scholarly journals Running a Collaborative Research Website and Blog with Jekyll and GitHub

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Visconti ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
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VP25 African Countries Are Working Together To Enhance Medicine Use

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. 157-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Massele ◽  
Daniel Afriyie ◽  
Johanita Burger ◽  
Charles Ezenduka ◽  
Joseph Fadare ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Pharmacology ◽  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
World Health ◽  
Medicine Use ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Antibiotic Drug ◽  
Working Together

INTRODUCTION:The socioeconomic burden of diseases is increasing in Africa. For instance in 2011, 70 percent of the world's human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) population resided in sub-Sahara Africa. There are also growing rates of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), which necessitates newer more expensive antibiotics adding to costs. There is also a growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), three out of four patients with hypertension currently live in low and middle income countries (LMICs), with prevalence rates up to 30 to 45 percent among adults in Africa. Alongside this, up to 70 percent of total healthcare expenditure is spent on medicines in LMICs; much of this out-of-pocket. Consequently, there is an urgent need to strengthen collaborative research to improve medicine use.METHODS:Summary of groups working together in Africa including the Medicines Utilisation Research in Africa (MURIA) group.RESULTS:African Strategies for Health identifies and advocates best practices, as well as works with others to develop sustainable solutions. Pharmacology for Africa (PharfA) organises and promotes pharmacology on the African continent, including research in clinical pharmacology, alongside the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) sub-division. International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Africa co-ordinates activities from the different African country chapters. The South African Health Technology Assessment Society (SAHTAS) is a scientific and professional society for all those who produce, use, or encounter Health Technology Assessment (HTA) in Southern Africa, and the World Health Organization (WHO) International and Regional groups are improving antibiotic drug utilization capabilities in Africa. The MURIA group was established in 2015 (1). Ongoing collaborative research includes (i) initiatives to optimize antibiotic use; (ii) methods to enhance adherence to anti-infective prescribing guidance, (iii) approaches to improve adherence to HIV and NCDs; (iv) researching current anti-hypertensive utilization patterns and knowledge; (v) approaches to enhance Drugs and Therapeutic Committees (DTC) activities, and (vi) strengthening medicine utilization capabilities (2,3). These activities have already strengthened research ties across Africa.CONCLUSIONS:A number of groups are already working across Africa to enhance appropriate medicine use, and should continue. Ongoing MURIA activities include antibiotic point-prevalence studies, ongoing research into infectious diseases, NCDs and DTCs including adherence as well as the third workshop and symposium in Namibia in 2017.

Microstructural Modeling of Ferroelectric Materials: State of the Art, Challenges and Opportunities

2008 ◽  
Vol 606 ◽  
pp. 119-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Leach ◽  
R. Edwin Garcia
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Ferroelectric Materials ◽  
Ferroelectric Ceramics ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Microstructural Modeling ◽  
Phase Field Models ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Properties Of Materials ◽  
Independent Behavior ◽  
Film Form

In the last ten years of ongoing research in the modeling of polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics a myriad of analytical and numerical implementations have emerged to predict and support the engineering of ferroelectrics in both its single-crystal and polycrystalline forms. Traditional atomistic approaches capture the intrinsic behaviors, and have led to great improvements in the chemistries of these systems. Similarly, macroscopic engineering approaches have focused on the development of phenomenological descriptions that capture the empirical static and time-independent behavior. At the interface of these two apparently divorced approaches, thermodynamic-based microstructural evolution descriptions inspired in phase field models have risen as the necessary link between the atomic and macroscopic levels. This new and emerging methodology starts from the predicted behaviors given by their atomic counter-parts, and resolves the effects of grain boundaries, and de-convolves the grain-grain mesoscopic interactions. Much of the future of ferroelectrics lies in the delivery of improved chemistries and microstructures, and on bridging the understanding currently existing atomistic and continuum descriptions. Overall, it is expected that current and emerging technological challenges will be the driving force to minimize ferroelectric fatigue and realize lead-free materials with performances close to currently existing (lead containing) ones. Moreover, it is expected that while an accurate understanding of the intrinsic properties of materials are key to define improved ferroelectric solids, it will be the detailed understanding of the extrinsic response of ferroelectric materials, in both bulk and thin film form, that will take these materials to reach the highest performances possible.

scholarly journals Delivering Care to High-Cost High-Need Patients: Lessons Learned in the Development of a Complex Care Primary Care Team

