BACKGROUND: Communication failure in prehospital emergency medicine can affect patient safety as it does in other areas of medicine as well. We analyzed the database of the critical incident reporting system for preho...BACKGROUND: Communication failure in prehospital emergency medicine can affect patient safety as it does in other areas of medicine as well. We analyzed the database of the critical incident reporting system for prehospital emergency medicine in Germany retrospectively regarding communication errors.METHODS: Experts of prehospital emergency medicine and risk management screened the database for verbal communication failure, non-verbal communication failure and missing communication at all.RESULTS: Between 2005 and 2015, 845 reports were analyzed, of which 247 reports were considered to be related to communication failure. An arbitrary classifi cation resulted in six different kinds: 1) no acknowledgement of a suggestion; 2) medication error; 3) miscommunication with dispatcher; 4) utterance heard/understood improperly; 5) missing information transfer between two persons; and 6) other communication failure.CONCLUSION: Communication defi cits can lead to critical incidents in prehospital emergency medicine and are a very important aspect in patient safety.展开更多
The South African mining industry has been experiencing increasing economic pressure. Deep mines also suffer from very hot workplaces, which leads to safety risks. These factors place stress on managers to reach their...The South African mining industry has been experiencing increasing economic pressure. Deep mines also suffer from very hot workplaces, which leads to safety risks. These factors place stress on managers to reach their production targets while providing safe workplace conditions. The data information knowledge wisdom(DIKW) model, also known as the wisdom hierarchy, was implemented on a deep mine cooling system. This study aims to show that a simple model such as the DIKW model can assist managers in improving their deep mine cooling system's performance. The study found that the DIKW approach is a suitable approach for use on mine cooling systems to facilitate operational improvements.Applying the DIKW approach to a case study on a mine cooling system created substantial awareness and facilitated a cooling duty improvement of 55% which relates to an increase of 5.3 MW of refrigeration. The results of this study indicate that the DIKW approach may be a suitable approach to optimise management on deep mines using their existing infrastructure.展开更多
BACKGROUND:The Joint Commission accreditation manual contains standards in improving organization performance related to report and review of patient care issues causing unexpected harm.In spite of regulations mandati...BACKGROUND:The Joint Commission accreditation manual contains standards in improving organization performance related to report and review of patient care issues causing unexpected harm.In spite of regulations mandating reporting,it remains inconsistent,varying by provider type and hospital.Our purpose was to determine current attitudes,knowledge,and practice of error reporting among emergency department(ED) providers.METHODS:We administered a survey assessing ED staff practice regarding error reporting.Questions involved reporting of errors in which the practitioner was directly involved,errors the practitioner observed,and general awareness of reporting mandates.We also questioned individuals regarding fear of repercussions for reporting.RESULTS:Fifty-two surveys were returned.For most errors,providers were more likely to tell their supervisor about the issue than to tell the patient.Seventeen percent of respondents did not think that referring errors for review was their job.Only 31%of respondents were aware of standardized institution-wide pathways to report errors.Any respondent who was aware of the institution-wide pathway also felt responsibility for error reporting.Thirty-three percent of the respondents were concerned about negative repercussions from reporting errors.In querying the hospital reporting system,263 cases were referred for quality issues over the previous year,51%of them were referred by nurses,27%by medical technicians(MTs),2%by mid-level providers(MLPs),1%by physicians,and 19%by other personnel.CONCLUSION:Although most of the ED staff are responsible for patient safety,most are not aware of systems available to assist in reporting,and even many do not utilize those systems.展开更多
Up to now there have been no contrastive studies of conceptual metaphor in English and Chinese economic field. In this paper, a corpus-based approach is adopted in comparing the conceptual metaphors in Chinese financi...Up to now there have been no contrastive studies of conceptual metaphor in English and Chinese economic field. In this paper, a corpus-based approach is adopted in comparing the conceptual metaphors in Chinese financial reporting (CFR) with those in English financial reporting (EFR). To make a contrastive study, this paper categorizes the conceptual metaphors identified in two corpora into two parts: same conceptual metaphors and different conceptual metaphors, and for the analysis of each conceptual metaphor, linguistic entity, frequency and percentage are taken as the three standards for comparison, which is analyzed with Concapp.展开更多
