Internet technology offers a lot of new opportunities for the dissemination of information, sharing of support and consultation of professionals. Innovating professionals from multiple disciplines have begun to exploit the new opportunities for parenting support. The studies presented in this book are meant to deepen our insights in the subject of online parenting support and investigate the feasibility to use single session email consultation to empower parents. This publication includes: - A systematic review of 75 studies on online parenting support. - A meta-analytic review of 12 studies on online tools to improve parenting. - A content analysis of 129 parenting questions and responses in single session email consultation. - An analysis and validation study of the newly developed Guiding the Empowerment Process model. - An evaluation study of the effects of single session email consultation on parental empowerment. The results of this research indicate that the Internet is not only a source of information, but it can also be an instrument for support and training, aiming to improve parental competencies.
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Retail industry consists of the establishment of selling consumer goods (i.e. technology, pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, apparels and accessories, home improvement etc.) and services (i.e. specialty and movies) to customers through multiple channels of distribution including both the traditional brickand-mortar and online retailing. Managing corporate reputation of retail companies is crucial as it has many advantages, for instance, it has been proven to impact generated revenues (Wang et al., 2016). But, in order to be able to manage corporate reputation, one has to be able to measure it, or, nowadays even better, listen to relevant social signals that are out there on the public web. One of the most extensive and widely used frameworks for measuring corporate reputation is through conducting elaborated surveys with respective stakeholders (Fombrun et al., 2015). This approach is valuable but deemed to be laborious and resource-heavy and will not allow to generate automatic alerts and quick and live insights that are extremely needed in this era of internet. For these purposes a social listening approach is needed that can be tailored to online data such as consumer reviews as the main data source. Online review datasets are a form of electronic Word-of-Mouth (WOM) that, when a data source is picked that is relevant to retail, commonly contain relevant information about customers’ perceptions regarding products (Pookulangara, 2011) and that are massively available. The algorithm that we have built in our application provides retailers with reputation scores for all variables that are deemed to be relevant to retail in the model of Fombrun et al. (2015). Examples of such variables for products and services are high quality, good value, stands behind, and meets customer needs. We propose a new set of subvariables with which these variables can be operationalized for retail in particular. Scores are being calculated using proportions of positive opinion pairs such as <fast, delivery> or <rude, staff> that have been designed per variable. With these important insights extracted, companies can act accordingly and proceed to improve their corporate reputation. It is important to emphasize that, once the design is complete and implemented, all processing can be performed completely automatic and unsupervised. The application makes use of a state of the art aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) framework because of ABSA’s ability to generate sentiment scores for all relevant variables and aspects. Since most online data is in open form and we deliberately want to avoid labelling any data by human experts, the unsupervised aspectator algorithm has been picked. It employs a lexicon to calculate sentiment scores and uses syntactic dependency paths to discover candidate aspects (Bancken et al., 2014). We have applied our approach to a large number of online review datasets that we sampled from a list of 50 top global retailers according to National Retail Federation (2020), including both offline and online operation, and that we scraped from trustpilot, a public website that is well-known to retailers. The algorithm has carefully been evaluated by manually annotating a randomly sampled subset of the datasets for validation purposes by two independent annotators. The Kappa’s score on this subset was 80%.
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Tango is among the most widespread world music genres nowadays. However, only partial information about the elements and techniques of composing, arranging and performing tango has been documented and made available so far. This research project aims at investigating tango’s main aspects in the oeuvre of relevant tango musicians, promoting its creative practice and expanding its artistic community. By making the implicit knowledge in scores and recordings explicit and ready for creative use by the greater artistic community, tango can be preserved, on one side; and musicians can experiment and reach new artistic horizons, securing its continuation and development as vivid, contemporary music, on the other. The project has two research questions: 1. What are the main features and techniques of tango music composition, arrangement and performance? 2. How can musicians nowadays integrate these features and techniques into their practice to deepen their understanding and enhance their artistic creations and performances? This research uses a mixed method design, including the analysis of scores and recordings, literature review, interviews, observational studies and experimentation. It expands the artistic community on the topic and bridges two top-notch institutions devoted to tango learning: Codarts and UNSAM (Argentina). The research also endeavours improvements in the Codarts curriculum as it complements and expands its educational programme by providing students with research tools to enhance their creative practice. Theoretical and artistic outcomes will be documented and disseminated in concerts, concert-lectures, papers, articles and a tailor-made website containing compositions, arrangements, videos, text, musical examples and annotated scores, so as to record: a) the musical materials and techniques found in the analysed scores and recordings, together with their applications in practice and performance; b) the artistic processes, reflections and production of the participants; c) information on how to create, arrange and perform tangos.
