Effective Collaborative Approach Research Articles

Status of Sustainable Development of Efficient Ecological Agriculture in Loess Plateau Gully Region

At present, the development of efficient ecological agriculture in the loess hilly and gully region is faced with slope problems, gully problems and resource utilization problems. The loess Plateau gully region is the traditional dry farming area in China, and it is also the main grain producing area with a long farming history. Due to natural factors such as terrain fragmentation, rainfall concentration and loose soil, deforestation, reclamation of steep slopes, and overgrazing, human factors such as deterioration of ecological environment, serious soil erosion, reduction of cultivated land resources, and decrease of land productivity in the region have aggravated the food shortage problem in the region. Ecological agriculture is an effective collaborative approach for ecological protection and high-quality agricultural development in the Loess Plateau, and can provide important support for ecological restoration and farmland regulation in the Loess Plateau gully region.

Co-design of dementia prevention program for Aboriginal Australians (DAMPAA).

Dementia is highly prevalent in older Aboriginal Australians, with several modifiable risk factors. Currently, there is limited evidence on how to prevent cognitive decline in Aboriginal Australians. Based on our Theory of Change (ToC) framework, we co-developed the Dementia risk management and prevention program for Aboriginal Australians (DAMPAA) aged over 45 years in partnership with Aboriginal community-controlled organizations (ACCOs) and Elders. Qualitative data were collected through ACCO staff workshops, Elders yarning, and governance groups to inform the protocol. Additionally, we conducted a small pilot study. Expected DAMPAA ToC outcomes are: (1) improved daily function, (2) better cardiovascular risk management, (3) falls reduction, (4) improved quality of life, and (5) reduced cognitive decline. Attendance enablers are social interaction, environment, exercise type/level, and logistics. Findings suggest that ToC is an effective collaborative approach for co-designing Aboriginal health programs.

High-Performance Artificial Intelligence Recommendation of Quality Research Papers Using Effective Collaborative Approach

The Artificial Intelligence Recommender System has emerged as a significant research interest. It aims at helping users find things online by offering recommendations that closely fit their interests. Recommenders for research papers have appeared over the last decade to make it easier to find publications associated with the field of researchers’ interests. However, due to several issues, such as copyright constraints, these methodologies assume that the recommended articles’ contents are entirely openly accessible, which is not necessarily the case. This work demonstrates an efficient model, known as RPRSCA: Research Paper Recommendation System Using Effective Collaborative Approach, to address these uncertain systems for the recommendation of quality research papers. We make use of contextual metadata that are publicly available to gather hidden relationships between research papers in order to personalize recommendations by exploiting the advantages of collaborative filtering. The proposed system, RPRSCA, is unique and gives personalized recommendations irrespective of the research subject. Thus, a novel collaborative approach is proposed that provides better performance. Using a publicly available dataset, we found that our proposed method outperformed previous uncertain methods in terms of overall performance and the capacity to return relevant, valuable, and quality publications at the top of the recommendation list. Furthermore, our proposed strategy includes personalized suggestions and customer expertise, in addition to addressing multi-disciplinary concerns.

Functional symptoms in dermatology: Part 2.

Functional disorders within dermatology present as various constellations of skin symptoms, but without evidence of organic pathology. Examples can include mucocutaneous pain syndromes, functional pruritus, somatoform pain disorder and rarer entities, such as undifferentiated somatoform idiopathic anaphylaxis and multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome. These conditions can have a significant impact on a patient's quality of life, and can present challenges in communication, investigation and management. The aetiology of functional disorders is not fully understood, but with an effective collaborative approach, a psychological explanation for these symptoms is often found. A structured approach to assessment can lead to a confident diagnosis, and understanding a patient's belief system and the impact of symptoms on their functioning can give better grounding for successful management. Treatment is dependent on the level of the patient's engagement with healthcare professionals, and often takes a measured and rehabilitative approach. Psychological therapies have been shown to be effective, often alongside both psychopharmacological and topical medications.

