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So you want to be a qualified nursing associate?
Get PDFThis is the submitted version of the article by Maggie Ward, Trainee Nursing Associate - Manchester Royal Infirmary, for the
Professional - Life trajectory section of British Journal of Healthcare Assistants,© 2020 MA Healthcare Ltd. The final expanded article can be found at the link above
Co-creating real-world research skills
Get PDFThis case study considers a students-as-partners’ research project that aimed to
develop technologically-driven tools to enhance teaching and learning in higher
education. It focuses on how the project enabled student participants to gain real
world research skills and experience. We present reflections from both a student and
a staff perspective and propose START (Support, Time, Adapt, Risks, Trust) as an
approach to engage students to gain real-world research skills. Support refers to
providing support for skills gaps and learning in an applied setting. Time refers to
providing time to settle into the project and develop confidence, including realistic
timeframes and deadlines. Adapt refers to giving students the space to develop not
only the required skills but also the tools to develop their own abilities and
confidence through a supportive, flexible and open environment. Risks refers to
taking risks for example in terms of roles, responsibilities and leadership. Trust refers
to providing guidance and encouragement that will allow students to achieve on
their own and take shared ownership
The impact of Workers’ Welfare Programme on the migrant workers: insights from Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup
Get PDFFor the past decade, FIFA’s decision to award World Cup hosting rights to Qatar has
placed the country in the spotlight of international scrutiny and criticism, particularly
for the treatment of migrant workers delivering infrastructure projects and venues
for the upcoming mega event. The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC),
chief body responsible for the successful delivery of the 2022 World Cup and post-event legacy, has taken steps beyond Qatar’s current labour law requirements and
created the Workers’ Welfare Programme (WWP). It entails a unique and
comprehensive approach to screening, auditing and retaining contractors that fulfil a
specific set of requirements designed to protect migrant workers from abuse and
provide them with working and living conditions of high standards.
Currently, research on the effectiveness of this Programme as well as other efforts to
protect migrant workers – both in Qatar and globally – is rather limited in its scope
and depth. Existing studies mainly focus on post-event analyses with inadequate
primary data collection efforts, failing to give voice to all parties involved. This study
aims to bridge this knowledge gap by investigating the factors affecting the migratory
construction workers involved in the preparations for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. It
does so by examining the implementation of various aspects of the SC’s WWP and the
extent to which it has impacted migrant workers and other relevant stakeholders.
The study adopted a mixed-method approach to data collection and analysis by
conducting a quantitative survey of migrant workers and juxtaposing it with findings
from qualitative interviews with high level stakeholders. The results indicate that
great strides have been achieved in improving different aspects of migrant workers’
lives such as their living conditions and workplace safety standards. However, a
number of concerns remain to be fully resolved, including the illegal practice of
levying recruitment fees, comprehensive training, salary satisfaction as well as access
to healthcare. The study suggests a number of policy recommendations to effectively
address the issues and preserve Qatar’s post-World Cup legacy
Provision of acute medicine services for pregnant women in UK hospitals: Data from the Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit 2019
Get PDFBackground: Medical problems during pregnancy are the leading cause of maternal mortality in the UK. Pregnant women often present through acute
services to the medical team, requiring timely access to appropriate services, physicians trained to manage medical problems in pregnancy, with locally
agreed guidance available.
Methods: Data were collected through the Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit, a national audit of service delivery and patient care in
acute medicine over a 24 hour period.
Results: One hundred and thirty hospitals participated: 5.5% had an acute medicine consultant trained in obstetric medicine, and 38% of hospitals had
a named lead for maternal medicine. This was not related to hospital size (p ¼ 0.313). Sixty-four units had local guidelines for medical problems in
pregnancy; 43% had a local guideline for venous thromboembolism in pregnancy. Centres with a named lead had more guidelines (p ¼ 0.019).
