Active modification of cavity nest‐entrances is a common strategy in arboreal ants

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is linked to an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular events. While rhythm control with antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) is a common strategy for managing patients with AF, catheter ablation may be a more efficacious and safer alternative to AADs for sinus rhythm control. Conventional catheter ablation has been associated with challenges during the arrhythmia mapping and ablation stages; however, the introduction of two remote catheter navigation systems (a robotic and a magnetic navigation system) may potentially overcome these challenges. Initial clinical experience with the robotic navigation system suggests that it offers similar procedural times, efficacy and safety to conventional manual ablation. Furthermore, it has been associated with reduced fluoroscopy exposure to the patient and the operator as well as a shorter fluoroscopy time compared with conventional catheter ablation. In the future, the remote navigation systems may become routinely used for complex catheter ablation procedures.

A general practice provider federation in a mixed health economy in England: a case study investigation

British Journal of General Practice ◽

10.3399/bjgp18x696929 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 68 (suppl 1) ◽

pp. bjgp18X696929

Author(s):

Jill Mitchell

Keyword(s):

General Practice ◽

Shared Vision ◽

Health Economy ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The North ◽

Common Strategy ◽

Common Purpose ◽

Collaborative Working ◽

The Impact

BackgroundThere is an emerging debate that general practice in its current format is out-dated and there is a requirement to move to a federated model of provision where groups of Practices come together. The emergence of federations has developed over the past 5 years but the factors that influence how federations develop and the impact of this new model is an under researched area.AimThe study explored the rationale around why a group of independent GP practices opted to pursue an alternative business venture and the benefits that this strategy offered.MethodA single organisational case study of a federation in the North of England was conducted between 2011–2016. Mixed methods data collection included individual and group semi-structured interviews and quantitative surveys.ResultsFederations promote collaborative working, relying on strategic coherence of multiple individual GP practices through a shared vision and common purpose. Findings revealed many complexities in implementing a common strategy across multiple independent businesses. The ability of the federation to gain legitimacy was two dimensional – externally and internally. The venture had mixed successes, but their approach to quality improvement proved innovative and demonstrated outcomes on a population basis. The study identified significant pressures that practices were experiencing and the need to seek alternative ways of working but there was no shared vision or inclination to relinquish individual practice autonomy.ConclusionOrganisational development support is critical to reform General Practice. Whether central funding through the GP Five Year Forward View will achieve the scale of change required is yet to be evidenced.

Improved Proofs Of Retrievability And Replication For Data Availability In Cloud Storage

The Computer Journal ◽

10.1093/comjnl/bxz151 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 63 (8) ◽

pp. 1216-1230 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Wei Guo ◽

Sujuan Qin ◽

Jun Lu ◽

Fei Gao ◽

Zhengping Jin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Service Providers ◽

Cloud Service ◽

Data Availability ◽

Forgery Attack ◽

Common Strategy ◽

Comparable Performance ◽

Replication Scheme ◽

High Level ◽

Cloud Users ◽

Proofs Of Retrievability

Abstract For a high level of data availability and reliability, a common strategy for cloud service providers is to rely on replication, i.e. storing several replicas onto different servers. To provide cloud users with a strong guarantee that all replicas required by them are actually stored, many multi-replica integrity auditing schemes were proposed. However, most existing solutions are not resource economical since users need to create and upload replicas of their files by themselves. A multi-replica solution called Mirror is presented to overcome the problems, but we find that it is vulnerable to storage saving attack, by which a dishonest provider can considerably save storage costs compared to the costs of storing all the replicas honestly—while still can pass any challenge successfully. In addition, we also find that Mirror is easily subject to substitution attack and forgery attack, which pose new security risks for cloud users. To address the problems, we propose some simple yet effective countermeasures and an improved proofs of retrievability and replication scheme, which can resist the aforesaid attacks and maintain the advantages of Mirror, such as economical bandwidth and efficient verification. Experimental results show that our scheme exhibits comparable performance with Mirror while achieving high security.

