Caution! spanning the Theory - Practice Gap

As a new academic year begins and we endeavour to bridge the theory - practice gap we need to be cautious:


While we may not burn our bridges we need to be aware of which bridge spans are redundant and which are still active and serving their purpose.

As ever - standards, inspection, audit and governance are critical.

So in our efforts to bridge the theory - practice gap do we also maintain it?

Global health: Care logistics in-deed

Although the previous post -

Care Logistics: have model will travel ...

- differentiated between what we might term mechanistic and humanistic logistics, there is a great deal of overlap:

communications, time, priorities, purposes, service, quality, processes ....

Global health has featured on W2tQ and it is here that the true dimensions of logistics can be defined. I may be confusing logistics and scale, but if I am then the challenge of logistics presents itself by virtue of scale and in global health the focus upon populations, nations, medical conditions and physical environments, climates and topography.

While the Wikipedia page on global health does not explicitly refer to logistics it is there in the shadows: it contributes to inequality, illiteracy, poverty, public ill-health (and mental too), pandemics ...

Logistics is there in the light too; the torch of disaster relief, the many development organisations, the ethos and values of the Millennium Development Goals. ...

'Well-being' and the dilution of 'caring'

This blog post was originally drafted on 15 October 2008. Back then I'd noticed how in the media - newspaper, internet, radio and journals - there was increasing references to 'well-being'. It was everywhere. Even now it graces lips, airwaves, video, digital and conference platforms.

I was prompted to write because I actually felt that perhaps the public were being somehow sold a pup. I mean 'well-being' - it sounds wholesome, reassuring and cuddly so go on - take hold, give it a hug and look after it. Maybe it literally is a case of - get up and take it for a walk. You know you need to!

What well-being does do is it forces acknowledgment of physical AND mental well-being. In the summer I bought a copy of the British Journal of Wellbeing [BJW]. BJW features physical and mental health with some really interesting features, reviews and interviews. So, I raised my hands, sighed, stretched (felt much better) and accepted "OK well-being (or wellbeing*) it looks like you will go far."

I just have a worry though. Because the concept of well-being is fuzzy, there is a risk that the care agenda could be diluted at a time when specific health and social care populations and issues arising need to be kept in clear and unequivocal focus. Looking at the content I am reassured - there is depth here too. I say this recognising that the concept of well-being can also serve the health career model very well.

More to follow on BJW and well-being ...

http://www.dictionary.net/well-being

*I like hyphens as in socio-technical

Gray Hair causes-Gray Hair Facts

Direct sign of aging is Gray Hair, older people like to prevent this from happening. But like aging, graying hair is natural and unstoppable process. Having gray hair is not so bad. You can still have healthy and beautiful hair despite the gray and one way of achieving that is by giving your gray hair vitamins.

Hair turns gradually grey (gray) due to a reduction in the production of melanin pigment in the hair bulb as the age increases. You will observe the first grey hairs usually near the temples, then to the crown and then at the back of your head. Premature graying is due to a rapid decline in melanin.

How does hair become gray?

Each hair follicle contains pigment cells that produce the chemical called melanin that gives the hair its natural color. The hair's light or dark color depends on the amount of melanin each hair contains. As we get older, the pigment cells in the hair follicles die gradually. Because of this, the production of melanin becomes weak, making its color to fade to silver, gray, or white.

Causes for Premature Graying:-

The premature graying may be due to following reasons:

(1) Premature graying of the hair is basically hereditary. So if your father's or grandfather's hair started early to turn Grey there is a chance that your will also have premature graying of hair.
(2) Excessive prolonged stress, anxiety and tension.
(3) Excessive intake of tea, coffee and alcohol.
(4) Excessive intake of fried and oily foods.
(5) Excessive intake of spices.
(6) Deficiency of nutritionist especially copper can reduce the production of melanin.
(7) Sever illness like typhoid too can start graying of hair.
(8) Excessive intake of sour and acidic foods.

Remedy for Premature Graying (Gray) of Hair:-

(1) Eat protein rich foods. Proteins - Sources: sprouted whole grains, cereals, meat and soy in your diet.

(2) Eat foods rich in iron, minerals and vitamin A and B.
Vitamin A - Sources: dark green vegetables & yellow fruits.

