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Introduction Learning is fundamental to quality and safety improvement efforts in healthcare and has been an integral part of researchers’ and policy makers’ agendas for decades. The traditional logic, both within healthcare, workplaces, and education is that learning from adverse events helps improve structures and systems, and avoids future reoccurrences, thereby ensuring safer and better outcomes [1–5]. Within healthcare, this traditional approach - focusing on adverse ev...

Software testing is one of the main activities of software development life cycle (SDLC). More than 50% of the total cost of the project is consumed in software testing phase of SDLC (Beizer, 1990). The main aim of software testing is to produce better quality and reliable software. Broadly, software testing is of two types, white box testing and black box testing. Among the two test approaches towards software testing, white box testing is the preferred one owing to its ability to rec...

Interdisciplinary approaches are becoming increasingly popular in the health sector, specially to improve the diagnosis and management of various diseases [1–4]. Variety of methods of image processing and analyses are available for extracting valuable information from raw images taken from cameras [5]. With the advent of mobile phones, the concept of mobile health or mHealth emerged and it could be broadly described as a medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices su...

1 Introduction The problem of Point-of-Interest (POI) suggestion has gained lot of research attention recently due to the spread of Location Based Social Networks (LBSN). The problem is concerned with recommending interesting places for the users to visit. POI suggestion algorithms personalize the recommendations according to the current user’s context as well as the recorded user’s history. 2 E. Ali et al. In this research, we solve the POI suggestion problem in the context of Facet...

The Learning for Living Project (LFL) was designed and operated over a five year period between 2000 and 2004 by the READ Educational Trust in all nine provinces. In total, 957 primary schools participated in the LFL with 13 164 teachers and an estimated 875 000 learners. The project received R153 million in funding from the Business Trust (BT) and was implemented with the support and cooperation of the National and Provincial Departments of Education (DoE). The fundamental motivat...

What is the meaning we ascribe to the expression ‘reflexive governance’, thereby defining the conditions a collective action must fulfil in order to ensure, to the extent possible, that satisfaction of its members’ normative expectations is ‘maximised’; that is, in order to ensure what is generally called ‘governance in the public interest’? The expression ‘reflexive governance’ can only be understood if we first recall the project that has underpinned REFGOV.1 This...

Students wishing to study at a university where the medium of instruction is different from their mother tongue are often required to prove their proficiency by taking a language test for academic purposes. These tests are considered high-stakes because results are used to make decisions that have important consequences in students’ lives (Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Kane, 2013). In order to guarantee that scores are fair, language tests must be carefully scrutinized and validated to ensure tha...

Machine Learning field, methods based on Deep Learning (e.g. CNN, RNN) becomes the state-of-the-art in several problems of the multimedia domain, especially in audio-visual tasks. Typically, the training of Deep Learning Methods is done in a supervised manner, and it is trained on datasets containing thousands/millions of media examples and several related concepts/classes. During training, the Deep Learning Methods learn a hierarchy of filters that are applied to input data to classify/r...

Action learning has been underpinning an increasing amount of training practice throughout the world for nearly seven decades, since its genesis in the work of Reg Revans (ZuberSkerritt, 2002). Furthermore, action learning has been related to variety of disciplines. These application’s environments have ranged from private companies (Marquardt, 2004) to public sector organizations (Blackler and Kennedy, 2004) and in lesser extent to entrepreneurship development programs, such as start...

The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classic optimization problem, which is formally defined by means of a weighted graph G = (V,E), in which V = {v1, v2, ..., vn} is a set of vertices and E = {vi , vj : vi ,vj ∈ V } is a set of edges. Each vertex vi ∈ V represents a city and each edge vi , vj  ∈ E connects the vertices vi and vj . The cost of travel from vi to vj is given by the weight value of the edge vi , vj . The best solution for a TSP instance involves finding th...

Correcting ab initio-based potential energy surfaces (PESs) has been a long-standing goal of computational chemistry. Several approaches dating from 30 years ago have been suggested. In one, a correction potential is added to an existing PES, and parameters of the correction potential are optimized by matching ro-vibrational energies to the experiment.1–3 This approach relies on being able to calculate exact rovibrational energies to make the comparison with the experiment robust. Thus,...

At the beginning of the last decade, potent high-throughput technologies stimulated the development of combinatorial chemistry as a productive source of candidate molecules suited for screening biological activity against putative drug targets. However, the sheer increase of readily available test compounds has not dramatically enhanced the efficiency of lead discovery.[1–3] As a consequence, compound selection for testing is moving increasingly from “optimally diverse” sets to tar...

Curriculum is an organized set of formal education or process of training intentions. It is a four-step plan that comprises four phases (purpose, design, implementation and assessment (Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2013). These definitions sequentially stress on plan that has a determined goal to achieve. Curriculum is the foundation of teaching and learning process. It is all-inclusive framework that encompasses development of educational program, planning teaching and learning proces...

In the context of XML technology, an XML benchmark is a tool for evaluating and comparing the performance of new XML developments with existing XML technology (Lu et al. 2005). Because of the nature of XML databases and the variety of different platforms used to store these databases (e.g. RDBMS and OO-RDBMS), the benchmarking process mainly examines the performance of the underlying storage-model, the associated query processor and the update handler (Lu et al. 2005). In ter...

In general terms, global economy and companies world-wide are influenced by political, economic, social and technological forces. This explains their continuously changing environment, which in turn leads to a recurrent impact on society. Focusing on the technological viewpoint, modern companies are getting more knowledge intensive and set their investment efforts on technology-based services. Thus, workers are put under an enormous improvement pressure, because of (1) the expected hig...

Education is an important tool for developing the quality of a country’s citizens. The reason is that citizens are the cornerstone of a country’s development in various aspects from the advancement of science and technology to information technology. The advancement can be shown in the transformation which has occurred in society, the economy, culture, and the environment of the country. Therefore, the strategy for developing the quality of people can be seen in the reflection of T...

INTRODUCTION Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach to clinical decision-making that integrates the best available scientific evidence with clinical experience and patients’ preferences and values1 . EBP is an instrument of great utility in making clinical decisions in nursing care, helping to reduce healthcare costs2 and variability in clinical practice, improving the quality of nursing care practice and patients’ health outcomes3 , and increasing job...

INTRODUCTION Currently, about fifty percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas and the forecast is that by 2050 this percentage will grow to approximately seventy percent [10]. As such, the greatest wave of city migration is yet to come and together with it a wide range of challenges raised by the need to improve the style and quality of life of a growing urban population. According to [10], a better understanding of city dynamics would allow for improved services as well as m...

T HE HIDDEN Markov model (HMM) is the most successful and widely used statistical modeling technique for Manuscript received January 25, 2008; revised April 29, 2008 and July 18, 2008. First published December 9, 2008; current version published January 15, 2009. This paper was recommended by Associate Editor Y. Soon. S. Huda and J. Yearwood are with the Center for Informatics and Applied Optimization, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Vic. 3350, Australia (e-mail: ; ; ood@ ). R. Togner...

Introduction Physiotherapy students require observational and analytical skills to enable them to evaluate patient neurological disorders in the clinical setting. Large increases in numbers of students at the University of Birmingham have made the provision of opportunities for students to develop the practical skills needed for the clinical setting increasingly difficult. The School of Health Sciences used funding from the Learning Development Unit at the university to provide new teachin...