Professional Instruments Research Articles

Experimental Analysis of Stemming on Jurisprudential Documents Retrieval

Stemming algorithms are commonly used during textual preprocessing phase in order to reduce data dimensionality. However, this reduction presents different efficacy levels depending on the domain that it is applied to. Thus, for instance, there are reports in the literature that show the effect of stemming when applied to dictionaries or textual bases of news. On the other hand, we have not found any studies analyzing the impact of radicalization on Brazilian judicial jurisprudence, composed of decisions handed down by the judiciary, a fundamental instrument for law professionals to play their role. Thus, this work presents two complete experiments, showing the results obtained through the analysis and evaluation of the stemmers applied on real jurisprudential documents, originating from the Court of Justice of the State of Sergipe. In the first experiment, the results showed that, among the analyzed algorithms, the RSLP (Removedor de Sufixos da Lingua Portuguesa) possessed the greatest capacity of dimensionality reduction of the data. In the second one, through the evaluation of the stemming algorithms on the legal documents retrieval, the RSLP-S (Removedor de Sufixos da Lingua Portuguesa Singular) and UniNE (University of Neuchâtel), less aggressive stemmers, presented the best cost-benefit ratio, since they reduced the dimensionality of the data and increased the effectiveness of the information retrieval evaluation metrics in one of analyzed collections.

Development of survey instrument for software professionals' job stress: a factor and confirmatory factor analysis approach

Stress is an inevitable and unavoidable part of life due to increasing complexities and competitiveness in living standards. In the fast changing world of today, no individual is free from stress and no profession is stress-free. Thus, stress has become the core concern in the life of everyone. Keeping in view the above facts, this instrument was designed to examine the various factors of job stress, which was administrated to a wide range of the software professionals. Eight sub-scale emerged from data analysis: 1) career progress; 2) fear of obsolescence; 3) work-family interface; 4) quantitative demands; 5) job complexity; 6) role overload; 7) role conflict; 8) changes in organisation. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the scale has both high reliability and validity as a measure of job stress.

Development of survey instrument for software professionals' job stress: a factor and confirmatory factor analysis approach

Development of survey instrument for software professionals' job stress: a factor and confirmatory factor analysis approach

Reducing Ethical Complaints Through Professional Counselor Competency in Court Testimony

Professional counselors experience increasing levels of ethical complaints when they provide opinions in child custody cases; the complaints question their competency levels. The purpose of the study was to examine competencies and ethical considerations for 277 counselors and 66 psychologists. The study used a new, validated professional competence standards instrument through a closed-ended survey. Data analysis included a t test and found that psychologists had higher levels of competency than did counselors, a Mann–Whitney U test found that psychologists had higher levels of complaints than did counselors, and factorial analyses of variance showed a main effect between experience and ethical complaints. Recommendations for future research include studying factors influencing levels of competency among counselors when providing testimony. These findings may assist the counseling profession with a greater understanding of competency in custody matters, resulting in counselors better serving children and families embroiled in conflicted divorce and custody disagreements, and minimizing the negative impact on the mental health of all involved.

Design and Implementation of a Professional Development Course Series

Objective. To design and implement a longitudinal course series focused on professional development and professional identity formation in pharmacy students at Western New England University. Methods. A four-year, theme-based course series was designed to sequentially and longitudinally impart the values, attributes, and characteristics of a professional pharmacist. Requirements of the course include: goal planning and reflective assignments, submission of "Best Works," attendance at professional meetings, completion of service hours, annual completion of a Pharmacy Professionalism Instrument, attendance at Dean's Seminar, participation in roundtable discussions, and maintenance of an electronic portfolio. Though the Professional Development course series carries no credit, these courses are progression requirements and students are assessed on a pass/fail basis. Results. Course pass rates in the 2015-2016 academic year for all four classes were 99% to 100%, suggesting the majority of students take professional development seriously and are achieving the intended outcomes of the courses. Conclusion. A professional development course series was designed and implemented in the new Doctor of Pharmacy program at Western New England University to enhance the professional identity formation of students.

Exploring the (missed) connections between digital scholarship and faculty development: a conceptual analysis

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between two research topics: digital scholarship and faculty development. The former topic drives attention on academics’ new practices in digital, open and networked contexts; the second is focused on the requirements and strategies to promote academics’ professional learning and career advancement. The research question addressing this study is: are faculty development strategies hindered by the lack of a cohesive view in the research on digital scholarship? The main assumption guiding this research question is that clear conceptual frameworks and models of professional practice lead to effective faculty development strategies. Through a wide overview of the evolution of both digital scholarship and faculty development, followed by a conceptual analysis of the intersections between fields, the paper attempts to show the extent on which the situation in one area (digital scholarship) might encompass criticalities for the other (faculty development) in terms of research and practices. Furthermore, three scenarios based on the several perspectives of digital scholarship are built in order to explore the research question in depth. We conclude that at the current state of art the relationship between these two topics is weak. Moreover, the dialogue between digital scholarship and faculty development could put the basis to forge effective professional learning contexts and instruments, with the ultimate goal of supporting academics to become digital scholars towards a more open and democratic vision of scholarship.

