scholarly journals Shelf life: Identifying the abandonment of online digital humanities projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. i129-i134
Author(s):  
Luis Meneses ◽  
Richard Furuta
Keyword(s):  
Shelf Life ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Average Length ◽  
Digital Object ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Distributed Resources ◽  
Average Life Span ◽  
Administrative Control ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
Administrative Decentralization

Abstract A large portion of the research carried out in the digital humanities has an online digital object (usually referred as a project) as one of its components. In turn, these online digital objects can be catalogued as distributed resources, which implies that the administrative control of information related to a topic may be spread across online resources and/or collections maintained by multiple scholars in different institutions. This administrative decentralization can lead to changes in content that are often unexpected by a researcher, which can be caused by different factors or circumstances. This reasoning led us to formulate the following question: When can online digital humanities projects be considered abandoned? In this article, we carry out a study on the persistence and average life span of online projects in the digital humanities. More specifically, we will elaborate on their reliance on distributed resources and methods for measuring their shelf life: the average length of time that a digital project can endure without updates until it can ultimately be considered abandoned by its researcher.

I nuovi scambi tra medici e pazienti: le parole della medicina

2021 ◽  
Vol 9788879169776 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Antonio M. Carrassi
Keyword(s):  
Search Engines ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Average Life Span ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Field Information ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Medicine showed enormous progresses since the middle of the last century and, thanks to the overwhelming research activities, which characterized that period, the average life span of people has increased extraordinarily. Many diseases that once were considered incurable are now being successfully treated. However, the disease has often been placed at the core of the clinical process rather than the person, the individual, the patient. Even in recent years, the patient doesn’t always find in his doctor the appropriate degree of empathy, and the level of communication that would be desirable. Moreover, today we are living an extraordinary development and spreading use of digital resources and search engines. Patients exploit these tools to obtain any kind of information, included the one in the medical field. Information technology and search engines play an extremely important role in medicine, and they can be seen a pivotal communication instrument between clinicians and patients, although they can also provide inaccurate or incorrect feedback to laypeople looking for answers to health questions, who do not have enough medical knowledge to evaluate the reliability of the source. This problem has been raised by clinicians and, more generally, by health workers, who today operate with a view to greater psychological proximity to the patient, passing from a so-called Disease Centred Medicine to a clinical practice much more sensitive to the needs of the patient, to his experience, to the context in which he lives, thus achieving a Patient Centred Medicine. Listening, attention, empathy and the words that a clinician is required to use towards each patient, during the clinical routine, take on more and more value for a correct doctor-patient exchange and alliance.

Amalaki as a Rasayan in Geriatric Diseases

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naina Vishwakarma
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Span ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
Healthy Ageing ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Average Life Span ◽  
Medical Facilities

Geriatric problems are arising much and more in the present Era. With the increase in average life-span due to medical facilities it resulted in large number of people with old age Worldwide. To overcome this Ayurved advocates healthy ageing through Rasayan Chikitsa. By proper administration of Rasayan Therapy as a preventive tool one can prevent Jarajanit(Geriatic) vyadhis. Many herbs and techniques which provide solution to ageing and their complications are described in Ayurved. The Herbs with their properties slows down the natural process of aging and help in managing geriatric problem and improving the quality of life. Here   Amalaki an Rasayan Dravya in Geriatric diseases is brought in focus.

What’s Past is Prologue

2014 ◽  
pp. 244-265
Author(s):  
Shu-Jiun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
National Program ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Digital Contents ◽  
Digital Objects

This chapter gives a comprehensive review of Taiwan’s Digital Archives Program, built on a national scale over the past 15 years. Currently more than 100 libraries, archives, museums, academic institutions, and government agencies are involved, and the program has created more than 5 million digital objects as well as more than 700 databases and Websites. This chapter investigates the goals and strategies of the program, probing into research and development, important achievements, values, lessons, and challenges in 6 aspects, including digital contents, digital technology, metadata interoperability, applications, industrialization development, and international cooperation. Although this national program was officially terminated at the end of 2012, the accumulation of digital contents, core technologies, and digital infrastructure over its lifespan makes it certain that one can look forward to its continuing impact upon open data, digital humanities, and sustainable digital archives.

Longevity of exercising obese hypertensive rats

1980 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 634-637
Author(s):  
F. W. Booth ◽  
W. F. MacKenzie ◽  
M. J. Seider ◽  
E. W. Gould
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Myocardial Necrosis ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Hypertensive Rats ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Average Life Span ◽  
Daily Food ◽  
Body Weights ◽  
Genetically Hypertensive

The purpose of this study was to determine whether daily running lengthens the life-span of animals dying prematurely due to cardiovascular disease. We used a strain of rat that is genetically hypertensive and obese and is reported to develop atherosclerosis (Exp. Mol. Pathol. 19: 53--60, 1973). These animals were divided into three groups consisting of runners exercised daily on treadmills from an early age life, food-restricted sedentary rats, and libitum eaters that were sedentary. This latter group had significantly higher average daily food intakes and body weights than either of the other two groups. The average life-span of both sedentary groups was significantly longer than the running group. Runners had a greater frequency of focal myocardial necrosis, but atherosclerosis was absent in all three groups. We speculate that daily running may have accentuated the development of factor s that may have contributed to the early death of runners.

