Professional Card Research Articles

Prospective Patient Preferences for Humor in Urologists Treating Erectile Dysfunction: A Survey Study.

Men seeking treatment for sexual dysfunction can experience embarrassment as a result of stigma. This research manuscript presents the findings of a survey conducted to investigate the influence of humor on prospective patients' preferences when selecting a specialist to address erectile dysfunction (ED). The respondents were presented with five pairs of mock urology business cards: one professional and one humorous. A questionnaire was designed and distributed via an online survey platform. Descriptive statistics and Fisher's exact test were performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)softwareversion 29 (IBM SPSS Statistics, Armonk, NY) to evaluate age and race associations with card preference. Among the 997 participants, an average of 66.1% (a median of 71.2%) preferred professional cards. Humorous card selection rates ranged from 5.2% to 38.4% compared to 54.0% to 78.1% for professional cards. A statistically significant relationship between age and professional card choice existed in all except the fifth set of cards (p = 0.001, 0.001, 0.001, 0.001, and 0.054). The relationship between race or ethnicity and business card preference was not reported due to an imbalance in demographics, with most participants identifying as Caucasian. A humor-centric approach may not resonate with all individuals seeking treatment for sensitive conditions such as ED. Limitations include the subjectivity of humor, the use of an online survey platform, and the hypothetical nature of this study. Real patients experiencing ED may face stigma and respond to humor differently. This study provides insights into patient preference for professionalism over humor from their urologist but leaves room for the exploration of humor in medical contexts. Future studies could examine the impacts of humor on patient choices in real-world healthcare settings.

The use of professional audio external USB sound cards for building acoustics measurements

CSIRO purchased an open application programming interface for hardware with an ethernet connection from a major acoustical instrument manufacturer. Using this interface, the author developed software for fractional octave band filtering with linear and exponential averaging. He then extended this software to automatically measure reverberation time. Fast Fourier Transform and Stepped Sine software was also developed. He then realized that CSIRO also owned two professional audio external USB sound cards. One of these had eight analogue inputs and ten analogue outputs. The other had two analogue inputs and two analogue outputs. Both could supply 48 V phantom power on their analogue inputs. It is possible to purchase phantom power preamplifiers for professional measurement microphones, but CSIRO decided to purchase phantom power to IEPE pre-amplifier adaptors. This enabled the use of professional pre-polarized microphones with IEPE microphone preamplifiers and accelerometers with built-in IEPE preamplifiers. CSIRO also had external USB hardware from another acoustical instrument manufacturer. Upon opening this instrument, it consisted of a professional audio external USB sound card and an IEPE front end for the two analogue input channels. The author decided to produce a version of his software that could be used with these three external USB sound cards.

Occupational incidence in the modern socio-economic conditions of Donbass

An analysis of the current state of occupational pathological assistance to the working contingent of industrial enterprises of the Donetsk People's Republic is presented. When analyzing the dynamics of occupational morbidity for the period 2017-2021, it shows a significant increase from 12.3 cases in 2017 to 30.5 cases in 2021 (per 10,000 workers), mainly due to workers in coal mines. Most of all occupational diseases were registered among workers of the main underground professions - miners of a stope (37.5%) and sinkers (23.3%). The observed increase in occupational morbidity is considered from the standpoint of today's specifics of the working conditions of coal mining enterprises in Donbass. First of all, the absence of a leading occupational hazard with simultaneous multifactorial industrial exposure, often exceeding the threshold values of limit values, as well as a change in operating factors and the intensity of their impact during the length of service. Most cases of occupational diseases identified when workers applied for medical help to the Republican Center for Occupational Pathology had pronounced chronic forms of diseases in workers with work experience in harmful production factors of 20-39 years (up to 75%) and over 50 years of age - more than half of all cases (2020 - 52.7%, 2019 - 51.2%, 2018 - 53%, 2017 - 51.8%). At the same time, when analyzing primary medical documentation (originals of outpatient cards, professional examination cards) working in hazardous conditions, it is noted that more than 80% are «healthy». One of the main reasons for the growth of occupational morbidity is the poor quality of medical examinations carried out by general medical institutions, which causes late detection of occupational and work-related pathologies, the development of advanced forms of general somatic diseases that prevent employees from fulfilling their job duties. In the structure of occupational pathology in the DPR, the largest share falls on diseases caused by physical overload - 44.3%; industrial aerosols - 37.1%; physical factors: vibration - 17.2%, noise - 0.7%. It is concluded that all of the above processes are due to a number of interrelated reasons - a change in the socio-economic situation caused the economic instability of coal enterprises, which led to worsening working conditions, a reduction in the number of employees, an increase in intensive appeals to the Republican Center for Occupational Pathology in order to resolve the issue of the relationship of morbidity with the profession, and , consequently, the solution of social problems through compensation for damage to health.

