Handling Uncertainty

Diagnosis ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 64-86
Author(s):  
Ashley Graham Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Diagnostic Reasoning ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Testing Methods ◽  
Treatment Protocols ◽  
Diagnostic Uncertainty ◽  
Diagnostic Practice ◽  
Do So

Medical practice—from testing methods to diagnostic reasoning, treatment protocols, and prognostic evaluations—is often both complex and uncertain. Via an examination of three case studies, this chapter demonstrates that effective management of diagnostic uncertainty must begin with an ability to recognize and acknowledge it in routine cases in the clinical setting. However, even when diagnostic uncertainty is recognized, this alone is not enough for effective diagnostic practice: Once it is recognized, it must then also be clearly communicated to the patient. If these steps are taken in routine cases, then it will become automatic to do so in even the most complex situations, and diagnostic practice will be the better for it.

scholarly journals A MODEL OF CREATIVE HERITAGE FOR INDUSTRY: DESIGNING NEW RULES WHILE PRESERVING THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF RULES

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 141-150
Author(s):  
Honorine Harlé ◽  
Pascal Le Masson ◽  
Benoit Weil
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Present System ◽  
Innovative Capability ◽  
Current Change ◽  
A Site ◽  
Do So

AbstractIn industry, there is at once a strong need for innovation and a need to preserve the existing system of production. Thus, although the literature insists on the necessity of the current change toward Industry 4.0, how to implement it remains problematic because the preservation of the factory is at stake. Moreover, the question of the evolution of the system depends on its innovative capability, but it is difficult to understand how a new rule can be designed and implemented in a factory. This tension between preservation and innovation is often explained in the literature as a process of creative destruction. Looking at the problem from another perspective, this article models the factory as a site of creative heritage, enabling creation within tradition, i.e., creating new rules while preserving the system of rules. Two case studies are presented to illustrate the model. The paper shows that design in the factory relies on the ability to validate solutions. To do so, the design process can explore and give new meaning to the existing rules. The role of innovation management is to choose the degree of revision of the rules and to make it possible.

scholarly journals AN INSIGHT INTO AYURVEDIC VIEW OF SARS -COVID – 19

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 3925-3929
Author(s):  
Sreelakshmi S ◽  
Varghese Jibi ◽  
Manna Mathew ◽  
Priyanka Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Treatment Protocols ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Insight Into

The Covid - 19 pandemic is defining the global health crisis of our time and occurs to be the greatest chal-lenge. The number of people getting affected and deaths are raising daily throughout the world. COVID-19 is the infectious disease caused by the most recently discovered Corona virus. The situation is much more than a health crisis with a potential to create devastating situations at social, economic, and political levels. Till date, no effective management to address this infection has been identified and attempts are being made to integrate a few traditional interventions along with standard treatment protocols of COVID-19. Ayurveda’s extensive knowledge is based on preventive care, health measures and boosting immunity. Contribution of Ayurveda in the management of various communicable and non-communicable diseases cannot be undermined. Through its wider concepts and treatment modalities, it has greater potential to ad-dress such situations. Awareness about the mode of spread of this disease is recommended highly to pre-vent oneself from falling prey to the disease. The large resource of time-tested traditional knowledge has to be used for the benefit of mankind. In addition to the personal hygiene and social distancing measures, it is of immense importance to improve individual’s natural defence system (immunity). Ayurveda can play a major role in mitigating the spread of COVID -19 by implementing some lifestyle changes along with sim-ple herbal medications and procedures by properly classifying and distinguishing the stage of the disease.

Carbon Pricing Lessons

2018 ◽  
pp. 185-204
Author(s):  
Barry G. Rabe
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Carbon Price ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Carbon Pricing ◽  
Energy Taxation ◽  
Do So

This chapter attempts to distil key lessons from recent decades of experience with carbon pricing. It notes that American emissions have actually dropped despite the lack of national carbon pricing and that future attempts to develop carbon pricing need to draw directly from past experience. This includes careful attention to building political constituencies, developing effective management systems, and setting politically realistic goals. The chapter also explores other forms of energy taxation that might serve to impose a carbon price but do so at the point of extracting fossil fuels from below the surface of the ground. Nearly all states that produce oil and gas impose severance taxes and they generally retain broad political support across partisan lines.

Why Quality? Why Value? Is it Information Related to These Aspects?

