77 research outputs found

    Hidden Strains: Understanding Schizophrenia's Impact on Families and Communities

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    "Hidden Strains: Understanding Schizophrenia's Impact on Families and Communities" examines the challenges family caregivers of schizophrenia patients face in Romania. This study uncovers the socio-economic burdens and limited psychiatric support, particularly in rural areas, compounded by societal stigma. A significant finding is the caregivers' knowledge gap about schizophrenia, underscoring the need for mental health education for early detection and stigma reduction. The research stresses the vital roles of family and community in schizophrenia care, advocating for more community resources. It introduces innovative care models like the "Open Dialogue Approach" from Scandinavia, suggesting solutions for Romania's mental health challenges. Broadening its view, "Hidden Strains" contrasts Romanian mental health issues with global trends, emphasizing the urgency of mental health reforms. Concluding with recommendations for worldwide application, this work offers insights for professionals, caregivers, and policymakers, and resonates universally despite its Romanian foundation

    El lenguaje económico en los tiempos de la crisis global: un estudio longitudinal de análisis de sentimiento

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    El siguiente paso fue el análisis de datos, en el cual se realiza el análisis de sentimiento los conjuntos de datos. El análisis consta de tres partes: (a) una tabla de resultados estadísticos descriptivos longitudinales relativos a las puntuaciones de sentimiento, (b) una tabla anual de colocaciones y (c) una discusión sobre los hallazgos en el corpus a partir de la observación de rankings anuales de colocaciones, con la intención de triangular los datos obtenidos. Principalmente, se evidencian dos hechos: (1) Los términos se convierten en palabras evento dado el enorme aumento de su frecuencia de uso debido a los eventos clave de la crisis. A partir de este fenómeno se producen cambios significativos en el uso (la orientación semántica de colocaciones varía) y frecuentemente suelen tiene un nivel menor de especialización. (2) Las medias anuales de la orientación semántica de un término contextualizado permiten observar fluctuaciones importantes en el sentimiento embebido en el discurso. Una triangulación de los datos cuantitativos con sus colocaciones más significativas y los eventos relacionados con la Gran Recesión permite concluir que la orientación semántica de los términos del dominio económico-financiero es muy susceptible de variar a medida que se desarrollaron los hechos de la crisis financiera. Fecha de lectura de Tesis Doctoral: 20 de septiembre 2019Esta tesis se centra en el estudio longitudinal de la influencia de los eventos en la forma en la orientación semántica en la terminología económica. En este caso se estudiará el periodo de la Gran Recesión, un acontecimiento de primer orden que generó una gran cantidad de información textual que se ha aprovechado como fuente de datos susceptibles de ser analizados automáticamente. El análisis de sentimiento es una disciplina del procesamiento del lenguaje natural que se ocupa del tratamiento computacional de la opinión de la subjetividad en los textos. Por ello, el objetivo general de esta tesis es analizar las fluctuaciones en la orientación semántica de una serie de términos económicos dentro del período 2007-2015 a través de la caracterización del impacto de los eventos de mayor orden en las variaciones semánticas de las unidades léxicas. Entre sus objetivos específicos están: (1) recopilar un lexicón de sentimiento de dominio económico-financiero en lengua inglesa a partir de un corpus de noticias económicas diseñado ad-hoc, (2) definir un conjunto de datos longitudinal en forma de oraciones que contienen los términos de estudio y que serán el input del análisis de sentimiento, (3) tras analizar los una serie de términos económicos-financieros, identificar los eventos que han acompañado a cambios en su orientación semántica y (4) analizar las posibles variaciones en la prosodia semántica. Para llevar a cabo el análisis automático, se desarrolló LexiEcon, un lexicón plug-in de dominio específico para la lengua inglesa adaptado para la suite Lingmotif. Dada su amplitud, los resultados de cobertura y exhaustividad de su evaluación fueron muy satisfactorios (F1 0,735). Esta cifra supone alrededor de un 20% más que los resultados que ofrece Lingmotif sin léxico específico cuando clasifica los textos del dominio económico-financiero

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    Richard Bud Meade worked in Human Resources at the College at Brockport from 1968-2000. He knew many of our faculty and staff and in retirement he began to circulate an email newsletter which passed on stories and news about various college retirees. This remarkable, ongoing project has captured a tremendous amount of information about the folks who built the college over the last 50 years. This collection of his Update is searchable, and covers from the beginning in 2001 up to August, 2020. More will be added as time goes on..

