bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Back analyses of anchored bored-pile walls
Authors: Zvanut P.  , Logar J.  , Majes B.
Published: February 2025

Four anchored bored-pile walls have been studied. Step-by-step back analyses were performed and it was observed that a sufficiently accurate numerical model could be obtained in the early stages of the construction sequence. It was shown that even with the use of a simplified model the final results are very good, which makes the use of back analyses and the observational method even more attractive for practising engineers. Finite element method (FEM) prediction of the behaviour of another similar retaining wall in similar ground conditions, using suitable material parameters from previous back analyses, was in good agreement with observed behaviour.
Application of reliability-based design to piles in the collapsible Argentinean loess
Authors: Arrúa Pedro A.  , Francisca Franco M.  , Redolfi Emilio R.
Published: February 2025

Cast-in-place piles are the most commonly foundation type used in Cordoba city, Argentina. Foundation of buildings usually consists in concrete piles embedded in collapsible loess with the pile tip in contact with a lower and stiffer stratum, typically sand or cemented silt. Piles in loess are frequently designed using safety factor criteria for both, short- and long-term behavior. Usually, there is no information about the reliability of piles since safety factors do not provide information on failure probability. A reliability analysis is implemented in this work to predict the behavior of piles in the Argentinean loess. Reliability-based technique is used to compute the failure probability of piles for long- and short-term performance. Pile capacity is computed by theoretical formulations using classical bearing capacity factors. The skin resistance is estimated by the α method. Results show that failure probability for a short-term analysis is smaller than for long-term analysis. Also, failure probability increases as safety factor decreases. Finally, in order to obtain a given failure probability the safety factor to be considered depends on the pile type.
Effets du creusement par tunnelier à pression de terre: Cas d'une section de mesure sur le chantier du métro de Toulouse
Authors: Bonnet-Eymard T.  , Emeriault F.  , Kastner R.  , de Lamballerie J.-Y.  , Robert J.
Published: February 2025

Lors du creusement de la ligne B du métro de Toulouse, plusieurs sections de mesure ont été installées pour évaluer l'impact du creusement par Tunnelier à Pression de Terre sur le massif de sol environnant et le bâti. Cette communication présente les résultats d'une section incluant des mesures inclinomètriques, extensométriques en forage, des relevés topographiques de précision du sol de surface et du bâti existant ainsi que des mesures de déformation dans les voussoirs en béton. Les résultats inhabituels obtenus s'expliquent en partie par les caractéristiques de l'horizon molassique surconsolidé traversé. Les paramètres de fonctionnement du tunnelier (tels que pression au front et volume injecté et pression d'injection du mortier de bourrage) sont également analysés.
“Tunnel dorsal instability: a simple theoretical and practical approach”
Authors: Oteo C.S.  , Arnaiz M.  , Melis M.
Published: February 2025

The excavation of urban tunnels in ground with low cohesion can produce over-excavations leading to frontal instability phenomena (the most typical, produced in front of and above the shield). But, in the event of there existing layers of sands without any fines above the crown and then resistant ground on top of that, over-excavations, cavities in the sand and surface cave-ins take place up to a distance of a diameter and a half towards the rear (dorsal instability). This paper describes the phenomenon and presents theoretical studies of it, along with solutions for avoiding the problem.
Remblais en matériaux dégradables plus ou moins fragmentables
Authors: Guerpillon Y.  , Virollet M.
Published: February 2025

Après avoir analysé les principales déformations pouvant survenir sur des matériaux sensibles à l'eau et éventuellement dégradables mis en remblai, on a abordé les mécanismes qui les génèrent et certaines dispositions constructives permettant de diminuer les effets néfastes. La saturation des remblais, après leur réalisation, est à l'origine des désordres observés. À partir de cette réflexion, des méthodes de réalisation, déjà mises en application sur des ouvrages autoroutiers importants, sont proposées.
Engineering properties of soil contaminated with TCE and decontaminated with surfactants
Authors: Srivastava R.K.
Published: February 2025

This study presents the results of an experimental investigation undertaken to evaluate the effect on engineering properties of soil contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE) and decontaminated with surfactant SDS and liquid organic cleaner (LOC). Soil has been taken from different locations in dry state. 4% of TCE (w/w) has been used to simulate the effect of contamination on soils under laboratory controlled conditions. Each sample of the contaminated soil were examined for various engineering properties like, consistency limits, specific gravity, OMC, permeability, shear strength and consolidation etc. It has been observed that engineering properties of the contaminated soil like consistency limits, specific gravity, permeability, shear strength and cohesion decreases whereas MDD increases as the concentration of TCE increased. In order to decontaminate the contaminated soils, 0.2%, 0.4% (w/v) surfactant SDS and LOC were used separately. It was observed after decontamination, the engineering properties of the contaminated soils were found quite near to the original soil. It was also observed that 0.4% LOC was more effective as compared to the 0.4% SDS.
Calibration of heterogeneous, probabilistic soil models
Authors: Rechenmacher A.L.  , Medina-Cetina Z.  , Ghanem R.G.
Published: February 2025

