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A Comparative Review of GPT-4’s Applications in Medicine and High Decision Making
No full textThis paper provides a comprehensive assessment of GPT-4’s (Generative Pre-trained Transformer – 4) application in the domain of medicine, highlighting its advancements compared to previous models. It delves into the model’s potential, limitations and significant experimental findings - offering a thorough perspective on its rôle in transforming the medical field. Emphasizing the implications of GPT-4’s integration in critical decision-making contexts, the study explores the pivotal rôle of prompt engineering in extracting precise and valuable outputs from extensive language models like GPT-4. By examining prompt design intricacies, the research sheds light on its far-reaching consequences and its direct influence on enhancing GPT-4’s effectiveness, especially its rôle as a medical assistant
Beyond instrumentalised politics: re-conceptualising public governance
Get PDFPolitical thinking tends to outline reforms to existing political institutions. In contrast, Beyond Instrumentalised Politics argues for the need for systemic transformation. It articulates the evaluative principles for good governance, and employs these principles to argue for a new political system. Because persons are non-instrumentally valuable, good governance requires that all people are respected equally, and this necessitates a participatory democracy. The book investigates how such a democracy might function through consensus-based decision-making and argues for a redefinition of consensus. It characterises the local and national institutions required for public governance thus conceived. This includes the creation of various types of spaces for deep dialogue and mutual inquiry. This book demonstrates how this innovative vision would transform our current conceptions of governance. It seeks to:
- broaden and transform current conceptions of governance and democracy
- meet the needs of both researchers and professionals advancing innovative practices of governance
- provide conceptual support for emergent participatory democracy movement
An exploration of the factors perceived to be at play in the development of resilience and problem-solving skills in the lives of adolescent participants in Wales
Get PDFThis study seeks to understand the experiences and perceptions of adolescent participants with regard to opportunities and barriers faced in developing the specific skills of resilience and problem-solving within family, school and community settings. The transformational impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) on education, the economy, job markets and social interactions have led to a re-examination of the skills needed to thrive in the 21st century. Rapid advances in technology demand that today’s adolescents require a distinct set of skills in order to navigate the unprecedented changed brought about by the 4IR.
This study is contextualised within Wales where issues relating to deprivation, equality and wellbeing have resulted in new legislation and curriculum reform. Fifteen participants aged between 12 and 17 years were recruited via gatekeeper organisations and through professional connections with parents. A participatory research framework empowered participants to shape data-collection processes resulting in highly insightful commentaries on lived experiences. This qualitative research generated a diverse data set and thematic analysis served as a scaffold for the examination of data, within an interpretivist paradigm. Data indicate that feelings of belonging were powerful factors in the development of skills, together with the existence of supportive relationships. Perceptions of institutional bias and frustrations with existing policies and practices served as obstructions to the enhancement of resilience and problem-solving.
Findings make a unique contribution to what is known about skills-development in adolescence by amplifying participants’ voices to allow the presentation of complex ideas and perspectives, which appear to be lacking in existing literature. As such, this study is relevant to teachers, youth workers and all professionals who interact with young people. Moreover, this study presents a model that outlines factors which provide optimum conditions for skills-enhancement, centred around belonging and agency in decision making
The Relationship between Physical Activity and Motor Competence of Foundation Phase Children in Wales during the School Day
Get PDFEarly childhood is a crucial time for children to develop their fundamental motor skills (FMS), serving as a foundation for engagement in lifelong physical activity (PA). With increasing concerns over the declining levels of PA and motor competence (MC), the aim of this study was to explore the predictors of PA in children in a play-based curriculum. A secondary purpose was to explore levels of PA and MC during the school day. The final aim was to explore whether there were sex differences. Children (N = 94; Mage = 68.96 months, SD = 8.25) in five classes from four different schools in Wales were tested on the TGMD-2, standing long jump, and MABC-2. Levels of PA were measured using ActiGraph GT3X-BT accelerometers, and 85 children met the wear time criteria
Teaching Strategies to Improve Intercultural Competence of Business English Major Students in Jiangxi Province of China
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to find out the barriers and obstacles that the business English teachers encounter in intercultural education of business English majors in central part of China, and explore the teaching strategies that teachers are using to tackle those barriers. The teaching strategies were offered by a group of teachers in a university located in the capital city of Jiangxi province and useful for constructing a teaching strategy model to serve as assistance to intercultural competence cultivation.
