A Pilot Study of Enhancing Subject Discovery of Textual Web Resources

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwan Yi
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Web Resources

The aim of this study is to explore to what degree hyperlinked external resources contribute to the automated subject-related term indexing. Empirical evidence shows no additional enhancement of performance with the additional resources. It also implies that target Web pages are closer in subject to siting pages than sited pages.L’objectif de cette étude est d’explorer à quel degré les ressources hypertextes externes contribuent à l’indexation automatique par sujet. L’observation empirique ne montre aucune amélioration additionnelle de la performance avec les ressources supplémentaires. Ceci implique également que le sujet des pages web ciblées se rapproche davantage du sujet des pages web sélectionnant que des pages web sélectionnées. 

Standards of use and search for information on Internet addiction / Patrones de uso y búsqueda de información sobre adicciones en Internet

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mª del Carmen Segura Díez ◽  
José A. García del Castillo ◽  
Carmen López-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
University Students ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Information Search ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Search For Information

Este trabajo expone los resultados de un estudio piloto, que tiene como objetivos el análisis de las páginas web de ámbito nacional que ofrecen información sobre adicciones y por otro lado, el estudio de los patrones de uso de estas páginas, por parte de los internautas a través del cuestionario INDEXA. Se han analizado hasta el momento 203 recursos web españoles en materia de adicciones y se ha encuestado a 394 sujetos (pertenecientes a población universitaria) sobre sus hábitos en el uso de Internet como fuente de información sobre adicciones. Los resultados indican que la mayor parte de recursos web en adicciones pertenecen al ámbito asociativo (33%), con un enfoque centrado en el tratamiento (22%) y un abordaje generalista cuando se trata de ofrecer información sobre sustancias adictivas o adicciones. Las sustancias más tratadas en los contenidos de las webs son el tabaco (41%) y el alcohol (38%). Los resultados del cuestionario INDEXA muestran que el 84% de los internautas encuestados se consideraban bien informados sobre adicciones y el 64% había buscado o recibido información sobre el tema en el último año. El nivel de satisfacción con las webs sobre adicciones es bueno (67%) y sus consultas se centran en la búsqueda de información sobre una sustancia en concreto, que suele ser el alcohol (15%) seguido a más distancia del cannabis (13,18%) y el tabaco (11%).  Abstract This paper shows the results of a pilot study on the analysis of web pages in Spain containing information about addictions. We also analyze in which ways internet users utilize such pages through the test INDEXA. We have analyzed, so far, 203 Spanish web resources on addictions and surveyed 294 university students about their usage of the Internet for informational purposes on addictions. Results indicate that the most part of web resources in addictions belong to associations (33%), with an approach centered in the treatment (22%) and a general approach when one is to offer information on addictive substances or addictions. The most mentioned substances in the contents of websites are the tobacco (41%) and the alcohol (38%). Results of the questionnaire INDEXA show that 84% of internet users were considered well informed on addictions and 64% had looked for or received information on the topic in the latest year. The level of satisfaction with websites on addictions is good (67%) their questions concentrate in the information search on a substance in particular, that usually is the alcohol (15%) followed more distance of the cannabis (13.18%) and the tobacco (11%).

Drawing to reconstruct: Pilot study on acknowledging prisoners' internal and external resources in a penitentiary institution

World Futures ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (6) ◽  
pp. 392-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Letizia Cesana ◽  
Francesca Giordano ◽  
Diego Boerchi ◽  
Marta Rivolta ◽  
Cristina Castelli
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
External Resources

scholarly journals The effect of preregistration on trust in empirical research findings: results of a registered report

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 181351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarahanne M. Field ◽  
E.-J. Wagenmakers ◽  
Henk A. L. Kiers ◽  
Rink Hoekstra ◽  
Anja F. Ernst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Bayes Factors ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Questionable Research Practices ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Research Initiatives

The crisis of confidence has undermined the trust that researchers place in the findings of their peers. In order to increase trust in research, initiatives such as preregistration have been suggested, which aim to prevent various questionable research practices. As it stands, however, no empirical evidence exists that preregistration does increase perceptions of trust. The picture may be complicated by a researcher's familiarity with the author of the study, regardless of the preregistration status of the research. This registered report presents an empirical assessment of the extent to which preregistration increases the trust of 209 active academics in the reported outcomes, and how familiarity with another researcher influences that trust. Contrary to our expectations, we report ambiguous Bayes factors and conclude that we do not have strong evidence towards answering our research questions. Our findings are presented along with evidence that our manipulations were ineffective for many participants, leading to the exclusion of 68% of complete datasets, and an underpowered design as a consequence. We discuss other limitations and confounds which may explain why the findings of the study deviate from a previously conducted pilot study. We reflect on the benefits of using the registered report submission format in light of our results. The OSF page for this registered report and its pilot can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/B3K75 .

