There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs

Acting Under Secretary of Health requested that a working group be established to develop the Veterans Health Initiative (VHI). He envisioned this as a comprehensive program to recognize the connection between certain health effects and military service, to allow military history to be better documented, to prepare health care providers to better serve their veteran patients, and to establish a data base for further study. This was first discussed by the Acting Under Secretary in relation to the health of former prisoners of war. Development was really begun by the former Chief Academic Affairs Officer, Dr. David Stevens, with the Military Service History project. This involves a pocket card for medical residents detailing the important components of a military service history targeting the health risks associated with various periods of service and more generic issues of concern and a website containing references relevant to the issues. Educational modules in the Veterans Health Initiative VHA will assist health care providers in recognizing the connection between certain health effects and military service, prepare health care providers to better serve veteran patients, and will provide a data base for further study. This independent study is designed to provide primary care practitioners with an introduction to the pathologies that lead to sight loss, their functional implications, appropriate method of referrals, training programs, and special considerations for interactions with visually impaired individuals. After completing this independent study, participants would be able to: • Define legal blindness; • Describe the causes of sight loss; • Delineate the functional implications of vision loss • Delineate the psycho/social impact of vision loss on the veteran; • Outline the role of the Visual Impairment Services Team (VIST) in the treatment of legally blind veterans and the referral process; • Describe the special personal and environmental considerations needed for visually impaired patients; • Describe the special medical considerations needed for visually impaired patients; • Describe the primary care practitioner's role in assisting veterans in establishing well-grounded claims for disability related to the loss of vision; and • Describe compensation and pension benefits provided for veterans with eye disabilities. After completing this independent study, you should 1. be able to: state the definition of legal blindness; 2. be able to: associate eye diseases with their visual implications; 3. be able to: demonstrate insight into the functional and Psycho/Social implications of sight-loss; 4. know when referrals to VIST are indicated; 5. understand …

시력 손상과 시각 장애(Visual Impairment and Blindness)

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Inclusive masculinity: The changing nature of masculinities

Just as masculinity is crucial in the construction of nationhood, masculinity is also significant in the making and unmaking of transnational communities. This article focuses on how black African men negotiate and perform respectable masculinity in transnational settings such as the workplace, community and family. Moving away from conceptualizations of black transnational forms of masculinities as in perpetual crisis and drawing on qualitative data collected from members of the new African diaspora in London, the article explores the diverse ways notions of masculinity and gender identities are being challenged, re-affirmed and reconfigured. The article argues that men experience a loss of status as breadwinners and a rupture of their sense of masculine identity in the reconstruction of life in the diaspora. Conditions in the hostland, in particular, women's breadwinner status and the changing gender relations, threaten men’s ‘hegemonic masculinity’ and consequently force men to negotiate respectable forms of masculinity.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1097184X17694992

Theorizing Black (African) Transnational Masculinities

The emergence of specific forms of masculinity is bounded by space and time. While attention has been given to the contexts within which forms of masculinity develop, rather less is known about men...

The makings of a man: social generational masculinities in Bangladesh

In global public health and international development, there is a growing emphasis on engaging with and addressing men in relation to gender and health In the reproductive and sexual health arena, however, relatively little research to date has focused on men in South Asian contexts In this paper we explore this issue in the context of South Asia with the aim of moving beyond somewhat stereotypical and essentialist representations of men to suggest more productive modes of engagement— both in the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) literature and with respect to policy and programs within the region To do this, we draw on the work of Raewyn Connell and Judith Butler among others to advance new understandings of men and masculinity in relation to SRH in South Asian contexts We contrast these against recurrent patterns in representations of men in the existing literature and interrogate some of the assumptions underpinning such representations We argue that there is a need to re-think men, gender and sexual health in South Asian contexts, and highlight some profitable ways of doing so, drawing on international experience to date

Rethinking Gender, Men and Masculinity: Representations of Men in the South Asian Reproductive and Sexual Health Literatures

We are living in a globalised world. The accelerated process of globalisation has had immense implications for culture, society, livelihood, work, gender and national identities, and for men and ma...

Migration, masculinities, and reproductive labour: men of the home

A person’s orthopedic health condition can be detected from his biomechanical features. Now a days, disease prediction can be done automatically. Application of machine learning algorithms in medical science is not new. Different algorithms are applied to detect diseases and classify patients accordingly. This paper aims to assist specialists to predict the type of orthopedic disease. In this paper we have applied various machine learning algorithms to find out how each algorithm performs to detect and classify orthopedic patients. Each of the patient in the dataset is represented by six biomechanical attributes derived from the shape and orientation of pelvis and lumbar spine. We performed our operation in two stages and got an average accuracy of more than 90 percent for most of the algorithms, whereas Decision Tree (DT) algorithm stood out from the rest providing 99 percent accuracy.

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A Machine Learning Approach on Classifying Orthopedic Patients Based on Their Biomechanical Features

Aim: COVID-19, which can be considered a disastrous event, has created not only a public health emergency but also a major socio-economic crisis in Bangladesh. This study, therefore, aimed to assess households' socioeconomic vulnerability due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the country. Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional survey was performed among 404 households from different districts in Bangladesh. The socioeconomic vulnerability index (SeVI) was developed using data collected from participants via an online-based self-reported questionnaire that included demographic, social, economic, and physical characteristics as well as exposure to COVID-19. Results: The socioeconomic vulnerability index (SeVI) was calculated as an index score of 0.405 where social, economic, and COVID-19 exposure were reported to be the more impactful components of adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and exposure, respectively. Furthermore, the economic options for households were greatly limited by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Practical implications: This study may help to identify the socioeconomic issues that resulted from the COVID-19 outbreak in the country and instruct the policymakers and corresponding authorities on which areas to emphasize for policy implementation so that households become socially and economically less susceptible to the COVID-19 outbreak as well as related infectious diseases and disastrous events in the upcoming years. Conclusion: This study found socioeconomic vulnerability among Bangladeshi households. The corresponding authorities should adopt policy initiatives to minimize the socioeconomic vulnerability due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

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Kamrul Hasan

Papers

The makings of a man: social generational masculinities in Bangladesh

Rethinking Gender, Men and Masculinity: Representations of Men in the South Asian Reproductive and Sexual Health Literatures

Migration, masculinities, and reproductive labour: men of the home

A Machine Learning Approach on Classifying Orthopedic Patients Based on Their Biomechanical Features

Households’ Socioeconomic Vulnerability Assessment Due to COVID-19 Outbreak: A Web-Based Survey in Bangladesh