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Driving Innovation: Comparative Analysis of E-Government Best Practices in Different Regions
<p><span>In the rapidly evolving landscape of electronic government (e-government), innovation stands as a linchpin for effective service delivery and citizen engagement. This paper conducts a comparative analysis of e-government best practices across different regions, aiming to identify key drivers of innovation and excellence in public service digitization. Through an extensive review of global e-government initiatives and case studies, the paper examines successful strategies employed by diverse regions to foster innovation in the public sector. The comparative framework explores varying regulatory environments, technological infrastructures, and cultural considerations that influence the adoption and impact of e-government innovations. The findings contribute valuable insights for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers seeking to understand the nuanced dynamics of e-government innovation on a global scale. By elucidating the diverse approaches and outcomes in different regions, this paper facilitates a deeper comprehension of the multifaceted nature of e-government best practices and provides a foundation for informed decision-making in the pursuit of innovation excellence.</span></p>
Contents, Format, and Reader Interactions with Middle English Practical Manuscripts, ca. 1375–1500
<p>These three .csv files contain datasets intended to supplement the book, <em><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo222256991.html">Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print</a> </em>(University of Chicago Press, 2024). They convey information on 182 Middle English "practical" manuscripts created between ca. 1375 and 1500. Practical manuscripts are defined as manuscripts written entirely (or nearly so) in Middle English containing contents entirely (or nearly so) related to medicine and practical science, like agriculture, animal husbandry, and craft manufacture.</p> <p>To identify these 182 manuscripts, I first searched the Voigts-Kurtz database of <a href="https://cctr1.umkc.edu/search" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Medical and Scientific Writings in Middle English</em></a>, compiled over several decades by Linda Ehrsam Voigts and Patricia Deery Kurtz and now containing data on more than 1200 manuscripts containing Middle English medical or scientific texts. After identifying promising manuscripts in the Voigts-Kurtz database, I followed this initial search with consultations of manuscript catalogues for the Beinecke Library, Yale University; Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; British Library, London; Cambridge University Library, Cambridge; Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA; Morgan Library, New York; National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; Trinity College Cambridge Library, Cambridge; University of Glasgow Library, Glasgow; and Wellcome Library, London. In addition to identifying manuscripts not cited in the Voigts-Kurtz database, these catalogue searches enabled me to weed out manuscripts that contained too much Latin for my purposes or those that contained just a small section of medicine and science and were otherwise devoted to literature, law, religion, or other texts. <br><br>From these searches, I identified over 300 fifteenth-century manuscripts that I hoped would <br>reveal how English lay people thought of books as tools for collecting and utilizing knowledge<br>related to day-to-day medical practice, agriculture, or husbandry. However, I couldn't ascertain <br>if the manuscripts I had identified were the sort of book that a non-elite person might own<br>until I made research trips to the libraries and archives that held them. I was fortunate <br>to begin this project at the same time that many libraries in the U.K. were changing their <br>policies in regards to digital photography. As a result, I was able to photograph scores of <br>manuscripts in a single trip, which I then analyzed and catalogued in my database over the <br>following months. These research trips, conducted over summers and academic holidays between <br>2014 and 2021, enabled me to whittle down my initial corpus of over 300 potential "practical manuscripts" <br>to the 182 manuscripts analyzed in <em>Reading Practice</em> and described in these appendices. Part of this<br>process entailed identifying fifteenth-century manuscripts that had been bound into composite volumes<br>by later collectors. These once-separate manuscripts are counted individually in my corpus, and their <br>folio numbers in those composite volumes are noted in the spreadsheet below.</p> <p>The "Manuscript Attributes" .csv file contains the following information on each of these 182 vernacular manuscripts:</p> <ul> <li>Shelfmark</li> <li>Archive/library</li> <li>Approximate date of creation</li> <li>Writing support (paper or parchment)</li> <li>Number of folios (and folio numbers, for composite manuscripts)</li> <li>Size in mm</li> <li>Quality of scribal hand</li> <li>Information on contents</li> <li>Information on reader marks</li> <li>Information on reader cancellations or censorship</li> <li>URL for digital facsimile, if available</li> </ul> <p>The contents field of the "Manuscript Attributes" .csv file indicates whether the manuscript contains texts in the following genres, and which texts those are, if readily identifiable:</p> <ul> <li>Illustrations</li> <li>Medical recipes</li> <li>Herbals</li> <li>Charms</li> <li>Medical treatises</li> <li>Treatises on phlebotomy</li> <li>Reproductive recipes</li> <li>Uroscopy texts</li> <li>Surgical texts or surgical recipes</li> <li>Craft recipes</li> <li>Dietaries or health regimens</li> <li>Plague treatises</li> <li>Prognostications</li> <li>Texts on weights and measures</li> <li>Texts on animal husbandry</li> <li>Texts on planting, grafting, or gardening</li> <li>Texts on hawking, hunting, or fishing</li> <li>Almanacs</li> <li>Treatises on astrology</li> <li>Culinary recipes</li> </ul> <p>The "Reader Marks" .csv file contains transcriptions of every reader mark in a fifteenth-<br>century practical manuscript that I could attribute to a reader or which could be dated <br>definitively. In addition, the spreadsheet contains notes about other reader and scribal additions,<br>like added recipes or indices. I note the location of these marks and indicate<br>whether they were made in the fifteenth (XV), sixteenth (XVI), or seventeenth (XVII)<br>centuries. In total, the spreadsheet contains notes or transcriptions of over 500 separate<br>instances of reader interactions with practical manuscripts.</p> <p>The "Cancellations" .csv file contains information about which manuscripts feature censorship of any kind and what sorts of material was censored or cancelled.</p>
