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European Journal of Social Sciences

In recent years there has been talk of “Palliative care”, an interdisciplinary approach of care, ... more In recent years there has been talk of “Palliative care”, an interdisciplinary approach of care, which focuses on supporting and relieving patients and their family environment in progressive and life-threatening illnesses. Its aim is to provide optimal comfort and quality of life, maintain hope and family cohesion despite the possibility of death and generally support patients and their families in the stages of pain, illness and mourning. The theological approach of palliative care, with the opening of new horizons of view of pain and illness and their management with the help of faith, are challenges for the age of human omnipotence. The factors “spirituality” and “religiosity” have begun in recent years to be taken into account in the multitude of biological, psychological and spiritual factors that affect the body’s psychosomatic response to illness and treatment. In the present study, we are trying to explore the influence of religious faith in the management of physical, psyc...

This paper demonstrates the use of Multidimensional Data Analysis methods in revealing latent gro... more This paper demonstrates the use of Multidimensional Data Analysis methods in revealing latent groups of European countries trading cultural goods over a period of fourteen years (2002-2015). The methods of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HC) are applied on a multivariate matrix that takes into account not only imports and exports of such goods, but in a supplementary way, basic economic and educational variables, in order to detect and explore relationships among them. Furthermore, cluster analysis on MCA results is used to identify all groups of country-years sharing similar characteristics.

In this work we present the application of a new educational research methodology named "Geometri... more In this work we present the application of a new educational research methodology named "Geometric Didactic Analysis"-Ge.Di.An. It is a result of the interdisciplinary encounter between the scientific areas of Didactics and Data Analysis. In this paper, we focus on two issues: a. the theoretical background of Ge.Di.An. and b. its application. The application of Ge.Di.An. is a two stage process. We use an example from the area of religious education, in order to describe extensively this process.

Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie, 2018

Zusammenfassung: Der vorliegende Beitrag fußt auf einem wissenschaftlichen Ansatz, der zwei unter... more Zusammenfassung: Der vorliegende Beitrag fußt auf einem wissenschaftlichen Ansatz, der zwei unterschiedliche Forschungszweige aufeinander bezieht und auf das Gebiet der Religionsdidaktik anwendet. Der eine ist der auf den Kompetenz-Begriff fokussierte Elementarisierungsansatz von Friedrich Schweitzer (Tübingen). Dieser Ansatz, wie er den meisten Religionsdidaktikern schon seit Jahren bekannt ist, beschreibt ein Kompetenzmodell für den Religionsunterricht. Der zweite Ansatz heißt Geometric Didactic Analysis und wurde interdisziplinär von Athanasios Stogiannidis (Thessaloniki) und Nikolaos Koutsoupias (Thessaloniki) entwickelt. Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich das Ziel, die didaktischen Dimensionen von Lehrplänen mit Hilfe von Methoden der multivarianten Datenanalyse in der Art einer – metaphorisch gesprochen – „didaktischen Landkarte“ zu erschließen und zu bewerten.

This thesis’s goal is to present an algorithm that serves to augment the regular word frequency a... more This thesis’s goal is to present an algorithm that serves to augment the regular word frequency algorithms by introducing and incorporating the synonyms of the words in the process of counting frequencies. The thesis consists of three parts that serve to inform the reader about why this change could be an improvement, provide a description of the technologies used in the project as well as an in-depth explanation of the algorithm that was built and finally its application to real world data along with the analysis of the results.

The gap between quantitative and qualitative analysis was largely bridged with the increasing ava... more The gap between quantitative and qualitative analysis was largely bridged with the increasing availability of digital texts and the dramatic improvement of algorithmic methods for extracting information from text. Most researchers working with data analytics software find that R-language capabilities are widely accepted and are utilized in research and teaching. Currently, open source software utilization practices have been adopted by our Department in empirical research and research work for which the acceptance and enthusiasm of students is significant. Following are characteristics and functions of coding, aggregation, and data visualization of the open source RQDA qualitative analysis software, a R package that is now widely accepted by a broad range of disciplines.

