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Análisis FODA en el proceso de autoevaluación de la carrera de Bachillerato en Informática Empresarial en la UCR, Sede de Occidente
Authors: González Herrera Denis , Parras Santamaría Sindy
Published: November 2015

El presente artículo presenta los resultados de la autoevaluación que, con miras a la acreditación, se realizó en la carrera de Bachillerato en Informática Empresarial en la Sede de Occidente de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Para eso se utilizó la técnica del FODA, ya que ésta permite conocer la situación inicial, facilita una mayor participación de las personas involucradas en el proceso, brinda la retroalimentación de la información a las distintas poblaciones, incentiva la autocrítica dentro de la Unidad Académica y suministra espacios de discusión. El identificar y analizar las principales fortalezas y debilidades de la carrera resultó fundamental en la autoevaluación ya que son insumos a tomar en cuenta en el mejoramiento continuo de la calidad de la educación superior en general y de la mencionada carrera en particular.Diá-logos 15, 39-53.
The mission, vision and values in hospital management
Authors: Rego Amélia , Araújo Beatriz , Serrão Daniel
Published: November 2015

Objective: Management depends on choices, on the hierarchy of actions, goals and values on which these decisions are founded, because values guide our actions. This study aims to identify the contents exposed in the vision, mission and values of the hospitals in the north of Portugal. It also aims to analyze the existence of content differentiation, based on the implemented management model.Methods: The design of this study is exploratory, descriptive, and explanatory. Thus, the data qualitative analysis was performed on the contents of the mission, values and vision publicized on the web pages available on 12th and 13th April 2014 in 36 Hospitals/Medical Centers of the National Health Service and hospitals linked with the Ministry of Health, for the purpose of the Integrated Management System of Subscribers to Surgery.Results: According to the definition of their mission, values and vision, the values on which hospitals are anchored focus on assistance, organization and management, quality, ethics and social responsibility. The expression of spirituality is limited to two hospitals. As for the hospital’s mission, spirituality is expressly assumed in six of the hospitals. Regarding the implemented management model, hospitals explicitly present their values, mission and vision, whether they are integrated into the National Health Service, irrespective of their legal nature (Public-Private Partnership or Public Enterprise), whether they are from the private or social sector. All of them claim to have ethical values, expressing the need to promote human dignity, the quality in the various areas and the holistic care to be provided. The concern of the private sector to add value for its employees, recipients and shareholders stands out.Conclusions: Managers recognize that ethics and human values are the foundation for the functioning of hospitals. They are aware that the mission, values and vision constitute accreditation criteria, acknowledging that they have a global reach. In the Social Sector, they are declared in the Quality Policy and in hospitals with a Public Enterprise management model they are framed in the Institutional Ethics Code.
Popperian Falsifiability on Enterprise Architecture Is Suitable from a Scientific Standpoint?
Authors: Kudlawicz Claudineia , Da Costa Rodrigo Souza , Senff Carlos Otávio , Pancote Admir , Da Veiga Claudimar Pereira , Duclós Luiz Carlos
Published: November 2015

Enterprise architecture (EA) is defined as a high-level strategic modeling, which has been shaped to help managers deal with the complexity of the business environment. Just as many areas of knowledge have been the focus of researchers on what regards testing and verifying them as scientific or not, EA is the focus for the analysis conducted in this study. Among the many scientific demarcation criteria are the philosopher Karl Popper’s ideas, which only consider as scientific theories that can be properly tested and are falsifiable. This study aims to analyze how studies related to EA, considering Popper’s scientific demarcation criteria, contribute to the acknowledgement of EA as suitable from a scientific standpoint. In an extensive literature review, EA studies that focused on business management in international databases were sought after. The results, when analyzed under the rules that guide the methods used on EA studies, lead to the inference that despite having made great progress, EA still has a long way to go on the search for expansion and maturity of the analyzed criteria.
Role and Liability of the Auditors in the Eu and in China: From Supervision Perspective
Authors: Ruichao Hu,
Published: November 2015

False financial statements have been found in audit report recently. How to prevent fraud and protect investors and debtors becomes more important. The key issue is to define the role of auditors in audit service. It shall be analyzed from multiple perspectives. The liability of auditors is another critical issue, which is consecutive part to the first issue. The second issue would be the relief procedure for investors. If this procedure functions well, it could strengthen the effectiveness of the audit regime. This thesis would discuss these issues from comparative perspectives: the EU and China. Since the legal background and economic development are different, the effect of same regime may differ a lot. This is what this thesis tries to reveal.
De Europese erfrechtverklaring, een vogel met een vreemd pluimage
Authors: Heijning S.H.
Published: November 2015

