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To achieve accreditation standards and train residents for clinical practice, ACGME placed a lot of emphasis on ethical competence and professionalism. A crucial requirement for enhancing the standard of future medical practice is ethics education. This study sought to identify the requirement for ethics knowledge in clinical training from the perspective of the residents and determine the most effective methods for education. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted between March and May 2023. Participants included Lebanese postgraduate medical students, 210 completed a Google Forms survey via WhatsApp. A validated questionnaire adapted from a previous study was used, focusing on demographics, ethical experience, attitudes, educational goals, and training effectiveness. Analyses were performed on IBM SPSS Statistics software (version 26.0) and R software. 210 residents representing a range of specialties participated in the survey. predominantly in internal medicine (54.8%). Residents strongly affirmed the importance of professionalism and ethics education. Participants overwhelmingly agreed that it should improve patient care and clinical decision-making (p< 0.05). The best way to learn is also through clinical rounds, which feature peer discussion groups facilitated by experienced physicians (p< 0.001). Topics identified as needing more attention were obtaining informed consent and discussing treatment risks(p< 0.05). In order to develop the best teaching strategies for the trainees and produce the most competent doctors possible in the future, this study shed light on the ethical weak points in the clinical training of residents. and lay the groundwork for establishing an ethical curriculum to direct future medical practice.

Human-Robot-Collaboration is being used more often nowadays in assembly processes that can not be fully automated in an optimal way. Skill-based task sharing showed to be a good alternative to manual labor mainly when tasks are either non ergonomic or require high precision. While collaborating with humans, robots are usually equipped with sensors to perceive the environment or the human when necessary. This paper presents a method for not only recognizing the product being assembled along with its components but also tracking the live motions of the human hands in the assembly area. This method can either be used as an input for the decision making module of the robot, or as a measure for quality insurance and human fault detection.

Im Zuge der Produktionsdigitalisierung werden mehr Daten aufgenommen und ausgewertet. Neue Roboter besitzen eine integrierte Drehmomentsensorik. Diese erfasst nicht nur interne Roboterdaten, sondern auch externe Einflüsse. Diese Daten können zur Inbetriebnahme von Prozessen oder zur Aussage der Qualität verwendet werden. Um den Roboter als Messgerät einzubinden, bedarf es einer Untersuchung der Genauigkeit der integrierten Drehmomentsensoren. Zur Untersuchung wurde eine Vorgehensweise entwickelt, welche zwei vorhandene Methoden aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen miteinander kombiniert. Zum einen wird die Methode DMAIC aus dem Qualitätsmanagement zur Strukturierung der Untersuchung und zum anderen wird der Eignungsnachweis von Prüfprozessen zur inhaltlichen Ermittlung von Wissen verwendet. Durch einen Versuchsaufbau mit Gewichtskräften am Endeffektor des Roboters werden die systematische und zufällige Messabweichung der Drehmomentsensoren im Roboter bestimmt. Ziel dieses Papers ist die Analyse des Einsatzes eines Roboters mit integrierten Drehmomentsensoren als Messmittel im Montageprozess. Als ein Anwendungsfall wird die Erfassung der dynamischen Parameter eines Roboterwerkzeuges beschrieben. Gleichzeitig wurde eine neue Methodik zur Parametererfassung entwickelt, die im Vergleich zur Standardvorgehensweise deutliches Verbesserungspotenzial hinsichtlich der Genauigkeit aufweist.

Shorter production lifecycles, new challenges due to the advancing globalization, and increasing demand for individualized products are only some of the general conditions that internationally operating manufacturing companies have to face. Therefore, adaptable production systems are required which can be changed to the current requirements of the production process. In this article, a modular visual assistance system is presented which can be integrated in different production systems and environments. For a successful integration of the assistance system a calibration is indispensable, thus a calibration method for one component of the assistance system is discussed in detail. In order to control the system, a visual data flow programming tool is used in combination with MQTT as a standard communication protocol. By doing so, the programming effort of the system is reduced and new components can easily be added to the system by creating new flows.

High availability is a key non-functional requirement that software and telecom service providers strive to achieve. With the ongoing shift to cloud computing, the challenges of satisfying the high availability requirement become more arduous, as the cloud introduces additional features, such as on-demand access, scalability, virtualisation, which add to the complexity of the high availability solution. In this article, we target the issue of achieving high availability for the software applications running in the cloud. We first benchmark two of the most prominent middleware implementations for HA. We then build on the most responsive one to present our solution to address the complexity issue of applications high availability deployed in the cloud. Finally, we discuss a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the overhead of our proposed solution.

This paper proposes a (t,n)–threshold verifiable secret sharing scheme with changeable parameters based on a trapdoor one-way function. This scheme consists of a generation phase, a distribution phase, an encoding phase and a reconstruction phase. The generation and distribution phases are, respectively, based on Shamir’s and Feldman’s approaches, while the encoding phase is based on a novel trapdoor one-way function. In the reconstruction phase, the shares and reconstructed secret are validated using a cryptographic hash function. In comparison with existing schemes, the proposed scheme leaks no direct information about the secret from public information. Furthermore, unlike some existing schemes, the generation and distribution phases of the proposed scheme are both independent of the secret. This feature leads to a number of advantages over existing approaches such as the dealer’s ability to perform the following modifications without updating the shares (i) modify the secret and (ii) adjust the threshold parameters of the scheme. Furthermore, each participant receives a single share, and designated participants can be given the privilege of choosing their own shares for reconstructing a secret S. Moreover, the proposed scheme possesses a high level of security which is inherited from the schemes of Shamir and Feldman, in addition to the trapdoor one-way function and the employed cryptographic hash function.

An analysis of research articles published in major journals for a 36-year period reveals that follow-ups, pre-notification by letters, monetary incentives, stamped return postage, and university sponsorship produce the largest increase in mail survey response rates. Future research should be guided by social psychological theories such as attribution, self-perception as well as the equity/exchange model. Subsequent studies should also examine whether or not the effects of certain techniques are the same on different groups.

This article examines the content of major Iraq-Iran war stories as reported in the New York Times, Washington Post, An-Nahar, and Asharq Al-Awsat during 1980 - the time of the American hostage ordeal in Tehran. Articles were limited to major war stories. Each article was judged in terms of favorable, unfavorable or neutral/balanced references to Iran. In general, the analysis suggests that American press coverage of international news is more balanced, at least in some aspects, than many scholars think.