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"Author Meets Critics: Predrag Cicovacki, Author of Gandhi's Footprints, Meets Critics Sanjay Lal and Carlo Filice"
No full textTwo critics respond to Predrag Cicovacki’s book, Gandi’s Footprints. Cicovacki opens the discussion by presenting his motivations for exploring a paradox, that Gandhi’s work is widely revered but not widely emulated. Cicovacki explores a resolution to the paradox by suggesting how Gandhi’s promising visions may be followed without being imitated, especially Gandhi’s insight that we must seek spiritual grounding for life in a materialistic world. Critic Sanjay Lal affirms Cicovacki’s insight but suggests that precisely because Gandhi’s aspirations for spiritual life were profoundly transformative we should take care not to dilute them into our conventional wisdoms. Critic Carlo Filice asks how Gandhi’s commitment to unified reality could be more clearly articulated once a distinction is drawn between spirit and matter, also how Gandhi’s nonviolence could manage to embrace important exceptions. In reply to critics, Cicovacki proposes an approach to Gandhi informed by the insights of Tagore
Ascending the Nonviolence Continuum: Sanjay Lal, Author of \u3cem\u3eViolence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth, \u3c/em\u3eMeets Critics
No full textIn this author-meets-critics discussion, Sanjay Lal presents the main ideas of his book Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth, arguing that nonviolence meets violence along a continuum where there are degrees of greater and lesser examples, including a wide range of examples that combine both tendencies. Lal defines nonviolence in terms of three components that emphasize attitudes over actions: (1) a willingness to not harm others, (2) wanting to facilitate the well-being of others, (3) and not sacrificing one\u27s own moral worth. Three critics share their praises and concerns: Predrag Cicovacki challenges Lal to be more specific on the definition of moral worth, on the relationship between violence and nonviolence, and on the account that he gives for value theory and value conflict. Jennifer Kling asks if beliefs can serve as pre-existing grounds for action, if reconceptualizations of pop culture are bound to any limits, and if there are good reasons for assuming that all people are approachable. Danielle Poe asks what it means to reconceptualize popular culture as an approachable resource of nonviolent insight. Answering these questions, Lal reflects on what it means to be inspired by Gandhi’s example
Efficacy of two doses of external counterpulsation (ECP) on glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A randomized SHAM-controlled trial
No full textAims: To determine the efficacy of two doses of external counterpulsation (ECP) on glycemic control in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D), and any persistent benefits 7 weeks following treatment. Methods: 50 participants with T2D were randomly assigned to either 1) 20x45-minute ECP sessions over 7 weeks (ECP45), 2) 20x30-minute ECP sessions over 7 weeks (ECP30) or 3) SHAM control. Outcomes were assessed at baseline, after 7 weeks of the intervention and 7 weeks after the interventions finished. Efficacy was determined from changes in HbA1c. Results: After 7 weeks, there were significant between-group differences, with ECP45 lowering HbA1c compared to SHAM (mean [95% CI] −0.7 [-0.1 to −1.3] %; −7 [-1 to −15] mmol/mol). Within group changes were; ECP45 (mean ± SD −0.8 ± 0.8%; −8 ± 8 mmol/mol), ECP30 (-0.2 ± 0.5%; −2 ± 6 mmol/mol) and SHAM (-0.1 ± 0.9%; −1 ± 10 mmol/mol). HbA1c in the ECP45 group remained lower 7 weeks after completing the intervention; ECP45 (7.0 ± 1.1%; 53 ± 26 mmol/mol), ECP30 (7.7 ± 1.4%; 60 ± 16 mmol/mol) and SHAM (7.7 ± 1.0%; 60 ± 10 mmol/mol). Conclusions: In people with T2D, ECP45 for 7 weeks improved glycemic control when compared to ECP30 and a SHAM control group.No Full Tex
SLGiHub/FIEBRE_Adult_severity_scores: FIEBRE Adult Severity Scores
No full textR code, data, and full results to reproduce the FIEBRE Adult Severity Score analyses in "Predicting mortality in febrile adults: comparative performance of the MEWS, qSOFA, and UVA scores using prospectively collected data among patients in four health-care sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-eastern Asia"
Alas
No full textWe are pleased to present the English translation of a short story written in Balochi, together with an introduction to the life and work of the author. We also include the Balochi text of the story in Latin and Arabic script. It is our hope that this story will be a wake-up call to many who want to see change in Balochistan, but are reluctant to sacrifice their own comfort to help bring about that change.Taj Baloch and Carina Jahani have translated a short story written by Azgar Lal in Balochi to EnglishThe Balochi Language Projec
Internet-of-Forensic (IoF): A blockchain based digital forensics framework for IoT applications
