Training Platform Research Articles

Building a cross-border e-commerce talent training platform based on logistic regression model

Student success is crucial to the process of building a Cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) talent development platform. Analysis of the important aspects impacting performance and performance prediction are carried out with the goal of enhancing students' academic outcomes. To better forecast student outcomes, a logistic regression model is used for factor analysis, and a penalty function is implemented. Parameters are reconciled using K-fold cross-validation, and then estimated using the coordinate descent technique. Model performance validation findings indicated that the Area Under the curve (AUC) for the minimax concave penalty (MCP) and smoothlyclippedabsolutedeviation(SCAD) penalized logistic regression models were 0.772 and 0.771, respectively. Both the MCP and SCAD penalized logistic regression models have overall accuracies of 0.738 and 0.739, respectively. Researchers found that for MCP, the correlation coefficient was 0.99949, and for SCAD, it was 0.99958, between the projected value and the anticipated value of students' performance. Due to their superior prediction accuracy, the MCP and SCAD penalized logistic regression models may be used as analytical tools in the development of the CBEC talent training platform.

Analysis of Gate Machine Facilities and Train Arrival System for Indonesian Commuter Line Users at Bekasi Station

The daily activities of communities required the movement of people from one place to another. Communities need a service that can help their movement in their daily activities so the time used becomes more effective and efficient. PT Kereta Commuter Indonesia is one of the subsidiaries of PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) which can be a solution for the community to answer urban transportation problems, especially the Jabodetabek area which is increasingly crowded and complex. However, users of public transportation services, including commuter line users, have to wait to get the service. Based on this background, this study focus is to discuss related to gate machine facility services and train services using concept of queueing theory. This research was conducted at Bekasi Station which has nine gate machines for check in with First Come First Serve service and four train platforms to serve the trains with Priority Service. The service model using Multiple Channel Single Phase service model. The result of this study indicate that the activity level of Indonesia’s Commuter Line service at Bekasi Station in term of check in is quiet high, while the train service has a low level activity so that the service system is not optimal. The level of activity in commuter line service can be more optimal if there is a reduction in facilities for the train service into three platforms that used in 09.00 – 18.00 WIB at Bekasi Station

Virtual Worlds Technology to Enhance Training for Primary Care Providers in Assessment and Management of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Using Motivational Interviewing: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

Many individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) first present to primary care rather than specialty mental health care. Primary care providers often lack the training required to assess and treat patients with PTSD. Virtual trainings have emerged as a convenient and effective way of training primary care providers in PTSD assessment and communication methods (ie, motivational interviewing [MI]). The aim of this study was to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial of a synchronous Virtual Worlds (VW; a virtual world where learners were immersed as avatars) training versus an asynchronous web-based training on PTSD and MI, comparing the feasibility, acceptability, usability, and preliminary efficacy of 2 different training platforms among primary care providers. Participating primary care providers were randomized to a VW and a web-based PTSD training. Outcomes were collected at baseline, posttraining, and 90-days follow-up. Standardized patient interviews measured participants' communication skills in assessing and managing patients with PTSD symptoms. Compared to the web-based training, the VW training platform achieved larger learning gains in MI (ie, partnership and empathy) and in discussing pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy for PTSD. Both VW and web-based trainings led to increases in PTSD knowledge and primary care providers' self-confidence. The asynchronous web-based PTSD training improved PTSD-related knowledge and self-confidence but was not as effective as the VW immersive experience in teaching MI or clinical management. Because VW training is synchronous and new for many learners, it required more time, facilitation, and technical support. As computer technology improves, VW educational interventions may become more feasible, particularly in teaching clinical skills. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03898271; https://tinyurl.com/mu479es5.

Cloud-based online XRD laboratories and synchronized remote collaboration platform for education and training

Cloud-based online XRD laboratories and synchronized remote collaboration platform for education and training

Clinical evaluation of deep learning-based automatic clinical target volume segmentation: a single-institution multi-site tumor experience.

