The Power of Integration: Assessing a Recent Best-Practice Method for Large-Class Instructional Materials Generation & Presentation

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon D. Angus
Keyword(s):  
Large Class ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Practice Method

scholarly journals What Is the Best Practice Method for Quantifying the Health and Economic Benefits of Active Transport?

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 6186
Author(s):  
Holger Möller ◽  
Fiona Haigh ◽  
Rema Hayek ◽  
Lennert Veerman
Keyword(s):  
Active Transport ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Practice Method

The aim of this study was to identify a best practice method to cost the health benefits of active transport for use in infrastructure planning in New South Wales, Australia. We systematically reviewed the international literature covering the concept areas of active transport and cost and health benefits. Original publications describing a method to cost the health benefits of active transport, published in 2000–2019 were included. Studies meeting the inclusion criteria were assessed against criteria identified in interviews with key government stakeholders. A total of 2993 studies were identified, 53 were assessed for eligibility, and 19 were included in the review. The most commonly studied active transport modes were cycling (n = 8) and walking and cycling (n = 6). Exposures considered were physical activity, road transport related injuries and air pollution. The most often applied economic evaluation method was cost benefit analysis (n = 8), and costs were commonly calculated by monetising health outcomes. Based on evaluation of models against the criteria, a Multistate Life Table model was recommended as the best method currently available. There is strong and increasing interest in quantifying and costing the health benefits of active transport internationally. Incorporating health-related economic benefits into existing regulatory processes such as cost benefit analyses could provide an effective way to encourage the non-health sector to include health impacts in infrastructure measures.

A New Approach for the Analysis of Accelerometer Data Measured on Preschool Children

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melody Oliver ◽  
Philip John Schluter ◽  
Grant Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Estimating Equation ◽  
Continuous Measure ◽  
Accelerometer Data ◽  
Data Retention ◽  
Descriptive Information ◽  
Practice Method ◽  
Multivariable Regression ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Background:Accelerometers are widely used to quantify physical activity (PA) in preschoolers, yet no ‘best practice’ method for data treatment exists. The purpose of this study was to develop a robust method for data reduction using contemporary statistical methods and apply it to preschoolers’ accelerometer data.Methods:Children age 2 to 5 years were recruited in Auckland, New Zealand, and asked to wear accelerometers over 7 days. Average daily PA rates per second were derived for participants, estimated using negative binomial generalized estimating equation (GEE) models. Overall participant rates were derived and compared using normal GEE models. Descriptive information for data analyzed were compared with that derived using traditional data inclusion approaches.Results:Data were gathered from 78 of the 93 enrolled children over a median of 7 days. Daily PA rates ranged from 1.27 to 17.64 counts per second (median 5.70). Compared with traditional approaches, this method had many advantages, including improved data retention, the computation of a continuous measure, and facilitating powerful multivariable regression analyses, while providing similar descriptive information to existing methods.Conclusion:PA rates were successfully calculated for preschoolers’ activity description and advantages of the approach identified. This method holds promise for future use and merits further application and enhancement.

Constructing a graphical model of the relationship between physical activity and cognitive function based on a systematic review of prospective evidence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Campbell ◽  
Karl Ferguson ◽  
Jessica Whyte ◽  
Breda Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Cognitive Function ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Graphical Model ◽  
Included Study ◽  
Causal Inferences ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Practice Method ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Uk

Elucidating the factors that contribute to healthy ageing is an important research goal. Physical activity (PA) has been associated with benefits for cognitive function (CF). However, most of this evidence comes from longitudinal cohort studies which, in the absence of experimental design, have limited scope to make causal inferences regarding observed relationships. This review aimed to utilise recent methodological developments allowing researchers to formulate and answer stronger causal questions using observational data, by following a best-practice method for synthesising evidence to produce a graphical causal model known as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Following a search of 3 databases (EMBASE, MEDLINE and PsycINFO), 21 observational studies on the PA-CF relationship were reviewed and their methodological quality, characteristics, and key findings were summarised. The outcomes of interest were the covariates and modelling practices employed in each study. The reported covariates were synthesised against a set of criteria to determine their role in the DAG as confounders or mediators of the PA-CF relationship. Every included study had some areas of methodological weakness. The resulting DAG included a wide range of biopsychosocial covariates spanning the entire life-course and indicated potential intermediate pathways between PA and CF via structural brain health. Strengths, limitations and implications of this review for modelling decisions are discussed, prior to the model being taken forward to inform an empirical analysis using data from the UK Biobank cohort, separate from this review.

