scholarly journals Medicine is a data science, we should teach like it

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy D'Agostino McGowan ◽  
Jeffrey T Leek
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Nature Medicine ◽  
Uncertain Data ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Accurate Diagnosis ◽  
Pressure Measurements ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Plos Medicine

Medicine has always been a data science. Collecting and interpreting data is a key component of every interaction between physicians and patients. Data can be anything from blood pressure measurements at a yearly exam to complex radiology images interpreted by experts or algorithms. Interpreting these uncertain data for accurate diagnosis, management, and care is a critical component of every physician’s daily life. The intimate relationship between data science and medicine is apparent in the pages of our most prominent medical journals. Using Pubmed, we pulled the abstracts of all papers published in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Nature Medicine, The Lancet, PLoS Medicine, and BMJ for the years 2010 - March 2019. We then searched for a list of statistical terms in the text of these abstracts. For these 12,281 abstracts a median of 50% (IQR 30%, 67%) of sentences contained a term that would require statistical training to understand.

A importância da implantação de medidas de prevenção das infecções sexualmente transmissíveis em mulheres idosas

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Sendrete de Carvalho Oliveira Leite ◽  
Maria Letícia Carvalho da Cruz Ramos ◽  
Georgia Maciel da Silva Brito
Keyword(s):  
England Journal ◽  
New England ◽  
Nature Medicine ◽  
Health Organization

Introdução: Com a mudança da pirâmide etária brasileira e o aumento da expectativa de vida, assuntos referentes à saúde da pessoa idosa ganham maior destaque e necessidade de serem abordados por seu impacto na Saúde Pública. Estudos epidemiológicos demonstram aumento nas taxas de infecções sexualmente transmissíveis (IST) em pessoas acima dos 50 anos na América do Norte. No Brasil não existem dados com amplitude nacional sobre o assunto, porém observa-se aumento significativo dessas taxas em estudos locais, particularmente das taxas de prevalência do vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) em mulheres acima dos 60 anos de idade. Objetivo: Analisar a importância da implantação de medidas de prevenção das infecções sexualmente transmissíveis em mulheres idosas. Métodos: Artigo de revisão bibliográfica realizada por meio de um levantamento na literatura utilizando as plataformas: PubMed, Nature, Science, Word Health Organization, The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature medicine. As palavras-chave utilizadas foram: infecções sexualmente transmissíveis, pessoa idosa e mulheres. Foram incluídos artigos nacionais e internacionais publicados no período de 2017 a 2021, cujo título e conteúdo se adequaram à temática estudada. Foram excluídos os artigos que não correspondiam à temática abordada, teses, monografias, dissertações, livros ou artigos que não tratavam da temática de forma satisfatória. Resultados: Os dados referentes às IST em mulheres idosas no Brasil são escassos, mas achados locais de incidência aumentada de HIV em mulheres acima de 60 anos são extremamente relevantes para o estudo em questão. Foram encontrados diversos elementos relacionados ao aumento das taxas de IST em idosas, entre os quais merecem destaque a falta de conhecimento sobre as formas de transmissão e prevenção das IST e a dificuldade de reconhecimento das idosas como sexualmente ativas pela sociedade e pelos profissionais de saúde, bem como o próprio contexto sexual mais rígido que foi imposto a essas pacientes. Alguns estudos atribuíram a inexistência de medidas de prevenção específicas como determinantes no aumento das taxas de transmissão de IST em mulheres idosas. Conclusão: Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar a importância da implantação de medidas de prevenção de IST em mulheres idosas. Diante da condição epidemiológica de aumento das IST nesse grupo e de os elementos relacionados a esse aumento estarem intimamente ligados a vulnerabilidades dessas pacientes, medidas de prevenção específicas para esse grupo etário fazem-se necessárias para propiciar um envelhecimento saudável com sexualidade ativa e segura. Em virtude da escassez de dados amplos sobre a problemática, mais estudos são necessários para aprofundar os conhecimentos sobre o assunto e propiciar medidas de combate, diagnóstico e tratamento das IST em mulheres idosas.

scholarly journals An Optimal Multilevel Encryption Technique for Securing the Data Transmission in IoT

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1239-1242
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Elliptic Curve ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Elliptic Curve Cryptography ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Secret Message ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Iot Applications ◽  
Iot Devices

Internet of Things(IoT) is playing a pivotal role in our daily life as well as in various fields like Health, agriculture, industries etc. In the go, the data in the various IoT applications will be easily available to the physical dominion and thus the process of ensuringthe security of the data will be a major concern. For the extensive implementation of the numerous applications of IoT , the data security is a critical component. In our work, we have developed an encryption technique to secure the data of IoT. With the help of Merkle-Hellman encryption the data collected from the various IoT devices are first of all encrypted and then the secret message is generated with the help of Elliptic Curve Cryptography.

Introduction

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Nathaniel Hawthorne ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Daily Temperature ◽  
General Belief ◽  
The Past ◽  
Winter Cold ◽  
The Impact