Vitamin B - Sources: fresh green leafy vegetables, bananas, tomatoes, cauliflower, cereals, liver kidney, yogurt, yeast and wheat germ.
Minerals like zinc, iron and copper - Sources: zinc - red meat, chicken & green vegetables
iron - beef, dried apricots, red meat, parsley, eggs, wheat & sunflower seeds (Iron Rich Foods)
copper - sunflower seeds, cashews, almonds, crabs and oysters, egg yolk & whole grains.

(3) Rub Indian gooseberry (Amla) mixed in coconut oil into the scalp regularly. It can show wonderful results, your gray hair will turn black. Boil some dried Amla pieces in coconut oil till it turns black. Apply this oil to prevent hair graying.

(4) Eat foods rich in iodine such as banana, carrots and fish.

(5) Drink butter milk with 2 teaspoons each of yeast and wheat germ will prevent and cure premature graying of hair.

(6) Grate some fresh ginger. Mix with honey and place it in a jar. Eat 1 tea spoon every day.

(7) Massage your hairs with coconut oil and lemon juice every day.

(8) Boil some curry leaves in coconut oil and apply in scalp and hair roots.

(9) Boil some dried ribbed gourd in coconut oil till it turns black. Massage this oil in scalp and hair roots should be massaged into the scalp.

(10) Mix 1 tablespoon of table salt to a cup of strong black tea without milk. Massage this water on the scalp. Wash your hair after an hour.

(11) Make a paste of 2 tspn henna powder, 1 tspn yogurt, 1 tsp fenugreek (methi seed powder, 3 tspn coffees, 2 tspn basil juices and 3 tspn mint juice and apply to the hair. Wash hair with shampoo after 3 hours.

(12) Massage your scalp and hair with butter made from cow milk twice a week.

Drupal musings 16: 1% digital and analogue memories

At Drupalcon in his keynotes Dries Buytaert has highlighted that Drupal now powers approximately 1% of the web. While 1% is not much especially given the total size of the internet with its day on day, hour by hour growth this is nonetheless a significant milestone. Especially when Dries speculates on the growth of Drupal projected ahead to 2020.

Like all digital media Drupal is a tool that extends our personal and cultural memories. As all the keynotes showed Drupal, PHP, HTML[5] all have histories of their own and a role to play in providing a surrogate memory. The media and technology [IBM] regularly predict how technology will change our lives, including how we remember.

Amid such speculation memory still makes us who we are. You and I have a yesterday, today - and we pray - a tomorrow.

This is the bootstrap that counts

Bootstrapping or booting refers to a group of metaphors that share a common meaning:

a self-sustaining process that proceeds without external help. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap

Striking then the news this week that - dementia costs 'equal to 1% of global GDP'.

Care Logistics: have model will travel ...

From: NHS Logistics - supplies, v4m, corporate, orders, consultancy, catalogue, process, delivery, stock, just in time, service, quality, priority, efficiency, customers, finance, contracts ...
	To: Care Logistics - access, choice, attitude, empathy, communication, values, outcomes, human rights, dignity and respect, quality care, professionalism, purpose, roles, holistic competency, standards, personal, measures, equity ...

Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) Project

From: Neil Beagrie neil at beagrie.com
To: RECORDS-MANAGEMENT-UK at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

I am pleased to announce the release of a new Factsheet from the Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS) project on the costs and benefits of digital preservation. The Factsheet is available for download as a PDF from http://www.beagrie.com/KRDS_Factsheet_0910.pdf

If you are attending the iPRES 2010 conference in Vienna next week there will be print copies available on the JISC stand.

The A4 four-page factsheet is intended to be suitable for senior managers and others interested in a concise summary of our key findings. It will be relevant to all repositories and institutions holding digital material but of particular interest to anyone responsible for or involved in the long-term management of research data.

The factsheet covers the following major areas:

• Cost issues in digital preservation (what costs most, impact of fixed costs, declining costs over time);
• Benefits from digital preservation (benefits taxonomy, direct benefits, indirect benefits, near-term benefits, long-term benefits);
• Institutional issues (repository models and structures, key cost variables, data collection levels).

We hope the Factsheet will be of value to the digital preservation and research data communities and plan to release a further KRDS publication later this year (a KRDS User Guide).

The Keeping Research Data Safe studies have been funded by JISC and conducted by a partnership of the following institutions: Charles Beagrie Ltd, OCLC Research, the UK Data Archive, the Archaeology Data Service, the University of London Computer Centre, and the universities of Cambridge, King’s College London, Oxford and Southampton.

