Qualitative Results. These group tracking approaches have shown to provide valuable input for social navigation in cock- tail party-like scenarios. They were used as an input to learning socially normative robot navigation behaviors, in a recent paper [7] that is described more closely in deliverable D5.2. As shown in Fig- ure 4, the robot XXXXX avoids splitting a group of people engaged in a conversation for which the tracker has estimated a high-probability pair-wise social relation. Without such an estimate, the robot drives in between the persons still respecting their personal spaces. However, in real data captured at Amsterdam Schiphol, where people are often in a rush and the areas are at times very crowded, it is difficult to make out distinct groups even for a human annotator. But even in those cases where it is possible to discern individual groups, the inter-person distances are often so small that the XXXXXXX robot could not pass in between the persons at all, due to its width of around 85 centimeters plus some safety margin. Therefore, even without any dedicated group detection and tracking module, the existing obstacle and social compliance layers will already cause ICT-FP7-600877-XXXXXXX Deliverable D2.5
Qualitative Results. In Fig. 14, we show illustrative results of our tracking system running on data recorded with our mobile data capture platform (Fig. 2) during a crowded situ- ation at an airport, shortly after passengers have disembarked from an airplane. At the detection stage, we observe that the different detectors (2D laser, RGB-D upper-body, groundHOG in RGB) complement each other well and significantly increase the field of view around the robot in which persons can be tracked. In group guidance scenarios, it can make sense to filter out tracks in a post- processing step which have not been visually confirmed (shown in different color in the third row of Fig. 14), as especially the laser-based detector can sometimes trigger false alarms when objects appear like humans in the laser scan. Multiple videos which show our tracking system in action on both the real robot platform and pre-recorded datasets can be found on our YouTube channel9.
Qualitative Results the maxims of memor- isation With the above set of crude assumptions, we can already draw some interesting conclusions about the impact of encoding strength on an agent’s expected utility:
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Qualitative Results. Table 2 lists the demographic characteristics of the 17 interview participants. The age of participants ranges from 14 to 30 years old (M=19.59, SD=3.92). 52.94% (n=9) were female. The PI asked participants to state their country of origin; 82.35% (n=14) stated India, 5.88% (n=1) stated Pakistan, 5.88% (n=1) stated Sri Lanka, and 5.88% (n=1) stated Bangladesh. The PI also asked the students to state the current program they are enrolled in; 29.41% (n=5) stated high school, 41.18% (n=7) stated bachelors, 23.53% (n=4) stated graduate, and 5.88% (n=1) stated PhD. A summary of the qualitative interviews and themes are presented in Table 8. The following themes emerged from the interviews: mental health wellness definition, support, coping strategies, accessing mental health resources, barriers to accessing mental health resources, and major factors of stress including family, time, future, school work, stigma, and pressure from self, family, peers, and community.
Qualitative Results. Open-ended Survey Question The final question on the survey was opened-ended and asked respondents to do the following: Briefly define/describe what coaching means to you in one paragraph of less. Eighty- one of the 116 survey participants provided a response. Responses were compiled into a separate document and each response was read and coded for themes. This resulted in a very large data set with many emerging themes. Text Fixer, a free online program designed for text conversion was used to determine the frequency count of keywords in the text of all responses (see Figure 8). Only those words that occurred ten times or more were included in Figure 8. Some words that had a frequency above ten were omitted from Figure 8, such as “coaching” and “coach,” which occurred 121 times. The words that occurred at least ten times included various forms of: support, student, help, need, lesson, feedback, improve, classroom, strategies, instruction, process, and practice. The frequencies of each of these are displayed in Figure 8. Keyword Frequency Support 32 Student 29 Help 29 Need 28 Lesson 24 Feedback 17 Improve 15 Classroom 14 Strategies 11 Instruction 10 Process 10 Practice 10
Qualitative Results. Belize Belize’s political and legal framework establishes NEMO as the lead agency for emergency response. NEMO’s mission is to ease the impact of emergencies and disasters on the country and its people. NEMO coordinates 10 operating committees. The concept of unified command and control has been applied at all levels of the MOH through NEMO. Personnel with command and control functions have been identified in the health regions and their information is updated every year due to the high staff turnover. The training of the staff is coordinated at the national level. The national plan contains standing operating procedures (SOPs) for hurricanes. The MOH has an electronic system in place to collect and manage information. A warning system via email sends information in real time to NEMO and to the EOC of the MOH to be analyzed and used for decision making. Trigger mechanisms to activate foreign disaster humanitarian assistance and protocols to support emergency preparedness at the national and regional level have been developed for hurricanes only. NEMO is responsible for declaring an alert or national hurricane emergency. The MOH is responsible for the declaration of all other emergencies. Costa Rica In Costa Rica, the Emergency Law that was approved in 1969, created the National Emergency Commission (CNE – Spanish acronym). In 1999, the Commission changed its name to the National Committee for Risk Prevention and Emergency Response. Since 0000, Xxxxx Xxxx’s political and legal framework makes CNE the governing body in risk prevention and preparedness to emergency situations. CNE coordinates the response with national institutions and with the Coordinating Center of Health Operations (CCO – Spanish acronym). During emergencies, the CCO is activated. CCO, composed of representatives of the MOH and of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, provides health situational awareness during emergencies. Through its EOC called Situation Room, it is linked to an epidemiological alert system and a national emergency alert system coordinated by CNE. Over the recent years, Costa Rica has made progress in the professionalization, modernization, and specialization of its command and control functions. The National Contingency Plan for Public Health Events, specifies the command and control for each of the regions. The command and control personnel’s performance at the regional level is limited by lack of human resource capacity that results in staff being responsible for bot...