Practical Books published in England, 1476–1600
<p>These two .csv files are companion data for the book <em><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo222256991.html">Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print</a> </em>(University of Chicago Press, 2024). They contain publication information for all "practical books" printed in England between 1476 and 1600. Practical books are defined as books published in English in any of the following genres:</p> <ul> <li>medical recipe collections</li> <li>herbals</li> <li>astrological manuals</li> <li>agricultural treatises</li> <li>anatomies</li> <li>surgeries</li> <li>dietaries or health regimens</li> <li>urinaries</li> <li>books on distillation</li> <li>gardening manuals</li> <li>books on hawking and hunting</li> <li>husbandry manuals</li> <li>veterinary medicine </li> </ul> <p>The publication information for the 479 books reflected in these spreadsheets were collected from the British Library's digital database, <a href="https://estc.bl.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estc.bl.uk</a>, which contains information bibliographical data drawn from Katherine Pantzer, et al, eds., <em>A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, </em><em>and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640, </em>3 vols., revised and enlarged second edition (London: Bibliographical Society, 1976–1993). Note that as of summer 2024, the digital <em>ESTC</em> remains inaccessible following a cyber attack on the British Library. </p> <p>Both spreadsheets contain information on the same 479 titles, but the data in the second "standardized titles" spreadsheet has been cleaned in order to create standard titles for reeditions of the same texts. In other words, in the "standardized titles" spreadsheet, all editions of the same text are registered under the same title.</p>
Images and audiovisual on end of life management practices
<p>Photos of <span>collected virgin and used Agricultural Plastic (AP) and Agricultural Plastic Waste (APW) </span></p>
Oral contraception prescribing trends in Scottish general practices between 2016 and 2023
<p>This is the data and script used to analyse data for the publication<em>: Oral contraception prescribing trends in Scottish general practices between 2016 and 2023. </em>doi: bmjsrh-2024-202387</p> <p>Data uploaded here originates from the Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data repository (<a href="https://www.opendata.nhs.scot">https://www.opendata.nhs.scot</a>). For information about field descriptions, please refer to their Data Glossary (<a href="http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Prescribing-and-Medicines/_docs/Glossary-of-Terms.pdf">http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Prescribing-and-Medicines/_docs/Glossary-of-Terms.pdf</a>). These data are used here under the Open Government Licence (<a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/">https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/</a>).</p> <p>I welcome all feedback or questions: <a href="mailto:e.johnson-hall.2023@bristol.ac.uk">e.johnson-hall.2023@bristol.ac.uk</a></p>
A Concept for Integrating AI-based Support Systems into Clinical Practice
<p>This repository refers to a contribution entitled "<strong>A Concept for Integrating AI-based Support Systems into Clinical Practice</strong>" submitted to the <strong>34th Medical Informatics Europe Conference</strong>.</p>
Validating Instructional Practice Scale (IPS) for University Instructors: Confirmatory Factor Analysis
<p>.csv dataset for the study "validating instructional practice scale for instructors in some selected Ethiopian public universities: confirmatory factor analysis"</p>
Architecture Decision Records in Practice: An Action Research Study
<p>To establish good architectural practice and knowledge sharing during software development and maintenance, architectural design decisions need to be documented.</p> <p>While a lot of research has been done on documenting architectural decisions, there exist few approaches with empirical evidence on their applicability and usefulness in practice. Architecture Decision Records are a popular documentation approach in industry, but there is a lack of research focusing on how Architecture Decision Records can be introduced in different company contexts.</p> <p>To tackle this shortcoming, we performed an action research study in cooperation with a company that develops a microservice-based system without proper architecture design decision documentation.</p> <p>This dataset encompasses our study material consisting of two questionnaires, our interview guides, and information on the codes used during our analysis.</p> <p> </p> <p>This work was partially supported by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.</p>
Dataset Online grocery shopping recommender systems: common approaches and practices
<p>Standardized Excel form for data extraction. Extraction criteria were defined based on the sub-research questions that are provided in the paper. </p>
Fig. 1 in Systematic review of modifiable risk factors shows little evidential support for most current practices in Cryptosporidium management in bovine calves
