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Precision Health and AI: improving health for everyone - Arjun Panesar (DDM Health)
No full textThis video is the twelfth talk from our two day Future Blood Testing: Challenges & Opportunities Event that took place on the 14/09/2022.
Precision Health and AI: improving health for everyone - Arjun Panesar (DDM Health)
Bio: Arjun Panesar is the founder of DDM Health, providers of clinically-validated digital health solutions to over 1.8 million people. Benefiting from almost two decades of experience in big data, AI and AI ethics, Arjun leads the development of evidence-based digital innovations that harness the power of machine learning to provide precision medicine to patients, health services, and governments. Arjun’s work has received international recognition featuring in the Forbes, New Scientist, BBC and The Times. Arjun is a best-selling author on the topics of healthcare and AI, authoring two editions of Machine Learning and AI in Healthcare, and contributing to Handbook of Global Health, a major reference work. Arjun is an advisor to the Information School, University of Sheffield, Fellow to the NHS Innovation Accelerator, visiting lecturer at University of Warwick Medical School, and was recognised by Imperial College as an Alumni Leader for his contribution and impact to society.
Further details on this event can be found at: https://futurebloodtesting.org/event/13-14-09-2022/
This video is an output from the Future Blood Testing Network which is funded by EPSRC under Grant Number EP/W000652/1
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/clPmdeLP5_
Arjun: A creative exploration of worldbuilding to discuss cultural dislocation and belonging
No full textThis article will discuss concepts of cultural dislocation and belonging through a practice-led worldbuilding design project called Arjun. Arjun is a creative exploration of storytelling through a designed publication that uses diagrams, notations, and photographic manipulations to explore a character’s experience in a foreign land. The publication presents a polyphonic story from the perspective of Arjun who is hired by the fictional corporation Federation (F.E.D.R) to explore a land where both familiar and unfamiliar takes place. Arjun searches for his sense of purpose and identity, in a self-dialogue with his own dislocation. Established within the tenants of Hinduism, this research project stimulates speculative meanings through worldbuilding design as means to discuss my cultural dislocation with my own Fijian Indian ancestry. Conceptually, the project is concerned with the philosophical principles of Hindu reincarnation, its relationships to the subconscious mind (Callander & Cummings, 2021) and liminality (Turner, 1969; Ipomoea, 2015). The article will discuss how practice emerged both conceptually and visually through a synthesis between theory and making in its creation and conceptualisation. Reflective processes and self-search methodologies are utilised to access personal experiences and prominent levels of exploration with materials through the methods of notation, journaling, copywriting, image processing and prototyping.</jats:p
Mosaic Atlas: Interview with Arjun Verma
No full textThis interview with Arjun Verma, an Indian-American sitar artist and composer based in the Bay Area, was conducted by Sukanya Chakrabarti as part of the Mosaic Atlas project. Arjun Verma combines traditional and contemporary approaches to Indian classical music. Deeply rooted in Hindustani classical music, yoga, and Vedanta, Verma views music as a holistic expression of life and a medium for conveying emotions beyond words. He aims to preserve the classical tradition\u27s essence while innovating within its framework, offering audiences profound and transformative experiences. As a steward of this living art form, Verma highlights challenges such as limited platforms and resources for sharing Indian classical music, which is often marginalized. He envisions a future where global artistic traditions are integrated into mainstream education, fostering greater accessibility and appreciation. As part of the Mosaic Atlas project, Mosaic Staff and Volunteers, SJSU students and faculty from the Anthropology and Film, Theater, and Dance Departments interviewed people who support and produce art throughout the Bay Area
Financial Management of Globalization of Developing Countries
No full texthuman development, economic growth, globalization, inequality, poverty
Book review: the books that inspired Arjun Appadurai: “I expect Max Weber’s The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism to be my companion for many more years to come”
No full textArjun Appadurai is a prominent contemporary social-cultural anthropologist who has contributed significantly to the field of globalisation studies. Arjun shares how Max Weber’s work still takes his breath away, and he also recommends a path-breaking study of the relationship between language, history and socio-cultural change in Tamil South India
Arjun: A Polysemic Assembly
No full textThis practice-led thesis asks:
How might a synthesis of communication design and polysemic narrative building be employed to investigate a fictional character’s identity within a modernist science fiction worldbuilding narrative?