PROMOTION OF HUMAN CAPITAL OF THE RURAL POPULATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OF SELECTED SOCIAL ECONOMY OPERATORS

The problem addressed in this paper relates to the need to promote human capital of the rural population as it remains on an unsatisfactory level in some social groups. This paper argues that people with low potential should be assisted with a professional and social inclusion instrument implemented by social economy operators who, due to their fundamental characteristics, could become an instrument for labor market and social inclusion of the rural population (primarily including those who, for various reasons, remain outside the labor market). This will allow for the strategic goal of human capital development

Research and Practice on the Control Instruments and Apparatus' Teaching Reform

In order to meet the needs of the requirement of enterprise engineering practice ability and the teaching practice of the control instruments and apparatus courses, we start from the training engineering application and innovative talents, reform are implemented for the curriculum respectively, such as teaching mode, teaching content, teaching methods and examination methods. Various forms of reform are proposed in this paper, e.g. taking teaching mode of check out work, introducing engineering application cases, increasing laboratory and micro-site extra-curricular classes teaching, and other forms. Through the implementation of teaching reform, the classroom teaching and the quality of practical design link have been significantly improved, in the job interview link, the professional instrumentation knowledge of the students is significantly enhanced, the quality of employment is improved, which prove that the teaching reform has received better results.

EVOLUTION OF GUITAR ART PERFORMANCE TRADITIONS IN THE NATIONAL CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL DIMENSION

The essence and the content of “performing tradition” and “cultural and educational dimension” have been explained in the article. The author examines the history of the emergence and development guitar art in Ukraine as a whole, and specifically performance traditions of the guitarists. Practical educational and performing experience of a lot of prominent guitarists of national cultural and educational dimension, their performing concepts, techniques and methods, has been described; the author gives a complete description of the evolution of guitar art in Ukraine.An objective study of the historical development of national musical culture in today's extremely topical issue in the context of scientific understanding, particularly by disclosing distinctive features of the national musical performance and in particular instrument. Currently growing interest in issues of history, theory and techniques of instrumental performance has been considered, and study of the evolution of performance traditions due to the diversity of the world's musical instruments has been conducted.The XX century has started a process of recognition of the guitar as a professional instrument and it has integrated into the system of specialized music education. As a result of significantly increased quality guitar performance is becoming more popular palette of guitar music; multidisciplinary academic chamber and instrumental direction began to be classical and jazz guitar techniques.Principles and methods of forming performance skills that have been elaborated by practice of Ukrainian and foreign guitarists can be used for further development of musical training and education of talented youth.

Musik und Glaukom

Music may have multiple influences on the human organism. A possible therapeutic effect for patients with glaucoma has been postulated, aside from the known impact of music on the cardiovascular system, psychogenic effects and a short-term improvement in mental performance (Mozart effect). The higher level of mental stress in patients with glaucoma and type-A personality behaviour may be related to higher intraocular pressure in patients with glaucoma. Relaxing music may have a positive impact in these patients, related to a reduction in intraocular pressure or its fluctuations. However, only limited data exist on the effects of music on intraocular pressure. No clinical studies have yet been performed to investigate the effect of music or music therapy on glaucoma progression. The music of Mozart may influence visual field examinations, possibly due to a positive short term effect on mental performance. This factor needs to be addressed in studies dealing with the effect of music in glaucoma. The relevance of intraocular pressure increases in professional wind instrument players is controversial. An increased level of care might be advisable in patients with advanced glaucoma. The influences of music on humans, altered personality profiles in patients with glaucoma and the studies showing some effect of stress on intraocular pressure stress the relevance of psychological support for glaucoma patients, who are confronted with a disease with a high longterm risk of blindness.

The Relationship between Cardiovascular Autonomic Dysfunction and Ocular Abnormality in Chinese T2DM.

