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Assistance with the management of their illnesses or disease can also include assisting with cooperative purchases of health care materials. Establishing a network of contacts. Examples of contacts patient advocates can assist in connecting patients to include: in the public sector (political and regulatory), in public...
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Providing emotional support in dealing with their health concerns, illnesses, or chronic conditions. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, individuals with chronic illnesses are at a higher risk of depression of than patients with other mental health conditions. When managing their illnesses, patients a...
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Part of the role of patient advocates can include providing emotional support for patients or connecting them to mental health resources. Attending appointments with a patient. Patients can find doctor's appointments intimidating, but also difficult to understand.
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Issues may stem from differences in language proficiency, educational background, or background in health literacy. A patient advocate's presence can ensure that patient's concerns are highlighted and adequately addressed by physicians.
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Patient advocates may also be responsible for assisting with scheduling additional appointments as well. Assisting with health insurance and other financial aspects of healthcare. The Institute of Medicine in the United States says fragmentation of the U.S.
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health care delivery and financing system is a barrier to accessing care. Within the financing system, health insurance plays a significant role. According to a United Health survey, only 9% of Americans surveyed understood health insurance terms, which presents a significant issue for patients, given the importance of...
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The American Nurses Association (ANA) includes advocacy in its definition of nursing: Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in...
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Nurses are more able to advocate if they are independent, professionally committed, and have self-confidence as well as having legal and professional knowledge, as well as knowing a patient's wishes. The act of patient advocacy improved nurses' sense of professional well-being and self-concept, job motivation and job s...
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: 174 Additionally, a nurse is concerned about all of the patients they care for rather any individual patient. : 190 Gadow and Curtis argue that the role of patient advocacy in nursing is to facilitate a patient's informed consent through decision-making, but in mental health nursing there is a conflict between the pa...
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Private advocates (also known as independent patient/health/health care advocates) often work alongside the advocates that work for hospitals. As global healthcare systems started to become more complex, and as the role of the cost of care continues to place more of a burden on patients, a new profession of private pro...
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The Alliance of Professional Health Advocates was started to support the business of being a private advocate. Some regions require that those detained for the treatment of mental health disorders are given access to independent mental health advocates who are not involved in the patient's treatment. : 20 Proponents of...
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Kamaker argues that hiring a private advocate eliminates this conflict because the private advocate "…has only one master and very clear priorities. "Kamaker founded patientadvocates.com.au in 2013 and followed with disabilityhealthsupport.com.au in 2021 when research revealed that vulnerable groups achieved sub-optima...
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Patients supported by advocates have been shown to experience fewer treatment errors and require fewer readmissions post discharge. In Australia there has been some movement by private health insurers to engage private patient advocates to reduce costs, improve outcomes and expedite return to work for employees.
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Schwartz is the founder and president of GNANOW.org, where he states, "Everyone employed by a health care company is limited to what they can accomplish for patients and families. Hospital-employed patient advocates, navigators, social workers, and discharge planners are no different. They became health care profession...
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But they have heavy caseloads and many work long hours with limited resources. Independent Patient Advocates work one-on-one with patients and loved ones to explore options, improve communication, and coordinate with overworked hospital staff. In fact, many Independent Patient Advocates used to work for hospitals and h...
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Patient advocacy organizations, PAO, or patient advocacy groups are organizations that exist to represent the interests of people with a particular disease. Patient advocacy organizations may fund research and influence national health policy through lobbying. : 5 Examples in the US include the American Cancer Society,...
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In the US in 2015, 14 companies donated $116 million to patient advocacy groups. A database identifying more than 1,200 patient groups showed that six pharmaceutical companies contributed $1 million or more in 2015 to individual groups representing patients who use their drugs, and 594 groups in the database received d...
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Recipients of donations from pharmaceutical companies include the American Diabetes Association, Susan G. Komen, and the Caring Ambassadors Program.Patient opinion leaders, also sometimes called patient advocates, are individuals who are well versed in a disease, either as patients themselves or as caretakers, and shar...
