243 research outputs found
International: Metadata and standards
No full textMetadata, sometimes called 'data about data,' has been more formally defined as 'structured information that describes, explains, locates, or otherwise makes it easier to retrieve, use, or manage an information resource1.' Dr. Victoria Uren, Lecturer at Aston University, provides an overview of what metadata is and how it can be used
Arthur William Upfield: a biography
No full textThis dissertation is an exhaustive account of the life and work of Arthur William Upfield (1890-1964). It is presented as a critical biography and narrates the life of the writer, in his socio-cultural milieu, from birth. It also positions Upfield as a writer who dealt with issues of Aboriginality at a time when this was a singularly polemical subject. My work is informed by the theory of Zygmunt Bauman and others and is posited in the context of late-modern biography theory.
English-born, Upfield arrived in Australia in 1911 and took work in the bush, serving overseas with the Australian army at the outbreak of World War I and marrying an Australian army nurse in Egypt. Returning with his wife and son to Australia in 1921 he intermittently carried his swag until he was employed patrolling the Western Australian number 1 rabbit-proof fence for three years to 1931. By that time he had published four novels, including two crime novels featuring his fictional creation, the part-Aboriginal, part-European, Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte ('Bony'), arguably the first fully-developed character in Australian popular fiction.
Leaving the fence, Upfield settled with his family in Perth and wrote full-time until joining the Melbourne Herald in 1933. Retrenched, he resumed career writing to be further interrupted by a war-time intelligence posting in 1939. In 1943 the first Bony mysteries were published in America, where Upfield's critical success was maintained until his death. In 1945 he left his wife for Jessica Uren, to whom he remained devoted.
Upfield's in all twenty-nine Bony novels, many of which have been translated across eleven languages, afforded him notable success both at home and abroad, in good part due to his descriptive gifts and the uniqueness of his fictional character, the part-Aboriginal Bony
Browsing for Information by Highlighting Automatically Generated Annotations: a user study and evaluation
No full textUren V, Motta E, Dzbor M, Cimiano P. Browsing for Information by Highlighting Automatically Generated Annotations: a user study and evaluation. In: Clark P, Schreiber G, eds. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP'05). ACM Press; 2005: 75-82
Ferrites with a Minimised Secondary Electron Yield - Data
No full textThe enclosed data comprises of the various raw measurements and data processing used to present the results shown in the Advanced Materials paper ‘Ferrites with a Minimised Secondary Electron Yield’. Many of the files are the raw images/data files exported by the equipment used to characterise the samples both before and after processing. Along with them are spreadsheets and graphs used to process and interpret the data. Data was collected and processed by the authors at both the University of Dundee and CERN and further details about the methodology can be found in both the methods section of the paper and the supplementary information both published with Advanced Materials. The readme file contains a brief guide on what data each folder contains. For further information please contact the lead author, Dr Robin Uren at [email protected]
Four Beaufighter pilots taking a shower after returning from an attack on Japanese positions, left to right, Flight Lieutenant R. Uren, Flying Officer A. Spooner, Flying Officer J. Maguire and Flight Lieutenant R.A. Little, Port Moresby, 1942 [picture] /
No full textPart of collection: E.A. Crome collection of photographs on aviation.; Inscription: "Port Moresby. Four Beaufighter pilots take a shower after returning from a straffing attack on Japanese in Lae and Salamaua. They are, from left to right:- F/Lieut. R. Uren (New South Wales), F/O A. Spooner (Victoria), F/O J. Maguire, F/Lieut R.A. Little (Western Australia)"--On reverse.; Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription and reference sources.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3723210; E.A. Crome collection relating to aviation in Australia, 1914-2005; located at; National Library of Australia Manuscript collection MS 1925
Factors that influence the successful adoption of m-Commerce via SIM-enabled devices in Nigeria
No full textThis research sought to identify the factors that influence m-Commerce adoption by micro and small businesses in Nigeria. However, considering that different categories of these businesses are likely to be influenced by different set of factors, depending on their level of exposure and adoption of m-Commerce, a stage model was designed. This stage model provided a prototype of the progression of m-Commerce adoption by micro and small businesses in Nigeria. Through the analysis of data collected from semi-structured interviews and questionnaires, the stage model was confirmed. Also, unique factors that influence m-Commerce adoption by micro and small businesses in Nigeria were identified such as: Nigeria’s mobile phone culture, the Central Bank of Nigeria’s regulatory cashless policy, Nigeria’s ostentatious culture, and cultural emphasis on physical contact in the conduct of business activities. Within the thesis, recommendations for leveraging the presence of the identified factors were discussed. These recommendations include creating awareness of security features among customers and introduction of regulatory policies that can support increased adoption of m-Commerce such as money back guarantee. Theoretical implications of the research include contributing to the debate on the divide between m-Commerce and e-Commerce, providing an update to existing literature on m-Commerce adoption factors and presenting a stage model that can guide business adoption of m-Commerce. Practical implications of the research include highlighting opportunities to create additional sources of revenue for businesses, strategies towards optimising business processes, increasing brand or business awareness and inspiring customer loyalty. Practical steps towards leveraging Nigeria’s unique socio-cultural factors were highlighted including the use of Pay on Delivery service. Although this study focused on micro and small businesses in Nigeria, findings from the study may be generalised to countries that have similar socio-cultural contexts such as Pakistan and India
The role and impact of digital capabilities on value co-creation of servitising organisations
