Opportunities and pitfalls of data contextualization in neuroimaging.

Best practice can be defined as that combination of structure, educational technology and content of a learning opportunity, which, in certain contexts and for particular groups of learners, is most likely to achieve the purposes of the main stakeholders. However, the rate of change of technological, political, economic, social and cultural contexts suggests that best practice may become a redundant concept, in that what is judged as best one day may not be so judged the next. This article considers what some significant contributions to the literature on open and distance learning practice have to say about the development and provision of best practice and about the place of critical reflection by stakeholders. It also considers the challenges facing the development of best practice presented by change, concluding with the identification of the most significant areas of development yet to be made.

BackgroundPolice officers are exposed to potentially psychological traumatic events and are at high risk of developing post-traumatic stress injuries (PTSI). Development and wide implementation of best practices for managing PTSI are needed. The psychological first aid (PFA) framework encompasses trauma-informed knowledge to guide the development of best practices. Based on the framework and on a pilot performed among Canadian police officers, we propose a PFA program including: 1) PTSI awareness e-learning; 2) PFA training provided by local trainers; and, 3) peer-to-peer PFA intervention to mitigate PTSI in police officers. The study was designed to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a large-scale PFA program implementation among Canadian police officers.MethodsA multi-phase mixed-methods participatory action research study is being performed in five phases according to the PFA implementation and the dynamic sustainability frameworks. The program 1) was adapted to environmental needs; 2) is progressively deployed; and, to be evaluated for 3) feasibility; 4) effectiveness; and, 5) sustainability. Local trainers (N = 10) were trained to then train PFA providers (N = 322 police officers) who could then administer the intervention to police officers as needed (i.e., PFA recipients). The e-learning is being co-developed and will be disseminated. Program feasibility (i.e., acceptability, demand, practicality, implementation) will be assessed through interviews with trainers (n = 10), providers (n = 30), and recipients (n = 20). The program effectiveness will be assessed by tracking changes in PTSI literacy and stigma among officers who complete the e-learning (n = 5700) using pre-post e-learning questionnaires. Pre-post training questionnaires with participating providers (n = 175) will track perceived competence to provide the intervention. Pre-post intervention questionnaires with recipients (n = 64) will track changes in putative protective factors (i.e., professional quality of life, work safety, coping, sense of efficacy, sense of hope) and symptoms of PTSI (i.e., anxiety-, depressive-, and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms).DiscussionThe PFA program is designed to help officers to recognize PTSI, promote self-care strategies and help-seeking, enhance organizational support, and expand psychological support. The study could provide trauma-informed guidelines for implementation and evaluation practices in high-risk and interdependent organizations and inform future directions for policy decisions.Trial registrationThe study was pre-registered on OSF (https://osf.io/7khgs/?view_only=33260c704ffc46ffb75a704320283ccf).Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s43058-025-00804-y.

<p>Through satellites, ships, radars, and weather models, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) generates and handles tens of terabytes of data per day. Many of NOAA’s key datasets have been made available to the public through partnerships with Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and more as part of the Big Data Project (BDP). This movement of data to the Cloud has enabled access for researchers from all over the world to vast amounts of NOAA data, initiating a new form of federal data management as well as exposing key challenges for the future of open-access data. NOAA researchers have run into challenges of providing “analysis-ready” datasets to which researchers from varying fields can easily access, manipulate, and use for different purposes. This issue arises as there is no agreed-upon format or method of transforming traditional datasets for the cloud across research communities, with each scientific field or start up expressing differing data formatting needs (cloud-optimized, cloud-native, etc.). Some possible solutions involve changing data formats into those widely-used throughout the visualization community, such as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF. Initial findings have led NOAA to facilitate roundtable discussions with researchers, public and private stakeholders, and other key members of the data community, to encourage the development of best practices for the use of public data on commercial cloud platforms. Overall, by uploading NOAA data to the Cloud, the BDP has led to the recognition and ongoing development of new best practices for data authentication and dissemination and the identification of key areas for targeting collaboration and data use across scientific communities.</p>

Given the challenges with nutrition research, the Canadian Nutrition Society and Intertek Health Sciences Inc held an expert consultation in late 2019 to discuss the development and implementation of best practices for clinical trials on whole foods. Key challenges in the design, interpretation, and reporting of clinical efficacy studies on whole foods and opportunities for the future development of best practices are reported. Novelty: Outlines existing tools, resources, and checklists for clinical nutrition trials and provides clear and tangible steps to develop best practices for studies on whole foods.

