ShantanuT01/DACTYL-Pretraining huggingface dataset:
Introduction Telemedicine or e-healthcare is shaping healthcare delivery in a big way. Its foundational idea is to transfer electronic patient health information (ePHI), not the individual, through integrated solutions that allow remote investigation, consultations, and monitoring of vital signs (Nagel, Pomerleau, & Penner, 2013). The tools used include the Internet, phones, Wi-Fi, and video conferencing. This brochure outlines the structure of a telehealthcare project, conditions covered, and nursing services available and provides a useful resource for patients. Core Services The telehealthcare project is designed to support better access to the ePHI, tracking of chronic conditions via wearable devices, distant patient education, case consultation, and transmission of patient-generated biometric data to clinicians. Based on the health needs of patients who cannot access healthcare and those with chronic conditions, the agency will offer the following services:   * Remote diagnostics   * Teleconsultations   * Measurement and transmission of the ePHI   * Distant patient education Virtual visits may be offered for examination of common conditions such as allergies, asthma, bronchitis, urinary tract infections (UTIs), congestive heart failure (CHF), and diabetes. For example, a nurse can access the ePHI of a patient with diabetes to help him or her plan home visits and therapeutic interventions appropriately. This approach will ensure optimal home-based care, reduced hospitalizations, and lower healthcare costs. Specialty care could also be made available to patients presenting with allergies, UTIs, and gastroenterological and gynecological issues. Nursing Services Provided Telenursing entails nursing care delivery through technology solutions that support virtual nurse-patient interactions over considerable geographical distances (Nagel et al., 2013). It centers on care provision and coordination via tools such as video conferencing and telephone calls. The agency through its home telenursing project will provide the following services to patients with chronic health care needs:   * Patient education on healthy diets and physical activity   * Nursing teleconsultations   * Patient triaging   * Remote review of test results   * Patient monitoring   * Treatment protocol implementation and follow-up Patient Education One critical telehealth service is remote patient education to support healthier lifestyles – diet and exercise. Telenurses can interact with their patients via the Internet or phone to convey and assess individual health plans. Nurses could use tools, such as video conferencing and podcasts, to recommend appropriate diets to diabetics (Kamei, 2013). Nutritional advice to these patients may be transmitted via these platforms to help them achieve glycemic control. They can also learn about their conditions before hospital visits to be able to make therapeutic choices and participate in self-care. Nursing Teleconsultations Nursing consultations can be provided via video conferencing, which is more cost-effective than traveling to the facility. In this setup,
About Organisation Amazon is a Seattle-based Fortune 500 company that was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos and launched the next year. Back in the day, the company has become one of the first large Internet sellers. Looking at the industry giant that Amazon has grown to be over the last 25 years, it is difficult to believe that the business had humble beginnings. It started as an online book store; however, thanks to Jeff Bezos’ thoughtful guidance, the range of goods offered on the platform was quickly diversified (Rossman, 2016). Soon, Amazon’s customers were enjoying DVDs, electronics, video games and clothing. In 1998, Bezos became Time’s “Person of the Year” for his contribution to online shopping. The client’s interests take front and centre of the company’s strategies which capitalise on using every opportunity to harness the unprecedented tech revolution. The passion to serve the customer and gain a competitive advantage over numerous contenders was the impetus to innovation and resulted in the creation of such products as Alexa, Dash Button and Amazon Prime (Robischon, 2017). About Decision On the 2nd of February 2005, Jeff Bezos and the team launched a service that set the bar for the entire industry, Amazon Prime. Initially, it was designed as a paid subscription service that allowed users to gain access to services and benefits that would otherwise be unavailable or require an extra payment (Consumer Reports, 2019). For two years, from 2005 to 2007, Amazon Prime offered two-day free shipping for a flat annual fee exclusively to the United States citizens. As the popularity of the service was tested in the domestic market, Bezos embarked on aggressive expansion politics. The CEO of Amazon followed through with his plans and launched the product in the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan in 2007. By 2008, the service emerged on the French market under the name “Amazon Premium” and reached Italy by 2011. Canadian citizens got to enjoy fast shipping in 2013, whereas India and Mexico joined in 2016 and 2017 respectively (Statista, 2019). During the 2010s, the company made available a monthly subscription so that potential customers could check the perks of the service before making a year-long commitment. Amazon diversified the range of products under the Amazon