Integrated pest management systems: rationale, objectives, and design

Non-Peer ReviewedThe objective of the project was to develop integrated crop management systems for weed, insect and disease populations and evaluate the efficacy and cost/benefit of the various management practices. The strategy of integrated management of crop pests seeks to understand the factors that influence changes in pest populations and to utilize these factors to regulate population levels. Field experiments were established in the fall of 1996 on the Kernen Crop Research Farm at the University of Saskatchewan and on the Agricultural Research and Development Farm of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool at Watrous. Six systems were based on combinations of tillage and herbicide inputs. A four-year crop rotation of wheat, canola, barley and field pea was used from 1997 to 2000. Agronomic and pest population data were collected yearly. The economics and energy efficiency of the six systems were compared. Carabid beetle diversity was used as an assessment of soil health

Transport and traffic analytics in smart cities

Vast generation of high resolution spatial and temporal data, particularly in urban settings, started revolution in mobility and human behavior related research. However, after initial wave of first data oriented insights their integration into ongoing, and traditionally used, planning and decision making processes seems to be hindered by still opened challenges. These challenges suggest need for stronger integration between data analytics and dedicated domain knowledge. Special session on Transport and Traffic Analytics in Smart Cities tackles these challenges from transport planners’ point of view. Collection of papers aims at identifying the existing gaps and bridging between related disciplines with aspiration to foster faster integration of data driven insights into smart cities’ dedicated planning

Factors that Contribute to Resident Teaching Effectiveness

Background One of the key components of residency training is to become an educator. Resident physicians teach students, advanced practice providers, nurses, and even faculty on a daily basis. Objective The goal of this study was to identify the objective characteristics of residents, which correlate with perceived overall teaching effectiveness. Methods We conducted a one-year, retrospective study to identify factors that were associated with higher resident teaching evaluations. Senior emergency medicine (EM) teaching residents are evaluated by medical students following clinical teaching shifts. Eighteen factors pertaining to resident teaching effectiveness were chosen. Two items from the medical students' evaluations were analyzed against each factor: teaching effectiveness was measured on a five-point Likert scale and an overall teaching score (1-75). Results A total of 46 EM residents and 843 medical student evaluations were analyzed. The ACGME milestones for systems-based practice (p = 0.02) and accountability (p = 0.05) showed a statistically significant association with a rating of "five" on the Likert scale for teaching effectiveness. Three other ACGME milestones, systems-based practice (p = 0.01), task switching (p = 0.04), and team management (p = 0.03) also showed a statically significant association of receiving a score of 70 or greater on the overall teaching score. Conclusion Residents with higher performance associated with system management and accountability were perceived as highly effective teachers. USMLE and in-service exams were not predictive of higher teaching evaluations. Our data also suggest that effective teachers are working in both academic and community settings, providing a potential resource to academic departments and institutions

Kommunikation zwischen autonomen Agenten

Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.Softwareagenten sind Programme, die einen Auftrag autonom und weitgehend selbständig ausführen. Man spricht von mobilen Agenten, wenn diese Programme selbstbestimmt ihre Ausführungsumgebung in einem Netzwerk wechseln können. Die Mobilität der Software impliziert ein neues Programmierparadigma für verteilte Systeme, das die bekannten Interaktionskonzepte herkömmlicher Verteilungsplattformen erweitert. Anwendungen mit mobilen Agenten finden sich in ganz unterschiedlichen Bereichen, wie Netz- und Systemmanagement, elektronische Marktplätze und Logistik

Izobraževalni izzivi e-predstavitve Mednarodne klasifikacije prakse zdravstvene nege

Teaching about classification also plays an important role in nursing education. The International Classification for Nursing Practice is a unified professional language devoted to nurses, other health workers and broader areas. In this paper, the eversion of this classification is presented as a challenge for an efficient educational practice searching for new information solutions in different environments using information and communication technology. Clients on a personal computer, the internet and PDA-hand-held computers are all presented. The combination of those clients in health-care education is analyzed.Klasifikacije zasedajo pomembno mesto v izobraževanju zdravstvenih delavcev. Mednarodna klasifikacija zdravstvene nege je poenoten profesionalni jezik namenjen medicinskim sestram, drugim zdravstvenim delavcem in pa tudi laikom. V članku je predstavljena e-oblika klasifikacije kot izziv za učinkovito izobraževanje z uporabo sodobne informacijske in komunikacijske tehnologije. Predstavljene so rešitve za osebne računalnike, na spletu in za dlančne računalnike. Analizirana je kombinacija treh predlaganih rešitev kot možnost za uspešno izobraževanje v zdravstvu