School librarianship is part of the library profession, spread between librarianship and pedagogical process at school, which is closely intertwined in cooperation with pedagogical staff and school management. The status of a school librarian between the teaching staff and the school leadership defines the acquired competences: professional competencies, skills, abilities and personal qualities. The purpose of the master`s thesis is to examine the importance of the acquired competences of school librarians for cooperation with the teaching stuff in the management and reflect the status of school librarians in their involvement in the daily functioning of the pedagogical process at school. The first part presents the role of school librarians, ways of connecting and cooperating with pedagogical workers, and foreign research on the topic of the status of school librarians and the presentation of similar Slovenian research, as research on the topic of the status of school librarians has not been available until now. The second part is the results and interpretation of the research. We conducted a survey of 55 teachers from twelve different schools in Slovenia and 6 directors. With a semi structured interview, we included 5 school librarians in research. The results tell us that the status of a school librarian is quite high in the eyes of the teaching staff and the leadership of the school. Schools can achieve even better results with good interaction.
Since healthcare expenditures are expected to rise in the future due to aging and the development of new medical technologies, it is necessary to spend the healthcare budget wisely. Cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) can feed into making choices in allocating limited health care resources. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) accounts for 9.2% of the total health care expenditure in the Netherlands. In this area many non-pharmaceutical technologies (e.g. stents, prostheses or diagnostic tests) are used to diagnose and treat patients with CVD. In the previous years, many new or improved non-pharmaceutical technologies came to the market and therefore it is important to estimate if these interventions are cost-effective compared to existing interventions. However, it is often challenging to accurately estimate the cost-effectiveness of these interventions due to a number of reasons.
In this thesis, the aim was to assess the cost-effectiveness of various technologies in CVD and to identify and deal with challenges in the cost-effectiveness analysis methods. Several case studies were performed to identify the challenges and a review was performed to provide an overview of the challenges that arise in modelling the cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular interventions. The case studies focussed on the cost-effectiveness of diagnostic tests for primary and secondary prevention of CVD and coronary artery disease (CAD) and treatment strategies for CAD and aortic aneurysms. In addition, analyses of treatment variation and health related quality of life of patients diagnosed with CAD are performed.
William James’s reputation in the field of emotion research is based on his early psychological writings where he defines emotions as ‘feelings of bodily changes’. In his later work, particularly in his study of mystic emotion (1902), James comes up with what looks like a completely different approach. Here his focus is on positive feelings of inspiration and joy, but also on downbeat moods like melancholy and depression. He examines how these feeling states give meaning to an individual’s life. Theorists often speculate about a gap between James’s early writings and his later work, and assume that the later James turned from an evolutionary-minded natural scientist into a metaphysical philosopher. In my paper, I follow Ratcliffe (2008) in his view that a sharply drawn line between the early and the late work is implausible and that James’s later study of mysticism fits nicely with his early psychology. Drawing on James (1902), I show how in his later work, James develops a theory of embodied emotions that anticipates the role ascribed by twentieth century phenomenology to anxiety and other ‘bad moods’, as possibilities for philosophical reflection and self-understanding.
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Bottom-up vs. top-down : trade-offs in efficiency, understanding, freedom and creativity with InfoVis tools
The emergence of tools that support fast-and-easy visualization creation by non-experts has made the benefits of InfoVis widely accessible. Key features of these tools include attribute-level operations, automated mappings, and visualization templates. However, these features shield people from lower-level visualization design steps, such as the specific mapping of data points to visuals. In contrast, recent research promotes constructive visualization where individual data units and visuals are directly manipulated. We present a qualitative study comparing people's visualization processes using two visualization tools: one promoting a top-down approach to visualization construction (Tableau Desktop) and one implementing a bottom-up constructive visualization approach (iVoLVER). Our results show how the two approaches influence: 1) the visualization process, 2) decisions on the visualization design, 3) the feeling of control and authorship, and 4) the willingness to explore alternative designs. We discuss the complex trade-offs between the two approaches and outline considerations for designing better visualization tools.
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We present the design and implementation of iVoLVER, a tool that allows users to create visualizations without textual programming. iVoLVER is designed to enable flexible acquisition of many types of data (text, colors, ...
Trigger-Action Programming (TAP) has been shown to support end-users' rule-based mental models of context-aware applications. However, when desired behaviours increase in complexity, this can lead to ambiguity that confuses ...
Bobbi Jo Yarborough is passionate about improving health care for people with serious mental illnesses and substance use disorders. She wants providers and the public to know that patients can recover, and that recovery looks different for each person.
Bobbi Jo Yarborough, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and health services researcher working to improve care and outcomes among individuals with serious mental illnesses and/or substance use disorders. Across both areas, her work has focused on consumer definitions of recovery and preferences for treatment.
Dr. Yarborough’s current research on mental illness includes development of a community engagement intervention for individuals experiencing a first psychotic episode; evaluation of the implementation of the national Zero Suicide initiative across several health systems, including Kaiser Permanente Northwest; and integration of opioid-related variables into a previously-developed suicide risk prediction model in order to predict opioid-related suicide attempts and deaths. Her past work has included developing a lifestyle intervention (STRIDE) that helped adults taking antipsychotics to lose weight, improve glucose control, and reduce hospitalizations; and a study examining patterns and rates of preventive service use among patients with and without serious mental illnesses.
In addition to her mental illness work, Dr. Yarborough has a thriving program of research on substance use, with a focus on opioid use. This research includes examining the incidence and prevalence of the risks of opioid abuse, misuse, and addiction among patients treated with opioids for chronic pain; an observational study designed to measure the incidence and predictors of opioid overdose and death using patient health records, insurance claims, and death records; a study examining long-term changes in function associated with opioid dose changes; and an examination of different models of treatment for opioid use disorders in primary care settings.
Dr. Yarborough earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Oregon and her master’s in counseling and doctorate in clinical psychology from Pacific University.
Yarborough BJH, Chi FW, Green CA, Hinman A, Mertens J, Beck A, Horberg M, Weisner C, Campbell CI. Patient and system characteristics associated with performance on the HEDIS measures of alcohol and other drug treatment initiation and engagement. J Addict Med. 2018 Mar 19. doi: 10.1097/ADM.0000000000000399. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 29557802 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
As the opioid epidemic deepens, the public looks to researchers to help explain and confront the crisis.
People with serious mental illnesses already at higher risk for obesity; medications that control their symptoms often lead to additional weight gain