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    Audit of collaborative provision : University of Kent

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    Understanding patient experience from online medium

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    Improving patient experience at hospitals leads to better health outcomes. To improve this, we must first understand and interpret patients' written feedback. Patient-generated texts such as patient reviews found on RateMD, or online health forums found on WebMD are venues where patients post about their experiences. Due to the massive amounts of patient-generated texts that exist online, an automated approach to identifying the topics from patient experience taxonomy is the only realistic option to analyze these texts. However, not only is there a lack of annotated taxonomy on these media, but also word usage is colloquial, making it challenging to apply standardized NLP technique to identify the topics that are present in the patient-generated texts. Furthermore, patients may describe multiple topics in the patient-generated texts which drastically increases the complexity of the task. In this thesis, we address the challenges in comprehensively and automatically understanding the patient experience from patient-generated texts. We first built a set of rich semantic features to represent the corpus which helps capture meanings that may not typically be captured by the bag-of-words (BOW) model. Unlike the BOW model, semantic feature representation captures the context and in-depth meaning behind each word in the corpus. To the best of our knowledge, no existing work in understanding patient experience from patient-generated texts delves into which semantic features help capture the characteristics of the corpus. Furthermore, patients generally talk about multiple topics when they write in patient-generated texts, and these are frequently interdependent of each other. There are two types of topic interdependencies, those that are semantically similar, and those that are not. We built a constraint-based deep neural network classifier to capture the two types of topic interdependencies and empirically show the classification performance improvement over the baseline approaches. Past research has also indicated that patient experiences differ depending on patient segments [1-4]. The segments can be based on demographics, for instance, by race, gender, or geographical location. Similarly, the segments can be based on health status, for example, whether or not the patient is taking medication, whether or not the patient has a particular disease, or whether or not the patient is readmitted to the hospital. To better understand patient experiences, we built an automated approach to identify patient segments with a focus on whether the person has stopped taking the medication or not. The technique used to identify the patient segment is general enough that we envision the approach to be applicable to other types of patient segments. With a comprehensive understanding of patient experiences, we envision an application system where clinicians can directly read the most relevant patient-generated texts that pertain to their interest. The system can capture topics from patient experience taxonomy that is of interest to each clinician or designated expert, and we believe the system is one of many approaches that can ultimately help improve the patient experience

    Friend Request Denied: Judicial Ethics and Social Media

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    Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have revolutionized our social lives and dominate the way we communicate with each other. Whether it comes to personal or professional use, social media platforms come with a multitude of complications. What to post, whom to “friend,” whom to share information with, and what job updates to share are just some of the problems social media users face daily. These complications are only multiplied for judges. A judge’s unique position to influence makes what constitutes acceptable social media usage much more complex. With almost 1.5 billion users on Facebook and 300 million users on LinkedIn, the chances of what you post on social media being seen are extremely high. This is something that judges must keep in mind. Social media usage has blurred the lines of acceptable judicial conduct on the Internet. While the American Bar Association and certain jurisdictions have provided some advisory opinions on what constitutes acceptable judicial conduct on social media platforms, the opinions are not uniform and provide little advice. This note addresses this problem and provides guidance for judges on what should constitute acceptable social media usage

    Friend Request Denied: Judicial Ethics and Social Media

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    Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have revolutionized our social lives and dominate the way we communicate with each other. Whether it comes to personal or professional use, social media platforms come with a multitude of complications. What to post, whom to “friend,” whom to share information with, and what job updates to share are just some of the problems social media users face daily. These complications are only multiplied for judges. A judge’s unique position to influence makes what constitutes acceptable social media usage much more complex. With almost 1.5 billion users on Facebook and 300 million users on LinkedIn, the chances of what you post on social media being seen are extremely high. This is something that judges must keep in mind. Social media usage has blurred the lines of acceptable judicial conduct on the Internet. While the American Bar Association and certain jurisdictions have provided some advisory opinions on what constitutes acceptable judicial conduct on social media platforms, the opinions are not uniform and provide little advice. This note addresses this problem and provides guidance for judges on what should constitute acceptable social media usage

    SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS’ AND TEACHERS’ VIEWS ABOUT THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AT SCHOOLS AS A NEW PLATFORM IN ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION

