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DIGITAL TWIN: MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE THROUGH VIRTUAL FACTORY REPLICATION Open
Injection molding industry has evolved over decades and became the most common method to manufacture plastic parts. Monitoring and improvement in the injection molding industry are usually performed separately in each stage, i.e. mold desi…
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Open
In Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, looks at grit—passion coupled with perseverance—as being essential to success and achievement. The book pushes bac…
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Achieving Research Impact Through Co‐creation in Community‐Based Health Services: Literature Review and Case Study Open
Co-creation models have high potential for societal impact but depend critically on key success principles. To capture the nonlinear chains of causation in the co-creation pathway, impact metrics must reflect the dynamic nature and complex…
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The Province of Jurisprudence Determined Open
John Austin (1790-1859) was the first professor of jurisprudence in the University of London, now University Collge. This study provides an analysis of six of his lectures during the years 1828 to 1833. Austin exercises himself, in the ear…
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a Framework for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Open
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been an articulated practice for over 7 decades. Still, most corporations lack an integrated framework to develop a strategic, balanced, and effective approach to achieving excellence in CSR. Consi…
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PREPARE: guidelines for planning animal research and testing Open
There is widespread concern about the quality, reproducibility and translatability of studies involving research animals. Although there are a number of reporting guidelines available, there is very little overarching guidance on how to pl…
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MEMOTE for standardized genome-scale metabolic model testing Open
Reconstructing metabolic reaction networks enables the development of testable hypotheses of an organism’s metabolism under different conditions. State-of-the-art genome-scale metabolic models (GEMs) can include thousands of metabolites an…
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ESHRE guideline: ovarian stimulation for IVF/ICSI† Open
STUDY QUESTION What is the recommended management of ovarian stimulation, based on the best available evidence in the literature? SUMMARY ANSWER The guideline development group formulated 84 recommendations answering 18 key questions on ov…
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Innovation and the circular economy: A systematic literature review Open
The circular economy emerged as an alternative model to the linear system, which now appears to be reaching its physical limitations. To transition to a circular economy, companies must not only be aware of but also engage in more sustaina…
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Inside help: An integrative review of champions in healthcare-related implementation Open
Background/aims: The idea that champions are crucial to effective healthcare-related implementation has gained broad acceptance; yet the champion construct has been hampered by inconsistent use across the published literature. This integra…
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COVID-19 and the Digital Transformation of Education: What Are We Learning on 4IR in South Africa? Open
The study sought to assess the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic in motivating digital transformation in the education sector in South Africa. The study was premised on the fact that learning in South Africa and the rest of the world came…
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Developing a teacher identity in the university context: a systematic review of the literature Open
This literature review summarises the growing body of literature discussing teacher identities of university teachers. The aim was to understand what strengthens or constrains the development of a teacher identity. A qualitative synthesis …
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Health research capacity development in low and middle income countries: reality or rhetoric? A systematic meta-narrative review of the qualitative literature Open
Objectives Locally led health research in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is critical for overcoming global health challenges. Yet, despite over 25 years of international efforts, health research capacity in LMICs remains insuffici…
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New horizons in multimorbidity in older adults Open
The concept of multimorbidity has attracted growing interest over recent years, and more latterly with the publication of specific guidelines on multimorbidity by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Increasingly i…
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Diagnosis, natural history, and management in vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome Open
Vascular Ehlers Danlos syndrome (vEDS) is an uncommon genetic disorders characterized by arterial aneurysm, dissection and rupture, bowel rupture, and rupture of the gravid uterus. The frequency is estimated as 1/50,000–1/200,000 and resul…
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Positive Healthy Organizations: Promoting Well-Being, Meaningfulness, and Sustainability in Organizations Open
This contribution deals with the concept of healthy organizations and starts with a definition of healthy organizations and healthy business. In healthy organizations, culture, climate, and practices create an environment conducive to empl…
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The emerging clinical role of wearables: factors for successful implementation in healthcare Open
Wearable technologies promise to redefine assessment of health behaviors, yet their clinical implementation remains a challenge. To address this gap, two of the NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge Centers of Excellence organized a workshop on pote…
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Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines, V.2.0: examples of SQUIRE elements in the healthcare improvement literature Open
Since its publication in 2008, SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) has contributed to the completeness and transparency of reporting of quality improvement work, providing guidance to authors and reviewers of re…
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The use of faecal microbiota transplant as treatment for recurrent or refractory<i>Clostridium difficile</i>infection and other potential indications: joint British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) guidelines Open
Interest in the therapeutic potential of faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) has been increasing globally in recent years, particularly as a result of randomised studies in which it has been used as an intervention. The main focus of these …
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Ableism in academia: where are the disabled and ill academics? Open
Recent coverage in relevant Higher Education newspapers and corresponding social media platforms, imply that chronic conditions, illnesses and disabilities are becoming more prominent amongst academics. Changes to funding structures (Thomp…
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Resource management in big data initiatives: Processes and dynamic capabilities Open
© 2016 The Authors. Effective management of organizational resources in big data initiatives is of growing importance. Although academic and popular literatures contain many examples of big data initiatives, very few are repeated in the sa…
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Introduction of an Area Deprivation Index Measuring Patient Socio-economic Status in an Integrated Health System: Implications for Population Health Open
Introduction: Intermountain Healthcare is a fully integrated delivery system based in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a learning healthcare system with a mission of performance excellence, it became apparent that population health management and …
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Transparency about the outcomes of mental health services (IAPT approach): an analysis of public data Open
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Citizen Science : Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy Open
Citizen science, the active participation of the public in scientific research projects, is a rapidly expanding field in open science and open innovation. It provides an integrated model of public knowledge production and engagement with s…
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A FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATION OF “TEACHING PRESENCE” IN THE SUNY LEARNING NETWORK Open
This paper is a follow-up study to a preliminary investigation of teaching presence in the State University of New York Learning Network (SLN). In the present studywe review ongoing issues of pedagogy and faculty development, and their rel…
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ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines 2018: Psychological care of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes Open
Recent literature has been reviewed and new research findings as well as systematic reviews show the important role in management of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents of:1) Depression and diabetes distress; 2) Disordered eating b…
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“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence Open
The rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually …
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The Role of Aneuploidy in Cancer Evolution Open
Chromosomal aberrations during cell division represent one of the first recognized features of human cancer cells, and modern detection methods have revealed the pervasiveness of aneuploidy in cancer. The ongoing karyotypic changes brought…
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Multivariate and network meta-analysis of multiple outcomes and multiple treatments: rationale, concepts, and examples Open
Organisations such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence require the synthesis of evidence from existing studies to inform their decisions—for example, about the best available treatments with respect to multiple efficac…
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UK guidelines for the management of bone sarcomas Open
This document is an update of the British Sarcoma Group guidelines published in 2010. The aim is to provide a reference standard for the clinical care of patients in the UK with bone sarcomas. Recent recommendations by the European Society…