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The unedited list of the top 10 books I’ve ever read

Last week a Christian radio network asked me to provide them with  a little glimpse into my personal life, specifically the top 10 books I’ve enjoyed reading. My first response was laughter…because my wife Lori always teases me how I don’t want to read at night. I always tell her, “Baby, after reading studies all …

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Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Advancing Health Equity through Interventions to Prevent and Address Housing Instability (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) [First Estimated Application Due Date: Dec 2024]

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Social Work England sets out expectations of graduates joining profession

It has published 82 statements covering the knowledge, skills and behaviours the regulator believes that newly qualified social workers should possess at the point of registration to enable them to meet its professional standards. Social Work England consulted on the statements in 2022.

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‘If we’re not taking care of the youth, what are we really doing?’ Foster care advocates encourage more to get involved

The state currently has over 3,000 children in foster care. And while DSS has made improvements in recent years, they still need help to give each child the support they deserve.

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Adopting pediatric readiness standards in emergency departments could save more than 2,000 lives each year

The standards are published by The National Pediatric Readiness Project, an initiative to empower all emergency departments to provide effective emergency care to children, and encompass training for staff, coordination of health care, and the procedures and medical equipment needed to care for ill and injured children. According to the study, adopting the standards would […]

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New head of Quebec youth protection pledges to be ‘watchdog’ for children

Lesley Hill, newly named head of Quebec’s increasingly embattled youth protection department (DPJ), pledged Thursday to be a “watchdog” for the children of province, adding that she is ready to do what it takes to get to the bottom of the apparent dysfunction plaguing the agency.

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Opioid substitution treatment, relapse and addiction-related outcomes in prison setting and after release: A longitudinal study

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Ahead of Print. Aims: Opioid addiction is a common problem among prisoners. The aim of this study was to examine differences between people who are incarcerated receiving opioid substitution treatment (OST) and those not receiving OST on addiction-related outcome variables during incarceration and after release from prison. Variables covered […]

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Addressing integration in the organization of palliative care in belgium: a multilevel ecosystems approach using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method

Palliative care is becoming an essential component of healthcare, but there is insufficient research on how integration across different levels of care (micro, meso, and macro) is realized in practice. Without… Read the full article ›

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Efficacy of a culturally adapted, cognitive behavioural therapy-based intervention for postnatal depression in British south Asian women (ROSHNI-2): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial

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Feasibility, acceptability, and initial outcomes of a psychological adjustment and reintegration program for transitioned military veterans

Reintegration and adjustment to civilian life after military service is crucial for veterans’ mental and physical health. However, there is a lack of evidence-based interventions in Australia that specifically… Read the full article ›

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A qualitative focus group study on legal experts’ views regarding euthanasia requests based on an advance euthanasia directive

The Dutch Euthanasia law permits euthanasia in patients with advanced dementia lacking decisional capacity based on advance euthanasia directives. Nevertheless, physicians encounter difficulties assessing the … Read the full article ›

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Family caregivers’ administration of medications at the end-of-life in China: a qualitative study

Effective medication management is crucial for ensuring timely pain and symptom control at the end of life. Dying in pain is a major concern for patients, yet some find less effective pain control at home. Fam… Read the full article ›

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Technical Writer Part Time Undergraduate, Part-time Undergraduate, Cambridge, UK, Technical Writing

Perhaps you've heard of us, perhaps not. Look at your smartphone, digital camera, smart TV, gaming console, or your saved images in the cloud. Guess what, you’ve already got an Arm-based device or are connected to one!

Get a buzz out of learning new technologies? Do you enjoy writing? Arm’s Information Developers and Technical writers work with exciting and results-oriented projects that really impact the technological world. The fresh ideas of undergraduates and people early in their careers can help shape these technologies. People at Arm are diverse, dedicated, and innovative. We'd like you to bring your passion and curiosity to our company, and share your ideas! In return, we'll provide training, coaching, and a challenging environment to start your career. You'll be exposed to technologies that will be the foundation for innovative products for years to come! At Arm, we encourage our undergraduates to strengthen their proficiencies while advancing their education. You can build a career as unique as you are, with your team mates and leaders right there supporting you, even when the world throws us curveballs. 


