20 research outputs found
Access to treatment in prison: an inventory of medication preparation and distribution approaches
The preparation and distribution of medication in prisons or jails are critical for individuals to access their treatment. This process is resource-intensive for healthcare professionals and may violate principles of confidentiality, autonomy, respect, and dignity if non-qualified staff are involved. However, there are no published best practices on the topic. This report aims to bridge this gap by presenting the results of a mapping exercise on different models of medication preparation and delivery. Authors call upon healthcare professionals to enrich this live document to inform health services research further and improve access to prescribed medications for people experiencing incarceration.</ns4:p
Successful displacement of a traumatic submacular hemorrhage in a 13-year-old boy treated by vitrectomy, subretinal injection of tissue plasminogen activator and intravitreal air tamponade: a case report
How to Assess and Improve Satellite Positioning Performances in Urban Environments
International audienceSatellite positioning performances are critical for transport liability applications such as road user charging, or pay per use assurance. The scientific community has focused for several years on environments with favorable conditions (aviation, maritime, rural) and is now addressing transport applications including urban areas. This is the case of this paper that presents the result of a study co-financed by the National French Space Agency(CNES). This study aimed first to collect the positioning data in urban area of several GPS/EGNOS receivers (more than 1,5 millions of positions) in addition to their associated satellite raw data and the reference positions. Its goal was secondly to assess the performance using classical positioning algorithms and last to propose and assess improved algorithms.The authors present first how to obtain the true trajectory necessary for the performance assessments. The instrumentation they set-up on board a test vehicle is based on IXSEA LandINS inertial measurement unit hybridized with kinematics GPS and odometry. The reference trajectory obtained is analyzed, with the aim of qualifying its accuracy. Based on these measurements, the authors then present the performance improvements obtained using different techniques, in particular 2D techniques to improve availability in difficult area such as narrow streets, smoothing technique to optimize the filtering and local error modeling technique to assess in particular disturbing multipath effects.Thanks to the ground truth obtained in this benchmark, the authors demonstrate that these techniques bring a significant improvement to position data performances, enlarging that way the spectrum of liability-critical road transport applications in urban areas
Access to treatment in prison: an inventory of medication preparation and distribution approaches.
The preparation and distribution of medication in prisons or jails are critical for individuals to access their treatment. This process is resource-intensive for healthcare professionals and may violate principles of confidentiality, autonomy, respect, and dignity if non-qualified staff are involved. However, there are no published best practices on the topic. This report aims to bridge this gap by presenting the results of a mapping exercise on different models of medication preparation and delivery. Authors call upon healthcare professionals to enrich this live document to inform health services research further and improve access to prescribed medications for people experiencing incarceration
MONITOR Ionospheric Network: two case studies on scintillation and electron content variability
The ESA MONITOR network is composed of high-frequency-sampling global
navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers deployed mainly at low and high
latitudes to study ionosphere variability and jointly with global GNSS data
and ionospheric processing software in support of the GNSS and its
satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS) like the European EGNOS. In a
recent phase of the project, the network was merged with the CNES/ASECNA
network and new receivers were added to complement the latter in the western
African sector. This paper summarizes MONITOR, presenting two case studies on
scintillations (using almost 2 years of data measurements). The first case
occurred during the major St. Patrick's Day geomagnetic storm in 2015. The
second case study was performed in the last phase of the project, which was
supported by ESA EGNOS Project Office, when we paid special attention to
extreme events that might degrade the system performance of the European
EGNOS