The Dilemmas of Cultural Competence

The aim of this study is to identify the current state of knowledge about the concept of culturally competent care. It will clarify what is meant by the term and will highlight the dilemmas of the concept in practice. Although cultural competence is coming into its third decade, it is still ill-defined, has no systematic framework or tool of measurement. Through the use of a literature review, done systematically, the study argues that interconnected factors such as education and knowledge, reflective practice, ethics and values, organisational contexts and policy all have an impact on how culturally competent care is viewed and delivered. The paper discusses the move from cultural competence to that of cultural humility, emphasising the semantic and practical benefits within the concept of humility. In order for culturally competent care to be optimised, specialised training, and education curricula, are needed that incorporates immersion opportunities along with dedicated critical supervision

Fractioned, Fissured, and Framed: Considering Public Versus Private Constructions of Muslim Women’s Identities in Indian Partition Literature

This Independent Study Project examines the depiction of Muslim women in Indian Partition literature as a means of understanding the relationship between public and private identity. It analyzes the manners in which female Muslim characters respond to and negotiate modes of categorical identification, namely religion, surrounding Partition. Furthermore, this study juxtaposes these generalized accounts present in literature with individual responses from interviews with Muslim women living in New Delhi today. The women spoke regarding their conceptions of Islam and the manner in which they incorporate faith into their overall negotiation of private identity. The project finds that Partition, one of India’s most tumultuous historical times, was also perhaps the height of societal judgment based on external identification cues. Women today express commonalities with certain aspects of the characters depicted in these novels, but they generally articulate an acute ability to shape the self without overt influence of public institutions of power, incorporating multifaceted components into their identity, which includes, but is not limited to, religion

So near yet so far: implications of the Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill

When is a bribe not a bribe? A surprisingly large number of times under current New Zealand law. So many, in fact, that its outdated legislation has regularly been cited as a key reason why, despite its deserved reputation for good governance, New Zealand remains one of very few signatories to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) that has yet to ratify it, alongside Syria, Bhutan, Barbados and Japan. The Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill (OCACL Bill) is explicitly designed to change this state of affairs.&nbsp

‘Love Where You Live!’ A Conversation with Diana McCaulay

Diana McCaulay is an award-winning Jamaican novelist and short-story writer. Her first novel, Dog-Heart (Peepal Tree Press, 2010) won a Gold Medal in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's National Creative Writing Awards (2008), and was shortlisted for the Guyana Prize (2011), the IMPAC Dublin Award (2012) and the Saroyan Prize for International Writing (2012). She won the Regional Prize for the Caribbean Commonwealth Short Story competition in 2012 for ‘The Dolphin Catcher’. Her second novel, Huracan (Peepal Tree Press, 2014) was also shortlisted for Saroyan Prize for International Writing. In April 2014, she won the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize for a non-fiction work in progress, entitled Loving Jamaica: A Memoir of Place and (Not) Belonging. At the same time she is working on her third novel, which at the time of this interview was tentatively called The Dolphin Catcher. McCaulay is the also founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET), focusing on environmental education and advocacy. Before that she worked in the general insurance industry for eighteen years, in various senior management positions. She is a Chartered Insurer qualified by the Chartered Insurance Institute in the United Kingdom. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management Studies from the University of the West Indies, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of Washington, with majors in environmental policy and international development. She served on the Board of Jamaica’s Natural Resources Conservation Authority from 2003 to 2005, and again in 2008, and is a past Chair of the National Environmental Societies Trust and past Vice Chair of the Environmental Foundation of Jamaica. This interview took place in Kingston, Jamaica, June 2015 and was conducted by Russell McDougall. Questions prepared in advance and interspersed contextual notes added after the transcription were prepared in collaboration with Sue Thomas

Research Data Storage Available to Researchers Throughout the U.S. via the TeraGrid