No full textManufacturers are challenged to embrace service provision to customers to increase profitability, achieve stable revenue streams and become more competitive. The trend towards servitisation requires manufacturers to develop the digital capabilities to interact and co-create value with customers. To date, little research has been carried out to investigate the digital technologies, and the capabilities required to provide such services. Understanding the role digital capabilities play in servitisation, and how these capabilities enable value co-creation, is vital to draw a customer into a joint process. This study fills the gap by presenting a multi-level framework that characterises value co-creation for servitisation using digital capabilities.With regards to base services, manufacturers’ emphasis is on supporting product functionalities and reliability. However, advanced services are focused on helping customers’ processes, and achieving outcomes. They require a higher level of customisation, than base services, demand greater intensity in customer relationships, and need an increased focus on assisting customers in their value creation process. These complexities require new capabilities for addressing dynamic customer interactions, business strategy, and resources integration.Studies are in agreement concerning the importance of digital capabilities in this context, but provide little insight on their constituents, or how they support value co-creation. Prior studies have explored value co-creation across multiple research communities. As a result, a variety of approaches and theoretical perspectives are provided in related fields. This study examines these problems, drawing on an extensive qualitative enquiry of 15 servitising firms.The study contributes to knowledge by developing a multilevel framework of value co-creation in servitisation, showing how identified digital capabilities enable value co-creation. The findings indicate that specific prerequisites are needed to understand customer demand, which drives stakeholders into the next level of the value co-creation process termed service co-design, which may lead to strategic alignment
Development of Key Employability Skills for Business Students in Higher Education. Evaluation of a Business Simulation game as a method to enhance employability
No full textEmployability has been and continues to be the top of the higher education agenda. What is evident in the literature is that defining and measuring employability are challenging tasks. More specifically, little research has been carried out to define what constitute generic or key employability skills in the context of higher education. This research fills this gap by presenting a multi-dimension framework of key employability skills and methods to measure these skills in higher education. In addition, there are many methods implemented in HE to develop and measure the employability of students, including placements, internships, Work-Integrated Learning programmes, and business simulations. Most of these methods have been investigated in previous research. However, there are still very few studies that examined business simulations in developing the employability of students. To fill this gap, the study also investigates the role of a business simulation in enhancing specific key employability skills. The study uses a mixed-method approach involving two phases of data collection. The first phase was a Delphi technique used to collect data from experts in the field of graduate employability. This phase was analysed qualitatively using MAXQDA. The second phase was a quasi-experimental one-group pre-post-test method. This phase was analysed quantitatively using SPSS. The study contributes to knowledge by developing a holistic and multi-dimensional framework of key employability skills, definitions and methods for measuring these skills in HE. The framework highlights the links and dependencies between the dimensions and the skills. It also recognises the overlap between developing and measuring key employability skills. The study also found that business simulation can enhance several key employability skills of business students. Finally, some of the demographic characteristics, including gender and work experience, influenced students’ perceptions regarding several key employability skills. These findings are intended to help HEIs improve the development and measurement of key employability skills of business students
Factors Influencing Information Adoption From Social Media: The Case of Health Information in Saudi Arabia
No full textThe current study aimed to further understand attitudes toward source credibility by studying it in the context of social media use as a health information source among social media users in Saudi Arabia. During COVID-19 outbreak, the social isolation that people experienced led to social media being widely used as a medium for disseminating health information, and this has now become increasingly prevalent. Specifically, this study set out to identify which factors influenced the positive adoption of health information from social media platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study adopted a mixed methods design through using an online questionnaire, incorporating a novel vignette design, to gather quantitative data, and follow-up interviews for collecting qualitative data. The designed vignettes were a set of verified and unverified profiles on social media belonging to medical and non-medical experts. Based on collecting data from 397 participants to the questionnaire and 23 interviews, interesting findings were revealed. The study provides empirical support for the influence of source characteristics as heuristics to guide information adoption. Characteristics including sources’ knowledge, qualifications, verification mark and similarity between receiver and sender influence people’s attitudes towards source credibility. Furthermore, the findings confirmed that characteristics of information/content have a significant influence on participants' use of social media platforms as a health information sources. Timeliness, completeness, relevance and accuracy, are confirmed to influence people's attitudes toward adopting health information from social media platforms. It is believed that the current study is one of the few empirical studies to have examined the factors influencing the adoption of social media information by implementing a novel vignette design within a questionnaire. Hence, this study might make a methodological contribution with regard to using vignette design within quantitative methods. Furthermore, there also practical contributions can be made to policy makers with regard to employing social media to convey health and other types of information to the Saudi population
Semantic Annotation for Knowledge Management: Requirements and a Survey of the State of the Art
No full textUren V, Cimiano P, Iria J, et al. Semantic Annotation for Knowledge Management: Requirements and a Survey of the State of the Art. Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. 2006;4(1):14-28
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