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2. Navigating Controversial Topics in Required Diversity Courses
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Ryan A. Miller, Laura Struve, Morgan Murray, and Alex Tompkins
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Required undergraduate diversity courses often expose students to topics and worldviews which may push them out of their comfort zones and prompt dissonance and even resistance. This paper reports on interviews with 68 faculty members across 16 humanities and social science disciplines at five predominantly white institutions in the Southern United States, detailing how they navigated discussion of controversial topics in required diversity courses. Most instructors aimed to expose students to critical social issues yet were concerned that resistance could disturb the learning process. We identified 20 unique strategies for handling controversial topics in class that included proactively establishing community and safety and normalizing conflict, and reactively acknowledging and surfacing multiple perspectives, as well as connecting content to students' lived experiences. Some instructors also reported a lack of controversy or conflict in their classrooms, which they variously attributed to student characteristics or their own disinclination to promote heated discussion - which, we argue, calls into question the breadth and criteria of many institutionally defined diversity course requirements. We conclude the paper with implications for faculty, educational developers, administrators, and institutions.
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- 2024
3. Deep Impact: A Study on the Impact of Data Papers and Datasets in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Barbara McGillivray, Paola Marongiu, Nilo Pedrazzini, Marton Ribary, Mandy Wigdorowitz, and Eleonora Zordan
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data journals ,data papers ,data reuse ,humanities ,impact ,open data ,Communication. Mass media ,P87-96 ,Information resources (General) ,ZA3040-5185 - Abstract
The humanities and social sciences (HSS) have recently witnessed an exponential growth in data-driven research. In response, attention has been afforded to datasets and accompanying data papers as outputs of the research and dissemination ecosystem. In 2015, two data journals dedicated to HSS disciplines appeared in this landscape: Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) and Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (RDJ). In this paper, we analyse the state of the art in the landscape of data journals in HSS using JOHD and RDJ as exemplars by measuring performance and the deep impact of data-driven projects, including metrics (citation count; Altmetrics, views, downloads, tweets) of data papers in relation to associated research papers and the reuse of associated datasets. Our findings indicate: that data papers are published following the deposit of datasets in a repository and usually following research articles; that data papers have a positive impact on both the metrics of research papers associated with them and on data reuse; and that Twitter hashtags targeted at specific research campaigns can lead to increases in data papers’ views and downloads. HSS data papers improve the visibility of datasets they describe, support accompanying research articles, and add to transparency and the open research agenda.
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- 2022
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4. From Classroom to Community: Enhancing Undergraduate Research through an Interdisciplinary Cohort Model
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Renato Fakhoury and Emma Peterson
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While scholars have found that undergraduate involvement in research is beneficial, the lack of such experiences in the social sciences and humanities is glaring. This paper analyzes how an emphasis on community through cohort models impacts undergraduate student experience in research, taking from the Emerging Scholars Program, an interdisciplinary research program where cohorts of undergraduates are matched with faculty and attend meetings, workshops, and presentations together. We find that the cohort model created a robust community that fosters positive relationships that develop professional skills and emotional support, allowing students to collaborate and aim more toward their professional goals. The results from this study offer valuable insights into how universities can ensure that students have meaningful research experience beyond the classroom.
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- 2024
5. The Discourse Structure and Linguistic Features of Research Article Abstracts in English by Indonesian Academics
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Arsyad, Safnil
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To effectively teach university lecturers or students to write a good research article (RA) abstract for publication in international journals, instructors need to know the present characteristics of abstracts written published in such journals. This study examines the discourse structure and linguistic features of RA abstracts written in English by Indonesian academics published in national journals. The corpus for this study consists of 30 selected RA abstracts published mainly in university-based journals in Indonesia in social science and humanities disciplines. Analyses were conducted using genre-based procedures with a clause or a simple sentence as the smallest unit of analysis. The results show 1) unlike the common discourse structure of English abstracts found in RAs published in international journals, the majority English RA abstracts written by Indonesian speakers have only three moves (i.e. purpose, method and results); 2) the abstracts are mostly written in active sentence using present tense except for Move 3 (methods) in which a half of them are written in past tense and that-complement sentences are mostly found in Move 4 (results or findings); and 3) the use of interactional metadiscourse devices are dominated by hedges found in Move 4 while the use of attitudinal stance markers of the writers and self-reference words is rarely found in the abstracts.
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- 2014
6. Why Theorizing Affect Matters for Mathematics Education Research
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Ziols, Ryan
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This paper briefly examines theories of affect and some of its possibilities and limits for mathematics education research. First, psychological, socio-cultural, embodied, and new materialist perspectives are considered. The paper juxtaposes emerging and older theories of affect in mathematics education with alternative approaches in the humanities and social sciences. Then, the paper briefly historicizes some of the changing and enduring economies for affect in mathematics education across three historicized "moments" of U.S. mathematics education reform circa the 1830s, 1890s, and 1930s. This section aims to consider some of the ways 'bodies' have become differently legible for theorizing affect in problematic ways with potential implications for future research. [For the complete proceedings, see ED629884.]
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- 2020
7. IN DEFENSE OF CASH: AROUND THE WORLD, GOVERNMENTS ARE TRYING TO KILL PAPER MONEY. IT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA
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Luther, William J.
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Paper money -- Usage -- Political aspects -- Economic aspects ,Tax evasion -- Political aspects -- Economic aspects -- Prevention ,Humanities ,Philosophy and religion ,Political science - Abstract
ON THE EVENING of November 2016, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that 500-rupee notes (valued at about $8) and 1,000-rupee notes would become 'worthless pieces of paper' at midnight, [...]
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- 2018
8. Effects of Graduate Education on Initial Employment: Evidence from New Graduates in the Japanese Labor Market
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Hirao, Tomotaka
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This paper replicates models developed by previous research to study the effects of graduate education on new graduates' initial employment in the Japanese labor market. If education is the best investment for an individual's economic success, then graduate degrees are expected to provide an individual with higher-earning job opportunities. Despite this reasonable economic premise, previous research showed that master's degrees in the humanities or social sciences in Japan have, in fact, a negative impact on obtaining initial employment compared to those with only a bachelor's degree in the humanities or social sciences. This previous research, however, could not overcome omitted variable bias because of data limitations. Omitted variable bias is a key problem for research on education; therefore, this study uses new longitudinal data to overcome omitted variable bias and clearly demonstrate the robustness of these earlier findings. The empirical results of this study corroborate earlier work, showing that master's degrees in the humanities or social sciences do not provide graduate students with an advantage in obtaining initial employment, after controlling for potential bias. At the same time, this study also confirms that natural science majors have a higher probability of obtaining initial employment in comparison with humanities or social science majors. In other words, this paper offers a valid replication of existing research. This shows that the Japanese labor market structure for graduate students has, in essence, remained the same since previous research was completed.
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- 2023
9. Learning to Learn: Empowering Students to Articulate the Value of Their HASS Degree
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Rahman, Nira and Lakey, Elizabeth
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In an uncertain labour market, the questions around the employability of graduate students take on a new urgency. Fears about the graduate market in the coming years are acute and are compounded by a sense that there is a large disconnect between a university education and what is expected in the workplace. Australian labour market trends clearly demonstrate that the skills most in demand by Australian graduate employers are precisely the transferrable skills which are honed by doing a HASS degree at the university. However, HASS academics do not usually talk about the skills and attributes students are gaining during their university studies and how this is useful in the workplace. Creating this awareness in both staff and students is immensely important for future graduates to survive and excel beyond university. Based on focus groups, interviews, and student-led projects over the last three years, this paper explores how to balance the need to engage with deep disciplinary knowledge with the understanding that this knowledge is only useful in the real world if accompanied by explicit skills. By using a case study, this paper showcases how to articulate skills and knowledge to HASS students to prepare for workforce. Furthermore, it focusses on how graduate attributes and learning outcomes can be connected from assessment tasks to classroom teaching.
