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Death and Culture Conference, 2016 CONTENTS 1. CONFERENCE ORGANISERS.............................................................................. 1 MR JACK DENHAM........................................................................................................ 1 DR RUTH PENFOLD-MOUNCE ..................................................................................... 1 DR BENJAMIN POORE .................................................................................................. 2 DR JULIE RUGG ............................................................................................................. 2 2. CONFERENCE TIMETABLE................................................................................. 3 3. ABSTRACTS AND BIOGRAPHIES...................................................................... 12 4. INSTALLATIONS ............................................................................................. 67 Afterlife Woodland ...................................................................................................... 67 ‘Small Histories’ Installation, 2016 ............................................................................... 68 That Which The Dying Had To Tell If We Take The Time To Listen.............................. 69 Death Becomes Her..................................................................................................... 70 5. USEFUL INFORMATION .................................................................................. 71 Public transport ............................................................................................................71 -
Nurses Intercultural Training Needs and Competencies
8/2017 KA202-026615 NURSES INTERCULTURAL TRAINING NEEDS AND COMPETENCIES ANALYSIS REPORT Multicultural Care in European Intensive Care Units Project number: 2016-1-PL01-KA202-026615 Project number: 2016-1-PL01- "This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein." Multicultural Care in European Intensive Care Units Project number: 2016-1-PL01-KA202-026615 NURSES INTERCULTURAL TRAINING NEEDS AND COMPETENCIES ANALYSIS REPORT AUTHORS: BEATA DOBROWOLSKA, DOROTA OZGA, ALEKSANDRA GUTYSZ-WOJNICKA RENÁTA ZELENÍKOVÁ, DARJA JAROŠOVÁ, IVANA NYTRA BOJANA FILEJ, BORIS MIHA KAUČIČ, KRISTIJAN BREZNIK JULIE BENBENISHTY, EVA BARKESTAD, IRENE HARTH, DRAGO SATOSEK SIMONA FABELLINI, GARY THOMAS MARGARET MIKŁOSZ, ŁUKASZ KŁAPA "This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein." 2 CONTENT: PART I ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 1. The aim of the report……………………………………………………………………………….... 4 4 PART II …………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1. Analysis concerning multicultural nursing education and practice in 4 countries participating in the project …………………………………………………….... 1.1. The legislative, professional and ethical bases regarding multicultural nursing care in Poland, Czech -
Page Director's Note News from CDAS, University Of
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND POLICY SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF BATH CLAVERTON DOWN BATH BA2 7AY UNITED KINGDOM EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.bath.ac.uk/cdas March 2017 FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/centrefordeath TWITTER: @cendeathsociety In this issue: Page Director’s note 2 News from CDAS, University of Bath Join us at the University of Bath 50th anniversary festival 2 Work with us at Bath 3 Pilot Project: Exploring the needs of “Befrienders” at Age UK B&NES 4 CDAS Conference 2017: Booking open 4 CDAS Seminar: Terror Management Theory 5 Death Studies Community News Association for the Study of Death & Society Council Elections 6 Death & Culture Network 6 Suicide Prevention Toolkit 6 Events, seminars, symposia and conferences Beatific Souls – Child Death in the Nineteenth Century Literary and Visual Culture 7 Dealing with Controversial History in the Museum: A Research Showcase 7 Cruse Loss and Bereavement public workshops 8 Radical change: a blueprint for the next 50 years of dying 8 Taking Funerals Seriously 2: Fresh Perspectives 9 New perspectives on the secularization of funerary culture in 19th- and 20th-century Europe 9 ‘A Right to Die?’ – Socio-legal perspectives 10 Encountering Corpses 10 Call for Papers Death, Dying and Disposal 13: Ritual, Religion and Magic 11 Examining the Futures of Digital Death 11 Jobs and Study Opportunities Research Associate (Wellcome Trust Project) Global Interventions at the End of Life 12 Events calendar 12 1 March 2017 Director’s Note: I am genuinely impressed by the number of CDAS 2017 conference abstracts that flooded in at the last minute. -
Centre for Death & Society Newsletter March 2021