Information about crop-specific best practices for ex situ conservation of plant genetic resources has been difficult to find until recently. The CGIAR, together with national and regional partners, started to fill that gap by publishing best practices on the crop genebank knowledge base (CGKB -http://cropgenebank.sgrp.cgiar.org/), a website specifically developed and officially launched in 2010 to provide easy access to knowledge about all aspects of ex situ conservation of specific crops to genebank managers and ex situ conservation researchers. A collaborative study, undertaken by Bioversity International with eight national and international genebanks, utilized the framework provided by the CGKB to develop and publish radish conservation best practices. This paper focuses on two aspects of this study: (1) Differences in procedures and practices in radish conservation currently applied in five key genebank activities, namely, acquisition of germplasm, viability testing and monitoring, seed drying, seed storage, and regeneration. While in a few cases genebanks agreed on a specific best practice to recommend, in others it was not desirable to identify one practice as superior to another, therefore a range of existing practices is described as a variety of equivalent options. The results highlight the importance of proactive genebank management aimed at meeting the standards within the specific context in which a genebank operates. (2) The framework and template provided by the CGKB in guiding the development of genebank best practices, and the CGKB as an excellent resource to widely and freely share best practices with the global community to support the effective management of crop genebanks.

This paper presents the first significant findings from a major study of how the terms and conditions for building collections of digitized visual resources, particularly historical photographs, influence how users judge archival quality, integrity, and value (and hence usefulness) of the digitized resources. The paper articulates criteria for distinguishing best practice documents from general opinion pieces or reports on experiments. The paper than assesses the cumulative influence and power of seventeen guidelines documents on the development of best practice recommendations and a network analysis of the interconnected patters of influence by individual experts and leading organizations that have sponsored or contributed to the development of community best practices.

The internationalization of education is an area of growing interest in postgraduate hospitality programs. This article explores the considerations for best practice in the curriculum development and delivery of postgraduate programs in international hospitality management. It examines how the embedding of principles and practices in a Master of International Hospitality Management program relates with the development of international best practice. A model for the consideration of ethnocentric, polycentric, and geocentric education strategies and practices in the development and delivery of such programs is presented. The article argues for the adoption of a geocentric approach.

In the past, various mounting systems have been developed with no real consensus on the most appropriate system to display bark paintings that also considers the cultural values of Aboriginal Traditional Owners. In addressing this gap, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) has been reviewing their current mounting systems and the preparation of bark supports with Injalak Arts to enable the development of evidence-based best practices for the display and preservation of bark paintings. A holistic study was undertaken to fully understand the life cycle of bark supports from when they are first made, to their display and collections trajectory in the cultural institution context. This paper examines Eucalyptus tetrodonata’s bark properties and harvesting techniques used by the Injalak Art Centre artists from the Aboriginal Traditional Owners’ perspective. With a holistic understanding of the material and cultural contexts, past display techniques were subsequently assessed which informed improvements of current bark painting mounting methods deployed at MAGNT. The purpose of this paper is not only to inform the development of appropriate mounting systems, but also to provide insight for the development of best practice decision-making and ‘proofed concepts’ of preventive conservation for the preservation and display of Aboriginal bark paintings.

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The use of mobile learning is becoming increasingly widespread among university teachers, thanks to its many benefits. Moreover, its application is associated with good teaching practices. The aim of this study is to analyse the development of good teaching practices in the use of m-learning by university teachers from the Department of Didactics of Language and Literature, as well as to identify the factors that influence the development of best practices. The research method developed is based on a transversal design. 110 teachers from the Department of Language and Literature Didactics participated in the study. The instrument used is the scale of Analysis of M-learning practices at the University (APMU). The results show that more than half of the teachers use the teaching method based on mobile learning. It can be concluded that in the development of best practices, gender is not influential, but age and teaching experience are. In addition, personal concern and experience in the use of mobile devices by teachers is a key factor in the appropriate development of the m-learning method.

