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Taylor, John R. "Article Commentary: Breast Implant Follow-Up: A Personal Opinion." Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery 1, no. 2 (June 1993): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/229255039300100202.
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Callinan, Catherine E., Brianna Kenney, Lisa A. Hark, Ann P. Murchison, Yang Dai, Benjamin E. Leiby, Eileen L. Mayro, Joseph Bilson, and Julia A. Haller. "Improving Follow-Up Adherence in a Primary Eye Care Setting." American Journal of Medical Quality 32, no. 1 (July 10, 2016): 73–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1062860615616860.
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Lack of patient adherence with eye appointments can decrease ocular outcomes. This prospective, randomized, single-blinded controlled study assessed the effectiveness of multiple interventions in improving follow-up adherence to recommended eye appointments. Patients due for follow-up appointments were randomly assigned to usual care, automated intervention, or personal intervention. Automated-intervention patients and personal-intervention patients received a call one month prior to the recommended follow-up date, and a mailed appointment reminder letter. The call was automated for automated-intervention patients and personalized for personal-intervention patients. The primary outcome was adherence to the follow-up appointment. The secondary outcome was rate of appointment scheduling. Patients in the personal-intervention group had greater adherence to follow-up recommendations (38%) than patients in the usual care group (28%) and the automated-intervention group (30%). Personal intervention significantly increased appointment scheduling (51%) over usual care (32%) and automated intervention (36%). These results support systems-level changes to improve patient follow-up adherence in urban primary eye care settings.
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Rachlin, Stephen, and Barbara Prach. "Personal Accounts: A 35-Year Follow-up of Completed Psychotherapy." Psychiatric Services 59, no. 6 (June 2008): 609–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ps.2008.59.6.609.
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Niiranen, Samuli, and Heikki Lamminen. "Feasibility of personal prothrombin time measurement in anticoagulant treatment follow-up." Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare 8, no. 6 (December 1, 2002): 359–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/135763302320939266.
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Fukuda, T. "Atypical psychoses versus schizophrenia: A long-term personal follow-up results." Biological Psychiatry 42, no. 1 (July 1997): 196S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0006-3223(97)87729-3.
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Storm-Mathisen, A., and P. Vaglum. "Conduct disorder patients 20 years later: a personal follow-up study." Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 89, no. 6 (June 1994): 416–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1994.tb01539.x.
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Tin, S. Tin, A. Woodward, and S. Ameratunga. "TAUPO BICYCLE STUDY: FOLLOW UP RESPONSE, PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND INJURY OUTCOME." Injury Prevention 18, Suppl 1 (October 2012): A225.1—A225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040590w.1.
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Oliveira, Elenilda Farias de, Climene Laura de Camargo, Nadirlene Pereira Gomes, Telmara Menezes Couto, Luana Moura Campos, and Patricia Santos de Oliveira. "Factors related to quilombola attendance to child follow-up appointments." Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 72, suppl 3 (December 2019): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0605.
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ABSTRACT Objective: To understand factors interfering with the attendance of quilombola children to growth and development follow-up appointments. Method: It is a qualitative research based on Symbolic interactionism, during which 14 mothers of children bellow 1 year-old were interviewed, who attended to the Family Health Unit at Ilha de Maré, Bahia, Brazil. Results: Appointment attendance is affected by factors intrinsic to mothers (meaning of child health follow-up; association between appointments and children falling ill; personal issues) and extrinsic factors, related to the service (availability, long waiting time for appointments and its quality). Final considerations: An administration prioritizing the service’s organization is required, which can prioritize attendances and the reduction of waiting time, specially given the personal issues that compromise going to the unit.
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Saajanaho, Milla, Anne Viljanen, Sanna Read, Merja Rantakokko, Li-Tang Tsai, Jaakko Kaprio, Marja Jylhä, and Taina Rantanen. "Older Women’s Personal Goals and Exercise Activity: An 8-Year Follow-Up." Journal of Aging and Physical Activity 22, no. 3 (July 2014): 386–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/japa.2012-0339.
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This study investigated the associations of personal goals with exercise activity, as well as the relationships between exercise-related and other personal goals, among older women. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs were used with a sample of 308 women ages 66–79 at baseline. Women who reported exercise-related personal goals were 4 times as likely to report high exercise activity at baseline than those who did not report exercise-related goals. Longitudinal results were parallel. Goals related to cultural activities, as well as to busying oneself around the home, coincided with exercise-related goals, whereas goals related to own and other people’s health and independent living lowered the odds of having exercise-related goals. Helping older adults to set realistic exercise-related goals that are compatible with their other life goals may yield an increase in their exercise activity, but this should be evaluated in a controlled trial.
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Saajanaho, Milla, Anne Viljanen, Sanna Read, Merja Rantakokko, Li-Tang Tsai, Jaakko Kaprio, Marja Jylhä, and Taina Rantanen. "Older Women’s Personal Goals and Exercise Activity: An 8-Year Follow-Up." Journal of Aging and Physical Activity 22, no. 3 (July 2014): 386–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/japa.22.3.386.
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Chadwell, Sarah E. B. S. "Factors Influencing Clinical Follow-up for Individuals with a Personal History of Breast and/or Ovarian Cancer and Previous Negative or Uncertain BRCA1 and BRCA2 Testing." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491317215551797.
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Nicolaï, Alice. "Interpretable representations of human biosignals for individual longitudinal follow-up : application to postural control follow-up in medical consultation." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Paris Cité, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021UNIP5224.
