Method Of Gathering Information Research Articles

Development of SPIES (Space Intelligent Eyeing System) for smart vehicle tracing and tracking

SPIES or Space-based Intelligent Eyeing System is an intelligent technology which can be utilized for various applications such as gathering spatial information of features on Earth, tracking system for the movement of an object, tracing system to trace the history information, monitoring driving behavior, security and alarm system as an observer in real time and many more. SPIES as will be developed and supplied modularly will encourage the usage based on needs and affordability of users. SPIES are a complete system with camera, GSM, GPS/GNSS and G-Sensor modules with intelligent function and capabilities. Mainly the camera is used to capture pictures and video and sometimes with audio of an event. Its usage is not limited to normal use for nostalgic purpose but can be used as a reference for security and material of evidence when an undesirable event such as crime occurs. When integrated with space based technology of the Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS), photos and videos can be recorded together with positioning information. A product of the integration of these technologies when integrated with Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) and Geographic Information System (GIS) will produce innovation in the form of information gathering methods in still picture or video with positioning information that can be conveyed in real time via the web to display location on the map hence creating an intelligent eyeing system based on space technology. The importance of providing global positioning information is a challenge but overcome by SPIES even in areas without GNSS signal reception for the purpose of continuous tracking and tracing capability

Do Patients Look Up Their Therapists Online? An Exploratory Study Among Patients in Psychotherapy.

Background The use of the Internet as a source of health information is growing among people who experience mental health difficulties. The increase in Internet use has led to questions about online information-seeking behaviors, for example, how psychotherapists and patients use the Internet to ascertain information about each other. The notion of psychotherapists seeking information about their patients online (patient-targeted googling, PTG) has been identified and explored. However, the idea of patients searching for information online about their psychotherapists (therapist-targeted googling, TTG) and the associated motives and effects on the therapeutic relationship remain unclear. Objective This study investigated former and current German-speaking psychotherapy patients’ behavior and attitudes relating to TTG. In addition, patients’ methods of information gathering, motives, and success in searching for information were examined. Furthermore, patients’ experiences and perceptions of PTG were explored. Methods Overall, 238 former and current psychotherapy patients responded to a new questionnaire specifically designed to assess the frequency, motives, use, and outcomes of TTG as well as experiences and perceptions of PTG. The study sample was a nonrepresentative convenience sample recruited online via several German-speaking therapy platforms and self-help forums.Results Of the 238 former and current patients who responded, 106 (44.5%) had obtained information about their therapists; most of them (n=85, 80.2%) had used the Internet for this. Besides curiosity, motives behind information searches included the desire to get to know the therapist better by attempting to search for both professional and private information. TTG appeared to be associated with phases of therapy in which patients felt that progress was not being made. Patients being treated for personality disorders appear to engage more frequently in TTG (rphi = 0.21; P=.004). In general, however, information about therapists sought for online was often not found. Furthermore, most patients refrained from telling their therapist about their information searches. Conclusions Patients appear to engage in TTG to obtain both professional and private information about their psychotherapists. TTG can be viewed as a form of client-initiated disclosure. It is therefore important to include TTG as a subject in therapists' education and also to raise awareness within patient education. This investigation provides the first findings into TTG to begin debate on this subject.

Extending FDA guidance to include consumer medication information (CMI) delivery on mobile devices.

This paper describes the current state of consumer-focused mobile health application use and the current U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance on the distribution of consumer medication information (CMI), and discusses recommendations and considerations for the FDA to expand CMI guidance to include CMI in mobile applications. Smartphone-based health interventions have been linked to increased medication adherence and improved health outcomes. Trends in smartphone ownership present opportunities to more effectively communicate and disseminate medication information; however, current FDA guidance for CMI does not outline how to effectively communicate CMI on a mobile platform, particularly in regards to user-centered design and information sourcing. As evidence supporting the potential effectiveness of mobile communication in health care continues to increase, CMI developers, regulating entities, and researchers should take note. Although mobile-based CMI offers an innovative mechanism to deliver medication information, caution should be exercised. Specifically, considerations for developing mobile CMI include consumers' digital literacy, user experience (e.g., usability), and the quality and accuracy of new widely used sources of information (e.g., crowd-sourced reviews and ratings). Recommended changes to FDA guidance for CMI include altering the language about scientific accuracy to address more novel methods of information gathering (e.g., anecdotal experiences and Google Consumer Surveys) and including guidance for usability testing of mobile health applications.

