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Clinical practice review on population health management and promoting positive health outcomes
Get PDFPopulation health management has gained worldwide momentum due to the pandemic of chronic conditions and comorbidities in diverse populations. Population health management has been identified as a sustainable solution for integrated healthcare management that promotes patient/client outcomes for people diagnosed with chronic diseases. With the growing number of population groups diagnosed with chronic diseases, avoidable health and social inequalities persist, resulting in debilitating effects on well-being, life expectancy and quality of life. This clinical practice review aimed to outline the key successes of population health management that promote positive health outcomes for people diagnosed with a chronic disease. We searched the National Library of Medicine (NLM) database for manuscripts dated between August 2022 and August 2023. We reviewed data on the successes of population health management from several countries worldwide, including countries with a healthcare system driven by population health management. Population health management is recognized as an integrative, holistic and data-driven approach to managing patients/clients with a chronic disease. Although there are many enablers and barriers, there are also the challenges of stakeholder and patient/client collaboration. The available literature on the key successes of population health management is evidenced by successful attributes of health outcomes. Population health management for patient’s/clients with chronic diseases is a sustainable and strategic method that will streamline care provision now and in the future. And healthcare professionals are in position to promote awareness of population health management by delivering educational seminars focusing on the benefits of managing chronic disease through collaboration, intervention and promoting positive health outcomes
Solo exhibition: 'We Ran Together', G39 Gallery, Cardiff
No full text'We Ran Together' comprised two consecutive exhibitions. The first exhibition (Oct 27th - Dec 16th 2023) was a solo show by Richard Billingham comprising his TV debut, ‘Fishtank’ (1998) and a number of his early short films made around the same time. This exhibition was the first time Billingham’s early moving image work had been exhibited together.
Fishtank was a 47min video film commissioned by BBC2 and produced by ArtAngel and film maker Adam Curtis and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1998.
The early short films were 'Bradford Trip' (1996, super 8mm); 'Ray Getting Out of Chair' (super 8mm, 1998); 'Swing' (super 8mm, 1998); 'Liz Smoking' (1999, video); and 'Ouija Board' (video, 1999).
Fishtank was filmed almost entirely within the claustrophobic confines of Billingham's parent’s council flat in the West Midlands and moved between alienation, altercation and affection. Fishtank was Billingham’s first major film and a groundbreaking work for television.
The second exhibition (10th Feb – 23th Mar 2024)
comprised new works by three artists that responded to Billingham’s film Fishtank.
Artists George H. Wale, Durre Shahwar, and Michal Iwanowski were invited to respond to Fishtank with mentoring and support from G39 and artist Sean Edwards.
Each of the artists were drawn to different strands of the film’s content to follow new lines of inquiry developing new sculptural, photographic and text works.
George looked at their relationship to work, to labour - thinking about alienation from nature and natural aptitudes or skills that may be inherited from parents that we adapt to support us financially. This led to thoughts about the aesthetic language of support and their father’s work as a floor layer. Floors, underfoot, as something made, as fundamental to living, as class indicators, literal support structures. From domestic spaces of home to public spaces.
Durre brought a series of propositions and reflections. Her work crosses the boundaries between non-fiction, essay, and autofiction. In response to Billingham’s film, she reflected on her own experiences, belonging, and identity through familial language and materials. This work is developed in parallel with her research into autofiction and her Pakistani-Welsh identity and her book, ‘Gathering: Women of Colour on Nature’, (pub. 2024).
Michal Iwanowski continued an ongoing project, ‘Minus The Mother’, with a new series of images. He and his mother watched the Fishtank together on a visit back to Poland, and the show at g39 is concurrent with his recently opened solo exhibition, Go Home Polish, at the National Museum Wales. Minus The Mother is not an easy project - to witness, or to do - but through it Michal encouraged viwers to think about loss and those close to us. Through the lens, in the space between countries and longer distance communication, a closeness between grows as the dynamic between parent and child changes.
