126 research outputs found
Analisis Kinerja Sekolah (Studi Kasus Sdn 002 Koto Peraku Kecamatan Cerenti Kabupaten Kuantan Singingi)
Elementary school 002 Koto Peraku is unit technical institution from Kuansing department. The function is giving attendant to make students intelligence in area subdistrict Cerenti. To create the purpose of education can useful for people or public, performance of school is influences to know the capability education in this school. But, these performance of school at SDN 002 Koto Peraku subdistrict Cerenti, Kuansing regency still low.Researcher use teori based on Mohamad Mahsun said there is some indicator in performance of organization: input, process, and output. The purpose of this research is to analyze how performance of school at SDN 002 Koto Peraku subdistrict Cerenti, Kuantan Singingi regency. This research is descriptive research the researcher. Used metode avalitative and snowball sampling to get the data the researcher use interview, observation, and documentation.Result of this result is performance of school at the SDN 002 Koto Peraku still low because lers the teacher (need teacher) means need teacher based on quality and quantity at this school sarana and prasarana still low to increase process studying. Support factor performance of school is teamwork all the teacher, obstacle factor performance of school is headmaster at school dont care with teacher and students, individual factor the teacher cant develop individual, system factor facilities of school dont enought to increase students and situational factor area at the school dont comfortable and safe for students.Keyward : Analyze, Performanc
What Matters Most to Patients and Rheumatologists? A Discrete Choice Experiment in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Introduction:
To determine patient and rheumatologist preferences for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment attributes in Spain and to evaluate their attitude towards shared decision-making (SDM).
Methods:
Observational, descriptive, exploratory and cross-sectional study based on a discrete choice experiment (DCE). To identify the attributes and their levels, a literature review and two focus groups (patients [P] = 5; rheumatologists [R] = 4) were undertaken. Seven attributes with 2–4 levels were presented in eight scenarios. Attribute utility and relative importance (RI) were assessed using a conditional logit model. Patient preferences for SDM were assessed using an ad hoc questionnaire.
Results:
Ninety rheumatologists [52.2% women; mean years of experience 18.1 (SD: 9.0); seeing an average of 24.4 RA patients/week (SD: 15.3)] and 137 RA patients [mean age: 47.5 years (SD: 10.7); 84.0% women; mean time since diagnosis of RA: 14.2 years (SD: 11.8) and time in treatment: 13.2 years (SD: 11.2), mean HAQ score 1.2 (SD: 0.7)] participated in the study. In terms of RI, rheumatologists and RA patients viewed: time with optimal QoL: R: 23.41%/P: 35.05%; substantial symptom improvement: R: 13.15%/P: 3.62%; time to onset of treatment action: R: 16.24%/P: 13.56%; severe adverse events: R: 10.89%/P: 11.20%; mild adverse events: R: 4.16%/P: 0.91%; mode of administration: R: 25.23%/P: 25.00%; and added cost: R: 6.93%/P: 10.66%. Nearly 73% of RA patients were involved in treatment decision-making to a greater or lesser extent; however, 27.4% did not participate at all.
Conclusion:
Both for rheumatologists and patients, the top three decision-making drivers are time with optimal quality, treatment mode of administration and time to onset of action, although in different ranking order. Patients were willing to be more involved in the treatment decision-making process
Chromosome aberration detection with hybridized DNA probes: digital image analysis and slit scan flow cytometry
Political Sociology Analysis in The Scope of Students
Students are one of the smallest groups in society that have a role in the life of campus political sociology. So, students' awareness of their role as agents of change can provide a change in a social building for the better. The purpose of this research is to socialize in creating student awareness to participate in campus life. The method used is through observation and the author's experience in participating in campus organizations that have been followed. The method used through the author's observation and experience in following the campus organization that has been followed. The research method used is a qualitative approach. The results showed that students can play an active role in campus political activities. The conclusion of this study shows that many campus political activities are carried out by students
Delineation of individual human chromosomes in metaphase and interphase cells by in situ suppression hybridization using recombinant DNA libraries