Based on the neologism in the broadcast news reporting, this paper will introduce different kinds of the most frequently used words today, including the extended meanings of the conventional words and new words create...Based on the neologism in the broadcast news reporting, this paper will introduce different kinds of the most frequently used words today, including the extended meanings of the conventional words and new words created by word formation.展开更多
This essay compares modality in a Chinese and a corresponding English news report. Modalities can be expressed in different parts of clauses, such as modal verbs, adjuncts, predicators and complements. It is found tha...This essay compares modality in a Chinese and a corresponding English news report. Modalities can be expressed in different parts of clauses, such as modal verbs, adjuncts, predicators and complements. It is found that in spit of the similarity in contents, the modal verbs and their frequencies are quite different. The Chinese news report contains more modal verbs.展开更多
Purpose: To address the under-reporting of research results, with emphasis on the underreporting/distorted reporting of adverse events in the biomedical research literature.Design/methodology/approach: A four-step app...Purpose: To address the under-reporting of research results, with emphasis on the underreporting/distorted reporting of adverse events in the biomedical research literature.Design/methodology/approach: A four-step approach is used:(1) To identify the characteristics of literature that make it adequate to support policy;(2) to show how each of these characteristics becomes degraded to make inadequate literature;(3) to identify incentives to prevent inadequate literature; and(4) to show policy implications of inadequate literature.Findings: This review has provided reasons for, and examples of, adverse health effects of myriad substances(1) being under-reported in the premiere biomedical literature, or(2) entering this literature in distorted form. Since there is no way to gauge the extent of this under/distorted-reporting, the quality and credibility of the ‘premiere’ biomedical literature is unknown. Therefore, any types of meta-analyses or scientometric analyses of this literaturewill have unknown quality and credibility. The most sophisticated scientometric analysis cannot compensate for a highly flawed database.Research limitations: The main limitation is in identifying examples of under-reporting. There are many incentives for under-reporting and few dis-incentives.Practical implications: Almost all research publications, addressing causes of disease, treatments for disease, diagnoses for disease, scientometrics of disease and health issues, and other aspects of healthcare, build upon previous healthcare-related research published. Many researchers will not have laboratories or other capabilities to replicate or validate the published research, and depend almost completely on the integrity of this literature. If the literature is distorted, then future research can be misguided, and health policy recommendations can be ineffective or worse.Originality/value: This review has examined a much wider range of technical and nontechnical causes for under-reporting of adverse events in the biomedical literature than previous studies.展开更多
Objective To develop an alternative method for assessment of gene delivery systems in vivo.Methods Mouse primary spleen lymphocytes were genetically modified in vitro by a retroviral vector harboring a Gaussia lucifer...Objective To develop an alternative method for assessment of gene delivery systems in vivo.Methods Mouse primary spleen lymphocytes were genetically modified in vitro by a retroviral vector harboring a Gaussia luciferase(Gluc) expression cassette.After implantation of these cells into recipient mice,the expression of Gluc was detected in whole blood or plasma collected.Results As little as 10 μL whole blood drawn from the recipient mice could guarantee prompt reading of Gluc activity with a luminometer.And the reading was found in good correlation with the number of genetically modified spleen lymphocytes implanted to the mice.Conclusions Gluc may be useful as an in vivo reporter for gene therapy researches,and Gluc blood assay could provide an alternative method for assessment of gene delivery systems in vivo.展开更多
Based on the Chinese-English parallel corpus of Yu Hua's novel To Live ( the first two sections), this paper focuses on analyzing Chinese reporting verb"shuo"and its translation through concordance, conc...Based on the Chinese-English parallel corpus of Yu Hua's novel To Live ( the first two sections), this paper focuses on analyzing Chinese reporting verb"shuo"and its translation through concordance, concordance plot, collocates, word list and other functions of AntConc. It aims to study translator Michael Berry's diction style and investigate how the source text has influenced the target text.展开更多
