Thematic Text Research Articles

Thematic characteristics of the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text

As the first part of a narrative text, orientation should be able to attract the readers’ attention; therefore, it must be well organized. From the Systemic Functional Linguistics point of view, a well-organized text can be confirmed through its textual metafunction realized in theme and rheme. In addition to confirming a good organization of the clauses, theme-rheme interactions would make the text interesting. This paper aims at describing the thematic characteristics of the orientation of the English version of Hikayat Deli text (the translated text of Hikayat Deli). This study employed the data derived from the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text which was analyzed using content analysis. The results of data analysis showed that: (1) unmarked themes dominated the use of theme in the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text, (2) the story characters (participants) were used most frequently as the clause themes, and (3) conjunctions and conjunctives (textual themes) were the elements of multiple themes most frequently used in the orientation part of the English version of Hikayat Deli text. It is concluded that the choice of theme elements helps in constructing a well-organized orientation and in facilitating the easy understanding to readers of what the rest of the text is about.

Flexible assertive community treatment teams can change complex and fragmented service systems: experiences of service providers

BackgroundImplementing innovative health service models in existing service systems is complicated and context dependent. Flexible assertive community treatment (FACT) is a multidisciplinary service model aimed at providing integrated care for people with severe mental illness. The model was developed in the Netherlands and is now used in several countries, such as Norway. The Norwegian service system is complex and fragmented, with challenges in collaboration. Limited research has been performed on FACT teams and other new integrative health service models as part of such systems. However, such knowledge is important for future adjustments of innovation processes and service systems. Our aim was to explore how FACT teams are integrated into the existing formal public service system, how they function and affect the system, and describe some influencing factors to this. We sought to address how service providers in the existing service system experience the functioning of FACT teams in the system.MethodsFive focus group interviews were undertaken 3 years after the FACT teams were implemented. Forty service providers representing different services from both levels of administration (primary and specialist healthcare) from different Norwegian regions participated in this study. Team leaders of the FACT teams also participated. Service providers were recruited through purposeful sampling. Interviews were analysed using thematic text analysis.ResultsThe analysis revealed five main themes regarding FACT teams: (1) They form a bridge between different services; (2) They collaborate with other services; (3) They undertake responsibility and reassure other services; (4) They do not close all gaps in service systems; and (5) They are part of a service system that hampers their functioning.ConclusionsThe FACT teams in this study contributed to positive changes in the existing service system. They largely contributed to less complex and fragmented systems by forming a bridge and undertaking responsibility in the system and by collaborating with and reassuring other services; this has reduced some gaps in the system. The way FACT teams function and needs of the existing system appear to have contributed positively to these findings. However, complexity and fragmentation of the system partly hamper functioning of the FACT teams.

Lived Experience of Literacy Coaches in the Technology-based Classrooms to improve Students’ Literacy among Non-traditional High Schools in Jamaica

Purpose of the study: This research sought to investigate the extent to which the Alternative Pathways to Secondary Education (APSE) program implemented in Jamaica to address deficits in literacy has worked in addressing the apparent achievement gap which is so evident among students in Non- traditional High schools. The research also sought to determine what kind of support is needed for Literacy coaches and literacy teachers to maximize these students’ learning opportunities. This qualitative phenomenological study employed the thematic text analysis approach. This study selected pathway /literacy coaches based on the Secondary school/ Non- traditional high schools selected for the study. The research attempted to investigate the challenges that these seven coaches experienced in integrating technology in their guiding of the Apse program in improving students learning challenges in Literacy. The research found that students in the Apse program were mainly at-risk children who came from low-income homes and who were predominantly boys who had learning difficulties. It was concluded that more technological resources were needed in Non- traditional schools. The Alternative Pathways to Secondary Education (APSE) program has a high accountability measure which helped to improve students’ performance in Literacy. The researcher recommends increased personnel in guidance departments to stem behavioral issues, policy development for increased technological integration in schools, and more accountability measures for students.