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 215013272110238
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Pestka ◽  
Nicole L. Paterson ◽  
Katarzyna A. Benedict ◽  
Donovan D. Williams ◽  
Beth A. Shellenbarger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Primary Care Team ◽  
Complex Care ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Complex Patients ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Care Costs

As part of a population health-focused primary care transformation, in 2019 a health system in Minnesota developed a primary care team to exclusively care for high-cost high-need patients. Through its development and implementation, the team has discovered several key lessons in delivering care to complex patients. These lessons include the benefits of more integrative team-based care, the need and advantages of designated complex care team members, the importance of teamwork both within and outside of the complex care team, the need for frequent communication, and the importance of identifying mental health needs. In addition, there are several areas that require ongoing research and exploration, such as determining when a patient is able to graduate out of the program, how to enhance access to the complex care team, determining appropriate visit characteristics, and model feasibility. While addressing the needs of high cost high need patients is essential to improving quality of care and decreasing health care costs, there are several unique challenges and opportunities that come with caring for this patient population. Although this highly integrated model of care continues to evolve, the initial lessons learned may inform other health systems and care teams undertaking the care of complex patients.

scholarly journals Evolution of Microgrids with Converter-Interfaced Generations: Challenges and Opportunities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Alamgir Hossain ◽  
Hemanshu Roy Pota ◽  
Md Jahangir Hossain ◽  
Frede Blaabjerg
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Distribution Network ◽  
Power Supplies ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Distributed Generations ◽  
Comprehensive List ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Although microgrids facilitate the increased penetration of distributed generations (DGs) and improve the security of power supplies, they have some issues that need to be better understood and addressed before realising the full potential of microgrids. This paper presents a comprehensive list of challenges and opportunities supported by a literature review on the evolution of converter-based microgrids. The discussion in this paper presented with a view to establishing microgrids as distinct from the existing distribution systems. This is accomplished by, firstly, describing the challenges and benefits of using DG units in a distribution network and then those of microgrid ones. Also, the definitions, classifications and characteristics of microgrids are summarised to provide a sound basis for novice researchers to undertake ongoing research on microgrids.

scholarly journals Music Therapy and Neuroscience: Opportunities and Challenges

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Winn O'Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Affective Disorders ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Disorders Of Consciousness ◽  
Therapeutic Relationships ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Therapeutic Applications ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Human responses to music may be viewed through a neuroscience lens with increasingly sophisticated neuroimaging technology, providing neurological and biomedical measures of psychological states. These developments have been harnessed in collaborative research investigations seeking to develop the therapeutic applications of music. As a consequence of these collaborations, neuroscientific understanding is emerging of how music therapy may support improvements in cognition, movement and emotional regulation, as well as helping us to explore the neurological aspects of therapeutic relationships. This paper provides an overview of this field of investigation, focussing on the significant areas of progress in work with those living with stroke, neurodegenerative conditions, affective disorders, disorders of consciousness, autism, cancer and palliative conditions. Advances, challenges and opportunities associated with using neuroscience methods to develop the evidence base for music therapy will be explored from the perspective of a music therapy clinician and researcher.

scholarly journals Advances in Translational Nanotechnology: Challenges and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 4881
Author(s):  
Shyam S. Mohapatra ◽  
Robert D. Frisina ◽  
Subhra Mohapatra ◽  
Kevin B. Sneed ◽  
Eleni Markoutsa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Nanoscale Structures ◽  
Size Dependent ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Us ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
International Participation ◽  
Made In

The burgeoning field of nanotechnology aims to create and deploy nanoscale structures, devices, and systems with novel, size-dependent properties and functions. The nanotechnology revolution has sparked radically new technologies and strategies across all scientific disciplines, with nanotechnology now applied to virtually every area of research and development in the US and globally. NanoFlorida was founded to create a forum for scientific exchange, promote networking among nanoscientists, encourage collaborative research efforts across institutions, forge strong industry-academia partnerships in nanoscience, and showcase the contributions of students and trainees in nanotechnology fields. The 2019 NanoFlorida International Conference expanded this vision to emphasize national and international participation, with a focus on advances made in translating nanotechnology. This review highlights notable research in the areas of engineering especially in optics, photonics and plasmonics and electronics; biomedical devices, nano-biotechnology, nanotherapeutics including both experimental nanotherapies and nanovaccines; nano-diagnostics and -theranostics; nano-enabled drug discovery platforms; tissue engineering, bioprinting, and environmental nanotechnology, as well as challenges and directions for future research.

