INTRODUCTION
FACE RECOGNITION
CAPTURING OF IMAGE BY STANDARD VIDEO CAMERAS
COMPONENTS OF FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS
IMPLEMENTATION OF FACE RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY
PERFORMANCE
SOFTWARE
ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
APPLICATIONS
CONCLUSION
Using Data, Transforming Practice: Evaluating Mental Health Transformation in...MHTP Webmastere
Using Data, Transforming Practice: Evaluating Mental Health Transformation in Washington State</strong><br />
This presentation, made in February 2008 to the 18th Annual Conference on State Mental Health Agency Services
Research, details the approach of the Mental Health Transformation Project in using data to evaluate transformation
Agenda SettingA key aspect of the policy process is agendacheryllwashburn
Agenda Setting
A key aspect of the policy process is agenda setting. How do topics get on that agenda? Agenda setting requires the support of stakeholders to move the issue forward. In this week's media presentation, Dr. Kathleen White outlines the policy process and discusses how to move issues into the policy arena through agenda setting. The ultimate goal is to gain the attention of leadership whether at the organizational, local, state, national, or international level.
To prepare:
Review this week’s media presentation, focusing on the insights shared by Dr. White and Dr. Stanley on agenda setting and identification of stakeholders.
Brainstorm clinical practice issues that you believe are worthy of being on your organization’s systematic agenda.
Who are the stakeholders who would be interested in this clinical practice issue?
By tomorrow 03/14/2018 3pm, write a minimum of 550 words in APA format with at least 3 scholarly references from the list of required readings below. Include the level one headings as numbered below”
Post
a cohesive response that addresses the following:
1) In the first line of your posting, identify the clinical practice issue you would like to see on your organization’s systematic agenda.
2) What strategies would you use to inform stakeholders and persuade them of the importance of your identified clinical practice issue?
Required Readings
Hyder, A., Syed, S., Puvanachandra, P., Bloom, G., Sundaram, S., Mahmood, S., ... Peters, D. (2010). Stakeholder analysis for health research: case studies from low- and middle-income countries. Public Health, 124(3), 159–166.
This study demonstrates how the engagement of stakeholders in research and policy making can assist in the successful implementation of policy proposals. The authors propose that by engaging stakeholders, researchers and policy makers are provided with multiple perspectives on proposed policies, which can lead to greater success with policy adoption and implementation.
Lavis, J. N., Permanand, G., Oxman, A. D., Lewin, S., & Fretheim, A. (2009). SUPPORT Tools for evidence-informed health Policymaking (STP) 13: Preparing and using policy briefs to support evidence-informed policymaking. Health Research Policy & Systems, 71–79. doi: 10.1186/1478-4505-7-S1-S13
The purpose of a policy brief is to communicate an issue clearly and definitively to policy makers. The authors of this article propose an outline for policy briefs and also stress the importance of using research when creating a policy brief.
Lowery, B. (2009). Obesity, bariatric nursing, and the policy process: The connecting points for patient advocacy. Bariatric Nursing & Surgical Patient Care, 4(2), 133–138.
This article provides an example of nurse involvement in policy making by examining a bariatric nursing issue. The author stresses that nurses, in their patient-advocacy role, have a responsibility to be involved in the health care ...
ODF III - 3.15.16 - Day Two Morning SessionsMichael Kerr
Slide presentations delivered during morning sessions of Day Two of the California Statewide Health and Human Services Open DataFest - March 14 - 15, 2016, Sacramento, CA
Community Engagement of Sexual & Gender Minority PopulationsCHICommunications
This session, tailored for intermediate learners, offers a deep dive into patient and community engagement in health research, specifically focusing on its pivotal role in driving policy change. Learners will emerge equipped with:
🟠 A comprehensive understanding of the benefits of patient and community engagement in health research.
🟠 The ability to articulate the principles of authentic patient and community engagement.
🟠 A clear definition of intersectionality and practical insights into incorporating its principles into their patient and community engagement strategies.
🟠 An appreciation for the pivotal role of advocacy and the development of public- and stakeholder-facing materials in research programs aimed at influencing health policy.
Using alternative scholarly metrics to showcase the impact of your research: ...SC CTSI at USC and CHLA
Date: Feb 7, 2018
Speaker: Caroline Muglia, Co-Associate Dean for Collections and Technical Services; and Head, Resource Sharing and Collection Assessment, USC Libraries
Overview: Scholarship is increasingly being created, disseminated, and measured on digital and social platforms. If Twitter exchanges, Facebook “saves,” and YouTube hits are the new metrics for tracking scholarship, how are we measuring societal and educational impact and outreach? How can researchers display their research impact using social media on promotion and tenure dossiers? This webinar will discuss altmetrics, alternative scholarly metrics that measure the impact and use of scholarship. We will focus on PlumX, the tool used at USC, which combines traditional and new metrics to paint a comprehensive portrait of your scholarly output and its reach in various communities and with different stakeholders.
Evidence-Informed Public Health Decisions Made Easier: Take it one Step at a ...Health Evidence™
An afternoon workshop - held in partnership with the National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools - at the Ontario Public Health Convention April 7, 2011
Open Data for better health service delivery - Fabrizio Scrollini (Latin Amer...mysociety
This was presented by Fabrizio Scrollini from the Latin American Open Data Initiative (ILDA) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2017) in Florence on 25th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org
Exploring Disparities Using New and Updated MEasures on SHADAC's State Health...soder145
Slides from webinar webinar introducing two new measures of health outcomes and social determinants of health on SHADAC’s State Health Compare—Unhealthy Days and Unaffordable Rents. This presentation, hosted by SHADAC researchers Brett Fried and Robert Hest, examine these new measures and highlight how the estimates can be used to explore disparities between states and among sub-populations.
