An OpenEHR Template with the Integrated German LOINC Terms

An OpenEHR template based on LOINC terms in German language (LOINC-DE) has been created for the structured clinical data capture. The resulting template includes all terms available in LOINC-DE, which can be selected from the drop-down menu for clinical data capture. The template can be used as an independent laboratory form or it can be customized for local needs. This approach presents the possibility to include terminologies in EHR when capturing patient data.

Investigation of achievement and mistakes in analytical chemistry experiments

This research was conducted to investigate the effect of experiential learning on the achievements of prospective teachers in analytical chemistry quantitative analysis practices and to determine the mistakes made by prospective teachers in the experiments. Pre-test and post-test control group experimental research design was used. Data were collected by the analytical chemistry achievement test and laboratory form. As a result of the research, a significant increase was observed in prospective teachers’ levels of academic achievement. This finding can be explained as the experiential learning classroom environment, which will construct a community of practice like the scientists’ work. According to the results of the laboratory form, prospective teachers are more successful in multiple choice questions in the achievement test; however, they cannot show the same success in explaining the theoretical foundations of the experiment or detailing the calculation sections. Keywords: Experiential learning, analytical chemistry laboratory, achievement, mistakes in experiments.

Membidik Potensi Ekonomi Syariah di Lembaga Pendidikan Pondok Pesantren

<p>This study aims to explore Islamic economic empowerment in Islamic boarding schools. Various resources in Islamic boarding schools can be empowered as facilities in implementing and developing Islamic economics. This research method uses a phenomenological qualitative approach that is analytical and inductive descriptive. The object of this study uses several modern boarding schools in Medan, Langkat, Deli Serdang and Serdang Bedagai, North Sumatra. The results show that Islamic economic empowerment can be in the form of application in Islamic boarding schools that can be classified in several ways, including sharia economic principles education, contract and sharia economic cooperation, pesantren accounting and sharia accommodation, culinary and halal tourism. While in the form of sharia economic development, Islamic boarding schools as an institution known for its independence can make Islamic boarding schools as a sharia economic assessment laboratory, form a sharia business forum, become an Islamic economics center and inspire sharia-based economic development. This study uses a phenomenological qualitative approach that is descriptive analytical and inductive in nature by digging data to find the basic things of phenomena, reality and experience.</p><p>Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggali pemberdayaan ekonomi syariah di dalam lembaga pendidikan pesantren. Berbagai sumber daya yang ada di dalam pesantren bisa diberdayakan sebagai fasilitas dalam penerapan dan pengembangan ekonomi syariah. Metode penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif fenomologi yang bersifat deskriptif analitis dan induktif. Objek penelitian ini menggunakan beberapa pesantren modern yang berada di Kota Medan, Langkat, Deli Serdang dan Serdang Bedagai, Sumatera Utara. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan Pemberdayaan ekonomi Islam ini bisa dalam bentuk penerapan di dalam pondok pesantren yang dapat diklasifikasi dalam beberapa hal, di antaranya pendidikan prinsip ekonomi syariah, akad dan kerjasama ekonomi syariah, akuntansi pesantren serta penginapan syariah, kuliner dan wisata halal. Sementara dalam bentuk pengembangan ekonomi syariah, pesantren sebagai lembaga yang dikenal dengan kemandiriannya bisa menjadikan pesantren sebagai laboratorium pengkajian ekonomi syariah, membentuk forum bisnis syariah, menjadi islamic ekonomy centre dan inspirator pengembangan ekonomi berbasis syariah. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif fenomenologi yang bersifat deskriptif analitis dan induktif dengan menggali data untuk menemukan hal-hal mendasar dari fenomena, realitas maupun pengalaman. </p>

Urban living laboratories: Conducting the experimental city?

The recent upsurge of interest in the experimental city as an arena within and through which urban sustainability is governed marks not only the emergence of the proliferation of forms of experimentation – from novel governance arrangements to demonstration projects, transition management processes to grassroots innovations – but also an increasing sensibility amongst the research community that urban interventions can be considered in experimental terms. Yet as research has progressed, it has become clear that experimentation is not a singular phenomenon that can be readily understood using any one conceptual entry point. In this paper, we focus on one particular mode of experimentation – the urban living laboratory (ULL) – and develop a typology through which to undertake a comparative analysis of 40 European ULLs, to understand how and why such forms of experimentation are being designed and implemented, and to identify the particular forms of experimentation they entail. We argue that there are distinct types of ULL taking shape, delimited by the ways in which they are designed and deployed through, on the one hand, specific kinds of configuration and practice and, on the other hand, by the ways in which they take laboratory form: the different dispositions towards the laboratory they entail. We propose three ‘ideal’ ULL types – strategic, civic and organic – and argue that these can be placed along the spectrum of four dispositions: trial, enclave, demonstration and platform.

In command of non-equilibrium

Living organisms and materials produced in the laboratory form ordered non-equilibrium states when part of the required energy is dissipated as heat.

When is the Use of Race/Ethnicity Appropriate in Risk Assessment Tools for Preconceptual or Antenatal Genetic Screening and How Should it be Used?

In the UK a ‘Family Origin Questionnaire’ (FOQ) has been introduced as a decision-making tool primarily to identify partners of high risk status in ‘low prevalence’ areas in antenatal screening for haemoglobin variants. A ‘family origins’ laboratory form for Down’s syndrome antenatal screening has followed, with active consideration of Tay Sachs Disease antenatal/ pre-conception carrier screening for Ashkenazi Jewish women. Similar screening developments for the haemoglobinopathies and cystic fibrosis are occurring in other countries. It is timely to ask when and how categories based on family origin concepts should be operationalised and used to assess genetic risk, given the methodological uncertainties and potential risk of offence, essentialisation, discrimination and/or stigmatisation. The potential limitations of these tools are examined, including generic concepts, social sensitivities of language, issues of testing, implementation, and training, and time-limitedness of the categories, to assess where the balance lies between the benefits and disadvantages of such usage.

The structure of orthoclase

The structure of sanidine was described by Taylor in 1933, and Taylor, Darbyshire, and Strunz in 1934 extended the investigation to include the potassium-barium-felspars and albite, and presented a small amount of experimental data for potash-soda perthitic felspars and for members of the plagioclase series. X-ray work on the potash-soda perthitic felspars has recently been reported by Ito and Inuzuka, by Ito, and by workers in this laboratory, and a preliminary report of an examination of the plagioclase felspars is given in a thesis presented by one of us (S.H.C.) in 1939 for the degree of Ph.D. in the University of Manchester.The investigations to be described in this paper, as well as those already published from this laboratory, form part of a programme of researches dealing with various aspects of the problem of felspar structure, undertaken in an attempt to obtain a correlation between the physical and chemical properties on the one hand and the details of the structure on the other.