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Concepts and Contexts of Creative Evaluation Approaches
Authors: Christou Elisavet , Owen Violet , Ceyhan Pinar 
Published: April 2023

Background: Creative Evaluation (CE) is an unformed constellation of evaluation approaches that is based on varied understandings of creativity. Although creativity in evaluation has been consistently valued and needed by evaluation practitioners and researchers, the use of the term CE is currently limited in its applications as it has been developed inconsistently and often in isolation to the broader evaluation practice. The authors review examples where the term CE is being used, to present this constellation of approaches and group them under concepts and contexts, aiming at fostering an exploration into CE.
Purpose: This paper examines the use of term Creative Evaluation by reviewing a set of examples from varied settings like educational programmes, cultural industries and social work and to present the reader with a better understanding about the contexts and concepts associated with CE. The authors discuss the transdiciplinary nature of evaluation along with a review of historical developments in evaluation theory and practice that help identify the emergence of responsive, flexible and problem-solving driven approaches to evaluation that can showcase a growing connection between creativity and evaluation.
Setting: Not applicable.
Intervention: Not applicable.
Research Design: Desk review was utilised for the preparation of this paper.
Findings: There are different conceptualisations of the term CE applied in a variety of disciplinary and practice contexts. The term CE is used to describe both the process of applying creative thinking and the process of employing creative methods in the evaluation process. Creative thinking indicates a broader application of creativity that shapes the evaluation process and often results in the development of novel methods while creative methods indicate a more targeted use of methods that employ creative practices to achieve a specific evaluation goal like increasing engagement in the evaluation process.
Keywords: creative evaluation; creative methods; creative approaches; transdisciplinary evaluation; evaluation
Forms and Functions of Participatory Evaluation in International Development: A Review of the Empirical and Theoretical Literature
Authors: Cullen Anne E. , Coryn Chris L. S. 
Published: April 2023

Background: Since the late 1970s participatory approaches have been widely promoted to evaluate international development programs. However, there is no universal agreement of what is meant by participatory evaluation. For some evaluators, participatory evaluations involve the extensive participation of all stakeholder groups (from donor to non-recipients) in every phase of the evaluation (from design to dissemination). For others, the participation of donors in the design constitutes a participatory evaluation approach. Participatory evaluation approaches are best considered on a continuum. In other words, there are many gradations to participation and evaluations should be classified accordingly.
Purpose: The lack of shared meaning of participatory evaluation approaches also impedes serious discussion on their use including their merits and demerits, suggestions for their improvement, and their overall effectiveness. The purpose of this article is to present an examination of the literature on participatory evaluation approaches to highlight commonalities and differences.
Setting: Not applicable
Intervention: Not applicable.
Research Design: Not applicable.
Data Collection and Analysis: Desk review.
Findings: This article clearly demonstrates how broadly participatory evaluation is conceptualized and practiced and underscores the clear need for specification and precision when discussing what is meant by participatory evaluation. Recommendations for how evaluators should describe participatory evaluations are provided.
Crafting a Foundation for Evaluating a Worksite Wellness Program
Authors: Hubley Teresa A. , Dutram Kay 
Published: April 2023

Background: Businesses have been exposed to many positive accounts of the benefits of employee wellness to improve employee performance as well as reduce health and injury claims costs for the employer. However, many do not have the tools or experience to effectively demonstrate the benefits of a workplace wellness program for their own management and other stakeholders.
Purpose: This paper presents a) basic components for evaluating a workplace wellness program, b) observations gleaned from evaluating a wellness project, and c) a design for a simple evaluation system that provides information about the efficacy of the wellness program and establishes a foundation for more formal wellness program evaluation.
Setting: Maine
Intervention: Evaluating a wellness program and creating a system of measures for a sustainable evaluation system.
Research Design: Steps in wellness program evaluation are delineated (common definitions, evaluation design, i.e., logic model, data collection tools, data collection, comparison analyses, and ROI) and carried out. Particulars for a sustainable wellness program evaluation are rendered.
Data Collection and Analysis: We describe how to apply the process and measurements depicted in the logic model. We illustrate a method for calculating return on investment (determine the ratio of known wellness program costs to decreases in injury claims costs and sick leave costs). We recommend components for a sustainable evaluation system based on our experience in actualizing the logic model.
Findings: Applying the analyses we found positive benefits of employee wellness in our Maine DOT case. Workers’ compensation hours claims dropped from 875 hours in 2006, to 236 hours in 2007. Strains contributed roughly 17% of the overall injury costs reported for all three years, and almost one third of the costs for 2005. We computed a four-year ROI of $2.90. To help establish regular and routine wellness program evaluation we describe and recommend additional data sources and measurement points.
From Theory to Practice: A Path Through Imperfection-Lessons from Policy Oriented Environment and Health Research in Belgium
Authors: Keune Hans , Morrens Bert , Loots Ilse , Springael Johan 
Published: April 2023

