Coleridge Walks: Boots and the Measure of the Landscape

Romanticism ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-45
Author(s):  
Ann C. Colley
Keyword(s):  
Essential Components ◽  
Spatial Measurement ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
Spatial Exploration

Shoes and Boots were essential components in Coleridge's spatial exploration of his surroundings. Notebook entries dashed off while he was walking through the countryside between 1794 and 1804 reveal a dynamic perspective of the landscape frequently grounded in his footsteps rather than in the scrutiny and range of the eye. Coleridge's descriptions reveal a perspective that, in addition to observing the fluctuating sights and sounds of his surroundings, paid keen attention to the telling feel of what lay underneath the tread of his soles. Moreover, in the manner of a surveyor, his feet registered the spatial measurement of the landscape. This attentiveness occasioned a lasting preoccupation with the construction and quality of his walking shoes and boots. Coleridge's descriptions of landscape, therefore, are not only bound to the autocracy of the eye but also to the pace and tread of his feet.

QUALITY OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP LEVEL INTERVENTIONS FOR FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS AT THE TERTIARY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL IN UGANDA.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Kiiza Mwesiga ◽  
Noeline Nakasujja ◽  
Lawrence Nankaba ◽  
Juliet Nakku ◽  
Seggane Musisi
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
First Episode Psychosis ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Group Interventions ◽  
Episode Psychosis ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The Individual

Introduction: Individual and group level interventions have the largest effect on outcomes in patients with the first episode of psychosis. The quality of these individual and group level interventions provided to first-episode psychosis patients in Uganda is unclear.Methods: The study was performed at Butabika National Psychiatric Teaching and referral hospital in Uganda. A retrospective chart review of recently discharged adult in-patients with the first episode of psychosis was first performed to determine the proportion of participants who received the different essential components for individual and group level interventions. From the different proportions, the quality of the services across the individual and group interventions was determined using the first-Episode Psychosis Services Fidelity Scale (FEPS-FS). The FEPS-FS assigns a grade of 1-5 on a Likert scale depending on the proportion of patients received the different components of the intervention. Results: The final sample included 156 first-episode psychosis patients. The median age was 27 years [IOR (24-36)] with 55% of participants of the female gender. 13 essential components across the individual and group interventions were assessed and their quality quantified. All 13 essential components had poor quality with the range of scores on the FEPS-FS of 1-3. Only one essential component assessed (use of single antipsychotics) had moderate quality.Discussion: Among current services at the National psychiatric hospital of Uganda, the essential for individual and group level interventions for psychotic disorders are of low quality. Further studies are required on how the quality of these interventions can be improved.

EP.TU.281Mind the Gap: Improving the Quality of Neurosurgical Discharge Summaries

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (Supplement_7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yagmur Esemen ◽  
Micaela Uberti ◽  
Navneet Singh ◽  
Andreas Karamitros
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Discharge Summary ◽  
Ward Round ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Visual Aid ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
Discharge Summaries

Abstract Aims A discharge summary is a permanent record of a patient’s hospital visit and the primary means of handover between care providers. Studies show they often lack precision and omit important information. This may compromise quality and continuity of care yet they are frequently written by the most junior clinicians on a ward with little guidance or formal education on how to write one. The aim of this study was to develop some specific guidelines to improve the quality of discharge summaries in a busy neurosurgical unit. Methods A survey was designed to identify the challenges faced by junior medical staff in writing discharge summaries. The essential components of a good neurosurgical discharge summary were identified by group of senior neurosurgeons. Summaries were retrospectively audited against these components. We then designed a simple visual aid and placed it above computer stations in the junior doctors’ offices. Formal departmental teaching session followed. After three months we re-audited the discharge summaries retrospectively to measure any effect of our intervention. Results Half of the neurosurgical team rated summaries as below expectations. Challenges included poor ward round documentation and a lack of clear expectations regarding structure and essential components. After the intervention, ward round documentation and discharge summary quality improved dramatically. Conclusions Although various recommendations about writing good discharge summaries exist, they are generally vague and not specific to neurosurgical practice. The development of a simple specialty specific discharge summary guide can improve discharge summary quality and should be encouraged in all specialties.

