The Palestinian health research system:who orchestrates the system, how and based on what? A qualitative assessment

Abstract Background In 2011, the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region committee launched a strategy for scaling up research in the region to address the countries’ health needs through formulating and analysing the National Health Research System (HRS). Stewardship comprises three functions, namely governance, policy and priorities, and is a central pillar of this system to ensure a well-organised and functioning HRS. This study aims to examine the perceptions of the HRS performers to understand these functions and to generate insights for system strengthening. Methods The study was carried out in Palestine, targetting three sectors in the health field, including relevant governmental health institutions, schools of public health, and major local and international health agencies. The data were collected through 52 in-depth interviews (IDIs) and 6 focus group discussions (FGDs) with policy-makers, academics, directors, and experts. Participants and institutions were selected purposively based on a set of criteria and peer review. Results A total of 104 experts participated in the IDIs (52 participants) and FGDs (52 participants in 6 FGDs), highlighting that stewardship functions remain problematic and insufficiently performed, mainly due to a missing health research structural and regulatory framework and dispersed health research work. Despite the limited good practices, the majority of the participants described the Ethical Review and Clearance as weak due to the lack of an agreed-upon national committee and procedural quality and ethics guidelines for non-compliance. A policy or strategy dedicated to health research is lacking. The exercises of research priority-setting appear to be evolving despite the lack of consensus and the low levels of knowledge and experience in research prioritisation. Common gaps, such as weak political will and capacity support, the absence of a national unified regulating body, and the indirect effects of political conditions on strengthening the HRS as well as other sectors, also emerged. Conclusions The stewardship functions of the Palestinian HRS remain weak along with substantial political, structural, and resources and capacity gaps. The study emphasises the imperative need to initiate strategic efforts led by the MOH and the Palestinian National Institute of Public Health alongside with other players to strengthen a national HRS through improving the stewardship functions. To achieve this, attention and support of decision-makers, involvement, mobilisation and strategic dialogue are indispensable, in order to embark on building a well-regulated and coordinated structure, operational research policy, and prioritisation of essential research

Anomaly Detection for 5G Softwarized Infrastructures with Federated Learning

International audienceWe present how to distribute an anomaly detection framework at the state of the art, called SYRROCA (SYstem Radiography and ROot Cause Analysis), for edge computing and 5G environment, using federated learning. The goal is to leverage on the distributed nature of federated learning to support data locality and local training of artificial intelligence modules, such as anomaly detection modules needed for closed-loop automation systems. We describe how the different functional modules interact and can be demonstrated

Optical behavior and marginal discoloration of a single shade resin composite with a chameleon effect: a randomized controlled clinical trial

Abstract Objective/aim Evaluating the optical behavior and marginal discoloration of a Single-shade universal resin composite over 12 months. To achieve this, a split-mouth with a double-blinded randomized strategy was employed. Materials and methods Twenty adult patients, each presenting with at least two caries lesions in their posterior teeth, were selected and randomly subdivided into two identical groups: Group I received Single-shade universal resin composite (Omnichroma), and Group II received multi-shade nanohybrid resin composite (Tetric®N-Ceram). Color measurements and marginal discoloration were assessed visually by three blinded operators at baseline followed after 1,3,6,9, and 12‑month periods utilizing the Modified United States Public Health Services (USPHS) criteria. Statistical analysis was adopted utilizing the Wilcoxon test with a 0.05 significance level. Results The two groups revealed non-statistically significant differences up to 6 months regarding color match and color stability. After 9 and 12 months, the multi-shade group demonstrated a statistically significant higher prevalence of color match (Alpha) scores than the single-shade universal group. Regarding marginal discoloration, all restorations in the two groups had no discoloration (Alpha scores). Discussion/conclusion Since the percentage of Alpha and Bravo scores was considered clinical success, both the single-shade universal and the multi-shade nanohybrid resin composites demonstrated satisfactory optical performance and marginal discoloration as posterior restorations after a 12-month follow-up period

An Open Dataset for Beyond-5G Data-driven Network Automation Experiments

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Thakirni Application: An Assistive Application for Alzheimer Patients

In today’s world, mobile applications are used widely in our daily life and in many areas. One important usage of these applications is in the health care sector. Health care applications are growing rapidly in the app store and have significant importance. Alzheimer has been known as a common disease. Therefore, in this paper Thakirni application is proposed as an assistive application that provides many different features for the early stages of Alzheimer patients. This application enhances the doctor’s operations by ensuring that their patients come to appointments and increases focus on patient care by recommending Thakirni application to the patients. The application provides a tracking feature, reminder feature about medicine, important events, and appointments throughout the day and photo album.</p

Thakirni Application: An Assistive Application for Alzheimer Patients

In today’s world, mobile applications are used widely in our daily life and in many areas. One important usage of these applications is in the health care sector. Health care applications are growing rapidly in the app store and have significant importance. Alzheimer has been known as a common disease. Therefore, in this paper Thakirni application is proposed as an assistive application that provides many different features for the early stages of Alzheimer patients. This application enhances the doctor’s operations by ensuring that their patients come to appointments and increases focus on patient care by recommending Thakirni application to the patients. The application provides a tracking feature, reminder feature about medicine, important events, and appointments throughout the day and photo album

Attitudes of Students of Physical Education at the University of Jadara towards Distance Education

The study aimed to identify the attitudes of the students of the Department of Physical Education at the University of Jadara towards distance education. The program was conducted through a questionnaire consisting of (18) items that dealt with three axes of evaluation, capabilities, and educational competencies. 0.05) in favor of female students for the evaluation axis, while there are no significant differences between the two axes of educational potential and competencie

Additional file 1: of The Palestinian health research system: who orchestrates the system, how and based on what? A qualitative assessment

Table S1. Responses on health research (HR) governance challenges and improvement opportunities. Table S2. Responses on HR related to coordination and cooperation status, gaps and improvements. Table S3. Responses on the status of HR ethical review and clearance. Table S4. Responses on the status of HR policy, gaps and improvements. Table S5. Responses on the pattern of HR priorities, gaps and improvements. Table S6. Comparison between HR priorities defined in this study and those defined by Palestinian National Institute of Public Health in August 2017. (DOCX 76 kb