A hybrid knowledge-based approach to supporting the medical prescription for general practitioners : real case in a Hong Kong medical center

Author name used in this manuscript: S.K. KwokAuthor name used in this manuscript: Albert H.C. Tsang2010-2011 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe

Data mining in biomedicine : current applications and further directions for research

Author name used in this manuscript: S. K. KwokAuthor name used in this manuscript: A. H. C. Tsang2009-2010 > Academic research: refereed > Publication in refereed journalAccepted ManuscriptPublishe

The vital and the positive : a genealogy of the science of man

The thesis presents a historical study of the Enlightenment project for a Science of Man which takes its perspective from the 20th century philosophical 'death of man'. From the contemporary move against humanistic ideals associated already from the 1930's exemplified contrasting interpretations over an Enlightenment Science of Man and its ambitions. In the 1960's Michel Foucault's pivotal approach gave this dispute the perspective of the 'death of man', which this thesis frames in relation to his reading of Kant. This forms a perspective from which to examine Kant's positive ambitions, as Foucault saw them extending beyond Critique. But a second perspective is taken up through what Gilles Deleuze ascribed to an empiricist tradition subjugated under a vitalism. This is indicated by the 'age of Bichat', the French medical tradition which Deleuze contrasted with Foucault's 'rarefied form of positivism'. A genealogical history of the Science of Man frames these as alternative models to a critique of reason, two perspectives derived of the Enlightenment project. The 'age of Bichat' is understood around the French Enlightenment discourse on vitalism modelled on a post-Cartesian concept of the body. This gave the positive ambitions for early 19th century Positivism explored through Saint Simon's 'concept of labour' and August Comte's epistemological critique, intended as substitute for an older Enlightenment model. However, this becomes further complicated by the new positive paradigm of experimental medicine. The effect, during the early Third Republic, was to re-orientate the philosophical perspective on the older project for a Science of Man. This served Henri Bergson's critique of Positivist historical formations, but also the neo-Positive model of Emile Durkheim and the ambition for an autonomous new science that delimits a collective 'order of things'. The dilemma was legitimating vital norms in a modern society. This genealogy situates these as perspectives seen through the 18th century Science of Man from which the vital and the positive remained elements historically resistant to being the determinable object of study.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Patriarchy and nursing education : analysis and model

A concern for nursing's lack of a unique identity and failure to achieve professionalism served `as focal points for inquiry, analysis, and the development of an alternative nursing curriculum model. The belief that nursing's failure to realize its aspirations of professionalism is directly related to the fact that it is predominately a female profession, served as the basis for inquiry in the first two chapters. To develop a better understanding of the nurse as a woman in a patriarchal society and the woman as a nurse in the patriarchal health care system, the concept of patriarchy was employed as an analytical tool of analysis. A review of the literature on patriarchy revealed that the elements of role, temperament, and status serve as the supporting framework in its reproduction. These elements were selected as a lens for reviewing the literature on women and nurses. An analysis of the literature revealed a direct relationship between the stereotypical role definition, temperament, and accompanying lower status of women in the larger society and nurses in the health care field. The findings in this analysis were then applied to nursing's failure to achieve professionalism and a unique identity in an effort to demonstrate their influence

International Telemedicine/Disaster Medicine Conference: Papers and Presentations

The first International Telemedicine/Disaster Medicine Conference was held in Dec. 1991. The overall purpose was to convene an international, multidisciplinary gathering of experts to discuss the emerging field of telemedicine and assess its future directions; principally the application of space technology to disaster response and management, but also to clinical medicine, remote health care, public health, and other needs. This collection is intended to acquaint the reader with recent landmark efforts in telemedicine as applied to disaster management and remote health care, the technical requirements of telemedicine systems, the application of telemedicine and telehealth in the U.S. space program, and the social and humanitarian dimensions of this area of medicine

Developing artificial intelligence and machine learning to support primary care research and practice

