scholarly journals A Tribute to Dr. Christopher G. Wood, MD

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-105
Author(s):  
Nizar Tannir
Keyword(s):  
Common Purpose

Tributes to individuals who have passed away share one common purpose: to help us heal. We find comfort by sharing the legacies of the loved ones we’ve lost. Today we pay tribute to Dr. Christopher G. Wood, Professor of Urology.

A general practice provider federation in a mixed health economy in England: a case study investigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. bjgp18X696929
Author(s):  
Jill Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Health Economy ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The North ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Collaborative Working ◽  
The Impact

BackgroundThere is an emerging debate that general practice in its current format is out-dated and there is a requirement to move to a federated model of provision where groups of Practices come together. The emergence of federations has developed over the past 5 years but the factors that influence how federations develop and the impact of this new model is an under researched area.AimThe study explored the rationale around why a group of independent GP practices opted to pursue an alternative business venture and the benefits that this strategy offered.MethodA single organisational case study of a federation in the North of England was conducted between 2011–2016. Mixed methods data collection included individual and group semi-structured interviews and quantitative surveys.ResultsFederations promote collaborative working, relying on strategic coherence of multiple individual GP practices through a shared vision and common purpose. Findings revealed many complexities in implementing a common strategy across multiple independent businesses. The ability of the federation to gain legitimacy was two dimensional – externally and internally. The venture had mixed successes, but their approach to quality improvement proved innovative and demonstrated outcomes on a population basis. The study identified significant pressures that practices were experiencing and the need to seek alternative ways of working but there was no shared vision or inclination to relinquish individual practice autonomy.ConclusionOrganisational development support is critical to reform General Practice. Whether central funding through the GP Five Year Forward View will achieve the scale of change required is yet to be evidenced.

Systemic Hybridity in the Mediation of the American Presidential Campaign

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
Data Gathering ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
Electoral Outcomes ◽  
Media System ◽  
Common Purpose

Chapter 7 continues the revisionist approach of chapter 6, but paints the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign on a broader canvas. Through a detailed analysis of key episodes in the mediation of the campaign, the chapter shows how the real-space spectacles of candidate appearances continue to generate the important television, radio, and newspaper coverage that remains so crucial for projecting the power of a candidate and conveying enthusiasm, movement, authenticity, and common purpose to both activists and nonactivists alike. The chapter discusses how these television-fuelled spectacles now also integrate with newer media logics of data-gathering, online fundraising, tracking, monitoring, and managed volunteerism. A major theme running through this chapter is the growing systemic integration of the internet and television in presidential campaigns. It also shows how the hybrid media system can shape electoral outcomes by providing new power resources for campaigns that can create and master the system's modalities.

Overcoming the White Knight Complex: Social License and Internationalization for Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 102831532110162
Author(s):  
Svetlana Kostrykina
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
International Education ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Social License To Operate ◽  
Education Industry ◽  
Social License ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Internationalization In Higher Education

The article investigates the concept of internationalization in higher education for society (IHES) and discusses the role of social license to internationalize, its contextual variations, and implications for internationalization practices in New Zealand and Indonesia. The notion of social license to operate is common in the extraction and some service industries; however, the concept of social license to internationalize constitutes an innovative direction for research concerned with IHES and the global international education industry. Social license to internationalize emerged as a pivotal feature of internationalization practices in New Zealand and Indonesia. It reflected the public recognition of IHES, manifested in the cultural and social value of internationalization. The construction of social license to internationalize presented itself as a strategic priority for the governments and higher education institutions (HEIs) in both research settings. The conceptual underpinnings of social license to internationalize, and hence the means of constructing the latter varied depending on the local context, but they served a common purpose of reification of internationalization practices. The study of social license to internationalize contributes to a broader discussion on IHES and sheds lights on the mechanisms of building meaningful and mutually beneficial connections between the stakeholders of the global international education industry and the wider public.

