Wide Lens Research Articles

A Review of My Secret #EdTech Diary: Looking at Educational Technology Through a Wider Lens, A Book by Al Kingsley

Technology has come to play an integral part in the educational process of students around the world. School administrators and teachers rely on technology to gather real-time data, provide meaningful feedback, and assess student learning. In 2020, school personnel across the globe needed to provide services to students despite limitations put in place by the COVID-19 pandemic. In My Secret #EdTech Diary: Looking at Educational Technology Through a Wider Lens, Al Kingsley analyzes post-pandemic lessons in the educational technology (EdTech) field from various viewpoints. Using his experience as the CEO of an educational software company and a member of a school board of governors, Kingsley describes lessons from the rapid development and use of educational technology during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The work of race, culture, and ethnicity in nursing literature, 1970 to 1985

In our current attempts to address health inequities and injustices, it is crucial to critically examine the evidence base from which we are working. The categories of “race,” “ethnicity,” and “culture” have been persistently under-examined in healthcare literature. This paper will elucidate the ways in which these concepts were put to work in nursing texts between 1970 and 1985. Earlier reviews found that terms relating to race and ethnicity frequently go undefined, while euphemisms are used to avoid naming racism. This review responds to the urgent and ongoing imperative to illuminate the mechanisms by which racism operates in nursing and healthcare more broadly, utilizing methods congruent with critical discourse-historical analysis to identify three operational categories for concepts of racialized social difference during this time period. The wide lens provided by temporal distance, with the benefit of historical perspective, can help attune us to the function of concepts in the present.

Efficacy of a wearable night-vision aid in patients with concentric peripheral visual field loss: a randomized, crossover trial.

To investigate the efficacy of our wearable night-vision aid in patients with concentric peripheral visual field loss. Prospective, single blind, three-group, and three-period crossover clinical study. The study included patients with concentric peripheral visual field loss, a best-corrected visual acuity (decimal visual acuity) of 0.1 or higher in the better eye, and the presence of a central visual field. HOYA MW10 HiKARI® (HOYA Corporation), our original wearable night-vision aid, was used as the test device with three types of camera lenses (standard-, middle-, and wide-angle lenses). Under both bright and dark conditions, the angle of the horizontal visual field was measured using each of the three lens types for each group. The baseline angle was measured when each participant wore the night-vision aid (powered off). The study included 21 participants. Under bright condition, the perceived horizontal visual field was significantly wider than the baseline setup when using the standard-angle lens ("the standard lens"); the middle-angle lens ("the middle lens") was significantly wider than both the baseline setup and the standard lens; and the wide-angle lens ("the wide lens") was significantly wider than the other lenses. Under dark condition, the perceived horizontal visual field was again significantly wider when using the middle lens than the baseline setup and the standard lens, and when using the wide lens, the perceived horizontal visual field was again wider than when using the other lenses. The control in the bright condition was significantly wider (p < 0.001) than when used in the dark condition, while the standard-angle lens in the dark condition was significantly wider (p = 0.05) than when used in the bright condition. In regards to the middle and wide lenses, there was no statistically significant result emerging from either of the illumination conditions. Our wearable night-vision aid with a middle-angle or wide-angle lens appears to provide wider visual field images in patients with concentric peripheral visual field loss, regardless of whether the illumination conditions are bright or dark.

The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali: Agency and Narratives of Intervention

Abstracts Through a close textual analysis of US diplomatic cables and other relevant documents, this article provides new empirical data to trace the mutual construction of Mali as a site of terrorist threat. It argues that this mutual construction paradoxically enhanced the agency of Malian foreign policy elites in negotiations with their US interlocutors and highlights the effectiveness of Malian deployment of this discourse to shape the terms upon which intervention took place in the 2002–2012 period. It shifts the focus of the analysis of intervention in Mali both in space and in time through centering the US–Mali relationship pre-2012, displacing the dominant post-2013 France–Mali frame. This opens up a new dialectical and interimperial perspective on the agency of the Malian foreign policy elite in shaping the terms upon which intervention took place. This demonstrates the need for both a wider lens and a longer historical scope on investigations of intervention, particularly relevant as this discourse of terrorist threat has since 2013 spread beyond Mali to the wider Sahel region.

