Data Gathering Techniques Research Articles

Jordan’s Role in A Regional Food Hub

A Regional Food Hub that covers at least Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt is a necessity now more than any other time. This hub will allow the optimized flow of not only food products, but also various inputs, exchange of knowledge, coordination of policies, and joint response to emergencies. The hub will be a much-needed catalyst to further the already progressing regional cooperation, drive investments in larger and bigger projects and infrastructure, spur research and innovation in agricultural and food technologies, encourage private sectors involvement as a result of governments’ support and commitment, create jobs in multiple related venues, and enhance overall economic conditions as a result.
 Jordan has pioneered the concept of this food hub and has a middle position in the region. Jordan has an excellent footprint in many of the agricultural inputs, mainly fertilizers, seeds, and vaccines. Jordan has built a good institutional capacity, data gathering techniques, and has a multitude of regional and international cooperation networks. Thus, Jordan may continue to further drive the concept along with its regional partners. The Regional Food Hub may not happen instantaneously, but it has to start now. The beginning can simply be by a process of stakeholders’ engagement amongst regional partners, that can then develop into further cooperation based on the action plan and active committees that will eventually be crowned by a full-fledged and dedicated institution.

Learning Strategies at SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Taman during the covid-19 Pandemic

The study was intended to learn online and offline learning strategies during the pandemic covid 19 at Smk Muhammadiyah 1 Taman. The study uses a descriptive, qualitative approach. The data-gathering technique used includes interviews and observations. The results of this study suggest that the covert pandemic strategy is conducted online or via other websites or media and offline or students come directly to the school as scheduled by dividing the class. If the student does not get permission, then the school will give out a long-distance learning letter. The way was because Smk Muhammadiyah 1 Taman made it compulsory for all students to attend face-to-face learning. Face-to-face learning in the season covid-19 can be implemented with: learning planning adapted to pandemic conditions; The performance of learning by placing emphasis on the transmission of materials and inlaid health protocols. Face-to-face learning is still normal despite a limited schedule of time according to government regulations.

Public Relations Strategy Analysis Crisis Communications

Crisis communication is the exchange of information between an organization and its constituents during and after the occurrence of a crisis. This research employs a descriptive technique and a qualitative method. Techniques for data gathering include observation, interviewing, and documenting. The aim of this research is to conduct an empirical examination of the execution of strategies and supporting and inhibiting variables in crisis communication in public relations. The findings of this research suggest that a crisis communication plan should be suitable and swift in order to overcome public reaction and avoid a protracted crisis communication. Communication in Times of Crisis Pre-Crisis management is carried out by Public Relations, namely in the preparation (Planning) stage, which includes the establishment of a Public Relations team responsible for providing information, a clean-up and executive summery formation team, and Crisis-Response, namely the manufacturing stage. Press releases, clarifications, establishing stakeholder and media relations, and finally, Post-Crisis, namely the advancement of Public Relations not only to improve the company's image but also to improve performance, press conferences, and dissemination of publications are also implemented to improve things in the short and long term through programs

Assessing the Climate Change Adaptations of Upland Farmers: A Case of La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines

Adaptation to climate change impacts varies from country to country. It is difficult to capture the concept of adaptations because it includes government policies and the behavior of farmers. Undertaking regional and local assessments of adaptations is still informative because it serves as baseline data for government and other institutions in supporting the needs of the farmers to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Thus, the study aims to look at the institutional supports availed and needed by farmers for climate change adaptation and assess their cost, effectiveness, institutional capacity, and acceptability. Personal interview and Focus Group Discussion complemented by various data gathering techniques was done to provide ample description and understanding of the sources, cost, effectiveness, institutional capacity, and acceptability of the climate change adaptations of farmers in La Trinidad, Benguet. Various institutional supports were given to the farmers but not equally and equitably distributed to the farmers. Almost all of the adaptations were effective, the cost and degree of institutional capacity needed are low but highly acceptable to the farmers.