Temporal typifications as an organizational resource: Experiential knowledge and patient processing at the emergency department

Time & Society ◽

10.1177/0961463x211031881 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 0961463X2110318

Author(s):

Marius Wamsiedel

Keyword(s):

Emergency Department ◽

Temporal Distribution ◽

Experiential Knowledge ◽

Moral Evaluation ◽

Sense Making ◽

Healthcare Settings ◽

Organizational Resource ◽

Sociological Literature ◽

Common Strategy ◽

Admission Interviews

The connection between time and power has been studied extensively. A common strategy through which street-level bureaucrats exert power and dominance over their clients consists of imposing protracted waiting and maintaining uncertainty regarding the outcomes of waiting. In this study, I argue that another facet of power in organizations is related to the temporal typification of cases. By exploring the triage work in two emergency departments (EDs), I show that nurses and clerks identify patterns in the temporal distribution of visits and attach clinical and moral meanings to them. The temporal typifications are sense-making devices through which triage workers orient to patients. They form a stock of tacit experiential knowledge that delineates specific expectations about the legitimacy of cases and the worth of patients. These expectations impact the unfolding and structure of triage admission interviews and contribute to the prioritization of cases. The study brings into conversation the sociological literature on time and power with the study of the moral evaluation of patients to examine temporal typifications as an organizational resource in healthcare settings. It contributes to a better understanding of triage workers’ experiential knowledge and the practical accomplishment of moral evaluation in EDs.

Transnational cooperation to develop local barley to beer value chains

Open Agriculture ◽

10.1515/opag-2020-0014 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 138-149

Author(s):

Hilde Halland ◽

Peter Martin ◽

Sigridur Dalmannsdóttir ◽

Sæmundur Sveinsson ◽

Rólvur Djurhuus ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Research And Development ◽

Value Chain ◽

Stakeholder Involvement ◽

Academic Disciplines ◽

Value Chains ◽

Main Emphasis ◽

Transnational Cooperation ◽

Cereal Production ◽

Common Strategy ◽

Grain Products

AbstractTransnational cooperation is a common strategy for addressing research and development (R&D) issues resulting from similar challenges that cut across administrative borders. Value chains for food and drinks are complex, and transdisciplinary work is recognised as a method for solving complex issues. The Northern Cereals project ran from 2015 to 2018, and its goal was to increase cereal production and the value of grain products in four regions in the Northern Periphery programme area. The project included both R&D, but the main emphasis was on development, and was carried out by transdisciplinary cooperation between R&D partners and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). By reviewing the project’s methods, outcomes and composition, we discuss if a framework of transnational and transdisciplinary cooperation can help to develop the value chain from local barley to beer. We found that transnational cooperation was achieved successfully, that stakeholder involvement was crucial, but that academic disciplines such as marketing and innovation could have been included. In addition, we recognised that much work remains to further increase cereal production and the use of local grain in the Northern Periphery region, but believe that this project has laid a good foundation for further progress.

Renewable Heating and Cooling Solutions for Buildings and Industry

Proceedings ◽

10.3390/proceedings2020065016 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 16

Author(s):

Andrea Frazzica ◽

Régis Decorme ◽

Marco Calderoni ◽

Alessandra Cuneo ◽

Zuzana Taťáková ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Heat Pump ◽

Solar Thermal ◽

Renewable Energy Technologies ◽

Energy Technologies ◽

Heating And Cooling ◽

Common Strategy ◽

Selection Of

This workshop brought together a selection of H2020 EU-funded projects involving experts from the biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, and heat pump sectors to discuss a common strategy for increasing the use of renewable energy technologies for heating and cooling for buildings and industry.

Perceptions of Care Among Older Adults Identified as Fall Risk During a Hospital Stay

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.455 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 139-139

Author(s):

