'Emperor' - Aphasia
'Physical Reality' | |
Social Reality | 'Political Reality'?! |
See also:
Mammary Mountain
Impulse
Faber, T. Lessons in empathy, Life&Arts, FT Weekend, October 5-6, 2024, p.13.
Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...
'Physical Reality' | |
Social Reality | 'Political Reality'?! |
See also:
Mammary Mountain
Impulse
Faber, T. Lessons in empathy, Life&Arts, FT Weekend, October 5-6, 2024, p.13.
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Labels: aphasia , arts , awareness , communication , empathy , experience , film , FT , health , intervention , language , media , medicine , mind , narrative , relationships , subjective , symbols , virtual reality
Dear CHAIN member,
We would like to draw your attention to the following NIHR alert. Please pass on as appropriate. Thank you.
NIHR
Local green spaces are linked with better mental health
Podcast: Local green spaces and mental health
In this podcast, Helen Saul, Editor in Chief of NIHR Evidence, and study author Sarah Rodgers, Professor of Health Informatics, University of Liverpool, discuss the impact of local green spaces on people's mental health.
Researchers analysed data on more than 2 million people in Wales over 10 years to explore the impact of green spaces on mental health. They linked information about people’s mental health with information about the greenness of their home’s immediate surroundings and how close they lived to green or blue spaces (such as parks, lakes, and beaches). They found that people had a lower risk of anxiety and depression if:
· their home’s immediate surroundings (within 200-300 metres) were greener
· they could access green and blue spaces nearby.
The researchers say that local authorities could improve the mental health of their community by increasing the greenery in their towns and cities and improving access to green and blue spaces.
Read more at: https://evidence.nihr.ac.uk/alert/local-green-spaces-are-linked-with-better-mental-health/?source=chainmail
Regards,
Irina Johnston
CHAIN Administrative Assistant
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Labels: access , anxiety , beaches , blue , cities , depression , greenness , lakes , local authority , mental health , nature , parks , proximity , research , spaces , towns , transport , Wales , well-being , wellness
'The narrative on universal health coverage should be centred around four core elements: universality, equity, adequate financing, and preparedness in public health emergencies, write Katri Bertram and Justin Koonin'.
1. UNIVERSALITY | 4. PREPAREDNESS |
2. EQUITY | 3. ADEQUATE FINANCING |
^O’Connell T, Rasanathan K, Chopra M. What does universal health coverage mean? Lancet 2014;383:277-9. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60955-1 pmid:23953765
(Cited by Bertram & Koonin)
5. Spiritual.
*A response, that is both too simple and too complex. Discuss.
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Labels: conflict , equity , finance , global health , Hodges' model , one health , planetary health , preparedness , refugees , self care , spiritual , universal access to health , universal health coverage , zoonosis
Artificial intelligence has burst into the cultural space with the speed of an explosion. As with any powerful explosion, its initial impact is a spectacular blinding flash, followed by a shock wave with real effects. Perhaps we are still at the very beginning, but often the intensity of the blinding flash is proportional to the real effect that follows, both in terms of sweeping away existing forms and as long-term cultural “radiation”.
According to Lotman, a cultural explosion is a period of transformation when rapid and large-scale changes occur in cultural systems, leading to a significant increase in the creation of new information. It is estimated that artificial intelligence produces as much cultural text in one year as humanity has produced throughout its millennia-long history until the advent of the digital age. More interestingly, this new textual production is entering its most productive phase with the invention of Transformer architecture, which is almost a literal algorithmic realization of Lotman's concept of translation — the main mechanism of semiotic metabolism in the Semiosphere.
Training Large Language Models (LLMs), which is the foundation of AI, suspiciously resembles the way Umberto Eco models culture in the structure of a rhizome, which computer scientists call a "neural network." His encyclopedic model is based precisely on what LLMs extract from huge arrays of existing text—the statistic constancy of sign usage. In a polemic with textual immanentists, Eco postulates as part of the reader's encyclopedic competence the ability to inferentially reproduce the possible contexts of sign usage that make up the text. For many, the “magic” of artificial intelligence in its current form lies in its understanding of our questions to it, achieved with the Attention Mechanism, which, as a principle of cooperation between author and reader, is quite literally described in "The Role of the Reader" (1994).