The large variability in tumor appearance and shape makes manual delineation of the clinical target volume (CTV) time-consuming, and the results depend on the oncologists' experience. Whereas deep learning techniques have allowed oncologists to automate the CTV delineation, multi-site tumor analysis is often lacking in the literature. This study aimed to evaluate the deep learning models that automatically contour CTVs of tumors at various sites on computed tomography (CT) images from objective and subjective perspectives. 577 patients were selected for the present study, including nasopharyngeal (n = 34), esophageal (n = 40), breast-conserving surgery (BCS) (left-sided, n = 71; right-sided, n = 71), breast-radical mastectomy (BRM) (left-sided, n = 43; right-sided, n = 37), cervical (radical radiotherapy, n = 45; postoperative, n = 85), prostate (n = 42), and rectal (n = 109) carcinomas. Manually delineated CTV contours by radiation oncologists are served as ground truth. Four models were evaluated: Flexnet, Unet, Vnet, and Segresnet, which are commercially available in the medical product "AccuLearning AI model training platform". The data were divided into the training, validation, and testing set at a ratio of 5:1:4. The geometric metrics, including Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) and Hausdorff Distance (HD), were calculated for objective evaluation. For subjective assessment, oncologists rated the segmentation contours of the testing set visually. High correlations were observed between automatic and manual contours. Based on the results of the independent test group, most of the patients achieved satisfactory quantitative results (DSC > 0.8), except for patients with esophageal carcinoma (DSC: 0.62-0.64). The subjective review indicated that 82.65% of predicted CTVs scored either as clinically accepting (8.68%) or requiring minor revision (73.97%), and no patients were scored as rejected. This experimental work demonstrated that auto-generated contours could serve as an initial template to help oncologists save time in CTV delineation. The deep learning-based auto-segmentations achieve acceptable accuracy and show the potential to improve clinical efficiency for radiotherapy of a variety of cancer.

Retracted: Teaching Platform for Physical Training of Track and Field Events in Colleges and Universities Based on Data Mining Technology.

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2022/3344972.].

Getting ready for prime time: Recommended adaptations of an Empathic Communication Skills training intervention to reduce lung cancer stigma for a national multi-center trial.

Building upon prior work developing and pilot testing a provider-focused Empathic Communication Skills (ECS) training intervention, this study sought feedback from key invested partners who work with individuals with lung cancer (i.e. stakeholders including scientific and clinical advisors and patient advocates) on the ECS training intervention. The findings will be used to launch a national virtually-delivered multi-center clinical trial that will examine the effectiveness and implementation of the evidence-based ECS training intervention to reduce patients' experience of lung cancer stigma. A 1-day, hybrid, key invested partners meeting was held in New York City in Fall 2021. We presented the ECS training intervention to all conference attendees (N = 25) to seek constructive feedback on modifications of the training content and platform for intervention delivery to maximize its impact. After participating in the immersive training, all participants engaged in a group discussion guided by semi-structured probes. A deductive thematic content analysis was conducted to code focus group responses into 12 distinct a priori content modification recommendations. Content refinement was suggested in 8 of the 12 content modification themes: tailoring/tweaking/refining, adding elements, removing elements, shortening/condensing content, lengthening/extending content, substituting elements, re-ordering elements, and repeating elements. Engagement and feedback from key invested multi-sector partner is a valuable resource for intervention content modifications. Using a structured format for refining evidence-based interventions can facilitate efforts to understand the nature of modifications required for scaling up interventions and the impact of these modifications on outcomes of interest. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05456841.

Building Intercultural Competences for Students Who Study Abroad

People do not always match one’s prior expectations, and people from countries different from one’s own often do not conform to our stereotypical expectations. This is no less true for students who choose to study abroad as part of their degree programmes. While students may be interculturally competent in one context, they may be considerably less so in another. A single semester exchange can expose them to a wide array of encounters for which they are unprepared, both at their host universities and in their destination countries.
 There is much discussion about how best to help intercultural learning in the context of mobility. This paper draws on findings from third-level incoming and outgoing student mobilities over a four-year period. The purpose is to highlight insights into the cognitive and emotive challenges, motivations, and reflections that students experience before, during, and after studying abroad. Developing and implementing an online platform for intercultural training will enable future exchange students to prepare and engage actively in all three phases of this journey. It is expected that active and voluntary participation and engagement in suchtraining will help to promote students´ plurilingual and intercultural competences as well as trigger personal and professional growth. This has the potential to be a win-win experience not just for the individual student but also for their subsequent career journey when navigating a knowledge-based global economy.