Thematic Research on the Vimalak?rti Nirde?a S?tra: An Integrative Review

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fung Kei Cheng ◽  
Samson Tse
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Buddhist Studies ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
Chinese And English

The current integrative review aims to do the following: first, examine the Chinese and English topical studies on the Vimalak?rti Nirde?a S?tra published from 1900 to 2011; second, analyze the characteristics of those works; third, investigate related study trends through a statistical analysis; and finally, identify research gaps. This review not only offers a comprehensive overview of the available literature on the S?tra retrieved from 25 English and Chinese electronic databases, but also categorizes the 256 selected publications (n=34 English; n=222 Chinese) into eight sub-themes: art (n=36; 14%), book reviews (n=11; 4%), philological studies (n=11; 4%), literature (n=24; 10%), philosophy (n=77; 30%), textual criticism (n=22; 9%), translation (n=56; 22%), and miscellaneous topics (n=19; 7%); thus illuminating different research foci and features between English and Chinese scholars, and also among Chinese researchers in various territories. This project illustrates how an integrative review can be employed in Buddhist studies; it reveals challenges and opportunities related to Buddhist studies, stemming from technology; it suggests collaborative research in Buddhism; and it proposes the application of the philosophy of the S?tra to practical disciplines.

scholarly journals Apprenticeship Students Learning On-line: Opportunities and Challenges for Polytechnic Institutions

Comunicar ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (37) ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Burkle
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías ◽  
On Line ◽  
On Line Learning

This paper presents the ongoing research on the challenges and opportunities of delivering on-line and virtual content to apprentices in a Polytechnic institution. Due to the current financial recession, apprentices are going back to academia in order to update their skills, but these potential students are not willing to leave their workplace or their personal lives behind to study. In this context on-line delivery represents an opportunity to provide access to content without leaving the work environment. However, in order to be successful in providing on-line materials for apprentices, polytechnics around the world are facing two challenges: How to transform hands-on Learning skills to online Learning material, and how to provide a rich-engaging environment for this group of learners. But not only the learner expectations should be taken when designing on-line learning. Instructors play also a crucial role in this endeavor, as Web 2.0 technologies offer the instructor an entirely new role in teaching: that of a facilitator. In order to analyze apprenticeship students’ on-line learning, 57 on-line surveys were distributed among a group of students registered for on-line apprenticeship programs. The paper presents research findings and a comparison of these with a what the literature states regarding the new generation of learners and their use of technologies, and the behavior (learning preferences, learning styles, use of IT) presented by the research sample. Innovative opportunities for learning at the workplace (such as recommendations and future areas of research) are suggested.Este artículo presenta los retos y las oportunidades actuales respecto a la distribución de contenidos virtuales y online en el marco de la institución de educación superior politécnica. Debido a la recesión económica actual, se está produciendo un retorno de estudiantes aprendices al mundo académico con el fin de actualizar habilidades y conocimientos. Sin embargo, a menudo los estudiantes con este perfil no están dispuestos a dejar de lado el trabajo o su vida personal para volver al estudio. En este contexto, el aprendizaje on-line representa una magnífica oportunidad para acceder a contenidos académicos sin tener que dejar de lado el trabajo. No obstante, para garantizar el éxito en la provisión de materiales on-line para estudiantes aprendices, las instituciones politécnicas de todo el mundo deben enfrentar dos retos: la transformación de contenidos de aprendizaje práctico en objetos educativos en línea, y la creación de ambientes educativos en los que los estudiantes se sientan involucrados y participativos. Más aún, en un ambiente de aprendizaje en el que el uso de tecnologías Web 2.0 es primordial, es importante considerar también el nuevo rol del profesor, que se ha convertido en facilitador del aprendizaje. Con el fin de analizar la experiencia educativa on-line de estos estudiantes, se distribuyeron 57 encuestas entre los estudiantes registrados en programas de formación on-line. El artículo presenta las conclusiones de la investigación y las compara con las aportaciones que se han hecho en lo relativo a la nueva generación de estudiantes y su uso de las tecnologías, así como el comportamiento registrado por la muestra de la investigación (preferencias y estilos de aprendizaje, su uso de las nuevas tecnologías). Se plantean igualmente oportunidades innovadoras para conectar aprendizaje y contexto laboral y recomendaciones para futuras investigaciones.

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