bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Designing a Surveillance System in Canada to Detect Adverse Interactions Between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine: Issues and Considerations
Authors: Zhang Jingfei  , Ho Kendall
Published: February 2025

The use of Chinese medicinal materials (CMM) in the context of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is increasingly prevalent in Canada and worldwide. Self-medication with CMM and concurrent usage with Western medicine are also common. While taking CMM carries recognized risk of adverse effects on their own, their interactions with Western medicine can further generate additional adverse effects but are largely underestimated and undetected due to under-reporting. This is especially true in Canada and other Western countries where CMM is regulated as natural products. Currently worldwide, surveillance of CMM is variable and primarily through spontaneous and voluntary reporting systems. Current approaches in the Western world, including Canada, are by-and-large ineffective in detecting CMM-Western medicine adverse interactions. We propose the development of a Canadian surveillance system for CMM usage that involves both health professionals and patients so as to increase detection of potential adverse reactions and improve safety. As a first step, we will carry out surveys and focus groups with the stakeholder groups to identify desirable features of such a surveillance system as important ground work.
Identifying Emerging Trends in Medical Informatics: A Synthesis Approach
Authors: Van Kasteren Yasmin  , Williams Patricia A.H.  , Maeder Anthony
Published: February 2025

Medical informatics is a young and rapidly evolving field, influenced by and impacting on many different knowledge domains. Recent contributions on scoping the associated body of knowledge are confounded both by variations in popular use of terminology for established areas, and by the advent of new areas without yet established terminology. Determining the scope of a topic through online bibliographic search filters is a well-established approach in scientific research and has been developed as a human-directed task. Establishing the best approach and automating the process has proved a difficult problem. This paper explores the use of text analysis of bibliographic information using available search engines and NVIVO text analysis tools to test the potential for dynamic word based filters based on data mining. Results show that word searches of abstracts are more effective than topic searches for identifying health informatics papers, however more work is required to refine search terms to improve generalisability. Using data mining to track changes in word use in medical informatics journals, may make it possible to establish a more dynamic search filter to match the evolving nature of the field of health informatics.
Smartphones to Access to Patient Data in Hospital Settings: Authentication Solutions for Shared Devices
Authors: Ehrler Frederic  , Blondon Katherine  , Baillon-Bigotte Dominique  , Lovis Christian
Published: February 2025

Although mobile devices become more and more common in clinicians' hands, transforming them into an institutional tool to access electronic health record information at the patient's bedside still raises many questions. One of these questions is the provenance of mobile devices when these are deployed at an institutional level. Some advocate the use of personal devices, known as BYOD, for its lower cost, others favor the use of institutional devices which allow a standardization of the development, deployment and support processes. The financial disadvantage of institutional devices could be reduced by sharing devices between several care-providers. The problem with this solution is the authentication management. Indeed, smartphones are defined for individual use and do not efficiently manage multiple identities on a single device. In this article we present the outcome of a Delphi study aiming at identifying an authentication strategy that combines security and acceptable usability in order to share a pool of devices in a medical ward.
Governing Knowledge Commons: Applications of an Open Knowledge Broker in Caribbean Disaster Management
Authors: McNaughton Maurice  , Rao Lila
Published: February 2025

This paper is based on research conducted as an initiative under the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet) to explore new innovative mechanisms that can enhance collaborative disaster recovery planning, knowledge management, and learning in the Caribbean. The need for enhanced knowledge management to mitigate disaster risk through the sharing of information and knowledge is a strategic imperative of the Caribbean Disaster Management community. We employ a preliminary conceptual application of the Knowledge Commons/IAD Framework to illustrate how this kind of institutional analytic process can illuminate and inform strategy, governance and desirable collective action, as well as the merits of alternative enabling technologies. The study contributes to arguments challenging the neutrality of infrastructure for collective action. It highlights the importance, and perhaps imperative, of an institutional approach to the design and implementation of socio-technical systems.
What Is at Stake? Public Participation and the Co-Production of Open Scientific Knowledge
Authors: Ferpozzi Hugo
Published: February 2025

