All roads lead to Rome: channelling inter-campus, interlibrary and off-campus requests through a single user interface

The message from remote library clients is clear and unequivocal - they want material quickly and easily. They would prefer not to have to differentiate between the three library services of intercampus, interlibrary, or off-campus requests - they just want a particular document or book forwarded to them as soon as possible. At the University of Southern Queensland Library, VDX software has been utilised to provide a single search and request interface for library material. Differentiating between individual clients,it displays and activates only those services for which a particular client is eligible. Remote undergraduates for example, have the ability to search and request from USQ catalogue only, while those students eligible for interlibrary loans can search and initiate requests across a range of catalogues. Whilst simplifying processes for clients, the challenge to Library staff has been to successfully manipulate the software and work processes to handle this complex arrangement. This paper will discuss the introduction of this new initiative focusing on the following issues: - Background - Client view - Dual services and associated challenges - Impact on staff - Improvements planned in the next six months - Marketing - Conclusio

PROPOSED CRITERIA FOR TEXTBOOK ADOPTION IN SELECTED DRAFTING AREAS

The problem was to determine a systematic way to evaluate industrial arts drafting textbooks in selected areas. This study uses basic background material and proposes criteria for adoption of drafting textbooks in industrial arts education. The two major devices used in developing criteria were content analysis and objectives of industrial arts. This instrument is not complicated and may be learned easily, making it useful as an aid to select drafting textbooks. It also lends itself to the selection of supplementary textbooks

Penentuan Pola yang Sering Muncul untuk Penjualan Pupuk Menggunakan Algoritma Fp-growth

Aturan asosiasi dengan melakukan analisis suatu transaksi penjualan. Analisis transaksi penjualan bertujuan untuk merancang strategi yang efektif dengan memanfaatkan data transaksi penjualan produk pupuk yang dibeli oleh konsumen. Association rule adalah teknik data mining untuk mencari hubungan antar-item dalam suatu dataset yang ditentukan dengan menggunakan Algoritma FP-Growth. Frequent Pattern Growth (FP-Growth) adalah salah satu alternatif algoritma yang dapat digunakan untuk menentukan himpunan data yang paling sering muncul (frequent itemset) dalam sebuah kumpulan data. Algoritma FP-Growth menggunakan konsep pembangunan tree dalam pencarian frequent itemsets. Dari perhitungan nilai confidence dari rule yang dihasilkan menggunakan Rapidminer-studio 7.3.0

