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Reducing Medication Errors : A Dialectical Journey From The Phenomenological To The Ontological, Avinash Bachwani Jan 2017

Reducing Medication Errors : A Dialectical Journey From The Phenomenological To The Ontological, Avinash Bachwani

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Discrepancies in medication information lead to medication errors that impose an enormous, yet preventable burden on patients, the healthcare system, and society. The inordinate amount of attention given to the process of reconciling discrepancies has bestowed such inorganic dominance upon the process itself that the primal goals of medication management and patient safety have devolved into implicit considerations. A chief impediment that continues to forestall the homogeneous application of medication reconciliation is the absence of standardization. This dissertation disassembles the most significant barrier to standardization by unbundling the role of clinicians from the process, and additionally challenges the lethargy in …


Bioont : Improving Knowledge Organization And Representation In The Domain Of Biometric Authentication, Stephen Bryan Buerle Jan 2017

Bioont : Improving Knowledge Organization And Representation In The Domain Of Biometric Authentication, Stephen Bryan Buerle

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation explores some of the fundamental challenges facing the information assurance community as it relates to knowledge categorization, organization and representation within the field of information security and more specifically within the domain of biometric authentication. A primary objective of this research is the development of a biometric authentication corpus and an empirically derived ontological prototype, which aids and promotes further research into the fundamental ontological structure of the field of biometric authentication. In doing so this research explores the use of automated and semi-supervised ontological engineering, corpus analysis and natural language processes techniques in the development of this …


Music Social Tagging As A Validation Tool For The Frbr Conceptual Model, Kabel Nathan Stanwicks Jan 2017

Music Social Tagging As A Validation Tool For The Frbr Conceptual Model, Kabel Nathan Stanwicks

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The International Federation of Library Associations developed its Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) without performing user testing to ensure that the model would meet the needs of professionals and users. Analyzing user-generated social tags in relation to FRBR entities and attributes will help determine if the layperson describes objects in a manner that conforms to the FRBR conceptual model. Number one songs from the weekly Billboard Hot 100 charts from 1958 through 2013 were randomly sampled, tags associated with the sampled songs were pulled from the last.fm Web site, and tags were analyzed to determine their relation to FRBR …