Openness has become an explicit subject across science policy and scholarly practice, where it is often vindicated in a rhetoric of optimism. In political discourse, as much as in the scholarly literature, open access to research data and publications is expected to enable what policy has typically failed to achieve by other means: that is, to overcome material, class, and political barriers that stand in the way of knowledge circulation. However, whether openness in science is a good thing or not also seems to depend on what is being opened, to what extent and for whom. In this paper I draw on different critical areas of Latin American science, technology and society studies (LASTS) to suggest that the current dominant views around open science can be limiting, as much as they could be enabling, more inclusive dynamics of access to and uses of scientific knowledge, especially in the peripheral (or non-hegemonic) contexts of science. These limiting views around openness, I argue, are linked with restrictive conceptions about science and its products: scientific activity is understood, by this token, as an invariably universal enterprise. In consequence, science outputs are conceived as self-contained knowledge products, and the processes and practices that account for their production and use are only partly taken into consideration. The aim is hence to elaborate on different forms of participation and exclusion to the processes of knowledge production which could help us understand how different stakeholders become engaged or excluded in the production of knowledge. To do so, I take the case of genomic research and drug development for neglected diseases as my empirical background. The argument draws on two concepts from LASTS. The first one is cognitive exploitation, according to which scientific outputs are used in for-profit contexts by third-parties, but without compensating the original producers. In this way, it is not only producers, users and appropriators of knowledge who become key in the dynamics of knowledge circulation, but also those acting as intermediaries. The other concept is integrated subordination, which refers, on the one hand, to the dynamics by which peripheral regions collaborate with elite research networks, and the difficulties that stand in the way of industrializing scientific knowledge, on the other. These difficulties spawn from the lack of capacities, but also from adherence to international research agendas, which are not necessarily connected with those required to attend to social needs in peripheral contexts. By putting into question the nature and the limits of openness, and by re-examining the types of knowledge at stake (beyond research data and publications), the actors, and their involvement, I suggest other ways in which open scientific knowledge could become effectively used.
Shared Decision Making Interventions: Theoretical and Empirical Evidence with Implications for Health Literacy
Authors: Stacey Dawn  , Hill Sophie  , McCaffery Kirsten  , Boland Laura  , Lewis Krystina B.  , Horvat Lidia
Published: February 2025

Basic health literacy is required for making health decisions. The aim of this chapter is to discuss the use of shared decision making interventions for supporting patient involvement in making health decisions. The chapter provides a definition of shared decision making and discusses the link between shared decision making and the three levels of health literacy: functional, communicative/interactive, and critical. The Interprofessional Shared Decision Making Model is used to identify the various players involved: the patient, the family/surrogate/significant others, decision coach, and health care professionals. When patients are involved in shared decision making, they have better health outcomes, better healthcare experiences, and likely lower costs. Yet, their degree of involvement is influenced by their level of health literacy.
Democratisation of AAC Symbol Choices Using Technology
Authors: Draffan E.A.  , Wald Mike  , Zeinoun Nadine  , Banes David
Published: February 2025

The use of an online voting system has been developed to enable democratic choices of newly designed symbols to support speech, language and literacy skills in a localisation situation. The system works for those using and supporting Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) symbols on electronic systems by the provision of simplified scales of acceptance and adapted grids. The methodology and results highlighted the importance of user participation at the outset and concrete examples of symbol adaptations that were found necessary to ensure higher levels of user satisfaction. Design changes included appropriate local dress codes, linguistic nuances, social settings, the built environment and religious sensitivities.
A Mobile Game for the Social and Cognitive Well-Being of Elderly People in China
Authors: Li Nan  , Chen Weiqin
Published: February 2025

China, like many other countries, is facing the challenges of an ageing population. Literature has shown that the lack of social interaction has a negative impact on the physical health of the elderly, and playing games can be beneficial in maintaining or even improving their cognitive abilities. This study describes the design and development process for a social and cognitive mobile game and the related user evaluation in terms of well-being. The objective is to explore the underlying connections between game playing and the improvement of well-being among elderly people in China.
Can Automated Facial Expression Analysis Show Differences Between Autism and Typical Functioning?
Authors: Borsos Zsófia  , Gyori Miklos
Published: February 2025

Exploratory analyses of emotional expressions using a commercially available facial expression recognition software are reported, from the context of a serious game for screening purposes. Our results are based on a comparative analysis of two matched groups of kindergarten-age children (high-functioning children with autism spectrum condition: n=13; typically developing children: n=13). Results indicate that this technology has the potential to identify autism-specific emotion expression features, and may play a role in affective diagnostic and assistive technologies.
Participation and Autonomy for Users with ABI Through Easy Social Media Access
Authors: Dirks Susanne  , Bühler Christian
Published: February 2025

The Mediata app is a mobile application providing easy access to internet and social media for persons with acquired brain injury. This paper presents design, working hypotheses and expected results of a participative user experience study to evaluate the impact of the Mediata application on participation and autonomy of users with acquired brain injury.
Building an Accessible Pictograph Interface for Users with Intellectual Disabilities
Authors: Sevens Leen  , Daems Jo  , De Vliegher Annelies  , Schuurman Ineke  , Vandeghinste Vincent  , Van Eynde Frank
Published: February 2025

This paper presents a pictograph interface for Pictograph-to-Text translation, which facilitates the construction of written text on social media platforms for users with Intellectual Disabilities. For the design of the interface, a user-centred approach was adopted. Results show that the target group can appreciate accessing social media through pictograph-based technologies.
Light-Weighted Automatic Import of Standardized Ontologies into the Content Management System Drupal
Authors: Beger Christoph  , Uciteli Alexandr  , Herre Heinrich
Published: February 2025