The hardest to find were a fruitful correspondences between generative semiotics and generative media like Chat GPT, as paradoxical as that may sound, but surely there are such correspondences, and they are likely to be discovered in the future. In any case, as a theory of meaning generation on the one hand and an endless machine for creating meaningful texts on the other, the cultural explosion of AI will not leave this breed of semioticians unemployed.
We welcome contributions on the following key topics, but not limited to them:
- Semiotic models of AI generated cultural content
- Semiotic analysis of AI texts generation
- Semiotic theory of generative media
- Socio-cultural consequences of AI's advent
- Transdisciplinary collaboration between semiotics and informatics
- AI in creative practices in the arts
- AI in creative practices in marketing and advertising
- AI in research and education
- Cultural-economic implications of AI
- AI in pop culture
- AI in videogames and XRSend here your proposal for papers (200-300 words): DigitASC AT nbu.bg
Deadline for the abstracts : 31 January 2025;
Deadline for full papers: 15 June 2025;
Deadline for the final revised papers: 31 August 2025;
Publication: December 2025
Digital Age in Semiotics & Communication, a journal from the Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies at the New Bulgarian University and founded by Prof. Kristian Bankov, explores the new forms of knowledge, social and linguistic interaction, and cultural phenomena generated by the advent of the Internet and information technologies.
A topic is chosen for each issue by the editorial board, but the topics will be always related to the issues of the digital environment. The working language of the journal is English. It uses double-blind review, meaning that both the reviewer’s and the author’s identities are concealed from each other throughout the review process.
Link to the archive of the first six issues: https://ojs.nbu.bg/index.php/DASC/issue/archive
For more information and submission of papers: DigitASC AT nbu.bg
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Labels: AI , analysis , arts , attention , call , communication , content , creativity , culture , digital humanities , interaction , journal , language , media , models , research , semiotics , society , theory , transdisciplinary
Watching yesterday on YouTube, I enjoyed NYE and was challenged by it personally and as a grandfather, son, nurse and tax-payer.
It wasn't all sweetness and light regards Aneurin "Nye" Bevin's character. Politically, he clearly pushed boundaries in response to the values he carried on his sleeve. As the family's of many health care professionals may recognise, needs outside the family can be prioritised at the family's cost. The theory-practice gap is expressed in so many ways.
Whether by intent, or accident, the play points to the timeless challenge of social care and women's role in delivery of this care. This strikes home in the drama not just as care of the elderly, but being confronted (alone) with the slow, painful dying of a loved-one; and the reality of occupational diseases - 'black lung'. Women are exploited as carers, their hearts and feet may as well be bound; in the same way the mine owners exploited the workers. There was a stark reminder for me, of how continuity of care is often lacking today.
Nye becomes personal, as even up to 1970s working class parents would have worried, did worry about the prospect of their (invariably male - with some exceptions?) offspring going down the pit, especially in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Watching and listening to this you can appreciate how education was seen a passport to alternative white-collar work. My paternal grandfather worked in a slate quarry. I recall many invites to punch him in the 'stomach': a slate wall. He walked quite a few miles to work and wasn't that old when he died; although he (soon) followed grandma J.
For quite a while I've been drawn to the theatre. Aged 15 I was Francis Nurse - yes, the irony - in the school play, Arthur Miller's, The Crucible. It was Miss Smith, a drama teacher who first brought my attention to the idea of 'social awareness'. I recall Miss Clayton too who was a student teacher. On visits to London I've been struck by the relevance of Ibsen today.
