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The Krishnacore Chronicles #20: Gaura-Jivana Dāsa and Bhakta Jojo from Antimaterial Worlds interviewed by Mike Dines
No full textMike Dines interviews Gaura-Jivana Dāsa and Bhakta Jojo from Antimaterial Worlds
Keynote: 'Embracing authority: when punk pedagogy met the Hare Krishnas'
No full textIt is often noted how punk pedagogy lies at the intersection between radical, anarchist and critical pedagogies. Here, punk pedagogy – both within and outside of the academy – are common in their attitude towards being anti-establishment. However, what happens when that interpretation is turned upside down? When ‘rules’ are embraced and when punks turn to established institutions for guidance? Drawing specifically from the speaker’s research on Krishnacore, this keynote looks at the complex interchange between punk pedagogy and the Hare Krishna Movement: in particular, interrogating the role that these juxtaposing polar opposites have in terms of autodidactic and traditional notions of spirituality
Reflections on citizenship education from England
No full textThis article is a reflection on my experience of citizenship education in England over 40 years. I focus on the themes of 'teachers and teaching' and what we have learned about 'students' learning'
Information fusion-based cybersecurity threat detection for intelligent transportation system
Get PDFIntelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are sophisticated systems that leverage various technologies to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of transportation. By relying on wireless communication and data collected from diverse sensors, ITS is vulnerable to cybersecurity threats. With the increasing number of attacks on ITS worldwide, detecting and addressing cybersecurity threats has become critically important. This need will only intensify with the impending arrival of autonomous vehicles. One of the primary challenges is identifying critical ITS assets that require protection and understanding the vulnerabilities that cyber attackers can exploit. Additionally, creating a standard profile for ITS is challenging due to the dynamic traffic pattern, which exhibits changes in the movement of vehicles over time. To address these challenges, this paper proposes an information fusion-based cybersecurity threat detection method. Specifically, we employ the Kalman filter for noise reduction, Dempster-Shafer decision theory and Shannon’s entropy for assessing the probabilities of traffic conditions being normal, intruded, and uncertain. We utilised Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) to simulate the Melbourne CBD map and historical traffic data from the Victorian transport authority. Our simulation results reveal that information fusion with three sensor data is more effective in detecting normal traffic conditions. On the other hand, for detecting anomalies, information fusion with two sensor data is more efficient
Factors prompting and deterring suicides on the roads
Get PDFBackground: In addition to the devastating impact on the individual and their families, suicides on the roads can cause distress and harm to other people who might be involved in a collision or witness an attempt. Despite an increased focus on the characteristics and circumstances of road-related suicides, little is known about why people choose to end their lives in this way.
Aims: The aim of the current study was to investigate the factors prompting and deterring the decision to attempt suicide on the roads.
Method: We conducted a secondary analysis of survey data, as well as seven in-depth qualitative interviews. Participants had lived experience of suicidal ideation or behaviour at a bridge or road location. We also carried out an online ethnography to explore interactions in different online communities relating to this method of suicide.
Results: Participants perceived a road-related suicide to be quick, lethal, easy and accessible, and to have the potential to appear accidental. The proportion of participants who described their thoughts and attempts as impulsive appeared to be higher than had been observed with other method choices. The potential impact on other people was a strongly dissuasive factor.
Conclusions: Measures designed to prevent access to potentially lethal sites may be particularly important, given that many participants described their thoughts and behaviour as impulsive. In addition, fostering a culture of care and consideration for other road users may help to dissuade people from taking action on the roads
“Handwork rendered expeditious”: the Rottmann-Silver stencil venture of the 1890s
No full textThis paper looks at the work of designer Arthur Silver and his business partner Alexander Rottmann, and their collaboration in what they called a “stencil venture” in the 1890s. Both Silver and Rottmann were contemporaries of Christopher Dresser and like him were fascinated by the art of Japan. They drew on authentic Japanese sources, and developed their ideas into new products for the British market, making a new kind of contribution to the Victorian world of goods.
