Summary Of Thesis Research Articles

Introduction and Systematic Review of the Good Nursing Care Scale.

To provide an introduction to the Good Nursing Care Scale (GNCS) and systematically review the application of the scale in health research. Systematic review. Empirical studies published in English or Finnish in peer-reviewed journals or as a summary of a PhD thesis where the scale was used for data collection amongst patients were included. Analysis was made by using descriptive statistics, narrative analysis, and evaluation of psychometric properties. PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane, and Scopus in October 2023. A total of 26 full-text studies and summaries of PhD theses were included in the review. The GNCS has been developed systematically, and the theoretical structure has remained stable. The studies indicate a high level of patient-centered quality of nursing care. Validity and reliability evaluation and reporting were systematic in the studies and mainly indicate sufficient level. Variations between countries are not large, supporting the international use of the GNCS. Patient-centered quality of nursing care is predominantly at high levels. However, systematic evaluation is needed to provide longitudinal data. For that purpose, the GNCS is one potential instrument. Support for the use of existing, tested instruments is encouraged to provide critical ideas for the future needs of nurse practitioners, managers, teachers and researchers. This paper impacts researchers interested in systematic evaluation of the patient-centered quality of nursing care and for practitioners taking care of patients. For researchers, it introduces a relevant instrument, the GNCS, for analysing the quality or for comparing the quality with other instruments. For practitioners, it produces evidence of the usability of the GNCS. PRISMA guided the systematic review, and the COSMIN guideline was used for quality appraisal of included studies. No Patient or Public contribution.

Thesis Summary: Operationalizing User-Inclusive Transparency in Artificial Intelligence Systems

Artificial intelligence system architects can increase user trust by designing systems that are inherently transparent. We propose the idea of representing an AI system as an amalgamation of the AI Model (algorithms), data (input and output, including outcomes), and the user interface with visual interpretations (e.g. graphs, Venn diagrams). By designing human controls and feedback mechanisms for AI systems that allow users to exert control over them we can integrate transparency into existing user interfaces. Our plan is to design prototypes of transparent user interfaces for AI systems using well-known usability principles. By conducting surveys we will study their impact to see if these principles help the user to work with the AI system with confidence and if the user perceives the system to be adequately transparent.

Das Netzwerk der ungarländischen Studenten in Basel im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Unbekannte Beziehungen in den Hochschulschriften

Network research can be used to reconstruct personal relationships in the early modern period. A very good source for such research is provided by the entries in memorial books (or alba amicorum). An analysis of the memorial books in the Inscriptiones Alborum Amicorum database reveals that Professor Johann Heinrich Fries of Zurich had very intensive contacts with students from Hungary. However, it is possible to reconstruct contact systems not only on the basis of alba amicorum, but also on the basis of thesis, because the paratexts included in these booklets contain references of a wide variety of contact types, including teacher–student, student–student, and patron–student relationships. The University of Basel played an important role in the development of the Reformed Church in Hungary in the early modern period, but no research has yet been done into the paratexts of the thesis summaries published in Basel. The present study has therefore focused in reconstructing several connections that were unknown up until now: the Ruland family’s links with Bratislava/Pozsony/Pressburg and Basel, and the friendship between Ferenc Paris of Pápai and Jacob Högger. It also emerged that it was customary to thank Johann Martin Weiss, the leader of the Basel students, in the thesis summaries.

Genocide Commemoration and Reconciliation in Rwanda from a Liturgical Ritual Perspective

Summary of PhD Thesis. This thesis was defended on March 14, 2023 at the Protestant Theological University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Supervisors: prof. dr. Marcel Barnard (Protestant Theological University Amsterdam) and dr. Martin Hoondert (Tilburg University).

