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Finding and using information: A guide for nursing, health and social care
oai:repository.canterbury.ac.uk:9q351Finding and Using Information is an accessible textbook for nursing, health and social care students seeking to improve their information skills.
Starting with a self-assessment checklist and through clear explanations, examples and activities, the book will help you to develop a toolkit for dealing with information throughout your studies and beyond. You will learn:
* How to identify what information you need and how to find the best sources
* About browsing the web and how to work effectively with web-based information tools
* How to identify and evaluate trustworthy sources of information
* Ways of managing and keeping track of the information you find so that you can retrieve it when you need it
About the importance of acknowledging, citing and referencing information
* How to use academic databases
* How to plan and carry out an advanced literature search
Written by a highly experienced learning and research librarian, this book will help you to develop the information skills you need for your studies and to achieve the standards of proficiency required to practise your health and care profession effectively
Cyber-physical system security for manufacturing industry 4.0 using LSTM-CNN parallel orchestration
Interoperability among different machines, systems, and humans connected via the Internet of Things (IoT) has blessed Industry 4.0 with numerous advantages over the years. However, these benefits have unleashed risks of cyber attacks on internet-connected manufacturing units such as autonomous intelligent computer-controlled cutting (ICNC) machines. These are used in different manufacturing industries to ensure high precision and faster production. Over the Internet these machines receive product designs and instructions of how to produce them. Intrusions through malicious code embedded in the design can hamper precision and cause production delays, resulting in significant revenue loss. This paper presents an innovative cyber-physical system (CPS) security mechanism, using a long short-term memory (LSTM) network and a convolutional neural network (CNN) coordinated by a parallel orchestration (PLO) algorithm. It detects intrusions from both image and text data with 90.85% and 91.66% accuracy, respectively. Applying the proposed methodology in a simulated manufacturing industry shows an average yearly successful intrusion reduction from 184 to 15, saving an average of $30,474 in revenue. Its innovative concept, the distinctive mechanism of the PLO algorithm, and applying it in a simulated manufacturing industry make the proposed security system superior to comparable approaches
Counter terrorism in a pre-crime space: Safeguarding, radicalisation and extremism in schools in England
Rethinking the medieval pig in England: From woodland animal to bagpipe-playing sow
Explores the cultural history of the medieval pig, as well as aspects of medieval pig farming
“If she had kept going down that way, she would’ve gone straight to that castle!”: Labyrinth, the Gothic body of David Bowie, and the education of desire
This article investigates Labyrinth as a Gothic narrative; it positions the films as an attempt to ‘educate desire’ into normative channels within the context of the late Cold War and the Culture Wars of the 1980s. Particular attention is paid to the body and performance of David Bowie as Jareth and the way this engages with classic Gothic tropes of the dangerous older man. Sarah is also considered as a liminal adolescent coming to occupy a position defined by desire in a historical moment riven by anxieties around ‘acceptable choices’ amid the AIDS crisis and the activism of conservative pressure groups such as Moral Majority. Ultimately, Labyrinth is shown to be a productive space for the working through of issues of desire, both in its original context and, through the mapping of fan activities, throughout the 40 years since its release
Biogas potential of oil palm empty fruit bunch and lignocellulosic insoluble fibre components via the syringe bioreactor method
Previous researchers have sought to understand the biochemical methane potential (BMP) of lignocellulosic materials such as oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) by studying the anaerobic digestion of its structural components cellulose (CE), hemicellulose and lignin (LI). This study was aimed at further exploring how the BMP of these lignocellulose biomass components is influenced by different inoculum to substrate ratios (ISR), the use of an adapted inoculum, inoculum supernatant, standard ISO medium only and ISO medium supplemented with NaHCO3 and vitamin B-complex as buffer and nutrient additive, respectively. Researchers have also relied on custom-made or commercially available BMP bioreactors which may not be standardized and cost-effective for most laboratories to investigate many variables in triplicate concurrently. The flexibility, quick setup and ease of use of the syringe-based bioreactor method