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Emad Shash - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the evolution of undergraduate medical Student Research activities personal experience of a developing nation s uprise
Journal of Cancer Education, 2015Co-Authors: Mohamed Amgad, Emad ShashAbstract:Revolutions are swift, while evolution is typically a slow, incremental process. One of the most notable things that happened after the Egyptian 2011 revolution was the explosive uprising of youth. Regardless of the political turn of events, which is surely not the subject of this piece, it was becoming increasingly clear that something beyond politics was radically changing the academic landscape, particularly among university Students. What started as a “revolutionary” interest in science and Research quickly transformed into a continuously changing “evolutionary” process. As a finalyear medical Student who spent half of his medical school before the revolution, and half of it after the political turmoil, I was lucky to be one of the earliest Bexperiments^ demonstrating the value of strong mentorship on developing an early aptitude for Research. One year before the revolution, an oncology summer rotation was developed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI, Cairo University), designed to test the applicability of incorporating oncology rotations into the core medical curriculum in medical schools in developing countries [1]. I joined the course in its second year; the year of the revolution. The course instructor—who later became my long-term Research mentor and is co-authoring this opinion piece—integrated an academic writing component into the rotation, as a way to stay in par with the thenbudding interest in Research among the revolution youngsters. The result was a published literature review article that he and I co-authored on the very same topic that the oncology summer school addressed: oncology education for medical Students in developing countries [2]. I cannot overstate the importance of early Research exposure and continuing mentorship on developing my character and Research understanding. Three years after my initial Research exposure, I now have seven published papers in international peer-reviewed journals (six of which are in PubMedindexed journals), one local and two international conference abstracts and one co-authored book chapter on cancer epidemiology. I appear as the first author on three of the published papers, and as the second author on the other four. But what is it that caused such a paradigm shift? Was it the early sense of achievement? Was I simply lucky to have gained a head start? Perhaps luck had a role, but according to our latest metaanalysis on medical Student Research, about one in three Research projects undertaken by medical Students gets published in international peer-reviewed journals [3]. Clearly, I am no special case; I am simply a case study demonstrating the untapped potential of medical Student involvement in Research. Project after project, I saw my Research competence rise and my Research confidence grow. I became more systematic in my approach to the literature, understood the importance of good planning and note-taking, became more accustomed to mining for literature Bgaps^, and gained much proficiency in academic writing. Beside its impact on my scientific productivity, my early Research experience taught me a lot about my own passions and career aspirations. I was fascinated by the Research process so much that I decided to take a gap year to train in basic molecular and developmental biology. Eventually, I ended up learning basic MATLAB programming (which is a scientific computing language) and discovered a passion for integrating bioinformatics and computational tools in biomedical Research and medical practice. * Emad Shash emad.shash@nci.cu.edu.eg
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medical Student Research an integrated mixed methods systematic review and meta analysis
PLOS ONE, 2015Co-Authors: Mohamed Amgad, Marco Man Kin Tsui, Sarah Liptrott, Emad ShashAbstract:Importance Despite the rapidly declining number of physician-investigators, there is no consistent structure within medical education so far for involving medical Students in Research. Objective To conduct an integrated mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies about medical Students' participation in Research, and to evaluate the evidence in order to guide policy decision-making regarding this issue. Evidence Review We followed the PRISMA statement guidelines during the preparation of this review and meta-analysis. We searched various databases as well as the bibliographies of the included studies between March 2012 and September 2013. We identified all relevant quantitative and qualitative studies assessing the effect of medical Student participation in Research, without restrictions regarding study design or publication date. Prespecified outcome-specific quality criteria were used to judge the admission of each quantitative outcome into the meta-analysis. Initial screening of titles and abstracts resulted in the retrieval of 256 articles for full-text assessment. Eventually, 79 articles were included in our study, including eight qualitative studies. An integrated approach was used to combine quantitative and qualitative studies into a single synthesis. Once all included studies were identified, a data-driven thematic analysis was performed. Findings and Conclusions Medical Student participation in Research is associated with improved short- and long- term scientific productivity, more informed career choices and improved knowledge about-, interest in- and attitudes towards Research. Financial worries, gender, having a higher degree (MSc or PhD) before matriculation and perceived competitiveness of the residency of choice are among the factors that affect the engagement of medical Students in Research and/or their scientific productivity. Intercalated BSc degrees, mandatory graduation theses and curricular Research components may help in standardizing Research education during medical school.
