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Navy grants first service waiver to transgender officer
The officer will have her gender officially changed in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System.
By Patricia Kime, Military.com May 16, 2020
Editor's note: This article by Patricia Kime originally appeared on Military.com, a leading source of news for the military and veteran community.
A U.S. Navy officer has become the first service member to receive a waiver to a Defense Department policy that bars most transgender troops from serving as anything other than their birth gender.
A Navy spokeswoman said Friday that Acting Secretary of the Navy James McPherson approved Wednesday a "specific request for exemption related to military service by transgender persons and persons with gender dysphoria."
"This service member requested a waiver to serve in their preferred gender, to include obtaining a gender marker change in the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System and being allowed to adhere to standards associated with their preferred gender, such as uniforms and grooming," Navy spokeswoman Lt. j.g. Brittany Stephens said.
News of the exception to a year-old prohibition on gender transitions while in uniform was first reported by CNN.
According to court documents, the officer has served for more than nine years in the surface warfare community and faced an involuntary discharge from the Navy as a result of a DoD policy implemented last year prohibiting personnel diagnosed with gender dysphoria from serving.
In July 2017, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that the U.S. government would no longer allow "transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military."
The announcement upended a 2016 decision by President Barack Obama and then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter to allow transgender personnel to serve openly in their preferred gender.
As a result of Trump's announcement, then-SecDef Jim Mattis developed and published a policy in 2018 that barred transgender service members who had not yet transitioned and those diagnosed with gender dysphoria — a mental health condition categorized by extreme distress and psychological symptoms over the mismatch between one's gender at birth and one's gender identity — from serving.
It also barred prospective recruits with gender dysphoria from joining the military, but it allowed transgender service members already serving in the military to remain.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the policy in 2019, and it has been in effect just over a year.
The officer who received the waiver was not grandfathered under the policy because, according to documents, she only came to "terms with her transgender identity" as a transgender woman after the ban went into effect. The officer, known in court documents as Lieutenant Doe, was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in June 2019 and promptly informed the Navy that she was a transgender woman.
She filed a complaint in March 2020 against the Defense Department to prevent her discharge.
Advocates for the LGBTQ community, as well as the officer's attorneys, said Friday they are "ecstatic for the sailor and the breach of the waiver logjam" they say has built since the policy was enacted.
But, they added, other qualified transgender personnel should not be barred from serving.
"While we are relieved for our client, requiring transgender service members to jump through this discriminatory hoop makes no sense and only underscores the irrationality of the ban. Being transgender has nothing to do with a person's fitness to serve, and transgender individuals should be held to the same standards as other service members," said Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
"Dedicated military service members shouldn't have to bring a lawsuit to be able to continue doing their job," said Jennifer Levi, GLAD Transgender Rights Project Director.
A spokesman for the LGBTQ advocacy group Modern Military Association of America expressed concern Friday that the waiver may be a ploy to undermine current lawsuits challenging the ban.
The group, along with Lambda Legal, is representing six transgender active-duty service members and three seeking to enlist in a challenge against the policy's constitutionality. The case, Karnoski v. Trump, has been in the courts since 2017.
"We will be watching closely to see if others are approved and how the Trump-Pence administration may attempt to weaponize the decision by falsely claiming the ban isn't a ban. MMAA is committed to ensuring the unconscionable Trump-Pence transgender military ban is overturned and any qualified transgender patriot is free to serve openly and authentically," said MMAA legal and policy director Peter Perkowski.
The Defense Department has maintained that the policy is not a ban on transgender persons but a restriction against allowing persons diagnosed with gender dysphoria to serve.
DoD officials last year said that transgender service members with gender dysphoria have 10 times the behavioral health visits than those who don't have the condition and have higher rates of suicidal ideation.
Last February, James Stewart, then acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, said gender dysphoria is a medical condition incompatible with military service and that allowing those diagnosed with it to serve "would degrade military effectiveness."
Shortly before the policy went into effect, the Navy released guidance saying it would allow transgender sailors who were not grandfathered under the previous allowance to live as their preferred gender while not on duty.
At the time the policy went into effect, roughly 1,000 service members who had transitioned or been diagnosed with gender dysphoria were serving in the U.S. military.
Roughly 9,000 identified themselves as transgender in a survey of active-duty personnel.
This article originally appeared on Military.com.
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Phlegmish Art: Can Tibetan Medical Paintings Cure Your Cold?
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COURTESY RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART.
"What does your tongue look like?" reads a sample questionnaire issued by the Rubin Museum of Art, the New York institution that showcases art from the Himalayas and their surrounding regions.
"What is your mental disposition?" the questions continue. "How would you characterize your bowel movements?"
The survey isn't part of an overly invasive application for museum membership, but rather, it is a tool that will help visitors engage with works in the Rubin's upcoming exhibition. Titled "Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine," the show will feature a selection of nearly 150 Tibetan medical sculptures, paintings, manuscripts, drawings, and devices. Through a series of participatory activities, tours, and events, "Bodies in Balance" will demonstrate the ways in which these ancient healthy-living practices can be applied to visitors' everyday lives. The show, which is curated by Elena Pakhoutova and Theresia Hofer, opens March 15.
The foundations of Tibetan medical practices are laid out in a poetic treatise called the Four Tantras, which dates back to the 12th century. The text, which is still used by Tibetan doctors today, describes a method of living and healing that is not only based on medicine, but also on diet and personal actions. "It's a philosophy of behavior," says Tim McHenry, Director of Public Programs & Performance at the Rubin. "You can treat something with antibiotics, but how did you get there in the first place?"
Left: Medicine Buddha Bhaiṣajyaguru and Entourage, Central Tibet, 12th century, pigment and gold on cotton. Right: Medicine Buddha Bhaiṣajyaguru, Central Tibet, 15th century, gilded and painted copper. Click through each image for more information.
To begin to understand how this system works, museumgoers will have the option of taking the Rubin's survey before entering the exhibition. Answers will dictate with which of the body's three humors—wind, bile, and phlegm—their body is most closely aligned with. As described in the Four Tantras, a person's age, emotional disposition, and digestive habits dictate their dominant humor.
Several of the medical drawings on view indicate that the processes of diagnosis and treatment are aided by the humor system. In an undated medical drawing titled Tree of Diagnosis, for example, the branches of a tree are color-coded to correspond with the humors. Blue, yellow, and white represent wind, bile, and phlegm, respectively. Certain ailments appear to only be wind disorders, while phlegm and bile disorders seem to share more symptoms.
Left: Tree of Diagnosis, Lhasa, 17th century, pigment on cloth and brocade. Right: Tree of Treatment, Lhasa, 17th century, pigment on cloth. Click through each image for more information.
Using this same color system, the Rubin will set up designated paths around the exhibition, allowing visitors to focus on artworks that address their specific body types. The museum café will even offer meal choices that coincide with these humors.
The Rubin is also presenting programs that advise on the spiritual and meditative aspects of Tibetan medical practices. In an event called the "Living Mandala," an image of a medical mandala will be projected so that it appears three-dimensional. Participants can step inside the painting, and, with instruction from a lama, envision themselves navigating their way toward Medicine Buddha at the center. "You have to overcome walls of fire, steep staircases, and guardians," says McHenry. "You have to overcome what's in your mind in order to be the embodiment of health."
