Global MedAid

This paper outlines an m-learning solution, ‘Global MedAid', which aims to provide learning resources and tools for personnel in various roles in disaster or emergency situations. It outlines the development process and presents the design considerations and solutions for developing a cross-platform application combining a wide range of media types for on-line and off-line use, depending on whether or not there is access to a data signal. The design process took into account current mobile health and related applications, addressing the ways in which both educational resources and performance support tools could be combined and accessed in the field. The paper also shows how partners and users have been involved in the design process and in the evolution of the app. The resulting Proof of Concept has been evaluated with over a hundred users across 21 countries, and initial findings show that users thought it was both useful and effective.

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Improving Team Performance and Patient Safety on the Job Through Team Training and Performance Support Tools: A Systematic Review

Journal of Patient Safety ◽

10.1097/pts.0000000000000746 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. S48-S56

Author(s):

Dana Milanovich Costar ◽

Kendall K. Hall

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Patient Safety ◽

Team Performance ◽

Team Training ◽

Performance Support ◽

Support Tools ◽

And Performance ◽

Performance Support Tools

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Building a Taxonomy to Understand Health Care Worker’s Response to Workplace ‘Pressure’ in Complex, Volatile and Emergency Situations

INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing ◽

10.1177/00469580211043646 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 58 ◽

pp. 004695802110436

Author(s):

Alicia M. Zavala-Calahorrano ◽

David Plummer ◽

Gary Day

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Work Performance ◽

Organizational Systems ◽

Emergency Situations ◽

Case Complexity ◽

Working Lives ◽

Staff Burnout ◽

Emergency Workers ◽

Wide Range ◽

And Performance

This research aims to better understand performance under pressure as experienced by health and emergency staff in the workplace. Three basic questions underpin the work: (1) how do health and emergency workers experience and make sense of the ‘pressures’ entailed in their jobs? (2) What impacts do these pressures have on their working lives and work performance, both positively and negatively? (3) Can we develop a useful explanatory model for ‘working under pressure’ in complex, volatile and emergency situations? The present article addresses the first question regarding the nature of pressure; a subsequent article will address the question of its impact on performance. Using detailed interviews with workers in a range of roles and from diverse settings across Ecuador, our analysis aims to better understand the genesis of pressure, how people respond to it and to gain insights into managing it more effectively, especially with a view to reducing workplace errors and staff burnout. Rather than imposing preformulated definitions of either ‘pressure’ or ‘performance’, we took an emic approach to gain a fresh understanding of how workers themselves experience, describe and make sense of workplace pressure. This article catalogues a wide range of pressures as experienced by our participants and maps relationships between them. We argue that while individuals are often held responsible for workplace errors, both ‘pressure’ and ‘performance’ are multifactorial, involving individuals, teams, case complexity, expertise and organizational systems and these must be considered in order to gain better understandings of performing under pressure.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Workplace “Pressure” in Complex, Volatile, and Emergency Situations

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x19000876 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (s1) ◽

pp. s34-s34

Author(s):

Alicia Zavala Calahorrano ◽

David Plummer ◽

Gary Day

Keyword(s):

Work Performance ◽

Organizational Systems ◽

Subsequent Paper ◽

Emergency Situations ◽

Case Complexity ◽

Working Lives ◽

Staff Burnout ◽

Emergency Workers ◽

Wide Range ◽

And Performance

Introduction:Pressure in the workplace has been studied in a number of settings. Many studies have examined pressure from physiological and psychological perspectives, mainly through studies on stress. Performing under pressure is a fundamentally important workplace issue, not least for complex, volatile, and emergency situations.Aim:This research aims to better understand performance under pressure as experienced by health and emergency staff in the workplace.Methods:Three basic questions underpin the work: (1) how do health and emergency workers experience and make sense of the ‘pressures’ entailed in their jobs? (2) What impacts do these pressures have on their working lives and work performance, both positively and negatively? (3) Can we develop a useful explanatory model for ‘working under pressure’ in complex, volatile, and emergency situations?The present paper addresses the first question regarding the nature of pressure; a subsequent paper will address the question of its impact on performance. Using detailed interviews with workers in a range of roles and from diverse settings across Ecuador, this study set out to better understand the genesis of pressure, how people respond to it, and to gain insights into managing it more effectively, especially with a view to reducing workplace errors and staff burnout. Rather than imposing preformulated definitions of either ‘pressure’ or ‘performance,’ we took an emic approach to gain a fresh understanding of how workers themselves experience, describe and make sense of workplace pressure.Results:This paper catalogs a wide range of pressures as experienced by our participants and maps relationships between them.Discussion:We argue that while individuals are often held responsible for workplace errors, both ‘pressure’ and ‘performance’ are multifactorial, involving individuals, teams, case complexity, expertise, and organizational systems, and these must be taken into account in order to gain better understandings of performing under pressure.

