The Impact of Mosaic Embryos on Procreative Liberty and Procreative Responsibility: Time to Put Innovative Technology on “Pause”

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shizuko Takahashi ◽  
Pasquale Patrizio
Keyword(s):  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Procreative Liberty ◽  
Procreative Responsibility ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Telemedicine in addictions feasibility RCT – staff and patient qualitative satisfaction

BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S297-S297
Author(s):  
Dominic Treloar ◽  
Soraya Mayet
Keyword(s):  
Opioid Dependence ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Feasibility Trial ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Opioid Substitution Treatment ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Research Interview ◽  
The Impact

AimsOpioid dependence has high risks. Opioid substitution treatment (OST) improves outcomes. Addiction specialist prescribers prescribe OST and monitor safety, but nonattendance may lead to worse outcomes. Telemedicine can reduce travel and improve attendance at appointments. Before COVID-19, we started a telemedicine in addictions trial to see if this helped in addictions. We present the qualitative patient and staff experience results.MethodHealth Research Authority approval for randomized controlled feasibility trial of Telemedicine versus Face-to-Face (control) consultations at community addictions semirural service (2500km2) using a modified Hub-and-Spoke (outreach) model. Adult opioid dependent patients prescribed OST and attending outreach were recruited. Participants received two appointments in randomized group. Telemedicine was delivered using Skype-for-business videoconferencing. Patients attended outreach, saw keyworker for drug testing first, and telemedicine conducted via keyworker's laptop. Addiction prescribers located remotely at Hub. Post-trial research interview conducted assessing patient and staff experience of Telemedicine versus Face-to-Face consultations. Data transcribed, inputted to RedCap Cloud and free-text analysed using qualitative thematic analysis.ResultOf fifty-nine patient participants, 58 completed a research interview. Patient participants reported similar levels of satisfaction between the Telemedicine and Face to Face groups. The themes generated in relation to Face-to-Face were no difference, easy, kind staff and liking being part of research. For Telemedicine, themes were less travel, good experience, easier to access, good communication, saves time and saves money. For instance, one patient stated ‘Clear, easy to access less travel’ and another patient stated ‘I struggle with travel. I found it easier’. Of 19 staff participant research interviews completed, Staff reported Good or Very Good experience with telemedicine which was equivalent for Face-to-Face consultations. Eleven staff had experience of telemedicine consultations during the trial. They reported similar themes to patients with telemedicine leading to less travel, beneficial to patient care, improves attendance and was innovative technology. One staff member reported satisfaction with telemedicine due to ‘Time, travel and money reduction’. When questioned on the downsides to telemedicine, technological issues were mainly related to connection issues and sound issues.ConclusionIn the first known RCT of Telemedicine versus Face-to-Face consultations for patients with opioid dependence attending prescriber review, we found that both patients and staff were satisfied with telemedicine as compared to face-to-face consultations. Overall themes were reduced travel, saving time and more convenience. This will be very important given the impact of COVID-19 on access to addictions services.Financial SponsorshipEast Riding CCGAcademic Health Science Network

The Impact of AI on Disintermediation Processes in the Tourism Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-115
Author(s):  
Jovanka Damoska Sekuloska ◽  
Aleksandar Erceg
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Customer Services ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Value Creation Process ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Smart Tourism

As an innovative technology, artificial intelligence (AI) leads to disruption and automation of almost every process and business model in almost any industry today. AI contributes to the process of disintermediation of value chains resulting in shrinking the producer-customer links. The chapter examines the influence of AI on disintermediation in the tourism industry. It investigates the changes and transformation of the value creation process and marketing in the tourism industry affected by AI technology. AI could transform and revolutionize every segment of the tourism industry. Thus, it can make tourism more efficient, with new value-added customer services. AI is considered an enabling tool for the creation of the so-called “smart tourism” as a new age of tourism development. As a digital tool, AI enables the tourism industry to get insight into the customer, understand tourist profiles and provide consumers with personalized and niche travel experiences.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Smart Real Estate Technology: Drivers of, and Barriers to, the Use of Digital Disruptive Technologies and Online Platforms