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    This research aimed to evaluate the school administrators’ and teachers’ views about the use of social media at schools as a new platform in organizational communication. Phenomenology, a qualitative research model, was used in the research. A total of 17 participants who were included in the research (school administrators and teachers) were selected by using the purposive sampling methods that were well-suited to the qualitative research studies, namely, the “maximum variation sampling method” and the “criterion sampling method”. Participants’ views were received via semi-structured and in-depth interviews. The research data were analyzed by using the NVivo 12.0 software. The inductive descriptive analysis, content analysis, and the constant comparison technique were utilized in the interpretation of interview texts. In this context, the participants’ views were grouped under the themes of “views about the definition of social media”, “views about whether the use of social media at schools is necessary”, “views about the purpose of using social media at schools”, “views about the likely effects of using social media at schools”, and “views about recommending the use of social media at schools”. In the research, the participants stated that they viewed social media as a communication tool, the use of social media at schools was necessary, social media platforms could be used for education & instruction and giving (sharing) information, social media could have positive effects besides negative effects, and certain societal, technical, and legal measures should be taken to assure that the social media was used effectively. To ensure the professional use of social media at schools, it is recommended that educators undergo professional development.  Article visualizations

    How has my learning enabled me to create and share an animated video to assist newly qualified teachers in the creation of a safe critical space for their students?

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    This paper presents my emergent living theory as it developed while I attempted to address my concern “How has my learning enabled me to create and share an animated video to assist Newly Qualified Teachers in the creation of a safe critical space for their students?” I explore how my learning on the Masters in Education and Training Management (e-learning) has affected me both personally and professionally and how my learning has impacted the learning of others. In particular, I look at the role of critical pedagogy as it impacted my development of the video. I document the creation and distribution of an animated video using the State package by Xtranormal, through one action reflection cycle. I claim that through the use of an animated educational video, NQTs may engage critically with classroom management and in so doing improve their practice so that they can facilitate critical discourse among their students in a safe environment

    Abstain or die: The development of HIV/AIDS policy in Botswana

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    This paper traces the development of policies dealing with HIV/AIDS in Botswana from their beginning in the late 1980s to the current programme to provide population-wide anti-retroviral therapy (ARV). Using a variety of source material, including long-term ethnographic research, it seeks to account for the failure of Western-inspired approaches in dealing with the pandemic. It does this by looking at the cultural and institutional features that have created resistance to the message and inhibited effective implementation. The negative response to the first educational campaign stressing condom use is described and contextualized in terms of Tswana ideas of morality and illness. Nor, as was initially expected, did the introduction of free ARV therapy operate to break the silence and stigma that had developed around the disease. Take-up was very slow, and did not operate to encourage widespread testing. In 2003, key policymakers in Botswana began to argue for a break with the AIDS ‘exceptionalism’ position, with its emphasis on voluntarism, confidentiality and the human rights of patients. This resulted in routine testing being introduced in 2004. This links to a major argument running through the paper which is that the failure of policy cannot be attributed solely to the nature of local populations. Western cultural assumptions about ‘good practice’ also require critical examination

    The International Review | 2003 Spring

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    Corporate Governance: A Thread Unraveling Throughout the Global Economy? Alumnus Profile: Edward Okeke, Legal Officer, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Paris, France) A Bigger and Stronger European Union? Biotech Debate Meets Real-World Starvation Zombies in Japan’s Banking System? International Trade to Become Less Taxing? US to WTO: Don’t Tell Us How to Spend our Moneyhttps://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/international_review_newsletter/1020/thumbnail.jp

    Transitional Justice Information Handbook

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    The tasks of promoting justice, compensation, and reconciliation after conflict are challenging and can take many years to achieve. This handbook briefly illustrates approaches that have been employed in numerous countries to promote post-conflict transitional justice. Past experience demonstrates that transitional justice mechanisms work best if they are combined in a comprehensive strategy: Judicial measures like trials and legal reforms, and non-judicial measures like truth commissions and compensation schemes can and should complement each other. This guide also identifies some of the difficult choices that societies must make in their struggle to rebuild their society and their state while confronting the legacy of the past: whom to hold accountable, how victims may be satisfied, and how security and justice sector institutions can be reformed
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