AbstractIn 2016, J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte opened a reservable study room where student parents and caregivers can study with their children on campus. In 2018, the library opened a second family-friendly study room to meet the needs of our growing campus community. To inform the room design, the library conducted a mixed methods research study that included a user survey, an examination of room reservation and usage data, and one-on-one user interviews. This paper focuses on the user-centered design process used to inform the development of the second, family-friendly, library study room. 相似文献
Purpose: To describe the results of showing farmer learning videos through different types of volunteers.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Semi-structured interviews with volunteers from different occupational groups in Bangladesh, and a phone survey with 227 respondents.
Findings: Each occupational group acted differently. Shop keepers, tillage service providers, agricultural input and machine dealers reached fairly small audiences. Tea stall owners had large, male audiences. Non-governmental organisations and community-based organisations, reached more women. The cable TV (dish-line) operators showed the videos on local TV, but some were reluctant to do so again. The Union Information Service Centres showed the videos and reached women viewers. Half of the official government extension agents surveyed also showed the videos publically.
Practical Implication: This video featured maize, wheat and rice seeding machinery. Because the machinery is complex and requires hands-on training, this first video aimed to expose tillage and sowing service providers and farmers to the machinery, without trying to teach them how to use it. But some farmers were so interested that they watched the video many times to learn more about the equipment. Before farmers and service providers decide to buy machinery for direct seeding, they still want to see and learn from demonstration plantings, to examine first-hand how the crop behaves when planted with the new equipment.
Originality/Value: Video can be an effective way of sharing high-quality information with a large audience, if properly distributed. 相似文献
Previous papers on grey literature by the authors have described (1) the need for formal metadata to allow machine understanding
and therefore scalable operations; (2) the enhancement of repositories of grey (and other) e-publications by linking with
CRIS (Current Research Information Systems); (3) the use of the research process to collect metadata incrementally reducing
the threshold barrier for end-users and improving quality in an ambient GRIDs environment. This paper takes the development
one step further and proposes “intelligent” grey objects. The hypothesis is in 2 parts: (1) that the use of passive catalogs
of metadata does not scale (a) in a highly distributed environment with millions of nodes and (b) with vastly increased volumes
of R&D output grey publications with associated metadata; (2) that a new paradigm is required that (a) integrates grey with
white literature and other R&D outputs such as software, data, products and patents (b) in a self-managing, self-optimizing
way and that this paradigm manages automatically curation, provenance digital rights, trust, security and privacy. Concerning
(1) existing repositories provide catalogs; harvesting takes increasing time ensuring non-currency. The end-user expends much
manual effort/intelligence to utilize the results. The elapsed time of (1) the network (2) the centralized (or centrally controlled
distributed) catalog server searches (3) end-user intervention becomes unacceptable. Concerning (2) there is no paradigm currently
known to the authors that satisfies the requirement. Our proposal is outlined below. Hyperactive combines both hyperlinking
and active properties of a (grey) object. Hyperlinking implies multimedia components linked to form the object and also external
links to other resources. The term active implies that objects do not lie passively in a repository to be retrieved by end-users.
They “get a life” and the object moves through the network knowing where it is going. A hyperactive grey object is wrapped
by its (incrementally recorded) formal metadata and an associated (software) agent. It moves through process steps such as
initial concept, authoring, reviewing and depositing in a repository. The workflow is based on the rules and information in
the corporate data repository with which the agent interacts. Once the object is deposited, the agent associated with it actively
pushes the object to the end-users (or systems) whose metadata indicate interest or an obligation in a workflowed process.
The agents check the object and user (or system) metadata for rights, privacy, security parameters, and for any charges and
assure compatibility. Alternatively the object can be found passively by end-user or system agents. The object can also associate
itself with other objects forming relationships utilising metadata or content. Declared relationships include references and
citations; workflowed relationships include versions and also links to corporate information and research datasets and software;
inferenced relationships are discovered relationships such as between documents by different authors developed from an earlier
idea of a third author. Components of this paradigm have been implemented to some extent. The challenge is implementing—respecting
part two of the hypothesis—the integration architecture. This surely is harnessing the power of grey.
A longitudinal study was conducted on 398 athletes and 369 nonathletes who were born before 1920 and attended Michigan State University. The subjects were compared to determine if intercollegiate athletic competition accounts for significant variation in longevity when considered with somatotype. Because some of the subjects were still alive at the time of the study, the BMDP Statistical Software was used to do a survival analysis with covariates. Preliminary comparisons considered the differences in somatotype between athletes and nonathletes. Two sample t-tests indicated that athletes were more mesomorphic and less ectomorphic (p less than .05) than nonathletes. When comparing the relationship between somatotype and longevity, the pooled data of athletes and nonathletes indicated that endomorphs were shorter lived than the other three comparison groups. When only the athletes were considered, similar results were found. However, the nonathlete group exhibited differences only between the mesomorphic and endomorphic groups. The endomorphs were shorter lived. Longevity was examined by using the Cox proportional hazards regression method with somatotype and athlete/nonathlete status as covariates. Somatotype, by itself, was found to be significantly related to longevity, (p less than .001). Athletic status was not significantly related to longevity, either by itself or when entered into the model with somatotype. 相似文献
Recent research has shown that the psychological skills assessed by the Intercultural Adjustment Potential Scale (ICAPS) can predict adjustment, above and beyond what is already accounted for by personality. The purpose of this study was to examine if the skills tapped by the ICAPS can predict adjustment above and beyond that accounted for by both personality and general intelligence, and whether intelligence can predict adjustment above and beyond skills and personality. International students completed a battery of instruments including the ICAPS, a personality measure, and several adjustment indices. In a separate session they also completed a measure of general intelligence. The results indicated that the ICAPS did predict adjustment independently of both personality and intelligence, but that intelligence did not. 相似文献
Research Findings: Interpersonal relationships among staff caregivers, parents, and children have been recommended as essential aspects of early childhood intervention. This study explored the associations of these relationships with program outcomes for children and parents in 3 Early Head Start programs. A total of 71 children (8–35 months, M = 20), their parents, and 33 program caregivers participated. The results showed that caregiver–child relationships were moderately positive, secure, and interactive and improved in quality over 6 months, whereas caregiver–parent relationships were generally positive and temporally stable. Caregiver–child relationships were more positive for girls, younger children, and those in home-visiting programs. Caregiver–parent relationships were more positive when parents had higher education levels and when staff had more years of experience, had more positive work environments, or had attained a Child Development Associate credential or associate's level of education rather than a 4-year academic degree. Hierarchical linear modeling analysis suggested that the quality of the caregiver–parent relationship was a stronger predictor of both child and parent outcomes than was the quality of the caregiver–child relationship. There were also moderation effects: Stronger associations of caregiver–parent relationships with observed positive parenting were seen in parents with lower education levels and when program caregivers had higher levels of education. Practice or Policy: The results support the importance of caregiver–family relationships in early intervention programs and suggest that staff need to be prepared to build relationships with children and families in individualized ways. Limitations of this study and implications for program improvements and future research are discussed. 相似文献