was explored to overcome these limitations. This study examines the mesophilic BMP of OPEFB as well as xylan (XY), CE and LI. CE also served as a positive control. OPEFB, XY and CE exhibited BMPs of 258, 214 and 360 mLCH4 gVS−1 in original ISO medium. CE methane yield reached quasi-equilibrium between ISR 2 and 4. Plastic or glass-made syringe bioreactors did not affect BMP under the investigated conditions. Vitamine B-complex or NaHCO3 addition to the ISO medium reduced the lag phase by 13.5 % and 16.2 %, respectively. The use of inoculum supernatant as medium reduced the lag phase of CE digestion by 80 %. CE achieved the greatest degree of methanation when using inoculum supernatant (89.5 %) or NaHCO3 (90.2 %), followed by XY (56.7 %), OPEFB (48.3 %) and LI (0.4 %). Plastic syringe bioreactors with a modified ISO medium can be an attractive economic alternative to BMP tests using conventional bioreactors
The generational shift towards the reciprocal disclosure of intimacy in daughter–father relationships through physical activity in the UK
Within family sociology during the past 30 years, while a general consensus has developed that most parents and children in the Western world have come to share relationships characterised by a greater degree of intimate disclosure, the extent to which parent–child relationships have become ‘purer’ and more egalitarian remains a contested issue. Although there has been a developing interest in involved fathering through sport and physical activity over the past decade, research has yet to concentrate on the consequences of this transformation for daughters. This article applies Mannheim’s tenet of generation entelechy to life history interviews with 14 women born between 1950 and 1994 to argue that involved fathering through physical activity offers conditions for daughters to realise a long-held desire to establish more emotionally reciprocated intimate bonds with fathers. Daughters described a shift from viewing fathers as emotionally uninvolved workers to becoming interdependent intimates
Is assisted dying really a matter for medical regulation?
This paper considers whether assisted suicide and euthanasia (AS/E) is an area for medical regulation or whether there is a better alternative regulatory mechanism to govern it. Drawing from empirical evidence across a range of jurisdictions where it is legalized, the paper argues that there are at least four good reasons to consider demedicalizing AS/E: 1) pragmatic ethical issues of infrastructural weakness in AS/E service provision in already overstretched healthcare systems globally; 2) challenges of medicalization; 3) regulatory complexities concerning medical law (including pharmaceutical law) and criminal law; 4) the risk that AS/E becomes more easily susceptible to healthcare economics. The paper suggests several recommendations concerning a possible ‘demedicalized model.
How does news coverage of suicide affect suicidal behaviour at a high-frequency location? A seven-year time-series analysis
Introduction
News reporting of suicide can have a significant influence on suicidal behaviour in the general population, especially following the death of a well-known individual. By comparison, the impact of reporting on suicides at well-known, ‘high-frequency’ locations is less well understood. We investigated the relationship between news coverage of suicide and incidents at a high-frequency coastal location in the UK over a 7-year period.
Methods
We analysed bidirectional associations (with daily and weekly lags) and Granger causality between suicide-related news in the UK (n=38 595, of which 789 focused on cliff locations) and suspected suicides (n=278) and crisis interventions (n=3050) at the site between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2023. Separate subanalyses explored associations with repeat coverage and with headlines featuring explicit location/method details.
Results
While coverage of incidents at the study site and other coastal locations represents a small and decreasing proportion of all UK news of suicide, 51% of all cliff-related news focused on the study site, often explicitly identified in the story’s headline (81%). There were significant but small (r<0.3) correlations between the volume of news coverage (particularly when method-specific and location-specific) and suicidal behaviour at the site, with fatalities increasing in the immediate aftermath of reporting. This effect was strongest in 2018–2019 (which had the greatest volume of reporting and repeat coverage) but failed to reach significance in 2020–2023, when there were fewer reports, less repeat coverage and no headlines referring to multiple deaths at the site.
Conclusions
Findings underscore the importance of continued efforts to monitor and improve the quality of news and other media portrayals of suicide. Follow-up studies, including qualitative research with people with lived/living experiences of suicide, could further explore how different types of news stories and wider narratives might contribute to increases—and potentially decreases—in suicides at high-frequency locations