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The Relationship Between Health Professionals And The Elderly Patient Facing Drug Prescription: A Qualitative Approach, Fernando Lefevre, Jorge Juarez Vieira Teixeira, Ana Maria Cavalcanti Lefevre, Lia Lusitana Cardozo De Castro, Aracy Witt De Pinho Spínola

The Qualitative Report

Aiming at identifying the relationship between the elderly patient facing drug prescription and health professionals, an exploratory and descriptive study of a qualitative cut was carried out using semi-structured interviews. To this end, the Collective Subject Discourse analysis technique was employed. Thirty elderly patients living in the urban area of Maring (Paran State, Brazil) were sampled. They were interviewed from February 25 to March 22, 1998 and selected from the Co-participatory pharmacy database of the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Universidade Estadual de Maring . The finding supplied eleven central Collective Subject ideas, with different discourses. The rich material provided …

Phd Students Perceptions Of The Relationship Between Philosophy And Research: A Qualitative Investigation, Joan Efinger, Nancy Maldonado, Geri Mcardle

The Qualitative Report

This study explored, described, and discovered meaning in the lived experiences of PhD students regarding two courses: Philosophy of Science and Qualitative Methods. The philosophical underpinning was constructivism. The phenomenological methodology employed a structured questionnaire to collect data. It involved mailed computer disks with questions. Twenty of 43 students returned the disks. Content analysis and QSR N6 software were employed in data analysis. Findings included three broad areas: Thinking about Thinking, The Ah-Ha of Me and Thee, and The Never-Ending Journey of Darkness to Light. Philosophy of Science appears to have value for students in every aspect of their lives. …

Beyond Abstraction: Philosophy As A Practical Qualitative Research Method, Eric Sheffield

The Qualitative Report

In this paper, I take up a discussion of what philosophic method is, and why it should be viewed as an important qualitative research method. After clarifying the nature of philosophic method within the larger framework of social practices, I argue that philosophy is important to both practice and research, and I suggest that philosophers work in concert with other qualitative researchers. I argue that recently (relatively speaking) philosophy has been viewed with some understandable disdain among both practitioners and researchers as an enjoyable but abstract (and therefore useless) social practice. That perception can be fixed but only if philosophical …

Enhancing The Interpretation Of Significant Findings: The Role Of Mixed Methods Research, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Nancy L. Leech

The Qualitative Report

The present essay outlines how mixed methods research can be used to enhance the interpretation of significant findings. First, we define what we mean by significance in educational evaluation research. With regard to quantitative-based research, we define the four types of significance: statistical significance, practical significance, clinical significance, and economic significance. With respect to qualitative-based research, we define a significant finding as one that has meaning or representation. Second, we describe limitations of each of these types of significance. Finally, we illustrate how conducting mixed methods analyses can be used to enhance the interpretation of significant findings in both quantitative …

Property As Legal Knowledge: Means And Ends, Annelise Riles

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This article takes anthropologists’ renewed interest in property theory as an opportunity to consider legal theory-making as an ethnographic subject in its own right. My focus is on one particular construct – the instrument, or relation of means to ends, that animates both legal and anthropological theories about property. An analysis of the workings of this construct leads to the conclusion that rather than critique the ends of legal knowledge, the anthropology of property should devote itself to articulating its own means.

Pursuing A Return On Technology, Mary Wise

Library Scholarship

This article discusses a few emerging technologies and how they could benefit libraries and library users.

News From Hope College, Volume 36.3: December, 2004, Hope College

News from Hope College

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An Examination Of The Theoretical Orientation To Reading Profile (Torp): Results Of Selected Graduate Students In A Literacy Course, Guadalupe Sotelo

Graduate Theses

This survey research study was utilized to explore participants’ views and knowledge of balanced literacy programs before and after a 45-hour graduate level literacy course and to document any changes using the Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP; Deford, 1985) questionnaire. The TORP’s main purpose is to designate the philosophical position of individuals on their preferences to teaching reading. The TORP examines orientation to phonics, skills, and whole language. Twenty-seven participants who designated themselves either as established school administrators or graduate students pursuing Master’s degrees in Educational Leadership or Reading were surveyed at the beginning and end of the course …

Understanding The Economic Factors Influencing Farm Policy Preferences, Keith H. Coble, Thomas O. Knight, George F. Patrick, Alan E. Baquet

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

A survey conducted in Mississippi, Texas, Indiana, and Nebraska elicited producers’ preferences for various farm policy changes. This permitted examination of the diversity of preferences that single-state studies have not allowed. Five policy choices, including deficiency payments, loan programs, crop insurance, export programs, and disaster payments were examined. Logit model results predicting producer preferences for each of the five dichotomous policy choices are reported. Explanatory variables based on expected utility theory such as risk aversion, price and yield variability, and price–yield correlation are significant in various models.

The War Of The Worlds, Wells, And The Fallacy Of Empire, John C. Hawley

English

In his summary of the contemporary reviews of The War of the Worlds (1898), William J. Scheick notes that their extensive number suggests that readers now recognized that Wells was an emerging writer whom they could not ignore. "There were, again," Scheick notes, "reservations about slipshod style, hasty plotting, vulgar content and cheap effects; but these doubts were overrun by the general verdict that this romance was one of the most ingenious stories of the year and the best work to date of an author who was one of the most original of the younger English novelists" (Scheick 5). Earlier …

Current Issues Only Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

University Libraries News Online (2008-2023)

• Building Expansion/Renovation Project: What is the ARC?
• New Electronic Resources Available
• Web Exhibit on the "Old 'Culture"
• All of WorldCat Heading Toward the Open Web
• Portrait of a Board Member: Dr. Alvin L. McLendon

From Your (On-The-Move) Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Letters To The Editor, Katina Strauch

Against the Grain

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Collection Analysis Using Circulation, Ill, And Collection Data, Jennifer Knievel, Heather Wicht, Lynn Silipigni Connaway

Against the Grain

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Atg Deadlines, Editor

Against the Grain

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Whither The Book?, Milton T. Wolf

Against the Grain

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The Iceberg Problem -- Is The Investment In Our Collections Visible To Patrons?, Ezra Schwartz

Against the Grain

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Plagiary, Googling, And The Mouse: Is The Internet Killing Our Ability To Do Research?, William M. Hannay

Against the Grain

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Back Talk -- Library Heroes, Patience, Stories With Happy Endings, And Problems Yet Unsolved, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson

Against the Grain

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People Profile: John Fenner, Editor

Against the Grain

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Atg Interviews Focus On The Scopus Design Process, Judy Luther Mls, Mba

Against the Grain

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From The Reference Desk, Thomas Gilson

Against the Grain

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Little Red Herrings: Part Two -- Oh! The Tangled Web, Mark Y. Herring

Against the Grain

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Lost In Austin, Thomas W. Leonhardt

Against the Grain

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Books Are Us, Anne Robichaux

Against the Grain

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I, User -- Just Say No: Eliminating Low-Value Tasks, Rick Lugg, Ruth Fischer

Against the Grain

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Cases Of Note -- Lanham Act Preempts State Claims -- Ultra Sheen Model Falls Off The Legal Runway, Bruce Strauch

Against the Grain

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Book Reviews -- Monographic Musings, Debbie Vaughn

Against the Grain

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Leaving The Books Behind -- The Fate Of Librarians, Especially Those In Technical Services: A Library Science Student's Perspective, Abigail S. Rush

Against the Grain

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Chaos -- The Sici Emerges, Cicada-Like, After Eight Years Of Dormancy, Ted Koppel

Against the Grain

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