Qualitative Results. The interviews with key informants focused on gaining an understanding of the environment and context around abortion in Colombia, in terms of clinical procedures, logistics for patients and public debate. We also asked all respondents about their perspectives on barriers to accessing legal abortion for women and provision of legal abortion for physicians. This analysis focuses on barriers and particularly barriers affecting physician provision. Table 3 describes the characteristics of each respondent. Table 3: Description of Key Informants Respondent (pseudonym) Description of Organization Xxxxxxx Progressive Catholic NGO Dr. Priam Bioethics, Conservative University in Bogotá Xxxxxx Legal organization that support´s women´s access to reproductive rights Xxxxx International NGO specializing in abortion access through the right to health in Latin America Calliope Advocacy organization focused on expanding access to reproductive rights through judiciary system Dr. Perseus Bioethicist and medical doctor at Catholic University in Bogotá Dr. Danae Conscientious Objector to abortion, medical doctor and bioethics doctoral student Xxxxxx Abortion clinic in Bogotá Erata City program supporting women´s rights Clio National women´s health clinic Xxxxxx National women´s health clinic Athena Women´s health clinic network in Colombia Dr. Odysseus Large public hospital Ignorance of the Law. Many respondents discussed ignorance of the law as an important barrier to provision of legal abortion in Colombia. The idea of ignorance of the law was consistent across informants, though the participants described the reasons for this ignorance and dimensions differently. Dr. Odysseus described this as the primary barrier for legally eligible women to access abortion in Bogotá, saying, “It´s ignorance… if you don´t know your rights you don´t exercise them. The doctors and health professionals do not know about the interruption of pregnancy [abortion]. They also don´t know that it´s legal, also they don´t know the causes [under which abortion is permitted according to C-355/2006], also they don´t know about women´s autonomy.” This ignorance takes the form of:
Qualitative Results. The purpose for adding a qualitative component to this project was to explore the meaning of burden. Specifically, we set out to compare the narratives told by the caregivers with survey data collected during the quantitative phase of this project. We also wanted to explore additional concepts of race and racism and how these meanings might shape and/or influence their roles as caregivers.
Qualitative Results. To examine and describe the themes presented above more in-depth, a qualitative analysis was conducted on the female and male authored narratives that comprise the 15-19 year-old age stratum from both urban and rural youth (n=40). As this is the central age stratum, it was deemed likely to best represent the sample. Qualitative results are presented in the following order: (1) representations of female and male characters, (2) HIV risk factors for females and males, (3) blame for HIV infection, and (4) representations of characters that display positive deviance, or behaviors that differ positively from the norm (Xxxxxx, 2005). Representations of Female Characters Female protagonists were more numerous than male protagonists, and were presented in three ways: (1) a good, hardworking girl who engaged in behavior deemed inappropriate and met a tragic end, (2) an unfaithful, promiscuous or dishonest partner who brought HIV risk or infection to a male, or (3) a victim of gendered socio-cultural norms and structural constraints. Only three narratives feature female protagonists who do not contract HIV and were able to persevere through hardships or situations of peer pressure. ‘Good girl gone bad’ The vast majority of female protagonists were represented as ‘good’ girls who go ‘bad’. At first, these females were presented as intelligent and hardworking students. They were praised and admired by peers and community members for their discipline and high academic achievements. Soon these females began to act out of character, however, and engaged in behaviors deemed inappropriate and even immoral for young women. These behaviors included talking to boys, going out to parties or disco’s, drinking alcohol, and occasionally, doing drugs. All of the females in these narratives entered into a sexual relationship (committed or casual) with a male, and in one narrative, a college-aged female had both a boyfriend and a transactional relationship with an older man. All of these relationships led to HIV infection or presumed HIV infection, and in the end, all of these females were abandoned by their partners. The dominant narrative was that girl-boy relationships were bad for schoolgirls, and such relationships would shatter their future plans and dreams. Unfaithful, scheming, and women with multiple partners The second most common female protagonist depicted in the narratives was one that was scheming, unfaithful, or had multiple partners. These representations were more f...
