PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify and describe independent nursing actions in cooperative care. DESIGN Qualitative, descriptive, inductive study. SETTING The Nebraska Medical Center's Lied Transplant Center in Omaha, where lay care partners assume responsibility for acute care of transplant recipients in partnership with nurses. SAMPLE 12 cooperative care nurses. METHODS Two focus groups, ...

In a variety of modern man-made systems, it is desirable to synthesize a cooperative behavior in groups of individual dynamical agents by distributed control laws. Examples include multi-vehicle coordination and formation flight problems, robot cooperation in production lines, as well as power balancing in micro-grids, and many more. As a consequence, distributed and cooperative control has bec...

Senior MTS Research Scientist. Epson R & D, Palo Alto, CA. Winter 2004 Research Scientist. Vision Technology, Champaign, IL. Spring Fall 2004. Postdoc Visiting Scientist. Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA. Fall 2003. Visiting Research Scientist. Vision Technology, Champaign, IL. Summers 2002, 2003. Visiting Research Scientist. Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ. Summer 1998. Teac...

In order to implement the new requirements of national vocational education for talent training objectives, based on current situation English Teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges and opportunities challenges under integration industry education, this paper discusses implementation constructing a mixed teaching model from system design, content, method evaluation. Under multimedia higher coll...

introduction: the most important change in medical education is a shift from didactic teacher-centered and subject-based teaching to the use of interactive, problem-based, student-centered learning. student-centered approach is a teaching approach t that encompasses replacing lectures with active learning, integrating self-paced learning programs and cooperative group situations, ultimately hol...

In this paper, research towards a learning, cooperative robotic assistant is presented. The aim of this research is to develop a robot which can easily be instructed how to either perform tasks autonomously or in cooperation with humans. We describe the underlying representations and the methods developed for teaching new tasks and environments. The functionality has been demonstrated in a numb...

Cooperative knowledge spaces create new potentials for the experimental fields in natural sciences and engineering because they enhance the accessibility of experimental setups through virtual laboratories and remote technology, opening them for collaborative and distributed usage. A concept for extending existing virtual knowledge spaces for the means of the technological disciplines ("ViCToR-...

Cooperative knowledge spaces create new potentials for the experimental fields in natural sciences and engineering because they enhance the accessibility of experimental setups through virtual laboratories and remote technology, opening them for collaborative and distributed usage. A concept for extending existing virtual knowledge spaces for the means of the technological disciplines (”ViCToR-...