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Hybrid Method for Adaptive Cloud Gaming Contents
No full textMethods for adapting cloud gaming content can bedivided according to client- or server-returned benefits. In thispaper, we argue that the better method should be performed insuch a way that both client and server should share commonbenefits. By working on a cooperative scheme, the basic oftrans- rendering and trans-scaling mechanism are proposedto work together for obtaining better utilizations of networkbandwidth and graphic processor altogether. Based on ourexperiments of running cloud gaming services in simulatedenvironment, we show many evidences that significantlyimproved benefits can be obtained as planned. Our proposedhybrid adaptation method is therefore clearly helpful for thegame research community
A Proposed Blended Course Design for Inter-Professional Education: Using Inquiry to Develop Critical Thinking for Inter-Professional Practice in Undergraduate Students
Get PDFThe purpose of this proposed blended course design is to develop inter-professional communication and collaboration in critical thinking, inquiry, and learning. Implementation of inter-professional education between undergraduate students from different faculties enables a building of connections and relationships which could lead to improved collaboration in future inter-professional practice. Critical thinking has been acclaimed as essential in the provision of competent healthcare. The proposal of a blended-learning format provides a means to accommodate the inherent scheduling challenges between different faculties, and captures the potential of cultivating critical thinking in learning experiences during face-to-face, simulation, online learning, and social media interactions. Proposing a blended inquiry-based approach would seek to utilize various educational strategies in presenting an innovative means to teaching and learning within inter-professional healthcare education
Improving Glycemic Control among Incarcerated Men
Get PDFIn the California state prison environment, many diabetic inmates have poor glycemic control and are at risk for complications which include heart disease, retinopathy, renal failure and peripheral vascular disease. An established program permitted diabetic inmates to carry a glucometer and perform their own blood glucose finger sticks. As a quality improvement process, in addition to allowing inmates to carry a glucometer one institution developed an individualized interdisciplinary educational program. The purpose of this report is to summarize a Quality Improvement project assessing the addition of a health promotion educational program, and to retrospectively compare existing data to determine if such a program might improve glycemic control among participating inmates. In a prison setting where no dietary modification is provided, it is important to identify strategies which have been shown to promote glycemic control in this population. Additionally, with the increasing incidence of diabetes taking both an economic and human toll, successful glycemic control strategies should be incorporated into the design of care models
Contemporary Western Concepts – a Step toward Eastern Mentality
No full textEmpirical evidence shows that people in the East and the West differ in their attitudes toward the world. The East, unlike the West, tends to perceive reality as a dynamic and complex whole, and not as a set of isolated, static parts; it emphasizes relations over features; community over individuality; harmony over polemics; concreteness over abstraction; metaphor over literalism; practical efficiency over theoretical explanations. In spite of those differences, some concepts in contemporary Western philosophy are more akin to Eastern mentality. The most important include holism, contextualism, instrumentalism, embodied embedded cognition, extended mind theory, enactivism, non-classical logic, family resemblance, and implicatur
The Processual Form of Thinking. A New Perspective from Developmental Philosophy
No full textMany contemporary theories of human cognition focus on the biochemical mechanisms that lie beneath the mind’s operations, while neglecting the historical and developmental aspects of the human mind. This article argues (1) that a processual form of thinking has been developing since the Modern Era. Furthermore, it maintains (2) that this particular form of thinking is intrinsically connected with the historical phenomenon of the scientific revolution. The paper studies Günter Dux’s innovative historico-genetic approach to the development of thought in historical process. It also analyses the processual form of thinking under specific conceptual aspects of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy of organism. The present study also reveals (3) the connection between the developmental and the historical aspects of the evolution of thought. Overall, the study found (4) that there is an anthropological cognitive mechanism behind the historical forms of thought usually related to the elaborated figure of explanation
The Role of Student-Teacher Relationship on Effects of Maltreatment on Juvenile Delinquency
Get PDFObjectives: Society has been experiencing rapid change, in which adolescents have increasingly faced with difficulties with balanced development and social adaptation. Juvenile delinquency caused by such difficulties is the most serious social problem. Most of research has reported that family relationship is largely the cause for juvenile delinquency. To prevent the problems associated with parental maltreatment, efforts to identify variables that primarily affect juvenile delinquency are needed. Student-teacher relationship is considered as important protective factors in the ecosystem. Thus, this study analyzed the relationship among parental maltreatment, juvenile delinquency, student-teacher relationship. In addition, the moderating effects of student-teacher relationship in relation to parental maltreatment, and juvenile delinquency were also verified. Method: This study used data from Korean Youth Panel Survey (KYPS) conducted by National Youth Policy Institute. Participants were 2,253(1,136 boys, 1,117 girls) middle school students (9th graders) in 3rd wave data. We extracted eight questions relating to maltreatment, fourteen questions relating Juvenile delinquency, and five questions relating to student- teacher relationship. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation, and hierarchical regression analysis were used. Results: First, parental maltreatment was positively related to juvenile delinquency. And student-teacher relationship was also negatively related to juvenile delinquency. Second, the moderating effects of student-teacher relationship on effects of parental maltreatment on juvenile delinquency were evident. Conclusion: To prevent juvenile delinquency that experienced parental maltreatment, this study has broad clinical and policy implications. Positive student-teacher relationship is an important protective factor of alleviating the negative consequences of parental maltreatment
