Dangerous profession: causes of aggressive reactions in the patient

The aim of the study - to identify the causes of aggression on the part of patients towards health workers, to justify the need for the formation of the ability of a medical student to counter aggressive attacks that threaten his health and life.Цель исследования – выявить причины проявления агрессии со стороны пациентов по отношению к медработникам, обосновать необходимость формирования способности у студента-медика к противодействию агрессивных посягательств, угрожающих его здоровью и жизни

Decision-making in the practice of a surgeon: situation assessment and strategy selection

The aim of the study - to analyze the current state of the problem, to identify the grounds for decision-making in the practice of a surgeon, allowing predicting the results of surgical intervention.Цель исследования – анализ современного состояния проблемы, выявление оснований для принятия решения в практике врача-хирурга, позволяющих прогнозировать результаты хирургического вмешательства

An Extension Proposition for the Agent-Based Language Modeling Ontology for the Representation of Supply Chain Integrated Business Processes

The recent introduction of supply chain systems has redefined the way organizations perceive collaboration. Although characterized as a human driven process by which people communicate, share knowledge, and cooperate internally; collaboration also extends outside the organization and across the supply chain by interacting with both suppliers and customers. While human driven collaboration is fundamental in operating certain business processes, they are usually depicted in models such as high-level abstracts or implicitly integrated in exception related mechanisms. This creates the need for an ontology capable of representing human-driven collaboration. The Agent Lab Language (TALL) ontology was selected as a possible solution to the research problem given its emphasis on agent/ business collaborations. A Bunge-Wand-Weber ontological representation analysis was further used to evaluate the ontological completeness of the Agent Language Lab (TALL). From this analysis, a set of propositions were elaborated in accordance with human-driven collaboration requirements. Following these propositions and the results of the analysis, additional constructs were proposed to the TALL ontology as a solution to the research problem

Reopening the debate on medical malpractice claims in South Africa: examining the intersection between quality health professional training and bioethics.

Master’s Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.Medical malpractice claims are a growing trend in South Africa that is crippling the Department of Health thus impacting on the provision of healthcare to the population. This dissertation revisits the hotly debated topic of whether there is a link between malpractice claims and the medical professional training, and conditions in South Africa? This dissertation presents an overview of the origin of health as a human right and the steps taken by the South African government to bring about the realisation of that right. An analysis of the conditions that lead to patient injury will be undertaken together with the procedures or lack thereof in place to ensure patient safety. Case law and South African legislation regarding healthcare services are consulted for comparative purposes with other countries who are also dealing with an increase in medical malpractice claims. The relevance of a shortage of resources and the implications thereof are discussed in this work. South African medical professionals’ adherence to the set standards of good medical practice is analysed before conclusions are reached and recommendations to curtail the rise of malpractice claims are provided

An Analysis of Nietzsche's Conception of Decadence

Nietzsche’s readership often assumes that what is meant by the term ‘decadence’ is simply a condition of moral and cultural decline. This study argues that Nietzsche’s conception amounts to a more complex hypothesis. While Nietzsche gives no formal analysis of decadence, Chapter 1 provides an initial discussion of the ‘formulae’ and ‘recipes’ for decadence that Nietzsche mentions. It emerges that decadence denotes a disunity within a self and a culture, and the dynamic relationship between the two. Moreover, Nietzsche describes decadence as a physiological condition with psychological consequences that inclines those who suffer from it to be against life. An investigation of the method Nietzsche uses to unmask decadence’s workings in Chapter 2 reveals that he arrives at his ‘decadence hypothesis’ by reasoning backwards from the assumption that cultural values stem from individuals’ physiological and psychological weaknesses. Central to his hypothesis is that adoption and proliferation of decadent values inhibit and further weaken decadent lives. An initial critical assessment shows that Nietzsche’s hypothesis is possibly self-referential, incomplete, and cannot be seen as established as the best explanation. Chapter 3 elucidates in more detail the underlying causes of decadence as a process of physiological corruption of humanity by the forces of civilization that suppress an individual’s powers. Decadence emerges as possibly self-reinforcing, self-replicating, and self-propagating. Since Nietzsche and commentators frequently use the term ‘decadence’ to describe also the subsequent psychological expressions of decadence, Chapter 4 presents an analysis of the effects, and then discusses a number of exemplar decadents (Chapters 5-8) to demonstrate a discernible set of common attributes: psychological, epistemological, and metaphysical expressions of weakness underpin decadence’s most important attribute, i.e., restricted agency and failure to realize an authentic self. Chapters 9 and 10 offer further support for a physiological reading of decadence and provide a summary of my findings

Improving Retrieval of Information from the Internet

To improve the quality of the search result returned by the internet which makes users have to look through a huge amount of links for the real answers, we utilized the high quality links Google produces and the Information Retrieval technology to implement a Question Answering (QA) system. This system analyzes and downloads the text contents from the relevant web pages Google searches based on the users\u27 questions to build a dynamic knowledge collection; retrieves the relevant passages from the collection and sends the ranked passages back. The users can further refine their questions in the query refinement step for the better answers. A novel search strategy was designed to detect the semantic connections between the question and the documents. This answer retrieval also involves the TF-IDF algorithm and Vector Space Model for the document indexing. We have modified the original Cosine Coefficient Similarity Measurement to rank the candidate answers

L'AIS : une donnée pour l'analyse des activités en mer

4 pages, session "Mer et littoral"International audienceCette contribution présente des éléments méthodologiques pour la description des activités humaines en mer dans une perspective d'aide à la gestion. Différentes procédures, combinant l'exploitation de bases de données spatio-temporelles issue de données AIS archivées à des analyses spatiales au sein d'un SIG, sont testées afin de caractériser le transport maritime en Mer d'Iroise (Bretagne, France) sur les plans spatiaux, temporels et quantitatifs au cours d'une année