A safer place for patients: learning to improve patient safety

1 Every day over one million people are treated successfully by National Health Service (NHS) acute, ambulance and mental health trusts. However, healthcare relies on a range of complex interactions of people, skills, technologies and drugs, and sometimes things do go wrong. For most countries, patient safety is now the key issue in healthcare quality and risk management. The Department of Health (the Department) estimates that one in ten patients admitted to NHS hospitals will be unintentionally harmed, a rate similar to other developed countries. Around 50 per cent of these patient safety incidentsa could have been avoided, if only lessons from previous incidents had been learned. 2 There are numerous stakeholders with a role in keeping patients safe in the NHS, many of whom require trusts to report details of patient safety incidents and near misses to them (Figure 2). However, a number of previous National Audit Office reports have highlighted concerns that the NHS has limited information on the extent and impact of clinical and non-clinical incidents and trusts need to learn from these incidents and share good practice across the NHS more effectively (Appendix 1). 3 In 2000, the Chief Medical Officer’s report An organisation with a memory 1 , identified that the key barriers to reducing the number of patient safety incidents were an organisational culture that inhibited reporting and the lack of a cohesive national system for identifying and sharing lessons learnt. 4 In response, the Department published Building a safer NHS for patients3 detailing plans and a timetable for promoting patient safety. The goal was to encourage improvements in reporting and learning through the development of a new mandatory national reporting scheme for patient safety incidents and near misses. Central to the plan was establishing the National Patient Safety Agency to improve patient safety by reducing the risk of harm through error. The National Patient Safety Agency was expected to: collect and analyse information; assimilate other safety-related information from a variety of existing reporting systems; learn lessons and produce solutions. 5 We therefore examined whether the NHS has been successful in improving the patient safety culture, encouraging reporting and learning from patient safety incidents. Key parts of our approach were a census of 267 NHS acute, ambulance and mental health trusts in Autumn 2004, followed by a re-survey in August 2005 and an omnibus survey of patients (Appendix 2). We also reviewed practices in other industries (Appendix 3) and international healthcare systems (Appendix 4), and the National Patient Safety Agency’s progress in developing its National Reporting and Learning System (Appendix 5) and other related activities (Appendix 6). 6 An organisation with a memory1 was an important milestone in the NHS’s patient safety agenda and marked the drive to improve reporting and learning. At the local level the vast majority of trusts have developed a predominantly open and fair reporting culture but with pockets of blame and scope to improve their strategies for sharing good practice. Indeed in our re-survey we found that local performance had continued to improve with more trusts reporting having an open and fair reporting culture, more trusts with open reporting systems and improvements in perceptions of the levels of under-reporting. At the national level, progress on developing the national reporting system for learning has been slower than set out in the Department’s strategy of 2001 3 and there is a need to improve evaluation and sharing of lessons and solutions by all organisations with a stake in patient safety. There is also no clear system for monitoring that lessons are learned at the local level. Specifically: a The safety culture within trusts is improving, driven largely by the Department’s clinical governance initiative 4 and the development of more effective risk management systems in response to incentives under initiatives such as the NHS Litigation Authority’s Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (Appendix 7). However, trusts are still predominantly reactive in their response to patient safety issues and parts of some organisations still operate a blame culture. b All trusts have established effective reporting systems at the local level, although under-reporting remains a problem within some groups of staff, types of incidents and near misses. The National Patient Safety Agency did not develop and roll out the National Reporting and Learning System by December 2002 as originally envisaged. All trusts were linked to the system by 31 December 2004. By August 2005, at least 35 trusts still had not submitted any data to the National Reporting and Learning System. c Most trusts pointed to specific improvements derived from lessons learnt from their local incident reporting systems, but these are still not widely promulgated, either within or between trusts. The National Patient Safety Agency has provided only limited feedback to trusts of evidence-based solutions or actions derived from the national reporting system. It published its first feedback report from the Patient Safety Observatory in July 2005

Pola Komunikasi Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah Provinsi Riau dalam Mencegah dan Menanggulangi Bencana Asap di Riau

Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Riau Province is a government agency established to disaster areas. As a government organization is certainly very necessary implementing communication patterns. Patterns of communication necessary for communication and Opera delivered the leadership can be accepted and understood subordinates. Delivering a message intended synergy of communication with the good cooperation so terapai goal of disaster management smog. This study aims to determine patterns of communication Regional Disaster Management Agency of Riau Province in disaster prevention and responses smoke in Riau.This study used a qualitative method with descriptive approach. This research is located in the Regional Disaster Management Agency of Riau Province, the General Sudirman, Pekanbaru with the object of study of communication patterns Regional Disaster Management Agency of Riau Province in disaster prevention and responses smoke in Riau. While the subject of research is chief executive BPBDs Riau Province, Head of Prevention and Preparedness, Emergency Head, Head of Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Task Force BPBDs Riau, Riau BPBDs Special Staff, Task Force for Disaster Resilient Village and BMKG Pekanbaru. Retrieving data using non-participant observation and interviews tersruktur and documentation.Results from this study indicate patterns of communication BPBDs Riau Province is a wheel pattern. Wheel pattern seen since the application of a structured communication and coordinated by BPBD Riau. At the time of the disaster prevents fumes, wheel pattern appears on the coordination done BPBDs Riau. At the time of tackling the disaster, the pattern wheel is used also in coordination and command and briefing at the command post BPBDs Riau. WhatApps strengthen the use of media usage patterns of the wheel. The whole stackholder can communicate with all the elements but still based on the existing structure

Developing and Implementing Service-Learning in Aging

This article focuses on the potential benefits of service-learning in aging to students, the university, and the community. We first discuss the concept of service-learning, clarify its parameters, and describe the types of projects that best exemplify its unique blend of service and learning. Opportunities for service-learning are examined using examples from the current Intergenerational Service-Learning Project of the National Council on Aging. The complexity of\u27 initiating and gaining acceptance of service-learning in aging projects is explored, with particular attention given to supervisory and curriculum issues. Finally, the national implications of\u27 service-learning in aging are discussed, as well as the possibilities for including service-learning approaches in some of the new federal initiatives in aging