'GlobalMinds' - NHS study severe mental health problems

Together we can change lives

Depression, bipolar, schizophrenia and related conditions affect millions of people around the world.

Yet mental health receives less than 1% of global research funding. 

This has left healthcare for these conditions stuck in the past:

Diagnosis can take years

Treatments target symptoms, not underlying causes

Half of the prescribed drugs cause severe side effects

GlobalMinds is a major research programme seeking to advance the understanding of mental health conditions and improve lives.

 

My source: 
News, NHS study to transform mental health treatment, The Times, 14 February, 2026, p.6

The 1st International Workshop On Ontologies for the Disaster Domain

We invite submissions to the First Workshop On Ontologies for the Disaster Domain – WOODD -

to be held as a part of The Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) 2022 at Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden, from August 15 to 19, 2022.

Image via paper from
International Journal of Geo-Information
(Paper - Implementation of FAIR Principles for Ontologies
in the Disaster Domain:
A Systematic Literature Review)

The workshop aims to bring together knowledge modeling engineers, domain ontology experts, developers of disaster knowledge graphs to discuss different techniques and rationale for constructing various ontologies in the disaster domain. This will potentially also set the stage for opening the floor for discussion about limitations of existing research, missing pieces, and overall address a key question

“Do we need a domain ontology or a reference ontology for the hazard domain”?

Topics

1) Ontologies that focus on modeling different aspects of the domain (e.g. phases of disaster management life cycle, observational data, spatial-temporal views, such as point, area, or trajectory phenomenon)

2) Ontologies that model causal chains (e.g. for compounding disasters and disaster impacts)

3) Construction and annotation of domain taxonomies or vocabularies using machine learning and other artificial intelligence technologies

4) Ontology integration and ontology alignment in the hazard-disaster domain

5) Ontology modularity in the hazard-disaster domain

6) Ontologies and disaster domain knowledge graphs

Submissions are particularly welcome that address aspects of this theme, but submissions outside of the theme, but maintain the core idea of the workshop are also welcome.

Submissions

We encourage three types of contributions:

1) Full research paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 14 pages excluding the bibliography. Please, note that the minimum length is 10 pages.
Short paper: Submitted papers must not exceed 6 pages excluding the bibliography. Please, note that the minimum length is 5 pages (including the bibliography).

2) Extended abstracts (presentation only) should be 2-4 pages long including the bibliography. Please, note that extended abstracts will not be included in the CEUR proceedings.

Submissions should be made via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2022.

For more guidelines about submissions please refer to the workshop website at https://shirlysteph.github.io/woodd-jowo22/

Important Dates

Papers submissions: June 7th, 2022
Papers notifications: July 15th, 2022
Camera-ready version submissions:  August 5th, 2022
JOWO: August 15-19th

Chairs

– Shirly Stephen, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA  
– Rui Zhu, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
– Cogan Shimizu, Kansas State University, USA

My source: Cogan Shimizu via semantic-web AT w3.org

c/o Gärdenfors: "Events and Causal Mappings Modeled in Conceptual Spaces"

Personal circumstances mean that over the past decade I've given up on several memberships and hence the benefits that were to be had. The British Computer Society was invaluable, and I'm sure still is even at the 'Associate' level. In addition to the Nursing Specialist Group, the Expert Systems Group, Medical Informatics, SocioTechnical and a Methods group have proved an engrossing distraction and a more remote source of ongoing interest. I'm not sure if this is persistence, or stubbornness, but it surely qualifies as sustainable - as I hope this blog demonstrates.

Following the workshops in 2012, and 2016 on Conceptual Spaces I checked online for developments. Amongst the results a paper (added to Zotero):

"Another field of learning that is required for robotic reasoning
about causation and for communicating, for example in a
planning situation, is action categorization. Representations of
actions in terms of conceptual spaces, such as those proposed
by, for example, Chella et al. (2001), Gärdenfors (2014), and
Gharaee et al. (2017a,b), provide a potentially fruitful method for
implementations. Simulating an action and then using the event
mapping that has been learned to predict a result vector, can then
be used to generate plans and to reason about complex situations.
In this way, simulations can provide the robotic system the power
to imagine events that is needed to understand the physical, social
and, eventually, the emotional world we live in.

The event structure has not yet been implemented in any
concrete system. However, a cognitively motivated architecture
for holistic AI systems, including robotic ones, that integrates
machine learning and knowledge representation has been
proposed in Gärdenfors et al. (2019). The central idea of the
proposal is to use ‘event boards’ representing components of
events as an analogy to blackboards that formed the backbone
in some earlier AI systems." p.8. [with my emphasis].

