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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Online research"”.
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Modeling usage of an online research community
Although online communities have been thought of as a new way for collaboration across geographic boundaries in the scientific world, they have a problem attracting people to keep visiting. The main purpose of this study is to understand how people behave in such communities, and to build and …
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Towards a Sustainable Knowledge Sharing Environment for Online Research Communities
Sustainability of online knowledge-sharing communities is a major challenge at the present time. Many approaches to knowledge-sharing communities have suffered from the lack of active user participation. To explore this problem it is necessary to study both social and technical issues. In this …
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The Assistive Research and Ideation Engine: The Application of Effective Communication Design to Enhance the Process of Online Research
… the conception and wireframing of an Assistive Research and Ideation Engine (ARIE). The ARIE is an online platform that will facilitate a more effective research process by enhancing the ability of the individual to seek, collect, and evaluate information in an effort to resolve inquiry and …
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Learning from e-family history: online research behaviour and strategies of family historians and implications for local studies collections.
… and accessibility to some parts of the research process. Amongst this expanse of easily-accessible raw materials, online local studies materials (recording both historical and contemporary aspects of a community) can add real context and value to researchers findings and experience; …
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Integrating the Internet, Other Information Communication Technologies, and the New Literacies of Online Research and Comprehension into Literacy Instruction
… Internet, other ICTs, and the new literacies of online research and comprehension into literacy instruction. The research questions focused on participants’ perceptions about the role, benefits, and obstacles of integration as well as their planning, preparation, and delivery of instruction. The …
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Family hardiness, family coping, and marital satisfaction as reported by caregivers of children who have been diagnosed with significant disabilities: A mixed methods online research study
This online research mixed methods project was designed to explore, expand, and analyze the characteristics of families of children who have significant disabilities. Three concepts, family hardiness, family coping, and marital satisfaction, were analyzed in these families, in combination with …
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What Are The Lived Experiences Of Young Adults With Spina Bifida In The UK Today And What Can Be Learned From Challenges in Recruiting This Group To Online Qualitative Research? Lessons From An Unsuccessful Qualitative Online Research Study
Existing research on young adults with spina bifida commonly focuses on how the condition impacts their health outcomes rather than their lived experiences in key areas such as employment, social life and external support systems. The original research study aimed to gain a wider understanding of …
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Visualizing Information: Internet Guidelines For Distributing Architectural Research
A web site was designed and constructed for the Research + Demonstration Facility (RDF) as a master’s thesis project to help educators teach future architects more interactively by using the dynamic medium of the Internet. Students and faculty will learn about evolving architectural research and …
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The repertoire of Kayamba Africa: contemporary reworking of traditional musics in Nairobi
This research focuses on Kayamba Africa's repertoire of reworked traditional songs in Nairobi, where they are based. The study involved extensive literature and field research through library and online research, participant observation, interviews, data analysis and transcriptions. Three live …
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Freestanding public toilet design and location in Boston and Cambridge : a comparative case study
… public toilets in Boston and Cambridge. The research attempts to capture the influence of municipal institutions and local actors on public toilet design and location, and further attempts to assess to what degree the resulting design and location meet project stakeholders' own communicated …
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College student understanding of informed consent terminology
… consent form (ICF) is key to ethical medical research, and the ICF is necessary according to United States federal regulation. Since they may be written in complex technical language, ICFs are often difficult for subjects to understand. The purpose of this research was to evaluate students' …
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Impact of physicians’ medical jargon use on patient behavior
… or treatment plans. The purpose of this research was to understand the relationship between physician use of medical terminology and patient satisfaction. An online research survey was sent to 250 random patients at selected clinics/hospitals during February 2019; responses were received …
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Elementary Principals' Perceptions of 21st Century Skills in Southeastern Virginia
… identified and asked to complete a survey. An online research survey was distributed to Virginia principals to determine their perceptions of implementing 21st century skills in elementary schools in Virginia. This study revealed that elementary principals perceived 21st century skills as being …
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An analysis of basic public relations needs of non-profit associations
… of the sample chose to participate.</p> <p>Online research was conducted at the Web sites of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and within the Association Management Company (AMC) section, the International Association of Association Management Companies (IAAMC) and the …
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The story behind the output: Enhancing transparency in design research through flexible and adapted strategies
… in achieving trustworthiness in qualitative research. Current transparency standards are generally built for academic contexts. They often require a substantial investment of time in explaining the rationale behind every step of the research process, synthesis being recognized as the most …
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THINKING ABOUT ONLINE SOURCES: EXPLORING STUDENTS' EPISTEMIC COGNITION IN INTERNET-BASED CHEMISTRY LEARNING
… learning outcome in an Internet-based research context. Based on a framework of epistemic cognition (Chinn, Buckland, & Samarapungavan, 2011), a context-specific epistemic aims and source beliefs questionnaire (CEASBQ) was developed and administered to 354 students from college-level …
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Resilience and Resistance: How First Generation College Students Leverage Community Cultural Wealth and Social Capital to Successfully Transfer from a Community College to a Selective Four-year Institution
… supports such as family, peers and students’ own online research to navigate the transfer pathway.</p>
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Boundaries: The Relationships among Family Structure, Identity Style, and Psychopathology
Research has long held that family of origin plays a significant, if not critical, role in mental health. The purpose of the present study was to provide theoretical evidence to support the feasibility of a new target for clinical intervention by demonstrating that identity style, the way …
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Virtual voices and contrapuntal melodies: exploring the liminal experiences of part-time, adult learners as they embark on undergraduate, online study
… the first academic module of their part-time, online degree. Online undergraduate programmes enable adult learners to make decisions of how their aspirations are best met. The convenience and flexibility of hybrid spaces, enables them to take control of their learning. However, these benefits …
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“When Christ and grime combine”: Gospel grime cultures in contemporary London
… interviews with MCs within the scene, online research, musical, lyrical and performance analysis, this multi-methodological project explores the ways in which London-based gospel grime MCs represent their Christianity through grime and grime through Christianity. Furthermore, given …
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