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The Criminal and the Corrupt
No full textThe commentaries in this Kitabkhana provide ample food for thought about the social-scientific study of crime and corruption. All agree on the importance of focusing on actual practice and not forcing non-western societies into Eurocentric heuristics. They also pose urgent questions about what might constitute grounded theories of governance and productive avenues for pushing for reform and change
Serious games for healthcare professional training: a systematic review
No full textObjectives: This review aims to evaluate the performance of serious games as a training tool compared to other methods of continued professional development (CPD) and continued medical education (CME) for healthcare professionals.Methods: PubMed, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Web of Science, World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP), PLOS ONE, ClinicalTrials. gov, were searched for available randomized control trials (RCTs) up to June 2018. We used the CASP (Critical Appraisal Skills Programme) tool to evaluate the quality of RCTs.Results: The search identified 1430 papers; among them, 119 were evaluated. Finally 17 RCTs involving 2978 participants were selected in this systematic review. The serious games (SGs) were classified into three broader categories: 1) specifically designed games to enhance training skills and learning gains, 2) game design elements to bolster the sense of competition for knowledge enhancement, 3) commercially available video games for training on medical procedures. Four studies found levels of satisfaction among participants of SGs to be high; none of the studies evaluated the impact of the games on beliefs or behaviors. Overall, the studies provided limited evidence to support a strong connection between the use of serious games and improved performance.Conclusion: SGs can be an effective alternate/ complementary component of healthcare training curriculum. However, existing heterogeneous assessment methodologies are not accurately depicting the effectiveness of games. More robust RCT/research designs are needed to evaluate the effectiveness of serious games
Is Motion ‘contradiction’s immediate existence’?
No full textA driving concern of Russell’s rejection of Idealism was his conviction that reality is free of contradictions. However, echoing the neo-Hegelians that Russell is usually taken successfully to have refuted, Graham Priest has recently argued that the analysis of motion provides a motivation to adopt dialetheism (the thesis that some contradictions may be true). Furthermore, Priest argues that the Russellian account of motion as given in The Principles of Mathematics fails accurately to capture the phenomenon. In this paper we argue that Priest’s objections to Russell are neither new nor decisive. We show that even if one shares Priest’s concerns about the Russellian model there are alternatives inspired by Russell’s own contemporaries that do not entail dialetheism. We conclude that not only are Priest’s objections to Russell unconvincing, but even one who shares Priest’s intuitions has no reason to resurrect the Hegelian account of motion
The Effect of an Augmented Commercial Weight Loss Program on Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Psychological Distress in Women with Overweight or Obesity: a Clustered Randomised Controlled Trial.
No full textObjective: The present study tested the effects of integrating an evidence-based physical activity intervention within an existing commercial weight loss program to assess effects on increasing physical activity and reducing psychological distress. Method and results: The CONSORT guidelines were adopted for the study. Forty nine women with overweight or obesity (M age = 39.5, SD:12.4; M Body Mass Index = 31.02, SD: 2.10) enrolled in a six week commercial weight loss program were randomized to an intervention or a control group. Participants in the control group received care as usual; participants in the intervention group additionally received an evidence-based intervention to increase physical activity that included behaviour change techniques including implementation intentions, goal-setting and self-monitoring. Weekly steps increased in the intervention group (M=31516.25; SD=9310.17 to M=62851.36; SD=13840.4) significantly more (p < .001, p2 = .32) than in the control group (M=30207.67; SD=7833.29) to M=46969.33 (SD=9470.96), along with experiencing significantly lower anxiety (p < .001, p2 = .15), social dysfunction (p < .001, p2 = .16) and depression symptoms (p < .05, p2 = .08) at follow-up. Implications: this intervention warrants extension to those seeking to improve mental health through physical activity
A Personalised 3D-Printed Device for Monitoring Temperature of the Plantar Foot in Participants with Diabetes
No full textBackground: Temperature differences greater than 2.2°C between anatomical landmarks on opposite feet has been suggested as a pre-cursor of diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) development. Objective: This study aims to collect temperature data from the human foot from diabetic and healthy subjects. We have created a personalised wearable using 3D printing that can monitor the temperature of the foot from four high-risk sites (Hallux, 1st and 5th Metatarsal Heads and Calcaneus) on each foot to an accuracy of 0.2°C. Methods: The study will recruit ten participants with diabetes (with no diagnosis of DFU or damaged skin), and ten participants from a healthy control group. The anatomical landmarks of participants are identified and used to create an individualised 3D-printed insole for each participant which mounts the temperature sensors under each high-risk site. Participants then wear these insoles inside trainers, matched to their shoe size. After a 10 minute acclimatisation phase, participants are asked to perform two activities, sitting (15 minutes) and standing (10 minutes) while the temperature of the sites on their feet are logged. Results: Preliminary results indicate that both the final temperature and differences between sites is higher in participants with diabetes compared to healthy participants. Conclusion: This study is currently ongoing to identify if there are significant temperatures differences on the foot between diabetic and healthy participants that could be a precursor to the development of a DFU. Our method for patient specific design could be used in clinical practice to diagnose the development of diabetic foot ulcers
A compact RFQ cooler buncher for CRIS experiments
No full textA compact radio frequency cooler buncher (RFQCB) is currently in development between The University of Manchester, KU Leuven, and CERN. The device will be installed as part of the Collinear Resonance Ionisation Spectroscopy (CRIS) experiment at the Isotope separator On-line device (ISOLDE) at CERN. The purpose of developing a dedicated RFQCB for the CRIS experiment is to increase data collection efficiency, and simplify the process of obtaining reference measurements with stable isotopes. The CRIS technique is outlined in addition to an overview of the proposed RFQCB, and its potential compatibility for implementation at ISOLDE
Introduction: Explaining Attitudes towards Immigration - Findings from the immigration module in the European Social Survey 2014-15
No full textHeavy-atom effect on time-resolved luminescence of singlet oxygen. Determination of SΔ, the probability that triplet quenching by oxygen produces O2 (1Δg).
