35 research outputs found
Communication and consultation in accompanying the organizational change: the case of the algerian university when passing from the classical system to LMD system –A field study at the University of Badji Mokhtar Annaba
No full textCommunication in the light of a new project within the complex organizations such as universities represents an important part in the field of communication in organizations. In this line, we contribute to this field with this practical study at the University of Badji Mokhtar of Annaba. The study uses a dual method that aims at measuring with a questionnaire to quantify the components of the term “consultation” for the university teachers because they are the main axis of training, research, and pedagogic activities at the university. Moreover, quantitative tools had been used namely the observation and the interview to measure the degree of exchange and consultation between the actors of the same degree about the application of a new philosophy of training, management, and research. After statistical analysis, findings showed that the dynamics of consultation is subject to internal factors related to the personality of the individual and his habits in learning regardless his intellectual and educational level. Moreover, there are external factors related to the environment of the researcher and the possibility of applying the outcomes of the consultation meetings
Towards a National Electronic Health Record in Qatar: Building on International Experiences
No full textBackground: During the past decade, the IT industry has introduced several new concepts within the health domain including e-health, electronic health record, digital hospital, and many more. Although each of these terms has brought its own unique definition and perspectives, they were all based on the foundation that healthcare and wellness management are dependent on effectively using technology to access accurate data in a timely fashion; ensuring enhanced patient care and medical error reduction. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an integrated system that collects data from different healthcare providers to create a unified electronic record for each patient among the population. Today, the patient's health information is scattered across different healthcare facilities causing significant inefficiencies within the healthcare system. A national EHR system will tackle these challenges by producing a personal health record for each patient, integrating information from all healthcare providers, and additionally giving access to patients themselves allowing their contribution. Motivation: There are many health IT implementations for EHR programs around the world that serve as great learning experiences for Qatar, offering it a great opportunity to leverage the best national EHR implementation strategies and practices. National EHR initiatives in Qatar emphasize the need to have secure electronic management of health data in structured and standardized formats, which can be communicated across its hospitals, primary healthcare centres, and other healthcare facilities. Personalized medicine initiatives share and extend these goals, with additional precision provided by genetic/genomic-based improved diagnostic, prognostic, and preventive information; thereby demanding a coordinated extension for the adoption and implementation requirements of an integrated national EHR system. It is for this purpose and understanding that the State of Qatar has taken the first concrete steps towards a promising EHR journey that will promote significant changes on how healthcare services are delivered, and more importantly, how each individual in Qatar can be empowered to become an active contributor to the management of their own health. In moving towards the widespread adoption and implementation of a national EHR system in Qatar, it is important to study the different challenges and trends used for the adoption of EHR systems, under national strategies, in other countries. This is essential for health informatics researchers, clinicians, and policy makers, to gain greater insight into the issues concerning the transformation of healthcare using a national EHR system. The results of this review study shall complement, explain, and extend the conclusions of earlier studies commissioned to explore the health information technology ecosystem in the State of Qatar. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to review EHR programs from various countries with regard to the issues documented in the studies commissioned in these countries. Our analysis will derive the most common critical aspects and lessons learned from international experiences during the implementation of national EHR programs. Additionally, it will explore opportunities, constraints, and characteristics present in Qatar, necessary for tailoring the strategies and approaches to fully realize a national EHR system in the country. This review study presents two important contributions: 1) it will significantly support promoting health IT solutions that are right for Qatar's need, recognizing the size and capabilities of the country, leveraging existing healthcare organizations and solutions, and respecting the unique cultural characteristics of its population. 