Deterrence and Disinformation: Communicating Deterrence in a Non-Linear Media Environment

This paper investigates how the strategy of deterrence is relevant to understanding responses to disinformation in general, and in the case of Canada in 2014–23. First, it argues that extending a wide lens of deterrence to hybrid threats, including disinformation, highlights many options to deter by denial (mostly resilience) and by imposing widely defined ‘costs and punishments’, and reveals strengths and limits of both. Second, it shows that Canada’s efforts have intensified and shifted over time, resulting in a security and foreign policy approach focused on resilience to deny negative effects, and the imposition of costs and punishments to dissuade harmful actions. Third, it highlights benefits and limits of extending deterrence to disinformation in general and in the case of Canada. It suggests that deterrence principles and practices can further adapt to today’s non-linear information environment by engaging with the emerging academic field of strategic communications. In sum, the paper extends the literature on deterrence to disinformation, adds empirical knowledge about the evolution of the Canadian government’s efforts, and develops key critiques based on its findings. Ultimately, it suggests scholars conceptualise a ‘sixth wave of deterrence’ where the deterrence of complex challenges is communicated more strategically and long term within a contextualised, holistic, and ethically grounded approach.

Ukraine War: Policy Miscalculations or Contradictions of Capitalism?

There are competing narratives regarding the causes of the war in Ukraine. One focuses on the provocation by the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, while others emphasize Russian aggression. The approach implemented below is to focus on the long-term contradictions of capitalism, including the formation of Communist states themselves in Russia in 1917 and China in 1949. The subsequent relation between capitalist industrial powers and the leading Communist powers has been an important factor in the post-World War II expansion of capitalism and its conflicts. The role of key ideological frameworks, such as the definition of money, is also a factor emphasized in this analysis. Such a wider lens may enable us to judge more accurately the potential for another “Great Transformation” or a Zeitenwende. JEL Classification: B51, E58, F33, N20

A novel role for enhancing nurse-technology interfaces and medical device advancements for patient care

To instruct a new generation of professional, this paper will highlight two innovative nursing and health technology collaborations and produce cutting-edge research and breakthroughs. A highly competent response, including teams of experts from several disciplines, is required for complex health concerns. Opportunities for improved technology-nurse interaction and consequent innovation arise if the clinical perspective of nursing is included while viewing medical engineering through a wider lens. The finest training-seeking experienced nurse specialists who can be cutting-edge and bring unique suggestions to enhance patient care and results are found in double nursing engineering degree programs. The background in innovations and engineering in nursing is included in this examination, along with the justification for creating two state-of-the-art joint majors and information about those courses. This innovative program will advance healthcare-related technology and enhance the nursing profession's capacity for innovation in both design and execution. Additionally, by providing interdisciplinary training and encounters with college students pursuing medical specialists or bachelor's degrees in nursing, they can improve their knowledge and abilities. Even though nurses are not participating in designing and creating patient care devices, significant patient care improvement possibilities are lost. Creative nurse and engineer cooperation is required to capitalize on nurse creativity and develop patient care improvements

Time Travel in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Thinking Assignment

The pedagogical challenge of any opinion essay is that students tend to think critically only about the past and present in connection to a problem. Their ideas about the problem concerning the future often contain no critical thinking: they focus on the simplistic notion that a problem will continue to be a problem and worsen. True, students cannot know the future, but they can speculate about it in a careful and responsible way. By guiding students with a series of questions to look more deeply at the future in relation to a particular problem, students will gain a deeper understanding of a problem. These questions have been developed over the course of five years of teaching an assignment I named “Opinion Essay from the Future.” This assignment fosters students’ critical thinking about the future and can illuminate a problem in the present and the near and distant future. Students need to use logic in their speculating, but speculating in and of itself is also a creative act. The paper concludes that writing about a problem in the future makes students, in many ways, similar to science fiction writers. When encouraged strategically, their imaginings about a problem recontextualize it, letting them see the problem through a wider lens that will show them that looking ahead makes the here and now clearer.

