Culture, Madness and Wellbeing
Beyond the Sociology of Insanity
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Text Report Analysis to Identify Opportunities for Optimizing Target Selection for Chest Radiograph Artificial Intelligence Models
Our goal was to analyze radiology report text for chest radiographs (CXRs) to identify imaging findings that have the most impact on report length and complexity. Identifying these imaging findings can highlig...
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Studies on Ni termination of a multilayer ceramic capacitor with high capacitance by using DC electrodeposition
In this study, it is shown that since the distance of two adjacent inner electrodes of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) with high capacitance is close enough, the termination of the MLCCs can be made by di...
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Open AccessLong term genitourinary toxicity following curative intent intensity-modulated radiotherapy for prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Recent studies have shown that radiation-induced pelvic toxicity often requires urological consultation. However, the 10-year incidence of genitourinary toxicity following intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMR...
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Creative Voices
This chapter examines ‘madness’ and creative practice, including fictional and personal experiences, dissecting ‘madness’ and its relationship with voice, creativity, and the transrational. Philosopher Emmanue...
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The Unhappiness Industry
This chapter examines the histories and theories of ‘madness’, including psychological, historical, and sociological approaches. The importance and meaning of the transrational are explained. Post-institutiona...
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Gender, Sexuality, Celebrity
This chapter evaluates ‘madness’, gender, sexuality, and adolescence, investigating influential female writers and contemporary film. How women have been demonized in literature, film, and celebrity culture is...
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Reality and Narration
Ethnographic interviews with those impacted by ‘madness’ personally and professionally are employed in this chapter. Real-life experiences of ‘madness’ are personal frameworks within mediated and remediated na...
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Cults, Leaders, Groups
This chapter analyses ‘madness’, leaders and gurus explaining how great leaders possess a ‘madness’ so they can function well in a crisis. This counteracts one definition of ‘madness’, that it means the inabil...
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Using Whole Slide Image Representations from Self-supervised Contrastive Learning for Melanoma Concordance Regression
Although melanoma occurs more rarely than several other skin cancers, patients’ long term survival rate is extremely low if the diagnosis is missed. Diagnosis is complicated by a high discordance rate among pa...
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Media and Culture
This chapter assesses the culture of ‘madness’, including film, television, and theatre. We find culture, especially film, can be a transrational mechanism for healing and wellbeing, given the heightened affec...
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Race
This chapter interrogates ‘madness’ and race through a focus on colonialism, post-colonialism, and psychiatry, delineating the development of black ‘madness’ and white ‘madness’. Insanity was viewed as a break...
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Conclusions: Transrational Hope
This chapter concludes by furthering an understanding of the creative value of transrationality, and through examining the politics of self and its adaptivity with regards to ‘madness’. Social media, video gam...
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Open AccessPredicting post-radiation genitourinary hospital admissions in patients with localised prostate cancer
The risk of treatment-related toxicity is important for patients with localised prostate cancer to consider when deciding between treatment options. We developed a model to predict hospitalisation for radiatio...
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Open AccessIncidence of genitourinary complications following radiation therapy for localised prostate cancer
Studies of genitourinary toxicity following radiotherapy for prostate cancer are mainly from high volume single institutions and the incidence and burden of treatment remain uncertain. Hence we determine the c...
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Open AccessDiscordances between pediatric and adult thresholds in the diagnosis of hypertension in adolescents with CKD
Adolescents with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are a unique population with a high prevalence of hypertension. Management of hypertension during the transition from adolescence to adulthood can be challenging g...
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Open AccessBiomechanical regulation of breast cancer metastasis and progression
Physical activity has been consistently linked to decreased incidence of breast cancer and a substantial increase in the length of survival of patients with breast cancer. However, the understanding of how app...
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Ion Chromatography with Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomic Analysis
Ion chromatography (IC) represents an important technique for separation of charged and polar compounds. Traditionally, IC is often used for the analysis of small inorganic ions. Due to the development of elue...
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Mechanobiological conditioning of mesenchymal stem cells for enhanced vascular regeneration
Using endogenous mesenchymal stem cells for treating myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular conditions typically results in poor efficacy, in part owing to the heterogeneity of the harvested cells and ...
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Open AccessRevisiting the epidemiology of pertussis in Canada, 1924–2015: a literature review, evidence synthesis, and modeling study
Disease surveillance is central to the public health understanding of pertussis epidemiology. In Canada, public reporting practices have significantly changed over time, creating challenges in accurately chara...
