Search results for "descriptive research"
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Impact of Industrial SMEs in the Environment Conservation : A Systematic Mapping Study
2020
Small and medium-sized companies have an impact on the environment where they operate. In some cases, the effects on the environment can be significant within local communities leading to a series of negative processes, such as emission pollution into the atmosphere, the discharges to rivers and seas, the production of waste; in some cases, it makes the contamination to the soil. This paper presents the results of the systematic mapping study aimed at assessing environmental management in industrial SMEs. Descriptive studies of SMEs emphasize their poor environmental commitment, describing them as primarily interested in controlling pollutant emissions just to comply with regulations. Ninet…
Student’s voice online: Experiences of PE in Finnish schools
2012
The aim of this descriptive study was to find out how people describe their experiences of physical education (PE) in Internet discussion forums. The data for this study were collected during one randomly chosen week in April 2007 via a GoogleTM search using the Finnish word ‘koululiikunta’ [school PE]. The first 200 hits lead into nine discussion forums, which were analysed by using qualitative content analysis. These nine discussion forums included all together 356 messages. For searching these discussion forums no criteria about the writers’ age, race, class, gender or other were set. The messages were coded with sequential classification and grouped into positive, negative and both posi…
Healthcare Waste Management: What do the Health Workers in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital Know and Practice
2015
Introduction: Healthcare waste is any solid or liquid waste that is generated in the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals, in research pertaining thereto, or in production or testing of biologicals. Mismanagement of healthcare waste poses risks to people and the environment. Improving the standards of healthcare waste management protects the health and safety of healthcare workers, patients, visitors to healthcare facilities and the general public. This study was carried out to determine the knowledge and practice of healthcare waste management by the healthcare workers in Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi, Nigeria. Methods: This was a cross-sectio…
TEACHER OPINIONS ON SEXUAL EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN LATVIA
2021
Sexual education plays an important role in preparing children and adolescents for a safe and productive life. Sex education provides not only knowledge about different types of sexual issues, or about common sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, sexual violence, but also personal identity, safety, love, intimacy and relationships.This study was conducted in order to examine the opinions of special education teachers working with adolescents with intellectual disabilities on sexual education. A descriptive study design was used. The authors designed a questionnaire to explore the opinions of 72 special education teachers in Latvia.The research results approved how crucial it …
Citizens’ perceptions in relation to transport systems and infrastructures: a nationwide study in the dominican republic
2021
One of the challenges currently faced by emerging countries is to get their citizens to decide to use sustainable transport for their regular trips, in order to reduce the current vehicular pollution rates. The objective of this descriptive research is to examine the perceptions of Dominicans regarding the state of the country’s transport systems and road infrastructure. For this purpose, a nationwide survey procedure was performed. This cross-sectional research used the data retrieved from a sample of 1260 citizens aged over 18, proportional in gender, age, habitat, and province of the Dominican Republic. The results showed how Dominicans believe that, compared to other road features, pede…
Conocimiento acerca de las estrategias de práctica instrumental al inicio del Grado Superior de Música
2017
Cabe pensar que un estudiante de instrumento que accede al Grado Superior de Música, tras aproximadamente 10 años de formación, debería tener una práctica efectiva y, por lo tanto, un manejo adecuado de numerosas estrategias. En este sentido, el estudio se planteó con objeto de corroborar el estado de conocimientos previos de los estudiantes que ingresan al Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón con respecto a diversas estrategias de práctica instrumental de eficacia avalada por investigaciones previas y/o la experiencia profesional de grandes intérpretes. La investigación de carácter descriptivo presenta una metodología de carácter cualitativo en la que las técnicas de recogida de dato…
Estereotipos corporales en las imágenes de los libros de texto de inglés
2017
La educación es el camino para generar conductas positivas en niños y niñas y promover un ambiente social y armónico, así como respeto de los valores éticos y democráticos de nuestra sociedad. Un valor ético y democrático importante es la actitud no discriminante, sin prejuicios y no estereotipada. El objetivo del presente estudio fue analizar la frecuencia de ocurrencia de posibles estereotipos ligados a género, edad, raza y somatotipo presentes en las imágenes de los libros de texto de inglés del tercer ciclo de Primaria del sistema educativo español. Para ello, se ha realizado un estudio descriptivo con 1774 imágenes de 5 colecciones de libros de texto de la asignatura de inglés (Bugs Wo…
Epidemiologische Perspektiven der Migrationsforschung am Beispiel von Krebserkrankungen
2008
Epidemiologic research on migration and health in Germany is increasingly focusing on chronic diseases. Migrant studies can help to identify causes of diseases. They also help to identify health inequalities and can thus contribute to improvements in health care. With regard to cancer, descriptive studies among Turkish migrants and ethnic German immigrants from the Former Soviet Union have shown overall low, but slowly increasing cancer rates as compared to autochthonous Germans. For individual cancer sites such as stomach cancer, migrants appear to experience higher risks than the comparison population. Epidemiologic approaches studying cancer care and services for migrants, as well as ana…
"As many men, so many minds" : a study on attitudes towards foreign languages in Finland
2002
Afectividad y promoción de la salud en la escuela: construcción de significados por el maestro
2016
Objective: To understand affectivity and health promotion at school through the construction of meanings by the teachers. Methods: The present exploratory and descriptive study was conducted based on a qualitative approach using affective maps and semi-structured interviews as tools for data collection. Affective maps transcend the duality between cognition, affect and spatial representations because, within this context, any environment can be seen as an emotional territory. The interviews aimed to investigate which health promoting actions each teacher has participated in, their perceptions regarding them, which affects emerge when carrying out the actions suggested by the school and how …