Data file in CSV format of "Perceptions Journal" articles (2010-2012)

European Journal of Social Sciences

In recent years there has been talk of “Palliative care”, an interdisciplinary approach of care, ... more In recent years there has been talk of “Palliative care”, an interdisciplinary approach of care, which focuses on supporting and relieving patients and their family environment in progressive and life-threatening illnesses. Its aim is to provide optimal comfort and quality of life, maintain hope and family cohesion despite the possibility of death and generally support patients and their families in the stages of pain, illness and mourning. The theological approach of palliative care, with the opening of new horizons of view of pain and illness and their management with the help of faith, are challenges for the age of human omnipotence. The factors “spirituality” and “religiosity” have begun in recent years to be taken into account in the multitude of biological, psychological and spiritual factors that affect the body’s psychosomatic response to illness and treatment. In the present study, we are trying to explore the influence of religious faith in the management of physical, psyc...

This paper demonstrates the use of Multidimensional Data Analysis methods in revealing latent gro... more This paper demonstrates the use of Multidimensional Data Analysis methods in revealing latent groups of European countries trading cultural goods over a period of fourteen years (2002-2015). The methods of Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) and Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HC) are applied on a multivariate matrix that takes into account not only imports and exports of such goods, but in a supplementary way, basic economic and educational variables, in order to detect and explore relationships among them. Furthermore, cluster analysis on MCA results is used to identify all groups of country-years sharing similar characteristics.

In this work we present the application of a new educational research methodology named "Geometri... more In this work we present the application of a new educational research methodology named "Geometric Didactic Analysis"-Ge.Di.An. It is a result of the interdisciplinary encounter between the scientific areas of Didactics and Data Analysis. In this paper, we focus on two issues: a. the theoretical background of Ge.Di.An. and b. its application. The application of Ge.Di.An. is a two stage process. We use an example from the area of religious education, in order to describe extensively this process.

Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie, 2018

Zusammenfassung: Der vorliegende Beitrag fußt auf einem wissenschaftlichen Ansatz, der zwei unter... more Zusammenfassung: Der vorliegende Beitrag fußt auf einem wissenschaftlichen Ansatz, der zwei unterschiedliche Forschungszweige aufeinander bezieht und auf das Gebiet der Religionsdidaktik anwendet. Der eine ist der auf den Kompetenz-Begriff fokussierte Elementarisierungsansatz von Friedrich Schweitzer (Tübingen). Dieser Ansatz, wie er den meisten Religionsdidaktikern schon seit Jahren bekannt ist, beschreibt ein Kompetenzmodell für den Religionsunterricht. Der zweite Ansatz heißt Geometric Didactic Analysis und wurde interdisziplinär von Athanasios Stogiannidis (Thessaloniki) und Nikolaos Koutsoupias (Thessaloniki) entwickelt. Der vorliegende Beitrag setzt sich das Ziel, die didaktischen Dimensionen von Lehrplänen mit Hilfe von Methoden der multivarianten Datenanalyse in der Art einer – metaphorisch gesprochen – „didaktischen Landkarte“ zu erschließen und zu bewerten.

This thesis’s goal is to present an algorithm that serves to augment the regular word frequency a... more This thesis’s goal is to present an algorithm that serves to augment the regular word frequency algorithms by introducing and incorporating the synonyms of the words in the process of counting frequencies. The thesis consists of three parts that serve to inform the reader about why this change could be an improvement, provide a description of the technologies used in the project as well as an in-depth explanation of the algorithm that was built and finally its application to real world data along with the analysis of the results.

The gap between quantitative and qualitative analysis was largely bridged with the increasing ava... more The gap between quantitative and qualitative analysis was largely bridged with the increasing availability of digital texts and the dramatic improvement of algorithmic methods for extracting information from text. Most researchers working with data analytics software find that R-language capabilities are widely accepted and are utilized in research and teaching. Currently, open source software utilization practices have been adopted by our Department in empirical research and research work for which the acceptance and enthusiasm of students is significant. Following are characteristics and functions of coding, aggregation, and data visualization of the open source RQDA qualitative analysis software, a R package that is now widely accepted by a broad range of disciplines.

Data file in CSV format of "Perceptions Journal" articles (2010-2012)

Volume dedicated to Prof Dr K G Nichoritis ΕΠΙΜΕΛΕΙΑ: Μαριαλένα Καραμούζη - Karamouzi Marialena Ν... more Volume dedicated to Prof Dr K G Nichoritis
ΕΠΙΜΕΛΕΙΑ:
Μαριαλένα Καραμούζη - Karamouzi Marialena
Νικόλαος Κουτσουπιάς - Nikos Koutsoupias
Χριστίνα Μάρκου - Markou Christina
Αθανάσιος Στογιαννίδης - Stogiannidis Athanasios