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Developing Indicators To Measure Health Care Performance By Prof. Dr David Schwappach, Institute Of Social And Preventive Medicine (ISPM) University Of Bern
No full textTo develop indicators to measure health care performance, it is important to: accept the pain of reduction a complex world to simple metrics; mind the consequences adaption to indicators may have; resist to make indicators overly complex; and choose sensitive-to-differences indicators and take a learning-oriented process
Implementing Open Data in accordance with the FAIR and CARE Principles for Data Curation.
Get PDFOpen Data and Research Data Management (RDM) according to the F.A.I.R. principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) are increasingly demanded by research funders, scientific publishers and universities. The creation of a data management plan (DMP) before the start of a project not only saves time in filing and archiving the collected research data, but also increases efficiency, transparency and reproducibility of the research results over the entire course of the project. In this workshop will discuss the following:
Digital tools, platforms and services that facilitate operand FAIR data curation at the institutional and project specific level.
Existing systems deployed at the national and institutional level in Africa and how those can be complemented with general cloud-based scholarly repositories to increase and foster discoverability as well as reuse of African research data while at the same time protecting the data from misappropriation through open licensing.
CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance to consider aspects of Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility and Ethics
Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing - A Fusion of Classical And Quantum Computational Substrates
Get PDFThrough harnessing quantum mechanical phenomena, quantum computing substrates yields the promise of transcending new frontiers in confronting the world’s most intractable computational challenges requiring exponential computational power that exceeds that of today’s most powerful super-computers. The choreography of such quantum mechanical phenomena has catalysed accelerated advances in the emergence of a quantum computational substrate paradigm that yields the potential to solve some of humanities most complex problems through quantum speedup: in environment, agriculture, health, energy, climate, materials science, precision medicine, autonomous vehicles in smart cities, renewable energy and problems humanity has not yet even imagined. However, the manifestation of a practical quantum advantage across several of these areas is unlikely through the exclusive application of a quantum computational substrate. Quantum computational substrates will not replace classical computational substrates, instead, both technologies will synergistically complement each other where quantum computational substrate accelerators functions as a specialised co-processor to a classical computational substrate in computing workloads best suited for the quantum computer, in a heterogenous computational substrate ecosystem comprising other accelerators. This paper reviewed novel new frontiers at the fusion of quantum-classical computational substrates, and findings reveal that practical applications and research remain limited. The opportunity exists, in considering a heterogenous computational substrate ecosystem comprising other accelerators, for practical quantum advantage across a broader set of complex problem domains to be realised sooner
Utilising Persistent Identifiers To Provide Services For Researchers And Publishers - A Spotlight On Africa
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https://africarxiv.pubpub.org/pub/c0x4lo1z#nqvgrggp1q1This session is part of the AfricArXiv Webinar Series on Open Science for the Discoverability of African Research
Community Knowledge-Based Assessment of Smallholder Farmers' Perception of Cluster Farming and its Potential Role in Sustainable Accessibility to Farmer-Centric Support in Nigeria
No full textThis study aimed to understand the views of smallholder farmers in Oyo State, Nigeria, towards cluster farming as a means of promoting sustainable farmer-centric support. Cluster farming is an economic approach for small, limited resource, and socially disadvantaged farmers to increase productivity, reduce risk, and improve community growth by organizing smallholder farmers into a collective unit through a participatory approach. Data was collected from 300 smallholder farmers through a combination of structured questionnaires and deliberative surveys. The study evaluated the farmers' views on cluster farming using five key frameworks: productivity, knowledge, collaboration, efficiency, and support. The closed-ended questions were analyzed using descriptive statistics, while the open-ended questions were analyzed through natural language processing. The results showed that only 9% of the farmers had participated in cluster farming, despite 85% of them being aware of its existence. 79% believed that cluster farming can be an efficient solution for crop farmers, but 83% thought that the lack of investors could limit its effectiveness. Additionally, 25% of the farmers felt that legal documentation between cluster members and stakeholders may be necessary in case of conflicts of interest or to ensure uniformity and genuine support. The results also revealed that access to cluster markets, finance, yield improvement, participation in extension training/services, and engagement were factors significantly impacting the farmers' positive perception of cluster farming. This information can be used by policymakers to understand the challenges faced by smallholder farmers, predict their actions and demands, and provide high impact support programs through cluster farming
Modèle du Module III de l'Atelier ouvert pour l'Afrique
No full textCe modèle de document, disponible en format pdf et docx, a été développé dans le cadre d'un projet financé par le Wellcome Trust pour piloter une série d'ateliers en trois parties intitulée Open Peer Reviewers in Africa. Le présent document a pour but de permettre aux facilitateurs de diriger un club de revue des prépublications dans le cadre du Module III de l'atelier - Le modèle de diapositive des Modules I dans le document; et II sont disponibles dans le document. Des détails sur l'atelier et des informations sur la méthode d'organisation de votre propre version de l'atelier sont disponibles dans le Guide du Formateur.
Divulgation : ces traductions ont été effectuées par Roseline Dzekem DINE.
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Ruga Settlement Initiative: A Panacea for Conflict Between Herdsmen and Farmers in Nigeria.
No full textRecent killings and destruction of lives and property by a particular tribe known as the Fulani have been in the spotlight for some time. Their actions against the farmers have rendered so many homeless and incapacitated. This situation is appalling, as every passing day brings in fresh news about the destruction carried out by the group. This necessitated the ruga program, aimed to address issues related to livestock management promote agriculture and reduced conflict between farmers and headers. The federal government of Nigeria believed, it will drastically reduce conflict between the farmers and the herdsmen and in extension become economically beneficial. This study adopted the critical analysis method and the findings revealed that the ruga program though with its benefits will not survive due to widespread criticism and disagreement. The perceived benefit varied depending on different perspectives but overall, the intent was to modernized livestock farming practices and enhanced food security
Open Access Repositories As An Accelerator For Open Journal Systems And Enhancer For The SA-SDGs HUB: South African Perspective
No full textOA repository development in South Africa is driven by the CHELSA since 2003. A national Electronic Theses and Dissertation platform was developed to assist with the challenges experienced by academic libraries, i.e. requisite skills and inadequate infrastructures. South Africa Open Access adoption among universities is progressing, while the government funding agency (NRF) released an open access statement (2015) that required funded researchers to deposit their articles into an OA repository with a 12 months embargo period. But in the absence of OA monitoring indicators and implementation, academic libraries through their institutional support have championed and implemented their OA policies while there is no national repository portal. Only aggregated metadata from ETDs is harvested from a few repositories effectively. The purpose of this presentation is to promote COAR's Next Generation Repositories elements through a nationally distributed network of research repositories. Collectively, a national networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, build on top of layers of value-added services can transform a system, making it more research-centric, and open to and supportive of innovation. Networked repositories build additional services, i.e. web-centric interoperability, a set of common technologies, protocols, and behaviours, to assist in fast-tracking and enhancing alternative metrics for the national SDG Hub and promote social justice
Supporting Open Peer Review And Preprint Adoption in Africa
No full textPresentation held at the OASPA 2023 Conference during the panel Preprints: Supporting Open Peer Review and Global Preprint Adoption Trends
Assessing Effects of Covid-19 Responses on Mental Health in Malawi (Poster)
Get PDFThe Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) pandemic has overwhelmed health systems in all countries, especially those in the least developing countries, Malawi included. As such, this project sought to investigate the effects of Covid-19 responses on mental health in Malawi in terms of perception toward mental health in general, the mental health of adolescents and health workers and mental health services. The project had three main phases, research, awareness campaign and dissemination