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Advocacy at the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
- Bistra Zheleva, Amy Verstappen, David M. Overman, Farhan Ahmad, Sulafa K.M. Ali, Zohair Y. Al Halees, Joumana Ghandour Atallah, Isabella E. Badhwar, Carissa Baker-Smith, Maria Balestrini, Amy Basken, Jonah S. Bassuk, Lee Benson, Horacio Capelli, Santo Carollo, Devyani Chowdhury, M. Sertaç Çiçek, Mitchell I. Cohen, David S. Cooper, John E. Deanfield, Joseph Dearani, Blanca del Valle, Kathryn M. Dodds, Junbao Du, Frank Edwin, Ekanem Ekure, Nurun Nahar Fatema, Anu Gomanju, Babar Hasan, Lewis Henry, Christopher Hugo-Hamman, Krishna S. Iyer, Marcelo B. Jatene, Kathy J. Jenkins, Tara Karamlou, Tom R. Karl, James K. Kirklin, Christián Kreutzer, Raman Krishna Kumar, Keila N. Lopez, Alexis Palacios Macedo, Bradley S. Marino, Eva M. Marwali, Folkert J. Meijboom, Sandra S. Mattos, Hani Najm, Dan Newlin, William M. Novick, Sir Shakeel A. Qureshi, Budi Rahmat, Robert Raylman, Irfan Levent Saltik, Craig Sable, Nestor Sandoval, Anita Saxena, Emma Scanlan, Gary F. Sholler, Jodi Smith, James D. St Louis, Christo I. Tchervenkov, Koh Ghee Tiong, Vladimiro Vida, Susan Vosloo, Douglas J. “DJ” Weinstein, James L. Wilkinson, Liesl Zuhlke, Jeffrey P. Jacobs
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- Cardiology in the Young / Volume 33 / Issue 8 / August 2023
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- 24 August 2023, pp. 1277-1287
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The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (WCPCCS) will be held in Washington DC, USA, from Saturday, 26 August, 2023 to Friday, 1 September, 2023, inclusive. The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery will be the largest and most comprehensive scientific meeting dedicated to paediatric and congenital cardiac care ever held. At the time of the writing of this manuscript, The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery has 5,037 registered attendees (and rising) from 117 countries, a truly diverse and international faculty of over 925 individuals from 89 countries, over 2,000 individual abstracts and poster presenters from 101 countries, and a Best Abstract Competition featuring 153 oral abstracts from 34 countries. For information about the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, please visit the following website: [www.WCPCCS2023.org]. The purpose of this manuscript is to review the activities related to global health and advocacy that will occur at the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
Acknowledging the need for urgent change, we wanted to take the opportunity to bring a common voice to the global community and issue the Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action on Addressing the Global Burden of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Diseases. A copy of this Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action is provided in the Appendix of this manuscript. This Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action is an initiative aimed at increasing awareness of the global burden, promoting the development of sustainable care systems, and improving access to high quality and equitable healthcare for children with heart disease as well as adults with congenital heart disease worldwide.
9 - Conclusion: Workplace Information Literacy as the Literacy of the Digital Workplace
- Edited by Gunilla Widén, José Teixeira
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- Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace
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The starting point of this book has been a growing realisation of the impact of digitalisation and digital information on the transformation of the contemporary workplace. Today's workplace is very different from how a place of work has been conceptualised previously. Information and informational skills, competencies and capabilities have a similarly radically different role in how people work and how work and workplaces are organised. All this makes workplace information literacy a crucial condition for their successful digitalisation.
Underlining the impact of digital information and informational competencies might sound like stating the obvious, especially when the massive impact on information literacies established itself as a cliché more than a decade ago (Francke, Sundin and Limberg, 2011). However, it has become all the more apparent that information literacies are a fleeting target that evolve alongside digitalisation and its contexts. Among literacies, workplace information literacy (WIL) and workplace as a site of literacies has so far received comparatively less attention than other information literacies in education and library contexts. This is an issue that this book aimed to address by introducing and discussing perspectives and approaches to how information literacy can function as a key concept in not only understanding but also making a difference in the workplaces of today and tomorrow.
In the preceding chapters, we have made excursions to different aspects of WIL and its role in the contemporary and future workplace. Some of these explorations have pointed to theoretical and conceptual issues, methodological considerations on how to investigate WIL, processual and transitional perspectives on what it takes to be information literate in different contexts, and what the outcomes and implications are in the workplace.
From a conceptual and theoretical perspective, the extensive literature review conducted by Teixeira and Karim (Chapter 1) points to the diversity of perspectives on the information literacy concept. The diversity can be seen both as an opportunity and a complication. It is a strength as long as it helps to address different aspects of being (information) literate in increasingly digitalising (information) work. However, it can become a burden if WIL research and practice loses sight of the essence of the concept: skills, competencies and mastery of the complex informational landscape of the contemporary workplaces. A prominent risk is also if the various WILs are too violently torn apart from each other by overemphasising their differences.
