Synergizing technology and health promotion for the prevention of tuberculosis
- Srinivas, Sunitha C, Mtolo, L T, Duxbury, Theodore O, Bradshaw, Karen L
- Authors: Srinivas, Sunitha C , Mtolo, L T , Duxbury, Theodore O , Bradshaw, Karen L
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/460629 , vital:75971
- Description: With the rapid global increase in the prevalence of tuberculosis, health promotion is crucial to raise communal health awareness. This service-learning health promotion activity aimed to increase awareness of TB amongst school learners in attendance at the 2016 National Science Festival. A computer-based pre- and post-intervention quiz, an educational poster, an interactive word search game, and a take-home information leaflet were utilized in a health promotion exhibit. Junior and senior school learners who participated in the exhibit showed significant improvements in their post-educational intervention scores. The exhibit was effective as a preliminary measure in reinforcing health information and raising awareness.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Srinivas, Sunitha C , Mtolo, L T , Duxbury, Theodore O , Bradshaw, Karen L
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/460629 , vital:75971
- Description: With the rapid global increase in the prevalence of tuberculosis, health promotion is crucial to raise communal health awareness. This service-learning health promotion activity aimed to increase awareness of TB amongst school learners in attendance at the 2016 National Science Festival. A computer-based pre- and post-intervention quiz, an educational poster, an interactive word search game, and a take-home information leaflet were utilized in a health promotion exhibit. Junior and senior school learners who participated in the exhibit showed significant improvements in their post-educational intervention scores. The exhibit was effective as a preliminary measure in reinforcing health information and raising awareness.
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- Date Issued: 2018
Service learning based environmental health promotion activities for pharmacy students: educating young on the safe disposal of medicines and used sharps
- Srinivas, Sunitha C, Paphitis, Sharli, Ncomanzi, A.S, Tandlich, Roman, Bradshaw, Karen L
- Authors: Srinivas, Sunitha C , Paphitis, Sharli , Ncomanzi, A.S , Tandlich, Roman , Bradshaw, Karen L
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/475255 , vital:77788
- Description: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of a service-learning based environmental health promotion exhibit in raising awareness of safe disposal of medicines and used sharps during the 2014 National Science Festival in South Africa. The study design utilised a computer-based quiz, an information poster, an interactive model and a take-home information leaflet on the safe disposal of medicines and used sharps which were developed by students and staff in the faculty of pharmacy at Rhodes University. Predominantly school students attended the exhibit and took part in a quiz. 413 participants took part in the environmental health promotion activity, with 91% of the participating learners attending schools in the Eastern Cape Province. significant improvement (p is less than 0.001). Moreover, the results show significant gender differences for both the pre- and post-intervention mean scores. The environmental health promotion project was successful in raising awareness of the safe and appropriate disposal of medicines and used sharps by highlighting the dangers associated with their incorrect disposal, both to the environment and eventually to humans. Similar continuous health promotion activities are essential for sustainable effectiveness in the transformation of individual and communal actions in South Africa for the safe disposal of medicines and used sharps.
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- Date Issued: 2015
- Authors: Srinivas, Sunitha C , Paphitis, Sharli , Ncomanzi, A.S , Tandlich, Roman , Bradshaw, Karen L
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/475255 , vital:77788
- Description: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of a service-learning based environmental health promotion exhibit in raising awareness of safe disposal of medicines and used sharps during the 2014 National Science Festival in South Africa. The study design utilised a computer-based quiz, an information poster, an interactive model and a take-home information leaflet on the safe disposal of medicines and used sharps which were developed by students and staff in the faculty of pharmacy at Rhodes University. Predominantly school students attended the exhibit and took part in a quiz. 413 participants took part in the environmental health promotion activity, with 91% of the participating learners attending schools in the Eastern Cape Province. significant improvement (p is less than 0.001). Moreover, the results show significant gender differences for both the pre- and post-intervention mean scores. The environmental health promotion project was successful in raising awareness of the safe and appropriate disposal of medicines and used sharps by highlighting the dangers associated with their incorrect disposal, both to the environment and eventually to humans. Similar continuous health promotion activities are essential for sustainable effectiveness in the transformation of individual and communal actions in South Africa for the safe disposal of medicines and used sharps.
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- Date Issued: 2015
Determining the difficulty of accelerating problems on a GPU
- Tristram, Dale, Bradshaw, Karen L
- Authors: Tristram, Dale , Bradshaw, Karen L
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/475208 , vital:77784
- Description: General-purpose computation on graphics processing units (GPGPU) has great potential to accelerate many scientific models and algorithms. However, since some problems are considerably more difficult to accelerate than others, ascertaining the effort required to accelerate a particular problem is challenging. Through the acceleration of three typical scientific problems, seven problem attributes have been identified to assist in the evaluation of the difficulty of accelerating a problem on a GPU. These attributes are inherent parallelism, branch divergence, problem size, required computational parallelism, memory access pattern regularity, data transfer overhead, and thread cooperation. Using these attributes as difficulty indicators, an initial problem difficulty classification framework has been created that aids in evaluating GPU acceleration difficulty. The difficulty estimates obtained by applying the classification framework to the three case studies correlate well with the actual effort expended in accelerating each problem.
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- Date Issued: 2014
- Authors: Tristram, Dale , Bradshaw, Karen L
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/475208 , vital:77784
- Description: General-purpose computation on graphics processing units (GPGPU) has great potential to accelerate many scientific models and algorithms. However, since some problems are considerably more difficult to accelerate than others, ascertaining the effort required to accelerate a particular problem is challenging. Through the acceleration of three typical scientific problems, seven problem attributes have been identified to assist in the evaluation of the difficulty of accelerating a problem on a GPU. These attributes are inherent parallelism, branch divergence, problem size, required computational parallelism, memory access pattern regularity, data transfer overhead, and thread cooperation. Using these attributes as difficulty indicators, an initial problem difficulty classification framework has been created that aids in evaluating GPU acceleration difficulty. The difficulty estimates obtained by applying the classification framework to the three case studies correlate well with the actual effort expended in accelerating each problem.
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- Date Issued: 2014
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