We Ran Together was the first project in a new, additional project space at g39 which encourages the production of new work and experimentation
Fake news stance detection using selective features and FakeNET
Get PDFThe proliferation of fake news has severe effects on society and individuals on multiple fronts. With fast-paced online content generation, has come the challenging problem of fake news content. Consequently, automated systems to make a timely judgment of fake news have become the need of the hour. The performance of such systems heavily relies on feature engineering and requires an appropriate feature set to increase performance and robustness. In this context, this study employs two methods for reducing the number of feature dimensions including Chi-square and principal component analysis (PCA). These methods are employed with a hybrid neural network architecture of convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) model called FakeNET. The use of PCA and Chi-square aims at utilizing appropriate feature vectors for better performance and lower computational complexity. A multi-class dataset is used comprising ‘agree’, ‘disagree’, ‘discuss’, and ‘unrelated’ classes obtained from the Fake News Challenges (FNC) website. Further contextual features for identifying bogus news are obtained through PCA and Chi-Square, which are given nonlinear characteristics. The purpose of this study is to locate the article’s perspective concerning the headline. The proposed approach yields gains of 0.04 in accuracy and 0.20 in the F1 score, respectively. As per the experimental results, PCA achieves a higher accuracy of 0.978 than both Chi-square and state-of-the-art approaches
Toward a contemplative cyberspace: a transdisciplinary inquiry into contemplation, social media and peace-building
No full textThe emerging practice of using social media in peacebuilding has generated a growing interest from practitioners and academia. However, most attention focuses on the technological aspect of social media rather than the engagement of individuals at grassroots.
The question this research seeks to address is how sharing the effect of contemplation in cyberspace can initiate and change the formation of new cyber networks for peacebuilding. Through experimental study, this thesis combines a transdisciplinary approach with action research. Utilising an integrated methodology, it begins with a first-person inquiry: examining my own practices of inner peace through contemplation. This examination is then expanded to a spiritual co-operative inquiry with six participants with similar experiences; of sacred and inner peace. It concludes with a cyber inquiry, expanding the experiment to netizens using digital tools. It embraces the logic of the Included Middle, the Hidden Third and the levels of Reality introduced by Nicolescu, and explores the constructive contributions of our contemplation non-violent selves situated at the core of peacebuilding.
Whilst Nicolescu claims that the Real is veiled forever, this study suggests the existence of an independent space the Third Space where the experience of the Real and inner peace is possible. This approach highlights the importance of a liminal aspect of the process of inner peacebuilding prior to expanding the phenomenon to outer life, thus; providing a nuanced understanding of the emergent properties of peacebuilding, and a more comprehensive account of the interactions of self, the sacred and technology, in creating network for peacebuilding in cyberspace. Finally, it suggests that sharing the effect of contemplation can result in the formation of supple networks when diversity and inclusivity that are two important elements of peacebuilding on the ground are chosen as preferences. In this way nascent networks show more elasticity, so that nodes in these networks can respond to change gracefully whilst maintaining their original characteristics; should the main node be removed or attacked the network survives. However, the study does not consider the degree of decay over time and other preferences for network formation
Editorial
No full textThis issue of the European Journal for Philosophy of Communication (EJPC) (Empedocles) contains a long experimental text on the love of language and the process of self-expression in language, written by Dutch author Ninke Overbeek. The text, originally written in Dutch, was awarded a grant by the Intellect translation fund. We are grateful to Intellect for making the translation possible and creating the opportunity to publish this type of writing in the journal. In addition to Overbeek’s text, this issue contains a critical book review and a reflective essay on aspects of Buber’s dialogical philosophy
Dr Jekyll and/or Mr Hyde: The two versions of David Edgar's stage adaptation
Get PDFIn 1991, the Royal Shakespeare Company produced David Edgar's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1885 novella, directed by Peter Wood, to a mostly negative critical and commercial response. In 1996, the Birmingham Repertory Theatre produced Edgar’s revised version of the play, using the shorter title Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, to much more positive reviews, often from the same people. The striking thing about this radically different response is that, apart from a single element, the two scripts are very similar. They can therefore serve almost as a real-life scientific experiment, demonstrating the difference that a single change will make. This article will consider the various choices that an adaptor may make with this story and look at what the different responses to the two versions can tell us about the nature of this story, and possibly about horror and fantasy in genera
Resource saving via ensemble techniques for quantum neural networks
Get PDFQuantum neural networks hold significant promise for numerous applications, particularly as they can be executed on the current generation of quantum hardware. However, due to limited qubits or hardware noise, conducting large-scale experiments often requires significant resources. Moreover, the output of the model is susceptible to corruption by quantum hardware noise. To address this issue, we propose the use of ensemble techniques, which involve constructing a single machine learning model based on multiple instances of quantum neural networks. In particular, we implement bagging and AdaBoost techniques, with different data loading configurations, and evaluate their performance on both synthetic and real-world classification and regression tasks. To assess the potential performance improvement under different environments, we conducted experiments on both simulated, noiseless software and IBM superconducting-based QPUs, suggesting these techniques can mitigate the quantum hardware noise. Additionally, we quantify the amount of resources saved using these ensemble techniques. Our findings indicate that these methods enable the construction of large, powerful models even on relatively small quantum devices
