scholarly journals Exposure to Neurointervention During Neurology Training

Stroke ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaustubh Limaye ◽  
Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez ◽  
Maxim Mokin ◽  
Amanda Jagolino ◽  
Sunil A. Sheth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Cerebrovascular Diseases ◽  
House Staff ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Contemporary Management ◽  
Patient Centric ◽  
Current Curriculum

There is an urgent need to include a dedicated neurointerventional rotation in the curriculum of neurology residency and vascular neurology fellowship based on the paradigm shift in recent years of stroke workflow. The recent changes coupled with growing body of evidence about lack of neurointerventional exposure in current curriculum makes it imperative for us to restructure the training for future neurologists. The exposure will prepare the neurology house-staff for the contemporary management of cerebrovascular diseases and will lead to high quality, patient-centric care.

scholarly journals Vibrotactile-Based Rehabilitation on Balance and Gait in Patients with Neurological Diseases: A Systematic Review and Metanalysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 518
Author(s):  
Sara De Angelis ◽  
Alessandro Antonio Princi ◽  
Fulvio Dal Farra ◽  
Giovanni Morone ◽  
Carlo Caltagirone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Fear Of Falling ◽  
Neurological Diseases ◽  
Cerebrovascular Diseases ◽  
Gait Rehabilitation ◽  
Proprioceptive Information ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Multisensory Information

Postural instability and fear of falling represent two major causes of decreased mobility and quality of life in cerebrovascular and neurologic diseases. In recent years, rehabilitation strategies were carried out considering a combined sensorimotor intervention and an active involvement of the patients during the rehabilitation sessions. Accordingly, new technological devices and paradigms have been developed to increase the effectiveness of rehabilitation by integrating multisensory information and augmented feedback promoting the involvement of the cognitive paradigm in neurorehabilitation. In this context, the vibrotactile feedback (VF) could represent a peripheral therapeutic input, in order to provide spatial proprioceptive information to guide the patient during task-oriented exercises. The present systematic review and metanalysis aimed to explore the effectiveness of the VF on balance and gait rehabilitation in patients with neurological and cerebrovascular diseases. A total of 18 studies met the inclusion criteria and were included. Due to the lack of high-quality studies and heterogeneity of treatments protocols, clinical practice recommendations on the efficacy of VF cannot be made. Results show that VF-based intervention could be a safe complementary sensory-motor approach for balance and gait rehabilitation in patients with neurological and cerebrovascular diseases. More high-quality randomized controlled trials are needed.

scholarly journals Learning from Disagreement: A Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 1385-1470
Author(s):  
Alexandra N. Uma ◽  
Tommaso Fornaciari ◽  
Dirk Hovy ◽  
Silviu Paun ◽  
Barbara Plank ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Training Models ◽  
Part Of Speech Tagging ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Speech Tagging

Many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) offer evidence that humans disagree, from objective tasks such as part-of-speech tagging to more subjective tasks such as classifying an image or deciding whether a proposition follows from certain premises. While most learning in artificial intelligence (AI) still relies on the assumption that a single (gold) interpretation exists for each item, a growing body of research aims to develop learning methods that do not rely on this assumption. In this survey, we review the evidence for disagreements on NLP and CV tasks, focusing on tasks for which substantial datasets containing this information have been created. We discuss the most popular approaches to training models from datasets containing multiple judgments potentially in disagreement. We systematically compare these different approaches by training them with each of the available datasets, considering several ways to evaluate the resulting models. Finally, we discuss the results in depth, focusing on four key research questions, and assess how the type of evaluation and the characteristics of a dataset determine the answers to these questions. Our results suggest, first of all, that even if we abandon the assumption of a gold standard, it is still essential to reach a consensus on how to evaluate models. This is because the relative performance of the various training methods is critically affected by the chosen form of evaluation. Secondly, we observed a strong dataset effect. With substantial datasets, providing many judgments by high-quality coders for each item, training directly with soft labels achieved better results than training from aggregated or even gold labels. This result holds for both hard and soft evaluation. But when the above conditions do not hold, leveraging both gold and soft labels generally achieved the best results in the hard evaluation. All datasets and models employed in this paper are freely available as supplementary materials.

scholarly journals Assessing data quality in citizen science (preprint)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Kosmala ◽  
Andrea Wiggins ◽  
Alexandra Swanson ◽  
Brooke Simmons
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Systematic Error ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Project Design ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Volunteer Training ◽  
Science Projects ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Expert Validation

AbstractEcological and environmental citizen science projects have enormous potential to advance science, influence policy, and guide resource management by producing datasets that are otherwise infeasible to generate. This potential can only be realized, though, if the datasets are of high quality. While scientists are often skeptical of the ability of unpaid volunteers to produce accurate datasets, a growing body of publications clearly shows that diverse types of citizen science projects can produce data with accuracy equal to or surpassing that of professionals. Successful projects rely on a suite of methods to boost data accuracy and account for bias, including iterative project development, volunteer training and testing, expert validation, replication across volunteers, and statistical modeling of systematic error. Each citizen science dataset should therefore be judged individually, according to project design and application, rather than assumed to be substandard simply because volunteers generated it.

scholarly journals Ready for STEM?

