An Overview of Chicago (Illinois USA) Marathon Prehospital Care Demographics, Patient Care Operations, and Injury Patterns

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 308-316
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lisa Chan ◽  
Valentino Constantinou ◽  
Jennifer Fokas ◽  
Sarah Van Deusen Phillips ◽  
George Chiampas
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Prehospital Care ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Injury Patterns ◽  
Medical Support ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening

AbstractIntroduction:Large-scale mass-sporting events are increasingly requiring greater prehospital event planning and preparation to address inherent event-associated medical conditions in addition to incidents that may be unexpected. The Bank of America Chicago Marathon (Chicago, Illinois USA) is one of the largest marathons in the world, and with the improvement of technology, the use of historical patient and event data, in conjunction with environmental conditions, can provide organizers and public safety officials a way to plan based on injury patterns and patient demands for care by predicting the placement and timing of needed medical support and resources.Problem:During large-scale events, disaster planning and preparedness between event organizers, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and local, state, and federal agencies is critical to ensure participant and public safety.Methods:This study looked at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, a significant endurance event, and took a unique approach of reviewing digital runner data retrospectively over a five-year period to establish patterns of medical demand geographically, temporally, and by the presenting diagnoses. Most medical complaints were musculoskeletal in nature; however, there were life-threatening conditions such as hyperthermia and cardiac incidents that highlight the need for detailed planning, coordination, and communication to ensure a safe and secure event.Conclusions:The Chicago Marathon is one of the largest marathons in the world, and this study identified an equal number of participants requiring care on-course and at the finish line. Most medical complaints were musculoskeletal in nature; however, there were life-threatening conditions such as hyperthermia and cardiac incidents that highlight the need for detailed planning, multi-disciplined coordination, and communication to ensure a safe and secure event. As technology has evolved, the use, analysis, and implementation of historical digital data with various environmental conditions can provide organizers and public safety officials a map to plan injury patterns and patient demands by predicting the placement and timing of needed medical support, personnel, and resources.

scholarly journals Creation of added value in the context of measurement complexity of the digital economy

E-Management ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-74
Author(s):  
Ya. V. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Indicators

In the last decade unprecedented technological changes have taken place, resulting in the emergence of a fundamentally new economic model. Based on the widespread spread of smartphones, the world has become more “connected”. The digitalization of demand and supply contributed to the creation of entirely new digital markets managed by platform enterprises based on an open business model, that enabled external consumers and producers to connect and interact with each other. A more interconnected world generates vast amounts of data, allowing platform companies to invest in machine learning and artificial intelligence and ultimately improve their efficiency. Finally, a steady digitalization of business processes, markets and global value chains is observed. In these circumstances, approaches to value addition are fundamentally changing in the context of new dimensions of the digital economy, the analysis of which was the purpose of our study. It has been identified, that in the absence of a standardized international methodology for measuring the digital economy, the latter is so far possible on disparate development-left and national statistics. Initiatives taken at the international level to overcome national differential approaches are still insufficient, as there is a lack of statistics and variables related to digital data. It has been revealed, that the lack of quality statistics on key indicators of the digital economy makes it difficult to assess the value added in the world economy scale and international comparisons. Much of the challenges of measuring value added in the digital economy, as shown in the article, are related to the principle of “scale without mass,” the intangible nature of capital, the intense growth of large-scale cross-border data flows, and the emergence of new sources of value creation.

scholarly journals Leveraging the World Cup: Mega Sporting Events, Human Rights Risk, and Worker Welfare Reform in Qatar

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarath K. Ganji
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Proposals

