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Is supervision necessary? Examining the effects of internet based CBT training with and without supervision.
Venue: Journal of consulting and clinical psychology

To investigate the effect of Internet based training (IBT) with and without supervision, on therapists' (N 61) cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills in routine clinical practice.  Participants were randomized into 3 conditions: (1) Internet based training with use of a consultation worksheet (IBT CW) (2) Internet based training with CBT supervision via Skype (IBT S) and (3) "delayed training" controls (DTs) who did not receive the training until all data collection was completed. The IBT participants received access to training over a period of 3 months. CBT skills were evaluated at pre mid and posttraining/wait using assessor competence ratings of recorded therapy sessions.  Hierarchical linear analysis revealed that the IBT S participants had significantly greater CBT competence at posttraining than did IBT CW and DT participants at both the mid and posttraining/wait assessment points. There were no significant differences between IBT CW and the delayed (no) training DTs.  IBT programs that include supervision may be a scalable and effective method of disseminating CBT into routine clinical practice, particularly for populations without ready access to more traditional "live" methods of training. There was no evidence for a significant effect of IBT without supervision over a nontraining control, suggesting that merely providing access to IBT programs may not be an effective method of disseminating CBT to routine clinical practice.
Patient Related Determinants of the Administration of Continuous Palliative Sedation in Hospices and Palliative Care Units: A Prospective, Multicenter, Observational Study.
Venue: Journal of pain and symptom management

Knowledge of determinants that are associated with the administration of continuous palliative sedation (CPS) helps physicians identify patients who are at risk of developing refractory symptoms, thereby enabling proactive care planning.  This study aims to explore which patient related factors at admission are associated with receiving CPS later in the terminal phase of life.  A prospective multicenter observational study was performed in six Dutch hospices and three nursing home based palliative care units. The association between patient related variables at admission (age, gender, diagnosis, use of opioids or psycholeptics, number of medications, Karnofsky Performance Status scale score, Edmonton Symptom Assessment System distress score, and Glasgow Coma Scale score) and the administration of CPS at the end of life was analyzed.  A total of 467 patients died during the study period, of whom 130 received CPS. In univariate analysis, statistically significant differences were noted between the sedated and nonsedated patients with respect to younger age (P 0.009) malignancy as a diagnosis (P 0.05) higher Karnofsky Performance Status score (P 0.03) the use of opioids (P 0.001) the use of psycholeptics (P 0.003) and higher Edmonton Symptom Assessment System distress score (P 0.05) Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that only the use of opioids at admission (odds ratio 1.90; 95% confidence interval 1.18 3.05) was significantly associated with the administration of CPS.  Physicians should be aware that patients who use opioids at admission have an increased risk for the administration of CPS at the end of life. In this group of patients, a comprehensive personalized care plan starting at admission is mandatory to try to prevent the development of refractory symptoms. Further research is recommended, to identify other determinants of the administration of CPS and to investigate which early interventions will be effective to prevent the need for CPS in patients at high risk.
Opening Up the Future of Open Source: From Open Innovation to the Internet of Things for the Built Environment

The architecture, engineering and construction industry is increasingly operating within the merging of physical and digital that defines our era of connectivity. Meanwhile, new semi open source platforms such as WikiHouse and Resilient Modular Systems, together with the prospect of traditional supply chains being replaced by localised digital manufacturing, are challenging notions of design ownership. Guest Editor Wendy W Fok considers what questions designers should be asking themselves in this climate
Enhancement of DV Hop by weighted hop distance
Venue: 2016 IEEE Advanced Information Management, Communicates, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (IMCEC)

Positioning scheme is one of the fundamental issue in wireless sensor network (WSN) especially for the situation needing the accurate position of sensed information. Many approaches have been performed to identify the inaccurate node localization. DV Hop (Distance Vector hop) is a well known localization algorithm  In wireless sensor network with conventional algorithm for DV Hop localization, ordinary nodes use average hop distance value estimated by the nearest beacon node to locate themselves. However, hop distance value estimated by only one beacon node may not reflect the true situation accurately. For the purpose of further improving the position accuracy, in view of the analysis of DV HOP algorithm, this paper presents a strengthen method of weighted distance: ordinary nodes reference estimated average hop distance node and operate on weighted numbers of hop from multiple beacon nodes to make network average hop distance estimate more accurate and improve positioning accuracy. Results from simulation show that the proposed WDV Hop algorithm has been greatly improved by 10% 15% in terms of the accuracy of positioning compared to the conventional DV Hop.
Memories Of The Former Students Of Colegio De Aplicacao Da Bahia: Contributions To History Of Mathematics Education

