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The development of simulated learning environments involving coroner’s court attendance in mental health nursing education
Simulated learning environments (SLEs) provide students with the opportunity to experience complex practice elements with minimal professional risks. This article explores the development of an SLE in undergraduate mental health nursing education. The SLE focuses on events surrounding a client death and follows attendance at a coroner’s court. Student learning outcomes are focused on evaluating essential components of nursing care including communication, record-keeping, risk-taking and ethical decision-making. The SLE, which is now in its fourth iteration, allows educators to review and adapt the teaching practices to achieve the curriculum learning outcomes and encapsulate the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Code. This article proposes future possibilities for the use of complex simulation dramas to enhance nursing student preparedness for registration
Toward guiding simulation experiments
To face the variety of simulation experiment methods, tools are needed that allow their seamless integration, guide the user through the steps of an experiment, and support him in selecting the most suitable method for the task at hand.
This work presents techniques for facing such challenges. To guide users through the experiment process, six typical tasks have been identified for structuring the experiment workflow. The M&S framework JAMES II and its plug-in system is exploited to integrate various methods. Finally, an approach for automatic selection and use of such methods is realized
The Peaks of Eternal Light: a Near-term Property Issue on the Moon
The Outer Space Treaty makes it clear that the Moon is the province of all
mankind, with the latter ordinarily understood to exclude state or private
appropriation of any portion of its surface. However, there are indeterminacies
in the Treaty and in space law generally over the issue of appropriation. These
indeterminacies might permit a close approximation to a property claim or some
manner of quasi-property. The recently revealed highly inhomogeneous
distribution of lunar resources changes the context of these issues. We
illustrate this altered situation by considering the Peaks of Eternal Light.
They occupy about one square kilometer of the lunar surface. We consider a
thought experiment in which a Solar telescope is placed on one of the Peaks of
Eternal Light at the lunar South pole for scientific research. Its operation
would require nondisturbance, and hence that the Peak remain unvisited by
others, effectively establishing a claim of protective exclusion and de facto
appropriation. Such a telescope would be relatively easy to emplace with todays
technology and so poses a near-term property issue on the Moon. While effective
appropriation of a Peak might proceed without raising some of the familiar
problems associated with commercial development (especially lunar mining), the
possibility of such appropriation nonetheless raises some significant issues
concerning justice and the safeguarding of scientific practice on the lunar
surface. We consider this issue from scientific, technical, ethical and policy
viewpoints.Comment: 20 pages, 3 figures (color). Space Policy in pres
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Physical and digital phantoms for validating tractography and assessing artifacts
Fiber tractography is widely used to non-invasively map white-matter bundles in vivo using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI). As it is the case for all scientific methods, proper validation is a key prerequisite for the successful application of fiber tractography, be it in the area of basic neuroscience or in a clinical setting. It is well-known that the indirect estimation of the fiber tracts from the local diffusion signal is highly ambiguous and extremely challenging. Furthermore, the validation of fiber tractography methods is hampered by the lack of a real ground truth, which is caused by the extremely complex brain microstructure that is not directly observable non-invasively and that is the basis of the huge network of long-range fiber connections in the brain that are the actual target of fiber tractography methods. As a substitute for in vivo data with a real ground truth that could be used for validation, a widely and successfully employed approach is the use of synthetic phantoms. In this work, we are providing an overview of the state-of-the-art in the area of physical and digital phantoms, answering the following guiding questions: “What are dMRI phantoms and what are they good for?”, “What would the ideal phantom for validation fiber tractography look like?” and “What phantoms, phantom datasets and tools used for their creation are available to the research community?”. We will further discuss the limitations and opportunities that come with the use of dMRI phantoms, and what future direction this field of research might take
Three-Dimensional Biplanar Reconstruction of the Scoliotic Spine for Standard Clinical Setup
Tese de Doutoramento. Engenharia Informática. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto. 201
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