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John Keats' Medical Notebook
Authors: Ghosh Hrileena
Published: September 2020

The poet John Keats trained as a surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, London while simultaneously making his way as a poet. This book focuses attention on an important but hitherto neglected manuscript: the notebook Keats maintained during this time, with the premise that in Keats’ medical Notebook exists a manuscript revealing both the true depth of the poet’s medical knowledge and the significant influence this exercised on his poetry. Reconstructing the lively medical world that played a formative role in Keats’ intellectual and imaginative development, this book explores the intriguing connections between Keats’ medical knowledge and his greatest poetry. It reveals that Keats’ two careers proved mutually enabling and enriching, with their co-existence contributing greatly to his success in both. Opening with a fully annotated edition of Keats’ medical Notebook newly transcribed from the manuscript, the book offers chapters on the provenance of Keats’ medical Notebook; the ‘hospital poems’ he wrote at Guy’s; the medical milieu of Keats’ daily life; his methods of working as revealed by his medical Notebook and other archival sources; and the medical contexts that informed his composition of Endymion and his 1820 volume, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems. It shows how the visceral knowledge of human life that Keats gained at Guy’s Hospital transformed him into the ‘mighty poet of the human heart’, with new research recovering the many ways in which Keats’ creativity found expression in both his careers.
John Keats’ ‘Guy’s Hospital’ Poetry
Authors: Ghosh Hrileena
Published: September 2020

This chapter focuses on the poems Keats wrote while associated with Guy’s Hospital, October 1815 – March 1817. Looking at Keats’ poems in terms of their dates of composition, juxtaposed with events in the hospital calendar and in his biography, reveals patterns of sociality and conviviality that tie in with Keats’ poetic productivity. After successfully passing his Licentiate Examination in July 1816, Keats chose to renew contact with his mentor Charles Cowden Clarke, who introduced him in turn to the Hunt Circle. The only surviving first-hand account of Keats at Guy’s is explored, showing how the mythmaking around Keats’ reputation affected this narrative. The chapter traces Keats’ development into the physician-poet he became, from his initial recourse to poetry as a distraction to his recognition that it might become a career.
John Keats at Guy’s Scholar and Poet
Authors: Ghosh Hrileena
Published: September 2020

The fourth chapter opens with a detailed textual comparison, including statistical analysis of lexicography, between Keats’ medical notes and those kept by his fellow-student Joshua Waddington. These prove that the two sets of notes derived from the same source and reveal that although Keats has essentially the same information as Waddington, his habits of concision, reorganization and cross-referencing mean that they are presented in a different – indeed, distinctive – form. The chapter finds that some characteristic features of Keats’ mature poetry are prefigured in his medical notes: striking imagery, verbal rhythms and verbal compression are all typical of Keats’ medical thought. Close readings of some of Keats’ most accomplished poems, including ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and Hyperion, reveal the medical underpinning for much of his greatest poetry, in content, vocabulary, and style.
Endymion and the Physiology of Passion
Authors: Ghosh Hrileena
Published: September 2020

This chapter focuses on Endymion, the only long poem Keats ever completed, which was written immediately after he left Guy’s Hospital when his medical experience was fresh in his mind. Reading Endymion through the contents of Keats’ medical Notebook allows a fresh perspective on the physiology that underlies and informs the poem’s depictions of passion. Close reading of the poem, and of the biographical circumstances in which it was composed, reveal the extent to which Keats’ medical experience affected his poetic creativity, and the way contemporary criticismrecognised and responded to this aspect of the poem. The chapter concludes with an exploration of Keats’ knowledge of Romantic medical ethics, and how this informed his delineation of the figures of healers. Endymion showcases Keats’ ability to convey extreme emotion through anatomical descriptions and medical vocabulary.
‘Faire ceci ou faire cela?’
Authors: Knight Diana
Published: September 2020

This essay traces the interconnections between the rhetoric and actuality of Barthes’s proclaimed inability to choose between the polarised forms of the Album and the Livre, the fragmentary ‘note’ of the Diary and the all-embracing Novel. Barthes’s public rehearsal of this indecision, which takes place in the pedagogical context of his lecture course La Préparation du roman, is structured as the theatrical ‘deliberation’ of the writer faced with the obligation to choose. Yet Barthes underlines the appeal of thinking in terms of simplified alternatives, and leaves the formal decision hanging in the balance. I read this artificially constructed deliberation in conjunction with his analysis of Saint Ignatius’s Exercices spirituels, where a new language through which to solicit God’s will is elaborated through the theatrical preparation of an ‘election’. The symbiotic relation that Barthes identifies between Ignatius’s pedagogical Exercices and the personal Journal spirituel – in which Ignatius charts the progress of a practical election – takes me to the relation between Barthes’s Préparation du roman and his own private diaries. His 1979 essay ‘Délibération’ combines a general question (can a Diary be Literature?) with a practical issue to be resolved: should Barthes keep a diary with a view to publication?
The Time of Our Lives
Authors: Jordan Shirley
Published: September 2020

