Panel III: "Appropriateness of Resiliency as a National Strategy"
Simin Davoudi, Professor, Environmental Policy and Planning, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Salutogenesis focuses on promoting wellness, while pathogenesis focuses on disease causation. In 21st Century, medical education needs to adopt Salutogenesis as much as it has done with pathogenesis. Yoga helps in this.
Panel III: "Appropriateness of Resiliency as a National Strategy"
Simin Davoudi, Professor, Environmental Policy and Planning, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Salutogenesis focuses on promoting wellness, while pathogenesis focuses on disease causation. In 21st Century, medical education needs to adopt Salutogenesis as much as it has done with pathogenesis. Yoga helps in this.
Werner Sattmann-Frese - Psychological Perspectives of Ecological CrisesWerner Sattmann-Frese
This PowerPoint presentation explores the causes of ecological crises from a range of social and psychological perspectives. It compares these ways of understanding our ecological problems with the ones currently used in environmental education. Solutions for an integrated approach to positive ecological change are suggested.
Dr Werner Sattmann-Frese is a psychotherapist, social ecologist, and senior lecturer at the Jansen Newman Institute (Think Education Group) in Sydney.
The Commons as underlying logic to federate social disparate social change and sustainability efforts. A talk at the 'Imagine the Common Good' conference, Paris, August 25 to 28, 2013. Part of the Cultural Diversity & the Common Good panel.
Version française: http://www.slideshare.net/helenefinidori/fdrer-les-efforts-pour-un-monde-meilleur
The Human-Environment Relationship: Key Concepts and ModelsSteve Zavestoski
Lecture delivered at ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, as part of HUMANS | ENVIRONMENT | DEVELOPMENT lecture series as U.S. Fulbright Specialist, 30 Jan to 12 March, 2014.
Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable DesignEcoLabs
'Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable Design' paper presentation at the DRS//CUMULUS Oslo 2013 - 2nd Int. Conference for Design Education Researchers. More information and paper available here: http://ecolabsblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/ecolabs-at-drs-cumulus-2013-2nd-int-conference-for-design-education-researchers/
Werner Sattmann-Frese - Psychological Perspectives of Ecological CrisesWerner Sattmann-Frese
This PowerPoint presentation explores the causes of ecological crises from a range of social and psychological perspectives. It compares these ways of understanding our ecological problems with the ones currently used in environmental education. Solutions for an integrated approach to positive ecological change are suggested.
Dr Werner Sattmann-Frese is a psychotherapist, social ecologist, and senior lecturer at the Jansen Newman Institute (Think Education Group) in Sydney.
The Commons as underlying logic to federate social disparate social change and sustainability efforts. A talk at the 'Imagine the Common Good' conference, Paris, August 25 to 28, 2013. Part of the Cultural Diversity & the Common Good panel.
Version française: http://www.slideshare.net/helenefinidori/fdrer-les-efforts-pour-un-monde-meilleur
The Human-Environment Relationship: Key Concepts and ModelsSteve Zavestoski
Lecture delivered at ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, as part of HUMANS | ENVIRONMENT | DEVELOPMENT lecture series as U.S. Fulbright Specialist, 30 Jan to 12 March, 2014.
Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable DesignEcoLabs
'Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable Design' paper presentation at the DRS//CUMULUS Oslo 2013 - 2nd Int. Conference for Design Education Researchers. More information and paper available here: http://ecolabsblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/ecolabs-at-drs-cumulus-2013-2nd-int-conference-for-design-education-researchers/
A presentation arguing that ageing will not be cured by using something physical. Instead, ageing will be eliminated due to our evolution and adaptation mechanisms.
Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
Exposé invité Journées Nationales du GDR GPL 2024
Toxic effects of heavy metals : Lead and Arsenicsanjana502982
Heavy metals are naturally occuring metallic chemical elements that have relatively high density, and are toxic at even low concentrations. All toxic metals are termed as heavy metals irrespective of their atomic mass and density, eg. arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, thallium, chromium, etc.