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Le suivi longitudinal individuel, dont l'objectif est de suivre l'évolution de l'état d'un individu au cours du temps, est au cœur de nombreuses problématiques de santé publique, particulièrement dans le domaine de la prévention médicale. L'accès croissant à des capteurs non invasifs permettant de mesurer divers bio-signaux (glycémie, fréquence cardiaque, mouvements des yeux, etc.) a encouragé la quantification de la physiologie, de la sensorimotricité ou du comportement humain dans le but de construire des marqueurs pour le suivi individuel. Cet objectif soulève toutefois plusieurs difficultés liées à la modélisation des signaux. Ce type particulier de données est en effet complexe à interpréter tel quel, et, a fortiori, à comparer au cours du temps. Dans cette thèse nous étudions la question de la représentation interprétable des bio-signaux pour le suivi longitudinal à travers la problématique du suivi de l'équilibre en consultation médicale. Cette problématique a des implications déterminantes dans la prévention des chutes et de la fragilité chez les personnes âgées. Nous nous focalisons en particulier sur l'utilisation des plateformes de force, qui sont communément utilisées pour enregistrer des mesures de posturographie, et peuvent être facilement déployées dans le contexte clinique grâce au développement de plateformes peu onéreuses comme la Wii Balance Board. Pour cette application particulière, nous étudions les avantages et les inconvénients de l'utilisation de méthodes d'extraction de caractéristiques ou de la recherche d'un modèle génératif des trajectoires. Nos contributions incluent premièrement la revue et l'étude d'un large ensemble de variables qui sont utilisées pour évaluer le risque de chute chez les personnes âgées, dérivées de la trajectoire du centre de pression (CoP). Ce signal est couramment analysé dans la littérature clinique pour inférer des informations sur le contrôle de l'équilibre. Ensuite, nous développons un nouveau modèle génératif, "Total Recall", basé sur un précédent modèle stochastique du CoP, qui s'est avéré reproduire plusieurs caractéristiques des trajectoires mais n'intègre pas la dynamique entre le CoP et le centre de masse (CoM) -- une dynamique considérée centrale dans le contrôle moteur de la posture. Par ailleurs, la comparaison des méthodes fréquemment utilisées pour l'estimation du CoM en équilibre statique debout permet de conclure qu'il est possible d'obtenir une estimation précise avec la Wii Balance Board. Les résultats montrent la pertinence potentielle du modèle Total Recall pour le suivi longitudinal du contrôle postural dans un contexte clinique. Dans l'ensemble, nous soulignons l'avantage d'utiliser des modèles génératifs, tout en mettant en évidence la complémentarité des deux approches, extraction de caractéristiques et modèles génératifs. En outre, cette thèse s'intéresse à l'apprentissage de représentations sur des données labellisées et adaptées à un objectif particulier de suivi. Nous introduisons de nouveaux algorithmes de classification qui tirent avantage des connaissances a priori pour améliorer les performances tout en conservant une interprétabilité complète. Notre approche s'appuie sur des algorithmes intrinsèquement interprétables et une régularisation sur l'espace des modèles basée sur des heuristiques médicales. Cette méthode est appliquée à la quantification du risque de chute et de la fragilité. Cette thèse défend l'importance de la recherche de méthodes interprétables, conçues pour des applications spécifiques et intégrant des a-priori fondés sur des connaissances expertes. Ces approches montrent des résultats positifs pour l'intégration des bio-signaux sélectionnés et de méthodes d'apprentissage statistique dans le cadre du suivi longitudinal du contrôle posturalIndividual longitudinal follow-up, which aims at following the evolution of an individual state in time, is at the heart of numerous public health issues, particularly in the field of medical prevention. The increasing availability of non-invasive sensors that record various biosignals (e.g., blood glucose, heart rate, eye movements), has encouraged the quantification of human physiology, sensorimotricity, or behavior with the purpose of deriving markers for individual follow-up. This objective raises however several challenges related to signal modelling. Indeed, this particular type of data is complex to interpret, and, a fortiori, to compare across time. This thesis studies the issue of extracting interpretable representations from biosignals through the problematic of balance control follow-up in medical consultation, which has crucial implications for the prevention of falls and frailty in older adults. We focus in particular on the use of force platforms, which are commonly used to record posturography measures, and can be easily deployed in the clinical setting thanks to the development of low cost platforms such as the Wii Balance Board. For this particular application, we investigate the pros and cons of using feature extraction methods or alternatively searching for a generative model of the trajectories. Our contributions include first the review and study of a wide range of state-of-the-art variables that are used to assess fall risk in older adults, derived from the center of pressure (CoP) trajectory. This signal is commonly analyzed in the clinical literature to infer information about balance control. Secondly, we develop a new generative model, ``Total Recall'', based on a previous stochastic model of the CoP, which has shown to reproduce several characteristics of the trajectories but does not integrate the dynamic between the CoP and the center of mass (CoM) -- a dynamic which is considered to be central in postural control. We also review and compare the main methods of estimation of the CoM in quiet standing and conclude that it is possible to obtain an accurate estimation using the Wii Balance Board. The results show the potential relevance of the Total Recall model for the longitudinal follow-up of postural control in a clinical setting. Overall, we highlight the benefit of using generative models, while pointing out the complementarity of features-based and generative-based approachs. Furthermore, this thesis is interested in introducing representations learned on labeled data and tailored for a particular objective of follow-up. We propose new classification algorithms that take advantage of a priori knowledge to improve performances while maintaining complete interpretability. Our approach relies on bagging-based algorithms that are intrinsically interpretable, and a model-space regularization based on medical heuristics. The method is applied to the quantification of fall risk and frailty. This dissertation argues for the importance of researching interpretable methods, designed for specific applications, and incorporating a-priori based on expert knowledge. This approach shows positive results for the integration of the selected biosignals and statistical learning methods in the longitudinal follow-up of postural control. The results encourage the continuation of this work, the further development of the methods, especially in the context of other types of follow-up such as continuous monitoring, and the extension to the study of new biosignals
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Seller, Nina, and Louice Westin. "Personers upplevelser av fysisk aktivitet på recept (FaR)." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Omvårdnad, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-64300.
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Abstrakt I världen ökar ohälsa och sjukdom markant relaterat till dåliga levnadsvanor som exempelvis otillräcklig fysisk aktivitet. Fysisk aktivitet definieras som alla former av planerad fysisk aktivitet som ger ökad energiomsättning och som påverkar hälsan positivt där målet är att öka prestationsförmågan. Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva personers upplevelser av fysisk aktivitet på recept (FaR). Kunskap i dessa nämnda områden kan leda till minskade livsstilsrelaterade sjukdomar såsom fetma, övervikt, diabetes och hjärt-kärlsjukdomar samt t.ex. minska viktökning och stillasittande. Det i sig påverkar folkhälsan och samhället positivt, även så kostnadsmässigt. Metoden hade en kvalitativ ansats. Data samlades in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med tio personer som levde både i glesbygd i norr och i storstad i söder. Analysen som genomfördes med kvalitativ innehållsanalys resulterade i fem huvudkategorier: En känsla av bättre välbefinnande; Ökad motivation till förändring; En berg- och dalbana av känslor; Behov av att få uppföljande samtal; Leder till ett positivt resultat. Resultatet visade att personer började må bättre psykiskt och fysisk samtidigt som de blev piggare i kroppen och fick en mycket positivare inställning till livet. Det var viktigt att ha motivation till förändring för att lyckas med en livsstilsförändring. Det var en känslomässig och laddad process och uppföljande samtal var mycket viktigt. FaR beskrevs som en positiv upplevelse för deltagarna och gav goda resultat på kort tid. Konklusion Resultatet visar att FaR är ett bra verktygför att uppnå bättre hälsa psykiskt och fysiskt samt i flera andra aspekter. Sjukvårdpersonal har en viktig uppgift när det gäller stöd, motivation och uppföljning. Det kan vara känslomässigt och laddat när grunden till att ta hjälp av FaR ofta kan vara påfrestande mentalt. Det upplevdes som negativt att ej ha tillgång till uppföljning.
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Fu, Yu-Wan, and 傅育婉. "A study of the effect of adventure education program and follow-up guidance on personal life effectiveness of at-risk studends." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47019331776276996064.
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The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of adventure education program and follow-up guidance on personal life effectiveness of at-risk. Based on the results of the research, constructive suggestions are presented as a reference for developing adventure education course in Taiwan. The research methods used are the case study and consists of two phases, first phases observation of participation and questionnaire survey to observat the ten days-nine nights adventure education activity and the three days-two nights adventure education activity. It used a pretest-posttest of ‘Life Effectiveness Questionnaire-Version I’ and participate observe the the development of diffterent team. Second phases, the study was to choice 1 students of the ten day- nine nights adventure education activity to understand the change of this case for one year. The findings were as follows: 1.The adventure education is really can attract at-risk studends. 2.The effectiveness of adventure education activity (1)The personal life effectiveness change of three days-two nights adventure education activity is better than ten days-nine nights. (2)The team efficiency of three days-two nights adventure education activity is better than ten days-night nights. 3.The influential factors for the effectiveness of adventure education activity. (1)The members of adventure education design the team efficiency. (2)The curriculum of adventure education design the team efficiency. 4.Family education is really important for at-risk studends. Based on the findings, two suggestions are provided in this research: 1.Adventure education program have been carefully planned. (1)To implement systematic assessment of guidance. (2)To establish systematic adventure education program. (3)To choice heterogeneous memberships in adventure education program. (4)To integrate the adventure education program into the school curriculum. 2.The practice of parent education. (1)To strengthen the parent education practice in school. (2)To strengthen the parent education practice in society. (3)The government should realize the policy of the parent education.
