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This European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) Scientific Initiatives Committee, EHRA Young Electrophysiologists, Association of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professionals, and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council on Stroke joint survey aimed to assess the interpretation of the CHA2DS2-VASc score components and preferred resources for calculating the score. Of 439 respondents, most were general cardiologists (46.7%) or electrophysiologists (EPs) (42.1%). The overall adherence to the ESC-defined scoring criteria was good. Most variation was observed in the interpretation of the significance of left ventricular ejection fraction and brain natriuretic peptide in the scoring for the 'C' component, as well as the 'one-off high reading of blood pressure' to score on the 'H' component. Greater confidence was expressed in scoring the 'H' component (72.3%) compared with the 'C' (46.2%) and 'V' (45.9%) components. Respondents mainly relied on their recall for the scoring of CHA2DS2-VASc score (64.2%). The three most favoured referencing resources varied among different professionals, with pharmacists and physicians relying mainly on memory or web/mobile app, whereas nurses favoured using a web/mobile app followed by memory or guidelines/protocol. In conclusion, this survey revealed overall good adherence to the correct definition of each component in scoring of the 'C', 'H', and 'V' elements of the CHA2DS2-VASc score, although the variation in their interpretations warrants further clarifications. The preferred referencing resources to calculate the score varied among different healthcare professionals. Guideline education to healthcare professionals and updated and unified online/mobile scoring tools are suggested to improve the accuracy in scoring the CHA2DS2-VASc score. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Text corpora provide authentic material for language instruction and an insight into the development of learner language use. This pedagogical potential can be enhanced by accompanying user-friendly text analysis tools designed for researchers, teachers, and learners alike. We introduce the Estonian Language Learning and Analysis Environment (ELLE) that combines a growing corpus of Estonian learner writings (Estonian Interlanguage Corpus - EIC) with various applications for linguistic analysis and automated text evaluation. The toolkit can be employed to analyse EIC and other corpora as well as study materials or users' own texts. ELLE's ongoing implementation follows a prototype which was created using interaction and participatory design methods, involving members of different target groups. The paper outlines the system architecture and presents the functionalities of each tool, highlighting their unique features compared to alternative web applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: A detailed knowledge of the distribution of the main Anopheles malaria vectors in Kenya should guide national vector control strategies. However, contemporary spatial distributions of the locally dominant Anopheles vectors including Anopheles gambiae, Anopheles arabiensis, Anopheles merus, Anopheles funestus, Anopheles pharoensis and Anopheles nili are lacking. The methods and approaches used to assemble contemporary available data on the present distribution of the dominant malaria vectors in Kenya are presented here. Method: Primary empirical data from published and unpublished sources were identified for the period 1990 to 2009. Details recorded for each source included the first author, year of publication, report type, survey location name, month and year of survey, the main Anopheles species reported as present and the sampling and identification methods used. Survey locations were geo-positioned using national digital place name archives and on-line geo-referencing resources. The geo-located species-presence data were displayed and described administratively, using first-level administrative units (province), and biologically, based on the predicted spatial margins of Plasmodium falciparum transmission intensity in Kenya for the year 2009. Each geo-located survey site was assigned an urban or rural classification and attributed an altitude value. Results: A total of 498 spatially unique descriptions of Anopheles vector species across Kenya sampled between 1990 and 2009 were identified, 53% were obtained from published sources and further communications with authors. More than half (54%) of the sites surveyed were investigated since 2005. A total of 174 sites reported the presence of An. gambiae complex without identification of sibling species. Anopheles arabiensis and An. funestus were the most widely reported at 244 and 265 spatially unique sites respectively with the former showing the most ubiquitous distribution nationally. Anopheles gambiae, An. arabiensis, An. funestus and An. pharoensis were reported at sites located in all the transmission intensity classes with more reports of An. gambiae in the highest transmission intensity areas than the very low transmission areas. Conclusion: A contemporary, spatially defined database of the main malaria vectors in Kenya provides a baseline for future compilations of data and helps identify areas where information is currently lacking. The data collated here are published alongside this paper where it may help guide future sampling location decisions, help with the planning of vector control suites nationally and encourage broader research inquiry into vector species niche modeling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are important and developing in different areas. However, there is a lack of genuinely interoperable datasets representing mathematics that allow for information exchange between datasets in the Web ecosystem. In this paper, we address this matter based on the Mizar Mathematical Library (MML), a collection of articles written in the Mizar language. MML includes definitions and theorems with proofs to