Zones of proximal boredom: Vygotsky’s ZPD and modality, abstraction, and explicit themes in Korean from four to seven

Teachers and parents intuitively judge the ‘level’ of the child and the ‘level’ of the text and try to match them; they know that overestimation or underestimation of either will be met with restlessness or boredom. In this way, they have an empirical understanding of Vygotsky’s ZPD—the zone of proximal development he envisioned as measuring the maturity of still-dependent functions in children. But this conception of the ZPD conflates two very different kinds of level: that of the child and that of the child’s social milieu. We propose instead an analysis of child speech using Halliday’s work on child development and his systemic-functional linguistics. We measure the emergence of modality, abstraction, and explicit clause Theme in Korean. We analyze four conversations with a single child over three years—from age four to seven. We find that there is a strong shift in the proportion of her clauses devoted to modal probability and towards explicit, textual themes. Counterintuitively, however, the nominal groups in her vocabulary become more concrete rather than more abstract. We conclude that Vygotsky’s ZPD can be accurately gauged and traced through speech development, but for that very reason it cannot be reliably explained by either the child or the environment.

Pathways to Sexual Health Among Refugee Young Women: A Contextual Approach

Refugee youth face sexual health challenges, and research investigating contributing factors has primarily focused on identifying contextual barriers. However, it is also important to investigate protective factors, as well as how risk and protective factors work together across contexts. The present study explored both contextual facilitators and barriers to refugee young women’s sexual health and how these factors intersect to influence behavior. Interviews were conducted with twelve female refugees ages 18-24. Participants’ countries of origin included Burma, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia; most participants had lived in the United States for over five years. Data were analyzed using thematic text analysis and narrative analysis. Findings revealed four primary themes: sex/relationship restrictions, judgment/disapproval, support, and youth outcomes. Themes varied by context (e.g., family, peers, religion, culture) and were related to one another in important ways, such that refugee young women who violate sociocultural sex/relationship expectations experience actual or anticipated judgment from others, which leads to fear, embarrassment, and risky sexual behavior. However, participants also shared that social and institutional support would contribute to improved sexual health outcomes. Findings highlight the importance of considering refugee young women’s sociocultural contexts when addressing sexual health challenges.

Pharmacogenomic testing for mental health (Part II): qualitative analysis of early adopter prescriber perceptions.

Aim: We sought to explore how early adopters use pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing for treating depression and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Patients & methods: Prescribers of the Informed PGx (Progenity, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA) test completed a phone survey assessing use of PGx testing for different scenarios. We conducted a qualitative thematic text analysis of transcribed audio recordings of open-ended responses (n=62). Results: PGx testing was used when treating multiple comorbidities or resistant disease, and to ease patients' concerns with future therapy. Use of PGx testing is influenced by insurance coverage, interpretability of results and results turnaround time. Conclusion: Prescribers used PGx tests to modify medications for complex patients with depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderand other disorders to alleviate concerns related to adverse effects and lack of effectiveness.

A Systemic Functional Linguistics Analysis of Technical Written Texts Produced by Undergraduate Saudi Engineering Students

Implementing systemic functional linguistics, in particular Theme-Rheme system as a method of teaching writing has been recommended and suggested in many studies The present small-scale paper aimed to analyze 7 texts produced by Saudi engineering students and found that six students faced problems in developing their paragraphs. Results indicate that all the students mainly used unmarked topical Themes. Four students utilized marked topical Themes with differences in terms of the number of uses. Six students used textual Themes in their texts, while three students employed interpersonal Themes in their texts. Moreover, the analysis revealed many problems committed by students. These were: the problem of confusing selection textual Themes, the problem of brand new Theme, the problem of empty Rheme, and the problem of using cohesive devices inappropriately. There was one student could develop his text consistently and cohesively. To sum up, the paper was carried out for shedding light on the problems of Saudi engineering students when writing in English; even though the data was small, bringing the notion of Theme-Rheme into/to the light can be useful for instructors to put the basic principles of Theme-Rheme into practice when teaching writing.