Barbara King

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Hospital Stay ◽

Older Adult ◽

Fall Prevention ◽

Fall Risk ◽

Medical Center ◽

Academic Medical Center ◽

Common Strategy ◽

Open Coding ◽

Perceptions Of Care

Abstract In-hospital falls are a significant clinical, legal and regulatory problem. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid no longer reimburse hospitals for falls that result in injury, adding increase pressure on acute care settings to prevent falls. Additionally, evidence-based practice recommendations for fall prevention in hospitals do not exist, thus leaving administrators to create their own programs. One common strategy used by hospital providers to prevent falls is to restrict patient mobility. Little information on how older adult patients experience fall prevention during a hospital stay has been published. The purpose of this study was to understand perceptions of care among older adults identified as fall risk during a hospital stay. This qualitative study utilized inductive content analysis. Older adults (N=20) from a large academic medical center in the Midwest were recruited to participate in one-to one in-depth interviews. Open coding, categorization and abstraction was used to analyze the data. Three main categories were identified that summarized the older adult patient perception of hospitalization: Act of Caring, something they received from staff, provide to staff or provided to self; Being Restricted in movement resulting in either accepting or rejecting the restriction and Being Freed at discharge, often being told “just be careful”. Older adult identified as fall risk described being restricted in movement during a hospital stay. Many passively accepted this restriction even though they felt a lack of movement would be harmful to them. Additional research on the patient experience with fall prevention is needed.

Determining the Sterilization Doses under Hypoxia for the Novel Black Pupae Genetic Sexing Strain of Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera, Tephritidae)

Insects ◽

10.3390/insects12040308 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 308

Author(s):

Paloma Della Giustina ◽

Thiago Mastrangelo ◽

Sohel Ahmad ◽

Gabriel Mascarin ◽

Carlos Caceres

Keyword(s):

Fruit Fly ◽

South American ◽

Response Curves ◽

Genetic Sexing ◽

Egg Hatch ◽

Anastrepha Fraterculus ◽

Common Strategy ◽

Genetic Sexing Strain ◽

South American Fruit Fly ◽

First Time

A common strategy used to maintain sterile fly quality without sacrificing sterility is to irradiate the insects under an oxygen-reduced atmosphere. So far, sterilizing doses for the South American fruit fly Anastrepha fraterculus have only been determined under normoxia. Our study reports for the first time the dose-sterility response under hypoxia for two different A. fraterculus strains. The pupae were derived from a bisexual strain (a Brazilian-1 population) and a recently developed genetic sexing strain (GSS-89). Two hours prior to irradiation, pupae were transferred to sealed glass bottles and irradiated when oxygen concentration was below 3%. Four types of crosses with nonirradiated flies of the bisexual strain were set to assess sterility for each radiation dose. For males from both strains, Weibull dose–response curves between radiation doses and the proportion of egg hatch, egg-to-pupa recovery, and recovery of adults were determined. The GSS males revealed high sterility/mortality levels compared to males from the bisexual strain at doses < 40 Gy, but a dose of 74 Gy reduced egg hatch by 99% regardless of the male strain and was considered the sterilizing dose. The fertility of irradiated females was severely affected even at low doses under hypoxia.

Under the shadow of the giants: The ASEAN in search of a common strategy in a fluid and perilous Indo-Pacific region

Asian Journal of Comparative Politics ◽

10.1177/20578911211014598 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 205789112110145

Author(s):

Renato Cruz De Castro

Keyword(s):

South China Sea ◽

South China ◽

The South China Sea ◽

Pacific Region ◽

Regional Power ◽

Security Threat ◽

The South ◽

China Sea ◽

The Us ◽

Common Strategy

This article examines how the ASEAN is managing the quintessential security challenges of the 21st century, particularly China’s emergence as a regional power, its expansive territorial claim in the South China Sea, and the US–China strategic rivalry in the Indo-Pacific region. As an organization tackling these security concerns, the ASEAN lacks the essential mechanism for conflict resolution, operates through informal diplomacy and moral suasion, and relies on consensus in making decisions. As a result, China has effectively divided the association during the talks on the peaceful settlement of the South China Sea dispute. China is currently formulating with the ASEAN a Code of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea. All the same, China has made sure that any future agreement with the ASEAN imposes no constraints on its expansionist moves in the contested waters, and contains provisions that benefit its interests in the long run. Meanwhile, US–China strategic competition has prompted the ASEAN to think of ways to deal with this potential security threat. However, the association has failed to come up with a common strategy. In conclusion, this article argues that China’s emergence as a regional power, its maritime expansion into the South China Sea, and the US–China geopolitical contest are testing both the capacity and the limits of the ASEAN in resolving these security issues.

Evolution and Ecology of Directed Aerial Descent in Arboreal Ants

Integrative and Comparative Biology ◽

10.1093/icb/icr006 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 51 (6) ◽

pp. 944-956 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Stephen P. Yanoviak ◽

Yonatan Munk ◽

Robert Dudley

Keyword(s):

Arboreal Ants