Analyzing Semantically Enriched Trajectories

AbstractIn order to understand what influences the movement of an object or person it is important to consider a variety of factors. These could be the visibility of certain landmarks, the current temperature or the presence of a crowded area to be avoided. These insights then can be used to understand movement in the public sector and improve our build environment, e.g. to reduce street traffic accidents or orientation in complex buildings. The following extended abstract is a summary of a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Münster. The thesis was successfully defended in February 2023 [16]. The dissertation focuses on the analysis of so-called semantically enriched trajectories, which are used to describe observed movement. It proposes a new model based on an extended finite state machine, which allows for the representation and consideration of the information about the context of the trajectory. With the new model, we consider two main steps in trajectory analysis: First, we aim to infer a semantically enriched representative trajectory for a given cluster of trajectories. Second, we introduce a variation of the well-known k-means algorithm to calculate clusters based on the given context of trajectories. To show semantic feasibility of our approach, we conclude this work by evaluating the possibility to provide decision support for domain experts in two different public sector related contexts.

Reshaping Foramen Magnum Research. Analyzing foramen magnum variation in modern humans using 2D osteometry and 3D geometric morphometrics – A master thesis summary and research review

Reshaping Foramen Magnum Research. Analyzing foramen magnum variation in modern humans using 2D osteometry and 3D geometric morphometrics – A master thesis summary and research review

Erciyes Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi (EÜVFD)’nin Bibliyometrik Analizi

Bu çalışmada, Erciyes Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi (EÜVFD)’nin çeşitli kriterler yönünden bibliyometrik analizinin yapılması amaçlanmıştır. Çalışmanın gerecini, 2004-2021 yılları arasında 47 sayı içerisinde yayımlanan top-lam 506 akademik çalışma (araştırma makalesi, derleme ve olgu sunumu) oluşturmuştur. Dergide yayımlanan çalışma-ların yıllara göre sayısı, türü, sorumlu yazarın kurumu ve çalıştığı birim, yayım süresi, inceleme/değerlendirme süresi, sayfa sayısı, yazar sayısı, lisansüstü tez özeti olma ve daha önce tebliğ edilme durumu, kullanılan araştırma materyali (hayvan türü), anahtar kelime sayısı, kullanılan tablo/grafik sayısı, resim/şekil sayısı, kaynak sayısı ve yayın dili incele-nerek tanımlayıcı istatistikler (frekans, yüzde) şeklinde verilmiştir. Makalelerin yayımlanma, basım ve değerlendirme süreleri Kruskal-Wallis testi ile karşılaştırılmıştır. Araştırma bulgularına göre, EÜVFD’nin 18 yıllık yayın hayatında top-lam 345 atıf (%68) aldığı, dergiye gelen çalışmaların yaklaşık değerlendirme, basım ve yayımlanma sürelerinin sırasıy-la; dört, altı ve 10 aydan kısa olduğu, dergide yıllık ortalama 28.1 yayının yayımlandığı, yayın başına düşen ortalama yazar sayısının üç olduğu, sorumlu yazarların %40.1’inin Erciyes Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi öğretim elemanların-dan oluştuğu, anabilim dallarına göre en fazla yayının Klinik Bilimler Bölümünde (%27.7) ve Cerrahi Anabilim Dalı’na (%10.5) ait olduğu, çalışma materyalinin %30.3’ünün ruminantlardan oluştuğu, makale türüne göre en fazla araştırma makalesi (%61.7) yayımlandığı ve dergideki yayınların %20.4’ünün İngilizce olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Sonuç olarak, EÜVFD’nin yayın politikasına uygun, veteriner hekimliği alanıyla ilgili ve farklı birimlerden yayın alan, bilimsel olarak tüm aşamaların titizlikle takip edildiği, 18 yıldır aksamadan süresinde yayımlanan ve alan endeksinde taranan bilimsel bir dergi olduğu anlaşılmaktadır. Derginin tüm kazanımları dikkate alındığında, Science Citation Index (SCI) tarafından taranması hedefine her geçen gün daha da yaklaştığı ve makul bir sürede bu payeye de ulaşacağı yönünde güçlü izle-nimler edinilmiştir.

