Validity Evidence for the Emergency Medicine Standardized Letter of Evaluation

ABSTRACT Background The standardized letter of evaluation (SLOE) is the application component that program directors value most when evaluating candidates to interview and rank for emergency medicine (EM) residency. Given its successful implementation, other specialties, including otolaryngology, dermatology, and orthopedics, have adopted similar SLOEs of their own, and more specialties are considering creating one. Unfortunately, for such a significant assessment tool, no study to date has comprehensively examined the validity evidence for the EM SLOE. Objective We summarized the published evidence for validity for the EM SLOE using Messick's framework for validity evidence. Methods A scoping review of the validity evidence of the EM SLOE was performed in 2020. A scoping review was chosen to identify gaps and future directions, and because the heterogeneity of the literature makes a systematic review difficult. Included articles were assigned to an aspect of Messick's framework and determined to provide evidence for or against validity. Results There have been 22 articles published relating to validity evidence for the EM SLOE. There is evidence for content validity; however, there is a lack of evidence for internal structure, relation to other variables, and consequences. Additionally, the literature regarding response process demonstrates evidence against validity. Conclusions Overall, there is little published evidence in support of validity for the EM SLOE. Stakeholders need to consider changing the ranking system, improving standardization of clerkships, and further studying relation to other variables to improve validity. This will be important across GME as more specialties adopt a standardized letter.

Farmers’ social economic and response determining application component technologies of “Jajar Legowo Super” technique: a case in Lampung

‘Jajar Legowo Super’ (Jarwo Super) technique is a technology package comprise of seven component technologies for maximum rice productivity. The technique is one of priority attention in IAARD’s dissemination activity. This paper aims to identify how social, economic characteristics, farmers’ response and application of the technology package. The unit analysis is the component technologies adopted in the Jarwo Super. The Data was taken from 43 farmers purposively (co-operator and non-co-operator) in Tanggamus, Lampung and did descriptive analysis. The results show that ‘legowo’ was the most known component in the jarwo super technique. In contrast inpari 30 was the most ‘implemented and applied’ components. Farmers dominantly use informal network to gather information through other farmers and community leaders. Further, their participation in training is relatively low due to the absence of these activities. However, access to mass media and radio is quite high, although usage internet access is still low. In term of economy aspect, 69 percent respondents use own finance and the rest use access banking and individuals including middlemen and kiosks. To conclude, farmers use single or partial component technology rather that adopt full package of the jarwo Super technique. Only reliable and available component will farmers’ use.

Penyelenggaraan E-Goverment di Kabupaten Bandung Sebagai Upaya Meningkatkan Kualitas Pelayanan Publik

The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of e-government in Bandung Regency as an effort to improve the quality of public services. As for this research method, the approach used is descriptive qualitative, with data collection and the techniques used are literature studies sourced from a number of articles in journals, books, regulations, information media content related to the focus and research issues. Research result shows that the implementation of e-government in Bandung district has been implemented in accordance with the capacity and capability of the relevant agencies, and refers to the regulations that contain e-government, although it has not been maximally implemented and has a significant impact on the public. The conclusion is that the implementation of e-government in Bandung district will not be separated from the supporting components of e-government itself. first is the application component, second is the data information component, the third is the infrastructure component, the fourth is the institutional component, and the fifth is the Human Resources component of Information and Communication Technology.

Development of Android Based Laboratory Asset Monitoring and Inventory Application

Each laboratory has a person in charge (technician) that has a duty of serving the laboratory in term of operational and maintenance. The main task of a technician is to record and monitor the condition and completeness of laboratory equipment in the laboratory. The data collection process is done by writing a tool request form, therefore mistakes often occur. In this research, an Android-based laboratory asset monitoring and inventory application was made. By using the application, it is expected that technicians become easier to make any duties of reports including report of damaged laboratory equipments, request for reparation, the unavailable practical materials etc simply by using a Smartphone. Testing the application with the Black-Box testing method to investigate the function of each application component whether it is running well or not. The results obtained from the Black-Box test are the functions of each component were running as expected. The case study is conducted for Electrical Engineering Department at State Polytechnic of Ujung Pandang (SPUP)

Distributed Uniform Streaming Framework: An Elastic Fog Computing Platform for Event Stream Processing and Platform Transparency

The increase of Internet of Things devices and the rise of more computationally intense applications presents challenges for future Internet of Things architectures. We envision a future in which edge, fog, and cloud devices work together to execute future applications. Because the entire application cannot run on smaller edge or fog devices, we will need to split the application into smaller application components. These application components will send event messages to each other to create a single application from multiple application components. The execution location of the application components can be optimized to minimize the resource consumption. In this paper, we describe the Distributed Uniform Stream (DUST) framework that creates an abstraction between the application components and the middleware which is required to make the execution location transparent to the application component. We describe a real-world application that uses the DUST framework for platform transparency. Next to the DUST framework, we also describe the distributed DUST Coordinator, which will optimize the resource consumption by moving the application components to a different execution location. The coordinators will use an adapted version of the Contract Net Protocol to find local minima in resource consumption.

An Overview of Service Composition in Service Oriented Architecture

Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a form of software design in which application component supply services to other components through a network communication protocol, it has many services that can transfer small data with communication channels or additional services which bring into a relationship that ensure efficiency of service activities, SOA simplify the structure of loosely coupled applicable applications and enable contribution for enterprise working of services together. In order to assure the effectiveness of Service oriented architecture we have to confirm service composition which is the collection of services together in order to perform a specific function which can be used in service oriented architecture. In this paper we proposed a Service composition in SOA, it is present service composition with various techniques used for composing services and provided a comparison between them.