The process and procedures used to validate the data and information were interviews with six business English teachers and questionnaires of forty-six students of business English program. The interviews were designed and conducted to collect information of the teaching barriers and strategies concerning intercultural teaching. Teachers dissected the challenges and corresponding countermeasures to develop students’ intercultural competence. They generated description of the concept and elements of intercultural competence and made explanation of the cultivation of intercultural competence of business English students. Two rounds of questions were communicated with the same group of students through questionnaires. Students provided self-evaluation of their attitudes and understandings of intercultural competence. They also show their evaluation of intercultural teaching and provide some suggestions for teaching.
Conclusions made from this study include the identified barriers of intercultural teaching and intercultural teaching strategies for developing business English major students’ intercultural competence. The primary barriers include lack of understanding of the importance of intercultural competence, lack of consensus on the definition of intercultural competence, and lack of full confidence in teaching competence and teaching environment. The strategies thought of by teachers cover how to define IC teaching objectives, how to enhance intercultural knowledge, how to foster critical cultural awareness, how to develop intercultural attitudes, how to retain intercultural willingness, how to improve intercultural skills, and how to integrate diversified activities. An intercultural teaching strategy model with an example of a teaching plan, based on the findings and the teaching context of the business English programme, is presented to guide intercultural competence cultivation of business English learners
Identifying a late Cypriot rural house: re-examining Building 1 at Aredhiou Vouppes
No full textThis paper re-examines Building 1 at Aredhiou, focusing on the pottery and other artefacts in association with the architecture. Previously, Building 1 has been interpreted at the supra-household level, focusing on work and storage areas rather than engaging with the possibilities of domestic activities. Here however, I reassess Building 1 at the domestic level. I propose that the structure be re-identified as an example of a House (Levi-Strauss 1982), which apparently dominated production activities at the site. My aim is to better understand the nature and organisation of domestic production and other activities in the LBA rural hinterland, thereby allowing us to consider the daily lived experiences of the ordinary Cypriot
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Computing, Networking, Telecommunications & Engineering Sciences Applications (CoNTESA ’23)
No full textWe are pleased to introduce the proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Computing, Networking, Telecommunications & Engineering Sciences Applications 2023 (CoNTESA ’23), held from 14th – 15th December 2023, at Veleucilište Suvremenih Informacijskih Tehnologija (VSITE), Croatia.
We extend our warm, heartfelt thanks to our keynote and industrial invited speakers:
• Vojislav (Vojo) Kecman, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, VA, USA;
• Mohammed Shafi K, Device Driver Development, Intel Corporation in Folsom, California, USA.
The keynote and industrial invited speakers graciously and voluntarily offered their time to share their many years of experience and deep knowledge. Without them, the conference would not have been successful.
Thanks are also due to those who submitted papers and to the team of reviewers. The chairs and technical programme committee members must also not be forgotten for their eagerness to make this second conference a continued success.
Special gratitude must go to the International Association for Educators and Researchers (IAER) for their financial sponsorship as well as full logistical support and Veleucilište Suvremenih Informacijskih Tehnologija (VSITE) for hosting this conference. Finally, special gratitude is due to the technical co-sponsors of this conference, namely the: IEEE Croatia Section (Both Computer and Communications Chapters) and Veleucilište Suvremenih Informacijskih Tehnologija (VSITE).
To conclude, we firmly believe that the forthcoming CoNTESA conferences will be as successful and stimulating as indicated by the contributions presented in this volume.
Yours cordially,
Maaruf Ali (Universiteti Metropolitan Tiranë, Albania)
Mahdi H. Miraz (Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia)
Andrew Ware (University of South Wales, UK)
Domagoj Tulicic (Veleucilište Suvremenih Informacijskih Tehnologija, Croatia
Parallels between the Physical Vacuum and concept of Qi in Medical Qigong: comprehending oneness
No full textPurpose: The purpose of this paper is to bring into the public domain converging ways of thinking about reality and human systems, exploring parallels between the theory of Physical Vacuum and the concept of Qi in Medical Qigong science. Design/methodology/approach. The approach adopted in this paper includes: review of the relevant literature; dialogues between the first two authors over an eight-month period; review of the findings and discussion of interpretations by all. Findings There is evidence for the existence of an ideal information field. This field is a real space-time torsion structure. Qi is a torsion field. It spreads with superluminal velocity and connects the whole Universe. Any entity is in a constant dynamic connection with everything else in the Universe. Research limitations/implications This paper offers limited discussion of the wider area of scientific discoveries. Social implications. The findings may impact future interdisciplinary research, health/well-being practices and public policy. Originality/value There is no known to us publication interpreting the parallels between the theory of the Physical Vacuum and the concept of Qi
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