2) it will serve as a baseline from which comparisons, performance against target measures, and forward thinking can be scoped; allowing significant contribution towards productive future development of health information technology and personalized medicine initiatives in Qatar. Methods: The data collection techniques included: (a) literature review for articles about EHR adoption under national strategies in several countries, (b) review of reports regarding national e-health strategy and government policies in Qatar, and (c) interviews of people participating in the policy making for national EHR system in Qatar (health and academic professionals involved in health IT research in Qatar). The reviewed EHR programs were selected according to the following criteria: (a) program for the implementation of national EHR system has been initiated since at least 5 years, (b) pilot projects have already been conducted, and (c) the planned EHR systems encompass various approaches of implementation. In line with these criteria, the EHR programs that have been studied were those of the following five countries: United States, England, Estonia, Japan, and Australia. Results: The analysis performed on the selected international EHR programs revealed many lessons learned, including: 1) To achieve a successful EHR implementation, it is critical to increase the awareness of the Qatari population about the upcoming changes in their healthcare experiences, paving the way to a smoother transition while having people's trust and confidence in the new system. 2) It is essential to legally define the legislation of privacy protection of personal medical data to support new e-health concepts and eliminate the risk of violating the privacy of patient data. 3) It is important to allow appropriate time for procurement, utilization, benefit realization and the complete project, otherwise you may risk having stakeholders and the public lose confidence in the EHR project. 4) Financial incentives for healthcare providers proved to be an effective method towards raising the EHR adoption rate. 5) To expedite EHR program acceptance, it is imperative to recruit knowledgeable and experienced technical staff and healthcare leaders, who encourage others to play a critical role during the transition process, and view this change as a dominantly positive one. 6) In order to make EHR an everyday tool for doctors, nurses, patients and public authorities, it is necessary to implement services based on the interests of the healthcare providers and society. 7) Continuous adjustment and enhancement is needed in order to sustain a successful and efficient system. Conclusion: Experiences from other countries suggest that a clear focus needs to be carefully placed on technical, clinical, organizational, financial, social, and patient perspectives to ensure that the full benefits of a national EHR system in Qatar can be realized. In addition, it demonstrates that strategic and human challenges are more difficult to master than technical aspects. The results of this review study can be used as a baseline to provide recommendations on how to tackle potential barriers towards successful adoption of a national EHR system in Qatar.qscienc
Dealing with Ties in Rank Correlation
No full textIn the field of Information Retrieval (IR), rankings of systems evaluated under different conditions are often compared to each other. This measure of correspondence between rankings, termed as rank correlation, must accurately capture the scenario for which the correlation is computed. Very often, these rankings may have tied systems, for which new correlation coefficients arise. It is important that these coefficients account for the new scenarios in the presence of ties. It is also important that these coefficients provide some flexibility to the person performing the correlation to introduce artificial ties when items are so close to each other that, for practical purposes, they may be considered as tied. Accounting for these different scenarios of tied items in rankings permits performing per topic comparisons of IR systems, which was earlier limited due to the presence of ties on individual topics. Comparing rankings at the topic level, the expected variability of the rankings can be studied to potentially improve the systems on the topics for which they perform poorer than average. We show the application of these new correlation coefficients with two typical IR experiments.Computer Science | Multimedia Computin
Formal Verification of UML MARTE Specifications Based on a True Concurrency Real Time Model
