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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE PRODUCTS – AN EXAMPLE OF AGROKOSZTY DATA COLLECTION

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Skarżyńska A., Zmarzłowski K., Orłowski A.

Information Systems in Management

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2012

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vol. 1

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issue 4

318-327

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In this paper authors want to find out what is the role of information in the process of management, costs simulations and yields taking into account agricultural products. The study concerns Agrokoszty which is the Polish system of agriculture data collection. The authors want to exhibit how data is collected, the way in which it is validated and evaluate how helpful this data is in the decision management process. The technical aspects of the data collection system and the practical use of this data were additional elements taken into account.

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Asynchronous email interview as a qualitative research method in the humanities

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Ratislavová K., Ratislav J.

Human Affairs

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2014

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vol. 24

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issue 4

452-460

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The article focuses on a method for collecting qualitative data. The method is the asynchronous email interview. The authors assess the advantages, challenges and best practices of the asynchronous email interview method. They base their assessment on the academic literature and their own experiences using this data collection method in qualitative research on women who had experienced perinatal loss. The asynchronous email interview will never fully replace traditional face-to-face interviews, but it could gain a solid position as a qualitative research method thanks to its unique benefits.

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Mary Kaasiku ja Gustav Kallasto rahvaluulekogu ning kirjavahetus

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Goršič A.

Mäetagused

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2020

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vol. 78

131-154

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The broader source material for this article is the Soviet-era correspondence of the Folklore Department (FD) of the Fr. R. Kreutzwald State Literary Museum, today the Estonian Folklore Archive of the Estonian Literary Museum. This collection consists of letters and postcards of nearly 400 people, as well as transcripts of the FD staff letters to their contributors. The total volume amounts to roughly 4,000 pages and mainly covers the period from the 1950s to the first half of the 1990s. The article also discusses the contributions of Virumaa correspondents Mary Kaasik and Gustav Kallasto to the department, more specifically the folk medicine material collected by them, and focuses on Kaasik and Kallasto’s correspondence with the department, with the main emphasis on the personal health issues in their letters. Mary Kaasik and Gustav Kallasto were among those who collected folk medicine material according to the 1959 survey plan, assembled in co-operation with the folklorists and medical doctors. Assessing the total amount of material collected by Kaasik and Kallasto (over 3300 pages), the folk medicine material is not very large (over 200 pages), but it is one of the topics in which Mary Kaasik and Gustav Kallasto wrote down personal knowledge or experiences. The correspondence shows that their health problems were constantly reflected both in their letters and as short comments among traditional folk medicine material. Mary Kaasik was more inclined towards sharing her problems and personal knowledge and was the one who wrote to the department on behalf of both collectors. In general, it is concluded that personal health has been an important topic in the letters of the contributors to the folklore department. Health problems were a major obstacle to commuting and attending seminars; so messages about the health of oneself, one’s relatives or other collectors or informants are part of the content of the letters. On the other hand, health also comes to the fore in the letters of folklorists, who in turn informed their contributors about their own or their colleagues’ health, if deemed necessary. At the same time, writing about health issues creates an interesting dialogue thread between the correspondents and the folklorists, with mutual encouragement and pleas to take care of one’s health. Thus, a rather personal life goes hand in hand with the practical requirements stated in letters on collecting and archiving. Thus, much data on health can be found in the department’s correspondence. Health-related messages are personal and trusting, the majority of correspondents did not have internal obstacles to share their health worries and to enquire for folklorists’ health. It meant sharing problems and probably provided some well-deserved mental relief. On the other hand, these kinds of letters also show the correspondents’ sense of mission – even when they were off sick, they were eager to get back to the field again.

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Comparing Instrument-induced Effects in EFL Requests: Task-based Approach versus Discourse Completion Task

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Floeck I., Pfingsthorn J.

Anglica Wratislaviensia

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2016

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issue 54

51-63

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In Interlanguage Pragmatics (ILP) research, the Discourse Completion Task (DCT) is the main source of insight into speakers’ productions of pragmatic phenomena. Its omnipresence as a means of data collection can be explained by the need of comparability of data sets and (sociolinguistic) variable control. However, some studies suggest a discrepancy between surface realisations observed in naturally occurring data and experimental data like DCTs (cf. e.g. Beebe and Cummings 1996; Golato 2003).Unfortunately, the results of these studies are inconclusive and do not offer any information about quantitative differences in realisation patterns and about the impact of different methodological approaches on interlanguage data. It is therefore the aim of the present study to compare the influence of two methods of data collection, DCTs and task-based elicited conversations, on the realisation of the head act strategies in requests produced by advanced learners of English. Overall, our results show a significant difference in the distributions of request head act strategies across the two methodological conditions. The conversational head acts are substantially more direct than the requests elicited by DCTs. The patterns observed in learner data strongly resemble the ones found in native speaker requests in the same methodological scenarios. This implies that despite earlier claims, advanced learners can display target-like language use. The resemblances furthermore indicate that semi-naturalistic methods of data collection are a more valid means to obtain learner data that is representative of naturally occurring conversations.

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K efektivitě manuální a poloautomatické excerpce neologismů

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Sláma J.

Naše řeč (Our Speech)

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2019

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vol. 102

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issue 1-2

64-75

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The paper presents a simple semi-automatic neologism detection procedure: a trivial Python script processes a text file, making use of a Czech morphological tagger, and extracts all words unrecognized by the tagger as potential neologisms. The list of these candidates has to be checked by a human (hence the label semi-automatic). This method was applied to a set of texts that were also analyzed in a more traditional way, by the “reading and marking” technique (i.e. the current practice). The comparison of the two methods has revealed that the semi-automatic procedure clearly outperforms the current practice both in speed and in efficiency.