Plasma Science and Technology (PST) journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important, novel, helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdiscipli...Plasma Science and Technology (PST) journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important, novel, helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, in a timely manner. This field encompasses foundational plasma phenomena;low-temperature plasmas;magnetically confined plasmas;inertially confined plasmas;astrophysics and space plasmas;and interdisciplinary science of these;and the engineering and technology development and application from them.展开更多
Plasma Science and Technology(PST)journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important,novel,helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary...Plasma Science and Technology(PST)journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important,novel,helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field,in a timely manner.This field encompasses foundational plasmaphenomena;low-temperatureplasmas;magnetically confined plasmas;inertially confined plasmas;astrophysics and space plasmas;and interdisciplinary science of these;and the engineering and technology development and application from them.展开更多
Plasma Science and Technology(PST)journal assists inadvancing plasma science and technology by reporting important,novel,helpful and thought-provoking progressin this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary f...Plasma Science and Technology(PST)journal assists inadvancing plasma science and technology by reporting important,novel,helpful and thought-provoking progressin this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field,in a timely manner.This field encompasses foundational plasma phenomena;low-temperature plasmas;magnetically confined plasmas;inertially confined plasmas;astrophysics and space plasmas;and interdisciplinary science of these;and the engineering and technology development and application from them.展开更多
Plasma Science and Technology(PST) journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important, novel, helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplin...Plasma Science and Technology(PST) journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important, novel, helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, in a timely manner. This field encompasses foundational plasma phenomena;low-temperature plasmas;magnetically confined plasmas;inertially confined plasmas;astrophysics and space plasmas;and interdisciplinary science of these;and the engineering and technology development and application from them.展开更多
Plasma Science and Technology (PST) journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important,novel,helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplina...Plasma Science and Technology (PST) journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important,novel,helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field,in a timely manner.This field encompasses foundational plasma phenomena;low-temperature plasmas;magnetically confined plasmas;inertially confined plasmas;astrophysics and space plasmas;and interdisciplinary science of these;and the engineering and technology development and application from them.展开更多
Although static program analysis methods are frequently employed to enhance software quality,their efficiency in commercial settings is limited by their high false positive rate.The EUGENE tool can effectively lower t...Although static program analysis methods are frequently employed to enhance software quality,their efficiency in commercial settings is limited by their high false positive rate.The EUGENE tool can effectively lower the false positive rate.However,in continuous integration(CI)environments,the code is always changing,and user feedback from one version of the software cannot be applied to a subsequent version.Additionally,people find it difficult to distinguish between true positives and false positives in the analytical output.In this study,we developed the EUGENE-CI technique to address the CI problem and the EUGENE-rank lightweight heuristic algorithm to rate the reports of the analysis output in accordance with the likelihood that they are true positives.On the three projects ethereum,go-cloud,and kubernetes,we assessed our methodologies.According to the trial findings,EUGENE-CI may drastically reduce false positives while EUGENE-rank can make it much easier for users to identify the real positives among a vast number of reports.We paired our techniques with GoInsight~1 and discovered a vulnerability.We also offered a patch to the community.展开更多
