Executive Insights: Globalization of the Auto Parts                     Industry

The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) over the past decades has created new challenges and opportunities for libraries and librarians. As a result of ICT, library services to users have changed, the management of libraries has evolved and the roles of librarians have multiplied. The new millennium presents new opportunities to exploit an ever-growing array of information and communication technologies in the provision of library services. As one millennium draws to a close and a new one begins, there are a lot of questions to answer:

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Ancestry.com and the Evolving Nature of Historical Information Companies

The Public Historian ◽

10.1525/tph.2020.42.1.8 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 8-28

Author(s):

Jerome de Groot

Keyword(s):

Dna Sequencing ◽

Historical Data ◽

The Past ◽

Corporate Entity ◽

The World ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

New Challenges ◽

A Company ◽

Historical Institution ◽

The Way

This study of the genealogy and biotech company Ancestry analyzes the ways in which the organization has evolved over the past few years. Ancestry is difficult to categorize as a corporate entity. The company trades in servicing both “traditional” types of history (genealogical records) and, more recently, biotech-based investigation through the use of DNA sequencing. Ancestry is highly influential in the way that millions of people around the world access the past. Given this, the company’s shifts in focus are of great interest. Through considering various new elements of the way that Ancestry functions, and illustrating that this complexity is foundational to its purpose, the article suggests the company is redefining what a public historian or public historical institution might be, adding a scientific dimension to historical data and also acting to present a particular model of the past through its advertising campaigns. The article suggests that public history’s models for considering such protean organizations are in need of attention, and the complexity of such a company demonstrates new challenges and opportunities for scholars in the field.

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LOST IN THE CLOUD - NEW CHALLENGES FOR TEACHING GIS

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b6-25-2016 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol XLI-B6 ◽

pp. 25-29

Author(s):

C. J. Bellman ◽

G. Pupedis

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Computing Environment ◽

The Past ◽

Great Insight ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Approach To Teaching ◽

New Challenges ◽

The Many ◽

Insight Into ◽

Dominant Paradigm

As cloud based services move towards becoming the dominant paradigm in many areas of information technology, GIS has also moved into ‘the Cloud’, creating a new opportunities for professionals and students alike, while at the same time presenting a range of new challenges and opportunities for GIS educators. Learning for many students in the geospatial science disciplines has been based on desktop software for GIS, building their skills from basic data handling and manipulation to advanced spatial analysis and database storage. Cloud-based systems challenge this paradigm in many ways, with some of the skills being replaced by clever and capable software tools, while the ubiquitous nature of the computing environment offers access and processing from anywhere, on any device. <br><br> This paper describes our experiences over the past two years in developing and delivering a new course incorporating cloud based technologies for GIS and illustrates the many benefits and pitfalls of a cloud based approach to teaching. Throughout the course, students were encouraged to provide regular feedback on the course through the use of online journals. This allowed students to critique the approach to teaching, the learning materials available and to describe their own level of comfort and engagement with the material in an honest and non-confrontational manner. Many of the students did not have a strong information technology background and the journals provided great insight into the views of the students and the challenges they faced in mastering this technology.

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Secret of Instructional Design Revisited

Frontiers in Education Technology ◽

10.22158/fet.v4n4p26 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. p26

Author(s):

Zane L. Berge, Ph.D.

Keyword(s):

Instructional Design ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Instructional System ◽

Affective Learning ◽

Design System ◽

The Internet ◽

The Past ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

New Challenges ◽

Critical Aspects

Improvements in technology, especially automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence have dramatically changed what people do in the workplace and how they do it. Technology advancements over the past 3 decades have reshaped demands in schooling and the workplace bringing on new challenges and opportunities. Employers need employees who are critical thinkers, communicators, collaborators, and creators to remain competitive and innovative. Educators recognize these abilities that learners must have to take advantage of the opportunities and face the challenges that are presented to them in the 21st century. As was the case 30 years ago, the same consistency is needed today among the four elements of instructional design: objectives, methods, content, and evaluation. There must also be integration of the instructional system with authentic, real-world performance. If these two critical aspects are not met the chances of obtaining the desired effectiveness of learning is not likely to be met. The Internet and cloud computing allow more rapid development of instruction for more efficient and affective learning. The pace of change also requires a greater emphasis on the iterative nature of evaluating the instructional design system.