Prime brand, adding Prime Reading with access to Kindle library and Amazon now with one-to-two hour delivery in New York. The success of Bezos’ decision back in 2005 gets continuously proven by hard data. Between 2016 and 2018, the number of Amazon Prime subscribers almost doubled: from 54 million to 100 million users (Statista, 2019). According to some reports, in 2016, half of United States households used the services offered by Amazon Prime (Statista, 2019). Key Conclusions Amazon is a company that prioritises innovation and takes customers’ changing expectations into consideration. Since 1994, the company has been revolutionising the logistics industry and the world of online shopping. Amazon owes its rise to its true visionary and genius business mogul Jeff Bezos who was the heart and the mind behind many new products and services. Amazon Prime is argua
Sympathy is a many-sided, deep feeling able to influence one’s world-view, behavior and actions; sympathy often becomes the ground for reviewing attitudes and relations. Being a very important component of our everyday communication, sympathy can be also considered an issue that works of literature and art often appeal to. This appeal to a reader’s sympathy is one of the strongest devices used in literature: when a reader/viewer is able to sympathize with a character, he/she is able to “grasp” the message that an author sends to him/her. In this work, the Book IV (passages 593-630, 631-670 and 670-705) of Virgil’s Aeneid (Virgil and Lind) are discussed from the perspective of ideas expressed by Adam Smith in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Smith and Hanley). In Virgil’s work, the devices of awakening a reader’s sympathy and emotions correspond to the mechanisms of agreeable emotion, identification et al outlined by Smith and influence a reader’s judgments, attitudes and world-view. In Aeneid , the story of Dido and Aeneas (Book IV, 593-630, 631-670 and 670-705), sympathy is not just our modern “pity” but also a “feeling together” of any emotion; this is consonant with Smith’s “theory of moral sentiments” which declares that we feel sympathy for each other by imagining ourselves in the condition of others. “Grief and joy, for example, strongly expressed in the book and gestures of anyone, at once affect the spectator with some degree of like painful or agreeable emotions”, says Smith (43). It is also true that this feeling of emotional affinity can be awakened by works of literature when a reader gets familiarized with the theme, plot and the characters. This can be witnessed in the feeling of regret and vengeance that gnaws at Dido’s mind. She regrets having not torched her enemies’ camp and not killed the whole Trojan’s lineage: the son, the father, “it might have been. Yet whom had I on the brink of death? I might have flung torches in their camp; I might have filled their holds sweet fire and destroyed both son and father, with their entire race” (Virgil 593 – 630). This inference of the emotional side of sympathy can be felt through the imagery technique the writer has chosen to apply, “I pour these last words forth with my blood” (Virgil 593). The figures of speech used by the writer connect a reader to the emotional experience of the character. The feeling of dire need and desperation brought out by this imagery pricks the reader’s heart. “You who are howled at as Hecate by midnight” is a simile that expresses emotions. “Her blood shot eyes, burst into the inner court of the palace where pyre stands; she climbs onto the high pyre and unsheathes the sword, gift of Aeneas: she looked at the ‘Iliacs Eustis’ another gift Aeneas, throw herself on bed, and uttering her last words, falls on the sword” (Virgil 637). The used rhetoric familiarize a reader with the emotional torment that the character is going through, “What am I saying? Where am I? What madness moves my mind? Poor Dido, do impious deeds now touch you? Why did you not think of them when you offered him power?” (Virgil
Canada is one of the wealthy Western states characterized by the developed social institutions, attention to equality and democratic issues, and a focus on improving the quality of its citizens’ lives. However, regardless of these factors, the state still has multiple social issues impacting the lives of various groups and their well-being. For instance, Frist Peoples still face numerous challenges related relevant to their communities. It is a deep-routed problem linked to the unique history of Canada and the interaction of colonists with aboriginal people. Applying the critical theory, today, Indigenous issues can be viewed as a result of the ineffective work of societal structures, cultural assumptions, and ineffective policies. The scope of the problem is evidenced by the fact that First Peoples are a significant part of the Canadian population. In 2016, 1,673,765 people determined themselves as Indigenous ones, which is 4.9 percent of the state’s population (Vowel, 2016). Although this population group continues to grow, little attention is devoted to social issues associated with it. For instance, the employment rate of Indigenous people is lower than among other groups (Vowel, 2016). Moreover, their income levels are below average, meaning that even if they have work, they are limited in opportunities to earn for their living (Vowel, 2016). Finally, there are also problems with health and education spheres as First Peoples experience problematic access to these