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Building Effective Health Learning Organizational Culture: A National Study

BackgroundHospitals and healthcare institutions should be observant of the ever changing environment and be adaptive to learning practices. By adopting the steps and other components of organizational learning, hospitals and healthcare institutions can convert themselves into learning organizations and ultimately strengthen the overall healthcare system of the country. The study aimed to explore the influence of organizational learning dimensions on learning organization culture within a healthcare context.MethodIn 2019, a cross-sectional study was performed and data were collected from 1131 respondents from four categories of public learning hospitals in Saudi Arabia. A Structural equation modeling (SEM) was applied through partial least square (PLS) to estimate the relationships between the various variables.Results Organizational learning including system connections (β= 0.227, P< 0.01) and embedded systems (β= 0.186, P<0.01) have major significant relationships in building effective learning organization culture, followed by continuous learning (β= 0.142, P<0.01) and empowerment (β= 0.130, P< 0.01). Finally, team learning and collaboration (β= 0.106, P<0.01) and dialogues and inquiry (β= 0.087, P<0.01) have the lowest effect on building health organization culture.Conclusion The findings concluded that intrinsic factors like learning, dialogue and inquiry, and teamwork, have an essential role in this study, yet the most central factors toward the development of learning organization culture were extrinsic factors including system connections and embedded systems. In other words, until knowledge-sharing is embedded in health organizational systems, organizations may not maintain a high level of learning.
Global E-Mentoring: Overcoming Virtual Distance For An Effective Mentoring Relationship

GLOBAL e-MENTORING: OVERCOMING VIRTUAL DISTANCE FOR AN EFFECTIVE MENTORING RELATIONSHIP by NANCY PHILIPPART May 2014 Advisor: Dr. Ratna Babu Chinnam Major: Industrial Engineering Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Mentoring can enhance an employee’s career development and advancement but traditional face-to-face mentoring has become less relevant because of globalization, increased employee mobility and technology-enabled work. A new mentoring model enabled by technology has emerged to meet the needs of today’s complex, fast changing global workplace. Although e- mentoring has several advantages over traditional mentoring, the absence of regular face-to-face interactions requires different strategies to develop an effective mentoring relationship. Moreover, additional complexities arise when this virtual mentoring is global. This research utilizes the construct of virtual distance, the “psychological separation” that has been found to impact performance outcomes of geographically dispersed, technology mediated teams (Sobel Lojeski, 2006; Sobel Lojeski & Reilly, 2008; Sobel Lojeski, 2010) to understand the effectiveness of global e-mentorships. Research results support the hypothesis that virtual distance is negatively related to mentorship effectiveness measured as mentor and mentee satisfaction with mentorship outcomes and perception of impact of mentoring on the mentee’s career. Several enablers were also identified as having potential to mitigate virtual distance, thereby improving e-mentorship effectiveness. Three of the four enablers investigated were
The integration in supply chains: an empirical study on container terminals

This work is focused on the integration of container terminals in supply chains. A container terminal is a facility designed to handle containers located within the port area. The research design is based on the case research. This methodology is suited considering the research purpose and the stage of ports research field. In order to have a well defined focus of research, a research framework has been defined using both literature review and in-depth single case. The use of multiple case studies has increased the quality of the research design. The empirical findings have been synthesized in the form of theoretical propositions. The results of our analysis suggest that the context influences the degree of integration of container terminals in supply chains. However, a favourable context is necessary but not sufficient to reach a high degree of integration because there are the two key dimensions which the terminals have to manage, that’s to say the integration driven investment and the degree of openness. Moreover, our study provides evidence on the relationship between integration and performance. In particular our findings suggest that the integration of container terminals in supply chains has a positive impact on the performance of the terminals, measured by the average variation of volumes and sales in the short time.
Comparing multiple forms of light on different cultivars of Swiss chard in the ebb and flow bench aquatic system

● Once at maturity, mature leaves were harvested off of plants. These leaves were measured for wet & dry weights and leaf area. After the final harvest, the total productivity of each plant was formulated. ● In this aquaponics system the ‘Lucullus’ Swiss Chard cultivar was most productive in producing leaf area and fresh weight ● Natural light with supplemental HID was most effective as producing plant leaf area, fresh weight and biomass ● The most cost efficient type of light in terms of daily plant usable light was the LED GrowPan ● Further study should factor in outside environmental effects on greenhouse production, ie. cloudy days. ● Ranking of light fixtures (least to most expensive):
Validation of a real-time engineering simulation of the UH-60A helicopter

