GovQual: A quality driven methodology for E-Government project planning     

Carlo Batini  Gianluigi Viscusi  Daniela Cherubini 《Government Information Quarterly》2009

We present a multidisciplinary methodology for E-Government project planning. The set of expertise needed for the design of E-Government systems includes social, juridical, economic, organizational, and technological perspectives. To properly address such a broad range of influences requires a unique vision. Our long-term aim is to use an integrated approach to examine a number of issues which currently present challenges in many E-Government projects. This paper in particular focuses on social and technological aspects of E-Government. The methodology has four phases: (1) state reconstruction, (2) quality assessment, (3) new quality targets definition, and (4) preliminary operational planning. A case study provides evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of the methodology.  相似文献   

Influence style and students’ orientation toward extra-curricular activities: An application of the correspondence hypothesis     

Carlo Tomasetto 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2004,19(2):133-145

A recently formulated corespondence hypothesis states that influence style effectiveness depends on how it fits in with the communication contract activated in the context of influence: almost symmetrical relationships require respectful styles, while authoritarian styles are more effective when the social distance between the influence source and its targets is higher. The hypothesis was applied here to the negotiation of innovative practices in educational settings. In a 2 (message style: authoritarian vs. democratic) x 2 (targets position: not orientated vs. already orientated toward the suggested activity) experimental design, 129 university students were presented with a bogus request, attributed to their Faculty teaching staff, to participate in an extra-curricular activity. Dependent measures included direct agreement on the usefulness of the activity, and a change in the declared intention to participate in it. Results partially confirm the hypothesis, as a democratic style induces more direct agreement with the source than the authoritarian one, when the targets were already orientated toward the activity; a complementary effect emerges, that is the authoritarian style, more than the democratic one, increases the intention to participate in the activity by students who were not previously orientated in this direction.  相似文献   

Brazil: Has the Country of the Future Become the Country of the Present for Book Publishing?     

Carlo?CarrenhoEmail author 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2015,31(1):54-63

This article analyses the growth of the Brazilian book market in the decade from 2004 to 2013 and compares it to Brazil’s GNP growth. It also studies the recent developments of three factors that should contribute to the performance of the Brazilian book industry: the growth of the middle class, the decrease of functional illiteracy and the higher number of college institutions and college students in the country. This article shows that despite these factors, the Brazilian book industry is underperforming and not living up to its potential.  相似文献   

Ecologies of educational reflexivity and agency – a different way of thinking about equitable educational policies and practices for England and beyond?     

Carlo Raffo  Claire Forbes  Steph Thomson 《International Journal of Inclusive Education》2015,19(11):1126-1142

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“Real life use” of troponin in the emergency department: a survey of over 3000 cases     

Matteo Vidali  Enrica Verzotti  Nicole Cabraz  Francesca Santi  Alessia Puma  Giorgio Bellomo  Alessandro Lupi  Giuseppe Lippi  Gian Carlo Avanzi 《Biochemia medica : ?asopis Hrvatskoga dru?tva medicinskih biokemi?ara / HDMB》2015,25(3):421-429

Introduction

The aim of this study was to identify clinical variables which may be independently associated with positivity of a cardiac troponin I (cTnI) assay in a large population of patients admitted to the emergency department (ED).

Materials and methods

3166 subjects, with at least two troponin I tests ordered within 6 hours in the ED, were studied. Patient data were statistically analyzed to identify clinical associations with increased values of Troponin I.

Results

Although patients with diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome displayed troponin I values significantly higher than those of other groups, positivity to troponin I (> 40 ng/L) was also observed in patients with other clinical conditions. In multivariate analysis, age, elevated heart rate and electrocardiographyc changes were independently associated with troponin I positivity at admission. In the whole study population troponin I positivity exhibited high sensitivity and negative predictive value, counterbalanced by low specificity and limited positive predictive value.

Conclusions

Troponin I positivity should be combined with history and clinical evaluation and cautiously interpreted in the ED, especially in patients exhibiting factors associated with higher troponin I levels such as older age, elevated heart rate or ECG changes.Key words: troponin I, acute coronary syndrome, emergency service, hospital, chest pain  相似文献   

The social life of Learning Analytics: cluster analysis and the ‘performance’ of algorithmic education     

Carlo Perrotta  Ben Williamson 《Learning, Media and Technology》2018,43(1):3-16

This paper argues that methods used for the classification and measurement of online education are not neutral and objective, but involved in the creation of the educational realities they claim to measure. In particular, the paper draws on material semiotics to examine cluster analysis as a ‘performative device’ that, to a significant extent, creates the educational entities it claims to objectively represent through the emerging body of knowledge of Learning Analytics (LA). It also offers a more critical and political reading of the algorithmic assemblages of LA, of which cluster analysis is a part. Our argument is that if we want to understand how algorithmic processes and techniques like cluster analysis function as performative devices, then we need methodological sensibilities that consider critically both their political dimensions and their technical-mathematical mechanisms. The implications for critical research in educational technology are discussed.  相似文献   

White children's prosocial behavior toward White versus Black peers: The role of children's effortful control and parents' implicit racial attitudes     

Xiaoye Xu  Tracy L. Spinrad  Sonya Xinyue Xiao  Jingyi Xu  Nancy Eisenberg  Deborah J. Laible  Rebecca H. Berger  Gustavo Carlo 《Child development》2023,94(6):1581-1594

White children's effortful control (EC), parents' implicit racial attitudes, and their interaction were examined as predictors of children's prosocial behavior toward White versus Black recipients. Data were collected from 171 White children (55% male, M_age = 7.13 years, SD = 0.92) and their parent in 2017. Prosocial behavior toward White peers was predicted by children's higher EC. When predicting prosocial behavior toward Black peers and prosocial disparity (the difference between White and Black recipients), parents' implicit racial attitudes moderated the relation between children's EC and children's prosocial behavior. Specifically, children's EC was positively associated with prosocial behavior toward Black peers (and negatively related to inequity in prosocial behavior) only when parents exhibited less implicit racial bias.  相似文献