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Creating And Facilitating Change For Person-Centred Coordinated Care (P3c): The Development Of The Organisational Change Tool (P3c-Oct), Jane Horrell, Helen Lloyd, Thavapriya Sugavanam, James Close, Richard Byng Jan 2018

Creating And Facilitating Change For Person-Centred Coordinated Care (P3c): The Development Of The Organisational Change Tool (P3c-Oct), Jane Horrell, Helen Lloyd, Thavapriya Sugavanam, James Close, Richard Byng

More Faculty of Health Research

BACKGROUND: Person Centred Coordinated Care (P3C) is a UK priority for patients, carers, professionals, commissioners and policy makers. Services are developing a range of approaches to deliver this care with a lack of tools to guide implementation. METHODOLOGY: A scoping review and critical examination of current policy, key literature and NHS guidelines, together with stakeholder involvement led to the identification of domains, subdomains and component activities (processes and behaviours) required to deliver P3C. These were validated through codesign with stakeholders via a series of workshops and cognitive interviews. RESULTS: Six core domains of P3C were identified as follows: (i) my …

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Comparison Of Rnn, Lstm And Gru On Speech Recognition Data, Apeksha Nagesh Shewalkar Jan 2018

Comparison Of Rnn, Lstm And Gru On Speech Recognition Data, Apeksha Nagesh Shewalkar

Computer Science

Deep Learning [DL] provides an efficient way to train Deep Neural Networks [DNN]. DDNs when used for end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition [ASR] tasks, could produce more accurate results compared to traditional ASR. Normal feedforward neural networks are not suitable for speech data as they cannot persist past information. Whereas Recurrent Neural Networks [RNNs] can persist past information and handle temporal dependencies. For this project, three recurrent networks, standard RNN, Long Short-Term Memory [LSTM] networks and Gated Recurrent Unit [GRU] networks are evaluated in order to compare their performance on speech data. The data set used for the experiments is a …

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Understanding Human Errors To Improve Requirements Quality, Kavitha Manjunath Jan 2018

Understanding Human Errors To Improve Requirements Quality, Kavitha Manjunath

Computer Science

Requirements engineering is the first and perhaps the most important phase of software life cycle. Software faults committed during the requirements development, if left undetected can affect downstream activities. While previous research has developed fault-detection techniques, they are inadequate because they lack an understanding of root cause of faults to be able to avoid its future occurrences. Our research is aimed at helping software engineers understand human errors (i.e., the root cause) that cause faults that are inserted into Software Requirements Specification (SRS). This can help software engineers become more aware and reduce the likelihood of committing human errors during …

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An Integrated Approach To Assess The Impacts Of Zinc Pyrithione At Different Levels Of Biological Organization In Marine Mussels., Lorna J. Dallas, Andrew Turner, Tim P. Bean, Brett P. Lyons, Awadhesh N. Jha Jan 2018

An Integrated Approach To Assess The Impacts Of Zinc Pyrithione At Different Levels Of Biological Organization In Marine Mussels., Lorna J. Dallas, Andrew Turner, Tim P. Bean, Brett P. Lyons, Awadhesh N. Jha

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The mechanisms of sublethal toxicity of the antifouling biocide, zinc pyrithione (ZnPT), have not been well-studied. This investigation demonstrates that 14-d sublethal exposure to ZnPT (0.2 or 2 μM, alongside inorganic Zn and sea water controls) is genotoxic to mussel haemocytes but suggests that this is not caused by oxidative DNA damage as no significant induction of oxidised purines was detected by Fpg-modified comet assay. More ecologically relevant endpoints, including decreased clearance rate (CR), cessation of attachment and decreased tolerance of stress on stress (SoS), also showed significant response to ZnPT exposure. Our integrated approach was underpinned by molecular analyses …

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Blood Glucose Prediction Models For Personalized Diabetes Management, Warnakulasuriya Chandima Fernando Jan 2018

Blood Glucose Prediction Models For Personalized Diabetes Management, Warnakulasuriya Chandima Fernando

