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Research Perspectives: Reconsidering the Role of Research Method Guidelines for Interpretive, Mixed Methods, and Design Science Research

2021

Information systems (IS) scholars have proposed guidelines for interpretive, mixed methods, and design science research in IS. Because many of these guidelines have also been suggested for evaluating what good or rigorous research is, they may be used as a checklist in the review process. In this paper, we raise the question: To what extent do research guidelines for interpretive, mixed methods, and design science research offer evidence that they can be used to evaluate the quality of research. We argue that scholars can use these guidelines to evaluate what good research is if there is compelling evidence that they lead to certain good research outcomes. We use three well-known sets of gu…

Influence on the transient evoked otoacoustic emission by GSM 915 MHz electromagnetic fields: comparative analysis between control and exposed groups

2006

Towards a reduction of greenhouse gas emission from wastewater treatment plants: a new plant wide experimental and modelling approach

2016

The increasing interest in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has led to the development of new tools for their design and management. Studies about gas emissions show that the sewer collection and the wastewater treatment plant are anthropogenic GHG potential sources, so they contribute to the climate change and air pollution. A wastewater treatment plant receives wastewater from sewers and, while produces treated water for discharge into surface water, emits the three major greenhouse gases, CO2, CH4, and N2O, during the treatment processes, and additional amounts of CO2 and CH4 from the energy demands (Bani Shahabadi et al., 2009). Indeed, energy cons…

Enhancing Light Emission in Interface Engineered Spin-OLEDs through Spin-Polarized Injection at High Voltages

2019

The quest for a spin-polarized organic light-emitting diode (spin-OLED) is a common goal in the emerging fields of molecular electronics and spintronics. In this device, two ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes are used to enhance the electroluminescence intensity of the OLED through a magnetic control of the spin polarization of the injected carriers. The major difficulty is that the driving voltage of an OLED device exceeds a few volts, while spin injection in organic materials is only efficient at low voltages. The fabrication of a spin-OLED that uses a conjugated polymer as bipolar spin collector layer and ferromagnetic electrodes is reported here. Through a careful engineering of the organic/…

SHM of chemically bonded anchors by means of acoustic emission

2009

This paper presents a study on the use of acoustic emission (AE) to assess the structural soundness of concrete reinforced with chemically bonded anchors. The results of an experimental work based on six pullout tests monitored using AE are reported. In every test one rebar was embedded in hardened concrete by means of polyester resin. The AE was adopted to monitor the onset and progression of structural damage. The parametric analysis and the moment tensor analysis of AE data were used to discriminate among different sources of damage.

Enhancing the performance of HSDPA communication with multipoint transmission techniques

2015

The evolution of mobile phones, tablets and other mobile communication devices has led to a significant increase in the amount of data delivered over mobile networks. In order to satisfy the climbing data rate demands of customers, existing mobile broadband networks are being expanded with new features that allow ubiquitous and consistent networking experience. This research presents three multipoint transmission techniques for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) based High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) communication protocol. Multiflow, High-Speed Single-Frequency Network (HS-SFN) and Multipoint-to-Point Single-Frequency Network (M2P-SFN) enable transmission of user-dedicat…

Performance Enhancement of a Small Animal Positron Emission Tomograph based on Continuous Crystals and Silicon Photomultipliers

2017

La tomografía por emisión de positrones (PET, por sus siglas en inglés) es una técnica de Medicina Nuclear que permite obtener de manera no invasiva imágenes funcionales “in vivo” marcando un compuesto orgánico con un emisor de positrones. Los tomógrafos PET requieren un alta resolución espacial y sensibilidad para estimar con precisión la distribución del radiotrazador en el animal. Frente a los bloques pixelados comúnmente utilizados en PET, los detectores que consisten en la combinación de cristales continuos acoplados a fotodetectores segmentados pueden ofrecer una mayor eficiencia y una alta resolución espacial. Esta última depende de la precisión de los algoritmos de determinación de …

Przeciw mitom - o mrocznych stronach macierzyństwa w powieści Slavenki Drakulić - "Optužena"

2017

Starting with Jean Jacob Rousseau’s, Sigmund Freud’s and feminists’ of the second wave views on matemity, the paper shows Slavenka Drakulić’s ideas presented in her novel Optužena. The Croatian author rejects the myth of matemal love by writing about yiolence against the child and pathology in the mother-daughter relationship. The problem of transgenerational transmission of trauma is shown in an interesting literary way and it is really innovatory.

O materinstvu na drugi način - prećutane strane materinstva u romanu "Optužena" Slavenke Drakulić

2017

Slavenka Drakulić is a Croatian journalist and writer, known as a feminist who writes about the problems in women’s lives. In the novel Optužena (2012), she demonstrates in an interesting, artistic way the less known questions of motherhood, often ignored and tabooed in social discourse. It is known that starting from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas about maternity, it has been idealized and used in order to constrain women within the patriarchal system, by identifying them primarily as mothers. The concepts of Sigmund Freud, who believed maternity and maternal love to be natural and appropriate for every “standard” woman, contributed to turning into taboos some pathologies connected with mat…

Lukutuokiot lasten lukemissujuvuuden tukena

2014

Tämä tutkimus sijoittuu lukemisinterventioiden tutkimuskenttään. Tutkimuksen aiheena olleet lukutuokiot ovat kehitelty heikkojen lukijoiden lukemissujuvuuden tukemiseksi. Tässä tutkimuksessa tavoitteena oli selvittää kuinka lapset kuvailevat osallistumiskokemuksiaan koskien Lukumummi ja -vaari –toiminnan lukutuokioita. Vastauksia etsittiin siihen millaisia mielipiteitä lapsilla oli lukutuokioista, miten he kehittäisivät lukutuokioita jatkossa sekä minkälaisia vaikutuksia lapset kokivat lukutuokioilla olleen heidän lukutaidolleen sekä lukumotivaatiolleen. Yhdysvalloissa toteutetuissa aikaisemmissa tutkimuksissa on tullut esille, että partnerilukeminen, jossa aikuinen ja lapsi lukevat yhdessä…