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Solace Solace is an American professional organization where private advocates can list their business and allow consumers to book conversations with advocates directly. Alliance of Professional Health Advocates The Alliance of Professional Health Advocates (APHA) is an international membership organization for private...
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Following the 2011 death of Ken Schueler — a charter member of the APHA, described as "the Father of Private Patient Advocacy" — the organization established the H. Kenneth Schueler Patient Advocacy Compass Award. The award recognizes excellence in private practice including the use of best practices, community outreac...
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One of DPC's goals is to provide dialysis patients with the education, access and confidence to be their own advocates. Through their grassroots advocacy campaigns, Patient Ambassador program; Washington, D.C.
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patient fly-ins; conference calls and briefings, DPC works to train effective advocates for dialysis-related issues. Membership is free. National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants (NAHAC) is an American nonprofit organization located in Berkeley, Cali...
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Joanna Smith founded NAHAC on July 15, 2009, as a broad-based, grassroots organization for health care and patient advocacy. To that end, it is a multi-stakeholder organization, with membership open to the general public. National Patient Advocate Foundation The National Patient Advocate Foundation is a non-profit orga...
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The National Patient Advocate Foundation was founded simultaneously with the non-profit Patient Advocate Foundation, "...which provides professional case management services to Americans with chronic, life-threatening and debilitating illnesses." Patient Advocates Australia Patient Advocates Australia, founded by Dorot...
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The Aged Care Royal Commission Report published in 2021 has made recommendations regarding a need for vigilant advocacy for residents of nursing homes to protect them against rampant abuse and neglect, with one submission calling for the routine provision of independent patient advocates. For the disabled, funding for ...
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Founded in 2000, the interprofessional Center for Patient Partnerships (CPP) at University of Wisconsin–Madison offers a health advocacy certificate with a focus on either patient advocacy or system-level health policy advocacy. The chapter "Educating for Health Advocacy in Settings of Higher Education" in Patient Advo...
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In the United States, state governmental units have established ombudsmen to investigate and respond to patient complaints and to provide other consumer services. New York In New York, the Office of Patient Advocacy within the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) is responsible for p...
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California In California, the Office of the Patient Advocate (OPA), an independent state office established in July 2000 in conjunction with the Department of Managed Health Care, is responsible for the creation and distribution of educational materials for consumers, public outreach, evaluation and ranking of health c...
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Catherine Amanda Morgan is a New Zealand feminist psychology academic, as of 2019 is a full professor at the Massey University.
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After a 1992 PhD titled 'Strange attractions: discourse, narrative and subjectivity in social psychology' at Murdoch University, Morgan moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor in 2013.Morgan was an adviser to the Glenn Inquiry, but resigned from the troubled group in 2013.
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Kahu, Ella, and Mandy Morgan. "A critical discourse analysis of New Zealand government policy: Women as mothers and workers." In Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 30, no. 2, pp.
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134–146. Pergamon, 2007. Bürgelt, Petra T., Mandy Morgan, and Regina Pernice.
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"Staying or returning: Pre‐migration influences on the migration process of German migrants to New Zealand." Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 18, no. 4 (2008): 282–298. Kahu, Ella, and Mandy Morgan.
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"Weaving cohesive identities: New Zealand women talk as mothers and workers." Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online 2, no. 2 (2007): 55–73. Morgan, Mandy, and Leigh Coombes.
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"Subjectivities and silences, mother and woman: Theorizing an experience of silence as a speaking subject." Feminism & Psychology 11, no. 3 (2001): 361–375. O'Neill, Damian, and Mandy Morgan. "Pragmatic post‐structuralism (I): participant observation and discourse in evaluating violence intervention." Journal of Commun...
