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The Healthcare Operations Management and the Industry 4.0: The Disruptive Technology Use in the Continuous Education
No full textThe industry 4.0 can contribute to the healthcare operations management through the disruptive technology use in the continuous education of the healthcare professionals. This research study analyzes the interaction between the theoretical information and its practical applicability in the healthcare operations management safe process development. The researchers developed this study between May and July, 2018, and search to answer two questions. The questions are: How to use the disruptive technologies in the continuous education for healthcare professionals? How to enable professionals present on healthcare operations to use these technologies? The Global Competitiveness Index by the World Economic Forum report [14] was the basis of the data for this study. The results and discussion section have two highlights: “the professional adaptation to the disruptive technologies” and “the use of the disruptive technologies on continuous education.” The Conclusions section shows that the insertion of the disruptive technology brings the work optimization time of the professional for a specific activity. The implementation of the annual training schedule, the adjustment of the sector dynamics, and the adhesion of the professional on the educational program are presented in the conclusions. This research study contributes the insertion of the healthcare professional on the educational program and the fourth industrial revolutio
Bridging the Law and Forensic Science Divide
Get PDFIn this chapter, the authors trace the roots of this disappointment, considering the opportunities for cross-disciplinary teaching and learning across law and forensic science in the academy. Drawing upon domestic research, and a study of the Canadian educational landscape in this space, the authors posit that, despite continued calls externally for greater educational collaboration between law and forensic science, United Kingdom academics face structural and cultural obstacles to meaningful cooperation. The authors received funding from the University of Leeds in 2009 to commence a project to facilitate the building of vital connections in the academy, to ensure that legal and forensic science undergraduate education was “fit for purpose”. Casting an eye internationally to seek solutions to problems can often be beneficial, particularly when issues affect many nations similarly, so following the 2009 workshop and report the authors ventured further afield for inspiration
Making an Impact on Policing and Crime: Psychological Research, Policy and Practice.
No full textMaking an Impact on Policing and Crime: Psychological Research, Policy and Practice applies a range of case studies and examples of psychological research by international, leading researchers to tackle real-world issues within the field of crime and policing.
Making an Impact on Policing and Crime documents the application of cutting-edge research to real-world policing and explains how psychologists’ insights have been adapted and developed to offer effective solutions across the criminal justice system. The experts featured in this collection cover a range of psychological topics surrounding the field, including the prevention and reduction of sexual offending and reoffending, the use of CCTV and ‘super-recognisers’, forensic questioning of vulnerable witnesses, the accuracy of nonverbal and verbal lie detection interview techniques, psychological ‘drivers’ of political violence, theoretical models of police–community relations, and the social and political significance of urban ‘riots’.
This collection is a vital resource for practitioners in policing fields and the court system and professionals working with offenders, as well as students and researchers in related disciplines
Self-Management for Persistent Pain: The Blame, Shame and Inflame Game?
No full textThis book critiques the current approach to the self-management of persistent pain. The drive towards self-management of chronic pain is flourishing as healthcare systems struggle to facilitate the care of those with long term health conditions. In this book Karen Rodham argues that albeit an empowering idea, self-management has not yet been fully translated from idea to practice and as such, runs the risk of blaming and shaming the person living with a chronic condition for failing to manage their condition effectively. She contends that the additional stress of this tension may in fact worsen their condition. Drawing from the research evidence as well as her practice experience, she advocates a move away from the terms ‘self’ and ‘management’ towards a more collaborative approach. One which takes account of the life-context of the person who is living with persistent pain.
This book explores the shortcomings of the tendency to focus on self-management without taking into account life context and considers how we got here and what can be done. It will be a valuable resource to researchers and practitioners, especially in the field of health psychology
Towards Our New Architecture: A Seance in one Act.
Get PDFA commissioned essay to engage with notions of utopia and dystopia in architectural practice. The essay was commissioned as a pamphlet to be given out to all audience members for the L13 Jimmy Cauty MdZ ESTATE TOUR, for its premier at in Stoke-on-Trent 2020.
'Two years in the making this highly detailed construction utilises over two tons of concrete and 3 miles of electrical cable.
Every one of the 1360 rooms on the ESTATE has been scratch built and then painstakingly vandalised by the Town Planner.
The ESTATE container has 3 operating modes:
LOCKDOWN
Look in through observation ports.
STANDBY
Go in and walk around the ESTATE.
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Go in and walk around with EXTREME AMBER RUDD FX.