If there were to be a play in me, perhaps 'Axes and Crosses' must be-up-there as a working title? For my father the 11+ exam was the icon to ward off the evil that was work down a mine; or lying under a an excavator / crane at 0400 to get the machine fixed for the shift due to start. The 11+ and need to pass this has provided its own anxiety, burden, and it must be said - motivation not just for me, but many more senior adults. I can see this now. So thank you Tim Price, National Theatre and Nye (2025!) for many further insights into stagecraft.
See also:
https://www.bohs.org/media-resources/press-releases/detail/deadly-lung-disease-in-uk-kitchen-worktop-workers-is-avoidable/
September 2024: 'The Lightest Element'
https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2024/the-lightest-element/
Previously:
What wright to care?
drama (theatre), arts
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Labels: care , drama , history , literature , narrative , NHS , occupational health , play , policy , political , politics , public health , respiration , safety , school , social care , social justice , socio-technical , theatre , women
Further to a post earlier this year regarding a play -
Dramatherapy iii - A Specification for Care: NyeIt seems reasonable to suggest that my trips to see the GP as a child:
"What's the problem Mrs Jones?""It's Peter, he's not eating!""Well, does he seem ill? ... Is he lying down all the time?""No, he's running around all day""Well he sounds OK but let's check" ... ... ..."Say arr!"(That's to me - not you reader!)"Argh!""Mmm.. ok, ok. ... What does he eat?""Tomato soup, chips, chicken, beans on toast, raw carrot, boiled egg.""Oh! And jam butties!""Well he's of slim build, no doubt underweight, but he's fine. Keep the jam butties rolling, and I suspect he'll keep running around."
Ever since starting in the NHS as a nursing assistant, you became aware of the anxiety provoked by many patients when it is their turn to see the doctor. Being asked to bring the patient and any relative(s) through. It often entailed a walk. | I remember one instance their being 12 professionals. Learners can soon increase numbers and restrictions were imposed. Voices were raised. Patients did see the doctor separately. Back in 1980s, I became a CMHN (CPN) in 1985, I used to encourage patient's to prepare, to make notes of points - questions they wanted to ask. I framed it as their time, their opportunity. A learning opportunity too. Of course, humour always needs to be used carefully, but on occasion we would joke about walking into the meeting with a list.* |
In case of long-term mental illness families are also greatly involved. Sometimes a case review would take place in the patient's home. If it's care in the community, delivered by the community team then surely the administration can be organised in support? | At times, I would offer to assist and the team were always responsive. This role of advocacy has changed, transformed over the decades, but it is still there. As a nurse you listen for the voice: but have to be ready to 'pick this up' on another's behalf. Ready |
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Labels: access , administration , appointments , chronic , consultant psychiatrists , doctors , GP , logistics , long-term , medicine , meetings , primary care , problems , relationships , resource management , scheduling , time
| 'Gråbøl was lucky. Eventually she started seeing a new psychiatrist, who looked at that record "and was like, "Wow, you receive So much more medicine than all the other people who live there. Why is that?'" She didn't know. Gradually, though, she was able to come off the drugs; and two doctors decided that she didn't, in fact, have borderline personality and bipolar disorders, removing the diagnoses that had shaped her sense of her self. In time, she left the unit and rebuilt her life. She's no longer on medication today, but the ghosts of her past diagnoses haunt her. She wonders whether the conditions are merely in hibernation and she'll wake up one day and enter another depressive episode. She doesn't wish she'd never been diagnosed, but does feel that her doctors underestimated the effect those labels would have on her development. At 17, she points out - the age she was diagnosed as bipolar - most teenagers don't yet know who they are. "You want to find a box or language to define yourself, so that you can close yourself in. And one way of getting that sense is getting into the psychiatric system." Since returning to "normal" life, she has also struggled with survivor's guilt: the feeling that while she made it out of the system, others did not. | ||
'Above all, she wishes that the emphasis would shift away from the suffering individual and onto their broader context. We need to become better, as a society, at making room for people who aren't fully functional citizens. Gråbøl's narrator phrases it as a question: "Could we not imagine treatments that are instead externally directed involving the outside world gearing itself towards a wider and more comprehensive emotional spectrum?" Gråbøl's answer, though, is the same as my own: "I don't know."' | the system citizens? |
My source:
Leaf Arbuthnot, Interview. We need to make room for the mentally ill. Review, The Daily Telegraph, 21 September 2024, pp.8-9.
