Evidence demonstrates the health benefits of early breastfeeding for mothers as well as infants. The World Health Organization states, "Breast milk should be given within the first hour of life." This purpose of this project was to develop a breastfeeding educational toolkit to promote breastfeeding in the hospital environment. The question that guided this project was, "Will the development of a breastfeeding education toolkit, designed to serve as a learning tool to support the breastfeeding mothers, be found to be useful and valid by professional staff and lay end-users?" The goals of the project were to provide an educational toolkit aimed at supporting new mothers, and to validate the toolkit with stakeholders from the Mother/Baby unit. The benefits of breastfeeding and breastfeeding research were established through an evidence-based search of peer-reviewed journals. The developed toolkit was reviewed by10 stakeholders from the Mother/Baby unit: 1 physician, 3- lactation consultants, 5 nursing professionals, and 1 layperson of childbearing age. To assess the quality of the guidelines, the Logic Model and the 4 domains of the AGREE II Instrument were used. The descriptive data analysis from the AGREE II instrument led to the recommendations for the toolkit. All reviewers acknowledged the need for the toolkit as a support for the mothers and their babies. The stakeholders provided their support for the developed toolkit. The breastfeeding education toolkit has the potential to support positive social change by improving the health of the mothers and babies through improved breast-feeding knowledge.

This study provides an investigation and discussion into the construction of a graph toolkit using generative programming techniques. It defines and analyses directed graphs, representations and identifies different techniques that may be used to discover new representations. Each representation is classified according to a unique classification system. Doing this enables us to uniquely identify a particular type of graph representation. A naming convention is used when identifying each graph representation which is a direct by product of the classification system. Details of how to implement the graph toolkit is presented and analysed. The toolkit is discussed and critically analysed with other major toolkits currently available today such as the Boost and Leda graph toolkits. Copyright / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Computer Science / unrestricted

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1993 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / A practical description is presented of the methods used to reduce spacecraft telemetry data using a hierarchial toolkit of software programs developed for a UNIX environment.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are approximately 14 million new cases of HPV diagnosed each year (men and women combined). The rate of vaccine administration among adolescent males is much less than it is among females. As a result, the CDC has urged health care providers to work with state and local health care providers to improve the utilization of the HPV vaccine. The purpose of this scholarly project was to develop an educational toolkit, one guided by Ajzen and Fishbein's theory of reasoned action, regarding the value of the HPV vaccine. The toolkit was offered through both online and hard copy formats and provided parents of adolescent males with information regarding HPV, the HPV vaccine, helpful websites, and references. The toolkit's efficacy will be determined by a comparison of annual vaccination rates. This project fills a significant knowledge gap in the scholarly literature, as there were only 8 articles that met the inclusion criteria in the review of literature. It also provides a guide for other outpatient clinics that may want to implement a comparable toolkit.

Detta arbete har bedrivits i syfte att kartlägga funktionalitet, teknik och användningsområde gällande Web Services. Innehållet utgör således en teoretisk utvärdering av Web Services, samt tester av grundläggande programmeringslösningar. De frågor arbetet ämnar besvara är hur en Web Services på lämpligt sätt kan baseras på en befintlig tjänst, samt på vilket sätt denna Web Services kan göra aktuell tjänst lättare att använda. Dessutom belyses eventuella problem som kan uppstå i samband med denna Web Services-anpassning. I syfte att presentera ett lösningsförslag på ovan nämnda frågor granskades, via en litteraturstudie, ett antal informatikrelaterade begrepp liksom faktorer förknippade med kommersiell verksamhet på Internet. Erhållen teoretisk fakta analyserades via empiriskt arbete. Resultaten av analysen indikerar att en Web Services baserad på karttjänsten MapService kan innebära vissa fördelar för det aktuella företaget såväl som för deras kunder. Att bredda tjänsteutbudet med en marknadsdominerande standard innebär vissa fördelar för ett företag, inte minst i form av ett potentiellt större kundunderlag. Kundens vinster utgörs främst av för ändamålet utformade toolkits. Dessa hjälpmedel och verktyg underlättar implementationen av aktuell tjänst. Den ansats som här valts, att designa Web Servicen som en parser (tolk/konverterare) vars huvudsakliga syfte är att förmedla kommunikation mellan användare och befintlig tjänst, har vissa fördelar. Främst det faktum att redan befintlig funktionalitet kan utnyttjas. All kommunikation mellan användare och server hanteras av Web Servicen, som enligt denna princip utgör ett nytt gränssnitt med vilket tjänsten MapService kan användas. Till följd av det omfattande teoretiska utredningsarbetet har detta arbete inte genererat några prototyper, annat än på ett teoretiskt plan. Det problem som återstår är att utreda exakt hur ovan nämnda parser skall vara utformad, för att sedan implementera all funktionalitet som en helhet.