Centre for Death & Society Newsletter March 2021 Director's Note CDAS COVID Resources o Publications o Events o Calls for Papers CDAS News CDAS Community News Events Call for Papers P a g e 1 | 14 CDAS Newsletter March 2021 www.bath.ac.uk/cdas Director's Note March 2021 So here we are in March 2021. I wasn’t even sure where to start the March Director’s Note since so much of the Death World community spent the last year documenting and writing about the COVID- 19 pandemic. Indeed, many of us will continue to spend time this way and will write about this past year for many decades to come. Books. Ph.D.’s. Seminars. Films. Songs. Arguments over Memorials. Special Edited Collections. University Chairs. Government Reviews. All of it. We will see all of it. So let’s set the last year aside, for a moment, and look towards the near future. Our friends and colleagues at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) are hosting the 15th International Conference on the Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal (DDD15) Wednesday 1st September – Saturday 4th September 2021 online and I am genuinely looking forward to it. DDD15’s theme is Diversity and Decolonisation and I strongly suggest checking out the conference website. Even though DDD15 will be online this time, it is still an excellent opportunity for those of us working in death and dying to find a community of friends and colleagues. September will also be an opportunity for many of us to reflect with each other on what happened in 2020 and 2021, which I think is important. -
The Politics of Being Mortal
University of Kentucky UKnowledge Gerontology, Family, and Life Course Sociology 1988 The Politics of Being Mortal Alfred G. Killilea University of Rhode Island Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Thanks to the University of Kentucky Libraries and the University Press of Kentucky, this book is freely available to current faculty, students, and staff at the University of Kentucky. Find other University of Kentucky Books at uknowledge.uky.edu/upk. For more information, please contact UKnowledge at [email protected]. Recommended Citation Killilea, Alfred G., "The Politics of Being Mortal" (1988). Gerontology, Family, and Life Course. 3. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_gerontology/3 The POLITICS of BEING MORTAL This page intentionally left blank The POLITICS of BEING MORTAL Alfred G. Killilea THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY Copyright O 1988 by The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Club, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. Editorial and Sales Offices: Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0336 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationData Killilea, Alfred G., 1941- The politics of being mortal / Alfred G. Killilea. p. cm. Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-813 1-5287-5 1. Death-Social aspects-United States. 2. Death-Political aspects-United States. 3. Social values. I. Title. HQ1073.5.U6K55 1988 306.9-dc19 88-9422 This book is printed on acid-free To my daughter, MARI November 2 1, 1970 - October 26,1987 You taught me pure joy in play, the diligence behind achievement, and finally the full depth of the human condition. -
Towards the End of Tourism?
International Journal of Safety and Security in Tourism/Hospitality Towards the end of Tourism? Maximiliano E Korstanje Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Towards the end of Tourism? Maximiliano E Korstanje1 The present issue of the International Journal of Safety and Security in Tourism and Hospitality selects three high quality papers authored by well-versed authors as Cyril Peter –from New Zealand- and Peter Tarlow –the United States-. By this end, it is vital to bring reflection on the dangers tourism is now exposed. John Urry –jointly Scot Lash- argued that the end of tourism was not only a question of time, but also the direct result from the process of decentralization, which is proper of a new reflexibility (Lash & Urry 1993). Tim Gale has adamantly interrogated on the end of tourism as a multiple and complex landscape where the inflation of new risks intersect with the rise of virtual reality (Gale 2008; 2009). I have theorized in earlier works as Terrorism, Tourism and the end of Hospitality in the West (Korstanje, 2017) and Mobilities Paradox, a Critical Analysis (2018) on the grim future of hospitality, as an ancient rite of passage and tourism in the years to come. Per my viewpoint, Western civilization expanded worldwide by subordinated some peripheral cultures, but in so doing, a new emergent archetype of the alterity was created. The other was considered from a paternalist way, emulating the ideal of “noble savage” where Europeaness situated as the top of a civilizatory pyramid. Subordinated to the European culture, natives represented the origins of Europe, which evolved through decades of progress towards more reified forms of life. -
“Tvcation” Visual Communication System for Manufacturing Industry
INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS Development of “TVcation” Visual Communication System for Manufacturing Industry Yoichi HATA*, Yasuhito FUJITA, Yoshimitsu GOTO and Toshiaki KAKII As broadband Internet services become more widespread, visual communications especially video conferencing are becoming more popular. With an aim of improving the efficiency of business in industry sectors, the authors have developed visual communication system software named “TVcation” as a solution to more efficient manufacturing. When dealing with information related to manufacturing business, the processing of still images and photographs is particularly important. TVcation supports for the JPEG2000 image compression algorithm and provides scalability, and therefore the quality of received image data can be freely selected even in an environment where the networks of different band widths intermingled. 1. Introduction Visual communications Recently, as the Internet becomes widespread and (Conference using image streaming) faster, visual communication technology as typified by videoconferencing is receiving widespread attention. Especially in business enterprises, there are demands Web conference TV conference for the introduction of video or web conference for the (Desktop conference) (Video conference) purposes of reducing business trip expenditures, travel times, carbon-dioxide emissions, and decision making times. Audio teleconference and The authors have developed a prototype of a visual Data sharing, etc. communication system (hereafter called “TVcation”) -
Newsletter Education
ASDS News With its changed membership ASDS Council goes into a new year with a focus on developing the association in the context of familiar and fresh challenges facing Higher Newsletter Education. We have started the process of planning our next DDD conference which will Editor: Joan Lee e-mail mark the association’s 10th Anniversary in 2019 [email protected] and will keep members informed as the plans nd Edition 10 February 2 2018 progress. Contents: ASDS membership Editor’s comments– page 1 Thank you for bearing with us as we manage Practice and policy news – page 2 the transition to a shared timeframe for Call for papers – page 4 membership renewal. Conversations during Conference and event reports – page 4 this process have highlighted the value of Forthcoming conferences – page 6 clarifying membership benefits which are Books, journals, resources – page 8 summarised below:- Job opportunities – page 8 Four issues of Mortality (published by Taylor and Francis, RRP £112) Editor’s comments: Reduced fee for a print subscription for Death Studies ( Special issue rate of Welcome to the first newsletter for 2018 which £36.00) For details see ASDS website comes to you with the latest roundup of some Reduced rates to future DDD conferences of the practice and policy matters in the end of (for year of membership) life and death and with news of forthcoming events and activities that are being organised Access to membership network, via the ASDS website, including: by members and within the wider death studies community. Inclusion in the membership register Database of members' teaching and We bring details of an interesting opportunity research interests to contribute to a national film on death List of members' publications related rituals which we believe ASDS members are well placed to participate in Catalogue of thesis abstracts (see page 4). -
Centre for Death & Society Newsletter Director's Note
Centre for Death & Society Newsletter Director's Note - CDAS News - D&D Community News Events - Call for Papers - Jobs&Study - Calendar Director's Note This essay was first published in the November 2016 issue of Bath Magazine and appeared in the December 2016 CDAS newsletter. I continue to receive e-mail messages about it from both members of the general public and former students so I decided to re-run it this year as a means of acknowledging the hard work the students in Sociology of Death 2017 put in. My entire life has been spent around death, dying, and dead bodies. And when I say entire, I mean from before I was born to this very second. I grew up in the American funeral industry, where my father, Ron Troyer, was a funeral director for three decades. Indeed, some of my earliest childhood memories are of bodies in caskets coupled with my parents explaining what ‘dead’ meant. Through a series of intellectual twists during my postgraduate education, my research focused on the relationship between the dead body and technology. In 2008 I accepted a post in the University of Bath’s Centre for Death and Society (CDAS), the world’s first and only interdisciplinary research Centre dedicated to exploring the intersections between death, dying, and the dead body. CDAS was founded in 2005 and in June 2015 celebrated ten years of world-class research, public engagement, and educational work as a death and dying studies hub. What intrigues me most about the Centre for Death and Society’s public engagement work is that right now, in October 2016, death, dying, and dead bodies have never appeared more popular. -
Cisco Telepresence Cisco on Cisco Technology Seminar