De Europese Erfrechtverklaring, een vogel met een vreemd pluimage

De Europese Erfrechtverordening schept een nieuw instrument voor de afwikkeling van internationale nalatenschappen voor de Europese burgers: de Europese Erfrechtverklaring. In Nederland heeft de wetgever de notaris aangewezen die de verklaring gaat opstellen. In dit artikel wordt op de inhoud van de verklaring nader ingegaan aan de hand van een aantal vragen.
Qualidade Percebida do Autosserviço Online: Validação da Escala e-SELFQUAL no Contexto Brasileiro
Authors: Silva Renata Gonçalves Santos , Frio Ricardo Saraiva , Sampaio Claudio Hoffmann , Broilo Patrícia Liebesny
Published: November 2015

Diante de um mercado virtual mais competitivo, impulsionado pelo crescimento das compras online e pelo aumento do nmero de varejistas nessa modalidade, mensuraes para avaliar a qualidade do servio online tornam-se importantes, sobretudo pela identificao de relao positiva entre a qualidade do servio e a performance do servio. Nesse sentido, Ding, Hu e Sheng (2011) propuseram uma medida consistente sobre a qualidade do servio no comrcio eletrnico, sob a perspectiva do autosservio: e-SELFQUAL. Este artigo apresenta resultados da replicao da e-SELFQUAL no contexto brasileiro. Duas coletas de dados foram realizadas, na primeira, para uma amostra final de 106 estudantes, observou-se uma inadequao em um constructo da escala, e uma nova traduo foi proposta. Uma segunda coleta foi aplicada a uma amostra de 175 pessoas. Os resultados atestaram a confiabilidade e validade (convergente e discriminante) da escala, mantendo os itens originais do instrumento, isso permite afirmar que a e-SELFQUAL pode ser utilizada para mensurar a qualidade do autosservio no Brasil.
“Senhora está no céu!” Estudo sobre o Uso do Pronome de Tratamento em Lojas de Vestuário Feminino
Authors: Antonialli Fabio , Vieira Kelly Carvalho , Antonialli Luiz Marcelo , Rezende Daniel Carvalho
Published: November 2015

O atendimento pessoal essencial para a satisfao dos clientes, visto que os consumidores esto buscando por um atendimento cada vez menos formal. O setor de vesturios est ligado s modificaes nas relaes sociais, rico em contedo simblico, permitindo a observao dos aspectos expressivos da cultura material, assim como o uso dos pronomes de tratamento principalmente 'voc' e 'senhora'. Nesse sentido, o objetivo deste estudo foi identificar a opinio das consumidoras em relao ao pronome de tratamento usado pelos funcionrios em lojas de vesturio feminino. Os dados foram tabulados e processados por meio do software SPSS. Foram utilizadas tcnicas de estatstica descritiva (distribuio de frequncia e tabulaes cruzadas), testes no-paramtricos (teste qui-quadrado) e tcnicas multivariadas, como a anlise de cluster e anlise discriminante. Observou-se que, principalmente para o grupo de mulheres com idade entre 30 e 40 anos o uso do pronome 'senhora' pode acarretar insatisfao e at desistncia de compra. Ademais, o trabalho contribui no sentido de direcionar os gestores e equipes de treinamento.
Orientação de Marketing Social às Campanhas de Saúde da Mulher: Uma Análise da Região do Grande ABC Paulista
Authors: Da Silva Edson Coutinho , Mazzon José Afonso
Published: November 2015

Este artigo tem como objetivo identificar e avaliar os princpios de Marketing Social (e prticas) no programa de sade da mulher na regio do ABC Paulista. A orientao de Marketing Social procura potencializar as campanhas de sade pblica, utilizando cinco princpios: foco no cliente; focar os benefcios para os clientes; esforar-se para criar valor; envolver toda a organizao no processo; estar ciente de que os clientes so diferentes. Em termos metodolgicos, esta pesquisa exploratria e descritiva por meio de estudo de caso nico; cuja regio o caso; nove entrevistas foram realizadas com gestores de sade dos programas de sade das mulheres das trs cidades da regio. Os mtodos qualitativos foram utilizados para informar os resultados. Estes pesquisadores verificaram que as estratgias de Marketing Social esto presentes na campanha de sade das mulheres, mas, nem todos os processos e da maneira esperada, como prope o modelo de plano de Marketing Social.
Marketing! Onde está o Paradigma?
Authors: Castro Júnior Deosir Flávio Lobo de , Miura Márcio Nakayama , Pereira Maurício Fernandes , Deluca Marcelo Augusto Menezes
Published: November 2015