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Autonomous pharmacy is an approach to medication management that seeks to create a more automated and data-driven process for medication inventory and dispensing. The main concept behind autonomous pharmacy is to use technology in place of manual medication processes in order to help healthcare providers reduce medicat...
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When a physician prescribes a medication, they expect the correct medication to be administered to the patient; however, the medication management process depends on people, who are subject to human error. In a hospital or health system, a mistake in carrying out a medication order can put patient care at risk, and can...
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Global costs of medication errors are estimated at $42 billion annually. With better automation that includes technologies such as barcoding, there is less chance for human error. Health-system pharmacists spend only a quarter of their working hours on clinical activities.
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Automating medication distribution tasks would enable pharmacists to spend more time working with patients to address their medication-use issues and provide clinical support.The concept of an autonomous pharmacy is compatible with prior work to advance pharmacy practice, including the American Society of Health-System...
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Health systems are in various stages of progression along the autonomous pharmacy framework based on the medication management technology and data analytics they have implemented. Stanford Health Care uses robotic devices for storage, retrieval, and packaging of medications in the pharmacy. Texas Children's Hospital us...
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This frees up time for the hospital's pharmacy technicians to prepare doses that require specialized attention such as those for chemotherapy. Similarly, Vanderbilt University Hospital & Clinics and Wake Forest Baptist Health have also adopted autonomous pharmacy technology in their respective organizations for better ...
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In the picture framing industry, a fillet (also referred to as a slip) is a small piece of moulding which fits inside a larger frame or, typically, underneath or in between matting, used for decorative purposes. The picture framing term is probably related to, though not necessarily derived from, the engineering term, ...
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Fillet can be pronounced in two ways. The other is similar to the French-derived culinary term. Either is acceptable in English, though most frame shops prefer one or the other pronunciation.
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Fillets are typically made of soft or hard wood, and feature a flat "lip" which can fit underneath a mat; the non-lip portion is what is displayed. Except for their shape and size (which is understandably small), fillets are constructed similarly to picture frames, usually from wood or polystyrene. One way is to pronou...
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The fillet is normally used as decoration in the lining of a picture frame or underneath a mat inside one; the intent is to help draw the eye inwards to the document being framed.However, one can also use inverted fillets as form of picture frame on small, flat objects, as seen below: In this case, the card was glued t...
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Deathcare (also death care, death-care or after-deathcare) is the planning, provision, and improvement of post-death services, products, policy, and governance. Here, deathcare functions to describe the industry of deathcare workers, the policy and politics surrounding deathcare provision, and as an interdisciplinary f...
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The word deathcare is a compound term from the words death and care. It can also take the form of death care, however this is mostly used in the United States and Canada in the Anglosphere, where deathcare is a preferred variation elsewhere in the English speaking world reflecting on the preferred version of healthcare...
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The provision of deathcare has historically and often continues to be a highly decentralized and diverse practice combining multiple actors and stages. Nonetheless, trends in providers and purveyors of deathcare do exist throughout different eras: in the time prior to the American Civil War, for instance, the majority ...
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Following the war, it became the norm to have loved-ones bodies prepared and cared for by morticians, and spaces for services to be provided by funeral home directors. Coinciding with the professionalization of the funeral industry, the advances of the medical field changed expectations around an infectious disease cou...
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This resulted in a change in the concentration of the placement of ill-people: rather than remaining at home, people began to rely increasingly on hospitals as a place of healing, especially in urban areas where hospitals were more accessible. In areas that allowed for access to hospital systems, this inevitably result...
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Particularly with social phenomena like the growth of the welfare state and urbanisation of population centres, central government involvement with the deathcare process has risen as societal challenges present themselves to deathcare.
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Examples of government policy involvement include the impact of new burial methods like human composting to pressures like COVID-19 placing on those involved with deathcare as well as their families. In addition to government policy, the effects of COVID-19 have directly impacted those involved in deathcare: funeral di...
