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New Frontiers in Technology: AI Use in Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment in Health Systems
No full textIn recent years, AI has transformed the process for identifying and recruiting patients to clinical trials, particularly for rare and ultrarare diseases. The use of AI technologies can leverage advanced data analytics, machine learning algorithms, and natural language processing to streamline and improve the efficiency of the patient recruitment process. It involves meticulously matching patients’ clinical profiles with trial eligibility criteria derived from diverse data sources, including global registries, published natural history studies, and electronic health records
Perceptions of Police: Justice-Impacted and Non-Impacted Opinions
Get PDFThe purpose of this paper is to examine what affects individual’s perceptions of the police through a review of the literature. Because the police work directly with their community, opinions that their communities hold of the police can affect their ability to perform their job effectively. Particular focus is given to justice-impacted persons. A justice-impacted person is an individual who is at risk for incarceration, has been incarcerated, or has had family members incarcerated. It is advantageous to survey justice-impacted persons regarding their perceptions of the police because they have had direct contact with the police. This contrasts with general population perceptions, which may be formed based on media portrayal or apprehension of crime. Legitimacy, procedural justice, and media consumption are some of the variables that are examined. Some strategies for enhancing public perceptions of police officers include implementing peacemaking criminology and enhancing pre-employment criteria and training. Community policing is used as an example of peacemaking criminology. This method of law enforcement involves officers building and maintaining strong relationships with the people within the community they serve. Additionally, the Fairmont State University Police Academy is utilized as an example of reform, integrating an academic understanding of policing with practical field training to cultivate well-rounded and knowledgeable officers
Muslim Association User Guide
No full textThe User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.
This part of the Guide provides information about the khutbas delivered at the Association. It includes the title, scripture text, subject, and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.https://mds.marshall.edu/muslim_assoc_huntington/1000/thumbnail.jp
Honors Seminar: Religion and the Sermon in Appalachia
Get PDFThis presentation is kind of a sequel/follow-up to one I gave seven years ago in Baltimore, entitled “Four Case Studies in Teaching Sermons at a Public University.” I discussed
a gen-ed ENG class, a gen-ed class cross-listed with ENG & RST, a graduate seminar, and a class in the Honors College. The first three were one-offs, but the Honors class has lived on. I taught it again, in much the same form, the semester after that presentation, and again this past semester. The title was now “Religion and the Sermon in Appalachia” (for purposes of the online schedule, it had to be shortened to what you see on the screen). Here’s what I wrote in the course proposal:
The proposed course is both narrower and broader than the previous two. It is narrower in its geographic scope: in 2015 and 2017, we studied sermons preached throughout the United States and in some other countries; this one will deal specifically with the Appalachian region. On the other hand, it is broader in its subject matter: while the previous iterations focused almost exclusively on the sermons themselves, this one will examine them within the larger context of religious beliefs and practices in Appalachia
How Fears of AI in the Classroom Reflect Anxieties about Choosing Sophistry over True Knowledge in the American Education System
Get PDFThe rise of ChatGPT has educators across the United States of America worried about scholastic integrity like never before. This paper argues, however, that underneath this initial concern lies an even greater one, that the education system in the United States so closely resembles the style of teaching used by the sophists in Ancient Greece that it has ultimately failed to cultivate critical thinking skills in America’s youth, so much so that ChatGPT has become a far greater issue than it ever needed to be. The practice of ‘teaching to the test’ and the commodification of education, which is akin to the sophists’ custom of instructing the youth of Athens on how to win debates rather than seek true knowledge and charging a high price to do so, has created an education system where true knowledge is no longer the goal. Thus, the real worry about ChatGPT lies not in students circumventing the processes of knowledge, but in educators being forced to recognize the failure to foster such a process in the first place