O debate quantitativo-qualitativo, no uma discusso recente. O objetivo desse trabalho, portanto, verificar por meio do conceito de paradigma, novas perspectivas de compreender as pesquisas acadmicas em marketing, a evoluo do pensamento de marketing e as metodologias utilizadas nos estudos da qualidade de servio. Sem a pretenso de esgotar este assunto e apresentar uma concluso final, so apresentadas pesquisas que apontam para a necessidade e a importncia da pesquisa qualitativa, uma vez que auxilia ao pesquisador uma melhor compreenso da natureza complexa do mundo social em que vivemos. Segundo Santana e Gomes (2007), aps anlise da discusso de Hegel e Kant, concluem que a razo e a prpria epistemologia so construes histricas e evoluem a partir de contradies. O presente artigo est dividido em cinco momentos. Na primeira parte apresenta-se alm da introduo a constituio dos objetivos desse ensaio terico. Na segunda parte apresenta-se uma breve discusso a respeito do conceito de paradigma e o marketing. Na terceira parte apresenta-se uma retrospectiva histrica do marketing e sua evoluo de suas escolas a partir dos estudos de Miranda e Arruda (2004). Na quarta parte, so apresentadas as metodologias dos estudos sobre qualidade de servios e finalmente na quinta parte apresenta-se as consideraes finais.
Relação entre Estratégias Mercadológicas e Mecanismos de Governança: um Estudo Exploratório na Cadeia da Bovinocultura de Corte
Authors: Quevedo-Silva Filipe , Foscaches Caroline Acosta Lezcano
Published: November 2015

A relao entre atores tem sido pouco explorada pelo marketing por meio do vis da Economia dos Custos de Transao. Alguns autores sugerem que a estratgia de marketing pode impactar diretamente nas caractersticas transacionais e, consequentemente, nos mecanismos de governana escolhidos para coordenar as transaes. Estudos sugerem que trabalhos futuros na rea de marketing incluam, dentre outros fatores, aspectos relacionados relao entre os atores. Diante desse contexto, esse artigo tem como objetivo analisar como as estratgias de marketing podem afetar a escolha dos mecanismos de governana. O objeto de estudo a cadeia da bovinocultura de corte, vista sua representatividade para a economia nacional. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo qualitativo por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas com diversos atores da cadeia. Foi possvel constatar a existncia da relao entre a estratgia mercadolgica e a estrutura de governana. Em um dos casos analisados, a diferenciao do produto, traduzida em maior especificidade de ativos, levou o produtor a realizar um contrato relacional com o frigorfico e, para distribuir seu produto, efetuar uma integrao com o varejo, por meio da abertura de uma boutique de carne. Fator que no foi observado em transaes que envolvem produtores com produtos sem diferenciao, para os quais as transaes via mercado spot so predominantes.
Palette of Problems – September 2011
Authors: Rock David , Porter Mary K.
Published: November 2015

A monthly set of problems is aimed at a variety of ability levels.
Mathematics Teachers Circle around Problem Solving
Authors: Fernandes Anthony , Koehler Jacob , Reiter Harold
Published: November 2015

By meeting regularly, a group of teachers from different schools promote a culture of problem solving and engagement.
Mathematical Explorations: What a Pip! Probability and Efron's Dice
Authors: Sloop Ben C. , Che S. Megan
Published: November 2015

This investigation builds on students' understandings of fairness as they explore chance using a set of nontraditional dice with special properties.
Math for Real: Packaging Golf Balls
Authors: Hall Randy
Published: November 2015

A package of three golf balls provides the real-world scenario for this ratio and area activity.
Archaeology in the Era of Powassan and Expanding Tick-Borne Infection
Authors: Singer Merrill , Bulled Nicola
Published: November 2015

Archaeologists face a long list of job-related health risks. In recent decades, these health threats have increased because of the expanded ranges of various tick species, the growing number of human tick-borne diseases, the ability of ticks to harbor and simultaneously transmit multiple pathogens, and the spread to humans of zoonotic tick-borne diseases that have a high fatality rate, including the encephalitis-causing Powassan virus. This paper assesses the health risk that ticks pose to archaeologists working in infested areas, discusses the behaviors that put archaeologists at highest risk, and presents a set of recommendations for reducing potential harm.
Identifying Mimbres Artists
Authors: Russell Will G. , Hegmon Michelle
Published: November 2015

Past researchers have identified individual styles of painting in Mimbres Black-on-white bowls, leading Steven LeBlanc to recently call for the development of quantitative methods to enable and assess such identifications. We propose such a methodology here. Through a process of pair-wise, micro-stylistic comparisons, bowls painted by a single artist or group of closely cooperating artists are analytically linked in chain-like fashion. Two bowls are attributed to the “same hands” if their similarity measure is at or above 70 percent. Similarity measures are determined by comparing minute details that reflect artistic decisions. The method takes into account diachronic development of artistic skill, subject matter diversity, and the transfer of style across generations. Results can contribute to an understanding of stylistic development, craft specialization, and the role of artists in traditional societies.
Collecting and Caring for Tree-Ring Samples in the Southwest
Authors: Towner Ronald H.
Published: November 2015

