This thesis presents the design and analysis of a vest-worn alerting system with the purpose of warning those who wear it. The goal of this thesis has been shaped around roadside construction workers, people who endeavor to build and maintain the roadways in highly noisy and dangerous environments. Our goal is to determine what type of alerting method best interrupts the worker, allowing him or her to know that danger approaches. Multiple alerting methods will be compared via reaction time and user data derived through critical incidents from the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) and notification-focused questionnaires. All testing is done in a simulated noisy environment. Each of these alerting methods involve combinations of auditory, visual, or haptic components. At the end of this thesis, the different alerting methods will be compared and a mode will be suggested for wearable notification activities. The work proposed in this thesis focuses mostly on vest design and alert testing for construction-based scenarios, but the work can be extended to police and highway worker scenarios. / Master of Science

One of the problem that plagues Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) software is its development cost. Many software companies forego the usability engineering aspect of their projects due to the time required to design and test user interfaces. Unfortunately, there is no "silver bullet" for user interface design and implementation because they are inherently difficult tasks. As computers are moving off the desktop, the greatest challenge for designers will be integrating these systems seamlessly into our everyday lives. The potential for reuse in user interfaces lies in reducing the time and effort required for this task, without sacrificing design quality. In this work we begin with an iterative development cycle for a claims library based on prominent literature within the HCI and software engineering fields. We constructed the Claims Library to be a repository of potentially reusable notification system claims. We examine the library through theoretical and practical perspectives. The theoretical perspective reveals tradeoffs in the initial implementation that relate to Krueger's taxonomy of reuse. The practical perspective stems from experience in designing and conducting usability testing for an in-vehicle input device using the Claims Library. While valuable, these examinations did not provide a distinct method of improving the library. Expecting to uncover a specific diagnosis for the problems in the library, it was unclear how they should be approached with further development efforts. With this realization, we saw that a more important and immediate contribution would not be another iteration of the Claims Library design. Rather, a clarification of the underlying theory that would better inform future systems development seemed a more urgent and worthy use of our experience. This clarification would need to have several characteristics to include: composed of a staged or prioritized architecture, represents an ideal model grounded in literature, and possesses intermediate development objectives and assessment points. As a solution, we propose the Claims Library Capability Maturity Model (CL-CMM), based on the theoretical deficiencies that should guide development of a claims library, as noted in the two evaluations. This thesis delivers a five-stage model to include process areas, goals, and practices that address larger threads of concern. Our capability maturity model is patterned after models in software engineering and human resource management. We include a full description of each stage, a gap analysis method of appraisal, and an example of its use. Several directions for future work are noted that are necessary to continue development and validation of the model. / Master of Science

Higher education in America has attempted to define the relationships it has with both students and parents for many years. While some argue that the philosophy of in loco parentis has seemingly disappeared, others suggest that its return is imminent on American college campuses. One example of this return is the trend among campuses towards notifying parents when students are involved in judicial matters. Recent changes in federal privacy laws have clarified the right of colleges and universities to notify parents when their son or daughter is involved in a violation of the university alcohol policy. There is an assumption that parents will intervene with their students and help the university promote a more responsible use of alcohol. Many colleges are debating the value of such notifications, but little is known as to whether or not the inclusion of parents in university discipline affects the decisions college students make about their alcohol consumption. The present study used qualitative and quantitative means to address this gap in literature. Students whose parents were notified of their alcohol violation were interviewed in the qualitative component of the study. The interviews explored the relationships between students and parents before entering college, immediately after enrolling in college, and after parental notification. Students were then assigned positions within three categories of parenting styles (General Relationships, Level of Parental Involvement, and Parental Attitudes Toward Alcohol) for the three time periods explored in this study. The quantitative component explored students' experience with alcohol during the same three time periods. Students completed a pencil and paper survey about their drinking behaviors and were assigned to categories of alcohol consumption for each time period. This enabled the researcher to evaluate whether certain parenting styles were associated with certain drinking patterns. In addition, the researcher examined the results to identify trends in parental relationships and alcohol consumption over the three time periods in question. The study revealed some interesting findings. First, parent and student relationships appear to improve over time, while the parents' Level of Involvement with their student remains the same. Second, during all time periods, the participants indicated that their parents had little control over their alcohol consumption. Third, while students may have experienced frustration with the parental notification process, most were comfortable with the concept of parents being notified when students have violated university policy with respect to alcohol. Finally, most students came to college with experience drinking alcohol, and most had parents who were permissive in their attitudes towards drinking once students arrived at college. Although the study examined only a limited number of students, the results indicate that universities may want to re-evaluate the way in which they educate students about alcohol. / Master of Arts