Neil Beagrie
Charles Beagrie Ltd
Digital Access and Preservation
Management and Research Consultancy

Website: www.beagrie.com
Blog: www.blog.beagrie.com

New PC - my own Chaos Manor

Well two days ago it arrived: the new PC! A black encased i7 3.2 quad core c/o PC Specialist based in Holmfirth.

I've read some of his most popular SF books and the past few days I've been reminded of his monthly contributions to Byte magazine. I'm on about Jerry Pournelle and his Chaos Manor essays, in which new PC kit and gadgets obviously featured.

For months I've been visiting several supplier's website and configuring 'my new PC' and yes I've done it on the Apple site specifying the most expensive piece of kit available. Taking the plunge with PC Specialist I've been impressed (thus far) with their pre-sales, pre-delivery and delivery service. There was confirmation with regular updates by e-mail and texts as my PC came into being. I opted for Mon-Fri delivery between 0700-1000. My bit-of-a-beast arrived at 0800 (with the toast and coffee).

Clinically, you always worry for the worst, but there was no DOA here.

It booted up nicely and the noise: so quiet! I made sure the case is acoustically damped. I'd already sourced a screen, keyboard and mouse, so there was a brief scare when Windows 7 prompted finger action and of course what to do? In Windows 7, Microsoft have an operating system that is suddenly (fingers x'd) very forgiving. Despite the tag on the USB connector saying 'install the software first' or words to that effect I removed the tag and connected the MS Natural Ergonomic KB 4000. A random drum of fingers heard cries of delight and account creation. It's proved a real breeze as the (latest!) drivers have been downloaded automatically. I noticed the power cord - PC attachment can be sensitive to fairly slight knocks, if you are not careful, but that's nothing new.

There are tools to check your site on several browsers and mobile format, but I've just Opera and Safari to add. Check this site's logo on a suitably equipped browser (I used Google's Chrome).*

E-mail and ftp have proved problematic so far. I've been tied to Demon's Turnpike which is basic (and anonymous), but does the job. Now with W7 64-bit I'm not prepared to mess about with virtual machines and other fixes. So I am now trying other email clients. FireFTP is in-situ awaiting my attention. There will be quite a few conferences out of date on the links pages, but we'll get there.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 is installed. I first purchased the MX (educational) version in 2003-2004, and just had to upgrade. Strange that I always wondered about that other functionality PHP, CSS, Javascript I never got to grips with. Now with Drupal there's no choice and no going back! Dreamweaver looks well - dream like. In a way you know this new machine is a set-back. I'm determined whether software or the new keyboard and other facilities to fully use this new machine, which means distraction.

One of my favourite books is CETI edited by Carl Sagan. ...

My dual core Macbook Pro has been processing two units at a time from Rosetta and SETI@home. Suddenly there's nine ticking away. In fact I am having to check to figure out just what is doing what in the innards that includes twin graphics cards with CUDA processors. At some point I really must throw a game into the mix. The noise from the fans has increased, but is still 'quiet' compared to the Evesham box.

WAMP is up and running (or at least appears to be) and Drupal 6 and 7 are in place. I'm going to see if I can export - import stuff in Drupal 6. Drupal and updating remains a demon here. (If you are looking for admin training try Menus and Blocks).

Before I close I have to say a belated thanks to Evesham Computers - sadly no longer trading. That PC from November 2002 is still going, the motherboard clock needs a new battery, the 100GB hard disc a wipe and refresh.

I hope this latest machine fulfills its great promise. So thanks also to the team at PC Specialist specifically:

Built By : Andrew Vincent
Tested By : Zbear Ramzan
QC'd By : Craig Whiteley
Packed By : Adnaan Marban

I'll report again on developments. I was able to select the hard disc partitions soon after placing my order. I nearly missed that, but so glad I didn't. I will allocate specific space for images, photos, music, Drupal and Ruby. First though I'll check on installing Linux too.

Maybe as per Mr Pournelle I should give this new machine a name? Well why not? I'm not going to eat it (I hope). Much still to do!

* An item mentioned in this month's .net magazine.

Drupal musings 15: modules and Drupalcon videos

Since picking up the health career model and publishing the model online in 1986 the term holistic bandwidth has emerged. The blog in 2006 and to date has seen other loosely defined terms:

care architecture
4-fold care
cogneography
holistic competency

Using Drupal 6 I've got to a position were I am getting to know core plus some contributed modules. One of the latter is webforms. It's bound to be help seeing what webforms can do in terms of one-way data submission, compared to using CCK - the content construction kit. In webforms the grid component holds great promise, but in creating a grid for music genres I notice there is no validation (which would be quite a trick!). Users should only be able to select one type of music they want to hear most of the time. The validation question is going to help force the issue of getting under the hood. All that reading revealed in previous posts is also needed to sort the theme too.