IN THE MID-1830s, the young Nathaniel Hawthorne sat reading "what once were newspapers"—a bound volume of New England gazettes ninety-odd years old. Comparing the daily life that they portrayed with his own, Hawthorne was struck by how different and how much more severe the weather appeared to have been in the past. "The cold was more piercing then, and lingered farther into the spring," he decided; "our fathers bore the brunt of more raging and pitiless elements than we"; "winter rushed upon them with fiercer storms than now—blocking up the narrow forest-paths, and overwhelming the roads. 1 He was not alone in thinking so. Another resident of Salem, Dr. Edward Holyoke, had been of the same opinion. In his later years, the doctor spoke as the classic authority on the weather, the Oldest Inhabitant. Born in 1728, he lived until 1829, the full span of the century that Hawthorne judged mostly at secondhand, and he had kept a daily temperature log for the better part of it. A newspaper in 1824 reported a general belief that the seasons were "more lamb-like" than in earlier times. An English visitor a few years later was frequently told that the climate was moderating. Cold and snowstorms had grown less intense and less frequent: such had been, wrote John Chipman Gray in the 1850s, "and is perhaps still a prevailing impression among the inhabitants of New-England." All the same, that impression of the century gone by was wrong. Gray, who maintained that the winters had not changed, also tried to explain why intelligent observers could have supposed that they had. On one point, he granted, they were correct. Certainly the effects of the weather were not what they had once been. But there was no evidence that a shift in the weather was responsible. Holyoke's own records, analyzed after his death, did not bear out his belief that winter cold and storms had weakened in his lifetime. As Gray pointed out, if the impact of weather on New Englanders had changed, it was because New England society had changed.

scholarly journals Science and data science

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (33) ◽  
pp. 8689-8692 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Blei ◽  
Padhraic Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Effective Combination ◽  
Three Components

Data science has attracted a lot of attention, promising to turn vast amounts of data into useful predictions and insights. In this article, we ask why scientists should care about data science. To answer, we discuss data science from three perspectives: statistical, computational, and human. Although each of the three is a critical component of data science, we argue that the effective combination of all three components is the essence of what data science is about.

scholarly journals Visualizing the Esophagus During Modified Barium Swallow Studies: A Systematic Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Erin L. Reedy ◽  
Teri Lynn Herbert ◽  
Heather Shaw Bonilha
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Accurate Diagnosis ◽  
Barium Swallow ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Insufficient Evidence ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
Modified Barium Swallow

Purpose Despite the emphasis on using evidence-based practice for patient care, as clinicians, we sometimes find that there is insufficient evidence to support our clinical practices. One example of this is the “contentious” inclusion of routine, standardized visualization of the esophagus during modified barium swallow studies (MBSSs). This review sought to investigate the evidence for inclusion of routine esophageal visualization during the MBSS, a practice that is supported by the long-established interrelationship between all aspects of the oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal swallowing continuum. Method Searches were conducted in PubMed, Scopus, and CINAHL databases. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines were followed to identify articles that met prespecified inclusion and exclusion terms. Results Five articles were included in this review, which identified that esophageal findings were present in 48.67% of those participants whose MBSS included esophageal visualization. Conclusion This review supports a standardized, validated, reliable visualization protocol of the esophagus during the MBSS as a critical component to the accurate diagnosis and formulation of treatment recommendations for patients with swallowing disorders.

The Challenges of Teaching and Learning Software Programming to Novice Students

2018 ◽  
pp. 7392-7398
Author(s):  
Seyed Reza Shahamiri
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Software Defined Networks ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Learning Software ◽  
Novice Students ◽  
Near Future

As software applications play a vital role in our daily life, there is a need to have more skilled programmers to create such software products. There are various emerging disciplines like Internet of Things, driver-less cars, Data Science, Software Defined Networks, etc. that demand more programmers in the near future hence a more promising carrier for software developers is expected. Nevertheless, we have seen a low success rate in programming classes where some students lose interest to learn the required skills as they find programming a software a very challenging task; it has been reported that the fail rate of first programming papers in university computer science programmes can be up to 60 percent. This chapter looks at some of the issues in regards to teaching and learning software programming and the nature of programming that may negatively influence the students' attention. Remedies to tackle the issues are also provided emphasizing on blended delivery using the technologies to facilitate the learning.

Daily Life in Colonial New England

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 532
Author(s):  
David T. Courtwright ◽  
Claudia Durst Johnson ◽  
Edward G. Gray
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Colonial New England

scholarly journals ação de desenhar na infância como iniciação aos segredos do mundo

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (36) ◽  
pp. 01-27
Author(s):  
Sandra Regina simonis Richter ◽  
Márcia Vilma Murillo
Keyword(s):  
Daily Life ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
The Body ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Vital Function ◽  
Gaston Bachelard ◽  
Educational Thought ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Imagination ◽  
The Aesthetic

In order to highlight the intimate relationship between imagining, drawing and making worlds, this essay questions the educational meaning of children to initiate in the action of drawing in face of the growing cultural tendency of the body being less and less required to produce senses. The incarnated action of drawing, as an aesthetic action of touching and being touched by the world when transposing the visible limits and entering into the intimacy of worldly invisibility, constitutes an experience that is as recurrent and trivialized in school daily life as it is existentially complex due to its poetic power to enter the invisible and inaugurate worldviews. The historical disqualification of the image and imagination in Western thought, supported by the separation between subjectivity of the body and objectivity of the world, does not allow educational thought to consider the phenomenon of poetic imagination as an existential experience of language insertion in the world from the gesture of drawing. Gesture that finds its specificity in the instant the hand traces and inscribes lines on the surface of the supports as infinitely creative writing. The aesthetic gesture of drawing, temporalized by the rhythm of the body in the emergence of the fabulation that accompanies the repetition of the marks, implies a poetic experience of language that involves the fusion of two senses: that of the gesture in materiality and that of the mark configured in it, marked and cicatrized in the surface of the support by the body’s action that performed it. The approximation between education, arts and childhood allows us to highlight the philosophical and pedagogical tensions that involve the question of poetic imagination and to take another look at the action of drawing in the context of children's education. What emerges, from the dialogue between Gaston Bachelard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy, is the relevance of the educational intention of caring for the vital function of language as an aesthetic and poetic experience that is constituted in the processuality of the body to make something appear that produces and contains presence, that which promotes and expands the existential density of the real.

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