Mohamed Amgad - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the evolution of undergraduate medical Student Research activities personal experience of a developing nation s uprise
Journal of Cancer Education, 2015Co-Authors: Mohamed Amgad, Emad ShashAbstract:Revolutions are swift, while evolution is typically a slow, incremental process. One of the most notable things that happened after the Egyptian 2011 revolution was the explosive uprising of youth. Regardless of the political turn of events, which is surely not the subject of this piece, it was becoming increasingly clear that something beyond politics was radically changing the academic landscape, particularly among university Students. What started as a “revolutionary” interest in science and Research quickly transformed into a continuously changing “evolutionary” process. As a finalyear medical Student who spent half of his medical school before the revolution, and half of it after the political turmoil, I was lucky to be one of the earliest Bexperiments^ demonstrating the value of strong mentorship on developing an early aptitude for Research. One year before the revolution, an oncology summer rotation was developed at the National Cancer Institute (NCI, Cairo University), designed to test the applicability of incorporating oncology rotations into the core medical curriculum in medical schools in developing countries [1]. I joined the course in its second year; the year of the revolution. The course instructor—who later became my long-term Research mentor and is co-authoring this opinion piece—integrated an academic writing component into the rotation, as a way to stay in par with the thenbudding interest in Research among the revolution youngsters. The result was a published literature review article that he and I co-authored on the very same topic that the oncology summer school addressed: oncology education for medical Students in developing countries [2]. I cannot overstate the importance of early Research exposure and continuing mentorship on developing my character and Research understanding. Three years after my initial Research exposure, I now have seven published papers in international peer-reviewed journals (six of which are in PubMedindexed journals), one local and two international conference abstracts and one co-authored book chapter on cancer epidemiology. I appear as the first author on three of the published papers, and as the second author on the other four. But what is it that caused such a paradigm shift? Was it the early sense of achievement? Was I simply lucky to have gained a head start? Perhaps luck had a role, but according to our latest metaanalysis on medical Student Research, about one in three Research projects undertaken by medical Students gets published in international peer-reviewed journals [3]. Clearly, I am no special case; I am simply a case study demonstrating the untapped potential of medical Student involvement in Research. Project after project, I saw my Research competence rise and my Research confidence grow. I became more systematic in my approach to the literature, understood the importance of good planning and note-taking, became more accustomed to mining for literature Bgaps^, and gained much proficiency in academic writing. Beside its impact on my scientific productivity, my early Research experience taught me a lot about my own passions and career aspirations. I was fascinated by the Research process so much that I decided to take a gap year to train in basic molecular and developmental biology. Eventually, I ended up learning basic MATLAB programming (which is a scientific computing language) and discovered a passion for integrating bioinformatics and computational tools in biomedical Research and medical practice. * Emad Shash emad.shash@nci.cu.edu.eg
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medical Student Research an integrated mixed methods systematic review and meta analysis
PLOS ONE, 2015Co-Authors: Mohamed Amgad, Marco Man Kin Tsui, Sarah Liptrott, Emad ShashAbstract:Importance Despite the rapidly declining number of physician-investigators, there is no consistent structure within medical education so far for involving medical Students in Research. Objective To conduct an integrated mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies about medical Students' participation in Research, and to evaluate the evidence in order to guide policy decision-making regarding this issue. Evidence Review We followed the PRISMA statement guidelines during the preparation of this review and meta-analysis. We searched various databases as well as the bibliographies of the included studies between March 2012 and September 2013. We identified all relevant quantitative and qualitative studies assessing the effect of medical Student participation in Research, without restrictions regarding study design or publication date. Prespecified outcome-specific quality criteria were used to judge the admission of each quantitative outcome into the meta-analysis. Initial screening of titles and abstracts resulted in the retrieval of 256 articles for full-text assessment. Eventually, 79 articles were included in our study, including eight qualitative studies. An integrated approach was used to combine quantitative and qualitative studies into a single synthesis. Once all included studies were identified, a data-driven thematic analysis was performed. Findings and Conclusions Medical Student participation in Research is associated with improved short- and long- term scientific productivity, more informed career choices and improved knowledge about-, interest in- and attitudes towards Research. Financial worries, gender, having a higher degree (MSc or PhD) before matriculation and perceived competitiveness of the residency of choice are among the factors that affect the engagement of medical Students in Research and/or their scientific productivity. Intercalated BSc degrees, mandatory graduation theses and curricular Research components may help in standardizing Research education during medical school.
