scholarly journals Discussion on the Rehabilitation of Stroke Hemiplegia Based on Interdisciplinary Combination of Medicine and Engineering

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Xiaowei Sun ◽  
Ke Xu ◽  
Yuqing Shi ◽  
Hongtao Li ◽  
Ruobing Li ◽  
...  

Interdisciplinary combinations of medicine and engineering are part of the strategic plan of many universities aiming to be world-class institutions. One area in which these interactions have been prominent is rehabilitation of stroke hemiplegia. This article reviews advances in the last five years of stroke hemiplegia rehabilitation via interdisciplinary combination of medicine and engineering. Examples of these technologies include VR, RT, mHealth, BCI, tDCS, rTMS, and TCM rehabilitation. In this article, we will summarize the latest research in these areas and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each to examine the frontiers of interdisciplinary medicine and engineering advances.

2003 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Fraser ◽  
R. Grant Hollett

This article describes how the Wellington County Hospitals Network successfully used a program logic model as a decision-making framework to guide the development of the Network's first strategic plan. The advantages and disadvantages of this approach to the development of a strategic plan and identification of short-term priorities for action by the Network are discussed.


Respuestas ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Alfonso González-Mendoza ◽  
Marlen Del Socorro Fonseca-Vigoya

Antecedentes: La economía colombiana, se ha caracterizado por una amplia apertura y libre mercado, tanto que hoy tiene tratados comerciales con los bloques más importantes del mundo. Esta característica exige tener unas condiciones de alta competitividad y diversificación, por lo que los Gobiernos nacional y regional intentan impulsar algunos sectores que tradicionalmente han sido inexplotados como el turismo y específicamente el Turismo de Salud, con el fin de convertirlo en un sector de clase mundial, que coadyuve a generar fuentes de riqueza, empleo y diversificación de la economía. El Turismo Médico es un sector que cada día toma mayor fuerza y credibilidad y en algunos países como Singapur, Malasia o Costa Rica constituyen un aporte importante al PIB. Objetivo: Describir la cadena de valor de sector Turismo de Salud, del Área de Cúcuta, determinar sus ventajas y desventajas y proponer estrategias que permitan su desarrollo como alternativa económica para la zona de frontera. Método: Documental y cuantitativo, enfocado en los actores del subsector, con especial énfasis en las Instituciones Prestadoras de Salud, y teniendo como teorías fundamentales, la Cadena de Valor y el Diamante de Porter. Resultados: La región cuenta con la infraestructura, una posición geoestratégica y las condiciones sociales y económicas necesarias, para lograr el surgimiento del subsector,aunque para lograrlo se requiere, principalmente, que las instituciones de salud logren acreditaciones internacionales, sus trabajadores tengan un buen nivel de bilingüismo y se desarrolle una adecuada estrategia de mercadeo y de articulación entre actores del sistema. Conclusiones: Existen las condiciones necesarias para que el turismo de salud se convierta en una alternativa económica viable, siendo necesario diseñar políticas y estrategias dirigidas a la articulación de los actores, el mejoramiento de la infraestructura, la capacitación del recurso humano y la certificación de calidad de las instituciones prestadoras de salud.Abstract Background: The Colombian economy has been characterized by a wide open free market, including current agreements with major trade blocs in the world. This feature requires high competitiveness and diversification conditions, thus national and regional governments must try to promote some sectors that have traditionally been unexploited such as Health Tourism, in order to make it become a world-class industry that contributes to generate economic wealth, employment and diversification of the economy. Health tourism is a growing industry in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, and Costa Rica, making an important contribution to the GPD. Objective: To establish the chain value in Health Tourism in the Cúcuta area, determining its advantages and disadvantages and proposing strategies for its development as an economic alternative to the border area. Method: Documental and quantitative, focused on Health Provider Institutions, with chain value and porter diamond as fundamental theories. Results: The results indicate that the region has the necessary infrastructure, a geostrategic position and the social and economic conditions that favor the emergence of the sector. It is necessary for the health institutions to obtain international accreditation, bilingual skills of the employees, and an adequate marketing strategy and articulation between the actors of the system. Conclusions: There are conditions for development of health tourism as a viable economic alternative. Design of policies, infrastructure improvement, human resource training, and quality certification of health institutions are necessary.Palabras Clave: Alternativa económica, Cadena de Valor, Norte de Santander, Turismo de Salud.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3(72)) ◽  
pp. 98-106
Author(s):  
TETYANA NIKOLAYCHUK

