RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This paper is the third of three related papers exploring the ways in which the principles of Learning Organizations (LOs) could be applied in Primary Care settings at the point of service delivery. METHODS Here we provide a systematic literature review of contextual factors that either play a key role in providing a facilitative context for a Learning Practice ...

BACKGROUND Veterans comprise a disproportionate fraction of the nation's homeless population, with women veterans up to four times more likely to be homeless than non-veteran women. This paper provides a grounded description of women veterans' pathways into homelessness. METHODS Three focus groups were held in Los Angeles, California, with a total of 29 homeless women veterans. RESULTS Five...

We propose and study a new tractable model for reinforcement learning with rich observations called Contextual-MDPs, generalizing contextual bandits to sequential decision making. These models require an agent to take actions based on observations (features) with the goal of achieving long-term performance competitive with a large set of policies. To avoid barriers to sample-efficient learning ...

Information systems have always been in a prime focus in organizations in both local (Pakistani) and global environment. Now the race of being the best through Information Systems has created its importance in public sector organizations to meet the global challenges. Public sector organizations have been facing problems in different segments of technology adoption especially in ERP projects. E...

Background Aphasia is an acquired impairment in language and in the cognitive processes that underlie language. Aphasia affects the quality of life of the person with aphasia (PWA) and his or her families in various ways in diverse contexts and cultures. It is therefore important that speech language therapists understand how different contextual and cultural factors may mediate experiences. ...

The continuing shortage of IT professionals is a global problem and is exacerbated by the lack of women, representing nearly half the potential workforce, who are attracted to the industry. This paper contributes to the growing body of literature by examining the perspectives and experiences of both male and female IT professionals in New Zealand. Using a narrative inquiry methodology the study...

A computational model of learning in visual attention is described, and it is shown how it can integrate information over time to form a representation of the visual context. This visual context is subsequently used to guide the focus of attention in a visual search task. Computer simulations shows that the model can learn to use contextual cues when they are available. The performance using co...

Recently, the field of automatic recognition of users’ affective states has gained a great deal of attention. Automatic, implicit recognition of affective states has many applications, ranging from personalized content recommendation to automatic tutoring systems. In this work, we present some promising results of our research in classification of emotions induced by watching music videos. We s...

BACKGROUND Despite the impact of mental health problems on sickness absence, only few occupational health guidelines addressing these problems are available. Moreover, adherence has found to be suboptimal. To improve adherence to the Dutch guideline on mental health problems a training was developed for Dutch occupational physicians (OPs) focusing on identifying barriers and addressing them. Th...

in recent years managing solid wastes has been one of the burning problems in front of state and local municipal authorities. this is mainly due to scarcity of lands for landfill sites. in this context experts suggest that conversion of solid waste to energy and useful component is the best approach to reduce space and public health related problems. the entire process has to be managed by tech...