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Mayrhofer-Hufnagl, Ingrid, ed. Architecture, Futurability and the Untimely. transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839461112.
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The planetary instantaneity that digital technologies have enabled is leading to an effacement of the divisions that separate the past from the future, ensuring that the present is ubiquitous. While contemporary architecture seems to have lost the capacity to conceive of the past as a transformative force, this book stresses the need to rethink today's complex temporal mechanisms through the notion of the untimely. This concept opens up a whole spectrum of possibilities to go beyond what seems predictable. The contributors to this book employ critical concepts and architectural design tools in order to offer experimental and speculative approaches for unknown futures of architecture.
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Brogi Bercoff, Giovanna, and Maria Grazia Bartolini, eds. Kiev e Leopoli: Il 'testo' culturale. Firenze University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-666-2.
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Kiev has always revealed a surprising capacity for assimilation, giving rise over time to multi-ethnic, multi-faith and multi-cultural contexts of various types. Thinking of the "Kiev text" leads inevitably to consideration of the other emblematic text of the Ukrainian identity, the no less composite reality of Lviv. This publication contains the contributions presented at a Conference (Milan, February 2007) addressed to the "cultural text" of Kiev and Lviv. The authors are specialists with different cultural profiles, and the book is of a deliberately inter-disciplinary character. In view of the richness and variety of the information it is offered, within the Italian and international context, as a useful source even for the non-specialist public, and is one of a very small number of books dedicated to Ukraine available in Italian. Clearly, the arguments addressed represent only a tiny part of the vast spectrum of issues and questions inherent to the specificity and plurality of Kiev and Lviv. The hope is that the seed sewn here will grow into further fruitful interest.
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Edmunds, D. E., and W. D. Evans. Capacity and Compactness Criteria. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812050.003.0008.
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In this chapter, necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the Poincaré inequality to hold, for the embedding of W01,p(Ω) in Lp(Ω) to be compact, and for a self-adjoint realization of − aijDiDj + q to have a wholly discrete spectrum when q is real and bounded below. The results are proved using a method of Maz’ya.
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McMahon-Coleman, Kimberley, and Kim Draisma. Teaching University Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Guide to Developing Academic Capacity and Proficiency. Kingsley Publishers, Jessica, 2016.
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McMahon-Coleman, Kimberley. Teaching university students with autism spectrum disorder: A guide to developing academic capacity and proficiency. 2016.
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Yang, Hong-Chuan. Introduction to Digital Wireless Communications. Institution of Engineering & Technology, 2017.
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Introduction to Digital Wireless Communications. The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017.
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Bouchaud, Jean-Phillipe, and Marc Potters. Asymptotic singular value distributions in information theory. Edited by Gernot Akemann, Jinho Baik, and Philippe Di Francesco. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744191.013.41.
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This article examines asymptotic singular value distributions in information theory, with particular emphasis on some of the main applications of random matrices to the capacity of communication channels. Results on the spectrum of random matrices have been adopted in information theory. Furthermore, information theorists, motivated by certain channel models, have obtained a number of new results in random matrix theory (RMT). Most of those results are related to the asymptotic distribution of the (square of) the singular values of certain random matrices that model data communication channels. The article first provides an overview of three transforms that are useful in expressing the asymptotic spectrum results — Stieltjes transform, η-transform, and Shannon transform — before discussing the main results on the limit of the empirical distributions of the eigenvalues of various random matrices of interest in information theory.
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Mott IV, William H., and Robert Sheldon. Laser Satellite Communication. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216186656.