Left: Moxibustion Chart, Tibet, 19th century, ink and pigment on paper. Right: Sinpoi Tsomo Jigje Mar, Zombie-Riding Protectress, Central Tibet, 19th century, pigment on cloth. Click through each image for more information.
And for those looking for the full Tibetan medical experience, the museum is offering the option to participate in a traditional diagnostic practice—urinalysis. In a typical medical consultation, Tibetan doctors place great emphasis on a patient's urine sample because it is an effective measure of health and diagnostics. The museum will provide urinalysis cups in the restrooms for visitors who want to try replicating this experience.
The Rubin's staff is aiming to make this exhibition as immersive as possible in the hopes that visitors will make use of these core ideas. "A 12th-century painting actually has relevance to you today," explains McHenry. "Wherever you come from, you can actually apply some of these principles and do good in your life."
Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine
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Four Tantras
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Desperately Seeking Spider-Man: Iron Man's Protégé Grows Up
Logline: Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.
You can't blame Peter Parker for desperately needing a vacation.
As Spider-Man, he helped the Avengers defeat Thanos and save the world. His mentor – Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man – died, along with several other Avengers; Peter and moviegoers feel his absence intensely throughout the film. And everyone who disappeared in "the blip" five years ago has come back, complicating matters.
Can't a teen superhero catch a break?
The answer is no, because the world needs him. He can't avoid calls from Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) forever. A new villain has shown up in Europe, where Peter and his high school friends are on a class trip. This throws a wrench in plans to finally reveal his feelings to long-time crush MJ (Zendaya).
I've said this before (see my review of Spider-Man: Homecoming): Tom Holland's Spider-Man is the superhero we've been waiting for. He's the best incarnation so far: sincere and humble, always putting others first. And exuberant, as we saw in the first film, when the weight of the world isn't on his shoulders.
One bonus is that Holland and the actors who play Peter's friends, including bestie Ned (Jacob Batalon), look and sound like real teenagers, with all the accompanying awkwardness and inadvertent hilarity.
Adding humor are interactions between Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) and Tony Stark's right-hand man Happy (Jon Favreau), continuing the previous film's running joke about Aunt May's hotness.
Peter's unwillingness to assume the Iron Man throne has both comical and serious results. That's one appealing aspect of this film: combining realistic teen experiences with the gravity of a young superhero's dilemmas.
Quentin Beck, a.k.a Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), provides the father figure Peter longs for. Fortunately for Gyllenhaal, Mysterio is more than just a square-jawed savior. He's complex, and pushes Peter out of his comfort zone to prove he's worthy of becoming Iron Man's successor.
Spider-Man: Far From Home has it all: comedy, romantic comedy, drama, action, as well as a healthy dose of feminism. I love that MJ is not your typical teenage girl as they're portrayed in movies. She's smart and strong, and doesn't hesitate to let people know it. The deadpan humor, delivered with attitude, works.
This franchise is probably my favorite in the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far. Just one minor complaint: the relentless action and accompanying onslaught of sound in the final act became wearying. The good news? The best part was yet to come. Count me among the legions of fans who eagerly await the next installment.
A side note: kudos to the casting director and producers for hiring talented people of color: Jackson; Zendaya, who is of German, Scottish and African American ancestry; and Hawaii-born Batalon, who is Filipino American.
For a sneak peek of what Spider-Man will face next, stay in your seats for the mid-credits and post-credits scenes.
Women at the helm: Produced by 12 people; two are women: Victoria Alonso and Amy Pascal. Film editing by two people; one is a woman: Leigh Folsom Boyd.
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During a meeting with councils of health associations at the Prime Ministry, Razzaz also gave directives to fill the vacant positions of retirees, applicants who refused jobs, and employees on a leave.
The directives came to address the shortage of doctors and nurses, giving priority to the graduates of 2012 and 2013 who passed the job application test, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
The premier also directed changing the allowances system, increasing the allocated budgets and linking them to the performance of cadres in 2019.
He noted that the government is working on the improvement of the heath sector in a comprehensive manner to provide better services to residents in accordance with the Royal letter of designation.
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the Price of OPEC oil basket rose on Tuesday, July 21, at $1.26 to $44,29 per barrel, whereas in the previous trading day it was us $43,03 per barrel. These data are presented today on the website of the cartel.
"Oil basket" OPEC is a conditional mixture composed of marks of oil which deliver on the world market 13 countries in the cartel (Algeria, Angola, Venezuela, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Congo, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Equatorial Guinea). A historical high for the "basket" of the cartel is a price mark of $140.73 a barrel, which was recorded July 3, 2008.
we also Recall that since the beginning of this year on the global oil market rode several waves of falling prices for "black gold". A negative situation was caused by a whole complex of factors: a General overproduction of raw materials, a sharp drop in demand due to the rapid spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19 (March 11, was declared a pandemic) and concerns about its impact on the global economy and the collapse of the deal, OPEC+ (officially from April 1, but in fact, after fruitless negotiations of the countries-oil producers at a meeting on March 6 in Vienna).
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At the meeting on June 6, the member countries of OPEC+ prodelli for a month — until the end of July — the period of validity of the agreement to reduce oil production to 9.7 million barrels per day.
15 July, the meeting of the Ministerial monitoring Committee (JMMC), which is composed of representatives of the countries participating in the agreement OPEC+ coordinated easing from August 1, restrictions on oil production (about 2 million barrels per day) — mined before the imposition of restrictions on the volume will be reduced not by 9.7 million, only 7.7 million barrels per day.
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Archive for the 'memory' Category
Eve of Destruction, eighteen years ago today
[ by Charles Cameron ]
A quick reminder.
It's the title of Barry McGuire's song, not it's Vietnam era, nuke, and Jordan River contents, that concerns us here, reminding us that eighteen years ago to the day was the Eve of Destruction of the Twin Towers in NYC — an infant born eighteen years ago tomorrow would tomorrow be eligible for military service without seeking parental consent.
What a choice: to jump to one's death, or burn alive in a kamikaze'd building.
McGuire's song.
Usama bin Laden is long gone, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried, if he still lives, in 2021.
We remember the fallen, and honor our first responders and all who serve and save.
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HipBone implications of the second shoe dropping for intel analysis
[ by Charles Cameron — also, the role of the True Name in intel analysis & Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea ]
You may know that I value the documentary film Manhunt for its lucid presentation of the process by which the finest intelligence analysts "leap" to their quarry — in which Cindy Storer notes, "not the analysts doing it, but other people who didn't have that talent referred to it as magic".
In my post The process of associative memory I decribe this process, which I consider the root process of true creativity:
There's the present moment .. And there's the memory it elicits.
Compare Michael Hayden in Manhunt, at 1.19.18:
The way it works is, information come in, you catalog it, your organize it – that little nugget there could sit fallow on your shelves for four or five years until something else comes in that's suddenly very illuminating about something that you may have had for a very long period of time. That actually happened in the work we did to hunt for Osama bin Laden by trying to track his courier.
By way of confirmation, here is Robert Frost:
The artist must value himself as he snatches a thing from some previous order in time and space into a new order with not so much as a ligature clinging to it of the old place where it was organic.
And here's Jeff Jones on piecing together puzzles —
Some pieces produce remarkable epiphanies. You grab the next piece, which appears to be just some chunk of grass – obviously no big deal. But wait … you discover this innocuous piece connects the windmill scene to the alligator scene! This innocent little new piece turned out to be the glue.