Dendrochronology is the most precise and accurate dating technique available to archaeologists, with resolution to the year and sometimes season. As biological specimens from human-produced contexts, dendroarchaeological samples inherently contain three kinds of information: chronological, behavioral, and environmental. The purpose of this short article is to educate archaeologists on how to avoid degrading any of these three types of information through improper sample selection, collection, preparation, or transportation techniques. Dendroarchaeology is not without limitations. First and foremost, it is dependent on the behaviors of people who built structures, made artifacts, and burned wood for fuel. If past people did not use wood, or used undateable tree species, dendrochronology will simply not be useful. In some cases, people used dateable species, but their selection criteria did not meet one of the four basic criteria necessary for successful dating. The second most important factor in successful tree-ring dating of archaeological materials is the behavior of archaeologists. Finally, preservation plays an important role in successful dating and the nature of the derived dates, but the paucity of long-lived old trees and degradation of “legacy” wood on the ground have hampered
the development of millennia-long chronologies in more mesic areas.
CLARINO language resource DSpace repository at the University of Bergen Library
Authors: Al Ruwehy Hemed Ali , Gjesdal Øyvind Liland , Kyrkjebø Rune
Published: November 2015

CLARINO is a Norwegian infrastructure project jointly funded by the Research Council of Norway and a consortium of Norwegian universities and research institutions. Its goal is to implement the Norwegian part of CLARIN. Every CLARIN Centre type B is required to run a dedicated language resource data repository in accordance with certain criteria for good practice and compatibility in the CLARIN infrastructure.   The University of Bergen Library (UBL) which participates in CLARINO  was assigned the task of implementing and running a repository to primarily manage the resources at the University of Bergen.  The repository is also open to other partners in CLARINO and to the whole CLARIN community.In 2013 the University of Bergen decided to use the open software application DSpace,  as modified by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the Charles University in Prague for their CLARIN/LINDAT repository.  This poster and demo presents the architecture of the CLARINO Bergen repository. We describe the motivation for using the LINDAT repository as a model. We describe the process of setting up in Bergen the required functions by adapting the LINDAT software where needed.UBL had some previous experience with DSpace for the implementation of the Bergen Open Research Archive.   This experience showed that DSpace is a functional and stable platform which is open source and well maintained by an active user community.  It provides long term storage and linking, suitable authentication mechanisms, handling of licenses for downloading of resources, and metadata can be harvested at an OAI-PMH endpoint.Our poster presents the Bergen CLARINO repository as a good example of sharing of technical solutions. We will show the main features which has been added in LINDAT in order adapt DSpace for use in CLARIN, namely CMDI metadata integration and a method for license handling which adds the possibility of signing licenses.We will point out remaining technical challenges. A major one has to do with the metadata flow.  Our  system is able to generate CMDI metadata, as required by CLARIN, from DSpace internal metadata fields.  However, there are differences between the Norwegian (CLARINO) and Czech (LINDAT) metadata profiles. Furthermore, DSpace cannot accommodate arbitrary new CMDI profiles. A principal limitation is that DSpace local metadata are a flat structure while CMDI has a hierarchical structure with possible embedding of components in components.
A survey of the research data management in Austria
Authors: Sánchez Solís Barbara
Published: November 2015

In early 2015, the scientific and artistic-scientific personnel at all 21 universities and three non-university research institutions in Austria received the call to participate in an Austria-wide survey relating to research data. The survey was conducted within the project entitled e-Infrastructures Austria and facilitated the collection of the practical handling of digital data. The findings from this survey form the basis for a consecutive optimization of the infrastructures and services available in this field, in accordance with needs that have been expressed.Solid research data management is the foundation of cooperative and open research and thus of its comprehensibility and verifiability. The subject is equally relevant and current for researchers, funding bodies and senior posts of scientific institutions.The poster visualizes the main findings of this ambitious survey. For the first time, the status quo of domestic data management is displayed in a representative manner crossing all disciplines. This can be used by individual institutions to derive organizational, structural or strategic measures for the development of infrastructures. On the other hand, it allows a co-ordinated, Austria-wide approach for identifying common areas of responsibility and for establishing central services.
What about prestige in gold Open Access publishing – a survey investigating publication patterns of researchers at Swedish universities
Authors: Hertil Lindelöw Camilla
Published: November 2015