No full textDigital forensic in Internet-of-Thing (IoT) paradigm is critical due to its heterogeneity and lack of transparency of evidence processing. Moreover, cross-border legalization makes a hindrance in such process pertaining to the cloud forensic issues. This urges a forensic framework for IoT which provides distributed computing, decentralization, and transparency of forensic investigation of digital evidences in cross-border perspectives. To this end, we propose a framework for IoT forensics that addresses the above mentioned issues. The proposed solution called Internet-of-Forensics (IoF) considers a blockchain tailored IoT framework for digital forensics. It provides a transparent view of the investigation process that involves all the stakeholders (e.g., heterogeneous devices, and cloud service providers) in a single framework. It uses blockchain-based case chain to deal with the investigation process including chain-of-custody and evidence chain. Consensus is used for consortium to solve the problems of cross-border legalization. This is also beneficial for a transparent and ease of forensic reference. The programmable lattice-based cryptographic primitives produce reduced complexities. It shows benefits for power-aware devices and puts an add-on to the novelty of the presented idea. IoF is generic; hence, it can be used by autonomous security operation centers, cyber-forensic investigators and manually initiated evidences under chain-of-custody for man-made crimes. Security services are assured as required by the framework. IoF is experimented and compared with the other state-of-the-art frameworks. The outcomes and analysis prove the efficiency of IoF concerning complexity, time consumption, memory and CPU utilization, gas consumption, and energy analysis
Where to Meet a Driver Privately: Recommending Pick-Up Locations for Ride-Hailing Services
No full textRide-Hailing Service (RHS) has motivated the rise of innovative transportation services. It enables riders to hail a cab or private vehicle at the roadside by sending a ride request to the Ride-Hailing Service Provider (RHSP). Such a request collects rider’s real-time locations, which incur serious privacy concerns for riders. While there are many location privacy-preserving mechanisms in the literature, few of them consider mobility patterns or location semantics in RHS. In this work, we propose a pick-up location recommendation scheme with location indistinguishability and semantic indistinguishability for RHS. Specifically, we give formal definitions of location indistinguishability and semantic indistinguishability. We model the rider mobility as a time-dependent first-order Markov chain and generates a rider’s mobility profile. Next, it calculates the geographic similarity between riders by using the Mallows distance and classifies them into different geographic groups. To comprehend the semantics of a location, it extracts such information through user-generated content from two popular social networks and obtains the semantic representations of locations. Cosine similarity and unified hypergraph are used to compute the semantic similarities between locations. Finally, it outputs a set of recommended pick-up locations. To evaluate the performance, we build our mobility model over the real-world dataset GeoLife, analyze the computational costs of a rider, show the utility, and implement it on an Android smartphone. The experimental results show that it costs less than 0.12 ms to recommend 10 pick-up locations within 500 m of walking distance.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Cyber Securit
Comparison of the limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) and recombinant factor C (rFC) endotoxin bioassays: characterization of aerosols and settled dust on a sheep farm
No full text2011 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.The goals of this study are: 1) To optimize an extraction protocol for bulk sheep dust analysis by rFC; 2) To compare the traditional chromogenic LAL to the newer fluorometric rFC assay; 3) To compare the effects of the two most widely used extraction media, pyrogen-free water (PFW) and pyrogen-free water with 0.05% Tween 20 (PFW-Tween 20), on the assay outcomes; and 4) To characterize endotoxin exposure in a sheep farm environment. Settled and airborne dust samples were collected from a sheep farm for analysis. Settled dust was analyzed with endpoint fluorogenic rFC and kinetic chromogenic LAL in two different laboratories. A total of 34 stationary airborne dust samples (32 matched) were collected with Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) inhalable dust samplers, using polyvinyl chloride (PVC) filters. Airborne samples were analyzed with endpoint fluorogenic rFC and endpoint chromogenic LAL in the same laboratory. The results of the bulk dust analysis showed a significant difference in polystyrene (PS) tubes and polypropylene (PP) tubes used for extraction indicating that PS tubes yielded higher endotoxin levels (t = 3.82, p = 0.000). No difference in endotoxin levels was found for centrifugation and spike recovery was closest to 100% for extraction with PFW. The results of the airborne dust study showed a strong positive correlation between the rFC and LAL assays with PFW-Tween 20 extraction. All samples extracted in PFW-Tween 20 had a higher endotoxin recovery compared with those extracted in PFW for both the rFC and LAL assays
Acute Uncomplicated Febrile Illness in Children Aged 2-59 months in Zanzibar - Aetiologies, Antibiotic Treatment and Outcome
No full textThis dataset contains information on 677 children with acute uncomplicated febrile illness collected as part of a prospective health facility based study over 14 days between April-July 2011 in North A District, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Variables include basic demographics, socio-economic information and results from clinical examinations, laboratory tests and PCR analyses. A healthy community control group (n=167) was recruited for comparison during the same study time period
Appropriate Treatment in Ugandan Drug Shops
No full textThe dataset contains information on individuals who attended private sector drug shops in Uganda. It is part of a study to investigate the feasibility of introducing RDTs to Ugandan drug shops in order to promote the rational and correct use of ACT drugs when managing cases of malaria. The research team assessed how drugs were being prescribed in both drug shops and public health services, as well as the way local communities sought treatment
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