Objectives To identify the 5'untranslated region of Zika virus(ZIKV 5'UTR)RNA-binding proteins and to investigate the impact of the binding protein on the activity of internal ribosomal entry site(IRES)located...Objectives To identify the 5'untranslated region of Zika virus(ZIKV 5'UTR)RNA-binding proteins and to investigate the impact of the binding protein on the activity of internal ribosomal entry site(IRES)located in ZIKV 5'UTR and virus production.Methods Interacting proteins in U251 cells were captured using tRSA-tagged ZIKV 5'UTR RNA and tRSA-ZIKV 5'UTR RNA-binding proteins were visualized by SDS-PAGE silver staining,Subsequently,liquid chromatographytandem mass spectrometry(LC-MS/MS),bioinformatics analysis,and Western blot were used to identify the candidate proteins binding to ZIKV 5'UTR.Dicistronic expression assay and plaque forming assay were performed to analyze the effect of the binding protein on ZIKV IRES activity and ZIKV production,respecitvely.Results tRSA RNA pull-down assay,LC-MS/MS,and Western blot analysis showed that polypyrimidine tractbinding protein(PTB)bound to the ZIKV 5'UTR.Furthermore,dual luciferase reporter assay revealed that overexpression of PTB significantly enhanced the IRES activity of ZIKV(t=10.220,P<0.001),while PTB knockdown had the opposite effect(t=4.897,P<0.01).Additionally,virus plaque forming assay demonstrated that up-regulation of PTB expression significantly enhanced viral titer(t=6.400,P<0.01),whereas reducing PTB expression level weakened virus infectivity(t=5.055,P<0.01).Conclusion PTB positively interacts with the ZIKV 5'UTR and enhances IRES activity and virus production.展开更多
文摘BACKGROUND: Communication failure in prehospital emergency medicine can affect patient safety as it does in other areas of medicine as well. We analyzed the database of the critical incident reporting system for prehospital emergency medicine in Germany retrospectively regarding communication errors.METHODS: Experts of prehospital emergency medicine and risk management screened the database for verbal communication failure, non-verbal communication failure and missing communication at all.RESULTS: Between 2005 and 2015, 845 reports were analyzed, of which 247 reports were considered to be related to communication failure. An arbitrary classifi cation resulted in six different kinds: 1) no acknowledgement of a suggestion; 2) medication error; 3) miscommunication with dispatcher; 4) utterance heard/understood improperly; 5) missing information transfer between two persons; and 6) other communication failure.CONCLUSION: Communication defi cits can lead to critical incidents in prehospital emergency medicine and are a very important aspect in patient safety.
文摘The South African mining industry has been experiencing increasing economic pressure. Deep mines also suffer from very hot workplaces, which leads to safety risks. These factors place stress on managers to reach their production targets while providing safe workplace conditions. The data information knowledge wisdom(DIKW) model, also known as the wisdom hierarchy, was implemented on a deep mine cooling system. This study aims to show that a simple model such as the DIKW model can assist managers in improving their deep mine cooling system's performance. The study found that the DIKW approach is a suitable approach for use on mine cooling systems to facilitate operational improvements.Applying the DIKW approach to a case study on a mine cooling system created substantial awareness and facilitated a cooling duty improvement of 55% which relates to an increase of 5.3 MW of refrigeration. The results of this study indicate that the DIKW approach may be a suitable approach to optimise management on deep mines using their existing infrastructure.
文摘BACKGROUND:The Joint Commission accreditation manual contains standards in improving organization performance related to report and review of patient care issues causing unexpected harm.In spite of regulations mandating reporting,it remains inconsistent,varying by provider type and hospital.Our purpose was to determine current attitudes,knowledge,and practice of error reporting among emergency department(ED) providers.METHODS:We administered a survey assessing ED staff practice regarding error reporting.Questions involved reporting of errors in which the practitioner was directly involved,errors the practitioner observed,and general awareness of reporting mandates.We also questioned individuals regarding fear of repercussions for reporting.RESULTS:Fifty-two surveys were returned.For most errors,providers were more likely to tell their supervisor about the issue than to tell the patient.Seventeen percent of respondents did not think that referring errors for review was their job.Only 31%of respondents were aware of standardized institution-wide pathways to report errors.Any respondent who was aware of the institution-wide pathway also felt responsibility for error reporting.Thirty-three percent of the respondents were concerned about negative repercussions from reporting errors.In querying the hospital reporting system,263 cases were referred for quality issues over the previous year,51%of them were referred by nurses,27%by medical technicians(MTs),2%by mid-level providers(MLPs),1%by physicians,and 19%by other personnel.CONCLUSION:Although most of the ED staff are responsible for patient safety,most are not aware of systems available to assist in reporting,and even many do not utilize those systems.
文摘Up to now there have been no contrastive studies of conceptual metaphor in English and Chinese economic field. In this paper, a corpus-based approach is adopted in comparing the conceptual metaphors in Chinese financial reporting (CFR) with those in English financial reporting (EFR). To make a contrastive study, this paper categorizes the conceptual metaphors identified in two corpora into two parts: same conceptual metaphors and different conceptual metaphors, and for the analysis of each conceptual metaphor, linguistic entity, frequency and percentage are taken as the three standards for comparison, which is analyzed with Concapp.
文摘Based on the neologism in the broadcast news reporting, this paper will introduce different kinds of the most frequently used words today, including the extended meanings of the conventional words and new words created by word formation.
文摘This essay compares modality in a Chinese and a corresponding English news report. Modalities can be expressed in different parts of clauses, such as modal verbs, adjuncts, predicators and complements. It is found that in spit of the similarity in contents, the modal verbs and their frequencies are quite different. The Chinese news report contains more modal verbs.
文摘Purpose: To address the under-reporting of research results, with emphasis on the underreporting/distorted reporting of adverse events in the biomedical research literature.Design/methodology/approach: A four-step approach is used:(1) To identify the characteristics of literature that make it adequate to support policy;(2) to show how each of these characteristics becomes degraded to make inadequate literature;(3) to identify incentives to prevent inadequate literature; and(4) to show policy implications of inadequate literature.Findings: This review has provided reasons for, and examples of, adverse health effects of myriad substances(1) being under-reported in the premiere biomedical literature, or(2) entering this literature in distorted form. Since there is no way to gauge the extent of this under/distorted-reporting, the quality and credibility of the ‘premiere’ biomedical literature is unknown. Therefore, any types of meta-analyses or scientometric analyses of this literaturewill have unknown quality and credibility. The most sophisticated scientometric analysis cannot compensate for a highly flawed database.Research limitations: The main limitation is in identifying examples of under-reporting. There are many incentives for under-reporting and few dis-incentives.Practical implications: Almost all research publications, addressing causes of disease, treatments for disease, diagnoses for disease, scientometrics of disease and health issues, and other aspects of healthcare, build upon previous healthcare-related research published. Many researchers will not have laboratories or other capabilities to replicate or validate the published research, and depend almost completely on the integrity of this literature. If the literature is distorted, then future research can be misguided, and health policy recommendations can be ineffective or worse.Originality/value: This review has examined a much wider range of technical and nontechnical causes for under-reporting of adverse events in the biomedical literature than previous studies.
基金Supported by National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (2007AA021206,2007AA021106)
文摘Objective To develop an alternative method for assessment of gene delivery systems in vivo.Methods Mouse primary spleen lymphocytes were genetically modified in vitro by a retroviral vector harboring a Gaussia luciferase(Gluc) expression cassette.After implantation of these cells into recipient mice,the expression of Gluc was detected in whole blood or plasma collected.Results As little as 10 μL whole blood drawn from the recipient mice could guarantee prompt reading of Gluc activity with a luminometer.And the reading was found in good correlation with the number of genetically modified spleen lymphocytes implanted to the mice.Conclusions Gluc may be useful as an in vivo reporter for gene therapy researches,and Gluc blood assay could provide an alternative method for assessment of gene delivery systems in vivo.
文摘Based on the Chinese-English parallel corpus of Yu Hua's novel To Live ( the first two sections), this paper focuses on analyzing Chinese reporting verb"shuo"and its translation through concordance, concordance plot, collocates, word list and other functions of AntConc. It aims to study translator Michael Berry's diction style and investigate how the source text has influenced the target text.
文摘Plasma Science and Technology (PST) journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important, novel, helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, in a timely manner. This field encompasses foundational plasma phenomena;low-temperature plasmas;magnetically confined plasmas;inertially confined plasmas;astrophysics and space plasmas;and interdisciplinary science of these;and the engineering and technology development and application from them.
