Nature-based supportive care opportunities: A conceptual framework

Objective: Given preliminary evidence for positive health outcomes related to contact with nature for cancer populations, research is warranted to ascertain possible strategies for incorporating nature-based care opportunities into oncology contexts as additional strategies for addressing multidimensional aspects of cancer patients’ health and recovery needs. The objective of this study was to consolidate existing research related to nature-based supportive care opportunities and generate a conceptual framework for discerning relevant applications in the supportive care setting. Methods: Drawing on research investigating nature-based engagement in oncology contexts, a two-step analytic process was used to construct a conceptual framework for guiding nature-based supportive care design and future research. Concept analysis methodology generated new representations of understanding by extracting and synthesising salient concepts. Newly formulated concepts were transposed to findings from related research about patient-reported and healthcare expert-developed recommendations for nature-based supportive care in oncology. Results: Five theoretical concepts (themes) were formulated describing patients’ reasons for engaging with nature and the underlying needs these interactions address. These included: connecting with what is genuinely valued, distancing from the cancer experience, meaning-making and reframing the cancer experience, finding comfort and safety, and vital nurturance. Eight shared patient and expert recommendations were compiled, which address the identified needs through nature-based initiatives. Eleven additional patient-reported recommendations attend to beneficial and adverse experiential qualities of patients’ nature-based engagement and complete the framework. Conclusions: The framework outlines salient findings about helpful nature-based supportive care opportunities for ready access by healthcare practitioners, designers, researchers and patients themselves

Digital communication in and beyond organizations: Essays on unintended consequences

Digital communication refers to human-to-human, human-to-machine or machine-to-machine communication. This dissertation focuses on human-to-human communication in professional relationships based on hardware innovations like tablets, smartphones, or wearables as well as internet-based services like email, instant messaging or social media. Intended consequences of using social communication technologies are often increased freedom of action or faster communication. However, digital communication does also lead to unintended consequences like new social controls, less freedom of action or a lack of time. The aim of the dissertation is to explore explanation attempts why these consequences occur as well as to elucidate how organizations could deal with it. The key message of the dissertation is that using digital communication technologies requires well-trained moral discernment to better understand unintended consequences as well as to better cope with them.:1. Introduction 2. Digital communication: a new challenge for moral discernment 3. Digital communication in and beyond organizations: unintended consequences of new freedom 4. Digital communication in organizations: acceleration and lack of time 5. Further articles in the field of digital communication and acceleratio

Biometric Based Intrusion Detection System using Dempster-Shafer Theory for Mobile Ad hoc Network Security

In wireless mobile ad hoc network, mainly, two approaches are followed to protect the security such as prevention-based approaches and detection-based approaches. A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of autonomous wireless mobile nodes forming temporary network to interchange data (data packets) without using any fixed topology or centralized administration. In this dynamic network, each node changes its geographical position and acts as a router for forwarding packets to the other node. Current MANETs are basically vulnerable to different types of attacks. The multimodal biometric technology gives possible resolves for continuous user authentication and vulnerability in high security mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Dempster’s rule for combination gives a numerical method for combining multiple pieces of data from unreliable observers. This paper studies biometric authentication and intrusion detection system with data fusion using Dempster–Shafer theory in such MANETs. Multimodal biometric technologies are arrayed to work with intrusion detection to improve the limitations of unimodal biometric technique

We are preaching with you pastor : congregational input for the accurate and relevant application of the word of God

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