STUDY SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT Articles or dissertations were selected if they were qualitative reports, addressed turning points or a process of change in health behaviour over time, and were grounded in or supported by observational or verbatim qualitative data. 2 reviewers independently coded study findings in categories of main concept, pre-change influences, turning point, and steps in the...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the pattern, motivation and facilities for choosing journal club topics by residents in two medical institutions in India. METHOD A self-appraisal questionnaire was used to compare motivation for choice of topics, availability of infrastructure, sites and type of articles accessed and formal training in computer based literature search in two medical institutions- a post...

Software process appraisal is to assess whether an implemented software process complies with a process reference model. To conduct the appraisal, the appraisal team will request an organization to provide objective evidence reflecting practice implementation. Then such evidence will be examined, verified, and validated to generate appraisal results. This evidence collection process is done aft...

introduction: appraiser is the main interface between the performance appraisal system and those being appraised. their views and behaviors have different effects on the performance of the evaluation system, as well as the reactions subjects of the appraisal make toward the system and their subsequent performance. hence, appraisers need to be trained enough regarding the appraisal. therefore, t...

The main purpose of this study was to figure out employees’ attitudes toward the new performance appraisal program and to examine whether three different types of appraisal processes differentially affected job satisfaction and employee engagement. The second purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between performance appraisal reform, job satisfaction, and employee engagement...

Sentiment analysis seeks to characterize opinionated or evaluative aspects of natural language text. We suggest here that appraisal expression extraction should be viewed as a fundamental task in sentiment analysis. An appraisal expression is a textual unit expressing an evaluative stance towards some target. The task is to find and characterize the evaluative attributes of such elements. This ...