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Huang, Yu-Ying, and 黃瑜盈. "An Investigation of Personal and Social-Environmental Factors Related to Crash and Burn Injuries：A Follow-up of 10 to 12 Graders." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75384758389220660774.
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Background: Unintentional injuries, especially crash, drown and burn injuries, is accounting for the first ranked cause of adolescents’ death in Taiwan. Therefore, we want to apply long-term data to figure out more associated factors. Purpose: To understand the attributes of crash and burn injury incidence of adolescents aged from 10 to 12 grade, we applied secondary data collecting from Child and Adolescent Behavior in Long-term Evolution (CABLE) research since 2001 to 2009. Methods: The cohort participants included in the research are 1567 4th graders with the follow-up period of 8 years since 2001. We applied Poisson regression to access our result. Result: Our results showed that from 2007 to 2009, while students are during their 10 to 12 grade, the prevalence as well as the incidence rates of crash and burn injuries both had linear ascending trend. The result of Poisson regression showed male, students who raised in wealthy family, owning offensive personality, using more substance, living within more than 5 people, studying in comprehensive or vocational school, and whose peer displaying more antisocial and substance using behaviors were more risky involving in car crash. Parents’ support and living in highly urbanized area played as protective factors which decrease the incidence of crash. Burn injury incidence rate was high in those displaying more unhealthy habits, antisocial and substance using behavior, living in highly urbanized area, owning high parents support, and studying in vocational school, while those who are raised in a more affluent family have lower risk of suffering burn injury. Conclusion: Upon our results, we found that deviant behaviors played a definitely important role in resulting injuries. Therefore, if we can intervene in adolescences’ behaviors in their early ages while focusing parents’ support at the same time and developing appropriate intervention program for different groups, we can better control injury incidence and decrease social cost following by adolescents’ injury.
Books on the topic "Personal Follow-Up"
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York, New York (State) Office of the State Deputy Comptroller for the City of New. New York City Department of Correction, follow-up on civilianization. [New York, N.Y: Office of the State Deputy Comptroller, 1992.
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New York (State). Office of the State Deputy Comptroller for the City of New York. New York City Department of Correction, follow-up on overtime. [New York, N.Y: Office of the State Deputy Comptroller, 1991.
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Plecas, Darryl Blair. A nine-month follow-up survey of 1984 of CSC recruits. Ottawa: Correctional Service of Canada, 1985.
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United States. Army Medical Research and Development Command and National Research Council (U.S.), eds. Study of post-separation HIV-positive servicemen lost to follow-up: Annual report. [Washington, District of Columbia?]: U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command, 1992.
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United Nations. Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Concluding observations on the report submitted by Montenegro under article 29 (1) of the Convention: Addendum : information received from Montenegro on follow-up to the concluding observations. Geneva ; Nairobi ; New York ; Vienna: United Nations, 2017.
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United Nations. Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Concluding observations on the report of Armenia under article 29, paragraph 1, of the Convention: Addendum : information received from Armenia on follow-up to the concluding observations. Geneva ; Nairobi ; New York ; Vienna: United Nations, 2016.
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United Nations. Committee on Enforced Disappearances. Concluding observations on the report submitted by the Netherlands under article 29, paragraph 1, of the Convention: Addendum : information received from the Netherlands on follow-up to the concluding observations. Geneva ; Nairobi ; New York ; Vienna: United Nations, 2016.
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United, States Congress House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on the Treasury Postal Service and General Government Appropriations. Treasury, Postal Service, and general government appropriations for fiscal year 1994: Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations : White House personnel practices : follow-up to hearing on ATF actions during Waco, Texas, raid. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1994.
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations. Treasury, Postal Service, and general government appropriations for fiscal year 1994: Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations : White House personnel practices : follow-up to hearing on ATF actions during Waco, Texas, raid. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1994.
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UN. Commission on Human Rights. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, ed. Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions: Report of the Special Rapporteur, Philip Alston : addendum. Geneva: UN, 2006.
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Ausín, David, Diego López-de-Ipiña, José Bravo, Miguel Ángel Valero, and Francisco Flórez. "TALISMAN+: Intelligent System for Follow-Up and Promotion of Personal Autonomy." In Ambient Assisted Living, 187–91. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21303-8_26.
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Unbehaun, V. "Randomization and Follow-up Care of Patients in a Breast Cancer Clinical Trial: Personal Experience." In Cancer Clinical Trials, 171–73. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83419-6_19.
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Iliev, Ivo, Irena Jekova, Serafim Tabakov, Krasimira Koshtikova, Nikolay Runev, and Emil Manov. "High-Risk Cardiac Patients’ Follow-Up via Portable Telemonitoring Personal Analyzer: Applicability, Reliability and Accuracy." In Contemporary Methods in Bioinformatics and Biomedicine and Their Applications, 312–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96638-6_33.
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Hogan, Mél. "Skin." In Solarities, 43–48. Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.53288/0404.1.03.
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This piece invites the reader to think about their skin as a surface to glean information about identity, disease, and life on earth. Through exposing the process of having a mole removed by a surgeon, and a follow-up from the dermatologist, the piece discusses the relationship between skin and sun; the warnings about UV exposure, the narratives about genetics and personal responsibility, the fallout and recovery of medical interventions, and the new meanings made possible about the sun itself, through a careful consideration of skin as a medium that absorbs and reflects it.
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Del Maestro, Mattia, Sabino Luzzi, and Renato Galzio. "Microneurosurgical Management of Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Aneurysms: Results of a Consecutive Series." In Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement, 33–38. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63453-7_5.
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AbstractAneurysms of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) are uncommon. The complex anatomy of PICA and its intimate relationships with medulla, lower cranial nerves, and jugular tubercle makes the surgical treatment of these aneurysms fascinating. The reported is study aimed at a critical review of the overall results of a personal series of PICA aneurysms, treated by the senior author, R. Galzio. Demographics, charts, videos, outcome, and follow-up of a cohort of PICA aneurysms managed in the last 10 years were retrospectively analyzed, focusing only upon those treated with microneurosurgery. Twenty-five patients, harboring a single aneurysm, were operated on. Fifteen aneurysms were ruptured. Nineteen were proximal, all of these being been treated through a far-lateral approach. Trans-condylar or trans-tubercular variants were rarely necessary and however reserved to peculiar cases. Twenty-three aneurysms underwent direct treatment consisting of clip ligation. At 6-month follow-up, 60% of patients had a modified Rankin Score (mRS) of 0–2. Given the high anatomical variability of both PICA and patients’ bony anatomy, a case-by-case meticulous preoperative imaging evaluation is mandatory for the choice of the most suitable and tailored surgical corridor which, in turn, is pivotal to achieve the best outcome.
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Baig, Mirza Farhatullah, and Yashoda Ashok. "Myofascial Pain Dysfunction Syndrome." In Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery for the Clinician, 1343–60. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1346-6_62.