Fully gold Open Access (OA) publication channels are still hold to be of inferior quality compared to channels offered by publishers with traditional subscription business models, albeit less and less so. The threat of predatory publishers looms on one side, and on the other most OA publishers haven’t been around to gather prestige for so long. Still, there seems to be a steady advance. For example, OA publication channels may now be found at level two (indexing the channels perceived as having most academic prestige in a certain subject) of the Norwegian Publication Model (NPM).In an earlier survey, I investigated the publication patterns of researchers at Swedish universities with focus on their gold OA publishing in journals. The publication patterns were contrasted with the occurrence of OA journals in NPM. 29 % of the DOAJ journals were present as approved channels in NPM. DOAJ is frequently mentioned as the most comprehensive OA journal indexing service in the world. At level one, 14 % of the listed journals were OA, whereas only 2 % of level two journals were OA. Out of the DOAJ-journals included in NPM, only 1 % made it to level two. This is probably explained by the situation described above; OA journals are often new to the scientific publishing market, and therefore they haven’t had the time to gather academic prestige.The OA journals that researchers at Swedish universities published were almost all of them present in DOAJ. 7 % of these were at level two. This pattern seems to imply that researchers are trying to fulfil demands of OA publishing from funders, while at the same time trying to gather prestige for their own researcher career. This poster aims to further explore these results, with focus on the 7 % journals at level 2. Which journals can be found here, and what is the distribution? Which research subjects are involved?
Monitoring the Transition to Open Access in the UK and beyond
Authors: Johnson Rob
Published: November 2015

Researching Consulting was part of a consortium of organisations that has undertaken a major study of the transition to open access (OA) in the UK and globally, including its implications for authors, universities and learned societies. The study, which was funded by Universities UK, was published in September this year, and sought to provide reliable indicators on five key features of the transition to OA both in the UK and globally:the numbers of fully-OA and hybrid journals available to authors, along with issues such as the level of article processing charges (APCs), the availability of CC-BY licences, and the length of embargo periods;the number of articles accessible on OA terms via different routes;the level of usage of OA articles as compared to those that are not accessible on OA terms;the amounts paid by UK universities in subscriptions and in APCs; andthe overall income and expenditure – as well as the volumes of journal-related income and expenditure – of UK learned societies.Among other things, the findings indicate that most journals offer an OA option, largely following the hybrid model, and that immediate OA publication is growing faster than other options, with a steep increase in APC expenditures by UK universities. In considering the implications of OA for UK learned societies, the study has allowed the importance of publishing as a revenue stream for societies to be quantified for the first time, and finds no evidence that (up to the end of 2013) OA has had any adverse impact on their overall financial health. The study fills a number of gaps in current understanding of the transition to OA and it has important implications for the scholarly and publishing communities both in the UK and internationally.
OA: what’s the impact for the researcher, the library, and the publisher?
Authors: Devine Elaine , Kirby Carolyn
Published: November 2015

Publishing OA allows research to be read by anyone, anywhere. But how do authors understand the reach of their work, and what tools can they use to ensure it has the impact that they want it to?Libraries are increasingly playing an integral role in managing the open access research output from their institutions, and librarians are often becoming the go-to person to support those publishing OA. How are library teams adapting to these developments and rising to the challenges?What can the publisher do to support researchers in understanding the impact of their work, and librarians in having the right infrastructure to advocate OA within their institutions?This presentation will examine the changing dynamic between publisher, library and researcher, drawing on case studies from across Europe, as well as suggesting tools which can help facilitate the OA process.
Open Access and Research Assessment in the United Kingdom
Authors: Tate Dominic
Published: November 2015

Beginning in April 2016, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will require that all journal articles and conference papers are deposited in a subject or institutional repository immediately at the point of acceptance for publication and made Open Access as the earliest possible opportunity, subject to publisher embargoes. This requirement is a prerequisite to journal articles and conference proceedings being weligible for submission to the next Research Assessment Exercise (REF). This new association between Open Access and research assessment is rapidly leading to a large-scale transition to Open Access in UK-based universities. This transition will bring many benefits, but the scale of UK universities’ Open Access operations brings a number of challenges to the implementation of this requirement. This poster will examine some of these challenges and explain how a number of universities are dealing with them.
Reference models for e-infrastructures and related research data management: A use case from Austrian Universities
Authors: Ganguly Raman
Published: November 2015

One goal of e-Infrastructures Austria, a project involving Austrian universities and non-university research institutions, is to find strategies for managing research data. We established a network of experts from libraries and IT services to develop architecture for efficient e-infrastructures and related reproach data management.Based on our experience from years of running a repository project for research data, we have developed models for designing e-infrastructures for research data management. This model helps us to design technical and non-technical services for preserving data. In this poster, we will present ways of defining the world of data, workflows for data preservation and models for defining roles in the entire process.These models help to structure different aspects for data preservation based on each data type. It is necessary to have different solutions for the different kinds of needs that researchers may have, whereas there must be alternate solutions for preventing sensitive data from being misused when handling petabytes of data.
The Open Access Strategy of Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP
Authors: Østreng Dorte
Published: November 2015