Increasing Men's Engagement in HIV Testing and Treatment Programs Through Crowdsourcing: A Mixed-Methods Analysis in Eswatini.

Sub-Saharan African HIV programs have had limited success in engaging men. Crowdsourcing contests may be a useful method to spur men's engagement in HIV services. We evaluated contributions and social media response to a crowdsourcing contest focused on increasing men's engagement in Eswatini HIV services. We conducted a crowdsourcing contest to gain insight from the public on how HIV campaigns can more effectively engage young (20-40 years old) men in HIV services. Eligible submissions included images, songs, videos, and Internet memes. We used standard qualitative methods to examine textual themes from submissions. We examined social media response using Facebook analytics, comparing the number of people reached through crowdsourced HIV messages and the number of people reached through conventional HIV messages. We received 144 submissions from 83 participants. They represented 55 towns and all 4 regions of Eswatini. The contest page gained 461 followers on Facebook. Emergent themes included appealing to men's roles as protectors by suggesting that they need to take care of their own health to continue safeguarding their families. Crowdsourced messages reached a mean of 88 individuals across 4 posts; conventional messages reached a mean of 75 individuals across 4 posts. Crowdsourcing contest submissions provided insight on how to encourage men to engage in Eswatini HIV services. Crowdsourcing contests can be effective in collecting messages from men to create more locally relevant communication materials for HIV programs.

Jenis dan Struktur Tema-Rema dalam Cerita Pendek “Nasehat untuk Anakku” Karya Motinggo Busye

This study aims to determine what types of themes are contained in the short story "Advice for My Son" by Motinggo Busye and how the structure pattern of the teen theme is. The methodological framework consists of three strategic stages in the research, namely the data collection stage, the data analysis stage, and the data analysis result presentation stage. The results obtained from this study are that in the short story "Advice for My Son" by Motinggo Busye, there are topical / ideational themes including topical themes with markings and topical themes with markings, textual themes, and interpersonal themes. The structure of the themes contained in the short story "Advice for my Son" by Motinggo Busye is in accordance with the theme-rema theory, namely the theme is located at the beginning and the unit after the theme is rema.

بررسی ساخت آغازگری در کتب انگلیسی دانشگاهی با اهداف ویژه؛ مقایسه تألیفات نویسندگان ایرانی با غیرایرانی ‏

In Functional Grammar, theme is a structure that plays a key role in message processing and it refers to the subject matter to which the message relates. Due to having such role, this linguistic concept is considered in the analysis of educational texts by those interested in this field. In the present study, drawing upon textual metafunction of Functional Theory, finding possible similarities and differences in the theme selection of universities’ ESP textbooks in Humanities and Engineering disciplines by Iranian(SAMT) and non-Iranian authors is of significant interest.The method of this research is descriptive-analytical and the statistical population is 32 readable texts from the sources.The results showed that there is no significant difference in the use of themes in the corpus, among authors,and between dicsiplines; so that,100% experimental themes, simple themes more than multiple themes (76% vs. 24%) and textual themes more than interpersonal themes (22.5% vs. 2%) have been used by all authors. It seems that the main reason for this similarity is related to the genre similarity of writings. Based on the findings, the following results can be inferred: Theme is meaningful in the English language and is taken into account in the writing of academic textbooks, especially in ESP; the remarkable similarity and the writing framework alignment of different authors with Halliday’s systemic functional theory suggests the usefulness of this view in the evaluation of scientific books; the authors' attention to the effectiveness of the textual metafunction as an efficient resource in the construction, development, and coherence of texts, as well as its efficiency in academic textbooks division to different genres is elaborated; finally, in the light of these findings, it can be said that choosing a textbook based on the criteria that the author is Iranian or not, is not desirable.

