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The Humanization of Health Care: In-Depth Knowledge Regarding the Ethics of Dental Care in Oncological Patients
2023
This chapter provides an illuminating insight into the processes of the humanization of care in order to increase specialist knowledge regarding the nature of the doctor-patient relationship. It will deal with the notion of care and its various aspects, including the existential dimension of the process of caregiving by means of a narrative (storytelling) interview. After a brief analysis of the changes which have affected medical science in past centuries, the focus of the paper will be directed to the remarkable transformation which clinical practice has undergone, by virtue of which the concept of the taking care of the patient has gained increasing attention. Thus, care can be provided …
Bayesian approach for uncertainty quantification in water quality modelling: The influence of prior distribution
2010
Summary Mathematical models are of common use in urban drainage, and they are increasingly being applied to support decisions about design and alternative management strategies. In this context, uncertainty analysis is of undoubted necessity in urban drainage modelling. However, despite the crucial role played by uncertainty quantification, several methodological aspects need to be clarified and deserve further investigation, especially in water quality modelling. One of them is related to the “a priori” hypotheses involved in the uncertainty analysis. Such hypotheses are usually condensed in “a priori” distributions assessing the most likely values for model parameters. This paper explores…
Investigating Teacher Pedagogical Content Knowledge Of Scientific Inquiry
2014
This paper analyses the scientific inquiry in the context of modelling physical systems and point out some related teaching/learning strategies. Two relevant points are also discussed: i)- the different representations of scientific inquiry held by a sample of secondary school physics teachers and their competencies in conducting investigations aimed at solving scientific problems; ii)- what kind of supports can be supplied to teachers in order to modify their misconceptions about scientific inquiry and develop adequate competences related to Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Scientific Inquiry. The topic will be analysed in the light of some preliminary results of a course for in-service ph…
A performance analysis of block ACK scheme for IEEE 802.11e networks
2010
The demand for the IEEE 802.11 wireless local-area networks (WLANs) has been drastically increasing along with many emerging applications and services over WLAN. However, the IEEE 802.11 medium access control (MAC) is known to be limited in terms of its throughput performance due to the high MAC overhead, such as interframe spaces (IFS) or per-frame based acknowledgement (ACK) frame transmissions. The IEEE 802.11e MAC introduces the block ACK scheme for improving the system efficiency of the WLAN. Using the block ACK scheme can reduce the ACK transmission overhead by integrating multiple ACKs for a number of data frames into a bitmap that is contained in a block ACK frame, thus increasing t…
Toward a holistic understanding of pastoralism
2021
Pastoralism is globally significant in social, environmental, and economic terms. However, it experiences crises rooted in misconceptions and poor interdisciplinary understanding, while being largely overlooked in international sustainability forums and agendas. Here, we propose a transdisciplinary research approach to understand pastoralist transitions using (1) social, economic, and environmental dimensions, (2) diverse geographic contexts and scales to capture emerging properties, allowing for cross-system comparisons, and (3) timescales from the distant past to the present. We provide specific guidelines to develop indicators for this approach, within a social-ecological resilience anal…
Advanced control system for optimal filtration in submerged anaerobic MBRs (SAnMBRs)
2013
The main aim of this study was to develop an advanced controller to optimise filtration in submerged anaerobic MBRs (SAnMBRs). The proposed controller was developed, calibrated and validated in a SAnMBR demonstration plant fitted with industrial-scale hollow-fibre membranes with variable influent flow and load. This 2-layer control system is designed for membranes operating sub-critically and features a lower layer (on/off and PID controllers) and an upper layer (knowledge-based controller). The upper layer consists of a MIMO (multiple-input-multiple-output) control structure that regulates the gas sparging for membrane scouring and the frequency of physical cleaning (ventilation and back f…
Intellectual property management between buyer-supplier in the crowdsourcing context
2017
In this paper we investigate the antecedents of buyers’ decisions related to the management of the IPR generated by the suppliers in crowdsourcing contests. Leveraging on Property Rights Theory and interview data, we examine how contest’ attributes affect two buyers’ decisions about (1) whether to define an IPR arrangement ex-ante or negotiating it ex-post with the winning supplier; (2) the choice between strong or weak ownership levels of the IPR arrangement. To test the developed hypotheses, we build a dataset of 819 contests broadcasted on InnoCentive (from 2010 to 2016). Our findings contribute to both the operations management and the crowdsourcing literatures.
ERP-implementering i en SMB : en casestudie i en kunnskapsintensiv bedrift
2011
Masteroppgave i informasjonssystemer- Universitetet i Agder 2011 Denne masteroppgaven bygger på en casestudie i et forlag. Hensikten med studien er dermed å avdekke hvilke utfordringer som kan relateres til implementeringen av et Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP-system) i et forlag. Konteksten forlaget befinner seg i er spesiell for implementeringen av et ERP-system. Et forlag er en kunnskapsintensiv bedrift, og kjernekompetansen ligger i utnyttelsen av kunnskap for å tilby produkter av høy kvalitet. Ansatte i en kunnskapsintensiv bedrift er avhengige av fleksibilitet og et forlag møter dermed spesielle utfordringer relatert til implementeringen av et ERP-system. Hensikten med et ER…
Kritiske utfordringer ved implementering av et ERP-system i en SMB : en casestudie i en norsk bedrift
2011
Masteroppgave i informasjonssystemer- Universitetet i Agder 2011 ERP-systemer (Enterprise Resource Planning) er virksomhetsomspennende informasjonssystemer som stadig flere bedrifter tar i bruk. Spørsmålet som oftest stilles er ikke lenger om man skal anskaffe et ERP-system; det er hvilket system man skal anskaffe. Stadig mindre bedrifter implementerer ERP-systemer, også flere og flere SMBer (små og mellomstore bedrifter) med knappe ressurser. Implementeringsfasen blir dermed utfordrende for mange. En gjennomsnittlig SMB sitter på liten eller ingen kompetanse om ERP-systemer, og de fleste søker derfor hjelp av konsulenter. Denne masteroppgaven bygger på en casestudie gjennomført i bedriften…
Abductive innovations in information security policy development : an ethnographic study
2019
Developing organisational information security (InfoSec) policies that account for international best practices but are contextual is as much an opportunity for improving InfoSec as it is a challenge. Previous research indicates that organisations should create InfoSec policies based on best practices (top-down) and simultaneously encourages participatory development (bottom-up). These contradictory suggestions place managers in a dilemma: Should they follow a top-down or bottom-up approach? In this research, we build on an ethnographic approach to study how an innovative engineering company (MachineryCorp) managed the contradiction when the firm developed an InfoSec policy. Drawing on the …