I remember first coming across the word instantiate. As I write, think about a h2cm glossary and experiment for real with Drupal 6 - I wonder whether the content types I create (in Drupal 7 especially) may help define some of the above and other terms?

The majority of the sessions from Drupalcon CPH are available on video.
There are some I still need to catch being in other sessions.

Launch of methods@manchester - research methods in the social sciences

methods@manchester is a web resource which brings together The University of Manchester’s internationally acclaimed expertise on social research methods. Visit www.methods.manchester.ac.uk to watch video clips of experts talking about specific methods: examples include Martin Everett’s leading work on Social Network Analysis, Wes Sharrock on Ethnomethodology, Nick Shryane on Structural Equation Modelling and Ian Plewis on Multilevel modelling.


You can also listen to a wide range of introductory methodological talks, whilst viewing associated PowerPoint presentations – for example Penny Harvey explains why and how anthropologists conduct ethnography and Vanessa May explains the rationale behind narrative analysis.

September 13 marked the start of the programme of events for the autumn semester, with seminars and short courses taking place.

On September 29 the Methods Fair includes methods-related presentations throughout the day (speakers include Martin Everett on social networks; Carol Smart on in-depth interviews; Nick Shryane on structural equation modelling); a display of posters by researchers and PhD students; stalls giving information on training opportunities, online resources, short courses and much more.

Go to the web-site www.methods.manchester.ac.uk and join the mailing list to receive a regular update on methodological events.


My source: ESA-ALL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Image source: http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/methods/sna/index.shtml

Report: Open data, democracy and public sector reform

From: Tim Davies tim@practicalparticipation.co.uk
Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:35 AM

Open data, democracy and public sector reform is a report based on a recent MSc dissertation taking a look at the policy and practice of using open government data from data.gov.uk. It's now up as an online document at -
http://practicalparticipation.co.uk/odi/report/

In looking at how open government data is being used in practice it draws out a number of themes, including:

Data is not just for developers
- there is a tendency to focus on machine-readable data for large scale visualisations and mash-ups; but data can be useful to individual citizens or local citizen activists, finding facts within spreadsheets and campaigning for change locally.

Open government data changes the gatekeepers, and the role of civic actors
- now mainstream media, independent citizens, companies and different levels of government are all afforded the possibility of advancing their own interpretations of data. Government, however, retains some (significant?) gate-keeping power by setting the categories and structure in which data is recorded and released. Debates over the meaning of data become more important - and the capacity of local democratic actors to be part of those debates again needs to be developed.

Open government data can support innovation in public services
- predominantly through improving the 'markets' for public service innovation - allowing social and commercial entrepreneurs to work with government data, and preventing exclusive access to data being an anti-competitive advantage for certain firms. However, the research didn't find cases where open government data was successfully facilitating 'citizen led' forms of public service innovation involving local communities discussing and debating how services operated.

A focus on digitizing government underlies much open government data supply and use, and can lead to concerns of politics, power and justice being under-valued in the development of open government data infrastructure
- and we need more articulation and focus on real-live civic use-cases of open government data to inform the development of open data infrastructures.

All comments and feedback on the report welcome - particularly to help shape thinking about what to do with the research next.

http://www.timdavies.org.uk
@timdavies

Co-director of Practical Participation:
http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk

My source:
ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net

Special Issue: The Challenges of Dementia: an International Perspective

Read the special issue on the -
Challenges of Dementia
- for free online!

This special edition of the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry contains a series of articles concerning current services and future plans for the care of people with dementia and their carers in a host of different countries. The articles reflect the myriad approaches in which various countries are improving the quality of life for people with dementia.

My source: Wiley

England: The future of the National Programme for IT

Department of Health - 09 Sep 2010 12:32
The future of the National Programme for IT
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A Department of Health review of the National Programme for IT has concluded that a centralised, national approach is no longer required, and that a more locally-led plural system of procurement should operate, whilst continuing with national applications already procured.

http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/lfi/415392

My source: Wired-GOV

Gardner's 5 Minds for the Future (and the Question)

In order to pursue post graduate study you need a project, which demands a question. Formulating a research question is central. I wonder however whether there remains a bias - hard sciences vs humanities (and triangulation) - towards a class of questions that are closed and so can be answered in X-words : Y-time : with Z-funding? Thereby passing through the necessary academic hoops. Of course I realise that if there are no constraints then chaos would ensue. I just wonder if the journey (creativity, discovery ...) might be lost for the sake of assuring the end product?