A proficient data gathering technique for unmanned aerial vehicle‐enabled heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

SummaryUnmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)‐enabled wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have evolved as the significant paradigms to communicate the information among the devices in today's scenario instantly. These technologies support for developing smart crop spraying, smart infrastructure, aerial photography and videography, emergency services, etc. in providing smart solutions. Therefore, there is a dire need to develop an energy‐efficient solution for data gathering through UAVs. In this paper, an optimum weighted probability function is proposed by considering residual node energy, node spacing, and average energy of networks. This function helps in optimizing the clustering process for three‐tier heterogeneity by minimizing the energy of the proposed network. The proposed methods achieve 29.45% and 52.48% increment in the network lifespan as compared to the existing algorithm. The reason for such a gigantic enhancement in the network lifespan is the selection of the highest capable node as a cluster head using the proposed function.

Emergency Remote Education, Family Support and the Digital Divide in the Context of the COVID-19 Lockdown.

To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, governments all over the world implemented strong lockdown measures to a large part of the population, including the closing of educational centres. Teachers were urged to transform their teaching methodology, moving from a face-to-face model to an emergency remote education (ERE) model, characterised by the use of technologies to continue with lectures and maintain the physical distance with the students. The aim of the present study was to analyse the existence of socio-digital inequalities and the educational challenges posed by the development of an ERE model, hence, contributing to the literature by proposing a systematic and holistic approach on this phenomenon. Based on the characteristics of the research problem and the objectives set, a qualitative methodology was applied. On the one hand, a semi-structured interview was conducted with 136 active teachers as the main data gathering technique. On the other hand, grounded theory was key in interpreting the results, with the aim of generating the theory in a systematic and holistic manner. It can be asserted that ERE was very useful during the lockdown of schools, and its potential to transform education was demonstrated. However, it was also shown that the development of an ERE model can cause socio-digital inequalities among students, due to the lack of access to digital devices and Internet connection, mainly due to factors, such as the socio-educational level of the family and the rural or urban context of the centre.

STRATEGI HARGA JUAL PRODUK KULINER MAKANAN PADA USAHA BAKSO PAKNO DI KOTA KENDARI

One of the business world today which in great demand is from the restaurant business. Many businesses are trying to explore the restaurant business led to an increasing number of restaurant that also increasing competition among restaurants become extremely high, especially in Kendari City. In running the business as well as to be able to survive inte competitive world of business today, every business owner should be able to take the right decisions as the application of marketing strategy and in determining the price of selling. The purpose of this study was to determine how the selling price determination done by the pakno meatball restaurant,as well as to determine how the selling price determination on the theory of cost plus pricing method, and then compare the result of selling price determination done by the pakno meatball restaurant with the selling price determination based on the theory of cost plus pricing method.This research was a case study and in data gathering techniques used observation and interview methods. The result showed a different to the selling price which currently apply to the selling price is calculated by using the method of cost plus pricing. In which the given selling price of the Pakno Meatball restaurant is lower than the selling price that is calculate based on cost plus pricing method. So, setting the selling price should be done precisely because the price is too hight will make the product less competitive, while the sale price too low will lead to losses for the business.

Online English Comics as Reading Materials for English Language Education Department Students

<p style="text-align:justify">Online English comic is one of reading material that can be used by students. Students should be triggered by interesting and understandable reading material to increase their reading motivation and English proficiency. The objective of this study is to discuss the benefits of online English comics as reading materials and to discover the applications and websites that are usually used by students to read online English comics. This study applied the descriptive qualitative study supported by interviews as a data-gathering technique. The results of this study showed the benefits of online English comics as reading materials. Those are adding language knowledge such as vocabulary and grammar, enhancing reading comprehension, building critical thinking, increasing creativity, and developing reading motivation. The second finding is about the applications and websites to read English comics that students prefer to read. There are some applications and websites that are usually used by students to read English comics. The applications are Webtoon and Ciayo Comic, and also the websites include Mangakakalot.com, Mangareaderapp.com, Mangazuki.info, and Mangapanda.com.</p>

Study Habits and Their Effects with the Academic Performance of Bachelor of Science in Radiologic Technology Students

This study aimed at investigating the effects of students' study habits on their academic performance in professional and general education subjects. To attain this aim, the researcher used a sample of thirty-two (32) students from the Bachelor of Science in Radiologic Technology program under the College of Allied Medical Sciences for the academic year 2019–2020 of a university in Bulacan. The researcher used the descriptive-correlational method of research, which utilized a standardized questionnaire as the primary data gathering technique. Results of the regression analysis indicate that all eight (8) variables of study habits are correlated with academic performance (professional subjects and general education subjects) of the students to a varying extent, as shown by the non-zero B coefficients. The results of the analysis of variance of the regression of study habits on the academic performance of the students revealed an F ratio of 0.939 and 0.900 with an associate probability equal to 0.505 and 0.533, respectively. Since the p-values are greater than alpha, the null hypothesis (Ho) cannot be rejected. It may be safely concluded that the study habits of the students did not produce significant combined effects on the academic performance of the students. Conclusions were drawn, and recommendations were offered.