This paper demonstrates the applicability of advanced experimental technologies to enhance the state of model–based predictions in soil mechanics. By utilizing imaging techniques to measure local displacements, local non-uniformities in response are captured over a soil sample specimen during a triaxial test. These are assimilated into the solution of an inverse process which yields a description of the spatial variability of the mechanistic parameters of the corresponding constitutive model.
Embedding Nursing Informatics Education into an Australian Undergraduate Nursing Degree
Authors: Cummings Elizabeth  , Shin Eun Hee  , Mather Carey  , Hovenga Evelyn
Published: February 2025

Alongside the rapid rise in the adoption of electronic health records and the use of technology to support nursing processes, there is a requirement for nursing students, new graduate nurses, and nursing educators to embrace nursing informatics. Whilst nursing informatics has been taught at post graduate levels for many years, the integration of it into undergraduate studies for entry level nurses has been slow. This is made more complex by the lack of explicit nursing informatics competencies in many countries. Australia has now mandated the inclusion of nursing informatics into all undergraduate nursing curricula but there continues to be an absence of a relevant set of agreed nursing competencies. There is a resulting lack of consistency in nursing curricula content nationally. This paper describes the process used by one Australian university to integrate nursing informatics throughout the undergraduate nursing degree curriculum to ensure entry level nurses have a basic level of skills in the use of informatics.
Feasibility of the Rule-Based Approach to Creating Complex Pictograms
Authors: Kim Jaemin  , Fnu Vineet  , Bell Elizabeth  , Kim Hyeoneui
Published: February 2025

To test the effectiveness of the health pictograms created based on the pictogram composite rules, we created 7 new composite pictograms following the composite rules extracted from the USP pictograms. We then tested their understandability by surveying 42 volunteers recruited at a senior wellness center in San Diego, CA. Lower level of comprehension was observed in all 7 new composite pictograms when compared to the USP pictograms with similar styles. No consistent socio-demographic effect on the comprehension of the pictograms was discerned. The major sources of misinterpretations were (1) misunderstanding the main action depicted in the image, (2) ignoring the conditional information, and (3) making an incorrect semantic association between the main information and the conditional information. Design rules from the validated set of pictograms might serve as the starting point for creating a new health pictogram. However, rigorous validation and revision of the initial design should follow.
Adaptive Practice: Next Generation Evidence-Based Practice in Digital Environments
Authors: Kennedy Margaret Ann
Published: February 2025

Evidence-based practice in nursing is considered foundational to safe, competent care. To date, rigid traditional perceptions of what constitutes ‘evidence’ have constrained the recognition and use of practice-based evidence and the exploitation of novel forms of evidence from data rich environments. Advancements such as the conceptualization of clinical intelligence, the prevalence of increasingly sophisticated digital health information systems, and the advancement of the Big Data phenomenon have converged to generate a new contemporary context. In today's dynamic data-rich environments, clinicians have new sources of valid evidence, and need a new paradigm supporting clinical practice that is adaptive to information generated by diverse electronic sources. This opinion paper presents adaptive practice as the next generation of evidence-based practice in contemporary evidence-rich environments and provides recommendations for the next phase of evolution.
Applications of Information Technology in Nursing During 2005–15: Evidence from Iran
Authors: Meraji Marziye  , Ramazan Ghorbani Nahid  , Mahmoodian Sanaz  , Samadbeik Mahnaz
Published: February 2025

In this ever-changing health care environment, nurses employ technologies and information systems to accomplish the intentions of the practice of nursing. Information technology supports the basic and advanced nursing practices in all settings. This review provides evidence about applications of information technology in Iranian nursing. We systematically searched all papers about applications of information technology in nursing in Iran that were indexed in SID, Magiran, Iran medex, PubMed and scopus databases. This study indicated that 12 (%52) studies used information technologies in the nursing education domain. Also, in 6 (%26) studies telenursing was used for patient care. 3 (13%) of the articles were related to the impact of the use of computer-based information system on nursing practice. In 2 (%9) papers the researchers developed computerized software for nursing processes. The results of this study indicate the use of information technology in nearly every aspect of nursing in Iran.
Engaging Nurses in the Design and Adoption of mHealth Tools for Care Coordination
Authors: Murphy Judy
Published: February 2025

This panel will share ideas for the Nursing Informatics Specialists in the audience on how mHealth tools are being designed and used for clinical practice, education and research. They will describe specific mHealth projects they are involved in, give practical examples, and provide tangible tactics for nurses to make a difference. They will provide insight into new technology and standards developments that make it easy to connect the mobile app ecosystem – from open application program interfaces (APIs), to traditional health information technology tools like Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
Nursing Informatics in Turkey
Authors: Akdeniz Sengul  , Ozkaynak Mustafa
Published: February 2025

