A case of gender dysphoria in a biological male who developed cognitive impairment and subsequent gender confusion is reported. Biographical details and the clinical scenario are described, illustrating a patient who is no longer able to express a consistent gender preference due to moderate dementia. A review of the relevant literature and discussion of how to approach the gender role of this patient is presented.
The 2012 Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Challenge posed two challenge problems for participants to solve using a combination of visual analytics software and their own analytic reasoning abilities. Challenge 1 (C1) involved visualizing the network health of the fictitious Bank of Money to provide situation awareness and identify emerging trends that could signify network issues. Challenge 2 (C2) involved identifying the issues of concern within a region of the Bank of Money network experiencing operational difficulties utilizing the provided network logs. Participants were asked to analyze the data and provide solutions and explanations for both challenges. The data sets were downloaded by nearly 1100 people by the close of submissions. The VAST Challenge received 40 submissions with participants from 12 different countries, and 14 awards were given.
The main challenge facing internationalsation of higher education is retaining roots in a cultural setting while being open to new influences. Internationalsation affects every aspect of university life. An initial issue this raises is language. Universities must decide in which languages to teach and which languages will be offered, decisions that raise questions regarding graduation requirements. It would seem a logical step to require all students to study a foreign language. Introducing language requirements into the curriculum necessitates considerable and probably continual revision of study and degree programmes. However, to meet their challenges and realise their opportunities, universities will no longer be able to go it alone. Apart from staff and student mobility, distance education, and other forms of delivery, universities will need to work together. The next decade will therefore see much close cooperation in networks, both general and disciplinary. Further development of joint study and research programmes will also characterise the period.The search for funding, the competition for students and for academics, the restructuring of programmes to increase transparency and harmonisation, the language of tuition-the list is virtually unlimited-are among the challenges and opportunities that universities in the 21st century are having to face both nationally and internationally. Moreover, at the international level, there is the added complication of the potential clash between domestic and international students for places on attractive programmes. At the same time, universities are eager to increase their student numbers as a means of increasing their funding. This often results in the dilemma of quality versus numbers, not that these two are by any means mutually exclusive. Nevertheless, there are not infrequent examples of institutions that have been inclined to sacrifice quality for numbers. To some extent, many of these issues can be gathered under the general heading of tradition and renewal, with the older universities perhaps tending toward tradition and the newer ones looking for new at UNIV PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND on February 4, 2015 jsi.sagepub.com Downloaded from
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