scholarly journals Understanding Technology Adoption, Troubleshooting, and Telehealth Among the Lifestyle Leaders

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 277-277
Author(s):  
John Rudnik

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted widespread adoption of and greater reliance on digital technologies across the generations. In interviews and focus groups, the Lifestyle Leaders reported increased use of teleconferencing services, especially for virtual programming, socializing, and telehealth. Approximately 61% of Lifestyle Leaders had attended between one and five virtual or phone-based healthcare appointments since March 2020. Beliefs about telehealth across interviews varied: appointments were convenient but lacked the “in-person feedback and understanding” of an in-person visit. Half of the Lifestyle Leaders (50%) agreed with the statement, “Telehealth is the future of personalized medicine.” This presentation will also report on the Lifestyle Leaders’ challenges associated with using technology during the pandemic. These included concerns about: having devices able to keep up with the demands of the pandemic; using technology-enabled grocery services; and troubleshooting technology. Many were concerned about their growing dependence on technology because of the pandemic.

Author(s):  
Tae-eun Kim ◽  
Amit Sharma ◽  
Morten Bustgaard ◽  
William C. Gyldensten ◽  
Ole Kristian Nymoen ◽  
...  

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to the maritime supply chain and called for accelerated adoption of digital technologies in various aspects of maritime operations, including the area of maritime education and training (MET). This paper aims to discuss the current maritime simulator-based training and educational practices that forms an integral part in seafarer training and competency development. The study provides a review of the existing simulators in use in MET, and discusses upon the technological and pedagogical advancement of maritime simulator-based training interventions with predictions regarding the future MET practices with use of virtual reality and cloud-based simulators. This study—by focusing on ship’s bridge operations—highlights the characteristics of various types of simulators and also discusses the role of instructors, challenges, and opportunities involving future simulator-based MET due to accelerated adoption of digital technologies and the need to comply with pandemic-related restrictions for MET institutes. The analysis generated in the paper may contribute to the ongoing discussion regarding the future of simulator-based MET and the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 in the maritime sector.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beste Turanli ◽  
Esra Yildirim ◽  
Gizem Gulfidan ◽  
Kazim Yalcin Arga ◽  
Raghu Sinha

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most fatal malignancies and the seventh leading cause of cancer-related deaths related to late diagnosis, poor survival rates, and high incidence of metastasis. Unfortunately, pancreatic cancer is predicted to become the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the future. Therefore, diagnosis at the early stages of pancreatic cancer for initial diagnosis or postoperative recurrence is a great challenge, as well as predicting prognosis precisely in the context of biomarker discovery. From the personalized medicine perspective, the lack of molecular biomarkers for patient selection confines tailored therapy options, including selecting drugs and their doses or even diet. Currently, there is no standardized pancreatic cancer screening strategy using molecular biomarkers, but CA19-9 is the most well known marker for the detection of pancreatic cancer. In contrast, recent innovations in high-throughput techniques have enabled the discovery of specific biomarkers of cancers using genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, glycomics, and metagenomics. Panels combining CA19-9 with other novel biomarkers from different “omics” levels might represent an ideal strategy for the early detection of pancreatic cancer. The systems biology approach may shed a light on biomarker identification of pancreatic cancer by integrating multi-omics approaches. In this review, we provide background information on the current state of pancreatic cancer biomarkers from multi-omics stages. Furthermore, we conclude this review on how multi-omics data may reveal new biomarkers to be used for personalized medicine in the future.


Author(s):  
Zhuo Zhao ◽  
Yangmyung Ma ◽  
Adeel Mushtaq ◽  
Abdul M. Azam Rajper ◽  
Mahmoud Shehab ◽  
...  

Abstract Many countries have enacted a quick response to the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic by utilizing existing technologies. For example, robotics, artificial intelligence, and digital technology have been deployed in hospitals and public areas for maintaining social distancing, reducing person-to-person contact, enabling rapid diagnosis, tracking virus spread, and providing sanitation. In this paper, 163 news articles and scientific reports on COVID-19-related technology adoption were screened, shortlisted, categorized by application scenario, and reviewed for functionality. Technologies related to robots, artificial intelligence, and digital technology were selected from the pool of candidates, yielding a total of 50 applications for review. Each case was analyzed for its engineering characteristics and potential impact on the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, challenges and future directions regarding the response to this pandemic and future pandemics were summarized and discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 60-66
Author(s):  
Marianna V. Kelekhsaeva ◽  
◽  
Liana E. Kabisova ◽  
Batraz E. Bagaev ◽  
◽  
...  

