Public Access to Microcomputers: Thoughts From the North‐Pulaski Experience

1983 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Dewey
Keyword(s):  
Public Access ◽  
The North

Abstract 15: Public Access Defibrillators: Sex-Based Inequities in Access and Application

Circulation ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 140 (Suppl_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian E Grunau ◽  
Emad Awad ◽  
Takahisa Kawano ◽  
Frank Scheuermeyer ◽  
Robert Stenstrom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Home Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Public Property ◽  
The North ◽  
Private Location ◽  
Residential Institutions ◽  
Adjusted Logistic Regression ◽  
Location Type

Introduction: It is unclear if the benefits of public access defibrillator (PAD) programs are similar between men and women. We investigated the location of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) stratified by sex to determine what proportion was eligible for PAD application. Second, we sought to determine if patient sex was associated with PAD utilization. Methods: We analyzed prospectively collected data from the North American Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Epistry dataset (2011 - 2015), excluding emergency medical services (EMS)-witnessed cases, those not treated by EMS, and children aged less than 10. We compared sex-based differences in public vs private location, and location type (street or highway, public building, place of recreation, industrial place, home residence, farm or ranch, healthcare facility, residential institution, other public property, or other private location). Among public location OHCAs with bystander interventions, we fit an adjusted logistic regression model to estimate the association between sex and PAD application. Results: Among the 61,473 cases, 20,933 (34%) were female, 30,353 had resuscitation attempted by bystander, and 13,597 had initial shockable rhythms. The OHCA incidence in a public location for women and men was 8.8% and 18%, respectively (95% CI for difference 8.7 - 9.7). Women had a significantly lower proportion of OHCAs on the street/highway, in public buildings, places of recreation, and farms, but a significantly higher proportion in the home, healthcare facilities, and residential institutions. Among public location OHCAs with bystander interventions, female sex was associated with a lower odds of bystander PAD application (adjusted OR 0.83, 95% CI 0.70-0.99). Conclusion: Women had fewer OHCAs in public locations eligible for PAD application. Further, among public OHCAs with bystander interventions, women were less likely to have PADs applied.

Abstract 19542: A North American Survey of Public Opinion on the Acceptability of Crowdsourcing Basic Life Support for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest

Circulation ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 132 (suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie N Dainty ◽  
Steven Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
North American ◽  
Basic Life Support ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Public Access ◽  
The North ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Bystander Cpr ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Introduction: Performance of bystander CPR and early defibrillation following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) have been shown to increase the odds of survival to hospital discharge more than 3-fold. The PulsePoint Respond™ Application (App) is a novel system that can be implemented by EMS to crowdsource basic life support for victims of OHCA. The system sends cardiac arrest notifications to a user’s mobile device which includes the location of the emergency and nearby public access defibrillators to facilitate bystander CPR and AED use while EMS personnel are en route. We conducted a North American survey to evaluate public perceptions of such an application, including acceptability and willingness to respond to alerts. Methods: The web-based survey was conducted in Canada and the USA by an established external polling vendor, Ipsos Reid. Sampling was designed to ensure broad representation of gender, age, geography, and spoken language following recent census statistics. Respondents were presented with a short concept description of cardiac arrest and the Pulsepoint app in text format followed by 6 closed-ended and 4 open-ended questions. Results: A random sample of 2,415 total surveys were collected (1106 from Canada and 1309 from the US). 70% of Canadian respondents but only 47% of US respondents had been trained in CPR at some point. On average, 79.5% of respondents agreed that Pulsepoint is something they would like to see in their community and 59.5% said they would download the App. 80% of Canadians and 77% of Americans were comfortable with receiving help in a public setting (street, office, etc) and 72 and 68% respectively, indicated they would be comfortable with receiving help in a private setting (home). Less than 40% of respondents identified concerns; as expected those identified included training concerns and trust issues. An average of 89% of the sample from both countries felt it was important that responders have up-to-date CPR certification. Conclusions: Overall, the North American public find the concept of the Pulsepoint application and crowdsourcing basic life support for OHCA acceptable and would be willing to respond. This is encouraging insight to support the use of social media to increasing bystander CPR rates in North America.

