Data Analysis

In 2003, the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing (Hartford Institute), in collaboration with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, conducted a survey of baccalaureate schools of nursing in the United States to compare gerontological content to baseline data collected by the Hartford Institute in 1997. Since last surveyed in 1997, baccalaureate nursing programs have been the recipients of substantial new resources and initiatives focused on gerontological curriculum enhancement. While these initiatives are ongoing, and some are in an early stage of development, resurveying baccalaureate programs was seen as a means of taking a midcourse "pulse" as to the effectiveness of these efforts. Data suggest that there has been a fundamental shift in baccalaureate curriculum toward incorporation of a greater amount of gerontological content, integration of gerontological content in a greater number of nursing courses, and more diversity of clinical ...

This study examined the association between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and parenting outcomes including parenting stress, feelings of competence and discipline strategies. Maternal depression and current partner violence were hypothesized to be mediators of the association between CSA and parenting. This study is based on secondary data analysis of archived data. The participants were 263 primiparous mothers (107 with a history of CSA and 156 comparison mothers recruited from a prenatal clinic prior to the birth of their first child. Mothers were interviewed twice: once when they were between 28 and 32 weeks gestation and again when their child was between 2 and 4 years of age. During the first interview, women were asked about childhood experiences of sexual abuse. During their second interview, they were asked about current symptoms of pathology and experiences with partner violence and parenting beliefs and practices. Structural Equation Modeling indicated that the relationship...

Integrating geological concepts, such as relative positions and proportions of the different lithofacies, is of highest importance in order to render realistic geological patterns. The truncated plurigaussian simulation method provides a way of using both local and conceptual geological information to infer the distributions of the facies and then those of hydraulic parameters. The method (Le Loc'h and Galli 1994) is based on the idea of truncating at least two underlying multi-Gaussian simulations in order to create maps of categorical variable. In this manuscript we show how this technique can be used to assess contaminant migration in highly heterogeneous media. We illustrate its application on the biggest contaminated site of Switzerland. It consists of a contaminant plume located in the lower fresh water Molasse on the western Swiss Plateau. The highly heterogeneous character of this formation calls for efficient stochastic methods in order to characterize transport processes.

Esta tesis desarrolla el modelo de un sistema para la toma de decisiones y mejora continua que toda organización o industria debería de poseer; tomando como punto crítico la gestión cuantitativa de información. En este trabajo monográfico el modelo propuesto se implementa en las granjas de porcicultura, ubicadas en Nicaragua, de la compañia AGANORSA. La tesis incluye como base los conocimientos desarrollados por Russell Ackoff, Edwards Deming, y Eliyahu Goldratt. Además de utilizar métodos cuantitativos como el cálculo de capacidad instalada, la modelación y simulación de procesos, análisis de factibilidad de escenarios, y otros.

Bluetooth is one of the most prevalent technologies available on mobile phones. One of the key questions how to harness this technology in an educational manner in universities and schools. This paper is about a Bluetooth quizzing system which will be used to administer quizzes to students of a university. The Bluetooth quizzing application consists of a server and client mobile Android application. It will utilize a queuing system to allow many clients to connect simultaneously to the server. When clients connect, they can register or choose the option to complete a quiz that the lecturer selected. Results are automatically sent when quiz is done from the client application. Data analysis can then be done to review the progress of students.

TFM. A distancia de casi 45 años de las elecciones democráticas de 1977, el abstencionismo electoral continúa siendo un fenómeno que concierne decenas de millones de ciudadanos españoles. En este trabajo se quiere investigar sobre las características de este fenómeno, sobre su relación con aspectos políticos y socio-económicos y sobre sus efectos en los resultados electorales. Para realizar este objetivo se han utilizado dos enfoques diferentes. El primero consiste en el análisis agregado, es decir el examen de los datos electorales desde 1977 hasta 2019. En esta fase se ha analizado el nivel de participación electoral diferenciandolo por unidad territorial y tipo de elecciones, y se ha observado como han cambiado los resultados de los diferentes partidos según el nivel de abstención. El segundo enfoque consiste en el análisis individual, que se fundamenta en un examen de encuestas de opinión donde se relaciona el comportamiento electoral con características socio-económicas y opiniones políticas. Herramientas de visualización de datos y test estadísticas han sido utilizadas para permitir la individuación de patrones y relaciones significativas. En el análisis agregado se ha observado que las unidades territoriales más abstencionistas son las insulares y costeras y que el abstencionismo en las elecciones generales beneficía el Partido Popular. En el análisis individual se ha verificado como el tener un nivel de estudios primarios, una edad superior a los 60 años, el tener una opinión negativa hacia la situación política y económica y auto-ubicarse hacia el centro político tienen un efecto positvo en el abstencionismo electoral.

