Hips that harm: when medical devices fail women

Medical devices that save the lives of thousands of Americans each year advance at a rapid pace - but some of them consistently leave women behind. When it comes to joint replacements and even heart devices, women have worse health outcomes. Behind this preventable problem is a system that overlooks women from start to finish. Female bodies are different from male bodies, but women are often underrepresented in medical trials for device approval. Women’s participation in clinical testing for devices has increased, but there’s rarely a detailed analysis of performance by sex, and even less information on women by race or age. Lax regulations and bias in medicine also make it difficult to identify the problems and correct them. The story follows the case of Linda Radach, a woman whose hip replacements failed again and again - to reveal why and how the medical device industry and the people tasked with keeping it in check have failed female patients with medical devices that shouldn’t have been put into their bodies

Reducing Cognitive Load of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Soldier-Operators: A Novel Weapon-UAV Control Design

poster abstractDuring armed conflict, unexpected events are routinely encountered owing to the lack of battlefield information. This condition is heightened when fireteams (3-4-soldiers) on patrol are dependent on information-communication from unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) operators, miles away within a safe zone. In this scenario, communications from operators to the fireteam is time consuming, i.e., fireteams must remain unengaged and waiting for central-control information. Consequences from this battlefield configuration include potential time loss from possible evasive action and communication breakdown through compromised telecommunications. This all adds to soldier anxiety and cognitive load. Research suggests that incongruity between fireteam expectations and battlefield conditions erode the interpretation of events, leading to further degradation of effective decision-making during armed conflict or reconnaissance. In response to this problem we investigated how to improve soldier reconnaissance activities through a novel Situational-Aware UAV-Riflei System (SURS)—an integrated technology that gives the fireteam soldier-user autonomous control of the UAV with no constriction to accessing the firearm controls. Six participants, with varying degrees of experience with flying or using UAV interface controls were recruited for this study. A usability test comparing SURS with standard UAV controls focused on time-on-task and error-rate, as well as ease-of-use. Using the baseline results of the standard control interface from the UAV manufacturer, was it possible to demonstrate a significant improvement using SURS to execute complex UAV maneuver-agility tasks? The SURS system achieved positive usability results in performance and control capabilities. A comparative analysis of task speed and errors indicated a faster learning curve for the embedded SURS control interface, with a decrease in error by 30%. Besides performance benefits, an observed change in user-awareness levels (without performance loss), represents an optimum battlefield alternative for embedded controls. For our technology design we used a blue-orange Nurf-Gun in the place of a real Army regulation rifle

An unusual cause of acute anemia in an immunosuppressed patient

Gastrointestinal mucormycosis is an uncommon, invasive, opportunistic fungal infection with a high mortality rate, seen more commonly in immunocompromised patients. This lethal infection has a wide range of presentations, from colonization of peptic ulcers to infiltrative disease and eventually vascular invasion. Here we present a case of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in an immunocompromised patient, which was proved to be secondary to gastric involvement by mucormycosis

The Case of Deborah Rice: Who Is the Environmental Protection Agency Protecting?

Why did the EPA dismiss a highly respected neurotoxicologist as chair of its external review panel on the fire retardant deca? Pioneering lead researcher Herbert Needleman, MD, argues that the answer has little to do with science

Assessment center redux: there’s no “one best way”

This session will review current research on the assessment center method. Topics will include AC validity and usefulness, proper design and application of the AC method through alignment with broader talent management strategies, differences in perspectives on focal constructs, and creating ACs to meet client needs while respecting current research

Assessment center practices in Indonesia: An exploratory study

Although assessment centers (AC) continue to spread to Asian countries, no published study exists which evaluates AC practices in an Asian country, and none within the largest populous country within the region of Indonesia. Therefore, we conducted an exploratory survey of Indonesian organizations to examine how ACs are designed, executed, implemented, and evaluated in the target country. In this article, we show first how political, economic, and cultural circumstances have an impact on the use of AC programs in Indonesia. Second, we report a broad spectrum of AC features within Indonesian organizations. Third, we compare selected results of our study with prior findings in other countries and regions to identify advantages and disadvantages in current Indonesian AC practices. Finally, implications for both future AC research and practice in both this region, and more widely, are discussed

Mining Big Data for Tourist Hot Spots: Geographical Patterns of Online Footprints

Understanding the complex, and often unequal, spatiality of tourist demand in urban contexts requires other methodologies, among which the information base available online and in social networks has gained prominence. Innovation supported by Information and Communication Technologies in terms of data access and data exchange has emerged as a complementary supporting tool for the more traditional data collection techniques currently in use, particularly, in urban destinations where there is the need to more (near)real-time monitoring. The capacity to collect and analise massive amounts of data on individual and group behaviour is leading to new data-rich research approaches. This chapter addresses the potential for discovering geographical insights regarding tourists’ spatial patterns within a destination, based on the analysis of geotagged data available from two social networks. ·info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Egalitarianism, Musical Excellence, and Style Preservation in the Barbershop Vocal Contest

Since the American barbershop revival movement of the 1930s, the growth of the barbershop contest has significantly shaped the movement\u27s social and artistic development. My research explores the history of the Barbershop Harmony Society and the effect of its embrace of a culture of competition on group identities and musical repertory. Through historical contextualization and interviews with contemporary experts, this research illuminates how competition engages with a complex matrix of institutional ideals, such as egalitarianism, the drive for musical excellence, and style preservation

Evaluating a Natural Language Processing Approach to Estimating KSA and Interest Job Analysis Ratings

This repository contains R code and key data files used in the following article: Putka, D J., Oswald, F. L., Landers, R. N., Beatty, A. S., McCloy, R. A., & Yu, M. C. (2022). Evaluating a natural language processing approach to estimating KSA and interest job analysis ratings. Journal of Business and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-022-09824-0 See the “Overview of Code and Data Supplement.pdf” file for a description of the contents of this repository