Effective collaborative strategies to setup tuners

Parameter setting problem has demonstrated being a relevant problem related to the use of metaheuristics. ParamILS and I-Race are sophisticated tuning methods that can provide valuable information for designers as well as manage conditional parameters. However, the quality of parameter configurations they can find strongly depends on a proper definition of parameter search space. Evoca is a recently proposed tuner which has demonstrated being less sensitive to the setup of parameters search space. In this paper, we propose an effective collaborative approach that combines Evoca and I-Race as well as Evoca and ParamILS. In both collaborative strategies, Evoca is used to define a proper parameter search space for each tuner. Results demonstrated that the collaborative approaches studied are able to find good parameter configurations reducing the effort required to properly define the parameter search space.

THE PROPENSITY OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING AND INTEGRATED PROJECT DELIVERY IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

The Building Information Modelling (BIM) implementation is to create a centralised knowledge sharing resource that contains all the necessary design and operational information about the project. BIM is a collaborative approach and integrated project delivery to design and delivery embraced by various construction teams in the construction projects. In the context of the most suitable project delivery to be used, with regards to the use of BIM, the Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach is highlighted as the best method which correlates building procurement of the design-to-construction business process through literature review analysis. IPD is developed as project delivery system that integrates people in effective collaborative approach between the key players in the project. IPD is going to be particularly beneficial for BIM because the contracts relation between the contractor, designers, consultants, constructors, sub-contractors and suppliers were binded and expressly determined at earlier stage. This relationship between these two subjects will helped the project team to achieve the project goals in terms of timely schedule, life cycle costs, quality and sustainability in construction project. Therefore, this study investigates on the propensity of the best methodology of project delivery system which can correlate with procurement adoption for projects adapt BIM concept. This is a descriptive study and the method used is based on review of the literature in relation to BIM and IPD. The analysis revealed that propensity of adopting IPD project delivery and the adoption of BIM are based on these factors: improve the communication, closer collaboration; liability and legal relationships are specifically determined, the best quality outcome; and lastly with reductions in design and construction period, it provides a cost effectiveness and a saving in overall construction period.

Building sustainable tourism as an integral part of the resort community

This paper discusses the use of an action research type participatory community method in the development of a sustainable tourism strategy for a resort community in Australia. Through an effective collaborative approach to tourism management and sustainability, this provides perhaps an innovative example how sustainable tourism methodologies can facilitate more community integration and empowerment. This paper shows an approach to community governance, human capacity building and tourism collaborative development, which suggests an important method in the achievement of long-term resort destination sustainability to provide both residents and visitors with quality of lifestyle and experiences that they often embrace so passionately.

The experiences of non-medical health professionals undertaking community-based health assessments for people aged 75 years and over.

Our objective was to explore the perceptions of allied health professionals who conducted over 3000 home-based health assessments within the general-practice-dominated Australian primary healthcare system. A series of semistructured qualitative interviews were carried out within the Department of Veterans' Affairs 'Preventive Care Trial', where health assessments are undertaken by health professionals in the homes of participating veterans and war widows. Health professionals were employed within the Preventive Care Trial to conduct assessments in 10 areas of New South Wales and Queensland. Subjects were mainly registered nurses, but also included a social worker, an occupational therapist, a physiotherapist and a psychologist. The health professionals described positive attitudes towards the health assessments, and showed that they have the broad range of necessary personal and professional skills to undertake them. Home visits were seen as an essential component and the most useful aspects included direct observation of home safety and medications. This study demonstrates that health assessments for older people can be acceptably and competently undertaken by suitably qualified allied health professionals, and that an effective collaborative approach to patient care can be achieved through such a system.

The ABCs of DME: a home care durable medical equipment/home oxygen program.

With the evolution of high-tech healthcare in the home setting, patients and families now need to learn the skills to perform the tasks that previously were done in hospital settings by health professionals. Numerous private and federally funded home health organizations are offering services to this patient population. The mission of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is to improve the quality of care provided to the public (JCAHO, 1991b). In 1988, the commission implemented standards for the accreditation of home care and began to survey home care providers (JCAHO, 1988). Standards governing the provision of durable medical equipment are included in the JCAHO Accreditation Manual for Home Care (1991a). The article describes an effective collaborative approach used to develop a comprehensive durable medical equipment/home oxygen (DME/home O2) program at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (DVAMC), now called the Veterans Health Administration Medical Center, in East Orange, NJ. Project management principles were used by the quality management (QM) staff to develop and implement the DME/home O2 program successfully.