E-Trust Readiness Indexes Assessment at E-Transactions in the Context of B2C E-Commerce

Objectives: In this study, it is tried to identify, classify and present the factors affecting the level of ETRI (E-Trust Readiness Indexes) of the companies that are active in the field of B2C e-commerce. Methods/Analysis: The values of these factors can be used as an indicator to assess the amount of readiness of the e-commerce company in order to be trusted in an online transaction, by the online customers or the other companies. To conduct this study, at first, the effective factors in the development, growth and maintenance of the e-trust in the e-commerce environment was extracted and then using the opinions and recommendations from professional experts, those factors were evaluated, rated and classified. Findings: The considered assumptions about the effect of these factors on the e-trust of online customers of the studied statistical society from their point of view, were collected using the method of information gathering by an online survey. The resulted data were analyzed by a structural equation model as well as LISREL software. It was found that those six factors that were studied, are actually the important effective factors in the level of e-trust readiness to an e-commerce company. In addition, this study was also examined by some of the experts in the field of e-commerce, and the evaluation results showed that the effective factors in the experts' perspective are similar to those proposed by the opinions of the studied statistical society. Novelty/Improvement: For the first time the issue of assessment and evaluating the level of ETRI (E-Trust Readiness Indexes) in the e-commerce companies of type B2C is defined and its method of estimation is provided by the author. The results of this research can be used as a new method for assessment of the e-commerce companies by the supervisor organizations in order to rate their readiness for being trusted by the online customers. The supervisor organizations regulate and organize the affairs between the e-commerce companies and customers. This index can also be considered as the rank of the company's reliability and trust readiness compared to other active companies, by using a combination the symbols of e-trust and the e-trust certificate.

Perlustration in Imperial Russia

V. S. Izmozik, Chernye kabinety: Istoria rossiiskoiperliustratsii, XVIII-nachalo XX veka (Black Offices: The History of Russian Perlustration, 18th-Early 20th Centuries). 693 pp. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2015. ISBN-13 978-5444802373. Vladlen Semenovich Izmozik, a professor at the Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, is incomparably the world expert on late imperial Russia's government-sponsored interception of mail (perliustratsiia), to which he has devoted over 20 years of study and some 30 publications, including this massive book. Perlustration was one of the three principal secret methods of security policing and information gathering before the rise of the electronic wizardry culminating in the exploits of the National Security Agency (and the counterexploits of Edward Snowden). (1) The other two were surveillance by plainclothes policemen and infiltration by secret informants, neither of which has received anything like the detailed and wide-ranging treatment provided by Izmozik. (2) This is somewhat surprising, because both the security police themselves and the revolutionaries they hunted and watched all considered secret informants to be the linchpin of the entire system. (3) Yet the disparity of attention probably makes sense, as Izmozik demonstrates in his book, because unlike the other two methods, which evolved late in imperial Russian history and were focused largely on a narrow group of dissidents, the interception of mail emerged early and had a broad and ever-increasing scope. In 2003, when I surveyed recent scholarship on the Russian security police for this journal, the field was just coming of age. (4) At that time, the doyenne in terms of expertise and output was Zinaida Peregudova, an archivist at the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), who has helped countless researchers to find their way through the archival labyrinth. (5) Since then, many more studies have appeared, almost entirely in Russia, including many focused on localities and regions, (6) though a few monographs also came out in the West. (7) Now Vladlen Izmozik is just as prominent as Peregudova in security and especially surveillance studies of late imperial Russia. Yet his work also bridges the Great Revolutionary Divide, contributing nearly as significantly to the history of surveillance in the early Soviet as in the late imperial era. (8) His concept of political control (politicheskii kontrol'), by which he means efforts to ascertain and manage the people's 'mood,' especially their attitudes to the authorities, has been particularly influential. (9) The book under review is encyclopedic. It draws upon vast unpublished and published documentation, including materials gathered in ten archives in Russia, among them the less pregnable collections of the Federal Security Service (FSB, St. Petersburg branch), the navy, the military, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Izmozik supplies a detailed bibliography, a lengthy index of names, and six appendices. The appendices present key official documents, the revolutionary-era memoir of a leading practitioner of perlustration, prosopographical data on officials engaged in the work, and a list of the shifting locations throughout the empire where it was conducted. The author begins by distinguishing between what he calls official military censorship (voennaia tsenzurd) of the mail, as well as the judicially imposed inspection of the correspondence of convicts and individuals under police supervision (politseiskii nadzor), which were overt and regulated by laws, and perlustration as such, which was an extralegal practice. Yet the Russian Code on Punishments of 1845 (revised in 1885) stated unambiguously that a government official could not be held liable for exceeding his authority, even when he deviated from established rules, long as, in regard to this particular instance or such instances in general, he was doing so on the basis of a directive issued from a higher authority (13-14). …

