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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
The spring of 2020 marked a change in how almost everyone conducted their personal and professional lives, both within science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) and beyond. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global scientific conferences and individual laboratories and required people to find space in their homes from which to work. It blurred the boundaries between work and non-work, infusing ambiguity into everyday activities. While adaptations that allowed people to connect became more common, the evidence available at the end of 2020 suggests that the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic endangered the engagement, experience, and retention of women in academic STEMM, and may roll back some of the achievement gains made by women in the academy to date.
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies, names, and documents how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the careers of women in academic STEMM during the initial 9-month period since March 2020 and considers how these disruptions - both positive and negative - might shape future progress for women. This publication builds on the 2020 report Promising Practices for Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine to develop a comprehensive understanding of the nuanced ways these disruptions have manifested. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will inform the academic community as it emerges from the pandemic to mitigate any long-term negative consequences for the continued advancement of women in the academic STEMM workforce and build on the adaptations and opportunities that have emerged.
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The pandemic paradox : how the COVID crisis made Americans more financially secure
\"In March 2020, economic and social life across the United States came to an abrupt halt as the country tried to slow the spread of COVID-19. In the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression, twenty-two million people lost their jobs between mid-March and mid-April of 2020. And yet somehow the finances of most Americans improved during the pandemic--savings went up, debts went down, and fewer people had trouble paying their bills. In The Pandemic Paradox, economist Scott Fulford explains this seeming contradiction, describing how the pandemic reshaped the American economy. As Americans grappled with remote work, \"essential\" work, and closed schools, three massive pandemic relief bills, starting with the CARES Act on March 27, 2020, managed to protect many of America's most vulnerable. Fulford draws from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's \"Making Ends Meet\" surveys--which he helped design--to interweave macroeconomic trends in spending, saving, and debt with stories of individual Americans' economic lives during the pandemic. We meet Winona, who quit her job to take care of her children; Marvin, who retired early and worried that his savings wouldn't last; Lisa, whose expenses went up after her grown kids (and their dog) moved back home; and many others. What the statistics and the stories show, Fulford argues, is that a better, fairer, more productive economy is still possible. The success of pandemic relief policy proves that Americans' economic fragility is not an unsolvable problem. But we have to choose to solve it.\"--Amazon.com.
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Myanmar in Crisis
Myanmar in Crisis brings together scholars from across the social sciences to analyse the dual crises of COVID-19 and the 2021 military coup. All of the essays address one of four themes around the concept of crisis: society in crisis, a state in crisis, an economy in crisis, and international relations in crisis. Several authors examine the contested nature of state authority in the post-coup revolutionary context, including the emergence of new governance dynamics; others discuss heterogenous forms of resistance and the potential for building a more inclusive, just, and tolerant society in the future of Myanmar. The volume also explores the economic crisis caused by the pandemic and the coup and its devastating effects on people's lives and livelihoods: the authors provide a deep dive into the impacts of restrictive COVID-19 prevention measures on local communities, the growing livelihoods crisis since the coup, and the impacts of both crises on foreign trade and investment. Scaling up from that local perspective, the book also looks at Myanmar's history of foreign relations, the response of the international community to the coup and the challenges faced by foreign governments and regional bodies in navigating the deteriorating political situation. Held together, the volume highlights the ongoing state of crisis in Myanmar, its impact on society and the possibilities for recovery and reform, amidst a powerful new revolutionary movement. Beyond providing crucial insights to Southeast Asian area specialists, the book offers deep insights into the way that multiple crises interact, amplify one another, and open up possibilities for hope amidst tragedy.