institutions (Fontaine, 2017). These factors evidence the topicality and sophistication of Indigenous issues in Canada. The problem can be analyzed by applying the basic concepts of critical theory. It is an approach presupposing critique of society and current culture to reveal existing problems and their roots (Little, 2013). One of the framework’s central ideas is that social issues result from societal structures and existing cultural assumptions and become a systemic problem. Utilizing this approach, Indigenous issues in Canada can be viewed can be analyzed regarding ineffective policies, problematic interaction between various communities, and stereotypes existing among other population groups. The roots of the problem can be traced back to the first contact between Europeans and local people. When the first colonists arrived in Canada, they relied on Aboriginal tribes to acquire fur trading skills and survive (Vowel, 2016). However, with the establishment of the centralized rule, the attitude altered, and multipl
Immigrants are individuals that have come into a country to be residents of the country. There are various reasons that can make an individual leave his or her country and seek residence in another country. Whereas some individuals may migrate to another country due to the unfavorable social, political, and economic conditions in their countries, others may opt to migrate from their country just to join the other members of the family who had moved earlier to these countries. The latter category does signify the kind of tie that the immigrants have with their homeland. This often poses economic and political challenges to the receiving nation. It also has social influence on the host country as it defines the identity and nationalism of the immigrants. There are millions of immigrants all over the world. The high level of economy in the developed nations often attracts immigrants from the developing countries. Australia is one such country that has attracted many immigrants from the developing nations. The country had earlier received European settlers in the eighteenth century who helped improve the country’s economy. The immigrants from other countries started flowing into the country in the early twentieth century. The kind of immigration that was witnessed in Australia up to the early 1970s is different from the immigration that has been witnessed in the last thirty years. The factors that led to immigration in the earlier times are quite different from what leads to the present immigration. Besides, the increased terrorist attacks especially in the Middle East countries have led to the development of immigration policies that are strict. The migration of individuals from one country has different issues that concern both the country of origin and the recipient nations. The countries of origin of the immigrants and the host country often have social, cultural, economic, and political differences that will influence their reception and accommodation of the immigrants. The immigrants are often from different ethnic communities, language groups, and races. Thus, their formation of a single community in the host country brings forth issues like racism and ethnicity among the society. There are differences in the culture of the communities including their religious beliefs and practices. The different economic, social, or demographic factors will also affect the resettlements of the immigrants in the host countries. The immigrants with low-income will be forced to reside in the regions that have low costs of living. Such regions, however, have other adverse conditions that may pose problems to the general well being of the immigrants. The influx of immigrants to a given country also has certain significant impacts on the host country. The immigrants may dominate the region with their new culture and erode the culture of the natives of the country. Their accommodation can also have negative economic impacts on the country. Besides, the immigrants to a given country may turn out to be agent
Introduction Scholars have different definitions for marketing communication. A careful consideration of various definitions reveals the common elements such as the activities, processes, and/or efforts that a company makes in order to provide the information of their products and services to the target audience. Marketing communication involves the use of the tools for presenting a wide range of information about a product or service created by an organization to the target consumers using advertising tools such as brochures, mailshots, websites, exhibitions, press public campaigns, sales promotions, personal selling, the word-of-mouth, public relations, and direct marketing, to name just a few. Some marketing communication devices presuppose the use of different channels as the means to convey the intended message to the target audience. These tools include the television, radio, print media, the Internet, and social networks. This paper reviews the recent marketing communication tools used by the Aldi stores in the United Kingdom. Background Information Marketing communication performs a variety of functions including product positioning, brand creation, and shortening the sales cycle by supporting the distribution channels to complement the customer’s decision-making process. Businesses use these tools constructively to induce the target actions of the audience that can include developing the brand loyalty, preference, new