The amount of ontologies, which are utilizable for widespread domains, is growing steadily. BioPortal alone, embraces over 500 published ontologies with nearly 8 million classes. In contrast, the vast informative content of these ontologies is only directly intelligible by experts. To overcome this deficiency it could be possible to represent ontologies as web portals, which does not require knowledge about ontologies and their semantics, but still carries as much information as possible to the end-user. Furthermore, the conception of a complex web portal is a sophisticated process. Many entities must be analyzed and linked to existing terminologies. Ontologies are a decent solution for gathering and storing this complex data and dependencies. Hence, automated imports of ontologies into web portals could support both mentioned scenarios. The Content Management System (CMS) Drupal 8 is one of many solutions to develop web presentations with less required knowledge about programming languages and it is suitable to represent ontological entities. We developed the Drupal Upper Ontology (DUO), which models concepts of Drupal's architecture, such as nodes, vocabularies and links. DUO can be imported into ontologies to map their entities to Drupal's concepts. Because of Drupal's lack of import capabilities, we implemented the Simple Ontology Loader in Drupal (SOLID), a Drupal 8 module, which allows Drupal administrators to import ontologies based on DUO. Our module generates content in Drupal from existing ontologies and makes it accessible by the general public. Moreover Drupal offers a tagging system which may be amplified with multiple standardized and established terminologies by importing them with SOLID. Our Drupal module shows that ontologies can be used to model content of a CMS and vice versa CMS are suitable to represent ontologies in a user-friendly way. Ontological entities are presented to the user as discrete pages with all appropriate properties, links and tags.
Analysis of Annotated Data Models for Improving Data Quality
Authors: Ulrich Hannes  , Kock-Schoppenhauer Ann-Kristin  , Andersen Björn  , Ingenerf Josef
Published: February 2025

The public Medical Data Models (MDM) portal with more than 9.000 annotated forms from clinical trials and other sources provides many research opportunities for the medical informatics community. It is mainly used to address the problem of heterogeneity by searching, mediating, reusing, and assessing data models, e. g. the semi-interactive curation of core data records in a special domain. Furthermore, it can be used as a benchmark for evaluating algorithms that create, transform, annotate, and analyse structured patient data. Using CDISC ODM for syntactically representing all data models in the MDM portal, there are semi-automatically added UMLS CUIs at several ODM levels like ItemGroupDef, ItemDef, or CodeList item. This can improve the interpretability and processability of the received information, but only if the coded information is correct and reliable. This raises the question how to assure that semantically similar datasets are also processed and classified similarly. In this work, a (semi-)automatic approach to analyse and assess items, questions, and data elements in clinical studies is described. The approach uses a hybrid evaluation process to rate and propose semantic annotations for under-specified trial items. The evaluation algorithm operates with the commonly used NLM MetaMap to provide UMLS support and corpus-based proposal algorithms to link datasets from the provided CDISC ODM item pool.
Analysis of Age and Gender Structures for ICD-10 Diagnoses in Outpatient Treatment Using Shannon's Entropy
Authors: Schuster Fabian  , Ostermann Thomas  , Emcke Timo  , Schuster Reinhard
Published: February 2025

Introduction: Diagnostic diversity has been in the focus of several studies of health services research. As the fraction of people with statutory health insurance changes with age and gender it is assumed that diagnostic diversity may be influenced by these parameters.
Using Smartphones for Research Outside Clinical Settings: How Operating Systems, App Developers, and Users Determine Geolocation Data Quality in mHealth Studies
Authors: Beukenhorst A.L.  , Schultz D.M.  , McBeth J.  , Lakshminarayana R.  , Sergeant J.C.  , Dixon W.G.
Published: February 2025

Smartphones that collect user geolocation provid opportunities for mobile Health (mHealth). Although granularity of geolocation data may be high, data completeness depends on the device's operating system, application developer decisions, and user actions. We investigate completeness of geolocation data collected via smartphones of 5601 people that self-reported daily chronic pain symptoms on 349,293 days. On 17% of these days, hourly geolocation data is reported, but days with 0 (16%), 1 (14%) and 2 (13%) geolocations are common. Android phones collect geolocation more often than iPhones (median 17 versus 2 times a day). Factors on operating system level and individual user level influence completeness of geolocation data collected with smartphones. mHealth researchers should be aware of these factors when designing their studies. The mHealth research community should devise standards for reporting geolocation data quality, analysing systematic differences in data quality between participant groups, and methods for data imputation.
Automated Classification of Multi-Labeled Patient Safety Reports: A Shift from Quantity to Quality Measure
Authors: Liang Chen  , Gong Yang
Published: February 2025

Over the past two decades, there have seen an ever-increasing amount of patient safety reports yet the capacity of extracting useful information from the reports remains limited. Classification of patient safety reports is the first step of performing a downstream analysis. In practice, the manual review processes for classification are labor-intense. Studies have shown that the reports are often mislabeled or unclassifiable based on the pre-defined categories, which presents a notable data quality problem. In this study, we investigated the multi-labeled nature of patient safety reports. We argue that understanding multi-labeled nature of reports is a key to disclose the complex relations between many components during the courses and development of medical errors. Accordingly, we developed automated multi-label text classifiers to process patient safety reports. The experiments demonstrated feasibility and efficiency of a combination of multi-label algorithms in the benchmark comparison. Grounded on our experiments and results, we provided suggestions on how to implement automated classification of patient safety reports in the clinical settings.
School-Based Telemedicine: Perceptions About a Telemedicine Model of Care
Authors: Tye May Lin  , Honey Michelle  , Day Karen
Published: February 2025

