The Agricultural Policy Environmental eXtender (APEX) model is capable of estimating edge-of-field water, nutrient, and sediment transport and is used to assess the environmental impacts of management practices. The current practice is to fully calibrate the model for each site simulation, a task that requires resources and data not always available. The objective of this study was to compare m...

We examined whether a leading instrument for the prediction of future violence in those with a mental disorder. The Historical, Clinical, Risk Management-20 (HCR-20) was equally effective across a wide range of mental health diagnoses. Records at the time of discharge from secure psychiatric services were used to score the HCR-20 risk assessment scheme. Patients were stratified according to whe...

The judgment of tunnel personnel’s safety status mainly requires the collection construction physical signs and cave environment data, early warning abnormal usually professional staff to make rapid judgments in a short time, which is costly inefficient terms operation maintenance. A single-classification support vector machine-based personnel detection model proposed address this phenomenon. F...

The legislative mandate of the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta (CLPNA) is to serve and protect the public by ensuring its members deliver safe, competent and ethical nursing care. Practice guidelines provide guidance in a particular aspect of clinical care provision that enables Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) to make informed decisions based on the best available evidence. The...

I a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from computed tomographic scans to robot-assisted surgery, but I have also watched as medicine slowly evolved into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers, and clerks. Government interventions over the past four decades have yield...

Serious Educational Games (SEG) are an increasing segment of K-18 instructional resources and have made headway into human resource and professional development training. The difficulty of creating complex adaptable learning activities can constrain SEG developers. Current SEGs tend to be narrow in content or limited in the types of learning assessed, i.e. rote practice and objective learning. ...

Many states have used professional judgment panels to determine the resources schools need to meet certain performance targets. This study initiates a critical study of that method. Using budget simulations with hypothetical schools, we collected the judgments of 45 principals about how school budgets should be allocated and how school resources affect student achievement. We found considerable...

Along with the sense of relief felt by most anthropologists at the rejection of negligence claims against the anthropologist at the eye of the Hindmarsh maelstrom, there was some confusion and concern about the apparent characterisation of the anthropologist's role as one of advocate rather than a provider of independent professional advice. Professor Francesca Merlan, in particular, raised the...

Health care cost control is often debated in terms of markets versus bureaucracies. Market restraints are limited in practice by the goal of providing access to care. Therefore, effective cost control requires budgeting. Experience from budgeting for other services should put health care cost control in perspective: The goal should not be rational and efficient allocations, merely better ones. ...