Bhangra: Mystics, music and migration

Bhangra: Mystics, Music and Migration explores the origins of this folk song and dance from the Panjab in South Asia and its development into part of modern British culture in the hybrid soundscape of British Bhangra and beyond. This book originated in academic research and the Heritage-lottery funded Bhangra Renaissance project. Through ethnographic research, oral history interviews, performances, photography, story-telling and community activity it celebrates the past contribution of all those involved in Bhangra. This ground-breaking work provides an in-depth history of the spiritualism of performance and song, and an overview of the artists involved in influencing its development, as well as contemporaries leading the way of Bhangra’s renaissance amongst the South Asian diaspora in the UK and around the world

Ebola US Patient Zero: lessons on misdiagnosis and effective use of electronic health records.

On September 30th, 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first travel-associated case of US Ebola in Dallas, TX. This case exposed two of the greatest concerns in patient safety in the US outpatient health care system: misdiagnosis and ineffective use of electronic health records (EHRs). The case received widespread media attention highlighting failures in disaster management, infectious disease control, national security, and emergency department (ED) care. In addition, an error in making a correct and timely Ebola diagnosis on initial ED presentation brought diagnostic decision-making vulnerabilities in the EHR era into the public eye. In this paper, we use this defining teachable moment to highlight the public health challenge of diagnostic errors and discuss the effective use of EHRs in the diagnostic process. We analyze the case to discuss several missed opportunities and outline key challenges and opportunities facing diagnostic decision-making in EHR-enabled health care. It is important to recognize the reality that EHRs suffer from major usability and inter-operability issues, but also to acknowledge that they are only tools and not a replacement for basic history-taking, examination skills, and critical thinking. While physicians and health care organizations ultimately need to own the responsibility for addressing diagnostic errors, several national-level initiatives can help, including working with software developers to improve EHR usability. Multifaceted approaches that account for both technical and non-technical factors will be needed. Ebola US Patient Zero reminds us that in certain cases, a single misdiagnosis can have widespread and costly implications for public health

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The co-production of historical knowledge: implications for the history of identities

This essay argues that understanding people’s lives, emotions and intellectual reasoning is crucial to exploring national identity and that ‘the co-production of historical knowledge’ provides an approach or methodology that allows for a deeper comprehension of people’s self-identities by encouraging a diverse range of people to participate in the research process. We argue that many academic historians have maintained an intellectual detachment between university history and public and community history, to the detriment of furthering historical knowledge. We argue for a blurring of the boundaries between university and communities in exploring modern British history, and especially the history of national identities. It includes extracts of writing from community partners and a brief photographic essay of projects related to exploring identities

Content Based Image Retrieval by Using the Bayesian Algorithm to Improve and Reduce the Noise from an Image

Image retrieval system is an effective and efficient tool for managing large image databases. A content based image retrieval system allows the user to present a query image in order to retrieve images stored in the database according to their similarity to the query image .In this paper content based image retrieval method is used as diagnosis aid in medical fields. The main objectives of this paper is to reduce the noise from an medical image with the use of Bayesian algorithm .Various algorithm are define in CBIR but we can use Bayesian algorithm to reduce the noise from an image . Bayesian algorithm provide the feedback and improve the performance of an image retrieval by using the resultant MSE(mean square error) and PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio)

Biopsychosocial reserves and dementia: Identifying life span protective factors

Dementia is a neurocognitive disorder that negatively affects independence and significantly contributes to the global mortality rate. Alzheimer’s disease is the most pervasive type of dementia and is the sixth leading overall cause of mortality in the United States. Although the exact etiologies of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are not fully understood, research suggests that it may stem from genetic and environmental factors. There is currently is no cure for ADRD, thus, it would behoove the public health field to identify factors associated with brain health and cognitive performance so that individuals could modify their lifestyles across their life spans in an effort to strengthen cognitive reserves. As such, the current study focused on identifying life span biopsychosocial factors protective against cognitive decline and dementia. Specifically, this study used longitudinal data from the Kuakini Honolulu-Asia Aging Study (HAAS) to test three research aims. The HAAS provides biological and psychosocial data on 8,006 men of Japanese descent across 12 exams spanning from Exam 1 (1965-1968; Mean age = 54.40y, Range = 45-68y) to Exam 12 (2011-2012; Mean age = 93.50y, Range = 91-106y). Aim 1 employed growth curve models to examine biopsychosocial associates of cognitive performance over time [level and slope (changes across Exams 4-6)]. Results suggest that education was consistently and positively associated with baseline cognition as well the slope. There were several cognitive risk factors, indicating that older participants, those who had an APOE-ԑ4 allele, men with greater levels of inflammatory associates (e.g., uric acid, glucose), and those who reported more depressive symptoms at baseline tended to have poorer cognitive performance at baseline along with steeper declines in cognition over time. Aim 2 examined how patterns of cognitive performance were associated with age at ADRD diagnosis through survival analyses. Findings indicated that men who had the greatest declines in cognition tended to be at greater risk for ADRD at a younger age than those with less severe cognitive declines. Aim 3 employed bootstrapping methods to determine if level and change in cognitive abilities mediated the relationship between biopsychosocial factors and ADRD. Results demonstrated that education was positively associated with cognition, whereas age, associates of inflammation, presence of an APOE-ԑ4 allele, and depressive symptoms were negatively related with cognition, both baseline performance and slope. There was no support for mediation by cognition nor were there significant direct relationships between biopsychosocial factors and ADRD. Discussion focuses on practical implications of findings, including noting methods individuals could engage in to strengthen reserves in an effort to maximize cognitive health in later life, as well as offering future directions for research

Object Oriented Database Management Systems-Concepts, Advantages, Limitations and Comparative Study with Relational Database Management Systems

Object Oriented Databases stores data in the form of objects. An Object is something uniquely identifiable which models a real world entity and has got state and behaviour. In Object Oriented based Databases capabilities of Object based paradigm for Programming and databases are combined due remove the limitations of Relational databases and on the demand of some advanced applications. In this paper, need of Object database, approaches for Object database implementation, requirements for database to an Object database, Perspectives of Object database, architecture approaches for Object databases, the achievements and weakness of Object Databases and comparison with relational database are discussed