My point here is that the board in my "game" of DoubleQuotes provides a matrix for eliciting and annotating such leaps between fact and memory — that's its purpose, and that's why I believe the practice and "playing" of DoubleQuotes is, in itself, an ideal training for the analytic mind in that otherwise elusive aptitude which Ms Storer says seenms like magic to those who do not possess it..
I believe my DoubleQuotes would be an invaluable tool for analysts in training.
Note, however, that Jose Rodriguez, speaking immediately after Michael Hayden at 1.19.55, adds a reference to the "True Name" — accompanying screencaps included — something to which as a theologian I am naturally drawn:
It took years for the agency to recruit the human source that eventually gave us the true name. That's why we were in the business the of condensing human intelligence because, in many cases, all these fancy gadgets and everything else won't give you the information that you really need. A true name.
And we finally got his true name, which is whatever it is. Whatever. Arabic name, you know. But the true name – we were able to find out a lot about him. From then on, you know, the agency was able to do what it does so well. Track the guy and find him.
That too elicits memories, though in this case providing cultural context rather than actionable intelligence. It's interesting to compare Rodriguez' quote with the passages in which Ursula Le Guin describes the nature of magic in her book, Wizard of Earthsea:
He who would be Seamaster must know the true name of every drop of water in the sea.
He saw that in this dusty and fathomless matter of learning the true name of every place, thing, and being, the power he wanted lay like a jewel at the bottom of a dry well. For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.
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FWIW, there's an appendix on the central spiritual significance of remembrance of the True Name in Judaism (HaShem), Christianity (Jesus Prayer), Islam (dhikr), Hinduism (nama-rupa), Buddhism (nembutsu) etc at the back of Frithjof Schuon's little book, The Transcendent Unity of Religions.
On which frankly mystical note, here's a third para from Le Guin to carry you towards Lao Tzu's observation that "The name that can be named is not the eternal Name" —
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.
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If your memory serves you well..
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
[ by Charles Cameron — Muslim travel ban DoubleQuoted with Japanese internment camps, history rhyming, Ginsberg on Dylan's national rhyme ]
Anna O Law (The Immigration Battle in American Courts, Cambridge, 2014) made the connection:
Poll: Half of voters support Trump travel ban https://t.co/QrSShbyXSq pic.twitter.com/Fokenio2cd
— The Hill (@thehill) June 6, 2017
In 1942, 63% of public wanted to send interned Japanese nationals & Americans "back to Japan". 40% of public disapproved of Brown v Board. https://t.co/3XbW7vGFnG
— Anna O. Law (@UnlawfulEntries) June 6, 2017
What kind of rhyme is that anyway, Mister History?
Is it one like:
Idiot wind, blowing everytime you move your jaw,
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Mardi Gras.
— the first version the current Nobel Laureate in Literature tried out — or this, definitive one? —
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
The question interests me because there's a back-level where the rhyme is in the concept, not the sound of the words as pronounced by poet or listener, reader — as with the rhyme womb / tomb, where before-birth and after-death meet both soncally and conceptually, making life freshly worthwhile as only the mechanics of poetry can.
Ginsberg explains:
Christopher Ricks, who has also penned books about T. S. Eliot and John Keats, argues that Dylan's lyrics not only qualify as poetry, but that Dylan is among the finest poets of all time, on the same level as Milton, Keats, and Tennyson. He points to Dylan's mastery of rhymes that are often startling and perfectly judged. For example, this pairing from "Idiot Wind," released in 1975:
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol
The metaphorical relation between the head and the head of state, both of them two big domes, and the "idiot wind" blowing out of Washington, D.C., from the mouths of politicians, made this particular lyric the "great disillusioned national rhyme," according to Allen Ginsberg.
Ginsberg's formidable liking for this rhyme is part of what got him invited to Dylan's Rolling thunder Review:
Ginsberg's tribute to that rhyme is one of the reasons he is here with Bob and Joan and the rest of the merry motley. It was, says Allen, "one of the little sparks of intelligence that passed between Bob and me and that led him to invite me on the tour."
I caught the rolling thunder in Fort Collins:
Ah yes.
And If your memory serves you well is, as I recall via Google, Dylan's top of the hat to Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, which opens with the words:
Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les cœurs, où tous les vins coulaient.
This Wheel's On Fire, lyrics by that Nobel fellow, Rick Danko and the Band:
Memory, pattern, association, analogy, history, learning.
And Dylan on how literature works on you a similar wonder — in his recently released Nobel speech:
Music to my ears.
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McCants explains the Saudis, Quantico rebukes them
[ by Charles Cameron — Saudi-sourced jihadism, the FBI, Baader-Meinhof — hey, it's all about terrosism ]
Will McCants explains [upper panel, below] how the Saudis are and are not promoting terrorism —
— while a screen-cap from episode 9 in the first season of Quantico explains just why such an approach is logically bound to be defective.
Oh well, not to worry. It's just another example of the illusion colloquially known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. I wouldn't want to go all irrational on you, so I'll let RationalWiki explain:
The frequency illusion (also known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon) is the phenomenon in which people who just learn or notice something start seeing it everywhere.
Except that — well, there it is again — Baader-Meinhof — it's all terrorism!
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Van Riper and the HipBone mechanism
[ by Charles Cameron — part ii of van Riper's cognitive process is what we train ]
Van Riper, as quoted in Maj. Joe Byerly's article, Use 'Mental Models' to Outthink the Enemy, writes that both study of the past allows "practitioners of war to see familiar patterns of activity and to develop more quickly potential solutions to tactical and operational problems."
There are two parts to that.
One is the seeding of the mind with a multitude of thoughts, concepts, tactics, strategies, events, skirmishes, battles, wars, moments and flows in time.
And the other is the present moment riggering a past, suitably analogous, situation from out of all that multitude.
I cannot easily persuade or inspire others to seed the mind with a wide and various range of experiences and readings. But I can train the abulity to pluck apt analogies out of the dim recesses of memory, to scrape them off the back wall of the skull if necessary, to find those patterns, and providee those dots with which the presnt moment may fruitfully connect.
That's what the HipBone Games in general teach, that's what each move in a HipBone or Sembl Game is about, that's precisely and exactly what the DoubleQuotes method is all about, that in a nutshell is the heart of what I call HipBone Analytics.
Maj. Byerly makes the case for wide and reading very clearly. It's getting up to speed on part two that interests me here.
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Bidding on inventory happens in microseconds in the digital paradigm of media buying. Real-time buying happens so fast that most of the tools used to detect and combat fraud use software solutions that identify fraudsters before the fact.
Or, they parse through data at a later time to determine what percentage of inventory bought and sold was fraudulent.
Equinix, a data center provider, says software solutions are not enough. The actual infrastructure of the Internet helps to enable fraud. "The Internet wasn't designed for machine-to-machine programmatic decision-making and transactions," says Robert Blackburn, vice president of sales for Equinix.
Essentially, Equinix has set up an ecosystem that allows its customers to keep their transactions and fraud detection services within one physical location, minimizing the volume of timeouts that buyers face and keeping inventory clean.
Forensiq, an ad fraud and detection company, has partnered with Equinix to offer close to real-time fraud detection using the milliseconds saved with the direct interconnection.
By placing housing ad exchanges, networks, cloud services, demand and sell side platforms and data vendors alongside each other, Equinix is able to bypass Internet service providers and connect the various companies directly to each other.
That reduces the time between offer and bid from between three and 60 milliseconds (in the worst cases) to less than a millisecond. Forensiq CTO Mike Andrews says their fraud detection takes between one and three milliseconds on top of that.
Within a closed ecosystem, Blackburn adds that media buyers can complete up to 50% more of their bids, because network timeouts or bid windows don't affect direct connections as easily.
Within such an ecosystem, an advertiser in Hong Kong can effectively compete with advertisers from New York, London, or Dubai for inventory without losing an edge due to latency.


