scholarly journals Community news: The 2020 Nanopore Weekly Meeting: A Monday virtual event for nanopore electrochemistry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zheng‐Li Hu ◽  
Brian P. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Weekly Meeting

The Contribution of Obeya for Business Intelligence

2021 ◽  
pp. 244-269
Author(s):  
Gonçalo Sousa ◽  
José Carlos Sá ◽  
Gilberto Santos ◽  
Francisco J. G. Silva ◽  
Luís Pinto Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Planning Team ◽  
Weekly Meeting ◽  
Data Update ◽  
A Company

The main objective of the study is to minimize interdepartmental communication, potentiation of fast and efficient decision making, and computerization of data. Using software such as MS Excel® and MS Power BI®, a Power BI® tool was conceived to be capable of incorporating, for the entire company, the dashboards that collect the main KPIs of each department. After the tool was implemented, the company's paradigm shift was noticeable. Quickly, the weekly meeting of the planning team began to take place using the MS Power BI® dashboard. In this way, processes were automated and the important data for the normal functioning of the company became accessible to all departments, thus minimizing interdepartmental communication. The chapter shows an Obeya Digital that was implemented in a company in which all the performance indicators of each department are incorporated. In this way, information becomes accessible to all employees and manual data update processes are minimized.

Documentation on the Afro-American: Familiar and Less Familiar Sources

1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 293-303
Author(s):  
Dorothy Porter
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
The People ◽  
Weekly Meeting ◽  
Literary Societies

On the evening of March 20, 1828, a group of free men of color organized a society that had as its purpose “the mental improvement of the people of color in the neighborhood of Philadelphia.” This organization was to be known as the “Reading Room Society.” Immediately a library was established and the librarian instructed to lend books to members for no longer than a week. Books were to be withdrawn or returned at the society's weekly meeting. Freedoms Journal, the earliest Negro newspaper, the first issue of which appeared in March, 1827, and Lundy's Genius of Universal Emancipation, an antislavery publication, were among the first works circulated. In May, 1833, the Philadelphia Library Company of Colored Persons appealed for “such books and other donations as will facilitate the object of this institution.” By 1838, this library had 600 volumes. Since Negroes could not enjoy the same privileges as whites in libraries, they established for themselves some 45 literary societies between 1828 and 1846 in several large cities, mainly in the East, most of which maintained reading rooms and circulating libraries. As a consequence of these activities many Negroes were stimulated to assemble private libraries. In 1838, in Philadelphia and nearby cities, there were 8333 volumes in private libraries. In New York City, David Ruggles, a Negro abolitionist, pamphleteer, and printer, was probably the first Negro book collector. He maintained a circulating library and made antislavery and colonization publications available to many readers. He charged a fee of less than twenty-five cents a month for renting books relating to the Negro and slavery.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMASI KAJIAN KEISLAMAN PADA LEMBAGA DAKWAH KAMPUS (LDK) JUNDULLAH IAIN PALU

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 367
Author(s):  
Mariam Mariam ◽  
Syamsuri Syamsuri ◽  
Mansur Mangasing
Keyword(s):  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
New Schools ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Weekly Meeting ◽  
Level Training

LDK Jundullah is organization of da’wah (Islamic preaching) in IAIN Palu that has concerned with Islamic studies. Therefore, students and also community can understand Islam as a religion that is able to form a good character. In addition, Islamic studies can be alternative to relieve a boredom for society due to the emergence of new schools in Islam that are in contradicton with the Quran and Sunnah. This organization carry out activities such as organizing seminars, training of preacher, weekly meeting (liqo), two-level training (daurah) for new comers, female Muslim activities, and economic empowerment. The activities done by the activists of LDK Jundullah are focused on good character and exemplary in campus and society.

scholarly journals 59 Impact of A Mature Burn Telemedicine Program On Inpatient, Outpatient, and Aftercare Programs During COVID19.

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S42-S43
Author(s):  
Bruce Bennett ◽  
Burn Surgery ◽  
Trauma Surgery ◽  
Heidi M Altamirano ◽  
Mark Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Burn Injuries ◽  
Stressful Event ◽  
Program Coordinators ◽  
Weekly Meeting ◽  
The Face ◽  
Partnership Approach