Developing countries

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-153
Author(s):  
Eduardo R. Abril
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
The Common ◽  
Industry And Education

This paper from Argentina discusses the importance of universities in providing well trained people capable of helping developing countries to progress and analyses types of link between government, industry and education which respect the different objectives of each and at the same time serve the common purpose of progress.

scholarly journals Two nations divided by a common purpose

Nature ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 483 (7389) ◽  
pp. 247-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Macilwain
Keyword(s):  
Common Purpose

scholarly journals Beyond Bedlam: How Consumers and Brands Alike Are Playing the Web

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
John Deighton ◽  
Leora Kornfeld
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Engagement ◽  
Brand Engagement ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Communication Campaigns ◽  
The Web

Abstract Effective social brand engagement can result from marketers “getting in the game” by playing with consumers. Play can take many different forms and can refer to different aspects. It can produce winners and losers, for example when marketers conquer the consumer’s wish to be let alone. It can refer to the collaboration among players to achieve, if not exactly a common purpose, at least separate purposes with joint resources. Or it can refer to conduct that bemuses and befuddles, leaving even the marketer unsure about the purpose of the game, except that he will be better known. It is apparent that people want to play with brands, and their managers must therefore decide if they want to actively offer participation and surrender to whatever form consumer play may take. However, brand managers should be prepared for surprising turns. Attention and consumer engagement are the prizes at stake for taking the venture, awards that are increasingly difficult to gain with more traditional communication campaigns.

scholarly journals Hybrid Rule-Based Solution for Phishing URL Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Youness Mourtaji ◽  
Mohammed Bouhorma ◽  
Daniyal Alghazzawi ◽  
Ghadah Aldabbagh ◽  
Abdullah Alghamdi
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
Behavioral Method ◽  
And Control ◽  
Similarity Method

The phenomenon of phishing has now been a common threat, since many individuals and webpages have been observed to be attacked by phishers. The common purpose of phishing activities is to obtain user’s personal information for illegitimate usage. Considering the growing intensity of the issue, this study is aimed at developing a new hybrid rule-based solution by incorporating six different algorithm models that may efficiently detect and control the phishing issue. The study incorporates 37 features extracted from six different methods including the black listed method, lexical and host method, content method, identity method, identity similarity method, visual similarity method, and behavioral method. Furthermore, comparative analysis was undertaken between different machine learning and deep learning models which includes CART (decision trees), SVM (support vector machines), or KNN ( K -nearest neighbors) and deep learning models such as MLP (multilayer perceptron) and CNN (convolutional neural networks). Findings of the study indicated that the method was effective in analysing the URL stress through different viewpoints, leading towards the validity of the model. However, the highest accuracy level was obtained for deep learning with the given values of 97.945 for the CNN model and 93.216 for the MLP model, respectively. The study therefore concludes that the new hybrid solution must be implemented at a practical level to reduce phishing activities, due to its high efficiency and accuracy.

scholarly journals Artificial Minds with Consciousness and Common sense Aspects

2020 ◽  
pp. 1430-1449
Author(s):  
K.R. Shylaja ◽  
M.V. Vijayakumar ◽  
E. Vani Prasad ◽  
Darryl N. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Energy Level ◽  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Cognitive Architecture ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Dynamic Environments ◽  
Consciousness Level ◽  
Common Purpose ◽  
The Common

The research work presented in this article investigates and explains the conceptual mechanisms of consciousness and common-sense thinking of animates. These mechanisms are computationally simulated on artificial agents as strategic rules to analyze and compare the performance of agents in critical and dynamic environments. Awareness and attention to specific parameters that affect the performance of agents specify the consciousness level in agents. Common sense is a set of beliefs that are accepted to be true among a group of agents that are engaged in a common purpose, with or without self-experience. The common sense agents are a kind of conscious agents that are given with few common sense assumptions. The so-created environment has attackers with dependency on agents in the survival-food chain. These attackers create a threat mental state in agents that can affect their conscious and common sense behaviors. The agents are built with a multi-layer cognitive architecture COCOCA (Consciousness and Common sense Cognitive Architecture) with five columns and six layers of cognitive processing of each precept of an agent. The conscious agents self-learn strategies for threat management and energy level maintenance. Experimentation conducted in this research work demonstrates animate-level intelligence in their problem-solving capabilities, decision making and reasoning in critical situations.

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