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Q: VLOOKUP, using an undefined substring as the lookup value I have been thinking about this one for a while now; I am asking if there is a way of doing this purely using Excel formulas. There are few things more frustrating to me than creating VBA code to create a function that already exists.
I have a table with a column "Description" and a column "Country". I use "Description" as the lookup value of a VLOOKUP function to find its "Country" from an auxiliary table. The problem is that the value that would match in the auxiliary table can be anywhere within the "Description". The picture in the link is probably a better explanation.
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So... easily done with an Excel function (or combination of), or do I need to create a VBA function for this?
Thank you in advance!

A: In B2 enter: =INDEX($E$1:$E$7,LARGE(IF(IFERROR(FIND($D$1:$D$7,A1)>0,0),ROW($D$1:$D$7)-ROW($D$1)+1),1)) and use the fill handle to drag down.
Note: this breaks easily and may give unwanted results if say, you have an empty cell in column D!
(What it's doing, is doing a lookup from column D to column A, and seeing if the result matches the corresponding row in column A...

(not the best solution, IMO, but it would work for me)

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1 What Is Definition Of A O'Fallon Health Club?
2 Selecting A O'Fallon MO Health Club.
What Is Definition Of A O'Fallon Health Club?
If you have actually had a specifically stressful day, a half-hour walk at the fitness center track or on the treadmill can provide the emotional lift and also anxiety decrease you need, inning accordance with the Mayo Facility. Yet those that experience periodic tiffs or a decline in their mood aren't the just one who can gain from normal trips to the gym. The Mayo Facility discovers that regular exercise can make a huge difference for some individuals by helping to relieve signs and symptoms of anxiety and also clinical depression.
As you begin your exercise, your mind's neurotransmitters – one of its chemical messengers – attach memory with muscular tissue to get you moving, according to the Franklin Institute. The feelings of fulfillment and also success you experience throughout your workout stimulate the enjoyment facility of your mind and also lift your state of mind. At the same time, the anxiety hormonal agents cortisol as well as adrenaline are decreased as endorphins are launched, discovers Harvard Medical Center. This combination of task helps lower anxiety levels, while boosting feelings of happiness, calmness and satisfaction.
Constant workouts at the gym will eventually help you achieve your fitness goals. When you look in the mirror and also see a thinner or even more muscle body staring back at you, you'll get improvements in self-worth and self-esteem. In addition, time spent working out with other people in an aerobics class supplies you with a social atmosphere where you could reap the psychological benefits gotten through the sociability you establish with various other schoolmates.
Selecting A O'Fallon MO Health Club.
A recent study discovered that in between 30% and also 40% of people that have a gym membership state they never ever use it. Really frequently people obtain captured up in the sales and also advertising initiatives around the brand-new year and also join. Then they go for a few weeks and find the gym truly isn't really an excellent suit. So today I have some easy activities you can require to obtain one of the most from the membership.
Locate a gym or club that is close to house or job. The closer it is the more probable you are to go.
Take an excursion and also ask as several questions as you desire before you sign up with. Make sure it's the right health club for you. What kind of people function out there?
Take advantage of free personal training or use of a trainer momentarily. You'll get knowledgeable about the equipment and also create a job regimen.
A lot of reliable clubs will allow you to function out free at least once before signing up with. Do your workout at the time of day that you typically plan to function out to see how crowded the club obtains and also how lengthy you would have to wait for machines.
Find out about courses. Ask to see a class timetable as well as speak to some instructors. Find out if classes are complimentary with your subscription.
Great health clubs will have a person readily available to teach you just how to make use of all of the devices correctly for complimentary. Locate out, too, if your health club has individual fitness instructors who could take you with your workout.
Sign up with a health club that is close to your house or job. Fitness club experts have exactly what they call the "twelve-week/twelve-mile" theory: Most people that sign up with will certainly work out for just the first twelve weeks of their subscription, and also just if the club is less than twelve miles from their office or home. Locate an area that's close and practical.
Choose a fitness center where you feel comfy. Look at the people that go there and also think about how you would feel functioning out among them. Some clubs are geared exclusively or largely to women, and others are a lot more geared to men.
Is it exactly what you require for your exercise? I prefer a club that not only has the equipment I such as, however likewise the equipment I might make use of if I create an injury. If a club does not have numerous extra elliptical exerciser stations and a number of unused rowing equipments at the time I am most likely to work out, I advise choosing another club.
The Internal Revenue Service typically prohibits subtracting the expense of a health club membership because it defines this kind of expenditure as a service, enjoyment or social experience as opposed to a restorative environment. Also if you make use of the facility to boost your general physical health and wellness, deal with a condition or perk up your psychological health, it still can not be crossed out. That stated, among the standards the Internal Revenue Service considers when making a decision if a health club membership or program is eligible for a deduction involves period: If you already belong to the facility before you attempt to write it off, the deduction could be a challenging sell.
If your doctor suggests routine workouts calling for a gym membership as part of your treatment for weight reduction, disease– e.g., diabetic issues, cardio ailments or high blood pressure, for example– or psychological recovery, the problem could qualify as a deduction if you could offer proof that your physician "has purchased you to do a certain physical activity due to a detected clinical problem," according to Certified Public Accountant Tara Haas. Verify this circumstance and also in most cases you can subtract just the costs you paid for the program that helps you reclaim your health, not your membership fees.
It's a healthy and balanced action in the right instructions, fitness center membership fees are just sometimes taken into consideration eligible with a Flexible Spending Account (FSA). In order to get approved for FSA compensation, you would require a medical professional's note indicating that the fitness center membership would certainly assist with the treatment of a particular clinical condition. The Internal Revenue Service considers health club/gym subscription fees as "general health and wellness" products, instead of as a requirement to treat particular clinical conditions. Unfortunately, that often causes health club memberships not being thought about as FSA eligible, but it truly relies on the FSA account.
It's finest to consult your FSA plan summary to discover FSA eligible costs, or to call your FSA manager to obtain even more details. If you want to uncover even more FSA eligible expenses, Check the eligibility listing.
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Melise Blakeslee is the founding principal of Sequel. For nearly 30 years, she has counseled emerging technology companies, with a particular emphasis on the commercialization of technology, software, data, trade secrets, cyber-security, and, when necessary, IP litigation.
Melise became an entrepreneur when she opened Sequel Technology Law to provide her clients with more nimble services at a better price point. Melise believes her role is to help clients focus on the business fundamentals by removing legal barriers as quickly as possible, with as little disturbance as possible. Founding Sequel clients included many Fortune 500 brand-names with unique technology or distribution issues, big data, cyber-security or critical IT infrastructure.
Melise has gained an international reputation for her involvement in many of the watershed legal cases and disputes impacting intellectual property, technology and Internet law, successfully protecting clients from all types of Internet-based crimes including copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition, defamation, deceptive trade practices, and the theft of information.
Her depth of experience with Internet-related matters naturally led to a specialty practice involving the commercialization and protection of data. For over twenty years, Melise has been licensing data internationally. She has advised companies with respect to some of the largest databases in the world for travel data, clearinghouse data, and global membership organizations. A significant part of her practice relates to helping her clients navigate the myriad number of international data transfer issues. Melise advises clients on global compliance programs and breach solutions, including breach crisis management.
Melise's Internet and cybercrime expertise is highlighted in her seminal book Internet Crimes, Torts & Scams: Investigation & Remedies (Oxford University Press, 2010). Her more recent work, Intellectual Property Enforcement in the Digital World, will be published in the Spring of 2017 by Matthew Bender/LexisNexis.
Melise headed up McDermott Will & Emery's Internet Business group from 1996 to 2008, leading the firm's Transactions and Cybercrime group, and was a senior member of the Copyright group. During her tenure, she guided clients through two major business cycles of eCommerce growth and divestment, boom and bust, giving her a practical perspective on the importance of a sound product and a healthy P&L statement.
She is the long-standing outside general counsel for D-Scope Systems, a provider of FDA and HIPAA-compliant solutions for recording patient examinations in a media-rich environment with cloud-based archiving and collaboration tools. More recently, she became the outside General Counsel for an early stage cyber-defense firm.
Melise is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the International Trademark Association and the Futures Industry Association.
While some law firms and commercial security firms offer brand monitoring and protection services, Sequel aims to be a "curator" of our clients' brand identities.
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Home>>Health>>Descending LC-NAergic neurons suppress pain transmission
Descending LC-NAergic neurons suppress pain transmission