Türkçe Öğretmenlerinin Ders Kitaplarına Bağlılıklarına Yönelik Öğretmen Görüşleri

Bu çalışmada Türkçe öğretmenlerinin Türkçe ders kitaplarına bağlılıklarına yönelik görüşleri ele alınmıştır. Bunun için yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu hazırlanmıştır. Aksaray ilinde 6 farklı ortaokulda görev yapan 20 Türkçe öğretmeni ile görüşülmüştür Görüşme kayıtları araştırmacı tarafından dinlenerek bilgisayarda yazılmış ve bu dokümanlar üzerinde içerik analizi yapılmıştır. Analiz sonunda kodlar ve frekans dağılımları belirlenmiştir. Kodlar üzerinden tespit edilen temalar şunlardır: Metin kullanımı, etkinlikler, alan bilgisi, öğrenci seviyesi ve yaratıcılıktır. Metin kullanımı temasında öğretmenlerin hepsi ders kitaplarına bağlı kalmaktadır. Etkinler temasında da öğretmenlerin her zaman önceliği ders kitabıdır, gerekli gördükleri durumlarda ders kitabı dışında farklı kaynaklardan yararlanmaktadırlar. Türkçe öğretmenlerinin çoğu alan bilgisi konusunda ders kitaplarını yetersiz görmekte ve bazıları da bu nedenle farklı kaynaklar kullanmaktadırlar. Öğrenci seviyesi ne olursa olsun ders kitaplarına bağlı kalmaktadırlar ancak akademik başarı düzeyi yüksek öğrenciler için farklı kaynaklar kullanmaktadırlar. Öğretmenin yaratıcılığında da katılımcıların %55’i Türkçe ders kitabına koşulsuz bağlılığın öğretmenin yaratıcılığını olumsuz yönde etkilediğini ifade etmişlerdir.

Enhancing social and individual sustainability in urban co-living

Purpose Urbanisation is trending globally, leading to population densification and housing shortage and people living increasingly in isolation. This entails challenges to sustainable development including ecological, social and well-being issues. This paper aims to evaluate the effects of a six-month onboarding self-leadership programme including exercises in mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy, amongst residents in a co-living space (n = 24) and a waiting list (n = 21). Design/methodology/approach At baseline and post-intervention, participants filled out questionnaires and two waves of in-depth interviews (n = 24) were conducted. Repeated measures one-way analysis of variance and thematic text analyses were performed. Findings Participation in the programme significantly (all ps < 0.000 to 0.050) improved relationship quality and communication about one’s needs regarding work-non-work boundaries, especially amongst residents at the co-living space. Moreover, programme participation significantly increased perceived work-non-work boundary control, work-life balance, psychological well-being, psychological flexibility and self-compassion, with effect sizes (hp2) in the medium to the large range (0.14 to 0.39). Qualitative findings suggested that increased psychological flexibility and self-compassion encouraged co-living residents to be more vulnerable and trusting, which enabled communication regarding one’s needs and enhanced mutual social support and relationship quality. This, in turn, improved overall boundary management, work-life balance and well-being. Originality/value Co-living settings – while contributing to overall sustainable development through more efficient use of space and resources – can also contribute to societal and individual sustainability. However, to ensure this contribution, the physical environment including private areas and common and semi-public areas, as well as the socio-emotional environment need to be considered.

Reflection of three prominent religious, mythological and epic themes in mystical texts

It is worth mentioning that the main purpose of mystics in dealing with the myths and epics of Shahnameh is to express mystical themes. In this research, an attempt has been made to express three prominent religious, mythological and epic themes: Zoroaster, Jamshid, and Kaykhosrow, and how they are reflected in mystical texts, their transformation and their connections from the beginning to the stage of Islamic perfection and maturity. The method of work in this research is the use of library and written resources based on analysis and description.

