220 research outputs found
Comments and Reflections on "Prosody" (A Correspondence with Encyclopedia Britannica)
No full textThis is the correspondence between contributor Umar Farooq and editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. In this article, Farooq quotes the author ‘Elements of Prosody: Scansion’, and draws attention of the editors to some points left unnoticed by the author as he explains these elements through George Herbert’s analysis of Vertue. Farooq also shares his views on ‘Prosodic Style: The Personal Elements’
Epidemiology of a Hospital-Based Pediatric Cancer Registry - An Experience at a Major Tertiary Care Center in Pakistan
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Ashar Farooq, COVID-19 reflection and images, 2020 March - June
No full textFor more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/350231Description by the author "One written document presents a short introductory summary about the shift to quarantine and its impact on my schedule. This also talks about the intersection of quarantine with the month of Ramadan. This was written around June 2020 as a reflection. These experiences took place in Huntington Station, New York. 8 photographs are a mix of on-campus immediately leading up to the departure from campus. Those last days before Pi Day 2020, the day I left campus, were captured by interacting with friends and campus happenings for the last time for a while. Some photographs depict the state of my MIT Masee Hall dorm room after packing everything up in a hurry and clearing out the room. Some photographs depict the iconic Purell stand that seemingly took over MIT's campus in March of 2020. The photographs at home are from Huntington Station, NY in my room as this has become the place of work, learn, and mostly everything during the qurantine period.
Connecting Theory and Practice in LIS: The Training Model of the Information Resource Centers
No full textThe traditional LIS education is also essential as it provides the foundation for our profession. Also, the LIS theory explores the history and evolution of the librarianship in different era. The library science educators do review the LIS courses from time to time, because it isn’t one time job. As the nature of information sources changes, the sophistication of information technology advances, and the quantity of knowledge explodes; the job market of librarians itself demands revision and expansion in the curricula of the LIS.
Even if the curriculum of an LIS school is up to the mark, the institution is required to train its new information professionals. Every type of library (i.e. public, academic, or special etc.) has to impart a proper training to its employees for better performance and productivity.
At the same time, it is true that not all the libraries or their parent institutions can afford the expensive and sophisticated training model of the IRCs. However, if they put the professional training on priority and spend some resources and time on it, they can get best out of their employees. One way is to arrange the in-house training sessions at their libraries. Moreover, the libraries of the same kind or in the same region can coordinate training on different LIS modules. The Internet is itself a good learning, teaching and training tool. The information professional can improve the professional skills through reading the professional literature, becoming a member of professional association, and consulting the value added professional websites
Transparent data plane failure tolerance for software defined networks
No full textWith the ever-increasing size and scale of networks and the critical nature of user applications, it is very important to have adequate failure tolerance mechanisms in order to ensure minimal disruption is user operations. Rather than handling failures in the control plane, it is more desirable to have failure tolerance mechanisms in the data plane. To this end, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has introduced different measures for data plane failure tolerance in existing protocols. More specifically in OpenFlow, this is achieved through fast fail-over groups that monitor health of ports and route traffic along alternative ones when the primary port is unavailable. However, configuring fast fail-over groups in data plane has required all logic to be off loaded into controller applications. This not only makes these applications more complicated, but has also proven to be restrictive in terms of the application's architecture and programming constructs.
In this thesis we introduce a novel design for SDN that abstracts out the failure tolerance logic from the control plane and automatically and transparently configures fast fail-over groups in the data plane, while leaving controller applications unmodified. Our technique pre-computes backup paths for each link in the data plane and installs them as MPLS tunnels. It then configures and installs fast fail-over groups to use these tunnels for rerouting traffic in the event of a link failure. Finally, it transparently intercepts communication between the control and data planes to use these fast fail-over groups and translate any other messages back and forth as needed. We also provide a module to make failure tolerance compatible with controller applications running in different versions of OpenFlow, particularly OpenFlow version 1.0, which has no notion of fast fail-over groups and integrates seamlessly with our design to make non-resilient controller applications failure tolerant. Our experiments demonstrate that our design is effective in transparently configuring fast fail-over groups for non-resilient controller applications, achieves a reasonably high throughput and incurs a fairly low performance overhead on network resources.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Umar Farooq, accepted the attached license on 2020-05-12 at 11:06.The student, Umar Farooq, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-05-12 at 11:13.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-05-12 at 21:25.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15323 on 2020-08-25 at 17:44:18Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-27T00:51:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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AWARENESS OF MEDICAL ETHICS PRINCIPLES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS AMONG HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN PAKISTAN
No full textBackground:
The importance of medical ethics principles is not emphasized therefore has diminished role in the medical students’ mind. Additionally, practicing in an environment where senior physicians and consultants are not seen prioritizing moral ethical values in their clinical practice, creates an air of indifference. This study was done to assess the awareness of HEC defined objectives for Medical Ethics in the medical curriculum, along with gauging the understanding of key Medical Ethics concepts by way of multiple choice clinical scenarios.