A real-time simulation of the UH-60A Black Hawk Helicopter based on the Sikorsky Gen Hel mathematical model is compared with flight test data and Sikorsky's nonreal-time computer program. An overview of the mathematical model is given, including a description of updates and expansion of the model by NASA. Also, real-time programming requirements and techniques are explained. The simulation displays very good agreement with flight test data and excellent with the nonreal-time program on which it is based. The large dedication of effort required to develop the real-time program suggests a need for development of generalized techniques for real-time simulation of high-fidelity physical models of rotorcraft.
L’efficienza energetica nella valutazione d’ecocompatibilità dei progetti edilizi

L'articolo rappresenta la situazione della valutazione del'ecocompatibilita dei progetti edilizi in Italia, al 2006, nel quadro dello sviluppo normativo internazionale: Direttiva 2001/02/CE (Energy Performance of Buildings) e ISO/TC59/SC17/WG4 (Sustainability in building constructions - framework for methods of assessment of environmental performance of construction works: Part 1 - buildings). Si illustra inoltre un metodo di valutazione in corso di sviluppo presso il GL13 (sostenibilita in edilizia) della Commissione Edilizia dell'UNI)
Noise Analysis of an Ultra Wide Band FMCW Ranging Receiver

This thesis, analyses the performance of an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) ranging system in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). The distortion of the UWB FMCW signal’s phase, due to noise, deteriorates its frequency spectrum components. This corrupts the multipath delay information and therefore the range information.
The performance of farm animal assessment

This paper argues that the current drive towards greater use of animal-based measures for welfare assessment raises important issues for how farm visits by welfare assessors are performed. As social scientists, we employ a number of contemporary social science ideas to offer a new approach to examining the practice and performance of farm animal assessment. We identify key findings from a recent study of contemporary farm assessment and speculate upon what some of the challenges of introducing animal-based measures may be. We conclude by arguing for a greater awareness of how sets of knowledge are made, circulated, practiced and become an integral component of the procedures, practices and discourses around farm animal welfare assessment in farm assurance.
FLEXIBLE-PAVEMENT DESIGN WITH CONE DEVICE

THE PROCEDURE IS DESCRIBED THAT IS BEING USED IN NORTH DAKOTA FOR THE DESIGN OF FLEXIBLE PAVEMENTS IN WHICH THE NECESSARY THICKNESS OF SUBBASE MATERIAL UNDERLYING THE STANDARD BASE AND PAVEMENT SECTION IS DETERMINED. SUBBASE MATERIAL IS CALLED WHERE THE CONE BEARING VALUE OF THE SUBGRADE IS LESS THAN 400 PSI. SINCE THE CONE TESTS ARE MADE GENERALLY, WHEN THE CONDITION OF THE SUBGRADE IS GOOD, THE DESIGN OF THE PAVEMENT MAY NOT BE ADEQUATE DURING THE SPRING THAWING PERIOD, AND PRESENT PRACTICE IN NORTH DAKOTA PROVIDES FOR LOAD LIMITATION AT THIS TIME. /AUTHOR/
IMPROVING INTERSECTION SAFETY THROUGH DESIGN AND OPERATIONS

Red Light Running, is an issue that is receiving considerable attention from traffic engineers and the public at large. It is one of the many behaviors that comprise the group of behaviors generally categorized as Aggressive Driving. Red Light Running has become a hot topic, because of the consequences associated with the behavior. Estimates put the annual number of crashes attributed to Red Light Running at 89,000. These crashes produced 80,000 injuries and 1,000 fatalities. Concern over this behavior and its consequences has peaked interest in automated enforcement. It has also prompted the traffic engineering community look at the engineering of traffic signal installations to determine if improvements can be made to reduce the chance of a motorist running a red traffic signal. Evidence that engineering changes can make a difference were reported by Polanis (2). He reported the results of 38 before and after studies where 8" signal heads were replaced with 12" signal heads. The paper reported an aggregate reduction in right angle crashes, of 49%, on the approaches where the signal heads were upgraded. In addition, the paper reported declines in right angle crashes at 36 of the 38 intersections. Nineteen (19) of these declines were statistically significant. Since 1986, Winston-Salem's Safety Improvement Program has been identifying locations where crashes form patterns. Following the identification of these locations, low cost traffic engineering tools and techniques, that can be employed quickly, have been used to treat crash patterns evident at these locations. Each time an intervention was deployed, an evaluation was conducted. The results of these evaluations have been catalogued in a safety library. This library currently has data on 364 completed before and after studies that include over 14,500 crashes. Many of the studies tracked the effects of engineering interventions at signalized intersections. Eight interventions, targeting right angle crashes at signalized intersections, have at least five completed before and after studies. Data on each of these interventions is presented as evidence that engineering solutions to Red Light Running exist. All the crash data presented in this report are derived from collision diagrams prepared directly from police crash reports. The paper presents 8 interventions and lists the crash statistics associated with each intervention. In each of these interventions, right angle crashes are targeted crashes.
Comparisons of the Aerodynamic Performance of two Silver Arrows from the Thirties