Media Narrative Regarding Restrictions on Social Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gazeta.pl

The aim of this study was to describe how the gazeta.pl website newsroom conducted the media narrative regarding restrictions on social, professional and private life based on articles about the COVID-19 epidemic published on the website. The study covered the period from the 14th of January 2020 (publication of the first thematic text related to the epidemic) to the 20th of May 2020 (date of lifting of the requirement to wear face masks in outdoor settings). The research material comprised 16,414 news stories published on the gazeta.pl website in which the word coronavirus was used. The texts were classified into 12 thematic groups. Firstly, the research results indicate that the subject of the pandemic follows the principles of the life cycle of a news topic. In addition, a more detailed, five-phase version of the news topic life cycle concept was proposed. Secondly, no positive correlation was identified between the number of new stories on COVID-19 and the number of confirmed cases of the disease. Lastly, the correlation between the number and frequency of news stories on specific topics connected with COVID-19 was limited.

Comparative study on prevention and control policies of major animal epidemics in China—Quantitative analysis of policy texts from 1972-2019

The matching of central and provincial governments' policy themes and the correspondence between them are important for measuring the accurate delivery of policies. Such measurement can directly reflect policy connections between the central and provincial governments and is helpful in understanding the strength and effect of policy implementation. In this study of animal epidemic prevention and control policy texts issued by central and provincial government departments from 1972 to 2019, the themes of the texts were determined by the segmentation of high- and low-frequency keywords, and the quantitative analysis was carried out in four dimensions: the year, number, subject and theme of each policy. The findings indicate that the central government takes the initiative in preventing and controlling animal epidemics and adjusts prevention and control measures through feedback, mostly using restrictive tools. The provincial governments’ prevention and control of animal epidemics are a combination of active and passive types, and the tools used basically have the same characteristics as those used by the central government. The central government has formed an animal epidemic prevention and control emergency management decision-making group with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China and the State Administration for Market Supervision and Administration as the core. The policy text themes of provincial governments and agricultural animal disease prevention and control management departments match more closely than those of the central government. The study suggests that the central government's animal epidemic prevention and control policy themes can increase coverage and promote the implementation of provincial government prevention and control management measures. Provincial governments can form decision-making groups for the emergency management of animal epidemics, mobilize enthusiasm for animal epidemic prevention and control and receive feedback information, and enhance their ability to actively intervene in epidemic prevention and control.

An empirical study of personalized advertising recommendation based on DBSCAN clustering of sina weibo user-generated content

Abstract Today, with the dividend of mobile Internet traffic disappearing, mobile advertising is focusing on powerful algorithms of personalized recommendation. Sina Weibo has abundant advertising spaces and the accuracy of its recommendation directly affects user experience. UGC (user-generated content) is the selected or even original edited content for interaction through users’ subjective interests, which reflects users’ inner interests within a certain period of time. Adaptive DBSCAN clustering is performed on Weibo UGC, and the clustering center represents the user’s interest to a certain extent. By refining the text theme of advertisements to be recommended, the similarity between clustering center and the recommended theme is obtained, and the advertising category with high similarity is recommended to user. The experiment proves that the method is effective.

Study on Text Reconstruction of English Textbooks in Chinese Senior High School from the Perspective of Language Images

Text reconstruction of textbook is a matter of usual means which can help the classroom guidance of students' learning and critical thinking development. The image configuration of English textbooks in Chinese senior high school becomes one of the new hot topics on logical thinking of English language learning and cognitive symbols now. And the competence of text reconstruction of English teachers is very important knowledge structure for their cross-culture cultivation of cognitive development of Chinese senior students. This study aims to: 1) find out how to stimulate students’ new interests in language classroom learning from text reconstruction of English textbooks; 2) investigate both teachers’ and students’ interests attitudes towards the text reconstruction of English textbooks published by People’s Education Press (Abbreviated as PEP); 3) optimize the language logical relationship between language and images in English textbooks in Chinese senior high school, by the mix methods of qualitative and quantitative research based on the theoretical foundation of language image theory and multimodal discourse analysis. A total of 200 teachers from China were investigated in this survey study. The conclusion are: 1) Language image can be found in English textbooks of senior high school, but the logical system of language image has not yet formed; 2) English teachers need improvement the training of text reconstruction to scientifically and accurately understand, extract the logical relationship between images and texts from English textbooks. Suggestions for English teachers are to: 1) broaden the content of different knowledge types of language images related to the text theme; 2) pay attention to cognition cultivation of students' perception on image logical system, so as to have a better understanding of knowledge structure on logical level system, cultural connotation and humanistic thinking expressed in the text; 3) pay attention to improve the classroom competence of text reconstruction which can help the students understand the deeper meaning between language and images from textbooks explanation process.