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LOST IN THE CLOUD - NEW CHALLENGES FOR TEACHING GIS

ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b6-25-2016 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol XLI-B6 ◽

pp. 25-29 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

C. J. Bellman ◽

G. Pupedis

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Computing Environment ◽

The Past ◽

Great Insight ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Approach To Teaching ◽

New Challenges ◽

The Many ◽

Insight Into ◽

Dominant Paradigm

As cloud based services move towards becoming the dominant paradigm in many areas of information technology, GIS has also moved into ‘the Cloud’, creating a new opportunities for professionals and students alike, while at the same time presenting a range of new challenges and opportunities for GIS educators. Learning for many students in the geospatial science disciplines has been based on desktop software for GIS, building their skills from basic data handling and manipulation to advanced spatial analysis and database storage. Cloud-based systems challenge this paradigm in many ways, with some of the skills being replaced by clever and capable software tools, while the ubiquitous nature of the computing environment offers access and processing from anywhere, on any device. <br><br> This paper describes our experiences over the past two years in developing and delivering a new course incorporating cloud based technologies for GIS and illustrates the many benefits and pitfalls of a cloud based approach to teaching. Throughout the course, students were encouraged to provide regular feedback on the course through the use of online journals. This allowed students to critique the approach to teaching, the learning materials available and to describe their own level of comfort and engagement with the material in an honest and non-confrontational manner. Many of the students did not have a strong information technology background and the journals provided great insight into the views of the students and the challenges they faced in mastering this technology.

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Brain-eating Amoebae Infection: Challenges and Opportunities in Chemotherapy

Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry ◽

10.2174/1389557519666190313161854 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (12) ◽

pp. 980-987 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Mohammad Ridwane Mungroo ◽

Ayaz Anwar ◽

Naveed Ahmed Khan ◽

Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui

Keyword(s):

Mortality Rate ◽

Free Living ◽

Outdoor Activities ◽

The Past ◽

Free Living Amoeba ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Life Threatening ◽

The Central Nervous System ◽

Living Nature ◽

Treatment And Diagnosis

Pathogenic free-living amoeba are known to cause a devastating infection of the central nervous system and are often referred to as “brain-eating amoebae”. The mortality rate of more than 90% and free-living nature of these amoebae is a cause for concern. It is distressing that the mortality rate has remained the same over the past few decades, highlighting the lack of interest by the pharmaceutical industry. With the threat of global warming and increased outdoor activities of public, there is a need for renewed interest in identifying potential anti-amoebic compounds for successful prognosis. Here, we discuss the available chemotherapeutic options and opportunities for potential strategies in the treatment and diagnosis of these life-threatening infections.

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Bot Datasets on Twitter: Analysis and Challenges

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11094105 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 4105

Author(s):

Luis Daniel Samper-Escalante ◽

Octavio Loyola-González ◽

Raúl Monroy ◽

Miguel Angel Medina-Pérez

Keyword(s):

Information Exchange ◽

Modern Society ◽

Online News ◽

Social Networking Service ◽

Public And Private ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Twitter Analysis ◽

Radar Chart ◽

New Challenges ◽

Bot Detection

The reach and influence of social networks over modern society and its functioning have created new challenges and opportunities to prevent the misuse or tampering of such powerful tools of social interaction. Twitter, a social networking service that specializes in online news and information exchange involving billions of users world-wide, has been infested by bots for several years. In this paper, we analyze both public and private databases from the literature of bot detection on Twitter. We summarize their advantages, disadvantages, and differences, recommending which is more suitable to work with depending on the necessities of the researcher. From this analysis, we present five distinct behaviors in automated accounts exhibited across all the bot datasets analyzed from these databases. We measure their level of presence in each dataset using a radar chart for visual comparison. Finally, we identify four challenges that researchers of bot detection on Twitter have to face when using these databases from the literature.

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The first 10 years of the international coordination network for standards in systems and synthetic biology (COMBINE)

Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics ◽

10.1515/jib-2020-0005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (2-3) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dagmar Waltemath ◽

Martin Golebiewski ◽

Michael L Blinov ◽

Padraig Gleeson ◽

Henning Hermjakob ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Synthetic Biology ◽

Data Model ◽

Computational Models ◽

Life Sciences ◽

The Past ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Stakeholder Workshop ◽

Software Engineers ◽

Future Work ◽

Modeling In Biology

AbstractThis paper presents a report on outcomes of the 10th Computational Modeling in Biology Network (COMBINE) meeting that was held in Heidelberg, Germany, in July of 2019. The annual event brings together researchers, biocurators and software engineers to present recent results and discuss future work in the area of standards for systems and synthetic biology. The COMBINE initiative coordinates the development of various community standards and formats for computational models in the life sciences. Over the past 10 years, COMBINE has brought together standard communities that have further developed and harmonized their standards for better interoperability of models and data. COMBINE 2019 was co-located with a stakeholder workshop of the European EU-STANDS4PM initiative that aims at harmonized data and model standardization for in silico models in the field of personalized medicine, as well as with the FAIRDOM PALs meeting to discuss findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) data sharing. This report briefly describes the work discussed in invited and contributed talks as well as during breakout sessions. It also highlights recent advancements in data, model, and annotation standardization efforts. Finally, this report concludes with some challenges and opportunities that this community will face during the next 10 years.

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