A school-based store-and-forward telemedicine program, which is delivered to school children by school staff is an acceptable model of care for treating skin infections. This indicates that non-clinicians have potential to play a key role in telemedicine. Benefits include empowerment and role redefinition of staff, and potential improvements in health awareness of children, with no major issues perceived in the current program.
Asynchronous Query Distribution Between Multiple i2b2 Research Data Warehouses: Li2b2-SHRINE
Authors: Majeed Raphael W.  , Stöhr Mark R.  , Thiemann Volker S.  , Röhrig Rainer  , Günther Andreas
Published: February 2025

Clinical Data Ware Houses are established sources for research and quality management. The open source data warehouse software i2b2 enjoys good reputation and wide-spread use in the international medical informatics community. We developed a novel infrastructure to allow queries to be distributed asynchronously between i2b2 data warehouses.
Identifying Chemical-Disease Relationship in Biomedical Text Using a Multiple Kernel Learning-Boosting Method
Authors: Sun Yueping  , Zhang Yu  , Li Jiao
Published: February 2025

Chemical-induced disease relations (CID) are crucial in various biomedical tasks. In the CID task of Biocreative V, no classifiers with multiple kernels have been developed. In this study, a multiple kernel learning–boosting (MKLB) method is proposed. Different kernel functions according to different types of features were constucted and boosted, each of which were learned with multiple kernels. Our multiple kernel learning–boosting (MKLB) method achieved a F1 score of 0.5068 without incorporating knowledge bases.
An Experimental Comparison of a Co-Design Visualizing Personal Drug Information and Patient Information Leaflets: Usability Aspects
Authors: Khodambashi Soudabeh  , Haugland Dagrun  , Ellingsberg Anette  , Kottum Hanne  , Sund Janne Kutschera  , Nytrø Øystein
Published: February 2025

Providing patients with specific information about their own drugs can reduce unintentional misuse and improve compliance. Searching for information is time-consuming when information is not personalized and is written using medical vocabulary that is difficult for patients to understand. In this study we explored patient information needs regarding visualizing of drug information and interrelationships by conducting a total of four co-design workshops with patients, other users and pharmacists. We developed a prototype and drug ontology to support reasoning about drug interactions. We evaluated individual performance in finding information, understanding the drug interactions, and learning from the provided information in the prototype compared to using patient information leaflets (PILs). We concluded that interactive visualization of drug information helps individuals find information about drugs, their side effects and interactions more quickly and correctly compared to using PILs. Our study is limited to co-morbid patients with transient ischaemic attack with several chronic diseases.
A Review of Decision Support Systems for Smart Homes in the Health Care System
Authors: Baumgärtel Diana  , Mielke Corinna  , Haux Reinhold
Published: February 2025

The use of decision support systems for smart homes can provide attractive solutions for challenges that have arisen in the Health Care System due to ageing of society. In order to provide an overview of current research projects in this field, a systematic literature review was performed according to the PRISMA approach. The aims of this work are to provide an overview of current research projects and to update a similar study from 2012. The literature search engines IEEE Xplore and PubMed were used. 23 papers were included. Most of the systems presented are developed for monitoring the patient regardless of their illness. For decision support, mainly rule-based approaches are used.
Committee No I.1: Environment
Authors: Fu Thomas  , Babanin Alexander  , Bentamy Abderrahim  , Campos Ricardo  , Dong Sheng  , Gramstad Odin  , Kapsenberg Geert  , Mao Wengang  , Miyake Ryuji  , Murphy Alan John  , Prasetyo Fredhi  , Qiu Wei  , Sagrillo Luis
Published: February 2025

Concern for descriptions of the ocean environment, especially with respect to wave, current and wind, in deep and shallow waters, and ice, as a basis for the determination of environmental loads for structural design. Attention shall be given to statistical description of these and other related phenomena relevant to the safe design and operation of ships and offshore structures. The committee is encouraged to cooperate with the corresponding ITTC committee.
Committee II-1: Quasi-Static Response
Authors: Ringsberg J.W.  , Andrić J.  , Heggelund S.E.  , Homma N.  , Huang Y.T.  , Jang B.S.  , Jelovica J.  , Kawamura Y.  , Lara P.  , Sidari M.  , Underwood J.M.  , Wang J.  , Yang D.
Published: February 2025