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116 Management of acute neurological conditions: an e-learning course to support clinical pathways
Introduction and Aim Acute neurological problems are prevalent, accounting for 10–20% of medical admissions, but management is often challenging and require input from different teams (A&E, acute medicine, neurology). There is no standardised training for staff in the management of acute neurological conditions and existing clinical pathways for these conditions are often underutilised with variable impact on patient outcome. The use of e-learning has gained popularity in the last decade, showing that it can be as effective as conventional didacticism [Warnecke et al, 2011]. Here, we detail the development of an e-learning course on management of acute neurological conditions to support use of integrated clinical pathways and to facilitate self-directed learning.Method and Results Using principles of People, Analysis, Content and Technology (PACT), we defined target learners, their learning needs, challenges in assimilating knowledge and the resources required. Topics were derived from three themes: acute neurological emergencies, commonly seen conditions, and ‘lessons from serious incidents’. Each module lasts 10 minutes and is embedded with a pre- and post-course knowledge quiz. In collaboration with the Neurosciences Institute Programme at King’s Health Partners, an academic Health Science Centre, the course will be hosted and supported by the KHP e-learning platform.SummaryThis e-learning course supports the use of clinical pathways and facilitates clinicians in consoli- dating knowledge. It is flexible, highly transferable, and can be integrated into work-based learning for continuous professional development.kitwu@doctors.org.uk
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فلسفة النهضة : المبادئ والأهداف
الكتاب ينم عن حب وتقدير للنهضة العمانية، واعتزاز بتاريخ وحاضر عمان، فالكاتب يقول عنها : شغلتني عمان بتراثها وحاضرها، حتى شغفت بأخبارها، وولعت بتألقها في حقب من التاريخ، وبمحاولاتها الجادة في الأزمنة الحديثة لتعود إلى ذلك الألق، بتحكيم الأصالة والحداثة معا في مسيرتها نحو المستقبل. الكتاب كشف الأبعاد النظرية والتطبيقات العملية لفلسفة النهضة العمانية، ومحاولا الإجابة عن السر الكامن وراء نجاح التجربة العمانية في نهضتها المعاصرة، من خلال صياغة علمية رصينة بينت أوجه الالتقاء بين فلسفة النهضة العمانية مع مبادئ رسالة الاستخلاف وغاياتها. الكتاب يضم بين جنباته معلومات وافرة عن النهضة العمانية، وفكر القيادة الحكيمة لجلالة السلطان.
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075 Top 10 research priorities for patients with primary mitochondrial disease and their carers
Primary mitochondrial diseases encompass a number of clinical presentations with a spectrum of severity, lack effective disease-modifying therapies and have high mortality. It is therefore vital to know that research meets the needs of people with mitochondrial disease. Priority setting partnerships are an established collaborative methodology bringing patients, charity representatives and clinicians together to establish the most pressing and unanswered research priorities.We developed a web-based questionnaire, asking patients affected by primary mitochondrial disease, their carers and clinicians to pose their research questions. This yielded 709 questions from 50 patients, 47 carers and 50 clinicians. These were grouped into themes and filtered to exclude unanswerable questions. A literature search was performed to determine which of these questions are unanswered. This process resulted in 42 answerable questions. Patients, carers and clinicians were invited again to prioritise these questions and rank them from ‘important’ to ‘less important’ using a web-platform. This identified 24 questions which were then taken forward to a face-to-face workshop attended by a diverse range of patients, carers, charity representatives and clinicians, where the relative merits and strengths of each question was debated to create a definitive ‘top 10 of unanswered research questions for primary mito- chondrial disease’.tracey.graves@btinternet.com
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الأعمال التاريخية للسلطان قابوس
يتناول كتاب (الأعمال التاريخية للسلطان قابوس) والذي قام بتأليفه (هشام عثمان محمد) ويقع في حوالي (228) صفحة من القطع المتوسط موضوع (تاريخ عمان في عهد السلطان قابوس) مستعرضا المحتويات التالية : الفصل الأول : السلطان قابوس.. قصيدة في عشق عمان، الفصل الثاني : بناء الإنسان العماني، الفصل الثالث : إرساء دعائم اقتصاد قوي، الفصل الرابع : توافير الرعاية الصحية للجميع، الفصل الخامس : مهندس التنمية والعمل والتعمين.
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084 Is there a positive correlation between single breath count and forced vital capacity?
IntroductionMonitoring respiratory function is a critical part of the management of patients with acute neuromuscular disease. Single breath count (SBC) testing is often performed as a surrogate for the Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), especially in resource poor environments. However, equivalence of these two tests has not been formally evaluated.MethodsWe will compare the SBC and FVC in 50 healthy adults. Correlation will be evaluated using linear regression and factors influencing the SBC and FVC will be investigated.ResultsTo date 10 participants have been recruited (4 male, 6 female, mean age 30 years). Provisional analysis has shown a mean best SBC and FVC was 71 (SD 19) and 4.8 Litres (SD 1.3) respectively. In this small sample a significant correlation between SBC and FVC was demonstrated (p=0.03, R-squared=0.47). Recruitment is on schedule to complete by March 2020 and full results will be available for presentation at the conference.DiscussionTo our knowledge no study has directly compared SBC and FVC in healthy adult population. Our study will provide useful data to help understand the appropriateness of interchanging these tests in clinical practice.aram.aslanyan@srft.nhs.uk
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