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National and regional governments are often responsible for providing the legal framework for deathcare to operate within, including laws and guidance on what deathcare techniques, practices, and what individuals/ organisations are involved. However, this has a varying level of non-government organisations, third-secto...
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Analysts have stated that the deathcare industry can be divided into three portions: the ceremony and tribute (funeral or memorial service); the disposition of remains through cremation or burial (interment); and memorialization in the form of monuments, marker inscriptions or memorial art.Deathcare industry is a multi...
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This is a market that has shown expanding fiscal growth in years 2020 to 2021 supported by a compound annual growth rate of 5.6%. The market is expected to continue to grow to a compound annual growth rate of 8% by year 2025 expecting to reach a value of 147.38 billion dollars up from 103.93 billion dollars in 2020.The...
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Common funeral practices in Western society are associated with notable environmental impacts. Metal caskets can deteriorate and release harmful toxins when buried, leading to contamination of land and water. Cremation also uses a significant amount of fuel consumption, releasing chemicals and carbon emissions.With the...
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The Studio Smart Agent Technologies (SAT) is part of the Research Studios Austria ForschungsgesmbH, a non-profit research organization. It aims to facilitate the transfer of academic research into commercial applications thus implementing an innovation pipeline from universities into markets. To this end, SAT cooperate...
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The Studio Smart Agent Technologies has been founded in 2003 as one of the first research units of the Research Studios Austria, a division of the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) formerly known as Austrian Research Centers (ARC). In April 2008 the Research Studios Austria were spun out into a new company and the...
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The main research areas of SAT include: Recommender Systems Personalization Semantic Systems Data Mining and Visualization Intelligent Agent Solutions
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To classify postoperative outcomes for epilepsy surgery, Jerome Engel proposed the following scheme, the Engel Epilepsy Surgery Outcome Scale, which has become the de facto standard when reporting results in the medical literature: Class I: Free of disabling seizures Class II: Rare disabling seizures ("almost seizure-f...
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Surgery for epilepsy patients has been used for over a century, but due to technological restrictions and insufficient knowledge of brain surgery, this treatment approach was relatively rare until the 1980s and 90s. Prior to the 1980s, no classification system existed due to the lack of operations performed up until th...
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The appropriate evaluation of patients following epilepsy surgery is extremely important, as medical professionals must know the appropriate course of action to follow in order to achieve seizure freedom for patients. Accordingly, the Engel classification guidelines were devised by UCLA neurologist Jerome Engel Jr. in ...
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In Engel's 1993 summary of the 1992 Palm Desert Conference on Epilepsy Surgery, he annotated his classification system with more detail. The annotation was as follows: Class I: Seizure free or no more than a few early, nondisabling seizures; or seizures upon drug withdrawal only Class II: Disabling seizures occur rarel...
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The subjectivity of the Engel system leaves much of the postoperative class assignment process to the patients. While many have noted the disadvantages of a classification system where the patients are involved in determining the evaluation, others have praised it. Proponents of the Engel classification guidelines argu...
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As is the case for all current methods of reviewing epilepsy surgery outcomes, the Engel classification system has subjective components. A "disabling seizure" is subjective and can vary in definition from person to person. While one epileptic experiencing a seizure when driving a car may find the seizure "disabling", ...
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One doctor and patient may consider two seizures in a year as a rare occurrence while another doctor may consider ten in a year as rarely occurring. The worthwhileness of the operation is ambiguous because worth can be interpreted differently by various patients and healthcare professionals. Keeping those caveats in mi...
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Continuing to have to endure a large number of tonic-clonic seizures (grand mal seizures) over a period of days, months, or even over the course of a year or two, would make it impossible to drive and very hard to hold a job away from home entailing much stress, and would pose limits on one's abilities to safely carry ...
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The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man (1951) is a study of popular culture by Marshall McLuhan, treating newspapers, comics, and advertisements as poetic texts.Like his later 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy, The Mechanical Bride is unique and composed of a number of short essays that can be read in any order ...