This work falls under historiographical perspectives that seek to include, in their productions, history, memory, and identity of groups that have been less valued, by assigning them a status equal to sources, perspectives and characters that have traditionally been treated as centrals. The constitution of oral sources provides to emerge opportunities identified by formed students, offering contributions to those who traditionally served as a source for researches in History of Mathematics Education. It is a contribution which adds additional interpretations to what has already been studied and enriches historical analysis about the process of modernization in mathematics teaching at Colegio de Aplicacao da Universidade da Bahia. Two elements could be considered from the testimony of former students: considering that modernization was not a phenomenon accustomed only to mathematics, but to the various disciplines and practices of the Colegio and the identification of teacher Maria Augusta de Araujo Moreno as a highlighted reference of mathematics modernization at the Colegio.
Development of Accumulated Pain/Stressor Scale (APSS) in NICUs: A National Survey.
Venue: Pain management nursing official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses

High risk neonates experience numerous painful/stressful procedures daily in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) Accumulated pain and stress have a detrimental impact on infants' neurodevelopment. Few valid tools are available to measure accumulated pain/stressors among NICU infants. The aim of this study was to obtain nurses' perceptions about severity and acuity levels regarding each painful/stressful procedure that infants may experience in the NICU. The data will support developing a new instrument, the Accumulated Pain/Stressor Scale (APSS) in NICUs. A nationwide online survey was conducted through the U.S. National Association of Neonatal Nurses membership. Respondents were asked to rate the perceived severity of pain/stress associated with 68 procedures using a 5 point Likert scale and to categorize pain/stress as acute or chronic. Modal values were used to determine summary rankings among the procedures. Eighty four neonatal nurses completed the survey. Among 68 procedures, nearly all were rated as painful/stressful to some degree. Five procedures (7% had a modal value of five (extremely painful/stressful) nine (14% had a value of four, 20 (29% had a value of three, 30 (44% a value of two, and four (6% had a value of one (not painful/stressful) Forty four procedures (65% were perceived as acute, six (9% as chronic, and 18 (26% as both acute and chronic. Nurses' perceptions of pain severity and acuity regarding procedures in NICUs varied somewhat. Further studies are needed in developing and validating the scale. The development of the APSS can quantitatively measure the accumulated neonatal pain/stress.
Educational interventions to improve people's understanding of key concepts in assessing the effects of health interventions: a systematic review protocol
Venue: Systematic Reviews

BackgroundHealth information has become readily accessible through mass media, and people are playing a more active and autonomous role in their health. Much of the health information that was previously only available to health professionals is now directly accessible to the public. Consequently, people often navigate vast amounts of health information on their own, typically with little knowledge about how to evaluate it or the need to do so.Health information remains essentially unregulated, and widespread problems and concerns with the quality of health information have been noted. In addition to the variable quality of health information, inconsistent and/or inappropriate use of related terminology (e.g. 'evidence based' and 'clinically proven' can be confusing to the public, who are ill prepared to critically examine claims.The general public are not trained in the fundamentals of health research and do not typically possess the knowledge and skills to evaluate the accuracy and completeness of information about health interventions. Without this, the public are vulnerable to acting on inaccurate or incomplete health information and making ill informed health decisions. With this review, we intend to identify and assess educational interventions which have been designed to improve people's ability to understand key concepts relevant to evaluating claims about the effects of health interventions.designThis systematic review of the literature will use a search strategy that has been developed in conjunction with a Health Sciences Librarian who has expertise in systematic review searching to identify relevant studies. Databases to be searched include the following: the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and ERIC. Attempts to identify unpublished studies and ongoing trials will also be made. Two review authors will independently screen search results and assess studies for eligibility. Studies which aim to improve participants' understanding of the key concepts relevant to evaluating the effects (or the interpretation of results) of health interventions will be included. Randomised trials, non randomised trials, controlled before and after studies, controlled studies with only post test measures, and interrupted time series studies will be eligible for inclusion. We will contact study authors to clarify any missing details/data. Due to the nature of the systematic review question and the expectation of heterogeneity in study design, interventions, and outcomes, we intend to take a narrative approach to data synthesis.
Design and Governance of Platform Ecosystems Key Concepts and Issues for Future Research
Venue: ECIS