In the 1930’s, the motor sport was dominated by the German manufacturers Auto Union (today Audi) and Mercedes-­‐Benz. Their unique cars, known as the Silver Arrows due to their visible surface of aluminium, were then by far the most outstanding race cars at the Grand Prix. Their cutting edge technology provided great striking power and even today, engineers are astonished by their feat of engineering. A Bachelor thesis from 2013 was carried out to model and to simulate two Silver Arrows (Auto Union Type C and Mercedes-­‐Benz W25) in a commercial CFD software. At the time, previous CAD data were not available for the cars, thus the models were created from scratch using two CMC models in scale 1:18. The thesis reports that the large time consumption required for the CAD modelling accompanied that the work of the simulations could not be performed as desired. The purpose of the 2014 thesis was to improve the existing flow analysis of the Silver Arrows. It was done by improving the above mentioned CAD models and to execute new, more reliable simulations of these; at different speeds and angles of the cars. This project is based on a standard procedure for any CFD process; with a three-­‐module workflow. The initial stage was pre-­‐processing, where the previous year’s CAD models were refined in CATIA V5. For instance, both engine blocks and parts on the cars surfaces were modified to create two more realistic models of the Silver Arrows. The complete CAD models were then processed in ANSA where a surface mesh was generated and then imported into STAR-­‐CCM+. In STAR-­‐CCM+ a virtual wind tunnel was created and a full volume mesh was generated. The second stage was solving in STAR-­‐CCM+ by performing a number of simulations. A total of 23 simulations were completed with different angles and different velocities of the cars. In the final and third stage, the post-­‐processing was performed by analysing and visualizing the results of the completed simulations. By creating a number of different scenes per simulation, the changes in pressure and velocity among others could be visualized. The simulations show that the Silver Arrows are relatively well designed in an aerodynamic perspective, which mainly applies to the Mercedes-­‐Benz W25. The Auto Union Type C has a much higher drag force in comparison. The cars exhibit none or almost no negative lift force, which can be expected, considered as knowledge about its significance was minor. The conclusion is that the Mercedes-­‐Benz W25 is better designed in an aerodynamic perspective regardless of angles or speed of the cars. Overall, the project has proceeded according to plan. Out of the 24 simulations that were wished to conduct, 23 received reliable results. In essence, all objectives have been answered.
Draft Standard for Learning Object Metadata

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On Demand Surveillance Service in Vehicular Cloud

Environment monitoring and surveillance using video cameras and sensors have become increasingly important functions in urban centers. Specically, vehicles are ideally suited for surveillance complementing xed video cameras and sensors installed in the infrastructure. As on-board video cameras become more popular in public transportation and individually owned vehicles, these devices provide an excellent source for surveillance data. When these vehicles collaborate between each other and provide on demand video services, the vehicular ad hoc forms a service, which provides picture and video service to any client needing the data. Comparing with currently existing cloud network, the vehicle is no longer a cloudservice consumer; instead, it becomes the hardware provider to oer location basevideo and picture services. The service utilizes hardware APIs such as GPS,event recording cameras, and network connections. As a result, the surveillance application exploits the mobility of the service vehicles to extend surveillance coverage beyond the reach of static devices.
The effect of space-charge and wake fields in the Fermilab Booster

We calculate the impedance and the wake functions for laminated structures with parallel-planes and circular geometries. We critically examine the approximations used in the literature for the coupling impedance in laminated chambers and find that most of them are not justified because the wall surface impedance is large. A comparison between the flat and the circular geometry impedance is presented. We use the wake fields calculated for the Fermilab Booster laminated magnets in realistic beam simulations using the Synergia code. We find good agreement between our calculation of the coherent tune shift at injection energy and the experimental measurements. In this paper we calculate the impedance and the wake functions for laminated structures with parallel-planes and circular geometries. First the coupling impedance is derived as a function of the wall surface impedance. Then the surface impedance is calculated by solving Maxwell's equations inside the lamination and the crack regions. We find that the commonly used resistive-wall approximations, good for metallic pipes with small surface impedance, are not valid in the laminated structures where the surface impedance is large. Realistic Synergia simulations of the Booster machine with wake fields predict transverse coherent tune shifts in good agreement with the experiment.
Categories And Levels For Defining Engineering Design Program Outcomes