Computer vision quantization research on the architectural color of Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro in Macau based on the human eye perspective.

In this study, a new quantifiable and refined urban street color analysis method was proposed by combining professional color cards and efficient software color recognition, which solved the problems of low efficiency and difficulty in the quantification of urban color research and analysis. The research mainly uses China Building Color Card (CBCC) and Python (use programs for the HSV color segmentation of pictures) and other software to carry out color recognition for a street view. From the aspects of color composition, type, proportion, visual level, and color sequence of the street facade, this article makes a quantitative analysis of the color of Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro in Macao from multiple angles. The method of combining color card colorimetry with computer color recognition, which not only considers the inherent color of the building but also includes the color situation under the influence of the environment, can express the “actual color situation” of the building more completely. This article quantifies, combs, summarizes, and compares architectural color and environmental color completely. This method has good universality and ease of use in practice, and the conclusion of the study can provide a reference for the color planning of Macao, the color selection of urban renewal has reference significance, and provide a new method for the study of urban color.

Advantage of Modern Educational Technologies in Personality Formation of Officers

The importance of personal development of young officers in increasing the professionalism of the army was explained in the report, and the role of modern military science was shown for this. Thus, the analysis of modern wars suggests that the states try to win more and lose less during the war. This fact in itself requires the modern technical equipment of the army to be equipped with professional officers. The presence of high-potential officer personnel ensures the power of the army, its flexibility, proper management and, as a result, reliable protection of the state’s military defence. The formation of modern professional officer cards, without a doubt, actualizes the level of organization of education in military educational institutions of the country. Development of the institutional foundations of the education system, expansion of the application of innovative training methods and technologies, and the creation of a competency-based personality and result-oriented education model have been set as a strategic goal. According to this principle, we can say that, as in all countries of the world at the present time, this issue stands as a priority target for the higher military educational institutions of Azerbaijan. The urgency of the problem requires its scientific-theoretical investigation, giving some suggestions and recommendations for future practical work. During the research, it is determined that, as in other higher educational institutions, training in military educational institutions is focused on the personality development of young officers, which will allow them to become professional, highly intelligent, self-confident, , and flexible decision-making officers in the future with independent management skills. In comparison with other higher education institutions, special sensitivity to the above-mentioned issue in higher military educational institutions makes it more necessary to train strong-willed, visionary, and right decision-making personnel for the reliable provision of the national security and military defence of the state in general, in contrast to the training of personnel in a certain field.

Business documents of the advanced practice registered nurse: Curriculum vitae, resume, and biosketches.

Advanced practice nurses (APNs) now have great opportunities to serve in leadership positions for organizations, institutions of higher education, community and public agencies, and more. The need exists for APNs to have a full set of professional business documents readily available. Such common documents would extend beyond the professional business card and professional photograph to include the curriculum vitae, the resume, and the National Institutes of Health Biographical Sketch (biosketch) and a professional biosketch. Advanced practice nurses should understand the differences between the documents as each document helps to share the professional identity.

