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BMJ Confidential Simon Conroy: Healthy body and mind
No full textBMJ Confidential Simon Conroy: Healthy body and min
BMJ Confidential Simon Conroy: Healthy body and mind
No full textBMJ Confidential Simon Conroy: Healthy body and min
Pat Conroy Papers - Accession 1632
No full textThe Pat Conroy Papers consists of materials related to author Donald Patrick “Pat” Conroy (1945-2016). The collection consists of legal documents concerning a lawsuit between the Savannah School of Art and Design (SCAD) against Mr. Conroy, copies of newspaper articles concerning the SCAD lawsuit, legal documents concerning the divorce of Pat Conroy and his wife Lenore Guerwitz Fleischer Conroy, correspondence concerning the rights to “Beach Music”, manuscripts sent over the years to Mr. Conroy to read, One letter to Mr. Conroy concerning the possibility of Pat Conroy writing a screenplay for , “Look Homeward Angel”, along with what appears to be a screenplay for , “Look Homeward Angel”, two framed political cartoons, four college hoods, and two chefs coats.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2823/thumbnail.jp
The secret is to follow your nose: route path selection and angularity
No full textThis paper presents the results of an experiment in which route-choice decisions made by
subjects at road-junctions are recorded. It will then demonstrate that a route can be expressed
as the sum of the individual decisions made or as the sum of all possible decisions available
(i.e. potential choices) during a journey. The relationship between these two values will be
compared statistically indicating that the decisions made at road-junctions correlate more
strongly with maximum angles of incidence of road-center-lines leading from a junction
than to mean or minimum angles. One interpretation of this phenomenon is that subjects
appear to be attempting to conserve linearity throughout their journey. Since any theory
based upon the conservation of angular linearity appears to be refuted by certain, informal
observations of subjects traversing urban grids, the first theory put forward in this paper is
then modified to account for this particular case. The final hypothesis presented in this paper
is based upon acts of rule-based decision-making combining principles of the conservation
of linearity whilst minimising the angular difference between bearings. The two key bearings
are those of the direction of potential route choices compared to the perceived bearings of
the wayfinding goal as judged from sequential instances of the observer's location. This
theory of modified angular conservation is called 'The British Library Theory'.
In (Conroy, 2001) it was demonstrated that the most popular routes from a sample
(as calculated using string-matching techniques) also appeared to be more 'linear'. This observation
reproduces similar findings made in (Golledge, 1995). The question that these observations
prompt is what route choices are individuals making at road junctions such that their
actions result in this apparent conservation of route linearity? Therefore, in this paper a
method is proposed for the determination of route choice decisions made at consecutive
road junctions over the duration of a single journey. This method employs a measure of
angular deviation (from a straight line or direction) and uses this to develop a cumulative
measure for an individual's entire journey, based upon the summation of all choices made at
every junction encountered along the route.
The hypothesis that this method was developed to test is that an individual subject
will follow as straight a route as possible with minimal angular deviation (from a straight
line) on condition that this choice always approximates the direction of their final destination.
Another way of stating this hypothesis is that essentially people 'follow their noses'
whilst navigating through an environment
Book launch of Res Gestae - Things Done, 22 Nov 2016
No full textBook launch of 'Res Gestae - Things Done', written by UQ Law graduate and Queensland's first practising female barrister Naida Haxton AM. 'Res Gestae - Things Done' is a reflection by one woman during the course of a career at the Bar and her life as a wife and mother. Speakers: Professor Simon Bronitt, Deputy Dean (Research), TC Beirne School of Law, Naida Haxton, Martin Conroy, James Boddam-Whetham, and Annette McNicol, Director, University of Queensland Library
The dual knowledge role of open innovation intermediaries: internal weaving and external filtering for MNE subsidiaries
No full textDeveloping dual embeddedness for subsidiaries with competence-creating mandates in multinational enterprises (MNE) presents contradictory knowledge demands in internal and external networks that hamper their innovative capacity. Sourcing knowledge externally and transferring this across the MNE is a delicate yet demanding balancing act, and scholars suggest that competence-creating subsidiaries achieve this by building firm-specific innovative capabilities. Although open innovation (OI)studies contend that intermediaries may be important in connecting subsidiaries locally, we have yet to fully understand if, and how, these intermediaries influence subsidiary dual embeddedness. Through an exploratory qualitative case study design, we find that an OI intermediary performs a critical dual knowledge role through internal weaving and external filtering in helping subsidiaries navigate the conflicting knowledge challenges of dual embeddedness. Specifically, we disentangle how performing this role requires the OI intermediary to habitually engage in a range of complementary activities that enhance intra-firm knowledge transfer both vertically and laterally, to and from the subsidiary, as well as expanding the capacity of the subsidiary to source knowledge externally in their local network. In spotlighting the intermediary-subsidiary interface, our findings generate greater integration between the literature in international business (IB) and open innovation, specifically subsidiary dual embeddedness, and OI intermediaries. <br/
Outcomes of hospital admissions among frail older people: a 2-year cohort study
No full textBackground
‘Frailty crises’ are a common cause of hospital admission amongst older people and there is significant focus on admission avoidance. However, identifying frailty before a crisis occurs is challenging, making it difficult to effectively target community services. Better longer-term outcome data is needed if services are to reflect the needs of the growing population of older people with frailty.
Aim
To determine long-term outcomes of older people discharged from hospital following short (<72h) and longer hospital admissions compared by frailty status.
Design and Setting
Two populations aged >=70 years discharged from hospital units (i) following short ‘ambulatory’ admissions (<72h); (ii) following longer in-patient stays.
Method
Two-year mortality and hospital use were compared using frailty measures derived from clinical and hospital data.
Results
Mortality after two years was increased for frail compared to non-frail individuals in both cohorts. Patients in the ambulatory cohort classified as frail had increased mortality (Rockwood HR 2.3 [1.5, 3.4]) and hospital use (Rockwood RR 2.1 [1.7, 2.6]) compared to the non-frail.
Conclusions
Individuals with frailty who are discharged from hospital experience increased mortality and resource use, even after short ‘ambulatory’ admissions. This is an easily identifiable group which is at increased risk of poor outcomes. Health and social care systems might wish to examine their current care response for frail older people discharged from hospital. There may be value in a ‘secondary prevention’ approach to frailty crises targeting individuals who are discharged from hospital
Author Correction: GLORIA - A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality
No full textAn author of the paper was omitted in the original version (Ted Conroy, University of Waikato, New Zealand). This has been corrected in the pdf and HTML versions of the paper, and the associated metadata
The challenges of using the Hospital Frailty Risk Score – Author's reply
No full textWe thank John Soong and colleagues, Sandra M Shi and Dae H Kim, and Rónán O'Caoimh and colleagues for their careful consideration of our Article.
We note some concerns about the clinical utility of our scoring method; our approach is to position the Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) as a tool that can be implemented without the need for additional assessment or data collection, and direct high-risk individuals towards frailty-attuned interventions, such as the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA).1 We acknowledge that the HFRS can only be generated after an initial admission, so risk stratification information would not be possible at first presentation. Two-thirds of people aged 75 years or older access acute-care hospitals more than once over a 2-year period, and those patients who have not previously accessed hospital care are typically at low risk of hospital-related adverse outcomes; thus, we view the HFRS as being especially useful to identify individuals at the highest risk of hospital-related harm and resource use. We accept that manual scales, such as the Clinical Frailty Scale,2 could be used, but the HFRS has the advantage of being automated and capturing all patients, not just a selected sample
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