Mandatory notification of disease forms the backbone of disease surveillance in New Zealand and overseas. Notification data is used by public health professionals and academics to identify cases requiring public health control, monitor disease incidence and distribution, and in epidemiological research. However, there is emerging evidence that notification rates do not accurately reflect the true extent of notifiable diseases within the community, resulting in the underascertainment of many notifiable cases. While adequate surveillance does not necessarily require that all cases of notifiable disease be captured, the systematic underascertainment of disease can have significant implications for perceived spatial and demographic trends in disease prevalence; potentially threatening the credibility of spatial epidemiological research by under or overestimating the burden of disease in different populations. There is evidence that systematic underascertainment occurs as a result of the differential actions of laboratories and general practitioners. It has also been recognised that that underascertainment can be influenced by a patient's willingness to seek medical attention and participate in laboratory tests. However, few studies have investigated whether these factors systematically influence notification either in New Zealand or overseas. Furthermore, the discipline of health geography has been slow to engage with this topic of public health importance, despite the inherently spatial nature of the processes involved, and the close ties to the geographic literature on health service utilization and healthcare provision. This thesis explores the spatial and temporal variation in notification rates in New Zealand for the period 1997-2005 and the potential relationships between notification rates and different variables. Unlike many underascertainment studies, which have used individual data and capture-recapture methods, data constraints inspired a unique ecological approach to investigating the factors which may be associated with notification in New Zealand. Variables were divided into categories based on Anderson's behavioural model for healthcare utilization and the influence of these variables on notification was determined through multiple regression analyses. The main findings of this research indicate that in New Zealand notification rates have increased during the period 1997-2005 and that there is a north-south gradient in notifications, with substantially lower rates in the North Island than in the South Island. Furthermore, it is also evident that the variables associated with notification vary according to disease, spatial aggregation and spatial scale. Notification rates are significantly associated with a range of predisposing and enabling factors which might influence patient choice to consult for many frequently underascertained diseases. More variation in enteric diseases is explained by the independent variables analysed than the variation in non-enteric diseases. However, further research into these relationships, and underascertainment in general, is required before firm conclusions can be drawn.

Mandatory notification of disease forms the backbone of disease surveillance in New Zealand and overseas. Notification data is used by public health professionals and academics to identify cases requiring public health control, monitor disease incidence and distribution, and in epidemiological research. However, there is emerging evidence that notification rates do not accurately reflect the true extent of notifiable diseases within the community, resulting in the underascertainment of many notifiable cases. While adequate surveillance does not necessarily require that all cases of notifiable disease be captured, the systematic underascertainment of disease can have significant implications for perceived spatial and demographic trends in disease prevalence; potentially threatening the credibility of spatial epidemiological research by under or overestimating the burden of disease in different populations. There is evidence that systematic underascertainment occurs as a result of the differential actions of laboratories and general practitioners. It has also been recognised that that underascertainment can be influenced by a patient's willingness to seek medical attention and participate in laboratory tests. However, few studies have investigated whether these factors systematically influence notification either in New Zealand or overseas. Furthermore, the discipline of health geography has been slow to engage with this topic of public health importance, despite the inherently spatial nature of the processes involved, and the close ties to the geographic literature on health service utilization and healthcare provision. This thesis explores the spatial and temporal variation in notification rates in New Zealand for the period 1997-2005 and the potential relationships between notification rates and different variables. Unlike many underascertainment studies, which have used individual data and capture-recapture methods, data constraints inspired a unique ecological approach to investigating the factors which may be associated with notification in New Zealand. Variables were divided into categories based on Anderson's behavioural model for healthcare utilization and the influence of these variables on notification was determined through multiple regression analyses. The main findings of this research indicate that in New Zealand notification rates have increased during the period 1997-2005 and that there is a north-south gradient in notifications, with substantially lower rates in the North Island than in the South Island. Furthermore, it is also evident that the variables associated with notification vary according to disease, spatial aggregation and spatial scale. Notification rates are significantly associated with a range of predisposing and enabling factors which might influence patient choice to consult for many frequently underascertained diseases. More variation in enteric diseases is explained by the independent variables analysed than the variation in non-enteric diseases. However, further research into these relationships, and underascertainment in general, is required before firm conclusions can be drawn.

