Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: April 2024

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 ...

Saturday, April 27, 2024

"Moon Fever"

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"It still holds the key to madness ...

















still controls the tides that
 lap on shores everywhere ...


still guards the lovers who kiss ...


in every land under no banner but the sky."
                                          E.B. White



Gleick, James. Moon Fever, The New York Review of Books, August 15 - September 25, 2019. LXVI, 13. pp.54-58.
(I knew I was saving this for a reason!)

Image: Viewfinder: 'I want! I want!' (1793) by William Blake
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01171/arts-graphics-2006_1171649a.jpg

Friday, April 26, 2024

Buses, Eddie Stobart, Lego and Laughing Boy

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person - personality
personal duty of care
emotional care
experience

buses - Eddie Stobart - Lego
space - time
1-day Physical care  Another day
the sound of laughter


Source: Twi/X + image:

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

'The Deepest Breath'

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"Netflix has collaborated with A24, Motive Films, Ventureland and Raw on this gripping look at the undeniable connection forged between two athletes as they navigate the vigorous and competitive world of freediving. The Deepest Breath will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2023.
Logline: A champion freediver trains to break a world record with the help of an expert safety diver, and the two form an emotional bond that feels like fate. This heart-stopping film follows the paths they took to meet at the pinnacle of the freediving world, documenting the thrilling rewards – and inescapable risks – of chasing a dream through the silent depths of the ocean."
 


Image: c/o Netflix

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Call for participation in a Doctoral Research Study

ARE YOU WORKING IN THE NHS? IF SO, HELP NEEDED URGENTLY

Please read this email. 

Glasgow Caledonian University is inviting NHS Staff across the UK to participate in this doctoral research survey to analyse the impact of responsible leadership on improving well-being and organisational trust among NHS Staff members. 

 

To be eligible, you must be an NHS staff member from any area of the UK in any job role. The survey collects no recognisable information and is wholly anonymised to protect participant privacy and confidentiality. It has received full ethical approval, will take around 10 minutes and will help provide an improved understanding of the area of well-being in the profession.

 

Please forward this survey link to everyone in your contacts working for NHS. This will help gain more responses, increasing the study's reach and validity. Your help is highly appreciated, and we thank you in advance.

 

Here's the link for the participant information sheet and survey: 

https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/caledonian/impact-of-responsible-leadership-on-employee-well-being-and-org


Warm wishes

Ummey Tariq (Chief Investigator)

 

Umm E Habiba Tariq (she/her) | PhD Candidate, MSc, BBA (Hons)

Occasional Lecturer | Department of HRM | Glasgow School for Business and Society (GSBS)

Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474


My source: NURSE-PHILOSOPHY list
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=NURSE-PHILOSOPHY

Monday, April 22, 2024

Earth Day 2024 - No escape

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What is that out there?

Bioscape.
Incredible whole
Beautiful mote - in my eye?

Are your - dreamscapes - yours?

Your inscape alone:
mindscape - your inner eye?

Landscapes, seascapes, skyscapes,
spacescapes  speak to us.
Everyone.
Stories of deep time.
Stories of truth and truth emerging.

See both sides of the cloudscape.
Snowscapes in retreat.
Cityscapes on the march.
Yes! No! Yes! No! Yes! ...
Soundscape*


The sums have it.
What tablescape awaits us?


For us - no escape.






*gone quiet.

My prompt:

Esslin, Martin. Chapter 1 Samuel Beckett, The search for the self. 
The Theatre of the Absurd. London: Pelican, 1982. (3rd Ed.). p.84. ('psychological inscape')

  © Peter Jones

Friday, April 19, 2024

Call - Special issue: Learning from Multiple Data Sources for Decision Making in Health Care

The increasing availability of digital data, along with recent developments in Artificial Intelligence, especially in the Machine Learning and Deep Learning fields, led the scientific community to debate whether data alone is sufficient for decision making and scientific exploration. We focus the attention on the healthcare domain, where peculiar issues affect data: indeed, data are usually collected under heterogeneous conditions (i.e., different populations, regimes, and sampling methods), suffer missingness – very often not at random – and their use is strongly constrained by privacy issues. In such a complex setting, this special issue challenges computer scientists to contribute to the above debate by designing and developing innovative methodological approaches, for solving complex decision-making problems in health care, leveraging on observational data.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following with an emphasis on novel generalizable methods applied to the healthcare domain:

  • Causal discovery from multiple data sets.
  • Federated causal discovery.
  • Causal discovery from heterogeneous data sets.
  • Transportability of causal models and inference.
  • Neuro-symbolic approaches to learn from heterogeneous data sources.
  • Continual learning on streams from multiple data sources.
  • Computational intelligent strategies to support causal inference.
  • Edge computing for decision making in healthcare.
  • Integrative AI methodologies.
  • Distributed inference methods.
  • Continual Learning.
  • Knowledge Discovery and Integration.
  • Combination of deductive approaches with ML models.
  • Combination of ontologies and/or knowledge-bases with ML to support decision making.

