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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 ... -
The Effect of Propagation Models on IEEE 802.11n over 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz in Noisy Channels: A Simulation Study
(IEEE, 2020)IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (also called Wi-Fi) are widely used as Internet access technologies due to its availability, high-speed, low-cost, and standardization world-wide. While the performance of Wi-Fi has ... -
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 ... -
Transformative Change in Engineering Education
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2019)No abstract. -
Identifying Common Problems in the Determination of the Thermodynamic Properties of Pure Substances by Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Students
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2019)No abstract. -
Agility Practices for Software Development: An Investigation of Agile Organization Concepts
(Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 2019)In the context of agile software development in New Zealand and Australia, this paper examines the organizational agility related practices with agile software development. The paper looks at ... -
Application of Dynamic Thermal Rating: Overhead Line Critical Spans Identification Under Weather Dependent Optimized Sensor Placement
(Elsevier, 2019)Dynamic thermal rating (DTR) for an overhead transmission line is a viable and cost-effective technique based on real weather conditions to mitigate congestion and avoid load shedding for reliable transfer of the required ... -
Low Complexity Non-Intrusive Load Disaggregation of Air Conditioning Unit and Electric Vehicle Charging
(IEEE, 2019)Energy monitoring is inevitable towards achieving energy efficiency and conservation. Load disaggregation is one of the techniques towards effective energy monitoring. In the said domain, Non-Intrusive Appliance Load ... -
Feasibility Study to Install a 1 MW Grid Connected Solar Plant in Wairoa-Mahia Peninsular, New Zealand
(IEEE, 2019)This study intends to investigate the voltage drop issue along the Mahia distribution network (11kV line) and further assess the feasibility of developing a grid tied 1MW solar farm in Wairoa District, New Zealand. The ... -
Energy Savings Using Direct Current (DC) from Photovoltaic (PV) System in a Residential Home
(IEEE, 2019)The conventional AC nanogrid with photovoltaic (PV) system has suffered from power loss caused by power conversion from DC to AC and back to DC for most of the end use in a typical residential home. To overcome the problem, ... -
Design and Implementation of a Self-powered Smart Water Meter
(MDPI, 2019)Smart cities require interactive management of water supply networks and water meters play an important role in such a task. As compared to fully mechanical water meters, electromechanical water meters or fully electronic ... -
Big Data Offloading using Smart Public Vehicles with Software Defined Connectivity
(IEEE, 2019)With the explosive increase in the number of mobile devices such as smartphones or laptops, the design of mobile applications becomes increasingly complex, power hungry and resource consuming. Therefore, conventional ... -
mHealth and Big-data Integration: Promises for Healthcare System in India
(BMJ, 2019)Background The use of mobile devices in health (mobile health/mHealth) coupled with related technologies promises to transform global health delivery by creating new delivery models that can be integrated with existing ... -
IoT, Cloud Computing and Big Data: Integrated Framework for Healthcare in Disasters
(International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press, 2019)Currently, healthcare in disaster management context faces a number of challenges mostly due to the lack of availability of reliable data from diverse sources required to be accessible by appropriate authorities. Therefore, ... -
Reducing ICT Carbon Footprints Through Adoption of Green Computing
(Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics, 2019)A significant economic, environmental and sustainability topic in information and communication technology (ICT) and e-business sectors is green computing. An aspect of green informatics, green computing is gaining attention ... -
The Benefits of Open Government Data Use: A Crosscountry Comparison
(Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2019)Data produced by government have enormous importance; in addition to providing the information needed to run governance tasks related to internal processes, they can be used to create new sources of value by combining ... -
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. ... -
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 ...