Qatar will realize its decades-long drive to host a mega sporting event when, in 2022, the opening ceremony of the Fέdέration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup commences. By that time, the Qatari government will have invested at least $200 billion in real estate and development projects, employing anywhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million foreign workers to do so. The scale of these preparations is staggering — and not necessarily positive. Between 2010 and 2013, more than 1,200 labor migrants working in Qatar's construction sector died, with another 4,000 deaths projected by the start of the event. Foreign workers are subject to conditions of forced labor, human trafficking, and indefinite detention. Advocacy groups cite deplorable living and working conditions, coupled with lax legal protections for workers, as the main culprits. Absent significant improvements in worker welfare, Qatar's World Cup will be remembered as a human rights tragedy. This article examines whether it is possible for Qatar's World Cup to forge a different legacy, as an agent of change on behalf of worker welfare reform. In examining the issue, the article takes a two-fold approach. First, it locates the policy problem of worker welfare abuses in the context of the migration life cycle. The migration life cycle represents the range of activities that mediate the relationship between an individual migrant and the labor migration system — from the time the migrant first considers working overseas to his employment abroad to his eventual return to the home country. An understanding of worker welfare abuses in Qatar does not begin or end with reports of migrant deaths. A much broader pattern of abuse exists that, if ignored, will undermine effective policy responses. Second, the article frames worker welfare as a matter that lies at the intersection of business and human rights. Mega events are large-scale, internationally recognized activities that aim to promote regional development and to advance universal values and principles. They also represent an important collaboration between stakeholders across sectors. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, therefore, offer a framework for understanding how worker welfare reform might be in the interests of governmental and corporate actors alike. Ultimately, this paper outlines four policy proposals that may be undertaken by countries of origin, nongovernmental organizations, international organizations, and Qatari employers: (1) the development of a list of labor-supply agencies committed to ethical recruitment practices; (2) the devising of low-interest, preferential loans for migrants considering employment in Qatar; (3) the establishment of a resource center to serve as a one-stop shop for migrant information and services; and (4) the creation of training programs to aid migrants upon their return home. These options are not meant to diminish the role of the Qatari government in reform efforts, and indeed, the state can — and should — take steps to improve worker welfare, including strengthening worker welfare standards, closing labor law loopholes, and bolstering law enforcement capacity. But these measures are not enough. Therefore, the above four policy proposals put forward a process-specific, rather than actor-specific, approach to reform aimed at capitalizing on the spotlight of the World Cup to bring about lasting, positive change in Qatar's migrant labor practices.

scholarly journals SARS-CoV-2 and the implications of high intensity training

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-21
Author(s):  
Boukhemis Boukelia ◽  
◽  
Mark Fogarty ◽  
Abdelhakim Sabba ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Intensity Training ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Spread Of Infection ◽  
Intensity Training

The rapid spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) has sparked alarm worldwide. The way the virus spreads is still unclear; however, it’s known that similar viruses are spread in cough & sneeze droplets. At the time of writing this editorial over 300,000 people worldwide have been infected with over 13,000 deaths (WHO, 2020). The principle measure introduced to stop the spread of infection among the general population is by encouraging the public to undertake specific behaviours related to hygiene, that is useful in stopping the spread amongst family members or close associates for previous outbreaks of virus from the same family. A second measure used widely across the world is social distancing for non-infected members of the public or social isolation for infected families or high-risk individuals. Many sporting events and athletic games have been postponed causing large scale disruption to the global sport industry with millions of dollars lost. Most teams and induvial athletes will continue to train to maintain fitness and be ready for the return to active competition when the pandemic is under control.

scholarly journals Automated Screening System for Covid Safety

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Y Sai Subhash Reddy ◽  
◽  
Sri Krishna Borra ◽  
Koye Sai Vishnu Vamsi ◽  
Nandipati Jaswanth Sai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Monitoring ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Automated Screening ◽  
The Government ◽  
Optimum Solution

COVID-19 is a life-threatening virus taking the lives of thousands of people every day throughout the world. Even though many organizations and companies worked hard and developed vaccines, production of vaccines at large scale to meet today’s demand is not an easy job as there is a shortage of raw materials and cases are rising steeply. Inoculation of every individual cannot be achieved in the foreseeable future. Even the government is vaccinating people in a phased manner prioritizing older people and people who are more vulnerable to the virus. The main objective of this work is to provide an optimum solution for COVID-19 indoor safety for industries, offices, and commercial places where footfall is high. This work focus on automation of temperature sensing and mask detection which is usually carried out by a person. Elimination of human intervention reduces the risk of contraction and spreading and avoids mistakes due to human negligence. Continuous monitoring of a person is not possible and there is no guarantee that a person who is entering a place wearing a mask puts it on until he leaves it. This research intends to implement mask detection along with surveillance which is cost effective as it does not require additional hardware setup.