We reviewed the studies investigating nursing Informatics (NI) in Turkey. Our review showed that previous NI studies in Turkey heavily focused on the attitudes of clinicians towards technology. Our literature review allows for developing policies and strategies to motivate NI studies in similar countries.
A Study on the Effect on Scheduling and Management of Surgeries with the Introduction of Excellent Medical Information
Authors: Mei Tsai Ching
Published: February 2025

The services of OR play an important role in the medical business for department of surgery. The most important issue for OR is about the scheduling and management of surgeries. Good surgery schedule could elevate the utilization efficiency of OR. Therefore, the introduction of excellent medical information can both dramatically elevate the work efficiency of health care employees and reduce workload to reach win-win benefits in both management and performance.
Effect of Automatic Inpatient Fall Prediction Using Routinely Captured EMR Data: Preliminary Results
Authors: Cho Insook  , Chung Eunja
Published: February 2025

The increasing adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) systems including nursing documentation worldwide provides opportunities for improving patient safety by the automatic prediction of adverse events using EMR data. An inpatient fall is a preventable adverse event that can be managed more effectively and efficiently through a data-driven predictive approach. This study implemented a new approach and explored its effects in neurologic inpatient units. The results suggest that integrating an automatic fall prediction system with the EMR system could reduce inpatient falls.
Mining Clinicians' Electronic Documentation to Identify Heart Failure Patients with Ineffective Self-Management: A Pilot Text-Mining Study
Authors: Topaz Maxim  , Radhakrishnan Kavita  , Lei Victor  , Zhou Li
Published: February 2025

Effective self-management can decrease up to 50% of heart failure hospitalizations. Unfortunately, self-management by patients with heart failure remains poor. This pilot study aimed to explore the use of text-mining to identify heart failure patients with ineffective self-management. We first built a comprehensive self-management vocabulary based on the literature and clinical notes review. We then randomly selected 545 heart failure patients treated within Partners Healthcare hospitals (Boston, MA, USA) and conducted a regular expression search with the compiled vocabulary within 43,107 interdisciplinary clinical notes of these patients. We found that 38.2% (n = 208) patients had documentation of ineffective heart failure self-management in the domains of poor diet adherence (28.4%), missed medical encounters (26.4%) poor medication adherence (20.2%) and non-specified self-management issues (e.g., “compliance issues”, 34.6%). We showed the feasibility of using text-mining to identify patients with ineffective self-management. More natural language processing algorithms are needed to help busy clinicians identify these patients.
An Interview and an Observation Study of Nurses and Student Nurses' Electronic Clinical Documentation Behaviors in a OB/GYN Nursing Ward
Authors: Lu Yen-Chiao Angel  , Lin Yen-Ju
Published: February 2025

This research was conducted to understand clinical nurses' and nursing students' current use of a clinical nursing information system to document their patient care activities in an OB/GYN nursing ward at a medical center in central Taiwan. A semi-structure interview and participant observation methods were used to gather the data. The results showed that the majority of participants regarded the clinical nursing information system as a useful system in terms of saving documentation time and improving communication among healthcare providers. This study provided some empirical evidence of the attitudes/behaviors of nurses and student nurses about electronic documentation. However, more studies were recommended to evaluate the impact of electronic nursing documentation on the quality of care delivered to patients.
Nurses' and Patients' Experiences of Tele-Consultations
Authors: Dichmann Sorknaes Anne
Published: February 2025

The study focused on real-time video consultations (tele-consultations) as experienced by Danish hospital-based, respiratory nurses (tele-nurses) and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD, discharged after hospitalization with acute exacerbation (tele-patients). Tele-patients and tele-nurses consider tele-consultations as distinct, but qualified care, enabling close relationships between patient and nurse. The nurses' performance and their professional identity changed. The patients become active, participants in their treatment and care.
User Expectations: Nurses' Perspective
Authors: Gürsel Güney
Published: February 2025

Healthcare is a technology-intensive industry. Although all healthcare staff needs qualified computer support, physicians and nurses need more. As nursing practice is an information intensive issue, understanding nurses' expectations from healthcare information systems (HCIS) is a must issue to meet their needs and help them in a better way. In this study perceived importance of nurses' expectations from HCIS is investigated, and two HCIS is evaluated for meeting the expectations of nurses by using fuzzy logic methodologies.
My Cancer Care Plan as a Web-Solution
Authors: Westman Bodil  , Cornelius Birgitta
Published: February 2025

The Swedish National Cancerplan states that patients should be offered an Individual Care Plan (ICP) for the treatment and survivorship care and rehabilitation planning. As there is no web-solution for ICP available, the project aim is to develop a non-commercial web-solution based on communication between the contact nurse and the patient.
Design of a Program to Learn the Nursing Process by Introducing Digital Stories – For the Promotion of Patient Understanding
Authors: Teraoka Misako  , Muranaka Yoko  , Saito Yukie  , Sakuma Tatsuya  , Kaizu Mariko  , Mitsuhashi Saori
Published: February 2025