Eco-Infrastructural Labs for Urban Utopias Moscow as Slow Metropolis
No full textThe future project of cities and highly attractive places must respond to global environmental goals, to historical and architectural heritage, and to the needs of local environments and quality of life. Taking on that issue, this research project originates from the exchange of experiences between the Polytechnic University of the Marches (Italy), the Moscow State Forest University and the A&P Studio (Architettura&Paesaggio, Italy), who initiated the research on urban landscapes with particular reference to the sustainable regeneration in certain parts of the metropolitan area of Moscow, the saturated city at the top of the network of global cities, taken as a case study on the world level. The trial field is the net of the “infra†spaces of Moscow, which is re-established by architecture restoring links which are broken by the infrastructure. Infrastructure and its spaces, generally regarded as the developing drive behind the territory, in this study become the re-governing instrument of the city and opportunity for wise dialogue between the economic-financial, environmental and cultural spheres. That is possible through the project of multi-functional Hubs: they recover the marginal spaces of railway areas and tends to restore a state of dynamic equilibrium between multimodal mobility, parks and a functional mix of public services. From the “Social Condenser†of Soviet Constructivism, the research alights on the catalysts (the new Hubs) of the collective life, which lead to the innovative use of public transport in relieving areas saturated by private transport. «Would it be possible to use the highway as a means of education?» (The view from the road, Kevin Lynch 1964). The “Moskva 7 Kholmov†idea-project replies by introjecting previous theories and more mature situations (Archigram, Yona Friedman, OMA/Rem Koolhaas) with ecological theories (Forman and Sperling). The study suggests the overcoming of the evolutionary trauma of the metropolis in a project that reunites the senses of place and time through innovative architecture dedicated to people on the move. By skilfully balancing the infrastructural, urban, ecological and landscaping points of view, the new architecture fulfils the role of infrastructural shock absorbers, thanks to which the “Slow Metropolis†becomes a possible utopia: Moscow, urban-architectural utopia of the Twenties, becomes a positive example of the functioning of infrastructure and architecture for a mobile society
Cognitive Failures at Work, Mindfulness, and the Big Five
No full textCognitive failures at work (or errors in the workplace including blunders and memory lapses), can lead to considerable personal and organisational damage, even damage well beyond national borders in some organisations. Workplace errors may have a personality base; and mindfulness (or mindlessness) also appears to be related to workplace errors generally. Given the importance and cost of errors in the workplace it is of concern that no previous research appears to have addressed the relationships between cognitive failures at work, personality and mindfulness together. We aimed to address this gap. We administered the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire, the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) and the Big Five International Personality Item Pool 50-item questionnaire (IPIP) to a sample of 92 Australian-based employees from a variety of organisations. Our results showed workplace errors (including lapses in general memory, blunders, distractions and recall of names) were related to lower levels of mindfulness and to lower levels of emotional stability (that is, the other end of the neuroticism- emotional stability continuum). Extraversion was associated with not making blunders, but the other three factors of the Big Five (Openness, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness) were not found to be related to workplace errors. These results demonstrate important relationships between mindfulness and workplace errors; and personality (mainly Neuroticism- Emotional Stability) and workplace errors. Giving special attention to mindfulness training and to effective mental health training in organisations is recommended, especially where lapses in attention or workplace actions can lead to costly personal and organisational mistakes
Long-Term Yield Prediction of Greenhouse Sweet Pepper Crops
Get PDFIn this paper, a new model for predicting the yield of greenhouse sweet peppers (Capsicum annuum L.) is presented. The model can provide long-term prediction up to 7 weeks in advance with the same accuracy it can predict yield one week in advance. It uses both past and expected environmental readings as well as physiological data as input to a specially designed artificial neural network. The model was tested using 4 years of data that was obtained from commercial pepper growers. Short-term prediction accuracy (one week) is consistent with other predictive models in the literature for sweet peppers. This validates our long-term results
The Investigation: The Amount Quality of Life and Quality of Life Experience and Spiritual Needs of the Elderly in Teratai and Myria Nursing Homes; Mix Methode
Get PDFThe increasing life expectancy of the elderly can not be separated from the problem that consists of various health problems, social, psychological, economic and spiritual will affect (Quality of Life). Quality of life is an individual's perception of life in the community in the context of culture and value system, and is strongly influenced by the physical, psychological and level of independence, and spiritual needs of the environment (WHOQOL, 2014). This research use two methode are quantitative; with descriptive and qualitative descriptive phenomenological study approach. Researchers will determine the sample information with purposive sampling. The number of participants ranged 6 in and 30 respondents in two social institutions elderly Teratai and Myria Palembang with in deep interview. Overall after interview all participant there are five theme about quality of life and spiritual needs: socialization in Nursing Homes was very good, the achieve of quality of life was optimum, spiritual of God was very powerfull, the miracle of God was very extraordinary, being soul of condition toward die. According to the quantitative the number of reachable quality of life is 70% elderly people. Overall the five of theme from result was connected and similiar with quality of life theory and Spiritual Consept ; Leinenger trancultural Theory (1985) was decribes abaout holistic dimension “Cultural Care Wordlviewâ€. One of important factors was an overview about “ Well being or Rest in Peaceâ€. The only theme about socialization in nursing homes was very good, this theme was contradict with aging theory especially the change of spiritual