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Aabid Shivji Interview
No full textAabid Shivji (Class of 2017) was interviewed by Laura Narvaez via the Zoom internet-based video conferencing software on October 15, 2023. Mr. Shivji was born to two Pakistani immigrants in Bedford, Texas, in February 1996. His parents decided to teach him and his sister English as their first language rather than Urdu, which led to a culture shock when his family moved to Pakistan when he was seven. They lived with extended family there until he was ten, when they moved back to north Texas. In high school, he became involved in academic debate. He applied to SMU not knowing much about its reputation and chose to attend so he could continue to work his job as an assistant debate coach at his high school. It took awhile for Mr. Shivji to find his footing at SMU, but he ultimately found his social circle through what was then the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, now the SCIE office. He became involved with the Muslim Student Association and the Indian Student Association, serving on the boards of both. He also served as a Resident Assistant for two years. He discussed watching an old Indian movie with his friends during a snowstorm his freshman year as being the first time he felt he could relax and enjoy being Pakistani with others. He graduated from SMU in 2017 with Bachelor's degrees in Business Administration and Philosophy. At time of recording, Mr. Shivji is working at Deloitte, developing apps and systems for nonprofits
جدید اُردو تنقید کا ایک معتبر حوالہ :تبسم کاشمیری
No full textDr. Tabassum Kashmiri earned fame in different capacities of Urdu literature. He contributed in Urdu literature multidimensionally with considerable multi aspects of the views and features. He highlighted issues of modern world attitudes of violation of traditionalism as social dilemma. He strongly supported the views that present criticism is unable to reflect, deliver and pointout the right direction. Author of the article is of the opinion that Tabassum Kashmiri is well aware of the art produced and contributed by the authors of present era. Author of the article is of the opinion that Tabassum Kashmiri not only well aware but also associated with the conclusion and functions of the present criticism.
Influence of personality traits on open access mode of publishing
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the influence of personality traits on perception and acceptance
of open access (OA) mode of publishing by the author community of University of Kashmir, India. The study is
an attempt to highlight the relationship between personality traits of authors and OA mode of publishing.
Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on the responses of 48 faculty members affiliated with
different Departments of Science Discipline of University of Kashmir. Big Five personality traits (extraversion,
agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience) were tapped through ten-item
personality inventory, and information regarding OA was gauged through six self-devised statements.
Findings – Pearson correlation test confirms statistically significant relation between personality traits
and different dimensions of OA mode of publishing. Personality traits are found to have an influence on
author’s perception of OA mode of publishing. However, the study could not ascertain any relation between
the notions of an author about the quality of OA content with any of the personality traits. Emotionally
stable authors are found to explicitly submit their work in OA journals without any anxiety or negativity.
Agreeable and conscientious authors also prefer to keep their work open to make it helpful to the broader
audience and get maximum recognition from peers and citations to their work respectively. However,
some authors (agreeable) hesitate in submitting their work in open platforms due to the fear of getting their
works easily copie
Tweeting the meeting: An in-depth analysis of Twitter activity at kidney week 2011
No full textIn recent years, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has increased its efforts to use its annual conference to inform and educate the public about kidney disease. Social media, including Twitter, has been one method used by the Society to accomplish this goal. Twitter is a popular microblogging service that serves as a potent tool for disseminating information. It allows for short messages (140 characters) to be composed by any author and distributes those messages globally and quickly. The dissemination of information is necessary if Twitter is to be considered a tool that can increase public awareness of kidney disease. We hypothesized that content, citation, and sentiment analyses of tweets generated from Kidney Week 2011 would reveal a large number of educational tweets that were disseminated to the public. An ideal tweet for accomplishing this goal would include three key features: 1) informative content, 2) internal citations, and 3) positive sentiment score. Informative content was found in 29% of messages, greater than that found in a similarly sized medical conference (2011 ADA Conference, 16%). Informative tweets were more likely to be internally, rather than externally, cited (38% versus 22%, p<0.0001), thereby amplifying the original information to an even larger audience. Informative tweets had more negative sentiment scores than uninformative tweets (means -0.162 versus 0.199 respectively, p<0.0001), therefore amplifying a tweet whose content had a negative tone. Our investigation highlights significant areas of promise and improvement in using Twitter to disseminate medical information in nephrology from a scientific conference. This goal is pertinent to many nephrology-focused conferences that wish to increase public awareness of kidney disease
Tweeting the meeting: an in-depth analysis of Twitter activity at Kidney Week 2011.
