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Information Systems | Other Artificial Intelligence | Information Systems Development Methodologies | Conceptual Modelling |
Public services management | Information processing services | Community services not elsewhere classified
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2007
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2002
Publisher: DE GRUYTER
Date: 2015
Publisher: University of Wollongong, SMART Infrastructure Facility
Date: 2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-11-2022
DOI: 10.1111/AJAG.13158
Abstract: This study explores older people's use of a free bus service in Wollongong, Australia. The research focus was on understanding the experiences of people over the age of 60 who use the service and the extent to which it contributes to their physical, mental and social well‐being. The ethnographic research utilised fieldwork and interviews for data collection. Participant observations took place on the bus, and interviews were undertaken at bus stops. Data were analysed using an inductive thematic approach. The research highlighted how bus services can be caring places for older people and a bus journey could be characterised as a therapeutic milieu. Travelling on the bus provided opportunities for health promotion due to active transport. Subsidised access to public transport supported people to maintain social connections throughout the city. Bus travel has contributed positively to the physical, mental and social well‐being of people over the age of 60 in Wollongong.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2015
Publisher: University of Tartu
Date: 31-12-2001
DOI: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.2.10
Abstract: The workpractices associaied with the use of an information system can be described using semiotic theories in terms of patterns of human communication. A model of workpractices has been created called the systemic semiotic workpractice framework that employs two compatible but distinct semiotic theories in order to explain the complexity of information systems use in organisational contexts. One of these theories called social semiotics can be used to describe atypical workpractice realisations, where a user renegotiates one or more canonical sequences of activities typically associated with a specific system feature. In doing so the user may alter the staging of the workpractice, redefine the goal of the workpractice, or renegotiate the usual role they adopt within the workpractice. Central concepts in social semiotics are explained and applied to an actual atypical renegotiated workpractice associated with the loan of materials to students in a smalloperational level information system called ALABS.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
Publisher: MDPI
Date: 26-10-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-01-2022
DOI: 10.1186/S12978-021-01322-5
Abstract: Sexual and reproductive health education among girls and women has several reproductive health benefits, including improved contraceptive knowledge, contraception use at first intercourse, increased chance of contraceptive use in a lifetime, and effective usage of contraceptives. It is however not clear whether women/girls in urban slums who have had sexual and reproductive health education would likely utilize contraception. This study sets out to test the hypothesis that Accra slum women who have had sex education have higher chances of ever using contraception. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among reproductive aged women in two slums (i.e. Agbogbloshie and Old Fadama) in Accra, Ghana. A s le size of 691, made up of respondents who provided responses to the question on ever used contraception, sex education as well as those with complete information on all the other variables of interest was considered in this study. Binary logistic regression models were fitted to examine association between sexual and reproductive health education and ever use of contraception. Crude odds ratios (cOR) and adjusted odds ratios (aOR) at p-value less than 0.05 were used to assess the strength of the association between the outcome and independent variables. More than half (56.73%) of the women have never received sexual and reproductive health education. Most of the respondents (77.28%) had ever used contraceptives. Women who had no form of sexual and reproductive health education had lower odds of ever using contraception (OR = 0.641, 95% CI 0.443, 0.928) and this persisted after controlling for the effect of demographic factors (AOR = 0.652, 95% CI 0.436, 0.975] compared to those who have ever received any form of sex education. Non-married women as well as women who were exposed to media (newspapers/radio/television) were also more likely to use contraceptives in slums in Accra, Ghana. The study revealed a relatively low prevalence of sex education among women in urban slums in Accra. However, sex education was found to increase the odds of ever use of contraception. These findings call for intensified sexual and reproductive health education among reproductive aged girls and women in urban slums in Accra using existing informal social networks and local media platforms.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2013
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 19-07-2022