Background: Dealing with complex issues per definition bears the burden of imperfection. Whatever comforting theoretical concepts may promise, real life complexity will take its messy toll once travelling from conceptual ambition to real life practice. We specifically reflect on the social scientific contribution to these inter- and transdisciplinary endeavours.
Purpose: We reflect on how social scientific research has tried to find its way in complex real life research practice in the field of environment and health and specifically focus on the challenges posed by the imperfections we encountered.
Setting: Two case studies in the field of environment and health in Belgium. One case study focuses on policy interpretation of research results. The other focuses on a selection of research priorities.
Intervention: Not applicable.
Research Design: Not applicable.
Data Collection and Analysis: inter- and transdisciplinary research and multi-criteria analysis
Findings: Resulting from our practical experiences we present a typology of imperfections: imperfect information, imperfect expert assessment, imperfect processing of incommensurable data, imperfect socio-political weighing/deliberation and reflection on imperfection. As easy as it seems to design processes of structuring complex issues and decision making in which involvement of a relevant diversity of actors and factors is considered praiseworthy, as complicated it is, as we have shown, in practice to organize and live up to expectations. In judging the quality of this endeavour, diverse theoretical yardsticks maybe applied that will not necessarily do justice to the practical complications of research practice. The concepts of abduction, intersubjectivity and transferability, offer interesting qualitative notions of pragmatic approaches that seem relevant to our work.
Evaluating the Due Process and Crime Control Perspectives Using Rasch Measurement Analysis
Authors: Edkins Vanessa A. , Royal Kenneth D. 
Published: April 2023

Background: The biases jurors possess may influence everything from the interpretation of case evidence to impressions of the defendant to, ultimately, verdict and recognition of this has led to a number of juror attitude scales attempting to tap into important biases. A common ideology discussed in legal research is that individuals attitudes toward the law and the legal system differ along a continuum moving from due process (a concern for the preservation of individual rights) to crime control (a focus on swift and harsh punishment for those who break the law) although an agreed upon assessment of these perspectives has yet to be created.
Purpose: The current research addresses due process and crime control perspectives and uses the ideology as a source for a new measure of juror bias: The General Attitudes toward the Legal System (GALS) scale.
Setting: Not applicable.
Intervention: Not applicable.
Research Design: The GALS scale was constructed based on existing theory and administered to nearly 700 undergraduate psychology students at a large Midwestern university. The psychometric properties of the instrument were then evaluated to determine instrument quality.
Data Collection and Analysis: The Rasch Rating Scale Model (RRSM) was used to evaluate the psychometric properties of the GALS. Evaluation focused on six characteristics of the instrument: dimensionality, reliability, rating scale quality, item quality, item hierarchy, and measure quality.
Findings: Results indicate the GALS is a psychometrically sound instrument for measuring juror bias.
Synthesis of 5-phenoxyprimaquine derivatives and their tetraoxane conjugates as anti-malarial agents
Authors:   , Jansongsaeng Somruedee 
Published: April 2023

