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A critical realist approach to knowledge: implications for evidence-based practice in and beyond nursing This paper will identify some of the key conceptual tools of a critical realist approach to knowledge. I will then apply these principles to some of the competing epistemologies that are prevalent within nursing. There are broadly two approaches which are sometimes distinct from each other and sometimes inter-related. On one side, there is the view that all healthcare interventions should...

Through community partnerships, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing’s Wald Community Nursing Center has established accessible health centers for the uninsured. Networking with other community-based service providers to offer more comprehensive services to this underserved population has increased access and utilization of care. The unexpected high rate of hepatitis C (HCV) infection found in this population challenged Wald to develop new strategies for diagnosing and facil...

S OFTWARE testing has been widely used in the industry as a quality assurance technique for the various artifacts in a software project. However, software testing is very laborintensive, time-consuming and expensive; almost 50% of the cost [1], [2] and 40% of the time of a software system development is spent on software testing [3]. Software testing has two main aspects: test data generation and application of a test data adequacy criterion. A test data generation technique is an algor...

Abstract Concept mapping has been widely adopted in the past few decades as an instructional or learning tool for helping students organize their knowledge; nevertheless, several previous studies have indicated the difficulty of applying this approach. In particular, for elementary school students, developing concept maps could be a difficult task, implying the importance of providing supports during the learning process. In this study, a computerized, cooperative concept-mapping approach ...

eal-life problems it is convenient to reduce the number of involved features (variables) in order to reduce the complexity, especially when the number of features is large compared to the number of observations. There are several criteria to tackle this variable reduction problem. Three of the most common are: maximization of the mutual information (MI) between the inputs and the outputs, minimization of the k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) leave-one-out generalization error estimate and minimiz...

1 Introduction The pallet describes the main results of a con> parison of /;he ToB: (Tone-and-Break-Indices) ai)proach (Pierrehumbert, 1.9801 Silverman el; al.., 19961 to annotating English speech data with information about intonation and one of the British School approaches (e.g., Brazil et al. (1980)), Systenfie Fmmtional Grammar (SFO; (Halliday, 19671 Halliday, 1970)). The goal of this comparison is the definition of a mapping between the two systems. This attempt ha...

T metric electrical data which can then be used to evaluate the performance of an integrated circuit manufacturing process. The test chips contain test structures which provide specific electrical parameters. Coupled with a computer-controlled parametric test system, they can provide the user with information that cannot otherwise be obtained because of the nature of the measurement, the measurement time, or the cost associated with other methods of performing the measurement. Comp...

The promise of personalized medicine has been touted for many years but has been elusive in some specialties.1 Recently, with the influx of large data sets from “omics”- based methods including genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics, personalized approaches to medical practice have come to the forefront and many specialties now use some form of personalized medicine in research and clinical care. This is particularly true in oncology where biomarker-guided treatme...

1. INTRODUCTION The Intelligent Vehicle/ Highway Systems (IVHS) program is a major initiative of government, industry, and academia to apply advanced technology to the operation of the Nation’s surface transportation systems in order to improve mobility, transportation productivity, enhance safety, maximize the use of existing transportation facilities, conserve energy resources, and reduce adverse environmental effects. The IVHS program consists of the following five broad, interrelated ...

1. INTRODUCTION An aspect-oriented program typically consists of a number of modules (or classes) and aspects that can be woven into an executable whole [1][2][3]. The crosscutting mechanism of aspects frees the programmer from interweaving different concerns (i.e. goals, concepts, or areas of interests) in a monotonous program hierarchy imposed by the base language. This greatly facilitates identifying and modularizing separate concerns that crosscut multiple functional componen...