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McLuhan is concerned by the size and the intentions of the North American culture industry. "Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind," McLuhan writes in his preface to the book. He believes the modern "...
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By using artifacts of popular culture as a means to enlighten the public, McLuhan hopes the public can consciously observe the effects of popular culture on them.McLuhan compares his method to the sailor in Edgar Allan Poe's short-story "A Descent into the Maelstrom." The sailor, McLuhan writes, saves himself by studyi...
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The book argues anger and outrage are not the proper responses to the culture industry. "The time for anger...is in the early stages of a new process," McLuhan says, "the present stage is extremely advanced." Amusement is the proper strategy.
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This is why McLuhan uses punning questions that border on silly or absurd after each visual example. On the technique of amusement McLuhan quotes Poe's sailor, when he's locked into the whirlpool's walls looking at floating objects: "I must have been delirious, for I even sought amusement in speculating upon the relati...
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Marshall McLuhan's interest in the critical study of popular culture was influenced by the 1933 book Culture and Environment by F. R. Leavis (with Denys Thompson) and Wyndham Lewis' 1932 book Doom of Youth, which uses similar exhibits.During the 1940s, McLuhan regularly held lectures with slides of advertisements analy...
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Despite the influence, McLuhan was far more playful in The Mechanical Bride than Leavis was in Culture and Environment.In June 1948, McLuhan received an advance of $250 for the publication of The Folklore of Industrial Man from Vanguard Press. The tentative title would later become the subtitle. The title The Mechanica...
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The first manuscript was titled Guide to Chaos. The following three manuscripts were titled Typhon in America, after the Ancient Greek mythological monster.
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The eventual title of the book reflects McLuhan's concern about the merging of sex and technology in advertising.McLuhan was frustrated by the editorial efforts of Vanguard Press. He resisted requests to cut entries, to expand on subjects, give examples, underline a point, or generally make the book easier for readers ...
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He began to suffer from severe headaches during this period, possibly products of the stress, anger, and frustration of his dealings with Vanguard.The Mechanical Bride was published in the fall of 1951. The book was well-reviewed but it was not a financial success, only selling a few hundred copies. Biographer Philip M...
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Hay's Galleria is a mixed use building in the London Borough of Southwark situated on the south bank of the River Thames featuring offices, restaurants, shops, and flats. Originally a warehouse and associated wharf (Hay's Wharf) for the port of London, it was redeveloped in the 1980s. It is a Grade II listed structure.
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Hay's Galleria is named after its original owner, the merchant Alexander Hay, who acquired the property – then a brewhouse – in 1651. In around 1840 John Humphrey Jnr acquired a lease on the property. He asked William Cubitt (who was father-in-law to two of Humphrey's sons) to convert it into a 'wharf', in fact an encl...
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In the 1980s, with the increasing urban regeneration of the Thames Corridor and nearby London Docklands, the majority of the area was acquired by the St Martin's Property Corporation, the real estate arm of the State of Kuwait. The easterly end of the site was developed as London Bridge City of which Hay's Galleria' fo...
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The dock gates were permanently closed, the 'impounded' area of the dock was covered with a floor to the sill of the wharf-sides and the entire space was enclosed with a glass roof designed by the young architect Arthur Timothy while he worked with Michael Twigg Brown Architects. This scheme was implemented by Twigg Br...
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Office tenants have included the UK social work regulator, the General Social Care Council, and the Social Care Institute for Excellence. The pub at the riverside entrance, 'The Horniman at Hay's', is named to commemorate one of the main tea-producing companies associated with the trade here.Due to its location on the ...
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River services: London Bridge City Pier (Commuter service) Tube/National Rail: London Bridge station
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Romani studies (occasionally Gypsiology) is an interdisciplinary ethnic studies field concerned with the culture, history and political experiences of the Romani people. The discipline also focuses on the interactions between other peoples and Romas, and their mindset towards the Romas.Other terms for the academic fiel...
