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The Spider and the Crab:Dramaturgies of Moving Laterally
No full textThis performative panel session proposes and explores the notion of ‘lateral dramaturgy’; dramaturgy as a practice of lateral movement and, in turn, moving laterally as a dramaturgical practice. We are especially interested in the doings, knowings and embodyings of dance and choreography within their infrastructures, alongside the complementary movements of undoing, unknowing and disembodying those infrastructures. Moving laterally, sideways, refuses the centered, the linear and the directed, possibilizing decentring, incidentalness, inconsistency and opaqueness in knowledge and attention. In our aim to resist the anxiety of reasserting knowledge, and to suspend knowing by maintaining what is present, we are also searching for ways to move with our research sideways. We acknowledge that this takes place in western educational institutions and organisations where moving/thinking is mostly expected to be progressive and where laterality is usually associated with thinking creatively (often referred to as thinking ‘out of the box’), but rarely contributes to reconfigured or inconsistent directions or actions thereafter. One of our basic questions then is ‘How do we move/think laterally?’; how might we be doing this in our individual yet interconnected practices – of making, collaborating, curating, dramaturging, writing – but also in the ways that we come together in research presentations such as this one. Our individual contributions will draw on recent practice research to raise questions around attention and (in)visibility, collage and fragmented narratives, institutional unruliness, unquiet belonging and experimental collaboration, as well as – inevitably perhaps – the micropolitics of speaking/thinking along each other
IMPACT OF HYBRID LEAN APPLICATION ON SUSTAINABILITY PERFORMANCE ACROSS ORGANISATIONAL HIERARCHIES
Get PDFThe Difficulty of Leaving:Freedom of movement and the national security state in Cold War West Germany
Get PDFLong-term follow-up in patients with coeliac disease in the pandemic-era: a view from Sheffield the NHS England national centre for adult coeliac disease
No full textTo explore patients' follow-up preferences. Optimal follow-up strategies for patients with coeliac disease remain a subject of debate. Research suggests patients' prefer review by dietitians with a doctor available as required. Patients with coeliac disease under review at our centre, completed a questionnaire assessing their views on what makes follow-up useful based on specific criteria. Bloods tests, symptoms review, dietary assessment, opportunity to ask questions and reassurance. Patients' preferences between follow-up with a hospital doctor, a hospital dietitian, a hospital dietitian with a doctor available, a general practitioner, no follow-up or access when needed were also evaluated. 138 adult patients completed the questionnaire, 80% of patients reported following a strict gluten free diet (mean diagnosis was 7.2 years). Overall, 60% found their follow-up to be 'very useful' valuing their review of blood tests and symptoms (71%) reassurance (60%) and opportunity to ask questions (58%). Follow-up by a dietitian with a doctor available was the most preferred option of review (
Does training provision matter? Unravelling the impact of digital transformation on environmental sustainability
Get PDFReduction in Data Imbalance for Client-Side Training in Federated Learning for the Prediction of Stock Market Prices
No full textEvaluation of Antidiabetic Effect of Luteolin in STZ Induced Diabetic Rats: Molecular Docking, Molecular Dynamics, In Vitro and In Vivo Studies
No full textPredictive Modelling of Glycated Hemoglobin Levels Using Machine Learning Regressors
No full textDiabetes is a chronic condition characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose, also known as hyperglycemia. Measurement of HbA1c is a widely used blood test that provides an essential tool for monitoring diabetic progression and assessing the effectiveness of diabetes management but this test is usually not conducted until there are some symptoms of diabetes in the patient and sometimes it goes unnoticed for a longer period resulting in the late detection of the disease. This study proposes a novel approach to HbA1c Prediction using machine learning regression algorithms on various features including Age, BMI, and hematological parameters. This study also compares the performance of ten machine learning regressors on the prediction of HbA1c level using performance metrics such as Mean square error, Root mean squared error, Mean absolute error MAE, R square, Adjusted R square, and Minimum Absolute Percentage Error. Result: Linear regression was found as the best performer with an R square and adjusted R square value of 1.00, Mean square error, Root mean squared error, Mean absolute error, and Minimum Absolute Percentage Error of 0.00. A higher HbA1c Level predicted using this method should go for actual HbA1c testing for confirmation
Whose Job is it Anyway? A Qualitative Investigation into the Influence of Agents, Race Organisers, and Sponsors on the Risk of Doping in Elite Distance Running
Get PDF© 2022, Informa UK Limited. The attached document (embargoed until 03/07/2024) is an author produced version of a paper published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORT POLICY AND POLITICS uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it. Background: Agents, race-organisers, and sponsors have a key influence in shaping the world of elite professional distance running. Yet to date this important but hard-to-reach stakeholder group has been omitted from the global research landscape of doping and anti-doping. The purpose of this study is to address this gap in the literature and explore the systematic contributors to doping in elite long-distance running, along with potential solutions to this issue, from this influential perspective. Methods: 13 in-depth interviews were conducted with agents (n = 8) of world-class long-distance runners, major race organisers (n = 3), and sports marketing managers (n = 2) for global brands. The interviews were conducted via the phone, audio-recorded, and transcribed verbatim. Results: Reflexive thematic analysis generated three themes which focused on: 1) The framework of professional distance running and the contextual aspects which may contribute to doping risk; 2) the impact of various recruitment strategies on doping and anti-doping; and 3) the lessons that can be learnt from the participants’ first-hand experiences with doping cases and/or managing anti-doping requirements. Reflecting on the sector rather than the sample, the results highlighted that not all commercial stakeholders feel responsible for anti-doping.Conclusion: Collective responsibility from all stakeholders, which is currently borne by some and not others, is necessary to minimise doping in distance running. The challenge is how to convince all stakeholders of their share of responsibility. Structural- and policy-level changes are needed to protect athletes and the sport.<br/
Private eyes that draw superimposed lines::Weak signals, atmospherics and choreographic diagramming in Room 22, AWB 2021: Hotel Belgrade
No full textThis practice-as-research article reflects on the artistic use of styles of fictional televisual detective diagramming, or “serial pinboarding” (Ganzert, 2020), in the context of Art Weekend Belgrade’s (AWB) project “Come into our room: A soft oral history of the Hotel Beograd”(hereafter, Room 22). Reflecting on the artwork, below I discuss several ways in which the televisual 'detective diagramming' is an imaging style that has certain potentials to form an “investigative aesthetic” akin to other related entanglements of investigative and aestheticising impulses, after Fuller and Weizman (2021). In one way, in Room 22, diagrammatic collages simultaneously also acted similarly to William Forsythe’s “choreographic objects” (Forsythe, 2009), motivating the movement of visitors through the room and the Hotel building. Importantly, the 'detective-style' collages also were connected to the environment, thus giving a rise to a dramaturgical effect similar to Rachel Hann’s “atmospherics” —a mode that amalgamates sensorial inputs with the scenographic setting (Hann, 2021). In AWB Hotel Belgrade Room 22, similar atmospherics occurred as the fictional detective’s diagrammatic style fostered a bridging between the inside of the image, with the shards of the lost hotel rooms, and the forgotten history of the Hotel and its Belgrade neighbourhood with its fluid socio-cultural and sometimes violent histories.This reflective article extends the visual-dramaturgical art work from the Room 22 into the next practice-led conceptual layer