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahim Ullah ◽  
Samad Sepasgozar ◽  
Changxin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
The State ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Technology Adoption Model ◽  
Core Components ◽  
Smartphone Technology ◽  
The Impact

Real estate needs to improve its adoption of disruptive technologies to move from traditional to smart real estate (SRE). This study reviews the adoption of disruptive technologies in real estate. It covers the applications of nine such technologies, hereby referred to as the Big9. These are: drones, the internet of things (IoT), clouds, software as a service (SaaS), big data, 3D scanning, wearable technologies, virtual and augmented realities (VR and AR), and artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. The Big9 are examined in terms of their application to real estate and how they can furnish consumers with the kind of information that can avert regrets. The review is based on 213 published articles. The compiled results show the state of each technology’s practice and usage in real estate. This review also surveys dissemination mechanisms, including smartphone technology, websites and social media-based online platforms, as well as the core components of SRE: sustainability, innovative technology and user centredness. It identifies four key real estate stakeholders—consumers, agents and associations, government and regulatory authorities, and complementary industries—and their needs, such as buying or selling property, profits, taxes, business and/or other factors. Interactions between these stakeholders are highlighted, and the specific needs that various technologies address are tabulated in the form of a what, who and how analysis to highlight the impact that the technologies have on key stakeholders. Finally, stakeholder needs as identified in the previous steps are matched theoretically with six extensions of the traditionally accepted technology adoption model (TAM), paving the way for a smoother transition to technology-based benefits for consumers. The findings pertinent to the Big9 technologies in the form of opportunities, potential losses and exploitation levels (OPLEL) analyses highlight the potential utilisation of each technology for addressing consumers’ needs and minimizing their regrets. Additionally, the tabulated findings in the form of what, how and who links the Big9 technologies to core consumers’ needs and provides a list of resources needed to ensure proper information dissemination to the stakeholders. Such high-quality information can bridge the gap between real estate consumers and other stakeholders and raise the state of the industry to a level where its consumers have fewer or no regrets. The study, being the first to explore real estate technologies, is limited by the number of research publications on the SRE technologies that has been compensated through incorporation of online reports.

Influence of Socio-Economy in the Next Generation of Thermal Management Solutions for Electronics Consumer Products

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gamal Refai-Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Heat Dissipation ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Electronics Packaging ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Target Market ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The past few decades have seen a number of countries around the world emerge as a growing market for high performance computers. This present study examines, in more detail, how socio-economic influences are shaping the demand function and how some computing landscapes are changing as a consequence. This study is addressing one of the key initiatives to enable 50 percent of the world’s population with access to the World Wide Web. Furthermore, this investigation is addressing the challenges for electronics packaging Engineers and Researchers. Therefore, the rational of the developed technology based on the understanding target market and usages will be given. The impact of addressing the heat dissipation and managing the use of the raw materials of the intended products are discussed. In addition, how the electronics packaging engineers can focus on developing affordable innovative technology. Finally, the impact of all of the above is examined in developing the cost effective solution from a global point of view.

scholarly journals UNIFIED THEORY OF ACCEPTANCE USE OF TECHNOLOGY (UTAUT) AND ITS APPLICABILITY TO MORTGAGE BANKING DIGITIZATION: THE CASE OF THE PHILIPPINES

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (14) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Dave T. Morales ◽  
Fernando L. Trinidad
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Unified Theory ◽  
Performance Expectancy ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Effort Expectancy ◽  
Facilitating Conditions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The advent of technology has influenced the way banks should conduct their business. People are becoming more conscious, more discerning and more critical with the way how businesses should provide efficient, fast, and convenient access to their products and services. And banks are not exempted from these expectations. There has been a steady surge of innovative technology that will help banks deliver more efficient services through digitization. This study was conducted to investigate the determinants of the behavioral intentions on the acceptability of the bank’s digital mortgage service from the perspective of 250 mortgage clients who are current or prospective users of digital mortgage service. The study was anchored from the Unified Theory of Acceptance Use of Technology (UTAUT). The research has found that the determinants of behavioral intention to accept digital mortgage device among mortgage clients were facilitating conditions, performance expectancy and effort expectancy. It was also revealed that based on the standardized beta coefficients, facilitating conditions (0.405), performance expectancy (0.383) and effort expectancy (0.134) had a significant influence on bank mortgage clients’ behavioral intentions to accept digital mortgage service. Additionally, it was also proven that the age, education, computer knowledge and internet knowledge of the mortgage clients moderate the impact of the three determinants: performance expectancy, effort expectancy and social influence on clients’ digital mortgage service acceptance. Lastly, it can be concluded that performance expectancy is directly related to internet time, frequency of product purchase using a mobile device and use of mobile banking.