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This introduction to the next generation of human telecommunications enterprise examines the development of laser satellite communications and describes its advantages over previous technologies. It looks at the development of the technology and the industry through wired and wireless media and presents the vision, promise, and challenges of free-space lasers. The book balances its focused consideration of the telecommunications industry and markets with practical thoughts on creating a business involved in the introduction of commercial laser satellite communications systems. Scholars, investors, venture capitalists, policy makers, and corporate leaders will find this to be a comprehensive and eye-opening bridge between the existing telecommunications industry and the opportunities of the next generation. The opening chapters introduce the concepts of Migration, Specialization, and Interconnectivity as solutions inherent in third generation laser-satellite communications. The high capacity of the optical spectrum invites migration of applications beyond the narrow RF spectra to the high frequencies of free-space laser beams. Migration stimulates specialization of voice and duplex at the lower, optimal RF spectra. The third generation—laser-wired space—focuses around global satellite interconnectivity between fiber optics and RF. The final chapters introduce a model business concept to pioneer the third generation. Several approaches to capitalization, organization, technology development, and business strategies provide an exciting stimulus for pragmatic approaches to commercial concepts.
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Straayer, Chris. Femme Fatale or Lesbian Femme. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036613.003.0016.
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This chapter analyzes the neo-noir Bound (1996). It shows how the splitting of sex from gender liberates generic conventions in the service of protagonists who, enacting a lesbian romance in film noir, avail themselves of generic formulas to double-cross the villains. Analyzing the creative capacity of noir gender “to turn cartwheels on both male and female characters within a system of sexual difference,” the chapter shows how Bound—self-consciously playing on the debated identities of butch, femme, and feminine—generates different-sex erotics through same-gender protagonists. Through such playful manipulations, the film opens up flexible reimaginings of sex and gender across the spectrum of gay and straight as alternatives to rigidifying heterosexual and homosexual binaries.
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Stanghellini, Giovanni. The trauma of non-recognition. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198792062.003.0026.
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This chapter argues that human existence is stained by the tragic experience of our failed encounter with the Other. Mental pathology is a miscarried attempt to deal with the suffering that stems from the intolerability of the awareness of the Other’s radical alterity. Our incapacity to recognize the Other is the mark of being human, not a subjective inability. In our tending towards the Other we experience the Other as unattainable. The essence of the Other is its otherness: the Other can never be fully appropriated, but only approximated, as a frustrating limitation for our desire and of our capacity for understanding. This failure in encountering the Other leads to a state of suffering such as to generate defensive shelters that develop into fixed forms of miscarried existence and become part of the spectrum of what we regard as mental pathology.
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Lerner, Matthew D., and Rebecca M. Girard. Appreciating and Promoting Social Creativity in Youth with Asperger’s Syndrome. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190645472.003.0013.
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Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) experience characteristic social and communicative challenges while also representing a wide range of abilities. A plurality of children with ASD exhibit average to exceptional intellectual capacity; they are often considered to be twice exceptional inasmuch as they often exhibit deep knowledge of specific topics yet sometimes have difficulty applying this knowledge flexibly, especially in social situations. Such difficulty in processing and flexibly adapting to social information has long been considered a hallmark of ASD. This chapter considers this claim in the presence of evidence that, in fact, many individuals with ASD show normative or even exceptional creativity (including social creativity); that such abilities can act as a source of social connection for many children and adolescents; and that these capacities can be fostered, nurtured, and supported in those with ASD.
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Liljeström, Marianne. Affect. Edited by Lisa Disch and Mary Hawkesworth. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.013.3.
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During the last few decades, feminist affect studies have enunciated challenging epistemological and ontological questions based on numerous discussions and readings of affect as emotive intensities, intuitive reactions, and life forces. Affect has created a space for rethinking theoretical issues that range from the dualisms between body and mind to the critique of identity politics and critical reading. This theorizing has underlined the sensual qualities of being and the capacity to experience and understand the world in profoundly relational and productive ways. This chapter presents examples of the wide spectrum of contemporary feminist affect studies. It discusses the notion of “affective turn,” concentrating on the way it has been seen as a reaction and a challenge to alleged limitations of poststructuralism and deconstruction; describes definitions of affect; explores understandings of the linkages between epistemology and ontology, and offers some reflections on the feminist politics of affects.
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Bakan, Michael B. Toward an Ethnographic Model of Disability in the Ethnomusicology of Autism. Edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph Straus. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331444.013.2.