knowledge, and/or benefit for the product. Different marketing communication strategies are utilised to achieve such objectives; these strategies can be either implemented isolated from each other or incorporated into a single methodology for enhancing the popularity of the product. Since the 1990s, the integrated marketing communications strategies have been implemented with the prioritising of the customer’s needs as a starting point in designing seamless communication mechanisms in mind (Vanov 2012). Marketing communication is an integral part of the marketing mix falling within the promotion trends, intends to inform (brand awareness), persuasion (communicating a fulfilling need for the product, service, or organisation), and induction of action to the target audience. To achieve the abovementioned marketing communication goals, the business must conduct an in-depth research on the costs involved (Vanov 2012). It should also enhance product awareness, beliefs, perceptions, and behaviour of the target audience (Duhan & Singh 2013). Marketing Communication utilised by the ALDI Stores in the UK The Aldi Stores is a leading grocery supermarket in the UK; hence, it is a prime example of marketing communication goals set properly and attained in a timely and efficient manner. The group has passed the key evolutionary stages in its marketing campaign since its inception. Its marketing dynamics catapulted with the adoption of the latest technological advancement, the company has made an efficient use of IT related marketing tools. As a result, the company has changed its approaches s
Introduction According to Marmot and Wilkinson, health inequalities are “the systematic, structural differences in health status between and within social groups within the population” (Marmot and Wilkinson, 1999). Health inequalities relate to other socioeconomic factors that determine health status in society. These factors may include diet, housing, employment, and access to healthcare among others. Thus, the focus of healthcare inequalities concentrates on factors that reduce accessibility to healthcare services for different socioeconomic groups. Conditions which determine accessibility to healthcare services usually present serious challenges to policymakers in their attempts to address them. This is because most of these causes have relations with other multifaceted factors. Consequently, the solutions must also reflect the nature of these causes. We should note that policies that can adequately address healthcare issues should be long-term, need multiple inputs and continuous improvements as new socioeconomic challenges emerge. We have also witnessed lack of clear evidence regarding the effectiveness of existing policies that seek to address healthcare inequalities. Thus, the UK government is continuously looking for new approaches for addressing existing healthcare inequalities. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the UK Government strategies in addressing inequalities in health Health Care The UK government strategies of providing healthcare services have marginally contributed to the effectiveness of addressing disparities that exist in healthcare provisions. Debates and politics about the portfolio of the department of health in the ministry have negatively affected works of the National Health Services (NHS). The UK government has set targets that aim at reducing main causes of deaths in the UK. These include reducing cancer deaths among the elderly, reducing strokes, accidents, and mental illnesses. The challenge is that policymakers did not address these targets to reflect healthcare inequalities that exist in the society. It is only under rare circumstances that these targets may indicate a minimal reflection of health disparities. Changes in the structure of the organisation also affect the provision of healthcare services to address inequalities. This has led to t
Project management and quality management are two crucial aspects of the work of many organizations worldwide. There are many people, who are involved in the development of high-quality projects with different aims and outcomes. Still, in the majority of projects, quality remains to be the top goal connected with personal and organizational passion and pride (Sallis 1). Crosby and Juran are two powerful gurus, who offered their theories and philosophies to develop a universal definition of quality and justify their decisions from different perspectives (Brincat 19). There are certain similarities and differences in Juran’s and Crosby’s thoughts, and some of them will be discussed in this paper, not to clarify their strengths and weaknesses but to investigate different approaches to understanding quality as a crucial concept in management. Juran’s philosophy is focused on the role of people in quality management and the necessity to educate and train managers to avoid or minimize the risks of human relations problems and changes. Juran developed the quality theory based on three processes, including planning, control, and improvement. Crosby’s philosophy is based on the principle to do things right the first time rather than try to change them at a later stage (Brincat 25). His theory is based on four absolutes, including quality, prevention, zero defects, and measurement. Both gurus believe that quality has to be based on strong management commitment because it helps to save organizational money and promote the development and constant improvement of