Cappelen Damm Akademisk has established an editorial division for Open Access scholarly publishing of journals and books under the name: Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing (NOASP). In cooperation with Co-Action Publishing, a pioneer in the field of Open Access publishing, NOASP has established a user-friendly platform that provides suitable presentation, legibility, straightforward navigation, optimal search-functionality and ideal distribution for scholarly journals.NOASP offers editorial support from a team of experienced editors who will steer manuscripts through the various phases of the publication process. The platform is easy to use, for editors, authors and peer-reviewers alike. It has been developed with good workflow, simple logistics and a clear system for handling multiple versions of an article in mind.NOASP was established roughly one year ago. We now have six Open Access journals, three of which are entirely new. We were also the first Norwegian publisher to release an Open Access book, and several more peer-reviewed monographs and anthologies are in the pipeline. NOASP is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Association (OASPA), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB).The OA landscape is constantly evolving, and as an Open Access publisher, we seek out knowledge and information from experts in the field and connect with important OA-actors internationally, as well as gaining expertise in the Norwegian and Nordic context. We also support and help our journals in the accreditation process and in obtaining governmental financial support. We believe that an important role in being early movers on the OA front in Norway is to be an active part of the evolving process.NOASP provides Open Access publishing on the principle that making research accessible supports a greater exchange of knowledge. As an academic publisher, we believe Open Access publishing is an important supplement to our publication portfolio, and we are dedicated to promoting OA publishing as an essential service to the academic community in the Nordic countries.
Data modeling and processing as a library service for digital humanities research data management
Authors: Rydving Karin , Kyrkjebø Rune
Published: November 2015

Our University Library (UBL) have seen the need and potential for strengthening the infrastructure for digital full text resources at the University of Bergen and we wanted better to establish the library’s role in this area.Five years ago, several research communities expressed concerns that it was becoming increasingly difficult to sustain the competence necessary to run and maintain both physical and digital research archives. More specifically a concrete need for supporting XML-based digital humanities text resources was voiced. We felt the UBL could meet this need by providing a new service.A combination of data modeling, data conversion and an active use of open data solutions has in our view shown itself to be an effective solution. We find that in-house data modeling and processing competence is essential in order to cope with tasks connected to digital text and image resources.Our poster will outline our digital service provision by giving selected references and examples.The Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB) is one example of a recipient of UBL data services. WAB maintains a richly encoded XML version of the complete Nachlass of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.A library web resource building upon library data modeling and conversion is MARCUS, which shows how catalogue data and image data for the University Library’s own manuscript collections and photographic collections are currently digitized and interconnected using electronic representations of documents and Linked Data/RDF (Resource Description Format) metadata. MARCUS meets UBLs long felt need for a unified special collections digital system. This relates not only to document storage, display and dissemination, but also to the library workflow for the special collections. Both WAB and MARCUS benefits, strategically and day-to-day, from the same competencies within the library.We think that a sensible future-oriented solution entails that each institution, to a greater degree than before, works with modeling and conversion of its own data. Our view is that using Linked Data/RDF encoding will pave the way to connecting data sets in such a way that they enrich one another. Rather than functioning as system providers, we envision large institutions processing and sharing open datasets, as well as encouraging and enabling others to do the same.In line with LIBERs Ten recommendations for libraries to get started with research data management our view is that data modeling and data conversion, within the frame of an active use of open data solutions, are services that belongs within the portfolio of the research library. Presented by Irene Eikefjord, Senior Librarian, University of Bergen Library
Peer review and its discontents
Authors: Hossenfelder Sabine
Published: November 2015

See video of the presentationScience is a community enterprise. Its quality control is expert judgement, which makes it necessary for peers to assess peers. For this reason, the organization of scholarly research is highly susceptible to social biases which conflict with scientific objectivity. Such biases, when unrecognized, interfere with knowledge discovery.In my talk I will explain that the scientific system presently operates extremely inefficiently because individuals’ incentives are not aligned with the systems’ purpose. I will identify four types of pressure: time pressure, financial pressure, peer pressure, and public pressure, and argue that these skew researchers’ interests. Top-down solutions cannot solve this problem, but, as I will explain in my talk, scientists themselves must take initiative.
Scholarly profiles, user preferences and impact scores
Authors: Mikki Susanne , Zygmuntowska Marta , Al Ruwehy Hemed Ali , Gjesdal Øyvind Liland
Published: November 2015

