A Review of Atrial Fibrillation Detection Methods as a Service

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a common heart arrhythmia that often goes undetected, and even if it is detected, managing the condition may be challenging. In this paper, we review how the RR interval and Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, incorporated into a monitoring system, can be useful to track AF events. Were such an automated system to be implemented, it could be used to help manage AF and thereby reduce patient morbidity and mortality. The main impetus behind the idea of developing a service is that a greater data volume analyzed can lead to better patient outcomes. Based on the literature review, which we present herein, we introduce the methods that can be used to detect AF efficiently and automatically via the RR interval and ECG signals. A cardiovascular disease monitoring service that incorporates one or multiple of these detection methods could extend event observation to all times, and could therefore become useful to establish any AF occurrence. The development of an automated and efficient method that monitors AF in real time would likely become a key component for meeting public health goals regarding the reduction of fatalities caused by the disease. Yet, at present, significant technological and regulatory obstacles remain, which prevent the development of any proposed system. Establishment of the scientific foundation for monitoring is important to provide effective service to patients and healthcare professionals

Exploring the Potentials of Community Theatre as a Tool for Social Change: the Participatory Communication Method

It is observed that most development modalities employed over the years for achieving community development in Africa have not leaved up to expectation in terms of involving the majority of people in the quest for national transformation and development; rather, these modalities tend to complicate the very problems they are set out to solve. The situation is mostly like this because the adopted development strategies have not taken adequate cognizance the essence of effective communication methods and the importance of people’s perspectives and peculiarities in these processes. Mostly, the so-called outsiders and experts in development matters who are physically and socially separated from the people think for them and about their development. This situation is inimical to genuine and sustainable development. It is important therefore to note that development can only be meaningful and sustainable when it is people generated; involving people’s real needs and their participation in the process of achieving them. It is at this point therefore that community theatre can come handy as it has the potentials to bring people together to discuss issues that disempowered them and participatorily proffer solutions to the negatives. Community theatre can be explored to work with rural and urban people; mostly the rural dwellers who are mostly disempowered. In view of this therefore, this paper posits that community theatre is a method of participatory communication towards achieving social change

Review of \u3cem\u3ePlutocrats: The Rise of the New Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.\u3c/em\u3e Chrystia Freeland. Reviewed by Edward U. Murphy.

Book review of Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. Penguin (2012). $27.95 (hardcover)

Review of \u3cem\u3e$2.00 a Day: Living On Almost Nothing in America\u3c/em\u3e. Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer. Reviewed by Edward U. Murphy

Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer. $2.00 a Day: Living On Almost Nothing in America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, (2015), 240 pages,$28.00 (hardcover)

An analysis of errors in English made by teachers on various levels

Not available.Edward U. EnglemanNot ListedNot ListedMaster of ScienceDepartment Not ListedCunningham Memorial library, Terre Haute, Indiana State University.isua-thesis-1932-engleman.pdfMastersTitle from document title page. Document formatted into pages: contains 157p. : ill. Includes appendix

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty\u3c/em\u3e. Nina Munk. Reviewed by Edward U. Murphy

Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty. Doubleday (2013). $15.95 (paperback)

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties\u3c/em\u3e by Paul Collier

Book review of: Paul Collier, The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties. HarperCollins (2018), 256 pages

Review of \u3cem\u3eBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.\u3c/em\u3e Katherine Boo. Reviewed by Edward U. Murphy.

Book review of Katherine Boo. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Random House (2012). $27.00 (hardcover)

Review of \u3cem\u3eThe Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker\u3c/em\u3e. Katherine J. Cramer. Reviewed by Edward U. Murphy.

Review of: Katherine J. Cramer, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. University of Chicago Press (2016), 256 pages, $30.00 (paperback)