Data analytics (DA) is the process of examining data sets in order to draw conclusions
about the information they contain, increasingly with the aid of specialized systems and
software. Data analytics technologies and techniques are widely used in commercial industries to
enable organizations to make more-informed business decisions and by scientists and researchers
to verify or disprove scientific models, theories and hypotheses. (Rouse and Stedman, 2016).
This project will seek to discover the applicability of DA within higher education and
specifically, the usability of DA to the University of the West Indies (UWI). By using DA, the
UWI can achieve many business outcomes and be more responsive to their target market.

This paper seeks to (re)think what constitutes records within an ethnographic archive by making visible the challenges that our external IE team faced as we entered the records archived by the internal IE team that we were invited to support in the documentation and analysis of a developing Instructional Development project. Although both teams shared a common conceptual logic-of-inquiry – Interactional Ethnography – It became evident that there were limits to certainty (Green & Baker 2007) that led us to (re)examine why some particular records were archived and what they were records of.

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After the researchers took to the field to conduct research on the theme of the collection of information under study, then the next step is to analyze the research information. Moleong (2007, p. 247) stated that the process of analysis begins by reviewing research information throughout the research information available from various sources, from interviews, observations written in the notes field, and study documents. The research information after being read, studied, and analyzed the data reduction is then performed by abstracting. Abstraction is a researcher trying to make a summary of the core, the process, and the statements that need to be maintained so that it remains within it. The next step is to construct the abstraction results in the units. The units are then categorized. At the time of the categorization of the units do the coding process. The final stage of the analysis is to conduct examination of the validity of the research information. After examination of the validity of research information, while the researcher to interpret the data into a substantive theory with a particular method.

Recently, variable selection by penalized likelihood has attracted much research interest. In this paper, we propose adaptive Lasso quantile regression (BALQR) from a Bayesian perspective. The method extends the Bayesian Lasso quantile regression by allowing different penalization parameters for different regression coefficients. Inverse gamma prior distributions are placed on the penalty parameters. We treat the hyperparameters of the inverse gamma prior as unknowns and estimate them along with the other parameters. A Gibbs sampler is developed to simulate the parameters from the posterior distributions. Through simulation studies and analysis of a prostate cancer dataset, we compare the performance of the BALQR method proposed with six existing Bayesian and non-Bayesian methods. The simulation studies and the prostate cancer data analysis indicate that the BALQR method performs well in comparison to the other approaches.

The notion of “success” is narrowly defined and appropriated within an educational context. Typically limited to objective measures of organizational productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency, “successful” principal practices, we argue, engender action and attention to a broader array of issues and interrelationships. In this study, we conducted an exploratory case study drawing from interviews with five superintendents and three principals to probe broader definitions of successful school leadership. Data analysis revealed three themes to guide further research on successful leadership practice: capillarity of leadership actions, principals’ positionality in relation to members of the school community, and principals’ actions as moral ends.

This paper deals with Faculty Performance Assessment from student perspective using Statistical Analysis and Mining techniques.Performance of a faculty depends on a number of parameters (77 parameters as identified) and the performance assessment of a faculty/faculties are broadly carried out by the Management Body,the Student Community,Self and Peer faculties of the organization.The parameters act as performance indicators for an individual and group and subsequently can impact on the decision making of the stakeholders. The idea proposed in this research is to perform an analysis of faculty performance considering student feedback which can directly or indirectly impact management’s decision, teaching standards and norms set by the educational institute, understand certain patterns of faculty motivation, satisfaction, growth and decline in future. The analysis depends on many factors, encompassing student’s feedback, organizational feedback, institutional support in terms of finan...

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The aim of this study was to assess Australian girls' beliefs and feelings about menarche and menstruation using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Eighty-seven Grade 6 girls were interviewed and completed questionnaires, including both self-report and projective measures, relating to pubertal status, attitudes to and knowledge about menstruation. Results showed knowledge to be limited, with evidence of incorrect and negative myths about menstruation. Attitudes to menstruation were characterized by embarrassment, discomfort, and ambivalence about growing up. Themes in story completion tasks further reflected these attitudes, along with shame and anxiety, linked periods with incapacity or illness, and expressed the norm of periods as events which require the use of deception and denial as coping strategies. Mature problem-solving approaches to the hypothetical situations in the stories were rare. Factor analysis of the attitudinal and knowledge data revealed four factors — Comfort through Knowledge; Negative Feelings: Discomfort through Knowledge; and Independence — which were discussed in terms of the ambivalent social construction placed on menstruation.