Psychological interventions for improving adherence to inhaled therapies in people with cystic fibrosis
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This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows:
The primary objective of the review is to assess the eBicacy of psychological interventions for improving adherence to inhaled therapies
in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). A secondary objective is to establish the most eBective components, or behaviour change techniques
(BCTs), of interventions for improving adherence to inhaled therapies in people with CF, using the BCT Taxonomy version 1 (Michie 2013)
Narrative Machines: A Ludological approach to Narrative Design
Get PDFIn this chapter, we discuss the design of games as narrative machines – mechanical systems that create narrative experiences. The role of narrative in games has been a hotly discussed topic in Game Studies, and indeed there are many ways that play and story can come together, from static scripts authored by the designer to improvised scenes freely role-played by players. We wish to address a middle-ground of particular interest to boardgame design: the emergent narratives that result from the interaction between the players and the rules.
We argue for the deployment of systemic narrative – stories that are the result of carefully designed systems and which employ emergent play as a viable design tool, based on a close analysis by Malcolm Ryan (the lead author). We outline an approach that Ryan calls narrative-driven design, in which the designer begins by analysing the desired narrative as if it were a game being played. We ask ourselves: “Who are the players in this scene? What actions are available to them? What are their incentives? What conflict are they experiencing?” When this is understood, we can begin to recreate the same situation through the mechanics of our game
Rerolling Boardgames: Essays on Themes, Systems, Experiences and Ideologies (Studies in Gaming)
Get PDFDespite the advent and explosion of videogames, boardgames--from fast-paced party games to intensely strategic titles--have in recent years become more numerous and more diverse in terms of genre, ethos and content. The growth of gaming events and conventions such as Essen Spiel, Gen Con and the UK Games EXPO, as well as crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, has diversified the evolution of game development, which is increasingly driven by fans, and boardgames provide an important glue to geek culture. In academia, boardgames are used in a practical sense to teach elements of design and game mechanics.
Game studies is also recognizing the importance of expanding its focus beyond the digital. As yet, however, no collected work has explored the many different approaches emerging around the critical challenges that boardgaming represents. In this collection, game theorists analyze boardgame play and player behavior, and explore the complex interactions between the sociality, conflict, competition and cooperation that boardgames foster. Game designers discuss the opportunities boardgame system designs offer for narrative and social play. Cultural theorists discuss boardgames' complex history as both beautiful physical artifacts and special places within cultural experiences of play
Forensic Epigenetics Methods and Applications
No full textForensic epigenetics is the use of epigenetics techniques to address questions of interests to the courts of law and the criminal investigator. Current efforts to develop forensic epigenetic techniques are surrounding four issues in the criminal investigation; body fluid identification (targeting microRNA and DNA methylation), individual age prediction (targeting DNA methylation), differentiating between monozygotic twins, and potentially stain age prediction (targeting a range of markers). Here, the forensic challenges are discussed alongside current capability, and current research efforts to help improve the capability of the forensic investigator. The use of microRNA and DNA methylation has been used to great success to improve the identification of forensically relevant body fluids, with DNA methylation-based techniques already in use in casework. There has been a substantial development of the use of DNA methylation to predict the age of individuals, with prediction models available in open access format. A range of different techniques has been used to differentiate between monozygotic twins, including Massively Parallel Sequencing and High-Resolution Melting Curve Analysis. Little work has been on predicting the age of body fluid stains, but the environmentally sensitive DNA methylation profiling should be of use
Rerolling Boardgames : Introduction
Get PDFAn edited collection that focuses upon transporting games beyond the digital seems an odd precept, given that the advent of videogames stems from the 1950s. Boardgames are not new to the gaming world. A frieze from from approx 4000 BC contains a glyph depicting Senet, whilst an image of Nefertari playing the game is prominent within her tomb. Go is thought to have originated between 3000 - 4000 years ago. The internationalism of images, references and depictions of boardgames demonstrates that gaming was a universal activity, and from this it is not unrealistic to see boardgames crossing cultures, passing along across trade routes and gift exchanges. If play is universal, then the desire to share different ways of playing, or draw people together around an object like a board, appears to follow as a natural byproduct of human curiosity, companionship and competition. However, whilst these games are in themselves masterpieces of strategy and depth, it is not until recently that boardgaming has expanded in multiple new directions, creating a far more diverse genre than before. In this introduction, we outline our precepts for this book, as well as introducing our thinking behind the collection of articles about this vibrant, hugely popular genre of gaming
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