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AbstractMyofascial Pain Dysfunction Syndrome or myofascial pain disorder is one among the triad of disturbances that is encompassed within the umbrella term, TMJ disorders. Due to a lack of consensus on definitive symptoms and mode of diagnosis, it continues to remain an elusive entity for clinicians working with head and neck disorders and dentists alike. Additionally, There is a general lack of simplification in literature to enhance understanding and this is further complicated by the use of multiple descriptive terminologies to refer to the disorder. It is the objective of this chapter to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject for the reader, to clarify the various nuances of diagnosis, treatment planning and management modalities in addition to throwing light on the evolving terminologies, causative mechanisms and recent trends in MPDS management. The author has also highlighted the importance of a multi modality management approach, psychological rehabilitation with long term patient follow up. The authors personal experience with the use of specialised splints has been elucidated with relevant clinical case scenarios.
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Körükcü, Öznur, and Kamile Kabukcuoğlu. "Health Promotion Among Home-Dwelling Elderly Individuals in Turkey." In Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research, 313–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63135-2_22.
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AbstractAlthough the social structure of Turkish society has changed from a broad family order to a nuclear family, family relations still hold an important place, where traditional elements dominate. Still, elderly people are cared for by their family in their home environment. Thus, the role of family members is crucial in taking care of elderly individuals. In Turkey, the responsibility of care is largely on women; the elderly’s wife, daughter, or daughter-in-law most often provides the care. Family members who provide care need support so that they can maintain their physical, psychological and mental health. At this point, Antonovsky’s salutogenic health model represents a positive and holistic approach to support individual’s health and coping. The salutogenic understanding of health emphasizes both physical, psychological, social, spiritual and cultural resources which can be utilized not only to avoid illness, but to promote health.With the rapidly increasing ageing population globally, health expenditures and the need for care are increasing accordingly. This increase reveals the importance of health-promoting practices in elderly care, which are important for the well-being and quality of life of older individuals and their families, as well as cost effectiveness. In Turkey, the emphasis on health-promoting practices is mostly focused in home-care services including examination, treatment, nursing care, medical care, medical equipment and device services, psychological support, physiotherapy, follow-up, rehabilitation services, housework (laundry, shopping, cleaning, food), personal care (dressing, bathroom, and personal hygiene help), 24-h emergency service, transportation, financial advice and training services within the scope of the social state policy for the elderly 65 years and older, whereas medical management of diseases serves elderly over the age of 85. In the Turkish health care system, salutogenesis can be used in principle for two aims: to guide health-promotion interventions in health care practice, and to (re)orient health care practice and research. The salutogenic orientation encompasses all elderly people independently of their position on the ease-/dis-ease continuum. This chapter presents health-promotion practices in the care of elderly home-dwelling people living in Turkey.
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Cavaco, Afonso Miguel, Carlos Filipe Quitério, Isa Brito Félix, and Mara Pereira Guerreiro. "Communication and Person-Centred Behaviour Change." In A Practical Guide on Behaviour Change Support for Self-Managing Chronic Disease, 81–112. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20010-6_5.
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AbstractThis chapter presents critical components of the interaction between the professional and the person, needed to effectively support behaviour change. Most of these components are relational competencies assisted by communication skills. Relational competencies include person-centredness and shared decision-making, contributing to the person’s empowerment, a concept strongly linked with health literacy. Communication skills comprise the basic interchange and optimised linguistic features. Further, coping strategies to deal with negative emotions and psychosocial implications of chronic disease are summarised.This chapter also proposes an integrated approach (ABCD) for first and follow-up encounters in behaviour change interventions. The ABCD approach comprises four stages: setting the stage (A), establishing an information base (B), obtaining a commitment (C) and negotiating an intervention plan (D).
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Liu, Zheng, and Hao Wang. "Research on Process Diagnosis of Severe Accidents Based on Deep Learning and Probabilistic Safety Analysis." In Springer Proceedings in Physics, 624–34. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1023-6_54.
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AbstractSevere accident process diagnosis provides data basis for severe accident prognosis, positive and negative effect evaluation of Severe Accident Management Guidelines (SAMGs), especially to quickly diagnose Plant Damage State (PDS) for operators in the main control room or personnel in the Technical Support Center (TSC) based on historic data of the limited number of instruments during the operation transition from Emergency Operation Procedures (EOPs) to SAMGs. This diagnosis methodology is based on tens of thousands of simulations of severe accidents using the integrated analysis program MAAP. The simulation process is organized in reference to Level 1 Probabilistic Safety Analysis (L1 PSA) and EOPs. According to L1 PSA, the initial event of accidents and scenarios from the initial event to core damage are presented in Event Trees (ET), which include operator actions following up EOPs. During simulation, the time uncertainty of operations in scenarios is considered. Besides the big data collection of simulations, a deep learning algorithm, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), has been used in this severe accident diagnosis methodology, to diagnose the type of severe accident initiation event, the breach size, breach location, and occurrence time of the initial event of LOCA, and action time by operators following up EOPs intending to take Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) back to safety state. These algorithms train classification and regression models with ET-based numerical simulations, such as the classification model of sequence number, break location, and regression model of the break size and occurrence time of initial event MBLOCA. Then these trained models take advantage of historic data from instruments in NPP to generate a diagnosis conclusion, which is automatically written into an input deck file of MAAP. This input deck originated from previous traceback efforts and provides a numerical analysis basis for predicting the follow-up process of a severe accident, which is conducive to severe accident management. Results of this paper show a theoretical possibility that under limited available instruments, this traceback and diagnosis method can automatically and quickly diagnose PDS when operation transit from EOPs to SAMGs and provide numerical analysis basis for severe accident process prognosis.
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"Follow-Up and Follow-Through!" In The Personal Efficiency Program, 143–62. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118256237.ch7.
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Rudohradská, Simona, Laura Bachňáková Rózenfeldová, and Regina Hučková. "WHEN COMPETITION MEETS PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION." In International Scientific Conference “Digitalization and Green Transformation of the EU“. Faculty of Law, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.25234/eclic/27455.
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In the submitted contribution the authors follow up on the case of Facebook, which was assessed by the German competition authority – Bundeskartellamt. Proceedings moved from administrative to judicial phase, as this case was assessed by Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf ) and also by Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof ). However, German national courts had adopted differing views in this regard. National German court (Higher Regional Court, Düsseldorf, Germany) rendered a prejudicial question to Court of Justice of the European union (hereinafter referred to as “CJEU”), concerning mainly (1) interpretation of GDPR regulation and (2) question of whether competition authority is entitled to apply this regulation in its investigations. In the corresponding case No. C-252/21, the Opinion of Advocate General (delivered on 20 September 2022) was recently published. The aim of this paper is to assess the interaction between personal data protection in correlation with the competition rules, more precisely, whether the competition authority is entitled to apply GDPR.
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Cohen, Stuart B. "Horizontal Plane Characteristics of Two Full Size Personal Watercraft." In SNAME 25th American Towing Tank Conference. SNAME, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/attc-1998-003.