Nursing students have a problem to develop real images of patients by using paper patient-based learning as the initial program to learn the process of nursing care. This paper presents a learning program for the promotion of patient understanding, designed by focusing on digital stories and workshops held in classes.
The Impact of Telenursing on Nursing Practice and Education: A Systematic Literature Review
Authors: Asiri Hanan  , Househ Mowafa
Published: February 2025

This systematic review aims to answer the following question: What is the impact of telenursing on nursing practice and education? Any article that was written in English and published in PubMed and Computers Informatics Nursing (CIN) journal from January 2012 to February 2016 discussing the impact of telenursing on nursing practice and education were included, while any opinion and review literature was excluded. The results show that there are four themes covered by the literature: 1. Impact of telenursing intervention using telephone and/ or videoconferencing on satisfaction and health outcomes; 2. Association of the patients' comorbidity characteristics with nursing utilization of telenursing and/or withdrawal from telehealth service during a telenursing care episode; 3. Tele-intensive care unit (tele-ICU) nursing and developing its competencies; and finally 4. Training on telenursing. Articles on Intensive Care Unit telenursing were found to be the most covered specialty/area of nursing in using telenursing. More research is still needed to show the impact of telenursing on nursing education as well as other specialties of nursing practice.
Exploring Lab Tests Over Utilization Patterns Using Health Analytics Methods
Authors: Khalifa Mohamed  , Zabani Ibrahim  , Khalid Parwaiz
Published: February 2025

Healthcare resources are over utilized contributing more to the growing costs of care. Although laboratory testing is essential, yet it can be expensive and excessive. King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Saudi Arabia studied lab tests utilization patterns using health analytics methods. The objective was to identify patterns of utilizing lab tests and to develop recommendations to control over utilization. Three over utilization patterns were identified; using expensive tests for many patients as routine, unnecessarily repeating lab test and a combined one. Two recommendations were suggested; a user approach, modifying user behavior through orientation about the impact of over utilization on the cost effectiveness of healthcare, and a system approach, implementing system alerts to help physicians check the results and identify the date of the last lab tests done with information about appropriate frequency of ordering such lab test and medically significant intervals at which such test should be repeated.
Mobile Clinical Decision Support Systems in Our Hands – Great Potential but also a Concern
Authors: Masic Izet  , Begic Edin
Published: February 2025

Due to the powerful computer resources as well as the availability of today's mobile devices, a special field of mobile systems for clinical decision support in medicine has been developed. The benefits of these applications (systems) are: availability of necessary hardware (mobile phones, tablets and phablets are widespread, and can be purchased at a relatively affordable price), availability of mobile applications (free or for a “small” amount of money) and also mobile applications are tailored for easy use and save time of clinicians in their daily work. In these systems lies a huge potential, and certainly a great economic benefit, so this issue must be approached multidisciplinary.
Finding and Exploring Health Information with a Slider-Based User Interface
Authors: Pang Patrick Cheong-Iao  , Verspoor Karin  , Pearce Jon  , Chang Shanton
Published: February 2025

Despite the fact that search engines are the primary channel to access online health information, there are better ways to find and explore health information on the web. Search engines are prone to problems when they are used to find health information. For instance, users have difficulties in expressing health scenarios with appropriate search keywords, search results are not optimised for medical queries, and the search process does not account for users' literacy levels and reading preferences. In this paper, we describe our approach to addressing these problems by introducing a novel design using a slider-based user interface for discovering health information without the need for precise search keywords. The user evaluation suggests that the interface is easy to use and able to assist users in the process of discovering new information. This study demonstrates the potential value of adopting slider controls in the user interface of health websites for navigation and information discovery.
Healthdirect's After Hours GP Helpline – A Survey of Patient Satisfaction with the Service and Compliance with Advice
Authors: Li Ling  , Georgiou Andrew  , Xiong Juan  , Byrne Mary  , Robinson Maureen  , Westbrook Johanna I.
Published: February 2025

The after hours GP helpline (AGPH), one of the key services provided by Healthdirect, is an extension of the existing healthdirect telephone nurse triage and advice service. It provides access to telephone health advice by GPs after hours to patients/callers who are triaged by the telephone nurse as needing to see a GP immediately, within four hours or within 24 hours. The aims of this study were to assess patient satisfaction with the AGPH service and compliance with the GP advice; and to investigate factors associated with patients' compliance. This study included 2486 patients/callers who used the AGPH and participated in a survey between February and September 2013. Over 97.1% of patients/callers were either satisfied or very satisfied with the AGPH service. Compliance was measured in two ways: i) self-reported compliance to advice provided; and ii) matching of self-reported actions with actual GP advice given: 94.0% of patients reported they followed the advice given to them by GPs and for 86.8% of patients their reported actions following consultations matched the recommended advice documented by GPs in the healthdirect database. Patients' compliance with recommended advice were associated with patient overall satisfaction with the service, the type of AGPH advice received, and the estimated severity level of the conditions. Improving patient satisfaction with the service along with patient understanding of the advice can lead to an increased compliance rate.
Accelerating Norm Emergence Through Hierarchical Heuristic Learning
Authors: Yang Tianpei  , Meng Zhaopeng  , Hao Jianye  , Sen Sandip  , Yu Chao
Published: February 2025

