Academics’ participation in quality assurance: does it reflect ownership?   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Sónia Cardoso  Maria J. Rosa  Pedro Videira 《Quality in Higher Education》2018,24(1):66-81

Academics’ support for quality assurance (QA) depends on several factors, including their sense of ownership, which seems to be influenced by academics’ participation in QA’s implementation. This paper aims to understand whether this participation is indeed contributing to academics’ ownership of QA. Findings from a survey of Portuguese academics’ on their participation in study programmes accreditation suggests that this may not be the case. Academics present a partial withdrawal towards effective participation in study programmes’ accreditation, especially regarding external assessment. Furthermore, they do not seem willing to enhance this participation nor are they very critical about it. Since academics’ sense of ownership is essential for the successful implementation of QA, these results may represent a challenge for both institutions and QA agencies.  相似文献   

Foot strike pattern in preschool children during running: sex and shod–unshod differences     

Pedro Á. Latorre-Román  Juan A. Párraga-Montilla  Ignacio Guardia-Monteagudo 《European Journal of Sport Science》2018,18(3):407-414

Purpose: This study aims to determine the foot strike patterns (FSPs) and neutral support (no inversion [INV]/eversion [EVE] and no foot rotation) in preschool children, as well as to determine the influence of shod/unshod conditions and sex. Methods: A total of 1356 children aged 3–6 years (673 boys and 683 girls) participated in this study. A sagittal and frontal-plane video (240?Hz) was recorded using a high-speed camcorder to record the following variables: rearfoot strike (RFS), midfoot strike (MFS), forefoot strike (FFS), inversion/ eversion (INV/EVE) and foot rotation on initial contact. Results: There were no between-sex significant differences in both shod and unshod conditions in RFS. In the unshod condition, there was a significant reduction (p?Conclusion: In preschool children, no between-sex differences were found in relation to prevalence of RFS and neutral support (no INV/EVE). Shod running alters FSP of running barefoot, producing a significant increase of RFS prevalence.  相似文献   

To my graduates     

Julia Alvarez 《Academic Questions》1998,11(3):32-32

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Association between physical activity and cardiovascular risk factors: Dose and sex matter     

Alejandro Santos-Lozano  Alberto Torres Barrn  Pablo Fernndez-Navarro  Pedro L. Valenzuela  Adrin Castillo-Garcia  Luis M. Ruilope  David Ríos Insua  Jos M. Ordovas  Victoria Ley  Alejandro Lucia 《运动与健康科学(英文)》2021,10(5):604-606

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A case analysis of semantic technologies for R&D intermediation information management     

Ricardo Colomo-Palacios  Ángel García-Crespo  Pedro Soto-Acosta  Marcos Ruano-Mayoral  Diego Jiménez-López 《International Journal of Information Management》2010

It is evident that companies and research centres can find a myriad of instruments to fund their R&D (Research & Development) activities. Due to the dynamics of the information management in these circumstances there is a need for intermediary businesses intervention. Consequently, intermediary companies are thus involved in a complex process that needs to be managed and controlled. Within this scenario an Information Technology (IT) platform, named RDi-Advise, was developed by EgeoIT using semantic technologies to support R&D process decisions. This case analysis describes the development and implementation of the platform including the lessons learned during the activity period.  相似文献   

Analyzing ICT adoption and use effects on knowledge creation: An empirical investigation in SMEs     

Carolina Lopez-Nicolas  Pedro Soto-Acosta 《International Journal of Information Management》2010

This paper investigates the influence of the adoption and use of information and communication technology (ICT) on organizational learning (OL). The focus is on knowledge, creation, as an articulated construct for the OL concept, and the SECI (Socialization, Externalization, Combination and Internalization) model is used as a reference for knowledge, creation. ICT use is seen here as consisting of three different orientations: informative, communicative and workflow. The results, based on a sample of around 300 Spanish small- and, medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), indicate that ICT has a significant positive influence on the, four processes for creating knowledge. ICT oriented to communication and workflow is found, to produce a significant positive impact on knowledge creation processes, except for, socialization process, while ICT use for information does not influence any of the processes for, creating knowledge and OL.  相似文献   

Conceptual navigation in knowledge management environments using NavCon     

Jose Renato Villela Dantas  Pedro Porfirio Muniz Farias 《Information processing & management》2010

This article presents conceptual navigation and NavCon, an architecture that implements this navigation in World Wide Web pages. NavCon architecture makes use of ontology as metadata to contextualize user search for information. Based on ontologies, NavCon automatically inserts conceptual links in Web pages. By using these links, the user may navigate in a graph representing ontology concepts and their relationships. By browsing this graph, it is possible to reach documents associated with the user desired ontology concept. This Web navigation supported by ontology concepts we call conceptual navigation. Conceptual navigation is a technique to browse Web sites within a context. The context filters relevant retrieved information. The context also drives user navigation through paths that meet his needs. A company may implement conceptual navigation to improve user search for information in a knowledge management environment. We suggest that the use of an ontology to conduct navigation in an Intranet may help the user to have a better understanding about the knowledge structure of the company.  相似文献   

Parent role characteristics: Parent views and their implications for school psychologists.     

Barbara A. Mowder  Virginia Smith Harvey  Linda Moy  Mariana Pedro 《Psychology in the schools》1995,32(1):27-37

This research examined the parent role as perceived by a large number of parents of school-age children in New Hampshire. The results reveal that these parents readily describe a parent role using the same characteristics that emerge from the research literature. More importantly, the subjects consider each of the six parent role characteristics as differentially important at different stages in children's development. The implications of this research for school psychologists are many, including, for instance, assessment, consultation, and intervention.  相似文献