Abstract Introduction In 2014, a multidisciplinary burn telemedicine program was developed in order to increase access of burn specialists and improve care. This proved to be beneficial in the face of the pandemic through utilization of existing programs and development of new processes. Methods The basis of this burn telemedicine program utilizes a partnership approach. Visit types include inpatient and outpatient consultation, with visits occurring in in-patient settings, emergency departments, out-patient clinics, and in patient’s homes. During the COVID 19 pandemic, a weekly meeting was held with telemedicine program and clinic leadership, program coordinators, and our burn surgeon to triage patients to telemedicine or inpatient visit types. This often required the nursing staff to contact the patients to obtain more information about the injury and help them to securely upload photographs. The telemedicine visits were primarily video visits occurring either in clinic settings or the patient’s home. The burn psychotherapist and occupational therapists also utilized telemedicine for patient care. In addition, aftercare support groups, which originally were held twice each month onsite, transitioned to video and increased to three times. Telemedicine is also being utilized for school re-entry programming and the annual burn camps. The program is also tracking reimbursement for telemedicine activities. Results The pandemic resulted in a significant increase of telemedicine visits as compared to in person clinic visits often occurring directly into the patient’s homes. A greater number of burn patients were seen overall than previous to this process. Attached graphs show the comparison of in person visits compared to telemedicine visits during this time frame. Additional data will be presented showing the breakdown of visit location, provider (psychotherapist versus surgeon for example), and usage with aftercare programming. Conclusions This telemedicine program with established processes and partnerships, allowed transitioning alternative care due to the pandemic to be less stressful event. Benefits to patient care included the ability of the multidisciplinary burn team to see more patients safely via video especially in their own homes and allowed continuation and expansion of aftercare support. Challenges experienced included needing additional staff to ensure patients were triaged appropriately, scheduling of visits, and technology training for patients and families, and to ensure that patients were receiving medications and dressings as needed. The increased volume of patients seen could be attributed to more frequent visits and an increased volume of burn injuries.

scholarly journals Inclusive education in Islamic kindergarten, why not?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
M. Agung Hidayatulloh
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Good Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Weekly Meeting ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

This work shows the implementation of inclusive education in Islamic Kindergarten Taruna al-Qur’an (IKTQ), the assessment of child development in inclusive class, and supporting and restriction of the implementation of inclusive education in IKTQ. This qualitative descriptive research used observation, interview, and documentation as the technique of collecting data. The results are only the ABK with less in terms of social skills that were included in the non-ABK class. IKTQ pointed the special guides that monitored the development of ABK. The development of the child was assessed through observations and notes. These notes were documented as reports of child development communicated to the parents. The assessment did not touch the ABKs who joined in learning with other children. The development of ABK was assessed when they were in a special place of ABK therapy. The factors supported the implementation of inclusive education in IKTQ were: (1) the communication between teachers and ABK guides, (2) a good relationship through weekly meeting for all teachers, and (3) the communication between IKTQ and parents either verbally or through a liaison document. Regarding the restriction, the teachers explicitly express that there were no obstacles in the implementation of inclusive education in IKTQ.

Caregiver stress: Clinical evaluation and intervention strategies for caregiver burden prevention.

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (31_suppl) ◽  
pp. 22-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Velutti ◽  
Carlotta Pavesi ◽  
Chiara Poggio ◽  
Beatrice Carettoni ◽  
Annalisa Saetta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Caregiver Burden ◽  
Care Pathway ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Inpatient Setting ◽  
Home Setting ◽  
Basic Care ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Weekly Meeting

22 Background: Caregivers (CGs) of advanced cancer patients (pts/ACPs) experience a higher incidence of medical and psychological conditions compared to general population. Methods: We conducted a prospective assessment of the caregiver burden (CGB) - a term describing the physical, psychological, emotional, social, and financial problems often experienced by CGs - to identify potential risk management strategies. We used the Caregiver Burden Inventory (CBI), a multi-dimensional questionnaire with 5 subscales: Time Dependent, Developmental, Physical, Social, Emotional CGB, as a quantitative tool to investigate the level of stress of our pts CGs. Also, we used a semi-structured interview with 5 questions as a qualitative tool. Results: From Dec 2016 to Feb 2017 we administered the CBI and the interview to 37 CGs (F/M 31/6) of ACPs in 3 different settings: inpatient (9 CGs), outpatient (15 CGs), home-based (13 CGs). The quantitative data analysis showed that CGs had a variable emotional load, mostly of moderate level. In particular, the level of stress of our pts CGs of outpatients and inpatients was higher in the physical dimension, while was higher in the time dimension for CGs of home-based pts. Semi-structured interviews showed that CGs of home-based pts did not feel adequate to provide assistance to their relatives, and had partial or poor knowledge of basic care, especially of in-bed mobilization and hygiene techniques. In the other 2 settings, CGs showed a higher level of stress due to the lack of a professional contact person throughout the care pathway, and experienced the need of psychological support. Overall, the qualitative assessment showed that CGs lives were strongly affected by caregiving. Conclusions: Our results confirm published data showing that assisting ACPs is a particularly difficult task for the CGs. Therefore, we implemented potential improvement strategies: in the home setting, specific attention to the educational aspects of basic care; in the inpatient setting, a weekly meeting for physicians, nurses, and psychologists, to discuss the most difficult cases; in the outpatient setting, a 25% increase in the number of visits for pain and supportive therapy to offer a better continuity of care.

