scholarly journals Overcoming Data Scarcity in Earth Science

Data ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Angela Gorgoglione ◽  
Alberto Castro ◽  
Christian Chreties ◽  
Lorena Etcheverry
Keyword(s):  
System Performance ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
The Body ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Data Scarcity ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Wide Range

The Data Scarcity problem is repeatedly encountered in environmental research. This may induce an inadequate representation of the response’s complexity in any environmental system to any input/change (natural and human-induced). In such a case, before getting engaged with new expensive studies to gather and analyze additional data, it is reasonable first to understand what enhancement in estimates of system performance would result if all the available data could be well exploited. The purpose of this Special Issue, “Overcoming Data Scarcity in Earth Science” in the Data journal, is to draw attention to the body of knowledge that leads at improving the capacity of exploiting the available data to better represent, understand, predict, and manage the behavior of environmental systems at meaningful space-time scales. This Special Issue contains six publications (three research articles, one review, and two data descriptors) covering a wide range of environmental fields: geophysics, meteorology/climatology, ecology, water quality, and hydrology.

Institutionalization of Business Intelligence for the Decision-Making Iteration

2021 ◽  
pp. 267-287
Author(s):  
Shaheb Ali ◽  
Rafiqul Islam ◽  
Ferdausur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Management Capability

Business intelligence (BI) institutionalization has become a growing research area within the information systems (IS) discipline because of the decision-making iteration in businesses. Studies on BI application in improving decision support are not new. However, research on BI institutionalization seems sparse. BI institutionalization may positively contribute to a managerial role in using BI application repetitively for the decision-making iteration in businesses. This article aims to carry out an integrative literature review and report consolidated views of the body of knowledge. The study adopted a qualitative content analysis to generate themes about BI routinization in the decision-making iteration. Eighty-eight research articles were selected for the study. However, 57 articles were finally included for review. The findings suggest information management capability as the key necessity for BI application and its alignment with the organizational standard for BI institutionalization.

Institutionalization of Business Intelligence for the Decision-Making Iteration

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-118
Author(s):  
Shaheb Ali ◽  
Rafiqul Islam ◽  
Ferdausur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Managerial Role ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Management Capability

Business intelligence (BI) institutionalization has become a growing research area within the information systems (IS) discipline because of the decision-making iteration in businesses. Studies on BI application in improving decision support are not new. However, research on BI institutionalization seems sparse. BI institutionalization may positively contribute to a managerial role in using BI application repetitively for the decision-making iteration in businesses. This article aims to carry out an integrative literature review and report consolidated views of the body of knowledge. The study adopted a qualitative content analysis to generate themes about BI routinization in the decision-making iteration. Eighty-eight research articles were selected for the study. However, 57 articles were finally included for review. The findings suggest information management capability as the key necessity for BI application and its alignment with the organizational standard for BI institutionalization.

Socio-pedagogical knowledge expertise across the social care sectors in Northern Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Irena Dychawy Rosner
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
The Body ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Cooperative Process

A major challenge in contemporary welfare societies is the delivery of services affirming people’s expectations for their life standard, health and social care services. For decades, there has been a search to understand new ways of conceptualising social pedagogy as a field of practice, as a theory, and as a programme design and implementation. Despite the growing body of literature on social pedagogy, to date, little has been written on the subject of the unique complexities of social pedagogy knowledge expertise when bridging the supporting relationships between an individual and the social dimensions in his/her world. Based on research conducted in Northern Europe, particularly focusing on Denmark and Sweden, the aim of this special issue of International Journal of Papers of Social Pedagogy (PSP) on Contemporary Issues in Social Pedagogy in Northern Europe is to convey the central importance of social pedagogy for the study of vitality and diversity behind social pedagogy thought. The presented research projects in this special issue are, in their foundation, associated with a constructivist approach that views the body of knowledge development as an active and cooperative process of knowledge construction and its application in social pedagogy discipline. This article intends to provide a general perspective concerning the presence of various knowledge forms according to the search for, and implementation of, thinking and acting in a social pedagogy inspired way, and working under various conditions.

Special Issue on Dynamically and Biologically Inspired Legged Locomotion

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-455
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Kinugasa ◽  
◽  
Koh Hosoda ◽  
Masatsugu Iribe ◽  
Fumihiko Asano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Design Method ◽  
Joint Stiffness ◽  
Legged Locomotion ◽  
The Body ◽  
Biological Characteristics ◽  
Dynamic Walking ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Biologically Inspired ◽  
Passive Dynamic Walking ◽  
Wide Range

Legged locomotion, including walking, running, turning, and jumping, strongly depends on the dynamics and biological characteristics of the body involved. Gait patterns and energy efficiency, for example, are known to be greatly affected by not only travel velocity and ground contact conditions but also by body configuration, such as joint stiffness and coordination, as well as foot sole shape. To understand legged locomotion principles, we must clarify how the body’s dynamic and biological characteristics affect locomotion. Effort must also be made to incorporate these characteristics inventively to improve locomotion performance, such as robustness, adaptability, and efficiency, which further refine the legged locomotion. This special issue on “Dynamically and Biologically Inspired Legged Locomotion,” studies on legged locomotion based on dynamic and biological characteristics, covers a wide range of themes, such as a rimless wheel, a design method for a biped based on passive dynamic walking, the analysis of biped locomotion based on passive dynamic walking and dynamically inspired walking, an analysis of gait generation for a triped robot, and quadruped locomotion with a flexible trunk. Since there are interesting papers on legged robots with different numbers of legs, we basically organized the papers based on the number of legs. Studies on “Dynamically and Biologically Inspired Legged Locomotion” are expected to not only realize and improve legged locomotion as engineering, but also to reveal the locomotion mechanism of various creatures as science.

