scholarly journals The Outlook of the Development of Innovative Products from Biocompatible Natural Spider Silk in the Beauty Thread-Lifting Industry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Qing ◽  
Qi-yan Li ◽  
Nan-nan Xue ◽  
Shi-meng Yuan ◽  
Chuan-jun Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spider Silk ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Quick Recovery ◽  
Facial Beauty ◽  
Absorbable Sutures ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Thread Lift ◽  
Novel Material ◽  
Lifting Techniques

Abstract Embedding thread lift rhytidectomy, also known as “thread lifting” in China, with the natures of simple operation, less trauma and quick recovery, is progressively used in clinical practice as a new technology of face lifting. Herewith, a brief introduction of the previous advances of thread lifting techniques and materials in the facial beauty industry, combined with the discussion on various types of sutures, common complications, and the site of actions were provided. The main limitations of present thread lifting material include: (1) the use of non-absorbable sutures is liable to cause allergies and a series of complications; (2) the absorbable sutures are easily degradation, and people need to reshape in a relatively short period. Therefore, the high biocompatible spider silk was proposed as a novel material of thread lifting suture and related devices, the advantages and preliminary achievements on spider silk were also addressed. Graphic Abstract

scholarly journals Teaching Psychomotor Skills in a Virtual Environment: An Educational Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 537
Author(s):  
Laura Plummer ◽  
Lesley Smith ◽  
Elizabeth Cornforth ◽  
Shweta Gore
Keyword(s):  
Physical Therapy ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Psychomotor Skills ◽  
Coaching Model ◽  
Therapy Program ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Rapid Transition

In March 2020, most physical therapy schools across the globe transitioned to online learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This change posed unique challenges not only because it required adapting to new technology in a short period but, more importantly, it involved developing ways to teach hands-on psychomotor and clinical skills virtually while maintaining the quality of instruction. In response to the rapid transition, the physical therapy program at MGH Institute of Health Professions (IHP)designed and implemented a novel and effective coaching model to address the challenges. The model was developed based on experiential learning theory, constructivism, a coaching framework, and andragogical principles of feedback and reflection. Not only did the model meet its objectives of effectively teaching basic psychomotor skills in the virtual environment, but it may also have andragogical benefits that can be applied to traditional face-to-face methods. This case study describes the theoretical underpinning of the model, its development and implementation, the perceived effectiveness for learning psychomotor skills in a virtual environment, and the potential for broader relevance to future models of physical therapy education.

A Discussion on recent advances in heavy electrical plant - Superconducting machines - a new era for the electrical power industry

1973 ◽  
Vol 275 (1248) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Propulsion Systems ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
New Era ◽  
Marine Propulsion ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Changing Attitudes

This paper outlines the development of superconducting d.c. machines at I.R.D. where most of the work to date has been undertaken. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the industrial applications for these machines and the paper contains illustrations of the superconducting marine propulsion systems now under construction. The object of the presentation is to demonstrate that superconducting d.c. machines are now available for industrial application after a relatively short period of development. The paper also indicates the substantial advantages to be gained from the successful development of superconducting a.c. generators. The work which is necessary before these machines may be put into production will be discussed by consideration of the principal problem areas. Finally, conclusions are drawn on the present status of superconducting machines and the changing attitudes in industry towards this new technology.

MACHINE VISION 1992–1996, TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM IN FINLAND

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTTI J. SOINI
Keyword(s):  
Machine Vision ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Robot Vision ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Technology Program ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
New Business

Machine vision technology has attracted a strong interest among Finnish research organizations, which has resulted in many innovative products for industry. Despite this goal users were very skeptical towards machine vision and its robustness in harsh industrial environments. Therefore the Technology Development Centre, TEKES, which funds technology related research and development projects in universities and individual companies in Finland, decided to start a national technology program, "Machine Vision 1992–1996". Led by industry, the program boosts research in machine vision technology and seeks to put the research results to work in practical industrial applications. The emphasis is on nationally important, demanding applications. The program will create new business for machine vision producers and encourage the process and manufacturing industry to take advantage of this new technology. So far 60 companies and all major universities and research centers in Finland are working on our forty different projects. The key themes are Process Control, Robot Vision and Quality Control.