Conclusion: Current provision of services within acute medicine for pregnant women does not meet national recommendation
Digitalisation in sustainable manufacturing: a literature review
No full textThe purpose of this insight paper is to provide an overview of early studies implemented on examining the influence and impacts of Digitalisation in sustainable manufacturing, with the key focus towards the new Digital Supply Chain (DSC), through the implementation and adoptability of Industry 4.0 parameters within the context of sustainable manufacturing. There have been few literature that discusses the evolution and transformation of the transformation of traditional manufacturing methods through comparisons of conceptual models and state of art reviews of digitalisation and industry 4.0 with specific focus on digitisation within supply chain processes. Through early studies within literature, it was noted that there is a gap in linking Sustainable Manufacturing practices to the new elements and actors of industry 4.0 and its wider impacts on DSC. Hence, the authors aim to explore firstly, sustainable manufacturing and the practices adopted within supply chain, with specific case of food manufacturing sectors, before finally examining the literature concerning the focus of digitalisation in manufacturing processes
A Quality Enhancement Framework with Noise Distribution Characteristics for High Efficiency Video Coding
Get PDFVideo coding effectively reduces the amount of video data while unavoidably producing compression noise. Compression noise can cause significant artifacts in compressed video, such as blocking, ringing, and blurring, which seriously affects the visual quality of videos and the value of videos for content analysis. In compressed video quality enhancement, few methods based on deep learning fully consider the relationship between video content and compression noise or the possibility of uniting the encoder or the decoder to enhance the quality of compressed video. In an approach different from existing methods, we propose a video quality enhancement framework based on the distribution characteristics of compression noise. The proposed framework consists of two parts: at the encoder, we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based in-loop filtering network combined with noise distribution (IFN-ND) characteristics for the I frame instead of high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard in-loop filters; at the decoder, we propose a CNNbased quality enhancement network combined with the noise distribution characteristics (PQEN-ND) for the P frames. The noise characteristics are extracted from the code stream to further improve the performance of the proposed networks. The experiments show that the proposed method can significantly improve the quality of HEVC compressed video, achieving an average 12.84% reduction in the BD rate and up to a 1.0476 dB increase in the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR)
Sustainable Demand Chain toward Prosperity of New Product Development (NPD) Projects: A Systematic Review
No full textManufacturing organisations are currently experiencing a tight competition with their global rivals through new product offerings. With the viewpoint of rapid developing sustainable practices, this research pursues to investigate the impact of sustainable practices within demand driven distribution networks towards effective planning for product development purposes. Utilising the systematic review method of literature, different angles of this emerging perspective will be clarified. In the first step, we identify new product development (NPD) approaches as well as identification of traditional supply chain and demand chain approaches followed by scrutinising current world literature and a critical review as inputs of research findings. The systematic literature is guided by five key steps recommended by previous studies. A systematic literature review is conducted comprising of 75 scientific journal and conference papers from the year 2000 to 2020 towards analysis and discussions. The proposed conceptual framework provides with six propositions to be further measured, tested and validated. This research highlights the need for both academia and industries to combine the demand chain rising theories with sustainable supply chain to act as inputs towards increasing the success rate of NPD projects
Alice and the North: an exploration, through the prose poem, of place and notions of ‘northernness’
Get PDFThis thesis charts the development of my poetics through the writing of a prose poetry
collection on the theme of the North. The practice-led research has as its focus the
role of prose poetry in responding to place. It seeks to challenge my prior
understanding of more traditional, poetic forms by creating work that sits between
poetry and prose, in a hybrid space suited to exploring ‘northernness’. In terms of
poetics, this thesis aims to extend the reach of the prose poetry form by using
ekphrasis and cross-art form practice to represent place and space. My work draws on
the disciplines of architecture, cartography and photography to enable me to
formulate a multi-disciplinary approach to creative practice and develop a richer
understanding of how to represent place in prose poetry. I argue that the prose poetry
form, with its qualities of hybridity and indeterminacy, is an ideal vehicle for exploring
the instability of place and I explore whether the form itself has helped shape the way
that the North is portrayed in my writing. By using the methodology of walking, the
research moves away from initial ideas of place as being rooted to particular location,
placing prose poetry within the context of new developments in psychogeography and and
the idea of the female writer as a flâneuse. I demonstrate how I have contextualised
my prose poetry at the cutting edge of contemporary eco-poetics, and explore
whether it is possible to forge a new understanding of a poetic relationship with the
environment, appropriate to the Anthropocene age, where the human and more than-human are in a state of balanced reciprocity
Beauty and Recollection: from the Phaedrus to the Enneads
Get PDFIt is often claimed in the scholarly literature that Plotinus departs from Plato in mostly dispensing with the concept of anamnēsis (recollection). The essay is aimed at disproving such a claim. The supportive argument will proceed in five stages. First, a brief outline will be given of the role that recollection plays in the Phaedrus, a dialogue to which Plotinus returns time and again. Second, a critical reading will be offered of the most salient passages in the Enneads where Plotinus makes use of the notion. Third, the function of anamnēsis, in Plotinus’ understanding of the term, will be shown to enable the embodied human soul to become aware of the presence in herself of riches she had previously been unaware of possessing, namely logoi of a reality higher than herself. Fourth, in building a normative element into the concept of anamnēsis, Plotinus, it will be argued, made it a key factor in the inward process through which human souls can reverse the self-forgetfulness that had led them to become alienated from their ontological source in Intellect. Fifth, despite having profoundly modified Plato’s concept of anamnēsis, Plotinus, it will be concluded, remained at one with him in presenting the apprehension of beauty as the stimulus most likely to lead the human soul back to her true self in Intellect
Are SMEs ready for Industry 4.0 technologies: an exploratory study of I 4.0 technological impacts
No full textFourth Industrial revolution, Industry 4.0– A rapidly growing world of digitization that opens the doorway for new era of automation plays a crucial role within the industry which requires a constant research and improvements to achieve and sustain themselves in current world of competitive market. Implementation of industry 4.0 technologies pioneer for a profit maximization with cost reduction and has even realized to show a significant refinement in improved sustainability. Global Market leading organisations are positioning themselves with world of digitisation to their end consumers utilising the digital marketing, e-commerce and customer experience virtually driving towards a completely new era of digital ecosystem. Supply chain management (SCM) within the small and medium enterprises (SME’s) plays an important role in supporting the global manufacturing economies. SME’s lacks the understanding and significance of transforming themselves with the extremely complex digital supply chain systems that may leads to losses if they don’t embrace now for innovations and implement the latest technological advancements. This paper aims to examine the current trends and impacts of latest technologies within the SME’s with the view of key factors of Industry 4.0