Practitioner Perspectives on Foundational Capabilities

Practitioner Perspectives on Foundational Capabilities

CONTEXT National efforts are underway to classify a minimum set of public health services that all jurisdictions throughout the United States should provide regardless of location. Such a set of basic programs would be supported by crosscutting services, known as the "foundational capabilities" (FCs). These FCs are assessment services, preparedness and disaster response, policy development, com...

Design Research: Empirical, Foundational and Developmental Perspectives

Client and practitioner perspectives on the screening mammography experience

Mammography can be painful and unpleasant, but effective interventions to improve the experience remain scarce. As a first step towards more effective interventions, we aimed to achieve a thorough, contemporary understanding of thoughts, feelings and behaviours which affect and arise from mammography experiences. Research and professional experience suggest that the interaction between client a...

Landowner and Practitioner Perspectives on Private Land Conservation Programs

Efforts to reverse declines in native grasslands benefit from agricultural policies that encourage private land conservation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) improved conservation across landscapes but enrollment has declined. We used sequential exploratory mixed methods to compare landowner and conservation practitioners’ perceptions, evaluate perceived ...

Exploring high-level Perspectives on Self-Configuration Capabilities of Systems

– Optimization of product performance repetitively introduces the need to make products adaptive in a more general sense. This more general idea is often captured under the term " self-configuration ". Despite the importance of such capability, research work on this feature appears isolated by technical domains. It is not easy to tell quickly whether the approaches chosen in different technolog...