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This essay proposes an ethnographic model of disability in contradistinction to existing social and medical models. Building from an ethnomusicological study of the Artism Ensemble, a neurodiverse music performance collective comprising children on the autism spectrum, their coparticipating parents, and professional musicians of diverse musicultural lineage, it discusses issues of autistic self-advocacy, Disability Studies and rights, the anthropology of autism, and epistemological and pragmatic debates and consequences of competing autism discourses and philosophies. The essay argues that musical projects like Artism hold the capacity to contribute productively and meaningfully to the causes of autistic self-advocacy and quality of life, transforming public perceptions of autism from the customary tropes of deficit and disorder to alternate visions of wholeness, ability, and acceptance. Artism is also addressed from a critical vantage point that demonstrates its partial entrenchment in some of the very same negating constructs it ostensibly resists and defies.
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Eaton, Kent. Policy Regime Juxtaposition in Ecuador. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198800576.003.0004.
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This chapter examines Ecuador as a case of policy regime juxtaposition, marked by the success of the first type of subnational policy challenge and the failure of the second. With respect to the first challenge, two dynamic mayors on the right of the political spectrum—León Febres Cordero (1992–2000) and Jaime Nebot (2000–18)—were able to design, build, and consolidate a distinctly neoliberal model in the critical port city of Guayaquil. Thanks to high levels of administrative capacity and strong internal coalitions, the architects of this model subsequently managed to defend it in the face of repeated assaults after 2006 by leftist President Rafael Correa. While the mayor of Guayaquil has managed to defend its neoliberal policy regime, he and his allies have been unable to moderate the President’s statist project at the national level owing to Guayaquil’s declining structural leverage and the absence of external coalitions with other like-minded subnational officials.
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Troisi, Alfonso. Deception. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199393404.003.0006.
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For a long time, biological studies of communication have been based on the postulate that communication has evolved to ensure the transmission of veridical information between conspecifics. Ethological studies of a variety of animal species have demonstrated that transmission of false information is a relevant component of intraspecific signals and that the adaptive benefit of deceiving others was a driving force in the evolution of communication. In primate species, evolving a larger neocortex was a viable evolutionary strategy to respond to environmental challenges that demand enhanced capacities of social manipulation. Among all animal species, humans are the masters of social deception. This chapter focuses on the cognitive abilities related to voluntary deception in humans, with special regard to the role of theory of mind (i.e. the capacity to infer the mental states of other individuals). Different aspects of theory of mind are discussed, including the evolution of social brain, the distinction between mentalizing and empathizing, and the abnormalities of social cognition in clinical syndromes such as autistic spectrum disorders and primary psychopathy.
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Bashford, Alison, and Philippa Levine, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195373141.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics covers the nineteenth century to the post-World War II era and dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It provides a world history of eugenics. Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the “perfectibility of man.” Eugenics has accumulated generations of interest as experts attempted to connect biology, human capacity, and policy. In the past and the present, eugenics speaks to questions of race, class, gender and sex, evolution, governance, nationalism, disability, and the social implications of science. In the current climate, in which the human genome project, stem cell research, and new reproductive technologies have proven so controversial, the history of eugenics has much to teach us about the relationship between scientific research, technology, and human ethical decision-making.
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Moss, Alvin H., Dale E. Lupu, Nancy C. Armistead, and Louis Diamond, eds. Palliative Care in Nephrology. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190945527.001.0001.
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Palliative care has become increasingly important across the spectrum of healthcare, and with it, the need for education and training of a broad range of medical practitioners not previously associated with this field of care. As part of the Integrating Palliative Care series, this volume on palliative care in nephrology guides readers through the core palliative knowledge and skills needed to deliver high value, high quality care for seriously ill patients with chronic and end-stage kidney disease. Chapters are written by a team of international leaders in kidney palliative care and are organized into sections exploring unmet supportive care needs, palliative care capacity, patient-centered care, enhanced support at the end of life, and more. Chapter topics are based on the Coalition for Supportive Care of Kidney Patients Pathways Project change package of 14 evidence-based best practices to improve the delivery of palliative care to patients with kidney disease. An overview of the future of palliative care nephrology with attention to needed policy changes rounds out the text. Palliative Care in Nephrology is an ideal resource for nephrologists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, social workers, primary care clinicians, and other practitioners who wish to learn more about integrating individualized, patient-centered palliative care into treatment of their patients with kidney disease.