Social norms serve as an important mechanism to regulate the behaviours of agents and to facilitate coordination among them in multiagent systems. One important research question is how a norm can rapidly emerge through repeated local interaction within agent societies under different environments when their coordination space becomes large. To address this problem, we propose a hierarchically heuristic learning strategy (HHLS) under the hierarchical social learning framework. Subordinate agents report their information to their supervisors, while supervisors can generate instructions (rules and suggestions) based on the information collected from their subordinates. Subordinate agents heuristically update their strategies based on both their own experience and the instructions from their supervisors. Extensive experiment evaluations show that HHLS can support the emergence of desirable social norms more efficiently and can be applicable in a much wider range of multiagent interaction scenarios compared with previous work. The influence of key related factors (e.g., different topologies, population, neighbourhood and action space size, cluster size) are also investigated and new insights are obtained as well.
Explanatory Diagnosis of an Ontology Stream via Reasoning About Actions
Authors: Yu Quan  , Wan Hai  , Xu Jiangtao  , Lécué Freddy  , Chang Liang
Published: February 2025

Explanatory diagnosis of an ontology stream aims to explain the changes hidden in the ontology stream by a sequence of actions. In this paper, we present a framework for explanatory diagnosis of an ontology stream, which allows the actions to be uncertain. In order to capture the semantics of actions, we introduce a new update operator and effect-guided bold-repair. By combining these operators with a query mechanism of description logicssupporting inconsistency-tolerant semantics, we present a formal definition for the explanatory diagnosis problem of ontology streams.
A Framework for Automatic Debugging of Functional and Degradation Failures
Authors: Cardoso Nuno  , Abreu Rui  , Feldman Alexander  , de Kleer Johan
Published: February 2025

Software diagnosis is a particularly challenging problem for modern systems, which may consist of dozens, if not hundreds, of components computing on concurrent and potentially distributed platforms, and using infrastructure and services built by many organizations. We propose a framework that generalizes state-of-the-art classical reasoning-based fault diagnosis which tolerates observation uncertainty and addresses degradation of quality of service. Empirical evaluation involving 27000 highly realistic synthetic scenarios demonstrates an average accuracy improvement of 20% (with 99% statistical significance) which is considerable in the domain of Software Fault Localization (SFL). We measure the improvement in accuracy on well-established SFL performance metrics.
Analogical Classifiers: A Theoretical Perspective
Authors: Hug Nicolas  , Prade Henri  , Richard Gilles  , Serrurier Mathieu
Published: February 2025

In recent works, analogy-based classifiers have been proved quite successful. They exhibit good accuracy rates when compared with standard classification methods. Nevertheless, a theoretical study of their predictive power has not been done so far. One of the main barriers has been the lack of functional definition: analogical learners have only algorithmic definitions. The aim of our paper is to complement the empirical studies with a theoretical perspective. Using a simplified framework, we first provide a concise functional definition of the output of an analogical learner. Two versions of the definition are considered, a strict and a relaxed one. As far as we know, this is the first definition of this kind for analogical learner. Then, taking inspiration from results in k-NN studies, we examine some analytic properties such as convergence and VC-dimension, which are among the basic markers in terms of machine learning expressiveness. We then look at what could be expected in terms of theoretical accuracy from such a learner, in a Boolean setting. We examine learning curves for artificial domains, providing experimental results that illustrate our formulas, and empirically validate our functional definition of analogical classifiers.
Translation-Based Revision and Merging for Minimal Horn Reasoning
Authors: Brewka Gerhard  , Mailly Jean-Guy  , Woltran Stefan
Published: February 2025

In this paper we introduce a new approach for revising and merging consistent Horn formulae under minimal model semantics. Our approach is translation-based in the following sense: we generate a propositional encoding capturing both the syntax of the original Horn formulae (the clauses which appear or not in them) and their semantics (their minimal models). We can then use any classical revision or merging operator to perform belief change on the encoding. The resulting propositional theory is then translated back into a Horn formula. We identify some specific operators which guarantee a particular kind of minimal change. A unique feature of our approach is that it allows us to control whether minimality of change primarily relates to the syntax or to the minimal model semantics of the Horn formula. We give an axiomatic characterization of minimal change on the minimal model for this new setting, and we show that some specific translation-based revision and merging operators satisfy our postulates.
Implementing the Patient Portal of the PEHR in the Metropolitan Region Rhine-Neckar – Experiences with Liferay
Authors: Pensold Peter  , Schneider Gerd  , Aguduri Lakshmi S.  , Brandner Antje  , Bronsch Tobias  , Schreiweis Björn  , Stein Katharina E.  , Weiss Nicolas  , Yüksekogul Nilay  , Bergh Björn  , Heinze Oliver
Published: February 2025