STRATEGI PEMERINTAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT SEBAGAI UPAYA PENGEMBANGAN PARIWISATA PANTAI MALAGA

The study was set back by a lack of participation in the development of tourism in the cities of gunungsitoli, especially those around the coast of Malaga. The study aims to learn how the gunungsitoli government's strategy in boostering community participation as an effort in developing Malaga beach tourism. The development of tourism is one of the duties and responsibilities of the government of the youth and sports tourism service. The study employs descriptive methods with a qualitative approach. The research was developed with dimensions of planning, implementation and evaluation. The research subject used in the study is the government of the youth tourism service and gunungsitoli city sports administration, the owners of Malaga beach tourism, the local community and visitors to Malaga beach attractions. The identification of the subject is using a nonsampling technique with an observsive sampling. The data-gathering techniques used were interviews, observations and documents. Based on research obtained, the government's strategy to increase community participation is the creation of a plan for development of regional tourism that involves people getting input, whether by direct or indirect socialization, and creating tools and infrastructure to optimize

Konaklama İşletmelerinde Akıllı Turizm Teknolojilerinin Kurumsal Kabulü(Organizational Adoption of Smart Tourism Technologies in Accommodation Enterprises)

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to contribute to the relevant knowledge accumulation by revealing the factors that affect the organizational adoption of smart tourism technologies in accommodation enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – Structured interviews were carried out, which is one of the mostly used qualitative data gathering techniques. Primary data were collected through either face-to-face interviews or e-mails held in May-June 2020 with nine managers of accommodation enterprises operating in Antalya and Cappadocia Region which offer different tourism products to different tourist profiles. The data were subjected to inductive content analysis, participants’ responses were tabulated, and direct quotations were included for each interview question. Findings – As the data analysis reveals, the perceived benefit, compatibility, top management support, firm size, technology competence, customer needs and competitive pressure factors positively affect the organizational adoption of smart tourism technologies in the accommodation enterprises while the complexity factor affects negatively. Moreover, it was stated that the legal regulations as being environmental factor had also positive implications. Discussion – Although there are studies on the organizational adoption of new technologies in the tourism sector (Wang & Qualls, 2007; Fux & Myrach, 2009; Ozturk et al., 2012; Leung et al., 2015; Nurhadi & Purnomo, 2018), no study available on organizational adoption of smart tourism technologies in accommodation enterprises. The compatibility, firm size, technology competence, customer needs and competitive pressure factors affect positively the organizational adoption of smart tourism technologies in accommodation enterprises. These results are supported by the studies of Ozturk et al. (2012), Wang et al. (2016), Lin (2017), and Yan Xin et al. (2014). In line with these findings, suggestions were made to the academia, practitioners and future studies.

Ideologi Pengarang pada Novel Mangalua Karya Idris Pasaribu

ideology on the novel Mangalua by Idris Pasaribu. The study uses qualitative descriptive methods with literary sociology. The data-gathering technique involves document and interview analysis while data analysis employs hermeneutical qualitative methods. Research has shown that it is based on cultural, historical, and socialism. From the author's biographical analysis, the maternal Idris Pasaribu has distinctive status and distinctive status. From intrinsic elements lies the theme of the Toba people's struggle for unity of groups and territory. It is this theme that maintains the intertwining of events by involving the main character, the subordinate character, the plot, and the commission. While the analysis of authors' ideologies based on the author's social ideology and the cultural background of the author is that belief, culture, the work that pervcts the author's life has contributed to the novel. Thus the stories of love, struggle, pride, culture, religion, political history were woven together in a way wrapped up in fiction reflected in the Mangalua novel by Idris Pasaribu.

