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    Queensland University of Technology: Handbook 2023

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    The Queensland University of Technology handbook gives an outline of the faculties and subject offerings available that were offered by QUT

    Undergraduate Bulletin, 2023-2024

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    Systematic Approaches for Telemedicine and Data Coordination for COVID-19 in Baja California, Mexico

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    Conference proceedings info: ICICT 2023: 2023 The 6th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies Raleigh, HI, United States, March 24-26, 2023 Pages 529-542We provide a model for systematic implementation of telemedicine within a large evaluation center for COVID-19 in the area of Baja California, Mexico. Our model is based on human-centric design factors and cross disciplinary collaborations for scalable data-driven enablement of smartphone, cellular, and video Teleconsul-tation technologies to link hospitals, clinics, and emergency medical services for point-of-care assessments of COVID testing, and for subsequent treatment and quar-antine decisions. A multidisciplinary team was rapidly created, in cooperation with different institutions, including: the Autonomous University of Baja California, the Ministry of Health, the Command, Communication and Computer Control Center of the Ministry of the State of Baja California (C4), Colleges of Medicine, and the College of Psychologists. Our objective is to provide information to the public and to evaluate COVID-19 in real time and to track, regional, municipal, and state-wide data in real time that informs supply chains and resource allocation with the anticipation of a surge in COVID-19 cases. RESUMEN Proporcionamos un modelo para la implementación sistemática de la telemedicina dentro de un gran centro de evaluación de COVID-19 en el área de Baja California, México. Nuestro modelo se basa en factores de diseño centrados en el ser humano y colaboraciones interdisciplinarias para la habilitación escalable basada en datos de tecnologías de teleconsulta de teléfonos inteligentes, celulares y video para vincular hospitales, clínicas y servicios médicos de emergencia para evaluaciones de COVID en el punto de atención. pruebas, y para el tratamiento posterior y decisiones de cuarentena. Rápidamente se creó un equipo multidisciplinario, en cooperación con diferentes instituciones, entre ellas: la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, la Secretaría de Salud, el Centro de Comando, Comunicaciones y Control Informático. de la Secretaría del Estado de Baja California (C4), Facultades de Medicina y Colegio de Psicólogos. Nuestro objetivo es proporcionar información al público y evaluar COVID-19 en tiempo real y rastrear datos regionales, municipales y estatales en tiempo real que informan las cadenas de suministro y la asignación de recursos con la anticipación de un aumento de COVID-19. 19 casos.ICICT 2023: 2023 The 6th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3236-

    Lost in technology: Towards a critique of repugnant rights

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    Modern law is founded on an idea of justice that is made felt through rights and entitlements legal subjects enjoy. As such, for law and its idea of justice, rights are inherently good and therefore abundant. On encounter with injustice, it has become commonplace to inquire what laws and rights have been flouted, as if injustice would disappear in encounter with rights that encode justice. But what if no number of laws and rights – even with faultless execution – is up for the task of upholding what we deem just? In this dissertation, I look at the heart of this question, and find the law’s answer not simply wanting but repugnant. The research is animated by interaction of three topoi: personhood, technology, and international law. The first part concerns how these concepts are perceived in law and by those working with laws. As part of the unearthing of the conceptual ground rules, a trilemma between effectiveness, responsiveness, and coherence familiar from regulatory research and international law rears its head. I show how setting the priority on effective and responsive solutions has amounted to derogation of justice and diminishment of law’s foundational entity, a natural person. I explore whether these outcomes could be avoided within liberal international law and answer my own question on the negative. I title this systematic outcome a theory of repugnant rights. The latter part of the dissertation concerns technology, its regulation, and tendency to produce repugnant outcomes in international law. I focus on bio- and information technologies and their legal coding as tools to dismantle legal protection provided by our quality of being human. I will show how intricate legal norms break and remake us in ways that blur the boundaries between persons and things. Once something falls beyond or below the category of a person, its legal status can be warped, twisted, and turned – all while remaining at arm’s length from the person it was once legally part of. Technological intervention to such things allows for effective circumvention of legal shelter provided by human rights, as I show through example of regulation of surrogacy and data storage. To come to terms with the repugnancy, I seek shelter from anger as a transitory category that would enable us to move across the present impasse with rights. I suggest that at the very least international lawyers ought to be angry at quotidian horrors international law upholds. And through such anger overcome the misery and repugnancy of international law.--- Moderni oikeus pohjaa ajatukseen oikeudenmukaisuudesta, joka ilmenee oikeussubjektien nauttimien ja käyttämien oikeuksien välityksellä. Näin ymmärrettynä oikeuden ja sen omaaman oikeudenmukaisuuden käsityksen kannalta oikeudet ovat itseisarvoisesti hyviä, mikä selittää niiden suuren määrän. Kun kohtaamme epäoikeudenmukaisuutta tapaamme kysyä, mitä lakeja ja oikeuksia on loukattu, ikään kuin epäoikeudenmukaisuus kaikkoaisi sen kohdatessa oikeuden sisältämän oikeudenmukaisuuden idean. Mutta entä jos mikään määrä lakeja ja oikeuksia – edes täydellisesti täytäntöönpantuna – ei riitä puolustamaan oikeudenmukaisena pitämäämme? Väitöskirjassani kurkistan tämän kysymyksen ytimeen ja löydän vastauksen, joka ei ole ainoastaan riittämätön vaan myös vastenmielinen. Väitöksessäni operoin oikeushenkilön, teknologian ja kansainvälisen oikeuden rajapinnoilla. Väitökseni ensimmäinen osa koskee sitä, kuinka oikeuden ja lakien parissa työskentelevät mieltävät nämä käsitteet. Näiden käsitteiden tarkastelun yhteydessä havaitsen sääntelytutkimuksesta ja kansainvälisestä oikeudesta tutun tehokkuuden, responsiivisuuden ja johdonmukaisuuden välisen trilemman. Osoitan, miten tehokkaiden ja responsiivisten ratkaisujen asettaminen etusijalle on merkinnyt lipeämistä oikeudenmukaisuudesta ja samalla oikeuden keskeisen subjektin, luonnollisen henkilön, merkityksen pienentymistä. Tutkin, voitaisiinko tämä trilemma välttää liberaalin kansainvälisen oikeuden puitteissa, ja vastaan omaan kysymykseeni kielteisesti. Nimeän tämän tuloksen vastenmielisten oikeuksien teoriaksi. Väitöskirjan jälkimmäinen osa käsittelee teknologiaa, sen säätelyä ja sen taipumusta tuottaa vastenmielisiä lopputuloksia kansainvälisessä oikeudessa. Tarkastelen lähemmin bio- ja informaatioteknologioita ja niiden oikeudellista sääntelyä, sekä sitä millaisia välineitä ne tarjoavat ihmisyyden tarjoaman oikeudellisen suojan purkamiseen. Osoitan kuinka monimutkaiset oikeudelliset normit rikkovat ja muokkaavat meitä tavoilla, jotka hämärtävät ihmisten ja asioiden välisiä rajoja. Kun jokin ei ole enää henkilö, sen oikeudellista asemaa voidaan vääristää, vääntää ja kääntää. Teknologinen puuttuminen tällaisiin esineisiin ja asioihin mahdollistaa ihmisoikeuksien tarjoaman laillisen suojan tehokkaan kiertämisen, kuten osoitan sijaissynnytyksen ja datan tallennuksen sääntelyn kautta. Vastauksena oikeuden vastenmielisyydelle haen suojaa vihasta. Viha tarjoaa sellaisen tilapäisen kategorian, jonka avulla voimme välttää havaitsemani oikeuksien umpikujan. Katson, että kansainvälisen oikeuden harjoittajien olisi vähintäänkin oltava vihaisia kohdatessaan kansainvälisen oikeuden synnyttämiä ja mahdollistamia jokapäiväisiä kauhuja. Turvautumalla vihaan, jonka voimme myöhemmin asettaa sivuun, voisimme selättää kansainvälisen oikeuden surkeuden ja sen vastenmielisyyden