Peer Review Process:

All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer-review process featuring at least two reviewers. All submissions should follow the guidelines for authors available at the Journal of Biomedical Informatics website (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/yjbin). JBI’s editorial policy outlined on that page will be strictly enforced by special issue reviewers.

Note that JBI emphasizes the publication of papers that introduce innovative and generalizable methods of interest to the informatics community. Specific applications can be described to motivate the methodology being introduced, but papers that focus solely on a specific application are not suitable. A few examples of papers focused on methods previously published in JBI include: Kyrimi, et al. [1], Huang, et al. [2], Kocbek et al. [3], Houston et al. [4], García Del Valle et al. [5], Graudenzi et al. [6] and Sims et al. [7].

In particular, the authors of [1] showed the relevance of causal models and expert knowledge to develop credible models, i.e., capable of achieving good predictive performances when transported from the study cohort to the target population. Furthermore, [2] tackles the relevant issue of partially overlapping variables when data are collected from multiple data sources. This problem is extremely relevant both in theoretical and practical terms for decision making in the healthcare sector.

The contribution provided in [3] stressed the importance of working in a multi-source context by demonstrating how the linking of different repositories can improve the overall understanding of patients' conditions. Similarly, in [4] the authors extended this concept by introducing a methodology to evaluate to audit the data quality of the sources exploited by healthcare information systems. Then, in [5] the multi-source concept is transferred within the multi-modal environment and the authors surveyed the importance of considering different modalities to obtain a better disease understanding.

The works in [6] and [7] focuses on the importance of data. In [6] a data integration framework is defined for characterizing the metabolic deregulations that distinguish cancer phenotypes, by projecting RNA-seq data onto metabolic networks without the need for metabolic measurements; in [7] a biomedical informatics method is introduced that uses multiple public health data sources to perform surveillance of methadone-related adverse drug events. Interestingly, even if patient data are not linked between different data sources, results show that the integration of multiple public data sources can capture more cases and provide more clinical details than individual data sources alone.

Key requirements for JBI ML papers in addition to presenting novel methods (not simply application of existing methods to a new healthcare domain) are as follows: 1) projects must have clinicians involved in research question/problem formulation, defining input data, and assessing the results. 2) An explanation (with clinicians) of how the proposed method would fit into the clinical workflow is expected. It must be translational to practice. 3) Data sets should preferably be collected from hospitals after the research question was formulated, thus avoiding the use of available data (MIMIC) to define a very wide research problem that could potentially be answered with available open datasets (as an example: detecting if someone has COVID from Chest X-Rays would not be acceptable, as the gold standard test is the laboratory test). 4) As for explainability, SHAP values and related diagrams would not be enough: the paper should clearly describe and explain how clinicians use the visualization to make decisions. For further details please refer to https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-biomedical-informatics/publish/guide-for-authors.
Submission process, Questions, and References 

My source: 
https://aixia.it/en/gruppi/hc/

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Book: Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda

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Digital Disinformation in Africa


#Politics #Power #Propaganda


Source: Twi/X

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Policy Dialogue - Water, Conflict and Peace in the Middle East: online

Dear colleagues,

I am delighted to invite you to the next Policy Dialogues from the JHU-UPF Public Policy Center:

Thursday 25th April, 6pm CEST
Online via Zoom (registration required)
Language: English

The Middle East is a region of both severe water problems, and acute political instability. But what is the relationship between these two things? This Policy Dialogue will provide an opportunity to reflect on this question and its implications. It will overview the region’s water problems, and consider how these problems are – or are not – contributing to conflict. It will also examine, conversely, how war and violence are affecting patterns of water resource degradation and water insecurities, and will reflect on opportunities for water-related peace-building, including on how water for peace initiatives might best be pursued.

We are delighted to invite Natasha Carmi (Water Peace Programme Manager at the Geneva Water Hub) and Jan Selby (Professor of International Politics and Climate Change at the University of Leeds, UK) to share their expertise during this session.

We invite you to join us and explore the complexities of this extremely important issue. You can register here. Please also share this invitation within your networks.

Best regards,
Aeve


Aeve Ribbons
she/her

Educational Projects Manager of JHU-UPF Public Policy Center (UPF-BSM)
Managing Editor of the International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services (IJSDOHS)

My working days are Monday-Thursday / Mis días laborables son de lunes a jueves.