The Public and the Private on the Construction of a Celebrity: The Case of Émile Zola

In this article, it is intended to reflect about the concept of celebrity, mainly in the end of the XIX century, departing from Émile Zola. In this context, the main goals are both the understanding of the construction of the concept “celebrity”, and how and if it may fit to a literary figure as Zola as a public person, based on the analysis of a specific medium, the letter, as a means of communication situated between the public and private spheres. We propose to analyse a corpus of letters, available on the Eman platform, sent from the Ibero-American area to Zola at the end of the 19th century. This corpus does not constitute a uniform object of analysis, given the diversity of letter writers who take the liberty of writing to Zola during this period when the novelist and his work are already well known and had been the target of numerous polemics on art and literature in the decade preceding the writing of these texts. From a theoretical point of view, we place ourselves in the perspective of studies concerning the history and culture of celebrity, as well as studies concerning comparative literature. In the light of these achievements, we will seek to study this corpus as an expression of an audience that reflects the image of Zola as a public figure and, at the same time, achieves a literary and cultural self-reflection. The methodologies used will be a qualitative analysis applied to the content of the letters, in order to show that, although correspondence have traditionally been allocated a secondary status, in fact the correspondence method, as a primary data-gathering technique, may present unique advantages circumventing the embarrassment that participants may face otherwise.

Ideological Cleavage under Open-list Proportional Representation: Parties’ Position toward the 2019 Indonesian Presidential Threshold

This article examines the ideological position of Indonesia’s political parties in addressing the 2019 presidential threshold under the open-list proportional representation system. The article aims to determine the political cleavage among Indonesian political parties, whether classified into the ideological spectrum or the organisational degree. From a methodological standpoint, it is qualitative research by employing in-depth interviews and online news collection as a data gathering technique. The study’s finding depicts that the ideological cleavage is no longer relevant under the open-list proportional representation system because political parties eventually have pragmatical orientations rather than ideological onsiderations. It can be proven that the position of nationalist secular parties is not merely in the approval side but also in the denial and dilemma sides. Likewise, the position of nationalist Islamist parties can be found on two sides: denial and dilemma. This finding verifies that Indonesia’s ideological contestation is waning and inactive when political parties cope with power issues. On the contrary, the ideology is revived when it deals with religious and tribal affairs.

Students’ Perceptions on the Effect of Text Length on their Vocabulary Success

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of text lengths on students’ vocabulary and to reveal students’ opinions about their vocabulary development considering text lengths. This study used exploratory sequential mixed method pattern, which combines quantitative and qualitative data gathering techniques and combines research results. The study group constitutes 7th grade students studying at a secondary school in Turkey. Within the scope of the research, “Vocabulary Success Test (VST)” was used as quantitative data gathering tool, and “Structured Feedback Form (SFF)” was used as qualitative data tool. In the quantitative analysis of the research data, considering the structure of the data, t-tests were used in dependent and independent groups using SPSS-PASW Statistics 18. Descriptive analysis technique was used in the qualitative analysis of the research data. According to the results of this research, a statistically significant difference was found between the success scores of the short texts pretests and post-tests of the experimental group; it is concluded that there is no significant difference in long texts. The students in the research group stated that the short and concise texts in the course books increased their motivation towards the course.

ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC BEHAVIOR IN THE FACE OF THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC (COVID-19) IN THE VILLAGE OF PALUR DISTRICT OF MOJOLABAN SUKOHARJO DISTRICT

The study aims to learn: (1) the behavior of palur village people in the face of the pandemic. (2) government policy understanding of social distension. (3) the impact of a pandemic in palur village of mojolaban district sukoharjo district district district.The methods used in this study are qualitative disticized, depicting or enhancing and learning about people's behavior in dealing with the corona virus pandemic (covid-19) in palur village, government policies on social distension and knowing the effects of the corona virus (covid-19) in palur village. The data-gathering technique used is through direct field observations, interviews and documenting. The data analysis techniques used are descriptive data analysis and chart data.The results of the study are: (1) citizens are more accustomed to clean and healthy living, implementing health protocols in accordance with government requirements. (2) palur villagers are aware of the social censorship and prevention efforts in dealing with pandemics in accordance with government appeals, but there are still a few places where crowds are. (3) the impact of inequality on people is social, economic and health.

An Efficient Agent Based Data Management Method of NoSQL Environments for Health Care Applications.

