While current information communication technologies and applications have the potential to alleviate some of the societal problems in everyday life, a recent survey shows that most end-users do not see these applications as being able to alleviate the challenges they face in their daily lives. Juxtaposed against CTM’s Digital Life Hierarchy, the survey results suggest that most end-users are i...

Improvement in memory speeds has not kept pace with increasing processor speed. Consequently, the gap between processor and memory speed is growing. In order to meet the computational needs of the next decade, the design projects of PetaFlop computer introduce many levels of memory hierarchy with huge amount of speed differences between levels. Having memory hierarchy can reduce the penalty of ...

BACKGROUND Invariant item ordering (IIO) is defined as the extent to which items have the same ordering (in terms of item difficulty/severity - i.e. demonstrating whether items are difficult [rare] or less difficult [common]) for each respondent who completes a scale. IIO is therefore crucial for establishing a scale hierarchy that is replicable across samples, but no research has demonstrated ...

This study aims to describe the hierarchy of character needs in novel Kenduri Arwah by A.R Rizal. The research method used this is content analysis (analysis). data are words, sentences and dialogues contained Rizal descriptive form. source collection techniques (a) reading (b) marking taking notes, because form text or quotations (c) inventory (d) classifying using format. uses Abraham Maslow'...

Introduction: Advances in human health and welfare ultimately depend on research projects. Healthcare research can provide important information about disease trends and risk factors, outcomes of treatment or public health interventions, functional abilities, patterns of care, and health care costs and use. Teaching healthcare research is done to make change and meet human needs in the communit...

Information need is an important factor in question retrieval. This paper proposes a method to diversify the results of question retrieval in term of types of information needs. CogQTaxo, a question hierarchy is leveraged to represent users’ information needs cognitively from three linguistic levels. Based on a prediction model of question types, three factors, i.e., scores of IR model, questio...

This cross-sectional study proposed to analyze the needs of adult ICU patients' family members at a public and a private hospital, regarding their level of importance and satisfaction. Ninety-one family members were interviewed, 47 from the public hospital and 44 from the private one, using the Brazilian adaptation of the Critical Care Family Need Inventory (INEFTI). There was no significant di...

To ask questions about motivation is to ask why animals do what they do. There have been many theories of motivation over the years! At one end of the spectrum was Maslow (1954), who argued that humans have a hierarchy of needs (physiological → safety → social → esteem → ‘self-actualization’, e.g. painting and composing), and must fulfil lower-level needs before addressing higher ones. It’s pre...