A quest for questionnaires

The quest for better questionnaires.

The development of questionnaires is a neglected enterprise in epidemiology. It has recently been proposed that a prestigious health authority such as the World Health Organization establish a committee to tackle issues of questionnaire quality, moving eventually toward standardized instruments. However, standardization may not be the best way to invigorate this enterprise. As an alternative, t...

Quest, a telematic tool for automatic management of student questionnaires in educational research

This paper presents the design of Quest, a telematic tool that automates the management of student questionnaires that serve to collect the basic data for our educational research. The aim of the tool is to make easier for the students to fill the questionnaires and to facilitate the researchers to process the answers with qualitative or quantitative software packages. The tool is then offered ...

shari‘ati and the (elusive) quest for a just order

ali shariati was undoubtedly among the most important of the prerevolutionary islamist thinker particularly insofar as he made islam a politically respectable force for many young men and women in iran's traditional middle classes. shariati was novel for the time in terms of his education and intellectual influences. the clear attraction of ideology for shariati is that he believes by means of ...

the quest for an hiv vaccine

A quest for the moon

There has been a renewed interest in exploration of the moon in the past few years and a number of space missions are planned by various countries during this decade. The Indian Space Research Organization has also been discussing the possibility of an orbiter mission to the moon for remote sensing and has debated the scientific goals for such a mission in various fora such as the annual meetin...