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Performance Evaluation of Classification Algorithms to Detect Bee Swarming Events Using Sound

open access: yesSignals, 2022
This paper presents a machine-learning approach for detecting swarming events. Three different classification algorithms are tested: The k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm (k-NN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM), and a newly proposed by the authors, U-Net ...
Kiromitis I. Dimitrios   +6 more
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Empowered patients and informal care-givers as partners?—a survey study of healthcare professionals’ perceptions

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background More knowledge is needed regarding the perceptions of healthcare professionals when encountering empowered patients and informal caregivers in clinical settings.
Therese Scott Duncan   +6 more
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Silicate-Based Electro-Conductive Inks for Printing Soft Electronics and Tissue Engineering

open access: yesGels, 2021
Hydrogel-based bio-inks have been extensively used for developing three-dimensional (3D) printed biomaterials for biomedical applications. However, poor mechanical performance and the inability to conduct electricity limit their application as wearable ...
Sadaf Samimi Gharaie   +6 more
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Sense-Making, Mutual Learning and Cognitive Shifts When Applying Systems Thinking in Public Health – Examples From Sweden; Comment on “What Can Policy-Makers Get Out of Systems Thinking? Policy Partners’ Experiences of a Systems-Focused Research Collaboration in Preventive Health” [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2021
It is widely acknowledged that systems thinking (ST) should be implemented in the area of public health, but how this should be done is less clear. In this commentary we focus on sense-making and double-loop learning processes when using ST and soft ...
Monica E. Nyström   +2 more
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The work of having a chronic condition: development and psychometric evaluation of the distribution of co-care activities (DoCCA) scale

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Chronic care involves multiple activities that can be performed by individuals and healthcare staff as well as by other actors and artifacts, such as eHealth services.
Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz   +6 more
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Lifelong learning and nurses’ continuing professional development, a metasynthesis of the literature

open access: yesBMC Nursing, 2021
Background Continuing professional development (CPD) is central to nurses’ lifelong learning and constitutes a vital aspect for keeping nurses’ knowledge and skills up-to-date. While we know about the need for nurses’ continuing professional development,
Mandlenkosi Mlambo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Augmented reality in healthcare education: an integrative review [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2014
Background. The effective development of healthcare competencies poses great educational challenges. A possible approach to provide learning opportunities is the use of augmented reality (AR) where virtual learning experiences can be embedded in a real ...
Egui Zhu   +3 more
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Personal responsibility for health? A phenomenographic analysis of general practitioners’ conceptions

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2021
Objective To analyse and describe general practitioners’ perceptions of the notion of a ‘personal responsibility for health’. Design Interview study, phenomenographic analysis. Setting Swedish primary health care.
Joar Björk   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The development and validation of a scale to explore staff experience of governance of economic efficiency and quality (GOV-EQ) of health care

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background In publicly funded health care systems, governance models are developed to push public service providers to use tax payers’ money more efficiently and maintain a high quality of service.
Sara Korlén   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acting between guidelines and reality- an interview study exploring the strategies of first line managers in patient safety work

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Safety culture can be described and understood through its manifestations in the organization as artefacts, espoused values and basic underlying assumptions and is strongly related to leadership-yet it remains elusive as a concept. Even if the
Mats Hedsköld   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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