scholarly journals Assessment of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Strand of the K-12 Program among Selected Public Schools in Zone 2 Division of Zambales

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 870-881
Author(s):  
Lyra Castillo Honrado ◽  
Adelia D. Calimlim
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Lesson Study ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The Impact

The study determined the impact of the STEM Strand implementation of senior high schools in the Division of Zambales. The study was limited to fifty secondary public-school teachers in Zone II.The study revealed that majority teacher-respondents, are generally young with only a minimum number of trainings attended. STEM trends, there were more males than females and a larger are married. There were no significant differences in the success of the STEM schools in Palauig, Botolan and Iba in the following domains:college preparation;integrated and innovative technology use; STEM-rich informal experiences; connections with industry and the world of work; well-prepared STEM teachers and professionalized teaching staff and  positive school community and culture of high expectations  for all. Based on the summary of findings and the conclusions arrived at, the researcher has offered the following recommendations that professional learning in the form of learning action cells and lesson study should be provided to relatively novice STEM teachers in order to expose them to effective instructional strategies and impact their actual classroom practices as opposed to cascading in-service trainings. Greater involvement of these partners through planning, implementation, and review should be targeted instead of only involving them for immersion activities. A more intensive evaluation of the STEM implementation following the Context-Input-Process-Product approach should be conducted to strengthen and confirm the findings of the study. A more study that would monitor the whole system as opposed to the present investigation’s focus on teacher perception would lend greater credence to the results.

scholarly journals Diffusion of Innovative Water Atomization Technology to Conserve Water in Water Stress Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Stress ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Water Atomization ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Semi Arid

Clean water is a challenge in water stress semi-arid country like Botswana. All the perennial rivers are shared with river basins of neighbouring countries. Some of the ground water in aquifers are of fossil nature and remain without any recharge. The low rainfall and the increasing temperature increase further the scarcity of water. With the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR), the impact of climate change due to Global warming for Botswana, it is estimated that the Limpopo Catchment (runoff) would decrease 26%, 36%, 46% and 56% under the global warming 1.5° C, 2° C, 2.5° C, and 3° C respectively. Hence water management is imperative in Botswana In managing water, demand management with price and non-price strategies, is the most abundantly used approach. In this respect, a recently emerged strategy is the application of water atomization technology. This research investigates the effectiveness of using water atomization technology at Botho University, as a large size consumer in Botswana and envisage further to scale up to a macro level in Botswana. At Botho University, having studied this as a case study project, it was found that the application of water atomization technology at micro level enables us to save 75% of water that was previously consumed. The installation of technology is a simple process and the payback period is shorter. Further, it was found that the projection for the application of the technology at macro level reflects that there would be a saving of water by 36 million kilolitres. Hence, it was recommended to have a marketing strategy based on principles of persuasion for diffusion of innovative technology to attract adopters, within a budgeted period of ten years. These findings and recommendations are significant not only for micro level application but also macro level application in the country for fulfilling the pledge taken by the country and corporate citizens with SDG 06: Clean Water for all and Sanitation & SDG 12: Responsible Consumption of 2030 Agenda for 17 Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). However, the study is subject to the limitation that assessing water savings expected from the water technology among various types of customers at macro level is dependent on high resolution water consumption data which is not publicly available.