See video of the presentation.We investigate the digital presence of scholars at different academic Web sites. With new technologies, creating profiles, disseminating and exchanging ideas is easily done, and scholars are more likely to attend the networks and impact their community.In our study we compare research profiles of employees at the University of Bergen at five different academic network sites. The sites are ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Google Scholar, ResearcherID and ORCID. CRIStin, the Current Research Information System in Norway (www.cristin.no), is used as a reference value. CRIStin is a national database which contains quality-assured data on scientific publications including supplementary author details such as age, gender, position and affiliation. All investigated sites have varying scopes (and degree of control), but also common features which are worth to investigate and compare.Data is collected using Web scraping applications developed at the University of Bergen Library by searching for the researchers that are affiliated with the University of Bergen.  This was achieved by analyzing the Document Object Model (DOM) of every academic site and then building up a set of selectors and expressions, so that the DOM could be traversed programmatically and indicators extracted.Author recognition is then done by comparing names given in the services with names in CRIStin. After extensive data cleansing and deduplication we were able to compare the different services.Our first goal is to determine number of profiles and degree of overlap. The overlap tells us whether scholars are willing to maintain their profiles at several services. Preference of platform in regard to faculty affiliation, position and age is another aspect of our investigation.Further, we analyze extracted indicators in regard to traditional bibliometric and “altmetric” measures. Bibliometric measures are related to publications and citations, while “altmetric” indicators comprise different forms of Web activities such as followers, following, views and downloads. The indicators vary from service to service, and a correlation analysis tells us whether indicators are related to each other or not. We find that about 37% of researchers at the University of Bergen have at least one profile. They are reluctant to maintain several profiles and overlap was therefore relatively small. Age is a poor predictor of web site use, and women are underrepresented on the investigated platforms. The representation is highest at the Faculty of Psychology and the Faculty of Social Sciences (> 40%). Available indicators show high correlation within bibliometric indicators, but correlation is weak with social and activity indicators across platforms.
The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance
Authors: Browman Howard I.
Published: November 2015

See a video of the presentation.Quantifying the relative performance of individual scholars, groups of scholars, departments, institutions,  provinces/states/regions and countries has become an integral part of decision-making over research policy,  funding allocations, awarding of grants, faculty hirings, and claims for promotion and tenure. Bibliometric  indices (based mainly upon citation counts), such as the h-index and the journal impact factor (JIF), are heavily  relied upon in such assessments. There is a growing consensus, and a deep concern, that these indices - moreand-more often used as a replacement for the informed judgment of peers - are misunderstood and are,  therefore, often misinterpreted and misused. Although much has been written about the JIF, some combination  of its biases and limitations will be true of any citation-based metric. While it is not my contention that  bibliometric indices have no value, they should not be applied as performance metrics without a thorough and  insightful understanding of their (few?) strengths and (many?) weaknesses. I will present a range of analyses in  support of this conclusion. Alternative approaches, tools and metrics, that will hopefully lead to a more  balanced role for these instruments, will also be presented.
JATS4R – standardising the way XML content is tagged to enhance publishing workflows and reusability
Authors: Harrison Melissa
Published: November 2015

See video of the presentation.There are many participants in the publishing ecosystem and all have a vested interest in labelling content in a consistent manner so interchange between systems, processes and parties is made easier. Reuse and discoverability of final output is greatly increased by consistent labelling. XML is the standard interchange format favoured at the end of the publishing process, but this is moving upstream in an effort to save processing time as well as allowing standards to form for common systems earlier in the process, for example at submission.The JATS4R (JATS for Reuse) working group is composed of all parties in the publication process (e.g. publisher, submission system, traditional production vendor (typesetting/composition), online host, data repository and data miner).To this end, in April 2015 two formal JATS4R recommendations were published: license information and math representation.To check whether content is compliant with the recommendations, we have built a JATS4R validation tool (http://jats4r.org/validate/).A side, but important aim of the group is to encourage and enable publishing staff to gain confidence and control over their XML. We recognise many small (and large) publishers may leave these decisions to their vendors and online hosts. We hope to encourage an interest in XML and help demystify it for people who are processing content on a day-to-day basis, so they have a greater understanding of the decisions they make and the wider implications.
Program - The 10th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing
Authors: Høydalsvik Stein
Published: November 2015

The conference program
A tide prediction and tide height control system for laboratory mesocosms
Authors: Miller Luke P. , Long Jeremy D.
Published: November 2015

Experimental mesocosm studies of rocky shore and estuarine intertidal systems may benefit from the application of natural tide cycles to better replicate variation in immersion time, water depth, and attendant fluctuations in abiotic and edaphic conditions. Here we describe a stand-alone microcontroller tide prediction open-source software program, coupled with a mechanical tidal elevation control system, which allows continuous adjustment of aquarium water depths in synchrony with local tide cycles. We used this system to monitor the growth ofSpartina foliosamarsh cordgrass and scale insect herbivores at three simulated shore elevations in laboratory mesocosms. Plant growth decreased with increasing shore elevation, while scale insect population growth on the plants was not strongly affected by immersion time. This system shows promise for a range of laboratory mesocosm studies where natural tide cycling could impact organism performance or behavior, while the tide prediction system could additionally be utilized in field experiments where treatments need to be applied at certain stages of the tide cycle.
Ionospheric response to tidal waves measured by dynasonde techniques
Authors: Negrea Cătălin , Zabotin Nikolay , Bullett Terence , Codrescu Mihail , Fuller‐Rowell Tim
Published: November 2015

