discipline-specific metadata standards, the availability of advanced search functionalities remains limited, which may hinder data findability. The study also highlights a concerning scarcity of data availability statements in scholarly articles, with only 17% including such statements, and reveals that data sharing is often impeded by ethical constraints. Furthermore, a significant gap was found between the datasets stored in repositories and their representation in scholarly literature, underscoring the need for better integration of repository-held data into academic discourse. The findings suggest that both repositories and journals must enhance their practices to promote the visibility of qualitative research data, with recommendations for improved search tools, stricter enforcement of data availability statement policies, and stronger linkages between datasets and scholarly publications. This research contributes to the ongoing discourse on open science and the challenges associated with qualitative data sharing in the social sciences
Findability and discoverability of qualitative research data in social sciences. An explorative study using re3data API and systematic evidence searching
No full textThis thesis explores the findability and discoverability of qualitative research data within the social sciences, focusing on three key domains: discipline-specific repositories, scholarly journal articles, and scholarly journals. Employing an explorative and descriptive approach, the study investigates the extent to which data management practices support the finding and discovery of qualitative datasets. The research identifies that while repositories commonly use persistent identifiers (PIDs) and discipline-specific metadata standards, the availability of advanced search functionalities remains limited, which may hinder data findability. The study also highlights a concerning scarcity of data availability statements in scholarly articles, with only 17% including such statements, and reveals that data sharing is often impeded by ethical constraints. Furthermore, a significant gap was found between the datasets stored in repositories and their representation in scholarly literature, underscoring the need for better integration of repository-held data into academic discourse. The findings suggest that both repositories and journals must enhance their practices to promote the visibility of qualitative research data, with recommendations for improved search tools, stricter enforcement of data availability statement policies, and stronger linkages between datasets and scholarly publications. This research contributes to the ongoing discourse on open science and the challenges associated with qualitative data sharing in the social sciences.https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:79pbc-opus-2564
Wissenschaft sichtbar machen mit ResearchGate
No full textIn der heutigen digitalen Welt ist die Präsenz in sozialen Medien und wissenschaftlichen Netzwerken entscheidend für die Sichtbarkeit Ihrer Forschung. Lernen Sie ResearchGate im Kontext von Open Access kennen und erfahren Sie, wie Sie Ihr Profil in Netzwerken wie ResearchGate gestalten, Publikationen rechtssicher teilen und die Reichweite Ihrer Forschung gezielt erhöhen.https://tube.switch.ch/videos/Tm0TdRwQl
Review and Recent Advances in Metal Compounds as Potential High-Performance Anodes for Sodium Ion Batteries
No full textAlong with great attention to eco-friendly power solutions, sodium ion batteries (SIBs) have stepped into the limelight for electrical vehicles (EVs) and grid-scale energy storage systems (ESSs). SIBs have been perceived as a bright substitute for lithium ion batteries (LIBs) due to abundance on Earth along with the cost-effectiveness of Na resources compared to Li counterparts. Nevertheless, there are still inherent challenges to commercialize SIBs due to the relatively larger ionic radius and sluggish kinetics of Na+ ions than those of Li+ ions. Particularly, exploring novel anode materials is necessary because the conventional graphite anode in LIBs is less active in Na cells and hard carbon anodes exhibit a poor rate capability. Various metal compounds have been examined for high-performance anode materials in SIBs and they exhibit different electrochemical performances depending on their compositions. In this review, we summarize and discuss the correlation between cation and anion compositions of metal compound anodes and their structural features, energy storage mechanisms, working potentials, and electrochemical performances. On top of that, we also present current research progress and numerous strategies for achieving high energy density, power, and excellent cycle stability in anode materials
Psychophysical measurement for perceptual image brightness enhancement based on image classification
No full textVisibility improvement based on gray matching experiment between dark and ambient condition in mobile display
No full textThermal comfort adaptation in outdoor places
No full textThe level of international migration has been growing in the last decades creating a plurality of cultures and inspiring a multicultural nature in global cities (O'Byrne, 1997; Short and Kim, 1999; Hawkins, 2006). This created new challenges in urban planning or the management of the coexistence of different people that are having different characteristics shaping their unique identity and needs in shared places. Being the urban stages where the social interactions happen, public places are considered important parts of cities (Thompson, 2002; Varna, 2009). These places can contribute to enhance the quality of life within cities, or contrarily increase isolation and social exclusion (Lo et al.; 2003). As agreed by researchers the users’ state of comfort gives a good indication for how successful is the public outdoor places (Rosheidat et al.; 2008; Kwong et al.; 2009; Aljawabra and Nikolopoulou, 2010). In order to create a successful open space usable by all members of a community, urban designers need to satisfy their thermal comfort needs in its wider meaning according to a variety of users (Knez and Thorsson, 2006; Thorsson et al.; 2007). While assessing the thermal comfort, in addition to the strong influence of the microclimatic parameters, the term thermal adaptation seems to becoming increasingly important. The thermal comfort adaption is then a considerable issue in design guidelines of outdoor environments (Nikolopoulou and Steemers, 2003). The main aim of the research is to examine the influence of thermal adaptation and environmental attitude on participants’ thermal requirements in outdoor public places. It focuses on understanding the effect of adaptation on the thermal comfort perception of immigrants. The research methodology of the research is provided through quantitative analysis of a case study. The findings of thermal comfort investigations could be applied into improving the quality of urban areas in order to increase the outdoor activities of citizens and use of outdoor places
Attitude Toward Social Enterprises: A Comparison between For-Profit and Social Enterprise Employees
No full textSocial enterprises, organizations that pursue social purposes while generating profits, have garnered attention recently as potential key players for a sustainable economy. However, research on the perception of social enterprises by lay people has been ignored even though positive reception of social enterprises is an important condition for their sustainability. In the present study, we compared for-profit enterprise employees (n = 200) and social enterprise employees (n = 162) and examined their differences in attitude toward the profit-making aspects of social enterprises as well as the employees working for social enterprises. The results showed that for-profit enterprises overestimated that social enterprise employees were extrinsically motivated and underestimated their prosocial intentions. In addition, for-profit enterprise employees were less favorable toward the profit-making aspects of social enterprises, including payment of high salaries for the social enterprise employees and using donations to run social enterprises. Interestingly, the difference between for-profit and social enterprise employees in their attitude toward the profit-making aspects of social enterprises was explained by lay theories of altruism called “pure altruism.” The present research makes important contributions by identifying the psychological mechanisms that underlie individuals’ perceptions and attitude toward social enterprises