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Tallberg, Jonas, Karin Bäckstrand, and Jan Aart Scholte, eds. Legitimacy in Global Governance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826873.001.0001.
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Legitimacy is central for the capacity of global governance institutions to address problems such as climate change, trade protectionism, and human rights abuses. However, despite legitimacy’s importance for global governance, its workings remain poorly understood. That is the core concern of this volume: to develop an agenda for systematic and comparative research on legitimacy in global governance. In complementary fashion, the chapters address different aspects of the overarching question: whether, why, how, and with what consequences global governance institutions gain, sustain, and lose legitimacy. The volume makes four specific contributions. First, it argues for a sociological approach to legitimacy, centered on perceptions of legitimate global governance among affected audiences. Second, it moves beyond the traditional focus on states as the principal audience for legitimacy in global governance and considers a full spectrum of actors from governments to citizens. Third, it advocates a comparative approach to the study of legitimacy in global governance, and suggests strategies for comparison across institutions, issue areas, countries, societal groups, and time. Fourth, the volume offers the most comprehensive treatment so far of the sociological legitimacy of global governance, covering three broad analytical themes: (1) sources of legitimacy, (2) processes of legitimation and delegitimation, and (3) consequences of legitimacy.
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Martin-Loeches, Ignacio, and Antonio Artigas. Respiratory support with positive end-expiratory pressure. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0094.
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Positive-end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is the pressure present in the airway (alveolar pressure) above atmospheric pressure that exists at the end of expiration. The term PEEP is defined in two particular settings. Extrinsic PEEP (applied by ventilator) and intrinsic PEEP (PEEP caused by non-complete exhalation causing progressive air trapping). Applied (extrinsic) PEEP—is usually one of the first ventilator settings chosen when mechanical ventilation (MV) is initiated. Applying PEEP increases alveolar pressure and volume. The increased lung volume increases the surface area by reopening and stabilizing collapsed or unstable alveoli. PEEP therapy can be effective when used in patients with a diffuse lung disease with a decrease in functional residual capacity. Lung protection ventilation is an established strategy of management to reduce and avoid ventilator-induced lung injury and mortality. Levels of PEEP have been traditionally used from 5 to 12 cmH2O; however, higher levels of PEEP have also been proposed and updated in order to keep alveoli open, without the cyclical opening and closing of lung units (atelectrauma). The ideal level of PEEP is that which prevents derecruitment of the majority of alveoli, while causing minimal overdistension; however, it should be individualized and higher PEEP might be used in the more severe end of the spectrum of patients with improved survival. A survival benefit for higher levels of PEEP has not been yet reported for any patient under MV, but a higher PaO2/FiO2 ratio seems to be better in the higher PEEP group.
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Hutson, Mike. Assessment and management. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199533909.003.0011.
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Individuals undertaking exercise include those engaged in aerobic activities as part of a healthy lifestyle, those engaged in an active fitness or rehabilitation programme relevant to acute or chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory problems, and musculoskeletal disorders, and the committed competitive athlete with high performance targets. Accordingly, those injured as a consequence of exercise or sport attend medical practitioners in diverse circumstances. Urgency of assessment of the full impact of injury clearly varies across the spectrum from the life-threatening situation on the field of play (or other sports/recreational exercise location, for instance poolside or roadside) to one in which a chronic condition can be evaluated in the relative comfort of the clinician’s consulting room. Irrespective of the circumstances, the primary requirement is the establishment of an accurate diagnosis. The process of assessment is aided when relevant by an appropriate index of suspicion with respect to those injuries that are not often seen outside sporting and recreational activity (e.g. throwers’ elbow and shin splints). Diagnosis of tissue injury is followed by a full assessment of its impact on the function of the surrounding structures, and subsequently assessment of impairment of sporting capacity in general. Evaluation is made of the aetiological factors associated with the development of injury, the behavioural responses, including motivation and health prioritization, and the individual’s standard of performance (actual and potential). Clinical assessment (and reassessment) is a constant theme throughout the text....
