This demonstration introduces a newly developed R-package, named edeaR Exploratory and Descriptive Event-based Data Analysis in R. The package aims to handle, describe and select event data using a set of predefined methods. Consequently, it enables the vast collection of data manipulation and analysis functionalities within R to be used for event data.

This article reviews some of the prevailing health needs of elderly people living permanently in a residential old age home. A qualitative, exploratory and descriptive design was employed. Twenty-one black elderly people were purposively selected to participate in a focus group interview session for the purpose of describing their perception of their health care needs. From descriptive content ...

due to the created change in the approach to financial services and the idea of providing a united financial service, bancassurance is a concept that is attracting growing attention from both the insurance and banking industry, to be able to creat synergy to be responsive to the business environment and competition in this field. planning and strategic management are considered to be the major ...

Background: Somali women, not only those living in Somaliland but also abroad as asylum seekers and refugees, are highly vulnerable terms of perinatal health outcomes. Respectful supportive care is critical for all women when stillbirth occurs improving bereavement reducing the stigma that surrounds global priorities. Culturally- context-specific approaches build on an understanding needs givin...

Concurrent programming is gaining significant prominence in the software industry, especially due to the advent of multi-core architectures. In this report, we present the results of a survey deployed inside Microsoft in January 2007 to assess the state of the practice of concurrency at Microsoft. Our survey polled 10% of the Microsoft technical staff and collected data for each of the three ma...

Objectives The overall purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Caring Assessment Tool-Administration survey. Three specific aims were to (1) evaluate construct validity of the Caring Assessment Tool-Administration survey by testing the hypothesized eight-factor structure of staff nurses' perceptions of nurse manager caring behaviors, (2) estimate the internal c...

This research sought to analyse the occurrence of organizational isomorphism and search for knowledge among companies participating in Local Productive Arrangement Confections Taquaral - GO, observing effects these elements on innovative performance arrangement. As a methodological path, exploratory descriptive nature is recognized. design, it understood as survey, using scale created by Zhang ...