Concern for the quasi-static response of ships and offshore structures, as required for safety and serviceability assessments. Attention shall be given to uncertainty of calculation models for use in reliability methods, and to consider both exact and approximate methods for the determination of stresses appropriate for different acceptance criteria.
Committee II.2: Dynamic Response
Authors: Ergin A.  , Alley E.  , Brandt A.  , Drummen I.  , Hermundstad O.  , Huh Y.C.  , Ivaldi A.  , Liu J.H.  , Malenica S.  , el Moctar O.  , Shyu R.J.  , Storhaug G.  , Vladimir N.  , Yamada Y.  , Zhan D.  , Zhang G.
Published: February 2025

Concern for the dynamic structural response of ships and offshore structures as required for safety and serviceability assessments, including habitability. This should include steady state, transient and random response. Attention shall be given to dynamic responses resulting from environmental, machinery and propeller excitation. Uncertainties associated with modelling should be highlighted.
Committee III.2: Fatigue and Fracture
Authors: Garbatov Y.  , Ås S.K.  , Branner K.  , Choi B.K.  , Den Besten J.H.  , Dong P.  , Lillemäe I.  , Lindstrom P.  , Lourenço de Souza M.  , Parmentier G.  , Quéméner Y.  , Rizzo C.M.  , Rörup J.  , Vhanmane S.  , Villavicencio R.  , Wang F.  , Yue J.
Published: February 2025

Concern for crack initiation and growth under cyclic loading as well as unstable crack propagation and tearing in the ship and offshore structures. Due attention shall be paid to the suitability and uncertainty of physical models and testing. Consideration is to be given to practical application, statistical description and fracture control methods in design, fabrication and service.
Committee IV.1: Design Principles and Criteria
Authors: Collette Matthew  , Zhan Zhihu  , Zhu Ling  , Zanic Vedran  , Okada Tetsuo  , Arima Toshiro  , Skjong Rolf  , Jeong Han Koo  , Egorov Gennadiy
Published: February 2025

Concern for the quantification of general sustainability criteria in economic, societal and environmental terms for marine structures and for the development of appropriate principles for rational life-cycle design using these criteria. Special attention should be given to the issue of Goal-Based Standards as concerns their objectives and requirements and plans for implementation. Possible differences with the safety requirements in existing standards developed for the offshore, maritime and other relevant industries and of the current regulatory framework for ship structures shall be considered. Role of reliability-based design codes and requirements as well as their calibration to established safety levels
Committee IV.2: Design Methods
Authors: Lazakis I.  , Bronsart R.  , Caprace J.-D.  , Chen Y.  , Georgiev P.  , Ilnitskiy I.  , Moro L.  , Prebeg P.  , Mendonça Santos J.  , Sekulski Z.  , Sicchiero M.  , Sielski R.  , Tang W.  , Toyoda M.  , Varela J.
Published: February 2025

Concern for the synthesis of the overall design process for marine structures, and its integration with production, maintenance and repair. Particular attention shall be given to the roles and requirements of computer-based design and production, and to the utilization of information technology.
Committee V.1: Accidental Limit States
Authors: Rizzuto E.  , Brubak L.  , Hu Z.  , Kim G.S.  , Kõrgesaar M.  , Nahshon K.  , Nilva A.  , Schipperen I.  , Stadie-Frohboes G.  , Suzuki K.  , Tabri K.  , Wægter J.
Published: February 2025

Concern for accidental scenarios for ships and offshore structures and for their structural components leading to limit states. Types of accidental scenarios shall include collision, grounding, dropped objects, explosion, and fire. Attention shall be given to hazard identification, accidental loads and nonlinear structural consequences including strength reduction, affecting the probability of failure and related risks. Uncertainties in the use of accidental scenarios for design and analysis shall be highlighted. Consideration shall be given to the practical application of methods and to the development of ISSC guidance for quantitative assessment and management of accidental risks.
Committee V.3: Materials and Fabrication Technology
Authors: Josefson Lennart  , van Duin Stephen  , de Carvalho Pinheiro Bianca  , Yang Nana  , Yu Luo  , Zamarin Albert  , Remes Heikki  , Roland Frank  , Gaiotti Marco  , Osawa Naoki  , Horn Agnes Marie  , Kim Myung Hyun  , Mishra Brajendra
Published: February 2025

The committee shall give an overview about new developments in the field of ship and offshore materials and fabrication techniques with a focus on trends which are highly relevant for practical applications in the industry in the recent and coming years. Particular emphasis shall be given to the impact of welding and corrosion protection techniques for structural performance, and on the development of lighter structures.
Committee V.4: Offshore Renewable Energy
Authors: Gao Zhen  , Bingham Harry B.  , Ingram David  , Kolios Athanasios  , Karmakar Debabrata  , Utsunomiya Tomoaki  , Catipovic Ivan  , Colicchio Giuseppina  , Rodrigues José Miguel  , Adam Frank  , Karr Dale G.  , Fang Chuang  , Shin Hyun-Kyoung  , Slätte Johan  , Ji Chunyan  , Sheng Wanan  , Liu Pengfei  , Stoev Lyudmil
Published: February 2025

