Fanshawe College

About: Fanshawe College is a education organization based out in London, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Nanofluid & Heat transfer. The organization has 117 authors who have published 222 publications receiving 2486 citations.

An interprofessional socialization framework for developing an interprofessional identity among health professions students

Abstract: Although health professional educational programs have been successful in equipping graduates with skills, knowledge and professionalism, the emphasis on specialization and profession-specific education has enhanced the development of a uniprofessional identity, which has been found to be a major barrier to interprofessional collaborative person-centred practice (IPCPCP). Changes within healthcare professional education programs are necessary to enable a shift in direction toward interprofessional socialization (IPS) to promote IPCPCP. Currently, there is a paucity of conceptual frameworks to guide IPS. In this article, we present a framework designed to help illuminate an IPS process, which may inform efforts by educators and curriculum developers to facilitate the development of health professions students' dual identity, that is, an interprofessional identity in addition to their existing professional identity, as a first step toward IPCPCP. This framework integrates concepts derived from social identity theory and intergroup contact theory into a dual identity model of IPS.

Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS): development and testing of the instrument

Abstract: Methods: The AITCS, with its 47 items within 4 subscales (partnership, cooperation, coordination, and shared decision making) and assessed on a 5-point Likert scale, was administered to a total of 125 practitioners from 7 health care teams practicing within a variety of settings, in 2 provinces in Canada. Results: Principal components and factor analysis of data resulted in 37 items loading onto 3 factors, explaining 61.02% of the variance. The internal consistency estimates for reliability of each subscale ranged from 0.80 to 0.97, with an overall reliability of 0.98. Thus, the AITCS is a reliable and valid instrument. Discussion: The psychometric analysis of this instrument supports its value in measuring collaboration within teams and when patients are included as team members. The AITCS can be applied to continuing professional education interventions to determine change over time. It has limitations to the Canadian context and within the settings where participants practiced. Further test and retest reliability and longitudinal study application is needed.

GIS–Multicriteria Evaluation with Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA): Case Study of Developing Watershed Management Strategies

Abstract: This paper focuses on the parameterized-ordered weighted averaging (OWA) method. OWA is a family of multicriteria evaluation (or combination) rules. The proposed approach uses a param- eter that serves as a mechanism for guiding multicriteria evaluation procedures. The parameter is incorporated into a method for obtaining the optimal order weights and for developing a transfor- mation function. The function provides us with a consistent way of modifying the criterion values so that the multicriteria combination procedures can be guided by specifying a single parameter. The parameterized-OWA method has been implemented in a GIS environment as a GIS^OWA module and it has been tested in a real-world situation for developing management strategies in the Cedar Creek watershed in Ontario, Canada. Given a set of evaluation criteria, the problem is to evaluate areas in the watershed for rehabilitation and enhancement projects. Using the GIS^OWA method, a number of alternative strategies for rehabilitation and enhancement projects have been generated and evaluated.

Pre-service teachers’ knowledge and attitudes regarding school-based bullying

Abstract: Pre-service teachers responded to two questionnaires regarding school violence, the Teachers' Attitudes about Bullying, and Trainee Teachers' Bullying Attitudes. Results suggest that teachers across all academic divisions view bullying as a serious concern important to their role within the profession. There were considerable differences regarding what was defined as bullying, with a consequent variability related to the potential of intervening to end the violence. Covert forms of bullying including relational, cyber and homophobic were viewed as less serious compared to overt violence and less worthy of attention. The necessity of training regarding anti-violence strategies for preservice teachers is presented.

Cu–Al2O3–H2O hybrid nanofluid flow with melting heat transfer, irreversibility analysis and nonlinear thermal radiation

Abstract: We have investigated the influence of hybrid nanoparticles on various physical quantities in a water-based hybrid nanofluid involved in a steady and fully developed forced convective flow generated over a stretched surface. Nonlinear thermal radiation and melting heat transfer analysis are featured in this work. To obtain the solution of the governing equations, a standard transformation and numerical procedure are implemented. Then, a comprehensive discussion of the effects of the flow regime on several governing parameters is presented. The results indicated that increasing magnetic strength $$M$$ and nanoparticle volume fraction $$\phi_{1}$$ lead to a thicker thermal boundary layer. A similar trend takes place with increasing nonlinear thermal radiation while the reverse is noticed for Eckert number. The entropy generation rate increases with the increase in Brinkman number and Bejan number reduces with increasing Eckert number. The obtained results of this model closely match with those available in the literature as a limiting situation. It is demonstrated that hybrid nanofluids exhibit lower entropy generation rates. The results of this study are of importance in the assessment of the effect of some essential design parameters on heat transfer and, consequently, in the optimization of industrial processes.