Beyond the Critical Review: Examining Wu Mi’s “A Response to the New Culture Movement”

The writings of Wu Mi (吳宓) and other scholars of the Critical Review (Xueheng) group can be considered within the context of both their journal and beyond. In 1922, Wu Mi wrote an essay outside of Critical Review, entitled “A Response to the New Culture Movement.” Most people only know of the essay through Lu Xun’s 魯迅 criticism of it in “A Doctrine of Inclusiveness.” Because Wu Mi’s reputation has been overshadowed by Lu Xun’s prominence, the essay itself is actually relatively unknown. This article analyzes and discusses the impact of “A Response to the New Culture Movement” beyond Lu Xun’s reaction to it. Wu Mi’s understanding of the New Culture Movement as exhibited in the article, as well as the untimeliness of its publication, helps us understand Wu Mi and the Critical Review group through a wider lens.

Stability and disruptive speech

Stability and disruptive speech

French St. Louis: Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy

Since her interring in the Pantheon in Paris, where “great men” of the nation lie, no one personifies French St. Louis more aptly perhaps than native daughter and subsequent singer, French citizen, and Résistante Josephine Baker. Although “many of the dwindling remnants of St. Louis's past, of any era, fell to the wrecker's ball,” the Gateway City's French age has not entirely disappeared from record, argues Robert J. Moore Jr. (p. 193). A group of historians, fortuitously, coordinated efforts to recollect parts of the French heritage of the city (founded in 1764). St. Louis, the other French city on the Mississippi River, lies nearly seven hundred miles north of New Orleans. French St. Louis explores, as Robert Englebert describes them, the “creole transcolonial networks” between and beyond these two port cities, each of which developed distinctly despite their shared trajectories (p. 41). Beginning at the symbolic and actual gate to the American frontier, the contributors direct readers' gaze toward individual actors, items, and ideas coalescing along the tributaries of the Mississippi Valley. The editors ask themselves how such a wide lens might sit with residents of the contemporary metropolis.

Hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia: examining healthcare-associated infections prevention through a wider lens.

A hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia (HOB) metric will expand hospital surveillance of bloodstream infections beyond current state and provide an opportunity to re-evaluate infection prevention strategies. Here we consider the added value and potential pitfalls of HOB surveillance and present a framework for the standardized assessment of HOB events.

Celebrating the Culture of Interprofessional Collaboration in Athletic Training

Celebrating the Culture of Interprofessional Collaboration in Athletic Training

Wide lens 이론을 기반으로 한 해외 혁신 기업 비교 연구

This study was based on the topic of why countless innovation efforts by companies fail. The purpose of this study is to analyze cooperative innovation cases and present implications for overseas companies that have succeeded in innovation based on Ron Adner's wide lens theory (2012). Through this study, we present insights that companies should think deeply about not only their own innovations, but also joint innovations with innovation ecosystem partners, and make integrated joint efforts. Through the case of overseas companies, it can be confirmed that not only the innovation efforts and development of the company itself, but also the importance of the value chain and innovation partners and the formation of a joint front are important factors. It is presented by dividing it into three areas of wide lens theory. The implications are as follows. First, for a company's own innovation, it is necessary to structure the company culture and organization that are not afraid of failure. Second, to strengthen joint innovation, building positive and cooperative relationships with partner research institutes is of paramount importance, such as Pfizer's vaccine development case. Third, it is necessary to find partnership opportunities and establish strategic convergence that develops in order to strengthen value chain innovation.

DEMENTIA CARE THROUGHOUT THE TRAJECTORY AND ACROSS SETTINGS: RESULTS FROM THE DEVELOP AD RESEARCH STUDY

Abstract About 1 in 8 older adults in the United States has dementia, making it one of the biggest public health issues facing society today. The impact of dementia ranges across health and social systems, yet consideration of these contexts--which are of great relevance to patients and families--has been underexplored in prior research. In this symposium, we will present findings from the Deploying High-Value Longitudinal Population-Based data in Dementia Research (DEVELOP AD Research) study. This multicenter collaboration leverages existing population-based data sources to examine the health and social impacts of dementia throughout the trajectory of decline and across acute, long-term, and community-based settings. Session one will describe how acute care utilization increases in the years before the onset of incident dementia. Session two will examine the association between dementia and increased mortality risk after disruptive medical events, including hip fracture and pneumonia. Session three will report on the prevalence and patterns of medication overuse and misuse in community-dwelling people with dementia. Session 4 will estimate how many community-dwelling individuals, including those with dementia, could benefit from home-based medical care. Session 5 will focus on hospice use patterns and hospice care quality rating in people admitted to hospice for dementia versus other conditions. Together, these presentations provide a wide lens on the health and social experiences and needs of people with dementia at the national level, leading to a better understanding of how society can better address the challenges of caring for this growing population.

