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Bringing Spirituality and Wisdom into Practice
Full text linkThis chapter considers the way in which the split between "objective" reductionist approaches and a more subjective understanding of the human ccondition arose in the 17th century with spirituality associated with the subjective approach. The consequent difference between the biomedical and the broader biopsychosocial approach to medical practice is discussed. The relationship between spirituality, religion, secularism and wisdom is explored. The concepts of a shared journey and of spiritually competent practice are used to illustrate how spirituality and wisdom can be integrated into truly holistic person-centred practice. Obstacles and facilitators to this kind of practice are considered alongside approaches to educating practitioners in this area
Spiritual Dimensions of Nurse Practitioner Consultations in Family Practice
Full text linkPurpose of Study: To explore the spiritual dimensions of nurse practitioner consultations in primary care through the lens of availability and vulnerability. Design of Study and Methods Used: A hermeneutic phenomenological enquiry exploring the spiritual dimensions of primary care consultations consisting of two interviews per participant over an 18-month period was conducted with nurse practitioners in the United Kingdom. A purposive sample of eight nurse practitioners were recruited and interviewed. Interviews were fully transcribed and analyzed thematically. Findings: Participants identified that spirituality can be difficult to conceptualize and operationalize in practice. Participants articulated the meaning of spirituality and gave examples of when they had witnessed a spiritual dimension in practice. Key themes included how nurse practitioners conceptualize spirituality, the context for spirituality to be integrated into care, and the importance of spirituality as an aspect of holistic care. The concepts of Availability and Vulnerability were used intentionally as a lens in the study to explore whether these concepts and approaches to practice could enhance integration of spirituality into practice. Conclusion: Knowledge and understanding regarding spirituality in nurse practitioners consultations in primary care has been uncovered. A framework for operationalizing spirituality has been developed
Precision Core Temperature Measurement of Metals Using an Ultrasonic Phase-Shift Method
Full text linkTemperature measurement is one of the most important aspects of manufacturing. There have been many temperature measuring techniques applied for obtaining workpiece temperature in different types of manufacturing processes. The main limitations of conventional sensors have been the inability to indicate the core temperature of workpieces and the low accuracy that may result due to the harsh nature of some manufacturing environments. The speed of sound is dependent on the temperature of the material through which it passes. This relationship can be used to obtain the temperature of the material provided that the speed of sound can be reliably obtained. This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a cost-effective solution suitable for precision applications that require the ability to resolve a better than 0.5 °C change in temperature with ±1 °C accuracy. To achieve these, simulations were performed in MATLAB using the k-wave toolbox to determine the most effective method. Based upon the simulation results, experiments were conducted using ultrasonic phase-shift method on a steel sample (type EN24T). The results show that the method gives reliable and repeatable readings. Based on the results from this paper, the same setup will be used in future work in the machining environment to determine the effect of the harsh environment on the phase-shift ultrasonic thermometry, in order to create a novel technique for in-process temperature measurement in subtractive manufacturing processes
An Efficient Framework of Utilizing the Latent Semantic Analysis in Text Extraction
No full textThe use of the latent semantic analysis (LSA) in text mining demands large space and time requirements. This paper proposes a new text extraction method that sets a framework on how to employ the statistical semantic analysis in the text extraction in an efficient way. The method uses the centrality feature and omits the segments of the text that have a high verbatim, statistical, or semantic similarity with previously processed segments. The identification of similarity is based on a new multi-layer similarity method that computes the similarity in three statistical layers, it uses the Jaccard similarity and the vector space model in the first and second layers respectively, and uses the LSA in the third layer. The multi-layer similarity restricts the use of the third layer for the segments that the first and second layers failed to estimate their similarities. Rouge tool is used in the evaluation, but because Rouge does not consider the extract’s size, we supplemented it with a new evaluation strategy based on the compression rate and the ratio of the sentences intersections between the automatic and the reference extracts. Our comparisons with classical LSA and traditional statistical extractions showed that we reduced the use of the LSA procedure by 52%, and we obtained 65% reduction on the original matrix dimensions, also, we obtained remarkable accuracy results. It is concluded that the employment of the centrality feature with the proposed multi-layer framework yields a significant solution in terms of efficiency and accuracy in the field of text extraction
Giving Permission to Play in Higher Education
Full text linkPlaying in public, including within education, is a political act, one that is loaded with potential disapproval by others, and hence becomes difficult for potential players to do. Even so, play has many potential benefits within Higher Education. This paper describes some of the benefits to play and describes the social difficulty of playing through the lens of Goffman’s frames. It goes onto describe some ways in which playful learning can be introduced to increase the social acceptability and impact of play within Higher Education. These are steps towards constructing a playful frame in which students and staff can view Higher Education. No absolute guidelines could be produced, as both play and acceptability of it are socially constructed and are so completely contextual, but an overall approach is suggest to increase the understanding, acceptability, and effectiveness of play
On men, masculinities and changing unequal gender power relations: a transversal dialogue with myself
No full text“Put It Up to Eleven”: An Experimental Study on Distorted Solo Guitar Techniques in Sixty Years of Rock Music
No full textThéberge (1997) has argued the modification of instruments to lead to a change of playing or even to establish completely new playing techniques. The introduction of amplification marked such a cornerstone of guitar playing. Overloaded valves caused the amplifier to distort, and this new sound has led to new practices on the electric guitar.
Research on the electric guitar in blues, rock, and metal music has mostly been focused on historical reconstruction, structural analysis, or cultural interpretation. Studies on how distortion affects the guitar’s playability are still on the fringes, yet such knowledge from the musician’s perspective is needed to interpret guitar performances within the larger cultural context. This article aims at contributing acoustic evidence to the practice of electric guitar playing by investigating the effects of distortion on the instrument’s playability and expressiveness. The study followed an experimental design. Parts of five songs from six decades of rock music were re-recorded with different guitar sounds for analysing acoustic features. Visual representations like spectrograms, frequency curves, and dynamic waveforms were combined with acoustic feature extraction for a detailed analysis of the interrelation of sound and playing.
The findings offer explanations of how the changing of acoustic features affects electric guitar playing. In some regards, distortion enhances the guitar’s potential as an expressive solo instrument confirming theoretical claims in academic literature. Yet, it can also reduce expressiveness and tonal variety, and force the player to put more effort into phrasing. The results contribute to an empirical foundation for future musicological and cultural studies oriented research to build on. In addition, the findings may be insightful for musicians, educators, producers, arrangers, composers, and bandleaders due to the pivotal role of the electric guitar’s characteristic sound in popular music
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