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Motivations for choosing an allied health profession career: findings from a scoping review
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An exploration of health professionals’ learning about ageing, old age and older patients: a biographical-narrative interpretative study
Get PDFTextbook Professionalism: The Transmission of Medical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century
No full textThe essay explores the impact on medical education of the rise of the student’s medical textbook, in a case study of William Cheselden’s The Anatomy of the Humane Body (1713 &c)
The HCT Index: a typology and index of health conspiracy theories with examples of use
No full textBackground: Conspiracy theories regarding vaccination programmes, medical side effects, and cover-ups by governments or pharmaceutical companies are prevalent in many countries and have highly detrimental and far-reaching effects on people’s wellbeing. For research and policymaking in public health, it is vital to understand the nature, construction and dissemination of these health conspiracy theories (HCTs). Inspired by tale typologies developed in folkloristics, this paper presents a typology and index of international HCTs as a tool for researchers to identify and categorise the HCTs they come across, and to provide a pool of examples of HCTs which could be used in various fields of research. To illustrate this, two studies are also presented (Study 1 and Study 2).Methods: HCTs were collected from relevant academic literature, news journalism, a survey of known health-related, general conspiracy theorist websites, and web searches based around known HCTs. From this, 14 core types were identified, and a numbered index was constructed with brief descriptions, examples, and motifs. Study 1 is a survey of HCT exposure and belief in the UK. Study 2 is a focus group discussion of health rumours in rural Sri Lanka including discussion of HCTs.Results: The HCT Index provides valuable insights into the international dissemination of HCTs. Study 1 found that familiarity with and belief in HCTs were high: 97% of Britons are familiar with at least one HCT and 49% of Britons believed that at least one HCT was likely to be true. Study 2 highlighted concerns over threats to fertility and about how to verify information that falls outside of typical experience.Conclusions: The HCT Index provides a useful framework for future cross-cultural research. As a typology it encompasses a wide range of beliefs which can be more effectively categorized and compared and, ultimately, challenged
Forensic Tools for IoT Device Investigations in regards to Human Trafficking
No full textAs the Internet of Things (IoT) environment rapidly grows, so do the distribution and utilisation of IoT devices as well as Cyber-Enabled and Dependent Crime activities. Investigators face challenges in regards to available tools which are able to efficiently access and analyse the content of IoT devices. Due to the fast development of technology these tools are limited especially in terms of operating systems (OS) compatibility and cross-border investigations.In this paper, we review a variety of most popular used digital forensic tools, specifically in terms of their limitations in investigating IoT devices. As an alternative we introduce a new tool, the Hybrid Forensic IoT Server (HFIoTS), to improve IoT Forensics efficiently and we prove that it is adequate to investigate a variety of cases such as human trafficking. HFIoTS is aimed towards a dynamic and complex environment, such as the IoT, to minimise the current investigative challenges of its forensics. To elaborate on the importance of improving the investigation of the IoT forensically, we establish the context of IoT forensics investigations and its current challenges as well as the most popular tools. Furthermore, we demonstrate our HFIoTS model framework as well as its interface for investigation purposes. Additionally, we present HFIoTS within a hypothetical case study of human trafficking to demonstrate its efficiency and necessity within the IoT forensic environment and discuss its benefits in comparison to the reviewed forensic tools overall
The Return Beat - Interfacing with Our Interface::A Spiritual Approach to the Golden Triangle
No full textThis book is an expression of a particular ontology born of my own complexidentity. It is a multi-dimensional presentation of a trans-cultural(Gilroy 1993) and conceptually performative framework as expressedthrough public performances (Newbury 1997). The framework is constructedfrom my understanding of many intercultural, conceptual andperformative practices, embodied over my career as a performer to date(Dimension 5).As a result, different performative philosophies form the main framesof my exploration. Process philosophers, such as De Quincey (2002) andWhitehead (1975), assume a nexus of being and becoming. Performancephilosophers, such as Laban (1966, 1971 and 1984) and Barba and Savarese(1991), assume a nexus of being, becoming and performance. By this I meanall gestures and events produced by performers are a process of unfoldingemotions and ideas, which are parts of an interior experience relating tothat person’s ‘being’. This process principle of ‘being’ and ‘becoming’ is afusion (De Quincey 2002) revealed in performance, located at the nexusbetween my own being, becoming and performance