This chapter explores some of the formal devices elaborated in recent contemporary women’s life writing to convey a sense of time and of being in the world. It focuses on the intimate and the everyday and on the units, flows, categories and organization of time in recent experimental works by Annie Ernaux, Camille Laurens and Chantal Akerman. The chapter is grounded in theory about female-authored self-narrative, returns to gendered ideas of a hierarchy of time and builds upon the problematizing of linear time in what Julia Kristeva famously referred to as ‘women’s time’ (1979). It analyses in particular the functions of repetition, variation and fragmentation as forces that drive and shape the works in question, asking how such repetition might be read as specifically gendered, and examining the impact this might have on the experience of reading. The chapter explores the temporal architecture of three selected works which, I argue, are ‘time rich’ and ‘time sensitive’ and which loop back into each author’s previous life writing experimentation. These are Ernaux’s total life-narrative Les Années (2008), Laurens’s autofictional essay Encore et jamais: variations (2013) and Akerman’s final experiment in life writing, Ma mère rit (2013).
A Voice Takes Form
Authors: Maclachlan Ian
Published: September 2020

This chapter focuses on Louis-René des Forêts’s poetic sequence, Poèmes de Samuel Wood (1988) in order to highlight the relationship between poetic form, authorial voice and the genre of autobiography. Des Forêts’s sequence comprises a 559-line poem divided into thirteen sections, attributed by its title to the heteronymous author-figure Samuel Wood. Notwithstanding its form and authorial disguise, the poem is obliquely autobiographical and forms part of the overall project of the long, final phase of his writing, best exemplified by the fragmentary work of 1997, Ostinato. My analysis seeks to stake out a distinctive way of conceiving the relation of poetic form to autobiographical genre (taking a distance, notably, from Lejeunian typological approaches), and in order to do so endeavours, on the one hand, to work with the idea of form as active, dynamic and mobile, a process of forming, deforming and reforming which is always temporally emergent and variable, rather than a structure that might simply contain something like content or experience, and on the other hand, to connect that mobility of form to des Forêts’s pursuit of a distinctive autobiographical mode. Far from reflecting and securing authorial identity, this mode might be considered as one that concerns an impersonal or anonymous level of experience that is fundamentally insecure and ultimately inappropriable; we might think of this mode as a kind of degree zero of autobiography, an autobiography in the neuter, or an ‘autobiographie intérieure’.
‘La recherche que l’on peut dire formelle’
Authors: Lucey Michael
Published: September 2020

This chapter makes the case that Proust's Recherche offers a way of perceiving how our pleasure in aesthetic objects (novels, septets) can, when viewed from the appropriate angle, reveal the topography of the social world through which we must all necessarily find our way. How might the experience of a particularly social level of reality be communicated in a novel?  The social world can be understood in Bourdieusian terms as a space of immanent tendencies, one in which some people are more likely to follow one kind of social trajectory than another. Proust’s novel shares with Bourdieu’s sociology an interest in how a work of art, being the product of a social world, can on occasion serve as an instrument that reveals something of the immanent structures that contribute to the shape of the social topography around it.  It does so by producing differential effects on its public. The Vinteuil Septet is presented in the Recherche as a work that has this kind of differential social effect:  by producing different effects on different listeners it becomes a diagnostic instrument revealing the social topography around it.
Introduction
Authors: Achille Etienne , Forsdick Charles , Moudileno Lydie
Published: September 2020

This introduction aims at defining how Postcolonial Realms of Memory builds upon Pierre Nora’s seminal collection Les Lieux de mémoire (1984-92) while fostering a new perspective on the French past actively informed by the memorial legacy of colonialism. After contextualizing Nora’s project, analysing his ground-breaking paradigm and exploring the concept’s complex afterlives with a particular emphasis on the criticism that has been levelled at it over the past three decades, the editors illustrate their conceptual framework and scope of investigation — the ‘Republic’ in its broadest sense — by introducing several representative realms including the Panthéon, seen as a metonymic example of a postcolonial realm of memory. This introduction’s objective is therefore to lay the ground for understanding the rationale behind the will to postcolonialize the French Republic’s lieux de mémoire whilst at the same time presenting the tools mobilized to do so. It ultimately highlights how the volume is imagined as a disruptive challenge to current nationally-focused understandings of sites of memory, a call to integrate colonialism and its legacy more actively into the practices and study of collective memory, but also an invitation to take in new directions the current debate at the intersection of memory studies and postcolonialism.
Literary Prestige
Authors: Ducournau Claire
Published: September 2020