Computer Science

Effective blood glucose (BG) control is essential for patients with diabetes. This calls for an immediate need to closely keep track of patients' BG level all the time. However, sometimes individual patients may not be able to monitor their BG level regularly due to all kinds of real-life interference. To address this issue, in this paper we propose machine-learning based prediction models that can automatically predict patients BG level based on their historical data and known current status. We take two approaches, one for predicting BG level only using individual's data and second is to use a population data. Our …

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Comparison Between Symfony, Asp.Net Mvc, And Node.Js Express For Web Development, Xiaoli Mao Jan 2018

Comparison Between Symfony, Asp.Net Mvc, And Node.Js Express For Web Development, Xiaoli Mao

Computer Science

Web development technologies have been developing tremendously in recent years. While new technologies such as Node.js come with various frameworks, traditional technologies such as ASP.NET and PHP are also being used with new frameworks to meet the increasing requirements. In this paper, three server-side frameworks, namely ASP.NET MVC 5, Symfony for PHP, and Node.js Express, are compared in terms of development, performance, and other aspects. For the development comparison, a hospital information management system was developed and it was found that Symfony is the most friendly to new developers. For the performance comparison, benchmark testing was used with two scenarios …

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Using Human Error Models To Improve The Quality Of Software Requirements, Vaibhav Kumar Anu Jan 2018

Using Human Error Models To Improve The Quality Of Software Requirements, Vaibhav Kumar Anu

Computer Science

Creating high quality software is a primary concern for software development organizations. Researchers have devoted considerable effort in developing quality improvement methods that help software engineers detect faults early in the development lifecycle (when the faults are cheapest to detect and repair). While useful, the available approaches still cannot make sure that Software developers are able to identify all or even a significantly large portion of faults. This is because they do not help software developers identify errors (i.e., underlying cause of faults) that may have led to the insertion of the faults (i.e., manifestation of error). This lack of …

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Mining Structure Patterns Based On 3d Features In The Protein-Dna And Protein-Protein Complex, Qing Sun Jan 2018

Mining Structure Patterns Based On 3d Features In The Protein-Dna And Protein-Protein Complex, Qing Sun

Computer Science

For a long time, researchers have been searching for the “recognition codes” of protein complexes, which determine what DNA sequence or other protein a protein can bind to. The binding part prediction of protein complexes have important applications in many biological research fields, such as cleavage enzyme design and drug design and so on. Most sequence-based and PWM methods only capture sequence features on the protein interfaces and ignore the crucial spatial attributes of the features. This study investigates the recognition codes from a new angle, in which the preferred binding modes are captured using local structural motifs spanning the …

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Paleoecological Analysis Of Benthic Recovery After The Late Permian Mass Extinction Event In Eastern Lombardy, Italy, William J. Foster, Silvia Danise, Gregory D. Price, Richard J. Twitchett Jan 2018

Paleoecological Analysis Of Benthic Recovery After The Late Permian Mass Extinction Event In Eastern Lombardy, Italy, William J. Foster, Silvia Danise, Gregory D. Price, Richard J. Twitchett

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Community Resilience In Rural China: The Case Of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, G Wilson, Z Hu, S Rahman Jan 2018

Community Resilience In Rural China: The Case Of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, G Wilson, Z Hu, S Rahman

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Building on conceptual frameworks to assess community resilience developed by Emery and Flora (2006) and Kelly et al. (2015), this study analyses the resilience of Hu village (Sichuan, China). The resilience of the village is assessed in the face of multiple and complex slow- and fast onset anthropogenic disturbances, especially the impacts of globalisation and modernisation, which have substantially transformed Chinese society. Hu village is typical for a rural community in transition affected by industrialisation, deagrarianisation, counter-urbanisation and changing stakeholder expectations and opportunities. This has been accompanied by agricultural depopulation, outmigration, increasing non-farm employment, declining agricultural incomes, and associated social …

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The Curious Death - And Life - Of British Transport Policy, Iain Docherty, Jon Shaw, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable Jan 2018

The Curious Death - And Life - Of British Transport Policy, Iain Docherty, Jon Shaw, Greg Marsden, Jillian Anable

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Pressure-Based Authentication: A Secure And Usable Approach, Zhangyu Meng Jan 2018