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
DERIVATION OF MODIFIED BERNOULLI EQUATION WITH VISCOUS EFFECTS AND TERMINAL V...Wasswaderrick3
In this book, we use conservation of energy techniques on a fluid element to derive the Modified Bernoulli equation of flow with viscous or friction effects. We derive the general equation of flow/ velocity and then from this we derive the Pouiselle flow equation, the transition flow equation and the turbulent flow equation. In the situations where there are no viscous effects , the equation reduces to the Bernoulli equation. From experimental results, we are able to include other terms in the Bernoulli equation. We also look at cases where pressure gradients exist. We use the Modified Bernoulli equation to derive equations of flow rate for pipes of different cross sectional areas connected together. We also extend our techniques of energy conservation to a sphere falling in a viscous medium under the effect of gravity. We demonstrate Stokes equation of terminal velocity and turbulent flow equation. We look at a way of calculating the time taken for a body to fall in a viscous medium. We also look at the general equation of terminal velocity.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...
Antiaging and antifragility - Shima Beigi
1. Anti-Ageing vs Anti-Fragile
Shima Beigi
PhD. Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Bristol
24th of May 2014
The Second Symposium
Pathways to Indefinite Lifespan
2. Ingredients
• About my background
• Complexity as a shared language
• The role of engineering in shaping biology of ageing
• Transcending the overview effect
• Conclusion
3. My Background
•EIA Petrochemical Systems
•Man-made systems, edge between complex and complicatedBSc Environmental Engineering
•Sustainable Tourism vs Responsible Tourism
•Technology can transcend culture.MSc Water and Environmental
Management
•A Generic Framework for Resilience of Complex Adaptive
Systems
•Resilience as a verb
PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering
•Rock climbing is a complex adaptive system
•Fitness is about working with body’s innate adaptive
capacity.
Rock Climber, Fitness Instructor
5. The Collaborative Nature of Ageing
What is the Role of
Engineering in Altering the Biology of Ageing Process?
6. Nassim Taleb
Anti-Fragile Systems
• What is the opposite of fragility?
• Evolution benefits from nonlinear exposure to stress for improving anti-
fragility at systemic level.
• Man made systems tend to eliminate randomness, hence increase
fragility.
• We can use errors as a source of information.
Anti-Fragility vs Anti-Ageing
or
Anti-Fragility = Anti-Ageing
7. Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of
the Human Body
A Collaborative Effort Against the Limits Set by Entropy
8. Health and Dis-ease Continuum
• Aaron Antonovsky defines health as “the state of that system we call
human organism which manifests a given level of order”.
The Promotion of Health is Utilised by
Sense of Coherence (SOC)
9. Less Ageing by More Resiliencing
Social-Ecological Systems are:
• Open
• Complex
• Evolving
• Self-organising
• Nonlinearity
• Cybernetic
• Destruction as a part of growth
cycle (i.e., Forest)
“Resilience is the capacity of system
to absorb shocks while undergoing
change so as to still retain
essentially the same structure,
function, identity and feedback”.
(Walker, Holling et al. 2004)
Resiliencing
Guided Self-organisation + Consciously Absorbing
Shocks
10. Transcending the Overview Effect
“We went up as technicians and came down as humanitarians”
Edgar Mitchell
11. It is the Human Mind, Stupid!
•Politics
It’s the Economy
•Enlightened
Leadership
It’s the Physiology
•Smart Cities
It’s the People
•Resilience and
Sustainable
Systems
It’s the Mind
12. Conclusion
• Ageing is:
• A systemic process
• Complex
• Multidimensional
• Inherently collaborative
Technology Can Steer Us Towards
A Smarter Ageing Process
The Emergence of A Smarter Planet?
13. References
Agus, D. B. (2012). The End of Illness, Free Press
Antonovsky, A. (1996). "The Salutogenic model as a theory to guide health promotion." Health Promotion International
11(1): 11-18.
Taleb, N. N. (2012). Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Random House Publishing Group.
Walker, B., et al. (2004). "Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social-ecological systems." Ecology and Society
9(2).
Editor's Notes
The complexity of defining resilience
Linking social-ecological systems to engineering
A generic theory for designing a resilient system
The link between aging and resilience