Literary recognition comprises a good part of the fourth volume of Les Lieux de mémoire, published in 1986. This essay proposes a postcolonial revisiting of literary institutions such as the Académie française or scholarly classics previously addressed in this volume – according to both the chronological and adversarial meanings of the term ‘postcolonial’. It reevaluates the status of those territories that were politically dominated outside the borders of the Hexagon within such realms of literary heritagization by expanding the edges of the nation as it had been envisioned. The French literary canon is home to a range of authors who accepted the colonial order as something that was not to be questioned, and even that should be vigorously defended, but also to writers who were inhabitants of (formerly) colonized territories. The marks of literary prestige obtained by authors from (ex)imperial territories, from the award of a Goncourt Prize to election to the Collège de France, are often determined by decisive conditions, such as the place of publication of literary works, the cultural resources of these writers, and the wider French political environment. This essay highlights the existence of silences and instances of marginalization in national literary heritage, as well as long-term demonstrations of resistance in the face of this colonial or neocolonial order.
The Mediterranean
Authors: Kleppinger Kathryn
Published: September 2020

This essay demonstrates how unique geographic characteristics of the Mediterranean Sea dramatically shaped European colonial policy throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Mediterranean Sea created critical trade routes made the colonization of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco not only politically useful for establishing and maintaining France’s power relative to other European nations but also economically vital for France’s industrial production. After the decline of the French colonial empire, national immigration policies were dictated by the desire to maintain France’s economic strength and political influence in the region by controlling its surroundings in the Mediterranean. While the Mediterranean once represented the possibility of expanded control and geopolitical power, it now represents just the opposite, a source of anarchy and chaos that is frequently seen as requiring strong border control.
Le Bagne
Authors: Forsdick Charles
Published: September 2020

The bagne retains an ambiguous status as a lieu de mémoire, in part because of its predominantly extra-metropolitan location, in part because most understandings of the institution rely heavily on representations freighted via literature, film and graphic fiction. In French Guiana and New Caledonia, the bagne was nevertheless the major driver in the attempted mise en valeur of those colonies in the face of varying degrees of resistance to settlement. Moreover, France’s carceral archipelago extended beyond those key sites to include penal colonies in North and Sub-Saharan Africa as well as Indochina. The essay scrutinizes the rich body of material that has served as a vehicle for memories of the institution, but uses a focus on contemporary memorial practices in French Guiana and New Caledonia to suggest a distinct divergence in forms of interpretation, especially regarding the place of the penal colony in colonial expansionism. Although until recent years the bagne has often acted as more of a postcolonial lieu d’oubli, in a context of complex postcolonial politics and of growing interest in penal heritage its status as a lieu de mémoire is becoming increasingly apparent.
Colonial Heroes
Authors: Sèbe Berny
Published: September 2020

Taken together, the reputations which emerged in Francophone popular culture around a series of distinguished explorers, missionaries, empire builders or colonial administrators can be described as a site of collective memory, cementing in part the French ‘imagined community’ and sometimes spearheading cultural bridges within the French-speaking world in the postcolonial period. Turned into heroic figures endowed with national significance at the time of the ‘New Imperialism’ of the late nineteenth-century, through an elaborate process which involved the agency of a variety of hero-makers (and sometimes the heroes themselves) and the use of the newly-developed mass-media, the names of Lavigerie, Garnier, Brazza, Marchand, Lyautey, Foucauld and the like became sites of memory, both physically (through street or institution naming, statues, etc.) and culturally (through books, representations in the press and later in films, as well their place in the pantheon of school textbooks). Through colonial heroes, an unusual map of (post-)colonial France and the Francophone world emerges, which is much more complex than has been previously acknowledged, especially in the light of the interest of some post-independence African rulers in the colonial conquerors who gave birth to the modern states that they run.
French Language
Authors: Van den Avenne Cécile
Published: September 2020

Two strong linguistic ideologies, which could at first seem to be irreconcilable, inform the French language as an ideological notion: French as a universal language, and French as the language of the nation. Late 19th-century linguistic policy reflects this paradoxical conception as the dissemination of the national language, the medium of the ‘mission civilisatrice’, became the object of political consensus, but locally French was scarcely taught, and its actual presence in the colonies was limited and not aimed at widespread political and cultural assimilation. The overseas exportation of the French language is a legacy of French colonial expansion, but that legacy is shared unequally. Often claimed by African writers as a war booty (‘butin de guerre’, Kateb Yacine), French has become a postcolonial issue and realm of memory.
Catalysing Chemical Correspondence
Authors: Schranz Kristen M.
Published: September 2020