Pressure-Based Authentication: A Secure And Usable Approach, Zhangyu Meng

Computer Science

Due to its invisibility feature, pressure force is useful to enhance the security of authentication, especially preventing shoulder surfing. However, it is challenging to memorize a pressure-based password. This paper presents a pressure-based authentication system with personalizing the detection of pressure force, which concretizes a pressure-based password as a decimal number to reduce the effort of memorization, improve the accuracy, and enhance the security. We conducted two user studies to compare the four-pin password with our pressure-based password regarding their usability performance and security evaluation. The results of the first study indicated that the pressure-based password is more secure, but …

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Deception In Cyberspace: Con-Man Attack In Cloud Services, Md. Minhaz Chowdhury Jan 2018

Deception In Cyberspace: Con-Man Attack In Cloud Services, Md. Minhaz Chowdhury

Computer Science

A con-man deception appears in services from cyberspace, e.g., in cloud services. A cloud-service provider deceives by repeatedly providing less service than promised and deliberately avoids service monitoring. Such a repeated shortfall is beneficial for the cloud-service provider but victimizes the service’s legitimate consumers. This deception is called a con-man deception. A con-man-resistant trust algorithm is used as a proactive measure against such deception, reducing the deception’s severity on the victim’s end. This trust algorithm detects a con-man deception by evaluating a cloud service’s expected versus actual behavior. This detection application reveals the con-man-resistant trust algorithm’s previously veiled properties. With …

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Spanish Translation And Validation Of The Empathic-30 Questionnaire To Measure Parental Satisfaction In Intensive Care Units, Orive Fj Pilar, Lozano J Basabe, Zuñiga A López, Fernández Ym López, Argaluza J Escudero, Jm Latour Jan 2018

Spanish Translation And Validation Of The Empathic-30 Questionnaire To Measure Parental Satisfaction In Intensive Care Units, Orive Fj Pilar, Lozano J Basabe, Zuñiga A López, Fernández Ym López, Argaluza J Escudero, Jm Latour

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Introduction Few validated surveys measuring parental satisfaction in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) are available, and none of them in Spanish language. The aim of this study is to translate and validate the questionnaire EMpowerment of PArents in THe Intensive Care (EMPATHIC). This questionnaire measures parental perceptions of paediatric intensive care-related satisfaction items in the Spanish language. Material and methods A prospective cohort study was carried out using questionnaires completed by relatives of children (range 0–17 years old) admitted into a tertiary PICU. Inclusion criteria were a length of stay more than 24 h, and a suitable understanding of …

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Relationships Between Markers Of Inflammation And Muscle Mass, Strength And Function: Findings From The Hertfordshire Cohort Study, L. D. Westbury, N. R. Fuggle, H. E. Syddall, N. A. Duggal, S. C. Shaw, K. Maslin, E. M. Dennison, J. M. Lord, C. Cooper Jan 2018

Relationships Between Markers Of Inflammation And Muscle Mass, Strength And Function: Findings From The Hertfordshire Cohort Study, L. D. Westbury, N. R. Fuggle, H. E. Syddall, N. A. Duggal, S. C. Shaw, K. Maslin, E. M. Dennison, J. M. Lord, C. Cooper

School of Nursing and Midwifery

We investigated the longitudinal relationships between inflammation markers and the following outcomes in a UK cohort study: appendicular lean mass (ALM); walking speed; level and change in grip strength; and sarcopenia defined by the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People. Analyses were based on 336 community-dwelling older men and women (aged 59-70 years) who participated in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS). Inflammation markers were ascertained at baseline using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay techniques and Bio-Plex Pro Assays. Grip strength was measured at baseline and follow-up [median follow-up time: 10.8 years (inter-quartile range 10.2-11.6)] and change in grip strength was …

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Comparison Of Nutrient Intake In Adolescents And Adults With And Without Food Allergies, K. Maslin, C. Venter, H. Mackenzie, B. Vlieg-Boerstra, T. Dean, I. Sommer Jan 2018

Comparison Of Nutrient Intake In Adolescents And Adults With And Without Food Allergies, K. Maslin, C. Venter, H. Mackenzie, B. Vlieg-Boerstra, T. Dean, I. Sommer

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

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Study On Compaction Moisture Range Specifications Of North Dakota State And Development Of Empirical Equations For Predicting Compaction Characteristics, Appasaheb T. Kadam Jan 2018