THE ADVANTAGES OF SCAN-TO-BIM IN DOCUMENTING CULTURAL HERITAGE ASSETS IN MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-118
Author(s):  
HARLINA MD. SHARIF ◽  
HAZMAN HAZUMI ◽  
IMAN ASILAH HISHAMUDDIN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Laser Scanner ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Cultural Heritage Conservation ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Practice Method

Pemuliharaan warisan budaya adalah proses kompleks yang memerlukan kaedah dan teknik yang inovatif untuk memudahkan pemulihan, pengurusan dan penentuan nilai. Dokumentasi aset warisan yang tepat sangat penting dalam memastikan bahawa sebarang perubahan, pembaikan, penambahan atau perobohan bahagian aset dicatat dengan betul untuk mengekalkan kesahihan aset. Tujuan kajian ini adalah memperlihatkan kelebihan aplikasi imbasan-ke-BIM dalam mendokumenkan aset warisan budaya di Malaysia sebagai prosedur kritikal dalam langkah-langkah untuk memelihara aset tersebut. Metodologi yang digunakan dalam kajian ini adalah mod campuran. Data utama diperoleh daripada penggunaan pengimbas laser 3D (3DTLS) pada peringkat peninjauan di bangunan Gedung Raja Abdullah, Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. Kajian ini menganalisis kelebihan imbasan-ke-BIM untuk menentukan kaedah amalan terbaik dalam mendokumenkan bangunan-bangunan bersejarah dan menguruskan aset warisan budaya. Hasil daripada kajian ini menunjukkan kepelbagaian data yang dikumpul melalui imbasan-ke-BIM yang membolehkan mereka dimanipulasi ke dalam bentuk yang berbeza, yang kemudiannya boleh digunakan untuk pelbagai tujuan.   Cultural heritage conservation is a complex process requiring innovative methods and techniques to facilitate its restoration, management and valorization. Accurate documentation of heritage assets is crucial in ensuring that any changes, repair, addition or demolition of parts of the assets are properly recorded to maintain the authenticity of the assets. The aim of this study is to establish the advantages of scan-to-BIM application in documenting cultural heritage assets in Malaysia as a critical procedure in the steps to conserve the asset. The methodology adopted in this study is mixed mode. Primary data is acquired from the use of 3D laser scanner (3DTLS) at reconnaissance stage on Gedung Raja Abdullah building, Klang, Selangor, Malaysia. This study analyses the Scan-to-BIM advantages in order to ascertain the best practice method in documenting historical buildings and managing cultural heritage assets. The output from this study demonstrates the versatility of data collected through Scan-to-BIM that allows them to be manipulated into different forms, which subsequently can be used for various purposes.

scholarly journals Method-comparison studies in telehealth: Study design and analysis considerations

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (9) ◽  
pp. 797-802
Author(s):  
Trevor G Russell ◽  
Melinda Martin-Khan ◽  
Asaduzzaman Khan ◽  
Victoria Wade
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Study Design ◽  
External Validity ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Method Comparison ◽  
Design Analysis ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Practice Method

When establishing telehealth services, clinicians need to be confident that the examinations, assessments and clinical decisions that they make while using technology are equivalent to conventional best practice. Method-comparison studies are ideally suited to answering these questions, however there is a lack of consistency in the telehealth literature in the study methodologies and data analysis techniques used. Methodologies should closely match clinical practice to maximise external validity and data analysis techniques should match the data types generated in order to be clinically meaningful. In this article we discuss the design, analysis and interpretation of method-comparison studies in the context of telehealth research.

scholarly journals A chylothorax modern kezelésének bizonyítékalapú áttekintése

2016 ◽  
Vol 157 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Zsolt Sziklavári ◽  
Péter Zsoldos ◽  
F. Tamás Molnár
Keyword(s):  
Conservative Treatment ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Keyword Search ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Chest Drain ◽  
Ductus Thoracicus ◽  
Mortality Index ◽  
Practice Method ◽  
Morbidity Index

Chylothorax is a multi-factorial complication, frequently of an operation or an accident, but rarely of a tumour. In the absence of prospective or randomised studies evidence-based treatment is normally based on personal experience, ideally in the possession of retrospective analyses using the “best practice” method. The aim of the authors was the review the up-to-date chylothorax treatments. They performed the PubMed database’s “chylothorax” keyword search of the publications reported in the last ten years. They put emphasis on articles that included a comparative analysis of the various treatment options. During the critical analysis of the methods and recommendations, the authors relied on their own joint experience amounting to 39 years. The results showed that the success of the initial conservative treatment indicates a significant deviation depending on the etiology (3–90%). The success rate of non-invasive or semi-invasive interventions is between 50–100%, again depending on the etiology. The standard surgical treatment following an unsuccessful conservative treatment of an operable patient includes the fitting of a (thoracoscopic) knot to the ductus thoracicus, pleurodesis, insertion of a permanent chest drain or a pleuroperitoneal shunt. The success rate of these interventions is between 64–100%, with a morbidity index and mortality index exceeding 25%. Conservative treatment should be the first step, which should then be followed by a gradually increased aggressive therapy, during which the decisions should be made according to the patient’s condition and the drain volume. Interventional radiology procedures are safe, successful and they can be offered concurrently with a conservative treatment or operational solutions, although they are available only in a few centres. Orv. Hetil., 2016, 157(2), 43–51.