A patient portal with access to a personal cross-enterprise electronic health record (PEHR) had to be developed for the project “INFormation technology for PATient-oriented healthcare in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region” (INFOPAT). Liferay was chosen as the platform technology in previous researches. Multiple portlets for patients, study members, security officers and administrators had been developed in Java. In this paper all portlets are presented. For three portlets the communication between them, Liferay and the PEHR are described in detail. To communicate with the PEHR a façade called IHE Connector had been implemented too. Despite the broad functionality of the Liferay Core some workarounds had to be implemented. The lack of information in the provided documentation of Liferay lead to delays in development. The Liferay IDE and Liferay itself showed an unstable state.
Attempting to Use MetaMap in Clinical Practice: A Feasibility Study on the Identification of Medical Concepts from Italian Clinical Notes
Authors: Chiaramello Emma  , Paglialonga Alessia  , Pinciroli Francesco  , Tognola Gabriella
Published: February 2025

This study assessed the feasibility of using MetaMap to identify medical concepts from clinical notes written in Italian. We performed two experiments: in “EXP 1”, we used MetaMap to annotate Italian texts using a knowledge source consisting of Italian UMLS sources only; in “EXP 2”, we used MetaMap to analyze an English unsupervised translated version of the original Italian texts. We considered medical concepts related to three semantic categories: “Disorders”, “Findings” and “Symptoms”. Average recall, precision and F-measure were equal to 0.53, 0.98 and 0.69 in “EXP 1”, and to 0.75, 0.95 and 0.83 in “EXP 2”. For both “EXP 1” and “EXP 2” MetaMap showed better performances for the “Disorders” than for “Findings” and “Symptoms”. In conclusion, when using MetaMap with the English translation of the Italian clinical notes, we obtained performances good enough to allow using MetaMap in clinical practice. Further investigation about the types of MetaMap's failures could be useful to understand how to improve performances even better.
Inconsistencies Between Antiparkinsonian Drugs and ICD-10 Codes in Inpatients: A TOLBIAC Project Case Study
Authors: Triki Nizar  , Bousquet Cédric  , Lardon Jeremy  , Asfari Hadyl  , Spiga Radia  , Trombert-Paviot Béatrice
Published: February 2025

In France, data derived from hospital information systems are adequate to feed the prospective payment system. The consistency between drugs prescribed to patients and their indications could solve difficulties related to the identification of ICD-10 undercoded chronic diseases as the Parkinson Disease. Our goal was to highlight patients' stays mentioning administration of antiparkinsonian drugs and not coded for Parkinson's disease. Our approach was to parameterize tables of associations between ICD-10 codes and drug identifiers in the Web100T® application that collects medical information in our hospital and displays related inconsistencies for patients' stays. Based on acute care patients' stays of the second semester of 2015, we identified 246 patients corresponding to 253 stays, for which 33% of stays were not coded with the ICD-10 G20 code of the Parkinson's disease. The precision of our approach was 29%. Based on these data we predict roughly 84 patient stays without mention of Parkinson Disease. We plan to extend this study to other drugs and other kinds of data available in the health information system, such as biology or medical devices in order to improve the coding of chronic diseases in our hospital.
Beyond Cohort Selection: An Analytics-Enabled i2b2
Authors: Gabetta Matteo  , Malovini Alberto  , Bucalo Mauro  , Zini Elisa  , Tibollo Valentina  , Priori Silvia G.  , Vettoretti Simone  , Larizza Cristiana  , Bellazzi Riccardo  , Barbarini Nicola
Published: February 2025

The i2b2 software is a widely adopted solution for secondary use of clinical data for clinical research, specifically designed for cohort identification. i2b2 is still lacking functionalities for data analysis. The aim of this work is to empower the i2b2 framework enabling clinical researchers to perform statistical analyses for accelerating the process of hypothesis testing. To this aim we have developed a flexible extension of i2b2 able to exploit different statistical engines. We have implemented some first applications for basic statistics and survival analyses, exploiting this extension and accessible through suitable user interfaces designed with a special consideration for usability.
The Precise Observation System for the Safe Use of Medicines (POSSUM): An Approach for Studying Medication Administration Errors in the Field
Authors: Westbrook Johanna I.  , Raban Magdalena Z.  , Lehnbom Elin C.  , Li Ling
Published: February 2025