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Leal Jamil
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Conceptual Base ◽  
Initial Approach ◽  
Final Goal ◽  
Quality Value ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Do So ◽  
Changing World

Writing about information quality and value will always be challenging: how does one combine such concepts, so classically applied, debated, defined, and also related to a dynamic, fast-changing world? In this chapter, a first call for the study developed along this book is made. An initial approach about quality, value, and information is conducted in order to show the already defined conceptual bases and the possible relationship among them. Along with this discussion based on traditional approaches, a discussion is introduced motivating the reader to think about how this concept and its relationship perform today. It is the “rethinking” of the conceptual base, which is the final goal of this book that is initially provoked in the present chapter. To do so, first the traditional concept view is approached and some of the criticism and motivations to change its understanding is presented. In the end, with case studies, this new relationship is debated, opening the book development of the desired rethinking process.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
M.I. Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
Music Journalism ◽  
Music And Politics ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Musical Knowledge ◽  
Do So

This chapter presents the disciplinary debates and terms of reference informing this exploration of music making in which sampling practices play a fundamental role. It maps out the theoretical and methodological terrain that informs the “close listening” approach to analyzing these works in light of a burgeoning interest from across the spectrum of academic research and music journalism in the interrelationship between music and politics—however these two domains may be defined. Developing earlier work addressing debates about when, and how music and politics may mutually inform one another, this chapter presents the socio-musicological and interdisciplinary approach to examining how this relationship “sounds” in five case studies. The objective is to provide a more refined conceptual lexicon and analytical framework so that reader-listeners can listen to, and so “hear” the respective ‘musicking politics” at stake in each case, and do so in ways that go beyond focusing on lyrical content alone or requiring an advanced level of musical knowledge. This opening chapter and the conclusion (Chapter 7) work together in either direction.

Conservation Canines

Animal Labour ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 65-88
Author(s):  
Renée D’Souza ◽  
Alice Hovorka ◽  
Lee Niel
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Control Agency ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Good For ◽  
Environmental Work ◽  
Do So

For centuries, dogs have played a key role in the lives of humans both as companions as well as working animals. In recent years, the value of dogs in environmental work has been documented in the literature—namely their ability to detect targets more efficiently than humans and equipment. However, the environmental work dogs perform in Canada has been largely understudied in terms of both the specific tasks they are responsible for, as well as their welfare within these roles. This chapter addresses those gaps through an exploration of whether conservation canines could be an example of a humane job—one that is good for people, animals, and the environment. To do so this chapter explores tangible and moral issues related to dogs’ enjoyment of and suffering within conservation work, highlighting the complexity of dogs’ work-lives related to issues of freedom and consent. Findings are presented from two main case studies: Alberta and Ontario. An ethogram was used to assess dog welfare, while semi-structured interviews and participant observations revealed further insights into dogs’ work and work-lives. Ultimately, this chapter offers a discussion regarding how the study’s findings might inform assessment of humane jobs and work-lives, offering enjoyment, control, agency, respect, and recognition for dogs in this sector and for possibilities of fostering interspecies solidarity in other areas.

Introduction

Diagnosis ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ashley Graham Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Clinical Setting ◽  
Philosophy Of Medicine ◽  
Diagnostic Testing ◽  
Diagnostic Reasoning ◽  
Philosophical Analysis ◽  
Practice Of Medicine

Philosophers have been writing about the practice of medicine for some time, but relatively little has been written about the practice of clinical diagnosis or the issues of evidence, ethics, and justice involved in this process. This introduction sets the stage for the philosophical analysis that takes place in the rest of the book, which combines methods of current philosophy of science and philosophy of medicine to address both issues in diagnostic reasoning and diagnostic testing in the clinical setting.

Rooted Men

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Sallaz
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Call Center ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Language Fluency ◽  
English Language Fluency ◽  
Do So ◽  
Male Workers

Straight Filipino men are underrepresented (at approximately 15%) in the call center labor force. Gendered norms about Filipino masculinity, this chapter argues, have established English-language fluency as a feminine, or even gay, trait. “Real men,” so to speak, work with their hands and bodies rather than with their voices. Still, many Filipino men do pursue and obtain call center jobs. They do so as means by which to establish roots in the Philippines rather than migrate abroad. To work in the industry, however, straight men must be able to deflect various challenges to their masculinity. Case studies of male workers are used to illustrate this dynamic.

The Monologic Imagination

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Mikhail Bakhtin ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Design ◽  
Do So

The pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently “dialogical.” No speaker speaks alone because our words are always partly shaped by our interactions with others, past and future. Moreover, we never fashion ourselves entirely by ourselves but always do so in concert with others. Bakhtin thus decisively reshaped modern understandings of language and subjectivity. And yet, the contributors to this volume argue that something is potentially overlooked with too close a focus on dialogism: many speakers, especially in charged political and religious contexts, work energetically at crafting monologues, single-voiced statements to which the only expected response is agreement or faithful replication. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from the United States, Iran, Cuba, Indonesia, Algeria, and Papua New Guinea, the authors argue that a focus on “the monologic imagination” gives us new insights into languages’ political design and religious force, and deepens our understandings of the necessary interplay between monological and dialogical tendencies.

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