A Graph Based Query Focused Multi-Document Summarization

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Balaji ◽  
T V Geetha ◽  
Ranjani Parthasarathi
Keyword(s):  
Graph Matching ◽  
Spreading Activation ◽  
Redundant Information ◽  
Information Need ◽  
Query Graph ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Multiple Documents ◽  
The Given

A user's information need, normally represented as a search query, can be satisfied by creating a query focused coherent and readable summary, by fusing the relevant parts of information from multiple documents. While aggregating the information from multiple documents, the quality of the summary is improved by eliminating redundant information from the document set. In this paper, we focus on removing such redundant information and identifying the essential components from multiple documents (represented as a single global semantic graph), with respect to the given query (represented as a query graph). While the redundancy elimination is carried out using various levels of graph matching which are then indicated through canonical labeling of graphs, the selection of essential components for a query focused summary is performed, through the modified spreading activation theory, where the query graph is also integrated during the spreading activation over the global graph. The proposed system shows significant improvements in generating summaries when compared to other existing summarization systems.

scholarly journals Interrogating Vitality of the Streets in two Cypriot Towns

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
Siavash Jalaladdini ◽  
Derya Oktay
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
North Cyprus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Quality Of Urban Life ◽  
International Publishing

This paper focuses on the issue of vitality in urban public spaces, streets in particular, as a major indicator of their success and as one of the determinants of livable cities. The study first provides a theoretical framework for understanding the social value and role of urban public spaces in quality of urban life. Second, it discusses essential components of vitality in streets. Finally, it investigates vitality and its determinants in two main streets in Famagusta and Kyrenia, in North Cyprus. The paper highlights some issues such as proper connection and proximity to important magnets, along with physical and social attributes in the street area. Keywords: Urban public spaces, Major streets, Vitality, North Cyprus eISSN 2514-751X © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

scholarly journals Moving pictures: Reassessing docking experiments with a dynamic view of protein interfaces

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Prévost ◽  
Sophie Sacquin-Mora
Keyword(s):  
Protein Interactions ◽  
Protein Interface ◽  
Protein Interfaces ◽  
Reference Protein ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Dynamic Quality

The modeling of protein assemblies on the atomic level remains a central issue in structural biology, as protein interactions play a key role in numerous cellular processes. This problem is traditionally addressed using docking tools, where the quality of the models that are produced is based on their similarity to a single reference experimental structure. However, this approach using a static reference does not take into account the dynamic quality of the protein interface. Here, we used all-atom classical Molecular Dynamics simulations to investigate the stability of the interface for three complexes that previously served as targets in the CAPRI competition, and for each one of these targets, ten models distributed over the High, Medium and Acceptable categories. To assess the quality of these models from a dynamic perspective, we set up new criteria which take into account the stability of the reference protein interface. We show that, when the protein interfaces are allowed to evolve along time, the original ranking based on the static CAPRI criteria no longer holds as over 50% of the docking models undergo a category change (either toward a better or a lower group) when reassessing their quality using dynamic information.

scholarly journals An Application for Measuring and Analyzing the Level of Performance Accuracy for Health Services Quality Indicators by Using Six-Sigma: A Study Case of Government Hospitals in Khartoum State

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Amal Hassan Mohammed Yassin ◽  
Najla Elzein Abukassawi Osman ◽  
Wiem Abedelmonem Ben Khalifa ◽  
Eltahir Nouh Mohammed Adam
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Six Sigma ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Quality Control Program ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Government Hospitals ◽  
Six Sigma Methodology

The study aimed at acknowledging the Six Sigma methodology and the existence of the essential components for the application, as well as reducing the time for completing the operations, reducing the error rate to the lowest possible level, and improving the quality of operations. For this objective, the analytical descriptive methodology was used on a sample consisted of 300 administrative and medical staff from Khartoum State Hospitals (Khartoum, Omdurman, Bahri). To this end, a questionnaire was used for collecting data and for analyzing it and achieving the results of the study by using the statistical analysis package (SPSS). The study deduced a number of results, the most important of which are that the items of commitment and supreme command support for the senior leadership and the methods of abundant human resources on quality control, and the application of the Six Sigma methodology in government hospitals in Khartoum state achieved a satisfactory level, while continuous improvement paragraphs, processes, and systems on quality control and the application of Six Sigma methodology achieved high quality. There is a significant effect on the extent of commitment and support of the higher leadership on quality control and the application of the Six Sigma methodology. Similarly, there is a statistically significant effect on the application of continuous improvement methods on quality control and Six Sigma methodology. Also, there is a statistically significant effect on the application of the abundance of human resources methods variable on quality control and the application of Six Sigma methodology in governmental hospitals in Khartoum state. The study recommended to take interest in the Six Sigma methodology and assure the possibility of using it in Khartoum State’s hospitals because of its scientific and practical importance in improving the quality of services and provided processes, and the need to provide qualified financial and human resources for using and developing Six Sigma methodology in hospitals, as well as great attention in training and providing departments heads with full knowledge of Six Sigma methodology and the fundamentals on which Six Sigma methodology, is based on its importance for hospitals. The study also recommended associating the promotions system in government hospitals in Khartoum state with the quality control program.