    Low value care in surgery

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    Background Value has been defined as the ratio of quality outcomes to cost. Perfect value would represent infinitely beneficial outcomes associated with minimal costs. Of interest to the present study are interventions where outcomes are minimal, and costs may be high as they may provide an opportunity for disinvestment, improving the overall value of care whilst providing efficiency gains. Methods A Scoping Narrative Review was performed in order to understand incumbent approaches towards dealing with low value care. International lessons from different processes were identified and encompassed into a conceptual logic orientated framework for de-adoption. To identify low value care in surgery a Systematic review of peer reviewed high-level literature was performed to identify candidate interventions for de-adoption. Subsequently a granular assessment of the behaviour of passive de-adoption was performed through a retrospective longitudinal observational study based upon administrative hospital data. Results A comprehensive conceptual model that takes an integrated approach to de-adoption was assembled from lessons learnt when dealing with low value care previously. It identified three stages in the de-adoption cycle which are necessary for success: identification, implementation and re-evaluation. Each process should be performed at multiple planes: national (macro), local (meso) and provider / patient (micro) levels in order to have a holistic effect. The identification of low value interventions may be from exploring peer reviewed literature, as demonstrated from the systematic review or exploring geographical variation of care. Said review identified 71 low value procedures, of which 5 interventions which carried the highest economic burden were postulated to cost the health system £135 million per annum. Subsequent granular review identified that passive levers have not resulted in de-adoption of a surgical low value interventions – e.g. delayed cholecystectomy. This is due to the presence of exnovator providers whom are concurrently de-adopting innovative interventions as other providers are adopting them. Conclusions Low value care represents a significant burden in the current health service. This thesis has evaluated its incidence and economic burden in general surgery. Service transformation is necessary and may be achieved through the holistic integrated approach recommended here. Policy makers have already sought this novel information and encompassed it into national policy, with the objective of achieving higher value care through effective de-adoption.Open Acces

    PROCEEDINGS 5th PLATE Conference

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    The 5th international PLATE conference (Product Lifetimes and the Environment) addressed product lifetimes in the context of sustainability. The PLATE conference, which has been running since 2015, has successfully been able to establish a solid network of researchers around its core theme. The topic has come to the forefront of current (political, scientific & societal) debates due to its interconnectedness with a number of recent prominent movements, such as the circular economy, eco-design and collaborative consumption. For the 2023 edition of the conference, we encouraged researchers to propose how to extend, widen or critically re-construct thematic sessions for the PLATE conference, and the paper call was constructed based on these proposals. In this 5th PLATE conference, we had 171 paper presentations and 238 participants from 14 different countries. Beside of paper sessions we organized workshops and REPAIR exhibitions

    1996 July, University of Memphis bulletin

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    Vol. 85, No. 4 of the University of Memphis bulletin containing the graduate catalog for 1996-97, 1996 July.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-ua-pub-bulletins/1183/thumbnail.jp
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