However, rather than think of the influence of Japan in purely aesthetic terms, we need to also consider the influence of Japanese – or Japanese inspired - techniques of making on the products available to British consumers. This paper examines the collaboration between businessmen Alexander Rottmann and Arthur Silver in the 1890s, with specific attention to a collection of Japanese stencils and to a number of stencilled wallcoverings that survive in the Silver Studio Collection, now part of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, at Middlesex University
Content moderators’ strategies for coping with the stress of moderating content online
Get PDFContent moderators are exposed to a range of stressors at work, including analysing content that has been flagged as harmful. However, not much is known about their specific coping strategies. Depth interviews were conducted with 11 content moderators exposed to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as part of their job, and thematically analysed to investigate both individual coping strategies and those deployed organisationally. Results highlighted the importance of social support especially from colleagues. Supportive relationships fulfilled several needs including helping content moderators process emotions, normalise their reactions and reducing feelings of isolation. Additionally, the ability to create boundaries between work and home life was important for distancing and distracting themselves from the work. Moderators expressed a preference for mandatory, individual therapy with professionals who had specific experience supporting those exposed to CSAM and reported disclosure was hindered if not, due to worries about traumatising the therapist. How content moderators cope and can be further supported are discussed
Do patients assess physicians differently in video visits as compared with in-person visits? Insights from text-mining online physician reviews
No full textIntroduction: Use of both in-person and video visits have become a common norm in health care delivery, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. It is imperative to understand how patients feel about their providers and their experiences during in-person and video visits. This study examines the important factors that patients use in their reviews and differences in the relative importance.
Methods: We performed sentiment analysis and topic modeling on online physician reviews from April 2020 to April 2022. Our dataset comprised 34,824 reviews posted by patients after completing in-person or video visits.
Results: Sentiment analysis yielded 27,507 (92.69%) positive and 2,168 (7.31%) negative reviews for in-person visits, and 4,610 (89.53%) positive and 539 (10.47%) negative reviews for video visits. Topic modeling identified seven factors patients used in their reviews: Bedside manners, Medical Expertise, Communication, Visit Environment, Scheduling and Follow-up, Wait times, and Costs and insurance. Patients who gave positive reviews after in-person consultations more frequently mentioned communication, office environment and staff, and bedside manners. Those who gave negative reviews after in-person visits mentioned longer wait times, providers' office and staff, medical expertise, and costs and insurance problems. Patients with positive reviews after video visits emphasized communication, bedside manners, and medical expertise. However, patients posting negative reviews after video visits frequently mentioned problems with appointment scheduling and follow-up, medical expertise, wait times, costs and insurance, and technical problems in video visits.
Conclusions: This study identified key factors that influence patients' assessment of their providers in in-person and video visits. Paying attention to these factors can help improve the overall patient experience
Improving enrollment and learning through videos and mobiles: Experimental evidence from northern Nigeria
No full textSchool enrollment and learning outcomes often lag far behind in settings where traditional social norms prevail. We present the main findings of a cluster randomized control trial that tested two components of a five-day intervention targeting 6-9-year-old children and their parents in northern Nigeria. These components consisted of community video screenings to reshape parental aspirations and attitudes towards education, and mobile literacy apps. After 12 months, community screenings decreased out-of-school children by 42 percent though did not improve learning outcomes. In half of the treatment communities, we provided an add-on where a 40 percent of attending households received a smartphone pre-loaded with gamified and digital library apps. This combined intervention increased literacy and numeracy skills by 0.46 and 0.63σ respectively. Learning impacts on boys and girls were similar in magnitude. The combined intervention had spillovers on non-targeted older children, where we observe an increase in literacy and numeracy skills of 0.34 and 0.47σ, and on adolescents a decrease in parenthood (13%) and early entry into the labor market (14%). Finally, using a standarized metric for reporting gains from education interventions, our results suggest that combining aspirational videos with engaging apps is a highly effective and cost-effective tool, a relevant finding for home-learning interventions targeting rural, low-literate communities that are governed by traditional social norms, where the evidence base remains scarce
Editorial entrepreneurial finance for green innovative SMEs
Get PDFThe Autumn 2022 COP27 Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change demonstrated that the need for a clear research and policy agenda to assist the financing of early stage Cleantech and green SMEs innovation and green practice adoption has never been greater. Green, cleantech innovators hold important keys to unlocking vital globally game changing technologies that can scale-up to mitigate climate change and humanity’s wider environmental damage to ensure planetary sustainability. The paper provides a contemporary overview of the financing issues facing green SME innovators and adopters by reviewing seven papers published in this IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Special Issue on green entrepreneurial finance. The papers provide deep insights into SMEs’ external financing requirements, barriers to private finance and the shortcomings of public tax and financing policies. This editorial paper concludes with a series of key recommendations for researchers, SME finance practitioners and public policymakers which provide guidance for more holistic policies to deliver longer horizon patient capital investing and facilitate green innovation commercialization, scale-up and adoption for a sustainable plane