Currently, the development of the new anti-malarial drug for the treatment of the increasing drug-resistant strains of malaria was necessary. Therefore, this research was performed by synthesis and evaluation of their antimalarial activity for the development of primaquine which currently was used for anti-malarial drug. The substituents group on 5-phenoxyprimaquine derivatives which had the highest therapeutic index and less toxicity than primaquine were emphasized. The effect of substituted group at para position was studied. Three new derivatives with CN (7e), CF3 (7g), CONH2 (7h) substituents, and five known derivatives with OMe (7b), Br (7c), Cl (7d), F (7f) substituents and the unsubstituted derivative (7a) of primaquine were synthesized. Their structures were characterized by 1H, 13C, 19F NMR and HRMS techniques. In addition, all synthesized compounds were evaluated for their anti-malarial activity using Malaria SYBR Green I-base fluorescence (MSF) assay against P. falciparum 3D7 in the blood-stage. 7a exhibited the greatest inhibitory effects with the IC50 value of 3.65 ± 0.39 µM comparing with primaquine (IC50 = 11.33 ± 0.79 µM) and another derivative with IC50 values ranging from 4.62 to 13.5 µM. Subsequently, 7a conjugated with tetraoxane 14 using a linker of four carbon to afford new 5-phenoxy primaquine-tetraoxane conjugated (15). Pleasingly, 15 exhibited inhibitory effects with IC50 values of 0.38 ± 0.11 µM, which was 30-fold more potent than that of the primaquine. Moreover, new compound 7e and 15 with high antimalarial activity had selectivity index (SI) values of more than 25 and 45.61, respectively.
Aloe vera and health outcomes: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Authors:   , Sadoyu Saranrat 
Published: April 2023

This umbrella review aims to summarize and assess the effects of Aloe vera on health outcomes. Methods: Only systematic reviews and meta-analyses of clinical trials that investigated the effects of Aloe vera on health outcomes were eligible. PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Cochrane database of systematic reviews, CINAHL, and AMED were searched from inception to October 2019. Two independent reviewers extracted data, assessed the methodological quality, and rated the credibility of evidence according to established criteria into convincing, highly suggestive, suggestive, weak, and not significant. Results: Ten articles reporting 71 unique outcomes of Aloe vera were included. Of these, 47 (67%) were nominally statistically significant based on the random-effects model (p ≤ 0.05). Only 3 outcomes were supported by highly suggestive evidence including the benefits of Aloe vera in the prevention of second-degree infusion phlebitis (RR: 0.18, 95% CI: 0.10-0.32) and chemotherapy-induced phlebitis based on the second-degree of severity and overall incidence (OR: 0.10, 95% CI: 0.07-0.14, and OR: 0.13, 95% CI: 0.08-0.20, respectively). Conclusions: The current evidence suggests the benefits of Aloe vera in the prevention of phlebitis induced by chemotherapy and intravenous infusion, particularly in the severe stage. Aloe vera also showed favorable effects in other indications, but the majority of the evidence had limitations including small sample size and poor methodological quality.
The effects of limited infusion rate of fluid in the early resuscitation of sepsis on syndecan-1 shedding: a randomized controlled trial (life3s trial)
Authors:   , Saoraya Jutamas 
Published: April 2023

Background: Aggressive fluid administration is recommended in the resuscitation of septic patients. However, the delivery of a rapid fluid bolus might cause harm by inducing degradation of the endothelial glycocalyx. This research aimed to examine the effects of the limited infusion rate of fluid on glycocalyx shedding as measured by syndecan-1 in patients with sepsis-induced hypoperfusion. Methods: A prospective, randomized, controlled, open-label trial was conducted between November 2018 and February 2020 in an urban academic emergency department. Patients with sepsis-induced hypoperfusion, defined as hypotension or hyperlactatemia, were randomized to receive either the standard rate (30 ml/kg/hr) or limited rate (10 ml/kg/hr) of fluid for the first 30 ml/kg fluid resuscitation. The primary outcome was the change in plasma syndecan-1 levels over six hours. Secondary outcomes included adverse events, organ failure and 90-day mortality. Results: We included 96 patients in the intention-to-treat analysis, with 48 assigned to the standard-rate strategy and 48 to the limited-rate strategy. The median fluid volume in six hours in the limited-rate group was 39 ml/kg (interquartile range [IQR] 35 – 52 ml/kg) vs. 53 ml/kg (IQR 46-64 ml/kg) in the standard-rate group (p < 0.001). Patients in the limited-rate group were less likely to received vasopressors (17% vs 42%; p = 0.007) and mechanical ventilation (20% vs 41%; p = 0.049) during the first six hours. There were no significantly different changes in syndecan-1 levels at six hours between the two groups (geometric mean ratio [GMR] in the limited-rate group, 0.82; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.66 – 1.02; p = 0.07). There were no significant differences in adverse events or organ failure outcomes or 90-day mortality between the two groups. Conclusions: In sepsis resuscitation, the administration of resuscitative fluid with the limited-rate strategy did not significantly mitigate the glycocalyx damages compared to the standard-rate approach.
Vaginal atrophy treatment using microablative fractional carbon dioxide laser: a randomized patient and evaluator-blinded sham-controlled trial
Authors:   , Ruanphoo Purim 
Published: April 2023