Topicality. The franchising tool can become a form environmentally oriented business activities, a development vector of cooperation of naturally reserved fund institutions and representatives of the private sector, who want to carry out their activities taking into account environmental imperatives and produce truly ecologically pure products, but first of all corresponding contractual mechanism must be formalized into a legal structure and an independent object of normative-legal regulation. Aim and tasks. The aim of the article is represented the main tendencies and realities the franchising's law nature problem. Also few questions are being discussed, concerning the specification of franchising like a unique law phenomena. Therefore, the relevant article is devoted to the problems of the formation and use the franchising tool in the field of conservation work, advantages and disadvantages of implementing the mechanism of franchising contracts are considered both for the NRF institutions, and for representatives of the private sector of the economics. Research results. In this article we have reviewed the public and social elements of "natural reserve franchising's", which engulfs the narrow sphere of relations than other kinds of franchising. Designing a proper franchise system is a creative activity and entails developing a strategic plan, which needs to be written and have a logical flow of information. The strategic plan provides management with a road map for the company, with defined tactical actions that achieve the company�s objectives. Conclusion. Nowadays, franchisors are looking today to leverage the advantages inherent in the multi-unit developer relationship by modifying the terms of their offerings for developers, by requiring the franchisee to internalize and share in some of the unit support obligations typically provided to single-unit franchisees and reduce the franchisor�s per-unit cost of support. Today�s educated investors are not only looking at what it takes to get into the business, but also the ROI and exit strategy when it�s time to get out. And capitalizing on one�s hard work can be exponentially rewarding in franchising by way of resales. The original franchise model was built on the premise that the franchisor would continue to operate a material number of its own units and therefore would set system goals and operational imperatives that were mutually beneficial.


Author(s):  
I. I. Nazarenko

The problems of preparation of specialists and determination of ways of ensuring correspondence of the content and methods of obtaining education to the needs and challenges of development of the Ukrainian economy are considered. Based on a thorough and systematic analysis of existing education systems, their advantages and disadvantages are identified. A block diagram of a unified educational institution with a single end-to-end training program is offered to obtain a world-class professional qualification. Implementing such a system will open up new opportunities for improving the effectiveness of education through. Creating a systematic (cluster) approach to learning using structurally — logical schemes of course formation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 1750001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Fernando R. Campos ◽  
Gabriel Augusto da Luz ◽  
Marcos Rivabem ◽  
Matheus Mocelin

This study deals with the gain in quality and cost reduction in the pressing of the spark plug wires from the need to ensure a standard, eliminate quality defects such as poor contact of the cables generating low power failures and unexpected problems. The main objective is to study the best practices in the automotive market, to ensure a standard for fixing the spark plug wires, comparing them with the current method, pointing out potential gains from the analysis of deployment costs by reducing the time of labor and applying the results in the production line to ensure that the spark plug wires come out correctly set. To understand this work some key points were studied and addressed such as the system World Class Manufacturing (WCM), quality tools like FMEA, PDCA cycle and Kaizen. These were applied in the process of pressing the plug wires, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages, seeking the best way to use. The results show the implementation of automation to press the spark plug wires in a positive manner towards the operation performed by the operator. Automation was accepted and used to run the company in 2014. Referring to the layout of the production area, there was a reduction in the cycle time of the post. Moreover, reducing the cycle time of the operator with consequent cost savings for the company and improved ergonomic operation was observed. It is concluded that the main goal, which was to ensure a standard for pressing the plug wires and eliminating quality defects, was achieved as evidenced by cost analyses, beyond the desaturation of the job, thus receiving new activities.


2011 ◽  
Vol 01 (04) ◽  
pp. 78-84
Author(s):  
Ali Reza Shahraki ◽  
Morteza Jamali Paghaleh