Introduction: Advancing Theory on Workplace Information Literacy
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In today's world, information plays an increasingly essential role in the smooth functioning of our society (Dufva and Wäyrynen, 2020). The last few decades have seen a considerable surge in the production and consumption of information at all levels and spheres of society across family, media, education, religion and the workplace. Even pre-industrial eras of humanity were dependent on information for societal advancement. Nevertheless, the phenomenal growth in the volume, velocity and variety of information alongside technological developments has resulted in the novel ways in which information contributes to social and economic development. At no point in history did human welfare and progress so much depend on efficient management of information as today (Floridi, 2009; Ziemba, 2019). Whether we can claim to have developed a perfect information society is subject to debate. But, without doubt, the world has experienced extensive ‘informatisation’ resulting in the information industry becoming a major part of modern economies while simultaneously changing the ways in which people interact with information in their day-to-day lives. All while technology is becoming embedded in everything and attention on equity aspects of digitalisation becomes increasingly important (Dufva, 2020).
The evolution of modern information societies has been possible largely because of technological developments and we have been living the digital transformation for quite a while now (Hilbert, 2022). Information and communication technology (ICT) has enabled us to connect in unprecedented ways. The information landscape of the world would not have been this dynamic if it was not for the affordances of information technology. Digital tools and technologies are increasingly part of our everyday life as well as our working life, affecting how we communicate, interact and perform different activities. Technology also comes with important challenges, such as risks with use of data, who decides how to develop technology and for what purposes (Dufva and Wäyrynen, 2020). Some technologies have been around for so long that they are already well integrated into our ways of acting. Still, we are in the midst of rapid technological development and new digital innovations are constantly knocking on the door, asking for an agile introduction to our everyday lives, to workplaces and to society at large.
3 - Methodological Choices of Information Literacy in the Workplace: Qualitative, Quantitative or Mixed-Methods?
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- Information Literacy and the Digitalisation of the Workplace
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Digitalisation has not only impacted business and entrepreneurial activities (Urbach et al., 2019), but also workforce activities in workplaces (Farivar and Richardson, 2021). The digital revolution has created a new era of information-based society. Organisations need highly literate workforces to meet the challenges posed by digitalisation as well as the opportunities it presents (Iversen, Smith and Dindler, 2018). Literacy skills, and more fundamentally information literacy (hereinafter IL), have become an increasingly important prerequisite skill for lifelong learning in the 21st century (Lloyd, 2010). The traditional definition of IL refers to the ability to recognise information needs and to identify, assess and use the information (Bruce, 1999). In the workplace, IL includes the ability to use various information sources and tools, synthesise information, evaluate information, use information in practice and share information with colleagues (Gilbert, 2017). While IL has primarily been addressed, examined and measured in the educational context (for example, Jang et al., 2021; Johnston and Webber, 2003; O’Connor, Radcliff and Gedeon, 2002; Nikou and Aavakare, 2021), a few studies have investigated IL in the workplace, addressing the methodological choices and their consequences for workplace IL research (Gilbert, 2017; Widén et al., 2021a).
The aim of this chapter is to focus on the methodological choices (quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods) that can be used in workplace IL research. This chapter also introduces a relatively new approach for analysing IL in the workplace called ‘fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis’ (hereinafter fsQCA) (Ragin, 1987). The fsQCA is an analysis technique and enables researchers to better understand the complexity of workplace IL. It should be noted that we do not engage with philosophical traditions, such as positivism, interpretivism and pragmaticism – they are beyond the scope of this chapter. We recommend that interested readers check Lipu, Williamson and Lloyd (2007) for a better understanding of research philosophies in the context of IL.
This chapter is guided by the following research question: What are the methodological choices for assessing IL in the workplace and what factors should be considered when selecting one?
Alpha proteobacteria of genus Anaplasma (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae): Epidemiology and characteristics of Anaplasma species related to veterinary and public health importance
- FARHAN AHMAD ATIF
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- Parasitology / Volume 143 / Issue 6 / May 2016
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- 02 March 2016, pp. 659-685
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The Anaplasma species are important globally distributed tick-transmitted bacteria of veterinary and public health importance. These pathogens, cause anaplasmosis in domestic and wild animal species including humans. Rhipicephalus, Ixodes, Dermacentor and Amblyomma genera of ticks are the important vectors of Anaplasma. Acute anaplasmosis is usually diagnosed upon blood smear examination followed by antibodies and nucleic acid detection. All age groups are susceptible but prevalence increases with age. Serological cross-reactivity is one of the important issues among Anaplasma species. They co-exist and concurrent infections occur in animals and ticks in same geographic area. These are closely related bacteria and share various common attributes which should be considered while developing vaccines and diagnostic assays. Movement of susceptible animals from non-endemic to endemic regions is the major risk factor of bovine/ovine anaplasmosis and tick-borne fever. Tetracyclines are currently available drugs for clearance of infection and treatment in humans and animals. Worldwide vaccine is not yet available. Identification, elimination of reservoirs, vector control (chemical and biological), endemic stability, habitat modification, rearing of tick resistant breeds, chemotherapy and tick vaccination are major control measures of animal anaplasmosis. Identification of reservoirs and minimizing the high-risk tick exposure activities are important control strategies for human granulocytic anaplasmosis.