Background: As medical knowledge is continuously expanding and diversely located, Health Information Technology (HIT) applications are proposed as a good prospect for improving not only the efficiency and the effectiveness but also the quality of healthcare services delivery. The technologies expected to shape such innovative HIT architectures include: Mobile agents (Mas) and NoSQL technologies. Mobile agents provide an inherent way of tackling distributed problems of accessing heterogeneous and spatially diverse data sources. NoSQL technology gains ground for the development of scalable applications with non-static and open data schema from complex and diverse sources. Methods and Design: This paper conducts a twofold study: It attempts a literature review of the applications based on the mobile agent (MA) and NoSQL technologies for healthcare support services. Subsequently, a pilot system evaluates the NoSQL technology against the relational one within a distributed environment based on mobile agents for information retrieval. Its objective is to study the feasibility of developing systems that will employ ontological data representation and task implementation through mobile agents towards flexible and transparent health data monitoring. Results and Discussion: The articles studied focus on applying mobile agents for patient support and healthcare services provision thus as to make a positive contribution to the treatment of chronic diseases. In addition, attention is put on the design of platform neutral techniques for clinical data gathering and dissemination over NoSQL. The experimental environment was based on the Apache Jena Fuseki NoSQL server and the JAVA Agent DEvelopment Framework -JADE agent platform. The results reveal that the NoSQL implementation outperforms the standard relational one.

Variational Bayesian probabilistic modeling framework for data-driven distributed process monitoring

Data-driven process monitoring has gained increasing attention because of the increasing demand in process safety and the rapid advancement of data gathering techniques. When monitoring a plant-wide multiunit process, establishing a monitor for each unit individually ignores the correlations among units, whereas establishing a global monitor for the entire process ignores the local process behavior. A variational Bayesian-based probabilistic modeling approach is proposed for efficient distributed process monitoring. A novel probabilistic latent variable model is developed to characterize the variable relationship in each local unit and among units. First, variational Bayesian-based latent variable extraction is performed in each local unit, through which variable relationship within a local unit is characterized. Second, variational Bayesian-based regression model is established between the latent variables and neighboring variables, through which the variable relationship among units is characterized. Then, modeling residuals and monitoring statistics are generated, through which the process status and the type of a detected fault are identified. The effectiveness of the proposed probabilistic modeling and monitoring method is verified by three case studies, including a numerical example, the Tennessee Eastman benchmark process, and a laboratory distillation process.

WHAT HAS CHANGED IN THE WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY TEACHING IN TURKEY: A SYLLABUS-BASED ASSESSMENT

During the Republican period in Turkey, various arrangements were made regarding the world regional geography syllabi. In this context, with the curriculum of 2005, which forms the overall structure of the geography curriculum in today's secondary education, the understanding of world regional geography has greatly changed. This study is descriptive as well as qualitative data model and document analysis in terms of data gathering techniques. The main objective of the study is to explain the historical development process of countries' geography teaching in the secondary education in Turkey and to set forth the current state of the countries' geography teaching. The study revealed that the current teaching of countries' geography in secondary education has been renewed. In this context, it is revealed that the manner with which the topics related to countries' geography were delivered was aiming to analyse the geographic information, and to achieve progress in an innovative sense.
 
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The Evaluation of Online Learning in Micro Teaching Course in Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty IAIN Bukittinggi

This research is based on the existence of Covid 19 Outbreak, which forced face-to-face learning process changes into online. The change of lecture model from offline to online demands the mastery of technology. The evaluation model of online learning in micro teaching courses used Kirkpatrick evaluation model, which use four evaluation steps; reaction, learning, behavior, and result. The limitation of research problem was evaluation of online learning program in micro teaching course. The formulation of problem was how big the degree of additional and change of students’ knowledge after following online learning in micro teaching course. The aims of research was how big the degree of online learning in micro teaching course. The kind of research was evaluation research used Kirkpatrick evaluation model by using 4 evaluation steps; reaction, learning, behavior and result. The population was students who take micro teaching courses total of 575. Sampling techniques was accidental sampling, 450 people. The technique of data gathering used questionnaire by analyzing data using quantitative non-statistical analysis. The result of research are (1) 40,56 % students mentioned they were satisfied to the implementation of online micro teaching, (2) 32,1 % students stated there is increasing of the additional of knowledge, skill and change of students’ attitude after following micro teaching. (3) 49,33% students tell there is quite increasing on the change of students’ behavior after returning to their circle, and (4) 40,65 % impact on the change of work behavior to students’ work productivity after following online micro teaching.