High-performance GPU computations in nonlinear dynamics: an efficient tool for new discoveries

The main aim of this paper is to demonstrate the benefit of the application of high-performance computing techniques in the field of non-linear science through two kinds of dynamical systems as test models.It is shown that high-resolution, multi-dimensional parameter scans (in the order of millions of parameter combinations) via an initial value problem solver are an efficient tool to discover new features of dynamical systems that are hard to find by other means. The employed initial value problem solver is an in-house code written in C++ and CUDA C software environments, which can exploit the high processing power of professional graphics cards (GPUs). The first test model is the Keller–Miksis equation, a non-linear oscillator describing the dynamics of a driven single spherical gas bubble placed in an infinite domain of liquid. This equation is important in the field of cavitation and sonochemistry. Here, the high-resolution parameter scans gave us the opportunity to lay down the basis of a non-feedback technique to control multi-stability in which direct selection of the desired attractor is possible. The second test model is related to a pressure relief valve that can exhibit a special kind of impact dynamics called grazing impact. A fine scan of the initial conditions revealed a second focal point of the grazing lines in the initial-condition space that was hidden in previous studies.

Relationship between the radial dynamics and the chemical production of a harmonically driven spherical bubble

The sonochemical activity and the radial dynamics of a harmonically excited spherical bubble are investigated numerically. A detailed model is employed capable to calculate the chemical production inside the bubble placed in water that is saturated with oxygen. Parameter studies are performed with the control parameters of the pressure amplitude, the forcing frequency and the bubble size. Three different definitions of collapse strengths (extracted from the radius vs.time curves) are examined and compared with the chemical output of various species. A mathematical formula is established to estimate the chemical output as a function of the collapse strength; thus, the chemical activity can be predicted without taking into account the chemical kinetics into the bubble model. The calculations are carried out by an in-house code exploiting the high processing power of professional graphics cards (GPUs). The results shown that chemical activity can be approximated qualitatively from the values of relative expansion. This could be helpful in order to optimise chemical output of sonochemical reactors either from measurement data or simulations as well.

The development of entrustable professional activities reference cards to support the implementation of Competence by Design in emergency medicine.

We designed two practical, user-friendly, low-cost, aesthetically pleasing resources, with the goal of introducing residents and observers to a new Competence by Design assessment system based on entrustable professional activities. They included a set of rotation- and stage-specific entrustable professional activities reference cards for bedside use by residents and observers and a curriculum board to organize the entrustable professional activities reference cards by stages of training based on our program's curriculum map. A survey of 14 emergency medicine residents evaluated the utilization and helpfulness of these resources. They had a positive impact on our program's transition to Competence by Design and could be successfully incorporated into other residency programs to support the introduction of entrustable professional activities-based Competence by Design assessment systems.

Modernization of Shot Blasting Procedure

Every company has the intention to produce the best quality product and get the highest profit. In the 21st century, it has become much harder to stay competitive because consumers have a large selection of equivalent goods. This article analyses company’s X growth in reference to the shot blasting process in order to investigate if modernization is feasible. Tests of shot blasting work place safety were carried out and all information submitted in a professional risk identification card. Calculations were made to investigate if the robotisation is profitable. Virtual simulation of robotic line was created with Visual Components software.

Bi-parametric topology of subharmonics of an asymmetric bubble oscillator at high dissipation rate

The subharmonic topology of a nonlinear, asymmetric bubble oscillator (Keller–Miksis equation) in glycerine is investigated in the parameter space of its external excitation (frequency and pressure amplitude). The bi-parametric investigation revealed that the exoskeleton of the topology can be described as the composition of U-shaped subharmonics of periodic orbits. The fine substructure (higher-order ultra-subharmonic resonances) usually appearing via the well-known period n-tupling phenomenon is completely missing due to the high dissipation rate of the viscous liquid. Moreover, a complex internal structure of the subharmonics has been found, which are composed by interconnected bifurcation blocks (in a zig-zag pattern) each describing the skeleton of a shrimp-shaped domain. The employed numerical techniques are the combination of an in-house initial value problem solver written in C++/CUDA C to harness the high processing power of professional graphics cards, and the boundary value problem solver AUTO to compute periodic orbits directly regardless of their stability.