Cisco TelePresence Cisco on Cisco Technology Seminar Suresha Bhat, Manager—Emerging Technology IT Julie Nordquist, Program Manager—Cisco on Cisco (Host) Presentation_ID © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 1 Agenda TelePresence Technology Overview Design Solution for Cisco Architecture Network Deploy Solution Readiness Deployment Experience ( RRA, CTX ) Support and Management Support Engineering Metrics Entitlement Presentation_ID © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 2 TelePresence Cisco TelePresence Is an Innovative, New Technology That Creates Unique, In-Person Experiences Between People, Places, and Events in Their Work and Personal Lives—over the Network Greater Productivity Faster Decision Making and Improved Time to Market Improved Responsiveness Improved Communication and Collaboration with Co-Workers, Partners, and Customers Presentation_ID © 2007 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cisco Public 3 TelePresence Technology Overview Audio/Visual Technology Telepresence systems incorporate the most up-to-date standards and technologies to offer the best audio and visual results: H.264 video codecs to offer the highest quality at lowest bit rate Session Initiation Protocol ( SIP ) Native 720p and 1080p high-definition cameras Native 720p and 1080p high-definition encoding/decoding Low-latency architecture and low bandwidth utilization Wideband advanced audio coding with low delay (AAC LD) Multichannel spatial audio with echo cancellation and interference filters to eliminate -
Immersive Robotic Telepresence for Remote Educational Scenarios
sustainability Article Immersive Robotic Telepresence for Remote Educational Scenarios Jean Botev 1,* and Francisco J. Rodríguez Lera 2 1 Department of Computer Science, University of Luxembourg, L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 2 Department of Mechanical, Informatics and Aerospace Engineering, University of León, 24071 León, Spain; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] Abstract: Social robots have an enormous potential for educational applications and allow for cognitive outcomes that are similar to those with human involvement. Remotely controlling a social robot to interact with students and peers in an immersive fashion opens up new possibilities for instructors and learners alike. Using immersive approaches can promote engagement and have beneficial effects on remote lesson delivery and participation. However, the performance and power consumption associated with the involved devices are often not sufficiently contemplated, despite being particularly important in light of sustainability considerations. The contributions of this research are thus twofold. On the one hand, we present telepresence solutions for a social robot’s location-independent operation using (a) a virtual reality headset with controllers and (b) a mobile augmented reality application. On the other hand, we perform a thorough analysis of their power consumption and system performance, discussing the impact of employing the various technologies. Using the QTrobot as a platform, direct and immersive control via different interaction modes, including motion, emotion, and voice output, is possible. By not focusing on individual subsystems or motor chains, but the cumulative Citation: Botev, J.; Rodríguez Lera, energy consumption of an unaltered robot performing remote tasks, this research provides orientation F.J. Immersive Robotic Telepresence regarding the actual cost of deploying immersive robotic telepresence solutions. -
Telepresence Installation with Unified Interoperable Video Conferencing Technology INTRODUCTION
WHITE PAPER: How to get more out of your telepresence installation with unified interoperable video conferencing technology INTRODUCTION From the time it was introduced, corporate telepresence had enabled businesses to transform their operations, globally. But even given its longevity, it’s by no means fully developed. The technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace to meet new business needs while also remaining true to its original vision: to create a meeting experience that closely replicates in-person communication. Companies have struggled with major obstacles to full adoption including the lack of interoperability between legacy systems and emerging technology, ownership and operating costs, and system scaling challenges. This white paper reports on recent research conducted on video conferencing and telepresence practices, benefits and challenges, and the characteristics of the “ideal” solution to address challenges. An OmniJoin White Paper | 2 The evolution of video same systems, from the same vendor, using rooms that were specifically designed and outfitted for conferencing and the purpose of telepresence. The financial outlay to telepresence systems install these solutions was considerable—ranging from hundreds of thousands to sometimes millions At the most basic level, installed telepresence of dollars. systems enable users to meet with remote participants using technology that closely replicates the experience of being in the same For many organizations making room. Telepresence users communicate from significant investments for in-room the telepresence installation point using voice, sys tems, the anticipated return on gestures, facial expressions, and eye contact— all of which are essential components in human investment in telepresence couldn’t interaction. People thousands of miles apart can be realized as originally envisioned.