No full textThe profile UML MARTE offers a general modeling framework for designing and analyzing real-time and embedded systems. Temporal aspects are critical criteria that should be taken into account during the design process. So, formal methods may be used to ensure the functional correctness of such systems. For this purpose, this paper defines an operational method for translating UML sequence diagrams annotated with MARTE stereotypes to time Petri nets with action duration specifications. The semantics of these specifications are defined in terms of duration action timed automata. This allows formal verification by means of several model checker tools like UPPAAL.390
PERLINDUNGAN KONSUMEN TERKAIT KARTEL PINJAMAN ONLINE PERSPEKTIF IBNU TAIMIYAH
No full textThe main problem and research is consumer protection in fintech agreements (online loans) viewed from the perspective of Ibnu Taimiyah and positive law, namely based on POJK, and looking at the extent to which consumer protection has been regulated in Islamic law and positive law. The type of research in writing this thesis uses normative legal research, with a qualitative approach and the data sources used are primary data sources and secondary data sources with data collection techniques in the form of library studies. From the research conducted by the author, it can be concluded thatIbnu Tamiyah's perspective on consumer protection regarding online loan cartels highlights the importance of justice, equality and rejection of exploitation in economic transactions. Through Islamic moral and ethical principles, Ibnu Tamiyah emphasized the need to ensure that business practices do not harm or exploit consumers, and that all parties involved in economic transactions have equal and fair access. Consumer protection from Ibnu Tamiyah's perspective also emphasizes the importance of complying with applicable laws and increasing consumer education and awareness about their rights.Existing fintech (online loan) agreements have not been able to fully protect consumer rights and obligations in accordance with existing legal regulations such as the MUI DSN Fatwa Number 117. Because currently only one regulation for sharia fintech has been used as a source. The main law is the MUI DSN Fatwa Number 117 of 2018 concerning Information Technology-Based Financing Services Based on Sharia Principles. Meanwhile, consumer protection in positive law is based on POJK Number 77 of 2016 and POJK Number 13 of 2018. The author found the fact that the OJK Regulation on Consumer Protection in the financial services sector actually provides protection and in it guarantees order, certainty and justice for consumers, but POJK only regulates one aspects of the online loan agreement, namely conventional online loans
Dysphaea dimidiata Selys 1853
No full text12. Dysphaea dimidiata Selys (= limbata Selys). - Eastcoast Gvt.: Deli Soekaranda (Kruger) and Soengei Radja. van der Meer Mohr leg.; Bengkalis. Kampar Kanan. Fulmek leg. Westcoast Res.: Silago (Albarda). Djambi Res.: Djambi Exped. 1925 O Posthumus Ieg. Palembang Res.: Moesi River. Moearaklingi (Schmidt). BenkoelenRes.: Lake Ranau distr. (Schmidt). S. Lampoeng Res.: Gisting. Waiteboe. 500 m. slope of Mt. Tanggamoes. Dec. 29. 1934.2 ♂ ♂, Author leg. - Since a fair number of specimens in my collection are exactly intermediate between D. dimidiata and D. limbata. the latter cannot stand as a separate species. Even in one locality this species varies so much. that all colour-differences appear to ly within the range of individual fluctuation.Published as part of Lieftinck, M. A., 1935, A Synopsis of the Odonata (Dragonflies) of Sumatra, pp. 1-23 in Miscellanea Zoologica Sumatrana 1 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.325187
Dynamic-informed consent: A potential solution for ethical dilemmas in population sequencing initiatives
No full textJet vetoes versus giant K factors in the exclusive Z+1-jet cross section
No full textWe perform a detailed study of the exclusive Z + 1-jet cross section at the 13 TeV LHC, motivated by the importance of similar exclusive cross sections in understanding the production of the Higgs boson in the W+W- final state. We point out a feature of the ATLAS analysis that has significant impact on the theoretical predictions: the jet isolation criterion implemented by ATLAS effectively allows dijet events where an energetic jet is collinear to a final-state lepton. This process contains a giant K factor arising from the collinear emission of a Z boson from the dijet configuration. This overwhelms the effect of the jet-veto logarithms, making it difficult to test their resummation in this process. We provide numerical results that demonstrate the interplay between the jet-veto logarithms and the giant K factor in the theoretical prediction. We study several observables, including the transverse momentum distributions of the leading jet and the Z boson, in the exclusive Z + 1-jet process, and discuss their sensitivity to both the giant K factor and the jet-veto logarithms. We suggest a modified isolation criterion that removes the giant K factor and allows for a direct test of the jet-veto resummation framework in the exclusive Z + 1-jet process.U.S. Department of Energy, Division of High Energy Physics [DE-AC02-06CH11357, DE-SC0010143]; U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science [DE-FG02-93ER-40762]SCI(E)[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