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- 2023
10. Education as an Open Question: A Hermeneutical Approach to Problem-Based Learning
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Kloeg, Julien
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In this paper, this theme of the open question is offered as a hermeneutical approach to problem-based learning. Most of the scientific literature on problem-based learning is in the realm of the behavioral-sciences. To the extent that the latter becomes the exclusive focus of research on problem-based learning, there is a risk of instrumentalization. The hermeneutical approach of this paper is meant to complement this field of research. The subjects of humanities research are not directly available to a humanities scholar, at least not in the way experimental subjects are to a natural scientist. This is Wilhelm Dilthey's epoch-making understanding of the humanities in a nutshell. Philosophical anthropologist Helmuth Plessner, drawing on Dilthey, extends this insight to the historicity of human existence as such, summarizing the latter as an 'open question' that is always impressing itself upon us as human beings, but which at the same time cannot be answered definitively. It is through this process of asking and answering that we leave behind a history in the first place. I use these arguments to show that the theme of the open question yields a series of interconnected educational insights: notably the importance of subjectification, the social and historical context within which education necessarily takes place, and the construction of new knowledge and experience. These educational insights are rendered explicit and put into practice in problem-based learning. I hope in this way to develop a research perspective on problem-based learning as not only a set of behaviors, but as the scene of meaningful action.
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- 2023
11. The Bologna in the Field of Social Sciences and Humanities: A Precondition for Successful University Education
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Jelena Osmanovic Zajic and Jelena Maksimovic
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The Bologna Process represents the most significant extensive reform of higher education in Europe. The particular aspects of the Bologna Process still incite critical evaluations as regards the successfulness of its implementation. The theoretical part of the paper analyzes the fundamental principles defined in the Bologna Declaration, requirements and critical views of the Bologna Process, as well as the relevant research conducted on this issue used for the comparative analysis. The introduction of the Bologna Process into the Serbian university education has initiated numerous changes, the increase of the student mobility being the most striking one. The empirical part of the paper focuses on the study of the following problem: the manner in which students of social sciences and humanities perceive the Bologna Process fifteen years after its implementation into the Serbian university education. Consequently, the subject matter of the research is the observation and description of students' attitudes to this phenomenon with the purpose of acquiring relevant information "firsthand." The achievable objective of the presented research reviews the context and condition of the Bologna Process during 2019/2020 academic year and its feasible improvements, which can contribute to comparative study of similar researches in the time of the pandemics. The specific research tasks include the study of the Bologna requirements, attitudes to the Bologna Process, benefits and restrictions of this reform, and particularly the attempt to suggest the improvement of the Bologna Process realization from the perspective of students of social sciences and humanities. The research sample consisted of the Bachelor students of social sciences and humanities from the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš (N=150). The survey technique and the scaling technique with a rating scale questionnaire were used (BOL-JM-JOZ). The questionnaire had five closed-ended questions, while the Likert scale was comprised of 23 items. The test of the instrument consistency proved its reliability. The obtained results were shown by the chi square test, which proved a statistically significant difference in the respondents' answers as regards the year of study, p<0.05. The main factors were extracted from the assessment scale by the application of the factor analysis. These factors examined the students' perceptions of the Bologna Process, comparing the answers provided by the students of the first, second, third and fourth year of study of social sciences and humanities, p<0.05.
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- 2023
12. Impact of Cultural Competence in Graduate School Settings
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Rita DiLeo
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The range of challenges for educators in the graduate school setting includes students' differences associated with age, language barriers, learning styles, disability, and culture. The literature also demonstrates student populations in higher education differ in academic ability, gender, socioeconomic factors, religion, and life experiences. Thus, the integration of cultural competence in the graduate school settings is imperative as the student populations becomes increasingly more diverse. The educators must demonstrate an understanding to the student to engage and motivate them to learn. Higher education faculty and administrators must determine the strategy they will employ to meet the student demands and simultaneously compete with other colleges. The strategy should address arenas where the curriculum engages the diverse student population in humanities, liberal arts, professional activities, and conveys the career opportunities. The purpose of this research is to understand the types of learning barriers in higher education, assess the importance of cultural competence, and evaluate the correlation between cultural competence and learning outcomes. [For the full proceedings, see ED656038.]
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- 2023
13. Neither Computer Science, nor Information Studies, nor Humanities Enough: What Is the Status of a Digital Humanities Conference Paper?
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Estill, Laura and Guiliano, Jennifer
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DIGITAL humanities ,ELECTRONIC data processing ,COMPUTER science ,HUMANITIES ,SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
Copyright of Digital Studies / Champ Numérique is the property of Open Library of Humanities and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2023
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14. Adaptation of Journal Article Tag Suite XML for Japanese humanities papers
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Hidehiko Nakanishi, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Nao Hattori, and Satoshi Taga
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japanese language ,journal article tag suite ,humanities ,vertical writing ,xml ,Science (General) ,Q1-390 - Abstract
Out of East Asian languages which do not use the Latin alphabet, Japanese is a very complicated writing system that uses “kanji,” which are ideograms, and “kana,” which are phonetic characters. Most of the Japanese papers published so far using Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) are science, technology, and medicine fields adapting horizontal writing systems, which are structurally consistent with English papers. Most of them only replace Latin letters with Japanese characters. In this presentation, we suggested method of presenting vertically oriented Japanese humanities articles in JATS XML. For vertical description of Chinese numeric, we would like to propose the introduction of an element which specifies description direction. Alternatively, could be used as a hidden command when creating a document. We propose the following notation in the part of the number that can be converted: 六五. Chinese numeric 六五 is a Arabic numeric 65. With this, it is shown that 六五 of Chinese numerals can be converted to 65 in Arabic numerals. For vertical text description with JATS, we would like to suggest adding @ writing-mode as an attribute to :. Furthermore, note and references should be differentiated for example, between a and a in the future. As Kanji are ideograms, there are variations that cannot be expressed with UTF-8. If these difficult Kanji are included in the JATS text, it will be necessary to decide on their description method. For the propagation of use of JATS XML for non-Latin characters articles, the structure of the document for example, vertical description, and special presentation should be considered more widely.
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- 2018
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15. Development of a Pencil Drawn Paper‐based Analytical Device to Detect Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD)*†
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Antonio José Ipólito, Marcelo Firmino de Oliveira, M. Fátima Bento, Maria Fernanda Muzetti Ribeiro, and Universidade do Minho
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Paper ,Saúde de qualidade ,Ciências Médicas::Ciências da Saúde ,Ciências da Saúde [Ciências Médicas] ,Injury control ,Accident prevention ,N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine ,screen-printed electrode ,Poison control ,01 natural sciences ,Methamphetamine ,Pathology and Forensic Medicine ,LSD ,Forensic Toxicology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Limit of Detection ,Political science ,Electrochemistry ,Genetics ,Humans ,forensic chemistry ,030216 legal & forensic medicine ,Electrodes ,voltammetry ,Science & Technology ,Screen printed electrode ,010401 analytical chemistry ,Paper based ,16. Peace & justice ,paper-based electrodes ,0104 chemical sciences ,Lysergic Acid Diethylamide ,electrochemistry ,Hallucinogens ,Humanities - Abstract
The need for agile and proper identification of drugs of abuse has encouraged the scientific community to improve and todevelop new methodologies. The drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is still widely used due to its hallucinogenic effects. The use ofvoltammetric methods to analyze narcotics has increased in recent years, and the possibility of miniaturizing the electrochemical equipmentallows these methods to be applied outside the laboratory; for example, in crime scenes. In addition to portability, the search for affordable andsustainable materials for use in electroanalytical research has grown in recent decades. In this context, employing paper substrate, graphite pen-cil, and silver paint to construct paper-based electrodes is a great alternative. Here, a paper-based device comprising three electrodes was drawnon 300 g/m2watercolor paper with 8B pencils, and its efficiency was compared to the efficiency of a commercially available screen-printedcarbon electrode. Square wave voltammetry was used for LSD analysis in aqueous medium containing 0.05 mol/L LiClO4. The limits of detec-tion and quantification were 0.38 and 1.27 mol/L, respectively. Both electrodes exhibited a similar voltammetric response, which was alsoconfirmed during analysis of a seized LSD sample, with recovery of less than 10%. The seized samples were previously analyzed by GCMStechnique, employing the full scan spectra against the software spectral library. The electrode selectivity was also tested against 3,4-methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and methamphetamine. It was possible to differentiate these compounds from LSD, indicating that the devel-oped paper-based device has potential application in forensic chemistry analyses., Financial support provided by the Polícia Científica do Estado de São Paulo for the partnership, and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP - Process 2016/23825-3), Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, FCT, Portugal, (UID/QUI/00686/2016 and UID/QUI/00686/2019), and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Process Capes Pro Forenses 25/2014).
