Integration Of Research Activities Research Articles

The Significance of Organizing Research Activities for Students in Higher Education

This article explores the essence and significance of integrating research activities into the educational process of higher education students. The advantages of incorporating research methods in education are highlighted, including the development of critical thinking, practical skills, and student autonomy. Practical aspects of integrating research activities into the educational process are discussed, along with its impact on shaping an active stance among students during the learning process. The ability to conduct research cultivates students as independent thinkers, stimulates a creative approach to problem-solving, and fosters critical analysis skills. These competencies not only contribute to the successful completion of an educational program but also serve as valuable resources in their future professional careers and personal lives.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF STUDENTS DURING THE LEARNING PROCESS

The research draws on a review of literature from educational psychology, cognitive science, and pedagogy to analyze the cognitive andeducational benefits of research activities. Additionally, the article investigates the influence of modern technological tools, such as online databases, digital libraries, and academic search engines, on students' research practices and outcomes.Furthermore, the study examines the challenges that students encounter when engaging in research activities, including information overload, lack of research skills, and difficulties in synthesizing and analyzing information. It also discusses strategies and best practices for educators to support students in developing effective research skills and integrating research activities into the learning process.The findings highlight the positive correlation between active engagement in research activities and academic performance, demonstrating the importance of incorporating research-based learning into educational curricula. The article concludes with recommendations for educators and institutions to promote a research-oriented learning environment that empowers students to become lifelong learners and critical thinkers

Mutual enhancement or one‐way street: The intended synergy between research and education of Dutch universities of applied sciences

AbstractThe integration of research activities in universities of applied sciences (UASs) has led to the transformation of these universities into organisations with two primary processes: research and education. Although many believe in the benefits of combining research and education in one organisation, which is referred to as synergy in this study, research–education synergies have rarely been empirically investigated, particularly in the UAS context. Thus, this research investigates the intended synergy between the research and education of UASs by conducting a document analysis of their university‐wide strategic policy. The findings show that UASs aim for synergies among people, UAS organisations and outside UAS organisations, with a focus on education‐oriented synergies. This study provides an initial understanding of the strategic aims of UASs considering research–education synergy. The findings provide direction and a framework for future research and form a base for making explicit strategic choices for research–education connections in universities.

Lessons From Implementing a Clinical Research Network in Brazil.

In this article, we discuss the strategy designed by a private oncology group to offer patients access to new technologies and treatments via a recently created research program, and we describe how the patient journey was the motivation for developing standard assistance flows and processes to integrate areas of care. The increase in Brazilians' life expectancy has raised the incidence of cancer, and it is now the second leading cause of death. Because it is a multifactorial disease, cancer treatment has several challenges. We elected to approach cancer research using a strategic program to obtain national attention and visibility. Starting in 2007, the initial project included three phases: phase I, diagnosis of units in major metropolitan areas; phase II, project design, with a central-office operation model; and phase III, implementation, with launch and integration of research activities at selected units. The foundation of the program was the construction of departmental and interdepartmental flows, standard operating processes, and guidelines (regulatory, ethical, legal, and financial). Recruitment of qualified professionals was another critical, successful determinant. The benefits of an additional central office include improved research-project distribution. Another advantage of the program is attracting and retaining trained professionals with alternative direct or indirect sources of revenue. We increased our corporate and academic partnerships, adhered to deadlines and noted an improvement in turnaround times, and we increased clinical staff engagement and motivation. Some barriers continue to challenge the program's continued expansion, including Brazilian regulatory authority approval, tax inefficiency, and a growing demand for qualified professionals. Research sites offering high-quality care are a reality in Brazil; they offer multiple lines of treatment in the public and private sectors.

Toward usable predictive climate information at decadal timescales

Toward usable predictive climate information at decadal timescales

Inovasi Pembelajaran di PTAI (Analisis Kebutuhan Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Research-based Learning)

Being a university that implements research-based education is one of the missions of Islamic Religious Education study program at PTAI East Kalimantan. It will be difficult to realize if students have lack abilities to do research. This study aims to analyze the importance of learning inovations by applying research-based learning and student characteristic of PAI study program by qualitative method. The results showed that implementation of learning in Islamic Religious Education study program at PTAI did not support the improvement of student research abilities, so it needed to be supported through learning innovations that were integrated research activities in the form development and application of research-based learning that was adjusted to the characteristics of the learners were millennial and part-time students.

Embedding clinical trials within routine health-care delivery: Challenges and opportunities.