Evo TV

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Rawani ◽  
Ashwini K. Awasthi ◽  
Siddhartha Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Storage Media ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Floppy Diskette

Subject area Marketing. Study level/applicability Post Graduate. Case overview Rajiv Bapna and Pradeep Bapna co-founded Allied Electronics & Magnetics Limited (widely known as Amkette) in the year 1985 for the production of floppy diskettes in India. By the year 1995, Amkette was the largest selling floppy diskette brand in India. With the advent of new technology in storage media sale of floppy diskette observed a constant decline. By the end of year 2004, floppy diskettes completely vanished from the market. Amkette anticipated the changes in the computer peripherals market and introduced a wide range of products in storage media, wireless and wired peripherals, accessories and digital lifestyle products. After the launch of Evo TV on June 2012, Amkette was hopeful for a major success in digital lifestyle segment. Evo TV, a connected TV device, allowed consumers to use smart apps on their television sets and was a cost-effective substitute to Smart TVs. Amkette was betting very high on Evo TV for revenue generation and market development. Expected learning outcomes Following are the learning outcomes: to review the product life cycle of technology products, to understand evolving customers’ expectations and behavior, to assess the adoption process of innovative products and to explore the challenges associated with innovative products for market development. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 8: Marketing.

Effect of Technological Parameters on Preparation of Mg-Based Foam Materials

2013 ◽  
Vol 749 ◽  
pp. 356-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Jie Luo ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Zheng Guo Xu ◽  
Yuan Sheng Yang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
New Technology ◽  
High Specific Surface Area ◽  
Foam Material ◽  
Technological Parameters ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Stirring Time ◽  
Novel Material ◽  
Suitable Combination ◽  
Strength And Stiffness

As a novel material, Mg-based foam material not only has fantastic physical characteristics, such as low density, high specific surface area, high specific strength and stiffness, and good biocompatibility, but also has special functional properties, for example, electromagnetic wave shielding, vibration reduction, sound absorption, and so on. It can be widely applied to aeronautical and aerospace, military, shipbuilding, transportation, automotive and medical industries. Mg-based foam material was prepared by direct foaming in magnesium alloy liquid in this study, and the effect of technological parameters on the products, such as addition amount of and granularity of SiC particles and MgCO3 particles, stirring temperature, stirring time, stirring velocity, foaming temperature and foaming time, was investigated. The aim of this research was to develop a new technology which could fabricate large scale Mg-based foam material in air condition. The results showed that variations of technological parameters may affect preparation of the foam materials in some extent and resulted in the changes of the products in apparent density, porosity and structural uniformity. The light weight Mg-based foam with homogeneous pores could be obtained by suitable combination of the technological parameters.

scholarly journals Performance Measurement of Vietnamese Publishing Firms by the Integration of the GM (1,1) Model and the Malmquist Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Xuan-Huynh Nguyen ◽  
Quoc Chien Luu
Keyword(s):  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Malmquist Productivity Index ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Grey Theory ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Innovative Products

Abstract Background: In the new technology context, the publishing industry cannot continue to maintain its business operations and to develop relying solely on traditional product offerings, such as books, magazines, and newspapers. There needs to be an expansion into innovative products, such as e-books, micro-publishing, and websites. Objectives: The paper addresses the factors influencing financial reports of Vietnamese publishing firms using two methodological approaches, namely the Grey first-order one variables (GM,1,1) model in the Grey theory and the Malmquist model in the data envelopment analysis (DEA). Methods/Approach: The GM(1,1) model predicts the future period of 2020–2023 based on the historical time series analysis. The Malmquist model presents catch-up, frontier-shift, and Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) in whole terms. Results: The analysis provides an overview of the publishing industry in Vietnam. The final empirical results show that twelve companies reached a production efficiency higher than 1 and fourteen companies are expected to attain a productivity score higher than 1. Conclusions: Only a few firms do not need to change significantly; however, the remaining firms must re-evaluate their current operations.