Objectives: to understand the organization of health care practices in the primary attention, considering it the coordinator of the health care network and to analyze in what way this network organization contributes to the development of best practices in health. Method: Grounded Theory collecting semi-structured interviews with health professionals, users and managers, constituting four sample groups. This article describes the results of the data analysis of the managers' group. Results: Construction of a theoretical model for the phenomenon: Framing the health care network: better care practices in the context of the public politics and for categories: Theoretical-conceptual referential for framing the health care network; Organization of care practices in the network perspective; Ordination of the attention: the primary attention role; Difficulties in the process of structuring the network; and, Characterizing better practices in the perspective of the health care network. Considerations: Health is a complex phenomenon resultant of the interactions experienced in the system of health care. The health care network, studied in these institutional contexts, reinforce the construction and development of best practices in health.

Objective. Implantable brain–computer interface (BCI) research promises improvements in human health and enhancements in quality of life. Informed consent of subjects is a central tenet of this research. Rapid advances in neuroscience, and the intimate connection between functioning of the brain and conceptions of the self, make informed consent particularly challenging in BCI research. Identification of safety and research-related risks associated with BCI devices is an important step in ensuring meaningful informed consent. Approach. This paper highlights a number of BCI research risks, including safety concerns, cognitive and communicative impairments, inappropriate subject expectations, group vulnerabilities, privacy and security, and disruptions of identity. Main results. Based on identified BCI research risks, best practices are needed for understanding and incorporating BCI-related risks into informed consent protocols. Significance. Development of best practices should be guided by processes that are: multidisciplinary, systematic and transparent, iterative, relational and exploratory.

Policy work is often cited as one of the primary functions of Hospital Ethics Committees (HECs), along with consultation and education. Hospital policies can have far reaching effects on a...

This paper presents a new approach for the development of best practices in the aerospace industry through social media. A survey and semi-structured interviews used on a smaller sample suggest that integrating social media to formal organizational structures around a community of practice could indeed be employed to facilitate knowledge and experience sharing between established experts and participants. Finally, this paper also explores the extension of this framework to complement more formal and structured information processes typically managed by PLM solutions to better support the development of best practices via communities of practice. In this case, a complementary link between best practices under development in a community of practice and the design solution being developed in the Digital Mock-Up is presented.KeywordsSocial MediumAerospace IndustryQuallity Function DeploymentSocial SoftwareWork Breakdown StructureThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Thousands of shipments of radioisotopes developed in the United States (US) are transported domestically and internationally for medical and industrial applications, including to partner laboratories in European Union (EU) countries. Over the past five years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy (DOE), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have worked with state regulatory compliance personnel, key private sector shippers and carriers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tracking and monitoring of medical and industrial radioisotopes in commerce. The EPA Radiological Source Tracking and Monitoring (RadSTraM) project tested, evaluated, and integrated RFID technologies in laboratory settings, and at multiple private-sector shipping and distribution facilities (Perkin Elmer and DHL) using common radioisotopes used in everyday commerce. The RFID tracking was also tested in association with other deployed technologies including radiation detection, chemical/explosives detection, advanced imaging, lasers, and infrared scanning. At the 2007 EU-US Summit, the leaders of the US Department of Commerce (DOC) and EU European Commission (EC) committed to pursue jointly directed Lighthouse Priority Projects. These projects are intended to 'foster cooperation' and 'reduce regulatory burdens' with respect to transatlantic commerce. The Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) Lighthouse Project on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been directed to 'develop a joint framework for cooperation on identification and development of best practices for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies.' The RFID Lighthouse Priority Project commits both sides to endeavor to align U.S. and EU regulatory and policy approaches on RFID technologies, including pilot projects in the public sector. The RadSTraM project was specifically cited as a candidate for a RFID Lighthouse Project by the EU/DOC collaboration in meeting their mutual goal of developing a 'joint framework for cooperation on identification and development of best practices for RFID technologies.' Concurrently, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) identified this project as a candidate for radioisotope packages shipped by the postal service between the United State Postal Service (USPS). and European Post Agencies.