Agroecology: A New Research and Development Paradigm for World Agriculture

Implementation of a research-based bachelor thesis in nursing – process and experiencesBackground: Ability to ensure quality and to evaluate own practice of nursing, is essential in order to practice a research based health care. An increase of research skills among future nurses, are thus central. The aim of this paper is to describe experiences connected with implementation of a new research-based model for examination of bachelor thesis in bachelor degree in nursing at Molde University College, Norway.Results: The curriculum has gained a clearer focus on science and research, and informative guidelines have been developed. The final bachelor thesis is now consisting of a systematic literature review based on scientific articles. The auditorium as a learning arena in the form of a thesis defence contributes to awareness of importance of research for nursing.Conclusion: The introduction of a new research based model for the bachelor thesis has strengthened the academic environment. Currently, Bachelor of Nursing has a clear focus on research and development. Newly qualified nurses are well placed to work knowledge based and to participate in development of clinical practice.

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Concepts, Knowledge and Language in Healthcare Information Systems: Follow-up 30 Months Later

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1634564 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 37 (04/05) ◽

pp. 312-314

Author(s):

J.-R. Scherrer

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Representation ◽

Research And Development ◽

Computational Linguistics ◽

The Other ◽

Conceptual Approach ◽

Healthcare Information Systems ◽

The One ◽

New Research ◽

Insight Into

AbstractThe paper reviews the last IMIA-WG6 recommendations, issued along two themes: (1) how to better share common results and (2) how to conduct new research and development efforts. Some of the major discrepancies in the field are reviewed. The paper intends to offer insight into two areas, first, in the issue of knowledge representation and, second, in the science of meaning, incorporating the broad intersection of computational linguistics, semantics, conceptual approach, and denotation. The Ogden-Richards meaning triangle is used as a convenient organizing principle to maximize the scope of understanding among the different schools, particularly in areas of linguistics and semantics on the one side and denotation and conceptual approach on the other. In conclusion, there is a need for clarification and for more scientific pragmatism.

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Scientific and Technological Challenges in RoboCup

Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems ◽

10.1146/annurev-control-100719-064806 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 441-471 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Minoru Asada ◽

Oskar von Stryk

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Future Research ◽

Research Issues ◽

Research Activities ◽

Software Implementations ◽

Future Research Directions ◽

Objective View ◽

New Research ◽

A Site ◽

League Structure

Since its inception in 1997, RoboCup has developed into a truly unique and long-standing research community advancing robotics and artificial intelligence through various challenges, benchmarks, and test fields. The main purposes of this article are to evaluate the research and development achievements so far and to identify new challenges and related new research issues. Unlike other robot competitions and research conferences, RoboCup eliminates the boundaries between pure research activities and the development of full system designs with hardware and software implementations at a site open to the public. It also creates specific scientific and technological research and development challenges to be addressed. In this article, we provide an overview of RoboCup, including its league structure and related research issues. We also review recent studies across several research categories to show how participants (called RoboCuppers) address the research and development challenges before, during, and after the annual competitions. Among the diversity of research issues, we highlight two unique aspects of the challenges: the platform design of the robots and the game evaluations. Both of these aspects contribute to solving the research and development challenges of RoboCup and verifying the results from a common perspective (i.e., a more objective view). Finally, we provide concluding remarks and discuss future research directions.

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