Supply Chain Management is the optimized operation of the supply chain. It requires someone who can optimize the resources while at the same time interacting with the forces that cause pressures against the supply chain. It requires someone who can develop a strategic plan for continuous optimization and improvement. It requires a supply chain manager. So what is a supply chain manager? This individual is someone who can identify the critical resources that move through the supply chain; someone who can identify the forces that come into play and that affect the performance of these resources; and someone who can use this information to develop goals, objectives, and a strategy around which to optimize the flow of the supply chain. This sounds like a big task, and it is. But numerous tools are available to help you with this task, and as we move forward we will learn more about these tools. There are several types of managers, and they can be categorized in numerous ways. One type is the sunrise manager who has a view toward the future, as opposed to the sunset manager who fights fires in the here and now. Another way to classify managers is to consider their attitudes toward their subordinates. The two extremes are the authoritarian manager and the participative manager.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-66
Author(s):  
Netti Herawati ◽  
Dedy Syamsuar ◽  
Yesi Novaria Kunang

The Palembang Port Hospital has used and utilized IT tools in line with the vision of becoming the best hospital in the national health industry with world-class professional services. To benefit from the use of IT equipment, the management of the Palembang Port Hospital must have knowledge of how the device is planned properly so that the results obtained are as expected. Otherwise it will cause a mismatch between the current device / application and the application needed in the future. Based on this, a strategic planning is required so that IT development runs directed and in accordance with the expected values ​​of hospital management. The preparation of this strategic plan uses the Anita Cassidy framework in 4 phases, namely (1) Visioning Phase discusses current business conditions, (2) Analysis Phase discusses current IT conditions, (3) Direction Phase contains IT planning stages and (4) Recommendation Phase is the final result of the preparation of a strategic plan in the form of a final roadmap. In the preparation of the strategic plan for the Palembang Port Hospital, 9 projects were identified, namely 3 projects related to applications, 4 projects related to network infrastructure development, 2 documentation projects and IT training. In addition, an estimate of the time the project will start is also developed.


Author(s):  
K. A. Fisher ◽  
M. G. L. Gustafsson ◽  
M. B. Shattuck ◽  
J. Clarke

The atomic force microscope (AFM) is capable of imaging electrically conductive and non-conductive surfaces at atomic resolution. When used to image biological samples, however, lateral resolution is often limited to nanometer levels, due primarily to AFM tip/sample interactions. Several approaches to immobilize and stabilize soft or flexible molecules for AFM have been examined, notably, tethering coating, and freezing. Although each approach has its advantages and disadvantages, rapid freezing techniques have the special advantage of avoiding chemical perturbation, and minimizing physical disruption of the sample. Scanning with an AFM at cryogenic temperatures has the potential to image frozen biomolecules at high resolution. We have constructed a force microscope capable of operating immersed in liquid n-pentane and have tested its performance at room temperature with carbon and metal-coated samples, and at 143° K with uncoated ferritin and purple membrane (PM).


Author(s):  
John G. Sheehan

The goal is to examine with high resolution cryo-SEM aqueous particulate suspensions used in coatings for printable paper. A metal-coating chamber for cryo-preparation of such suspensions was described previously. Here, a new conduction-cooling system for the stage and cold-trap in an SEM specimen chamber is described. Its advantages and disadvantages are compared to a convection-cooling system made by Hexland (model CT1000A) and its mechanical stability is demonstrated by examining a sample of styrene-butadiene latex.In recent high resolution cryo-SEM, some stages are cooled by conduction, others by convection. In the latter, heat is convected from the specimen stage by cold nitrogen gas from a liquid-nitrogen cooled evaporative heat exchanger. The advantage is the fast cooling: the Hexland CT1000A cools the stage from ambient temperature to 88 K in about 20 min. However it consumes huge amounts of liquid-nitrogen and nitrogen gas: about 1 ℓ/h of liquid-nitrogen and 400 gm/h of nitrogen gas. Its liquid-nitrogen vessel must be re-filled at least every 40 min.


Author(s):  
Vladimir Yu. Kolosov ◽  
Anders R. Thölén

In this paper we give a short overview of two TEM applications utilizing the extinction bend contour technique (BC) giving the advantages and disadvantages; especially we consider two areas in which the BC technique remains unique. Special attention is given to an approach including computer simulations of TEM micrographs.BC patterns are often observed in TEM studies but are rarely exploited in a serious way. However, this type of diffraction contrast was one of the first to be used for analysis of imperfections in crystalline foils, but since then only some groups have utilized the BC technique. The most extensive studies were performed by Steeds, Eades and colleagues. They were the first to demonstrate the unique possibilities of the BC method and named it real space crystallography, which developed later into the somewhat similar but more powerful convergent beam method. Maybe, due to the difficulties in analysis, BCs have seldom been used in TEM, and then mainly to visualize different imperfections and transformations.


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