Evolution of a mass casualty drill design team: A program evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-377
Author(s):  
Mary E. Moran, PhD ◽  
Derek Ballas, DO ◽  
Nathan Blecker, MD ◽  
Ashley Sedorovich, MS ◽  
Shelly Barker, MD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Design Team ◽  
In Situ Simulation ◽  
Weekly Meeting ◽  
Response Plan ◽  
Drill Design

Introduction: The number of mass casualty incidents (MCIs) is increasing. While many healthcare systems have not experienced an MCI, the need for preparedness is ever present. The unique challenges of MCI preparedness require the use of simulation, which has been found to be an effective model for training in medical environments.Objective: To determine common discussion points when a multidisciplinary team designed and implemented in situ MCI simulation drills to enhance our emergency preparedness plan.Design: This was a retrospective qualitative evaluation of the multidisciplinary mass casualty drill design team’s weekly meeting minutes documents. These documents provided insight into the evolution of a mass casualty drill design team and the advancement of our emergency response plan. Results: Continuous discussions surrounding resource restraints helped to inform the emergenceof the three themes, which were “Staff,” “Space,” and “Stuff.” These three themes were further broken down into different subthemes, but there was a continued focus on resource scarcity.Conclusions: Our results indicate the use of an MCI drill design team and in situ simulations assisted in better understanding of how hospital departments struggled with resource scarcity and provided opportunities to strengthen the emergency preparedness response plan. Incorporating a multidisciplinary mass casualty drill design team helped to ensure different perspectives and department needs were acknowledged and addressed through the in situ simulation trainings. 

Landscape of Genetic Variants in Patients with De-Novo Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treated at King Hussein Cancer Center

Blood ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 136 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 27-27
Author(s):  
Iyad Sultan ◽  
Osama Alsmadi ◽  
Anas Al Okaily ◽  
Razan Abu Khashabeh ◽  
Mayada Abu Shanap ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
De Novo ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
The Cancer Genome Atlas ◽  
Myelogenous Leukemia ◽  
Striking Similarity ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Weekly Meeting ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
De Novo Aml

Background: Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is characterized by recurrent variants that have implications in diagnosis, prognosis and management. We analyzed all variants that were detected in our patients since the inauguration of our Next-Generation-Sequencing (NGS) facility. Methods: This is a retrospective study that analyzed all variants that were reported at our institution from Jan 2018 to Dec 2019 in patients with de-novo AML. NGS was performed using illumina miseq platform utilizing an amplicon panel that includes 50 genes known to be altered in AML. Variant Call Format (VCF) files were analyzed in a weekly meeting. For the purpose of this study, all VCFs were concatenated into a single MAF file. The Bioconductor package maftools was utilized to analyze this MAF file. Results: 78 patients (24 children, 48 males, median-age=31 yrs) were studied. 193 variants were detected in 63 samples (81% of patients). The median number of variants-per-sample were 2 (range, 1 to 6). Most commonly mutated genes wereTET2(26%),NPM1(21%), FLT3(17%), DNMT3A(15%),NRAS(13%)CBLC, CEBPA, KIT(8%). The most commonly found nucleotide alteration was C>T transition which represented 50% of all mutations. Enrichment analysis showed the following significant associations (p<0.05):FLT3rearrangement associated withNPM1andDNMT3Aalterations, andRUNX1T1/RUNX1rearrangement associated withKITalterations. Utilizing the drug gene interaction database, 72 mutations were categorized as druggable, the most frequently listed categories were clinically actionable variants (N=17), kinase-dependent (N=8) and druggable genome (N=7). Using log-rank test,NRASandDNMT3Avariants were found to be associated with significantly worse EFS (p=0.017 and 0.038, respectively), whileNRASvariants were associated with significantly worse OS (p=0.015). The pediatric age group had some noticeable difference; NPM1andTET2were significantly more altered in adults whileKITwas significantly more altered in children. Finally, we compared our results to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) de-novo AML data for 192 patients that was published previously. The TCGA raw data is available publicly and were used run through our pipeline for comparison. A striking similarity in the frequency of alterations (81% vs. 82%) and the top mostly altered genes. The following genes were significantly more altered in our cohort:TET2,GATA2, andCSF3R;whileIDH2was more altered in the TCGA cohort. Interestingly,CBLC(n=7) andZRSR2(n=5) variants were identified in KHCC patients but none in the TCGA cohort. Conclusion: We reported variants in 81% of our patients. Prognosis is significantly altered in patients withDNMT3AandNRASvariants. A wealth of actionable mutations were detected. Our results carry many similarities to the TCGA cohort, but significant difference in alterations involving 6 genes were reported. Our study lay the foundation for future studies that can evaluate big-data results obtained from our growing NGS facility. Figure Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

The Organization of Education

Sacrifice ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Orsini
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Weekly Meeting ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Recruits ◽  
The Sacrifice

This introductory chapter provides important information regarding the world of Sacrifice, a neofascist organization. Sacrifice supports revolutionary Fascism, an initial stage in which paramilitary groups known as action squads carried out violent acts. Besides being a political movement, Sacrifice is also a cultural organization with the goal of teaching young people to love Fascism, demonstrated through absolute loyalty to the militia and submission to its leaders. Indeed, the first rule of Sacrifice is that the group is more important than the individual. Those who do not respect this rule can be expelled on the basis of a decision reached by a specified number of leaders. Sacrifice also asks its new recruits to read particular books; its leaders organize a weekly meeting to see if the young people have understood what they are reading. Ultimately, the Sacrifice militants are planning to combat bourgeois democracy from the inside, as Hitler and Mussolini did.

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