Annie and the Shaman: Exploring Data via Provocative Artifacts

Designed as a “provocative artifact,” the multimedia piece Annie and the Shaman raises questions about how information is collected, archived and employed. The work connects two contexts with notable data histories: Nevada’s aboveground atomic testing and its Basin and Range region. To highlight an empirical engagement with location, audio and visual data from the famous 1953 Annie test was visually integrated into a relevant context on location, rather than composing visuals post hoc. The project proposes onsite data visualizations as a method to encourage researcher and public engagement, especially when original data and process information is included with the exhibit.

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Data Visualizations Break Down Knowledge Barriers in Public Engagement

Civic Media ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9970.003.0013 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Engagement ◽

Knowledge Barriers ◽

Data Visualizations

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A common standard for the evaluation of public engagement with research

Research for All ◽

10.18546/rfa.02.1.13 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 143-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mark S C Reed ◽

Sophie Duncan ◽

Paul Manners ◽

Diana Pound ◽

Lucy Armitage ◽

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Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Public Engagement ◽

Online Survey ◽

Quality Evaluation ◽

Good Practice ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Evaluation Standard ◽

Wide Range ◽

Post Hoc

Despite growing interest in public engagement with research, there are many challenges to evaluating engagement. Evaluation findings are rarely shared or lead to demonstrable improvements in engagement practice. This has led to calls for a common 'evaluation standard' to provide tools and guidance for evaluating public engagement and driving good practice. This paper proposes just such a standard. A conceptual framework summarizes the three main ways in which evaluation can provide judgements about, and enhance the effectiveness of, public engagement with research. A methodological framework is then proposed to operationalize the conceptual framework. The standard is developed via a literature review, semi-structured interviews at Queen Mary University of London and an online survey. It is tested and refined in situ in a large public engagement event and applied post hoc to a range of public engagement impact case studies from the Research Excellence Framework. The goal is to standardize good practice in the evaluation of public engagement, rather than to use standard evaluation methods and indicators, given concerns from interviewees and the literature about the validity of using standard methods or indicators to cover such a wide range of engagement methods, designs, purposes and contexts. Adoption of the proposed standard by funders of public engagement activities could promote more widespread, high-quality evaluation, and facilitate longitudinal studies to draw our lessons for the funding and practice of public engagement across the higher education sector.

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Regional venous–arterial CO2 to arterial–venous O2 content difference ratio in experimental circulatory shock and hypoxia

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental ◽

10.1186/s40635-020-00353-9 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Thiago Domingos Corrêa ◽

Adriano José Pereira ◽

Jukka Takala ◽

Stephan Mathias Jakob

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Experimental Studies ◽

Original Data ◽

Hypoxic Injury ◽

Content Difference ◽

Hemodynamic Variables ◽

Regional Hemodynamics ◽

Independent Association ◽

Post Hoc ◽

Lactate Exchange

Abstract Background Venous–arterial carbon dioxide (CO2) to arterial–venous oxygen (O2) content difference ratio (Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2) > 1 is supposed to be both sensitive and specific for anaerobic metabolism. What regional hemodynamic and metabolic parameters determine the ratio has not been clarified. Objectives To address determinants of systemic and renal, spleen, gut and liver Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2. Methods Post hoc analysis of original data from published experimental studies aimed to address effects of different fluid resuscitation strategies on oxygen transport, lactate metabolism and organ dysfunction in fecal peritonitis and endotoxin infusion, and from animals in cardiac tamponade or hypoxic hypoxia. Systemic and regional hemodynamics, blood flow, lactate uptake, carbon dioxide and oxygen-derived variables were determined. Generalized estimating equations (GEE) were fit to assess contributors to systemic and regional Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2. Results Median (range) of pooled systemic Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2 in 64 pigs was 1.02 (0.02 to 3.84). While parameters reflecting regional lactate exchange were variably associated with the respective regional Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2 ratios, only regional ratios were independently correlated with systemic ratio: renal Cv-aCO2 /Ca-vO2 (β = 0.148, 95% CI 0.062 to 0.234; p = 0.001), spleen Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2 (β = 0.065, 95% CI 0.002 to 0.127; p = 0.042), gut Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2 (β = 0.117, 95% CI 0.025 to 0.209; p = 0.013), liver Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2 (β = − 0.159, 95% CI − 0.297 to − 0.022; p = 0.023), hepatosplanchnic Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2 (β = 0.495, 95% CI 0.205 to 0.786; p = 0.001). Conclusion In a mixed set of animals in different shock forms or during hypoxic injury, hepatosplanchnic Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2 ratio had the strongest independent association with systemic Cv-aCO2/Ca-vO2, while no independent association was demonstrated for lactate or hemodynamic variables.