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- 2020
16. Evidence-based position paper on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine practice for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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Dejan Nikolic, Mauro Zampolini, Milica Lazovic, Carlotte Kiekens, Kristian Borg, François Boyer, and Maria Gabriella Ceravolo
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030506 rehabilitation ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Evidence-based practice ,viruses ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Delphi method ,Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,Medicine ,Humans ,Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ,Physical Therapy Modalities ,Rehabilitation ,business.industry ,Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ,virus diseases ,Professional Practice ,medicine.disease ,Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine ,humanities ,3. Good health ,Europe ,Systematic review ,Progressive motor neuron disease ,Position paper ,0305 other medical science ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Evidence synthesis - Abstract
INTRODUCTION Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive motor neuron disease that affects both upper and lower motor neurons and is fatal in its course. This evidence-based position paper represents the official position of the UEMS PRM Section. The aim of the paper is to define the role of the physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) physician and PRM professional practice for people with ALS. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A systematic review of the literature and a consensus procedure by means of a Delphi process have been performed involving the delegates of all European countries represented in the UEMS PRM Section. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS The systematic literature review is reported together with thirty-two recommendations resulting from the Delphi procedure. CONCLUSIONS The responsibility of the PRM physician is functional assessment of persons with ALS and delivering the optimal and most effective PRM program of care. The rehabilitation program of patients with ALS should be delivered and monitored by the multiprofessional team, with the PRM physician as principal coordinator.
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- 2021
17. An Assessment of Teacher Performance in 'Teach for Bulgaria' Based on Value-Added from Test Scores
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Zahariev, Boyan and Yordanov, Ilko
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The paper presents results from the evaluation of the Teach for Bulgaria (TFB) program, which is part of the Teach for All global network. TFB activities have relevance for a variety of fast-track pathways to the teaching profession. The evaluation is based on a quasi-experimental assessment of teacher performance through student value-added scores. Value added is estimated using the full datasets from successive standardized state examinations in Bulgaria after grades 4, 7 and 12. We found that TFB had most significant impact in mathematics and natural sciences which tends to be stronger in smaller schools and schools with disadvantaged students. The teacher recruitment system designed by TBF was also quite good in predicting teacher performance in mathematics and natural sciences but was not predictive of value added in humanities and language teaching. [For the complete Volume 19 proceedings, see ED613922.]
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- 2021
18. Measurement Equivalence of 'Touch-Screen' versus 'Paper-Based' Assessments of OHRQoL: A Randomized Crossover Trial
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Colman McGrath, Maznurfarhatunnisak Anowar, and Roslan Saub
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Intraclass correlation ,business.industry ,0206 medical engineering ,Significant difference ,030206 dentistry ,02 engineering and technology ,Absolute difference ,Paper based ,Oral health ,020601 biomedical engineering ,Crossover study ,humanities ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,parasitic diseases ,Assessment methods ,Physical therapy ,medicine ,business ,General Dentistry ,Equivalence (measure theory) - Abstract
Purpose To determine the measurement equivalence of computer touch screen assessment (CTSA) and paper based assessment (PBA) of the oral health impact profile (OHIP-14). Patients and Methods A randomized crossover trial was conducted. Sixty participants were randomized to either i) Arm A: completed CTSA then PBA of OHIP-14, or ii) Arm B: PBA and then CTSA of OHIP-14 within the same day. User preference and time taken to complete the assessments were recorded. Agreement between CTSA and PBA was determined using directional difference (DD), absolute difference (AD), and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Results There was no significant difference in CTSA and PBA OHIP-14 scores (P>0.05). The magnitude of the DD in scores between assessment methods was small for overall scores and all domains (
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- 2020
19. What is the role of hand surgery in plastic surgery? Analysis of hand surgery papers presented in Turkish national congresses of plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic surgery
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Gokce Yildiran, Mustafa Sutcu, Erden Erkut Erkol, and Osman Akdag
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hand surgery ,congress papers ,plastic surgery ,education ,lcsh:R ,lcsh:Surgery ,lcsh:Medicine ,lcsh:RD1-811 ,health care economics and organizations ,humanities - Abstract
Context: Scientific studies are often presented primarily to a group of colleagues at annual scientific meetings. All year rounds are turned into products in congresses. Aims: The aim of the study is to evaluate the extent of the hand surgery in plastic surgery and plastic surgeons' papers related with hand surgery in national congresses; the past eight plastic surgery congresses were classified and presented. Settings and Design: The abstract books of Turkish National Congresses of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery between 2011 and 2018 have been evaluated retrospectively. Subjects and Methods: Distribution of hand surgery according to the topics was evaluated according to the European White Book rules and standards. Distribution of oral and posters and distribution by years were shown. Results: The ratio of hand surgery reports to all reports was 17.3%. Hand and upper extremity surgery topics were presented at 19.7% in the 38th congress, which is the most hand surgery-included congress. The most frequently presented subjects were tumors, flaps, trauma, congenital anomalies, and replantation. Conclusions: Although there are arguments that plastic surgeons have disregarded hand surgery, there is no similar situation for Turkish plastic surgeons in the national platform. It has been found that the most common topics such as tumor excision and repair of the tissue defect were the most presented issues rather than arthroscopy, paralytic hand, and arthritis, which are specific to the hand surgery. Increasing the number of plastic surgery specialists who have been trained with hand surgery as a subspecialty will bring up the subjects that have not been presented in the hand surgery so far, in the future congresses.
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- 2020
20. Boundaries of Empirical Approaches in Educational Research
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Christopher Olusola Omoregie
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This paper critically reviews the research done in education faculties in Nigerian universities. This research, though categorized in postgraduate schools or colleges as mainly in the liberal arts/humanities and the social sciences, depends on the theories and methodologies from other disciplines. The arts and social sciences are disciplines where undergraduates in education take courses in teaching to earn bachelor's degrees, the postgraduate level offers varied opportunities for educational research to maximize the uniqueness of mixed method research for education.
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- 2023
21. AEG-SEED position paper for the resumption of endoscopic activity after the peak phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Enrique Rodríguez de Santiago and José Carlos Marín-Gabriel
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AEG, Spanish Gastroenterology Association (Asociación Española de Gastroenterología) ,Time Factors ,Aftercare ,Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal ,Patient Isolation ,OMS, Organización Mundial de la Salud ,0302 clinical medicine ,COVID-19 Testing ,Hygiene ,Pandemic ,AADR, advanced adenoma detection rate ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Medical Waste Disposal ,TDAA, Porcentaje de detección de adenomas avanzados ,media_common ,Cross Infection ,Gastroenterology ,SEED, Spanish Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (Sociedad Española de Endoscopia Digestiva) ,CRC, colorectal cancer ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,SEED, Sociedad Española de Endoscopia Digestiva ,Endoscopia ,Medical emergency ,Coronavirus Infections ,GPC, Guía de práctica clínica ,PPE, personal protective equipment ,Clinical decision-making ,Risk ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional ,CCR, Cáncer Colorrectal ,Restructuring ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Pneumonia, Viral ,AEG, Asociación Española de Gastroenterología ,ADR, adenoma detection rate ,Phase (combat) ,Article ,WHO, World Health Organization ,03 medical and health sciences ,Betacoronavirus ,UE, Unidad de Endoscopia ,TSOHi, Test de sangre oculta en heces inmunológico ,CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention ,EU, Endoscopy Unit ,ECDC, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ,medicine ,Humans ,ECDC, European Center for Disease Prevention and Control ,Relevance (information retrieval) ,EPI, Equipo de protección individual ,Pandemics ,Personal Protective Equipment ,Personal protective equipment ,ESGE, European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ,Infection Control ,EPAGE, European Panel on the Appropriateness of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy ,Toma de decisiones clínicas ,Hepatology ,Clinical Laboratory Techniques ,SARS-CoV-2 ,business.industry ,Public health ,Oxygen Inhalation Therapy ,COVID-19 ,Endoscopy ,medicine.disease ,Disinfection ,Coronavirus ,iFOBT, immunological faecal occult blood testing ,Equipment Contamination ,Position paper ,TDA, Porcentaje de detección de adenomas ,CPG, clinical practice guidelines ,business ,Humanities - Abstract
Resumen Introduccion La pandemia por COVID-19 ha conllevado la suspension de la actividad programada en la mayoria de las Unidades de Endoscopia de nuestro medio. El objetivo del presente documento es facilitar el reinicio de la actividad endoscopica electiva de forma eficiente y segura. Material y metodos Se formulo una serie de preguntas consideradas de relevancia clinica y logistica. Para la elaboracion de las respuestas, se realizo una busqueda bibliografica estructurada en las principales bases de datos y se revisaron las recomendaciones de las principales instituciones de Salud Publica y de endoscopia digestiva. Las recomendaciones finales se consensuaron por via telematica. Resultados Se han elaborado un total de 33 recomendaciones. Los principales aspectos que se discuten son: 1) la reevaluacion y priorizacion de la indicacion; 2) la restructuracion de espacios, agendas y del personal sanitario; 3) el cribado de la infeccion, y 4) las medidas de higiene y los equipos de proteccion individual. Conclusion La AEG y la SEED recomiendan reiniciar la actividad endoscopica de forma escalonada, segura, adaptada a los recursos locales y a la situacion epidemiologica de la infeccion por SARS-CoV-2.