James Watt has already been established as a competent eighteenth-century chemist. His role as a chemical correspondent, however, has not been examined adequately. This chapter argues that through well-timed letters Watt circulated vital knowledge between two contemporary chemists, Joseph Black and James Keir. Two case studies in industrial chemistry—the production of alkali and the separation of plated metals—reveal Watt to be an active letter writer who initiated collaboration between business partners and communicated processes promptly. No mere passive conduit of information, Watt was a confidant who encouraged propriety in the manner of correspondence. He was a lynchpin between Black and Keir when the former was fearful of writing the latter, and he censured ill-timed disclosure of industrial secrets. This chapter concludes that future study of Watt’s epistolary exchanges with other chemists will establish more firmly his mediating role in chemical correspondence in the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters.
James Watt as Musical Organ Maker
Authors: Baker Nina
Published: September 2020

This chapter examines Watt’s work in Glasgow between 1756-1744 when he struggled to make a living from mathematical instruments and also resorted to making and selling musical instruments. He made stringed instruments, including viole da gamba and guitars, plus flutes and organs. There are no complete stringed or wind instruments extant, although tools and parts are held in the London Science Museum. Watt also collaborated with Charles Clagget, an accomplished viol de gamba player and innovator in musical instrument technology, including the first trumpet valves. Watt’s accounts books make clear that he made or repaired barrel, chamber and finger organs and the chapter examines the evidence for these organs including the James Watt Organ in the Glasgow Museums’ Service collection. Its potential links to the great man are considered, to try to uncover the boundaries between myth and reality in regards to the provenance of this instrument.
Écouter les jeunes dans leur rapport au monde pour développer la pensée critique
Authors: Bordet Joëlle
Published: September 2020

Cet article est écrit en référence aux résultats de la recherche-intervention « Écouter les jeunes des quartiers populaires pour renforcer l’esprit critique » et aux travaux actuels de mise en place d’ateliers pour renforcer la pensée critique des jeunes et créer de nouvelles compétences des professionnels. Ce travail collaboratif qui a associé des professionnels de l’intervention éducative auprès des jeunes, des élus et des cadres stratégiques de six municipalités en France a débuté en 2014 lors des premiers départs de jeunes à Daesch. Pour ne pas s’enfermer dans l’approche par le risque de la radicalisation, ce collectif a souhaité écouter les jeunes des quartiers populaires dans leur diversité, dans leur rapport au monde. En référence aux résultats des enquêtes menées auprès de trois cents jeunes et à la diffusion de leurs analyses, nous développons de nouvelles pédagogies pour renforcer la pensée critique. Cet article témoigne de ce travail et souligne des évolutions des jeunes entre seize et vingt-cinq ans dans leur rapport au monde, à la République française, à eux-mêmes, à prendre en compte pour les accompagner au plan éducatif.
Does sous-vide cooking preserve the chemical and volatile composition of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) fedHermetia illucens larvae meal?
Authors: Husein Y. , Bruni L. , Secci G. , Taiti C. , Belghit I. , Lock E.-J. , Parisi G.
Published: September 2020

Physico-chemical characteristics and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of fillets from Atlantic salmon fed diets with two substitution levels of fishmeal by defattedHermetia illucens larvae meal (0 and 100%; H0, H100) were examined as raw and subjected to boiling and sous-vide (SV) cooking methods. H100 diet increased fillet saturated fatty acid content, thus negatively affecting the lipid health indexes. H100 was also associated with high levels of the n-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids. H100 diet led to some modifications in VOC composition. Boiling and SV cooking increased lightness and yellowness indexes along with secondary oxidation products in comparison to the raw fillets. However, no differences were observed for the cooking loss and the nutritional values of the fillets processed with the two cooking methods. SV fillets had higher moisture than the boiled ones, whereas boiled fillets had a higher VOC content. The 100% substitution level and the cooking by boiling or SV guaranteed good characteristics and nutritional values of the salmon fillets.
Arthrodesis by the Distraction-Compression Method Using a Stainless Steel Implant
Authors: Bagby George W
Published: September 2020

ABSTRACT: A new process for arthrodesis in humans is presented. The process has been used successfully in the cervical spine of horses and has potential for human use. The concept is encompassed in the process of an anterior cervical fusion and is an adaptation of that established practice but using an implant of stainless steel containing autogenous bone graft to encourage through-the-implant growth of bone. In the future, it may have use in the human spine and other joints.
How Do Mixed Teaching Teams Influence Learning in IT MOOCs?
Authors: John Catrina Tamara , Meinel Christoph
Published: September 2020