The COVID‐19 pandemic provides a pertinent reminder of the imperative to generate timely reliable clinical evidence. Delivery of optimal paediatric care is predicated on the availability of comprehensive, high quality, clinical evidence in a relevant population. However, over 80% of current clinical guidelines and bedside decisions are not based on direct high‐level evidence. Integration of research activities into routine clinical care is paramount to address this shortfall. Active engagement of patients, families and hospital administrations is required to reframe integrated clinical trials as a tenet of quality health‐care delivery. Current research funding in health care is 1–2 orders of magnitude below that of other industries. At an institutional level, investment in research should be prioritised with enhanced funding and supportive policies. Thoughtful integration of trials into routine bedside care will enable pragmatic research outcomes, tangible returns on financial investments and improved decision‐making for patients in the medium‐ to long‐term.

Um marégrafo ultrassônico baseado na placa Arduino para investigação do fenômeno das marés

Neste trabalho apresentamos um projeto de construção de um marégrafo baseado num telêmetro ultrassônico controlado por uma placa Arduino Uno. O projeto é de fácil construção e de baixo custo e tem por objetivo viabilizar o estudo do fenômeno das marés oceânicas integrando atividades investigativas com a prática experimental. O fenômeno das marés se mostra uma excelente oportunidade para o estudo da gravitação universal de Isaac Newton e do estudo do movimento orbital do sistema Terra – Lua – Sol, dos quais é um resultado direto. Neste artigo, focalizamos basicamente a montagem experimental e apresentamos alguns resultados preliminares. Reservamos para um próximo artigo sugestões de aplicações em eventos investigativos bem definidos envolvendo o modelo newtoniano para o fenômeno das marés.

Implementing Human Systems Integration in the Department of Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) formally incorporated Human Systems Integration (HSI) in systems and policy development in 2012. Since then, DHS components have been establishing HSI capabilities to meet their unique human needs. This discussion panel will focus on the operational transformation and governance strategy for implementing a successful human systems integration (HSI) program across components within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Members of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), United States Coast Guard (USCG), and Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) will discuss the challenges faced when advocating for HSI, and the best practices developed to better integrate research activities with systems engineering.

Geographical and Cultivar Features Differentiate Grape Microbiota in Northern Italy and Spain Vineyards.

Recent studies have highlighted the role of the grapevine microbiome in addressing a wide panel of features, ranging from the signature of field origin to wine quality. Although the influence of cultivar and vineyard environmental conditions in shaping the grape microbiome have already been ascertained, several aspects related to this topic, deserve to be further investigated. In this study, we selected three international diffused grapevine cultivars (Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, and Sauvignon Blanc) at three germplasm collections characterized by different climatic conditions [Northern Italy (NI), Italian Alps (AI), and Northern Spain (NS)]. The soil and grape microbiome was characterized by 16s rRNA High Throughput Sequencing (HTS), and the obtained results showed that all grape samples shared some bacterial taxa, regardless of sampling locality (e.g., Bacillus, Methylobacterium, Sphingomonas, and other genera belonging to Alphaproteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, and Actinobacteria). However, some Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) could act as geographical signatures and in some cases as cultivar fingerprint. Concerning the origin of the grape microbiome, our study confirms that vineyard soil represents a primary reservoir for grape associated bacteria with almost 60% of genera shared between the soil and grape. At each locality, grapevine cultivars shared a core of bacterial genera belonging to the vineyard soil, as well as from other local biodiversity elements such as arthropods inhabiting or foraging in the vineyard. Finally, a machine learning analysis showed that it was possible to predict the geographical origin and cultivar of grape starting from its microbiome composition with a high accuracy (9 cases out of 12 tested samples). Overall, these findings open new perspectives for the development of more comprehensive and integrated research activities to test which environmental variables have an effective role in shaping the microbiome composition and dynamics of cultivated species over time and space.

Dominance and leadership in research activities: Collaboration between countries of differing human development is reflected through authorship order and designation as corresponding authors in scientific publications.

IntroductionScientific collaboration is an important mechanism that enables the integration of the least developed countries into research activities. In the present study, we use the order of author signatures and addresses for correspondence in scientific publications as variables to analyze the interactions between countries of very high (VHHD), high (HHD), medium (MHD), and low human development (LHD).MethodologyWe identified all documents published between 2011 and 2015 in journals included in the Science Citation Index-Expanded categories’ of Tropical Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, and Pediatrics. We then classified the countries participating in the publications according to their Human Development Index (HDI), analyzing the international collaboration; positioning and influence of some countries over others in cooperative networks; their leadership; and the impact of the work based on the HDI and the type of collaboration.ResultsWe observed a high degree of international collaboration in all the areas analyzed, in the case of both LHD and MHD countries. We identified numerous cooperative links between VHHD countries and MHD/LHD countries, reflecting the fact that cooperative links are an important mechanism for integrating research activities into the latter. The countries with large emerging economies, such as Brazil and China stand out due to the dominance they exert in the collaborations established with the United States, the UK, and other European countries. The analysis of the leadership role of the countries, measured by the frequency of lead authorships, shows limited participation by MHD/LHD countries. This reduced participation among less developed countries is further accentuated by their limited presence in the addresses for correspondence. We observed significant statistical differences in the degree of citation according to the HDI of the participating countries.ConclusionsThe order of signatures and the address for correspondence in scientific publications are bibliographic characteristics that facilitate a precise, in-depth analysis of cooperative practices and their associations with concepts like dominance or leadership. This is useful to monitor the existing balance in research participation in health research publications.

