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The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Patient-reported outcome measures collected via a web application versus a touchscreen in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
No full textIntroduktion: Siden 2006 har det i Danmark været muligt for patienter med reumatologiske sygdomme at besvare spørgeskema, såkaldte patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), omhandlende helbredsrelateret livskvalitet og funktionsevne. Aktuelt foregår indsamlingen af PROMs via en touchskærm i ambulatoriet. I takt med at teknologien har udviklet sig, er der opstået interesse for nye måder at indsamle PROMs på. En relativ ny måde at indrapportere på er via egen elektronisk enhed. Dette studie undersøger sammenligneligheden mellem indrapportering af PROMs hjemmefra via webappen fra den nationale Danske Reumatologiske Database (DANBIO) på tablet eller smartphone og indrapportering via den traditionelle ambulante touchskærm hos patienter med Systemisk Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).Formål: Formålet med studiet er at sammenligne touchskærmen i ambulatoriet med DANBIO webappen besvaret hjemmefra med Systemic Lupus Activity Questionnaire (SLAQ) global health som det primære resultat. Metode: Studiet er et randomiseret, overkrydsnings-, sammenlignelighedsstudie hos patienter med SLE. Deltagerne blev randomiseret i to grupper, der besvarede PROMs via webapp eller touchskærm i en randomiseret rækkefølge med en forudbestemt udvaskningsperiode. Forskelle i PROM-score med 95% konfidensintervaller (CI) blev evalueret for lighed i henhold til forudbestemte ækvivalensmargener, og et Bland-Altman-plot blev benyttet til at vurdere grænserne for sammenlignelighed.Resultater: Mellem touchskærmen og webappen var der for SLAQ global health en forskel på -0,21, 95% CI (-0,64 til 0,23); således er disse ækvivalente. Desuden var alle andre PROMs ækvivalente med undtagelse af Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) global, hvor 95% CI på -1,45 til 6,80 overskred ækvivalensmargenen på ± 5. Forskellen var dog indenfor minimal clinically important difference (MCID) på ± 10. Af de i alt 34 deltagere foretrak 31 (91,2%) DANBIO webappen.Konklusion: For første gang er sammenlignelighed af DANBIO webappen og den traditionelle touchskærm bekræftet hos patienter med SLE. Ækvivalens blev fundet for alle PROMs med undtagelse af VAS global, der dog var indenfor MCID. Deltagerne foretrak i høj grad DANBIO webappen, hvorfor den fremtidige implementering af DANBIO webappen forventes at være et nyttigt og værdifuldt værktøj for både patienter og sundhedssystemet til at monitorere patienter på et mere individualiseret niveau.Introduction: In Denmark, patients with rheumatologic diseases have assessed patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) via a touchscreen prior to each consultation in the outpatient clinic since 2006; however, as technology develops, interest in new ways of collecting PROMs is emerging. Bring your own device (BYOD) is a relatively new way of collecting PROMs through a personal electronic device. This study is evaluating the comparability between the national Danish Rheumatology Database (DANBIO) web app through a smartphone or a tablet and the traditional outpatient touchscreen regarding patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).Objectives: the aim of the study is to compare the outpatient touchscreen to a from home web app with Systemic Lupus Activity Questionnaire (SLAQ) global health as primary outcome.Methods: This is a randomized, within-participants crossover, agreement study with enrolment of patients with SLE. Participants were randomized into two groups assessing PROMs through the two devices in a randomized order with a predefined wash out period. Differences in PROM scores with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were evaluated for similarity according to prespecified equivalence margins and a Bland-Altman plot was used to assess limits of agreement.Results: Equivalence was found for SLAQ global health with a difference between the two electronic devices of -0.21, 95% CI (-0.64 to 0.23); Furthermore, all other PROMs were equivalent except for Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) global as the 95% CI of -1.45 to 6.80 exceeded the equivalence margin of ± 5. However, the difference was well within the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) of ± 10. Thirty-one (91.2%) of the total 34 participants preferred the DANBIO web app.Conclusion: For the first time in patients with SLE, comparability between PROMs collected on a web app and an outpatient touchscreen was verified. Participants highly preferred the DANBIO web-app. Thus, the future implementation of the DANBIO web-app is expected to be a helpful and valuable tool for both patients and health care in order to monitor patients on a more individualized level
Supplemental Material - Patient-reported outcome measures in systemic lupus erythematosus by a web-based application: A randomized, crossover, agreement study
No full textSupplemental Material for Patient-reported outcome measures in systemic lupus erythematosus by a web-based application: A randomized, crossover, agreement study by Line Uhrenholt, Simone Høstgaard, Julie F Pedersen, Robin Christensen, Lene Dreyer, Henrik C B Leffers, Peter C Taylor, Vibeke Strand, Søren Jacobsen, Anne Voss, Jon W Gregersen and SalomeKristensen in Lupus</p