Arm Information Developers and Technical Writers create different types of technical content, including web content, specifications, tutorials, and multimedia. This content helps our customers and ecosystems to design and develop with Arm products and solutions.

Arm has a range of vacancies for enthusiastic undergraduates with ambitions in writing and technology. You will be part of a larger community of writers, who can guide, train, and give suggestions. We nurture our people, we provide one-to-ones, and a collaborative and friendly working environment. Our leaders are open to sharing their career experiences and also giving feedback for your development.




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Senior CPU Performance Workloads Engineer, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Hardware Engineering

We have exciting opportunities in the CPU group, where you will be part of a highly motivated team that helps define new generations of mainstream processors.

You will have real responsibilities from day one, and you will get support and mentorship from specialists that will help you succeed and develop your career. Through teamwork, training, and dedication to personal development, we strive to help everyone mature into a specialist in the field.

You will work in a multi-site, multi-cultural environment and will have the opportunity to work on different projects.

What will you be accountable for?

  • You will contribute to the definition of the next generation of Arm’s IP products by enabling analysis of new applications and benchmarks, and by proposing new insights on methodologies that push the state of the art in workload analysis, characterization and capture.
  • Together with marketing, technical leads, and partners we will align on applications that will represent market requirements for future products.
  • You will propose, develop and maintain innovative ways of making relevant workloads suitable for sophisticated simulation and emulation platforms, targeting the latest architectural features.
You will help maintain and extend existing methodologies and tools, and develop new tools/infrastructure




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Project Manager Part-Time Undergraduate, Part-time Undergraduate, Cambridge, UK, Project Management

You know us. Or maybe not, but that doesn’t change the fact we’re with you, morning, noon and night. If you have a smartphone, digital camera, digital TV, gaming console or a smart meter at home, you’ve already used an Arm powered product.  

Our advanced processor designs play a substantial part in optimising the performance of 95% of all connected devices!  

This means we’ve teamed up with almost all the big names in tech. Over 35 billion Arm technology-based chips (that’s 125 shipped every second) and the software driving them are in everything from the world’s fastest supercomputer to driverless car controls to ground-breaking healthcare equipment.  

The sheer number of applications is why we’re one of the world’s biggest technology companies. Even if you don’t know our name, over 70% of the global population is using our tech every day through the ones you do know.   

So, what? What can we give you no one else can? Well, just because you’re joining a business of 7,000 truly talented innovators, either starting in one of our sleek and creative offices or working from home, to us you’re an individual.  

 We have a ‘we, not I’ approach in terms of collaboration, but when it comes to your training, development and progression, Arm have a plan just for you. You can carve out a career as unique as you are, with our mentors right there supporting you, even when the world throws us a curveball.   

Dreaming of becoming a world-class Software Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Data Analyst, Marketing master or HR specialist? Don’t worry, we're here with you all the way.  

Arm has a range of vacancies for enthusiastic undergraduates with a passion for Project Management. With the right background and a willingness to learn, you will be considered for a career in our Central Technology department.  

Within CT you will work closely with our team of highly skilled project managers, engineers and researchers to deliver core technologies into our IP groups. Typically this could involve planning, scheduling, task tracking, monitoring and control, conducting and facilitating risk management activities, reviews, assessments and lessons learned activities. The team will be able to guide you, enabling you to grow your skills and gain valuable experience to ultimately lead delivery by leading technical teams for both agile and schedule driven projects. You will also benefit from gaining formal project management qualifications to underpin your experience if you wish.  You do not need prior specific product or technical knowledge to apply for this role, but you will need to be willing to learn and a keen interest in Project Management or Engineering.  

The Automotive & IoT Line of Business is responsible for customer and partner engagement activities at all levels of the value chain for these market segments. In Automotive our solutions range from Autonomous drive to IVI and Powertrain and in IoT extending to Industrial, Storage and Endpoint AI solutions. The Line of Business is responsible for developing and executing strategies to grow the business, defining the right products and solutions, and ensuring our customers are successful. Our mission is to grow demand for Arm’s products & services and win new silicon designs whilst maintaining our excellent standards that enable our partners to shape future technology. 