Objective This study aims to explore the relationship between autonomic nerve dysfunction—assessed by cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy risk score (CAN-RS)—and ocular abnormality in Chinese type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Method This is a cross-sectional study. A total of 335 subjects with T2DM were enrolled. The state of visual acuity, the lens, the vitreous, and the fundus were tested by professional ophthalmic instruments. The electrochemical skin conductance (ESC) of the hands and feet was measured by SUDOSCAN, from which a cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy risk score (CAN-RS) was calculated. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were drawn to evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of CAN-RS in diabetic oculopathy screening. Results Abnormalities of the lens, vitreous, and fundus accounted for 7.8%, 5.1%, and 9.9%, respectively, in this study. The means of hands and feet ESC were higher than 60 μS, and CAN-RS was 33.1 ± 14.8%. In logistic regression analysis, CAN-RS was positively associated with lens (OR = 1.055, P < 0.001) and vitreous (OR = 1.044, P < 0.01) abnormality. The area under ROC to detect lens and vitreous abnormality was 0.713 and 0.725, respectively. Conclusion CAN-RS, a cardiac autonomic nerve dysfunction index calculated by SUDOSCAN, may be a promising index for lens and vitreous abnormality screening in T2DM patients. Further studies are needed to confirm the conclusion.

Agenda för samverkan eller verksamhetens agenda? Om professionellas erfarenheter av samverkan enligt samordnad individuell plan

Agenda for collaboration or an agency agenda? Professionals’ experiences of collaboration according to a coordinated individual planAn increasing number of children and adolescents develop complex needs that require simultaneous action by different professionals. Several reports state that efforts for these children and adolescents have become increasingly specialized and fragmented. Since 2010, there are statutory requirements for collaboration according to a coordinated individual plan (CIP) between health care and social services. Pre-school and school can after regional agreement be involved in the co-ordination as equal partner. Collaboration in line with CIP is expected to offset the fragmentation for benefit of the service users’ ability to monitor and comprehend interventions. The aim was to investigate professionals’ experiences of CIP. The study consists of qualitative analysis of 12 focus group interviews with a total of 71 staff with different professions in health care, education and social services about their experiences of CIP. The results indicate that the participants act according to their core mission: nurturing, teaching and investigation. Two main categories with four sub-categories each appeared in the analysis. The main category, hindering factors, contains the categories: different mandates and requirements, requirements for presence initiative, questioning and censure, and timelines and prioritization. The main category of facilitating factors contains the categories: similar interpretation of common agreement, mutual respect and shared learning, common terminology and documentation, and willingness to collaborate. The analysis indicate that CIP was perceived as alternating between, on the one hand, a pro-active and service-focused tool, and on the other hand, a competing and compelling professional instrument.

Necesidades de formación profesional en el ámbito de la primera infancia: Percepción y aportes del estudiantado

The analysis and information presented in this article are part of an experience developed in the research project Primera infancia: hacia una propuesta de formación contextualizada y pertinente [Early Childhood: Toward a Proposal of a Professional, Contextualized, and Pertinent Formation] of the Basic Education Division at the National University of Costa Rica. The information was collected with the purpose of identifying the needs for professional formation on the field of early childhood, through the perception and contributions of students in levels V and VII of their undergraduate degree in the Pedagogy career with a concentration in preschool education. This is an exploratory-type investigation aiming to know the opinions and perceptions of the students in relation with the process they go through at the university. For it, we used a questionnaire of seven open questions related to the needs of formation and concrete experiences lived during this process. As a result from this study, the analysis had a descriptive conclusion when exploring the main needs of the students. The information collected was complemented with the theory of investigation known, the contributions for the review of the whole preschool study plan, and all the knowledge built during the research project aforementioned. One of the main findings is that most of the students expressed that their formation lacks of the professional instrumentation to work with children aged zero to four years. They also said that it is very important to start working in a similar process on the earlier stages Pedagogy covers like maternal cycle and early stimulation. This systematization and analysis of the students’ perception is an effort to support the review of the study plan for the Pedagogy career with concentration in preschool education. The help of the students’ perceptions and experiences is a fundamental contribution in order to build a contextualized and relevant proposal; this is the main part of the research project aforementioned.

Beer-brewing powered by controlled hydrodynamic cavitation: Theory and real-scale experiments

The basic beer-brewing industrial practices have barely changed over time. While well proven and stable, they have been refractory to substantial innovation. Technologies harnessing hydrodynamic cavitation have emerged since the 1990s' in different technical fields including the processing of liquid foods, bringing in advantages such as acceleration of extraction processes, disinfection and energy efficiency. Nevertheless, so far beer-brewing processes were not investigated. The impacts of controlled hydrodynamic cavitation, managed by means of a dedicated unit on a real microbrewery scale (230 L), on the beer-brewing processes is the subject of this paper. The physico-chemical features of the obtained products, analyzed by means of professional instruments, were compared with both literature data and data from the outcomes of a traditional equipment. Traditional processes such as dry milling of malts and wort boiling becoming entirely unnecessary, dramatic reduction of saccharification temperature, acceleration and increase of starch extraction efficiency, relevant energy saving, while retaining safety, reliability, scalability, virtually universal application to any brewing recipe, beer quality, were the most relevant experimental results. The impacts of these findings are potentially far reaching, beer being the worldwide most widely consumed alcoholic beverage, therefore highly relevant to health, environment, the economy and even to local identities.