    Exploring Software Testing Strategies Used on Software Applications in the Government

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    Developing a defect-free software application is a challenging task. Despite many years of experience, the intense development of reliable software remains a challenge. For this reason, software defects identified at the end of the testing phase are more expensive than those detected sooner. The purpose of this multiple case study is to explore the testing strategies software developers use to ensure the reliability of software applications in the government contracting industry. The target population consisted of software developers from 3 government contracting organizations located along the East Coast region of the United States. Lehman’s laws of software evolution was the conceptual framework. The data collection process included semistructured interviews with software developers (n = 10), including a review of organizational documents (n = 77). Thematic analysis was used to identify patterns and codes from the interviews. Member checking activities were triangulated with organizational documents to produce 4 major themes: (a) communication and collaboration with all stakeholders, (b) development of well-defined requirements, (c) focus on thorough documentation, and (d) focus on automation testing. The results of this study may contribute to information about testing strategies that may help organizations improve or enhance their testing practices. The results of this study may serve as a foundation for positive social change by potentially improving citizens’ experience with government software applications as a result of potential improvement in software testing practice

    An Ethical Model for Mandatory Reporting to Avoid Preventable Adverse Harm in Health Care

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    The goal of the dissertation is to undertake an analysis in healthcare ethics that focuses upon organizational ethics to resolve problems related to medical error in the U.S. The ethical argument focuses upon justifying a model of mandatory reporting nationally. While countless others have argued in favor of the implementation of a mandatory reporting system, this dissertation presents its model through the lens of organizational theory; arguing first that healthcare organizations are ethically required to invest in patient safety. This premise frames the foundation for this dissertation\u27s central argument; namely, that U.S. healthcare organizations have an ethical imperative to protect the public from undue harm. Only after having established this normative foundation does this dissertation address the primary obstacle to improving patient safety (the current culture of medicine) and offer suggestions for how to begin to build a business case to incentivize decisive action to develop a culture of safety. The ethical argument explores the justification for developing a centralized, mandatory, non-punitive reporting system that can collect and disseminate adverse event information to a national audience. The analysis relates two foundational concepts to advance this argument: namely, the system-based approach to patient safety and institutional moral agency. The discussion of the systems-based approach to patient safety informs the stance that healthcare organizations are uniquely situated to intervene to reduce medical error. This approach emphasizes the role of system defenses, barriers, and safeguards in preventing errors; recognizing that, because humans are fallible and cannot be made perfect, reform efforts need to focus on system design to prevent harm. The second concept provides a normative framework to hold healthcare organizations morally accountable for failures in system design. Without moral agency, organizations cannot be held accountable for their institutional practices or use of systems. Together, these concepts provide an ethical framework to advocate for greater transparency and the nationwide implementation of a mandatory reporting system for preventable adverse harm

    Technological Evolution in Software Engineering

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    In all software development processes, the software must evolve in response to its environment or user needs to maintain satisfactory performance. If software doesn’t support change, it gradually becomes useless. With many organizations today, being software-centric organizations, this has huge implications for their business: evolve your software, or risk your software becoming gradually useless, and therefore, your entire business. Technology Evolution is a highly relevant subject, Intel’s business model for the last 50 years, has been that of Moore’s Law, a hardware centric Technology Evolution model. As a Software Engineer at Intel, our business group faces a similar issue, we must continually adapt, and evolve our software, in response to our customer’s needs, and current technology trends, if we don’t evolve our software, our competitors will evolve theirs faster, and our business group, will gradually cease to exist, without competitive, and evolving software. The software evolution phenomenon was first identified in the late 60s though not termed as such till 1974. The goal of this article, is to explore the current literature on software evolution, and its impacts on software development activities, and software organizations. As a manager, and practicing Software Engineer, software evolvability, the ability, inter alia, for responsiveness and timely implementation of needed changes, will play an ever increasing more critical role in ensuring the survival of a society ever more dependent on computers

    Diversity in IS research : a fictive metaphor analysis

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    In striving to understand Information Systems phenomena Information Systems researchers frequently draw on a seemingly endless array of different disciplines to inform their studies. This act has drawn both the ire and admiration of those within the field as well as those outside its porous boundaries. On the one hand Information Systems researchers are berated for being chaotic and schizophrenic in their combined research endeavour - for producing a collective output that shows neither rhyme nor reason. On the other hand they are praised for being intellectually open and democratic in their approach. These reactions draw their strength from the many issues that stem from diversity in Information Systems research. These reactions are stimulated in part by the assertion that research in the Information Systems discipline is diverse. Despite this assertion not much is known or understood about diversity in Information Systems research. This thesis addresses this critical oversight by making research diversity the prime focus. The contributions it makes to current understandings of research diversity in Information Systems are philosophical, theoretical and empirical. Philosophically, this thesis relies on the novel approach of fictism - a blend of positivism and interpretivism. Theoretically, it explores diversity through the alternative lens of concepts. Empirically it examines the conceptual diversity of three key Information Systems concepts: organisations, technology and people. Grounded in Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) work with metaphors, the results show that Information Systems research may not be as diverse as was initially thought. Of the three primary views of key Information Systems concepts - machine, organism and culture - the study finds a distinct bias toward conceptualising these concepts as machines. This bias, one that exists at the very core of the Information Systems research endeavour, has important implications not only for individual researchers but the broader Information Systems community alike
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