which authors can easily refer from newly written Mizar articles. However, extracting information directly from Mizar scripts by external projects is not very straightforward. Therefore, we propose a new data storage and retrieval approach based on the Knowledge Organization System (KOS) model and the KG concept that provides a way to organize and access knowledge. We present Mizar Mathematical Library Knowledge Graph (MMLKG), a thesaurus for describing mathematical objects. MMLKG supports semantic interoperability and allows linking data from different sources, e.g., Wikidata. Moreover, it satisfies the FAIR data principles. The data is publicly available via a Cypher endpoint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies indicate that young people are more prepared to engage in pro-environmental behavior if they are interested in nature and recognize it as worthy of protection. However, a reliable instrument to measure adolescents' interest in nature is still lacking. Therefore, we developed a new metric, the Scale of Interest in Nature (SIN). It consists of 18 items, is based on Item-Response-Theory and was validated using the known group approach (N=351 adolescents). Results indicate that adolescents' interest in nature correlates positively with their connection with nature, their intention to preserve nature and engagement in pro-environmental activities in their free time. Bivariate Pearson correlations between the SIN and the Connectedness to Nature Scale (INS), as well as the Environmental Values model (2-MEV) demonstrated the scale's construct validity. Hence, the SIN scale provides an economical way to measure adolescents' interest in nature in research contexts or environmental and sustainability education settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In civil and construction engineering education research, a focus has been on using 3D models to support students' design comprehension. Despite this trend, the predominant mode of design communication in the industry relies on 2D plans and specifications, which typically supersede other modes of communication. Rather than focusing on the presentation of less common 3D content as an input to support students' understanding of a design, this paper explores more common 2D inputs, but compares different visualization formats of student output in two educational interventions. In the first intervention, students document a construction sequence for wood-framed elements in a 2D worksheet format. In the second, students work with the same wood-framed design, but document their sequence through an augmented reality (AR) format where their physical interactions move full-scale virtual elements as if they were physically constructing the wood frame. Student approaches and performance were analyzed using qualitative attribute coding of video, audio, and written documentation of the student experience. Overall, results showed that the 2D worksheet format was simple to implement and was not mentally demanding to complete, but often corresponded with a lack of critical checks and a lack of mistake recognition from the students. The AR approach challenged students more in terms of cognitive load and completion rates but showed the potential for facilitating mistake recognition and self-remediation through visualization. These results suggest that when students are tasked with conceptualizing construction sequences from 2D documentation, the cognitive challenges associated with documenting a sequence in AR may support their recognition of their own mistakes in ways that may not be effectively supported through 2D documentation as an output for documenting and planning a construction sequence. The results presented in this paper provide insights on student tendencies, behaviors, and perceptions related to defining construction sequences from 2D documentation in order for educators to make informed decisions regarding the use of similar learning activities to prepare their students for understanding the 2D design documents used in industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main theme of this study was to explore the status of college libraries in the District Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The study aimed to identify the services, reading materials, and technological resources in the college libraries. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The researchers personally visited the population cites, and distribute the questionnaire to collect data from the librarians of two Degree Colleges. The data was analyzed manually with the help of MS Word to draw the results. The findings of the study revealed that these libraries provide many of the services such as cataloging, classification, reference services, current awareness services, and user education. Furthermore, these libraries have least number of reading materials, and Information, and Communication Technology-based resources. Recommendations were made upon the findings of the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge of the full target space of drugs (or drug-like compounds) provides important insights into the potential therapeutic use of the agents to modulate or avoid their various on- and off-targets in drug discovery and precision medicine. However, there is a lack of consolidated databases and associated data exploration tools that allow for systematic profiling of drug target-binding potencies of both approved and investigational agents using a network-centric approach. We recently initiated a community-driven platform, Drug Target Commons (DTC), which is an open-data crowdsourcing platform designed to improve the management, reproducibility and extended use of compound–target bioactivity data for drug discovery and repurposing, as well as target identification applications. In this work, we demonstrate an integrated use of the rich bioactivity data from DTC and related drug databases using Drug Target Profiler (DTP), an open-source software and web tool for interactive exploration of drug–target interaction networks. DTP was