The thesis outcome is a fictional, polysemic narrative (Williams, 2011) comprising six related artefacts (a desk, helmet, logbook, identification file, visual monitor and audio-visual recording). These devices constitute the residue of a totalitarian federation’s investigation into a character’s identity and the enigma of his disappearance. Designed as artefacts from a modernist, science fiction, dystopian future world, each object houses a component of the story and when ‘read’ together, they constitute a polysemic narrative. The study employs a heuristic inquiry activated through reflective practice. This approach is supported by three methods (world planning, iterative development and solicited feedback). The designed, narrative artefacts are contextualised by exegetical writing. The thesis contributes to the field of polysemic storytelling (Eco, 1979; Schiller, 2018; Williams, 2011) through its design of a physical, narrative installation. The study also provides a designed example of Twyman’s (2008) assertion that ephemera may hold long-term significance when designed as artefacts that enable us to discover a character’s identity
How smallholder farmers adapt to climate change: Stories from India—Arjun Sharma
No full textArjun Sharma is the Village President and Chairman of the farmer cooperative PACS (Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society) in the village of Jamnapur, India. Arjun describes in the video how the cooperative supports farmers through different activities such as saving schemes, low-interest rate loans to peasants who want to develop their farms and adapt to climate change. Members of PACS can also insure their crops, which the government urges the farmers to do every season. From the cooperative everybody earns and eats
Introduction: From Canon to Covid: Transforming English literary studies in India Essays in Honour of GIV Prasad
No full textThe retirement of Professor GJV Prasad from the Centre for English Studies (earlier named Centre for Linguistics and English) in November 2020, after 41 years of teaching at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, amidst the distressing Covid-19 pandemic, gave his former and current students a rare and motivating occasion to connect digitally and rethink respective journeys with him as well as the discipline of English studies. As notes were compared across generations of students through memory books, Zoom farewells, YouTube tributes, Facebook–Instagram posts and in-person meetings, the editors of this volume coalesced around the idea of this Festschrift as a means of honouring GJV as a memorable and beloved teacher
A Data-Driven Investigation of Gender Bias in Academic Promotions
No full textThis study explores gender disparities in faculty promotions and salaries within academia using real-world data from a legal case involving Houston College of Medicine. My analysis examines whether female faculty members face systemic barriers to career advancement and wage equity
Freedom of choice or force of circumstance? : Eastern European sex-workers in the Republic of Cyprus ; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
No full textThis paper focuses on Eastern European migrants who, since the beginning of the 1990s, are entering the Republic Cyprus as “artistes”. This is a visa permit status as well as an euphemism for short-term work permits in the local sex industry. In addition to exploring the migrational experiences of these women and their living and working conditions in the Republic of Cyprus, the paper reconstructs, empirically and analyt ically, the connection between immigration and the local sex industry. Here, several categories of social actors and institutions in Cyprus are actively involved. The rhetoric of government representatives, entrepreneurs and clients in the sex business on the one hand is contrasted with the discourse of local NGO representatives concerned with immigrants’ rights on the other hand. The paper comes to the conclusion that all of these discursive positions ultimately do not do justice to the complex process of decisionmaking that women undergo who migrate into the sex industry. Either, freedom of choice is emphasized – such as by entrepreneurs and the government – or the domination of women – as in the public statements of the NGO. In order to analyze the ambivalent tension between freedom of choice and submission to force by which the women’s decision is characterized, the author employs Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, which describes forms of political regulation that use the individual’s freedom of action as an instrument to exercise power
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