Conrad Seabaugh &amp; Company: An Inside Look at an Illinois Hinterland Merchant

Conrad Seabaugh &amp; Company: An Inside Look at an Illinois Hinterland Merchant

The role of teachers’ religious beliefs in their classroom practice – a personal or public concern?

ABSTRACT This article reports on research into the influence of teachers’ religious beliefs in religious education. Drawing on accounts from eleven teachers in Controlled Schools in Northern Ireland, it shows the contested space many of them occupy in relation to handling personal beliefs, teaching about diverse religions and articulating a public rationale for their subject in the face of challenges from pupils and parents. In particular, we investigate how and why they teach World Religions in the way that they do. The findings are considered in the light of debates on the role of teachers’ beliefs in religious education. In contrast to other studies in this field which offer personal reflection as a way to resolve such challenges, the case is made here for understanding teachers’ choices within a wider lens which acknowledges the public nature of the space within which they operate. We argue that the challenges cannot be resolved or mitigated by individuals alone. Changes in policy to provide an inclusive and balanced curriculum with robust pedagogical purposes is needed along with clear ethical expectations around how teachers approach teaching religious education.

Roman History

Another bumper edition, again by way of apology for absenteeism in the spring issue (though this time due to paternity rather than plague). We begin with the latest Beard blockbuster. In her Twelve Caesars, based on her 2011 A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, Mary Beard turns her trademark combination of penetrating gaze and jovial tongue to the reception of the famed group of elite first-century ce Roman men who span a key moment in the transformation of ancient politics. Belying their importance for ancient historians and archaeologists, they have been rather neglected by art historians of later periods. With an extraordinarily wide lens, spanning from Alexander the Great to the 2017 modern art of Alison Wilding, Beard corrects that omission, demonstrating their central place in the history of Western art, and exploring not just how those emperors have been represented, repackaged, and reused, but what that says about the identities, worlds, and priorities of those who so mobilized them. The result is a tour de force of art and intellectual history. Not only is the reader presented with gloriously arcane anecdotes on almost every page, but their sum amounts to a sustained inquiry into the role that past power has played, and continues to play, in our history, politics, art, and culture.

Compliance cultures and the role of financial incentives

PurposeThe concept of compliance is in danger of becoming obsolete as a result of its generalization and overuse. This paper aims to refine the concept of a culture of compliance and its effective implementation in association with financial regulations, in line with the societal expectations of compliance.Design/methodology/approachThis paper begins by assessing the watershed reconception of compliance in light of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (GFC). The influence of financial incentivization and structural weakness is highlighted above all. Recommendations focusing on the significance of the corporate context are made from this and viewed in relation to the growing relevance of compliance in regulating cyberspace.FindingsIndividuals and their decision-making are heavily influenced by the culture of their environment. Clearly, defining the values behind regulations encourages employees to follow the rules based on the principles that underlie them rather than out of fear of punishment, risk aversion or a sense of the “tick-box” duty. This contributes to the longevity of healthy compliance rather than a compliance fatigue.Originality/valueBy casting a look back at the development of compliance, the modern social expectations of compliance can be elucidated and, in turn, translated into mechanisms for corporations to effectively use. The literature on compliance has grown substantially but often limits itself to commentaries on the history of non-compliance or sector-based investigations. Hinged between the past and future of compliance, this study contributes to bridging a considerable gap in the literature by using a wider lens and positive redefinition of compliance.

A wider lens

Practitioners can use the Birth To 5 Matters guidance to help them produce their observations of children's development and progress, explains Di Chilvers