background:learning the key issues in providing nursing care requires new instructional strategies that prevent superficial learning of students and improve meaningful and high level learning in them. the aim of this study was to determine effect of teaching the nursing process in composing method on nursing students and their clinical learning. methods: in a quasi-experimental study with two g...

328 July/August 2011 • Vol 2 No 6 • The Veterinary Nurse Within human nursing, models of nursing care feature heavily, with many texts and research papers devoted to the subject. Pearson et al (2005) suggest an interesting trajectory in their use in practice, with the initial scepticism surrounding their introduction in the 1970s soon giving way to a widespread adoption of them in both practice...

The system operates in two modes : bootstrap and feed forward mode. In bootstrap mode a portion of the image is segmented, the texture boundary is located, and all of the parameters necessary for configuring the system are found. These include the resolution of the segmentation, identification of the most effective features for distinguishing between the two textures, and an estimate of the tex...

Gatys et al. recently demonstrated that deep networks can generate beautiful textures and stylized images from a single texture example. However, their methods require a slow and memoryconsuming optimization process. We propose here an alternative approach that moves the computational burden to a learning stage. Given a single example of a texture, our approach trains compact feed-forward convo...

This paper presents a novel actuation technology for robotically assisted MRI-guided interventional procedures. In the proposed approach, the MRI scanner is used to deliver power, estimate actuator state and perform closed-loop control. The actuators themselves are compact, inexpensive and wireless. Using needle driving as an example application, actuation principles and force production capabi...

This introduction to the book discusses how the topic of competencies for nurses in a world of connected health needs to be addressed at the curriculum level to achieve the specific competencies for various roles, including practicing nurse, nurse teacher, nurse leader, and nursing informatics specialists. It looks back at milestone publications from the international Nursing Informatics post c...

Even for models of very simple networks, like those in Chapters 2 and 3, describing the system requires many parameters. These parameters are often unknown or uncertain. Consequently, predicting the response of a gene circuit may require infering gene circuit function from data on circuit structure alone. By using the feed-forward loop as a model system, this chapter introduces a technique for ...

This paper proposes a traffic-responsive urban traffic control strategy allowing a real time passive public transport priority. The proposed strategy is based on a store and forward modeling of both of the private vehicle and Public transport traffic. The regulator is designed using the linear quadratic, which allows a traffic responsive co-ordinated control for wide-area networks. The objectiv...

A new approach to robust estimation of signals, prediction of time{series and robust feedforward control is considered. Signal and system parameter deviations are represented as random variables, with known covariances. A robust design is obtained by minimizing the squared estimation error, averaged both with respect to model errors and the noise. A polynomial equations approach, based on avera...