scholarly journals Evaluate and control service and transaction dependability of complex IoT systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sina Niedermaier ◽  
Thommy Zelenik ◽  
Stefan Heisse ◽  
Stefan Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Software Quality ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Reliability Engineering ◽  
Performance Control ◽  
Dependability Evaluation ◽  
And Control ◽  
Control Service

AbstractObserving and controlling the dependability of service provision of complex IoT systems is challenging. In practice, many organizations struggle to derive consumer needs related to quality and to observe and quantify the service provision in the context of the dynamic behavior of a complex distributed system. In this paper, we present an approach to define and evaluate the dependability of complex IoT systems. Our approach is an adaptation of the ISO/IEC 25040, an international standard for the evaluation process for system and software quality, which is part of the systems and software quality requirements and evaluation (SQuaRE) series. Our approach was designed and evaluated with action research in an industrial study at Robert Bosch GmbH. Based on the framework of the SQuaRE series, we integrated different elements of site reliability engineering (SRE) and combined them with distributed tracing as a promising measurement method. Our approach introduces the IoT transaction concept to reduce modeling and observation efforts while increasing operationalization to measure performance against dependability targets. Our adaption was effectively applied, consumer-centricity along different system stakeholders were enhanced, and negative consequences of organizational silos were reduced. This has improved the dependability evaluation of service provision to enable fast feedback cycles for service performance control and improvement.

scholarly journals Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) Control of a Virtual Assistant in a Smartphone to Manage Messaging Applications

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 3716
Author(s):  
Francisco Velasco-Álvarez ◽  
Álvaro Fernández-Rodríguez ◽  
Francisco-Javier Vizcaíno-Martín ◽  
Antonio Díaz-Estrella ◽  
Ricardo Ron-Angevin
Keyword(s):  
Free Text ◽  
Short Message ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Computer Interfaces ◽  
Brain Signals ◽  
Message Service ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
And Control ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Visual P300

Brain–computer interfaces (BCI) are a type of assistive technology that uses the brain signals of users to establish a communication and control channel between them and an external device. BCI systems may be a suitable tool to restore communication skills in severely motor-disabled patients, as BCI do not rely on muscular control. The loss of communication is one of the most negative consequences reported by such patients. This paper presents a BCI system focused on the control of four mainstream messaging applications running in a smartphone: WhatsApp, Telegram, e-mail and short message service (SMS). The control of the BCI is achieved through the well-known visual P300 row-column paradigm (RCP), allowing the user to select control commands as well as spelling characters. For the control of the smartphone, the system sends synthesized voice commands that are interpreted by a virtual assistant running in the smartphone. Four tasks related to the four mentioned messaging services were tested with 15 healthy volunteers, most of whom were able to accomplish the tasks, which included sending free text e-mails to an address proposed by the subjects themselves. The online performance results obtained, as well as the results of subjective questionnaires, support the viability of the proposed system.

REGIONALISM APPROACH UNDER THE COVID-19 CIRCUMSTANCES

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 126-133
Author(s):  
E. Rasoulinezhad ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Economic Convergence ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
Different Parts

The outbreak of Covid-19 disease since late 2019 has led to fundamental changes in the process of globalization and liberalization of the world economy. In order to prevent the spread of this disease and control its negative consequences, many countries have implemented policies such as urban quarantine, cutting off passenger communication with neighboring countries and the world, closing tourist and tourist places, and implementing policies to protect domestic industries. In general, it led to the phenomenon of reverse globalization. According to the development of new economic convergence, which is based on the role of the market in economic relations between countries can play an important role in improving the productive capacity of countries in a region and create economic integration in different parts of the world. Such a state of integration in different parts of the world could be the solution to the process of globalization and in the post-Corona era, the concept of “one for all, all for one” was created at the regional and global level. As policy implications, the paper recommended some points to make a greater integration between Iran and Russia in the region

ANALYSIS OF ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL LOSSES CAUSED BY ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY ISSUES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.G. Shifrin ◽  
◽  
N.V. Limarenko ◽  
D.V. Trinz ◽  
D.S. Inozemtsev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Electromagnetic Compatibility ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact ◽  
And Control

This article discusses the problems of the influence of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) violations of electrical and electronic devices on the surrounding ecosystems. The analysis is carried out and the classification of EMC violations is given, the causes of the compatibility violation are examined, and the economic losses and the negative environmental impact, as a consequence of the considered violations, are analyzed. A classification and generalization of methods to minimize the negative consequences of EMC violations was carried out, criteria for reducing economic losses were considered, methods for preventing and preventing EMC violations of various power and electronic devices were classified. The methods of monitoring the compatibility of devices are considered and recommendations are given for observing the necessary safety and control requirements.

scholarly journals Can a Home Care Package deliver a meaningful life? Challenges for rural home care delivery

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Pauline Marsh ◽  
Amelie Fuller ◽  
Judith Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Meaningful Life ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Life Challenges ◽  
Care Package ◽  
And Control ◽  
Depth Interviews