Website: http://www.upf.edu/jhu-ppc/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pubpolcenter


My source:

Politics of Health Group Mail List Messages

Visit the PoHG website for lots of interesting links and publications: http://www.pohg.org.uk/

Visit PoHG on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/282761111845400

Follow us on Twitter: @pohguk

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Dramatherapy iii - A Specification for Care: Nye

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"Classical psychodrama requires five instruments, the stage, the subject, the director, the auxiliary egos and the audience. Although Moreno frequently stated that psychodrama could take place in many natural settings, he advocated the use of a stage of his own design, circular, 12-15 feet in diameter, 1-2 feet high with two surrounding stepped lower levels, seating for the audience, a 'Juliet' gallery and equipment for varying the colour and brightness of the lighting. This format was was aimed at providing a space and generating an atmosphere in which the subject could rise up to move and act with increased freedom and imagination.

'The locus of a psychodrama, if necessary, may be designated everywhere, wherever the patients are, the field of battle, the class-room or the private home. But the ultimate resolution of deep mental conflicts requires an objective setting, the therapeutic theatre. ...'". p.107-108.

Nye - National Theatre



Davies, M.H. Dramatherapy and Psychodrama, Chap. 5. pp.104-123. In Jennings, S. (Ed.), (1987) Dramatherapy. Theory and Practice for Teachers and Clinicians. Routledge, London. p.106.

Monday, April 15, 2024

Dramatherapy ii - from Sociometry, Sociogram to Sociatry

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A personal journey




"... Moreno soon began to seek ways of measuring the form and structure of relationships in groups. The techniques of sociometry which he invented have since been widely and successfully adopted by his successors, becoming an accepted field of social research in their own right. At its simplest, this approach relies on asking of the social grouping under investigation to indicate their relationship to each other so that, for example, a pattern of dominance (vertical structure) or affinity (horizontal structure) can be discerned. These measures may be committed to paper in diagram form (a sociogram) or expressed by the individuals arranging themselves in positions symbolising their relationships (an action sociogram)". p.106.


"More complicated interconnections and patterns can be demonstrated and the group asked to explore alternatives in order to recognise sources of conflict and misunderstanding and to modify them. Moreno foresaw a new discipline for which he coined the name 'sociatry' in which the social organisation rather than the individual is the object of the healer's endeavours, a truly 'group' psychotherapy". p.106.


Anticipating future theory-practice policy and education change.

Could the reduction in the options for student mental health nursing placements be compensated in-part by addressing the concurrent change in the range of therapeutic (modalities) interventions available?


Davies, M.H. Dramatherapy and Psychodrama, Chap. 5. pp.104-123. In Jennings, S. (Ed.), (1987) Dramatherapy. Theory and Practice for Teachers and Clinicians. Routledge, London. p.106.

Previously: theatre , space , diagram

Sunday, April 14, 2024

Dramatherapy i - thresholds, liminality and wounded healers

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A personal journey

The 'wounded healer' - Halifax (1982)

".. it is the experience of our own wounding that will enable us to engage with our clients in a healing process". p.15.

"Therefore we can begin to understand that rather than the drama being the chaos, the drama is both the container of the chaos and the means of exploring it. Accompanying our groups through such dangerous territory may seem too frightening for the dramatherapist to contemplate, let alone the client". p.15.

"The attributes of liminality or of liminal personae (threshold people) are necessarily ambiguous, since this condition and these people elude or slip through the network of classifications that normally locate places and position in cultural space. Liminal entities are neither here nor there: they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial. As such their ambiguous and indeterminate attributes are expressed by a rich variety of symbols in the many societies that ritualise social and cultural transitions. This liminality is likened frequently to - death, being in the womb, to invisibility, to darkness, to bisexuality, to the wilderness and to an eclipse of the sun or the moon". p.14.

"The 'illness/treatment' model has by its nature to emphasise what the patient cannot do rather than what he might be able to do; to emphasise that what requires to be done is carried out by others rather than what the patient might do for him/herself". p.262.


Power as exercised (degrees of freedom?) through the therapeutic turn: the history of therapies; social, industrial, occupational, physical, drama, psychotherapy et al. ...


Turner, V. (1969) The Ritual Process. Structure and Anti-Structure. Routledge, London. cited in Jennings, S. (1987) Dramatherapy and Groups, Chap. 1. pp.1-18. In Jennings, S. (Ed.), (1987) Dramatherapy. Theory and Practice for Teachers and Clinicians. Routledge, London. p.14.

Mitchell, R. (1987) Dramatherapy in In-patient Psychiatric Settings, Chap. 12. pp.257-276. In Jennings, S. (Ed.), (1987) Dramatherapy. Theory and Practice for Teachers and Clinicians. Routledge, London. p.14.

In theoretical terms, Mitchell also describes the creative model, the learning model and the therapeutic model (p.265).

Halifax, J. (1982) Shaman: the wounded healer. Thames and Hudson, London [England].

Previously: theatre , threshold , liminal

Saturday, April 13, 2024

'Political sovereignty' by JFK


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John F.



