INTRODUCTION This article describes the evaluation of nine pilot obstetric ultrasound education workshops for Australian rural and remote doctors developed in response to an educational needs assessment that showed a large unmet need in this area. METHOD Data from pre- and post-knowledge tests were analysed in SPSS. Data from the follow-up sonographer assessment visits were analysed in an EXC...

BACKGROUND Based on the current emphasis on competency-based education, as a part of need assessment phase of dental curriculum revision in Iran, in the present study the dental graduates' perspective concerning the minimum competency requirements for an Iranian general dentist has been investigated. METHODS Based on the three available major competency documents in the literature a questionn...

When two communicating processes each record their own provenance, what extra information needs to be recorded in order that a satisfactory account can be given, of the combined process? We propose a set of requirements on (i) the kind of information that the processes can share and (ii) the kind of queries that should be answerable from the combined provenance graph. We describe a solution usi...

The benefits of information revolution are centered on the convenience of the user. Faculty members and research scholars are responsible for teaching and are expected to do research and publish the results throughout their careers. This study looks at the information needs and use patterns of faculty members and research scholars of Chaudhary Charan Singh University. A questionnaire was used t...

The subjects of healthcare needs assessment are the populations and patients who are recipients or potential beneficiaries of health care. Populations, of course, include individual patients. The assessment of individuals' needs may form part of the assessment of a population's needs, but it may be costly and it risks ignoring individuals with needs who do not present themselves for health care...

• Problem, that a human being is facing and that requires information for being solved; • Information need, a representation of the problem (implicit) in the mind of the user. It is different from the problem because the user might not perceive in the correct way his problem [2,3]; • Request, a representation of the information need of the user in a 'human' language, usually in natural language...

In our research on public perceptions of drugs in Dutch newspapers we have developed a leveled explorative historical research approach. We employ digital tools as “signposts” that indicate existing debates in newspapers that can be interpreted historically using a hermeneutic approach. Conceptualizing the ways we use text-mining tools as historians helps to align user needs with technological ...

Current tools for multidisciplinary teams in user-centered software engineering (UCSE) provide little support for the different approaches of the various disciplines in the project team. Although multidisciplinary teams are getting more and more involved in UCSE projects, an efficient approach to communicate clearly and to pass results of a user needs analysis to other team members without loss...

Scenario-based User Needs Analysis or SUNA is a method for envisioning, clarifying and refining ideas for developing software products and services usually where there are two or more parties involved. Its strengths lie in the elicitation and analysis of user needs encapsulated in ‘day in the life of’ style scenarios, and the management of collaboration. The use of a workshop based process comb...

optimal allocation of research funds based on research priorities; mobilization of existing research capacities and capabilities in small and medium enterprises and supporting enterprises to respond to research needs; create the necessary conditions for applying the research results and findings from necessary research projects; prospective study in research and avoid instantaneous and non-stra...