The interweaving of diaries and lives : diary-keeping behaviour in a diary-interview study of international students’ employability management

This article explores ‘diary-keeping behaviour’, or the ways in which participants conduct the completion and submission of diaries in diary research. There is a paucity of methodologically oriented literature on diary method and as such this article makes a contribution to extending the existing knowledge of this method. The primary aim of this article is to set out in detail the key issues relating to diary-keeping behaviour, in order to provide a foundation for future critical explorations of this facet of diary research. The research that this paper is based on involved a 12-month diary-interview study. This project explored the employability management of Chinese international Master’s students in social sciences studying in the UK during one academic year. The article sets out key facets of diary-keeping behaviour and explores specific considerations for diary studies in higher education contexts, where diary research has been particularly neglected

The 1979 Diary Family Income and Expenditure Survey: Experience and Preliminary Results

This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics on December 13-14, 1982. The 1979 Diary Family income and Expenditure Survey (DFIES) has utilized the diary method of data collection to minimize, if not eliminate, errors and biases arising from the traditional recall-record method of soliciting information. Jointly conducted by the National Tax Research Center and National Census and Statistics Office, DFIES aims to provide reliable quantitative information regarding personal/additional exemptions and household income/expenditure patterns. This article argues for the utilization of DFIES in the Philippines. Areas for improvement of the system are also cited.income, data and statistics, survey method, data collection

Asking the experts : developing and validating parental diaries to assess children's minor injuries

The methodological issues involved in parental reporting of events in children's everyday lives are discussed with reference to the development and validation of an incident diary, collecting concurrent data on minor injuries in a community study of children under eight years old. Eighty-two mothers participated in a comparison over nine days of daily telephone interviews and structured incident diaries. Telephone methods resulted in more missing data, and participants in both groups expressed a preference for the diary method. This diary was then validated on a sample of 56 preschool and school-aged children by comparing injury recording by a research health visitor with that of their mothers. Each failed to report some injuries, but there was good agreement overall, and in descriptive data on injuries reported by both. Parental diaries have the potential to provide rich data, of acceptable validity, on minor events in everyday life

Assessment of a self-reported Drinks Diary for the estimation of drinks intake by care home residents: Fluid Intake Study in the Elderly (FISE)

Objectives: We evaluated the accuracy of a newly developed self-completed Drinks Diary in care home residents and compared it with direct observation and fluid intake charts. Design: Observational study. Setting: Residential care homes in Norfolk, UK. Participants: 22 elderly people (18 women, mean age 86.6 years SD 8.6, 12 with MMSE scores <27). Measurements: Participants recorded their own drinks intake over 24 hours using the Drinks Diary while care staff used the homes’ usual fluid intake chart to record drinks intake. These records were compared with drinks intake assessed by researcher direct observation (reference method), during waking hours (6am to 10pm), while drinks taken from 10pm to 6am were self-reported and checked with staff. Results: Drinks intake assessed by the Drinks Diary was highly correlated with researcher direct observation (Pearson correlation coefficient r=0.93, p<0.001, mean difference -163ml/day) while few staff-completed fluid charts were returned and correlation was low (r=0.122, p=0.818, mean difference 702ml/day). The Drinks Diary classified 19 of 22 participants correctly as drinking enough or not using both the European Food Safety Authority and US recommendations. Conclusion: The Drinks Diary estimate of drinks intake was comparable with direct observation and more accurate (and reliably completed) than staff records. The Drinks Diary can provide a reliable estimate of drinks intake in elderly care home residents physically and cognitively able to complete it. It may be useful for researchers, care staff and practitioners needing to monitor drinks intake of elderly people, to help them avoid dehydration

The 1979 Diary Family Income and Expenditure Survey: Experience and Preliminary Results

This paper is presented at the Third National Convention on Statistics on December 13-14, 1982. The 1979 Diary Family income and Expenditure Survey (DFIES) has utilized the diary method of data collection to minimize, if not eliminate, errors and biases arising from the traditional recall-record method of soliciting information. Jointly conducted by the National Tax Research Center and National Census and Statistics Office, DFIES aims to provide reliable quantitative information regarding personal/additional exemptions and household income/expenditure patterns. This article argues for the utilization of DFIES in the Philippines. Areas for improvement of the system are also cited.income, data and statistics, survey method, data collection