The impact of mixed teaching teams on learning quality and the outcomes of diverse target groups in a massive open online learning context in the workplace is scarcely analyzed. Insights from gender studies on female role models, research on team teaching in computer science as well as digitally supported learning do not transcend these separate areas and are therefore of restricted explanatory power. Accordingly, this session will answer the research question on how male-only and mixed teaching teams influence IT MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in regard to the proportion of female learners, participation in the discussion forum, and success rates. This study will be backed by the learning data gathered in the time of running two courses about blockchain with 14,000 learners on our MOOC platform openHPI with a mixed teaching team and a male teacher. The courses are conducted entirely online and are open and free of charge. All the material provided can be accessed from any device connected to the Internet. As our MOOCs in the enterprise context address not only employees, but also partners, students and other interested (lifelong) learn-ers we will include a closer look at learners’ socio-demographic background, such as career status, highest degree, professional life, and position. Additionally, we statistically analyze accompanying survey data using research methods in social sciences. Finally, our session will highlight and discuss challenges of mixed teaching teams in IT MOOCs and possible solutions to support gender diverse online learners in the workplace.
Voice- and Touch-Controlled Checklists
Authors: Salvetti Fernando , Gardner Roxane , Minehart Rebecca , Bertagni Barbara
Published: September 2020

From day 1 of training, pilots learn to utilize mnemonics, acronyms and aphorisms to remember checks, procedures and practices—and these techniques remain with them throughout their careers. Learning to use such memory aids effectively can help pilots in at least two distinct ways; it frees up working memory during routine operations and directs the mind towards required actions during situations and emergencies. Surgeons, physicians, paramedic personnel, and nurses are often invited to do the same. The amount of information and the level of detail included in checklists are among the most difficult issues to control during the development process of these tools, since there is no universal model of representation regarding iconography, text length, density of information, number of steps, colors, fonts, etc. regarding any of the elements involved in the system. Communication patterns, knowledge visualization strategies and techniques, and the ways to interact with the checklist are other challenging issues
Fuzzy Logic Controller of New Strategy of Biomedical Measurements
Authors: El_Mashade Mohamed Bakry , Abd Elgawad Yahia Zakria , Nasr Tarek Mahmoud
Published: September 2020

Monitoring patient’s condition represents one of the crucial tasks in any biomedical center to ensure the stability of the patient state. Healthcare sector quality demands are exponentially rising. These demands are concerned with designing expert systems for medical diagnosis. Also, the use of fuzzy sets theory in the medical field is to solve some medical problems.  This paper proposes a simple strategy of bio measurements and its behavior through fuzzy logic model. The proposed design is constructed using three different types of data transfer based sensors and microcontroller.The fuzzy logic model is designed and practically tested. The generated results are compared to those of the (Omron RS3 - HEM-6130-E Omron mc-246-e) device from OMRON company. Four hundred people aged between 3 and 72 years old were examined by the proposed system. All results are compared using fuzzy logic model in MATLB. Using statistical analysis, the average data measurements for each sensor in the designed device were recorded; the output results were found to be of close enough (less than 1% error) to the reference readings.The system can be used at home due to its low cost, easy to use, and high accuracy.
Comprehensive Study on Incorporation of Blockchain Technology With IoT Enterprises
Authors: Yadav Ashok Kumar
Published: September 2020

Unprecedented advancement in wireless technology, storage, and computing power of portable devices with the gigabyte speed of internet connectivity enables the possibility of communication among machine to machine. IoT has a different way to connect many nodes simultaneously to store, access, and share the information to improve the quality of life by the elimination of the involvement of human. Irrespective of unlimited benefit, IoT has so many issues that arise to eclipse IoT in reality because of its centralized model. Scalability, reliability, privacy, and security challenges are rising because of the huge numbers of IoT nodes, centralized architecture, and complex networks. Centralized architecture may lead to problems like a single point of failure, single way traffic, huge infrastructure cost, privacy, security, and single source of trust. Therefore, to overcome the issues of the centralized infrastructure of the IoT, the authors diverted to decentralized infrastructure. It may be the best decision in terms of performance, reliability, security, privacy, and trust. Blockchain is an influential latest decentralization technology to decentralize computation, process management, and trust. A combination of blockchain with IoT may have the potential to solve scalability, reliability, privacy, and security issues of IoT. This chapter has an overview of some important consensus algorithms, IoT challenges, integration of the blockchain with IoT, its challenges, and future research issues of a combination of blockchain and IoT are also discussed.
Reliable (Secure, Trusted, and Privacy Preserved) Cross-Blockchain Ecosystems for Developing and Non-Developing Countries
Authors: Keshri Shubham Kumar , Singhal Achintya , Kumar Abhishek , Vengatesan K. , S. Rakesh
Published: September 2020

The chapter suggests an iterative social system in which individuals and totals use a development, watch its arranged and unintended outcomes, and after that, build new improvements. Blockchain development has the potential to construct productivity, capability, straight imposition, and disintermediation in shared worth or information exchange. This chapter proposes how the blockchain will be implemented in developing and non-developing countries. These countries can use the blockchain for financial services, transportation, healthcare, e-marketplace, etc. And what is the risk and danger of using blockchain in non-developed countries?
Blockchain, Cybersecurity, and Industry 4.0
Authors: Bhattacharya Abhishek
Published: September 2020