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Efforts to design water jet craft with safe stopping characteristics have been hampered by lack of straight ahead and yawed resistance data. The characteristics of a Kawasaki model 300 stand-up Jet Ski are contrasted with a Polaris model 750 SLT multi-chine three-person watercraft. Drag and lift were measured in the towing tank with no jet thrust enabling directional control. To identify other variables that could be useful in design, turning circle and stopping field tests of the Polaris craft were made. It was found that most of these quantities follow linear theory, or are approximately constant as non-dimensional variables. Measurements of the hydrodynamic forces at midships acting on an unpowered jet ski are the first step to understand vessel control in situations when the engine has been stopped or at very low RPM These results can be used to quantify personal watercraft characteristics, and predict stopping distances and turning circle diameters for constant power.
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Or-Bach, Rachel. "Benefits of Employing a Personal Response System in a Decision Analysis Course." In InSITE 2016: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Lithuania. Informing Science Institute, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3415.
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This paper describes the employment of a Personal Response System (PRS) during a Decision Analysis course for Management Information Systems (MIS) students. The description shows how the carefully designed PRS-based questions, the delivery, and the follow-up discussions; provided a context for eliciting and exercising central concepts of the course topics as well as central skills required for MIS majors. A sample of PRS-based questions is presented along with a description for each question of its purpose, the way it was delivered, the response rate, the responses and their frequencies, and the respective in-class discussion. Lessons from these findings are discussed.
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Zhong, Xinyi, and Lay Hoon Ang. "Personal Multilingual Practices in the Chinese Mainland." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2022.3-3.
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China has long been a multi-ethnic and multicultural country, and currently has 56 ethnic groups speaking approximately 2300 dialects or sub-dialects. However, its multilingualism has long been controversial in academia, and whether multilingualism exists in the Chinese mainland remains unclear. Multilingualism may be observed in the Chinese mainland, with the promotion of Mandarin and English, and the maintenance of regional dialects in recent years. The current study aims to explore the multilingual practices in the Chinese mainland through a case study. The following questions are proposed: What are the features of multilingual practices in the Chinese Mainland? What are the factors contributing to language features in the Chinese Mainland? What type of multilingualism does the Chinese Mainland adhere to? Two-full-day recordings of the participant conversations were made in order to document language. In follow-up interviews, the participant was asked about his intentions to behave as multilingual. Results suggest that features of multilingual practices including interference, borrowing, mixing, and code-switching appear. Social, personal, and conversational factors contribute to the participant’s multilingual practices. The study takes individual multilingualism as a reflective example that also contributes to the interpretation of multilingualism in China.
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Letzkus, Jaime, Florencia Belmar, Jose M. Lagos, Maria José del Río, Jorge Gamboa G., Rodrigo Gonzalez, Guillermo A. Belmar, and Daniela B. Hidalgo. "Prepectoral breast reconstruction. Report after 4 years of follow-up: Experience of a Chilean tertiary general hospital." In Brazilian Breast Cancer Symposium 2023. Mastology, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29289/259453942023v33s1091.
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Objective: Implant-based breast reconstruction (IBBR) has become the leading method for immediate breast reconstruction worldwide, for several years using the sub-pectoral plane. Post-mastectomy radiotherapy (PMRDT) and breast reconstruction are associated with complications including implant loss and animated breast deformity. The animated breast deformity can be avoided using the pre-pectoral plane IBBR. The objective of this report is to show 4 years of experience and results on pre-pectoral IBBR (PPIBBR) at a University Clinical Hospital. Methodology: The data were collected prospectively from a personal database. Selection criteria were based upon oncological considerations, multidisciplinary committee evaluation, and indication of mastectomy. The distance of tumors from the skin and proper subcutaneous fat thickness were evaluated. A review of general comorbidities, body mass index, smoking, breast weight, pathology report, and complications of any kind, including implant loss and its association with radiotherapy, was included. Results: The cohort study included 77 patients (81 PPIBBR procedures), from July 2019 to March 2023. The mean age was 47 (27–70) years. Eight (9.7%) patients were mutation carriers (4 BRCA1, 2 BRCA2, and 2 TP53). Out of 10 patients, 6 with bilateral breast reconstruction had a PPIBBR. Most of the procedures were done following the same technique and by the same senior surgeons’ team. Mesh was used in 38% (31/81), mostly absorbable synthetic mesh. Most complications were considered mild (14.8%, n=12/81) or moderate (19.7%, n=16/81) and were managed as outpatient treatment. We have only 3 (3.7%) breast implant losses among 81 procedures and only one was related to PMRDT prior to actual reconstruction. Conclusion: PPIBBR is so far a safe and feasible breast reconstructive technique, with a very low complication rate in well-selected patients. It can be used for therapeutic or risk reduction purposes, and the aesthetic results are mostly good and excellent according to the Harris Scale evaluation and avoid the disadvantage of subpectoral implant placement.
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Velazquez, Eric Marin, and Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal. "Using Autonomous Drones Interactions towards Mobile Personal Spaces for Indoor Environments." In WSCG'2021 - 29. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision'2021. Západočeská univerzita, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24132/csrn.2021.3002.14.
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We propose an extension of a recent work using convo-lutional neural networks and drones, such as Learning tofly by using DroNet [8] that can possibly safely drive adrone autonomously. The combination of (i) the DroNetarchitecture and weights to apply to CNNs to avoid thecrashes; (ii) combining it with DLIB tracker, a corre-lation implemented tracker based on Danelljan et al.’spaper [3] work; (iii) the extraction of descriptors usingSpeeded Up Robust Features [1]; and (iv) Fast Libraryfor Approximate Nearest Neighbors [10] for the featurematching – leads a drone to track any object and avoidcrashes autonomously without any prior informationabout the object. The main goal is to create a partnershipbetween the drone(s) and the participant as the dronefollows the participant and avoids collisions. Our workextends existing methods to also included a way for adrone to follow a person even if the person is hiddenfor a few frames. Our algorithms also work in low/poorambient light satisfactorily. In future, our technique canbe used to provide novel indoor applications for drones.
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Predescu, Corina, Katharina Kiss, and Aura Bota. "BUILDING A GLOBAL DATABASE FOR THE DISABLED PEOPLE BY MEANS OF MOBILE DEVICES." In eLSE 2014. Editura Universitatii Nationale de Aparare "Carol I", 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-14-257.
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This study is part of the Special Olympics Healthy Communities project, entitled ,,Close the referral loop", carried out in partnership with Vodafone Romania Foundation, financed through Mobile4Good program. This project seeks to build on a unique global database and move onwards from data gathering to using the current data to empower athletes and their families to transform their health outcomes through self-advocacy and informed management of their own health through Athletes Personal Health Records with two-way interactivity with athletes' mobile devices. If an athlete has a referral recommended at a Healthy Athletes screening event, details of the referral are automatically recorded in the athlete's health record. In this context, the athlete's mobile phone is used to alert athletes that a medical referral has been recommended. To be inclusive for all Special Olympics athletes the mobile health solution needs to be available on the common mobile devices on the standard operating systems of mobile phone and tablets including Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone and iPad. The pilot study, followed by two other screening events (between 2012-2013) which took place at UNEFS gathered a total of 458 subjects whose data were digitally entered in the system which further generated SMS follow-up messages. This application renders possible digital data entry on cell phone and tablets, two way interactive messaging to athletes' cell phones and tablets to close the referral loop after Healthy Athletes events, two way interactive messaging to athletes' cell phones and tablets for follow up of services and devices given at Healthy Athletes events and athlete data entry into their personal health record.
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Schmitt, Ulrich. "Design Science Research Championing Personal Knowledge Management System Development." In InSITE 2016: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Lithuania. Informing Science Institute, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3410.
