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The Involvement of the European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM) Alumni in the COVID-19 Pandemic Response: An Example of the Perceived Relevance of Disaster Medicine Education during Disasters
No full textINTRODUCTION: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed a gap in disaster preparedness of health workers globally. Disaster medicine education is a key element to fill this gap. OBJECTIVES: This study evaluated the involvement of the European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM) Alumni in the current COVID-19 pandemic response and their self-perceived value of the EMDM educational program in accomplishing their tasks during the disaster. METHODS: An online survey targeting the EMDM Alumni was conducted from January through March 2021. Quantitative data were described using percentages or means, as appropriate, while qualitative data were categorized using deductive thematic analysis. RESULTS: In total, 259 Alumni completed the survey. Most of the Alumni (88.03%; standard error of the proportion [SEp] = 0.02) participated directly in the COVID-19 pandemic response – nationally or internationally – with different roles and responsibilities at different levels and sectors. Around 25% of the Alumni reported an increase in their tasks and responsibilities due to COVID-19 response, but few worked beyond their main specialization (5.26%) or expertise (2.19%). Moreover, Alumni shifted their role from clinical practice to managerial, public health, education and training, and policymaking roles during COVID-19 (P <.001). Participants believed that the EMDM study program and the competencies acquired during the course were relevant and useful to perform their tasks during the COVID-19 pandemic response (mean = 5.26; 5.17 standard error of the mean [SEM] = 0.108, 0.107), respectively. Around 36% (SEp = 0.03) of the participants deemed that some contents were not sufficient for COVID-19 response. CONCLUSION: Most of the EMDM Alumni were involved in the COVID-19 pandemic response, playing diverse roles with an increased level of responsibility compared to those played before the pandemic. Moreover, the Alumni perceived the EMDM curriculum as relevant for accomplishing their tasks. However, they also reported gaps within the curriculum, especially topics related to outbreak and pandemic response. The findings of the study stress the value of investing in disaster medicine education world-wide and of pushing to update and standardize post-graduate disaster medicine curricula
Anthropologie philosophique du langage à l'école de linguistique à Saint-Pétersbourg/Philosophical anthropology of language in the linguistic school in St.Peterburg
No full textThe purpose of the essay consist of presenting, analysing and comparing the different philosophical approaches of language in St.Peterburg. The later are based on the study of several notions : symbols, reality, truth, speech, and so on. This work also deals with various paradigms such as language phenomenology, philosophy of symbolic forms, semiotic interpretation of language, structuralist approach of language,philosophical anthropology of language and cultural pattern of language./Le présent essai a pour but de présenter la philosophie du langage à Saint-pétersbourg. Il comprend l'analyse de diverses notions : symbole, réalité, langue et parole, etc. On y retrouve divers paradigmes tels que la phénoménologie du langage, la philosophie des formes symboliques, l'approche structuraliste du langage.(CLAS 3)--UCL, 200
The European Masters Degree in Disaster Medicine: a Decade of Exposure
No full textDisaster medicine education has become extremely important, following the increase in mass casualty incidents, acts of terrorism and complex humanitarian emergencies. Recent studies have reported that health care professionals do not feel sufficiently knowledgeable in this area. The European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM) is a II level master organized by the University of Eastern Piedmont (Novara, Italy) and the Free University of Brussels (Belgium). Up to know, the EMDM has trained more than 400 students from all over the world, providing them with the appropriate competencies to coordinate medical response during crisis situations. This article provides a general overview of the Master’s framework and reports its influence on graduates' professional career
How do current policies support a transition towards a circular economy in the built environment?
No full textBuilding and construction industry consumes huge quantities of materials in an unsustainable way. As a result of a linear design approach and economic model, at the end of use, but also throughout the cycle, buildings or parts of buildings are demolished and remnants treated as waste or –best case– down-cycled. This creation of waste as well as the use of virgin resources leads to an important environmental, economic and societal impact. To create a sustainable build environment, the building sector needs to move towards a circular economy in which circular and dynamic buildings as well as their component and materials preserve value. Policies and regulations in member states and across the EU will influence the ability to transition to a circular economy – positively and negatively. Within the H2020 Buildings As Materials Banks (BAMB) Project work is underway to understand where the opportunities and barriers lie in a complex and, sometimes contradictory, regulatory landscape. This paper presents an overview of the current policy instruments that are considered to have relevance in relation to promoting, or possibly hindering, the adoption of circular economy opportunities in the built environment. The analysis of the current policy instruments has been done on a European level and on a member state level for 4 different countries being: Belgium, Portugal, Sweden and UK. The paper will mainly focus on the European Level and Belgium
Spectral properties in a class of operators and group representations in nested Hilbert spaces
No full textThe author characterizes the spectrum of the elements of some operator algebras acting in a nested Hilbert space. In one of those algebras he proves the spectral theorem for Hermitian operators and the SNAG theorem for unitary representations of locally compact Abelian groups. Then extends the SNAG theorem to representations in three more general classes of operators.Anglai
Lectures On Harmonic Analysis For Reductive -Adic Groups
No full textThis paper is based on lectures delivered at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore in 2002. The author thanks the Institute for its support. is very natural and therefore a good place to begin the course. In order to form a group with respect to addition, the additive identity and additive inverses are tossed in to the mix to give us the integers 24380 35 This set does not form a group with respect to multiplication; it is therefore enlarged to , the field of rational numbers. Everything so far has been very natural. At this point, the incompleteness of the rationals is demonstrated by proving that the square root of two is not rational. To compensate for this, the fact that the rationals are ordered (that is, there is a notion of nonpositive and nonnegative) is invoked to define the absolute value, , of any rational number if As usual, the absolute value gives you a metric with respect to which you complete the rationals. We recall that two Cauchy sequences of rational numbers are said to be equivalent with respect to provided that is a Cauchy sequence which converges to zero. The set of real numbers is then defined to be the set of equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences with respect to , that is, the completion of with respect . It turns out, however, that the normal absolute value provides just one of an infinite number of incompatible ways to complete the rational numbers , and, from the proper perspective, this completion is a somewhat unnatural object. Let be any prime. If is a nonzero rational number, then there is a unique integer ! #"!$ with &% and '% . We can ..
Circular economy and design for change within the built environment: preparing the transition
No full textThe built environment is considered as a key sector in which circular economy can be implemented. Within the H2020 project “Building as Material Banks” (BAMB), two innovative solutions are being forward to support this transition: i.e. Materials Passports and Reversible Building Design Protocols. Based on desk research and interviews with frontrunners, key opportunities and barriers have been identified related to the implementation of both innovative solutions within policy, commercial, societal and R&D realms. In order to better understand these opportunities and barriers five emerging trends putting the current socio-technical system under pressure are explained. In addition, value chain and value network analyses of business-as-usual and stateof- the-art practices have been examined over major building phases: conceptualisation & design, construction, usage/operation, demolition/deconstruction & repurposing. We observed that that it is unlikely that an actor will be involved within all phases of the building and that the availability of building (product) information over all building phases is restricted. By supporting the development of Materials Passports and Reversible Building Design Protocols actors involves within the conceptualisation, design and construction stages will better understand why circular and change-supporting building design strategies are necessary. Moreover, the development of Materials Passport IT Platform and a BIM prototype will serve as a proof-of-concept on exchanging information on building products and the building's operation to actors involved within reverse logistics
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