Dimension linguistique, discursive et intellectuelle de la rédaction de texte académique en langue étrangère. Exemple des résumés de mémoires de licence et de master à la philologie française

The article focuses on the French summaries of BA & MA theses written by students of French philology at the University of Wrocław between 2015 and 2020. The objective is to determine to what extent the linguistic, discursive and intellectual dimensions of this short academic text constitute, for the students, a source of challenges during the writing process. The general conclusion is that very often the summary of a diploma thesis looks like a report detailing the activities of the student, instead of summarizing an intellectual trajectory and informing of the results of the research.

Large-Scale Mapping and Navigation in VirtualWorlds: Thesis Summary

Virtual worlds present a challenge for intelligent mobile agents. They are required to generate maps of very large scale, dynamic and unstructured environments in a short amount of time. We investigate how to represent maps of ever growing virtual environments, how the agent can build, update and use these maps to navigate between points in the environment. We look at trails, the movement of other people and agents in the environment as a new information source. We can use trails to improve the generation of probabilistic roadmaps in these environments and enable the agent to segment space intelligently. Our future plans are to extend this to look at dynamic environments, where the agent will have to recognise change and update the map and how this will affect the map representation.

Plant Landscape and Models of French Atlantic Estuarine Systems. Extended Summary of the Doctoral Thesis

Abstract The present study proposes a theoretical common model of environmental gradients and functioning of vegetation and Plant Landscape of the French Atlantic estuarine systems. This model offers a basis to improve classification and ecological studies of estuarine systems, and to helps the monitoring and assessment of land uses, land forms transformation and human impacts, thanks to the develop of a spatio-temporal predictive model based on actual and potential vegetation following a dynamico-catenal approach. In eight selected estuaries, fieldworks was undertook for a total of 98,315 ha highlighting two vegetation series and four geopermaseries, corresponding to 131 plant associations, 60 alliances, 43 orders, and 28 classes. The vegetation of three representative estuaries was mapped, for a total of 74,433 ha. A synthetic scheme of estuary vegetation landscape is proposed, integrating geographical and ecological gradients as well as geomorphologic forms.

RELEITURA DA TUTELA DE EVIDÊNCIA BASEADA EM PRECEDENTES

The CPC has greatly innocame the systematics of provisional injunction, when it regulates the protection of evidence, in art. 311. The purpose of this study is a rereading of Art. 311, in order to demonstrate the importance of the institute of evidence protection when it is based on precedents. And the challenge would be to apply this institute not only in the precedents based on cases of repetitive thesis and binding summary, but also in the hypotheses provided for in art. 927, of the CPC, and in the provisions of Art. 332 of the CPC. Therefore, what is intended is the expansion of the hypotheses of application of art. 311, II, seeking a systematic reading of this article with art. 927 and art. 332 of the procedural diploma.

Cooperation between preschool educational institutions and families – modern need and requirement

The proposed publication substantiates the importance and significance of cooperation between preschool educational institutions with the families of pupils during the reformation of preschool education and serious transformations in modern society. The analysis of domestic and foreign research on this problem is carried out, attention is paid to new legislative documents (State standard of preschool education, Concept of education of toddlers and preschoolers) and emphasis is placed on solving the problem of cooperation between preschool and parents in these documents. The process of cooperation between teachers of preschool educational institutions and parents is characterized as a bilateral, cyclical and phased process. The modern tendencies of contact activity of teachers of preschool educational institutions with families are declared. The purpose of interaction between two important social institutions in the life of a child is analyzed. The content of the main stages of cooperation is disclosed, as well as the main forms and methods of work that are implemented at each stage. Emphasis is placed on the need for a dynamic and adequate parental position that would meet the needs as well as the individual and age capabilities of a child. On the example of a specific preschool educational institution, the effective forms of cooperation between teachers and the families of pupils, which have been introduced into the educational process of the preschool institution for a long time, have been demonstrated and described in detail. As an example, the thesis summary of the theatrical quiz for parents and children “Theater experts”, which was held in this preschool institution, is illustrated. Plans for the future of the teaching staff and prospects for further research on this issue have been announced.