Abstract This quasi-experimental design study compared two small samples of Emergency medicine residents after one group had an educational intervention on death notification skills and the other did not. Comparisons were made on residents’ confidence in their communication, interpersonal skills and level of compassion fatigue/satisfaction and EM Residents’ level of Secondary Traumatic Stress after an event of patient death and subsequent notification of Secondary Patients. Residents were interviewed to gather recommendations for designing death notification curriculum. Over an eight month period, forty emergency medicine residents at two sites, control and intervention, completed surveys designed to provide quantitative data on self-confidence and stress related to recent patient deaths. Residents who participated in a death notification event completed the Secondary Traumatic Stress Scale. Interviews were conducted to gather information on the impact of the notification and recommend changes in curriculum at the experimental site. The data infer that an educational intervention on death notification skills increased residents’ confidence in their ability to give compassionate death notification to families as compared with the control group. Residents in the intervention and control group had no significant differences in their potential for compassion satisfaction. Residents who had the educational intervention showed less Secondary Traumatic Stress symptoms than their non-intervention counterparts. The intervention group showed less risk for burnout (although it would only be significant at p < 0.10). The overall conclusion is that there is some evidence for a positive effect of the intervention. However, due to the small sample size the conclusion is tentative and more research is needed to evaluate the training.

This thesis deals with notifying and permitting structures. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the current legal regulation of regimes for the realization of structures, including outlining changes in connection with the amendment to the Act No. 183/2006 Coll., on Town and Country Planning and Building Code (Building Act), as amended, and to compare notification and permission regimes from both substantive and procedural law. The thesis is divided into an introductory chapter, eight chapters and a conclusion. The introductory chapter covers an introduction to the realization of structures and its position within building law. The first chapter provides a historical excursion into the legal development of building law and describes applicable legal regulation of building law in the Czech Republic. The second chapter deals with the selected fundamental concepts essential to the realization of structures. The third chapter concentrates on the organization of public administration in the area of notifying and permitting structures. The purpose of the fourth chapter is to provide an overview of the regimes for the realization of structures and their brief summary. The fifth chapter deals with structures which do not require a notification nor a building permit. The sixth chapter focuses on the legal...

Tato diplomová práce se zabýv. vývojem mobilní aplikace typu klient-server na platformě Windows Phone. Obsahuje popis platformy Window Phone, vývojov. prostředí a jeho nástroj pro ladění a sledování prostředků na této platformě. Rozebírá architektury a protokoly využívající se pro model klient-server. Popisuje sdílení dat a zasílání zpráv mezi uživateli klientem a serverem. Srovnává dostupné protokoly pro komunikaci. V další kapitole je využití paměti na klientu při nedostupnosti připojení k internetu. Závěr se věnuje vizi dalšího vývoje projektu.

I förskoleklassens, grundskolan och fritidshemmets gemensamma läroplan benämns inte den anmälningsplikt som råder (Skolverket, 2018). Detta trots att det specificeras i kap. 14 i Socialtjänstlagen (2001:453) att yrkespersoner inom skolverksamhet är skyldiga att anmäla vid misstanke att ett barn far illa. Skolverket (2019) benämner hur samverkan mellan skolan och socialtjänsten bör följas för de barn som inte har det bra hemma. Hur denna samverkan ska ske är däremot inget som understryks. Ytterligare kunskap behövs inom området i hur samverkan sker samt de rutiner som finns i förhållande kring anmälningsplikten. Studiens syfte är att få en större kännedom i hur samverkan mellan skolan och socialtjänsten ser ut. Målet är att uppmärksamma de rutiner pedagoger inom skolverksamheten har i samband med orosanmälan till socialtjänsten.   Uppsatsens resultat visar att pedagoger anser att brister finns i samverkan med socialtjänsten. Det synliggörs hur de yrkesverksamma finner samverkan med socialtjänsten som en envägskommunikation och att de känner bristfällighet i återkoppling. Resultatet visar även att mer än hälften av pedagogerna är osäkra kring vilka rutiner som finns gällande orosanmälan på den arbetsplats de har. Genom dessa resultat kan studien bidra med inspiration för förbättringsarbete kring samverkan mellan skolan och socialtjänsten.