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Srinivasan, Janaki. The Political Lives of Information. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/10889.001.0001.
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How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development. Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in India—the circulation of price information in a fish market in Kerala, government information in information kiosks operated by a nonprofit in Puducherry, and a political campaign demanding a right to information in Rajasthan—to explore three uses of information to support goals of social change. Countering claims that information is naturally and universally empowering, Srinivasan shows how the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender. Srinivasan draws on archival and ethnographic research to challenge the idea of information as objective and factual. Using the concept of an “information order,” she examines how the meaning and value of information reflect the social relations in which it is embedded. She asks why casting information as a tool of development and solution to poverty appeals to actors across the political spectrum. She also shows how the power to label some things information and others not is at least as significant as the capacity to subsequently produce, access, and leverage information. The more faith we place in what information can do, she cautions, the less attention we pay to its political lives and to the role of specific social structures, individual agency, and material form in the defining, production, and use of that information.
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Rushton, Cynda Hylton, ed. Moral Resilience. 2nd ed. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197667149.001.0001.
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Abstract Suffering is an unavoidable reality in healthcare. Patients and families suffer as well as the clinicians who care for them. Commonly the suffering experienced by clinicians is moral in nature, reflecting the increasing complexity of healthcare. Moral suffering is the anguish experienced in response to various forms of moral adversity including moral harms, wrongs or failures, or unrelieved moral stress. Confronting moral adversity challenges clinicians’ integrity, the inner harmony that arises when values and commitments are aligned with their choices and actions. The most studied response to moral adversity is moral distress. The sources and sequelae of moral distress, one type of moral suffering, have been documented among clinicians across specialties. Recent interest has expanded to include a more corrosive form of moral suffering, moral injury. Moral resilience, the capacity to restore or sustain integrity in response to moral adversity, offers a path to address moral suffering. It encompasses capacities aimed at developing self-regulation and self awareness, buoyancy, moral efficacy, self stewardship and ultimately personal and relational integrity. Moral resilience is a protective resource that reduces the detrimental impact of moral suffering. Clinicians and healthcare organizations must work together to transform moral suffering by cultivating the individual capacities for moral resilience and design a new architecture to support ethical practice. The Conscious Full Spectrum Response, used worldwide for scalable and sustainable change, offers a method to support integrity, shift patterns that undermine moral resilience and ethical practice, and source the inner potential of clinicians and leaders to produce meaningful and sustainable results that benefit all.
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Rushton, Cynda Hylton, ed. Moral Resilience. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190619268.001.0001.
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Suffering is an unavoidable reality in healthcare. Not only are patients and families suffering but also the clinicians who care for them. Commonly the suffering experienced by clinicians is moral in nature, in part a reflection of the increasing complexity of health care, their roles within it, and the expanding range of available interventions that challenge their moral foundations. Moral suffering is the anguish that arises occurs in response to moral adversity that challenges clinicians’ integrity: the inner harmony that arises when their essential values and commitments are aligned with their choices and actions. The sources and sequelae of moral distress, one type of moral suffering, have been documented among clinicians across specialties. Transforming their suffering will require solutions that expanded individual and system strategies. Moral resilience, the capacity of an individual to restore or sustain integrity in response to moral adversity, offers a path forward. It encompasses capacities aimed at developing self- regulation and self-awareness, buoyancy, moral efficacy, self-stewardship and ultimately personal and relational integrity. Whether it involves gradual or profound radical change clinicians have the potential to transform themselves and their clinical practice in ways that more authentically reflect their character, intentions and values. The burden of healing our healthcare system is not the sole responsibility of individuals. Clinicians and healthcare organizations must work together to transform moral suffering by cultivating the individual capacities for moral resilience and designing a new architecture to support ethical practice. Used worldwide for scalable and sustainable change, the Conscious Full Spectrum approach, offers a method to solve problems to support integrity, shift patterns that undermine moral resilience and ethical practice, and leverage the inner potential of clinicians and leaders to produce meaningful and sustainable results that benefit all.