Concern for load analysis and structural design of offshore renewable energy devices. Attention shall be given to the interaction between the load and structural response of fixed and floating installations taking due consideration of the stochastic nature of the ocean environment. Aspects related to prototype testing, certification, marine operations and total cost of energy shall be considered.
Committee V.5: Special Craft
Authors: Truelock D.  , Czaban Z.  , Luo H.  , Wang X.  , Holtmann M.  , Begovic E.  , Yasuda A.  , Ventura M.  , Nicholls-Lee R.  , Oterkus E.  , Sensharma P.
Published: February 2025

Concern for structural challenges of non-conventional, special surface craft, including uncertainties in established design methods and modelling techniques. Particular attention shall be given to mega yachts, naval craft, offshore service vessels and work boats, which can be characterized by particular materials and structural configurations (wide openings, large unsupported structures, unconventionally shaped superstructures, etc.) and/or are to sustain specific loading conditions (harsh environment, severe cyclic loads or extreme operational ones).
Committee V.8: Report for Subsea Technology
Authors: Duan Menglan  , Chai Shuhong  , Pasqualino Ilson Paranhos  , Sun Liping  , Myllerup Claus  , Mavrakos Spyros  , Samanta Asokendu  , Kavanagh Kieran  , Ozaki Masahiko  , Sævik Svein  , Teixeira Angelo  , Low Ying Min  , Seo Jung Kwan  , Schreier Sebastian  , Swart Pieter  , Song Hao
Published: February 2025

Concern for the safety and reliability of subsea production systems for oil and gas offshore. This shall include subsea equipment for production and processing, flowlines and risers, with emphasis to design, fabrication, qualification, installation, inspection, maintenance, repair and decommissioning. Structural design for flow assurance and safe underwater operations shall be considered.
Committee V.2: Experimental Methods
Authors: Dessi D.  , Brennan F.  , Hoogeland M.  , Li XB.  , Michailides C.  , Pearson D.  , Romanoff J.  , Shi XH.  , Sugimura T.  , Wang G.
Published: February 2025

Concern for advances in structural model testing and full-scale experimentation and in-service monitoring and their role in the design, construction, inspection and maintenance of ship and offshore structures. This shall include new developments in:
U-SWATH. The Innovative CNR Research USV
Authors: Bruzzone Gabriele  , Odetti Angelo  , Bibuli Marco  , Caccia Massimo  , Calcagni Danilo  , Santic Ivan  , Lugni Claudio  , Campana Emilio Fortunato
Published: February 2025

This paper describes U-SWATH an innovative Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), based on a Small Waterplane Area Twin Hulls (SWATH) design, developed by CNR INSEAN and ISSIA for institutional research purposes. The vehicles is composed of a wide flat deck covered with solar panels which connects two torpedo hulls. The hulls are composed of modular and interchangeable sections that can be outfitted with different payloads, equipments, propulsive or manoeuvring elements. The propulsion system is based on ad hoc electrical azimuthal thrusters. The solar panels covering the wide U-SWATH bridge are used for recharging the batteries supplying power to the vehicle. U-SWATH is multitasking and the goal of the designers was to develop a cutting-edge autonomous multi-purpose platform for carrying out research in the marine and the maritime fields.
A Simulation Model for Hybrid-Electric Inland Waterway Passenger Vessels
Authors: Mauro Francesco  , Nasso Carlo  , La Monaca Ubaldo  , Bucci Vittorio
Published: February 2025

The increasing focus on air pollution reduction for transportation systems requires to adopt new technologies and innovative solutions to limit vehicles emissions. In case of inland waterway transportation (IWT), once vessels have to operate close to urban areas or in natural reserves, the necessity to provide a 'green navigation' is of primary importance. With this specific aim, especially for small crafts, the adoption of an hybrid-electric power system grant a significant pollution reduction, leading also to a possible Zero Emission Mode (ZEM) navigation. However, the particular configuration of inland waterways makes the estimation of vessels' hydrodynamic performances harder compared to a seagoing ship, because of restricted waters effects, affecting both resistance and manoeuvring characteristics. For this purpose, time domain simulation program has been developed to estimate the effective power demand of an inland vessel during a specific route. The program has been tested on the specific case of a passenger vessel designed for the Grado lagoon, where all the reference route bathymetric data were available. By means of the simulations it has been possible to state whether the vessel is suitable to operate in ZEM mode during the service.
Preliminary Assessment of Route Optimisation for Fuel Minimisation and Safety of Navigation by the Use of Cooperatively Collected Data at Sea
Authors: Orlandi Andrea  , Benedetti Riccardo  , Capecchi Valerio  , Ortolani Alberto  , Costalli Luigi
Published: February 2025