文摘Plasma Science and Technology(PST)journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important,novel,helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field,in a timely manner.This field encompasses foundational plasmaphenomena;low-temperatureplasmas;magnetically confined plasmas;inertially confined plasmas;astrophysics and space plasmas;and interdisciplinary science of these;and the engineering and technology development and application from them.
文摘Plasma Science and Technology(PST)journal assists inadvancing plasma science and technology by reporting important,novel,helpful and thought-provoking progressin this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field,in a timely manner.This field encompasses foundational plasma phenomena;low-temperature plasmas;magnetically confined plasmas;inertially confined plasmas;astrophysics and space plasmas;and interdisciplinary science of these;and the engineering and technology development and application from them.
文摘Plasma Science and Technology(PST) journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important, novel, helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field, in a timely manner. This field encompasses foundational plasma phenomena;low-temperature plasmas;magnetically confined plasmas;inertially confined plasmas;astrophysics and space plasmas;and interdisciplinary science of these;and the engineering and technology development and application from them.
文摘Plasma Science and Technology (PST) journal assists in advancing plasma science and technology by reporting important,novel,helpful and thought-provoking progress in this strongly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field,in a timely manner.This field encompasses foundational plasma phenomena;low-temperature plasmas;magnetically confined plasmas;inertially confined plasmas;astrophysics and space plasmas;and interdisciplinary science of these;and the engineering and technology development and application from them.
基金the Project"Research on the protection technology of endogenous safety for industrial control system"supported by National Science and Technology Major Project(2016YFB08002)。
文摘Although static program analysis methods are frequently employed to enhance software quality,their efficiency in commercial settings is limited by their high false positive rate.The EUGENE tool can effectively lower the false positive rate.However,in continuous integration(CI)environments,the code is always changing,and user feedback from one version of the software cannot be applied to a subsequent version.Additionally,people find it difficult to distinguish between true positives and false positives in the analytical output.In this study,we developed the EUGENE-CI technique to address the CI problem and the EUGENE-rank lightweight heuristic algorithm to rate the reports of the analysis output in accordance with the likelihood that they are true positives.On the three projects ethereum,go-cloud,and kubernetes,we assessed our methodologies.According to the trial findings,EUGENE-CI may drastically reduce false positives while EUGENE-rank can make it much easier for users to identify the real positives among a vast number of reports.We paired our techniques with GoInsight~1 and discovered a vulnerability.We also offered a patch to the community.
文摘Objectives To identify the 5'untranslated region of Zika virus(ZIKV 5'UTR)RNA-binding proteins and to investigate the impact of the binding protein on the activity of internal ribosomal entry site(IRES)located in ZIKV 5'UTR and virus production.Methods Interacting proteins in U251 cells were captured using tRSA-tagged ZIKV 5'UTR RNA and tRSA-ZIKV 5'UTR RNA-binding proteins were visualized by SDS-PAGE silver staining,Subsequently,liquid chromatographytandem mass spectrometry(LC-MS/MS),bioinformatics analysis,and Western blot were used to identify the candidate proteins binding to ZIKV 5'UTR.Dicistronic expression assay and plaque forming assay were performed to analyze the effect of the binding protein on ZIKV IRES activity and ZIKV production,respecitvely.Results tRSA RNA pull-down assay,LC-MS/MS,and Western blot analysis showed that polypyrimidine tractbinding protein(PTB)bound to the ZIKV 5'UTR.Furthermore,dual luciferase reporter assay revealed that overexpression of PTB significantly enhanced the IRES activity of ZIKV(t=10.220,P<0.001),while PTB knockdown had the opposite effect(t=4.897,P<0.01).Additionally,virus plaque forming assay demonstrated that up-regulation of PTB expression significantly enhanced viral titer(t=6.400,P<0.01),whereas reducing PTB expression level weakened virus infectivity(t=5.055,P<0.01).Conclusion PTB positively interacts with the ZIKV 5'UTR and enhances IRES activity and virus production.