scholarly journals The use of improved cajuput seeds to encourage self-sufficiency in cajuput oil in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 917 (1) ◽  
pp. 012041
Author(s):  
Sumardi ◽  
N K Kartikawati ◽  
Prastyono ◽  
A Nirsatmanto ◽  
A Rimbawanto
Keyword(s):  
Oil Production ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Indigenous Species ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Genetically Improved ◽  
National Production ◽  
National Capacity ◽  
Oil Productivity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Further Development

Abstract Melaleuca cajuput sub sp cajuput is an indigenous species in Indonesia which primarily used for the cajuput oil industry. The demand for cajuput oil is reported at around 3,500 tons/year, while the national capacity production is only around 600 tons years−1 due to lack of grower interest in planting and low productivity of the existing plantations. Following the success of the genetic improvement of cajuput in which oil yield and cineole content are improved, carried out by CFBTI, a program to increase oil production through developing plantations using genetically improved seeds was developed in six provinces. Five small-growers and one company were involved in the program covering 35 ha and 2000 ha of a plantation, respectively. This paper aims to report the progress of the program by focusing on the impact of the improved seed and people’s participation in developing cajuput plantations. The paper also discusses the projected impact for further development of the plantations, including government policy to support increased national production of cajuput oil as well as ensuring the market. The results showed that oil productivity varied among small-grower sites ranging from 93.75 to 171.6 kg ha−1 year−1, while for the company it could be increased to reach oil productivity of 175.5 kg ha−1 year−1 through innovative technology either in the plantation or in the distillation process. As compared to the previous system using ordinary un-improved seed, the oil productivity in the program increased around 62 – 116 %. The program also revealed that the cajuput industry could be managed effectively and efficiently while maintaining the sustainability and continuity of high oil production so that Indonesia will become self-sufficient in cajuput oil.

scholarly journals Cost Efficiency and Total Factor Productivity: An Empirical Analysis of Pakistan’s Insurance Sector

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-150
Author(s):  
Uzma Noreen ◽  
Shabbir Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Malmquist Index ◽  
Malmquist Productivity Index ◽  
Productivity Index ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Insurance Sector ◽  
The Impact

This study uses data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist index to examine the impact of financial sector reforms on the efficiency and productivity of Pakistan’s insurance sector over the period 2000–09. Our results indicate that the sector is cost-inefficient, with an average score of 58 percent – an outcome of the inappropriate use of inputs. The Malmquist productivity index performs better, indicating an improvement in total factor productivity of about 3 percent on average. The second-stage Tobit regression analysis shows that large firms are relatively inefficient from an allocative perspective as they are unable to equate the marginal product of inputs with their factor prices. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that private firms are more efficient than public firms in the nonlife insurance sector. The empirical findings suggest that a more competitive environment, diversified products and innovative technology could improve the productivity of insurance firms in Pakistan.

scholarly journals Impact Evaluation of an Emerging European Health Project – the MIDAS Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-150
Author(s):  
Justin Connolly ◽  
Anthony Staines ◽  
Regina Connolly ◽  
Paul Davis ◽  
Andrew Boilson
Keyword(s):  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Q Methodology ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
User Resistance ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Data Platform ◽  
European Health ◽  
Health Project ◽  
The Impact

AbstractBackground: This paper describes the impact evaluation of a large big data platform initiative that is being undertaken in order to increase the probability of its success. The initiative, MIDAS (Meaningful Integration of Data Analytics and Services), is a European health-based Horizon 2020 project comprising a consortium of members from various universities, research institutions, and government agencies.Objectives: The purpose of the paper is to present a pioneering platform that will support healthcare policymakers in their decision-making by enabling greater and more efficient use of their data. The goal is to present and evaluate the results of the MIDAS project across four countries.Methods/Approach: The literature is replete with examples of worthwhile technology projects that have failed due to user resistance. In order to avoid such failure, and ensure the success of the final MIDAS platform, a detailed impact evaluation is being undertaken at timed periods of development.Results: This paper describes the impact evaluation process, outlining the use of Q-methodology and the development of a 36-item concourse using the HTMLQ system for that purpose.Conclusions: This research contributes to the overall understanding of how impact evaluation can be undertaken at timed periods during the development of an innovative technology for organisational purposes.

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