Viltusdraugi vadībzinātnes promocijas darbu kopsavilkumos angļu un latviešu valodā

The paper describes the results of a study conducted in order to detect potential false friends in Management Science doctoral thesis summary translations in English and Latvian, as well as the actual cases when false friends have been found in the mentioned texts. In order to do so, the author has explored the existing literature and summarised the classifications of false friends offered in the state-of-the-art literature in Latvia and abroad. The types of semantic relationships for Latvian and English word pairs have been analysed, and finally, the cases of false friends existing in the translations of Management Science doctoral dissertation summaries defended during the period from 2013 to 2019 have been singled out. The present research has been carried out in order to facilitate the writing and translating of the dissertations in English and Latvian. In the Management Science doctoral thesis summary translations from Latvian into English as well as in the recommendations of the faculties and programmes, false friends have been detected. In the translations from English into Latvian, in turn, it has been found that linguists are not always of the same opinion in respect to the translation of terms, which might be explained by the fact that thorough research of the language of science in Latvia started a relatively short time ago, namely in the 1990s, and is being carried out in very few institutions. Given the presence of false friends detected in the already defended Management Science doctoral dissertation summaries, it can be concluded that the phenomenon of false friends needs to be researched further to help researchers and translators avoid them.

Editorial

The publication of issue 20(2) of SComS marks an important occasion, namely the 20th anniversary of our journal, which was founded at USI – Università della Svizzera italiana twenty years ago, and consequently published its first issue in early 2001. As you might know, SComS was merged with Medienwissenschaft Schweiz (a publication by the SACM – Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research) in 2007, keeping the name Studies in Communication Sciences. Seizing the occasion of this achievement, we would like to share some important information with you. First, speaking about the history of our journal, we remind you that the early issues of SComS and of Medienwissenschaft Schweiz are fully accessible on our website (section “Archives”), thanks to our collaboration with e-periodica. Second, we are happy to announce that SComS now has an online first publishing policy, meaning that articles are quickly made available online. This policy increases the pace and visibility of articles published in SComS, which is a clear advantage for both our authors and readers. Finally, if you wish to receive regular updates on news, thematic sections and articles published, we encourage you to follow SComS on Twitter (@SComS_Journal). Moving on to discuss the contents of SComS 20(2), we are pleased to announce that this issue contains a variety of topics and perspectives in our field. Alongside a General Section and a Thematic Section, it also contains a Community Section, in which we publish a summary of the PhD thesis that has won the SACM Dissertation Award 2020. Finally, this issue includes a Reviews and Reports Section that comprises two book reviews of recent publications in our field and a report on a scientific workshop held in Zurich.

Understanding Generalization in Neural Networks for Robustness against Adversarial Vulnerabilities

Neural networks have contributed to tremendous progress in the domains of computer vision, speech processing, and other real-world applications. However, recent studies have shown that these state-of-the-art models can be easily compromised by adding small imperceptible perturbations. My thesis summary frames the problem of adversarial robustness as an equivalent problem of learning suitable features that leads to good generalization in neural networks. This is motivated from learning in humans which is not trivially fooled by such perturbations due to robust feature learning which shows good out-of-sample generalization.

Dynamics In Markets And Complex Adaptive Systems: A Review

This article is a summary (Introduction Chapter) of my PHD Thesis at Tilburg University (Tilburg, Netherlands) and the thesis consisted of articles that I had written (and some were published) before I was admitted into the PHD degree program in 2013. The article: i) explains the relationships among the PHD Thesis chapters; ii) defines and summarizes the research methods used and introduces new research methods that I developed; iii) explains key elements of Behavioral Operations Research in markets and Complex Adaptive Systems. My PHD thesis introduces new Dynamical Systems models/theories and explains why the Mean Variance Framework (which is widely used in Operations Research, social sciences and natural sciences) is invalid.