Image:
https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9781953861849
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Labels: bipolar disorder , book , borderline personality , community care , context , diagnosis , ECT , fiction , gaps , in-patient , medication , memory , mental health , mental illness , services , society , teenagers , treatment , wards
'If a farmer has made a path, he is able to saunter easily up and down it. That is what the path was made for. But the work of making the path was not a process of sauntering easily, but one of marking the ground, digging, fetching loads of gravel, rolling, and draining. He dug and rolled where there was yet no path, so that he might in the end have a path on which he could saunter without any more digging or rolling. Similarly a person who has a theory can, among other things, expound to himself, or the world, the whole theory, or any part of it; he can, so to speak, saunter in prose from any part to any other part of it. But the work of building the theory was a job of making paths where as yet there were none.'
Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (1949; Penguin, 1999), p. 272.
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Labels: axes , books , change , content , effort , epistemology , mind , naivety , ontology , path , pathways , perception , person , philosophy , physical , structure , theory , thought , understanding , world
Key recommendations
Our main recommendation is for countries to collaborate on evidence synthesis. The most promising avenue for evidence synthesis is Living Evidence Reviews (LERs), which are systematic reviews that are continuously updated. We propose that ‘meta’ LERs are conducted across all areas of social policy to answer the questions that really matter to policymakers.
“Globally, it may be helpful for countries to join forces in producing systematic reviews and identifying evidence gaps. One proposal, currently being shaped by David Halpern and Deelan Maru, proposes that a handful of likeminded governments join forces to produce better systematic reviews and avoid duplication (Halpern and Maru, 2024)… Like the Cochrane Collaboration and the Campbell Collaboration, such an approach can help expand our knowledge of what works, and put a spotlight on the areas where more evidence is needed.”
My source:
Harford, T. Intellect. Used in evidence. FTWeekend, Magazine 2-3 November 2024, p.9-10.
*We really need to listen and respond to this!
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Labels: academia , change , collaboration , education , epistemic injustice , evidence based research , funding , government , health literacy , ignorance , policy , prevention , research , sustainability , systematic review , systems
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Labels: agriculture , artificial intelligence , cloud , code , computing , defence , design , drones , hardware , identity , IoT , LLMs , logistics , protection , research , security , software , sustainability , vulnerability , web
Source: Various since 2021 - image 'X'.
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Labels: activism , Afghanistan , behaviour , citizenry , communication , community , crime , cruelty , gender persecution , girls , human rights , ignorance , inhumanity , intolerance , law , mental health , society , United Nations , women
Source: Various
24 October 2024
The House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee demands that the Government should develop a comprehensive, integrated long-term new strategy to fix our food system, underpinned by a new legislative framework. This is the key conclusion of the Committee’s report, ‘Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system’.
Chair's comments
Baroness Walmsley, Chair of the Food, Diet and Obesity Committee, said:
“Food should be a pleasure and contribute to our health and wellbeing, but it is making too many people ill. Something must be going wrong if almost two in five children are leaving primary school with overweight or obesity and so many people are finding it hard to feed healthy food to their families. That is why we took a root and branch look at the food system and analysed what had gone wrong over the past few decades.
“Over the last 30 years successive governments have failed to reduce obesity rates, despite hundreds of policy initiatives. This failure is largely due to policies that focused on personal choice and responsibility out of misguided fears of the ‘nanny state’. Both the Government and the food industry must take responsibility for what has gone wrong and take urgent steps to put it right.
“We hope, given the recent comments from the Prime Minister, Lord Darzi and the Secretary of State for Health, that there is now an appetite to shift towards prevention of ill health. We urge the Government to look favourably on our plan to fix our broken food system and accept that not only is it cost-effective, but that it would lead to a lot less human misery.”