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In statistics, EM (expectation maximization) algorithm handles latent variables, while GMM is the Gaussian mixture model.
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In the picture below, are shown the red blood cell hemoglobin concentration and the red blood cell volume data of two groups of people, the Anemia group and the Control Group (i.e. the group of people without Anemia). As expected, people with Anemia have lower red blood cell volume and lower red blood cell hemoglobin c...
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Also z ∼ Categorical ⁡ ( k , ϕ ) {\displaystyle z\sim \operatorname {Categorical} (k,\phi )} where k = 2 {\displaystyle k=2} , ϕ j ≥ 0 , {\displaystyle \phi _{j}\geq 0,} and ∑ j = 1 k ϕ j = 1 {\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^{k}\phi _{j}=1} . See Categorical distribution. The following procedure can be used to estimate ϕ , μ...
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Generally, this problem is set as a GMM since the data in each group is normally distributed. In machine learning, the latent variable z {\displaystyle z} is considered as a latent pattern lying under the data, which the observer is not able to see very directly. x i {\displaystyle x_{i}} is the known data, while ϕ , μ...
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The EM algorithm consists of two steps: the E-step and the M-step. Firstly, the model parameters and the z ( i ) {\displaystyle z^{(i)}} can be randomly initialized. In the E-step, the algorithm tries to guess the value of z ( i ) {\displaystyle z^{(i)}} based on the parameters, while in the M-step, the algorithm updat...
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In political science, a multi-party system is a political system in which multiple political parties across the political spectrum run for national elections, and all have the capacity to gain control of government offices, separately or in coalition. Apart from one-party-dominant and two-party systems, multi-party sys...
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Under first-past-the-post, the electorate is divided into a number of districts, each of which selects one person to fill one seat by a plurality of the vote. First-past-the-post is not conducive to a proliferation of parties, and naturally gravitates toward a two-party system, in which only two parties have a real cha...
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Proportional representation, on the other hand, does not have this tendency, and allows multiple major parties to arise. Proportional systems either has multi-member districts with more than one representative elected from a given district to the same legislative body or some other type of pooling of the votes, and thu...
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Duverger's law states that the number of viable political parties is one, plus the number of seats in a district. Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine...
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Unlike a one-party system (or a dominant-party system), a multi-party system encourages the general constituency to form multiple distinct, officially recognized groups, generally called political parties. Each party competes for votes from the enfranchised constituents (those allowed to vote). A multi-party system pre...
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A system where only three parties have a realistic possibility of winning an election or forming a coalition is sometimes called a "third-party system". But, in some cases the system is called a "Stalled Third-Party System," when there are three parties and all three parties win a large number of votes, but only two ha...
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A two-party system requires voters to align themselves in large blocks, sometimes so large that they cannot agree on any overarching principles. Some theories argue that this allows centrists to gain control, though this is disputed. On the other hand, if there are multiple major parties, each with less than a majority...
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The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the largest international study of gender in the news media. It is also an advocacy organization that aims to change the representation of women in the news media. Every five years since 1995 the GMMP collects data on indicators of gender in the news, such as: the presence ...
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The idea for a media monitoring project was created at the Women Empowering Communication international conference in Bangkok in 1994. The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) along with MediaWatch (Canada) took up the project. They had several key goals: To map the representation and portrayal of women...
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All of the monitoring and compiling of reports is carried out by volunteers. GMMP reports have been presented at the Women’s NGO Forum in Beijing (1995), the UN Beijing + 5 (2000), a parallel-session at the Commission on the Status of Women 2010 session, and in 100 Women BBC series 2015 "Is News Failing Women? ".
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The 2015 Project covered 22,136 news items, 26,010 news personnel, and 45,402 total news subjects in newspaper, radio, television, internet news and news media tweets. The research discussed news subjects, personnel and content through the framework of media accountability to women .News Subjects The report discovered ...
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