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Knowledge Management (KM) is governed by an ill-structured mishmash of complementing as well as conflicting interdisciplinary methodologies and based on physical and social technologies, which too often struggle to achieve their stakeholders’ objectives due to diverse scholarly contributions, repetitive polemic discourses, and misguided organizational KM system generations. A novel Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) Concept and Prototype System currently under development take a fresh look and aim to support individuals’ academic and professional growth as well as their roles as contributors and beneficiaries of institutional and societal performance. A PKM System (PKMS), hence, is meant to aid life-long-learning, resourcefulness, creativity, and teamwork of knowledge workers. Such a scope offers appealing and viable opportunities for stakeholders in the educational, professional, and developmental context. A recent article employed the systems thinking techniques of the transdiscipline of Informing Science (IS) to align and validate the more specific models and methodologies central to the PKMS concept. In line with the interdisciplinary nature of the concept, further conference papers and journal articles have been disseminated and received feedback from a wide range of disciplines. This follow-up article turns to the creative process at the heart of the concept and application introduced in the prior publications. Similar to the IS-benchmarking approach, the design thinking is validated against accepted general design science research guidelines. These guidelines are meant to supplement the reactive behavioral (natural) science paradigm with the proactive design science paradigm in order to support information technology (IT) researchers in creating innovative IT artefacts that extend human and social capabilities and meet desired outcomes. Rather than to justify the research paradigm of the PKMS project in an ad hoc and fragmented manner with each new paper, the objective is a dedicated article which presents the design science research perspectives comprehensively as evidence of their relevance, utility, rigor, and publishability in Information Systems research outlets. The URL links to all prior publications facilitate a kind of ‘Long Discussion Case’ to potentially assist IT researchers and entrepreneurs engaged in similar projects.
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Cordero-Díaz, MA, C. Félix Arce, A. Dávila Rivas, O. Valencia, and LA Padilla. "SELFCARE AND WELLBEING AS PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN THE COVID19 PANDEMIC: RESIDENTS´ WELLBEING PROGRAM." In The 7th International Conference on Education 2021. The International Institute of Knowledge Management, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17501/24246700.2021.7152.
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International studies have reported that quality in patient care and safety, as well as the personal well-being of resident doctors, may suffer a detriment if a highly demanding or hostile clinical training environment is present. The objective of the Professionalism and Wellbeing Program for Medical Residents implemented by a university in northern Mexico is to integrate strategies for the development of wellbeing as a professional competence, and to contribute to strengthening clinical training environments, with the intention of improving personal selfcare, wellbeing, and patient care. The program was implemented with the 290 medical residents of the 17 specialty programs from March 2019 and, additionally, an hybrid model was implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic from April 2020 to date. In February 2019 and 2020, medical residents participated in the induction sessions of the Professionalism and Wellbeing Program and at least in 3 sessions through the semester, in 2019 face-to-face and in 2020 virtually. The chiefs and co-chiefs of residents were trained in a Workshop so they could help other residents in adverse situations. Among the virtual strategies, we implemented an online website, an electronic form for residents´ wellbeing and mentoring follow-up, individual virtual counseling and Balint groups in Zoom. From April 2020 to February 2021, 220 residents registered online their wellbeing follow-up. The topics of greatest interest for discussion selected by the participants (n= 51) in the Balint group sessions were: emotional well-being in health professionals (94.1%) and burnout syndrome (94.1%). These initiatives aim to strengthen the training processes of education, professionalism, and humanism, with the residents as an expression of the social responsibility of the profession to contribute to selfcare, wellbeing, and patient’s care. Keywords: higher education, educational innovation, hybrid postgraduate medical education, residents’ wellbeing, COVID-19
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Li, Yanyi, Ziteng Wang, Qidi Zhang, Musen Kingsley Li, and Wei Zhang. "Contributing factors to fatigue among high-speed train drivers: A questionnaire study in China." In 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003822.
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Based on global statistics from 1993 to 2017, most railway accidents were caused by human errors, and drivers’ unsafe operation was one of the most common types of human errors ( Liu et al., 2019). One of the main contributing factors to drivers’ unsafe operations is driver fatigue. Therefore, it's essential to evaluate the level of fatigue among High-speed train (HST) drivers and identify the main influencing factors of fatigue. We designed a questionnaire that used the subjective score of SSS to assess the fatigue of HST drivers . A follow-up questionnaire survey was conducted with 243 HST drivers, and then exploratory factor analysis and hierarchical regression was conducted to determine the significant influencing factors of fatigue and form a prediction model. The results showed that HST drivers' personal characteristics (health status, personal trait score, number of chronic diseases), sleep, and working task (communicate task, lookout task) had significant effect on fatigue. The outcome of this research provided the main influencing factors of HST drivers’ fatigue and proposed an effective prediction model to promote structural understanding of HST drivers’ fatigue.
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Talukder, Md Noorunnabi, Abdullah Al Mahmud Shohag, Ishtiak Morshed, Sigma Ainul, Md Irfan Hossain, Mohammad Muktadir Hossain, Sharif M. I. Hossain, and Ubaidur Rob. Soft skills training for Rohingya and host community youth in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Population Council, February 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/sbsr2024.1003.
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The Population Council, in collaboration with Research, Training and Management International (RTMI) and Underprivileged Children’s Education Program (UCEP), pilot tested a soft skills training intervention in two Rohingya camps and a vocational training center in the host community in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh in 2022. As a follow-up to the pilot program, the Council along with its partners rolled out soft skills training in four Rohingya camps and a vocational training center in the host community in 2023. The purpose of this training was to improve the personal, social, and financial management skills of Rohingya youth, which would be of use on their return to Myanmar or during their interim period of stay in Bangladesh. In addition, the training was intended to help host-community youth develop financial management skills and life skills.
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Elhan-Kayalar, Yesim. Gender, Entrepreneurship and Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of GoFood Merchants in Indonesia. Asian Development Bank Institute, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56506/mrem3121.
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This paper examines business performance and crisis mitigation strategies among micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. We utilize a new primary data set based on administrative records, survey data, and follow-up interviews with merchants using the digital application GoFood, an on-demand cooked food delivery service. Three empirical findings emerge: First, the overall employment size of women-owned businesses shrank more than men-owned businesses after the pandemic outbreak; second, women were more likely than men to cut personal expenditures and use government assistance as crisis mitigation strategies; and third, competition increased sharply as new merchants entered the platform, with service areas of both incumbents and entrants shrinking over time. These results have implications for policies on women’s entrepreneurship, the uptake of business development services, and financing programs for MSMEs.
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Megersa, Kelbesa, Fabrizio Santoro, Adrienne Lees, Marco Carreras, Theonille Mukamana, Naphtal Hakizimana, and Yves Nsengiyumva. Technology and Tax: Adoption and Impacts of E-services in Rwanda. Institute of Development Studies, May 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2023.029.