designed for network-centric modeling of mode-of-action of multi-targeting anticancer compounds, especially for precision oncology applications. DTP enables users to construct an interaction network based on integrated bioactivity data across selected chemical compounds and their protein targets, further customizable using various visualization and filtering options, as well as cross-links to several drug and protein databases to provide comprehensive information of the network nodes and interactions. We demonstrate here the operation of the DTP tool and its unique features by several use cases related to both drug discovery and drug repurposing applications, using examples of anticancer drugs with shared target profiles. DTP is freely accessible at http://drugtargetprofiler.fimm.fi/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article draws attention to online discourse of children's participation in decision-making. The participation of children is located in one of the core principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). This study examines the right of the child to express his/her opinion and the participation of the child in matters affecting his/her interests. This paper aims to compare Poland and Russia results in the search process in the Google global search engine, level from 2004 to 2019 using Google Trends. We discover that there are connecting discourses among legal policies in Poland and Russia. There are also differences between clusters of arguments about existence of children's rights in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Support for adaptive learning with respect to increased interaction and collaboration over the educational content in state-of-the-art models of web-based educational systems is limited. Explicit formalization of such models is necessary to facilitate extendibility, reusability and interoperability. Domain models are the most fundamental parts of adaptive web-based educational systems providing a basis for majority of other functional components such as content recommenders or collaboration widgets and tools. We introduce a collaboration-aware lightweight domain modeling for adaptive web-based learning, which provides a suitable representation for learning resources and metadata involved in educational processes beyond individual learning. It introduces the concept of user annotations to the domain model, which enrich educational materials and facilitate collaboration. Lightweight domain modeling is beneficial from the perspective of automated course semantics creation, while providing support towards automated semantic description of learner-generated content. We show that the proposed model can be effectively utilized for intelligent processing of learning resources such as recommendation and can form a basis for interaction and collaboration supporting components of adaptive systems. We provide the experimental evidence on successful utilization of lightweight domain model in adaptive educational platform ALEF over the period of five years involving more than 1,000 real-world students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Designing clean, reusable, and repeatable experiments for a research paper does not have to be difficult. We report on our efforts to create an integrated toolchain for running, processing, and including the results of computer experiments in scientific publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As this paper was a very close version of âInvestigating task difficulty: learnersâ and teachersâ perceptionsâ by Dr. Parvaneh Tavakoli (published in âInternational Journal of Applied Linguisticsâ, Vol. 19, No. 1) in terms of content, research design, analytic framework and research findings without appropriately referencing resources used or obtaining author's consent, the paper was considered an infringement to the author's copyright and therefore has been permanently removed from this journal. Please note, as "Applied Research on English Language", which belongs to the University of Isfahan, has only one official website (uijs.ui.ac.it/are), if you see this paper (in print or any other format) elsewhere, please do not use and/or quote it since the manuscript is not viewed as a published paper by University of Isfahan anymore.

The article presents a lesson plan for sixth - eighth grade general science education that teaches the four-phase conceptual change process for helping students gain accurate understanding about science through the Conceptual Change Model (CCM).

Teachers, school counselors, and educational leaders should learn, or become familiar with, APA style because of their important role as consumers and authors of research. By consuming and sharing the results of research in a standardized format, educators are able to efficiently share best practices to a broad audience which in turn helps other educators meta-analyze results and use those findings to coordinate their efforts in improving student learning. The sixth edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (2010) provides the means by which students and educators can communicate. This manual contains considerable information for the student or educator to process. Thus, this manuscript was created as a tool to support those who are learning the style by providing additional examples and also by providing access to a downloadable checklist to assist in meeting APA style requirements. This manuscript represents a supplement to the style manual that will help the reader further consider paper organization, ethical considerations, construction of tables and figures, typing instructions, citing within text, and referencing resources.

WC086, a 6-page fact sheet by James E. Dyer, addresses preparing to deliver a speech through audience analysis, considering a purpose and topic, preparing the major components of the speech (introduction, main point, organization, and conclusion), and referencing resources. Includes useful resources. Published by the UF Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, December 2008.