Recent trends in engineering education have shifted from course-based to outcomes-based degree programs. An outcomes-based engineering degree program requires clear definition of student learning targets, planning to ensure that they will be achieved, and assessment to determine how well these targeted outcomes have been achieved. Because engineering degree programs encompass science and design dimensions, engineering educators must be able to define both the science-related and the design-related achievements by their students. The design-related outcomes are more elusive in their definition and assessment, so they are addressed in this paper. This paper summarizes the competencies required for effective performance of engineering design and provides a basis for delineating four different levels of achievement within eight categories of design competencies. Categories of design competencies include: information gathering, problem definition, idea generation, evaluation and decision making, implementation, communication, teamwork, and process improvement. Levels include: basic knowledge, application of knowledge, critical analysis, and extension of knowledge. Together, the categories and levels encompass the practice-related characteristics of engineering graduates listed as part of the ABET Engineering Criteria 2000. This paper also shows how knowledge of competency categories and levels can be used to achieve specific design learning (educational) objectives. Creation of student design exercises based on this approach provides a direct link between the steps students follow in their learning activity and the competencies identified as learning objectives. The paper gives examples that can serve as models for other engineering educators to use in their creation of new design education materials. The competency categories and levels also serve as a structure for designation of entering-junior competencies and graduating-senior competencies, important steps in development of outcomesbased engineering education programs.
Determinants of application of the multilevel approach in management of a non-communicable disease in Denmark

Background Working at multiple levels (intrapersonal, interpersonal and structural) and within multiple settings (medical, communities/municipalities, regional, and governmental) plays a significant role in promoting health and preventing chronic diseases. We analyzed determinants of the use of multilevel approach-based work on the example of the management of type II diabetes in the Region of Southern Denmark.Method A qualitative interview study comprising 19 individual interviews with health professionals at different levels and two focus group interviews with diabetes patients in municipalities of the Region of Southern Denmark.Results Communication, funding, lack of clarity of content and aims of collaboration, and organizational, structural, and legislative issues were identified as the main barriers to effective multilevel approach-based management of type II diabetes.Conclusion Organizational, structural and capacity-related barriers should be addressed in order to develop an effective multilevel public health approach to target type II diabetes and potentially other non-communicable diseases.
User evaluations of a behaviour change support system

In this thesis three versions of the SmarcoS-system are evaluated. SmarcoS-diabetic focuses on recently diagnosed diabetes type II patients. It gives feedback on medication intake and activity. Feedback is given in the form of text and can be received on a smartphone application and at a computer application. Secondly, two versions of the SmarcoS-office worker system are evaluated. These versions focus on office workers with an intense digital lifestyle. Both versions of the system only give feedback on activity. Feedback can only be received at a smartphone application, and is given in the form of text or by an Embodied Conversational Agent. The implementation of the SmarcoS-diabetic system lead to participants manipulat- ing the system to be registered as being on time to take their medication. They took their pills out of the pill dispenser before they took them to open the pill dispenser within the set time. Subsequently some participants forgot to take that medication. Introducing this kind of errors should be avoided. In both evaluation we found that participants would like to omit the need to dock the activity monitor of the system. Now data is only known by the system after docking, while participants would like the system to have real-time data access. This also has implications for the feedback that can be given. Now feedback can only be given after the activity monitor was docked, making feedback most of the time too late. Participants thought the content of the messages was standard, administrative, not motivating, not diverse enough and there were not enough different types of messages. Content can be improved by making it more specific, concrete, personal and preference based. These results are found in both evaluation, although more prominent in the SmarcoS-office worker evaluation. We found a difference in the review of, and attitude towards the system between the two evaluations. This difference is best explained by the difference in target groups. The main difference between participants is that participants of the SmarcoS-diabetic evaluation are diabetics, while the participants of the SmarcoS-office worker evaluation are office workers. The main difference between these two groups is that diabetics have a disease and therefore can be considered patients. The office workers had no disease, and therefore could not be considered patients. This difference also makes it likely that the participants of the SmarcoS-diabetic evaluation are more conscious that they need to have a healthy lifestyle and take their medication on time. Therefore, they probably have a bigger interest or at least are more conscious of their interest in such behaviour change support system. It is therefore likely that they are more willing to give up privacy, because they get more advantages of giving up privacy compared to the non-patient office workers.