Search results for "Percept"

Continuing professional development among social‐ and health‐care educators

2020

Future social- and health-care educators will be required to have versatile competence in educating professionals that reflects both the constantly changing health-care environment and delivery of high-quality patient care. Continuing professional development can be defined as a process that aims to increase educators' competence and well-being, along with the effectiveness of an organisation. This study aimed to describe educators' continuing professional development and clarify the contribution of continuing education. The research applied a qualitative approach as only limited information about social- and health-care educators' professional development currently exists.' Data were colle…

Can easy-to-use software deliver effective e-learning in dental education? A randomised controlled study

2012

Introduction:  For the production of computer-based learning environments, a wide range of software solutions can be used which differ not only in their functionality but also vary in cost and ease to program. The aim of our study was to evaluate the overall efficiency and student′s perception of two case-based e-learning programs that were produced with either an easy-to-use or a complex software. Materials and Methods:  Eighty-five dental students were randomly assigned to one of two experimental groups. One group studied with a laborious, high-interactive e-learning program (complex-software group). The second group studied within a low-interactive learning environment (easy-software gro…

Effet nocebo : une explication de la perception du risque envers les médicaments génériques par les patients-consommateurs ?

2022

Motivational climate and goal orientations as predictors of perceptions of improvement, satisfaction and coach ratings among tennis players

2007

One purpose of this work was to study the relationship of goal orientations and the perceived motivational climate created by the coach in relation to 219 competitive Spanish tennis players': a) perceived improvement in different facets of the game, b) satisfaction with their competitive results, overall level of play, and coach, and c) ratings of their coach. The second purpose was to examine whether the dependent variables were best predicted by the perceived situationally emphasized goal structure created by the coach and/or the athletes' dispositional goal perspective. Intermediate (N=70), advanced (N=124), and professional (N=25) level players completed Spanish versions of the TEOSQ an…

Dynamic Preisach Hysteresis Model for Magnetostrictive Materials for Energy Application

2013

In this paper the magnetostrictive material considered is Terfenol-D. Its hysteresis is modeled by applying the DPM whose identification procedure is performed by using a neural network procedure previously publised [. The neural network used is a multiplayer perceptron trained with the Levenberg-Marquadt training algorithm. This allows to obtain the Preisach distribution function, without any special conditioning of the measured data, owing to the filtering capabilities of the neural network interpolators. The model is able to reconstruct both the magnetization relation and the Field-strain relation. The model is validated through comparison and prediction of data collected from a typical …

Viral marketing through e-mail: the link company-consumer

2013

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the antecedents that may determine the opening of e-mails from companies that endeavour to promote their products, and what may motivate individuals to forward such messages to others. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents exploratory research to approach the nature of the viral process and descriptive research for testing the proposed hypotheses. Findings – The opening of an e-mail is determined by the value that an individual may perceive that the message might contain. Forwarding of the message is determined by its opening, and by the individual's perception about the value of the message it may provide to others, besides the…

Pamatskolas skolēnu globālās kompetences veicināšana skolotāju skatījumā (Korejas gadījums)

2021

Ceturtā industriālā revolūcija ir radījusi daudzas pārmaiņas. Pasaule kļuva tuvāka un neprognozējamāka. Lai kļūtu par pasaules pilsoni, tagad ir svarīgi būt apveltītam ar globālo kompetenci. OECD PISA 2018 vērtējumā Korejas skolēni sasniedza augstus rezultātus lasīšanā, dabaszinātnēs un matemātikā, tomēr uzrādīja salīdzinoši zemus vidējos rādītājus jautājumos "interese par citām kultūrām" un "kognitīvā pielāgošanās spēja". Darbs veltīts pētījumam, lai izprastu pašreizējo situāciju par globālo kompetenci izglītībā Dienvidkorejas pamatskolās. Autore raksturo globālās kompetences jēdzienu un globālās kompetences attīstības situāciju Korejā. Darba mērķis ir atrast šķēršļus, kas kavē globālās ko…

Conformity to Sex-Typed Design in Modern Society

2017

Considerable attention has been paid to the meaning of product-design gender cues regarding product and brand evaluations. According to self-congruity theory, the gender schema theory, as well as the product-schema congruity theory, traditional consumers react favorably toward sex- or gender-specific product attributes. On the contrary, a twist in gender roles, evolving by emancipation and continual social change, has been identified, which call these congruity assumptions firmly into question. Hence, our study concentrates on the following research question: Is stereotypic sex-typed design still a key principle generating favorable product attitudes and moreover enhancing consumer’s actual…

How communities' perceptions of disasters influence disaster response: managing landslides on Mount Elgon, Uganda

2014

The aim of this paper is to assess the role of people's perception in disaster management. It is based on a study carried out along the slopes of Mount Elgon in Eastern Uganda. People living in the study area have experienced a number of landslides, but the landslide in 2010 had the most far-reaching effects on community livelihoods and resulted in a major setback to development efforts in the area. Experiences of landslides have enabled the local people to develop a number of interpretations of the causes and effects of the phenomena. The study revealed that community members did not share uniform perceptions. Whereas some members advanced technical or physical explanations for the 2010 di…

La calidad periodística en España según la percepción de los periodistas

2015

Este artículo expone los resultados de una investigación sobre la percepción que tienen los periodistas españoles de la calidad periodística, teniendo en cuenta el contexto económico, tecnológico, empresarial, laboral y profesional. Los resultados de una encuesta, en la que participan 363 periodistas españoles con al menos tres años de experiencia en diferentes medios, ponen de manifiesto carencias relativas tanto a la relevancia y diversidad de los temas abordados como al acceso a las fuentes o el tratamiento y verificación de los datos, así como a las condiciones laborales o a los retos derivados de la adaptación a las nuevas tecnologías y a las imposiciones de la acuciante inmediatez. Ju…