My questions (apart from 'beware reflex moves') tend to be framed in broad terms. You could say that as yet I am not disciplined (specific) enough to come up with a question that passes "GO!"

In Howard Gardner's Five Minds for the Future the issue of educational programmes is raised and I read the following:

The second antidote entails the creation of educational programs directed specifically at certain individuals of promise - for example, leaders of tomorrow. Chief executives and general managers are expected to be able to see the big picture - to look beyond their own background and specialization; to understand the various components in their organization or constituency; to think systematically about what is working, what is not working, and how goals can be more effectively achieved. ...

Other individuals - for example, those exhibiting a "searchlight" or "bricoleur" intelligence - might be attracted to such programs as well. They would make use of their enhanced skills even if they do not occupy explicit leadership roles. Perhaps, as educator Vartan Gregorian has suggested, we need a specialization in becoming a generalist. p.75.

Gardner, H. (2008) Five Minds for the Future, Harvard University Press.

Drupal(con) musings 14: design, UI, UX, thinking and care

In his funny and very engaging session 'Designing UI with Seven' at Drupalcon CPH Mark Boulton discussed four user experience (UX) principles and introduced us to ten user interface (UI) guidelines.

Mark highlighted the need for a mental model and the challenge within publishing of there being someone who has the big picture. Who knows exactly what is going on? The health career model provides a model and can provide a canvas to support the big picture.

What really caught my attention though was as soon as Mark asserted -
"Don't make people think." -

I immediately thought -
'Make people care instead'.

Well, I'm not sure if an interface can do what public (mental) health policy, government public funded education programmes and the concerted efforts of the health professions has largely failed to achieve. The users of e-health information systems do need the design of the system to be transparent to them. IT mustn't get in the way. Mark's point of course is the the user's should be free to focus on the problem the system is to help solve. In health this includes:

• recording of a health (and social) care record;
• secure information / file management and access;
• information governance, reporting and archiving;
  
• timely, ready access for those who need to know;
• ability to manipulate the record to obtain knowledge: from data > from information;
• to provide patient (carer as advocate) access and verification;
• remote access with rugged devices.
  
• ...
  

This does not mean that people are oblivious to design: far from it (iThis - iThat!). My point is that as we follow Mark and other design expert's advice then users should be able to focus on care design and the care outputs arising.

So in health we need interfaces and user experiences that DO encourage reflection, thought: thinking.

P.S. In another session (or magazine!?) on creating mobile versions of sites the advice included getting rid of the crap - the clutter, the >1000px width adornments. Rhetoric aside - my design thought would be not to include anything that could be described in this way whatever the media type (maybe I should lighten up!) ;-)

To follow: update on my Drupal efforts.

Marijuana potentially as pain drugs

Smoking marijuana proved effective to use a pipe to relieve pain in patients suffering from nerve damage. Research on patients also showed improved sleep quality and relief of anxiety.

The experts from the UK reveals, despite its potential as a pain medication is still small, its effect in overcoming the difficult sleep disorders and depression led researchers intend to investigate further.

In this study, researchers involved 23 patients suffering from chronic pain caused by nerve disorders. There has been no effective treatment for their disease. However, in experimenting with smoking marijuana, the patient was admitted that the symptoms of their pain reduced.

Under the supervision of nurses, patients were asked smoking marijuana with a dose of 25 mg three times daily for five days followed by nine days. Some patients were given the active content of cannabis tetrahydrocannibinol some 2.5 per cent, 6 per cent and 9.4 per cent. Some were given a placebo.

Apparently those who received the highest dose experienced a significant reduction in pain compared with placebo. It also had an effect on sleep disturbance and anxiety which so far they feel.

However, Tony Dickenson as a pain treatment experts from University College London, said this therapy can not be done independently by the patient. "Basically, suck the medication will not cause any psychoactive effects, such as if we are using marijuana in the amount more," he said.

Overcome Sore gums with Salt Water Rinse

Healthy gums are pink and hard. If the gums look soft, inflamed, easy bleeding and deep red color, it is likely there has been inflammation (gingivitis).