The Concept of Smart Hotels as an Innovation on the Hospitality Industry Market – Case Study of Puro Hotel in Wrocław

Market observation indicates the development of a new model for running a business in hospitality industry, referred to as smart hotels. This model is specifically distinguished by the new information and communication technologies. The concept of smart hotels is relatively new and can be regarded as an innovative solution in tourism. The presented article discusses the essence of a smart hotel category and identifies the attributes of an intelligent hotel. The theoretical discussion based on the subject literature in the theory of organization and management, as well as hospitality business economics and management was also illustrated using the case study of PURO hotel in Wroclaw. The necessary information was collected from both secondary and primary sources. The most important information gathering method was interpersonal in-depth interview with the aforementioned hotel’s manager.

Unchanging public order policing in changing times in East Africa

ABSTRACTThis article offers a political analysis of the practices and motives of public order policing in Ethiopia and Uganda. It offers an explanation of the continuation of forceful tactics against political protest in a context of changing methods of information gathering, organisation and mobilisation by urban activists resulting from their access to internet and communication technology. It finds the two regimes, as anocracies, are caught between legally allowing protest and yet, conscious of their fragility, determined to crush opposition. For the latter approach, their militarist leaderships rely heavily on continued police violence. The paper concludes that failure of the police to adapt their public order policing to the new protest environment leaves them increasingly ineffective and unpopular. It is likely to provoke an escalation of violence and may both undermine the legitimacy of their regimes and reverse their attempts to open political space that justified their rebellions against former autocracies.

Institutional transformation model of timing of the labor potential of the population in the Republic of Karelia

The article presents a transformation model of timing for resumption and fulfillment of the labor potential of the population over the working age in the Republic of Karelia as a northern region. Based on the sociological methods of gathering information and mathematical methods of data processing, as well as the proposed institutional transformation model of timing for the labor potential fulfillment, the main socio-economic factors of the labor potential realization of the population over the working age are identified. Some mechanisms to improve the institutional environment for resumption and fulfillment of the labor potential of the third age population are proposed. It is proved that under the conditions of aging of the population, reduction in the share of the working-age population, migration outflow of the most active groups the institutional innovations, enabling to stimulate economic activity of the third age population through creation of the institutional environment for the fulfillment of their labor potential, come into effect.

Post cardiac arrest management - A recent survey of current UK practice.