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- 2020
22. Introduction to the Basque Papers
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Loewen, Brad
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Humanities ,Science and technology ,Social sciences - Abstract
The inspiration for this collection of papers lies in a 2016 conversation with Miren Egana Goya, linguist and historian in Donostia--San Sebastian, in which she expressed the desire to tell [...]
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- 2018
23. Increased number of papers co-authored by professor and his students in humanities and social sciences journals published in Korea
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Rae Seong Hong and Eun Seong Hwang
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authorship ,bibliometrics ,humanities ,republic of korea ,social sciences ,Science (General) ,Q1-390 - Abstract
Humanities and social sciences studies in Korea have remarkably low rates of co-authorship between professors and students. We chose a bibliometrics-based approach to characterize changes in the ratio of joint authorship between professors and students. Articles classified in the humanities and social sciences sectors that were published in journals registered in the Korean Citation Index during 2 phases over a 10-year period—2004 to 2006 (phase 1) and 2011 to 2013 (phase 2)—were used as the main source for the analysis. The study results can be summarized as follows: first, the overall number of co-authored articles drastically increased from phase 1 to phase 2; the percentage of co-authorship articles increased from 34.8% to 47.7%, and the percentage of co-authorship between students and professors rose from 9.9% to 20.7%. This trend was particularly noticeable in the social sciences, such as accounting, social welfare, and economics/business administration. Second, papers written by scholars from Seoul National University, Yonsei University, and Korea University were often published in high-impact factor journals. Among those articles, the rate of professor-student co-authorship increased by 21.6% for 7 years. Third, the increase in professor-student co-authored articles published in high- impact factor journals was even sharper. These findings indicate that perceptions of professor-student co-authorship have changed in the humanities and social sciences. In the near future, positive perceptions toward joint research and joint authorship between professors and students are expected to become more widespread.
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- 2017
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24. Review article: Factors leading to the occurrence of flood fatalities: a systematic review of research papers published between 2010 and 2020
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Petrucci and Olga
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QE1-996.5 ,fungi ,food and beverages ,Geology ,flood fatalities ,Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering ,humanities ,Environmental sciences ,floods ,parasitic diseases ,Geography. Anthropology. Recreation ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,GE1-350 ,geographic locations ,TD1-1066 - Abstract
Floods kill numerous people every year in both developed and developing countries. The transfer of research findings from the academic community to practitioners, policy-makers and citizens may reduce the impact of floods on mortality. This systematic review analyzes 44 scientific articles extracted from WOS and SCOPUS databases written in English, published between 2010 and 2020, and focuses on flood fatalities. The first main finding of this review is the classification of drivers of flood mortality into two groups: the first group relates to the environment, and the second group relates to the fatalities. The second main finding is the identification of strategies to practically cope with the identified drivers of flood fatalities. The main shortcomings of the review concern (a) the unavailability of papers based on flood fatality occurrence in developing countries and (b) the absence of data focusing on people who have survived floods. This review amplifies useful findings, best practices and lessons learned that can be useful for administrators, risk managers, and teachers of primary and secondary schools to mitigate the impact of future floods on human life.
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25. PD Defect Monitoring for Oil-Impregnated Paper Bushing by Measuring the Inner Pressure
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Su Changhua, Chen Ling, Liu Rui, Wu Xiaohui, Yang Tian, Tao Lin, and Long Zhenze
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010302 applied physics ,Materials science ,General Computer Science ,Inner pressure ,fault warning ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,General Engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,on-line monitoring ,01 natural sciences ,Temperature measurement ,humanities ,inner pressure ,Bushing ,0103 physical sciences ,discharge defect ,General Materials Science ,021108 energy ,Monitoring methods ,lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering ,Composite material ,Oil-impregnated paper bushing ,lcsh:TK1-9971 - Abstract
When the inner insulation of oil-impregnated paper bushing breaks down in service, gases decomposed by oil and paper may cause an explosion. The explosion of bushing occurs from time to time because of the lack of an effective monitoring method. In order to provide an effective online monitoring method for the bushing to avoid explosion, this paper presents a method to monitor the PD defect in bushing by measuring the inner pressure of bushing. In this paper, the relationship of variation between characteristic gases content and inner pressure is studied, the effect of inner temperature on inner pressure is analyzed and the method for reducing this effect is also presented, and the monitoring method is proved to be useful by PD tests on a real bushing. The results show that the inner pressure increases obviously due to the generation of characteristic gases by internal discharge in oil-impregnated paper bushing, and the pressure increases with the deterioration of the discharge; although the inner pressure has a great influence on the inner pressure, the influence can be reduced or eliminated greatly by the method of common-mode rejection. According to the results, the internal discharge defect of the oil-impregnated paper bushing can be detected by monitoring the pressure, and the bushing explosion can be avoided.
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26. A voyage to Newfoundland 'for the reformation of abuses in that Country and upon the coasts thereof': A letter in the family papers of Sir Henry Salusbury, drafted by Richard Whitbourne (?)
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Lewis, Ryan, Pope, Peter E., and Fosnoes, Tor
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- History ,Manuscripts -- History ,Abuse -- History ,Merchants -- Records and correspondence ,Academic libraries ,Humanities ,Science and technology ,Social sciences - Abstract
A copy of a letter addressed 'to the right honourable Charles, Earle of Nottingham' is preserved in a manuscript collection in the library of Christ Church College, Oxford. (1) The [...]
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27. The Role of Educational Technologists in the Provision of Language Courses in Higher Education: A Case Study
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Allen, Christopher and Richardson, David
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In recent years, schools, municipalities, and universities have made increasing use of educational technologists (edtechs) to support teaching staff in the delivery of technology-based courses in face-to-face, blended, or purely online formats. This paper is a case study focusing on the types of training and support provision provided by three edtechs within the arts and humanities faculty of a large provincial university in southern Sweden. The edtechs also identify a number of obstacles in the way of developing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and computer assisted language learning expertise among teaching staff. [For the complete proceedings, see ED600837.]
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28. Basic Values in Teaching Russian: Psycholinguistic Aspects
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Arynbayeva, Rimma A., Dmitryuk, Natalya V., and Stycheva, Olga A.
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The study deals with teaching Russian as a non-native language to Kazakh students from linguistic and cultural positions. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the efficiency of adapting the integrated technology of mastering a non-native language based on the psycholinguistic analysis of the basic values. As the research methods, the study employs the association experiment and Karaulov's matrix of the "semantic gestalt" along with the classic linguodidactic attitudes; based on these methods the study provides the commentary of the associative fields with the valuably marked incentives. Such material being used will promote the actual development of the basic ideological values with the students. The theoretical and experimental content of the paper testifies to the effectiveness of the integrative methods in teaching Russian as a non-native language. The materials of the Free Association Experiment are presented in the comparative commentary of the semantic gestalt stimulus "Azhe -- Grandmother"; the latter represents in the linguistic consciousness of Kazakhs and Russians the significance of the concept under study in the system of the basic human values in the lexical-semantic group "Kinship relations". The conclusion postulated in the paper is as follows: the heuristic potential of the complex usage of the psycholinguistic (associative) and linguodidactic innovations is included in the process of developing a non-native language. The results of the study allow speaking about the expediency and prospects of further integration of the selected material into the study of the humanities at school and university.