This thesis was motivated by the potential to use everyday data , especially that collected in electronic health records (EHRs) as part of healthcare delivery, to improve primary care for clients facing complex clinical and/or social situations. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can identify patterns or make predictions with these data, producing information to learn about and inform care delivery. Our first objective was to understand and critique the body of literature on AI and primary care. This was achieved through a scoping review wherein we found the field was at an early stage of maturity, primarily focused on clinical decision support for chronic conditions in high-income countries, with low levels of primary care involvement and model evaluation in real-world settings. Our second objective was to demonstrate how AI methods can be applied to problems in descriptive epidemiology. To achieve this, we collaborated with the Alliance for Healthier Communities, which provides team-based primary health care through Community Health Centres (CHCs) across Ontario to clients who experience barriers to regular care. We described sociodemographic, clinical, and healthcare use characteristics of their adult primary care population using EHR data from 2009-2019. We used both simple statistical and unsupervised learning techniques, applied with an epidemiological lens. In addition to substantive findings, we identified potential avenues for future learning initiatives, including the development of decision support tools, and methodological considerations therein. Our third objective was to advance interpretable AI methodology that is well-suited for heterogeneous data, and is applicable in clinical epidemiology as well as other settings. To achieve this, we developed a new hybrid feature- and similarity-based model for supervised learning. There are two versions, fit by convex optimization with a sparsity-inducing penalty on the kernel (similarity) portion of the model. We compared our hybrid models with solely feature- and similarity-based approaches using synthetic data and using CHC data to predict future loneliness or social isolation. We also proposed a new strategy for kernel construction with indicator-coded data. Altogether, this thesis progressed AI for primary care in general and for a particular health care organization, while making research contributions to epidemiology and to computer science

Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse

TIPS, Volume 16, No. 2, 3 & 4, 1996

• Poverty & the Poor • The Gulf Between the Haves & Have-Nots • Medieval Robber Knights (Songs) • Clara, Clara, Vere de Vere (Tennyson, 1842, poem addressed to privileged & heartless Clara Vere de Vere) • The Transfer of Wealth From the Lower to the Higher Social Strata • Corporate Welfare • Subsidies to Better-Off Citizens • Wealth Transfer via Taxing Policies • Pension Thefts • Income Inequalities • Wealth Redistribution via Insurance Scams, Thefts & Collapses • Investment Scams • Banking Scams • From the Frying Pan Into the Fire • Miscellaneous Transfer Mechanisms & Scams • Conclusion to Wealth Transfer • The Gulf Between Rich & Poor Nations • Homelessness (Includes inventory of the homeless common health & mental problems) • No Room in the Inn (Sue Pressley, homeless woman, Atlanta, GA?) • Mitchell Park (Donal Babbit, 1980s, homeless poet, California) • The Devil & Me We Can\u27t Agree ... (Old Salvation Army song) • Crime • Robbing Peter to Rob Paul • Punishment • More Ship of Fools • The Jail & Prison Scene • In London, & Within a Mile, I Ween ... (Poet John Tayler, ca. 1630) • Judicial Killing • Slavery • Morality in Society • PERVERSION ALERT #28 (Looking at things from the bottom up ) • Religion in Society • The Interface of Religion & Human Service • The Family • Artificial Baby-Making • Enmity Against the Family • PERVERSION ALERT #29 (UN General Assembly, 1989, Convention on the Rights of a Child) • Hostility Toward Children (Kinderfeindlichkeit) • Impact of Family Breakdown on Children • Other News About Families • List of Say and Don\u27t Say (Adoptive Families of America) • The Collapse of Finance, Society & Polity in the US & Elsewhere & the Ascendancy of Military Rule • War & Preparation for War • Palmstrom Becomes a Citizen (Christian Morgenstern, German poet, 1871-1914) • Philanthropy News • The Two Festivals (Christian Morgenstern, German poet, 1871-1914) • Human Service-Related News • PERVERSION ALERT #30 (Dangers of home care for impaired people under public funding, ex. Medicaid) • Major Study Topics for Human Service Moral Leadership Competencyhttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/wolf_tips/1067/thumbnail.jp