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of current research in IS on the design and govern ance of platform ecosystems. To this end, we conduct a literature review of relevant journals and con ferences. We show that platform ecosystems have been analysed from two different perspectives: tech nology and market oriented. Thereby, most studies take on the viewpoint of the platform owner. Fur thermore, we summarize key concepts on the design and governance of platform ecosystems that have been discussed in literature. As most relevant concepts we identify the definition of roles, pricing, boundary resources and openness. Based on this analysis, we derive issues for future research: the integration of market and technology oriented perspectives, an individual level of analysis to include complementors and end users and the role of data as boundary resource in platform ecosystems. This paper contributes to the understanding of platform ecosystems in IS literature by structuring existing research with regard to different perspectives and concepts and by providing starting points for future work. In addition, it lays out which concepts practitioners need to consider when designing and gov erning platform ecosystems.
Interventions and assessment tools addressing key concepts people need to know to appraise claims about treatment effects: a systematic mapping review
Venue: Systematic Reviews

BackgroundPeople's ability to appraise claims about treatment effects is crucial for informed decision making. Our objective was to systematically map this area of research in order to (a) provide an overview of interventions targeting key concepts that people need to understand to assess treatment claims and (b) to identify assessment tools used to evaluate people's understanding of these concepts. The findings of this review provide a starting point for decisions about which key concepts to address when developing new interventions, and which assessment tools should be considered.MethodsWe conducted a systematic mapping review of interventions and assessment tools addressing key concepts important for people to be able to assess treatment claims. A systematic literature search was done by a reserach librarian in relevant databases. Judgement about inclusion of studies and data collection was done by at least two researchers. We included all quantitative study designs targeting one or more of the key concepts, and targeting patients, healthy members of the public, and health professionals. The studies were divided into four categories: risk communication and decision aids, evidence based medicine and critical appraisal, understanding of controlled trials, and science education. Findings were summarised descriptively.ResultsWe included 415 studies, of which the interventions and assessment tools we identified included only a handful of the key concepts. The most common key concepts in interventions were "Treatments usually have beneficial and harmful effects," "Treatment comparisons should be fair," "Compare like with like," and "Single studies can be misleading." A variety of assessment tools were identified, but only four assessment tools included 10 or more key concepts.ConclusionsThere is great potential for developing learning and assessment tools targeting key concepts that people need to understand to assess claims about treatment effects. There is currently no instrument covering assessment of all these key concepts.
Understanding illegality and corruption in forest governance.
Venue: Journal of environmental management

This review synthesizes the literature studying illegality and government corruption in forest management. After discussing the theoretical connections between different types of corruption and illegal forest related activities it describes the major trends in previous studies, examining cross national patterns as well as local in depth studies. Both theory and available empirical findings provide a straightforward suggestion: Bribery is indeed a "door opener" for illegal activities to take place in forest management. It then discusses the implications for conservation, focusing first on international protection schemes such as the REDD+ and second on efforts to reduce illegality and bribery in forest management. Key aspects to consider in the discussion on how to design monitoring institutions of forest regulations is how to involve actors without the incentive to engage in bribery and how to make use of new technologies that may publicize illegal behavior in distant localities. The review concludes by discussing avenues for future research.
A Mixed Methods Research Approach to Exploring Teacher Participation in an Online Social Networking Website

Social networks are becoming very prominent in educational discourse. The discourse centers on the role of social media and its utility in the teaching and learning environment. Several arguments have been made to support its use because they are highly collaborative, easily accessible, and provide opportunities to embed a variety of Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, and online chats. However, there is a dearth in research on teacher use of educational social networking sites (SNS) in Trinidad and Tobago. The purpose of this study was to explore how 35 secondary school teachers in Trinidad and Tobago participated in an educational online social networking site. This study utilized a mixed methods exploratory approach and allowed for the use of online data capture together with questionnaires and interviews. Combined data analysis revealed five different levels of site participation, with most teachers adopting the role of content consumer rather than of content producer. Barriers to participation were time, motivation, technology, and usability. The designed social networking site allowed teachers to make public their discourse on their practice while connecting with colleagues from other schools. The study was qualitative dominant, with the mixed methods research approach allowing for deeper exploration of teachers' participation on this social networking website, and was justified by the newness and transient nature of data from social networking websites.
Surface Current Measurements Using X Band Marine Radar With Vertical Polarization
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

In this paper, the retrieval of sea surface current velocity from vertically polarized (V pol) X band marine radar data is presented. Three different methods, including the iterative least square approach, the normalized scalar product method, and the polar current shell algorithm, that have been used for horizontally polarized data are employed here. A comprehensive comparison of the performance of the three methods is conducted using the radar images collected by the V pol radar deployed on the Forschungsplattformen in Nord und Ostsee No. 3 (FINO3) offshore research platform and the acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) data in the North Sea. The results indicate that all three methods are capable of providing reliable current speed and direction measurements from V pol data, with similar performance. Based on the experimental data for which the current magnitude is less than 0.5 m/s, the radar derived results agree best with the ADCP data at a depth of 6 8 m, with the root mean square difference for current velocity x and y components being 7.2 8.9 cm/s. The correlation coefficients between the radar derived and ADCP measured current velocity components are as high as 0.87 0.93.
Automatic detection of surface water bodies from Sentinel 1 SAR images using Valley Emphasis method