The article assesses the changes and dynamics of the labor market during the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ways of technology adoption, the scale and depth of transition to another job are analyzed. The conditions of training, which exist and are planned in the future up to 2025 are revealed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Julie Lindsay

Connected and collaborative learning that leads to co-creation of ideas and solutions is imperative across all levels of education. To make the shift we want to see, we need to understand the pedagogy of online learning in a global context. This commentary shares an understanding of thought leaders who have developed and shared new approaches that take learning beyond the immediate environment sca olded by digital technologies. It also poses the question, "What if we collaborated as a global community?" and starts a conversation about new pedagogical approaches to support " at," connected learning. This is already happening now—the future is now— it’s time to connect the world.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Guglielmo Faldetta ◽  
Maria Laura Frigotto ◽  
Alessandra Lazazzara ◽  
Michela Marchiori ◽  
Mario Pezzillo Iacono ◽  
...  

Digital transformation (DT) is increasingly establishing itself as a constant theme in contemporary academic and practitioner conversations (Hanelt et al., 2020). Organisation scholars are attentive to the role and impact of digitalisation (Hinings, Gegenhuber and Greenwood, 2018), investigating how digital technologies affect individuals (Zuboff, 2015; 2019), organisations and professions (Foer, 2017), entire industries (Taplin, 2017), and societies (Morozov, 2011). There is no doubt that digitally-enabled arrangements permeate and reshape industries and fields, challenging organisational models, HRM practices, power structures and meaning systems (Alvesson and Kärreman, 2011). Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitalisation of economy and organisations, anticipated many issues and transformations that would have taken longer to be addressed and posed unique demands in terms of conditions and scale of technology adoption at work (Wang et al., 2021). Thus, promoting theory and research development on this important substantive and methodological topic is therefore of foremost importance.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-475
Author(s):  
Lita Tyesta ALW

Abstract The aim of this paper is to find out the administrative evaluation of the implementation of simultaneous elections in 2019 on the actualization of the values of Pancasila. Writing is an ingredient in the framework of participation in Focus Groups Discussion with the theme "Evaluation of the Implementation of the 2017 Election Law Against the Values of Pancasila" held by BPIP, Jakarta 5 to 7 August 2019, and arranged using the conceptual approach and factual approach. The results of the study indicate that the implementation of general elections in the future must be more planned and well-programmed so that things that become weaknesses in the simultaneous elections in 2019 do not occur. In the future, simultaneous elections must be carried out including: separating national and local elections; there must be an improvement in the recruitment and time management model especially for the organizers; Preparation of the final voter list should be cross-institutional related to population; A review of the provisions of the Presidential Threshold is required if the General Elections are still held simultaneously; Time management in the preparation of ballot distribution to the most remote, remote, most challenging, outermost areas, so that voting can be done simultaneously, including at the time of collection for ballot counting, and; Development of an accurate and trusted information technology system in the vote-counting process. Keywords: Administrative Evaluation, Election Implementation, Pancasila Values, Abstrak  Tulisan bertujuan untuk mengetahui evaluasi administrasi pelaksanaan pemilu serentak tahun 2019 terhadap aktualisasi nilai nilai pancasila. Penulisan merupakan bahan dalam rangka keikutsertaan pada Focus Groups Discussion dengan tema “Evaluasi Implementasi UU Pemilu Tahun 2017 Terhadap Nilai-Nilai Pancasila“ yang diselenggarakan oleh BPIP, Jakarta 5 sampai dengan tanggal 7 Agustus 2019, dan disusun menggunakan pendekatan conceptual approach dan Factual Approach. Hasil kajian menunjukan bahwa pelaksanaan pemilihan umum ke depan harus lebih terencana dan terprogram dengan baik agar hal hal yang menjadi kelemahan pelaksanaan pemilu serentak tahun 2019 tidak terjadi. Kedepan pemilu serentak harus melakukan diantaranya: memisahkan Pemilu tingkat pusat dan tingkat daerah; harus dilakukan perbaikan model perekrutan dan manajemen waktu khususnya bagi penyelenggara; Penyusunan daftar pemilih tetap sebaiknya lintas institusi terkait kependudukan; Wajib dilakukan tinjau ulang ketentuan  Presidential  Treshold apabila Pemilu  tetap dilaksanakan secara serentak; Manajemen waktu pada persiapan distribusi surat suara ke pelosok, wilayah terjauh, terpencil, tersulit, terluar, sehingga pemungutan suara dapat dilakukan serentak waktunya, termasuk pada saat pengumpulan untuk penghitungan surat suara, dan; Pengembangan sistem teknologi informasi  yang akurat dan terpercaya dalam proses penghitungan suara. Kata Kunci: Evaluasi Administratif, Pelaksanaan Pemilu, Nilai Nilai Pancasila,


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document