Graziele Marques Mazuco Dos Santos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a clustering based sales forecast for fashion retailing Student Research abstract
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2018Co-Authors: Graziele Marques Mazuco Dos SantosAbstract:Forecasting future sales is one of the most important issues of the fashion industry. Planning process in the fashion industry can be divided in two phases: supply, which is made before the selling season and replenishment which occurs during the selling season and aims to analyze, for each product, if the stock level is capable to supply the expected demand [6]. The demand uncertainty is hard to deal with due to short life-cycles, high volatility, low predictability and impulsive purchasing. Besides, with the frequent substitution of apparel items, new items do not have historical sales data. In this context precise demand forecast play an important role in the supply chain management.
Amir Atabekov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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internet of things based smart classroom environment Student Research abstract
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2016Co-Authors: Amir AtabekovAbstract:The management of classrooms, halls, offices, and public spaces and the efficient use of these resources in any organization are challenging problems. With the rise of Internet of Things (IoT), the management of these resources can be automated. Methods to automatically record activities and monitor resource usage inside classrooms in real-time are usually intricate. Previously we implemented a proof-of-concept phase of the smart chair system [1], consisting of one chair, to solve the problem of resource and classroom management at small scale. In this abstract we propose a complete system consisting of ten smart chairs, by employing IoT paradigm in order to simplify classroom management, attendance tracking and classroom interaction. Taking Students attendance-monitoring systems as a motivational example, instructors have to call the names of Students or the Students are asked to sign the attendance sheet. The former is a time consuming process, while the latter is unreliable. The proposed smart classroom system simplifies many of these tasks by utilizing indoor localization, RFID sensors, pressure sensors, Arduino microcontrollers and cloud backend. The smart chair system can automatically check whether the chair is occupied or not by using multiple sensing technologies. Moreover, Student identification can be automatically performed using RFID sensors, which can read RFID tags off Student identification cards. Additionally, the tardiness or leave-early information can be analyzed by exploiting the integrated timestamps. The proposed smart classroom system will identify each Student, record timestamp of arrival and departure, and will generate a dynamic seat map of Students in the classroom by utilizing indoor localization.
Ricardo Brandao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a blockchain based protocol for message exchange in a ics network Student Research abstract
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2020Co-Authors: Ricardo BrandaoAbstract:The Internet and the Internet of Things (IoT) are fostering the evolution of Industrial Control Systems (ICS). The devices in this new ICS are highly interconnected but also more exposed to security problems due the lack of security primitives in devices and communication protocols. This paper presents a communication protocol that combines the blockchain technology and the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol (SSB), which was developed for decentralized message exchange applications. The proposed approach provides (a) a straightforward identification mechanism based on invitation; (b) a flexible signature-based authentication method; (c) the use of a chained feed of encrypted private messages to support integrity and confidentiality of communication; (d) a pruning strategy to reduce device storage constraint problems.