Get PDFIn recent years, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has increased its efforts to use its annual conference to inform and educate the public about kidney disease. Social media, including Twitter, has been one method used by the Society to accomplish this goal. Twitter is a popular microblogging service that serves as a potent tool for disseminating information. It allows for short messages (140 characters) to be composed by any author and distributes those messages globally and quickly. The dissemination of information is necessary if Twitter is to be considered a tool that can increase public awareness of kidney disease. We hypothesized that content, citation, and sentiment analyses of tweets generated from Kidney Week 2011 would reveal a large number of educational tweets that were disseminated to the public. An ideal tweet for accomplishing this goal would include three key features: 1) informative content, 2) internal citations, and 3) positive sentiment score. Informative content was found in 29% of messages, greater than that found in a similarly sized medical conference (2011 ADA Conference, 16%). Informative tweets were more likely to be internally, rather than externally, cited (38% versus 22%, p<0.0001), thereby amplifying the original information to an even larger audience. Informative tweets had more negative sentiment scores than uninformative tweets (means -0.162 versus 0.199 respectively, p<0.0001), therefore amplifying a tweet whose content had a negative tone. Our investigation highlights significant areas of promise and improvement in using Twitter to disseminate medical information in nephrology from a scientific conference. This goal is pertinent to many nephrology-focused conferences that wish to increase public awareness of kidney disease
Quantifying the Twitter influence of third party commercial entities versus healthcare providers in thirteen medical conferences from 2011 – 2013
Get PDFINTRODUCTION:Twitter channels are increasingly popular at medical conferences. Many groups, including healthcare providers and third party entities (e.g., pharmaceutical or medical device companies) use these channels to communicate with one another. These channels are unregulated and can allow third party commercial entities to exert an equal or greater amount of Twitter influence than healthcare providers. Third parties can use this influence to promote their products or services instead of sharing unbiased, evidence-based information. In this investigation we quantified the Twitter influence that third party commercial entities had in 13 major medical conferences. METHODS:We analyzed tweets contained in the official Twitter hashtags of thirteen medical conferences from 2011 to 2013. We placed tweet authors into one of four categories based on their account profile: healthcare provider, third party commercial entity, none of the above and unknown. We measured Twitter activity by the number of tweet authors per category and the tweet-to-author ratio by category. We measured Twitter influence by the PageRank of tweet authors by category. RESULTS:We analyzed 51159 tweets authored by 8778 Twitter account holders in 13 conferences that were sponsored by 5 medical societies. A quarter of all authors identified themselves as healthcare providers, while only 18% could be identified as third party commercial entities. Healthcare providers had a greater tweet-to-author ratio than their third party commercial entity counterparts (8.98 versus 6.93 tweets). Despite having less authors and composing less tweets, third party commercial entities had a statistically similar PageRank as healthcare providers (0.761 versus 0.797). CONCLUSION:The Twitter influence of third party commercial entities (PageRank) is similar to that of healthcare providers. This finding is interesting because the number of tweets and third party commercial entity authors required to achieve this PageRank is far fewer than that needed by healthcare providers. Without safety mechanisms in place, the Twitter channels of medical conferences can devolve into a venue for the spread of biased information rather than evidence-based medical knowledge that is expected at live conferences. Continuing to measure the Twitter influence that third parties exert can help conference organizers develop reasonable guidelines for Twitter channel activity
Nurse-led palliative care for HIV-positive patients taking antiretroviral therapy in Kenya: a randomised controlled trial
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Background
People with HIV accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART) have persistent physical, psychological, social, and spiritual problems, which are associated with poor quality of life and treatment outcomes. We assessed the effectiveness of a nurse-led palliative care intervention on patient-reported outcomes.
Methods
We did this randomised controlled trial at a clinic in Kenya for adults with HIV, established on ART, and reporting moderate-to-severe pain or symptoms. We randomly assigned participants (1:1) either to a palliative care intervention (including assessments of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing and quality of life) given six times over 4 months, or to usual care. Participants and investigators were not masked to allocation. The primary outcome was pain (scored on the African Palliative Care Association's African Palliative Outcome Scale). This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, number NCT01608802.
Findings
We screened 2070 patients, of whom we enrolled 120: 60 allocated to each group. In the control group, median pain score improved from 1·0 (IQR 0·0–2·0) at baseline to 5·0 (3·0–5·0) at 4 months; in the intervention group, it improved from 1·0 (0·0–2·0) at baseline to 4·5 (3·0–5·0) at 4 months. Compared with standard care, the intervention had no significant effect on pain (coefficient −0·01, 95% CI −0·36 to 0·34, p=0·95).
Interpretation
A nurse-led palliative care intervention was not effective in reducing pain. However, person-centred assessment and care delivered by staff who have received additional training had positive effects on self-reported mental health related quality of life and psychosocial wellbeing.
Funding
Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.
Correspondence to: Dr Richard Harding, King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ, UK
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