Segurança do paciente implica em reduzir riscos de dano desnecessário ao mínimo aceitável, causado pela assistência/cuidado e não pela doença, com utilização de boas práticas assistenciais, baseada em evidências científicas. As notificações de incidentes/eventos adversos configuram-se indicadores da qualidade dos serviços de saúde e sua ocorrência produz resultados indesejáveis que afetam a segurança do paciente. As notificações voluntárias de incidentes são instrumentos nos quais profissionais, instituições e indivíduos podem relatar problemas relacionados a segurança do paciente, e por meio da investigação e análise dos incidentes gerar informações uteis para melhoria dos processos assistenciais. Objetivo. Analisar as notificações de incidentes relacionados à segurança do paciente em um hospital público do interior do estado de São Paulo, de agosto de 2015 a julho de 2016. Método. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, retrospectivo de análise documental, com abordagem quantitativa, com base nos dados do Serviço de Gerenciamento de Risco. Resultados. Foram analisadas 4.691 notificações. O enfermeiro foi a categoria profissional que mais notificou (n=3312; 71%), seguido do médico (n=373; 8%). O período mais frequente em que ocorreram as notificações foi o diurno. Houve diferença significativa da proporção de notificações entre os dias da semana. As notificações foram classificadas por motivo e os de maior prevalência neste estudo foram os relacionadas a medicamentos 807 (17%), seguido de lesões de pele 695 (15%), flebite 650 (14%) incidentes, artigos médico-hospitalar 630 (13%) e 299 (6%) quedas. A maior frequência de notificações ocorreu nas Unidades de Internação. Quanto a gravidade 344 eventos ocasionaram dano ao paciente, sendo a maioria de intensidade leve (n=224, 65%). Nos incidentes relacionados a medicamentos, contatou-se que os erros de medicamentos ocorreram com mais frequência (51%), seguido dos desvios de qualidade (27%). As ocorrências de flebite foram classificadas em grau, sendo o grau II o mais prevalente (47%), seguido do grau I (30%), o sexo masculino foi predominante, e o tempo de permanência do cateter prevalente foi menor que 72 horas, juntamente com dispositivos flexíveis de calibre 22 e curativo estéril com visualização. As quedas foram em sua maioria sem danos, mais frequentes no sexo masculino (59%), na enfermaria/quarto (61%) e no banheiro (20%). Quanto ao tipo de queda predominaram as da própria altura (44%), seguida do leito (20%). Nas lesões de pele predominou as lesões por pressão (94%), de estágio 2 (63%). Conclusão. As notificações espontâneas são uma importante fonte de informações, alerta para promoção da segurança no ambiente hospitalar e evidencia a magnitude do problema relacionado aos incidentes em saúde. A notificações estão muito centradas na figura do enfermeiro e todos os profissionais, principalmente os da linha de frente, devem compreender a importância das notificações para a assistência segura ao paciente. Há necessidade de fortalecer a cultura da segurança do paciente e os profissionais devem estar seguros que a notificação das falhas não implica em ações disciplinares. Falhas acontecem e é possível aprender a partir dos erros, a fim de evitá-los e promover ações que garantam uma prática mais segura / Patient safety implies in reducing risk of unnecessary damage to the minimum acceptable, caused by assistance/care and not by illness, using best practices, scientific evidence-based assistance. Notifications of incident/adverse events constitute indicators of quality of health services and their occurrence produce undesirable results that affect patient safety. Voluntary notifications of incidents are instruments in which professionals, institutions and individuals can report problems related to patient safety, and through research and analysis of incidents to generate useful information for improving assistance processes. Objective. Analyze incident notifications related to the patient\'s safety in a public hospital within the state of São Paulo, from August 2015 to July 2016. Method. It is a descriptive, retrospective study of documentary analysis, with quantitative approach, based on data from the risk Management service. Results. 4.691 notifications were analyzed. The nurse was the Professional category that most notified (n=3.312; 71%), followed by the Doctor (n=373; 8%). The most frequent period in which the notifications occurred was the daytime. There was significant difference in the proportion of notifications between the days of the week. The notifications were classified by reason and the most prevalence in this study were those related to medications 807 (17%), followed by skin lesions 695 (15%), Phlebitis 650 (14%) incidents, hospital medical articles 630 (13%) and 299 (6%) Falls. The highest frequency of notifications occurred in the internment units. In relation to severity, 344 events caused damage to the patient, being the most of light intensity (n=224; 65%). In drug related incidents, it was contacted that drug errors occurred more frequently (51%), followed by quality deviations (27%). The occurrences of phlebitis were classified in degree, the grade II being the most prevalent (47%), followed by grade I (30%), the male was prevalent, and the time remained of the prevalent catheter was less than 72 hours, along with devices Flexible 22 caliber and sterile dressing with visualization. The falls were mostly with no damage, more frequent in males (59%), in the infirmary/room (61%) and in the bathroom (20%). The type of fall predominated were those of the height (44%), followed by the bed (20%). In skin lesions, pressure lesions predominated (94%), stage 2 (63%). Conclusion. Spontaneous notifications are an important source of information, alert to promote safety in the hospital environment and evidence the magnitude of the problem related to health incidents. The notifications are very focused on the figure of the nurse and all professionals, especially the front line, must understand the importance of notifications for safe patient care. There is a need to strengthen the patient safety culture and practitioners should be assured that failure reporting does not entail disciplinary action. Failures happen and it is possible to learn from mistakes in order to avoid them and promote actions that ensure a safer practice