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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 ... -
Viability of the Store-on Grid Scheme Model for Grid-tied Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Sub-Saharan African Countries
(Elsevier BV, 2021)The viability of the store-on grid (SoG) scheme model across 13 selected Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries was investigated. The individual country's datasets applicable to the SoG scheme and a typical industrial building ... -
A Novel and Cost-efficient Energy Management System for Plug-in Electric Bus Charging Depot Owners
(Elsevier BV, 2021)The integration of renewable Distributed Generations (DGs) has been a serious concern over reliable and satisfactory operation of the distribution system due to the intermittent nature of DGs. One of the solutions being ... -
A Survey on Tactile Internet: Design Issues and Challenges, Applications, and Future Directions
(MDPI, 2021)The Tactile Internet (TI) is an emerging area of research involving 5G and beyond (B5G) communications to enable real-time interaction of haptic data over the Internet between tactile ends, with audio-visual data as feedback. ... -
Comparative Evaluation of Machine Learning Models and Input Feature Space for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021)Recent advancement in computational capabilities has accelerated the research and development of non-intrusive load disaggregation. Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) offers many promising applications in the context of ... -
Multi Criteria Analysis Ranking of Solar Photovoltaic Modules Manufacturing Countries by an Importing Country: A Case of Uganda
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Although solar photovoltaic systems do not emit greenhouse gases (GHG) during their operation lifetime, their manufacturing, transportation, and construction involves energy use and GHG emissions. In this study a life cycle ... -
Self-efficacy in Non-routine Problem Solving in STEM Education
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The Role of Inertia for Grid Flexibility Under High Penetration of Variable Renewables - A Review of Challenges and Solutions
(Elsevier, 2021)Several studies show that grid-integrated renewable energy (RE) sources have the potential to replace conventional synchronous generators in the network. This means the grid will experience low conventional inertia that ... -
A Generalized Economic Model for Optimally Selecting Forecasted Load Profiles for Measuring Demand Response in Residential Energy Management System
(John Wiley and Sons, 2021)To forecast the demand response of a residential customer, forecasted load profiles must first be calculated and the demand response produced by residential energy management devices determined. Finding an efficient method ... -
Designing Mobile Health and Well-being Applications: A Value-oriented Approach
(IEEE, 2021)Mobile health and well-being applications (MHWBAs) provide a means of enhancing the delivery of health care. Ensuring that value is delivered to health care customers (patients) can be a challenge as health initiatives are ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Use of a Novel Polymer-coated Steel As an Alternative to Traditional Can Manufacturing in the Food Industry
(MDPI, 2021)Metal containers (both food and beverage cans) are made from huge steel or aluminum coils that are transformed into two-or three-piece products. During the manufacturing process, the metal is sprayed on both sides and the ... -
A Comprehensive Open‐source Simulation Framework for LiFi Communication
(MDPI, 2021)Light Fidelity (LiFi) is a new candidate for wireless networking that utilizes the visible light spectrum and exploits the existing lighting infrastructure in the form of light‐emitting diodes (LEDs). It provides point‐to‐point ... -
Emotion Recognition and Understanding Using EEG Data in a Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Network Architecture
(Ulster University, 2021)This paper is in the scope of emotion recognition by employing a brain-inspired recurrent spiking neural network (BI-SNN) architecture for modelling, mapping, learning, classifying, visualising, and understanding of ... -
Case Study of a Hybrid Wind and Tidal Turbines System With a Microgrid for Power Supply to a Remote Off-Grid Community in New Zealand
(MDPI, 2021)This paper evaluates the feasibility of using a hybrid system consisting of wind and tidal turbines connected to a microgrid for power supply to coastal communities that are isolated from a main supply grid. The case study ... -
A Predictive Model for Identifying Health Trends Among Māori and Pacific People – Analysis From Ten Years of New Zealand Public Hospital Discharges
(Inderscience Publishers, 2021)Our research was focused on the quality of healthcare services for Māori and Pacific Islanders. We used New Zealand (NZ) Public Hospital discharges data from 2005 to 2015 for our research. A prediction model has been ...