Responding to lethal violence: RCMP use of deadly force
Full text linkNot peer reviewedContemporary police officers face the challenge of intervening in community crises while maintaining public and personal safety. Unfortunately, this sometimes includes precarious life and death encounters which require using deadly force.police; RCMP; use of force; deadly force; mental illness; crisis interventio
Tagging of Biomedical Articles on CiteULike: A Comparison of User, Author and Professional Indexing
Full text linkThis paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and professional indexers. User tags, author keywords and descriptors were collected from academic journal articles, which were both indexed in Pubmed and tagged on CiteULike, and analysed. Descriptive statistics, informetric measures, and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the use of keywords between the three groups in addition to similarities which can be used to enhance support for search and browse. While tags and author keywords were found that matched descriptors exactly, other terms which did not match but provided important expansion to the indexing lexicon were found. These additional terms could be used to enhance support for searching and browsing in article databases as well as to provide invaluable data for entry vocabulary and emergent terminology for regular updates to indexing systems. Additionally, the study suggests that tags support organisation by association to task, projects and subject while making important connections to traditional systems which classify into subject categories
Dose Reduction of Biological Therapies in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis:Maintaining Stable Disease Activity on Reduced Dose
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Droplet motion with contact-line friction: long-time asymptotics in complete wetting
No full textWe consider the thin-film equation for a class of free boundary conditions modelling friction at the contact line, as introduced by E and Ren. Our analysis focuses on formal long-time asymptotics of solutions in the perfect wetting regime. In particular, through the analysis of quasi-self-similar solutions, we characterize the profile and the spreading rate of solutions depending on the strength of friction at the contact line, as well as their (global or local) corrections, which are due to the dynamical nature of the free boundary conditions. These results are complemented with full transient numerical solutions of the free boundary problem. Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Mathematical Physic
A study of the level of instructor interest and experience concerning the development of on-line courses at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College
Full text linkPlan BThis study examined the level of interest and experience concerning on-line course development among full-time instructors employed by the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College. The purpose of the study is to determine level of interest concerning the development of on-line courses, the level of experience to develop and instruct on-line courses, and the need for training and support for on-line course development. Recommendations of this study will be used to help WITC develop a sense of direction for future on-line course development. It may also provide the necessary information needed to create and provide on-line course development training, curriculum guidelines and standards, and the collection and compilation of developmental resource materials. Since the platform for on-line learning is through the Internet, an electronic on-line survey was chosen as the means of collecting data. During the Spring Semester of 2003, an e-mail message containing a link to access the survey was sent to all full-time WITC instructors. After each instructor completed the survey, the data was sent electronically via the Internet, without any personal identifiers, to University of Wisconsin-Stout Publications for processing. Recommendations of this study will be used to help WITC develop a sense of direction for future on-line course development. It may also provide the necessary information needed to create and provide on-line course development training, curriculum guidelines and standards, and the collection and compilation of developmental resource materials
Line transect sampling of primates : can animal-to-observer distance methods work?
No full textAn erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10764-010-9469-4Line transect sampling is widely used for estimating abundance of primate populations. Animal-to-observer distances (AODs) are commonly used in analysis, in preference to perpendicular distances from the line. This is in marked contrast with standard practice for other applications of line transect sampling. We formalize the mathematical shortcomings of approaches based on AODs, and show that they are likely to give strongly biased estimates of density. We review papers that claim good performance for the method, and explore this performance through simulations. These confirm strong bias in estimates of density using AODs. We conclude that AOD methods are conceptually flawed, and that they cannot in general provide valid estimates of density.Peer reviewe
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