scholarly journals Diagnostic Citizenship and the Biopolitical Uptake of COVID-19 Detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Dalton Price
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Diagnostic Testing ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Initial Infection ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
Testing Technology ◽  
Biological Citizenship ◽  
The Right

This essay examines an oddity of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic testing—referred to here as a ‘persistent positive’—in which an individual can test positive for COVID-19 for weeks or even months after initial infection despite no longer being symptomatic or contagious. In Florida, where recent legislation requires healthcare workers affected by COVID-19 to have two negative test results before they can return to work, the issue of persistent positives poses a significant challenge for a small sub-group. I identify an important disconnect between the biological and the biopolitical where SARS-CoV-2 test results are mis-inscribed into biopolitics as bureaucratic state legal codes and employment requirements. Using ethnographic evidence, I show how their test results are less important than the state’s interpretation and enactment of these test results. I describe a techno-political phenomenon wherein the technical (in this case diagnostic testing) selectively offers up rights to those recovering from COVID-19. Those with persistent positives performatively engage in testing as a means of navigating the legal codes that deny them the right to work. Testing for them is an attempt to return to a normal life, not to find out whether they are living an abnormal one. A breed of biological citizenship, perhaps a diagnostic citizenship, is formed in which they need a certain result, no matter what that result means biologically, in order to exercise certain rights. These reflections encourage a rethink about the role of testing technology as an instrument of government and biomedical authority more broadly.  

scholarly journals THink: Inferring Cognitive Status from Subtle Behaviors

AI Magazine ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall Davis ◽  
David Libon ◽  
Roda Au ◽  
David Pitman ◽  
Dana Penney
Keyword(s):  
Neuropsychological Testing ◽  
Cognitive Status ◽  
Major Advance ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Clock Drawing Test ◽  
The Past ◽  
Drawing Test ◽  
Testing Technology ◽  
Opening Up

The digital clock drawing test is a fielded application that provides a major advance over existing neuropsychological testing technology. It captures and analyzes high precision information about both outcome and process, opening up the possibility of detecting subtle cognitive impairment even when test results appear superficially normal. We describe the design and development of the test, document the role of AI in its capabilities, and report on its use over the past seven years. We outline its potential implications for earlier detection and treatment of neurological disorders. We set the work in the larger context of the THink project, which is exploring multiple approaches to determining cognitive status through the detection and analysis of subtle behaviors.

16. The right to work

2019 ◽  
pp. 296-311
Author(s):  
Rhona K. M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Equal Work ◽  
The Right ◽  
Conditions Of Work

This chapter examines the right to work in international human rights law. It discusses the right to just and favourable conditions of work and remuneration, and the right to equal pay for equal work. The chapter highlights the role of the International Labour Organization in setting the standard for worker protection, and the contributions of the Social Charters of the Council of Europe in providing evidence of the change in such standards over the years.

scholarly journals Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Adults and Healthcare Workers in Southern Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4761
Author(s):  
Francesco Napolitano ◽  
Gabriella Di Giuseppe ◽  
Maria Vittoria Montemurro ◽  
Anna Maria Molinari ◽  
Giovanna Donnarumma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Member ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
Test Results ◽  
The University ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire ◽  
Test Result

Background: This study was carried out to estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in a Southern Italian population. Methods: The study was performed among students and workers of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” and the relative Teaching Hospital. Participants were invited to undergo a blood sampling, an interview or to complete a self-administered questionnaire. Results: A total of 140 participants (5.8%) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Positive SARS-CoV-2 test results increased significantly during the months of testing, and those who had had at least one symptom among fever, cough, dyspnea, loss of taste or smell and who had had contact with a family member/cohabitant with confirmed COVID-19 were more likely to test positive. Faculty members were less likely to have a positive test result compared to the healthcare workers (HCWs). Among HCWs, physicians showed the lowest rate of seroconversion (5.2%) compared to nurses (8.9%) and other categories (10%). Nurses and other HCWs compared to the physicians, those who had had at least one symptom among fever, cough, dyspnea, loss of taste or smell, and who had had contact with a family member/cohabitant with confirmed COVID-19 were more likely to test positive. Conclusions: The results have demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2 infection is rapidly spreading even in Southern Italy and confirm the substantial role of seroprevalence studies for the assessment of SARS-CoV-2 infection circulation and potential for further spreading.

scholarly journals ANALISIS YURIDIS PERAN PEMERINTAH ACEH DALAM PELATIHAN TENAGA KERJA

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhibuddin M ◽  
Nasrianti N
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

Manpower development contained in the 1945 Constitution Article 27 paragraph (2),    that every citizen has the right to work and a decent living for humanity. The Aceh Government implements Article 174 paragraph (5), and Article 175 paragraph (4) of Law Number 11 Year 2006 concerning the Government of Aceh, therefore issued Qanun Number 7 of 2014 concerning Manpower and the Regulation of the Governor of Aceh Number 112 of 2016 concerning Position, Organizational Structure, Duties, Functions and Work Procedures of the Office of Manpower and Mobility of the Aceh Population. The method used in this study is a normative juridical research method that is qualitative in nature, namely research methods that refer to legal norms contained in legislation. In this study the use is referring to legal sources, namely research that refers to legal norms contained in legal instruments. Conclusion, provisions of Article 175 of Law No. 11 of 2006 concerning the Government of Aceh, that every worker has the same right to get decent work in Aceh. So the role of the Aceh Government in improving the direction of life of its people is very important in employment for the implementation of social justice in labor life.