Growth and Change in the Journal of Human Lactation: A Content Analysis 1985–2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-773 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan T. Bamberger ◽  
Aimee R. Eden ◽  
Kathleen A. Marinelli ◽  
Paola A. Gonzalez ◽  
Sara Tinsley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Support Providers ◽  
Frequency Distributions ◽  
International Scope ◽  
Human Lactation ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Growth And Change

Background: A professional association journal should reflect the needs of its organization, its readers, and the field it represents. Evaluating the needs that the Journal of Human Lactation has met, and those it has not, is essential if it is to remain relevant to its readers. Aims: (1) Describe the characteristics of articles published from 1985 through 2018. (2) Describe content intended to educate lactation support providers and clinicians. (3) Explore the ways the content has illustrated the growth and development of lactation knowledge, and (4) identify the reoccurring content threads consistent throughout the 34 years. Methods: A prospective mixed methods approach incorporating a quantitative content analysis and a qualitative thematic analysis was used. Frequency distributions were done on all the variables extracted from published articles ( N = 1586). The second level of analysis identified themes using an iterative and consensus approach. Results: Mirroring the growth in the lactation field, the volume of research articles published each year has increased along with the percent of research articles per issue. Research methods have become more diverse. The international scope and relevance, while always present, has been steadily increasing. Threads identified were; striving for international scope, advancing lactation education, developing a body of knowledge that informs clinical practice in lactation, and creating a centralized place for multidisciplinary research about lactation. Conclusion: The body of work published in the Journal of Human Lactation parallels the development of the lactation specialty. We have highlighted areas for improvement and possible further study.

scholarly journals Re-Education: What Can Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Movement Education Teach Kinesiology?

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
David I. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Movement Education ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Coaching Training ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

The goal of this special issue of Kinesiology Review is to expose kinesiology to a body of knowledge that is unfamiliar to most in the field. That body of knowledge is broad, deep, rich, and enduring. In addition, it brings with it a skill set that could be extremely helpful to professional practice, whether in teaching, coaching, training, health work, or rehabilitation. The body of knowledge and skills comes from a loosely defined field of study I have referred to as “complementary and alternative approaches to movement education” (CAAME). The field of CAAME is as diverse as the field of kinesiology. This introductory article focuses on what the field of CAAME has to teach kinesiology and what the field could learn from kinesiology. The overarching aim of the special issue is to foster dialogue and collaboration between students and scholars of kinesiology and practitioners of CAAME.

scholarly journals APLINKOSAUGINIŲ TYRIMŲ APŽVALGA

2004 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 153-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunday Ayoola Oke
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Marine Engineering ◽  
High Level

Environmental research has recently attracted much attention in the scientific and engineering communities. The resounding theme in the literature is an emphasis on achieving a globally friendly environment while the environment is preserved and its quality improved upon. Attaining a high level of health status has also been the primary concern of its stakeholders. New technologies are continuing to emerge, thereby stimulating mutual research interaction among the scientific and technical communities on all the six continents. The inter‐disciplinary problems posed by natural and human‐induced changes in the earth's environment has therefore been the concern of many investigators in ecology, geography, civil engineering, marine engineering, biology, chemistry, earth science and physics, among others. Yet, there is a gap in the body of knowledge on environmental research. The popular and scholarly literature is deficient in studies that reflect the past, present and future trends of research in the field. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the field. The review covers general surveys, models, empirical studies and cases of original research in the field. Studies considered are those that have contributed significantly to knowledge. The review raises a new challenge and predicts growth areas in the next several decades.

scholarly journals Potential Instruments That the ECB Could Take in Order to Face the Euro Zone Crisis

Equilibrium ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myriam J. Maier
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
The Body ◽  
Substantial Portion ◽  
Euro Zone ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Wide Range

The Euro Zone crisis involves a wide range of situations in which economies, financial institutions and assets have lost a substantial portion of their value. The economic impact of the crisis has propelled economies to devise more aggressive strategies to face the crisis as discussed in the context of this review which adds to the body of knowledge available for economists to face future crises.

scholarly journals Cloud Computing Application in Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1201-1204
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Body ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Cloud Computing Adoption ◽  
Research Findings

The aim of the study is doing the classification of research articles on Cloud computing adoption in education sector through meta-analysis based on number of articles in different geographical location, year of publication, types of methodology, frameworks used and research area covered in last 9 years. In total 143 research articles from 27 peer-reviewed journals from the year 2010 to 2018 were used for meta-analysis. The research findings from the meta-analysis show there is a very little study in the area of cloud computing application in education. The study contributes to the body of knowledge by identifying a classification method for research methodology types, geographical area, articles published in last nine years, types of research framework and research area through meta-analysis.

scholarly journals Current Insights into Potential Effects of Micro-Nanoplastics on Human Health by in-vitro Tests

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Llorca ◽  
Marinella Farré
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
In Vitro Tests ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Chemical Additives ◽  
Toxicological Effects ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Exposure Routes

Humans are exposed to micro and nanoplastics (MNPLs) through inhalation, ingestion and, to a lesser extent, dermal contact. In recent years, new insights indicate the potential of MNPLs to cause damages to human health. Particle toxicity can include oxidative stress, inflammatory lesions, and then increased internalization or translocation through tissues. On the other hand, plastic additives are used in plastic particles, once internalized, can release toxic substances. It is noteworthy that the potential effects of MNPLs encompass a wide range of polymers and chemical additives, showing various physicochemical and toxicological properties, and the size, shape and surface properties are other variables influencing their effects. In spite of the research carried out recently, MNPLs research is in its early stages, and further investigation is required. In this review article, the knowledge of human exposure routes and the recent results on the toxicological effects of MNPLs in human health are presented and discussed. Finally, the current limitations and the main gaps in the body of knowledge are summarised.

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