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29. Demonstrating 'Impact': Insights from the Work of Preservice Teachers Completing a Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment
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Brett, Peter and Parks, Michelle
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Initial Teacher Education (ITE) reform in Australia has mandated that graduating teachers demonstrate their practice and 'impact' through the completion of a Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) prior to graduation. The requirement to analyse 'impact' in teaching, requires a nuanced understanding of what 'impact' is and how it manifests in varied contemporary classrooms. This paper reports on how a sample of high-performing pre-service teachers from one Australian ITE institution, within a framework devised by Australia's largest TPA consortium, appraised the impact of their teaching in the context of the disciplinary area of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS). How 'impact' was articulated through GTPA submissions revealed data-informed and holistic interpretations layered to include opportunistic teaching moments and relational and affective impact as well as analysis of cognitive progress. The paper also identifies ways in which analysis of impact might be further finessed with greater attention to pedagogical content knowledge and discipline-specific progression.
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30. A Review Paper on Health Monitoring Smart Mirror
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Dikshita Badwaik, Ekta Game, Pooja Zade, Pranali Kathote, and Gayatri Bhoyar
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humanities - Abstract
A variety of environmental factors can obstruct human health and well-being. These challenges include chemical pollution, air pollution, climate change, disease-causing bacteria, a lack of access to health care, poor infrastructure, and poor water quality. What we need now is a mechanism to continuously monitor an individual's health in an intuitive approach that can be used regularly without too much effort. That's why we're proposing to create a smart mirror that can track a user's health. The smart mirror will monitor and display your heart rate, oxygen level, and body temperature. Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Mirror, Arduino.
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31. Withholding and withdrawing life-support in adults in emergency care: joint position paper from the French Intensive Care Society and French Society of Emergency Medicine
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Jean Reignier, Anne-Laure Feral-Pierssens, Thierry Boulain, Françoise Carpentier, Pierrick Le Borgne, Denis Del Nista, Gilles Potel, Sandrine Dray, Delphine Hugenschmitt, Alexandra Laurent, Agnès Ricard-Hibon, Thierry Vanderlinden, Tahar Chouihed, and For the French Society of Emergency Medicine (Société Française de Médecine d’Urgence, SFMU) and French Intensive Care Society (Société de Réanimation de Langue Française, SRLF)
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Withholding Treatment ,Palliative care ,business.industry ,MEDLINE ,lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Legislation ,Emergency department ,Review ,lcsh:RC86-88.9 ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,humanities ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Intensive care ,Life support ,Emergency medicine ,medicine ,Position paper ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business - Abstract
For many patients, notably among elderly nursing home residents, no plans about end-of-life decisions and palliative care are made. Consequently, when these patients experience life-threatening events, decisions to withhold or withdraw life-support raise major challenges for emergency healthcare professionals. Emergency department premises are not designed for providing the psychological and technical components of end-of-life care. The continuous inflow of large numbers of patients leaves little time for detailed assessments, and emergency department staff often lack training in end-of-life issues. For prehospital medical teams (in France, the physician-staffed mobile emergency and intensive care units known as SMURs), implementing treatment withholding and withdrawal decisions that may have been made before the acute event is not the main focus. The challenge lies in circumventing the apparent contradiction between the need to make immediate decisions and the requirement to set up a complex treatment project that may lead to treatment withholding and/or withdrawal. Laws and recommendations are of little assistance for making treatment withholding and withdrawal decisions in the emergency setting. The French Intensive Care Society (Société de Réanimation de Langue Française, SRLF) and French Society of Emergency Medicine (Société Française de Médecine d’Urgence, SFMU) tasked a panel of emergency physicians and intensivists with developing a document to serve both as a position paper on life-support withholding and withdrawal in the emergency setting and as a guide for professionals providing emergency care. The task force based its work on the available legislation and recommendations and on a review of published studies.
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32. Reporting transparency and completeness in trials: Paper 4 - Reporting of randomised controlled trials conducted using routinely collected electronic records - room for improvement
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Merrick Zwarenstein, Margaret Sampson, Lars G. Hemkens, Chris Gale, Stephen J. McCall, Clare Relton, Mahrukh Imran, Ole Fröbert, Sinead Langan, Linda Kwakkenbos, David Moher, Kimberly A. Mc Cord, Brett D. Thombs, Edmund Juszczak, Sena Jawad, Group, CONSORT Extension for Trials Conducted Using Cohorts and RoutinelyCollected Data, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Epidemiology ,MEDLINE ,Health records ,law.invention ,Healthcare improvement science Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 18] ,Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment ,CONSORT Extension for Trials Conducted Using Cohorts and RoutinelyCollected Data Group ,Electronic records ,Randomized controlled trial ,Extension ,law ,medicine ,Electronic Health Records ,Humans ,01 Mathematical Sciences ,11 Medical and Health Sciences ,Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ,Data ,business.industry ,Collected ,Transparency (behavior) ,humanities ,Routinely ,Health ,Research Design ,Family medicine ,CONSORT-ROUTINE ,Electronics ,business - Abstract
Contains fulltext : 237219.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Objective: To describe characteristics of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted using electronic health records (EHRs), including completeness and transparency of reporting assessed against the 2021 CONSORT Extension for RCTs Conducted Using Cohorts and Routinely Collected Data (CONSORT-ROUTINE) criteria. Study design: MEDLINE and Cochrane Methodology Register were searched for a sample of RCTs published from 2011–2018. Completeness of reporting was assessed in a random sample using a pre-defined coding form. Results 183 RCT publications were identified; 122 (67%) used EHRs to identify eligible participants, 139 (76%) used the EHR as part of the intervention and 137 (75%) to ascertain outcomes. When 60 publications were evaluated against the CONSORT 2010 item and the corresponding extension for the 8 modified items, four items were 'adequately reported' for the majority of trials. Five new reporting items were identified for the CONSORT-ROUTINE extension; when evaluated, one was 'adequately reported', three were reported 'inadequately or not at all', the other 'partially'. There were, however, some encouraging signs with adequate and partial reporting of many important items, including descriptions of trial design, the consent process, outcome ascertainment and interpretation. Conclusion: Aspects of RCTs using EHRs are sub-optimally reported. Uptake of the CONSORT-ROUTINE Extension may improve reporting. 12 p.
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33. Mediating the Tree: Infrastructures of Pulp and Paper Modernity inThe Bowater Papers
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Aleksandra Kaminska and Rafico Ruiz
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Communication ,Modernity ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Humanities ,media_common - Abstract
Background: Through a close reading of the four issues of The Bowater Papers, this article aims to understand the rise of a paper modernity and to reinsert it—as material and infrastructure—into media studies. Analysis: Producing wood paper is a strain on the landscape and the environment. The Bowater Papers showcases the histories and material possibilities of paper media products. A paper-dependent modernity can be understood as an infrastructural assemblage of harvesting, production, circulation, and consumption. Conclusion and implications: Paper calls for a natural history and geography of media. Thinking about the mediations from tree to paper through the encompassing notion of “xylomedia” is a way of articulating the intersection of the material, environmental, and infrastructural in media studies. Today is still a paper world, one that is also the age of lignin, package, and Amazon. Contexte : Par une lecture attentive des quatre numeros de The Bowater Papers, nous cherchons a comprendre l’essor de la forme moderne du papier. Se faisant, nous le reinsererons—en tant que materiau et infrastructure—dans le champ des etudes mediatiques. Analyse : La production de papier de bois est lourde de consequences pour l’environnement. The Bowater Papers nous renseigne sur des aspects historiques et materiels du papier. La modernite, dependante du papier, peut ainsi etre apprehendee comme un assemblage infrastructurel liant recolte, production, circulation et consommation. Conclusion et implications : Le papier appelle une histoire et une geographie naturelles des medias. Penser aux mediations de l’arbre au papier avec le concept de « xylomedia » est une facon d’articuler l’intersection du materiel, de l’environnement et de l’infrastructure dans l’etude des medias. Nous vivons toujours dans un âge du papier, un âge qui est aussi celui de la lignine, des paquets, et d’Amazon.