Gingivitis occurred since the formation of plaque, which is a colorless layer of bacteria and sticky on the teeth. That's why the first step to overcome the gingivitis is to remove plaque. Program long-term oral hygiene is necessary to cure and prevent gingivitis.

There are natural ways to treat pain in the inflamed gums, namely with salt water gargle. "When you gargle with salt water, the swollen area so hypertonic that bacteria in plaque collector will come out," said Prof.drg. Melanie Djamil, from the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Trisakti.

However, gargle with salt water is a temporary solution. "If the source of problems is plaque and tartar gangivitis, it still must be cleaned first so that the pain does not come anymore," he said.

4 Herbal Mouth Odor

Metabolic processes during the month of fasting allows the emergence of bad breath problems. Although the fair, there's nothing wrong if you try just went on a variety of natural ingredients to benefit.

Because bad breath is worth the reward of fasting, some people were not too ignore. Problem really bad breath during fasting tended to increase rather than a weekday, so far no definitive answer.

The easiest way to reduce bad breath during fasting course diligently cleaning the teeth, especially after eating a meal. Worse, this habit is also not easy for some people. Finished meal, many people are lazy to brush my teeth, instead go straight to bed again. In fact, after 30 minutes was not eating, mouth acidity increases because the residual acid is not removed.

To counteract bad breath and make breathing more friendly during fasting, you can take advantage of some of these natural ingredients.

Cloves reduce inflammation
Journal of medicinal plants in Indonesia in 2005 is mentioned that contain clove essential oil (15-20 percent) and eugenol (60). Essential oils was developed by several manufacturers of national medicinal herbs as raw materials for wind or reject as peluruh gas in stomach or other digestive problems.

Clove oil can improve the function of the stomach so that digestive better. In addition, clove oil is believed to reduce inflammation, especially those that occur on mucous membranes of the mouth and throat as one trigger bad breath.

To get his usefulness as an antidote to bacterial mouthwash bad breath, here's how mixes:

Take 3-5 cloves of interest. Pour boiling water enough to more or less five minutes, then chill. Use this water to rinse.

Alternatively, take a few grains of dry clove. Mashed to pieces, soak in a glass of warm water. After 30 minutes, the water can be used to gargle.

Betel rich asiri
Betel leaves used as the main ingredient for menginang for being able to strengthen teeth, heal minor wounds in mouth, eliminate bad breath, and stop bleeding gums. Community tradition that tickled scientists to prove the clinical efficacy of betel leaf.

From research conducted at the Biochemistry Laboratory, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) is revealed, in a betel leaf essential oils have antibacterial activity significantly.

How to mix: Rinse a few betel leaves and then boiled with 1.5 cups of water. After a cold, boiled water was used to rinse the mouth after brushing your teeth.

10-15 Take the red betel leaves were washed, boiled with 400 cc (two glasses of water) until the remaining 200 cc, then filtered. While warm, use water to rinse his mouth after a meal.

Cinnamon disguise bad breath
Cinnamon is a spice commonly in the form of bark used as a flavor enhancer or pie dish. In addition, this herb is also known to have various properties, including reducing the odor that comes out of his mouth when fasting.

Thanks to its benefit, the cinnamon was developed as a mixture of chewing gum, herbal medicine industry, and beauty products. Chemical properties of cinnamon is warm, spicy, fragrant, and slightly sweet. Content of chemical substances such as essential oil, safrole, tannins, sinamadehide, eugenol.

Recent research in the United States shows, the use of cinnamon in the gum can overcome the problem of bad breath. Cinnamon apparently not only able to disguise bad smells, but also contain substances that may decrease the concentration of bacteria in the mouth.

To use as a mouthwash cinnamon bacteria that cause odor remover, pretty easy. Boil two sticks of cinnamon with enough water to the boil. After chilling, the water can be used as a gargle.

Cardamom antibacterial cool
Among fans herbs, cardamom is known as an expectorant as well as antibacterial. Some research suggests that the secret was apparently derived from the properties of essential oils contents sineol.

Sineol a similar but not equal to eukaliptol eucalyptus, this is more spicy. However, when used as a mouthwash, then the results are cool. In fact, this material is used for making a false peppermint.

There are two ways to get the properties of cardamom:
For external treatment, boiled or mashed all parts of the cardamom plant. Then the water or soft dough smeared into the affected part.
For the mouthwash, crushed cardamom seeds and then boiled and drunk the water filter.