Objective To examine the risk of postoperative meningitis following expanded endoscopic endonasal skull base (EESB) surgery. Setting A systematic analysis of publications identified through searches of the electronic databases from Embase (1980-July 17, 2012), Medline (1950-July 17, 2012), and references of review articles. Main Outcome Measures Incidence of meningitis following EESB surgery. Results A total of 2,444 manuscripts were selected initially, and full-text analysis produced 67 studies with extractable data. Fifty-two contained data regarding the frequency of postoperative meningitis. The overall risk of postoperative meningitis following EESB surgery was 1.8% (36 of 2,005). For those reporting a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak, meningitis occurred in 13.0% (35 of 269). For those not reporting a CSF leak, meningitis occurred in 0.1% (1 of 1,736). The odds ratio for the development of meningitis in the presence of a postoperative CSF leak was 91.99 (95% confidence interval, 11.72-721.88; p < 0.01). There was no difference in reported incidence of meningitis or CSF leak between anterior and posterior cranial fossa surgery. There was one reported case of meningitis-related mortality following EESB surgery. Conclusion The evidence in skull base surgery is limited. This study demonstrates a low incidence of meningitis (1.8%) following EESB procedures. The incidence of meningitis from EESB surgery without an associated CSF leak is uncommon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitized throughout Europe. The data.europeana.eu Linked Open Data pilot dataset contains open metadata on approximately 2.4 million texts, images, videos and sounds gathered by Europeana. All metadata are released under Creative Commons CC0 and therefore dedicated to the public domain. The metadata follow the Europeana Data Model and clients can access data either by dereferencing URIs, downloading data dumps, or executing SPARQL queries against the dataset. They can also follow the links to external linked data sources, such as the Swedish cultural heritage aggregator (SOCH), GeoNames, the GEMET thesaurus, or DBPedia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses a study to evaluate whether using a tablet computer, preconfigured with medical resources could increase satisfaction for learners and improve access to educational resources during inpatient hospital rotations. The iPad was used due to early indications that this device would be widely used by trainees as it can provide access to medical calculators, and patient education material. The study found that clinician and learner satisfaction might not be improved with tablets.

The paper explains a system to assess automatically vulnerability due to landslide on socio-economy of a region by categorizing landslide hazard using spatial as well as temporal causative factors. The expert system has input, understanding, expert & output modules & uses digital spatial data of causative factors of landslide. Input accepts thematic images of contributing factors for landslides, Understanding module interprets to extract relevant information as required by expert module consisting of a Knowledge Base & Inference strategy categorizing region into different susceptibilities of landslide. Overlaid on socioeconomic parameters in output module for vulnerability maps of landslide on population, forestry, urban, rural, agriculture separately to ascertain the impact of landslide on socio-economy of the Tehri-Garhwal region lower Himalayas, India. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As a prerequisite for the map-based cloning of genes from common wild rice ( Oryza rufipogon Griff.), which plays an important role in the domestication of cultivated rice ( O. sativa L.), we constructed a median-insert size bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) library of the common wild rice isolate, YJCWR, collected from Yuanjiang, Yunnan Province, China. The library consists of 52,992 clones, with an average insert size of 50 kb, and all clones were pooled into 46 three-dimensional super-pools to facilitate library screening through the PCR method. Seventeen candidate clones were isolated by five markers and some clones containing putative target regions were sequenced. Furthermore, in analyzing the sequences of YJCWR, a retrotransposon, SZ-55, that might contribute to the evolution of Oryza was found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Web puts a huge number of learning resources within reach of anyone with Internet access. However, many valuable resources are difficult to find due to the lack of interoperability among learning repositories. In order to achieve interoperability, implementers require a common query framework. This paper discusses a set of methods referred to as Simple Query Interface (SQI) as a universal interoperability layer for educational networks. The methods proposed can be used by a source for configuring and submitting queries to a target system and retrieving results from it. The SQI interface can be implemented in a synchronous or an asynchronous manner and is independent of query languages and metadata schemas. In this paper SQI's universal applicability has been evaluated by more than a dozen implementations demonstrated in three different case studies. SQI has been finalized as a standard in the CEN/ISSS Learning Technologies Workshop. Latest developments of SQI can be followed at http://www.prolearnproject. org/lori/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the Vietnamese government has put significant effort into the internationalization of research in the higher education system via the use of international publications (i.e., publications indexed by citation databases such as ISI Web of Science and Scopus) in evaluating their academic staff and doctoral students. Academic staff in Vietnam, who traditionally have low numbers of international publications, have thus been pushed to improve their competencies in order to meet the new requirements for research productivity. However, we have little understanding of the factors influencing international publication as perceived by Vietnamese academic staff. This study aims to fill the gap by using the Delphi method. Academic staff with at least one international publication were invited, via purposeful sampling, to participate in a two-round Delphi survey. The survey revealed 14 key factors, which were further classified into three dimensions: "policy-related factors," "capability-related factors," and "networking-related factors". These factors were the key determinants in the success of international publishing, according to the study participants. The findings provide implications for policymakers and university leaders for enhancing the research capacities of Vietnamese universities, forming a basis for the sustainable development of the higher education sector in Vietnam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An examination of the 'new sciences' offers insights into new approaches to school improvement and provides practical tools and ideas for school refinement that can lead to improved learning for [...]