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- 2021
34. Embedding music and music therapy in care pathways for people with dementia in the 21st century - a position paper
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Helen Odell-Miller
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Improvisation ,Music therapy ,05 social sciences ,Perspective (graphical) ,Psychological intervention ,06 humanities and the arts ,medicine.disease ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,050105 experimental psychology ,humanities ,060404 music ,BF1-990 ,Position (obstetrics) ,medicine ,Position paper ,Dementia ,Psychology ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,M1-5000 ,human activities ,0604 arts ,Music ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
Unique music therapy interventions are discussed from a clinical educational and research perspective, demonstrating a current position on music therapy for people living with dementia and their carers. The position paper, adapted from the keynote lecture given at the workshop “Music Selves and Societies” at Cambridge University in 2018, outlines current research and practice across music and music therapy fields, focussing upon embedding music in daily life and care for people living with dementia. Worldwide, around 50m people have dementia; this is estimated to increase to 75.6m in 2030 and 135.5m in 2050. This results in increased demand for long-term care and a need for heightened awareness and capacity for home care in local settings. Distinctions between interventions delivered by music therapists (direct music therapy) and interventions delivered by musicians or carers arising from training from music therapists (indirect music therapy) are discussed. Political and strategic developments for music and dementia are summarized, highlighting the need for increased training in the field and access to music at all stages of dementia. Case study examples are presented to highlight emerging practices and research; for example, couples attending music therapy groups in a rural community setting (Together in Sound) improved relationships and attitudes for people living with dementia. An international trial investigating reading and music interventions for people living with dementia and their homebased family carers (Homeside) is introduced, alongside practice and research in care homes where music therapy had been found to reduce agitation and improve carers’ well-being. Research shows music therapy interventions address personalized needs linked to daily lived experiences. However, indirect music therapy is needed to reach all who can benefit from music and are living with dementia. It is concluded that high quality, accessible music interventions should be embedded in care, and further research is needed to ascertain best practice.
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35. Nanostructured paper-based platform for phenylalanine neonatal screening by LED-induced fluorescence
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Sirley V. Pereira, Julio Raba, Germán A. Messina, Cristian M. Moreira, Evelyn del Valle Marin Barroso, and Franco A. Bertolino
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FLUOROMETRIC DETECTION ,General Chemical Engineering ,media_common.quotation_subject ,010401 analytical chemistry ,PHENYLALANINE ,General Engineering ,FLUORIMETRIC DETECTION ,PAPER-BASED ANALYTICAL DEVICE ,ZINC OXIDE 51 NANOPARTICLES ,02 engineering and technology ,Paper based ,Art ,ENZYMATIC METHOD ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,01 natural sciences ,0104 chemical sciences ,Analytical Chemistry ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https] ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1.4 [https] ,0210 nano-technology ,Humanities ,media_common - Abstract
In this work, a novel paper-based analytical device (PAD) coupled to LED induced fluorescence (LIF) detection (fPAD) for the rapid, selective, and sensitivequantification of phenylalanine (Phe) in neonatal samples was developed. EnzymesPhenylalanine dehydrogenase (PheDH) and diaphorase were immobilized on a papermicrozone previously modified with zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnONPs) coated withchitosan (CH-ZnONPs). Phe was extracted from the blood spots collected samples on filter paper and was mixed with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) and resazurin. Then the mixture was deposited on the reaction microzone of the fPAD where PheDH converts the Phe and NAD+ to phenylpyruvate and NADH, respectively.Finally, NADH was oxidized by diaphorase with the consequent reduction fromresazurin to resorufin. This latter was detected by LIF using an excitation wavelength of 535 nm and an emission of 580 nm in a synchronized video microscope. We compare the responses of the PADs with and without nanomaterials to demonstrate the improved analytical performance of the developed devices. For this, the PADs were modified with the same concentration of horseradish peroxidase (HRP). The fluorescent signal obtained from the PADs with nanomaterials was higher than that of the unmodified PADs.Our method exhibited within- and between-assay variation coefficients below 5.23% and 6.67%, was 0.125 μM. The proposed fPAD allowed the simple, rapid, low-cost, and sensitivedetection of Phe in neonatal blood samples. Fil: Moreira, Cristian Matias. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Luis. Instituto de Química de San Luis. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de Química, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Química de San Luis; Argentina Fil: Marin Barroso, Evelyn del Valle. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Luis. Instituto de Química de San Luis. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de Química, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Química de San Luis; Argentina Fil: Pereira, Sirley Vanesa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Luis. Instituto de Química de San Luis. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de Química, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Química de San Luis; Argentina Fil: Raba, Julio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Luis. Instituto de Química de San Luis. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de Química, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Química de San Luis; Argentina Fil: Messina, Germán Alejandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Luis. Instituto de Química de San Luis. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de Química, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Química de San Luis; Argentina Fil: Bertolino, Franco Adrián. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Luis. Instituto de Química de San Luis. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de Química, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Química de San Luis; Argentina
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- 2020
36. 'My heart on this bit of paper': A grounded theory of the mechanisms of change in art therapy for military veterans
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Sue Holttum, Val Huet, and Gabriel Schnitzer
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Psychotherapist ,Mechanisms of change ,Art therapy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Neuropsychology ,Psychological intervention ,Art Therapy ,PTSD ,Space (commercial competition) ,humanities ,Grounded theory ,Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,Military Personnel ,Perception ,Grounded Theory ,Humans ,Wife ,Military veterans ,Active ingredients ,Psychology ,Veterans ,Qualitative research ,media_common - Abstract
Background A proportion of veterans experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research has shown reduced effectiveness of commonly offered psychotherapies in military personnel. Some research suggested the usefulness of art therapy for veterans with PTSD, but its mechanism of operation has been unclear. The current project aimed to establish participants’ perceptions of any impact of group art therapy and some of the perceived mechanisms of change. Method In a grounded theory design, single semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine veterans who had received group art therapy, two art therapists, and a veteran's wife. Interviews were transcribed and analysed. Findings Theorised categories included (a) art therapy group as “the family”, (b) “the gentle conductor”, (c) trust, (d) doing the work, (e) art therapy as "a communication tool", (f) "points of recognition", (g) "making things concrete", and (h) "not a cure". Limitations Shortcomings included a homogenous sample who all attended art therapy alongside other interventions, reliance on subjective and unmeasured symptom change, and researcher effects related to qualitative methodology. Conclusion The developed grounded theory is consistent with existing evidence and neuropsychological theory. Group art therapy may enable some veterans to prepare for verbal-only therapy, by offering a safe space in which to approach non-verbal traumatic and trauma-related contextual material in a controlled way. Artworks may provide a bridge to facilitate communication of experiences within subsequent verbal therapy and with loved-ones. It is suggested to replicate the project at different sites. Elements of the developed theory may be investigated further to establish its transferability.
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- 2022
37. Unplugging the Doomsday Machine: Daniel Ellsberg on nukes, leaks, and the lost documents he copied along with the Pentagon Papers
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Steigerwald, Lucy
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Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Nonfiction work) -- Authorship ,Peace activists -- Interviews ,Humanities ,Philosophy and religion ,Political science - Abstract
WHEN HE LAST spoke with Reason in 1973, Daniel Ellsberg was on trial for leaking the Pentagon Papers. The Harvard-educated military analyst at the RAND Corporation had long wrestled with [...]
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- 2018
38. Analysis and Disposal of Typical Breakdown Failure for Resin Impregnated Paper Bushing in the Valve Side of HVDC Converter Transformer
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Xining Li, Jiang Deng, Ming Chen, Guangning Wu, and Hao Tang
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HVDC converter ,Control and Optimization ,Materials science ,020209 energy ,Energy Engineering and Power Technology ,02 engineering and technology ,HVDC converter transformer ,bushing breakdown failure ,lcsh:Technology ,01 natural sciences ,law.invention ,law ,0103 physical sciences ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Arc flash ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Composite material ,Transformer ,Engineering (miscellaneous) ,Electrical conductor ,010302 applied physics ,lcsh:T ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Contact resistance ,valve side bushing ,Valve hall ,humanities ,resin impregnated paper ,Bushing ,field repair ,High-voltage direct current ,Energy (miscellaneous) - Abstract
This paper presents analysis, diagnosis and disposal with a typical internal breakdown failure of the resin impregnated paper (RIP) valve side bushing in high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter transformer. Based on the analysis of fault current characteristics at the time of the RIP valve side bushing failure, and field test results of insulation parameters, a method of diagnosing typical breakdown failures of valve side bushings is proposed. Through disassembly inspection of the internal overheating and arcing traces on the failure bushing, the root cause of this typical breakdown failure is found, which is upper axial flashover along the RIP condenser/SF6 interface caused by the abnormal contact of two current-carrying conductive tubes. Temperature distribution inside the bushing with an abnormal contact resistance between the copper conductive tube and aluminum conductive tube under different load current is simulated by using the finite element method. An special device is also developed for repairing defective bushing on-site, and 75 bushings with conductive contact defects have been repaired on the premise of not pushing converter transformers away from the valve hall and even without pulling out defective bushings.