Raw data or hypersymbols? Meaning-making with digital data, between discursive processes and machinic procedures

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (230) ◽  
pp. 189-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucile Crémier ◽  
Maude Bonenfant ◽  
Laura Iseut Lafrance St-Martin
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
Truth Value

AbstractThe large-scale and intensive collection and analysis of digital data (commonly called “Big Data”) has become a common, popular, and consensual research method for the social sciences, as the automation of data collection, mathematization of analysis, and digital objectification reinforce both its efficiency and truth-value. This article opens with a critical review of the literature on data collection and analysis, and summarizes current ethical discussions focusing on these technologies. A semiotic model of data production and circulation is then introduced to problematize the view that digital data has ceased to stand for a formalization method (a possible kind of representation among others), and effectively “becomes the world itself” (a direct presentation of the world outperforming all other modes of representation). Following Charles Sanders Peirce’s semiotics and pragmaticist philosophy, we characterize digitalization as a hypersymbolic semiotic process, and we highlight the naturalization of meaning, the illusion of iconicity, and rhetorical efficiency on which data’s truth value relies within the context of its large-scale, profit-driven, and results-oriented research uses. This outlines some epistemological and ethical implications of data’s visualization, use, and authority, and indicates avenues for critical semiotics of contemporary data science and analysis.

scholarly journals Methodology for the Development and Use of the USALI Standard in International Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1878-1890
Author(s):  
Tatiana Viktorovna Ukhina
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The World ◽  
Winter Olympic Games ◽  
World Tourism Organization ◽  
Tourism Organization ◽  
Market Volume

According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the tourism industry is one of the most dynamically developing sectors of the economy. It was expected that by 2020, the proportion of people employed in this area and the contribution of tourism to world GDP would amount to about 10%. The hotel industry in this sector is the most profitable and progressive. At that, the Russian hotel market volume lags significantly behind the world indicators and does not exceed one percent in the global hotel industry. The active development of the tourism industry, and as a result, the hospitality industry, has created conditions for the intense development of the hotel business in Russia. A significant impetus to this in recent years have been the 2016 Winter Olympic Games and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. However, even in the preparatory stages for these large-scale international events, many experts expressed concerns about the idleness of most of the built facilities, the downfall of many accommodations and catering enterprises, and the decline of infrastructure after completion of these sporting events. These circumstances determine the objective need to find and implement mechanisms for effective management of hotel enterprises based on the study of international experience and Russian best practices in the hotel business.

TO THE QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR TORTURE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
ASTEMIR ZHURTOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Life ◽  
International Standards ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Russian Federation

Cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as humiliate the dignity, are prohibited in most countries of the world, and Russia is no exception in this issue. The article presents an analysis of the institution of responsibility for torture in the Russian Federation. The author comes to the conclusion that the current criminal law of Russia superficially and fragmentally regulates liability for torture, in connection with which the author formulated the proposals to define such act as an independent crime. In the frame of modern globalization, the world community pays special attention to the protection of human rights, in connection with which large-scale international standards have been created a long time ago. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international acts enshrine prohibitions of cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as degrade the dignity.Considering the historical experience of the past, these standards focus on the prohibition of any kind of torture, regardless of the purpose of their implementation.

scholarly journals A Large-Scale COVID-19 Twitter Chatter Dataset for Open Scientific Research—An International Collaboration

Epidemiologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-324
Author(s):  
Juan M. Banda ◽  
Ramya Tekumalla ◽  
Guanyu Wang ◽  
Jingyuan Yu ◽  
Tuo Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Data Source

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread worldwide, an unprecedented amount of open data is being generated for medical, genetics, and epidemiological research. The unparalleled rate at which many research groups around the world are releasing data and publications on the ongoing pandemic is allowing other scientists to learn from local experiences and data generated on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there is a need to integrate additional data sources that map and measure the role of social dynamics of such a unique worldwide event in biomedical, biological, and epidemiological analyses. For this purpose, we present a large-scale curated dataset of over 1.12 billion tweets, growing daily, related to COVID-19 chatter generated from 1 January 2020 to 27 June 2021 at the time of writing. This data source provides a freely available additional data source for researchers worldwide to conduct a wide and diverse number of research projects, such as epidemiological analyses, emotional and mental responses to social distancing measures, the identification of sources of misinformation, stratified measurement of sentiment towards the pandemic in near real time, among many others.

scholarly journals From “the Moon Is Rounder Abroad” to “Bravo, My Country”: How China Misperceives the World

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haifeng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
Chinese Public

AbstractFor a long time, since China’s opening to the outside world in the late 1970s, admiration for foreign socioeconomic prosperity and quality of life characterized much of the Chinese society, which contributed to dissatisfaction with the country’s development and government and a large-scale exodus of students and emigrants to foreign countries. More recently, however, overestimating China’s standing and popularity in the world has become a more conspicuous feature of Chinese public opinion and the social backdrop of the country’s overreach in global affairs in the last few years. This essay discusses the effects of these misperceptions about the world, their potential sources, and the outcomes of correcting misperceptions. It concludes that while the world should get China right and not misinterpret China’s intentions and actions, China should also get the world right and have a more balanced understanding of its relationship with the world.

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