Introduction: In recent years, microablative fractional carbon dioxide (CO2) laser becomes popular in treatment of vaginal symptoms including vaginal atrophy. This study aimed to evaluate efficacy of vaginal CO2 laser in treatment of vaginal atrophy, compared to the sham procedure. Methods: Between June 2016 and May 2017, postmenopausal women with moderate to severe intensity of any symptoms of vaginal atrophy were invited to the study. A total of 88 women were randomized for treatment with vaginal CO2 laser or sham procedure every 4 weeks for 3 sessions. The participants were blinded to the intervention they received. The operator was also blinded from outcomes of those participants. Vaginal health index (VHI) score, vaginal atrophy symptom (VAS) score and vaginal dryness item of the ICIQ-VS questionnaire were compared between groups at 12-week follow-up based on intention to treat analysis. Results: Eighty-eight women were included and 9 women were lost to follow-up. All outcomes of women who received laser treatment significantly improved over 12 weeks, including VHI (p<0.001), VAS (p<0.001), ICIQ-VS (vaginal dryness item) score (p=0.02). When compared both groups at 12 weeks after procedure with intention-to-treat analysis, VHI and VAS score of laser group significantly improved when compared to the sham group (p<0.001 and <0.001 with mean difference of 1.37 (95% CI: 0.12 to 2.63) and -1.52 (95% CI: -2.21 to -0.82) respectively). Conclusions: This study demonstrated that vaginal microablative fractional CO2 laser was effective in treatment of vaginal atrophy. It could be a promising alternative treatment of postmenopausal women with vaginal atrophy.
การพัฒนารูปแบบและกลไกขับเคลื่อนอุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้ของสถาบันอุดมศึกษาในประเทศไทย
Authors:   , บัวใจบุญ กิตติโชติ 
Published: April 2023