Visualization of Emergency Needs Posted on Social Media by Metaphor Map

Thematic analysis based on a social network is one of the effective means in emergency management. To improve users' understanding, the results of the thematic analysis are often displayed through visualization. However, the previous researches on text theme visualization rarely considered the unified representation of theme structure and theme evolution. Cognitive load leads to difficulty, and it happens due to the separate representation of structure and evolution relationship and it still increases because of the characteristics of urgency, uncertainty, etc. Therefore, a metaphor map is introduced in this study to overcome the limits of previous visualization tools in characterizing the structure and evolutionary relationship of emergency. On the one hand, different elements in the metaphor map represent the information of popularity and structure of the demand, respectively. On the other hand, the visual design based on the metaphor map strengthens the representation of the content and evolution states of the demand themes. At the theoretical level, a visualization method for emergency needs based on the metaphor map is proposed in this study, which enriches the theory of emergency information visualization. At the practical level, this study explores the design of a visualization system based on the metaphor map under crisis scenarios, which enhances the interaction between users and crisis information, and provides references for decision-making such as emergency material scheduling and emergency resource coordination.

An analytical study on theme choices in the academic essays of Libyan EFL undergraduate students

Theme is the element which a speaker or writer chooses as a point of departure for a clause. Theme is of different types; each of which has a certain function in the overall discourse. Choosing the appropriate theme is important to deliver the intended message of the discourse. Many EFL students encounter problems in their theme choice which might decrease the quality of their written products. The current study investigated the frequency of the different types of themes to find out the most dominantly used theme types. For data collection, 15 academic essays written by advanced semesters' students were utilized to fulfill the purpose of the study. In analyzing the written texts, the Halladian Analysis System was followed to categorize the type of themes used in the students' writings. According to the study findings, the Topical Unmarked theme was highly dominant in the students' writing. The Textual themes occupied the second place in the frequency of use. Not surprisingly, the Interpersonal theme was very rare in the students' essays. The results of the study were interpreted and contextualized within the existing body of literature. Finally, the implications and limitations of the study were discussed.

Building of knowledge bases of decision support systems using the directed networks of terms during information operations research

The relevant issue of information operations research is considered, which includes issues of detection, recognition, analysis, and counteraction. This relevance is due to the significant impact of the information environment on society, social groups and individuals who are in it. The construction of knowledge bases of decision support systems in the information operations research takes place within the method of hierarchical goal dynamic estimating of alternatives. A new approach for the building knowledge bases of decision support systems during information operations research is proposed, which allows reducing the number of appeals to experts through the use of directed weighted networks of terms. Its application saves time and financial resources by reducing expert information usage and also provides an opportunity to identify gaps in knowledge bases. The concept of an information-analytical system for information operations research is developed, which uses directed networks of terms, within which this approach will be implemented. This system allows making recommendations that can be used to analyze and counteract information operations. During automated processing of texts related to the subject domain of the information operation object, there are conducted the formation of text corpora, based on which the construction of networks of terms. Processing of text corpora is performed by computational linguistics, and the construction of a directed network of terms is conducted using an algorithm for constructing a graph of horizontal visibility. It is proposed to determine a sufficient number of texts for representative coverage of the subject domain by stabilizing the ranks of terms when constructing thematic text corpora. An approach for determining the weights of links in the subject domain's directed networks is proposed. The application of the proposed approaches was tested on the example of texts corpora on current topics “Brexit”.