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Ontology and values anchor indigenous and grey nomenclatures: a case study in lichen naming practices among the Samí, Sherpa, Scots, and Okanagan.

Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences Sep 10, 2020
Ethnobotanical research provides ample justification for comparing diverse biological nomenclatures and exploring ways that retain alternative naming practices. However, how (and whether) comparison of nomenclatures is possible remains a subject of d...
Norway Lichens Biological Ontologies Terminology as Topic Population Groups Scotland Nepal British Columbia Social Values Humans
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Predicting bovine tuberculosis status of dairy cows from mid-infrared spectral data of milk using deep learning.

Journal of dairy science Aug 20, 2020
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is a zoonotic disease in cattle that is transmissible to humans, distributed worldwide, and considered endemic throughout much of England and Wales. Mid-infrared (MIR) analysis of milk is used routinely to predict fat and pr...
Neural Networks, Computer Sensitivity and Specificity Animals Deep Learning Phenotype Female Milk Spectrophotometry, Infrared Tuberculosis, Bovine Predictive Value of Tests Scotland Lactation England Cattle
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Predicting asthma attacks in primary care: protocol for developing a machine learning-based prediction model.

BMJ open Jul 9, 2019
INTRODUCTION: Asthma is a long-term condition with rapid onset worsening of symptoms ('attacks') which can be unpredictable and may prove fatal. Models predicting asthma attacks require high sensitivity to minimise mortality risk, and high specificit...
Clinical Decision Rules Symptom Flare Up Scotland Emergency Service, Hospital Bayes Theorem Hospitalization Asthma Primary Health Care Support Vector Machine Risk Assessment Humans Machine Learning
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Knowledge into action - supporting the implementation of evidence into practice in Scotland.

Health information and libraries journal Jan 1, 2017
BACKGROUND: The knowledge into action model for NHS Scotland provides a framework for librarians and health care staff to support getting evidence into practice. Central to this model is the development of a network of knowledge brokers to facilitate...
Librarians Information Services Scotland Humans Knowledge Bases Quality Improvement Information Dissemination State Medicine Evidence-Based Medicine Program Development
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Scotland's knowledge network: a progress report on Knowledge into Action.

Scottish medical journal Oct 7, 2015
Launched in 2012, Knowledge into Action is the national knowledge management strategy for the health and social care workforce in Scotland. It is transforming the role of the national digital knowledge service--NHS Education for Scotlands' Knowledge ...
Information Services Information Dissemination Knowledge Bases Scotland Research Report Evidence-Based Medicine Humans Quality Improvement Social Networking Quality Assurance, Health Care Translational Research, Biomedical
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Decision support for Scotland's health and social care: learning from an outcomes-focused approach.

BMJ health & care informatics Jul 1, 2020
This short report shares learning from the research and development phase of the national decision support programme in NHS Scotland. It outlines how the programme has adopted an outcomes-focused approach which has guided critical decisions on soluti...
Scotland Longitudinal Studies Knowledge Bases Humans Social Support Decision Support Systems, Clinical Delivery of Health Care
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Use of text-mining methods to improve efficiency in the calculation of drug exposure to support pharmacoepidemiology studies.

International journal of epidemiology Apr 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: Efficient generation of structured dose instructions that enable researchers to calculate drug exposure is central to pharmacoepidemiology studies. Our aim was to design and test an algorithm to codify dose instructions, applied to the NH...
Electronic Health Records Natural Language Processing National Health Programs Pharmacoepidemiology Data Mining Humans Scotland Prescriptions
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