Notes on the biology of Ollarianus balli (Van Duzee) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), a newly-discovered leafhopper vector of plant mycoplasmas in Jamaica

1982 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Dabek
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Cajanus Cajan ◽  
Pigeon Pea ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Average Life Span ◽  
Leafhopper Vector ◽  
Suitable Temperature ◽  
In Captivity ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Wild Legume

AbstractOllarianus balli (Van D.), a leafhopper vector of disease-associated mycoplasma-like organisms, was found to be rare in Jamaica. Its distribution and frequency were governed primarily by the distribution and density of its specific field host, the wild legume Rhynchosia minima on which it completes its life-cycle. Under suitable temperature conditions, O. balli was easily reared in captivity on R. minima and pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), although the latter is not a natural host. It oviposited into the hypodermal tissues covering veins of sterns, petioles and the abaxial surfaces of older leaves. Eggs hatched 10–15 days after oviposition and there were five nymphal instars. Instar 1 was distinct from instars 2–5 which, except for size, were similar in appearance. The first adults matured some three weeks after the final moult. There appeared to be little difference in the average life-span of males and females of O. balli.

Carnosine, the Protective, Anti-aging Peptide

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 581-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander A. Boldyrev ◽  
Steven Ch. Gallant ◽  
Gennady T. Sukhich
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Standard Diet ◽  
Control Strain ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Average Life Span ◽  
Behavioral Parameters ◽  
Senescence Accelerated Mice

Carnosine attenuates the development of senile features when used as a supplement to a standard diet of senescence accelerated mice (SAM). Its effect is apparent on physical and behavioral parameters and on average life span. Carnosine has a similar effect on mice of the control strain, but this is less pronounced due to the non-accelerated character of their senescence processes.

scholarly journals FAIR Digital Objects for Science: From Data Pieces to Actionable Knowledge Units

Publications ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koenraad De Smedt ◽  
Dimitris Koureas ◽  
Peter Wittenburg
Keyword(s):  
Data Science ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Digital Object ◽  
Data Interoperability ◽  
Actionable Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Digital Objects

Data science is facing the following major challenges: (1) developing scalable cross-disciplinary capabilities, (2) dealing with the increasing data volumes and their inherent complexity, (3) building tools that help to build trust, (4) creating mechanisms to efficiently operate in the domain of scientific assertions, (5) turning data into actionable knowledge units and (6) promoting data interoperability. As a way to overcome these challenges, we further develop the proposals by early Internet pioneers for Digital Objects as encapsulations of data and metadata made accessible by persistent identifiers. In the past decade, this concept was revisited by various groups within the Research Data Alliance and put in the context of the FAIR Guiding Principles for findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable data. The basic components of a FAIR Digital Object (FDO) as a self-contained, typed, machine-actionable data package are explained. A survey of use cases has indicated the growing interest of research communities in FDO solutions. We conclude that the FDO concept has the potential to act as the interoperable federative core of a hyperinfrastructure initiative such as the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Urological Surgery in Elderly Patients: Results and Considerations - Part II

1992 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Pizzarella ◽  
G. Ferro ◽  
F. Invidiato ◽  
P. Ligato ◽  
M. Fiorello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
Elderly Patients ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Average Life Span ◽  
Urological Surgery ◽  
Incidence And Mortality ◽  
Age Limits ◽  
Surgery In Elderly

It is certainly true that increase of the average life span has caused a greater percentage of elderly people to visit urological departments. From April 1989 to December 1991, patients over 75 years under our observation were 10.8% of all operated patients. Only 5% of patients over 75 who needed to be operated, weren't actually operated. The numerical analysis of our experience has highlighted the fact that in patients who underwent an operation, the incidence and mortality caused by cardiovascular diseases weren't any higher than those found in other people of the same age. We are also convinced that prejudices about age limits should not prevent the elderly afflicted with a benign or malignant urological pathology from undergoing an operation.

scholarly journals Minireview: Role of the Growth Hormone/Insulin-Like Growth Factor System in Mammalian Aging

Endocrinology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 146 (9) ◽  
pp. 3718-3723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Bartke
Keyword(s):  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Induced Mutations ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Average Life Span ◽  
Enhanced Resistance ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Igf I ◽  
Extended Longevity ◽  
Resistance To Stress

Abstract The important role of IGF and insulin-related signaling pathways in the control of longevity of worms and insects is very well documented. In the mouse, several spontaneous or experimentally induced mutations that interfere with GH biosynthesis, GH actions, or sensitivity to IGF-I lead to extended longevity. Increases in the average life span in these mutants range from approximately 20–70% depending on the nature of the endocrine defect, gender, diet, and/or genetic background. Extended longevity of hypopituitary and GH-resistant mice appears to be due to multiple mechanisms including reduced insulin levels, enhanced insulin sensitivity, alterations in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, reduced generation of reactive oxygen species, enhanced resistance to stress, reduced oxidative damage, and delayed onset of age-related disease. There is considerable evidence to suggest that the genetic and endocrine mechanisms that influence aging and longevity in mice may play a similar role in other mammalian species, including the human.

Nutritional Improvement, Cardiovascular Diseases and Longevity in Japan

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shunsaku Mizushima ◽  
Yukio Yamori
Keyword(s):  
Protein Intake ◽  
Contributory Factor ◽  
Fat Intake ◽  
Average Life ◽  
Gradual Reduction ◽  
Average Life Span ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nutritional Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Capita

Nutritional conditions have improved remarkably for the past 40 years in Japan; major improvements are increases in protein intake (69.7 in 1955 to 79. 2g/day per capita in ‘88), and fat intake (20.3 in ‘55 to 58.3 g/day per capita in ‘88), both of which are significantly related statistically to the gradual reduction of stroke mortality (r = –0.74, not significant; r = –0.78, p .05) and to a remarkable extension of average life span (r = 0.91, p 0.01; r = 0.98, p 0.001) in the Japanese. Average heights of 12-year old male and female children, correlating significantly with these nutritional improvements, are significantly positively correlated with average life spans (men and women respectively; r = 0.97, p 0.001). Thus, general nutritional improvements among the Japanese are regarded as the major contributory factor to the recent achievement of top-ranked position for longevity in the world.

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