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Errors in the administration of intravenous medications in hospital and the role of correct procedures and nurse experience
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the Health Foundation, 26 M)Background Intravenous medication administrations have a high incidence of error but there is limited evidence of associated factors or error severity.Objective To measure the frequency, type and severity of intravenous ... -
Transformative Technologies and Social Change: An Introduction
(Academic Conferences International Limited, 2109)Rapid transformation in the technology is accelerating has create exponential growth in many areas. New innovation in product and services are seen in all sectors such as agriculture, medical diagnosis and treatment, ... -
Impact of People Movement on Wi-Fi Link Throughput in Indoor Propagation Environments: An Empirical Study
(MDPI, 2021)There has been tremendous growth in the deployment of Wi-Fi 802.11-based networks in recent years. Many researchers have been investigating the performance of the Wi-Fi 802.11-based networks by exploring factors such as ... -
From Shadow: A Practice-led Design Research on Academic Anxiety
(Anhembi Morumbi University, 2021)This research utilises auto ethnographic and phenomenological research methods to investigate, design and illustrate the ways that academic anxiety manifests in the human experience. Where the journal is used to distil a ... -
Understanding the Role of Business Analysts in Digital Transformation: A Multivocal Literature Review
(Australasian Conferences on Information Systems (ACIS), 2021)In recent years, Digital Transformation (DT) has emerged as an important phenomenon in both academic and practitioner literature. Organisations are striving to transform to meet the dynamic needs and expectations of customers ... -
Do Scaling Agile Frameworks Address Global Software Development Risks? An Empirical Study
(arXiv, 2021)Driven by the need to coordinate activities of multiple agile development teams cooperating to produce a large software product, software-intensive organizations are turning to scaling agile software development frameworks. ... -
An Interactive Multi-agent System for Game Design
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)This paper presents a novel approach to procedural generation of game maps for multi-player, competitive video games. A multi-agent evolutionary system is employed to place streets, buildings and other items, resulting in ... -
Socioeconomic Factors Analysis for COVID-19 US Reopening Sentiment With Twitter and Census Data
(Elsevier, 2021)Investigating and classifying sentiments of social media users (e.g., positive, negative) towards an item, situation, and system are very popular among researchers. However, they rarely discuss the underlying socioeconomic ... -
A Multi-channel MAC Protocol With Retrodirective Array Antennas in Flying Ad Hoc Networks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)In this paper, we propose a multi-channel medium access control (MMAC) protocol for the exploitation of retro-directive array antennas in Flying Ad Hoc Networks (named FA-MMAC). This FA-MMAC employs multiple channels and ... -
Analog Processes for Digitally Native Students
(School of Art and Design, AUT, 2020)When it comes to teaching communication design, educators today are not only faced with diverse pedagogical concerns and considerations, but also the necessity to adapt their strategies during unusual times. Being ... -
The Politics of Invisibility: Visualizing Legacies of Nuclear Imperialisms
(California Digital Library, 2020)Questions of visibility, witnessing, and agency are particularly pertinent to post-1945 US and French nuclear testing across Oceania. Images of enormous hovering atomic mushroom clouds have become familiar icons of this ... -
Peripheral Territories: Imagining Common Worlds Differently
(enigma: he aupiki charitable trust, 2020)At the beginning of spatial struggle is separation: perception of what is in, or outside of, one’s body, one’s house, kin, neighbourhood, and polity. We all have vague or even detailed ideas of that separation—but this we ... -
Trying-out Digital Technologies in Trying Times: A Collection of Observations From a Collegial Adventure During Covid-19
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2020)CONTEXT In recent decades there has been significant discussion in the popular press about digital technologies enabling society to transition to a working-from-home scenario. Similarly, literature in the engineering ... -
Evaluating the Impact of Puzzle-based Learning on Creativity, Engagement and Intuition of STEM Tertiary Students
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2020)CONTEXT In recent years, some universities in Australia, Europe and the USA, have introduced formal academic courses or seminars for their first-year STEM students based on a Puzzle-Based Learning (PzBL) pedagogical ... -
WebLan-designer (V3) Over the Past Six Years: Motivation, Benefits, Evaluation and Reflection
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2020)The educational tool considered in this paper (WebLan-Designer) has four network modules, including wired local area networks (LANs), wireless LANs, transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP), and data ... -
Reasons for Failures in Inspection Reports for Residential Builds
(ISEC Press, 2020)The construction of multi dwellings is currently a focus of the New Zealand government to address housing shortages. The intention is to build en masse whilst also keeping the buildings affordable. Affordability is not ... -
The Contradiction of Agile Measures: Customer as Focus, but Process as Measured?
(Association for Information Systems (ACIS), 2020)Performance measures are being used in the agile approach as a powerful tool to understand the customer's impact of a software delivery. However, it is common to find measures related to the process instead of the customer, ... -
Conceptual Images in Advertising: Premises of the Advertising Image Powered by Technology and Interactivity
(Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, 2020)With the increasing advance of information technologies, speed, confidence and precision in the transmission and reception of messages have become a constant in people's lives, mainly due to the powerful communication ... -
Value-creating Roles Played by the Actors in Open Government Data: A Systematic Literature Review
(ACIS, 2020)Government-held data are immensely valuable; as well as providing the information required to carry out tasks related to internal governance procedures, additional value may be generated by publishing and making accessible ... -
Pilot Investigation Into Osteotome Hard Surface Coating and Cutting-edge Degradation
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)Background Osteotomes are bone cutting tools commonly reused in orthopedic surgical procedures. Despite undergoing rigorous cleaning, visual inspection, and sterilization procedures between every use, the condition of the ...