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39. Visualization analysis of the study of fund-sponsored clinical nursing papers
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Yu-Jiao Li, Xi Tan, and Jinlian Cheng
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Medical education ,business.industry ,fund-sponsored papers ,RT1-120 ,research hotspot ,citespace visualization analysis ,research frontiers ,Nursing ,humanities ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Education ,Visualization ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Medicine ,business ,clinical nursing ,health care economics and organizations ,General Nursing ,Clinical nursing - Abstract
Objective The aims of this study were to understand the status quo of authors, collaborations between institutions, research hotspots, and research frontiers of fund-sponsored clinical nursing papers and to provide a reference for Chinese scholars to conduct clinical nursing studies in the future. Methods The visualization software CiteSpace was used to analyze fund-sponsored clinical nursing papers published between 2012 and 2016 in 12 core journals of nursing. Results In the clinical nursing field, there are many cooperative author groups; however, the collaborations between institutions are not close and exist mainly within the same province or city. High-frequency keywords have revealed the four clinical nursing research hotspots of population, diseases, nursing intervention, and others. Chinese medicine nursing, prevention, treatment and nursing, and new technology-aided nursing of ventilator-associated pneumonia are the study frontiers of clinical nursing. Conclusions Clinical nursing studies are rich in content and cover a wide range of areas, and their hotspots and frontiers are closely related to the requirements of clinical nursing. Collaborations across regions, provinces, and cities are not adequate; there is an urgent need to strengthen the cross-regional exchanges and collaborations to promote the further development of clinical nursing.
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40. Tips and tricks for building a good paper: what editors want
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Stefano Zaffagnini, Jon Karlsson, Edward M. Wojtys, Bruce Reider, Karlsson J., Reider B., Wojtys E.M., and Zaffagnini S.
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Review Paper ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Medical education ,none ,education ,MEDLINE ,Traumatology ,humanities ,lcsh:RD701-811 ,lcsh:Orthopedic surgery ,Knee surgery ,medicine ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Sociology ,human activities ,health care economics and organizations - Abstract
ESSKA is constantly committed to promoting the improvement of scientific quality through the publication of books and the organization of dedicated conferences. In line with this commitment, this interview paper was crated with the aim of being useful for all the young scientists and orthopaedics keen in musculoskeletal and sport medicine research. Three Editors from the most important journals in our field were invited to participate: Jon Karlsson from Knee Surgery Sport Traumatology and Arthroscopy, Bruce Reider from The American Journal of Sport Medicine and Edward Wojtys from Sports Health.
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41. From Blood to Ink and Paper: Historiographic Reconstruction of the Battle of Cerro Gordo, 1847. A Proposal for the New Military History in Mexico
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Mario A. García and Escuela Normal Superior Veracruzana Dr. Manuel Suárez Trujillo
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History ,Battle ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Subject (philosophy) ,Military history ,Historiography ,Narrative ,Humanities ,media_common - Abstract
This article is an analysis of the historiography of the battle of Cerro Gordo. It is intended to see the generalities of the story, as well as the authors who wrote the subject, their enunciation horizons, the importance they give it and which ones are available to know the battle. At the end of this historiographic balance, it is established that some current works have reused an almost invariable narrative form, having as their origin a single story, which, due to its enunciation horizon, has set aside analytical views to the history of the battle. Therefore, to begin a historiographic reconstruction in the new military history, a methodological tool provided by historian John Keegan is proposed, called: “the piece of battle”, which consist of a series of critical-methodological concepts to detect simplifications of human behavior in war stories and specifically a battle tell.
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42. Trends in female authorship in research papers on eating disorders: 20-year bibliometric study
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Cynthia M. Bulik and Mattias Strand
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Observation period ,education ,Declaration ,Specialty ,MEDLINE ,medicine.disease ,Shire ,humanities ,030227 psychiatry ,03 medical and health sciences ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Eating disorders ,0302 clinical medicine ,Papers ,medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Gender gap ,Psychiatry ,Psychology ,health care economics and organizations - Abstract
BackgroundThere is a clear gender gap in scientific authorship. Although the proportions of female authors in medicine and psychiatry have increased over the past decades, women are still underrepresented.AimsTo analyse authorship gender trends in eating disorder research.MethodFirst and last author gender in research articles on eating disorders during the period 1997–2016 were assessed in eating disorder specialty journals, high-impact psychiatry journals and high-impact clinical psychology journals.ResultsThe total number of papers on eating disorders increased substantially over the observation period, although a decrease was observed in high-impact psychiatry journals. Female authorship increased in both specialty journals and high-impact psychiatry journals. Authors were significantly less likely to be female in high-impact psychiatry and clinical psychology journals than in speciality journals.ConclusionsEating disorder research has been increasingly allocated to specialty journals over the past 20 years. A consistent gender gap between specialty and high-impact journals exists.Declaration of interestC.M.B is a grant recipient from Shire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and has participated as a member of their scientific advisory board. These positions are unrelated to the content of this article.
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43. Social Science, Philosophy and Education
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Barrow, Robin
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This essay argues for the urgent need for philosophy as the necessary first step in any educational undertaking. Philosophy is involved with making fine distinctions which are necessary to clarify concepts and terms. The paper focuses primarily on the problems with an overreliance on scientific research in the social sciences, with special emphasis on the dangers posed in educational research. Three specific problems are identified. First, the emphasis on scientific research downgrades non-scientific research, which may be more appropriate as modes of inquiry in many aspects of education. Second, the emphasis on scientific research distorts research in areas such as the arts and humanities because individual success as a scholar is largely measured by criteria that make sense in the natural sciences but not necessarily in the arts. Third, and most significantly, the paper questions whether social action and interaction can be investigated in a truly scientific manner. [This paper was presented at "Philosophical Issues in Education: A Symposium in Honour" of Dr. Robin Barrow, held at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C. on November 2, 2018.]
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44. Joint ESCMID, FEMS, IDSA, ISID and SSI position paper on the fair handling of career breaks among physicians and scientists when assessing eligibility for early-career awards
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Csaki Huttner, Angela, Bricheux, Alice Marie Anastasie, Buurmeijer-van Dijk, Carianne J M, Harvey, Matthew, Holmes, Alison, Lassmann, Britta, Lavergne, Valéry, Mailles, Alexandra, Mendelson, Marc, Muller, Nicolas, Sanguinetti, Maurizio, Sears, Cynthia, Skevaki, Chrysanthi, Syed, Uzma, Thomas, Salandra, Swartz, Talia H, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Federation of European Microbiological Societies, Infectious Disease Society of America, International Society for Infectious Diseases, and Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases
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0301 basic medicine ,Microbiology (medical) ,Opportunity cost ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Career breaks ,Science ,030106 microbiology ,Population ,education ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,State (polity) ,Political science ,030212 general & internal medicine ,health care economics and organizations ,media_common ,ddc:616 ,education.field_of_study ,Diversity ,Career break ,Awards ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Public relations ,humanities ,Infectious Diseases ,Work (electrical) ,Infectious disease (medical specialty) ,Gender balance ,Position paper ,Medicine ,business ,Diversity (business) - Abstract
Background: Though women increasingly make up the majority of medical-school and other science graduates, they remain a minority in academic biomedical settings, where they are less likely to hold leadership positions or be awarded research funding. A major factor is the career breaks that women disproportionately take to see to familial duties. They experience a related, but overlooked, hurdle upon their return: they are often too old to be eligible for 'early-career researcher' grants and 'career-development' awards, which are stepping stones to leadership positions in many institutions and which determine the demographics of their hierarchies for decades to come. Though age limits are imposed to protect young applicants from more experienced seniors, they have an unintended side effect of excluding returning workers, still disproportionately women, from the running. Methods: In this joint effort by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, the Infectious Disease Society of America, the International Society for Infectious Diseases and the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases, we invited all European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases-affiliated medical societies and funding bodies to participate in a survey on current 'early-career' application restrictions and measures taken to provide protections for career breaks. Recommendations: The following simple consensus recommendations are geared to funding bodies, academic societies and other organizations for the fair handling of eligibility for early-career awards: 1. Apply a professional, not physiological, age limit to applicants. 2. State clearly in the award announcement that career breaks will be factored into applicants' evaluations such that: • Time absent is time extended: for every full-time equivalent of career break taken, the same full-time equivalent will be extended to the professional age limit. • Opportunity costs will also be taken into account: people who take career breaks risk additional opportunity costs, with work that they did before the career break often being forgotten or poorly documented, particularly in bibliometric accounting. Although there is no standardized metric to measure additional opportunity costs, organizations should (a) keep in mind their existence when judging applicants' submissions, and (b) note clearly in the award announcement that opportunity costs of career breaks are also taken into account. 3. State clearly that further considerations can be undertaken, using more individualized criteria that are specific to the applicant population and the award in question. The working group welcomes feedback so that these recommendations can be improved and updated as needed.