These observations overturn the prevailing check out that descending LC-NAergic neurons suppress agony transmission within the spinal dorsal horn."The invention of the new inhabitants of astrocytes reveals a brand new part of descending LC-NAergic neurons in facilitating spinal ache transmission," describes Tsuda.Considering these results, suppressing signaling of such astrocytes by noradrenaline might enrich the effect of medicine for Persistent agony.To initially examination this, the scientists genetically engineered mice during which reaction of astrocytes to noradrenaline was selectively inhibited and gave them duloxetine, an analgesic drug believed to extend levels of noradrenaline within the spinal twine by blocking uptake by descending LC-NAergic neurons.Without a doubt, the modified mice exhibited an Improved easing of Persistent discomfort by duloxetine, additional supporting the researchers' proposed purpose of your astrocytes."Whilst we nonetheless want extra experiments with distinctive medicine, this astrocyte population seems for being an exceptionally promising focus on for maximizing the therapeutic possible of drugs for Long-term ache," states Tsuda.Working with mice, the researchers confirmed that stimulating noradrenergic (NAergic) neurons — so named for his or her use of noradrenaline as a neurotransmitter — that carry signals from your locus coeruleus (LC) inside the Mind all the way down to the spinal dorsal horn activates the astrocytes and that the astrocyte activation results in agony hypersensitivity.
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Sestrin helps make fruit flies Are living for a longer period
Scientists detect constructive effector driving minimized food intake.educed foods intake, often called dietary restriction, causes a longer lifespan in lots of animals and will increase health and fitness in individuals. Nonetheless, the molecular mechanisms underlying the constructive results of dietary restriction are still unclear. Researchers in the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing have now discovered a single feasible clarification in fruit flies: they determined a protein named Sestrin that mediates the useful results of dietary restriction. By expanding the quantity of Sestrin in flies, researchers were capable to extend their lifespan and at the same time these flies had been protected towards the lifespan-shortening effects of a protein-prosperous diet program. The scientists could even further display that Sestrin plays a crucial purpose in stem cells in the fly intestine thus enhancing the overall health on the fly.The health and fitness great things about dietary restriction have long been regarded. Just lately, it happens to be obvious that restriction of selected food stuff parts, Particularly proteins as well as their particular person creating blocks, the amino acids, is more crucial for that organism's reaction to dietary restriction than standard calorie reduction. Around the molecular amount, a single particular very well-recognized signalling pathway, named TOR pathway, is crucial for longevity."We wished to know which factor is to blame for measuring nutrients inside the cell, Specifically amino acids, and how this component influences the TOR pathway," describes Jiongming Lu, researcher in the Office of Linda Partridge in the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing.
Sestrin as a potential anti-ageing component
"Our ends in flies discovered Sestrin being a novel possible anti-ageing aspect," says Linda Partridge, head on the research crew. "We could present the Sestrin protein binds particular amino acids. When we inhibited this binding, the TOR signalling pathway while in the flies was fewer active plus the flies lived for a longer period," adds Lu. "Flies using a mutated Sestrin protein unable to bind amino acids showed improved health in the existence of a protein-rich diet."Significantly attention-grabbing: When the researchers improved the quantity of Sestrin protein in stem cells located in the fly intestine, these flies lived about 10 p.c more time than control flies. On top of that, the amplified Sestrin quantities only in the gut stem cells also shielded towards the unfavorable outcome of the protein-prosperous food plan. Lu proceeds: "We have been curious if the function of Sestrin in people is analogous as in flies. Experiments with mice currently confirmed that Sestrin is required for your effective outcomes of physical exercise about the wellbeing of your animal. A drug that raises the activity from the Sestrin protein could as a result be in potential a novel method of decelerate the ageing course of action.""We focused on a protein known as Sestrin, which was advised to sense amino acids. Nevertheless, no person has at any time shown amino acid sensing function of Sestrin inside a dwelling currently being."
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Earn respect, stand up for your dreams
Women now outnumber men in veterinarian medicine.
Cheryl Day | Mar 08, 2016
Agriculture has always been a male-dominant world including the field of veterinarian medicine. Peggy Anne Hawkins, DVM, knows too well that the road to become a swine veterinarian is never paved in gold and when you add the missing "Y" chromosome factor the journey contains rougher terrain.
Graduating from high school in 1975, Hawkins inspired to become a veterinarian. However, her father did not hitch his wagon to her dreams. With a protective nature, he sat his little girl down and explained that girls do not go to college. Needless to say, Hawkins disobeyed her father.
First, as a compromise she attended the Medical Institute of Minnesota to obtain a veterinarian technician degree. Hawkins returned to a small veterinarian practice in her hometown area as a veterinarian technician. Still, the desire to become a veterinarian never fizzled and she was determined to complete her dreams despite the obstacles before her.
Hawkins vividly recalls waking up on Jan. 3, 1987, and saying to herself "I have to marry a man to get a man's salary to do the things I want to do or I've got to get an education that is going to get me a man's salary to do the things I want to do."
As a woman on a mission, Hawkins marched to her high school to obtain an application for Iowa State University with the intention to complete a Bachelor of Science degree and eventually a veterinarian degree. She applied without her parents knowing. So, when the letter reached the mailbox and she told her mom that she was accepted her mom replied "wait until your father gets home." Bravely, meeting her father in the driveway Hawkins explained the letter, her intentions and ensured her father that it would not cost the family a dime.
After completing her undergraduate work at Iowa State University, Hawkins immediately applied for veterinary school but like many of her male counterparts she did not get in the first year. She charged ahead, planned to apply again and entered the Peace Corps. During the time with the Peace Corps, she realized food animal agriculture was her calling and upon her return she was accepted in the College of Veterinary Medicine Science at ISU.
Hawkins never regrets her journey in becoming a large animal veterinarian. Every step, in particular her technical training in production, has served her well. Looking back, her dad did ask her if he ever held her back. She responded "no" and says she would not have traded what happened for anything in the world. Although Hawkins was not the first female swine veterinarian, she was one of a few upon graduating from veterinary school in 1991.
Women veterinarian paving the way
While it is common to see women veterinarians today, it has not always been that way. As Hawkins reveals in the 1970s, it was feared that women will only be veterinarian part-time. When you look at the statistics, 1987 was the first time the number of women equaled the number of men in veterinary college. Since 1995, 80% of veterinary students are women in the United States and Canada.
Interestingly, today the roles are reversed. In fact, Hawkins says she was visiting with a committee member whom assists with selecting new veterinary students and they are now recruiting male applicants.
Author Anne Lincoln wrote in "The Shifting Supply of Men and Women to Occupations: Feminization in Veterinary Education" that the shift in gender ratio was related to three things. First, in 1972 a federal amendment outlawed the discrimination of females during the school application process. Soon, the number of women exceeded the number of men who received a Bachelor of Science degree. Although, males would outnumber females in a freshman class, more women would actually finish and be ready to enter graduate programs. Thirdly, Lincoln says males tend to shy away from occupations that appear to be women dominated.
Nevertheless, women have not always pursued the swine veterinarian occupation until recently. In 2015, 22% members of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians are women and three have been president of the organization. Hawkins says visiting with the first few women AASV members, many commented that the organization has always been open to their involvement and willing to lend a hand when needed. More importantly, for the most part, the women recall the acceptance by the swine industry. Still, some had to face a few challenges being the first female veterinarian in a rural community. Often, there was some public concern of women being in the barns with men. In order to overcome, the female veterinarians started inviting the women of the household to the barns during the visits. Getting the women involved in the farming operation calmed the gossip.
On the whole, Hawkins says her male counterparts are supportive, "treat us as equals and help us to learn everything."
Hawkins has several tips to fellow women wanting to enter the field of veterinarian medicine. First, she says "you can do it." In general, you may have to approach tasks differently than men but at the end of the day you will find a way to do it in your own way. However, Hawkins warns it is still important to do it right.
Speaking to young women, Hawkins says it is important to recognize that there will be time you will be in an uncomfortable situation, especially when it comes to side dialogues. As a female you may be talked to differently, but if you are offended by the discussion do not be afraid to speak up.
There is nothing that says a woman cannot put a restriction on their language and behavior because that is going to get you the respect. As a pioneer in her field, Hawkins says she strives to make it easier for the women who follow her.
Overall, Hawkins advises that gender should never stop you but you should always earn the respect and stand up for your dreams.
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She concludes, "It is about the population. It is not about the individual animal but it is about food, feeding people and health and welfare of these animals that serve us. That is what swine medicine is all about."
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Monique Baroni, née le  à Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) et morte le  à La Tronche, est une artiste peintre, pastelliste et lithographe française.