scholarly journals Working for an entrepreneur: heaven or hell?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Nyström
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Labor Mobility ◽  
Survival Rates ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firm ◽  
Dynamic Perspective ◽  
Pros And Cons

Abstract Recruiting employees to an entrepreneurial venture is a challenging task. From the employee’s perspective, accepting a position in an entrepreneurial venture potentially implies considerable uncertainty. This paper provide a literature review and identifies research gaps related to labor mobility of employees into and out of entrepreneurial firms. Who works for an entrepreneur? What are the conditions under which the employees of entrepreneurial firms work? Additionally, labor mobility after an employee works for an entrepreneurial firm is discussed. In conclusion, the quality of the jobs generated by entrepreneurial firms may be questionable (and still relatively unexplored in empirical research), but they are nevertheless important from a labor dynamic perspective. Better understanding about motives to work for an entrepreneur, issues related to job security beyond survival rates, and job quality may contribute to ease the recruitment problems that many entrepreneurial firms struggle with. Furthermore, the relevance and potential pros and cons of working for an entrepreneurial firm in future career paths (entrepreneur or employee) need to be carefully addressed in future research.

The “ETA” Indices in QSAR/QSPR/QSTR Research

2015 ◽  
pp. 48-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunal Roy ◽  
Rudra Narayan Das
Keyword(s):  
Predictive Modeling ◽  
Chemical Information ◽  
Qsar Analysis ◽  
Mathematical Correlation ◽  
Correlation Models ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Toxicity Relationship

Descriptors are one of the most essential components of predictive Quantitative Structure-Activity/Property/Toxicity Relationship (QSAR/QSPR/QSTR) modeling analysis, as they encode chemical information of molecules in the form of quantitative numbers, which are used to develop mathematical correlation models. The quality of a predictive model not only depends on good modeling statistics, but also on the extraction of chemical features. A significant amount of research since the beginning of QSAR analysis paradigm has led to the introduction of a large number of predictor variables or descriptors. The Extended Topochemical Atom (ETA) indices, developed by the authors' group, successfully address the aspects of molecular topology, electronic information, and different types of bonded interactions, and have been extensively employed for the modeling of different types of activity/property and toxicity endpoints. This chapter provides explicit information regarding the basis, algorithm, and applicability of the ETA indices for a predictive modeling paradigm.

The Comparative Method

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-200
Author(s):  
Uwe Kischel
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Functional Method ◽  
Individual Comparison ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Classic Form ◽  
Straightforward Approach

This chapter examines the methods used in comparative law. Today, functional comparison is considered the classic form of comparative law. The vast majority of comparative studies follow this method and the quality of any given comparative law study is often judged according to its principles. According to Zweigert and Kötz, the fundamental principle of comparative law is functionalism, according to which only law which fulfills the same function can be compared. At its core, this straightforward approach provides an exemplary description of the essential components of any individual comparison between two developed legal systems. However, attacks on the functional method has been increasing for decades. The chapter then describes these critiques and the alternatives they propose.

Quality Assessment of Clinical Ethics Consultation. Reflection on the Applicability of the Ethics Consultation Quality Assessment Tool

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 134-134
Author(s):  
Stephan Nadolny ◽  
◽  
Andre Nowak ◽  
Nicolas Heirich ◽  
Jan Schildmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Clinical Ethics ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Ethics Consultation ◽  
Process Quality ◽  
Ethical Analysis ◽  
Clinical Ethics Consultation ◽  
Quality Assessment Tool ◽  
Essential Components

"Background. Clinical ethics consultation has been implemented in many health care institutions. Different methods exist for their evaluation. In this paper we present findings from an evaluation of 21 documentation conducted 2019-2020 by means of the Ethics Consultation Quality Assessment Tool (ECQAT). The applicability of the instrument was analyzed based on a) duration of use, b) ease of use, c) comprehensibility of the items. Results. On average, the analysis with the ECQAT takes 11 minutes per protocol. The greatest difficulties in applying the ECQAT arise a) in assessing the counselling-related information and b) in assessing the ethical analysis as well as the recommendations. Here, different demands on the level of detail of the information may lead to different assessments. Furthermore, the transitions of the ethical analysis and the recommendations, which are relevant for the assessment, could not be delimited exactly in parts of the protocols. Discussion. The assessment of documentation represents a limited part of the quality of ethics consultation. In particular, the quality dimensions of the EQAT do not map communicative elements of process quality, which are essential components (if not the core) of ethics consultations. Moreover, the assessment is strongly depending on the format of the protocols, which, depending on the institution, range from a brief overview of the results to a detailed account. Even in light of aforementioned limitations the ECQAT provides an incentive to improve the process quality of (documented) ethics consultation. "

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