Modeling for Learning Design Repositories

2010 ◽  
pp. 374-392
Author(s):  
Gilbert Paquette
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
End Users ◽  
Learning Design ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Main Thread

The deployment processes of a new technology or a methodology like Instructional Engineering is crucial if we want R&D results and products to reach end users with innovative products and services that produce quality and growth. These preoccupations are at the origin of the IDLD project that provides the main thread of this chapter. This project is based previous projects in the same area: R2R (Paquette, Marino, De la Teja, Lundgren-Cayrol, Léonard & Contamines, 2005) and edusource (McGreal, Anderson, Babin, Downes, Friesen, Harrigan, Hatala, M., MacLeod, Mattson, Paquette, Richards, Roberts & Schafer, 2004).

scholarly journals The Coming Global Climate–Technology Revolution

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Greenhouse Gases ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Manhattan Project ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Technology Revolution ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
Dangerous Climate Change

Emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases can be reduced significantly using existing technologies, but stabilizing concentrations will require a technological revolution—a “revolution” because it will require fundamental change, achieved within a relatively short period of time. Inspiration for a climate–technology revolution is often drawn from the Apollo space program or the Manhattan Project, but averting dangerous climate change cannot be “solved” by a single new technology, deployed by a single government. The technological changes needed to address climate change fundamentally will have to be pervasive; they will have to involve markets; and they will have to be global in scope. My focus in this paper is not on the moderate emission reductions that can be achieved using existing technologies, but on the breakthrough technologies that are needed to reduce emissions dramatically. The challenges are formidable. Indeed, it is possible that the revolution needed to dramatically reduce emissions of greenhouse gases will fail. Should the climate change abruptly, the incentive to “engineer” the climate will be strong. There will be a climate–technology revolution, but its nature will depend on the institutions we develop to address the challenge we face.

scholarly journals The Intuitiveness of Gesture Control with a Mixed Reality Device

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 1435-1439
Author(s):  
Jacob D. Benedict ◽  
Jacob D. Guliuzo ◽  
Barbara S. Chaparro
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Reality ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Time Performance ◽  
Gesture Control ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Touch Screens ◽  
Microsoft Hololens

Mixed reality is a new technology that requires users to control a head-mounted device via gestures with their hands. Users of these devices must learn and remember a new way of interacting. It has been shown that creating gestures that resemble movements used to operate touch screens can help with this new transfer. This study investigates how well people learn to use the out-of-the-box gestures for a mixed reality headset, Microsoft HoloLens, after interacting with it for a very short period of time. Performance with the gestures was measured with novices before and after approximately five minutes of practice game play. Participants showed a significant improvement on the gestures to open and position windows and reported them to be easier to do after the short practice. This information could help to create apps or tutorials that help teach these gestures, as well as identifying which gestures are more intuitive to users.

scholarly journals CPEC: Threat or Opportunity Protecting Local Industry through Infant Industry Theory Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Manzoor Ali Isran ◽  
Shehla Najib Siddiki ◽  
Mukesh Kumar ◽  
Erum Zahoor Zaidi
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Market Access ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Infant Industry ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
The Government

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a massive investment initiative by China with a whopping amount of $62 billion. The project includes various short term and long term plans for energy, infrastructure, IT and R&D projects. The completion of short term plans by the end of 2018 and initiation of long term projects demand a comprehensive analysis as the project of CPEC presents both threat and opportunities for local producers. The threats include competition for local producers from innovative products of China and technological and managerial superiority of Chinese companies over Pakistani industry. However, the domestic producers feel more optimist as energy and infrastructure projects, and induction of new technology would benefit the business sector in Pakistan. The purpose of this study is to explore and identify the possible threats and opportunities considering “Infant Industry Theory” as an analytical framework. A qualitative and quantitative research methodology is employed and the data is gathered from 20 divergent and potential sector of SMEs through a close ended survey questionnaire. The likert scale is used to evaluate the opinions of respondents for awareness, challenges; and threats and opportunities of CPEC. The results revealed that SMEs owners are now more aware about the CPEC and its related details while the major challenges for producers were to cope with the low access to finance, unavailability of business and legal advisory services and difficulties in market access. Moreover, the majority of selected respondents consider the project of CPE as an opportunity for their businesses, industry and economy of Pakistan. It is thus concluded that business sector in Pakistan is preparing for CPEC, but with the fact that the required results are not possible till the challenges and concerns of local producers are addressed by the government in appropriate way through effective policies and efficient management. Hence, a detailed policy plan for the local industry specifying CPEC is highly recommended.

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