19. The right to work

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhona K. M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Equal Work ◽  
The Right ◽  
Conditions Of Work

This chapter examines the right to work in international human rights law. It discusses the right to just and favourable conditions of work and remuneration; and the right to equal pay for equal work. The chapter highlights the role of the International Labour Organization in setting the standard for worker protection, and the contributions of the Social Charters of the Council of Europe in providing evidence of the change in such standards over the years.

Sport Does Not Make Man

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-71
Author(s):  
Boban Milenkovic
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Image Of God ◽  
Sports Industry ◽  
New Man ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Image Of God

SummarySyncretism, by which the man is being destroyed, connects the sport and the industry with different philosophical-religious stances toward the world, and it hides behind a mask of progress whose real face is greed – an insatiable wish to own the new world, which is without man and without God, and to create a “new” man. The world of progress is a world of greed which has its own laws, i. e. its ethics, in which a man as a creature which bears the image of God does not fit. It only fits if it is just a lever of this same progressive greed. The man by its nature shows himself through the work, and hence man has the right to work, for man makes work being work, it is not that the work makes man being a man. In such a context the game/sport is in the category of man’s work and the showing (accomplishment) of human God-likeliness and by that the central (man-centered) role of the man concerning the world around him, which is only preparation to accomplish the full theanthropocentricity (having Christ as center) of the whole creation. Sports industry requires the new ethics by its own measures, and by them it shapes the sportsmen as its indispensable, not self-aware parts. Regardless of being wounded by sin, corruptibility and death, by the gift of Lord, each grace-filled synergetic move (hence the game/sports) of the man toward the world is the confirmation of the theanthropocentricity of the creation and Christ-centered nature (theanthropocentricity) of man.

scholarly journals The Role of Hand, Eye, and Ear Lateralization in the Sense of Rhythm of the Athletes

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4a) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Süleyman Erim Erhan ◽  
Zinnur Gerek ◽  
Deniz Bedir
Keyword(s):  
Hand Preference ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Rhythm Perception ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
The Right ◽  
Sports Sciences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Card Test ◽  
Better Than

This study was carried out to investigate the relationship among the hand, eye, and ear lateralizations and the sense of rhythm of the athletes randomly selected from different sport branches.A total of 115 elite athletes including 72 males (62.6%) and 43 females (37.4%) whose mean age was 22.3±2.4 years and who receive training at different departments of the Faculty of Sports Sciences, Ataturk University were included in the study. Hand preference was assessed based on the Geschwind score by applying Edinburgh Inventory test. The dominant eye was tested by the Dolman Method (hole-in-the-card test). Hearing durations were measured using 128 Hz diapason and digital chronometer. The rhythm perception and application skills were assessed considering the rhythmic answers given practically to the rhythm patterns previously prepared by the researcher.As for the handedness of the athletes, 16.5% of them were left-handed (n=19), 7.8% (n=9) were two-handed, and 75.7% (n=87) were right-handed. While 18.3% (n=21) had good hearing durations with left ear, and 13.9% (n=16) had good hearing durations with right ear, 67.8% (n=78) had very close hearing durations with two ears. While left eye of 41.7% (n=48) was dominant, the right eye of 58.3% (n=67) was dominant. According to the rhythm perception and application test results, 46.1% of the athletes were weak (n=53), 30.4% at the midlevel (n=35), 13.9% (n=16) good, and 9.6% (n=11) at very good level.No significant relationship was found between the eye and ear lateralization of the athletes and their rhythm perception and application skills; however, it was found that the sense of rhythm of the left-handed individuals was better than the right-handed ones with respect to the handedness.

Socialist vicissitudes on the right to work in France, 1848–1851

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 572-586
Author(s):  
Thomas Bouchet
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Fourth Republic ◽  
The Right ◽  
Revolution Of 1848

Abstract This article examines the different meanings given to the ‘right to work’ during the French Second Republic (1848–51). Although liberals painted all demands for this right with the same ‘socialist’ brush, denouncing them as vague and dangerously utopian, calls for this right were neither vague nor exclusively socialist. Those espousing the right to work held concrete, if differing, views about what duties it entailed and what its relation was to private property, political rights and the role of the state. This essay examines the views of socialists, non-socialist and labour associations on the right to work, examining how they changed in the course of the Revolution of 1848. As faith waned in the state’s willingness and ability to secure it, so, too, did preoccupations with the right to work, which gave way increasingly to associationalism. The right would not become constitutional until the Fourth Republic.

Flipping the Script in Ohio

2020 ◽  
pp. 60-80
Author(s):  
Marc Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Chamber Of Commerce ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
The Right

This chapter shows how unions effectively flipped the script on right-to-work. Emboldened by the right-to-work victory in highly unionized Indiana in 1957 and the sensational allegations of union corruption emerging from the McClellan Committee in 1958, business leaders pushed ahead on right-to-work even when their more cautious political allies warned against it. Six states put right-to-work on the ballot, right-to-work organizations formed across the Midwest, and the Ohio campaign was the center of it all. Labor succeeded in Ohio due to solid organization and an unusually broad coalition, a development aided by the more active role of the national labor movement in the conflict. The coalition allowed unions to move away from a purely defensive approach to right-to-work and to keep union leaders from becoming the focus as they had in prior campaigns. By contrast, the Ohio Chamber of Commerce struggled to mobilize some of their closest allies.

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