We have recently conducted a national survey on the management of patients’ post cardiac arrest. We conducted the survey between April and August 2014 using the web-based site (www.surveymonkey.com) and publicised through the ICS. Target participants were intensive care doctors of all grades throughout the UK. Unfortunately, the response rate was low with only 47 respondents in total (representing at least 20 different hospitals). In spite of the low response rate, this survey did allow the identification of important variation in clinical practice in the management of these patients. This particularly is most noted in the area of targeted temperature management with an almost even split between those aiming for a target temperature of 32–34 C versus 36 C. In our view, this reflects current practice across the UK following publication of the Targeted Temperature Management trial. This likely reflects a time lag between the publication and acceptance of new evidence and its incorporation into national and international guidelines and reflects a period of uncertainty for clinicians who deal with this dilemma on a regular basis. Indeed not only do practices appear to vary between units, it is quite possible that there may be variation within units, with different clinicians making their own interpretation of the current evidence base. The International Liasion Committee for Resuscitation issued an interim positional statement clarifying that, pending formal consensus, current guidelines that aim for a temperature of 33 C should remain in force while recognising that individual clinicians may now choose to aim for a target of 36 C. This we feel has contributed to the current confusion and variation in practice. With regard to access to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) following cardiac arrest, onequarter of respondents felt that their patients would not have this routinely undertaken after ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Undoubtedly, PCI in this setting is becoming standard practice across much of the UK, but there still appears to be variation in access to this service. Common reasons stated for not undertaking this include the need to transfer an unstable patient, and non-acceptance by the tertiary cardiology service. One-third of respondents had identified a change in practice with regard to neurological prognostication, with the change largely being to wait for longer periods before prognosticating (minimum of 72 h post arrest). Clinicians seemed to be guided most frequently by the circumstances surrounding the cardiac arrest and the presence of myoclonic status epilepticus, when making prognostication decisions. Our survey suggests that clinicians may be incorporating the use of electroencephalography (EEG) into routine practice. There also appear to be enthusiasts who routinely use somatosensory evoked potentials in their assessments. In view of the low response rate to this survey it is impossible to interpret the findings as being representative of the national picture, but it does raise questions about inconsistencies in practice and a further national survey with more robust methods of information gathering would be extremely interesting. The main message that we can take from this survey is that ‘in a small sample population, practice varied and this may reflect broader practice in the UK’. Further clarity around the care of patients post cardiac arrest appears to be needed.

Information Gathering for Wireless Sensor Networks with Information Converting to Wireless Physical Parameters

SUMMARY Recently, the growing concepts that information communication technologies apply to social infrastructures have caused deep interests with wireless sensor networks (WSNs). WSNs can be used for various application areas such as home, health, factory and so on. For the different application areas, there are different technical issues (e.g., security, reliability, real time gathering, long life time, scalability). Efficient information gathering can be potentially obtained if we take a suitable information gathering method with considering the requirements of each WSN application. Thus, we have not persisted all information gathering perfectly and have proposed one of simple information gathering methods in response to the requirements of WSN applications in this paper. In the proposed method, the information is converted to physical-layer parameters of wireless communications, such as frequency and time. Also, simulations are performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method in real time gathering

Saint Michel or Lucifer?: Sporadic Flashbacks of a Burdensome Memory

In 1971, Philip Zimbardo’s study proved that the majority of so-called “normal” people would turn into tormenters if they were in a structurally pre-determined situation, such as the prison system, where they would be given power over other people. In 2004, Les Escadrons de la mort, l’école française by Marie-Monique Robin showed how the information-gathering methods employed by the French army during the Algerian war of Independence were, in the fifties, taught to the American army and served to train the various juntas in Latin America in order to crush the resistance. In a reflection whose ramifications aim to be transnational, diachronic, and interdisciplinary, I propose to analyze Didier Daeninckx’s short story “Corvée de bois,” examining the repercussions that this war continues to have on current political discourse surrounding the “war on terror.”

Investigating the Effects of Antipsychotics and Schizotypy on the N400 Using Event-Related Potentials and Semantic Categorization