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Duoethnography in applied linguistics qualitative research

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Werbińska D.

Neofilolog

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2020

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issue 54/2

269-283

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The significance of duoethnography as an alternative qualitative method for investigating research in the humanities and social sciences has considerably increased in the last decade or so. Yet, despite its increasing popularity and the growth of duoethnographic studies in second and foreign language learning and teaching, duoethnography is still unknown to many applied linguists. In order to partially redress this gap, the aim of this article is to present duoethnography as a promising qualitative method for applied lin-guistics studies. The text outlines the basic tenets of duoethnography, discusses the scope of its research on language learning and teaching at the present time and describes innovations that duoethnography introduces to data collection, writing, presenting and interpreting research. The article concludes with a call for more duoethnographic studies in applied linguistics as they provide a welcome move towards greater methodological diversity. This, in turn, may contribute to our better understanding of the experience of language learning and teaching, and the identity of language learners and teachers, as well as generate new themes for research.

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Ocena innowacyjności organizacyjnej z perspektywy kadry zarządzającej oraz pracowników kreatywnych

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Klimas P.

Handel Wewnętrzny

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2017

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issue 3 (368) Tom II

5-15

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Celem artykułu jest analiza porównawcza ocen wielowymiarowej innowacyjności organizacyjnej dokonanych niezależnie przez pracowników kreatywnych oraz przedstawicieli kadry zarządzającej. Zasadność przeprowadzonych badań wynika z fragmentarycznej wiedzy odnośnie do specyfiki wielowymiarowej innowacyjności, w tym braku wiedzy odnośnie do sposobu jej postrzegania przez różne grupy pracowników tej samej organizacji. Dodatkowym uzasadnieniem jest wciąż tocząca się debata nad zasadnością badań zjawisk istotnych dla zarządzania strategicznego realizowanych z wykorzystaniem więcej niż jednego źródła informacji. Z jednej strony, literatura wskazuje, że miarodajnym i wystarczającym źródłem informacji o zjawiskach organizacyjnych jest kadra zarządzająca. Z drugiej jednak znaczne grono badaczy postuluje realizację badań z wykorzystaniem więcej niż jednego informatora z każdego badanego podmiotu, w tym informatorów bezpośrednio związanych z badanymi zjawiskami. Wyniki testów nieparametrycznych przeprowadzonych na 100 obserwacjach z 50 przedsiębiorstw tworzących gry komputerowe wskazują, iż nie istnieją statystycznie istotne różnice w rozkładach, przedziałach oraz medianach badanych zmiennych w analizowanych dwóch grupach pracowników. Co więcej, hipotezy o statystycznej zgodności ocen innowacyjności zostały przyjęte bez względu na zastosowane narzędzie pomiarowe. Uzyskane wyniki wskazują zatem, iż w przypadku pomiaru innowacyjności organizacyjnej realizacja badań wśród kadry menadżerskiej jest wystarczająca.

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This paper aims at a comparative analysis of assessments of organisational innovativeness made separately by both creative workers and managers. The analysis was conducted in order to find any significant differences between these two groups of employees. The fragmentary state of our knowledge about the organisational innovativeness including its multidimensionality and its perception by different groups of employees makes this analysis reasoned. Furthermore, we see it important to investigate the differences in employees’ evaluation of the organisational innovativeness as in the methodological literature there is a fierce debate about the necessity/uselessness of applying a multi-informant approach in management research. On the one hand, it is claimed that managers are the most reliable and sufficient source of information in research on organisational phenomena. On the other, there are scholars arguing the necessity of collecting data from more than one employee, including informants directly related to the considered organisational phenomenon. The results of nonparametric tests run on 100 respondents from 50 video game developers show no significant differences in descriptive statistics for the considered dimensions of the organisational innovativeness evaluated separately by managers and creative workers. Furthermore, hypotheses assuming statistical compliance of assessments have been supported for all three measurement tools applied in the study. Our findings suggest that in case of assessment of the organisational innovativeness, at least in the video game industry, using single-informant approach (e.g. managers) is sufficient.

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Цель статьи – сопоставительный анализ оценок многомерной организационной инновационности, проведенных независимо креативными работниками и представителями управляющего персонала. Правомерность проведенных обследований вытекает из фрагментарных знаний в отношении специфики многомерной инновационности, в том числе отсутствия знаний о способе ее восприятия разными группами работников од- ной и той же организации. Дополнительным обоснованием являются все время проводимые дискуссии о правомерности изучения явлений, существенных для стратегического управления, осуществляемого с использованием более одного источника информации. С одной стороны, литература указывает, что достоверным и достаточным источником информации об организационных явлениях является управляющий персонал. С другой же, значительная груп- па исследователей постулирует проведение исследований с использованием более одного информатора из каждого обследуемого субъекта, в том числе информаторов, непосредственно связанных с изучаемыми явлениями. Результаты непараметрических тестов, проведенных на 100 наблюдениях из 50 предприятий, создающих компьютерные игры, указывают, что нет статистически существенных различий в распределении, в интервалах и медианах изучаемых переменных в анализируемых двух группах работников. Более того, гипотезы о статистической сходности оценок инновационности были приняты независимо от примененного измерителя. Таким образом, полученные результаты указывают, что в случае измерения организационной инновационности достаточно осуществление обследований среди управляющего персонала.

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