[My emphasis]
Personal responsibility Educational determinants Health literacy My choices Role model Internal - Extrinsic motivation The life chances I am afforded impact my 'health career'. | Environmental/Physical determinants Ultra Processed Foods Smoking Food & Nutrition Impacts of Obesity Child development Nutritional value of foods |
Social determinants public (mental) health information Family economics Social values Sustainable Living | Political determinants 'Nanny State' (political rhetoric) Lobbying - (Food) Industry Business ethics Food poverty Advertising regulation Cost to Government, NHS, Society Security |
Spiritual determinants: Values of society, governments, citizens, business . . .
Previously:
Jones P, Wirnitzer K. Hodges’ model: the Sustainable Development Goals and public health – universal health coverage demands a universal framework. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health 2022;5: https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/5/2/358
'nutrition' on W2tQ
https://x.com/search?q=%40h2cm%20%27nanny%20state%27&src=typed_query&f=live
Gambling?
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Labels: children , determinants , diet , food system , government , industry , information , lobbying , nanny state , nutrition , obesity , policy , prevention , protection , public health , quality , rhetoric , safety , vulnerability
Please tell us about your experience so we can campaign for change on issues you care about the most!
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Labels: activism , campaign , change , education , international , law , membership , nurses , nursing , pay , policy , RCN , recruitment , research , survey , terms and conditions , training , workforce
Still sorting papers, I've discovered copies of slides from the COPE course University of Manchester on Case Formulation by John McGovern.
An original purpose for Hodges' model is to help bridge the theory-practice gap.
The slides include -
ROLE OF CASE FORMULATIONS
Bridge between theory and practice
a flexible tool for guidance
an explanatory framework to share with the patient
How types of formulation can be related to situations (Hodges' model is situated) - inference chain.
Comprehensive formulation - reflects the template that supports data gathering
inc. core beliefs - conditional beliefs
Questions for Preliminary Formulation
Main Ingredients - includes social support/relationships/employment/finances
(so this touches on determinants)
Choosing Treatment Targets
group exercise and summary
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Labels: behaviour , case formulation , content , explanation , Hodges' model , hypotheses , individual , mental illness , practice , psychosis , recovery , selection , theory , theory-practice gap , therapy , understanding
Friday 8 November, 9:30am GMT – onwards
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Ground Floor, 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP
Join BCS SGAI in London for an engaging full-day event featuring a line up of exciting talks. Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a hands-on tutorial on low-code/no-code AI and Certificates of Attendance will be provided.
* Speakers & Agenda
https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2024/november/ai-for-one-health-and-planetary-health-where-are-we-artificial-intelligence-sg/
* Invitation for Free Registration
https://ArtificialIntelligence081124.eventbrite.co.uk
100% Discount Code: AIHealth24Committee
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Labels: artificial intelligence , BCS , computing , EHR , fisheries , food , free , London , low code , medicine , one health , planetary health , Python , research , translational diagnostics , tutorial , veterinary , visual impairment
Many thanks to Edward Elgar Publishing for a review copy of this book which arrived today:
Edited by David J. Gunkel, Professor of Communication, Northern Illinois University, US, and Professor of Applied Ethics, Łazarski University, Poland
Publication Date: 2024 ISBN: 978 1 80392 671 1 Extent: 336 ppThis engaging Handbook identifies and critically examines the moral opportunities and challenges typically attributed to artificial intelligence. It provides a comprehensive overview and examination of the most pressing and urgent problems with this technology by drawing on a wide range of analytical methods, traditions, and approaches.
This is timely, prior to next month's event on AI and Planetary Health, about which news to follow shortly, especially if you are based near London and southern England.
I also can't believe it is 34 years since publication of the following case study:
Davies, M. and Owen, K. ‘Complex uncertain decisions: medical diagnosis’, Case Study 10 in Expert System Opportunities from the DTI’s Research Technology Initiative, HMSO 1990.