Biographie
Monique Angèle Gallet est née le  à Tarbes.

Elle étudie initialement la musique, notamment le piano, et, en raison des engagements de la famille, c'est seulement en 1970 qu'initiée au dessin par le peintre , elle commence à étudier la peinture aux ateliers de Clichy et de Bougival, puis pour la gravure avec Jean-Marc Lange, premier Grand prix de Rome 1965, et pour la peinture avec Édouard Georges Mac-Avoy, portraitiste et président du Salon d'automne, dans leurs ateliers respectifs.

Son œuvre s'inscrit dans le courant du , dans le sillage de Pierre Bonnard auquel elle rend hommage en 2015. Ni figurative, ni abstraite, sa vision picturale entend traduire et épurer les sentiments de l'artiste. Coloriste audacieuse, ce peintre du bonheur tranquille charpente ses toiles avec de puissants accords chromatiques.

De 1977 à 1990, elle anime un atelier de peinture à Rueil-Malmaison. Parmi ses élèves, elle compte les peintres Guillaume Villaros, Virginie Nègre, Catherine Vaudron. Elle travaille également dans un atelier à Bercy.

Sa première exposition personnelle date de 1978. En 2010, elle est l'invitée d'honneur du Salon de Versailles.

En 2013, les éditions d'art Somogy publient une monographie, Monique Baroni, La couleur pour enchanter le monde écrite par Noël Coret, président du Salon d'Automne à Paris. Baroni devient présidente d'honneur du Salon d'Automne et sociétaire d'autres salons parisiens. De son vivant, sa dernière exposition personnelle se déroule dans le cadre du Salon d'automne international au palais Kheireddine de Tunis en .

Monique Baroni meurt à La Tronche le  des suites d'une maladie. Elle repose à Embrun.

La Fondation Taylor crée en 2016 un prix Monique-Baroni destiné à honorer un artiste au talent prometteur (décerné cette année-là à l'artiste chinoise Dongni Hou), puis organise en  une rétrospective de l'œuvre de Monique Baroni, présentant notamment ses dernières toiles réalisées à Grenoble à l'automne 2015. En  au Musée d'art et d'histoire de Parthenay, le peintre Bernard Cavaillès, qui fut son élève, tient une conférence sur l'œuvre de son maître.

Expositions

Individuelles

Collectives

Collections publiques

France

 Cabinet des estampes de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
 Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité de Bercy, Paris, Lumière divine (Annonciation), huile sur toile située devant le chœur, don Monique Baroni, .

États-Unis
 , Marietta (Géorgie), vingt-deux toiles.

Prix et distinctions

Références

Annexes

Bibliographie
 Patrick-F. Barrer, L'histoire du Salon d'automne de 1903 à nos jours, Arts et Images du Monde, 1992.
 Emmanuel Bénézit :
 Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs (article de Jacques Busse), vol.1, Gründ, 1999.
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 Noël Coret, Jean-François Larrieu et Henri Fuscien-Trasan (préface de José Pierre), Monique Baroni - La symphonie de la vie, Grafo S.A., Bilbao, 2000.
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 Noël Coret, Monique Baroni, la couleur pour enchanter le monde, éditions Somogy, 2013.

Filmographie
 Monique Baroni, le peintre des bonheurs, film de Jean Desvilles, Arts et résonances, Paris.

Liens externes

 Pascale Thuillant, « Monique Baroni », Art actif.
 Biographie sur akoun.com (nécessite un compte).