A method of in situ hybridization for visualizing individual human chromosomes from pter to qter, both in metaphase spreads and interphase nuclei, is reported. DNA inserts from a single chromosomal library are labeled with biotin and partially preannealed with a titrated amount of total human genomic DNA prior to hybridization with cellular or chromosomal preparations. The cross-hybridization of repetitive sequences to nontargeted chromosomes can be markedly suppressed under appropriate preannealing conditions. The remaining single-stranded DNA is hybridized to specimens of interest and detected with fluorescent or enzymelabeled avidin conjugates following post-hybridization washes. DNA inserts from recombinant libraries for chromosomes 1, 4, 7, 8, 13, 14, 18, 20, 21, 22, and X were assessed for their ability to decorate specifically their cognate chromosome; most libraries proved to be highly specific. Quantitative densitometric analyses indicated that the ratio of specific to nonspecific hybridization signal under optimal preannealing conditions was at least 8:1. Interphase nuclei showed a cohesive territorial organization of chromosomal domains, and laserscanning confocal fluorescence microscopy was used to aid the 3-D visualization of these domains. This method should be useful for both karyotypic studies and for the analysis of chromosome topography in interphase cells
Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives to promote adherence to depot antipsychotic medication: economic evaluation of a cluster-randomised controlled trial
Background: Offering a modest financial incentive to people with psychosis can promote adherence to depot antipsychotic medication, but the cost-effectiveness of this approach has not been examined. Methods: Economic evaluation within a pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial. 141 patients under the care of 73 teams (clusters) were randomised to intervention or control; 138 patients with diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorder or bipolar disorder participated. Intervention participants received £15 per depot injection over 12 months, additional to usual acute, mental and community primary health services. The control group received usual health services. Main outcome measures: incremental cost per 20% increase in adherence to depot antipsychotic medication; incremental cost of ‘good’ adherence (defined as taking at least 95% of the prescribed number of depot medications over the intervention period). Findings: Economic and outcome data for baseline and 12-month follow-up were available for 117 participants. The adjusted difference in adherence between groups was 12.2% (73.4% control vs. 85.6% intervention); the adjusted costs difference was £598 (95% CI -£4 533, £5 730). The extra cost per patient to increase adherence to depot medications by 20% was £982 (95% CI -£8 020, £14 000). The extra cost per patient of achieving 'good' adherence was £2 950 (CI -£19 400, £27 800). Probability of cost-effectiveness exceeded 97.5%at willingness-to-pay values of £14 000 for a 20% increase in adherence and £27 800 for good adherence. Interpretation: Offering a modest financial incentive to people with psychosis is cost-effective in promoting adherence to depot antipsychotic medication. Direct healthcare costs (including costs of the financial incentive) are unlikely to be increased by this intervention. Trial Registration: ISRCTN.com 7776928
¿Qué es una intervención sanitaria eficiente en España en 2020?
Hace más de 15 años que en Gaceta Sanitaria se publicó el artículo titulado «¿Qué es una tecnología sanitaria eficiente en España?». El creciente interés por fijar el precio de las nuevas tecnologías en función del
valor que estas proporcionan a los sistemas de salud y la experiencia acumulada por los países de nuestro
entorno hacen oportuno revisar qué es una intervención sanitaria eficiente en España en el año 2020.
El análisis de coste-efectividad sigue siendo el método de referencia para maximizar los resultados en
salud de la sociedad con los recursos disponibles. La interpretación de sus resultados requiere establecer
unos valores de referencia que sirvan de guía sobre lo que constituye un valor razonable para el sistema
sanitario. Los umbrales de eficiencia deben ser flexibles y dinámicos, y actualizarse periódicamente. Su
aplicación debe estar basada en la gradualidad y la transparencia, considerando, además, otros factores
que reflejen las preferencias sociales. Aunque la fijación de los umbrales corresponde a los decisores
políticos, en España puede ser razonable utilizar unos valores de referencia como punto de partida que
podrían estar comprendidos entre los 25.000 y los 60.000 euros por año de vida ajustado por calidad.
No obstante, en la actualidad, más que la determinación de las cifras exactas de dicho umbral, la cuestión clave es si el Sistema Nacional de Salud está preparado y dispuesto a implantar un modelo de pago
basado en el valor, que contribuya a lograr la gradualidad en las decisiones de financiación y, sobre todo,
a mejorar la previsibilidad, la consistencia y la transparencia del proceso.Fifteen years ago, Gaceta Sanitaria published the article entitled “What is an efficient health technology in
Spain?” The growing interest in setting the price of new technologies based on the value they provide to
health systems and the experience accumulated by the countries in our environment make it opportune
to review what constitutes an efficient health intervention in Spain in 2020. Cost-effectiveness analysis
continues to be the reference method to maximize social health outcomes with the available resources.