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Prognosis in Psychiatric Disorders of the Elderly an Attempt to Define Indicators of Early Death and Early Recovery

Journal of Mental Science ◽

10.1192/bjp.102.426.129 ◽

1956 ◽

Vol 102 (426) ◽

pp. 129-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

D. W. K. Kay ◽

Vera Norris ◽

Felix Post

Keyword(s):

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Medical Practitioner ◽

Early Death ◽

The Elderly ◽

Original Data ◽

Response To Treatment ◽

Early Recovery ◽

Treatment Facilities ◽

Post Hoc

Prognosis, the prediction of the outcome of an illness, has long been recognized as a necessary skill of a physician. Hippocrates (translated Chadwick and Mann, 1950) said:“It seems highly desirable that a physician should pay much attention to prognosis. If he is able to tell his patients when he visits them not only about their past and present symptoms, but also to tell them what is going to happen, as well as to fill in the details they have omitted, he will increase his reputation as a medical practitioner … It is impossible to cure all patients: that would be an achievement surpassing in difficulty even the forecasting of future developments … By realizing and announcing beforehand which patients were going to die he would absolve himself from any blame.”In addition to the reasons given by our distinguished forebear we now also require to read into the future so that we can make the best use of the limited facilities available for the sick. This is particularly true for elderly psychiatric patients for whom treatment facilities are still very inadequate. It has been suggested (Cook, Dax and Maclay, 1952) that mentally ill elderly people should by preference be admitted to short-stay units attached to general hospitals for the assessment of prognosis and probable response to treatment. They suggested that a 3-4-months stay might be necessary. Experience in a diagnostic outpatient clinic (Norris and Post, 1954) led one of us (F.P.) to believe that it should be possible to classify patients according to the best method of dealing with them in a shorter time even than the six weeks recommended by the B.M.A. Report (1947). The present study was designed to test this belief. Our hopes were only partly fulfilled, but a post hoc analysis of our original data, in conjunction with the known results of the follow-up of cases, has suggested that with more knowledge of the factors influencing prognosis over a short term, much more accurate forecasts could have been achieved. The second half of this paper is devoted to a discussion of these factors. A preliminary report was given at the Third International Congress of Gerontology (Kay et al., 1954).

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PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND VISUAL DATA: THE POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF DEVELOPING PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igy023.2575 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (suppl_1) ◽

pp. 692-693

Author(s):

W Martin ◽

K Pilcher

Keyword(s):

Public Engagement ◽

Visual Data

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Rotational Characteristics of the Green Solar Corona: 1947-1991

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100025197 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 144 ◽

pp. 139-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

J. Rybák ◽

V. Rušin ◽

M. Rybanský

Keyword(s):

Solar Corona ◽

World Wide ◽

Rotation Period ◽

Original Data ◽

Coronal Emission ◽

Time Intervals ◽

Data Set ◽

The World ◽

Coronal Emission Line ◽

Homogeneous Data

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.

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Production of New and Revised A.A.V.S.O. Charts

International Astronomical Union Colloquium ◽

10.1017/s0252921100073620 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 368

Author(s):

Clinton B. Ford

Keyword(s):

Variable Star ◽

Standard Form ◽

Original Data ◽

University Of Pennsylvania ◽

Standard Format ◽

Additional Information ◽

The Gift ◽

The University

A “new charts program” for the Americal Association of Variable Star Observers was instigated in 1966 via the gift to the Association of the complete variable star observing records, charts, photographs, etc. of the late Prof. Charles P. Olivier of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Adequate material covering about 60 variables, not previously charted by the AAVSO, was included in this original data, and was suitably charted in reproducible standard format.Since 1966, much additional information has been assembled from other sources, three Catalogs have been issued which list the new or revised charts produced, and which specify how copies of same may be obtained. The latest such Catalog is dated June 1978, and lists 670 different charts covering a total of 611 variables none of which was charted in reproducible standard form previous to 1966.

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The Link Between Verbal Short-Term Memory and Anomia Treatment Gains

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ◽

10.1044/2019_ajslp-18-0176 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 1039-1052

Author(s):

Reva M. Zimmerman ◽

JoAnn P. Silkes ◽

Diane L. Kendall ◽

Irene Minkina

Keyword(s):

Short Term Memory ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Treatment Success ◽

Linear Regression Models ◽

Language Performance ◽

Short Term ◽

Term Memory ◽

Treatment Gains ◽

Post Hoc

Purpose A significant relationship between verbal short-term memory (STM) and language performance in people with aphasia has been found across studies. However, very few studies have examined the predictive value of verbal STM in treatment outcomes. This study aims to determine if verbal STM can be used as a predictor of treatment success. Method Retrospective data from 25 people with aphasia in a larger randomized controlled trial of phonomotor treatment were analyzed. Digit and word spans from immediately pretreatment were run in multiple linear regression models to determine whether they predict magnitude of change from pre- to posttreatment and follow-up naming accuracy. Pretreatment, immediately posttreatment, and 3 months posttreatment digit and word span scores were compared to determine if they changed following a novel treatment approach. Results Verbal STM, as measured by digit and word spans, did not predict magnitude of change in naming accuracy from pre- to posttreatment nor from pretreatment to 3 months posttreatment. Furthermore, digit and word spans did not change from pre- to posttreatment or from pretreatment to 3 months posttreatment in the overall analysis. A post hoc analysis revealed that only the less impaired group showed significant changes in word span scores from pretreatment to 3 months posttreatment. Discussion The results suggest that digit and word spans do not predict treatment gains. In a less severe subsample of participants, digit and word span scores can change following phonomotor treatment; however, the overall results suggest that span scores may not change significantly. The implications of these findings are discussed within the broader purview of theoretical and empirical associations between aphasic language and verbal STM processing.

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