1861-08-30 Joseph Forbes requests his son Joseph B. Forbes be transferred to the Navy

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A case study of continuous delivery of a mobile application

The concept of continuous delivery extends the existing concept of continuous integration beyond its traditional scope of development, build, and test into deployment to end-users. This project is an implementation of continuous delivery for an Android application. In addition to deployment to client devices through the Google Play Store, the implemented continuous delivery “pipeline” uses integration of Google Analytics into the Android application and the continuous delivery pipeline itself to automate staging from alpha release to beta release based on observed manual tester activity.Electrical and Computer Engineerin

Utilization of EHR to Improve Support Person Engagement in Health Care for Patients With Chronic Conditions

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 LicenseInnovations in electronic health record (EHR) systems invite new patient and family engagement methods and create opportunities to reduce healthcare disparities. However, many patients and their identified support persons (ie, proxies) are unsure how to interface with the technology. This phenomenological qualitative study served as a pilot study to investigate the patient, proxy, and provider lived experiences utilizing patient-facing EHR portals. Individual interviews and focus groups were utilized to collect qualitative data from 21 patient, proxy, and healthcare provider participants across 3 time points. Colaizzi's phenomenological data analysis method was utilized to interpret the data. Four themes emerged highlighting critical benefits and obstacles for patients and support persons interfacing with a patient portal: (a) agency, (b) connection, (c) support, and (d) technology literacy. Results help highlight strategies and dispel myths essential to advancing patient and family engagement using EHR patient portal systems. The study's outcomes reflect recommendations for onboarding proxies and improving patient/family engagement and family-centered care models.OA publication support through Carolina Consortium agreement with Sag

Becoming a written word: eye movements reveal order of acquisition effects following incidental exposure to new words during silent reading

We know that from mid-childhood onwards most new words are learned implicitly via reading; however, most word learning studies have taught novel items explicitly. We examined incidental word learning during reading by focusing on the well-documented finding that words which are acquired early in life are processed more quickly than those acquired later. Novel words were embedded in meaningful sentences and were presented to adult readers early (day 1) or later (day 2) during a five-day exposure phase. At test adults read the novel words in semantically neutral sentences. Participants’ eye movements were monitored throughout exposure and test. Adults also completed a surprise memory test in which they had to match each novel word with its definition. Results showed a decrease in reading times for all novel words over exposure, and significantly longer total reading times at test for early than late novel words. Early-presented novel words were also remembered better in the offline test. Our results show that order of presentation influences processing time early in the course of acquiring a new word, consistent with partial and incremental growth in knowledge occurring as a function of an individual’s experience with each word