Alien Registration- Hawkins, Lucy (Jay, Franklin County)

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Creating a Safety Assurance Case for an ML Satellite-Based Wildfire Detection and Alert System

Wildfires are a common problem in many areas of the world with often catastrophic consequences. A number of systems have been created to provide early warnings of wildfires, including those that use satellite data to detect fires. The increased availability of small satellites, such as CubeSats, allows the wildfire detection response time to be reduced by deploying constellations of multiple satellites over regions of interest. By using machine learned components on-board the satellites, constraints which limit the amount of data that can be processed and sent back to ground stations can be overcome. There are hazards associated with wildfire alert systems, such as failing to detect the presence of a wildfire, or detecting a wildfire in the incorrect location. It is therefore necessary to be able to create a safety assurance case for the wildfire alert ML component that demonstrates it is sufficiently safe for use. This paper describes in detail how a safety assurance case for an ML wildfire alert system is created. This represents the first fully developed safety case for an ML component containing explicit argument and evidence as to the safety of the machine learning

Patient Reported Experience of Kidney Care in the UK 2020

Headline findings in 2020 • Encouragingly, despite the global pandemic, patients continue to rate their Overall Experience of the service provided by their renal centre highly. • Patient reported experience of Support and Sharing Decisions About Your Care fell in 2020. • Patient scores for Support fell amongst Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), peritoneal dialysis, home haemodialysis and transplant patients compared to 2019. • Patient experience of Sharing Decisions About Your Care was lowest in those receiving in-centre or in-satellite haemodialysis. • Patient reported experience of Transport improved for in-centre and in-satellite haemodialysis patients in 2020. • The experience of patients living with CKD but not receiving renal replacement therapy notably decreased in 2020 compared to 2019, particularly for Overall Experience, Support and How the Team Treats You

Introducing research initiatives into healthcare: What do doctors think?

Background: Current national and international policies emphasize the need to develop research initiatives within our health care system. Institutional biobanking represents a modern, large-scale research initiative that is reliant upon the support of several aspects of the health care organization. This research project aims to explore doctors' views on the concept of institutional biobanking and to gain insight into the factors which impact the development of research initiatives within healthcare systems. Methods: Qualitative research study using semi-structured interviews. The research was conducted across two public teaching hospitals in Sydney, Australia where institutional biobanking was being introduced. Twenty-five participants were interviewed, of whom 21 were medical practitioners at the specialist trainee level or above in a specialty directly related to biobanking; four were key stakeholders responsible for the design and implementation of the biobanking initiative. Results: All participants strongly supported the concept of institutional biobanking. Participants highlighted the discordance between the doctors who work to establish the biobank (the contributors) and the researchers who use it (the consumers). Participants identified several barriers that limit the success of research initiatives in the hospital setting including: the 'resistance to change' culture; the difficulties in engaging health professionals in research initiatives; and the lack of incentives offered to doctors for their contribution. Doctors positively valued the opportunity to advise the implementation team, and felt that the initiative could benefit from their knowledge and expertise. Conclusion: Successful integration of research initiatives into hospitals requires early collaboration between the implementing team and the health care professionals to produce a plan that is sensitive to the needs of the health professionals and tailored to the hospital setting. Research initiatives must consider incentives that encourage doctors to adopt operational responsibility for hospital research initiatives

Understanding OA Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework

Redacted version of narrative for a proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of international standards and practices for measuring and reporting usage of open-access ebooksSubmitted to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on April 27, 2018https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/143840/1/Redacted Grant Narrative - OA Ebook Usage_FINAL SUBMISSION_042718.pdfDescription of Redacted Grant Narrative - OA Ebook Usage_FINAL SUBMISSION_042718.pdf : Grant Narrativ

Improving patient experience of kidney care, one comment at a time: A mixed methods analysis of Kidney PREM 2020 patient comments

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The WASS Collective: Gender Transformations in Higher Education