Within the field of cognitive neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a popular method of visualizing brain function. This is in part because of its excellent spatial resolution, which allows researchers to identify brain areas associated with specific cognitive processes. However, in the quest to localize brain functions, it is relevant to note that many cognitive, sensory, and motor processes have temporal distinctions that are imperative to capture, an aspect that is left unfulfilled by fMRI’s suboptimal temporal resolution. To better understand cognitive processes, it is thus advantageous to utilize event-related potential (ERP) recording as a method of gathering information about the brain. Some of its advantages include its fantastic temporal resolution, which gives researchers the ability to follow the activity of the brain down to the millisecond. It also directly indexes both excitatory and inhibitory post-synaptic potentials by which most brain computations are performed. This sits in contrast to fMRI, which captures an index of metabolic activity. Further, the non-invasive ERP method does not require a contrast condition: raw ERPs can be examined for just one experimental condition, a distinction from fMRI where control conditions must be subtracted from the experimental condition, leading to uncertainty in associating observations with experimental or contrast conditions. While it is limited by its poor spatial and subcortical activity resolution, ERP recordings’ utility, relative cost-effectiveness, and associated advantages offer strong rationale for its use in cognitive neuroscience to track rapid temporal changes in neural activity. In an effort to foster increase in its use as a research imaging method, and to ensure proper and accurate data collection, the present article will outline – in the framework of a paradigm using semantic categorization to examine the effects of antipsychotics and schizotypy on the N400 – the procedure and key aspects associated with ERP data acquisition.

Investigating the effects of antipsychotics and schizotypy on the N400 using event-related potentials and semantic categorization.

Within the field of cognitive neuroscience, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a popular method of visualizing brain function. This is in part because of its excellent spatial resolution, which allows researchers to identify brain areas associated with specific cognitive processes. However, in the quest to localize brain functions, it is relevant to note that many cognitive, sensory, and motor processes have temporal distinctions that are imperative to capture, an aspect that is left unfulfilled by fMRI’s suboptimal temporal resolution. To better understand cognitive processes, it is thus advantageous to utilize event-related potential (ERP) recording as a method of gathering information about the brain. Some of its advantages include its fantastic temporal resolution, which gives researchers the ability to follow the activity of the brain down to the millisecond. It also directly indexes both excitatory and inhibitory post-synaptic potentials by which most brain computations are performed. This sits in contrast to fMRI, which captures an index of metabolic activity. Further, the non-invasive ERP method does not require a contrast condition: raw ERPs can be examined for just one experimental condition, a distinction from fMRI where control conditions must be subtracted from the experimental condition, leading to uncertainty in associating observations with experimental or contrast conditions. While it is limited by its poor spatial and subcortical activity resolution, ERP recordings’ utility, relative cost-effectiveness, and associated advantages offer strong rationale for its use in cognitive neuroscience to track rapid temporal changes in neural activity. In an effort to foster increase in its use as a research imaging method, and to ensure proper and accurate data collection, the present article will outline – in the framework of a paradigm using semantic categorization to examine the effects of antipsychotics and schizotypy on the N400 – the procedure and key aspects associated with ERP data acquisition.

Why Health Care Needs Design Research: Broadening the Perspective on Communication in Pediatric Care Through Play

Today’s pediatric health care lacks methods to tap into the emotional state of hospitalized pediatric patients (age 4–6 years). The most frequently used approaches were developed for adults and fail to acknowledge the importance of imaginary experiences and the notion of play that may appeal to children. The scope of this article is to introduce a new design-oriented method of gathering information about the emotional state of pediatric patients using an experimental computer game called the Child Patient game (CPgame). The CPgame was developed at a Danish hospital, and the results of the preliminary tests show that games could serve as a system in which children are willing to express their emotions through play. The results are based on two comparative analyses of the CPgame through which it is possible to identify three different types of players among the patients playing the game. Furthermore, the data reveal that pediatric patients display a radically different play pattern than children who are not in hospital. The inquiry takes an interdisciplinary approach; it has obvious health care-related objectives and seeks to meet the urgent need for new methods within health care to optimize communication with young children. At the same time, design research (i.e., the development of new knowledge through the development of a new design) heavily impacts the method.

Studying Environmental Performance of the Company on Stock Market Value in Tehran Stock Exchange

This research studies the environmental performance of the company on the value of stock market of companies admitted to Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 2007 to 2011. For performing this research a database of environmental information and stock market of companies were gathered. The method of information gathering considering the identity of this research was by the two field and library methods. For analyzing the variables of the research (eliminative systematic sampling) two correlation and linear regression methods were used. The results of this research indicate that in studying the environmental performance on value of stock market a number of 2 hypothesis were accepted which means a direct relation and a number of 3 hypothesis were rejected which indicates ni relation with the value of stock market among which waste disposal and decreasing energy consumption had the most significant effect on value of stock market.