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
Marcia A. Mardis
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
School Librarians ◽  
Stem Learning ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Discovery Education ◽  
Digital Assets ◽  
Current Curriculum ◽  
Library Collections

National emphases on STEM learning and digital textbooks have highlighted the importance of high quality digital instructional materials. Because teachers often lack the time and expertise to find, assess, and organize multimedia, school librarians can support STEM learning by providing media-rich, current, curriculum-linked library collections. To determine whether Discovery Education Streaming, a leading commercial database is a viable source of school library STEM resources, the researcher analyzed its multimedia assets by media, grade, category, and copyright. Results suggested that the database’s extensive content was comprised mainly of video segments, complete videos, and images but that this content was outdated, had uneven grade coverage, and addressed limited topics. While the results raise concerns about Discovery Education Streaming as an enhancement to library collections, careful use of these sources may allow school librarians opportunities to integrate high quality digital assets into their collections through specific strategies for policy, research, and practice.

Patient Centric Healthcare InformationSystems in the U.S.

2011 ◽  
pp. 498-506
Author(s):  
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
The United States ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Institute Of Medicine ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Improving Patient Care ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Patient Centric

Healthcare expenditure is increasing exponentially, and reducing this expenditure (i.e., offering effective and efficient quality healthcare treatment) is becoming a priority not only in the United States, but also globally (Bush, 2004; Oslo Declaration, 2003;Global Medical Forum, 2005). In the final report compiled by the Committee on the Quality of Healthcare in America (Institute of Medicine, 2001), it was noted that improving patient care is integrally linked to providing high quality healthcare.

Understanding Head Start Children's Transitions to Kindergarten

2021 ◽  
pp. 254-273
Author(s):  
Louisa Tarullo ◽  
Nikki Aikens ◽  
Lizabeth Malone ◽  
Ashley Kopack Klein ◽  
Jennifer Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Head Start ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Supportive Relationships ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
Smooth Transitions

Participating in Head Start can prepare children and families for success in kindergarten and beyond. A growing body of research suggests that continuity in high-quality learning experiences is critical for maintaining children's success. Transition practices can provide such continuity and improve children's outcomes. Head Start is in a strong position to help build that continuity to support parents and children. This chapter provides in-depth analyses of Head Start children's transitions to kindergarten from multiple respondent perspectives, using data from two cohorts of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey. Although most Head Start centers/programs and receiving schools conduct activities to promote smooth transitions and supportive relationships, fewer are intentional about supporting an alignment of standards, curricula, and assessments across educational settings.

scholarly journals Framing narrative journalism as a new genre: A case study of the Netherlands

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1364-1380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kobie van Krieken ◽  
José Sanders
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
New Media ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Holy Grail ◽  
Frame Narrative ◽  
Achievable Goal

Although narrative journalism has a long history in the Netherlands, it is in recent years being promoted as a ‘new’ genre. This study examines the motives underlying this promotional tactic. To that end, we analyze how narrative journalism is framed in (1) public expressions of the initiatives aimed at professionalization of the genre and (2) interviews with journalists and lecturers in journalism programs. Results indicate that in public discourse on narrative journalism, the genre is framed as moving, essential, and as high quality journalism. These frames indicate that the current promotion of narrative journalism as ‘new’ can be seen as a strategy that journalists apply to withstand the pressures they are facing in the competition with new media. These frames are deepened in the interviews with lecturers and practitioners, who frame narrative journalism as a dangerous game, a paradigm shift, and as the Holy Grail. These frames indicate that narrative journalism is regarded as the highest achievable goal for journalists, but that its practice comes with dangers and risks: it tempts journalists to abandon the traditional principles of objectivity and factuality, which can ultimately cause journalism to lose its credibility and authority. We discuss these findings in terms of boundary work and reflect on implications for narrative journalism’s societal function.

The Australian doctorate curriculum: responding to the needs of Asian candidates

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarojni Choy ◽  
Minglin Li ◽  
Parlo Singh
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
International Research ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Developmental Experiences ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Research Curriculum ◽  
Current Curriculum ◽  
Australian Universities

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case for appraisal of the current curriculum provisions for international students. In this paper, the authors summarise the key challenges of Asian international research graduate students pursuing doctorate studies in Australian universities to become researchers for the global communities. The intention is to advocate further research on current higher degree research curriculum with a view to enriching the developmental experiences of international research graduate students in preparation for global practice. Design/methodology/approach – This is an analytical paper that adopts a conceptual and rhetorical approach. Findings – The authors review a growing body of research on higher degree research studies and establish a need for appraisal of current curriculum provisions. Originality/value – This is the first paper to concentrate on an emerging need to appraise current higher degree research curriculum provisions to enhance the development international research graduate students for global practices.

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