Medication administration errors (MAEs) in hospital are frequent and significantly more likely to result in serious harm to patients than other medication error types. Many interventions have been proposed in order reduce MAEs and the amount of harm associated with these errors. A major limitation in assessing the effectiveness of these interventions has been the lack of robust measures for assessing changes in MAEs and associated harms. Drawing upon extensive foundational research we have developed a robust approach and data collection software to be applied in direct observational studies of nurses to allow measurement of changes in MAE rates. We report how this approach is being applied in a large stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of an electronic medication management system to reduce MAEs in a paediatric hospital.
Quality Control of a Health Information System for Causes of Death Statistics in Burkina Faso Using Capture-Recapture Method
Authors: Barro Seydou Golo  , Dufour Jean-Charles  , Dandjinou Mesmin  , de Lame Paul-André  , Staccini Pascal
Published: February 2025

Introduction: The information system on the causes of death (ISCD), set up in Burkina Faso in January 2014 at the University Hospital Center Souro Sanon (UHCSS) of Bobo-Dioulasso, was evaluated to assess its completeness in terms of death statistics generation.
Bioinformatics Visualisation Tools: An Unbalanced Picture
Authors: Broască Laura  , Ancuşa Versavia  , Ciocârlie Horia
Published: February 2025

Visualization tools represent a key element in triggering human creativity while being supported with the analysis power of the machine. This paper analyzes free network visualization tools for bioinformatics, frames them in domain specific requirements and compares them.
Multi-Level Data-Security and Data-Protection in a Distributed Search Infrastructure for Digital Medical Samples
Authors: Witt Michael  , Krefting Dagmar
Published: February 2025

Human sample data is stored in biobanks with software managing digital derived sample data. When these stand-alone components are connected and a search infrastructure is employed users become able to collect required research data from different data sources. Data protection, patient rights, data heterogeneity and access control are major challenges for such an infrastructure. This dissertation will investigate concepts for a multi-level security architecture to comply with these requirements.
Online Proactive Planning with Multiple Hypotheses
Authors: T'Hooft Jorrit  , Lesire Charles  , Carvalho Chanel Caroline P.
Published: February 2025

In order to enhance the behavior of autonomous service robots, we are exploring multiple paradigms for their planning and execution strategy (the way of interleaving the planning, selection and execution of actions). In this paper we focus on continuous proactive planning with multiple hypotheses in order to continuously generate multiple solution-plans from which an action can be selected when appropriate. To illustrate the concepts, we develop how it could be used for autonomous navigation in dynamic environments, and analyze the tests we realized with several instantiations. We also discuss several aspects and concerns about the proposed strategy, and how integrating more semantic information could enhance the capabilities of service robots for real-world applications.
Facilitating the Concept of Universal Design Among Design Students – Changes in Teaching in the Last Decade
Authors: Vavik Tom
Published: February 2025

This short paper describes and reflects on how the teaching of the concept of Universal Design (UD) has developed in the last decade at the Institute of Design at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). Four main changes are described. Firstly, the curriculum has evolved from teaching guidelines and principles to focusing on design processes. Secondly, an increased emphasis is put on cognitive accessibility. Thirdly, non-stigmatizing aesthetics expressions and solutions that communicate through different senses have become more important subjects. Fourthly the teaching of UD has moved from the second to the first year curriculum.
Grant as a Driving Force for Innovation in Universal Design
Authors: Larsen Tina Therese  , Blindheim Torben
Published: February 2025

This paper highlights the importance of interdisciplinarity for innovation and change in the work of Universal Design in housing. It puts particular emphasis on a grant provided by the Norwegian State Housing Bank (NSHB).
Aalto University Undergraduate Centre. Protected Alvar Aalto Building Awarded for Accessibility After Renovation
Authors: Raike Antti  , Ahlava Antti  , Tuomi Teemu  , Skyttä Pauliina  , Verma Ira
Published: February 2025

The main building of the former Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) designed by Alvar Aalto is part of the cultural heritage in Finland. The building underwent a major renovation in 2011–2015 and has now become an awarded Undergraduate Centre for the modern interdisciplinary education of Aalto University. This paper presents how the architectural masterpiece from the 1960's was renovated and updated into a modern and accessible university building. Particular attention was paid for entering the building by wheelchairs, prams and pushchairs. The successful renovation was awarded in 2015 by the ‘Esteetön Suomi -palkinto’ (Accessible Finland Award), given every two years as a mark of recognition to activities or locations implementing the principles of accessibility and Universal Design for all on a broad scale and in a nationally significant way.
Universal Design and Welfare Technology
Authors: Brynn Rudolph
Published: February 2025

The paper presents the background for the increased interest for and use of welfare technology. It discusses current definitions of welfare technology and suggests a typology of this technology based on the different definitions. It compares the definitions with that of assistive technology and endeavors to draw a clearer limit between them, in particular related to possibilities to utilize the principle of universal design on welfare technology. The issue of operationalization requirements of universal design to welfare technology through standardization is also discussed. Finally, the paper suggests what elements should be part of a new definition of welfare technology.
RemoTable: Sharing Daily Activities and Moods Using Smart Furniture
Authors: Wallbaum Torben  , Heuten Wilko  , Boll Susanne
Published: February 2025