INTEGRATED DESEASE MANAGEMENT FOR CHILI FARMING IN BREBES AND MAGELANG - CENTRAL JAVA: SOCIAL ECONOMIC IMPACTS

<p>This study aims to analyze the impact of an integrated disease management (IDM) on chilli. Chili disease control technologies that include crop barrier with corn and Crotalaria, and compost tea have been introduced to farmers in Magelang and Brebes. A qualitative approach was used to assess and estimate the socio-economic impact of agricultural research. The study was conducted in 2011. The results showed that based on land use chili, the net economic benefits generated was relatively low. There were only a few farmers who have adopted the technology on chili peppers. Furthermore, the survey also illustrates that three years after its introduction in 2007 the technology status at farm level was just at consciousness phase. Learning of this fact, a thorough evaluation of the technology on chili pepper should be done immediately. Research institutions which have developed the technology should encourage bottom-up initiatives and build a shared commitment to complete the implementation of a clear strategic plan. The adoption of the strategic plan should include the integration of research activities with promotional activities for example by revitalizing participatory approaches to awareness of farmers.</p>

Accelerating to Zero: Strategies to Eliminate Malaria in the Peruvian Amazon.

In February 2014, the Malaria Elimination Working Group, in partnership with the Peruvian Ministry of Health (MoH), hosted its first international conference on malaria elimination in Iquitos, Peru. The 2-day meeting gathered 85 malaria experts, including 18 international panelists, 23 stakeholders from different malaria-endemic regions of Peru, and 11 MoH authorities. The main outcome was consensus that implementing a malaria elimination project in the Amazon region is achievable, but would require: 1) a comprehensive strategic plan, 2) the altering of current programmatic guidelines from control toward elimination by including symptomatic as well as asymptomatic individuals for antimalarial therapy and transmission-blocking interventions, and 3) the prioritization of community-based active case detection with proper rapid diagnostic tests to interrupt transmission. Elimination efforts must involve key stakeholders and experts at every level of government and include integrated research activities to evaluate, implement, and tailor sustainable interventions appropriate to the region.

Monitoring and Modeling the Terrestrial System from Pores to Catchments: The Transregional Collaborative Research Center on Patterns in the Soil–Vegetation–Atmosphere System

Abstract Most activities of humankind take place in the transition zone between four compartments of the terrestrial system: the unconfined aquifer, including the unsaturated zone; surface water; vegetation; and atmosphere. The mass, momentum, and heat energy fluxes between these compartments drive their mutual state evolution. Improved understanding of the processes that drive these fluxes is important for climate projections, weather prediction, flood forecasting, water and soil resources management, agriculture, and water quality control. The different transport mechanisms and flow rates within the compartments result in complex patterns on different temporal and spatial scales that make predictions of the terrestrial system challenging for scientists and policy makers. The Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 32 (TR32) was formed in 2007 to integrate monitoring with modeling and data assimilation in order to develop a holistic view of the terrestrial system. TR32 is a long-term research program funded by the German national science foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), in order to focus and integrate research activities of several universities on an emerging scientific topic of high societal relevance. Aiming to bridge the gap between microscale soil pores and catchment-scale atmospheric variables, TR32 unites research groups from the German universities of Aachen, Bonn, and Cologne, and from the environmental and geoscience departments of Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH. Here, we report about recent achievements in monitoring and modeling of the terrestrial system, including the development of new observation techniques for the subsurface, the establishment of cross-scale, multicompartment modeling platforms from the pore to the catchment scale, and their use to investigate the propagation of patterns in the state and structure of the subsurface to the atmospheric boundary layer.

The development of student teachers’ research knowledge, beliefs and attitude

This study reports on the development of second-year student teachers’ knowledge of research, and the changes in their beliefs and attitude regarding research during an introductory course at an institute for primary teacher education. Questionnaires and concept maps were administered before and after the course. The results showed that student teachers’ knowledge about research grew during the introductory course and that their positive beliefs about research became more positive, while their negative beliefs about research decreased. A positive change was found concerning the attractiveness of research to student teachers. Furthermore, student teachers’ self-efficacy regarding research appeared related to their beliefs and attitude: the more the student teachers were convinced of their abilities to conduct and use the results of research after the course, the more positive their beliefs and their attitude regarding research were. This study provides guidelines for institutes for teacher education on integrating research activities into their curricula, so that their student teachers develop research knowledge and positive beliefs and attitudes towards research.