AN ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN IKUKO AND HER HUSBAND IN JUNICHIRO TANIZAKY’S NOVEL“ THE KEY “

Literature is interesting. By reading literary work, especially novel, the reader can increase their understanding of human life, which have different culture, and the other aspects of life. Novel is one of prose fiction that tells truths of human life in unlimited\ud form. It describes romance, social life, adventure, tragedy, or mystery. By reading the novel, the readers will know how to interact and treat the other people because sometimes the characteristic of the characters in the novel are reflection of real life.\ud The purposes of this thesis are to know the way how Ikuko communicates with her husband, and to know the reasons why Ikuko and her husband communicate by diary in Junichiro Tanizaki’s novel “The Key”.\ud The research design used in this study was descriptive qualitative research design because there was no treatment as in experimental research. In conducting the research, this study applied descriptive qualitative method because the writer would describe and interpret the real condition that existed in the novel as the object of investigation. This study aimed to describe and interpret qualitatively, communication in Junichiro Tanizaky’s novel “The Key”. The writer of this thesis used objective approach because the writer only analyzed literary work, novel, without considered the author’s background of life and also the\ud audience. The object of this research was entire events on element that exist in Junichiro Tanizaki’s novel “The Key” in the form of paragraphs.\ud The result of the research could be described as follows. The first, Ikuko communicated with her husband by diary. The second, the reasons why Ikuko wrote diary were to talk to herself and to compete what her husband did. Meanwhile Ikuko’s husband’s reasons wrote diary were never had chance to talk his problems directly and to avoid his wife be\ud offended

Design and implementation of a method forthe synthesis of travel diary data

Transport has been called the maker and breaker of cities. A maker of cities because of its vital role in the bringing together of people, goods and services. A breaker of cities because of its e®ects on the quality of the living environment. In balancing both aspects, a detailed cost-bene¯t analysis of transport policy is imperative. However, compared to the analysis of (external) costs, the analysis of (external) bene¯ts is hampered by the low availability of travel diary data

The validation of a computer-based food record for older adults: the Novel Assessment of Nutrition and Ageing (NANA) method

Dietary assessment in older adults can be challenging. The Novel Assessment of Nutrition and Ageing (NANA) method is a touch-screen computer-based food record that enables older adults to record their dietary intakes. The objective of the present study was to assess the relative validity of the NANA method for dietary assessment in older adults. For this purpose, three studies were conducted in which a total of ninety-four older adults (aged 65–89 years) used the NANA method of dietary assessment. On a separate occasion, participants completed a 4 d estimated food diary. Blood and 24 h urine samples were also collected from seventy-six of the volunteers for the analysis of biomarkers of nutrient intake. The results from all the three studies were combined, and nutrient intake data collected using the NANA method were compared against the 4 d estimated food diary and biomarkers of nutrient intake. Bland–Altman analysis showed a reasonable agreement between the dietary assessment methods for energy and macronutrient intake; however, there were small, but significant, differences for energy and protein intake, reflecting the tendency for the NANA method to record marginally lower energy intakes. Significant positive correlations were observed between urinary urea and dietary protein intake using both the NANA and the 4 d estimated food diary methods, and between plasma ascorbic acid and dietary vitamin C intake using the NANA method. The results demonstrate the feasibility of computer-based dietary assessment in older adults, and suggest that the NANA method is comparable to the 4 d estimated food diary, and could be used as an alternative to the food diary for the short-term assessment of an individual’s dietary intake

Protest Against Ethnic Cleansing In Anne Frank’s The Diary Of A Young Girl (1991): A Marxist Perspective

The study focuses on the protest against ethnic cleansing in the Netherlands. Protest against ethnic cleansing here means the effort of the Jews to protest the conditions that require them away from their own countries, the Netherlands. The objectives of this study are to analyze the diary based on the structural elements and to analyze the diary based on the Marxist perspective. This study belongs to qualitative method. In this method, the data source consists of two categories, they are primary data source and secondary data source. The primary data source is the diary itself. Then, the secondary data source is about marxist theory and all relevant materials in the diary. Both of data are collected through library research and analyzed by descriptive analysis. Based on the analysis, the researcher draws the following consclusions. First is based on the structural analysis. The Diary of a Young Girl shows that Anne Frank delivers a moral message that ethnic cleansing is against human rights and human nature. The theme is supported by the style from choice of words to sentence construction that they compose a good unity. Second is based on the Marxist analysis, it is clear that Anne Frank in the diary is protesting against the oppression of the German Nazi over the Jews. The diary represents the statement of the author’s own class, being oppressed by the ruling Nazis