All roads lead to Rome: channelling inter-campus, interlibrary and off-campus requests through a single user interface

The message from remote library clients is clear and unequivocal - they want material quickly and easily. They would prefer not to have to differentiate between the three library services of intercampus, interlibrary, or off-campus requests - they just want a particular document or book forwarded to them as soon as possible. At the University of Southern Queensland Library, VDX software has been utilised to provide a single search and request interface for library material. Differentiating between individual clients,it displays and activates only those services for which a particular client is eligible. Remote undergraduates for example, have the ability to search and request from USQ catalogue only, while those students eligible for interlibrary loans can search and initiate requests across a range of catalogues. Whilst simplifying processes for clients, the challenge to Library staff has been to successfully manipulate the software and work processes to handle this complex arrangement. This paper will discuss the introduction of this new initiative focusing on the following issues: - Background - Client view - Dual services and associated challenges - Impact on staff - Improvements planned in the next six months - Marketing - Conclusio

Penentuan Pola yang Sering Muncul untuk Penjualan Pupuk Menggunakan Algoritma Fp-growth

Aturan asosiasi dengan melakukan analisis suatu transaksi penjualan. Analisis transaksi penjualan bertujuan untuk merancang strategi yang efektif dengan memanfaatkan data transaksi penjualan produk pupuk yang dibeli oleh konsumen. Association rule adalah teknik data mining untuk mencari hubungan antar-item dalam suatu dataset yang ditentukan dengan menggunakan Algoritma FP-Growth. Frequent Pattern Growth (FP-Growth) adalah salah satu alternatif algoritma yang dapat digunakan untuk menentukan himpunan data yang paling sering muncul (frequent itemset) dalam sebuah kumpulan data. Algoritma FP-Growth menggunakan konsep pembangunan tree dalam pencarian frequent itemsets. Dari perhitungan nilai confidence dari rule yang dihasilkan menggunakan Rapidminer-studio 7.3.0

A safer place for patients: learning to improve patient safety

1 Every day over one million people are treated successfully by National Health Service (NHS) acute, ambulance and mental health trusts. However, healthcare relies on a range of complex interactions of people, skills, technologies and drugs, and sometimes things do go wrong. For most countries, patient safety is now the key issue in healthcare quality and risk management. The Department of Health (the Department) estimates that one in ten patients admitted to NHS hospitals will be unintentionally harmed, a rate similar to other developed countries. Around 50 per cent of these patient safety incidentsa could have been avoided, if only lessons from previous incidents had been learned. 2 There are numerous stakeholders with a role in keeping patients safe in the NHS, many of whom require trusts to report details of patient safety incidents and near misses to them (Figure 2). However, a number of previous National Audit Office reports have highlighted concerns that the NHS has limited information on the extent and impact of clinical and non-clinical incidents and trusts need to learn from these incidents and share good practice across the NHS more effectively (Appendix 1). 3 In 2000, the Chief Medical Officer’s report An organisation with a memory 1 , identified that the key barriers to reducing the number of patient safety incidents were an organisational culture that inhibited reporting and the lack of a cohesive national system for identifying and sharing lessons learnt. 4 In response, the Department published Building a safer NHS for patients3 detailing plans and a timetable for promoting patient safety. The goal was to encourage improvements in reporting and learning through the development of a new mandatory national reporting scheme for patient safety incidents and near misses. Central to the plan was establishing the National Patient Safety Agency to improve patient safety by reducing the risk of harm through error. The National Patient Safety Agency was expected to: collect and analyse information; assimilate other safety-related information from a variety of existing reporting systems; learn lessons and produce solutions. 5 We therefore examined whether the NHS has been successful in improving the patient safety culture, encouraging reporting and learning from patient safety incidents. Key parts of our approach were a census of 267 NHS acute, ambulance and mental health trusts in Autumn 2004, followed by a re-survey in August 2005 and an omnibus survey of patients (Appendix 2). We also reviewed practices in other industries (Appendix 3) and international healthcare systems (Appendix 4), and the National Patient Safety Agency’s progress in developing its National Reporting and Learning System (Appendix 5) and other related activities (Appendix 6). 6 An organisation with a memory1 was an important milestone in the NHS’s patient safety agenda and marked the drive to improve reporting and learning. At the local level the vast majority of trusts have developed a predominantly open and fair reporting culture but with pockets of blame and scope to improve their strategies for sharing good practice. Indeed in our re-survey we found that local performance had continued to improve with more trusts reporting having an open and fair reporting culture, more trusts with open reporting systems and improvements in perceptions of the levels of under-reporting. At the national level, progress on developing the national reporting system for learning has been slower than set out in the Department’s strategy of 2001 3 and there is a need to improve evaluation and sharing of lessons and solutions by all organisations with a stake in patient safety. There is also no clear system for monitoring that lessons are learned at the local level. Specifically: a The safety culture within trusts is improving, driven largely by the Department’s clinical governance initiative 4 and the development of more effective risk management systems in response to incentives under initiatives such as the NHS Litigation Authority’s Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (Appendix 7). However, trusts are still predominantly reactive in their response to patient safety issues and parts of some organisations still operate a blame culture. b All trusts have established effective reporting systems at the local level, although under-reporting remains a problem within some groups of staff, types of incidents and near misses. The National Patient Safety Agency did not develop and roll out the National Reporting and Learning System by December 2002 as originally envisaged. All trusts were linked to the system by 31 December 2004. By August 2005, at least 35 trusts still had not submitted any data to the National Reporting and Learning System. c Most trusts pointed to specific improvements derived from lessons learnt from their local incident reporting systems, but these are still not widely promulgated, either within or between trusts. The National Patient Safety Agency has provided only limited feedback to trusts of evidence-based solutions or actions derived from the national reporting system. It published its first feedback report from the Patient Safety Observatory in July 2005