Aanleiding Mede door de vergrijzing groeit de zorgvraag in Nederland. Tegelijkertijd vallen veel verpleegkundigen uit door fysieke en mentale arbeidsbelasting. Dit begint al tijdens de opleiding/aan de start van de loopbaan. Dreigende arbeidstekorten en decentralisatie in de zorg vragen om verpleegkundigen die regie kunnen voeren over hun eigen werkgerelateerde gezondheid. Er is nog weinig wetenschappelijke kennis over het vroegtijdig signaleren en aanpakken van uitval onder verpleegkundigen. Bovendien hapert de invoer van effectieve interventies. Daarom willen zorginstellingen, verpleegkunde-opleidingen en wetenschappelijke organisaties onderzoek doen naar de oorzaken van uitval en een instrument ontwikkelen om problemen vroegtijdig te herkennen en te ondervangen. Doelstelling Het consortium wil een wetenschappelijk en praktisch onderbouwd instrumentarium ontwikkelen voor het signaleren van risicofactoren, gezondheidsproblemen, productiviteitsverlies en uitval bij stagiairs en beginnende verpleegkundigen, met daaraan gekoppeld effectieve preventieve interventies voor in de onderwijs- en stagepraktijk. Het programma kent twee fases. 1) literatuuronderzoek, kwalitatief onderzoek naar nog onbekende risicofactoren en longitudinaal cohortonderzoek vormen de basis voor een signaleringsinstrument/predictiemodel. In het cohortonderzoek worden van 750 (aankomend) verpleegkundigen 2,5 jaar de determinanten voor uitval gemonitord. In expertmeetings selecteert men vervolgens 6 evidencebased interventies. 2) het onderzoeksteam pre-test deze interventies op eerste haalbaarheid bij studenten verpleegkunde met risico. De 2 kansrijkste interventies, één voor mentale en één voor fysieke werkbelasting, worden in pilots op effectiviteit getoetst. In het onderzoek zet men de psychometrisch beproefde meetinstrumenten in van de European Nurses Early Exit Study (online enquêtes), aangevuld met inzichten uit interviews, fysieke metingen en praktijkobservaties. Beoogde resultaten De beoogde resultaten van het project zijn: " inzicht in de fysieke en mentale problemen van verpleegkundigen; " een gevalideerd predictiemodel voor geïndiceerde preventie in de zorg; " good practices en een kant-en-klare webapplicatie voor vroegsignalering met interventies in het stageonderwijs en het werkveld om uitval te voorkomen; " valorisatie van kennis in co-creatie met studenten, zorginstellingen en zorgprofessionals in de regio; " kennisinput voor de opleidingen Nurse practitioner, Verpleegkunde, Arbeid en Gezondheid, HRM. Een grote groep studenten is respondent in het onderzoek. In de uitvoering participeren ook studenten en daarnaast onder meer lectoren, onderzoekers en docenten van Hogeschool Rotterdam en twee promovendi. Voor de wetenschappelijke disseminatie worden refereerbijeenkomsten en presentaties gehouden op internationale congressen, en proefschriften en artikelen geschreven gepubliceerd. De verspreiding onder maatschappelijke partners gebeurt via vakpublicaties, expertmeetings en een slotsymposium. Met internationale partners uit het netwerk worden mogelijkheden verkend voor internationale parallelstudies.