Leveraging 1332 State Innovation Waivers to Stabilize Individual Health Insur...soder145
Presentation by SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Emily Zylla at the 2018 Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) Fall Research Meeting in Washington, DC.
Modeling State-based Reinsurance: One Option for Stabilization of the Individ...soder145
Presentation by SHADAC Director Lynn Blewett at the 2018 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Fall Research Conference in Washington, DC.
2017 Health Insurance Coverage Estimates: SHADAC Webinar Featuring U.S. Censu...soder145
Join us for an overview of the 2017 health insurance coverage estimates from two key, large-scale federal data sources: The American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS).
This webinar will examine the new estimates with technical insight from experts at the U.S. Census Bureau, which administers both the ACS and CPS, and from SHADAC researchers.
Attendees will learn about:
The new 2017 national and state coverage estimates
When to use which estimates from which survey
How to access the estimates via Census reports and American FactFinder
How to access state-level estimates from the ACS using SHADAC tables
SHADAC researchers and Census experts will answer questions from attendees after the presentation.
Exploring the New State-Level Opioid Data On SHADAC's State Health Comparesoder145
Between 2000 and 2016, the annual number of drug overdose deaths in the United States more than tripled, from 17,500 to 63,500, and most of these deaths involved opioids. Despite widespread increases in overdose death rates from natural and semi-synthetic opioids, synthetic opioids, and heroin, individual states’ death rates varied widely. For example, in 2016, Nebraska’s rate of 1.2 deaths per 100,000 people was the lowest in the U.S. for natural and semi-synthetic opioids, while West Virginia’s rate (the highest) was more than 15 times larger, at 18.5 deaths. These deaths are the most glaring indication of the growing crisis of opioid abuse and addiction that has been spreading unevenly throughout the country over the past two decades.
On this SHADAC webinar, Research Fellow Colin Planalp will examine the United States opioid epidemic at the state level, analyzing trends in overdose deaths from heroin and other opioids, such as prescription painkillers. Using data available through SHADAC’s State Health Compare, he will look at which states have the highest rates of opioid-related deaths and which have experienced the largest increases in death rates.
Mr. Planalp will be joined by SHADAC Research Fellow Robert Hest, who will discuss the data on opioid-related overdose deaths from the U.S. Centers from Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that are available on SHADAC’s State Health Compare. He will also discuss State Health Compare data from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on sales of common prescription opioid painkillers. Mr. Hest will show users how to access and use the data for state-level analyses.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
1. Using Research in the Real World: State Integrated Research Lynn A. Blewett, Ph.D. State Health Access Data Assistance Center University of Minnesota, School of Public Health AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Chicago, IL June 29, 2009
2. 2 Presentation Overview Model of informed state policy Involving states in the research process State Integrated Research (SIR) Pitfalls of not involving state partners
3. 3 State policy-makers turn to state-level research to answer the following: What are the policy options? What other states have tried them? Do they work? e.g. increase access, improve quality, etc. How much does it cost?
4. Un-Informed State Health Policy Research Researcher State Analyst Conduct research: use publically available data, state reports etc. Conduct lit review: search for reports/studies on key policy topic, evidence, support, data, information Maybe finds article Public Research: in academic peer-reviewed journal, if lucky, Health Affairs State Policy Maker Policy Decision Tenure: (maybe) 4
5. Informed State Health Policy Research Researcher State Analyst Conduct research and provide TA for capacity building, sharing of methods and models Information gathering: Input to research question, identifying data and key actors, TA in state culture Translationof information/Research to Policy: Testimony, meetings, issue briefs, memo/letters to state officials, press release Policy Decisions State Policy Maker Policy Development: Politics, compromise, discussion of options, coalition building, lobbying 5
6. 6 State Integrated Research (SIR) A collaborative approach to research that depends on state participation throughout the research process State involved from the beginning by driving the research agenda Researcher committed to communicating findings to state in various ways Success of SIR hinges on connecting with the correct state contacts at various stages
7. 7 Four Steps to State Integrated Research Determine the stage of research Identify appropriate institutions and individuals Maintain communication with state contacts Use agreed-upon methods to share results - TRANSLATION
8. 8 Step 1: Determine stage of research Defining research Drafting proposal Data acquisition Provide TA related to research/data Sharing research findings Translate to Policy Findings Need different people at different stages
9. 9 Step 2: Identify appropriate institutions and individuals Dept of HEALTH Policy Topic Dept of Insurance or Commerce Tax Credit Comprehensive Reform SCHIP Expansion Dept of REVENUE Dept of Medicaid Family/HumanServices Premium Buy-In
10. 10 Step 3: Maintain communication with state contacts Researchers and state partners should be in touch throughout the research process Identify key people to share preliminary findings and ongoing challenges Development of synergy and trust between research and state needs
11. 11 Step 4: Use agreed-upon methods to share results Capacity building workshop: demonstrate new method or use of data Technical assistance: assist with implementation of new model, forecast or technical finding Issue Brief: Technical finding with a policy consequence Testimony: to key committee, advisory group, legislative hearing Press Release
12. Challenges to State Integrated Research Time constraints of policy process Research results might not line up with state interests – then what? Tension between “client” (state) who is paying and research that is “objective” Communication of methodological approach and need for sound research Translation is critical….. Input to decision-making process not making the decision… 12
13. 13 Without State Involvement Difficult to access needed data Access to data will be time consuming or blocked IRB process may be stalled Findings will be overlooked or ignored Information from findings will not reach key decision makers Research will not inform policy
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15. Link to states and state analystsFunding 15 projects in 23 states