Study On Compaction Moisture Range Specifications Of North Dakota State And Development Of Empirical Equations For Predicting Compaction Characteristics, Appasaheb T. Kadam

Construction Management and Engineering

Stability of soil plays an important role in the construction of engineering structures like pavements, buildings, embankments, dams, etc. Compaction is the process where proper stability of soil is ensured with required specifications. In this study, efforts have been made to develop empirical equations for Proctor test methods which help in predicting compaction parameters in relation with Atterberg limits for a soil type. The use of empirical equations will help in economy of the project by saving the time involved in performing laboratory activities and associated costs. Results indicate that Plastic limits holds a good correlation and can be utilized …

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Does Carbon Limitation Reduce Nitrogen Retention In Soil?, H. Kate Schofield, Alan D. Tappin, Mark F. Fitzsimons Jan 2018

Does Carbon Limitation Reduce Nitrogen Retention In Soil?, H. Kate Schofield, Alan D. Tappin, Mark F. Fitzsimons

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Soil Sterilisation Methods For Use In Oecd 106: How Effective Are They?, Katherine Lees, Mark Fitzsimons, Jason Snape, Alan Tappin, Sean Comber Jan 2018

Soil Sterilisation Methods For Use In Oecd 106: How Effective Are They?, Katherine Lees, Mark Fitzsimons, Jason Snape, Alan Tappin, Sean Comber

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Spaces Of Concern: Parliamentary Discourse On Britain's Overseas Territories., Nichola Harmer Jan 2018

Spaces Of Concern: Parliamentary Discourse On Britain's Overseas Territories., Nichola Harmer

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Portland Limestone Cement With Fly Ash: Freeze-Thaw Durability And Microstructure Studies, Prokshit Angadi Jan 2018

Portland Limestone Cement With Fly Ash: Freeze-Thaw Durability And Microstructure Studies, Prokshit Angadi

Construction Management and Engineering

In this study, the freeze-thaw performance and other engineering properties of different cementitious mixtures containing Type I/II portland cement, Type IL (10) portland Limestone cement (PLC) and Coarse Ground cement (CG-P) with or without partial replacement of fly ash (Class F) were examined. The goal was to develop a concrete mixture with better or similar freeze-thaw durability without adversely affecting other engineering properties of concrete. Crucial engineering properties reviewed include compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, workability, the degree of hydration, setting time, shrinkage and resistivity. The study was divided into two parts, one consisting of mechanical testing of engineering properties …

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Digitalized Cognitive Assessment Mediated By A Virtual Caregiver, Matteo Luperto, Marta Romeo, Francesca Lunardini, Nicola Basilico, Ray Jones, Angelo Cangelosi, Simona Ferrante, Na Borghese Jan 2018

Digitalized Cognitive Assessment Mediated By A Virtual Caregiver, Matteo Luperto, Marta Romeo, Francesca Lunardini, Nicola Basilico, Ray Jones, Angelo Cangelosi, Simona Ferrante, Na Borghese

School of Nursing and Midwifery

The ageing of the population deeply impacts on the social costs relative to health care. The use of modern technologies is one of the most promising approaches, under current study, to reduce such impact. In this demonstration, we propose a framework that can be employed for at-home assessment of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). It is composed by a set of digitalized cognitive tests, developed from their paper-and-pencil counterparts, and by a Virtual Caregiver, which oversees the test execution and provides instructions.

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The Role Of Felt Or Enacted Criticism In Parents’ Decision Making In Differing Contexts And Communities: Toward A Formal Grounded Theory, Sarah J. Neill, Imelda Coyne Jan 2018

The Role Of Felt Or Enacted Criticism In Parents’ Decision Making In Differing Contexts And Communities: Toward A Formal Grounded Theory, Sarah J. Neill, Imelda Coyne

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Felt or enacted criticism was identified as a significant influence on White British parents’ decision making during acute childhood illness in a substantive grounded theory “Containing acute childhood illness within family life.” These parents sought to avoid further criticism, sometimes leading to delayed consultation. Using Glaserian grounded theory principles, we conducted a secondary analysis of data from three studies, to establish the transferability and modifiability of the original theory to other settings and communities in Ireland and England. Felt or enacted criticism was found to operate across the childhood age range, social groups, and settings. Parent’s strategies to avoid criticism …

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Positive Definite Functions And Dual Pairs Of Locally Convex Spaces, Daniel Alpay, Saak Gabriyelyan Jan 2018

Positive Definite Functions And Dual Pairs Of Locally Convex Spaces, Daniel Alpay, Saak Gabriyelyan

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Using pairs of locally convex topological vector spaces in duality and topologies defined by directed families of sets bounded with respect to the duality, we prove general factorization theorems and general dilation theorems for operator-valued positive definite functions.