Validation of the German Version of the Quality of Dying and Death Questionnaire for Health Professionals.

To validate the Quality of Dying and Death (QoDD) instrument for health professionals (QoDD-D-MA) and to test its feasibility in 2 German palliative care units (PCUs). The QoDD was translated from English to German and then retranslated following European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) guidelines. Data were collected in 2 German PCUs to calculate aspects of validity and reliability. Mean total score was 83.05 (range 49-100; N = 232). The QoDD-D-MA showed satisfactory psychometric properties, Cronbach α = .830; interrater reliability r = .245 (P < .01). The QoDD-D-MA was independent of patients' demographic and clinical aspects. Some challenges occurred when applying the instrument. Feasibility could be improved by adapting the QoDD-D-MA to create a self-assessment version and finding a solution for items that result in many missing data. Future research should validate the QoDD-D-MA in other care settings.

Erratum to: Special Aspects of the Development of Health Information Systems as One of the Areas of Expertise of University Students Majoring in Professional Instrument Engineering

Erratum to: Special Aspects of the Development of Health Information Systems as One of the Areas of Expertise of University Students Majoring in Professional Instrument Engineering

Special Aspects of the Development of Health Information Systems as One of the Areas of Expertise of University Students Majoring in Professional Instrument Engineering

The article describes distinguishing features of development and production economics of health information systems. Characteristics of medicine as a subject area from the point of view of developers are presented. Basics of medical informatics and the special aspects of development of medical products are proposed to be one of the areas of expertise of university students majoring in professional instrument engineering.

Voice as a professional instrument is in activity of teacher of physical culture

In the article talked that managing voice, a man manages the impression that produces on wider public. Professional activity of teacher of physical culture requires abilities to talk correctly from him, effectively to affect students. Therefore will learn the very importantly future teacher of physical culture to own voice and to develop speech and motive co-ordination.

Networking, Coordination and Responsibilities based on Health Regionsplus: New Health Political Approaches and Developments in Bavaria

For many health and health-care problems in the population, there is a need for professional management and coordination instruments as well as a competent local network. The new "Health Regionsplus" in Bavaria offer such a structure. This new concept is presented in the following article. The "Health Regionsplus" aim to improve the population's health, the health-related quality of life, equity in health, as well as to further develop the local health care. The Bavarian State Ministry of Health and Care will support up to 24 regions with a funding of up to 50 000 Euro yearly per "Health Regionplus" until the end of 2019. The structure of "Health Regionsplus" implies the establishment of a coordinating agency that works as a "motor", a health forum on the strategic level and relevant working groups. "Health Regionsplus" involve all relevant stakeholders of the regional health system and are chaired by the district administrator or mayor. They work primarily in the fields of health care and prevention/health promotion but can also pursue other region-specific fields. The Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority supports and evaluates the "Health Regionsplus". There is also a coordinating office which organises the exchange of information and experience among the "Health Regionsplus". Although such a comprehensive regional approach does not change the statutory decision-making structures and responsibilities it does offer the communities an instrument to involve local needs in their decision-making processes.

CAMPUS-File AFiD-Panel Industrial Enterprises

The access forms differ with respect to the level of anonymity and information potential of the used data. The closer the microdata will get to the user the stronger the anonymisation, which was applied during the preparation of the datasets, and the lower the remaining information content of the datasets will be. As specified by the Federal Statistics Law (BStatG), there are also differences concerning the groups of people that may be given access to the microdata sets. All forms off access, with the exception of the CAMPUS-Files, may only be used by researchers at research institutions with the purpose of independent scientific research (Federal Statistics Law §16,6). Even though CAMPUS-Files are absolutely anonymised datasets, they are a good instrument for students and young professionals to learn to work with official microdata sets. In addition to that CAMPUS-Files are used to promote the different statistics of the RDC and to motivate the research community to analyse the de facto or formal anonymised microdata sets at the Safe Centres or via remote execution 1 . Most of the CAMPUS-Files provided by the RDC are personal or household data. For that reason we developed the CAMPUS-File AFiD 2 -Panel Industrial Enterprises, to extend the offer of enterprise and establishment level CAMPUS-Files in the RDC. 3