The world is going digital, and the wave of automation is sweeping across all facets of our corporate and personal lives. Industry 4.0 is all about leveraging IoT (internet of things) devices to facilitate further the process of automation that helps all organisations to rapidly scale by leveraging technology. The amount of data and information generated by the connected things is being harnessed with the help of advanced algorithm empowered analytics to induce intelligence into all the actions undertaken for the functioning of these connected devices. This chapter is geared towards giving a representative outlook on the concepts of blockchain that see a base in the concepts of cybersecurity. Further to that, this chapter explores the very imminent use cases of what we call the Industry 4.0. This includes use cases from remmitance, insurance, governance, internet of things (IoT), and supply chain, including the kinds of challenges we currently face.
Brand Experience in the Internet of Things
Authors: Musiolik Thomas Heinrich
Published: September 2020

The internet of things, as well as data from connected devices and other digital technologies, can facilitate seamless customer service, rapid problem-solving, and the more efficient deployment of skilled resources – they can offer unique and emotional brand experiences. This chapter discusses what experiences are, how the promise of experience is made, how to develop an experience interface (ExI), and why it will be in the future critical to the success of brand experiences in the internet of things.
Integration of Artificial Intelligence Into Austrian Journalism
Authors: Elikci Cigdem
Published: September 2020

This chapter aims to highlight the changes that journalism in Austria should expect. The authors analyse the data collected on Austrians' habits of consuming news through intelligent virtual assistants (IVAs). Furthermore, the importance and potential of the devices run by artificial intelligence (AI), such as IVAs and natural language generation software, are highlighted. The status quo and Austrian journalists' knowledge about IVAs and their predictions about the attitude of citizens towards those devices are outlined. AI in journalism industry is not only discussed as an assistant to ease the workflow of journalists in Austria; it is also represented as a potential threat which creates filter bubbles due to personalized news consumption through IVAs.
Black Joy as Emotional Resistance
Authors: Destine Shaneda L. , Destine Shaina V.
Published: September 2020

This research situates the experiences of two married Black Queer women from working-class backgrounds, who are young academic professionals working in contingent positions in the Midwest during Trump's first year in office. Using a critical collaborative autoethnography, the authors situate their social media posts, reflections, and stories in the broader literature that denotes the challenges of spousal accommodations and diversity positions in corporatized universities for faculty and staff of color. The findings extend the literature by outlining the various ways in which we experience oppression as married Black Queer women in the university, surrounding community, and are burdened with diversity work without systemic intervention and institutional buy-in, in the Midwest. They share their stories to combat the silencing of their struggles and provide a path toward survival under these circumstances. They outline how the use of social media, writing, and creating intentional spaces of Black Joy have aided them as they move through their careers.
Information Processing Model in Consumer Behaviors in Health Communication
Authors: Yegen Ceren
Published: September 2020

In some private television channels in Turkey, herbal cream advertisements for joint diseases are televised. These ads, which are shown for a few minutes on the screens, are generally directed towards the elderly who complain of joint pain and related creams are claimed to be effective in passing many pains irrespective of the variety. In these ads, singers and elderly who complain of joint pain also show up and tell the effects of creams. The advertisements are constructed in a metaphoric language. Therefore, in this study, herbal cream advertisements for joint diseases will be examined through the advertisement of 3,000-year-old Miracle Cream, Miracle Cream of East Medicine, and Miracle Cream, which are televised in the middle of 2017. In this ethnographic study, how the relevant advertisements are coded, organized, and nurtured for the buyers who complain of joint pain will be investigated.
Usability Audit Model for Tourism Destination Websites
Authors: Alba-Muñoz Simón , Rojas-de-Gracia María-Mercedes , Sierra-Herrezuelo Plácido
Published: September 2020

In a globalized world, tourist destinations must have a website containing accurate information for potential tourists. However, there is currently no model that serves as a guide to evaluate the usability of tourism websites. A web usability audit manual is presented in this work with the application of a case study methodology, which combines theoretical contributions with those of a real audit of a tourism institution. Apart from the description of the manual itself, the results of this work have made it possible to identify a series of actions to be taken into account, as well as others that should be avoided when a usability audit is being carried out in the tourism field.
Comparison of Performance of Various Machine Learning Classification Techniques With Ensemble Classifiers for Prediction of Chronic Kidney Disease
Authors: Goel Noopur
Published: September 2020