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The Participating Mind In The Quantum Universe, Menas Kafatos, Keun-Hang Susan Yang Jan 2018

The Participating Mind In The Quantum Universe, Menas Kafatos, Keun-Hang Susan Yang

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

The Orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics, which followed the Copenhagen Interpretation but was enhanced by primarily Werner Heisenberg and John von Neumann into a fully developed theory, brought in, among others, the role of measurement, available choices and response of the quantum system. It is, more consistent and clear than other interpretations of quantum mechanics as it provides account of the interactions of observers with the external world. As such, the Orthodox interpretation does a lot more than just account for physical interactions in the atomic world, which was the original goal of quantum mechanics in the early part of …

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Acknowledging The Tides Through The Renewable Energy Of The Moon, Drew Wolf Jan 2018

Acknowledging The Tides Through The Renewable Energy Of The Moon, Drew Wolf

Architecture Theses

A restructure of energy generation and architectures ability to transform power plants into a beacon of culture. This project seeks to reawaken a lost perspective of nature through the acknowledgment of the entwined relationship between our planet and the cosmic forces through the creation of a Tidal Lagoon in Seattle, Washington.

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Designing For Humanity, Elizabeth Thordson Jan 2018

Designing For Humanity, Elizabeth Thordson

Architecture Theses

This thesis aims to explore the idea that a healthy prison design will in turn create a healthy atmosphere. I will work to design a prison that will aid in the inmates’ transition back into society. By designing a structure that provides views to nature, access to natural sunlight, and room to move semi freely, I believe inmates will be healthier and happier. Currently the United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and over half of the people incarcerated will end up back in prison within 5 years of their release. The oppressive nature of prisons …

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Interplanetary Habitation: Designing For Life On Mars, Landon Schoeneck Jan 2018

Interplanetary Habitation: Designing For Life On Mars, Landon Schoeneck

Architecture Theses

How can architecture adapt the complex engineering systems of a Mars colony to sustainable human life? Migration and travel has evolved from the dawn of humanity to the automotive and flight industries of current times. Now interplanetary travel is on the forefront of technological innovation. Innovation is created by those who dream farther forward than current society can understand, and it is necessary to push the boundaries of technology to make the impossible practical. thinking ahead to design for future interplanetary migration is a needed step to compel the world forward, as well as architecture and it’s boundaries therein. The …

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The Space Between: A Manifesto For Designing Socially Engaged Communities, Alex Malnaa Jan 2018

The Space Between: A Manifesto For Designing Socially Engaged Communities, Alex Malnaa

Architecture Theses

Suburbanization, low-density residential, commercial and civic zones with expansive, under-utilized parking lots have created physical and social distances between people. Each typological zone is segregated from the others with minimal overlap and potential for interplay between the inhabitants. How can architectural insertions inspire a culture to become inclusive and allow people to become more socially engaged as a community? My research of primary literary sources, A New Theory of Urban Design, by Christopher Alexander, and The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging, by Charles H. Vogl, winner of the Nautilus Silver Award in Business & Leadership, and design explorations …

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Absim Exhibition Design: Agent-Based Simulation In The Curating Process, Brady Laurin Jan 2018

Absim Exhibition Design: Agent-Based Simulation In The Curating Process, Brady Laurin

Architecture Theses

The design of museum and gallery spaces are typically done by different designers with a mutual understanding of the scope of work for each. In the best possible scenario, these processes will take place congruently, with cooperation from both designers to realize the complete museum. In many cases, these processes take place in isolation from one another, with little to no collaboration between the building designer and the curator. Agent-Based Simulation, or ABSim, is a process often used to analyze the flow of pedestrians in a designed space. Most commonly used to optimize evacuation patterns and transit terminal layout, the …

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