Non-feedback technique to directly control multistability in nonlinear oscillators by dual-frequency driving

A novel method to control multistability of nonlinear oscillators by applying dual-frequency driving is presented. The test model is the Keller–Miksis equation describing the oscillation of a bubble in a liquid. It is solved by an in-house initial-value problem solver capable to exploit the high computational resources of professional graphics cards. During the simulations, the control parameters are the two amplitudes of the acoustic driving at fixed, commensurate frequency pairs. The high-resolution bi-parametric scans in the control parameter plane show that a period-2 attractor can be continuously transformed into a period-3 one (and vice versa) by proper selection of the frequency combination and by proper tuning of the driving amplitudes. This phenomenon has opened a new way to drive the system to a desired, pre-selected attractor directly via a non-feedback control technique without the need of the annihilation of other attractors. Moreover, the residence in transient chaotic regimes can also be avoided. The results are supplemented with simulations obtained by the boundary-value problem solver AUTO, which is capable to compute periodic orbits directly regardless of their stability, and trace them as a function of a control parameter with the pseudo-arclength continuation technique.

Challenges of introducing a professional eID card within health care

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the challenges that arise when introducing an electronic identification (eID) card for professional use in a health-care setting. Design/methodology/approach This is a case study of an eID implementation project in healthcare. Data were collected through interviews with key actors in a project team and with eID end users. The authors viewed the eID card as a boundary object intersecting social worlds. For this analysis, the authors combined this with an electronic government initiative challenge framework. Findings The findings of this paper illustrate the interpretative flexibility of eID cards and how eID cards as boundary objects intersect social worlds. The main challenges of implementing and using eID cards in healthcare are usability, user behaviour and privacy. However, the way in which these challenges are interpreted varies between different social worlds. Practical implications One of the implications for future practice is to increase our understanding of the eID card as a socio-technical artefact, where the social and technical is intertwined, at the same time as the eID card affects the social as well as the technical. By using a socio-technical perspective, it is possible to minimise the potential problems related to the implementation and use of eID. Originality/value Previous research has highlighted the need for more empirical research on identity management. The authors contextualise and analyse the implementation and use of eID cards within healthcare. By viewing the eID card as a boundary object, the authors have unveiled its interpretative flexibility and how it is translated across different social worlds.

Changes to checks on EU doctors raise safety concerns, warns GMC

The General Medical Council says that it has patient safety concerns over plans to introduce a “passport to practise” for doctors from the European Union. From January 2016 a European professional card will be introduced for nurses, pharmacists, and physiotherapists in the United Kingdom, and it is expected to apply to doctors from 2018. The card will be an electronic certificate issued by the professional’s country of departure, designed to provide automatic recognition of doctors’ professional qualifications in the host country.1 With its introduction, the GMC said that …

Building a National Electronic Medical Record Exchange System – Experiences in Taiwan

There are currently 501 hospitals and about 20,000 clinics in Taiwan. The National Health Insurance (NHI) system, which is operated by the NHI Administration, uses a single-payer system and covers 99.9% of the nation's total population of 23,000,000. Taiwan's NHI provides people with a high degree of freedom in choosing their medical care options. However, there is the potential concern that the available medical resources will be overused. The number of doctor consultations per person per year is about 15. Duplication of laboratory tests and prescriptions are not rare either. Building an electronic medical record exchange system is a good method of solving these problems and of improving continuity in health care.In November 2009, Taiwan's Executive Yuan passed the ‘Plan for accelerating the implementation of electronic medical record systems in medical institutions’ (2010–2012; a 3-year plan). According to this plan, a patient can, at any hospital in Taiwan, by using his/her health insurance IC card and physician's medical professional IC card, upon signing a written agreement, retrieve all important medical records for the past 6 months from other participating hospitals. The focus of this plan is to establish the National Electronic Medical Record Exchange Centre (EEC). A hospital's information system will be connected to the EEC through an electronic medical record (EMR) gateway. The hospital will convert the medical records for the past 6 months in its EMR system into standardized files and save them on the EMR gateway. The most important functions of the EEC are to generate an index of all the XML files on the EMR gateways of all hospitals, and to provide search and retrieval services for hospitals and clinics. The EEC provides four standard inter-institution EMR retrieval services covering medical imaging reports, laboratory test reports, discharge summaries, and outpatient records. In this system, we adopted the Health Level 7 (HL7) Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) standards to generate clinical documents and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Cross-enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) profile for the communication infrastructure.By December of 2014, the number of hospitals that provide an inter-institution EMR exchange service had reached 321. Hospitals that had not joined the service were all smaller ones with less than 100 beds.Inter-institution EMR exchange can make it much easier for people to access their own medical records, reduce the waste of medical resources, and improve the quality of medical care. The implementation of an inter-institution EMR exchange system faces many challenges. This article provides Taiwan's experiences as a reference.

