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Life cycle assessment of building materials: A comparison by electre methodology

1996

There is a growing awareness that in selection of building materials the designer must also consider environmnental impacts, either in global and local scale. Unfortunately, design community has an inadequate knowledge about the factors that affects environmental consequences of producing and operating buidings. To increase understanding on selection criteria and comparison of building alternatives in an “energy and environmental point of view”, is a significant goal for restraining gloabl enevironmental degradation. An interesting approach for assessing comparable products is the so called “multicriteria decision making”, but there is much debate about aggregation of criteria and weights a…

Arts and Humanities (all)Engineering (all)Settore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica AmbientaleBuilding materialEvaluation toolLife cycle analysi
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Does the law matter? An empirical study on the accessibility of Finnish higher education institutions’ web pages

2022

AbstractInformation and communication technology (ICT) has made higher education available to many students in a new way. The role of online learning in higher education institutions (HEIs) has grown to an unprecedented scale due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The diversity of higher education students has increased, and accessible solutions are needed. New European and national regulations support these trends. The research reported in this paper was conducted in Finland, which is one of the leading European countries in terms of high technology and digitalisation. The aim of this research is to explore the accessibility of all Finnish HEIs’ (N = 38) landing pages based on Web Content Accessibi…

Computer Networks and Communicationsweb accessibility evaluation toolsWWW-sivutweb content accessibility guidelines (WCAG)web accessibilitytestausHuman-Computer Interactionerityisopiskelijathigher educationverkkosivustotkorkeakoulutesteettömyys ja saavutettavuusarviointiSoftwarestudents with special educational needs and disabilitiesInformation Systems
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Development and validation of the FRAGIRE tool for assessment an older person’s risk for frailty

2016

International audience; Background: Frailty is highly prevalent in elderly people. While significant progress has been made to understand its pathogenesis process, few validated questionnaire exist to assess the multidimensional concept of frailty and to detect people frail or at risk to become frail. The objectives of this study were to construct and validate a new frailty-screening instrument named Frailty Groupe Iso-Ressource Evaluation (FRAGIRE) that accurately predicts the risk for frailty in older adults.Methods: A prospective multicenter recruitment of the elderly patients was undertaken in France. The subjects were classified into financially-helped group (FH, with financial assista…

MaleGerontologyMultivariate statisticsmedicine.medical_treatmentlcsh:GeriatricsLogistic regression0302 clinical medicineElderlySurveys and QuestionnairesPrevalenceadultsProspective Studies030212 general & internal medicineelderly-peopleAged 80 and overeducation.field_of_studyRehabilitationFrailty[SDV.MHEP.GEG] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Geriatry and gerontology[SDV.MHEP.GEG]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Geriatry and gerontologyPrognosisEvaluation tool3. Good healthLoss of autonomyFemaleFranceErratummedicine.medical_specialtyPsychometricsFrail ElderlySeparation (statistics)Population[ SDV.MHEP.GEG ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Geriatry and gerontologyRisk AssessmentSensitivity and Specificity03 medical and health sciencesCronbach's alphamedicineHumanseducationGeriatric AssessmentAgedmodelbusiness.industryUnivariateReproducibility of ResultsConfidence intervallcsh:RC952-954.6Logistic ModelsPhysical therapyGeriatrics and Gerontologybusiness030217 neurology & neurosurgerydementia
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L’inclusione vista dagli alunni: costruzione e validazione del questionario per rilevare la qualità inclusiva della scuola

2018

Molti studi nazionali e internazionali si sono concentrati sulla valutazione e sulla promozione della qualità inclusiva della scuola. Si tratta di un argomento complesso, che ha stimolato un ampio dibattito e una varietà di contributi che mettono in luce la necessità di uno strumento in grado di misurare la qualità inclusiva delle nostre scuole, per determinare l’evidenza empirica riguardo a questo tema. L’articolo presenta i risultati di una sperimentazione finalizzata alla redazione di un questionario per la rilevazione della qualità inclusiva del sistema scolastico percepita dagli alunni. Il questionario si pone come uno strumento di valutazione e autovalutazione che permette la misurazi…

Many national and international studies have concentrated on the evaluation and promotion of the inclusive qualities of schools. It is a complex issue which has led to wide debate and a variety of contributions which in turn highlight the need for a tool capable of measuring the inclusive quality of our schools in order to determine the empirical evidence regarding this topic. This article presents the results of an experiment in drafting a questionnaire in order to measure the inclusive quality of the school system perceived by its pupils. The questionnaire is intended as an evaluation and selfevaluation tool that enables the inclusive quality generated by the context to be measured as it is perceived by pupils. At the same time the tool allows reflection processes amongst teachers to be promoted so that they can implement educational activities which contribute to the planning and control of inclusive teaching practices. This contribution puts forward an original tool for measuring the inclusive quality of the school system perceived by pupils attending primary school in several Sicilian towns. It was administered in its definitive version to a sample of 1652 children. The psychometric properties of the tool and the significance it can hold in the areas of planning in research and of educational design are presented in this paper.Settore M-PED/03 - Didattica E Pedagogia Speciale
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Erratum to: Development and validation of the FRAGIRE tool for assessment an older person’s risk for frailty

2016

Background Frailty is highly prevalent in elderly people. While significant progress has been made to understand its pathogenesis process, few validated questionnaire exist to assess the multidimensional concept of frailty and to detect people frail or at risk to become frail. The objectives of this study were to construct and validate a new frailty-screening instrument named Frailty Groupe Iso-Ressource Evaluation (FRAGIRE) that accurately predicts the risk for frailty in older adults. Methods A prospective multicenter recruitment of the elderly patients was undertaken in France. The subjects were classified into financially-helped group (FH, with financial assistance) and non-financially …

Older personGerontologyRehabilitationFrailtybusiness.industryGeriatrics gerontologymedicine.medical_treatmentPublished ErratumMEDLINEEvaluation toolLoss of autonomy03 medical and health sciencesElderly0302 clinical medicinemedicine030212 general & internal medicineGeriatrics and Gerontologybusiness030217 neurology & neurosurgeryResearch ArticleBMC Geriatrics
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On the Students' QoS-Awareness of Video Lectures

2016

Video lectures bring flexibility and enable distance learning in education. With the help of videos, educational organizations are able to serve a wider and more heterogeneous group of students. As streaming videos have become essential part of teaching in higher education, quality of service (QoS) issues should be taken more into consideration. However, systematic quality monitoring of video lecture delivery, to our knowledge, is rarely used in a way that would provide also the student with quality information. This paper describes our ongoing research on developing a streaming video quality evaluation tool integrated in a learning environment that our master’s students use. The tool serve…

ta113Multimediavideo streamingComputer scienceQuality of servicevideosevaluation toolslaatucomputer.software_genrevideo lecturesqualityComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONcomputerQoS-awareness
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