Abstract Background Multidisciplinary teamwork is a critical aspect of patient care. It has well recognised impact on healthcare outcomes. Communication among the multidisciplinary team (MDT) paramount for effective collaboration, joint care planning and co-ordinated assessments patients. Aim To evaluate an MDT teaching programme understanding roles, communication MDT. Methods A questionnaire w...

This article presents a multi-agent method to tackle multidisciplinary optimisation, based on the notions of cooperation and self-regulation. It is focused on the preliminary aircraft design, which is a complex compromise. In our approach several cooperative agents collectively act to achieve a common goal, i.e. optimising a multi-objective function, even if the environment of the system (the u...

BACKGROUND The problem of antimicrobial resistance has become topical and alarming all over the world, including Kazakhstan. Nosocomial strains of microorganisms are widespread, being resistant to the majority of available antimicrobials. This results in longer periods of hospital stay, increases in financial expenditures, and sometimes, in lethal outcomes. The social importance of antimicrobia...

A multidisciplinary approach to cybersecurity education facilitates sound critical and analytic thinking and good communication. Students are introduced to a broader perspective and learn to think more openly and within alternative systems of thought. They are better prepared to recognize and assess assumptions, implications, and practical consequences.

Modality is a key facet in medical image retrieval, as a user is likely interested in only one of e.g. radiology images, flowcharts, and pathology photos. While assessing image modality is trivial for humans, reliable automatic methods are required to deal with large un-annotated image bases, such as figures taken from the millions of scientific publications. We present a multi-disciplinary app...

Functioning well in a global, technology-driven, multi-disciplinary environment necessitates a more robust educational paradigm in science and engineering. For a technical education to be complete, it is no longer enough to train scientists and engineers solely in technical areas. There are clear shortcomings in academic curricula that need to be addressed in order to bring about this required ...

OBJECTIVE To explore how multi-disciplinary team meetings operate in stroke rehabilitation. DESIGN Non-participant observation of multi-disciplinary team meetings and semi-structured interviews with attending staff. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Twelve meetings were observed (at least one at each site) and 18 staff (one psychologist, one social worker; four nurses; four physiotherapists four occ...