Kennedy


"Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty, illiteracy, and disease."


My source: 

Alan Capps, Alexandria, VA, US - FT Letters.
https://www.ft.com/content/de67db92-3e7b-45ee-b39e-0140d582306a 

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Peter Higgs - Boson and Field

"Higgs theorised that particles would acquire mass by interacting with a new type of field. That field had a very special excitation of its own, another particle called the Higgs boson. The Higgs field solved a huge question in theoretical particle physics, and the Higgs boson was a tantalising target that experimentalists could hunt for in order to tie theory to reality.


“If you remove everything from the vacuum, all matter or quantum fluctuations, all electromagnetic stuff, all gravity, you will be left with the Higgs field,” says Frank Close at the University of Oxford. “And we need that just like a goldfish needs water. It stabilises empty space.”

Working independently from Higgs, Belgian physicists Francois Englert and Robert Brout reached the same conclusion, also in 1964."
On BBC Radio 4 11th April 1500 UT, Frank Close extended the goldfish analogy: "as if some clever goldfish have proved that they are immersed in something because they have found a molecule of H2O."

BBC Inside Science

The following is from a previous post:

UK Higher Education Research Excellence Framework - Disciplines
https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2023/07/ref-uk-higher-ed-h2cm.html


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Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Archaeology

Theology and Religious Studies

Philosophy

[Mathematics & Logic]

^Communication 
as Intra- Interpersonal (Skills) Neurodiversity
hence an individual's
sense-making

Clinical Medicine (Neuroscience)
Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care
Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy
Biological sciences 
Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences

Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
Chemistry
Physics
Mathematical Sciences
Computer Science and Informatics
Engineering
Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
Geography and Environmental Studies
Archaeology
Area Studies
Sport and Exercise Sciences, 
Archaeology
Social Work and Social Policy
Sociology
Anthropology and Development Studies
area studies
Education
Modern Languages and Linguistics
English Language and Literature
History
Classics
Communication^, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
Leisure and Tourism





Archaeology

Economics and Econometrics

Business and Management Studies

Law

area studies

Politics and International Studies

34 subject-based Units of Assessment (UOAs)



1st April 2030 From Person to Planet:

First Call for the First Transdisciplinary Health 
and Social Care Conference -
Everyone is Invited!


Open to all health and social care professions and disciplines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_healthcare_occupations

A celebration of the Hodges' field.😉

RIP Peter Higgs

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

"David Lynch: A Thinking Room"





Where is the Thinking Room?


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Ah! Surely this one?

It's deep!


Is it here?
This is deep too!

Please take a chair.


I trust you are comfortable, so
what about this place?


Yes, you can think here -
but you must check first
before you do: Think. 
If you must ...

N.B. Please rate your experience too.



Soraya Roberts. A Room Of His Own, FT Magazine, 30-31 March, 2024, 1067: pp.38-41.

https://www.ft.com/content/bf6a6eaa-30d1-4704-9aea-4ff2d117f407

David Lynch’s dreamlike rooms at the Salone del Mobile.Milano 2024:
https://www.salonemilano.it/en/articles/david-lynchs-dreamlike-rooms-salone-del-mobilemilano-2024

Tuesday, April 09, 2024

Historic Climate Ruling: States Must Step up Climate Action to Protect Human Rights

From: Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) PRESS ROOM ...

STRASBOURG, FRANCE – Today, the European Court of Human Rights issued a groundbreaking ruling in the Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland climate case. The Court found Switzerland in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights for failing to implement sufficient measures to combat climate change. 

Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Senior Attorney Joie Chowdhury issued the following statement in Strasbourg, France:

We expect this ruling to influence climate action and climate litigation across Europe and far beyond. Today’s historic judgment in Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland – the first ruling by an international human rights court on the inadequacy of States’ climate action – leaves no doubt: the climate crisis is a human rights crisis, and States have human rights obligations to act urgently and effectively and in line with the best available science to prevent further devastation and harm to people and the environment. The ruling reinforces the vital role of courts – both international and domestic – in holding governments to their legal obligations to protect human rights from environmental harm. It also affirms the power and courage of those who speak out and dare to demand a livable future for all.”

https://www.ciel.org/news/historic-climate-ruling-on-climate-justice/

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Personal ethics

Envisioning of future lives

Anxiety in the here & now


Switzerland - Europe - The World

Yesterday - Now - Tomorrow

a LIFE TIME :: DEEP TIME


Public action

Vulnerable groups

Public activism


"In a landmark decision on one of three major climate cases, the first such rulings by an international court, the ECHR raised judicial pressure on governments to stop filling the atmosphere with gases that make extreme weather more violent.

The court’s top bench ruled that Switzerland had violated the rights of a group of older Swiss women to family life, but threw out a French mayor’s case against France and that of a group of young Portuguese people against 32 European countries." The Guardian