Objective: To explore the capacity and responsiveness of the Home Care Package (HCP) Program to deliver the promise of a meaningful life for rural residents.Methods: In-depth interviews utilising appreciative enquiry in two local government areas in rural/outer regional Tasmania (MM2-6). Participants: Rural staff and residents who were either receiving, seeking or delivering support through the HCP Program.Results: Interviews revealed that positive impacts of being assisted to stay at home resulted when staff were able to provide support that was appropriate to need, and enabled the continuation of rural community engagement, individual autonomy and control. When the HCP did not provide these, or even hindered them, there were negative consequences, and feelings of confusion, mistrust, and disappointment for staff and residents. The rural context creates specific challenges for the HCP Program in its current form, related to service availability and choice, staff recruitment, training and availability, and client/provider needs mismatch.Conclusions: Older rural people are variously impacted upon by the HCP Program. Factors of rurality, including workforce issues, hamper the Program’s potential to positively contribute to a meaningful life. As demand grows, changes are needed. There is a need to examine the Program design for urban-centrisms, and gain a greater awareness of older rural people’s needs and rural service challenges.

scholarly journals Competences of teachers of natural-physical sciences. An analysis from the perception of the students

2020 ◽  
Vol 1674 (1) ◽  
pp. 012020
Author(s):  
R Prada-Núñez ◽  
E T Ayala ◽  
W R Avendaño-Castro
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institution ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
State Tests ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

Abstract This article arises as a proposal in view of the need to evaluate the scientific competences promoted by teachers of the subject of physics at the level of basic secondary and secondary technical education. A valid questionnaire was designed from the application of scalar analysis, factorial analysis and content analysis, which is composed of 49 items evaluated by means of a Likert scale with five levels of response. It was applied in a sample of 249 students enrolled in a public educational institution during 2019, characterized by their good results in the area of physics in state tests. The results allowed the identification of strengths in the four dimensions proposed by the Ministerio de Educación Nacional, Colombia (pedagogical, didactic, disciplinary and behavioural), in contrast with some weaknesses within which the evaluation process stands out as the one with the greatest impact, since the students state that this process is assumed by the teacher as a mechanism of pressure and control. When investigating the teachers in a complementary way, positions were determined that were totally opposite to those held by the students, then it is suggested for future research to consider both the students and the teachers as informants and a supervision of the students’ notes as the end of triangulating the results to refine the conclusions, on which future improvement plans will depend.

scholarly journals Correction to: Cancer cases detected in the prevention and control service of a private cancer clinic in Peru

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Revilla-López ◽  
Andrea Anampa-Guzmán ◽  
Luis Casanova Marquez ◽  
Katrina Weeks ◽  
Suzanne Pollard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Original Publication ◽  
And Control ◽  
Control Service ◽  
Cancer Clinic

In the original publication of this article [1] several figures and tables were incorrectly displayed. In this correction article the correct overview of the tables and figures are published. The original article has been updated. The publisher apologizes to the readers & authors for the inconvenience.

scholarly journals Managing Procrastination on Social Networking Sites: The D-Crastinate Method

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 577
Author(s):  
Abdulaziz Alblwi ◽  
Dena Al-Thani ◽  
John McAlaney ◽  
Raian Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Social Networking Site ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
And Control ◽  
Method Approach

Procrastination refers to the voluntary avoidance or postponement of action that needs to be taken, that results in negative consequences such as low academic performance, anxiety, and low self-esteem. Previous work has demonstrated the role of social networking site (SNS) design in users’ procrastination and revealed several types of procrastination on SNS. In this work, we propose a method to combat procrastination on SNS (D-Crastinate). We present the theories and approaches that informed the design of D-Crastinate method and its stages. The method is meant to help users to identify the type of procrastination they experience and the SNS features that contribute to that procrastination. Then, based on the results of this phase, a set of customised countermeasures are suggested for each user with guidelines on how to apply them. To evaluate our D-Crastinate method, we utilised a mixed-method approach that included a focus group, diary study and survey. We evaluate the method in terms of its clarity, coverage, efficiency, acceptance and whether it helps to increase users’ consciousness and management of their own procrastination. The evaluation study involved participants who self-declared that they frequently procrastinate on SNS. The results showed a positive impact of D-Crastinate in increasing participants’ awareness and control over their procrastination and, hence, enhancing their digital wellbeing.

scholarly journals Bottom-up accountability and public service provision: Evidence from a field experiment in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205316802091444
Author(s):  
Danilo Freire ◽  
Manoel Galdino ◽  
Umberto Mignozzetti
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
School Construction ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Mobile Phone Application ◽  
The Impact

Does local oversight improve public service delivery? We study the effect of a mobile phone application that allows citizens to monitor school construction projects in Brazilian municipalities. The app prompts users to submit data about construction sites, sends such crowdsourced information to independent engineers, and contacts the mayors’ offices about project delays. Our results show that the app has a null impact on school construction indicators. Additionally, we find that politicians are unresponsive to individual requests. The results question the impact of bottom-up monitoring on public service performance and suggest that interventions targeted at other groups, or focused on different issues, may produce better policy outcomes.

Health Implications of Cyber-Terrorism

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Clem ◽  
Sagar Galwankar ◽  
George Buck
Keyword(s):  
Prevention And Control ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Cyber Terrorism ◽  
Health Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
And Control

AbstractThe world is becoming ever more interconnected via the Internet, creating both benefits and disadvantages for human communities. This article examines cyber-terrorism, one of the major negative consequences of the Internet. It also examines the potential impact of cyber-terrorism on the health of populations, its possible perpetrators, and its prevention and control.

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