Mask-Making to the Rescue: Key Skills During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-43
Author(s):  
Rachel J. Eike ◽  
Sunhyung Cho ◽  
Gwendolyn Hustvedt
Keyword(s):  
Mask Making ◽  
Key Skills

Sustainability and Mask Making. July 8, 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Caroline Kipp ◽  
Yasmin Ahram
Keyword(s):  
Mask Making

scholarly journals Mask-Making and Drawing as Method: Arts-Based Approaches to Data Collection With War-Affected Children

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 160940691983247
Author(s):  
Amber Green ◽  
Myriam Denov
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Mask Making ◽  
In Captivity

Globally, the numbers of children living in conflict zones and displaced by war have risen dramatically over the past two decades, and with this, scholarly attention to the impacts of war on children. More recently, researchers have examined how war-affected children are being studied, revealing important shortcomings. These limitations relate to the lack of child participation in research, the need for researchers to engage children in the research process as “active agents” rather than “passive objects” under study, as well as the need for researchers to pay closer attention to ethical dilemmas associated with researching war-affected children. To address these realities, innovative research methods that can be adapted across diverse sociocultural contexts are warranted. In light of these shortcomings, our research team integrated two arts-based methods: mask-making and drawing, alongside traditional qualitative data collection methods with a particularly marginalized population of young people: children born in captivity within the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda. In this article, we provide information on the context of northern Uganda. We describe how the use of mask-making and drawing was used as data gathering tools and the ways in which these arts-based methods had important benefits for the research participants, researchers, and impacted on the validity of the research as a whole. We propose that the use of these participatory visual methods enriched the themes elicited through more traditional methods. The article describes how these arts-based mediums fostered community building among children typically excluded from their communities and were successful as a tool to build trust between participants and the research team when exploring sensitive topics. The article concludes with implications for future research with war-affected children.

scholarly journals The Impact of Embedded iPad Use on Student Perceptions of Their Digital Capabilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Elphick
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
The University ◽  
Teaching In Higher Education ◽  
The Impact

Digital capabilities are recognized as key skills that students must possess to learn and work in our increasingly digital world and have been the subject of a growing focus over recent years. Similarly, smartphones and, to a lesser degree, tablets are now ubiquitous within the student body, and many academics are beginning to leverage these devices for the purposes of learning and teaching in higher education. To further explore the possibilities of mobile technology, the iPilot project was created to explore the effects that embedded iPad use had on undergraduate students’ creativity, ability to collaborate with their peers and their perception of their digital capabilities. Focusing on the digital capabilities aspect of the project, this paper explores the results gathered. While the results are mixed, when combined with data taken from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Digital Experience Tracker, it does appear that using iPads in the university classroom can have a positive impact on certain digital behaviors and students’ perceptions of their digital skills.

X-ray mask making by EBL and Monte Carlo analysis of a single-resist layer process on low-z membrane

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 147-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gentili ◽  
A. Lucchesini ◽  
P. Lugli ◽  
G. Messina ◽  
A. Paoletti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Monte Carlo Analysis ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Mask Making

From technical to non-technical skills among information systems suppliers

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bénédicte Branchet ◽  
Pierre-Yves Sanseau
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
Critical Skills ◽  
Education And Society ◽  
Is Outsourcing

Purpose Existing research infers that in the information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) fields, a shift may occur between technical and non-technical skills. However, relatively little research has focused on going changes in terms of key skills in the IS suppliers sector. The purpose of this paper is to address this gap by investigating these skills evolution in the IS suppliers domain and discusses their impacts on IS and IT curricula. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a qualitative method based on 15 semi-structured face-to-face interviews, with highly dedicated operational managers in senior positions in the field. Findings This study identifies, for the IS suppliers, the critical skills, which are basically non-technical, and peripheral skills, which are primarily technical. It then considers the consequences of this change and the necessary adaptations it requires for businesses and training for this field. Practical implications The findings suggest the need to redesign the educational curricula for future managers, and the adaptations required to the work organization, human resource management and business models of firms in the field. Originality/value The paper’s value is twofold. First, it focuses on IS service suppliers, an understudied area (most research examines IS outsourcing from the customer’s standpoint); second, it reveals the shift away from technical toward non-technical skills in a field that is intrinsically technical – a change that may occur more slowly than in other less technical sectors – and the consequences of this change for firms, education and society.

Characterization of charging-induced pattern positioning errors in advanced mask making

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 021409
Author(s):  
Chien-Cheng Chen ◽  
Yen-Cheng Ho ◽  
Shao-Wen Chang ◽  
Chia-Jen Chen ◽  
Ta-Cheng Lien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positioning Errors ◽  
Mask Making

Expertise-Based Performance Measures in a Virtual Training Environment

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 449-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel C Huegel ◽  
Ozkan Celik ◽  
Ali Israr ◽  
Marcia K O'Malley
Keyword(s):  
Performance Measures ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Training Environment ◽  
Virtual Training ◽  
Frequency Capture ◽  
Performance Trends ◽  
Key Skills ◽  
Quantitative Performance ◽  
Manual Skills ◽  
Future Work

This paper introduces and validates quantitative performance measures for a rhythmic target-hitting task. These performance measures are derived from a detailed analysis of human performance during a month-long training experiment where participants learned to operate a 2-DOF haptic interface in a virtual environment to execute a manual control task. The motivation for the analysis presented in this paper is to determine measures of participant performance that capture the key skills of the task. This analysis of performance indicates that two quantitative measures—trajectory error and input frequency—capture the key skills of the target-hitting task, as the results show a strong correlation between the performance measures and the task objective of maximizing target hits. The performance trends were further explored by grouping the participants based on expertise and examining trends during training in terms of these measures. In future work, these measures will be used as inputs to a haptic guidance scheme that adjusts its control gains based on a real-time assessment of human performance of the task. Such guidance schemes will be incorporated into virtual training environments for humans to develop manual skills for domains such as surgery, physical therapy, and sports.

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