PRINCIPLES OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF CIVIL SERVANTS IN THE CONDITIONS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of domestic developments in the field of professional development of civil servants; considers the tasks of professional development put forward by the implementation of Ukraine’s European integration vector; summarises the principles of professional development of civil servants, reveals their content and methods of implementation. The competences relevant for civil servants in the context of Ukraine’s path to European public administration standards are highlighted and summarised. Recommendations are made to educational service providers on the peculiarities of forming curricula and programmes for the professional development of civil servants in the context of Ukraine’s European integration. It is determined that adherence to the basic principles of professional development of civil servants should contribute to improving the efficiency of public administration and achieving the strategic goals of the State. In addition, the purpose of the article is to popularise the principles of professional development among a wide audience, which serves to form a conscious approach to the management of public resources and the development of the culture of the rule of law in Ukraine. It is emphasized that the implementation of the principles of professional development of civil servants in the context of European integration is possible with the use of the best educational practices and introduction of educational innovations which form relev of self-knowledge, self-development and self-realization. Modern educational practices that are useful in implementing the principles of professional development of civil servants in the context of European integration include, in particular, the following: simulators of management decisions and proposals that allow students to develop their own ideas and approaches to the formation and adoption of management decisions based on real cases, discuss them with practitioners and experts; training technologies; project management approaches; design thinking technologies that allow to direct training activities to solve specific problems of professional activity of public servants, to improve the service delivery system; involvement of foreign experts, including for the preparation and implementation of partnership training programmes; creation of online training platforms and training centres in public authorities.

Feasibility and acceptability of a new web-based cognitive training platform for cognitively healthy older adults: the breakfast task

BackgroundDeveloping efficient cognitive training for the older population is a major public health goal due to its potential cognitive benefits. A promising training target is executive control, critical for multitasking in everyday life. The aim of this pilot study was to establish the feasibility and acceptability of the Breakfast Task training in older adults, a new web-based cognitive training platform that simulates real-life multitasking demands.MethodsA community-based sample of 24 cognitively healthy participants aged between 60 and 75 (M = 69.12, SD = 3.83) underwent 5-session cognitive training protocol, delivered online. Each session lasted 45 min and occurred twice a week at participant’s homes. Performance was recorded, and participants completed questionnaires at baseline and after the intervention.ResultsFeasibility metrics showed overall high recruitment (82.7%), adherence and retention rates (100%). Acceptability was considered good based on participant’s quantitative and qualitative responses. On average, participants rated the game as interesting, enjoyable and did not report difficulties in accessing the game online without supervision or in understanding the instructions. Participants showed a learning curve across sessions, suggesting improvement in the game outcomes and potential benefits from the emphasis change training approach. The study identified relevant areas that need improvements and adjustments, such as technical issues, session’s structure, and dose.ConclusionsThe findings provide preliminary support for the feasibility and acceptability of the web-based Breakfast Task training platform in cognitively healthy older adults. Results suggest the value of further research to investigate the Breakfast Task training features and dose-response relationship, as well as its potential efficacy in older adults via larger randomized controlled trials.Trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04195230 (Registered 11 December 2019).

Utilizing Electromyographic Video Games Controllers to Improve Outcomes for Prosthesis Users

A study was developed for a limb-different accessible video game controller that utilizes an electromyographic sensor to control gameplay actions. Data was collected from 50 college-aged student participants. This biofeedback-based serious game trains users in a virtual capacity, through the visualization of muscle contraction, via the movement of the video game character. The training platform has been developed to accompany the corresponding electromyographic actuated prosthetic arm device, leveraging the same control scheme to enable the translation of hand gesture states. This study evaluated the controller, user interface, and gameplay to identify training improvement outcomes and user satisfaction. Study participants were divided into two cohorts that differed in their intervention between the pre-test and post-test challenge course. Cohort one had a free play environment that encouraged learning through algorithmically generated track patterns and the use of powerups. In contrast, cohort two repeated the challenge mode, which was made up of a course of rings to jump through and focused on targeted muscle discretization via character jump heights correlated to muscle output. Data were collected to develop and validate training methods and identify overall game satisfaction and usability. The results of this study indicated an increase in the user’s ability to be successful based on time on task with the intervention. The study also evaluated the usability and participant experience with the intervention.

Factors That Enhance and Hinder the Retention and Transfer of Online Pre-Clinical Skills Training to Facilitate Blended Learning.

During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, various online instructional strategies in clinical skills training were piloted. The sudden transition to the remote platform circumvented the rigorous planning associated with curriculum reform. This study aimed to explore students' and tutors' perceptions of factors that promoted or hindered successful learning transfer and to propose a blended conceptual model to guide affective, cognitive, and psychomotor clinical skills training in the pre-clinical phase of medical education. A mixed-method quasi-experimental study assessed third-year students' transfer of clinical skills and knowledge following online learning in 2021. Students and their tutors completed online surveys that included open and closed-ended questions regarding factors influencing their experience of the adapted teaching methods. Descriptive statistical analysis was used for the quantitative data. Qualitative responses were thematically analyzed. One hundred fourteen students (48%) and seven tutors (100%) responded to the surveys. The questionnaires' internal consistency and construct validity were determined using Cronbach's α-Coefficient. There was an overall positive response (86%) to the acceptability of the online platform in clinical skills training. Using online simulations with targeted onsite practice was reported as effective in clinical skills training. Tutors perceived students as well-prepared for the skills laboratory. Five emergent themes, qualified by a linear model of asynchronous and synchronous online and onsite teaching with the evaluation of the instructional design and institutional support, informed the proposed blended learning guide for clinical skills training in the pre-clinical phase. Blended clinical skills learning that included the flipped classroom concept was well-accepted. Virtual patients proved a convenient cognitive preparation tool for skills training and potentially optimized teaching delivery. The study found that the adapted teaching frameworks incorporating an online clinical skills component into a modified onsite curriculum augmented learners' ability to transfer knowledge to the clinical skills laboratory. An integrated five-step blended model is proposed for future interventions.