The Arm Project Management Office (PMO) is responsible for enabling Arm to deliver projects and programs though strong governance, technology, and business intelligence. The role will provide you with the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of how projects are delivered across Arm globally. You can expect:  

  • To be involved in in and ultimately lead change initiatives that mature the way Arm delivers projects. 

  •  To develop skills around requirements gathering, scoping, planning, controlling projects, dealing with a wide variety of partners across Arm globally and developing skills in a variety of technologies that support project delivery.  

  • To develop a pathway into a deeper PMO specialism or into project management in Arm. 




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Part Time Undergraduate - Software, Part-time Undergraduate, Manchester, UK, Cambridge, UK, Software Engineering

Arm is seeking highly motivated and creative undergraduates to join our Cambridge, Manchester, and Sheffield-based teams working on state-of-the-art software.


In your cover letter please specify which year you will be graduating.


Our software supports a whole ecosystem, from embedded firmware through operating system kernels, compilers, libraries, developer tools, applications, and web technologies. We work in the open-source community, build tools to support our internal processes, and create commercial software products. Whatever your focus in software engineering, Arm will help you to grow your skills whilst working on projects that drive technology forward for our billions of end-users.[




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Part Time Undergraduate - Education and Research Enablement Development Engineer, Part-time Undergraduate, Cambridge, UK, Research

Part Time Undergraduate (with first year as full-time placement) - Arm Education and Research Enablement Development Engineer

Arm has fuelled the smartphone revolution by creating clever compute power that fits in your pocket. Would you like to be part of the next revolution? Our programme is now open for applications! We want to hear from curious and enthusiastic candidates interested in working with us on the future generations of compute.

About Arm and Arm Education

As the industry's leading supplier of microprocessor technology, Arm provides efficient, low-power chip intelligence making affordable, easy-to-use electronic innovations come to life. Our engineers design and develop CPUs, graphics processors, complex system IP, supporting software development tools, and physical libraries.

The Arm Education and Research Enablement offers high quality teaching and training materials to universities worldwide, and we are now seeking a Part Time Undergraduate to work with us in developing our offer. Your work will involve creating courseware to aid teaching based on Arm and partner technologies, as well as supporting technical customer inquiries. You will also develop software tools for automation, and work with internal and external partners to guarantee accurate legal and quality standards.




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Machine Learning, Graduates, Cambridge, UK, Software Engineering

Arm's Machine Learning Group is seeking for a highly motivated and creative Graduate Software Engineer to join the Cambridge-based applied ML team.

From research, to proof-of-concept development, to deployment on ARM IPs, joining this team, would be a phenomenal opportunity to contribute to the full life-cycle of machine learning projects and understand how state-of-the-art machine learning is used to solve real word problems.

Working closely with field experts in a truly multi-discipline environment, you will have the chance to explore existing or build new machine learning techniques, while helping unpick the complex world of use-cases that are applied on high end mobile phones, TVs, and laptops.

About the role

Your role would be to understand, develope and implement these use case, collaborating with Arm's system architects, and working with our marketing groups to ensure multiple Arm products are molded to work well for machine learning. Also, experience deploying inference in a mobile or embedded environment would be ideal. Knowledge of the theory and concepts involved in ML is also needed, so fair comparisons of different approaches can be made.

As an in depth technical role, you will need to understand the complex applications you analyse in detail and communicate them in their simplest form to help include them in product designs, where you will be able to influence both IP and system architecture.




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Lead GPU Architect, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Austin (TX), USA, Hardware Engineering

About the role

The Central Technology Team within Arm develops key technologies which will form the foundation of future products.
You will join a multinational, dynamic, collaborative and highly motivated Graphics team in Central Technology to help craft the direction of our world leading Mali™ Graphics products. The Mali™ Graphics Processor is the #1 shipping GPU.

You will need to have architecture and hardware/software development skills, in addition to being able to think creatively. In this role you can expect to be a technical lead where your ideas will make a difference and enable you to make your mark delivering industry leading GPU IP.

Your job responsibilities will be diverse and may include architecture, technology research, hands-on prototyping and experimental investigations, participating in key industry consortium's, engaging with product groups, working closely together with the engineering team, and taking part in partner and customer engagements.