Could we have a better way to innovate future library service, so that more creative ideas could be embraced and more people can get involved? Many libraries around the world is in search of a new position and innovating new service in order to stay relevant to their users. What if more people who care enough can join forces and be part of it? In this project, my goal is to design a workshop model and toolkit for library activists to initiate a co-creative experience. I hope people who experienced the creation of workshop can be confident enough to put their creativity into actions. And ultimately more library lovers can impact the way library service is developed. Thanks to the great support from Umeå University Library, LIme — A toolkit for library activist to create effective workshop experience, is created in form of a physical toolkit in combination with a mobile digital platform

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Neurocirurgia guiada por imagem permite ao neurocirurgião navegar dentro do cérebro do paciente, usando imagens pré-operatórias como orientação, através do uso de sistemas de rastreamento, durante o procedimento cirúrgico. Muitos sistemas desenvolvidos para neurocirurgia guiada por imagem, empregam imagens pré-operatórias para fornecer orientação ao cirurgião, durante o procedimento cirúrgico. Seguindo um procedimento de calibração, a posição tridimensional e orientação dos instrumentos cirúrgicos podem ser transmitidas ao computador. Estas informações espaciais são usadas para acessar a região de interesse nas imagens pré-operatórias com a finalidade de apresentá-las ao cirurgião durante o procedimento. Contudo, quando ocorre a craniotomia, o movimento dos tecidos do cérebro pode ser fonte significativa de erro nestes sistemas. A arquitetura implementada neste trabalho visa o desenvolvimento de um sistema que permite planejamento e orientação cirúrgica. Para orientação cirúrgica foi desenvolvido um software que permite extrair fatias do volume de imagens de ressonância magnética (IRM), com orientação fornecida por um transdutor de posição magnético (Polhemus®). As fatias extraídas serão, futuramente, correlacionadas com imagens de ultra-som (IUS) intra-operatórias para detectar e corrigir a deformação do tecido cerebral durante a cirurgia. A ferramenta para navegação pré-cirúrgica foi desenvolvida para fornecer três fatias ortogonais obtidas através do volume de imagens. Na metodologia usada para a implementação do software, foi utilizada a linguagem de programação Python e a biblioteca gráfica Visualization Toolkit (VTK). Os resultados mostraram que o programa de planejamento pré-cirúrgico, gerou uma alta resolução na visualização dos planos ortogonais e oblíquos das IRM, além de ser rápido e interativo. O programa de extrair fatias do volume de IRM permitiu a aplicação de transformações ao volume, com base nos valores de coordenadas fornecidos pelo transdutor de posição. / Image guided neurosurgery enables the neurosurgeon to navigate inside the patient\'s brain using pre-operative images as a guide and a tracking system, during surgical procedure. Many image guided neurosurgery implementations employ pre-operative images as a guide to the surgeons throughout surgical procedure. Following a calibration procedure, three-dimensional position and orientation of surgical instruments may be transmitted to computer. The spatial information is used to access an interest region, in the pre-operative images, displaying them to the neurosurgeon during the surgical procedure. However, when a craniotomy is involved, movements of brain tissue can be a significant source of error in these systems. The architecture implemented in this work intends the development of a system to surgical planning and orientation. For surgical orientation, the software developed allows the extraction of slices from the volume of the magnetic resonance images (MRI) with orientation supplied by a magnetic position sensor (Polhemus®). In the future, the extracted slices will be correlated with intra-operative ultrasound images to detect and to correct the deformation of brain tissue during the surgery. Also, a tool for pre-operative navigation was developed, providing three orthogonal planes through the image volume. In the methodology used for the software implementation, the Python programming language and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) graphics library were used. The results showed that the program of pre-operative navigation had high resolution in the visualization of orthogonal and oblique MRI planes. Furthermore, it was fast and interactive. The program to extract slices of the MRI volume allowed the application of transformations in the volume, using coordinates supplied by the position sensor.

