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How to apply process mining techniques In SCAMPI appraisals
Get PDF"Process Mining Extension to SCAMPI" is an extension to SCAMPI version 1.3b: Method Definition Document for SCAMPI A, B, and C. It is an extended method that adds Process Mining techniques, such as process discovery and conformance checking, into SCAMPI to provide an explicit and focused basis for appraising an organization using such techniques aiming to lead to more reliable and effective appraisals. Applying Process Mining techniques in a SCAMPI appraisal enhances how the appraisal team collects and analyzes data as well as judges the extent to which an organizational unit has implemented the reference model practices being appraised
SUPA: Strewn User-Preserved Authentication
Get PDFCentral storage and management of user credentials or passwords leaves a single tempting repository for the attackers. If the credentials are not stored by a system at all, there will be no stored ‘vault’ to allure the attackers. At the same time, there will be no single resource that holds the credentials of all users of a system. This paper presents the high level conceptual architecture of SUPA, an authentication system that would allow a system to authenticate users without having its own repository of users’ credentials. SUPA enables a system to authenticate its users without having their credentials stored in it. The proposed authentication system uses the features of asymmetric encryption as part of its authentication process
Baby booms to delirium: An experience of overseas dialogue in nursing practice
No full textAn overseas dialogue in nursing practice in China led to a critical reflection on global nursing issues such as nursing workforce shortage and patient-centred care. We experienced our first teaching outside New Zealand and shared some our nursing insights with Chinese nurses from this culture exchange
Clustering Arabic Tweets for Sentiment Analysis
Get PDFThe focus of this study is to evaluate the impact of linguistic preprocessing and similarity functions for clustering Arabic Twitter tweets. The experiments apply an optimized version of the standard K-Means algorithm to assign tweets into positive and negative categories. The results show that root-based stemming has a significant advantage over light stemming in all settings. The Averaged Kullback-Leibler Divergence similarity function clearly outperforms the Cosine, Pearson Correlation, Jaccard Coefficient and Euclidean functions. The combination of the Averaged Kullback-Leibler Divergence and root-based stemming achieved the highest purity of 0.764 while the second-best purity was 0.719. These results are of importance as it is contrary to normal-sized documents where, in many information retrieval applications, light stemming performs better than root-based stemming and the Cosine function is commonly used
Downstream
Get PDFKent Macpherson – sound
Stefanie Young - photographs
Downstream is an installation of sounds and photographs choreographed from 30 selected places along the Waikato River. Running 425 kms from the Tongariro to Port Waikato, the Waikato River is central to the daily life of the Waikato region.
The river has the seductive qualities of water to inspire contemplation and caution - diverse responses invoked by the textures and depths of the changeable Waikato River. Every sound and photograph is unique to its time and place at the river, showing a connected complexity to this moving body of water.
Downstream presents an aural/visual experience of the Waikato River, reclaiming listening as a primary sense, and in combination with images, activates our visual memory and perceptions of time and place.
A remix or reinterpretation of the field/visual recording, time-synced so that the sets of sounds shift in and out of one another in unison, setting the stage for you to navigating between the aural/visual senses simultaneously throughout the space
Performance of Valzer Sera (with David Sidwell), International Piano Day (visible)
Get PDFPerformance of Valzer Sera (with David Sidwell), composed by David Sidwell, for the 2017 Opening Concert for International Piano Day, at Creative Waikato and Miltons Canteen, Wednesday 29 March 2017
2016 He Pikinga Waiora external funding MBIE National Science Challenge Healthier Lives
Get PDFBackground: About 40% of all health burden in New Zealand is due to cancer, cardiovascular disease, and type 2
diabetes/obesity. Outcomes for Māori (indigenous people) are significantly worse than non-Maori; these inequities
mirror those found in indigenous communities elsewhere. Evidence-based interventions with established efficacy
may not be effective in indigenous communities without addressing specific implementation challenges. We
present an implementation framework
Identifying strategic opportunities for Māori community organisations to respond to pre-diabetes: Building a platform for integrated care to deliver change that matters to communities.
Get PDFIdentifying strategic opportunities for Māori community organisations to respond to pre-diabetes: Building a platform for integrated care to deliver change that matters to communities
Authors: Angela Beaton , Carey Manuel, Jade Tapsell, John Oetzel, Maui Hudson, Nina Scott, Moana Rarere
Abstract
Background: Inequities between Māori and non-Māori are the most consistent and compelling health inequities in New Zealand. Māori are three times as likely as non-Māori to have type II diabetes and are more likely to develop complications. Despite a strong international evidence base for health interventions that improve health outcomes, there has been little progress made in the way of reducing health inequities in New Zealand. He Pikinga Waiora (HPW) is a core project within the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge research programme within New Zealand, which aims to integrate community-based participatory research, kaupapa Māori, systems thinking and implementation science to promote transformational improvements in health service delivery, with a focus on pre-diabetes.
Aims: In partnership with a Māori Development Organisation (MDO), this research aims to identify strategic opportunities to respond to pre-diabetes for the benefit of Māori.
Methods: Key relationships, partnerships, contracts, funding streams, services and organisational strengths and barriers were identified and analysed utilising case study methodology. A range of data sources were triangulated (Yin, 2003) including open-ended semi-structured interviews, observation, documents (vision, mission, values and strategic plan), archival records (contracts and funding reporting information), organisation structure charts and other sources that provide a clearer understanding or corroborate other data. These data will be compared with a pre-diabetes/diabetes systems map to identify opportunities for action.
Results: Case study data will be presented within the context of a wider systems map for the organisation to identify strategic opportunities that may be considered and applied by MDOs to provide a more effective, integrated response to pre-diabetes. A thematic analysis identified the following domains:
Inter-sectoral integration between health and social services,
Leveraging organisational strengths and data to inform funding decisions and shift organisation-level performance,
Managing barriers and constraints, and mitigating business risks, to improve patient, whānau and health professional journeys in navigating the system and accessing services, and
Enhancing connections with wider public health services, promoting wellness and preventing other long term conditions and complications.
Conclusion: While most integrated care efforts represent a partnership, predominantly led by health services, further exploration of other strategies and models is needed to integrate community-based participatory research, kaupapa Māori, systems thinking and implementation science for improved outcomes.
Lessons learned and suggestions for further research: In many political agendas, integrated care remains synonymous with IT integration and other structural initiatives without paying adequate attention to the outcomes of integration - the patient, whānau and community experience being key. It is important that these aspects are also addressed in ongoing/future research.
Keywords: indigenous, pre-diabetes, community-based participatory research, systems thinking, implementation science
How to Cite: Beaton A, Manuel C, Tapsell J, Oetzel J, Hudson M, Scott N, et al.. Identifying strategic opportunities for Māori community organisations to respond to pre-diabetes: Building a platform for integrated care to deliver change that matters to communities. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2017;17(5):A166. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.3474
Published on 17 Oct 2017
Naheya Huxut, Master's Student Practical video production. Traditional and contemporary Mongolian culture represented in documentary.
Get PDFDocumentary film made by Mongolian filmmaker Naheya, who has made a film that expresses her own and her fellow country people's yearning for their traditional culture, although living in other lands and in Mongolian cities.
The film is told in a mostly visual and aural manner using Mongolian traditional music and contemporary Mongolian fusion music.
Shot over a year 2016-17 in Inner and Outer Mongolian during winter and spring.set in traditional Mongolian lands and city life