Chronic kidney disease has become a very prevalent problem worldwide and almost 10% of the population is suffering and millions of people are dying every year because of chronic kidney disease. Numerous machine learning and data mining techniques are applied by many researchers round the world to diagnose the presence of chronic kidney disease, so that the patients of chronic kidney disease may get benefitted in terms of getting proper healthcare follow-up. In this chapter, Experiment 1 is conducted by implementing five different classifiers on the original chronic kidney disease dataset. In Experiment 2, two different ensemble classifiers are implemented combining all five individual classifiers. The Results of both the Experiments 1 and 2 are compared, and it is observed that the accuracy of ensemble classifiers is far better than the accuracy of individual classifiers. It may be concluded that the two experiments conducted in the chapter show the performance of ensemble classifiers is better than the individual classifiers.
Understanding Green Human Resources in Healthcare
Authors: Duncan Terrence , Rahim Emad , Burrell Darrell Norman , Hurd Brian
Published: September 2020

Human resource management plays an integral role in developing capital for the triple bottom line. In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, human resources now shift their focus to advancing communication and connectivity versus focusing purely on technological advances. As the Fourth Industrial Revolution continues, communicating the effectiveness of human resource management and human capital development should be considered as an essential area of interest. As healthcare practitioners continue to provide treatment and care for those in need, human resource managers need to learn green practices to create a more sustainable environment that contributes socially and economically while adhering to the demands of the international stakeholders. As healthcare continues to be either one of the most significant expenditures or needs for numerous countries, consideration in this field provides potential holistic benefits for stakeholders.
Green Selection Practices
Authors: Abiwu Lawrence , Nunoo Grace Nketiaba
Published: September 2020

Presently, the global world is facing numerous social, political, economic, and ecological challenges that require urgent attention and solution through innovative ideas. Among these challenges, ecological has received much interest from scholars and practitioners in recent times. Due to the adverse effects of environmental hazards, most countries and organisations have started to realise the importance of safeguarding the environment. To promote sustainability, many firms have adopted green practices in all their functional areas. Green selection is a process of hiring candidates who have green consciousness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. The review of empirical studies reveals that the green selection process helps organisations to meet their environmental obligations by choosing candidates who have pro-environmental behaviours as well as sufficient knowledge of environmental management.
Working With Parents in Child-Centered Play Therapy
Authors: Brumfield Kristy A.
Published: September 2020

Oftentimes individuals providing counseling for child clients struggle with how to effectively incorporate parents in the process. This is particularly important in Child Centered Play Therapy when the parent or caregiver is not in the room for the intervention. In this chapter, the author addresses the current best practices for supporting parents/caregivers including cultural considerations and issues related to practice settings. Specific resources this clinician offers parents and interventions utilized in the consultation, counseling, and teaching process are reviewed. Finally, the chapter addresses strategies for supporting supervisees in the process of parent and caregiver consultation.
Opportunities and Challenges of Adopting Artificial Intelligence for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Authors: Essien Aniekan , Chukwukelu Godwin , Essien Victor
Published: September 2020

This chapter provides a sense of what artificial intelligence is, its benefits, and integration to higher education. Seeing through the lens of the literature, this chapter will also explore the emergence of artificial intelligence and its attendant use for learning and teaching in higher education institutions. It begins with an overview of artificial intelligence and proceeds to discuss practical applications of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence on the manner in which students learn as well as how higher education institutions teach and develop. The chapter concludes with a discussion on the challenges of artificial intelligence on higher education.
Exploring the Impact of Digital Learning Platforms on Distance Learning Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Albakri Omar Mohamed Ali , Albakri Abubakar
Published: September 2020

Higher education has been shifting to learning management systems (LMS) for decades. Some universities, like the Open University, have managed to gain international recognition by providing undergraduate degrees to students in different countries. However, in moments of emergency and international disruption higher education institutions need to adapt at unprecedented speed. This chapter focuses on the use of technology in moments of extreme internationalised interference. Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a ground for change, students enrolled in presential courses in Spain, Malta, and the United Kingdom were interviewed in order to understand how they are coping with having contact with their academic life exclusively online. The students' impressions, LMS software, and results (assignments and exams) were also discussed. Finally, the chapter analyses the solutions provided by lecturers and students.
Predatory Open Access Journals and Attainment of Educational Sustainable Development Goals in Africa
Authors: Olatokun Wole Michael , Omuinu Ojinga Gideon
Published: September 2020

Putting into consideration the objective of the SDG 4, it would be important to note that the provision, access, and use of information resources such as open access (OA) journals is a sine qua non for quality education in Africa. Despite its importance to the education system, open access journals have been proliferated by predatory journals. Stakeholders in the OA movement and academia claim that predatory publishing is a big problem for scientific communication and could undermine development efforts. Hence, the increasing use of predatory open access journals could affect the attainment of SDGs in Africa; hence, there is the need to raise awareness to enhance the possibility of attaining the SDGs in Africa. This chapter will among others enumerate the possible havocs predatory open access journals can create and the setbacks on the attainment of SDGs in Africa. It will also spell out the necessary prospects of curtailing these havocs and setbacks towards providing quality-based information resources such as open access journals to the education societies in Africa.
Breaking the Walls of Jericho
Authors: Rakemane Donald , Mosweu Olefhile
Published: September 2020