Ethics in AI 2024 :: Expert Systems 1990 |
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Labels: artificial intelligence , bias , bioethics , book , change , computing , consent , control , data , ethics , governance , humanity , inequality , inequity , intelligence , robots , standards , technology
The NHS has been there for us for over 76 years. But to make sure the NHS is here for the next 76 years, doing all it can to support the health of everyone, we need your help.
We want to have the biggest ever conversation about the future of the NHS.
It doesn’t matter whether you have a lot or a little to say. Your views, experiences and ideas will shape a new 10 Year Health Plan for England.
This is open to everyone. If you are a member of the public or someone who works in health and care in England, 'Start Here', to tell us how the NHS needs to change.
If you are contributing as a representative of an organisation, complete the organisation questionnaire. This is an early opportunity to share your insights as we begin an extensive programme of engagement to develop the 10 Year Health Plan.
If you register your email address, we will stay in touch to seek your views as the 10 Year Health Plan develops.
purposes person-centredness personalised care experiences continuity mental state; mental health attitudes - mindset expectations (public education) my health literacy (all of them: education) | processes (care inc. 'writing' records, 'gates' access) demographically-driven care define 'success' - metrics - data utilise evidence peak CO2 peak obesity physical health: chronological age - pathological age encourage self-care to support sustainability |
social care social attitudes child support - support for families proven practices that delivers community as resource community: homes for living in - not profiting from Public involvement: #NHSCHANGE #CHANGENHS Protect / Create green spaces for outdoor play | funding, finance, budgets, economics POLICY: FROM: National ill-Health Service TO: National Health Service long-termism E3^ for all the literacies address: food quality, air, water, noise, litter SOCIO-tech approach to applied technology Teach Hodges' model to teens, and prisoners as part of PSHE and rehab programmes |
E3^ education, education, education - by literacies we include: information, emotional, media, finance, spiritual, cultural, scientific, religious, climate...
'delivers' includes: improved care experiences, integrated care (related to all the domains), patient, carer, public safety, cost effectiveness, research questions, accurate - valid reporting.
All health disciplines / professionals, social care, and APPGs ... share a common model - a conceptual framework for critical thinking and reflective practice.
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Labels: access , change , consultation , engagement , England , health plan , Hodges' model , ideas , insights , integrated , literacy , longer term , NHS , person-centred , planning , prevention , public , quality , service-centred , social care
My Source: To view the list archives go to: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK
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Labels: adopted and care-experienced people , archives , best practice , children , data , families , focus groups , guidance , information , local government , records , records management , retention , social workers , young adults
'The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.
In response to the atomic bomb attacks of August 1945, a global movement arose whose members have worked tirelessly to raise awareness about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of using nuclear weapons. Gradually, a powerful international norm developed, stigmatising the use of nuclear weapons as morally unacceptable. This norm has become known as “the nuclear taboo”.
The testimony of the Hibakusha – the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – is unique in this larger context. ...'
Press release. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024. Sat. 19 Oct 2024. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2024/press-release/>
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Labels: activism , ecocide , ethics , future , Gaia , global health , history , hope , justice , law , love , morality , Nobel prize , nuclear weapons , peace , politics , SDGs , survival , war crimes , witness
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Labels: AI , application , artificial intelligence , case studies , diagnostics , genetics , health , Italy , lymphoma , machine learning , models , oncology , radiogenomics , radiomic , research , seminar , treatment
Carebot | |
Adnan, M.Z. Can robots have nervous breakdowns, Collecting, FTWeekend, 5-6 October 2024, p.7.
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Labels: AI , animation , anxiety , artist , arts , award , carebot , confession , counterfactual , creativity , depression , film , Hodges' model , insecurity , media , mental health , programming , robots , science fiction , technology
Para quem possa ter interesse. / To whom it may concern.
Caros/as Gestores/as de Ciência,
A pedido do Vice-reitor para a Investigação e Diretor do Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar (IIIUC), Professor João Ramalho-Santos, informamos que estão abertas as candidaturas para a 6ª Edição de financiamento dos "Projetos Semente de Investigação Interdisciplinar", com o apoio da Fundação Santander, promovido pelo Núcleo das Áreas Estratégicas da UC (NAE), em colaboração com o Instituto de Investigação Interdisciplinar (IIIUC).
