First Stage Of Survey Research Articles

Metodología para el diagnóstico de cuencas hídricas. El caso de la región La Plata, Argentina

Este trabajo tiene por finalidad desarrollar una metodología de diagnóstico para abordar desde una visión holística la problemática de las inundaciones. Se toman como caso de estudio las cuencas hídricas en la Región del Gran La Plata. La metodología se compone de dos momentos: un primer momento de relevamiento y análisis de todas las cuencas de la región, y un segundo momento de diagnóstico para identificar conflictos y potencialidades. A partir de reconocer la complejidad del territorio y la multidimensionalidad del problema, se construye una matriz de análisis para determinar el grado de vulnerabilidad del sistema de cuencas hídricas. Se construye así una metodología posible de ser replicable en otras regiones con riesgo de inundaciones, con el fin de prevenir y mitigar su impacto.

The Evaluation and Improvement of Performance for Precise Poverty Alleviation in Hainan Province

Precise poverty alleviation is the strategic deployment of the new stage of the party and national anti-poverty development in the new period, and the poverty alleviation performance in poverty-stricken areas of Hainan province is related to the impoverished city counties and the whole province. Firstly, this study classified and commented on the current situation of research from the aspects of anti-poverty, performance appraisal index and method, index and method of poverty alleviation performance appraisal. And on this basis, the relevant concepts of this study are defined. The data of the first stage of survey is to describe the corresponding conclusions. SPSS 21.0 statistical software establishes the factor analysis model to extract the main factor of the original data and then calculate the weights by factor load and variance contribution rate and measures the precision poverty alleviation performance score of each typical impoverished village. In order to compensate for the single factor analysis model angle and explore whether there is a club effect between the typical impoverished villages, this study also introduces clustering algorithm for the precision poverty alleviation performance of 10 typical poor villages and obtains empirical results. Based on the field survey and empirical results, this study proposes the improvement of poverty alleviation performance, from the improvement of rural poverty management ability, the formulation of targeted pro-poor policies and the formation of diversified poverty network management system three aspects to improve the precision of poverty alleviation.

Delphi Survey on the Use of Robot Projector based Augmented Reality in Dramatic Activity for Young Children

The purpose of this study is to examine the appropriateness and effectiveness of the assistive use of robot projector based augmented reality (AR) to children’s dramatic activity. A system that employ a mobile robot mounted with a projector-camera is used to help manage children’s dramatic activity by projecting backdrops and creating a synthetic video imagery, where e.g. children’s faces is replaced with graphic characters. In this Delphi based study, a panel consist of 33 professionals include 11children education experts (college professors majoring in early childhood education), children field educators (kindergarten teachers and principals), and 11 AR and robot technology experts. The experts view the excerpts from the video taken from the actual usage situation. In the first stage of survey, we collect the panel's perspectives on applying the latest new technologies for instructing dramatic activity to children using an open ended questionnaire. Based on the results of the preliminary survey, the subsequent questionnaires (with 5 point Likert scales) are developed for the second and third in-depth surveys. In the second survey, 36 questions is categorized into 5 areas: (1) developmental and educational values, (2) impact on the teacher's role, (3) applicability and special considerations in the kindergarten, (4) external environment and required support, and (5) criteria for the selection of the story in the drama activity. The third survey mainly investigate how AR or robots can be of use in children’s dramatic activity in other ways (than as originally given) and to other educational domains. The surveys show that experts most appreciated the use of AR and robot for positive educational and developmental effects due to the children’s keen interests and in turn enhanced immersion into the dramatic activity. Consequently, the experts recommended that proper stories, scenes and technological realizations need to be selected carefully, in the light of children’s development, while lever aging on strengths of the technologies used.

DMP IV: 2008 fieldwork on historic settlement in the Wadi ash-Shati and the Dawada lake villages

AbstractThe second season of fieldwork on the historic settlement in the Wadi ash-Shati and the Dawada lake villages was undertaken in January 2008, completing the first stage of survey began during the Desert Migration Project 2007. The fieldwork combined geomorphological observations with the recording of historic settlement to understand how hydrology has influenced human management of the wadi in the past. A number of major Garamantian sites were located in the western Zallaf, in Wadi Dabdab and near the modern settlement of Birgin. Visits were also made to sites of pre-Garamantian and Islamic date, and a preliminary survey of the Dawada village of Gabr’Awn completed. While many of the sites recorded in the Wadi ash-Shati are extremely well-preserved, a number of sites appear threatened, while others have already been extensively damaged.