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the utility of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) as an underlying model to examine the similarities/differences between spoken and written peer-to-peer (P2P) communication. An embedded mixed methods experimental design with linguistically standardized experimental stimuli was used to expose the basic linguistic differences between P2P communications that can be attributed to communication medium (spoken/written) and product type (hedonic/utilitarian). The findings show, empirically, that consumer’s spoken language is not linguistically equivalent to that of written language. This confirms that the capability of language to convey semantic meaning in spoken communication differs from written communication. This study extends the characteristics that differentiate hedonic from utilitarian products to include lexical density (i.e. hedonic) vs lexical sparsity (i.e. utilitarian). The findings of this study are not wholly relevant to other forms of consumer communication (e.g. viral marketing). This research used a few SFL resources. This research shows that marketers should ideally apply a semantic approach to the analysis of communications, given that communication meaning can vary across channels. Marketers may also want to focus on specific feedback channels (e.g. review site vs telephone) depending on the depth of product’s details that need to be captured. This study also offers metrics that advertisers could use to classify media and to characterize consumer segments. This research shows the relevance of SFL for understanding P2P communications and has potential applications to other marketing communications.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-08-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-08-2021
DOI: 10.1186/S12939-021-01518-Y
Abstract: Although evidence suggest that many slum dwellers in low- and middle-income countries have the most difficulty accessing family planning (FP) services, there are limited workable interventions/models for reaching slum communities with FP services. This review aimed to identify existing interventions and service delivery models for providing FP services in slums, and as well examine potential impact of such interventions and service delivery models in low- and middle-income settings. We searched and retrieved relevant published studies on the topic from 2000 to 2020 from e-journals, health sources and six electronic databases (MEDLINE, Global Health, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and Web of Science). Grey and relevant unpublished literature (e.g., technical reports) were also included. For inclusion, studies should have been published in a low- and middle-income country between 2000 and 2020. All study designs were included. Review articles, protocols or opinion pieces were excluded. Search results were screened for eligible articles and reports using a pre-defined criterion. Descriptive statistics and narrative syntheses were produced to summarize and report findings. The search of the e-journals, health sources and six electronic databases including grey literature and other unpublished materials produced 1,260 results. Following screening for title relevance, abstract and full text, nine eligible studies/reports remained. Six different types of FP service delivery models were identified: voucher schemes married adolescent girls’ club interventions Willows home-based counselling and referral programme static clinic and satellite clinics franchised family planning clinics and urban reproductive health initiatives. The urban reproductive health initiatives were the most dominant FP service delivery model targeting urban slums. As regards the impact of the service delivery models identified, the review showed that the identified interventions led to improved targeting of poor urban populations, improved efficiency in delivery of family planning service, high uptake or utilization of services, and improved quality of family planning services. This review provides important insights into existing family planning service delivery models and their potential impact in improving access to FP services in poor urban slums. Further studies exploring the quality of care and associated sexual and reproductive health outcomes as a result of the uptake of these service delivery models are essential. Given that the studies were reported from only 9 countries, further studies are needed to advance knowledge on this topic in other low-middle income countries where slum populations continue to rise.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2013
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1997
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2017
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 1998
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-01-2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2013
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2015
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2007
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-063-9.CH009
Abstract: The authors demonstrate how Systemic Semiotics, an approach that combines a semiotic model of language called Systemic Functional Linguistics with selected concepts from Social Semiotics, can be applied to create Agent-Oriented Information Systems in which social processes can be elicited from stakeholders, specified by designers, and embedded into actual agent-based systems. The utility of Systemic Semiotics applied to Agent-Oriented Conceptual modelling is demonstrated by developing a real world system to address the problem of registering and training volunteers in an emergency service organisation. The experience of developing this system was then used to propose an experimental Agent-Oriented Conceptual Modelling Methodology that uses the same theory and concepts for describing the artefacts and the processes of agent-oriented systems development.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-09-2022
Publisher: IBM
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1147/SJ.471.0129
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2016
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-1993
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2006
Start Date: 12-2002
End Date: 12-2005
Amount: $67,635.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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