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Many low-income countries are increasingly digitising their tax services, which can bring a range of benefits, from reducing compliance costs and improving record-keeping, to limiting opportunities for corruption and increasing fairness in the tax system. However, the success of these benefits depends on adequate levels of awareness and adoption of e-services among taxpayers; where these levels are suboptimal, tax e-services may produce only partial benefits. This paper examines the extent of awareness and uptake of tax e-services in Rwanda from a pre-pandemic situation up to two years into the COVID-19 crisis. The country has increasingly digitalised its tax administration, even more so during the pandemic. Electronic filing and payment of taxes have been mandatory since 2015, and two different e-services are available: E-tax, a free web-based platform designed to be used on computers and smartphones, and M-declaration, a feature phone-based application which enables mobile money payments and a simpler process for filing a return. This allows us to run a comparative analysis of the two solutions. We apply a mixed methods approach, using a nationally representative panel survey of 2,000 corporate (CIT) and personal (PIT) income taxpayers, with baseline information collected pre-COVID-19 and four follow-up rounds carried out after the pandemic hit, and focus group discussions (FGDs) with 24 e-services users. Summary of Working Paper 153.
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Goyeneche, Laura, Cynthia Boruchowicz, Florencia Lopez Boo, Luis Tejerina, Benjamin Roseth, and Jennifer Nelson. Pandemics, privacy, and adoption of technology: Perceptions of the use of digital tools and data sharing during COVID-19 from 10 Latin American countries. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004546.
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This study describes the perception, adoption, and acceptance factors involved in the deployment of digital technologies for public health in Latin America and considers the implications for future digital health interventions. We conducted a descriptive analysis using nationally representative data from a phone survey conducted in 2020 in 10 countries in Latin America. We found that early in the pandemic, in countries with existing applications, 74% of the population used a smartphone, 47% had knowledge of the government app to report symptoms, but only 2% reported using it. Those interviewed reported that they are willing to share their personal data during a pandemic (61%) 50 percentage points higher than in non-pandemic times, although understanding how their personal data was used by the government and private companies was extremely low. More than 70% reported that they would use an application to report symptoms and would use an app that accesses their location or that uses contact tracing technology to alert them about possible exposure. Also, at least half of the users agree with preventive measures against COVID-19 such as daily follow-up calls, tracking via GPS for quarantine enforcement, and daily visits. In all countries, adoption of digital technologies increases if individuals or their relatives report they are infected; it decreases when end-users do not trust the anonymity policies or are concerned about government surveillance. Yet, encouraging greater adoption of digital technologies strongly depends on who designed the technology. Results show that 73% of users would prefer an app designed by an international organization such as the WHO to an app designed by the local government (64%) or a telephone company (56%). The study concludes with a reflection on the promising results of digital technologies and discusses the importance of considering users perceptions, factors for acceptance, and trust when pursuing adoption of digital technologies.
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Page, William F. Five-Year Follow-Up of Army Personnel Potentially Exposed to Chemical Warfare Agents. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, December 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada443587.
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Galili, Naftali, Roger P. Rohrbach, Itzhak Shmulevich, Yoram Fuchs, and Giora Zauberman. Non-Destructive Quality Sensing of High-Value Agricultural Commodities Through Response Analysis. United States Department of Agriculture, October 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/1994.7570549.bard.
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The objectives of this project were to develop nondestructive methods for detection of internal properties and firmness of fruits and vegetables. One method was based on a soft piezoelectric film transducer developed in the Technion, for analysis of fruit response to low-energy excitation. The second method was a dot-matrix piezoelectric transducer of North Carolina State University, developed for contact-pressure analysis of fruit during impact. Two research teams, one in Israel and the other in North Carolina, coordinated their research effort according to the specific objectives of the project, to develop and apply the two complementary methods for quality control of agricultural commodities. In Israel: An improved firmness testing system was developed and tested with tropical fruits. The new system included an instrumented fruit-bed of three flexible piezoelectric sensors and miniature electromagnetic hammers, which served as fruit support and low-energy excitation device, respectively. Resonant frequencies were detected for determination of firmness index. Two new acoustic parameters were developed for evaluation of fruit firmness and maturity: a dumping-ratio and a centeroid of the frequency response. Experiments were performed with avocado and mango fruits. The internal damping ratio, which may indicate fruit ripeness, increased monotonically with time, while resonant frequencies and firmness indices decreased with time. Fruit samples were tested daily by destructive penetration test. A fairy high correlation was found in tropical fruits between the penetration force and the new acoustic parameters; a lower correlation was found between this parameter and the conventional firmness index. Improved table-top firmness testing units, Firmalon, with data-logging system and on-line data analysis capacity have been built. The new device was used for the full-scale experiments in the next two years, ahead of the original program and BARD timetable. Close cooperation was initiated with local industry for development of both off-line and on-line sorting and quality control of more agricultural commodities. Firmalon units were produced and operated in major packaging houses in Israel, Belgium and Washington State, on mango and avocado, apples, pears, tomatoes, melons and some other fruits, to gain field experience with the new method. The accumulated experimental data from all these activities is still analyzed, to improve firmness sorting criteria and shelf-life predicting curves for the different fruits. The test program in commercial CA storage facilities in Washington State included seven apple varieties: Fuji, Braeburn, Gala, Granny Smith, Jonagold, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and D'Anjou pear variety. FI master-curves could be developed for the Braeburn, Gala, Granny Smith and Jonagold apples. These fruits showed a steady ripening process during the test period. Yet, more work should be conducted to reduce scattering of the data and to determine the confidence limits of the method. Nearly constant FI in Red Delicious and the fluctuations of FI in the Fuji apples should be re-examined. Three sets of experiment were performed with Flandria tomatoes. Despite the complex structure of the tomatoes, the acoustic method could be used for firmness evaluation and to follow the ripening evolution with time. Close agreement was achieved between the auction expert evaluation and that of the nondestructive acoustic test, where firmness index of 4.0 and more indicated grade-A tomatoes. More work is performed to refine the sorting algorithm and to develop a general ripening scale for automatic grading of tomatoes for the fresh fruit market. Galia melons were tested in Israel, in simulated export conditions. It was concluded that the Firmalon is capable of detecting the ripening of melons nondestructively, and sorted out the defective fruits from the export shipment. The cooperation with local industry resulted in development of automatic on-line prototype of the acoustic sensor, that may be incorporated with the export quality control system for melons. More interesting is the development of the remote firmness sensing method for sealed CA cool-rooms, where most of the full-year fruit yield in stored for off-season consumption. Hundreds of ripening monitor systems have been installed in major fruit storage facilities, and being evaluated now by the consumers. If successful, the new method may cause a major change in long-term fruit storage technology. More uses of the acoustic test method have been considered, for monitoring fruit maturity and harvest time, testing fruit samples or each individual fruit when entering the storage facilities, packaging house and auction, and in the supermarket. This approach may result in a full line of equipment for nondestructive quality control of fruits and vegetables, from the orchard or the greenhouse, through the entire sorting, grading and storage process, up to the consumer table. The developed technology offers a tool to determine the maturity of the fruits nondestructively by monitoring their acoustic response to mechanical impulse on the tree. A special device was built and preliminary tested in mango fruit. More development is needed to develop a portable, hand operated sensing method for this purpose. In North Carolina: Analysis method based on an Auto-Regressive (AR) model was developed for detecting the first resonance of fruit from their response to mechanical impulse. The algorithm included a routine that detects the first resonant frequency from as many sensors as possible. Experiments on Red Delicious apples were performed and their firmness was determined. The AR method allowed the detection of the first resonance. The method could be fast enough to be utilized in a real time sorting machine. Yet, further study is needed to look for improvement of the search algorithm of the methods. An impact contact-pressure measurement system and Neural Network (NN) identification method were developed to investigate the relationships between surface pressure distributions on selected fruits and their respective internal textural qualities. A piezoelectric dot-matrix pressure transducer was developed for the purpose of acquiring time-sampled pressure profiles during impact. The acquired data was transferred into a personal computer and accurate visualization of animated data were presented. Preliminary test with 10 apples has been performed. Measurement were made by the contact-pressure transducer in two different positions. Complementary measurements were made on the same apples by using the Firmalon and Magness Taylor (MT) testers. Three-layer neural network was designed. 2/3 of the contact-pressure data were used as training input data and corresponding MT data as training target data. The remaining data were used as NN checking data. Six samples randomly chosen from the ten measured samples and their corresponding Firmalon values were used as the NN training and target data, respectively. The remaining four samples' data were input to the NN. The NN results consistent with the Firmness Tester values. So, if more training data would be obtained, the output should be more accurate. In addition, the Firmness Tester values do not consistent with MT firmness tester values. The NN method developed in this study appears to be a useful tool to emulate the MT Firmness test results without destroying the apple samples. To get more accurate estimation of MT firmness a much larger training data set is required. When the larger sensitive area of the pressure sensor being developed in this project becomes available, the entire contact 'shape' will provide additional information and the neural network results would be more accurate. It has been shown that the impact information can be utilized in the determination of internal quality factors of fruit. Until now,
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Ossoff, Will, Naz Modirzadeh, and Dustin Lewis. Preparing for a Twenty-Four-Month Sprint: A Primer for Prospective and New Elected Members of the United Nations Security Council. Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.54813/tzle1195.