The differential effects of integral pride and gratitude on divergent moral judgment for the self versus others

2021 ◽  
pp. 031289622110626
Author(s):  
Felix Septianto ◽  
Fandy Tjiptono ◽  
Denni Arli ◽  
Jian-Min (James) Sun
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
The Self ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Discrete Emotions ◽  
Moral Hypocrisy ◽  
Team Setting ◽  
Practical Implications

Individuals tend to have divergent moral judgment when judging oneself versus others, which is termed moral hypocrisy. While prior research has examined different factors that might influence moral hypocrisy, there are limited insights on the influences of different, discrete emotions. The present research seeks to address this gap and examines the differential influences of pride and gratitude on moral hypocrisy. Results of a pilot study and three main studies demonstrate that pride (but not gratitude) leads to moral hypocrisy. These effects are replicated across different cases of questionable behaviors and prosocial behaviors in a team setting. More importantly, this research identifies one mechanism that potentially explains this effect—the appraisal of self-other similarity. The findings of this research thus provide empirical evidence that distinct emotions arising from an organizational setting can differentially influence moral hypocrisy and offer practical implications. JEL Classification: C91, D23, D91

Experiences from declarative markup to improve the accessibility of HTML

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Rubano ◽  
Fabio Vitali
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Complex Task ◽  
Rare Occurrence ◽  
Web Content ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
Rules And Principles ◽  
Accessibility Issues ◽  
Automated Tools

Producing accessible content for the Web is a rather complex task. Standards, rules and principles that offer largely useful recommendations for accessible content do indeed exist, but they are not adequately enforced and supported by actual implementations. It is fairly frequent for content authors to produce material that ends up not being accessible without even noticing it, even when using additional tools and services. Yet, most of the existing recommendations for accessible web resources center around the addition of reasonably simple markup with a clear declarative purpose in their design. How therefore is it possible that producing truly accessible content is such a rare occurrence? In this paper, we posit that an important justification of this, in addition to well-known lack of interest and lack of awareness, is the difficulty of evaluating and perceiving the correctness or wrongness of the generated assistive markup by non-disabled content authors and tool designers. Designers have serious difficulties when evaluating the effectiveness and correctness of the accessibility of their works, and existing tools do little or nothing to reduce the "handicap". Under these assumptions, we aim to describe an innovative approach based on declarative markup to improve the design and evaluation the accessibility of web pages. In particular, our strategy encompasses the combined usage of a declarative framework of accessible web components, capable of enforcing best-practices and conformance to accessibility standards, as well as automated tools to test for the accessibility of web content and, in addition, a new approach to manual tools to let developers and content creators examine visually the accessibility issues so that they can make sense of their impact on people with disabilities.

Lay Evaluation of Medicine and Medical Practice: Report of a Pilot Study

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Calnan
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Medical Practitioner ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Way

Sociologists appear to differ in the way they portray the public's ideas about modern medicine. Some argue that the public accepts that modern medicine is effective, and others say that as a whole the public is skeptical about its value. There is a dearth of empirical evidence about what the public thinks of modern medicine; this pilot study attempts to fill this gap. Tape-recorded interviews were carried out with small samples of women from Social Classes I and II and Classes IV and V to find out what they felt about the value of modern medicine and to identify the criteria that they used to assess a “good” and “bad” medical practitioner. The results showed that there is some degree of skepticism about the value of modern medicine, particularly amongst working-class people. However, the criteria for assessing the performance of a medical practitioner were only rarely seen to be tied up with the criteria used to assess the value of modern medicine.

scholarly journals Supporting digital discourse? The deliberative function of links on Twitter

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144482097238
Author(s):  
Julia Jakob
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
Country Comparison ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Qualitative Exploration ◽  
Discussion Spaces

Digital discussion spaces have changed the shape of discursive argumentation considerably. While there is not much explicit reasoning on Twitter, many users link to external resources in their tweets. This study zooms in on the justificatory capacity of those links and investigates their deliberative function on the platform. A qualitative exploration of material from four countries shows that links to external resources support Twitter discourse by regularly substantiating user statements in the context of both information and argumentation. Links with a truth-based informative function are posted to support deliberative truth claims with empirical evidence, thus adding primarily to theoretical discourses. Links with a norm-based argumentative function are shared to legitimate positions against social standards. They contribute to practical discourses about courses of action by sustaining deliberative claims for normative rightness. The country comparison suggests that societal divisions foster a norm-based argumentative rather than truth-based informative use of links on Twitter.

scholarly journals A Pilot Study Investigating the Reasons for Playing Through Pain and Injury: Emerging Themes in Men’s and Women’s Collegiate Rugby

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leilani Madrigal ◽  
Jamie Robbins ◽  
Diane L. Gill ◽  
Katherine Wurst
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Rugby Players

Collegiate rugby is a competitive, collision sport, yet insufficient empirical evidence exists regarding participants’ perspectives on pain and injury. This study addressed male and female rugby players’ experiences with injury, and their views about playing through pain and injury. Eleven rugby players (five male; six female) competing in USA Rugby’s National College 7’s tournament participated in semistructured interviews, which were recorded, transcribed, and content-analyzed. Two major themes emerged: passion for sport and sport ethic. Passion for sport was composed of (a) love of the sport, (b) meaning of the sport, and (c) desire to be on the field. Sport ethic included: (a) helping the team, (b) game time sacrifice, (c) personality, (d) minimize, and (e) accepted behavior. The researchers explain these findings and propose strategies for increasing future athletes’ understanding of the dangers associated with playing through pain, and confronting the currently accepted culture of risk.

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