scholarly journals Ground Rules in Forensic Interviews: Should We Make Practice More Applied?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Cognitive Learning ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
Forensic Interviews ◽  
Forensic Interview ◽  
Ground Rule ◽  
Child Testimony ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Practice Method ◽  
Practice Methods

<p>Introducing ground rules is recommended in many forensic interview best-practice protocols, but children do not always use them when they should. There is not yet a consensus in the literature on the best way to teach the rules, and many of the practice methods researched are not feasible for practitioners. Additionally, increased intensity of practice can lead to adverse effects on other aspects of child testimony too. We draw on cognitive learning literature to understand how to better facilitate ground rule use amongst children in forensic interviews. Ninety-three children between the ages of 5-12 from Greater Wellington region, New Zealand, participated in a staged event at their school and were interviewed using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Protocol (Lamb et al., 2018) 2-3 weeks later. At the interview, children practised the ground rules ‘I don’t know’ (IDK), ‘I don’t understand’ (IDU) and ‘Correct me’ (CM) in one of four ways which varied by the degree of match between the practice and interview context. Children were asked difficult questions designed to elicit the rules throughout the interview, and coding children’s accuracy of reporting also examined the broader effects of practice method and rule use. No significant effects were found between the practice method and responses to difficult questions for the IDK and CM rules. The Control condition, which received no ground rules instruction or practice, was significantly different to the other practice conditions for the IDU rule. In addition to this, there was no significant effect of practice method or competency at using ground rules on children’s general accuracy about the event. Several possible explanations for this pattern of results are explored in the discussion section.</p>

scholarly journals BEST PRACTICE PENYEDIAAN AKSES KOLEKSI E-BOOK DI PERPUSTAKAAN IAIN JEMBER

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Fiqru Mafar
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Data Retrieval ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Practice Method ◽  
Alternative Service ◽  
Book Collections ◽  
Research Show ◽  
Library Collections

The aims of this study is describes the best practices in providing access to e-book in the JAIN IAIN library. The method used is the best practice method by paying attention to every step that has been applied at the study site. Data retrieval is done by observation, literature study, and interviews. The results of the research show that the best practice carried out at the IAIN Jember Library in providing access to e-book collections is able to become a new service at the library. Not only that, the provision of these services is a lighter interest of users to access library collections. The e-book collection is also an alternative service that can be enjoyed by users in meeting their information needs. The results of these studies can be made recommendations for libraries who want to implement e-book services based on the condition of their respective resources.

scholarly journals 2DCBS: A Model for Developing Dependable Component-Based Software

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Kahtan ◽  
Nordin Abu Bakar ◽  
Rosmawati Nordin ◽  
Mansoor Abdullateef Abdulgabber
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Component Software ◽  
Application Systems ◽  
Practice Method ◽  
Engineering Effort

The software industry has adopted component-based software development (CBSD) to rapidly build and deploy large and complex software systems with significant savings at minimal engineering effort, cost, and time. However, CBSD encounters issues on security trust, mainly with respect to dependability attributes. A system is considered dependable when it can produce the outputs for which it was designed with no adverse effect on its intended environment. Dependability consists of several attributes that imply availability, confidentiality, integrity, reliability, safety, and maintainability. Dependability attributes must be embedded in a CBSD model to develop dependable component software. Motivated by the importance of these attributes, this paper pursues two objectives: to design a model for developing a dependable system that mitigates the vulnerabilities of software components, and to evaluate the proposed model. The model proposed in this study is labelled as developing dependable component-based software (2DCBS). To develop this model, the CBSD architectural phases and processes must be framed and the six dependability attributes embedded according to the best practice method. The expert opinion approach was applied to evaluate 2DCBS framing. In addition, the 2DCBS model was applied to the development of an information communication technology (ICT) portal through an empirical study method. Vulnerability assessment tools (VATs) were employed to verify the dependability attributes of the developed ICT portal. Results show that the 2DCBS model can be adopted to develop web application systems and to mitigate the vulnerabilities of the developed systems. This study contributes to CBSD and facilitates the specification and evaluation of dependability attributes throughout model development. Furthermore, the reliability of the dependable model can increase confidence in the use of CBSD for industries.

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