Construction and Software Realization of Modern Digital Training Platform Based on Digital Media Technology

Construction and Software Realization of Modern Digital Training Platform Based on Digital Media Technology

Novel Collaborations Across Training Programs to Support Mentoring in Sex Differences Research.

There is a critical need to develop a capable and well-trained workforce dedicated to the systematic study of sex differences and examination of sex as a biological variable. Through the support of the Office of Research on Women's Health and partner National Institute of Health centers, the Specialized Centers of Research Excellence (SCORE) on Sex Differences Career Enhancement Cores (CECs) were established to help address this need. We describe the integration of the Medical University of South Carolina SCORE CEC with other National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded and institutional training programs to promote training synergies, share resources, and enhance mentorship opportunities. Benefits of developing an intrainstitutional training platform have included facilitating cross-disciplinary interactions, encouragement of peer mentorship, and reduced burden on training program leadership.

Reviewing academic coordination on the rural distributed training platform in South Africa.

Distributed training of students from a variety of health professions is increasing in South Africa because of the type of learning it offers and that it caters for the increasing number of students being accepted into health sciences programs. Challenges and facilitators to distributed training are well documented in the literature, and include increased distance from the academic home, human resources for health challenges, student access to support systems, and identifying learning environments to match learning outcomes. In the case of the Rural Clinical School in the Western Cape, South Africa, 'academic coordinators' were employed on site to fulfil the role of coordinating and supervising student learning and community engagement. This article explores their experiences. A large-scale qualitative study was conducted in 2017 exploring the history and development of the Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health and the Rural Clinical School. Part of this study included semi-structured individual and focus group interviews with consenting academic coordinators exploring their experiences of developing and working on a rural distributed training platform in South Africa. Data were inductively analysed. Ethical approval and institutional permission were obtained for this study, and all participants provided consent. In addition to previously published challenges that clinical supervisors who are employed by the health system face, the academic coordinators reported facing challenges related to professional isolation, boundary blurring between providing student support versus acting as clinical educator, juggling multiple line managers and administrative responsibilities, navigating the new field of academia, and not having the potential for career progression. Reflecting on the needs of academic coordinators expressed in this article, we identified four conditions that may promote sustained and continuous academic coordination at rural or remote distributed training sites. These conditions are (1) living and working local; (2) having a dual role in academia and the health system; (3) having access to academic support; and (4) regular engagement with the academic home, the value of which is detailed in this article. These recommendations can be adopted to optimise and sustain academic engagement on the distributed training platform, especially in light of the current expansion of health professions training and subsequent need to attract and retain clinician-academics in remote locations.

Practicing Emergency Medicine in the Metaverse: A Novel Mixed Reality Casualty Care Training Platform.

Current casualty care training modalities present several challenges, including limited simulation facilities, instructor dependence, lack of standardization, documentation of trainees' performance and training personalization. The study presents the design, development and preliminary evaluation of a novel hybrid training platform to address these challenges. A mixed reality platform was chosen and developed to address field operators' requirements. The platform is easy to operate and can be set up by laypeople within 20-min in multiple environments. Individual-level training documentation is generated autonomously following each session, evaluating 30 aspects of performance. From this, a unique aggregated dataset emerges as a substrate for executives' dashboards and intelligent planning of future sessions. An evaluation process took part using simulator-based training in different stages along the project using a questionnaire (Likert-scale based). Fifty military physicians took part in an identical head injury scenario requiring airway management by endotracheal intubation and were immediately surveyed. TrauMR is an agile hybrid training that harbors the potential to address many of the emerging challenges of training for prehospital care in combat and civilian environments.

BIDL: a brain-inspired deep learning framework for spatiotemporal processing.

