2022 - The Third Annual Fall Symposium of Student Scholars

The full program book from the Fall 2022 Symposium of Student Scholars, held on November 17, 2022. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/sssprograms/1026/thumbnail.jp

The data concept behind the data: From metadata models and labelling schemes towards a generic spectral library

Spectral libraries play a major role in imaging spectroscopy. They are commonly used to store end-member and spectrally pure material spectra, which are primarily used for mapping or unmixing purposes. However, the development of spectral libraries is time consuming and usually sensor and site dependent. Spectral libraries are therefore often developed, used and tailored only for a specific case study and only for one sensor. Multi-sensor and multi-site use of spectral libraries is difficult and requires technical effort for adaptation, transformation, and data harmonization steps. Especially the huge amount of urban material specifications and its spectral variations hamper the setup of a complete spectral library consisting of all available urban material spectra. By a combined use of different urban spectral libraries, besides the improvement of spectral inter- and intra-class variability, missing material spectra could be considered with respect to a multi-sensor/ -site use. Publicly available spectral libraries mostly lack the metadata information that is essential for describing spectra acquisition and sampling background, and can serve to some extent as a measure of quality and reliability of the spectra and the entire library itself. In the GenLib project, a concept for a generic, multi-site and multi-sensor usable spectral library for image spectra on the urban focus was developed. This presentation will introduce a 1) unified, easy-to-understand hierarchical labeling scheme combined with 2) a comprehensive metadata concept that is 3) implemented in the SPECCHIO spectral information system to promote the setup and usability of a generic urban spectral library (GUSL). The labelling scheme was developed to ensure the translation of individual spectral libraries with their own labelling schemes and their usually varying level of details into the GUSL framework. It is based on a modified version of the EAGLE classification concept by combining land use, land cover, land characteristics and spectral characteristics. The metadata concept consists of 59 mandatory and optional attributes that are intended to specify the spatial context, spectral library information, references, accessibility, calibration, preprocessing steps, and spectra specific information describing library spectra implemented in the GUSL. It was developed on the basis of existing metadata concepts and was subject of an expert survey. The metadata concept and the labelling scheme are implemented in the spectral information system SPECCHIO, which is used for sharing and holding GUSL spectra. It allows easy implementation of spectra as well as their specification with the proposed metadata information to extend the GUSL. Therefore, the proposed data model represents a first fundamental step towards a generic usable and continuously expandable spectral library for urban areas. The metadata concept and the labelling scheme also build the basis for the necessary adaptation and transformation steps of the GUSL in order to use it entirely or in excerpts for further multi-site and multi-sensor applications

Enhanced Living Environments

This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)”. The concept of Enhanced Living Environments (ELE) refers to the area of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) that is more related with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Effective ELE solutions require appropriate ICT algorithms, architectures, platforms, and systems, having in view the advance of science and technology in this area and the development of new and innovative solutions that can provide improvements in the quality of life for people in their homes and can reduce the financial burden on the budgets of the healthcare providers. The aim of this book is to become a state-of-the-art reference, discussing progress made, as well as prompting future directions on theories, practices, standards, and strategies related to the ELE area. The book contains 12 chapters and can serve as a valuable reference for undergraduate students, post-graduate students, educators, faculty members, researchers, engineers, medical doctors, healthcare organizations, insurance companies, and research strategists working in this area

2015 Oklahoma Research Day Full Program

This document contains all abstracts from the 2015 Oklahoma Research Day held at Northeastern State University

ATHENA Research Book, Volume 2

ATHENA European University is an association of nine higher education institutions with the mission of promoting excellence in research and innovation by enabling international cooperation. The acronym ATHENA stands for Association of Advanced Technologies in Higher Education. Partner institutions are from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovenia: University of Orléans, University of Siegen, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Niccolò Cusano University, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Polytechnic Institute of Porto and University of Maribor. In 2022, two institutions joined the alliance: the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University from Poland and the University of Vigo from Spain. Also in 2022, an institution from Austria joined the alliance as an associate member: Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. This research book presents a selection of the research activities of ATHENA University's partners. It contains an overview of the research activities of individual members, a selection of the most important bibliographic works of members, peer-reviewed student theses, a descriptive list of ATHENA lectures and reports from individual working sections of the ATHENA project. The ATHENA Research Book provides a platform that encourages collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects by advanced and early career researchers

Innovations in the Integrated Management of Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is acknowledged as an international priority in healthcare. It is currently the most common cancer in women worldwide, with demographic trends indicating a continuous increase in incidence. Over the years, increasing efforts and resources have been devoted to the search for a systematic and optimized strategy in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Today, the Breast Unit model is considered the gold standard in order to ensure optimal patient-centered and research-based clinical services through multidisciplinary and integrated management.Surgical treatment has gradually evolved toward less aggressive approaches with the adoption of new therapeutic strategies. The evolution of evidence-based guidelines in such leading disciplines as radiation and medical oncology has led to a steady improvement in survival rates. This Special Issue will highlight innovations in the integrated management of breast cancer, their potential advantages, and the many open issues that still need to be properly defined and addressed

The relationship between personality and job stress, burnout, satisfaction and resilience in Taiwanese cancer nurses

AimThe aim of this study is to test the relationship between personality, job stress, burnout, satisfaction and resilience in Taiwanese cancer nurses.BackgroundThe retention of nurses is a global issue which is closely related to patients’ safety and the quality of nursing care. Job stress, burnout and satisfaction influence nurses’ intentions to leave their jobs. Job stressors, levels of stress and burnout, coping strategies selection, and influential factors of job satisfaction such as leadership type have been broadly investigated. Personality is the deciding factor in how people perceive the environment and events, and it affects an individual’s stress and behaviour in an organization. Resilience has been noted as a mediator of stress. Nurses possessing certain personality characteristics may adapt to their jobs better than others by showing less stress and burnout, and higher job satisfaction. The difficulties of nursing care vary across different specialised contexts; therefore, further research should emphasise specific nursing specialists such as cancer nurses.DesignMixed research methods with questionnaire survey and in-depth interview was used.MethodsThe NEO Five Factor Inventory-3 (Coast and McCare, 1992), the Nurse Stress Checklist ; (Benoliel, 1990; translated into Chinese by Tsai, 1993), the MBI-Human Services Survey (Maslach et al., 2001), the Nurse’s Job Satisfaction Scale (Lin et al., 2007b) and the Brief Resilience Scale (Smith et al., 2008) were selected as the measurement tools in this research. An interview guideline was developed based on the components of selected questionnaires to check the validity of the questionnaires and to investigate significant relationships in the statistical results. T-test, Pearson’s correlation, ANOVA (analysis of variance) and structural equation modelling (SEM) were used to test the relationships between variables; content analysis was used to analyse interviews.ResultsCancer nurses’ personality successfully predicted their resilience, stress, burnout, job satisfaction and intention to stay. Personality especially explained resilience, stress and burnout. Nurses’ resilience acted as a negative mediator to burnout, while stress mediated burnout positively.ConclusionA personality test could be used in recruiting nurses, making nursing career plan and proposing effective interventions to increase nurses’ resilience and diminish nurses’ stress and burnout. Further studies in other nursing professionals are needed