Since the introduction of antiretroviral treatment, HIV/AIDS can be framed as a chronic lifelong condition, requiring lifelong adherence to medication. Reinforcement of self-management through information, acquisition of problem solving skills, motivation, and peer support is expected to allow PLWHA to become involved as expert patients in the care management and to decrease the dependency on s...

Abstract The objective of this exploratory study was to implement peer assessment for pedagogical design in integrated STEAM education and compare expert feedback, regard. We engaged pre-service teachers registered an undergraduate programme primary a formative/reciprocal arrangement, where they had the chance act as both assessors assessees. Although global measures validity (correlations betw...

The purpose of this study is to: (1) develop a ranking of peer-reviewed AI journals; (2) compare the consistency of journal rankings developed with two dominant ranking techniques, expert surveys and journal impact measures; and (3) investigate the consistency of journal ranking scores assigned by different categories of expert judges. The ranking was constructed based on the survey of 873 acti...

INTRODUCTION This study assessed the value of technical assistance provided by state health department expert advisors and by the staff of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) to community groups that participated in the Action Communities for Health, Innovation, and Environmental Change (ACHIEVE) Program, a CDC-funded health promotion program. METHODS We analyzed qua...

Knowledge management solutions relying on central repositories sometimes have not met expectations, since users often create knowledge ad-hoc using their individual vocabulary and using their own individual IT infrastructure (e.g., their laptop). The introduction of the peer-to-peer paradigm to knowledge management is currently seen as a promising technology to overcome this challenge. A major ...

Disclosures: Kathleen I. Pritchard: Consultant/advisory role: Novartis, Roche, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen, Pfizer; Honoraria: GlaxoSmithKline, Amgen, Novartis, Roche, AstraZeneca, Pfizer; Expert testimony: AstraZeneca, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline. The content of this article has been reviewed by independent peer reviewers to ensure that it is balanced, objective, and free from commercial...

Disclosure: Employment/leadership position: Chris H. Takimoto, Ortho Biotech Oncology Research & Development; Intellectual property rights/inventor/patent holder: None; Consultant/advisory role: None; Honoraria: None; Research funding: None; Ownership interest: None; Expert testimony: None; Other: None. The content of this article has been reviewed by independent peer reviewers to ensure that i...

Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed projects and allocation of resources. We investigate whether novel research projects, those deviating from existing research paradigms, are treated with a negative bias in expert evaluations. We analyze the results of a peer review process for medical research grant proposals at a leading medical research university, in which we re...

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