Model Reports, a Supervision Tool for Machine Learning Engineers and Users

This article investigates a methodology to design an automated supervision report, ensuring the suitability between the designers and the users of an algorithm. For this purpose, we built a super-vision tool, focused on error diagnosis. The argumentation of the article relies first on the exposition of the reasons to use model reports as a supervision artefact, with a prototype of implementation at an organization level, describing the necessary tooling to industrialize its production. Finally, we propose a method for supervising machine learning algorithms in a responsible and sustainable way, starting from the conception of the algorithm, along its development and dur-ing its operating phase.

Change Management Indicators and Their Applications in Strengthening the Process and Learning Organization Levels

(1) Background: This study is aimed at determining the strengthening process level, the learning organization level, and the indicator of change level among District Education Offices (PPDs’). This study aims to investigate the perceptions of the Head of District Education Officers and their use of change indicators in enhancing District Education Offices and their learning organization practices. (2) Methods: By using a mixed-method approach through an explanatory sequential design, a survey was conducted and 93 Head of District Education Officers throughout Malaysia were selected using the survey method through questionnaire. To identify the respondents, the study employed group sampling and strata random sampling techniques and the data analysis was conducted using the Statistical Packages for Social Sciences software. Then, the qualitative study involved five Head of District Education Officers and two Program Managers who were chosen through purposive and snowball sampling. Through semi-structured interviews, data were then collected, and themes were formulated and analyzed using Nvivo 11. (3) Results: The results of the descriptive analysis show that the strengthening process level, the learning organization level, and the change indicator level in the District Education Office, are all high. Thus, the research findings illuminate six theme of change indicators, i.e., namely, Head of District Education Officers Roles and Responsibilities, Program Manager Roles and Responsibilities, School Improvement Partner+ (SIP+) Roles and Responsibilities and School Improvement Specialist Coaches+ (SISC+) Roles and Responsibilities, Performance Dialogue, Provision Management, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Dashboard and PPD Excellence Rating. (4) Conclusions: This study offers insights into how the PPDs’ can utilize, as a reference for monitoring, the implemented changes in the District Transformation Program, to see if they are on the right track, and also as treatment to deal with any conflicts or issues in the transformational programme.

Mindsponge culture: the culture of progress

The Mindsponge culture can be defined as a set of thinking processes, beliefs, and behaviors that is result- or target-driven. It is an entrepreneurship culture that urges me to overcome hardship with a transparent mind about my target. Adopting this culture is a tough process, but its fruitful results are worth the cost. Especially in the next decades, humanities have to acquire two crucial targets for sustainable development: curbing climate change and reducing biodiversity loss. To accomplish these targets, shifting the eco-deficit mindset to the eco-surplus mindset at the individual level and building eco-surplus culture at the organization level (e.g., business sectors) are required. Obtaining the Mindsponge culture can help us progress and actualize these objectives through creative performance.

Mindsponge culture: the culture of progress

The Mindsponge culture can be defined as a set of thinking processes, beliefs, and behaviors that is result- or target-driven. It is an entrepreneurship culture that urges me to overcome hardship with a transparent mind about my target. Adopting this culture is a tough process, but its fruitful results are worth the cost. Especially in the next decades, humanities have to acquire two crucial targets for sustainable development: curbing climate change and reducing biodiversity loss. To accomplish these targets, shifting the eco-deficit mindset to the eco-surplus mindset at the individual level and building eco-surplus culture at the organization level (e.g., business sectors) are required. Obtaining the Mindsponge culture can help us progress and actualize these objectives through creative performance.

Transformative Authorship Through Critical Dialogue: Concepts, Theory, and Practice

This conceptual article deals with components and concepts of transformative learning, emphasizing the organization-level perspective on critical reflection. The discussion leans on the concept of transformative authorship and it is argued that it enables authoring processes through which professionals can recognize and recreate their routinized work practices. The aim of the research is to explore how professional experiences are integrated with reflexive, theoretical knowledge through critical dialogue. The authoring process of transformative authorship is illustrated with two complementary case studies from postgraduate health care education. In both cases, the learning tasks were designed as constructed objects by various instructional interventions where organizational contradictions or dilemmas were used as an inspiring premise for transformation. Transformative authorship was realized as the professionals’ reflexive awareness of their capacity to influence the intentional variation in their modes of action.

Determinants of urologists’ adherence to active surveillance follow-up protocol for low-risk prostate cancer.

12 Background: The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guideline offers a guideline for follow-up care for patients with low-risk prostate cancer on active surveillance (AS). However, in practice, 70% of patients receive follow-up care that is not guideline-adherent, characterized by insufficient or excessive surveillance testing, potentially diminishing AS effectiveness and contributing to poor patient outcomes. The objective of this study is to identify provider- and organization-level determinants of guideline-adherent AS follow-up care. Methods: We used in-depth semi-structured qualitative interviews with 13 United States urologists to examine determinants of urologists’ adherence to the active surveillance follow-up guideline. Guided by the combined use of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, which focuses on organization-level determinants, and the Theoretical Domains Framework, which focuses on provider-level determinants, we used template analysis to identify multilevel determinants of urologists’ adherence to guideline-recommended AS follow-up care. Results: Relevant determinants were comfort with varied utilization behaviors of the guideline, perspectives on the prostate biopsy procedure, and the degree of structure within the practice setting. At the provider level, there was variation in how urologists provided AS follow-up care. All urologists referred to the NCCN guideline; however, most urologists adapted the guidelines to their needs and/or comfort level (e.g., following a subset of recommendations; adapting the interval/frequency of serial tests). Most providers felt that strictly adhering to the repeated biopsy aspect of the guideline was difficult because of concerns about fitting everybody to one type of frequency that does not stratify patients by risk. Others reflected on patients expressing physical discomfort and concerns of infection stemming from the biopsy procedure. At the organization level, urologists in a structured practice environment had the tendency towards providing NCCN guideline-adherent care whereas urologists practicing in settings with less organization relied more on individual discretion, which created room for flexibility with the care that they provide. Conclusions: Both provider- and organization-level determinants affected urologists’ provision of NCCN guideline-adherent follow-up care which may partially explain why patients eventually fail to receive guideline-adherent AS follow-up care. Findings call on the need for multilevel strategies to increase adherence or to modify existing guidelines to reflect the need at multiple levels.

Dielectrophoretic Micro-Organization of Chondrocytes to Regenerate Mechanically Anisotropic Cartilaginous Tissue

Recently, many studies have focused on the repair and regeneration of damaged articular cartilage using tissue engineering. In tissue engineering therapy, cells are cultured in vitro to create a three-dimensional (3-D) tissue designed to replace the damaged cartilage. Although tissue engineering is a useful approach to regenerating cartilage, mechanical anisotropy has not been reconstructed from a cellular organization level. This study aims to create mechanically anisotropic cartilaginous tissue using dielectrophoretic cell patterning and gel-sheet lamination. Bovine chondrocytes were patterned in a hydrogel to form line-array cell clusters via negative dielectrophoresis (DEP). The results indicate that the embedded chondrocytes remained viable and reconstructed cartilaginous tissue along the patterned cell array. Moreover, the agarose gel, in which chondrocytes were patterned, demonstrated mechanical anisotropy. In summary, our DEP cell patterning and gel-sheet lamination techniques would be useful for reconstructing mechanically anisotropic cartilage tissues.