Com este concurso, a UC pretende continuar a apoiar o desenvolvimento inicial de projetos de investigação originais e interdisciplinares com um financiamento semente que permita aos investigadores e às investigadoras da UC tornarem as suas propostas científicas mais robustas, de forma a assegurar financiamento competitivo no futuro e o desenvolvimento de novas linhas de investigação que cruzam áreas do saber na Universidade de Coimbra.
Irão ser financiados até cinco projetos de investigação interdisciplinar, uma em cada Área Estratégica da Universidade de Coimbra: Saúde; Clima, Energia e Mobilidade; Recursos Naturais, Agroalimentar e Ambiente; Digital, Indústria e Espaço; Património, Cultura e Sociedade Inclusiva.
Poderão concorrer a este financiamento investigadores/as integrados/as nas Unidades I&D (ou noutras estruturas da Universidade de Coimbra) que desenvolvam investigação na UC e que obtiveram o doutoramento após 1 outubro de 2014. A equipa do projeto deve incluir de três a seis Investigadores/as da UC, de pelo menos duas Unidades I&D de domínios científicos distintos.
As candidaturas podem ser submetidas até 6 de dezembro de 2024, às 17h na página web do concurso:
https://www.uc.pt/iii/iiiuc-apoia/seedprojects-uc/edicao-2025/
Estão disponíveis nesta página as normas do concurso, modelo para submissão de candidatura e a lista de júri nomeado para esta edição.
Atenciosamente,
O Núcleo das Áreas Estratégicas
Isabel Neves
Maria João Neves
Natacha Leite
Shiva Saadatian
*******************
On behalf of the Vice-rector for Research and Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (IIIUC), Professor João Ramalho-Santos, we would like to inform you that applications are now open for the 6th edition of "Seed Projects for Interdisciplinary Research", with the support of Santander Foundation, promoted by the UC Strategic Areas Unit (NAE), in collaboration with the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (IIIUC).
Through this call, the UC intends to provide support for the initial development of original and interdisciplinary research projects with seed funding that will allow UC researchers to make their scientific proposals more robust, ensuring competitive funding in the future and the development of new research lines that cross areas of knowledge at the University of Coimbra.
There will be funding for up to five interdisciplinary research projects, one in each of the UC Strategic Areas: Health; Climate, Energy and Mobility; Natural Resources, Agri-food and Environment; Digital, Industry and Space; Heritage, Culture and Inclusive Society.
Researchers of the R&D Units (or other structures of the University of Coimbra), who carry out research at the UC and who obtained their doctorate after 1 October 2014 are eligible to apply for this funding. The project team must include three to six researchers from the UC, from at least two R&D Units in different scientific fields.
The applications can be submitted until 6 December 2024 at 5pm on the call website:
https://www.uc.pt/en/iii/iiiuc-supports/seedprojects-uc/2025-edition/
The call guidelines, proposal template and the list of juries appointed for this edition are available on this page.
Yours sincerely,
Strategic Areas Unit
Isabel Neves
Maria João Neves
Natacha Leite
Shiva Saadatian
Universidade de Coimbra • Reitoria • Administração | University of Coimbra • Rectory • Administration
Serviço de Promoção e Gestão da Investigação | Research Management Service
Núcleo das Áreas Estratégicas | Strategic Areas Unit
Polo I | Rua Larga • Edifício da FMUC (1º piso) • 3004-504 COIMBRA • PORTUGAL
Polo II | Casa Costa Alemão • Rua Dom Francisco de Lemos • 3030-789 COIMBRA • PORTUGAL
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Born in Liverpool, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
Registered Nurse - Mental Health & General
Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
PG Cert. Ed.
BA(Joint Hons.) Computing and Philosophy - BIHE - Bolton
PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
MRES. e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning, Lancaster Univ.
Live and work in NW England - seeking a global perspective.
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