Surface water resource plays as an important role in human daily life and in the eco environment. In the study Valley Emphasis method of automatic water extraction was employed to identify surface water bodies at three study areas, having different landscapes and covers, using Sentinel 1A IW images widely used automated Otsu method was performed for extracting surface water bodies to compare proposed method. The results of proposal method were compared to those of widely used Otsu method and the reference data (e.g. Lansat 7, 8) gave the highest Completeness (User accuracy) Correctness (Producer accuracy) and Quality (Overall accuracies) at 98.8% 90.7 and 89.7 respectively. The employed method is straightforward, easy to implement and may be applied for other areas even at regional or global scales. The method also improves automatic identification level of surface water bodies, providing essential information for flood disaster research.  A threshold selection method from gray level histograms,  (1) pp. 62 66. Hui Fuang, Ng.  Automatic thresholding for defect detection," Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 27,  Lun, F. Bo, L. 2012: A modified valley emphasis method for automatic thresholding, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 33, Issue 6, pp. 703 708. Small, D. 2011: Flattening gamma: radiometric terrain correction for SAR imagery,  Gonzalez, C. Woods, R. 2002: Digital Image Processing, Prentice Hall. Ye, Z. Mohamadian, H. Ye, Y. 2008: Grey Level Image Processing Using Contrast Enhancement and Watershed Segmentation with Quantitative . Zhang,  A Diffusion Approach To Seeded Image Segmentation,  And Pattern Recognition (CVPR) San Francisco, USA, Jun. 13 18,  Heipke, C. Mayer, H. Wiedemann, C. Sensing, R. Jamet O. 1997:  Zhan, Q. Molenaar, M. Tempfli, K. Shi, W. 2005: Quality assessment for geo spatial objects derived from remotely sensed data.
In Situ Monitoring of Fiber Reinforced Composites: Theory, Basic Concepts, Methods, and Applications

a comprehensive and well written book, which will be useful reading for both researchers entering the field and experienced specialists looking for new ideas .a valuable and long lasting contribution to experimental mechanics. Stepan Lomov, KU Leuven This expert volume, an enhanced Habilitation thesis by the head of the Materials Testing Research Group at the University of Augsburg, provides detailed coverage of a range of inspection methods for insitu characterization of fiber reinforced composites. The failure behavior of fiber reinforced composites is a complex evolution of microscopic damage phenomena. Beyond the use of classical testing methods, the ability to monitor the progression of damage insitu offers new ways to interpret the materials failure modes.  covered include digital image correlation, acoustic emission, electromagnetic emission, computed tomography, thermography, shearography, and promising method combinations. For each method, the discussion includes operational principles and practical applications for quality control as well as thoughtful assessment of the method's strengths and weakness so that the reader is equipped to decide which method or methods are most appropriate in a given situation. The book includes extensive appendices covering common experimental parameters influencing comparability of acoustic emission measurements; materials properties for modeling; and an overview of terms and abbreviations. Presents a wide range of insitu, nondestructive evaluation methods Discusses a diverse set of modalities and provides detailed assessment of the pros and cons of each Combines modeling and experimental methods Includes practical applications for quality control
Nonlinear analysis on dynamic buckling of eccentrically stiffened functionally graded material toroidal shell segment surrounded by elastic foundations in thermal environment and under time dependent torsional loads

The nonlinear analysis with an analytical approach on dynamic torsional buckling of stiffened functionally graded thin toroidal shell segments is investigated. The shell is reinforced by inside stiffeners and surrounded by elastic foundations in a thermal environment and under a time dependent torsional load. The governing equations are derived based on the Donnell shell theory with the von Karman geometrical nonlinearity, the Stein and McElman assumption, the smeared stiffeners technique, and the Galerkin method. A deflection function with three terms is chosen. The thermal parameters of the uniform temperature rise and nonlinear temperature conduction law are found in an explicit form. A closed form expression for determining the static critical torsional load is obtained. A critical dynamic torsional load is found by the fourth order Runge Kutta method and the Budiansky Roth criterion. The effects of stiffeners, foundations, material, and dimensional parameters on dynamic responses of shells are considered.