Naissance en juillet 1930
Naissance à Tarbes
Peintre française
Peintre paysagiste français
Peintre français de nature morte
Peintre français du XXe siècle
Lithographe français du XXe siècle
Décès en juin 2016
Décès à La Tronche
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IEEE ICHI 2019
Call for Papers Call for Posters and Demos Call for Workshops Call for Tutorials Call for Doctoral Consortium Call for Industry Track Conference Topics
Program Paper Sessions Poster Sessions Accepted Doctoral Consortium Submissions Industry Track Workshops Tutorials Data Analytics Challenge Special Panels
Registration Hotel & Venue Visa Attractions in Xi'an Travel Grants
Organizing Committee Members Systems Track: PC Members Analytics Track: PC Members Human Factors Track: PC Members Tutorials Track: PC Members Doctoral Track: PC Members POSTER and DEMO: PC Members
Panel 1: Digital Health in China: Unique Opportunities and Challenges
The digital health market is booming in China because its large population base, the pervasive use of smart phones and mobile payment methods, and the predominantly out-of-pocket financial model of its healthcare system. The aging population and the increasing societal burden for managing complex chronic illnesses such as diabetes are also driving factors for adopting effective and low-cost population health management solutions. This panel convenes digital health experts from the PingAn Health Technology, Microsoft Research Asia, Yidu Cloud, and Tencent to discuss the unique opportunities for, as well as challenges to, developing and diffusing digital health technologies in China. Topics covered will include how various players strive to change the healthcare landscape in China through digital health innovations, and lessons learned can be broadly applied to other countries and other healthcare systems.
Panel Moderator:
Yunan Chen, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
Xianghua Ding, Associate Professor, Fudan University, China
Yuan Ni, PhD., is a senior researcher from PingAn Health Technology Ltd. Where she manages the intelligent disease management department. She received her bachelor degree from Fudan university, computer science department in 2003 and her Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore, school of computing in 2008. Before joining PingAn Health Tech, she was a senior researcher at IBM Research, China. Dr Ni was a core member of the Watson project and Debater project when she was in IBM. She has more than 10 years of experiences in knowledge graph and natural language processing and is driving to apply these technologies in healthcare domain. Dr Ni was granted more than 20 patents and published more than 20 papers in top international conferences such as SIGMOD, WWW, CIKM, WSDM, Medinfo, AMIA and etc.
Jun Yan, PhD. is a chief AI scientist and the director of big data and AI laboratory at Yidu Cloud. He received his PhD from Peking University in 2006. Before joining Yidu Cloud, he was a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia where he served as a manager for intelligence business and data mining group. His research interests include knowledge discovery in AI, machine learning, text mining, information retrieval and AI for healthcare. He has published more than 80 articles in research venues such as SIG KDD, SIGIR, WWW and ICDM.
Yefeng Zheng, PhD. is currently an R&D Director at Tencent, China, leading the company's initiative on Medical AI. He received B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and a Ph.D. degree from University of Maryland, USA. Before joining Tencent, he worked 12 years at Siemens on intelligent medical image analysis and have contributed to many award-winning products. He has published 100+ papers and invented 70+ US patents. He is a fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.
Panel 2: Publishing in Health Informatics: Perspectives from Editor-in-Chiefs
With the rapid development of health IT technologies and exploration of health data, many (new) researchers and trainees are expecting to publish in the exciting field of health informatics. Yet, they may not fully understand the genre and review criteria of different journals in the field. In this panel, we invite the current editor-in-chiefs from Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, and Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research (JHIR) to discuss topic areas, review process, and future directions of each journal, as well as their roles in the scientific community. The panel will also answer publication related questions from audience.
Panel Moderators:
Zhiyong Lu, Senior Investigator, NLM/NCBI
Suzanne Bakken, R.N., Ph.D., FAAN, FACMI, FIAHSI, is the Alumni Professor of Nursing and a professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University and Co-chair of the Health Analytics Center of the Data Science Institute. Dr. Bakken is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Nursing, American College of Medical Informatics, International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Bakken currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Carlo Combi, Ph.D. is a professor at Department of Computer Science, University of Verona. His main research interests are related to the database field, with an emphasis on the management of clinical information. Dr. Combi was the head of the Department from 2007-2012 and the chair of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Society (AIME) from 2009-2013. He is an author the book Temporal Information Systems in Medicine, and is currently the Editor-in-Chief for journal Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
Christopher C. Yang, Ph.D. is a professor in the College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University. His research interests include healthcare informatics, data analytics, artificial intelligence, web search and mining, security informatics, knowledge management, information visualization, information sharing and privacy, and electronic commerce. He is the director of Healthcare Informatics Research Lab, the director of data science programs, and the program director of the MS in Health Informatics at Drexel University. Dr. Yang currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research.
Panel 3: Women in Health Informatics
The goal of the special panel, "Women in Informatics� is to encourage and support women scholars' involvement and contribution in health informatics research, education and practice. The panel will be moderated by Hongfang Liu and Yunan Chen. We invite four female researchers at different stages of their career to share their views, experiences, challenges, and strategies in succeeding in informatics field. Issues will be discussed in this penal include, but not limited to, career options, collaborative work, work-life balance, tenure and promotion, we hope to create an engaging forum for mutual support and advocacy to each other.
Hongfang Liu, Ph.D., FACMI, is a professor of biomedical informatics in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and is a consultant in the Department of Health Sciences Research at Mayo Clinic. She is leading Mayo Clinic's clinical natural language processing (NLP) program with the mission of providing support to access clinical information stored in unstructured text for research and practice. Dr. Liu's work in informatics has resulted in informatics systems that unlock clinical information stored in clinical narratives. Dr. Liu also serves as the inaugural chair for Division of Digital Health Sciences at Mayo Clinic.
Yunan Chen, Ph.D., is an associate Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, Director of the Undergraduate Minor Program in Health Informatics, and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Informatics. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Health Informatics. In particular, she is interested in designing and evaluating interactive systems such as electronic health records system, and more recently of patient-facing applications such as patient portals, mHealth apps, and social media for health.
Georgina Moulton, Ph.D. is currently leading on the education strategy and programs across a multi-institutional center – the Health eResearch Centre - as well as the Centre of Health Informatics at the University of Manchester. She is one of four who lead the capacity building agenda for the UK-wide Farr Institute, and she is a steering member of the NHS North west Informatics Skills and Development Network. Dr. Moulton has been responsible for training over 3,500 professionals from academia, industry (bio-pharma and technology) and the NHS.
Cui Tao, Ph.D., FACMI, is an internationally recognized scientist in Medical Informatics, specializing in the fields of ontologies and terminologies. She has published more than 100 articles and is currently the principal investigator for three NIH funded projects. She is a recipient of the prestigious PECASE award named by President Obama. Her research has focused on developing ontology and semantic technologies for biomedical knowledge representation, data normalization, natural language processing, and semantic reasoning. Her research findings have been successfully applied by big research centers and many research projects.
Olivia Choudhury, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral researcher with the Learning Health Systems group at IBM Research, Cambridge, MA. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Notre Dame, IN in 2017. Her doctoral thesis focused on developing cloud computing-based infrastructures to expedite analysis and learning-based algorithms to improve quality of large-scale genomic data. Her current research focuses on developing: (a) blockchain-based frameworks for managing and sharing sensitive data in healthcare and biomedical applications, particularly in multi-site clinical trials and IoT, and (b) privacy-preserving federated learning models to analyze distributed electronic health data.
Discussion topics may include:
As a woman working in healthcare informatics, what factors are considered to be important by you for a productive career?
What are some challenges faced by women in informatics?
How do you balance work and family as a professional woman?
How can more women attain leadership roles?
How competitive are positions in industry versus academia?
Are there different skill sets required for industry versus academic positions?
What are the steps towards success in industry or academic careers?
How do you choose which directions/collaborators/projects to follow?
What are the emerging topics in the era of AI and healthcare informatics?
Beyond science, what are the essential skills students or post-docs should acquire to pursue research in informatics?
Do you have a mentor in your career? Do you want to serve as a mentor for young women? What do you consider as a good mentorship for young women in informatics?


