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The possession : based on a true story : pray for her
Clyde and Stephanie Brenek see little cause for alarm when their youngest daughter Em becomes oddly obsessed with an antique wooden box she purchased at a yard sale. But as Em's behavior becomes increasingly erratic, the couple fears the presence of a malevolent force in their midst, only to discover that the box was built to contain a Dibbuk, a dislocated spirit that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host.
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Monitoring Maize Yield Variability over Space and Time with Unsupervised Satellite Imagery Features
Recent innovations in task-agnostic imagery featurization have lowered the computational costs of using machine learning to predict ground conditions from satellite imagery. These methods hold particular promise for the development of imagery-based monitoring systems in low-income regions, where data and computational resources can be limited. However, these relatively simple prediction pipelines have not been evaluated in developing-country contexts over time, limiting our understanding of their performance in practice. Here, we compute task-agnostic random convolutional features from satellite imagery and use linear ridge regression models to predict maize yields over space and time in Zambia, a country prone to severe droughts and crop failure. Leveraging Landsat and Sentinel 2 satellite constellations, in combination with district-level yield data, our model explains 83% of the out-of-sample maize yield variation from 2016 to 2021, slightly outperforming a model trained on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) features, a common remote sensing approach used by practitioners to monitor crop health. Our approach maintains an R2 score of 0.74 when predicting temporal variation alone, while the performance of the NDVI-based approach drops to an R2 of 0.39. Our findings imply that this task-agnostic featurization can be used to predict spatial and temporal variation in agricultural outcomes, even in contexts with limited ground truth data. More broadly, these results point to imagery-based monitoring as a promising tool for assisting agricultural planning and food security, even in contexts where computationally expensive methodologies remain out of reach.
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We need to remind ourselves of the core purpose of immigration detention
The rule 35 process, however, has been found to be dysfunctional by expert non-governmental organisations and government inquiries, including the recent Brook House Inquiry.456 As a result, vulnerable people—including victims of torture and those with serious health needs—continue to be detained, in breach of Home Office policy2 and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees guidelines.7 The critical purpose of these reports—to protect people in administrative detention from further harm to their health—must not be lost in ineffective processes. For victims of torture and persecution, these reports are also critical to identify their right to protection under international law, including non-refoulement and right to rehabilitation.8 Alongside the cost to health is the financial cost, owing to compensation for wrongful detention, which in the financial year 2023-24 totalled around £12m, and the enormous expense of detention itself.9 With the government planning to expand the use of immigration detention,10 these costs are only likely to increase. JC is co-chair of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine’s working group on quality standards for healthcare professionals working with victims of torture in detention, and trustee of charity Medical Justice All authors previously received renumeration for designing and delivering training on rule 35.
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Istanbul Protocol 2022 empowers health professionals to end torture
[...]perpetrators of torture have been exonerated on the basis of the absence of physical and psychological findings of torture or ill-treatment.12 Independent, non-governmental clinical experts have been banned from testifying in judicial proceedings.12,13 Istanbul Protocol guidance on the formulation of clinicians' interpretations of findings and their conclusions has been misinterpreted to suggest that torture has not occurred.12,13 This situation, in conjunction with 25 years of practical experience implementing the Istanbul Protocol and advances in torture jurisprudence, investigation, and documentation practices, has inspired a large-scale effort to update and strengthen Istanbul Protocol guidance. Over the past 6 years, more than 180 clinical, legal, and human rights experts from 51 countries worked together to update Istanbul Protocol standards and provide additional guidance.11 The initiative was coordinated by four civil society organisations (Physicians for Human Rights, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, and REDRESS) and four UN anti-torture bodies (the Committee against Torture, the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture). There is also more consistent guidance on the interpretation of physical and psychological evidence of torture and ill-treatment, as well as on the obligation of clinicians to provide a conclusion on the possibility of torture in all medico-legal clinical evaluations. [...]the new edition of the Istanbul Protocol delineates for clinicians standards on the documentation of torture and ill-treatment in non-legal contexts and the necessary conditions for effective implementation of the Istanbul Protocol by states.
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National data on suicide must include ethnicity
A simple policy change could help identify and protect high risk groups
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Climate research priorities for policy-makers, practitioners, and scientists in Georgia, USA
Climate change has far-reaching effects on human and ecological systems, requiring collaboration across sectors and disciplines to determine effective responses. To inform regional responses to climate change, decision-makers need credible and relevant information representing a wide swath of knowledge and perspectives. The southeastern U. S. State of Georgia is a valuable focal area for study because it contains multiple ecological zones that vary greatly in land use and economic activities, and it is vulnerable to diverse climate change impacts. We identified 40 important research questions that, if answered, could lay the groundwork for effective, science-based climate action in Georgia. Top research priorities were identified through a broad solicitation of candidate research questions (180 were received). A group of experts across sectors and disciplines gathered for a workshop to categorize, prioritize, and filter the candidate questions, identify missing topics, and rewrite questions. Participants then collectively chose the 40 most important questions. This cross-sectoral effort ensured the inclusion of a diversity of topics and questions (e.g., coastal hazards, agricultural production, ecosystem functioning, urban infrastructure, and human health) likely to be important to Georgia policy-makers, practitioners, and scientists. Several cross-cutting themes emerged, including the need for long-term data collection and consideration of at-risk Georgia citizens and communities. Workshop participants defined effective responses as those that take economic cost, environmental impacts, and social justice into consideration. Our research highlights the importance of collaborators across disciplines and sectors, and discussing challenges and opportunities that will require transdisciplinary solutions.
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Responding to the needs of refugees
Knowledge of and skills in human rights medicine will be needed
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