Together with our world-leading architects you will:

  • Design and develop the Mali™ graphics architecture for the latest graphics APIs, providing new technologies for products in new and existing markets.
  • Perform high level performance modelling and analysis of graphics hardware features, applications, benchmarks and games.
  • Develop and improve tools for architectural exploration and performance analysis.
  • Understand and analyse system level architectural trade-offs (including hardware, memory systems and system s/w).
  • Collaborate with the Arm engineering team to see your ideas delivered into products.




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HW/SW Part-Time Undergraduate, Part-time Undergraduate, Cambridge, UK, Software Engineering

Introduction 

Arm is the world's leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier and as such is at the heart of the development of digital electronic products. Arm’s ecosystem includes many of the biggest names in consumer electronics and semiconductor manufacturing.  

What are we searching for? 

We are seeking an outstanding, highly motivated intern to join one of our hardware and software related teams. You will possibly work within the  

  • Central Engineering Methodology team, to creatively improve processes that drive efficient CPU development.  
  • Central Technology Solutions Functional Safety team to use a wide variety of techniques to analyse and verify newly developed solutions 

  • Automotive and IoT Functional Safety team to develop and improve processes to derive development of safe products and solutions.    

What could I be contributing to? 

Central Engineering Methodology group you will be working closely with design teams to resolve issues and automate processes that help standardize the way we develop and deliver CPU products to our internal and external customers.  Your work will focus on impacting the verification effectiveness and efficiencies of the design teams.  

Central Technology Solutions team, you will join a growing and highly motivated team responsible to develop Functionally Safe architectures for state of the art projects within autonomous drive systems, digital cockpit and robotics.  

Automotive and IoT teamyou will be working with a fast growing and strong team to resolve issues, automate processes and define management systems to help standardize the way we develop and deliver our Automotive & IoT products to achieve the toughest certification requirements in functional safety.  

 




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Graduate Software Developer, Graduates, Cambridge, UK, Applications Engineering

The SPE (Sales and Partner Enablement) Infrastructure team at Arm is looking for a hardworking and enthusiastic graduate to join our team based in Cambridge with an ambition to become a crucial member of the team.

We combine people, technology and domain specific knowledge to craft tools, services and infrastructure for Arm workforce that improve their productivity. It can be challenging at times, but there are many opportunities for people who take pride in, and enjoy developing these services and systems to make a real difference. 

You will join our established team in working closely with the Sales, Technical Communications and the Arm customer support team to provide them with the tools they need to ensure the success of Arm's partners.

The Role

You will have a chance to work across a range of systems, services and tools, focusing on developing, maintaining, and running the continuous integration and testing infrastructure of our tools. This will include bespoke and third-party solutions. You will be adept at scripting, designing automated tests, and have a track record of picking up and working with different technologies, for example:

  • XML, DITA CMS
  • XSLT
  • XPath
  • JSON, YAML, Markdown
  • Java
  • The Document Object Model
  • Systems integration using REST APIs
  • Jenkins
  • Azure Cloud

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

As a key member of a small team of engineers, you will engage with team leadership, project management, and other teams in Arm to deliver high-impact improvements and new functionality to our existing tools and code infrastructure. We use CI / CD pipelines to accommodate auto-generated documentation and varied working practises of our documentation teams across Arm, as well as more traditional CMS offerings. Your primary focus will be on the continuous integration and testing infrastructure, but you will contribute to all aspects of software development within the team; you will get involved in developing / supporting the tools used by the Sales and Application Engineering teams, Linux system administration and technical consulting with other teams in Arm to support requirement and solution definition.




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Graduate Project Manager, Graduates, Cambridge, UK, Project Management

Arm’s technology is the foundational intelligence in over 100 billion silicon chips and is fundamental to enabling dynamic new markets including Hyperscale Computing, Virtual Reality, Autonomous Vehicles. It is at the heart of hot technology areas such as Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, to name but a few - but is very cool!

Are you the one that always has a plan? Do your friends look to you to rally everyone towards a common goal? Do you always have a checklist? Perhaps you planned and executed that last big event at college?

If you thought yes to any of these questions, you may be in luck!

Several Arm groups are searching for a Graduate Project Manager to join their Project Management teams.