The interpretation of its results requires establishing reference values that serve as a guide on what
constitutes a reasonable value for the health care system. Efficiency thresholds must be flexible and
dynamic, and they need to be updated periodically. Its application should be based on and transparency,
and consider other factors that reflect social preferences. Although setting thresholds is down to political
decision-makers, in Spain it could be reasonable to use thresholds of 25,000 and 60,000 Euros per QALY.
However, currently, in addition to determining exactfigures for the threshold,the key question is whether
the Spanish National Health System is able and willing to implement a payment model based on value,
towards achieving gradual financing decisions and, above all, to improve the predictability, consistency
and transparency of the process
Scenario-based requirements elicitation for user-centric explainable AI
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) develops technical explanation methods and enable interpretability for human stakeholders on why Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models provide certain predictions. However, the trust of those stakeholders into AI models and explanations is still an issue, especially domain experts, who are knowledgeable about their domain but not AI inner workings. Social and user-centric XAI research states it is essential to understand the stakeholder’s requirements to provide explanations tailored to their needs, and enhance their trust in working with AI models. Scenario-based design and requirements elicitation can help bridge the gap between social and operational aspects of a stakeholder early before the adoption of information systems and identify its real problem and practices generating user requirements. Nevertheless, it is still rarely explored the adoption of scenarios in XAI, especially in the domain of fraud detection to supporting experts who are about to work with AI models. We demonstrate the usage of scenario-based requirements elicitation for XAI in a fraud detection context, and develop scenarios derived with experts in banking fraud. We discuss how those scenarios can be adopted to identify user or expert requirements for appropriate explanations in his daily operations and to make decisions on reviewing fraudulent cases in banking. The generalizability of the scenarios for further adoption is validated through a systematic literature review in domains of XAI and visual analytics for fraud detection
Cost-effectiveness analysis of pemetrexed versus docetaxel in the second-line treatment of non-small cell lung cancer in Spain: results for the non-squamous histology population
BackgroundThe objective of this study was to conduct a cost-effectiveness evaluation of pemetrexed compared to docetaxel in the treatment of advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) for patients with predominantly non-squamous histology in the Spanish healthcare setting.MethodsA Markov model was designed consisting of stable, responsive, progressive disease and death states. Patients could also experience adverse events as long as they received chemotherapy. Clinical inputs were based on an analysis of a phase III clinical trial that identified a statistically significant improvement in overall survival for non-squamous patients treated with pemetrexed compared with docetaxel. Costs were collected from the Spanish healthcare perspective.ResultsOutcomes of the model included total costs, total quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), total life years gained (LYG) and total progression-free survival (PFS). Mean survival was 1.03 years for the pemetrexed arm and 0.89 years in the docetaxel arm; QALYs were 0.52 compared to 0.42. Per-patient lifetime costs were € 34677 and € 32343, respectively. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios were € 23967 per QALY gained and € 17225 per LYG.ConclusionsPemetrexed as a second-line treatment option for patients with a predominantly non-squamous histology in NSCLC is a cost-effective alternative to docetaxel according to the € 30000/QALY threshold commonly accepted in Spain
Rice Stress-Resistant SNP Database.
BACKGROUND:Rice (Oryza sativa L.) yield is limited inherently by environmental stresses, including biotic and abiotic stresses. Thus, it is of great importance to perform in-depth explorations on the genes that are closely associated with the stress-resistant traits in rice. The existing rice SNP databases have made considerable contributions to rice genomic variation information but none of them have a particular focus on integrating stress-resistant variation and related phenotype data into one web resource. RESULTS:Rice Stress-Resistant SNP database (http://bioinformatics.fafu.edu.cn/RSRS) mainly focuses on SNPs specific to biotic and abiotic stress-resistant ability in rice, and presents them in a unified web resource platform. The Rice Stress-Resistant SNP (RSRS) database contains over 9.5 million stress-resistant SNPs and 797 stress-resistant candidate genes in rice, which were detected from more than 400 stress-resistant rice varieties. We incorporated the SNPs function, genome annotation and phenotype information into this database. Besides, the database has a user-friendly web interface for users to query, browse and visualize a specific SNP efficiently. RSRS database allows users to query the SNP information and their relevant annotations for individual variety or more varieties. The search results can be visualized graphically in a genome browser or displayed in formatted tables. Users can also align SNPs between two or more rice accessions. CONCLUSION:RSRS database shows great utility for scientists to further characterize the function of variants related to environmental stress-resistant ability in rice
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