The growing pressure of the international regulations on GHG emissions from ships is pushing towards the adoption of a variety of operational energy efficiency measures. The fusion of measurement techniques, smart telecommunication technologies and numerical modelling approaches has a great potential for the implementation of services for the shipping industry. Among these, there are weather routing systems for improving both energy efficiency and navigational safety. PROFUMO Demonstrator is an ESA ARTES Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) Programme project. Its main goal is to implement a pre-operational system for fleet management and weather routing services, based on the cooperative collection of meteo-marine data from ships, to improve weather forecasts. Atmospheric information from GNSS signals (namely Galileo and GPS) are also utilised to improve numerical weather predictions and enable detailed route optimisation services at the Mediterranean scale. The architecture of the system and some first implementation results will be described, in particular on the integration of meteo-marine forecasting with ship modelling and route optimisation, with some sensitivity analyses for the optimisation process, under different approaches on modelling wind and waves added resistances for computing the ship powering performance. In perspective we imagine the use of in-service measured data to dynamically improve the ship modelling components of the system.
Recent Advances on Propeller Shaftlines for the Marine Industry
Authors: Boletis Elias  , Keller Matthias
Published: February 2025

A vital component on the CP propeller shaft line is the gear box. The gear box is nowadays developed as a high- technology product being integral part of the shaft line system allowing: a) optimal rotational speeds for the propeller and the engine; b) configurational arrangements (e.g. twin- in, single- out layouts); c) propeller two- speed operation; d) integration of propeller hydraulic systems and d) integration of machinery room power systems (power take- in/ power take- off). The added functionalities require advanced product development tools and robust manufacturing technologies. On product development, the design party needs to possess significant product knowledge through applications in lengthy periods of time. The design party must also have significant knowledge of all relevant machinery room equipment – from the propeller to the power supply unit - allowing the best integrated solution. The manufacturing party needs to have adequate tools and experienced personnel on gear technologies. In our recent working arrangement, Wartsila selected Flender GmbH for contract manufacturing, which is now responsible for the manufacturing and assembly of the product. The paper presents the technical advances for a number of marine market applications showing the added value of the gearbox technologies to the customer.
Naval Automation Cyber Defence Guidelines
Authors: Cardellicchio Davide
Published: February 2025

It's been 15 years since “cyber risk” was identified as the new millennium threat, potentially affecting organizations, industries, governments and society. Despite choral worries, the naval context has seemed to remain unaffected for years, as long as ships could have been considered “isolated systems” floating offshore. But, as new technologiesIntegrated automation, Internet of Things (IoT), Satellite communications (SATCOMS) and various PC-based management systems.
Informatics Essentials for DNPs
Authors: Jenkins Melinda L.
Published: February 2025

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs are proliferating around the US as advanced practice nursing programs evolve to build capacity by adding content on professional leadership, policy, and quality improvement to the traditional clinical content. One of the eight “Essentials” for DNP education is “Information systems/technology and patient care technology for the improvement and transformation of health care.”[1] A required graduate course was revised and updated in 2017 to provide a foundation in clinical informatics for DNPs, as well as for nursing informatics specialists. Components of the online course, assignments, and free online resources linked to the DNP Essentials are described in this paper.
Building Capacity in Student and Emerging Nursing Informatics Professionals Through Participation in an International Community of Practice
Authors: Block Lorraine  , Peltonen Laura-Maria  , Ronquillo Charlene  , Lewis Adrienne  , Nibber Raji  , Pruinelli Lisiane  , Topaz Maxim
Published: February 2025

In nursing, a community of practice have been recognized as an important construct to build capacity and support knowledge dissemination activities. The purpose of this poster is to use a community of practice framework to describe the collaborative work of an international nursing informatics, graduate student and emerging professional group.
Integral Homeostasis Index in a Decision Support System for the Assessment and Prediction of the Clinical Condition of Children with Severe Mechanical Trauma
Authors: Arseniev Sergei B.  , Amcheslavsky Valeri G.  , Lukianov Valeri I.  , Rappelsberger Andrea  , Adlassnig Klaus-Peter
Published: February 2025

Objective: Daily assessment of the acid-base balance (ABB) in blood is one of the important elements of multi-parameter patient monitoring at intensive care units (ICUs). The present work aims to determine the effectiveness and validity of the integral homeostasis index IHx calculated from ABB blood test data for the assessment and prognosis of children with critical traumatic conditions.
Co-Constructing Universal Design in Citizen Science Workshops
Authors: Hedvall Per-Olof  , Rydeman Bitte  , Granholm Sarah  , Andersson Malin
Published: February 2025

This paper reports on a series of workshops that took place at two Swedish museums during 2017. The workshops were inspired by a citizen science approach, where the participants were not only on the receiving end but also active in producing new knowledge. The importance of turning to peoples' lived perspectives are often brought forward as crucial to understanding how inclusion and exclusion are played out in real life. The study aimed to introduce and discuss Universal Design (UD) of museum exhibitions, by engaging visitors and staff in bringing forward content for joint discussions. As there is an ongoing shift from traditional work on accessibility towards UD taking place in Sweden right now, the study was also part of raising the awareness of UD within the disability movement and at the museums. Museum visitors representing different disability organizations worked together with museum staff in photo exercises, supervised by two researchers. In total, 31 participants took part in six three-hour workshops. The workshop format encompassed three steps. First, one of the researchers introduced UD, after which the participants were divided into mixed groups with both visitors and staff. Their task was to take photos of museum features that were in line with, or in conflict with, UD. At the end of the workshop, all groups gathered to discuss what they had found. In this paper, we tell about the examples the participants brought forward and the ensuing joint discussions, and discuss the further implications for UD.
Analysis of Anesthesia Screens for Rule-Based Data Quality Assessment Opportunities
Authors: Wang Zhan  , Penning Melody  , Zozus Meredith
Published: February 2025