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อวิเคราะห์การจัดการอุทยานวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีในต่างประเทศที่สนับสนุนบทบาทหน้าที่ของสถาบันอุดมศึกษา วิเคราะห์ความต้องการด้านเทคโนโลยีและนวัตกรรมสำหรับสถาบันอุดมศึกษาในประเทศไทย พัฒนารูปแบบและนำเสนอกลไกการขับเคลื่อนอุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้สำหรับสถาบันอุดมศึกษาในประเทศไทย โดยการวิเคราะห์เอกสารเกี่ยวกับอุทยานวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีจากสถาบันอุดมศึกษาในต่างประเทศ ได้แก่ สถาบันเทคโนโลยีแมสซาชูเซตส์ มหาวิทยาลัยเคมบริดจ์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกียวโต และมหาวิทยาลัยแห่งชาติสิงคโปร์ และเก็บข้อมูลจากการวิเคราะห์เอกสาร สัมภาษณ์ สอบถามผู้บริหารระดับสูงและผู้บริหารหน่วยงานระดับคณะ วิทยาลัย สถาบัน ของสถาบันอุดมศึกษาในประเทศไทยของรัฐและเอกชน จำนวน 13 แห่ง ผู้บริหารหน่วยงานภาครัฐและภาคเอกชน 12 แห่ง และการประเมินร่างรูปแบบและกลไกฯ จากผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ การวิเคราะห์ข้อมูล ได้แก่ การวิเคราะห์เนื้อหา และความถี่ ผลการวิจัยพบว่า 1. การจัดการอุทยานวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีในต่างประเทศสนับสนุนบทบาทหน้าที่ของสถาบันอุดมศึกษา สอดคล้องกับพันธกิจของสถาบันอุดมศึกษาด้านการเรียนการสอน การวิจัย และการบริการวิชาการ และบทบาทสถาบันอุดมศึกษาเพื่อการวิจัยในการพัฒนาสถาบัน เศรษฐกิจ สังคม และประเทศ 2. การจัดการด้านเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศและนวัตกรรมที่นำไปสู่อุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้ของสถาบันอุดมศึกษาในประเทศไทย พบว่า กลุ่มมหาวิทยาลัยวิจัยแห่งชาติ มีการจัดการด้านเทคโนโลยีสารสนเทศและนวัตกรรมที่นำไปสู่อุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้สูงที่สุด รองลงมาได้แก่ กลุ่มมหาวิทยาลัยในกำกับของรัฐ และกลุ่มมหาวิทยาลัยเอกชน ตามลำดับ ในด้านการจัดการหน่วยงาน การเรียนการสอน การวิจัย บริการวิชาการ และทำนุบำรุงศิลปะและวัฒนธรรม
3. รูปแบบอุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้สำหรับสถาบันอุดมศึกษาในประเทศไทย มีรูปแบบและระดับการพัฒนา ได้แก่ 1) รูปแบบอุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้เพื่อการพัฒนาสถาบัน 2) รูปแบบอุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้เพื่อการพัฒนาท้องถิ่น/สังคม (เฉพาะทาง) 3) รูปแบบอุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้เพื่อพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจ/เชิงประกอบการ (วิชาการ) และ 4) รูปแบบอุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้เทคโนโลยีขั้นสูง/นวัตกรรม 4. กลไกการขับเคลื่อนอุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้สำหรับสถาบันอุดมศึกษาในประเทศไทยประกอบด้วย 1) กลไกขับเคลื่อนด้านการบริหารจัดการ 2) กลไกขับเคลื่อนด้านโครงสร้างพื้นฐาน 3) กลไกขับเคลื่อนด้านความร่วมมือ และ 4) กลไกขับเคลื่อนด้านผลผลิต อุทยานวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีเป็นการจัดการวิจัยในสาขาวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยีและสาขาสังคมศาสตร์และมนุษยศาสตร์ภายใต้สถาบันอุดมศึกษา โดยที่มีองค์ความรู้เป็นฐานที่มีโดยลักษณะการจัดการวิจัยองค์ความรู้เพื่อการสร้างมูลค่าและคุณค่า การปรับเปลี่ยนไปสู่อุทยานเศรษฐกิจฐานความรู้จึงมีความครอบคลุมลักษณะความเป็นนิคมวิจัยที่มีองค์ความรู้เป็นฐาน สอดคล้ององค์ความรู้ที่มีความหลากหลายสาขาและสภาพสาขาวิชางานวิจัย และคงบทบาทสนับสนุนพันธกิจของสถาบันอุดมศึกษา
Development of novel comprehensive multidimensional gas chromatography for improving separation and analysis of propylene oxide sample
Authors:   , Janta Pannipa 
Published: April 2023

New experimental and data analysis approaches in multidimensional gas chromatography (MDGC) comprising 1) comprehensive two dimensional GC (GC×GC) and 2) comprehensive multiple heart-cut were developed with an example application illustrated for analysis of propylene oxide sample. GC×GC system employed column set of long first dimensional (1D) nonpolar (60 m) and short second dimensional (2D) polar (5 m) columns with a flow modulator and a Deans switch (DS) as a splitter; whilst, the comprehensive heart-cut system applied solely a DS located between long 1D nonpolar (60 m) and 2D polar (60 m) columns without use of cryogenic trapping devices. Under the same oven temperature program, the effects of different experimental conditions on the separation performances in GC×GC (injection time of the flow modulator and 2D column flow) and in comprehensive heart-cut ( heart-cut window and number of injections) were investigated. The analysis performance for each condition was evaluated according to peak capacity and number of separated compounds. The continuum between the two techniques was then established based on the analysis time vs analysis performance relationship. The separation performances were improved with longer analysis time so that the suitable condition can be selected within this compromise. The injection time of 0.60 s and 2D column flow of 14.0 mL/min were proposed as the best condition in GC×GC. For comprehensive heart-cut, the heart-cut window of 0.20 min with analysis time of 25 h was the selected condition. Under these conditions, volatile compounds in propylene oxide sample were identified according to matches between the experimental mass spectrometry (MS) spectra and first dimensional retention indices (1I) with that from NIST2014 database and the literatures. An hour analysis with GC×GC resulted in total peak capacity of 798, number of separated peaks of 61, number of identified compounds of 27 and average MS match score of 887±35. The corresponding numbers were improved to 9198, 107, 38 and 898±24, respectively, with the 25 h comprehensive heart-cut analysis.