EFFECT OF MONUMENTAL AND HISTORICAL MONUMENTS IN THE FORMATION OF CULTURAL TRADITIONS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PATRIOTIC FEELINGS

Influence of monumental and historical monuments on the formation and development of the cultural traditions of patriotic feelings. The purpose of the present work - consider the role of the historical - monumental heritage in the education of youth. Currently underused study materials and the potential of such a resource as monuments of history and art. While it is thanks to them you can solve a range of problems: increased motivation to study the history of his native land; acquisition of new knowledge by students and skills; expansion of professional card adolescents; foster a sense of patriotism and pride for their country and people, etc. Besides the state of the program to implement the gen-eral requirements of the education of youth, it is im-portant to restore the municipal system, including clubs, sections, mugs and so on. We believe that a greater role in this area can play work on the study of historical and monumental heritage of his native land. The effective-ness of the use of monuments due to the fact that stu-dents have the opportunity to come into contact with the history of the region through the study of the history of its kind since the Great Patriotic War has affected almost every family, and therefore, a monument in honor of Fa-therland Defenders are relevant to today's teenagers rela-tives. Invaluable role in patriotic education can play to attract local history materials such as historical and monumen-tal memorials, through which young people can feel a sense of ownership to the story, to acquire new knowledge and skills, to feel pride in their country. For the teacher of historical and monumental memorials are a vivid illustration of the events of the past, tools promot-ing students' motivation to study the history of his native land, the means of patriotic feelings of teenagers.

Dynamics of Medical Specialties

The name of a medical specialty is a dynamic one because it changes according to chronological contextual needs. We analyzed 12 medical specialties nomenclatures for a 20 years period and we described the conceptual model of this change. The division, correspondence, renaming, fusion, creation, return and cancellation have been identified as operations, composing an “informational engine”. We found 754 links between 692 different medical specialties instances. The resulting application is an electronic dictionary for the medical specialties correspondences. The project should be extended to all the European countries, even to create an online database for the next European professional card.

Development of Color Doppler Ultrasound Image-Text Management System

In this paper, the advantages and disadvantages of the existing ultrasonic image management system are analyzed, and also a multi-functional color Doppler ultrasound image-text management system is researched and developed in combination with the experience of color Doppler ultrasound doctors. With this system, the related operations such as color Doppler ultrasound images acquisition, processing, preservation, and medical records are implemented. In the design of the system, a professional acquisition card is used for implementing the acquisition of ordinary video signals. In the meantime, DICOM interface is designed using DICOM3.0 protocol for implementing multi-mode acquisition.

Map of opportunity

Nursing is one of the most mobile professions in Europe, helped by a system that allows for automatic recognition of relevant nursing qualifi cations by countries in the European Economic Area. Registered adult nurses are recognised across Europe as nurses in general care. Recognition for other nurses is assessed on a case by case basis. The long-standing system, based on common minimum standards for nurse education, needed revision to refl ect contemporary nursing. The new arrangements came into force in November and countries will have two years to implement them (see box). In future, the Nursing and Midwifery Council will be able to check the language abilities of nurses from the EU who want to register in the UK, and regulators will also have to exchange details of nurses who have been banned from practising in their country. The new system speeds up the process of nurses’ getting recognition in another country, and requires regulators to respond more rapidly to requests for recognition. Regulators will use the existing online European Internal Market Information System so that documents can be exchanged swiftly. The European Commission (EC) is championing an electronic certifi cate or European professional card that regulators can use to process applications faster. Another change requires governments to introduce a national contact point, which holds all information for nurses wanting to register in that country. There is also a new focus on continuing professional development (CPD). Securing funding and time for CPD is a problem in many countries and the RCN lobbied for CPD systems to be in place in all countries. The fi nal legislation fell short of this but, in future, EU countries will have to promote CPD for healthcare professionals and report progress regularly to the EC NS

Work passports offer ease of access

European Union (EU) member countries are negotiating the final practical details for the introduction of an electronic professional card, with a decision expected to be adopted by the relevant European Commission committee this month.