scholarly journals Assessment of Financial Opportunities for Implementation of Innovation Potential by Mining Enterprises of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy of the North and the Arctic

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav A. TSUKERMAN ◽  
◽  
Elena S. GORYACHEVSKAYA
Keyword(s):  
Ferrous Metallurgy ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Public Access ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
The North ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Special Cases

The analysis of methods for assessing the financial opportunities for increasing the economic efficiency of industrial enterprises using absolute and relative indicators and coefficients was carried out. A mechanism for determining financial possibilities for realizing innovative potential of northern mining enterprises of non-ferrous metallurgy, based on the method of assessing the three-component coefficient, which allows choosing the most rational strategy of scientific and technological development, taking into account financial resources and features of production functioning in the northern regions of the Russian Federation, was developed. It is shown that the proposed methodology can be used with limited infor-mation in the accounting statements provided in public access. On the basis of objective indicators, the research of innovation activity of twenty industrial enterprises of non-ferrous metallurgy directly operating in the North and the Arctic and included as subsidiaries and branches of seven largest corporations — PJSC MMC “Norilsk Nickel”, JSC “Mine Karalveem”, PJSC “Acron”, JSC “Mining company “Berelekh”, PJSC “Seligdar”, OJSC “Susumanzoloto”, JSC “Polymetal” for the period 2013–2019 was carried out. Studies showed the dependence of the innovation activity of northern enterprises of non-ferrous metallurgy on the level of financial security revealed by the method of assessing the three-component coefficient. Scientifically substantiated possibility of developing and implementing a strategy of innovation development of enterprises for the medium and long term periods based on the level of financial security is shown. Enterprises with high financial security or in special cases (with additional investments with normal financial security) are able to generate innovation technologies. As the analysis has shown, the majority of northern enterprises have low financial security, which does not allow them to count on effective innovative development without attracting a significant amount of targeted investments.

scholarly journals Software Approaches and Methods to Ensure the Security of Interactive Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Galina Bogdanova ◽  
Todor Todorov ◽  
Galya Georgieva-Tsaneva
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Systems ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Digital Archives ◽  
Web Presence ◽  
The North ◽  
Long Term Storage ◽  
Correction Scheme ◽  
Image Protection ◽  
Term Storage

Abstract In the paper are studied methods for protection of interactive systems and digital archives against unauthorized distribution of digital content. We make an overview of steganographic methods and image protection schemes. An improved watermark error correction scheme is presented. The studies contribute to the overall development of the North+region, provide future generations with widespread public access to digital materials. We achieve a long-term storage, secure data protection and interactive web presence.

scholarly journals Information as the latest site of conflict in the ongoing contests about access to and sharing the benefits from exploiting genetic resources

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-33
Author(s):  
Charles Lawson ◽  
Michelle Rourke ◽  
Fran Humphries
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Resources ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
Access And Benefit Sharing ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The North ◽  
Physical Materials

The global movement and use of genetic resources remain vital to sustaining humankind. An enclosure or re-appropriation of these resources requiring regulated access and benefit sharing is evolving under the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity and related instruments. The potential to replace the physical materials with information about those materials, including genetic sequence data, has fractured the carefully negotiated benefit sharing regulation complex. This article re-engages with this original grand bargain of access in exchange for benefit sharing, and the imperatives of transferring financial resources and technology from the technologically advanced countries of the North to the biodiversity-rich countries of the South. Public access database terms and conditions (as opposed to public domain) and collecting societies are some of the elegant legal solutions and mechanisms to address concerns about dematerialization under the current contractual approach to benefit sharing. This article concludes, however, that the tension between enclosure of information as the genetic resource and legal information sharing requirements needs more nuanced forms of benefit sharing such as taxes or levies. This is necessary to facilitate movement of not only the physical materials but also information in the access and benefit sharing bargain.

scholarly journals Thickness of the lithosphere beneath Turkey and surroundings from S-receiver functions

Solid Earth ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 971-984 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kind ◽  
T. Eken ◽  
F. Tilmann ◽  
F. Sodoudi ◽  
T. Taymaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Receiver Function ◽  
Receiver Functions ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Entire Region ◽  
African Plate ◽  
Lithospheric Thickness ◽  
The North ◽  
Conversion Point ◽  
Surrounding Areas

