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Colin Humphris
"Colin Humphris 2 Sqdrn. RAAF. 1941 - 1942 Author of - 'Trapped on Timor' (as a result of bombing of Darwin Feb. 19, 1942)".Colin Humphris. 2 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force 1941 - 1942. Author of - 'Trapped on Timor' (as a result of bombing of Darwin February 19, 1942)
Interview with Colin Wilson, part 4, undated
Interview with Colin Wilson, part 4, features an interview with author Colin Wilson in which he discusses his views regarding society and art, his reclusive nature, and the intellectual and fantastical elements of his works, undated
Interview with Colin Wilson, part 2, undated
Interview with Colin Wilson, part 2, features an interview with author Colin Wilson in which he discusses his views regarding society and art, his reclusive nature, and the intellectual and fantastical elements of his works, undated
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2017-2018: D. Colin Jaundrill
In this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, D. Colin Jaundrill (History, Providence College) discusses his newest book, Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Providence College Faculty Author Series 2017-2018: D. Colin Jaundrill
In this installment of the Faculty Authors Series, D. Colin Jaundrill (History, Providence College) discusses his newest book, Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Interview with Colin Jerolmack
Colin Jerolmack is an Assistant Professor at New York University
in Sociology and Environmental Studies. He is the author of The
Global Pigeon (forthcoming) and an alumnus of the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Program at Harvard
University
Colin Fraser
Photograph - Colin Fraser (third from right) in a loaded scow leaving for Fort Chipewyan from Athabasca, Alberta. A group of men are also standing on the pie
Correction: Study protocol: Improving patient choice in treating Low back pain (IMPACT - LBP): A randomised controlled trial of a decision support package for use in physical therapy
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.After publication of this protocol a change in study design was needed [1]. Due to changes in the service configuration in the host physiotherapy department individual randomisation as originally planned could not be implemented. It was necessary to change to cluster randomisation with the unit of randomisation being the treating physiotherapist. Potential participants are given outpatient appointments by booking staff unaware of the physiotherapist’s randomisation. Trial recruitment is also done blind to physiotherapist allocation. In this manner we have ensured allocation concealment prior to participants joining the study. Cluster randomised trials need to inflate their sample size to account for clustering. Typically primary care trials use an intra-cluster correlation coefficient (ICC) of 0.05 in this calculation [2]. Our past experience is that clustering effects by therapist in trials of this nature may be very small [3]. To account for this we developed a provisional revised sample size using an ICC of 0.05 and did an interim analysis of pooled data, just for ICC of the primary outcome, after the first 40 participants had completed the three month follow-up questionnaire. The ICC was close to zero, suggesting that using an ICC of 0.05 was too conservative. We therefore assumed an ICC of 0.01 to estimate the design effect due to clustering. Based on an average cluster size of nine this results in a revised final sample size of 158
Study protocol: Improving patient choice in treating low back pain (IMPACT - LBP): A randomised controlled trial of a decision support package for use in physical therapy
Copyright @ 2011 Patel et al - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Background: Low back pain is a common and costly condition. There are several treatment options for people suffering from back pain, but there are few data on how to improve patients' treatment choices. This study will test the effects of a decision support package (DSP), designed to help patients seeking care for back pain to make better, more informed choices about their treatment within a physiotherapy department. The package will be designed to assist both therapist and patient.
Methods/Design: Firstly, in collaboration with physiotherapists, patients and experts in the field of decision support and decision aids, we will develop the DSP. The work will include: a literature and evidence review; secondary analysis of existing qualitative data; exploration of patients' perspectives through focus groups and exploration of experts' perspectives using a nominal group technique and a Delphi study.
Secondly, we will carry out a pilot single centre randomised controlled trial within NHS Coventry Community Physiotherapy. We will randomise physiotherapists to receive either training for the DSP or not. We will randomly allocate patients seeking treatment for non specific low back pain to either a physiotherapist trained in decision support or to receive usual care. Our primary outcome measure will be patient satisfaction with treatment at three month follow-up. We will also estimate the cost-effectiveness of the intervention, and assess the value of conducting further research.
Discussion: Informed shared decision-making should be an important part of any clinical consultation, particularly when there are several treatments, which potentially have moderate effects. The results of this pilot will help us determine the benefits of improving the decision-making process in clinical practice on patient satisfaction.This work is funded from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme (Ref: PB-PG-0808-17039)
From Foucauldian Biopower to Energopower and Infopower:An Interview with Dominic Boyer and Colin Koopman
Kirsten Hasberg talks to Dominic Boyer, anthropologist and author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthroprocene, and to Colin Koopman, philosopher and author of How We Became our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person. Their books published in mid-2019 put forward novel conceptualizations of Foucauldian biopower, which they term infopower and energopower, respectively. Criss-crossing between philosophical conceptualizations and concrete problems like the struggles of renewable energy communities (Boyer) and the influence of economic thinking on datafication (Koopman), the conversations show how Foucauldian concepts are relevant to today's power struggles inherent to the energy transition and the digital transformation.Kirsten Hasberg talks to Dominic Boyer, anthropologist and author of Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthroprocene, and to Colin Koopman, philosopher and author of How We Became our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person. Their books published in mid-2019 put forward novel conceptualizations of Foucauldian biopower, which they term infopower and energopower, respectively. Criss-crossing between philosophical conceptualizations and concrete problems like the struggles of renewable energy communities (Boyer) and the influence of economic thinking on datafication (Koopman), the conversations show how Foucauldian concepts are relevant to today's power struggles inherent to the energy transition and the digital transformation
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