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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Surveillance Studies"”.
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Surveillance Studies and the Surveilled Subject
Surveillance studies has been somewhat inattentive to the perspective of the surveilled subject. It is the functioning of the surveillance apparatus, not the relatively inconsequential subject, which has tended to frame the focus of surveillance inquiries; leaving understandings of surveilled …
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Refusing White Privacy
… Privacy” I look at theories in White Data and Surveillance Studies around what data is, how it is made to exist, and for whom, in order to intervene in the conceptualization of data as an inevitable residue of human life and relationship. Through this intervention, I show that the alleged …
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Challenging Robot Morality: An Ethical Debate on Humanoid Companions, Dataveillance, and Algorithms
… to data-related ethical concerns in Media and Surveillance Studies. I then move to wider debates on morality, agenthood, and agencies in Machine and Computer Ethics research, so as to highlight that social robots, other robots, machines, and algorithmic structures are often moralised but not …
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Surveillance strategies used to monitor injuries in amateur and professional cricket players: An integrative review
… an important role in injury prevention. Injury surveillance is the starting point for injury prevention. To date, there are two consensus statements on injury surveillance in cricket. There are no studies that have reviewed the strategies used to monitor injury among amateur and professional …
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Is UK surveillance law suitable for the digital age?
This thesis examines the suitability of UK surveillance law for the digital age in terms of its protection of privacy. It argues that UK law regulating state surveillance fails to recognise the undulations of the contemporary surveillance landscape brought about by the digitalisation of society and …
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From Dataveillance to Data Economy: Firm View on Data Protection
… environments. Little is known in the privacy studies literature about how companies manage the trade-off between data usage and data protection. This study contributes to explore the corporate data privacy environment, by focusing on the interrelationship between the data protection legal …
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Big Data, Surveillance, and the Digital Citizen
… an analysis of the impact of pervasive online surveillance on the relationship between the digital citizen and corporations, the state, and politics in order to argue that the United Kingdom is emerging as a surveillance state in which individual’s relationship with society is remade to their …
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Utilizing Electronic Dental Record Data to Track Periodontal Disease Change
… of PD etiology, limited longitudinal studies have investigated PD change in response to various treatments. A major barrier is the difficulty of conducting randomized controlled trials with adequate numbers of patients over a longer time. Electronic dental record (EDR) data offer the …
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Uncommon pasts converging in the digital present: Constructions of gender and race in the era of airport security
… concerning algorithmic bias within the field of surveillance studies (historically dominated by white male scholars), bring forth the theoretical contributions of black and queer scholars, and investigate the technology and administrative processes responsible for mediating American air travel …
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Bodies as Risky Resources: The Japanese Identification Systems as Surveillance, Population Control and Colonial Violence in Occupied Northeast China
… against the Chinese. The worst cases of Japanese surveillance may be the Chinese dissidents who were sent to Japanese Army Unit 731, a secret facility for biochemical warfare. They were used as living ingredients for bacterial experiments and human dissection. Under colonial surveillance, Chinese …
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Living in Algorithmic Governance: A Study in the Digital Governance of Social Assistance in Ontario
… Despite the wealth and depth of research in surveillance studies about the potential impact of data mining, creation of data doubles, loss of privacy, and concerns about algorithms that replicate some of the worst biases about people in poverty, there is an absence of clear empirical research …
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The burden of serious adverse drug reactions in South Africa
… are contextualised in a systematic review of studies characterising serious ADR burden in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Methods In each of the three surveys, folder review with the assistance of trigger tools was used to identify potential serious ADRs. Multidisciplinary teams assessed causality, …
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The impact of hospital surveillance programmes on the incidence of adverse drug reaction reporting in a South African teaching hospital
Post-marketing surveillance refers to any non-experimental or observational study, method, or monitoring strategy that is applied to obtain information on drug experience (primarily adverse) after a drug has been approved for clinical use. One of the major problems in post-marketing surveillance …
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Comprehensive Investigation into the Molecular Mechanisms Driving the Emergence of emm4 Group A Streptococcus
… Using strains collected as part of active surveillance, we estimated that a new <em>emm4</em> clone emerged around 1996 and, by 2017, had completely replaced the existing “historic” <em>emm4</em> strains. My thesis sought to identify mechanisms underlying this temporal clonal emergence …
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Cache Valley Virus: A Comparison Across Both Lineages and Reassortant Strains Using in vitro and in vivo Models
… into two genetic lineages. Recent mosquito surveillance studies indicated that lineage II strains originating from Mexico have displaced lineage I isolates in Connecticut, New York, and Canada, since 2010. Furthermore, as a result of coinfection and segment reassortment between CVV lineages, …
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The use of m-Health active participant centred (MAPC) systems to improve surveillance of adverse events following Immunization (AEFIs) in Zimbabwe
Introduction A robust national AEFI surveillance system ensures timely AEFI detection, good quality AEFI reports, prompt case investigation and robust causality assessment for corrective AEFI case management, signal detection and appropriate feedback ultimately to improve public safety and trust in …
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Qualitative research: surveillance measures in the Ghanaian workplace context: how culture differences influence acceptance and effectiveness
… on the utilisation of electronic workplace surveillance as a performance management tool, with a specific focus on the multicultural environment of Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Ghana. With the rapid rise of surveillance technology in the modern workplace, electronic surveillance has …
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The legacy of arsenic: Identification of arsenic exposure potential and negative health outcomes
… to build the foundation for environmental surveillance studies focused on heavy metals and biomarkers.
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The molecular epidemiology of Salmonella Typhi and applications for policy
… with poor sanitation, but recent multicentre surveillance studies have demonstrated that typhoid is also a major problem of urban and rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa. Typhoid necessitates antimicrobial therapy; however, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a serious threat to the effective …
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Injury incidence and severity at the South African Rugby Union (SARU) Youth Weeks Tournaments: a four year study
… the risk of injury is relatively high, incidence surveillance studies within rugby has become popular. However most of the studies have focussed on senior players. The data on injuries among youth rugby players are limited. This makes it difficult to develop the game to make it safer for youth of …
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