No full textThe external heavy-atom effect, which is commonly used to enhance the triplet yield of photosensitizers, is applied here to allow the determination of accurate values of the parameter SΔ that describes the efficacy with which the triplet reacts with O2 to produce O2 (1Δg) (quantum yield Δ). The study of the effect of halogenated compounds Q addition on the luminescence intensity of O2 (1Δg) at 1270 nm or on the rate of O2 consumption for three porphyrin derivatives allows to get precise values of Δ/SΔ and then of SΔ. It is concluded that (i) the probability SΔ is equal to unity for TPP, MgTTP and pheophytin a, (ii) the best balance between ease of use and results accuracy is provided by the time-resolved luminescence of O2 (1Δg) at 1270 nm technique and the determination of the parameters with equation 6 involving relative change in fluorescence yields F/FQ and in luminescence intensities of singlet oxygen LQ/L, and (iii) TPP, a readily available sensitizer, is recommended as a reference compound with Δ = 0.80 in aerated benzene
Constraints on Innovative Teaching in British Universities: An American Perspective
No full textEffective teaching is often difficult to achieve because institutional frameworks and inertia – unique to the British educational system – inhibit teachers from being innovative. These challenges to more innovative teaching are the relatively short length of time to a degree, and the heavy institutional oversight of degree programmes and individual courses. Also, the tradition of lack of regular feedback and failures in the supervision and marking of undergraduate dissertations also lead to a less-than-ideal educational experience. Fortunately, some of these challenges can be changed and provide a better learning experience for students
Rainbows, Supernumerary Rainbows and Interference Effects in the Angular Scattering of Chemical Reactions:Effect of Varying the Modulus of the S Matrix in the Context of Heisenberg’s S Matrix Programme
No full textWe investigate the existence of primary rainbows, supernumerary rainbows and diffraction interference effects in the product differential cross sections (DCSs) of state-to-state chemical reactions. The rainbows can be “pronounced” or “hidden”. Our theoretical approach uses a “weak” version of Heisenberg’s scattering matrix program (wHSMP) introduced by X. Shan and J. N. L. Connor, 2011, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 13 8392. This wHSMP uses four general physical principles for chemical reactions to suggest simple parametrized forms for the S matrix; it does not employ a potential energy surface. We use a realistic parametrization in which the modulus of the S matrix is the sum of a smooth-step function and a gaussian function; both are functions of the total angular momentum quantum number, J. We then vary the parameters in the modulus. The phase of the S matrix is a cubic polynomial in J, which is held fixed. We demonstrate for a Legendre partial wave series (PWS) the existence of primary rainbows and supernumerary rainbows (both pronounced and hidden) as well as diffraction interference effects, in reactive DCSs. We find that reactive rainbows can be complicated in their structure. We also analyse for five examples, the angular scattering using Nearside-Farside (NF) PWS theory, including resummations of the PWS. In addition, we apply full and NF asymptotic (semiclassical) rainbow theories to the PWS − in particular, the uniform Airy and transitional Airy approximations for the farside scattering. This lets us prove that structures in the DCSs are indeed primary rainbows, supernumerary rainbows as well as diffraction interference effects. Our calculations complement and extend those in an earlier paper by X. Shan, C. Xiahou, and J. N. L. Connor, 2018, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 20 819, in which the modulus of the S matrix is held fixed, whilst the phase is varied