Neurocirurgia guiada por imagem permite ao neurocirurgião navegar dentro do cérebro do paciente, usando imagens pré-operatórias como orientação, através do uso de sistemas de rastreamento, durante o procedimento cirúrgico. Muitos sistemas desenvolvidos para neurocirurgia guiada por imagem, empregam imagens pré-operatórias para fornecer orientação ao cirurgião, durante o procedimento cirúrgico. Seguindo um procedimento de calibração, a posição tridimensional e orientação dos instrumentos cirúrgicos podem ser transmitidas ao computador. Estas informações espaciais são usadas para acessar a região de interesse nas imagens pré-operatórias com a finalidade de apresentá-las ao cirurgião durante o procedimento. Contudo, quando ocorre a craniotomia, o movimento dos tecidos do cérebro pode ser fonte significativa de erro nestes sistemas. A arquitetura implementada neste trabalho visa o desenvolvimento de um sistema que permite planejamento e orientação cirúrgica. Para orientação cirúrgica foi desenvolvido um software que permite extrair fatias do volume de imagens de ressonância magnética (IRM), com orientação fornecida por um transdutor de posição magnético (Polhemus®). As fatias extraídas serão, futuramente, correlacionadas com imagens de ultra-som (IUS) intra-operatórias para detectar e corrigir a deformação do tecido cerebral durante a cirurgia. A ferramenta para navegação pré-cirúrgica foi desenvolvida para fornecer três fatias ortogonais obtidas através do volume de imagens. Na metodologia usada para a implementação do software, foi utilizada a linguagem de programação Python e a biblioteca gráfica Visualization Toolkit (VTK). Os resultados mostraram que o programa de planejamento pré-cirúrgico, gerou uma alta resolução na visualização dos planos ortogonais e oblíquos das IRM, além de ser rápido e interativo. O programa de extrair fatias do volume de IRM permitiu a aplicação de transformações ao volume, com base nos valores de coordenadas fornecidos pelo transdutor de posição. / Image guided neurosurgery enables the neurosurgeon to navigate inside the patient\'s brain using pre-operative images as a guide and a tracking system, during surgical procedure. Many image guided neurosurgery implementations employ pre-operative images as a guide to the surgeons throughout surgical procedure. Following a calibration procedure, three-dimensional position and orientation of surgical instruments may be transmitted to computer. The spatial information is used to access an interest region, in the pre-operative images, displaying them to the neurosurgeon during the surgical procedure. However, when a craniotomy is involved, movements of brain tissue can be a significant source of error in these systems. The architecture implemented in this work intends the development of a system to surgical planning and orientation. For surgical orientation, the software developed allows the extraction of slices from the volume of the magnetic resonance images (MRI) with orientation supplied by a magnetic position sensor (Polhemus®). In the future, the extracted slices will be correlated with intra-operative ultrasound images to detect and to correct the deformation of brain tissue during the surgery. Also, a tool for pre-operative navigation was developed, providing three orthogonal planes through the image volume. In the methodology used for the software implementation, the Python programming language and the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) graphics library were used. The results showed that the program of pre-operative navigation had high resolution in the visualization of orthogonal and oblique MRI planes. Furthermore, it was fast and interactive. The program to extract slices of the MRI volume allowed the application of transformations in the volume, using coordinates supplied by the position sensor.