scholarly journals Pros and cons of prosent as an alternative to traditional consent in medical research

2020 ◽  
pp. medethics-2020-106443
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Nataly Rahimzadeh
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Pros And Cons

In their recent article, Porsdam Mann et al propose to share biomedical research data more widely, securely and efficiently using blockchain technologies.1 They present compelling arguments for how the blockchain presents both a technological innovation, and a deontologically grounded policy innovation to traditional research consent. Their proposal can be read in conversation with a rich body of evidence to suggest current consent processes are problematic on at least one of tripartite bases in biomedical research: that it be fully informed. This response attempts to further the author’s discussion of social justice discourse in, and of their proposed prosent model to enhance engagement among under-represented and vulnerable populations in research, specifically. Motivating this response is the view that advancing technological capabilities is no doubt necessary, but on its own insufficient to reinvigorate distributive, procedural and social justice as guiding principles for con/prosent processes. I offer three pros and cons to consider in effort to deepen the model’s commitments to social justice to historically marginalised groups in the biomedical research enterprise.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the calls of humanistic social work: Exploring the developmental-clinical social work concerns of the pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110079
Author(s):  
Robert K Chigangaidze
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Clinical Social Work ◽  
Health Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

Any health outbreak is beyond the biomedical approach. The COVID-19 pandemic exposes a calamitous need to address social inequalities prevalent in the global health community. Au fait with this, the impetus of this article is to explore the calls of humanistic social work in the face of the pandemic. It calls for the pursuit of social justice during the pandemic and after. It also calls for a holistic service provision, technological innovation and stewardship. Wrapping up, it challenges the global community to rethink their priorities – egotism or altruism. It emphasizes the ultimate way forward of addressing the social inequalities.

Internet of Things—A Novel Innovation in Dentistry

2020 ◽  
pp. 232020682098024
Author(s):  
Balaji Ganesh S ◽  
Kalaivanan Sugumar
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Periodontal Diseases ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Oral Diseases ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Caries Tooth

We are living in an era where medicine and dentistry are evolving. Dental caries, tooth malalignment and periodontal diseases are being encountered by dental specialists in their daily practices. New digital technologies are emerging in dentistry for diagnostic and treatment purposes. Digitization enhances our efficiency and saves time. One of the recent smart technological innovation in healthcare field is the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT consists of a network of physical gadgets embedded with instrumentation electronics, mounted chips and sensors. Through cloud web technology and internet connectivity, the required data collection is enabled. Acquired data is then exchanged to the doctors and analysis is done. This review article deals about the concept of IoT and its futuristic role in dentistry. The review article is based on the electronic searching and analysis of various international and national publications on the IoT concept in dentistry, medicine and biomedical engineering. A bench marking analysis was made on various applications, pros and cons of IoT in dentistry. IoT will play a paramount role in the clinical advancement aspects of diagnosis and management of various oral diseases in the forthcoming decades.

scholarly journals Democratic Practices at School. Theoretical and Research Ascertainments

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Sousanna Maria Nikolaou
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Research Data ◽  
School Practices ◽  
Democratic Citizen ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Will ◽  
Positive Climate ◽  
The Ideal

The modern democratic society must ensure the realization of the ideal democracy through the education of the youth with knowledge-skills and critical thinking and finally through the education of democratic citizens. A democratic citizen is defined as a citizen who is personally responsible, participatory, and oriented towards social justice and has the will to work for the realization of democratic ideals. The key issues the study focuses on are: What school practices contribute to the preparation of democratic citizens? What is meant by the open / positive climate of the classroom and how is it related to the strengthening of citizenship according to research data? The main purpose of the study is to reflect and raise awareness about the democratic conditions we must ensure in schools, to avoid the erosion of institutions and the rejection or loose commitment to the rules of democracy.

scholarly journals SPARC Data Structure: Rationale and Design of a FAIR Standard for Biomedical Research Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Bandrowski ◽  
Jeffrey S. Grethe ◽  
Anna Pilko ◽  
Tom Gillespie ◽  
Gabi Pine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Structure ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Imaging Data ◽  
Organ Specific ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Automated Tools

AbstractThe NIH Common Fund’s Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) initiative is a large-scale program that seeks to accelerate the development of therapeutic devices that modulate electrical activity in nerves to improve organ function. Integral to the SPARC program are the rich anatomical and functional datasets produced by investigators across the SPARC consortium that provide key details about organ-specific circuitry, including structural and functional connectivity, mapping of cell types and molecular profiling. These datasets are provided to the research community through an open data platform, the SPARC Portal. To ensure SPARC datasets are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR), they are all submitted to the SPARC portal following a standard scheme established by the SPARC Curation Team, called the SPARC Data Structure (SDS). Inspired by the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), the SDS has been designed to capture the large variety of data generated by SPARC investigators who are coming from all fields of biomedical research. Here we present the rationale and design of the SDS, including a description of the SPARC curation process and the automated tools for complying with the SDS, including the SDS validator and Software to Organize Data Automatically (SODA) for SPARC. The objective is to provide detailed guidelines for anyone desiring to comply with the SDS. Since the SDS are suitable for any type of biomedical research data, it can be adopted by any group desiring to follow the FAIR data principles for managing their data, even outside of the SPARC consortium. Finally, this manuscript provides a foundational framework that can be used by any organization desiring to either adapt the SDS to suit the specific needs of their data or simply desiring to design their own FAIR data sharing scheme from scratch.

scholarly journals In the News

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
David Free
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Streaming Media ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Review Committee ◽  
Data Services ◽  
Systems Learning ◽  
Digital Pedagogy

Welcome to the June 2020 issue of C&RL News. Every two years, ACRL’s Research Planning and Review Committee produces their “Top trends in academic libraries.” The 2020 edition discusses change management; evolving integrated library systems; learning analytics; machine learning and AI; the state of open access and research data services; social justice, critical librarianship, and critical digital pedagogy; streaming media; and student wellbeing. Many thanks to the committee for pulling together this important survey of the current landscape of academic and research librarianship.

Marketing of e‐cigarettes to vulnerable populations: An emerging social justice issue

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 584-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Fallin‐Bennett ◽  
Mollie Aleshire ◽  
Traci Scott ◽  
Youn Ok Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Vulnerable Populations

scholarly journals Research and Analysis of the Development Approaches in E-Business Mobile Application

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 03005
Author(s):  
Yongkang Xing
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Significant Trend ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Mobile Application Development ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Mobile Development

With e-Business rapidly spreads out in recent years, there is a significant trend that more and more consumers are using mobile applications in engaging with e-Commerce. In order to reach out to maximum consumers across diverse mobile platforms, how to choose a suitable e-Commerce mobile application development approaches with reliable compatibility and lower cost becomes a challenging solution. This paper starts with describing an overview of various development approaches in the field of e-Commerce mobile applications. The research will focus on examining the performance of e-Business mobile applications in terms of access to mobile features, advanced graphics and compatibility are developed using such frameworks. By analyzing the research data on several platforms, this paper will list the pros and cons in each development approaches under different commercial criteria. Finally, the paper summarizes the contributions and concludes with some possible future e-Commerce mobile development directions.

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