This is a preprint of a paper in the Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM SIGUCCS fall conference (2006). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.Many faculty members at small to mid-size colleges and universities do important, high quality research that requires significant storage. In many cases, such storage requirements are difficult to meet with local resources; even when local resources suffice, data integrity is best ensured by maintenance of a remote copy. Via the nationally-funded TeraGrid, Indiana University offers researchers at colleges and universities throughout the US the opportunity to easily store up to 1 TB of data within the IU data storage system. The TeraGrid is the National Science Foundation's flagship effort to create a national research cyberinfrastructure, and one key goal of the TeraGrid is to provide facilities that improve the productivity of the US research community generally. Providing facilities that improve the capacity and reliability of research data storage is an important part of this. This paper will describe the process for storing data at IU via the TeraGrid, and will in general discuss how this capability is part of a larger TeraGrid-wide data storage strategy.U's involvement in the TeraGrid, and the presentation of this material, is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 0833618, SCI451237, SCI535258, and SCI504075. IU received a significant grant-in-kind as part of its initial deployment of the massive data storage system. The deployment of IU’s MDSS has also been supported by the Indiana Genomics Initiative and the Indiana METACyt Initiative, both supported through grants from the Lilly Endowment, Inc; by Shared University Research grants from IBM, Inc.; and by NSF grants 0116050 and 0521433

Survey of TeraGrid Job Distribution: Toward Specialized Serial Machines as TeraGrid Resources

Presented at TeraGrid 2007.As we proceed towards the age of petascale computing, it is important to be aware that even today more than half of national cyberinfrastructure users are serial users who run single processor code; more over, coarse-grained parallel application do not necessarily benefit from a high-speed low-latency interconnect. While a majority of compute resources on the TeraGrid today are massive parallel machines with high-speed low-latency interconnects like Myrinet or Infiniband, optimized to run large fine-grained parallel applications that use hundreds of processors/cores in parallel, usage patterns indicate that there is still considerable demand that could be just as effectively met by large computational resources with no special high-speed or low-latency interconnects. Research allocations involving large serial applications or coarse-grained parallel applications could be allocated to these machines, thus possibly leading to decreased wait times for massive parallel and large serial jobs. This change in focus would also lower the financial barrier for potential new resource providers to the national cyberinfrastructure, by allowing them to reallocate funds from the interconnect to additional computational capacity

Technical Report: TeraGrid eXtreme Digital Campus Cyberinfrastructure and Campus Bridging Requirements Elicitation Meeting

In an effort to systematically investigate requirements for TeraGrid XD, the XROADS collaboration held during 2009 a series of requirements elicitation meetings (REM) with small groups of stakeholders. This report summarizes the conduct of and results from a requirements elicitation meeting on the topics of campus bridging and campus cyberinfrastructure. The meeting’s goal was to develop a clearer and more functional definition of what the next phase of the TeraGrid should do to be a resource broadly useful to and used by university and college campuses throughout the US.This report depends very much on the prior involvement of several XROADS partners in the TeraGrid, which has been funded in part by the NSF via the following grant awards: 0504086, 0503697, and 0742145 to the University of Chicago; 0451237 and 0504075 to Indiana University; and 0122272, 0332113, 0451566, 0503944, 0910847 to the University of California San Diego

Application benchmark results for Big Red, an IBM e1350 BladeCenter Cluster

The purpose of this report is to present the results of benchmark tests with Big Red, an IBM e1350 BladeCenter Cluster. This report is particularly focused on providing details of system architecture and test run results in detail to allow for analysis in other reports and comparison with other systems, rather than presenting such analysis here

WIDIT in TREC-2005 HARD, Robust, and SPAM tracks

Web Information Discovery Tool (WIDIT) Laboratory at the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science participated in the HARD, Robust, and SPAM tracks in TREC- 2005. The basic approach of WIDIT is to combine multiple methods as well as to leverage multiple sources of evidence. Our main strategies for the tracks were: query expansion and fusion optimization for the HARD and Robust tracks; and combination of probabilistic, rule-based, pattern-based, and blacklist email filters for the SPAM track

First Neutrino Observations from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

The first neutrino observations from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory are presented from preliminary analyses. Based on energy, direction and location, the data in the region of interest appear to be dominated by 8B solar neutrinos, detected by the charged current reaction on deuterium and elastic scattering from electrons, with very little background. Measurements of radioactive backgrounds indicate that the measurement of all active neutrino types via the neutral current reaction on deuterium will be possible with small systematic uncertainties. Quantitative results for the fluxes observed with these reactions will be provided when further calibrations have been completed.Comment: Latex, 7 pages, 10 figures, Invited paper at Neutrino 2000 Conference, Sudbury, Canada, June 16-21, 2000 to be published in the Proceeding