Job Purpose

Effective project management is central to successful delivery within Arm. The key purpose of the Project Management Graduate role is to support the team of project managers and in return you will have the opportunity to learn from an immensely experienced community. As a Project Manager at Arm, you will ensure good quality and timely delivery of products that form the basis of a huge number of pervasive digital electronics products, including but not limited to your mobile phone. You will work with and share practical knowledge from multiple highly skilled Project Managers delivering products across multiple company locations and time-zones.

  • The successful candidate will be a great teammate and have an ability to network, multi-task, plan and communicate effectively to get results.
  • We're looking for a positive, can-do character, be robust and keen to accept new challenges.
  • Our ideal candidate is someone who can see through the detail, address the real issues and get things done.
  • Ideally you will be able to demonstrate a love of technology and a desire to develop a career in project management. Previous experience of leading projects is not a must.

We value our graduates and take every effort to help you move closer to your career goals. During this assignment, you will gain valuable skills in communication, project management fundamentals and a deeper understanding of how things really get done in a world-class technology company. You will also learn how to work in a professional environment and have ample opportunity to network with professionals in various roles.

This role will be based at Arm’s corporate headquarters in the historic city of Cambridge, UK, at its largest engineering centre, giving the chance to be surrounded by world-leading authorities and work with some of the very best people anywhere.

Education & Qualifications

A university degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or Project Management background is desired, although other degrees would be considered if there is applicable experience.

Accountabilities

  • Assist project managers with project activities, for example stakeholder-management, risk analysis, scoping, planning, controlling projects and status reporting.
  • Aid project management with provision of monthly metrics & trends, to be used for information-led decisions to drive our performance and efficiency
  • Work closely with the Project Management Office to improve project management reports and processes and to be involved in and ultimately lead change initiatives that mature the way Arm delivers projects
  • Facilitate projects with compliance to the organisation’s identified health-check criteria

Required Skills & Experience

  • Excellent networking and interpersonal skills
  • Highly organised and reliable, shown either during university or in personal life
  • Thorough, with excellent attention to detail
  • Problem solving and analytical thinking skills
  • Active listener, able to interpret and play back business partner requirements
  • Highly engaged and able to work individually and as part of a team

Desirable Skills & Experience

  • Technical background, either through formal training or as hobbyist
  • An understanding of hardware / software design
  • Experience with Atlassian tools such as JIRA and Confluence would be a bonus
  • Familiarity with project management tools e.g. Microsoft Project

About Central Engineering Open Source Software Group

Our CE Open Source Software team contributes to some of the most ground-breaking global software development communities, across all layers of the software stack from the lowest levels of firmware to higher level projects that are rethinking the application of software technology for entire industries. The group provides Reference Data Platforms across a variety of market segments (Infrastructure, Mobile, Internet of Things, Autonomous) to help our partners build excellent systems quickly. CE-OSS contributes to the key open source software projects such as the Linux Kernel, Trusted Firmware and the Android Open Source Project to ensure that Arm systems are enabled and performant in the eco-system.




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Graduate Platforms Hardware Engineer, Graduates, Cambridge, UK, Software Engineering

About the role

We are looking for enthusiastic Graduate Electronics or Embedded System Engineer to join Arm’s Hardware Platform team, who are working at the forefront of embedded design based around Arm IP products. We are responsible for

  • Designing and releasing the latest Arm IP technologies in FPGA image, enabling pre-silicon software and ecosystem development, reducing time to market.
  • Creating physical hardware development platforms, based around Arm’s custom system-on-chip (SoC) and FPGAs for software development and validation activities for both our external partners/customers and our internal development teams.

If you’re interested in:

  • The potential to work on all aspects of product development, from specification to customer release.
  • Eager to learn, a willingness to work across disciplines.
  • The challenges of bringing up a new development board.
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Creating and validating Verilog RTL design in FPGA.

  • Gaining a deeper understanding of system architecture and performance.
  • Working alongside many other teams including system architects, CPU / System IP designers, physical chip layout / packaging engineers.
  • Interaction with Arm’s partners and customers both through the support organisation and directly.

Then we have a role for you!

What will I be accountable for?

As a Graduate, you will be placed in a development team at Arm’s offices in Cambridge, UK where you will have a mentor, and be able to get to grips with the problems ranging across many hardware and software areas.  You will be working across all aspects of the product lifecycle whilst being supported by and learning from the rest of the team.