Access to information and knowledge is a fundamental element in an informed and democratic society. Open access (OA) allows users to freely access information and knowledge if they have access to internet. This chapter presents barriers to enhancing OA to information and knowledge with a reference to Africa. The said barriers are akin to the Biblical Walls of Jericho which prevented Israelites from capturing their Promised Land of Canaan. It starts by defining what OA entails, highlights the characteristics of OA and its types. Furthermore, the chapter highlights opportunities brought about by OA to information and knowledge which supports the attainment of sustainable development goals (SDGs). Lastly, the chapter suggest strategies that can be adopted to enhance OA in Africa and thus make it a precursor for the achievement of SDGs. This study is qualitative and used content analysis from available literature to address the research problem.
A Review of Challenges to Attract Public Private Partnership (PPP) Investments to Power Generation Infrastructure In Sri Lanka (SL)
Authors: Fernando S. Nihal
Published: September 2020

Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) is a State Owned Enterprise (SOE) operating in power industry of Sri Lanka being a monopolistic. Long Term Generation Expansion Plan (LTGEP) that prepared by CEB and approved by Public Utility Commission and the Cabinet of Ministers. As per LTGEP capital investments for Generation Infrastructure from 2018 to 2037 had been projected around USD 14,568 million. As per Electricity Act 2009, CEB was vested with responsibility to implement LTGEP to satisfy power requirement of the country. The Government policy decision of sourcing of funds by CEB its own has been implemented from year 2015 and CEB is operating for last several years with negative cash flow mainly due to subsidized tariff structure. The funding agencies have imposed stringent financial covenants into loan agreements. CEB has been challenged to adhere with those financial covenants due to existing mal financial position of CEB. Electricity Act 2009 states any person to generate capacity above and over of 25 MW, shall Government hold 51% of ownership. Sri Lanka by law any investment in power generation above and over 25 MW shall be a Public Private Partnership (PPP). Non implementation of above projects on time will lead to power shortage in the country and accelerates cost of unit of electricity immensely to pay by the public. In this circumstance PPP model has proven that mostly applicable for development of public infrastructure in developed and developing countries. CEB being a monopolistic player in the power industry, is required to pursue PPP for development of power generation infrastructure to assist growth momentum of the country. The challenges pertaining to institution could be addressed within the organization such as effective leadership for trust building and coordination, modification of bureaucratic structure of organization with changing environment to attract private investment. The main challenges have been identified such as state credibility and inconsistent policies .The challenge of social support could be harnessed by CEB with Ceylon Electricity Board Engineers Union (CEBEU) which has become integral arm in collaboration for policy formulation in power sector of Sri Lanka. With the reviewed literature could conclude that state credibility, inconsistent policies and lack of public support had hindered the private investor confidence in power sector in SL.
Impact of Multichannel Brand Trust on Behavioural Intention
Authors: Bandara B.S.S.U. , Jayarathne A.
Published: September 2020

This study examines the relationship between brand trust and behavioral intention in a multiple channel (online/Offline) situation and how it helps in developing relationships with the brand. The study is supported by commitment–trust theory introduced by Morgan and Hunt (1994). A structured questionnaire was distributed among 545 customers who transacts in both offline and online channels the in banking sector. Findings indicate that offline brand trust has a higher impact than online brand trust and the combine effect (multichannel effect - MCBT) has less impact than even both offline and online brand trust on behavioral intention (BI). Furthermore, the relationship commitment partially mediates the relationship between the MCBT and BI. While discussing the impact of MCBT on BI the study proposes that brand managers to carefully reinvestigate brand related strategies to ensure a better service to their customers.
Aurea diagnosis of pneumomediastinum. A case report
Authors: Brugioni Lucio , De Niederhausern Francesca , Gozzi Chiara , Martella Pietro , Romagnoli Elisa , Aramini Beatrice , Bocchi Federica , Solieri Caterina
Published: September 2020

Pericarditis and spontaneous pneumomediastinum are among the pathologies that are in differential diagnoses when a patient describes dorsal irradiated chest pain: if the patient is young, male, and long-limbed, it is necessary to exclude an acute aortic syndrome firstly. We present the case of a young man who arrived at the Emergency Department for chest pain: an echocardiogram performed an immediate diagnosis of pericarditis. However, if the patient had performed a chest X-ray, this would have enabled the observation of pneumomediastinum, allowing a correct diagnosis of pneumomediastinum and treatment. The purpose of this report is to highlight the importance of the diagnostic process.