Alternatively, cardamom seeds boiled with water. After cooking, cool, boiled water can be used to gargle. Gargle after brushing your teeth, after the meal of course.

In order to obtain the maximum usefulness, usually prior to use, cardamom alias stored in the form of whole unpeeled. Recently when they wanted to use, peel off outer skin and then take the seeds.

compose, direct, conduct and 'dilute to taste' outcomes

In Drupal musings 12 I mentioned that the classification of nursing practice is not necessarily at the forefront of nursing's mind set against the turbulence and rush of clinical areas.* This is especially so at the moment as nurses on wards, clinics and community try to identify savings.

I am interested in classification in part as this is the raison d'être for the health career model; on a mental (cognitive) level, in practice and potentially in virtual representations of health care activities. For learners it is an extra to hold the bicycle saddle for those first turns of the pedals. Additionally, for those who have completed many rides and races (lifelong learners) they can reflect on how they got there, and plan for the next round.

As a conceptual framework then h2cm is, like classification, in the background. The model can help to compose, direct and conduct (c-d-c) nursing (health and social) care. Classification matters to ALL nurses because we need to know not only the c-d-c of nursing but the outcomes too.

If all the above is in the background, then together with classification the health career model can help differentiate nursing as a discipline and make nursing visible. We can only take heed of the adage "divide and conquer" by being able to differentiate nursing from other disciplinary contributions. Then perhaps we can truly identify and so define the facets of integrated, interprofessional and multidisciplinary care that must also be person-centred. As nurses and the team respond to the individual's trauma (assault, illness, chronic disease ...), they can also assure their combined values, which must be defined and articulated if there is to be a unified philosophy.

If the respective professions have not noticed (I am sure they have) 'professionalism' is itself under assault in terms of unique knowledge and skills, respect, power and status. To a degree this a good thing. It is also called 'progress': countering restrictive practices, improving service access and challenging institutionalised and state paternalism. Professionalism is accorded for reasons of accountability, education, responsibility, integrity and advocacy. Amid the public (mental) health disaster that we face - the professions - are needed more than ever and if the assault is taken too far ... ?

* Should you know of examples where classification IS at the forefront of nursing practice please let me know - h2cmng @ yahoo.co.uk.

Free event 29th September 2010 Promoting the collaboration of Age research

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a fantastic free event coming up on the 29th of September 2010 titled - "Promoting the collaboration of Age research"

The event is run by the UK Age Research Forum (UKARF) which is a strategic partnership between government, research councils and charities that aims to make a positive difference to the lives of older people through research.

The aims of the conference are:

• To highlight the best of UK research funded by collaborative working of the UKARF member organisations
• To demonstrate the benefits of collaborative working in age research
• To inform about developments in age research in the UK

Where is it taking place?

Time: 9:30am — 4:00pm
Venue: The Royal College of Physicians
11 St Andrews Place
Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE

How to register: fill in the form attached or register online at -
http://web.me.com/magic_bean/UKARF/registration.html

KT-EQUAL will have a stand at the conference so please register for the event and drop by and say hello!

If you want to know what we are up to, register for any of our future events, or download our monographs from previous events please visit our website www.equal.ac.uk

Best Wishes
Helen Haigh
KT-EQUAL Co-ordinator
University of Sheffield

My source: Sparc/KT-EQUAL network

Interprofessional education, philosophy and conceptual frameworks

I received a copy of the following - Interprofessional Education in Wales: case studies in health and social care - July 2010, Editors: Clare Kell and Marion Helme (Health Sciences and Practice). Published by the HEA.


As per other HEA publications there are many papers here of great interest. One stood out at a first reading as in addition to the quote below Mark Edward's also refers to the need for an holistic approach, and this particular MSc. course providing a critical space.

UK Professionals are trained and educated in their own disciplines, learning their own unique and specialist knowledge for their chosen profession. Therefore, although each profession is well equipped for its singular contribution, they find their 'educational preparation a total mismatch for the complex, interactive world into which they graduate and practice' (Sullivan, 1998: 428). Sullivan's view reinforces the WLGA's concerns, that professional boundaries *demarcate* social professions (and others) from each other and that resistance to collaboration and co-operation on any meaningful level has been compounded by the historical development of the uni-professional training model. We need therefore to agree a uniting philosophy and *conceptual framework* that facilitates a dialogue between these professional disciplines and gives reasons for these discrete services to work together in providing effective inter-professional solutions to shared social problems. p.53. Edwards, M.L. (2010). * -- * My emphasis.