This paper offers a critical perspective on issues around gender and sexual transformation within the context of UK Higher Education. Drawing on qualitative data carried out by undergraduate and postgraduate students, the analysis explores some of the diverse and often challenging ways in which young/er women and men are thinking and talking about gender, sexuality and feminism, as well as their strategies for turning ideas into political action. The research focuses on the activities and opinions of students belonging to an anti-sexist organisation within one UK university, who are engaged in campaigns to raise awareness about the damaging effects of gender and sexual inequalities, as well as promoting the popular appeal of contemporary feminisms. Locating the voices and research findings of the students themselves at the centre of the discussion, the paper is produced collaboratively between students and teachers who are involved in both the activist and research elements of this project. The paper also argues for (and provides evidence of) the transformative potential of alternative and critical forms of student engagement and student/ staff collaboration in relation to gender informed academic activism.Feminism, Post-Feminism, Anti-Sexism, Higher Education, Activism, Academic Activism, Praxis, Critical Pedagogy, Collaborative Methods

Patient Reported Experience of Kidney Care in the UK 2021

Headline findings • 12,416 people with kidney disease, from all 68 treating centres in the UK, took part in Kidney PREM this year, largely online. • Overall experience of kidney care continues to be rated highly, with many patients who provided a written comment thanking staff for their commitment and efforts. • For four in five participants, overall experience of kidney care stayed the same or was better during the last year of COVID-19. People with a transplant and those with CKD are more likely than those receiving dialysis to report a worse experience of kidney care over the last year. • Privacy and Dignity, Patient Information and Access to the Renal Team continue to be high scoring and are the most consistent regardless of treatment. • Experience of Communication between members of the renal unit team and people with kidney disease was scored far higher than communication between members of the renal team and GPs. • Patient reported experience of Sharing Decisions About Your Care is particularly low scoring, with greater variability in experience between centres and across treatment types. More than half of those on haemodialysis have not been invited to take part in tasks of haemodialysis care, or do not know if they have. • Broadly half of those receiving in-centre or in-satellite haemodialysis say that staff always Needle their fistula or graft with as little pain as possible; this remains a low scoring area with considerable range between centres. • People receiving peritoneal dialysis and home haemodialysis report improved experience of Support from the renal unit team with treatment this year, compared to those receiving in-centre haemodialysis. Support in general continues to be a low scoring theme, notably lower than in 2019. • Experience of Advice on Fluid Intake scores higher than Advice on Diet, and both are rated higher by those receiving dialysis than people with CKD or in receipt of a transplant. • People receiving peritoneal dialysis report improved experience of Tests, with results being returned more quickly; this has worsened for those with a transplant and remains relatively low for people receiving in-centre haemodialysis. Half of respondents do not always understand their test results. • Patient reported experience of Transport continues to be scored better compared to scores in 2019. As in previous years, Transport is one of the lowest scoring aspects of kidney care experience. • People with CKD report relatively poorer experiences than people on kidney replacement therapy; the median (middle) score awarded for overall experience decreased to 6.0 from 7.0 in 2020 and remains there this year

Teaching Inquiry-based Science Through the Critical Lens of Social Justice

In this session, the first presenter who is a teacher educator from a historically marginalized group, share their own experiences about what led them to teach their science methods course through the critical lens of social justice and through the theoretical frameworks of culturally responsive education. In addition, the presenter will discuss the tools and strategies utilized for teaching this course and for creating a safe space for preservice teachers’ dialogue and critical reflections about their own lives and experiences, identity, racism, biases, and the systemic and structural oppression among various groups in K-12 education. Six (6) preservice teachers participated in an honors project in this course. The project involved the development of 5E inquiry-based science lesson plans which incorporates elements of culturally responsive teaching; social justice standards; nature of science (NOS); teaching science to English Learners (ELs); history and impact of female scientists and scientists of color; children’s picture books from the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA); and/or socio-cultural issues that influence science in our everyday world. During the second part of this session, the preservice teachers will showcase their honors projects and share their experiences and lessons learned to include how this project impacts their perspective on learning their students’ backgrounds and cultures, their own science identity, and how this experience informs their future teaching practices. Finally, the presenters will discuss the limitations of this project and future recommendations of ways in which we might consider implementing social justice practices in teacher preparation courses

A Data Trust for Industry Data Sharing

This document is an extract from the report Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data, which forms part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project, Understanding OA Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework