Body image in oncology is a relatively unexplored field. Recent interventions have focused on the use of the mirror in assessing body image. The purpose of this narrative is to increase oncology nurses' awareness of the need to adopt such interventions based on expert judgment and practice when empirical evidence is limited.

Semantic relation extraction is one of the frontiers of biomedical natural language processing research. Gold standards are key tools for advancing this research. It is challenging to generate these standards because of the high cost of expert time and the difficulty in establishing agreement between annotators. We implemented and evaluated a microtask crowdsourcing approach that can produce a ...

Bayesian networks have the ability to combine sparse data, prior assumptions and expert judgment into a single causal model. We present such a model of an Extreme Programming environment and show how it can learn from project data in order to make quantitative effort predictions and risk assessments. This is illustrated with the use of a real world industrial project.

The control banding method, or "control banding", is a simplified risk assessment system for chemical handling tasks. This system is supposed to provide assessment results of reasonable quality without expert involvement. The objective of this study was to evaluate the appropriateness of control banding judgment on the basis of workplace safety. A common approach for assessing workplace risk, w...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate that psychophysiology may have applications for objective assessment of expertise development in deadly force judgment and decision making (DFJDM). BACKGROUND Modern training techniques focus on improving decision-making skills with participative assessment between trainees and subject matter experts primarily through subjective observation. OBJECTIVE metrics need to ...

A Bayesian forecasting model is developed to quantify uncertainty about the postflight state of a field-joint primary O-ring (not damaged or damaged), given the O-ring temperature at the time of launch of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. The crux of this problem is the enormous extrapolation that must be performed: 23 previous shuttle flights were launched at temperatures between 53 degree...

this research has been designed in order to provide an appropriate methodology for business model change and update based on applying new information and communication technologies such as mobile technology in an organization. in this way, after investigation of all related references in the field of business model, ict change, business model change and applying mobile technology in organizatio...

planned human resource development is critical to educating a skilled and efficient workforce. the present study aimed at identifying the main factors of planned human resource development in iranian social security organization hospitals. the study is done through analysis of a questionnaire designed after identification of the main variables. iran social security organisation hospitals (the m...

Intracranial arterial dissection is an important cause of stroke in young and middle-aged adults, but there are no domestic or globally-accepted criteria for the diagnosis and classification of intracranial arterial dissections. The evidence base for the benefits of diagnostic and interventional angiography techniques is lacking, and the imaging features of intracranial arterial dissections are...

Linear convolution of particular criteria is often used as aggregated criterion in problems of multicriteria optimization. The weights of significance of partial criteria can be obtained on the basis of their ranking by experts. Mistake in expert judgments may lead to inaccuracy in determining the weights and (as a consequence) to the inaccuracy in the solution of the problem of multicriteria o...