Fig. 1 Study selection procedure
Supplementary materials to the article "Practices and attitudes toward replication in empirical translation and interpreting studies"
<p><strong>Abstract of the paper:</strong></p> <p>This article presents the results of three studies on practices in and attitudes toward replication in empirical translation and interpreting studies. The first study reports on a survey in which 52 researchers in translation and interpreting with experience in empirical research answered questions about their practices in and attitudes toward replication. The survey data were complemented by a bibliometric study of publications indexed in the Bibliography of Interpreting and Translation (BITRA) (Franco Aixelá 2001–2019) that explicitly stated in the title or abstract that they were derived from a replication. In a second bibliometric study, a conceptual replication of Yeung’s (2017) study on the acceptance of replications in neuroscience journals was conducted by analyzing 131 translation and interpreting journals. The article aims to provide evidence-based arguments for initiating a debate about the need for replication in empirical translation and interpreting studies and its implications for the development of the discipline.</p> <p><strong>Description of the supplementary materials:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Material 1: questionnaire in English</li> <li>Material 2: questionnaire in Spanish</li> <li>Material 3: results of both questionnaires</li> <li>Material 4: corpus of identified replications in Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS)</li> <li>Material 5: acceptance of replications in TIS journals</li> </ul>
Long-term ecological studies' practices and goals for trainees
<p>We created a survey for the other authors in the 2024 <em>Ecology Letters</em> special issue on very long-term ecological studies about their practices and goals for trainees. We received 27 responses from researchers around the world studying a broad range of organisms across ecosystems. In more than half of the responding programs, undergraduate students collect, curate, and analyze data, as well as develop research questions, present at conferences, and contribute to writing scientific papers. Unlike our program, which primarily recruits from one university, other long-term studies often target a variety of institutions (79% of respondents). About half reported targeted recruitment of students from marginalized identities and a similar proportion paid students for their work. Students were slightly more likely to collaborate with a cohort of other students (3.8 in 1-5 Likert scale) and have peer cohort building activities (3.6 in 1-5 Likert scale). When asked to rank the helpful characteristics of long-term studies to undergraduate students, top choices included "links between research, internship, classes", "extensive professional networks", "rich data", and "robust logistics". The rank of "paid salaries" was split, with about a third of the programs ranking it least helpful to students but the other third of programs ranking it either as the first or second most helpful attribute of long-term programs. Based on comments related to funding, the low salary ranking might be associated with student funding opportunities available through university grants or independent fellowships. Overall, this suggests the most impactful transformation long-term studies can make is to advocate for paying trainees in future grant proposals.</p>
Table 2: Mean and Standard Deviation of Responses by Field of Knowledge and Parenting Practices
<p><strong><span>Table 2 of 13</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span>Table 2: Mean and Standard Deviation of Responses by Field of Knowledge and Parenting Practices </span></strong></p> <p> </p>
Does Location Influence Coding Practices? A Cross-Regional Study on Stack Overflow Code Quality
<p>Developers routinely integrate Stack Overflow code snippets into their codebases. However, the quality of snippets embedded in users’ answers remain elusive, and existing evaluations of code quality tend to be language or context-specific. Moreover, literature have found that contribution patterns vary depending on geographical locales, creating an unexplained rift between code quality, user location, and latent contextual regional factors. </p> <p>The proposed study evaluates the quality of SQL, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and Java snippets across reliability, readability, performance, and security dimensions, benchmarking findings across states in the USA and investigating how different diversity indicators correlate against code quality violations. The study culminates in a series of inductive content analyses that qualitatively supplement prior quality dimensions.</p> <p>This replication package is provided for those interested in further examining our research methodology.</p>
Practicals for RNAi - Summer school GHANA 2024
<p>Dataset for practicals realized on dsRNA primers design and qPCR results analysis during the Summer School 2024.</p>
"Data Protection Can Sometimes Be a Nuisance" A Notification Study on Data Sharing Practices in City Apps
<p># A Notification Study on Data Sharing Practices in City Apps - Artifacts</p> <p>This archive contains the following artifacts of our study:<br>- [Pseudonymized data of our app analysis](pseudonymized_data.csv)<br> - a CSV file containing the data of our dynamic app analysis<br> - the columns represent the dates of our measurements<br> - the rows are the analyzed apps, we replaced the names<br> - the groups are as follows: <br> - 1 generic notification<br> - 2 legal notification<br> - 3 technical guidance notification<br> - each cell contains the trackers to which we observed HTTP requests, divided by `|`<br>- [Mail templates](./mail_templates/)<br> - the templates to the german notification mails we sent<br> - the `guides` directory contains the technical guidance specific to the observed tracker that we provided to the technical group</p>
Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products: An Empirical Assessment of India's Form 27 Practice and Compliance
<p>Dataset of the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of 4,916 valid Statements of Working (Form 27) corresponding to 3,126 patents pertaining to mobile technology in India. Released under the Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0) License as a part of the <strong>Pervasive Technologies</strong> project at the <strong>Centre for Internet and Society, India</strong>.</p> <p>For the detailed methodology used for this study, refer to <a href="http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/methodology-statements-of-working-form-27-of-indian-mobile-device-patents">Methodology: Statements of Working (Form 27) of Indian Mobile Device Patents</a>.</p> <p>For information on how to read this dataset, refer to the section "Detailed legend and process of logging the results" in the methodology.</p> <p>A paper titled "<a href="http://jipel.law.nyu.edu/vol-7-no-1-1-contreras/"><strong>Patent Working Requirements and Complex Products</strong></a>" authored by Prof. Jorge Contreras and Rohini Lakshané, first published in July 2017 presents an analysis of the dataset.</p> <p>The patents chosen to be included in this dataset are a subset of the patents found in another study by the same authors, Patents and Mobile Devices in India: An Empirical Survey.</p> <p>Data is provided AS-IS, without warranty as to accuracy or completeness.</p> <p>All uses of the accompanying data and modifications and derivatives thereof must contain the following attribution: "Data provided by Jorge L. Contreras and Rohini Lakshané (2017)"</p>
Open Educational Practice (OEP): collection of scenarios
<p>This diagram visualizes an exemplary selection of applications of the paradigm of open educational practices.</p> <p>Beginning with the stage of preparing a teaching unit (seminar, school lesson, etc. ) with corresponding open material (e.g. OER) (<em>light red</em>), we then move to the stage of sharing this unit and its content with the seminar, class, etc. online (<em>orange</em>). The next stage comprises making active use of the introduced content/material in a collaborative learning context as part of this seminar or working group) (<em>yellow</em>). This then might include, or be followed up by, shared instances of revising and optimization of the materials used, based on the experiences made and feedback gained during the session (<em>green</em>). Further contemplating on the experiences made, the teacher and/or the learners involved share their thoughts on these practices and examples online (<em>blue</em>).</p> <p>The diagram lists the described stages' scenarios (<em>text on the right</em>) and corresponding open tools (ideally open source) (<em>icons below the rainbow</em>).</p> <p>What needs to be emphasized here is the possibility of an iterative process optimization. This points towards the possibility of not necessarily going through Stage 1 (<em>light red</em>) in a linear way up to the last stage (<em>blue</em>), but rather making use of continuous back- and cross-referencing of neighbouring stages (<em>indicated in the graphic via fluid color transitions</em>).</p> <p>***</p> <p>The graphic is provided in various formats (ai, psd, png, jpg, eps, svg) and released as Creative Commons Zero (CC0), so as to be open for further remixing ;)</p> <p>***</p> <p><em>To the extent possible under law, <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/1183806"> Tobias Steiner</a> has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to '</em>Open Educational Practice (OEP): collection of scenarios<em>'. This work is published from: Germany.</em></p>
Survey Data for "Software Testing: Survey of the Industry Practices"
<p>Dataset for the surveys presented in our article "Software Testing: Survey of the Industry Practices."</p>
CATCH-EyoU: Meanings and Practices of Youth Participation and Cases of Successful Participation: Cross-national Ethnography Cases
<p>This data set contains data related to the ethnographic qualitative study (participant observations and in-depth interviews) of citizens active in youth citizenship organizations. The selected participants are active in supporting, communicating and engaging young people’s active participation in diverse and varied causes (the environment, anti-austerity protests, pro-European vote, voting at 16, anti-fees and cuts campaigns, rights around civic spaces and youth centers, employment and jobs-related campaigns, issues around race and religion, volunteering, refugees, local housing and education). The ethnographic study was performed in Italy, Sweden, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Czech Republic, UK, and Estonia. </p> <p>The data set consists of: (1) eight national textual reports of detailed observations (ethnographic field notes) of youth civic and political organizations/individual youth. The reports are in English and are fully anonymized and redacted. (2) 48 carefully redacted and ethically permissioned English language transcripts of qualitative interviews (6 interviews from each partner country) and (3) 160 carefully redacted and ethically permissioned English language transcripts of participant-observation field notes (20 A4 pages per country).</p> <p>The names of organisations and personal data of participants or employees have been strictly redacted and anonymized in order to protect participants’ privacy and comply with ethical requirements. Instead generic descriptors such as ‘National Students Organisation’ or ‘Local Municipal Youth Volunteer Centre’ are used throughout.</p> <p>The data can be reused by researchers who want to compare our data with similar data collected in different countries, to perform textual analysis (content analysis and/or data mining) on our data. </p>
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