A rules-based data quality assessment system in electronic health record was explored through compilation of over six thousand data quality rules and twenty-two rule templates. To overcome the lack of knowledge sources and identify additional rules or rule templates, thirty-three anesthesia (perioperative period) EHR screens were reviewed. We analyzed the data elements appearing on anesthesia screens and relationships between them to identify new data quality rules and rule templates relevant to anesthesia care. We present the review process as well as new rules and rule templates identified. We found decomposition and analysis of EHR screens a viable mechanism for acquisition of new data quality rules and proved the number of rules likely tractable and their management scalable.
Surgeon and Assistant Point of View Simultaneous Video Recording
Authors: Wentzell Danielle  , Dort Joseph  , Gooi Adrian  , Gooi Patrick  , Warrian Kevin
Published: February 2025

Video recording has become a very common practice in surgery and is one of the paramount methods to teach proper surgical techniques. Traditionally it has been limited by a variety of factors including cost, the need for constant camera reposition, and the use of external photographers, which is both costly and labor-intensive. We describe the use of dual modified point of view (POV) GoPro head mounted cameras to record synchronized POV surgery for the purpose of training surgical assistants. POV cameras are inexpensive, easy to use and manipulate. The GoPro camera was mounted using a head strap on both the surgeon's and surgical assistant's head, providing different optimal views. We used the GoPro Hero4 Silver for the surgeon and the GoPro Hero3+ Black Edition for the assistant. The lens used was optimized for our purposes. With the modified camera for the primary surgeon, the magnification was satisfactory in recording of fine details, and provided a usable depth of field and field of view. We found that using two synchronized POV GoPro head mounted cameras was an innovative way to record otolaryngology surgery and provided excellent video footage which can be used for the education of both surgeons and surgical assistants.
Analysis of Institutional Quality Impact on Foreign Direct Investment: A Case Study of Countries in America, Asia, and Europe
Authors:   Ahmad Dahlan University, Yogyakarta, Indonesa, Suripto Suripto , Khoirudin Rifki ,   Ahmad Dahlan University, Yogyakarta, Indonesa, Salim Agus ,   Ahmad Dahlan University, Yogyakarta, Indonesa, Prihandika Galih Dwi ,   Ahmad Dahlan University, Yogyakarta, Indonesa, Riza Irfan Noor ,   Head of Representative Office of PT Bursa Efek Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Athfal Azkal Azkiya ,   Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Published: February 2025

Countries worldwide are making development efforts to improve the welfare of their people. Significant investment is needed to accelerate economic growth. This study examines the impact of institutional, macroeconomic, and social quality on foreign direct investment (FDI). The method used is the two-step Generalized Method of Moments (GMM). The study's subjects include 94 countries worldwide located in America (26 countries), Asia (33 countries), and Europe (35 countries) over the period 2002 – 2021. The secondary data collection used in this study is sourced from the World Development Indicators (WDI) and World Governance Indicators (WGI). The results of the study show that, simultaneously, all independent variables affect FDI in all models. Meanwhile, the results indicate that institutional quality is more effective in Europe than in America and Asia. Additionally, FDI in the previous period significantly impacts FDI in all models. This study also concludes that inflation and labor force have consistent significance in almost all models, indicating that these variables play an important role in FDI
Determination of Taxpayer Compliance with Risk Preferences as a Moderation Variable
Authors:   Mahasaraswati Denpasar University, Putri Ni Putu Tiara Maharani Krisna , Suryandari Ni Nyoman Ayu ,   Mahasaraswati Denpasar University, Ernawatiningsih Ni Putu Lisa ,   Mahasaraswati Denpasar University
Published: February 2025

Indonesia's national development can be advanced by optimizing domestic sources of funds, particularly through effective taxation. This research aims to analyze the influencing factors of taxpayers on taxpayer compliance, with moderating variables at the Tax Service Office (KPP) Pratama Denpasar Barat. The method of this research is Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA). The research results show that understanding tax regulations and the role of tax consultants has a positive effect on taxpayer compliance, while taxpayer awareness and tax sanctions have a negative effect on taxpayer compliance. Furthermore, risk preference as a moderating variable is able to weaken the influence of understanding tax regulations, taxpayer awareness, tax sanctions, and the role of tax consultants on taxpayer compliance. The conclusion of this research shows that factors from taxpayers have an important role in increasing taxpayer compliance, especially at the KPP Pratama Denpasar Barat. The advice that can be given from this research is for practitioners to carry out regular outreach both offline and online regarding the importance of taxes and show transparency in the use of taxes so that mutual trust and awareness arise between the government and society