I do not merely want to hang word associations here on the blog line. But, I have wondered about how we demarcate the disciplines. This is a major question. In the rather incomplete, ill-formatted glossary I cite Resnik (2002) - A pragmatic approach to the Demarcation Problem. I would love to have the opportunity to explore this philosophical, scientific and disciplinary conundrum within the context of pantology in the 21st century (h2cm?).

On the new site a living glossary is a must - the terms we use often vary from context to context, professional to professional. Clearly (or opaquely) I cannot provide all the answers hence the need for a community and a (Drupal) module. ...

Mark L. Edwards, Case Study 7: Issues in collaboration between undergraduate professional qualifying programmes of youth work and social work. pp.47-55.

HEA, Health Sciences and Practice Subject Centre: Room 3.12 Waterloo Bridge Wing, Franklin-Wilkins buildings, King's College London, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH.

Resnik, D.B. (2002) A pragmatic approach to the Demarcation Problem, Stud. Hist. Phil. Sci., 31:2,249-267.

Related posts:

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2010/05/hea-mental-health-sig-h2cm-reflection.html

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2010/05/update-kings-college-london-mental.html

Dental Care Tips- How to care for Natural Teeth

Dental health is everybody's dream, if your teeth hurt then do any activity so less excited, so that our productivity declining, i am presenting some tips on how to care for natural teeth, so teeth clean, healthy and not porous.

1. Avoid drinking coffee and red wine. Usually the two drinks that can leave stains in teeth immediately.
2. Watch your toothbrush. Replace your toothbrush at least once a month.
3. Eat vegetables because there are vegetables can clean teeth naturally.
4. Strawberries turned out to have a natural effect that can whiten your teeth, because the fruit contains high levels of vitamin C. Strawberry frequently to drink juice. and do not dispose of the waste. Take it and rub the pulp in teeth after a hushed moment, gargle. Do it regularly to get the maximum results.
5. Rub lemon rind on your teeth can also whiten your teeth. Do it regularly so the results can last a long time.
6. Avoid smoking. Smoking is the quickest way to change the color to yellow teeth.
7. Brush your teeth with the routine once every 12 hours is the basic rule that you must do to get white teeth. These habits can protect the teeth and plaque from the stubborn stains.
8. Take advantage of dental floss to clean between teeth, at least once a day.
9. Use a toothpaste that has the formula to whiten your teeth as recommended by your doctor.
10. Consult the dentist at least once a year subscription.

Drupal musings 13: Packaged care and modules

Although I do not need to sit at the front for presentations anymore, I did so at Drupalcon as the electricity plugs were few and forward. There was a bonus. Being in the right place... I picked up a free book c/o Packt Publishing who were among the exhibitors and valued sponsors. The book is Michael Peacock's Social Networking (don't panic I'm not going to review it!). Since returning from Copenhagen I've been using Drupal 6 and 7 on a daily basis. Checking just what some of the key modules, such as Taxonomy, Taxonomy Manager, and Groups have to offer. What are the configuration options and how well do modules integrate?

In the book Michael lists the Drupal modules he relies on to create a site worthy of the book's title. He explains that many modules are themselves 'packaged' for example - the Activity module:

Activity: Activity
Activity: Activity history
Activity: Comment activity
Activity: Node activity
Activity: OG# activity (#organic groups) p.140

This highlights the multifunctional capability of modules which leads me to wonder* about what functionality might be found in future modules:

Intrapersonal: Communication Intrapersonal: Mood Intrapersonal: Cognition Intrapersonal: Diagnosis Intrapersonal: Interests Intrapersonal: Risk Intrapersonal: Skills-Education	Sciences: Observations Sciences: Physical attributes Sciences: Mobility Sciences: Nutrition Sciences: Diagnosis Sciences: Physical safety
Sociology: Relationships Sociology: Ethnicity Sociology: Interests Sociology: Religion Sociology: Carer assessment	Political: Marital status Political: Employment Political: Benefits-Welfare Political: Capacity Political: Autonomy Political: Mental Health Act status

Further news:
The new PC is ordered 10-12 days until its arrival. Yes, I could go DIY, but I'm busy.

This Saturday evening I will have some 4-5 hours with the client of the basic Drupal 6 site. Very much looking forward to that. Must remember KISS!

*Not necessarily an actual proposal!