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Recent Progress and Plans in Computer-Controlled High Resolution Electron Microscopy

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010017952x ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 154-155

Author(s):

W.J. de Ruijter ◽

Peter Rez ◽

David J. Smith

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Digital Processing ◽

High Resolution Electron Microscopy ◽

Objective Lens ◽

Linear Filter ◽

Contrast Transfer Function ◽

Image Displacement ◽

Spatially Resolved ◽

Wide Range ◽

On Line

Digital computers are becoming widely recognized as standard accessories for electron microscopy. Due to instrumental innovations the emphasis in digital processing is shifting from off-line manipulation of electron micrographs to on-line image acquisition, analysis and microscope control. An on-line computer leads to better utilization of the instrument and, moreover, the flexibility of software control creates the possibility of a wide range of novel experiments, for example, based on temporal and spatially resolved acquisition of images or microdiffraction patterns. The instrumental resolution in electron microscopy is often restricted by a combination of specimen movement, radiation damage and improper microscope adjustment (where the settings of focus, objective lens stigmatism and especially beam alignment are most critical). We are investigating the possibility of proper microscope alignment based on computer induced tilt of the electron beam. Image details corresponding to specimen spacings larger than ∼20Å are produced mainly through amplitude contrast; an analysis based on geometric optics indicates that beam tilt causes a simple image displacement. Higher resolution detail is characterized by wave propagation through the optical system of the microscope and we find that beam tilt results in a dispersive image displacement, i.e. the displacement varies with spacing. This approach is valid for weak phase objects (such as amorphous thin films), where transfer is simply described by a linear filter (phase contrast transfer function) and for crystalline materials, where imaging is described in terms of dynamical scattering and non-linear imaging theory. In both cases beam tilt introduces image artefacts.

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Implementing On-Line Learning and Performance Support Using an EPSS

Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning ◽

10.28945/1520 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 213-224 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Eran Gal ◽

Rafi Nachmias

Keyword(s):

Performance Support ◽

On Line ◽

And Performance ◽

On Line Learning ◽

Learning And Performance

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Analysis of organic removal rates in the aerated submerged fixed film process

Water Science & Technology ◽

10.2166/wst.1998.0809 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 38 (8-9) ◽

pp. 213-221 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mohamed F. Hamoda ◽

Ibrahim A. Al-Ghusain

Keyword(s):

Pilot Plant ◽

Removal Rate ◽

Domestic Wastewater ◽

Removal Rates ◽

Hydraulic Loading ◽

Organic Removal ◽

Wide Range ◽

Fixed Film ◽

Cod Removal Rate ◽

And Performance

Performance data from a pilot-plant employing the four-stage aerated submerged fixed film (ASFF) process treating domestic wastewater were analyzed to examine the organic removal rates. The process has shown high BOD removal efficiencies (> 90%) over a wide range of hydraulic loading rates (0.04 to 0.68 m3/m2·d). It could also cope with high hydraulic and organic loadings with minimal loss in efficiency due to the large amount of immobilized biomass attained. The organic (BOD and COD) removal rate was influenced by the hydraulic loadings applied, but organic removal rates of up to 104 kg BOD/ m2·d were obtained at a hydraulic loading rate of 0.68 m3/m2·d. A Semi-empirical model for the bio-oxidation of organics in the ASFF process has been formulated and rate constants were calculated based on statistical analysis of pilot-plant data. The relationships obtained are very useful for analyzing the design and performance of the ASFF process and a variety of attached growth processes.

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Design Process Visualization System Intergrating BIM Data and Performance-Oriented Design Information

28th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2011) ◽

10.22260/isarc2011/0136 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sung-Ah Kim ◽

Yoon Choe ◽

Myeongho Jang ◽

Wookje Seol

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Visualization System ◽

Design Information ◽

Process Visualization ◽

And Performance

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The influence of chemical parameters on the in-situ metal carbonyl complex formation studied with the fast on-line reaction apparatus (FORA)

Radiochimica Acta ◽

10.1515/ract-2020-0031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 109 (4) ◽

pp. 243-260 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Yves Wittwer ◽

Robert Eichler ◽

Dominik Herrmann ◽

Andreas Türler

Keyword(s):

Metal Carbonyl ◽

Ambient Air ◽

Single Atom ◽

Carbonyl Complex ◽

Carbonyl Complexes ◽

On Line ◽

Carrier Gases ◽

And Performance ◽

Atom Chemistry

Abstract A new setup named Fast On-line Reaction Apparatus (FORA) is presented which allows for the efficient investigation and optimization of metal carbonyl complex (MCC) formation reactions under various reaction conditions. The setup contains a 252Cf-source producing short-lived Mo, Tc, Ru and Rh isotopes at a rate of a few atoms per second by its 3% spontaneous fission decay branch. Those atoms are transformed within FORA in-situ into volatile metal carbonyl complexes (MCCs) by using CO-containing carrier gases. Here, the design, operation and performance of FORA is discussed, revealing it as a suitable setup for performing single-atom chemistry studies. The influence of various gas-additives, such as CO2, CH4, H2, Ar, O2, H2O and ambient air, on the formation and transport of MCCs was investigated. O2, H2O and air were found to harm the formation and transport of MCCs in FORA, with H2O being the most severe. An exception is Tc, for which about 130 ppmv of H2O caused an increased production and transport of volatile compounds. The other gas-additives were not influencing the formation and transport efficiency of MCCs. Using an older setup called Miss Piggy based on a similar working principle as FORA, it was additionally investigated if gas-additives are mostly affecting the formation or only the transport stability of MCCs. It was found that mostly formation is impacted, as MCCs appear to be much less sensitive to reacting with gas-additives in comparison to the bare Mo, Tc, Ru and Rh atoms.

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