Atmospheric tides are known to have a dramatic influence on thermospheric and ionospheric structure and variability. Considerable effort goes into understanding characteristics of tidal modes, their interactions with planetary and gravity waves and other tidal modes, as well as their influence on the background state of the thermosphere‐ionosphere system. For the altitude interval between roughly 120 and 400 km, this effort is somewhat hindered by the lack of global observations. We propose a new method of determining tidal variability by making use of dynasonde measurements. The NeXtYZ inversion procedure produces altitude profiles of the ionospheric parameters with a vertical resolution typically better than 1 km. This, together with the typical 2 min cadence of the instrument, results in extensive data sets with wide temporal and altitude coverage. At any given altitude we have nonuniform sampling due to the natural ionospheric variability. A Lomb‐Scargle implementation is used to obtain equivalent results at all altitudes and locations. We report height profiles of the first three tidal harmonics derived from dynasonde measurements. The data analyzed include the vertical electron density profiles, the ionospheric X (east‐west) “tilt” measurement, and the derived zonal plasma density gradient. Both the tilt and the gradient are shown to be sensitive tracers of atmospheric waves. We use data from Wallops Island and San Juan, for two time intervals: 6 May‐ 6 June and 9 October‐ 8 November 2013, thus capturing seasonal, latitudinal, and altitude variations of tidal amplitude and phase. This proves the potential of using dynasonde‐capable instruments as a data source for tidal studies in the thermosphere.
GPS as a solar observational instrument: Real‐time estimation of EUV photons flux rate during strong, medium, and weak solar flares
Authors: Singh Talwinder , Hernandez‐Pajares Manuel , Monte Enric , Garcia‐Rigo Alberto , Olivares‐Pulido Germán
Published: November 2015

In this manuscript, the authors show how the Global Navigation Satellite Systems, GNSS (exemplified in the Global Positioning System, GPS), can be efficiently used for a very different purpose from that for which it was designed as an accurate Solar observational tool, already operational from the open global GPS measurements available in real‐time, and with some advantages regarding dedicated instruments onboard spacecraft. The very high correlation of the solar extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photon flux rate in the 26–34 mm spectral band, obtained from the solar EUV monitor instrument onboard the SOHO spacecraft during Solar flares, is shown with the GNSS solar flare activity indicator (GSFLAI). The GSFLAI is defined as the gradient of the ionospheric vertical total electron content rate versus the cosine of the Solar zenith angle in the day hemisphere (which filters out nonsolar over ionization), and it is measured from data collected by a global network of dual frequency GPS receivers (giving in this way continuous coverage). GSFLAI for 60 X class flares, 320 M class flares, and 300 C class flares, occurred since 2001, were directly compared with the EUV solar flux rate data to show existing correlations. It was found that the GSFLAI and EUV flux rate present the same linear relationship for all classes of flares, not only the strong and medium intensity ones, X and M class, as in previous works, but also for the weakest C class solar flares, which is a remarkable result.
Evidence of scale height variations in the Martian ionosphere over the solar cycle
Authors: Sánchez‐Cano B. , Lester M. , Witasse O. , Milan S. E. , Hall B. E. S. , Blelly P.‐L. , Radicella S. M. , Morgan D. D.
Published: November 2015

Solar cycle variations in solar radiation create density changes in any planetary ionosphere, which are well established in the Earth's case. At Mars, however, the ionospheric response to such changes is not well understood. We show the solar cycle impact on the topside ionosphere of Mars, using data from the Mars Advance Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) on board Mars Express. Topside ionospheric variability during the solar cycle is analyzed through neutral scale height behavior. For moderate and high solar activity phases, the topside electron density profile is reproduced with an altitude‐variable scale height. However, for the period of extremely low solar activity in 2008 and 2009, the topside was smaller in density than in the other phases of the solar cycle, and there is evidence that it could be reproduced with either a constant scale height or a height‐variable scale height with lower electron density. Moreover, the ionosphere during this time did not show any apparent dependence on the EUV flux. This singular behavior during low solar activity may respond to the presence of an induced magnetic field which can penetrate to lower ionospheric altitudes than in other phases of the solar cycle due to the reduced thermal pressure. Numerical simulations of possible scenarios for two different solar cycle phases indicate that this hypothesis is consistent with the observations.