For years - ever since learning and applying Hodges' model I've been carrying a requirement - a project. As Prof. Gärdenfors notes blackboards were an approach artificial intelligence systems, plus frames, cases, neural networks and others. The Health Career Model can be viewed as a series of boards, frames, conceptual spaces and compound threshold concepts. With so many purported forms of informatics and literacy, h2cm can ultimately represent the general state of affairs. It is situated (previously):

h2cm = 'GI - General Intelligence'?

'general problem'

Englemore, Robert; Morgan, Tony (1988). Blackboard Systems.
Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-17431-1.
McCord Nelson, Marilyn / W.T. Illingworth
(1990) A Practical Guide to Neural Nets.
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 10: 0201523760.

Over the years, I've been asked about the number of books on shelves and boxed. This week on BBC Radio 4 or Times Radio(?), I caught a snippet of how we hold on to books and why. Your library: can be part of your identity. 

Knowing the life story of a resident in a nursing home, they may be comforted carrying a book; if staff can manage their anxiety about its potential use as a weapon in the event of an altercation. Having several books on a window sill [they do have a window?], can help. The light damage to the book pales in contrast to the reduced anxiety.

I realise what books mean to me - on 'display' even though nobody else sees them and even as I try to reduce the count. I still hold on to some cherished titles, and will return to those above. Originally, I picked up the Health Career Model and created the now archived website, so it would not gather dust on the shelf. Without action now though - there isn't much difference.

Gärdenfors P (2020) Events and Causal Mappings Modeled in Conceptual Spaces. Front. Psychol. 11:630. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00630

Re-Inventing Schizophrenia: Updating the Construct

INDIVIDUAL

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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

Schizophrenia Research
	Re-Inventing Schizophrenia: Updating the Construct

Re-Inventing Schizophrenia: Updating the Construct. Edited by Rajiv Tandon, Matcheri Keshavan, Henry Nasrallah. Schizophrenia Research. Volume 242, Pages 1-150 (April 2022).

My source:
https://twitter.com/JeroticStefan/status/1508898715473530888?s=20&t=X61DSrPzEyLvX-FhzY5r-A

Need for bio-psycho-socio-POLITICAL perspectives - spiritual too.

Previously on W2tQ: DSM

 

Peine Perdue, Lost Cause* c/o Anaïs Charras

INDIVIDUAL

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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

Peine Perdue/Lost Cause (2021) Drypoint on copper, chine collé (Bunkoshi paper), 340 x 500 mm. Edition: 12

 

My source: Anaïs Charras [image], Artist's Eye. Printmaking Today, Vol 31, Issue 121, Spring 2022, p.50.

*We - the people - can, must and will prevail.

Related post: https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2020/11/self-care-tree-girl.html

 

Is Hodges' model a selection machine?

Sober (1984) Child's toy

"It is gratifying to find these biological ideas already enshrined in the ordinary meaning of 'selection for' and 'selection of'. My young son has a toy which takes all the mystery out of this distinction. Plastic discs with circles cut out of them are stacked with spaces in between in a closed cylinder. Top-most disc contains very big holes, and the holes decrease in size as one moves down from disc to disc. At the top of the cylinder are found balls of different sizes. A good shaking will distribute the balls to their respective levels. The smallest balls end up arrayed at the bottom. The next smallest sized balls settle at the next level up, and so on. It happens that the balls of the same size also happen to have the same color. Shaking sends the black balls to the bottom, the pink to the next level up, and so on. The whole cylinder (plus paternal administered shaking) is a selection machine. The device selects for small balls (these are the ones which pass to the bottom). It does not select for black balls (even though these are the ones that pass to the bottom). But when we ask after a shaking what was selected, it is equally correct to say that the black balls were selected and that the small ones were. 'Selection for' focuses on causes; 'selection of' picks out effects." p.50-51.

Sober, E. Force and disposition in evolutionary theory. In. Hookway, C. (ed.) (1984). Minds, Machines And Evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp.43-61.

Image adapted from figure 4 within "Is art an adaptation? Prospects for an evolutionary perspective on aesthetic emotions" http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~sousa/artfunction/art.htm

See also: slide 35/47  http://slideplayer.com/slide/9735486/

Join the Revolution: For the Lady in the Corner (c/o ST4Health)

ST4Health

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

individual

Lady situated assumptions personal experience	one disease - malaria, smallpox, leprosy, TB,  emergency treatment, hospitals, Africa, systems, capacity
people, society, community, village gender, interactions, humanitarian works,	policy, organisations, population health improvement, global health, poverty, economics, outcomes

group - population
BIG PICTURE (above)

My source:  HIFA2015 list