Abstract. We analyze S-receiver functions to investigate variations of lithospheric thickness below the entire region of Turkey and surrounding areas. The teleseismic data used here have been compiled combining all permanent seismic stations which are open to public access. We obtained almost 12 000 S-receiver function traces characterizing the seismic discontinuities between the Moho and the discontinuity at 410 km depth. Common-conversion-point stacks yield well-constrained images of the Moho and of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB). Results from previous studies suggesting shallow LAB depths between 80 and 100 km are confirmed in the entire region outside the subduction zones. We did not observe changes in LAB depths across the North and East Anatolian faults. To the east of Cyprus, we see indications of the Arabian LAB. The African plate is observed down to about 150 km depth subducting to the north and east between the Aegean and Cyprus with a tear at Cyprus. We also observed the discontinuity at 410 km depth and a negative discontinuity above the 410, which might indicate a zone of partial melt above this discontinuity.

scholarly journals Thickness of the lithosphere beneath Turkey and surroundings from S-receiver functions

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1315-1346 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kind ◽  
T. Eken ◽  
F. Tilmann ◽  
F. Sodoudi ◽  
T. Taymaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Receiver Function ◽  
Receiver Functions ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Entire Region ◽  
African Plate ◽  
Lithospheric Thickness ◽  
The North ◽  
Teleseismic Data ◽  
S Receiver Function

Abstract. We analyze S-receiver functions to investigate the variations of lithospheric thickness below the entire region of Turkey and surroundings. The teleseismic data used here have been compiled combining all permanent seismic stations which are open to public access. We obtained almost 12 000 S-receiver function traces characterizing the seismic discontinuities between the Moho and the discontinuity at 410 km depth. Common-conversion-points stacks yield well-constrained images of the Moho and of the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (LAB). Results from previous studies suggesting shallow LAB depths between 80 and 100 km are confirmed in the entire region outside the subduction zones. We did not observe changes of LAB depths across the North and East Anatolian Faults. To the east of Cyprus, we see indications of the Arabian LAB. The African plate is observed down to about 150 km depth subducting to the north and east between the Aegean and Cyprus with a tear at Cyprus. We also observed the discontinuity at 410 km depth and a negative discontinuity above the 410, which might indicate a zone of partial melt above this discontinuity.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement under NAFTA Chapter 11: The Shape of Things to Come?

1998 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 263-290
Author(s):  
J. Anthony VanDuzer
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade Agreement ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
The North ◽  
State Behaviour ◽  
Nafta Chapter 11 ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

SummaryRecently, there has been a proliferation of international agreements imposing minimum standards on states in respect of their treatment of foreign investors and allowing investors to initiate dispute settlement proceedings where a state violates these standards. Of greatest significance to Canada is Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which provides both standards for state behaviour and the right to initiate binding arbitration. Since 1996, four cases have been brought under Chapter 11. This note describes the Chapter 11 process and suggests some of the issues that may arise as it is increasingly resorted to by investors.

Long-term Cyclic Variations of Prominences, Green and Red Coronae over Solar Cycles

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 201-204
Author(s):  
Vojtech Rušin ◽  
Milan Minarovjech ◽  
Milan Rybanský
Keyword(s):  
Emission Lines ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Green Line ◽  
Solar Cycles ◽  
The South ◽  
Coronal Emission ◽  
Local Maxima ◽  
The North ◽  
Cyclic Variations

AbstractLong-term cyclic variations in the distribution of prominences and intensities of green (530.3 nm) and red (637.4 nm) coronal emission lines over solar cycles 18–23 are presented. Polar prominence branches will reach the poles at different epochs in cycle 23: the north branch at the beginning in 2002 and the south branch a year later (2003), respectively. The local maxima of intensities in the green line show both poleward- and equatorward-migrating branches. The poleward branches will reach the poles around cycle maxima like prominences, while the equatorward branches show a duration of 18 years and will end in cycle minima (2007). The red corona shows mostly equatorward branches. The possibility that these branches begin to develop at high latitudes in the preceding cycles cannot be excluded.

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