Изъяснительные конструкции в научном дискурсе: жанровые предпочтения

The author of the article understands object clauses as a semantic type of sentences with a set of different ways of expressing semantics: polypredicative subordinate clauses, asyndetic clauses, monopredicative clauses, clauses with parenthesis. It is suggested that the set of constructions used in academic discourse depends on the genre of the academic text. The genres of article abstracts and thesis summaries as secondary texts (texts about texts) were chosen as a material for a comparative study. The author reveals the incomplete paradigm of object clauses in secondary academic texts. The analyzed language material allows us to state that the genre of the academic article abstract does not use the entire paradigm of the ways of expressing explanatory semantics, choosing only two models as the basic ones, with a higher frequency of the monopredicative model. In the genre of thesis summaries there is a lower frequency of monopredicative clauses with deliberative semantics and a higher frequency of polypredicative subordinate clauses containing hidden reflection of the author of the text. The analyzed material indicates that the hidden author’s reflection is more often manifested through the use of quasi-impersonal sentences. The author of the article believes that there is a tendency in the analyzed genres towards increasing impersonality, the elimination of the subjective author’s position, and the desire to objectify the presented information. The research has found out certain constructions which function actively in the genre of the academic article, but are not used in article abstracts and thesis summaries. It is noted that not all introducing predicates recorded in the academic literature function in the analyzed genres. This can be explained by the genre affiliation of the texts and their communicative task. The author determines a number of objectives of the further research.

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Lexical problems of genetic and breeding terminology in agricultural science and education

Aim. The need to improve the genetic and breeding terminology, in particular its lexicographic components as well as the necessity to more precise definition of certain indirect terminological borrowing were causes our research. Methods. In the process of preparation of materials of terminological dictionaries, textbooks and manuals, as well as scientific works on general genetics and plant breeding published in various years were analyzed and colligated. The peculiarities of the certain terms use were investigated by methods of theoretical analysis, comparison and generalization of scientific literature, in consideration of the methodical aspects of component analysis. Results. The phenomenon of different terms using for the definition of the same concepts, confuse definitions and spelling errors of a number of terms and incorrect synonymy, Russism and other common mistakes occur found in Ukrainian scientific, methodological and educational publications are analyzed. The negative consequences of an incorrect translation of thesis summaries and scientific articles abstracts into English are noted. Conclusions. The linguistic and terminological expertise must be carried out in order to unify of the genetic and breeding terminology and more precise definition of certain indirect terminological borrowing. The efforts of geneticists, breeders and linguists should combine for preparing modern Academy explaining dictionary.
 Keywords: backcross, dihaploid, nutrient medium, reciprocal crosses, inbreeding, progeny.

Las IDE 3D: necesidad, desarrollo y líneas de investigación

Este artículo es un resumen de la tesis doctoral desarrollada sobre la situación actual de las IDE con respecto a la tercera dimensión, abordando líneas de investigación a futuro y analizando las necesidades y debilidades que se presentan. Tras profundizar en los conocimientos sobre IDE y, tras comprobar tanto la necesidad como la convergencia de diversas ramas técnico-científicas en materia de gestión de información geográfica (IG) tridimensional, se decide, a través de este trabajo desarrollar un proyecto de investigación centrado en las IDE 3D. Siguiendo un enfoque cualitativo en el desarrollo de la metodología de investigación, se hace patente la importancia de lo que supone la tercera dimensión espacial para el desempeño de las actividades cotidianas del ser humano en nuestros tiempos. Finalmente, se definen los elementos necesarios para poder implementar una IDE tridimensional, teniendo en cuenta todos los parámetros de desarrollo, tanto técnicos como legales, necesarios para cumplir con los actuales marcos tecnológicos, normativos, jerárquicos y legales. A través del trabajo desarrollado, se ha constatado que, por lo general, la adaptación de la tercera dimensión por parte de las IDE está en fase germinal, con muchas posibilidades de avance y aporte de contribuciones científicas y tecnológicas. Este documento intenta ser una de esas contribuciones.