Sovereign borrowing without odiousness: legal instruments to substitute the odious debt doctrine in the repudiation of sovereign debt
Get PDFWhere sovereign debt was found unjustified, occasionally attempts were made to declare this debt null and void. In order to facilitate this repudiation of debt in situations that are considered gravely unjust, Alexander Nahum Sack proposed the odious debt doctrine according to which debt is odious for the people of the entire state, when a despotic regime contracts and utilises a loan in ways that are not in the interest of the state or the population, but rather to strengthen itself, to suppress a popular insurrection, etc..1 The common denominator of all cases in which attempts were made to put the odious debt doctrine into effect is the unconscionable character of the loan agreement and its fulfilment but a successful application of the odious debt doctrine has yet to happen. Even in cases where governments publicly committed the gravest human rights violations, such as Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq2 and the South African Apartheid regime, the sovereign debt was not declared odious.3
The thesis clarifies why the odious debt doctrine has never been applied in practice and what legal options exist instead to repeal any kind of sovereign debt that is considered unjustified. To this end, the thesis analyses first the circumstances that influence sovereign debt and the deficiencies of Sack’s proposal, after which it becomes clear that debt repudiation does not depend on the perceived legitimacy of the government. Therefore, the thesis examines the use of legal principles to repudiate debt, independent of the form of government in the following chapters. Since rule of law principles, human rights law, case law of a variety of jurisdictions, the legal analysis of economic practice and contract law offer sufficient means to legally repudiate sovereign debt where necessary, this thesis suggests that the odious debt doctrine is redundant.
Due to the increased importance of private lending, this thesis focuses on loan contracts between private lenders and ruling powers and their impact on the states’ population
Blood, death and desert: engaging with radical theology through art practice, history, and theory
Get PDFThis work uses a practice-led methodological model to investigate the complicated relationships between contemporary art, Christian radical theology, the desert landscape, blood, and death.
It is practice-as-research comprising both constructed and documentary photography, combined with interdisciplinary research into art history, contemporary Evangelical Christian visual culture, the art and landscape of the Great Basin and American West, Christian iconographies, theology, and various strands of radical theology. This situates my art practice within the canons of contemporary and religious art between which there is a growing discourse. Radical theology, also referred to as ‘death of God theology’ or ‘Christian atheism’, informs this discussion.
Connections with the Crucifixion of Jesus and the death of God lend themselves to a detailed investigation of both blood and death. Blood has long been a powerful and enigmatic player in the human story, particularly in the Christian tradition. Blood is proximate to both life and death, and it is here the exegetics of blood and abjection intertwine with radical theology. In another connection, the desert plays a role in sacred texts as both a place of tribulation and refreshment. A landscape with deep ties to the roots of Christianity, the desert operates as both subject matter and a means for articulating the sacred. The sacred and social landscape of the American West is central to this work.
This work contributes sensible knowledge and original art exploring issues articulated around an iconography of blood, the corpse, and the desert, from the very particular standpoint of an unorthodox Christian thematic as well as contributing to the current debates about the place between religion and contemporary art through the critical engagement of this text with other informed writers. The visual art is significant in contributing to the almost exclusively text-based field of radical theology
Studying the impact of social media integration into online augmented reality-enabled services on consumer purchase intentions
No full textThis research extends the current body of knowledge on the application of augmented reality (AR) technology within the marketing field. The study investigates the impact of the augmented reality-enabled service on consumer behaviour, such as engagement levels, enjoyment, perceived trust, willingness to recommend to others, and decision to purchase. Addressing a critical gap in the existing literature, the thesis probes into the intricate interplay of social content embedded in AR layers—ranging from consumers' virtual mirror feed to their social media presence and product reviews. It scrutinises how these elements impact customer trust, decision comfort, and purchase intentions. The theory of social presence is central to understanding these effects.
Furthermore, the study provides insights into the crucial elements of AR technology that facilitate its effective integration in the marketing field, such as heightened colour vividness, realistic graphics, and comprehensive product information.
Methodologically, the study employs a quantitative data analysis approach, after a successful pilot study, the main survey was conducted with 924 participants. The findings suggest that the characteristics of AR technology, such as content informativeness, graphic vividness, amount of perceived control, and interactivity, have a significant positive impact on the feeling of perceived social presence. Subsequently, a heightened feeling of Social Presence is positively associated with increased levels of consumer engagement and trust, resulting in increased enjoyment and a more efficient decision-making process, ultimately leading to increased purchase intentions.
The theoretical model depicts a sequence of interdependent variables, where changes in one variable can affect another variable. This knowledge can fuel valuable theoretical and managerial contributions and directions for further research