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It's people, not papers, who matter: how policymakers acquire knowledge in Indonesia
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By Ajoy Datta
Funders around the world have provided considerable support to (non-governmental) think tanks, assuming they are well placed to influence government policy by, amongst other things, producing and sharing short and punchy written outputs like policy briefs and blog posts. However, a number of research papers (here, here, here and here) exploring how policymakers make decisions in Indonesia challenge these assumptions.
These papers reveal that, when mid-level Indonesian policymakers in both large 'spending ministries' as well as smaller 'influencing ministries' are tasked with, say, developing or revising a regulation or law, their first priority is to acquire, not research, but relevant statistical data. Seen as objective, data helps policymakers to, for instance, identify current trends, recognise issues that need to be addressed, assign targets and/or demonstrate impact.
However, some policymakers find it difficult to access good quality data. Others struggle to make sense of the huge amounts of data that exists: data on its own fails to indicate causes of trends and does not point to potential solutions. This is where research can help.
When research is sought, it is to provide context, inform a strategy or defend or legitimise an existing decision. Questions are usually generated in an ad hoc manner and are often driven by directives from senior policymakers. However, if policymakers have a question which research can help answer, they are often unwilling to admit to a lack of knowledge, tend to be suspicious of advice that contradicts their own position and, subsequently, fail to articulate their questions to knowledge providers.
When policymakers do seek research, rather than commission and read formal research papers, policymakers are more likely to invite experts (usually as individuals) to provide advice through social processes (which some policymakers refer to as a form of research). These processes usually feature formal and informal meetings or phone conversations, focus group discussions (FGDs), as well as seminars. Examples of these processes include advice offered to a minister in the form of a second opinion or an in-depth FGD with technical experts to discuss trends in data and draw implications for their policy work.
A preference for acquiring knowledge through social processes is a key feature of the Indonesian cultural context. However, this is also because policymakers find it very difficult to formally commission research. For instance, to procure research (from internal research and development units, where ministries have them) mid-level policymakers have to go through a lengthy and cumbersome chain of approvals until they reach a senior civil servant who can authorise the request. This usually discourages them from making a request at all. In any case, these internal research and development units tend to be marginal structures within most ministries and often lack the capacity to produce high quality research.
Exactly who policymakers invite to an FGD, for instance, depends both on the issue and on their personal, academic alumni and professional networks. Qualifications, knowledge and experience are important but, for most policymakers, trust, developed through at least occasional social interaction, plays a major role as to whether specific experts are invited to make a contribution to policy discussions (resonating with findings from an OTT working paper on think tank credibility). These individuals are usually academics and scholars from national and sub-national level universities (who are themselves civil servants, given the status of higher education institutes in Indonesia).
However, there is significant disparity amongst academics, which reflects the inequality amongst universities. There are some elite universities, mostly public, that have pockets of international excellence and whose experts central line ministries can draw on, often facilitated by international and donor agencies. Academics in these institutions benefit from studies abroad, international collaborations and from attending global workshops and conferences. However, the majority of Indonesia's universities lack a high-quality research and teaching environment. Academics are mostly taken up with teaching, grading and administrative duties and are not directly remunerated by their university for doing research. This results in poor quality research contributions from many academics.
So, what are think tankers and funders to do? Firstly, think tankers and their funders will need to take the time to understand the context they are working in and the relationships and networks that policymakers and shapers are immersed in.
Where social and informal processes are the norm, rather than seeing them as reinforcing patronage, nepotism and corruption, think tankers and funders might be better off embracing them, viewing them as a reflection of long-standing friendships and shared social histories. At the same time, this shouldn't prevent longer term work that aims to encourage a diversity of stakeholders to engage with policy processes. The Knowledge Sector Initiative is for instance making efforts to improve the regulatory environment that prohibits policymakers from commissioning think tanks to do high quality research.
If think tankers are working in a context where academics have traditionally played a prominent role within policy circles, they may want to consider working together with academics on research projects, especially those with connections with policymakers (whether they be at national or sub-national levels). They may also want to expand their communication work to include oral testimonies, stories and short messaging in addition to written products.
Funders on the other hand may want to consider how they support improvements in the quality of traditional forms of statistical data, as opposed to Big Data (acknowledging that donors in some contexts have already made considerable attempts to do so). Finally, by taking a more systemic approach to capacity strengthening they may want to explore how they improve the research environment for academics so they are better informed in their conversations with policymakers.
Ajoy Datta: Research Associate at On Think Tanks with a focus on improving policy influencing, decision-making and management practices.
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2017 NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Poll - No. 5
British Columbia holds on to the top spot
By Trevor Lininger, NAIA Athletics Communications and Media Intern
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – British Columbia collects its third-straight No. 1 ranking in the NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Poll following the conclusion of all men's cross country conference championship meets, the national office announced Sunday.
Top 25 Highlights (historical information dates back to 1999):
The Thunderbirds captured 16 first place votes and 557 total points to earn the program's seventh No. 1 ranking.
British Columbia took first in the Association of Independent Institutions conference championship meet on November 5.
After dropping out of the Top 25 in the previous poll, Aquinas (Mich.) rejoins the poll at No. 22 this week.
Southern Oregon holds the record for the most No. 1 rankings with 34 all time.
Southern Oregon also holds the record for the longest active streak of being in the Top 25 with 90 straight appearances, dating back to 2008.
The poll was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences.
Each conference is given one rater for every four schools in the league.The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams.
A team receives 25 points for each first-place vote, 24 for second-place and so on through the list.The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low rating) is removed and the team's ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appear on.
Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered "receiving votes."
For the complete Top 25 calendar, click here.
2017 NAIA Men's Cross Country Coaches' Top 25 Poll
RANK LAST WEEK SCHOOL [1ST PLACE VOTES] TOTAL POINTS
1 1 British Columbia [16] 557
2 2 Southern Oregon [4] 545
3 3 Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 511
4 5 St. Francis (Ill.) 499
5 4 College of Idaho 493
6 21 Oklahoma City 460
7 6 Columbia (Mo.) 458
8 7 Saint Mary (Kan.) 437
9 8 Eastern Oregon 400
10 15 The Master's (Calif.) 396
11 10 Missouri Valley 383
12 11 Indiana Wesleyan 357
13 9 Westmont (Calif.) 356
14 20 Indiana Tech 321
15 14 Northwestern (Iowa) 300
16 12 Cornerstone (Mich.) 283
17 16 Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) 264
18 13 Bacone (Okla.) 257
19 24 Taylor (Ind.) 238
20 17 Northwest Christian (Ore.) 225
21 19 Embry-Riddle (Ariz.) 184
22 NR Aquinas (Mich.) 178
23 23 Shawnee State (Ohio) 163
24 24 Oregon Tech 136
25 18 Wayland Baptist (Texas) 133
Dropped From Top 25: Milligan (Tenn.)
Others Receiving Votes: Reinhardt (Ga.) 111; Doane (Neb.) 98; Park (Mo.) 72; Milligan (Tenn.) 70; Mount Mercy (Iowa) 25; Dordt (Iowa) 20; Madonna (Mich.) 19; Tennessee Wesleyan 5; William Carey (Miss.) 3; Campbellsville (Ky.) 3
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