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Under the United Nations Charter, the U.N. Security Council has several important functions and powers, not least with regard to taking binding actions to maintain international peace and security. The ten elected members have the opportunity to influence this area and others during their two-year terms on the Council. In this paper, we aim to illustrate some of these opportunities, identify potential guidance from prior elected members’ experiences, and outline the key procedures that incoming elected members should be aware of as they prepare to join the Council. In doing so, we seek in part to summarize the current state of scholarship and policy analysis in an effort to make this material more accessible to States and, particularly, to States’ legal advisers. We drafted this paper with a view towards States that have been elected and are preparing to join the Council, as well as for those States that are considering bidding for a seat on the Council. As a starting point, it may be warranted to dedicate resources for personnel at home in the capital and at the Mission in New York to become deeply familiar with the language, structure, and content of the relevant provisions of the U.N. Charter. That is because it is through those provisions that Council members engage in the diverse forms of political contestation and cooperation at the center of the Council’s work. In both the Charter itself and the Council’s practices and procedures, there are structural impediments that may hinder the influence of elected members on the Security Council. These include the permanent members’ veto power over decisions on matters not characterized as procedural and the short preparation time for newly elected members. Nevertheless, elected members have found creative ways to have an impact. Many of the Council’s “procedures” — such as the “penholder” system for drafting resolutions — are informal practices that can be navigated by resourceful and well-prepared elected members. Mechanisms through which elected members can exert influence include the following: Drafting resolutions; Drafting Presidential Statements, which might serve as a prelude to future resolutions; Drafting Notes by the President, which can be used, among other things, to change Council working methods; Chairing subsidiary bodies, such as sanctions committees; Chairing the Presidency; Introducing new substantive topics onto the Council’s agenda; and Undertaking “Arria-formula” meetings, which allow for broader participation from outside the Council. Case studies help illustrate the types and degrees of impact that elected members can have through their own initiative. Examples include the following undertakings: Canada’s emphasis in 1999–2000 on civilian protection, which led to numerous resolutions and the establishment of civilian protection as a topic on which the Council remains “seized” and continues to have regular debates; Belgium’s effort in 2007 to clarify the Council’s strategy around addressing natural resources and armed conflict, which resulted in a Presidential Statement; Australia’s efforts in 2014 resulting in the placing of the North Korean human rights situation on the Council’s agenda for the first time; and Brazil’s “Responsibility while Protecting” 2011 concept note, which helped shape debate around the Responsibility to Protect concept. Elected members have also influenced Council processes by working together in diverse coalitions. Examples include the following instances: Egypt, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, and Uruguay drafted a resolution that was adopted in 2016 on the protection of health-care workers in armed conflict; Cote d’Ivoire, Kuwait, the Netherlands, and Sweden drafted a resolution that was adopted in 2018 condemning the use of famine as an instrument of warfare; Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, and Venezuela tabled a 2016 resolution, which was ultimately adopted, condemning Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory; and A group of successive elected members helped reform the process around the imposition of sanctions against al-Qaeda and associated entities (later including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), including by establishing an Ombudsperson. Past elected members’ experiences may offer some specific pieces of guidance for new members preparing to take their seats on the Council. For example, prospective, new, and current members might seek to take the following measures: Increase the size of and support for the staff of the Mission to the U.N., both in New York and in home capitals; Deploy high-level officials to help gain support for initiatives; Partner with members of the P5 who are the informal “penholder” on certain topics, as this may offer more opportunities to draft resolutions; Build support for initiatives from U.N. Member States that do not currently sit on the Council; and Leave enough time to see initiatives through to completion and continue to follow up after leaving the Council.
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Quality Assurance in HECA Colleges During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Analysis through the lens of QQI’s Core Criteria. Higher Education College's Assocation (HECA), May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22375/hqf.tos22.
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The National Forum’s 2020 Network and Discipline Fund was launched in November 2020 and focuses on Shared Solutions to Common Challenges. Its overarching aim is to support networks and discipline groups to work together to respond proactively to identified challenges in teaching and learning in higher education, including those that have come to light through the sudden move to online/remote teaching and learning. The National Forum’s 2020 Network and Discipline Fund, drawing on the Higher Education Colleges’ Association (HECA) members’ experience, provided the HECA Academic Quality Enhancement Forum(HAQEF) with opportunities to strengthen its networks and discipline group, support their efforts to enhance teaching and learning, and produce useful insights and resources into the application of quality assurance of blended and online learning. In the pandemic period, many colleges were forced to change from a face-to-face delivery model of education and training to an online format of delivery. This disruption meant that assumptions about and plans for how the courses were to be delivered and managed had to be rapidly reviewed. With government pronouncements advising all staff to work from home where possible, the majority of internal roles and processes of colleges were also affected. The quality assurance (QA) policies, processes and procedures that were developed by colleges had to be modified to reflect this change in circumstances. This document reports on the results of a mixed methods study of QA developments that came about as a result of the initial changes enforced by the pandemic and the move to working from home. It also looked at what was learned about the management of quality in this sector during this time. Data was collected by HAQEF via a survey of QA personnel from the member colleges of HECA and follow up interviews. The survey consisted of 11 questions, one for each Core Area of Quality, as set out in the QQI Core QA Guidelines (2016). The questions asked for reflections on each provider’s experience of managing this aspect of QA, what resources or instances of good practice they could share with practitioners and which stakeholders were involved in this adaptation. The interviews asked about the measures that were undertaken to adapt QA processes in the pandemic period and what challenges could be reported from this adaptation. The report is divided into 11 chapters, with each chapter centred on a discussion of one Core Area of Quality as set out in the QQI Core QA Guidelines. An overview of the core area is developed, followed by a commentary on common experiences of the group in this area. Most sections conclude with resources, volunteered by member colleges of HECA, that was rated as useful in how the cohort navigated the management of QA in this core area.