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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 ... -
Saudi Academic Perceptions of e-Learning Systems [Microsoft Excel workbook]
(2019)The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has seen growing interest in the uptake of cloud-based educational technologies in the university sector in recent years. The majority of delivery models are currently structured on a client-server ... -
Maintaining Thermal Comfort of a Naturally Ventilated Residential House by Intelligently Actuating Windows
(The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), Hong Kong, 2019)In New Zealand’s (NZ) mild climatic conditions, most residential houses are ventilated naturally, mainly by opening windows. However, maintaining the indoor thermal comfort characteristics of a house by modulating natural ... -
Event-Detection Algorithms for Low Sampling Nonintrusive Load Monitoring Systems Based on Low Complexity Statistical Features
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019)One of the key techniques towards energy efficiency and conservation is Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) which lies in the domain of energy monitoring. Event detection is a core component of event-based NILM systems. ... -
Interior Decoration to Exterior Surface: the Beleaguered Relief
(Department of Architecture Universitas Indonesia, 2019)Surface articulation is a critical issue for interior architecture, and this paper sees the wall as a point of intersection where art and structure may converge and collide. A place of experimentation and a site of ... -
Gigabit Ethernet with Wireless Extension: OPNET Modelling and Performance Study
(IEEE, 2019)Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) backbone network with wireless extension is gaining much popularity in campus, small businesses, and corporate network environments worldwide. A good understanding on the impact of wireless extension ... -
A Mode Selection Algorithm for Mitigating Interference in D2D Enabled Next-generation Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
(IEEE, 2019)Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is becoming more popular research topic among the network researchers and engineers across the globe This popularity is due to various key applications of D2D communications including ... -
An Efficient Gateway Routing Scheme for Disaster Recovery Scenario
(2019)Natural disaster can strike at any time and can ruin large regions damaging houses, buildings, as well as physical communication infrastructure. Therefore, a network backup is essential in the disaster recovery areas as ... -
Global Software Engineering Education Practice Continuum Special Issue of the ACM Transactions on Computing Education
(Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019)We are pleased to introduce this Special Issue on Global Software Engineering Education published by the ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) that focuses on educational practices to prepare students for a global ... -
An Agent-based Modelling Approach for Scheduling and Management of Elective Surgeries
(SM Online Journals, 2018)Efficient elective surgery scheduling is one of the pain points in the current healthcare management and has a serious impact on the overall healthcare delivery. Currently, the health organizations struggle to achieve their ... -
Chemometrics and Hyperspectral Imaging Applied to Assessment of Chemical, Textural and Structural Characteristics of Meat
(Elsevier, 2018)Spectroscopy in the visible near-infrared spectral (Vis-NIRS) range combined with imaging techniques (hyperspectral imaging, HSI) allows assessment of chemical composition, texture, and meat structure. The use of HSI in ... -
Understanding Student Absenteeism in Undergraduate Engineering Programmes
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2018)CONTEXT Correlation between student attendance and eventual performance is well documented in the literature. Even with increasing access to compatible web-based resources or lecture recordings, traditional face-to-face ... -
Printing of Soft Stretchable Sensor From Carbon Black Composites
(MDPI, 2018)Demand for highly stretchable mechanical sensors for use in the fields of soft robotics and wearable sensors has been constantly rising. Carbon based materials as piezo-resistive material are low-cost and have been widely ... -
Talking Backwards in a Land without Shadows
(Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, 2018)In 1837 I arrived here, inside the belly of a dream. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , had not yet charted its likeness. I am speaking backwards here, where ‘...the body separates itself from thought, … ... -
Analyzing Multiple Vector Autoregressions Through Matrix-variate Normal Distribution With Two Covariance Matrices
(SSRN-Elsevier, 2018)This paper proposes a new approach to analyze multiple vector autoregressive (VAR) models that render us a newly constructed matrix autoregressive (MtAR) model based on a matrix-variate normal distribution with two covariance ... -
2018 JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)Summary This eighth JMAD New Zealand media ownership report observes a considerable shift in New Zealand media ownership. In 2018, Australian Nine Entertainment took over Stuff’s parent company Fairfax Media. The report ... -
Diffuse Solar Potential of Facades in an Urban Context Under Different Sky Conditions
(Australian PV Institute (APVI), 2018)This paper presents an advance in a method to evaluate the diffuse solar potential on facades in the urban environment. The proposed method is suitable to work in both the isotropic and anisotropic sky conditions. It employs ... -
Utilization of 3D Printing Technology to Facilitate and Standardize Soft Tissue Testing
(Springer Nature Ltd., 2018)Three-dimensional (3D) printing has become broadly available and can be utilized to customize clamping mechanisms in biomechanical experiments. This report will describe our experience using 3D printed clamps to mount soft ... -
Detection of Red-meat Adulteration by Deep Spectral–spatial Features in Hyperspectral Images
(Springer Verlag, 2018)This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the performance of hyperspectral imaging for detecting adulteration in red-meat products. A dataset of line-scanning images of lamb, beef, or pork muscles was collected taking ... -
The Boundaries of Education: Using Mobile Devices for Connecting People to Places
(Co-Action Publishing, 2018)This discussion paper explores pedagogy beyond the boundaries of tertiary institutional classrooms through a socio-cultural lens that examines the history of a small-town community. In doing so this paper discusses the ...