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Overwhelmed Patients

OBJECTIVE Patients with diabetes may experience high burden of treatment (BOT), including treatment-related effects and self-care demands. We examined whether patients with type 2 diabetes and their clinicians discuss BOT, the characteristics of their discussions, and their attempts to address BOT during visits. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Two coders independently reviewed videos of 46 primar...

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Business resumption planning: Exercising your emergency response teams

Disaster simulation exercises are used to test the staffing, management, and decision making aspects of both the computer and non-computer related aspects of an organization's business resumption plans. A proven approach to designing and conducting these simulation exercises is presented, including the full script of an actual simulation exercise. A film of the exercise is available. During the...

Huntsville, hospitals, and hockey teams: Names can reveal your location

Geolocation is the task of identifying a social media user’s primary location, and in natural language processing, there is a growing literature on to what extent automated analysis of social media posts can help. However, not all content features are equally revealing of a user’s location. In this paper, we evaluate nine name entity (NE) types. Using various metrics, we find that GEO-LOC, FACI...

MOVE YOUR AVATAR! Improvisational Theatre Methods in Virtual Teams

The importance of a process for a successful start of a new project team is common in business management. Warming up and cooling down exercises are already well accepted methods to activate learning groups. Improvisational theatre has become very popular during the last years as one of these activating practices. Compared to real life settings, meetings in avatar-based, 3-dimensional virtual e...