Accusatorial and information-gathering interrogation methods and their effects on true and false confessions: a meta-analytic review

We completed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the available empirical literature assessing the influence of accusatorial and information-gathering methods of interrogation in eliciting true and false confessions. We conducted two separate meta-analyses. The first meta-analysis focused on observational field studies that assessed the association between certain interrogation methods and elicitation of a confession statement. The second meta-analysis focused on experimental, laboratory-based studies in which ground truth was known (i.e., a confession is factually true or false). We located 5 field studies and 12 experimental studies eligible for the meta-analyses. We coded outcomes from both study types and report mean effect sizes with 95 % confidence intervals. A random effects model was used for analysis of effect sizes. Moderator analyses were conducted when appropriate. Field studies revealed that both information-gathering and accusatorial approaches were more likely to elicit a confession when compared with direct questioning methods. However, experimental studies revealed that the information-gathering approach preserved, and in some cases increased, the likelihood of true confessions, while simultaneously reducing the likelihood of false confessions. In contrast, the accusatorial approach increased both true and false confessions when compared with a direct questioning method. The available data support the effectiveness of an information-gathering style of interviewing suspects. Caution is warranted, however, due to the small number of independent samples available for the analysis of both field and experimental studies. Additional research, including the use of quasi-experimental field studies, appears warranted.

Jakość spisów nowej generacji

The author assesses the censuses carried out using traditional methods and the use of administrative data taking as criteria for evaluation: sources of information in the census of population and housing, census cartography, methods of gathering information, evaluating the results of the census, data processing and disseminating the results in Poland and in the world.

3P1-X02 モーションキャプチャを用いた顧客動線情報収集手法の開発(3次元計測/センサフュージョン)

3P1-X02 モーションキャプチャを用いた顧客動線情報収集手法の開発(3次元計測/センサフュージョン)

Sablot (Litsea glutinosa), Lour Rob., A Symbol of llocano Ingenuity in Construction

This paper presents a unique Ilocano culture through the amazing nature ofconstructing antique houses and churches with the sablot leaves. The crude formulation of the original sablot paste was reconstituted to relate to the modern day context. This study attempts to widen the Ilocano culture through the llocano built environment with the end view of enriching its present collection of subjects unfolding the Ilocano engineering using indigenous resources. This study made use of a mixture of qualitative and quantitative type of research. Interview was the method of gathering information and the researcher conducted experiment based on what she learned from the interview on the use of sablotas paste. Four major llocano values were deemed evident and highly associated with the indigenous construction material known as sablot. They are prudence (kinamanagsakbay), self-reliance (panagwayas), caring (panangilala), and ingenuity (kinawido). The findings disclose four amazing discoveries: 1) The strength of the samples out of sablot paste are as strong as those of cement as binder. 2) There is an effect of soaking time to the strength ofthe sablot samples. 3) The strength of the grout and mortar for concrete hollow blocks using sablot paste as binder is as strong as the grout and mortar using cement. and 4) The plaster out of sablot paste is 35 percent lower in cost than the cement plaster, taking the area of application and thickness of the plaster similar for both. Sablot trees were found still thriving in Vigan City, Sto. Domingo, and Sinait, all in /locos Sur. The presence ofsablot trees within the Ilocos Region is still with a high percentage of probability, basing on the existence of the trees in the three municipalities of Ilocos Sur, owing to the fact that these places hove churches built using the sablot paste.

Game Edukasi Pengenalan Kebudayaan Indonesia Berbasis Android

Game now is not just an entertainment but merely serves as a educational tool or the so-called educational games. We develop an educational game application on Android platform which provides information about Indonesian culture. The methodology used is the analysis method of information gathering, system design, implementation, and testing. Information about Indonesian culture is displayed in form of Android-based educational game application. Users will be expected to get a lot of information regarding the Indonesian culture.