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Singh, Indrasen. Device-to-Device Communication and NOMA. Edited by Niraj Pratap Singh. Glasstree, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.20850/9781534204447.
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Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication and Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) have become topics of interest for researchers. They are widely recognized as techniques of the next generation cellular wireless networks. D2D technique offers uninterrupted communication among proximate mobile users without transferring data to the base station. This can provide high data rates and power control mechanisms. If D2D direct link distance is more, or the quality of channel is poor then the direct D2D communication gives larger propagation losses. This type of scenarios use relay assisted D2D communication, for improving the transmission capacity and coverage. Where as NOMA ) is one of the many technologies that promise greater capacity gain and spectral efficiency than the present state of the art, and is a candidate technology for 5G cellular networks In this book, fundamentals, state of the art, applications and research challenges of D2D and NOMA have been discussed in simple language
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Stroud, Barry. Judgement, Self-Consciousness, Idealism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809753.003.0011.
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This chapter considers the kind of self-consciousness that must also be present among the capacities required for propositional thought. It asks whether this self-consciousness involves some kind of activity, or some awareness of something, on the part of the thinker, and if so, what activity, or awareness of what. This question raises the spectre of idealism. Can the role of self-consciousness in thought be understood without implying that the truth of propositional thoughts is dependent in some way on the activities or experiences of the thinkers of them? This chapter argues that a capacity for judgement is indispensable for the possibility of thought and experience and examines the views of Rolf Peter Horstmann regarding the connection between self-consciousness and propositional thought.
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Bukenya, Badru, and Sam Hickey. Dominance and Deals in Africa. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801641.003.0007.
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Uganda has experienced four growth episodes since the 1960s. In the most recent episode, 1988–2010, average growth rates have exceeded 3.5 per cent, with average growth rates of 7 per cent between 2001 and 2010. Yet this history of recent strong growth has failed to lead to structural transformation within the economy. This chapter highlights how each of the deals spaces remains closely embedded within, and informed by, the broader political settlement. This is due to the fact that Uganda is still reliant on a limited range of agricultural commodities, while recent discoveries of oil raise the spectre of Dutch Disease. It argues that greater support for agricultural processing, manufacturing, and increasing the state’s capacity, particularly through protecting the economic and regulatory technocracy for patronage politics, will help achieve this. A power shift to more market-based rents will help produce more productive dialogue between the state and business.
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Howell, Amanda, and Stephanie Green, eds. Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501394430.
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Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts speaks to how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of reshaping popular understanding of our world through the lens of the past. Contemporary film and television - and popular screen cultures more generally – are distinguished by their many and varied engagements with history, including participation in worldwide movements to reconcile past losses and injuries with present legacies. The chapters in this collection address themselves to twenty-first century screen horror’s participation in this widespread fascination with and concern for the historical - its recurrent reimagining of the relation between the past and present, which is part of its inheritance from the Gothic. They are concerned with the historical work of horror’s spectral occupations, its visceral threats of violence and its capacity for exploring repressed social identities, as well as the ruptures and impositions of colonization and nationhood. Trauma is necessarily a key theme in this book, examined through themes of war and genocide, ghostly invasions, institutionalized abuse, apocalyptic threat and environmental destruction. As the discussions collected here attest, these persistent, fearful reimaginings of the past can take many lurid – also sometimes tritely generic – forms. Together, these chapters explore and reflect upon horror’s ability to speak through them to the unspoken of history, to push the boundaries and probe the fault-lines and ideological impositions of received historical narratives – while reminding us that history and the historical imagination persist as sites of contention.