Methods:
This is a cross-sectional study conducted over three months. Response forms were filled at a private and government hospital. The sample size of 243 subjects was finalized according to the number of available House Officers and Postgraduate trainees. The questionnaire was aimed purely at MBBS graduates from Pakistan.Results: A total of 243 responses were collected, ranging from House Officer level doctors 139(57%) up to Postgraduate level 104(43%). Analysis was done to determine association of awareness of Medical Ethics objectives with their medical school background. Ethical concepts of Confidentiality, Non-malefaience, Informed Consent, Respect for Privacy and Desirable Attitudes in Healthcare Professionals showed significant p-values of 0.006, 0.016, 0.005, 0.013 and 0.045. The number of incorrect responses to the clinical scenarios were: 55(25.3%), 111(51.4%), 87(42%), 119(55.3%), 104(47.9%), 170(78.7%), 50(23.4%). There was no significant difference in response among graduates from different backgrounds or with different years of clinical experience.
Conclusion:
A significant disconnect exists in the application of the knowledge of medical ethics in the clinical setting with several factors affecting physician judgment in ethical dilemmas. Effective teaching and assessment methods, inclusion of postgraduate ethical courses along with a regulatory ethics committee in each hospital is needed to protect both doctors and patients
AWARENESS OF MEDICAL ETHICS PRINCIPLES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS AMONG HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN PAKISTAN
No full textBackground:
The importance of medical ethics principles is not emphasized therefore has diminished role in the medical students’ mind. Additionally, practicing in an environment where senior physicians and consultants are not seen prioritizing moral ethical values in their clinical practice, creates an air of indifference. This study was done to assess the awareness of HEC defined objectives for Medical Ethics in the medical curriculum, along with gauging the understanding of key Medical Ethics concepts by way of multiple choice clinical scenarios.
Methods:
This is a cross-sectional study conducted over three months. Response forms were filled at a private and government hospital. The sample size of 243 subjects was finalized according to the number of available House Officers and Postgraduate trainees. The questionnaire was aimed purely at MBBS graduates from Pakistan.
Results: A total of 243 responses were collected, ranging from House Officer level doctors 139(57%) up to Postgraduate level 104(43%). Analysis was done to determine association of awareness of Medical Ethics objectives with their medical school background. Ethical concepts of Confidentiality, Non-malefaience, Informed Consent, Respect for Privacy and Desirable Attitudes in Healthcare Professionals showed significant p-values of 0.006, 0.016, 0.005, 0.013 and 0.045. The number of incorrect responses to the clinical scenarios were: 55(25.3%), 111(51.4%), 87(42%), 119(55.3%), 104(47.9%), 170(78.7%), 50(23.4%). There was no significant difference in response among graduates from different backgrounds or with different years of clinical experience.
Conclusion:
A significant disconnect exists in the application of the knowledge of medical ethics in the clinical setting with several factors affecting physician judgment in ethical dilemmas. Effective teaching and assessment methods, inclusion of postgraduate ethical courses along with a regulatory ethics committee in each hospital is needed to protect both doctors and patients
Interplay between network configurations and network governance mechanisms in supply networks a systematic literature review
No full textPurpose: This work systematically reviews the extant academic management literature on supply networks. It specifically examines how network configurations and network governance mechanisms influence each other in supply networks.
Design: 125 analytical and empirical studies were identified using an evidence-based approach to review the literature mainly published between 1985 and 2012.
Synthesis: Drawing on a multi-disciplinary theoretical foundation, this work develops an integrative framework to identify three distinct yet interdependent themes that characterize the study of supply networks: a) Network Configurations (structures and relationships); b) Network Governance Mechanisms (formal and informal); and c) The Interplay between Network Configurations and Network Governance Mechanisms.
Findings: Network configurations and network governance mechanisms mutually influence each other and cannot be considered in isolation. Formal and informal governance mechanisms provide better control when used as complements rather than as substitutes. The choice of governance mechanism depends on the nature of exchange; role of management; desired level of control; level of flexibility in formal contracts; and complementary role of formal and informal governance mechanism.
Research implications: This nascent field has thematic and methodological research opportunities for academics. Comparative network analysis using longitudinal case studies offers a rich area for further study.
Practical Implications: The complexity surrounding the conflicting roles of managers at the organisation and network levels poses a significant challenge during the development and implementation stage of strategic network policies.
Originality/value: This review reveals that formal and informal governance mechanisms provide better control when used as complements rather than as substitutes
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