Brain-inspired deep spiking neural network (DSNN) which emulates the function of the biological brain provides an effective approach for event-stream spatiotemporal perception (STP), especially for dynamic vision sensor (DVS) signals. However, there is a lack of generalized learning frameworks that can handle various spatiotemporal modalities beyond event-stream, such as video clips and 3D imaging data. To provide a unified design flow for generalized spatiotemporal processing (STP) and to investigate the capability of lightweight STP processing via brain-inspired neural dynamics, this study introduces a training platform called brain-inspired deep learning (BIDL). This framework constructs deep neural networks, which leverage neural dynamics for processing temporal information and ensures high-accuracy spatial processing via artificial neural network layers. We conducted experiments involving various types of data, including video information processing, DVS information processing, 3D medical imaging classification, and natural language processing. These experiments demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method. Moreover, as a research framework for researchers in the fields of neuroscience and machine learning, BIDL facilitates the exploration of different neural models and enables global-local co-learning. For easily fitting to neuromorphic chips and GPUs, the framework incorporates several optimizations, including iteration representation, state-aware computational graph, and built-in neural functions. This study presents a user-friendly and efficient DSNN builder for lightweight STP applications and has the potential to drive future advancements in bio-inspired research.

Mixed Reality for Pediatric Brain Tumors: A Pilot Study from a Singapore Children’s Hospital

Mixed reality (MR) platforms for neurosurgical education, training, and clinical use have gained popularity in recent years. However, their use in pediatric neurosurgery is comparatively unexplored. We designed a study to explore the use of an MR-based application for pediatric brain tumors. The primary aim is to determine if the use of MR provides the neurosurgical team with a better understanding of the visuospatial anatomy of neoplasms in pediatric craniums and to guide operative planning. Secondary aims include exploring its use as an educational tool for junior doctors and medical students. Methods: Three-dimensional anatomical models of selected pediatric brain tumors are created and uploaded to an MR application. The processed data is transferred into designated MR head-mounted devices. At the end of the trial, users are required to fill in an evaluation form. Results: A total of 30 participants took part in this study. Based on the collated feedback data, all of them agreed that the MR platform was useful as a tool in different aspects of understanding the selected pediatric brain tumors. Conclusions: This study demonstrates a proof of concept of the feasibility of MR platforms for a better understanding of pediatric brain tumors. Further development is needed to refine the current setup to be more versatile.

THE LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH THE ORGANIZATION OF ONLINE LEARNING AMONG HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

the article is devoted to the study of the level of satisfaction of higher education students with various aspects of the organization of online education. The results of a survey of 124 applicants representing various higher education institutions of Ukraine are presented. It is shown that the main parameters that must be taken into account when organizing online training are: training platform, content, communication organization, schedule organization, evaluation and reporting, technical support, motivation. Each of these aspects has its own characteristics and requires attention and systematic support. The most optimal way of researching the level of satisfaction with the organization of online education is a questionnaire, as a research method that allows you to quickly and flexibly obtain information about new topics in the field of education. Based on the results of the questionnaire, it was determined that the applicants are most satisfied with the evaluation and reporting, the quality of the educational content, the organization of communication and the platform for learning. Applicants consider the organization of the schedule, technical support of the educational process, and support of educational motivation to be unsatisfactory.

CIRCumcision learning experience using simulation: A pilot learning platform for safe neonatal circumcision training offered either virtually or in person

BackgroundTo our knowledge, no formal training combining didactic learning, simulation, and hands-on performance is available for practitioners performing neonatal circumcision. The absence of structured training may result in avoidable complications such as bleeding and penile injury. Herein, we present the results of a pilot neonatal circumcision training platform, offered either virtually or in person.Material and methodsCIRCLES (CIRCumcision Learning Experience using Simulation) consist of 1. online didactic learning; 2. live simulation practice (in person or virtual coaching), and 3. clinical performance. Outcome measures included pre- and post-knowledge scores, self-efficacy questionnaires, and skill assessments of simulation and clinical performance (Likert rating). Face validity for training success was determined by an 80% passing score on the knowledge test and > 75% (mostly independent) performance.ResultsFor this pilot, we restricted enrolment to seven pediatric residents and one nurse practitioner. Wilcoxon Sum Rank test for non-parametric paired samples for pre-and post-knowledge tests showed a median increase of 20 points in post-knowledge tests (p=0.011). Upon completion of the simulation training, all participants (8/8) have chosen to perform circumcision with the GOMCO clamp. Both in-person (4/4) and virtual participants (4/4) performed >75% of simulation and clinical circumcision independently. Post-training self-efficacy Z scores were higher than pre-training scores, except for the management of bleeding.ConclusionThe pilot CIRCLES learning shows face validity for both in-person and virtual training for neonatal circumcision. We plan to extend this platform to include more trainees and to offer them to established practitioners. The availability of formal training may ultimately reduce adverse outcomes.