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- 2020
45. European Society For Emergency Medicine position paper on emergency medical systems' response to COVID-19
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Marc Sabbe, Abdo Khoury, Luis Garcia-Castrillo, Christoph Dodt, Robert Leach, Wilhelm Behringer, and Roberta Petrino
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Review Article ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,emergency medical systems ,emergency departments ,Patient Isolation ,03 medical and health sciences ,Betacoronavirus ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pandemic ,Infection control ,Medicine ,Humans ,Pandemics ,Personal Protective Equipment ,Medical systems ,2019 novel coronavirus ,Infection Control ,business.industry ,SARS-CoV-2 ,severe acute respiratory syndrome-CoV-2 ,COVID-19 ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Front line ,Emergency department ,Triage ,humanities ,Work (electrical) ,Emergency medicine ,2019-nCoV ,Emergency Medicine ,Position paper ,business ,Coronavirus Infections ,Emergency Service, Hospital - Abstract
The 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory epidemic is creating a stressed situation in all the health systems of the affected countries. Emergency medical systems and specifically the emergency departments as the front line of the health systems are suffering from overload and severe working conditions, the risk of contagion and transmission of the health professionals adds a substantial burden to their daily work. Under the perspective of European Society For Emergency Medicine, the recommendations provided by the health authorities are reviewed focus on the emergency department's activity. ispartof: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE vol:27 issue:3 pages:174-177 ispartof: location:England status: published
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- 2020
46. Quality of life measurement in occupational skin diseases. Position paper of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Task Forces on Quality of Life and Patient Oriented Outcomes and Occupational Skin Disease
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L. Manolache, Åke Svensson, Anthony Bewley, S.M. John, Margarida Gonçalo, Mir-saeed Salek, Carmen Salavastru, Andrea W M Evers, N. Pustišek, Lucia Tomas-Aragones, Jacek C Szepietowski, Pavel V Chernyshov, Servando E Marron, G.S. Tiplica, Andrew Yule Finlay, and Alina Suru
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Venereology ,Advisory Committees ,Psychological intervention ,MEDLINE ,Dermatology ,Task (project management) ,030207 dermatology & venereal diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Quality of life ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Patient oriented ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,Infectious Diseases ,Hand eczema ,Quality of Life ,Position paper ,business - Abstract
The European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) has started the 'Healthy Skin @ Work' campaign aimed to raise awareness among the public and EU authorities on the frequency and impact of occupational skin diseases (OSDs). The EADV Task Forces (TFs) on Quality of Life and Patient Oriented Outcomes (QoL/PO) and on OSD present their mutual position statement on QoL assessment in OSDs. The EADV TFs recommend the use of the DLQI as a dermatology-specific instrument and SF-36 as a generic instrument in health-related (HR) QoL studies on OSDs. The OSD-specific questionnaire, LIOD, is not recommended for general use in its present form because of its three months recall period. The EADV TFs discourage the use of non-validated and of non-validated modifications of previously validated HRQoL instruments. The EADV TFs wish to encourage research into: the HRQoL impact of OSDs other than occupational contact dermatitis and hand eczema; comparisons between the effects of different treatments and other interventions on HRQoL in OSDs; and into the HRQoL impairment of patients with OSDs from different countries, and with different provoking factors, to predict if the results of successful therapeutic and educational interventions may be generalized across countries and between occupations.
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- 2020
47. Estudo das Propriedades do Tijolo de Papel Produzido na UFRN para Uso como Elemento de Vedação na Construção Civil / Study of the Properties of Paper Brick Produced at UFRN to Use as a Sealing Element in Civil Construction
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Diana Carla Secundo Da Luz, Karla Susanna Correia Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Maria Leticia De Freitas Basilio, Ewerton Silva Vieira De Souza, Geovanna Karen Pires Dantas De Araujo Macedo, Edivânia de Melo Silva, and Cibele Dantas Peixoto
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Marketing ,Pharmacology ,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ,Engineering ,Brick ,business.industry ,Strategy and Management ,Drug Discovery ,Pharmaceutical Science ,business ,Humanities - Published
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48. Review Paper on E-Smart Watch for Early Detection of Covid-19
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Puneeth S P
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Smartwatch ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Computer science ,Early detection ,Computer security ,computer.software_genre ,computer ,humanities - Abstract
Smart watches have the potential to support health in everyday living by: enabling self-monitoring of personal activity; obtaining feedback based on activity measures; allowing for in-situ surveys to identify patterns of behavior; and supporting bi-directional communication with health care providers and family members. However, smart watches are an emerging technology and research with these devices is at a nascent stage. Seventy-three studies were returned in the search. Seventeen studies published were included. Included studies were published from 2014 to 2016, with the exception of one published in 2011. Most studies employed the use of consumer-grade smart watches (14/17, 82%). Patient-related studies focused on activity monitoring, heart rate monitoring, speech therapy adherence, diabetes self-management, and detection of seizures, tremors, scratching, eating, and medication-taking behaviors. Most patient-related studies enrolled participants with few exclusion criteria to validate smart watch function (10/17, 58%). Smart watch technical function, acceptability, and effectiveness in supporting health must be validated in larger field studies that enroll actual participants living with the conditions these devices target.
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49. Heuristics for Data Augmentation in NLP: Application to scientific paper reviews
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Rubén Sánchez Acosta, Brian Keith Norambuena, and Claudio Meneses Villegas
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Paper Reviews ,Spanish language ,Revisiones de Artículos ,General Computer Science ,Computer science ,Labeled data ,Data Augmentation ,Humanities ,Model complexity ,NLP - Abstract
espanolLas tecnicas de data augmentation son esenciales para entrenar algoritmos de machine learning, donde el conjunto de datos inicial es mas pequeno que lo requerido debido a la complejidad del modelo. En modelos de aprendizaje automatico, la robustez del proceso de entrenamiento depende altamente de grandes volumenes de datos etiquetados, los cuales son costosos de producir. Un enfoque eficaz para tratar con este problema es generar automaticamente nuevos ejemplos etiquetados usando tecnicas de data augmentation. En el procesamiento del lenguaje natural, en particular en el idioma espanol, hay una falta de tecnicas bien definidas que permitan incrementar un conjunto de datos. En este articulo, se proponen un conjunto de heuristicas para data augmentation en NLP, las cuales son aplicadas en el dominio de las revisiones de articulos cientificos. EnglishData augmentation techniques are essential for training machine learning algorithms, where the initial data set is smaller than required due to the model complexity. In machine learning models, the robustness of the training process is highly dependent on large volumes of labeled data, which are expensive to produce. An effective approach to deal with this problem is to automatically generate new tagged examples using data augmentation techniques. In the processing of natural language, particularly in the Spanish language, there is a lack of well-defined techniques that allow increasing a set of data. In this article, we propose a set of heuristics for data augmentation in NLP, which are applied to the domain of reviews of scientific articles.
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50. Reefer madness at the New York Times: America's paper of record, which officially turned against marijuana prohibition in 2014, spent most of the previous century credulously promoting it
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Sullum, Jacob
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New York Times Co. -- Political activity ,Marijuana -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Health aspects -- Political aspects ,Prohibition -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Political aspects ,Drug abuse -- Media coverage -- Political aspects ,Newspaper publishing -- Political activity ,Government regulation ,Humanities ,Philosophy and religion ,Political science - Abstract
'THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT should repeal the ban on marijuana,' The New York Times declared in an editorial published on July 27, 2014. That week, the paper ran a series of [...]
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