A phronesis antenarrative about the understanding of money and usage of money in more phronetic ways

Storytelling and narrating can be a very efficient and great vessel for changes in our society. One of the experts in storytelling in management being David Boje, developed the notion of antenarrating. A specific type and application of antenarrating being Phronesis antenarrating. Phronesis antenarrating is developed and initiated by Wilfred Berendsen. In this discourse, the insights and fundaments of Phronesis antenarrating are further explained and applied to one of the core issues of current society. Being the misunderstandings of money and the money game and the resulting insanities and problems in our society and universes. Without a sane sensemaking process as reflected in Phronesis Antenarrating, quite a lof of the insanities in our understandings of money and the money system will most probably not be understood to the fullest. This discourse aims at developing a much more complete and sane understanding about money and the money system, and to enable a change in the money game. This should also lead, among a lot of other results, to a solution for financial crisis and for preventing any financial crisis in future. But also it should and probably will lead to a much richer and better society as a whole.Money, Economy, Finance, phronesis, antenarrating, narrating, storytelling, sensemaking

Proficiency test for antibiotics in beef

The aim of this proficiency study was to give laboratories the possibility to evaluate or demonstrate their competence for the analysis of antibiotics in bovine tissues, including the screening analysis. This study also provided an evaluation of the methods applied for screening and quantitative and confirmatory analysis of antibiotics in beef

Enriching Existing Test Collections with OXPath

Extending TREC-style test collections by incorporating external resources is a time consuming and challenging task. Making use of freely available web data requires technical skills to work with APIs or to create a web scraping program specifically tailored to the task at hand. We present a light-weight alternative that employs the web data extraction language OXPath to harvest data to be added to an existing test collection from web resources. We demonstrate this by creating an extended version of GIRT4 called GIRT4-XT with additional metadata fields harvested via OXPath from the social sciences portal Sowiport. This allows the re-use of this collection for other evaluation purposes like bibliometrics-enhanced retrieval. The demonstrated method can be applied to a variety of similar scenarios and is not limited to extending existing collections but can also be used to create completely new ones with little effort.Comment: Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction - 8th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2017, Dublin, Ireland, September 11-14, 201

Proficiency test for antibiotics in bovine muscle

The aim of this proficiency study was to give laboratories the possibility to evaluate or demonstrate their competence for the analysis of antibiotics in bovine muscle, including the screening analysis. This study also provided an evaluation of the methods applied for screening and quantitative confirmatory analysis of antibiotics in bovine muscle

Autonomous Robotic System using Non-Destructive Evaluation methods for Bridge Deck Inspection

Bridge condition assessment is important to maintain the quality of highway roads for public transport. Bridge deterioration with time is inevitable due to aging material, environmental wear and in some cases, inadequate maintenance. Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) methods are preferred for condition assessment for bridges, concrete buildings, and other civil structures. Some examples of NDE methods are ground penetrating radar (GPR), acoustic emission, and electrical resistivity (ER). NDE methods provide the ability to inspect a structure without causing any damage to the structure in the process. In addition, NDE methods typically cost less than other methods, since they do not require inspection sites to be evacuated prior to inspection, which greatly reduces the cost of safety related issues during the inspection process. In this paper, an autonomous robotic system equipped with three different NDE sensors is presented. The system employs GPR, ER, and a camera for data collection. The system is capable of performing real-time, cost-effective bridge deck inspection, and is comprised of a mechanical robot design and machine learning and pattern recognition methods for automated steel rebar picking to provide realtime condition maps of the corrosive deck environments

The backwoods of clinical and research assessment of psychosis

The aim of this thesis was to explore and improve methodology and utility of clinically applicable dimensional, staging and clinical profiling models for patients with psychotic and related disorders. This was approached at three levels: firstly, we evaluated the psychometric properties of the dimensional assessment of symptoms by the Clinician-Rated Dimensions of Psychosis Symptom Severity, and subsequently, determining the inter-rater reliability of the clinical staging model and profile characteristics. We evaluated inter-rater reliability with and without short training courses suitable for clinical practice (Part 1). Secondly, we evaluated the validity of the clinical staging model in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. We determined the construct and clinical validity of the staging model in ambulatory and clinically admitted patients. Furthermore, we assessed whether cognitive parameters are associated with higher clinical stages in a large sample of patients with psychotic disorders (Part 2). Thirdly, we evaluated the pre-training inter-rater reliability in clinical research. Moreover, we determined the proportion of reported inter-rater reliability coefficients and training procedures in double-blind randomized clinical trials with antipsychotic and antidepressant medication. Overall, we conclude that achieving sufficient inter-rater reliability of new diagnostic methods requires more attention, both in scientific research and in daily practice. This field of research can also be marked as the backwoods of clinical and research assessments — remote areas that could be neglected because of difficulties that may be encountered

Usability testing of e-shop software

Selles bakalaureusetöös uuritakse kasutatavuse testimise meetodeid ning pakutakse välja e-poe tarkvara kasutatavuse hindamiseks meetod. Seda meetodit rakendatakse e-poe tarkvaral, peale mida saab hinnata selle meetodi päriselulist rakendust e-poe tarkvarade kasutatavuse hindamiseks.This paper researches usability testing methods and tries to derive an effective method for testing e-shop software. The derived method shall be used on e-shop software in order to determine if the suggested method could be used for usability testing on this type of software