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Patient-Reported Experience Measures to Evaluate and Improve the Quality of Care in Nephrology
(2024-09-05)
Patient experience is considered a pillar of high-quality care, integral to patient-centered care, but despite significant policy focus on patient-reported experience measures (PREMs), little is published regarding their ...
Optimising Flywheel Energy Storage Systems: The Critical Role of Taylor-Couette Flow in Reducing Windage Losses and Enhancing Heat Transfer
(2024-09-05)
Amidst the growing demand for efficient and sustainable energy storage solutions, Flywheel Energy Storage Systems (FESSs) have garnered attention for their potential to meet modern energy needs. This study uses Computational ...
An Assessment Framework for Creative Production in Computing and Engineering Disciplines
(2024-09-04)
With the increasing expansion of creative computing courses among higher education institutions, there is a growing demand for more objective and efficient assessment frameworks that cater to the multidisciplinary skills ...
Prevalence of Workplace Microaggressions and Racial Discrimination : A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
(2024-09-03)
Background: In recent years, the rise of workplace racial discrimination and microaggressions has decreased the efficiency and productivity of organizations and institutions, and realization of organizational goals globally. ...
Incidence, characteristics, and prehospital outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Qatar: a nationwide gender-based investigation
(2024-09-02)
Background: Research on incidence and characteristics of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) in the Middle East is limited. We assessed the incidence, prehospital characteristics, and outcomes of OHCA in Qatar, a Middle ...
A Taxonomy of Automatic Differentiation Pitfalls
(2024-09-02)
Automatic differentiation is a popular technique for computing derivatives of computer programs. While automatic differentiation has been successfully used in countless engineering, science, and machine learning applications, ...
“I am there just to get on with it”: a qualitative study on the labour of the patient and public involvement workforce
(2024-09-02)
Background Workers tasked with specific responsibilities around patient and public involvement (PPI) are now routinely part of the organizational landscape for applied health research in the United Kingdom. Even as the ...
A Light Scattering Model for Large Particles with Surface Roughness
(2024-09)
A physical-optics hybrid method designed for the computation of single-scattering properties of particles with complex shapes, including surface roughness, is presented. The method applies geometric optics using a novel ...
Primeval very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs -- VIII. The first age benchmark L subdwarf, a wide companion to a halo white dwarf
(2024-09-01)
We report the discovery of five white dwarf + ultracool dwarf systems identified as common proper motion wide binaries in the Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars. The discoveries include a white dwarf + L subdwarf binary, VVV ...
Enhanced anti-corrosion characteristics of epoxy-functionalized graphene oxide nanocomposite coatings on mild steel substrates.
(2024-09-01)
This experimental investigation focused on coating of functionalized graphene oxide (FGO) on the mild steel to minimize corrosion, using a new method. Prior to the coating, the fundamental chemical and morphological ...