RISET UNGGULAN TERPADU: KAJIAN BIBLIOMETRIKA

This study aims to know the results of integrated featured research (IFR) activities, covering the number of the researches, the scoup of research fields, and the affiliations of research. Moreover, this study is for understanding the scientific researches resulted from the IFR, the fields, the types of the research documents and the authors’ ratio. The source of data was taken from “Tracking Hasil Riset Unggulan Terpadu” (Tracking of the IFR) publication year 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006. The study showed that there are 372 IFR’s titles which covering 14 fields. The most frequently appeared field is thetechnology of agricultural products, i.e. 69 titles (18,55%). The most common affiliation is from university, i.e. 279. The IFR resulted in 2.188 scientific publications, and at most, i.e. 1.301 titles (59,46%) are from the seminar papers and the like, nationally and internationally. The scientific research publications published at most in the year 1999, i.e. 248 titles (11,33%). If they are seen from the author collaboration side then the scientific research written by the collaborating authors are more than those which written by the single author.

Scientific scope of integrating research activities in the Janus Serum Bank and Cancer Registry of Norway

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Web-based-Research as Critical Pedagogy: A Reflection on its Application to Undergraduate Management Education.

In disciplines such as Management, where research capacity is not seen as an obvious workplace skill, it is difficult to get students to engage in research activities. They see them as too difficult and without value. However, research activities in undergraduate Management education are vital as tools for developing key learning attributes such as critical thinking and skills in analysis and argument. Convinced of the high value of integrating research activities into undergraduate Management Education, I took on the challenge to find alternative ways for students to develop their research capacity and engage in actual research. Drawing on reflections on my experience of teaching undergraduate management subjects with research components, in this paper I discuss how Web-based research can promote critical thinking and raise consciousness among management students. This experience included designing strategies to introduce a form of electronic literacy into undergraduate education, to assist students to learn how to use the Web critically for research purposes, while enhancing learning based on conventional resources. In the methodology I propose for researching contemporary issues by collecting and analysing data from the Web I adapt the critical pedagogy of Freire for adult literacy into new forms of literacy involving critical use of the new media of communication.

Integration of Research Activities of Students and the Educational Process in Order to Create an Innovative Environment at the Department of "Chemistry"

The role of involving of students of younger rates in research activity and influence of this process on perfection of educational process is considered in the article. Examples of use of elements of students research activity are resulted by preparation of course works and in the laboratory practical work realized at "Chemistry" department.

Outcomes research in integrative health care clinics: What are the barriers?

Background Integrative health care (IHC) is an interdisciplinary blending of conventional medicine and complementary and alternative medicine with the purpose of enhancing patients’ health. Various models of IHC clinics have been developed and several studies have aimed to evaluate the outcomes of these approaches. However, outcomes assessment in IHC clinics is challenging. The type of outcome measures used to date tend to be disease oriented and do not capture the patient's lived experience, consider self-identified health goals of patients or fully reflect the IHC philosophy of care. The diversity of measures used in IHC outcomes research makes comparisons across studies difficult. To address these issues, a package of patient-centered outcome measures was designed that reflected the holistic and individualized nature of IHC care. We aimed to test the appropriateness and applicability of this package within IHC clinic settings. However, major challenges arose in conducting this study which prompted the team to hypothesize that a lack of research orientation within the clinics was a fundamental barrier impeding the conduct of outcomes research. This issue was significant enough that the team felt it warranted further investigation. A second phase of the study was developed to explore the barriers in conducting outcomes research in IHC clinics and identify strategies for implementation of successful in-house outcomes research programs. Methods Given the exploratory nature of the proposed question, a qualitative descriptive research design was followed. Twenty-five in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with key participants from 19 IHC clinics across Canada. Basic content analysis was used to identify key themes from the transcribed interviews. Results Barriers identified by participants fell into four main categories: organizational culture, organizational resources, organizational environment, and logistical challenges. Strategies for successful implementation of outcomes research activities emerging from participant interviews were: (1) embedding research values within the organizational mandate, (2) creation of a viable research infrastructure, and (3) integrating research activities and clinical workload into a seamless flow. Conclusion Assessing and enhancing the research culture within IHC clinics is an important consideration and initial step which needs to be taken for the implementation of productive and cost-effective research programs.