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Evaluation of the impact of the ARC program on national nursing and midwifery regulations, leadership, and organizational capacity in East, Central, and Southern Africa

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background The African Health Professions Regulatory Collaborative (ARC) was launched in 2011 to support countries in East, Central, and Southern Africa to safely and sustainably expand HIV service delivery by nurses and midwives.
Jessica M. Gross   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Corneal power modelling with OCT data – Thin and thick lens paraxial models versus raytracing

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Evaluating keratometric power with Zeiss index (PKZ), paraxial thick cornea power (Gullstrand [PG]) and power referenced to the front (PFV) and back vertex plane (PBV) and raytracing power (PR), and modelling the deviation from PKZ with a multivariable linear prediction model.
Achim Langenbucher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strictly Archimedean copulas with complete association for multivariate dependence based on the Clayton family

open access: yesDependence Modeling, 2018
The family of Clayton copulas is one of the most widely used Archimedean copulas for dependency measurement. A major drawback of this copula is that when it accounts for negative dependence, the copula is nonstrict and its support is dependent on the ...
Cooray Kahadawala
doaj   +1 more source

Laypeople's Views on the Narrative Identity and Societal Treatment of Genetically Modified People

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Genome editing in human embryos could raise new ethical issues by changing future people's narrative and numerical identity. Most philosophers agree that some genetic modifications would have larger effects on identity than others, but they disagree on what criteria might explain these differences and have not supported their claims ...
Derek So, Yann Joly, Robert Sladek
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Multivariate Copula Models and Fuzzy Interest Rates in Assessing Family Annuity Products

open access: yesJTAM (Jurnal Teori dan Aplikasi Matematika)
This research explores the development of a reversionary annuity product transformed into a family annuity covering three individuals: husband, wife, and children.
Kurnia Novita Sari   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pre‐service teachers' explicit and implicit stereotypes towards pupils with different special educational needs

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Successful inclusion in education depends heavily on the attitudes of teachers, and stereotypes play a significant role in shaping these attitudes. However, social desirability bias may limit direct measures of stereotypes. Combining direct and indirect measures offers better insights.
Charlotte S. Schell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors related to nurse compliance in monitoring infusion fluid in hospital

open access: yesHealthcare in Low-resource Settings
Infusion therapy involves the intravenous administration of drugs, fluids, and blood products to hospitalized clients. This study aimed to identify factors influencing nurse compliance in monitoring infusion fluids according to Standard Operating ...
Aulia Asman   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

A novel index to measure pre‐planning in the Tower of London task: Test–retest reliability and known‐group validity

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Tower of London (TOL) is a planning task frequently used in clinical settings and research. Planning and execution times are the most common outcome variables despite yielding lower effect sizes in clinical group comparisons and lower test–retest reliability than planning accuracy. Here, it is proposed that planning time be analysed not in
Lena V. Schumacher   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Affinity Measures for Artificial Immune System Movie Recommenders

open access: yes, 2008
We combine Artificial Immune Systems 'AIS', technology with Collaborative Filtering 'CF' and use it to build a movie recommendation system. We already know that Artificial Immune Systems work well as movie recommenders from previous work by Cayzer and ...
Aickelin, Uwe, Chen, Qi
core   +1 more source

Effects of parachute science on local research capacity 降落伞科学对当地研究能力的影响

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Strengthening research capacity is essential to address the global biodiversity crisis. Yet, parachute science often undermines this goal, and its prevalence, costs, and benefits are unclear. We analyzed 13,502 publications on primate research that we extracted from Scopus (1960–2022) to evaluate the effects of parachute science on local ...
Li Yang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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