Social Interaction and the feeling of emotional closeness to beloved ones is mainly driven by the communication with each other. For patients suffering from a serious disease due to intense mood changes, it is difficult to keep regular contact with relatives. This affects the need for direct and verbal communication with relatives. To continue the participation in each others lives, we have developed a concept to share daily activities, current moods and presence information using a smart living room table. A first lab study with a prototype showed promising results with regard to expressiveness, joy of use, and usability.
How to Frame Universal Workspace Lighting
Authors: Mathiasen Nanet  , Frandsen Anne Kathrine
Published: February 2025

In 2012 the headquarters for the umbrella organisation ‘Disabled people's organisation Denmark’ opened, an office building that offers workspace for the administrations of all the member organisations. The ambition for the building was to be the most accessible office building in the world; regardless of disability everybody should be able to move around in the house and work in any of the offices. One, of many ambitions, was to design a functional and effective lighting scheme using as much daylight as possible, and integrating the artificial lighting design and daylight design. The lighting was intended to support all work stations in both one-man offices and open-plan offices with a functional and comfortable visual environment, fit for all users, regardless of disability. Based on a post occupancy evaluation conducted 2 years after the organisations moved in, the present paper evaluates the lighting design in the offices. It reveals that not all the people working in the offices have the same needs and preferences of lighting conditions; these differ even among users with the same disability. Accordingly the findings lead to a discussion on how to understand the concept of Universal Design. Based on the lighting theory of Peter Boyce, the paper discusses the idea of encompassing everyone in the same solution.
From Visions to Practical Policy: The Universal Design Journey in Norway. What Did We Learn? What Did We Gain? What Now?
Authors: Lund Einar  , Bringa Olav Rand
Published: February 2025

The national policy in Norway have since the last part of the 1990-ies been organized in programs that erected actions including national authorities, municipalities, regional authorities and private enterprises. What have we gained by our national activities to mainstream inclusive and accessibility policy for persons with reduced capability through the principles of Universal Design? Have we made society accessible to everyone and prevented discrimination. Are the results visible?
Rogaland County Council and Universal Design
Authors: Ask Linda Nilsen
Published: February 2025

Rogaland Council has adopted Universal Design as an overriding principle for all planning and development in the county. Private stakeholders and public agencies collaborated in the development of a successful County Plan for Universal Design that has been recognised as an example of good practice by Norway's public authorities. The plan provides guidelines for both state and municipal planning and operations in several policy areas from public transport to educational and cultural buildings to sports and recreation areas. One of the main contributions of the plan is an evaluation methodology built on the “TEK-10” national standard, and developed with the participation of authorities, experts, staff from municipalities and representatives of organisations for people with disabilities. This method is used to assess the accessibility and compliance with Universal Design principles of different destinations. This information is then published in the dedicated website www.tilgjengelighet.no which serves as an information channel for the general public about accessibility to various locations in the county. A community engagement method has been developed for including user groups in the design process for both new buildings and renovation projects. Representatives for user groups are chosen by the Council's Disability Committee, and these help to inform the planning and construction process. The plan also emphasises the development of knowledge and skills in Universal Design through educational programmes for secondary schools and colleges as well as training opportunities for councillors. This paper summarises the plan's rationale and the progress made until now.
Mining Ethos in Political Debate
Authors: Duthie Rory  , Budzynska Katarzyna  , Reed Chris
Published: February 2025

Despite the fact it has been recognised since Aristotle that ethos and credibility play a critical role in many types of communication, these facts are rarely studied in linguistically oriented AI which has enjoyed such success in processing complex features as sentiment, opinion, and most recently arguments. This paper shows how a text analysis pipeline of structural and statistical approaches to natural language processing (NLP) can be deployed to tackle ethos by mining linguistic resources from the political domain. We summarise a coding scheme for annotating ethotic expressions; present the first openly available corpus to support further, comparative research in the area; and report results from a system for automatically recognising the presence and polarity of ethotic expressions. Finally, we hypothesise that in the political sphere, ethos analytics – including recognising who trusts whom and who is attacking whose reputation – might act as a powerful toolset for understanding and even anticipating the dynamics of governments. By exploring several examples of correspondence between ethos analytics in political discourse and major events and dynamics in the political landscape, we uncover tantalising evidence in support of this hypothesis.
On the Development of a Latvian-Russian Parallel Corpus
Authors: Perkova Natalia  , Sitchinava Dmitri
Published: February 2025

This paper presents the current status of the Latvian-Russian parallel corpus, which is an ongoing project within the Russian National Corpus. It discusses the existing parallel corpora including Latvian texts, availability of sources and the main principles and tools of alignment and morphological annotation, as well as further plans for developing the corpus.