Review
Engineering, Aerospace
Christopher Glaser, Jouke Hijlkema, Jerome Anthoine
Summary: Hybrid rocket propulsion combines liquid oxidizer and solid fuel, offering enhanced safety and controllability. However, its full potential in space applications has not been realized yet. Recent research has shown progress in academia and industry, but industrial utilizations and in-space validations are still lacking. This paper assesses potential applications and identifies technical challenges and necessary technologies for hybrid rocket development.
Letter
Medicine, General & Internal
Kushal T. Kadakia, Jie Zheng, Joseph D. Bruch, Thomas C. Tsai
Summary: This study compares GME payments between nonprofit and for-profit hospitals from 2011 to 2020, aiming to evaluate how hospitals value GME.
JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
(2023)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Mehreen Azam, Salman Bin Naeem
Summary: This study investigated the issue of academic integrity among medical students and postgraduate trainees in teaching hospitals in South Punjab, Pakistan. The results showed that pre-clinical medical students engaged in unethical behaviors such as exam cheating and plagiarism to cope with evaluations and a wide range of subjects. Similarly, postgraduate trainees unintentionally engaged in plagiarism due to lack of understanding and external pressures for research publication and career advancement. To address these concerns, the study suggests the collaboration between medical librarians and faculty members to design information literacy sessions on plagiarism prevention and ethical practices for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students.
HEALTH INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Krystal L. Tomei, Luke V. Selby, Lynne M. Kirk, Jacqueline A. Bello, Nathan S. Nolan, Surendra K. Varma, Patricia L. Turner, Victoria Stagg Elliott, Sarah E. Brotherton
Summary: Graduate medical education is critical for training physicians with specialized skills and obtaining medical licensure. Limited GME funding creates a bottleneck in training an adequate physician workforce, necessitating additional funding to train more doctors. Residents provide intrinsic value to hospitals and communities, but this value is often overlooked in funding decisions.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jing Li, Yiyan Sun, Li Wang, Yuan Wang
Summary: The study identifies priority conservation areas in Anhui Province based on systematic conservation planning theory and suggests expanding the protected area network to enhance conservation benefits for biodiversity and key ecosystem services.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Dowin Boatright, Maya London, Arra Jane Soriano, Marjorie Westervelt, Stephany Sanchez, Jed D. Gonzalo, William McDade, Tonya L. Fancher
Summary: Closing the diversity gap is critical for equity in medical education and healthcare quality. However, evidence-based strategies and best practices to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the biomedical workforce are not well understood and underused. To address this, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) introduced the Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award in 2020 to recognize exceptional DEI efforts in US residency programs.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Zerina Lokmic-Tomkins, Kathleen Gray, Lisa Cheshire, Arno Parolini, Megan Sharp, Bronwyn Tarrant, Nicole Hill, David Rose, Marilyn Webster, Debra Virtue, Amanda Brignell, Rebecca Waring, Fiona Broussard, Alex Tsirgialos, Kwang Meng Cham
Summary: This study describes the design and development of an interprofessional electronic medical record (iEMR) subject to introduce healthcare students to its utility in clinical settings. The research used a six-stage design-based educational research framework and implemented the iEMR subject in nursing and five allied health degrees. The study identified issues related to support for educational innovation, workload expectations, and infrastructure limitations. Overall, the findings are relevant to educators and learning designers attempting a similar process and highlight the importance of sustainability and curriculum management.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Ranjitha Venkatesh, Brahmananda Savadatti Hanumantha
Summary: Protecting electronic medical records is crucial, and blockchain technology is a promising solution. This study introduces a framework for safeguarding electronic medical records across multiple hospitals, demonstrating its effectiveness in resisting various attacks with lower communication and computation costs.
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
C. A. Fletcher, R. St Clair, M. Sharmina
Summary: This study reviews waste management strategies in hospitals, finding that dominant strategies include disposal to landfill, incineration, and recycling, while alternative strategies such as reduction, reuse, bioremediation, and chemical recycling are also present. Most strategies are technologically mature but low on the Waste Hierarchy, highlighting the need for more innovative circular economy solutions.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Xiang Li, Menglin Cui, Jingpeng Li, Ruibin Bai, Zheng Lu, Uwe Aickelin
Summary: The main goal of this study is to enhance the quality and transparency of medical text classification solutions by proposing a three-stage hybrid method combining bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory and regular expression classifier. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed approach in selecting domain specific and topic-related features, achieving an accuracy of 0.89 and an F1-score of 0.92. Furthermore, the versatility of regular expressions as a user-level tool for interpretable solutions and human modification is also highlighted.
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Michelle Daniel, Gail Morrison, Karen E. Hauer, Arnyce Pock, Christine Seibert, Jonathan Amiel, Molly Poag, Nadia Ismail, John L. Dalrymple, Karin Esposito, Cathleen Pettepher, Sally A. Santen
Summary: Calls for curricular reform in medical schools to better integrate basic and clinical science have led to a shift towards enhancing the clinical relevance of foundational science instruction and providing early exposure to the clinical environment. However, challenges such as the nature of clinical practice, time constraints, and limited faculty knowledge have hindered the full realization of these reforms. Despite efforts to integrate basic science into clerkships, more support and resources are needed to overcome barriers and fully incorporate basic science education into clinical training.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Elizabeth J. Edwards, Bharti Arora, Patricia Green, Amy J. Bannatyne, Tracy Nielson
Summary: This study assessed the effectiveness of teaching brief motivational interviewing to pre-clinical medical students. The results showed that students improved in knowledge, confidence, and skills after a short intervention, and these improvements were sustained. The findings support the practice of using this teaching method in the early years of medical curricula.
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
(2022)
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Mehdi Robati, Philip Oldfield, Ali Akbar Nezhad, David G. Carmichael, Aysu Kuru
Summary: This research proposes a Carbon Value Engineering (CO2VE) framework to reduce embodied carbon emissions and save capital costs in buildings. Testing on a building in Sydney reveals that the structural system is the main contributor to embodied carbon and capital costs. Alternative design strategies can effectively reduce embodied carbon emissions and costs.
BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Review
Psychiatry
Ali Fakhari, Leila Doshmangir, Mostafa Farahbakhsh, Behzad Shalchi, Ali Reza Shafiee-Kandjani, Farzaneh Alikhah, Zahra Eslami, Elham Davtalab Esmaeili, Hosein Azizi
Summary: This study aimed to develop effective suicide prevention strategies and interventions in medical settings and provide evaluation checklists and procedures. Through literature review and expert opinions panel, seven major suicide prevention strategies and 23 interventions were recommended.
ASIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Correction
Education & Educational Research
Harrison D. Pravder, Liana Langdon-Embry, Rafael J. Hernandez, Nicholas Berbari, Steven P. Shelov, Wendy L. Kinzler
Summary: A revised version of this paper has been published and is accessible through the original article.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2021)