Faktor Non Financial dan Islamic Social Reporting Disclosure Perbankan Syariah Indonesia

The study aims to investigate the Islamic Social Reporting Disclosure (ISRD) practicesin Sharia Banks of Indonesia and determine the non financial factors that may influence to level of ISRD on 2010 – 2012. The samples in this study are 30 annual reports of sharia banks for three years. Level of ISRD is measured by ISR index that have six categories including investment and finance, corporate governance, product and services, employee, society, and environment. This study identified three non financial factors that influence to level of ISRD such as Media Exposure, main institusional ownership, and Islamic governance score (IG-score). Average ISR disclosure for three years had reached 55%. The test result by multiple linear regression test showed that only Media Exposure and IG-score have a significant to level of ISRD positively. On the other side, main institusional ownership doesn’t have a significant to level of ISRD. In addition, this study found profitability as control variable doesn’t have a significant to level ISRD too

Good Corporate Governance Di Rumah Sakit a Dan B

This exploratif qualitative research is a longitudinal case study to see hospital A and hospital B good corporate governance (GCG) with Center for Good Corporate Governance (CGCG) Gajah Mada University (GMU) version of GCG questionnaires then completed by interview. Good corporate governance be observed by transparency, accountability & responsibility, responsiveness, and fairness principle intended for board of commissioners (board of supervisors), board of directors, executive office (manager), auditor, and stakeholders of the hospital. Result show that both of hospitals are at bad level of good corporate governance application, different scoring result both of their good corporate governance principles can be caused by local wisdom, organization behaviour, and organization culture factors

Income Comparison Before and After the Application of CBIB in the Sawah Villages Kampar District Northen Kampar Regency Riau Province

This research was conducted on 21th until 31th May 2013. This study aims to explain of thechanges in cultivication techniques before and after applying CBIB and calculate how much thechange in income of farmers. The method used in this study is a survey method with five repondentcultivication apply CBIB and pass the certification.The results of this study detected cultivication Leptobarbus hoevenli fish that pass thecertification of CBIB, Leptobarbus hoevenli fish of familiar name is kelemak fish. There werechanges in cultivication techniques cleanliness of facilities and equipment, water management,feeding, harvesting, handling result, transport, waste disposal, record keeping and corrective action.An increase in the income of fish farmers with an average percentage of 8,53% or Rp. 1.322.000