scholarly journals On the Road to Telemedicine Maturity:A Systematic Review and Classification of Telemedicine Maturity Models

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Otto ◽  
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Diane Whitehouse ◽  
Hannes Schlieter ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of the Application of Maturity Models in Universities

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 466
Author(s):  
Esteban Tocto-Cano ◽  
Sandro Paz Collado ◽  
Javier Linkolk López-Gonzales ◽  
Josué E. Turpo-Chaparro
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Novel Approach

A maturity model is a widely used tool in software engineering and has mostly been extended to domains such as education, health, energy, finance, government, and general use. It is valuable for evaluations and continuous improvement of business processes or certain aspects of organizations, as it represents a more organized and systematic way of doing business. In this paper, we only focus on college higher education. For this reason, we present a novel approach that allows detecting some gaps in the existing maturity models for universities, as they are not models that address the dimensions in their entirety. To identify these models and their validities, as well as a classification of models that were identified in universities, we carried out a systematic literature review on 27,289 articles retrieved with respect to maturity models and published in peer-reviewed journals between 2007 and 2020. We found 23 articles that find maturity models applied in universities, through exclusion and inclusion criteria. We then grouped these items into nine categories with specific purposes. We concluded that maturity models used in Universities move towards agility, which is supported by the semantic web.

Road wetness quantification via tyre spray

2018 ◽  
Vol 233 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Schmiedel ◽  
Frank Gauterin ◽  
Hans-Joachim Unrau
Keyword(s):  
Vehicle Dynamics ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Water Film ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Vehicle Speed ◽  
The Road ◽  
Acceleration Sensors ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Wheel Arch

Road wetness can lead to a significant loss in tyre traction. Although a driver can easily distinguish between dry and wet roads, the thickness of a water film on the road (wetness) and its impact on the vehicle dynamics are more difficult for a driver to classify. Furthermore, autonomous vehicles also need a graded classification of road conditions. There are known sensors, which are able to classify road conditions, but these are either not able to quantify the road wetness or are not suitable for mass production. Therefore, this work analyses a method to measure the road wetness by analysing tyre spray with plain acceleration sensors at positions like wheel arch liner or side skirt. It discusses influences of vehicle speed, road wetness, tyres, road structure and sensor positioning. The results show that a quantification of road wetness is possible, but it relies on the sum of all boundary conditions.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATIONAL MATURITY MODELS - REVIEW AND CLASSIFICATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneta Kucińska-Landwójtowicz
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Business Excellence ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Review Protocol ◽  
Organizational Maturity ◽  
The Subject

The continuous development of the organization and business excellence currently belongs to the most important challenges of modern management. It requires many activities aimed at the improvement of the efficiency of processes and the improvement of the product quality. This is accompanied by a wide range of performance evaluation and organizational maturity analysis in many aspects. The objective of this paper is to provide a systematic review protocol followed and the associated reasoning. The systematic review of the literature is carried out according to strictly defined four phases. The literature of the subject placed in the universal Thompson/Reuters Web of Science database was adopted as the object of exploration. The analysis of the most important articles, proceedings, books and reviews has been performed. The review covers the last 25 years. The systematic review reported in this paper was guided by the objective to classify existing organizational maturity models (OMM), in order of their application area and to indicate the latest research trends. The result of the conducted research is the classification of organizational maturity models including key categories. The main contribution of the paper is the subsequent grouping of these models into nine areas of application to allow further study and development of these. In addition, new maturity models were selected for specific areas of the organization's operations or related to new management concepts. The value of the article is a clear and detailed review of the models proposed in the literature, which may be useful for both researchers and practitioners. The main limitation is the analysis in the scope of topic organizational maturity models including only the Thompson/Reuters Web of Science. This is the first stage of literature review that are continued.

scholarly journals Československo 1945–1948: Případ hybridního režimu?

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2–3) ◽  
pp. 188-213
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Bílek ◽  
Ľubomír Lupták
Keyword(s):  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Post War ◽  
Transitional Phase

This article presents an interpretative case study utilizing the concept of hybrid regimes as presented by Leah Gilbert and Payam Mohseni to analyse the political regime of Czechoslovakia between the years 1945–1948. Our aim is to demonstrate that rather than a mere transitional phase on the road from democracy to authoritarianism or an episode of final tremors of the pre-war (democratic) regime, the 1945–1945 regime represents a full-fledged hybrid, rooted in the specific conditions of the post-war period. One of the major problems in contemporary discussions about hybrid regimes is the blurred and somewhat unstable boundary between democratic and authoritarian regimes, especially when viewed only as a function of the electoral processes and mechanics. Gilbert and Mohseni’s classification of hybrid regimes attempts to overcome this problem by including two additional analytic dimensions, allowing to point at the dynamic development of the political regime in post-war Czechoslovakia and its rather lively movement on the scale between authoritarianism and democracy.

scholarly journals On the Road to Circular Public Procurement: Case, Variations, and Potential Actions in Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13784
Author(s):  
Simone Wurster ◽  
Rita Schulze ◽  
Ramona G. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Framework Conditions ◽  
Further Development

According to the United Nations, the consumption of materials is expected to double between 2020 and 2050. At the same time, annual waste generation is forecast to increase by 70% by 2050. The circular economy (CE) addresses this problem. However, many barriers to the further development of the CE exist. This article analyses the situation of public procurement in supporting a sustainable CE for tyres in Germany based on 18 interviews with public procurement professionals directly responsible for the purchase of tyres and four additional expert interviews. Based on the dimensions ‘current circular public procurement (CPP) intensity’ and ‘current CPP opportunities’, a classification of tyre procurement situations and barriers to sustainable circular tyre procurement is presented. Strategies to overcome these supply-side and demand-side barriers are specified, resulting in nine recommendations for German policymakers. As a way forward, a detailed concept for a pilot project on tyre CPP is provided. The article also shows how the circular public procurement classification can be used to support sustainability measures in a broader context. Finally, the article’s outlook focuses on implications to promote sustainable circular tyre procurement in other countries. It explains different framework conditions and elaborates to what extent additional research is necessary to develop appropriate recommendations for those conditions.

FEATURES OF THE STRUCTURE OF TRANSPORT HUB IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
I.B. Volkodaeva ◽  
L.S. Napreenko
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

The article examines the prerequisites for creating a transport hub in an urban environment, ways to simplify navigation and increase passenger comfort by design methods. The classification of transport hubs is given, the features of their formation based on environmental conditions are highlighted, the requirements for transport hub are formulated. Thus, the development of the system of transport hubs leads to a decrease in comfort when using public transport and stimulates the rejection of personal transport, which in turn leads to a decrease in the load on the road transport network and reduced air pollution.

scholarly journals The equipment for determining the impact of traffic environment on road pavement

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
Iryna Solonenko
Keyword(s):  
Sample Type ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Pavement ◽  
Operational Characteristics ◽  
Traffic Environment ◽  
Equipment Type ◽  
Element Number ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Impact

The article presents the classification of equipment developed by the author for the research of the operational characteristics of road pavement. The equipment was classified according to the following criteria: type of equipment; type of contact element; mode of interaction with the supporting surface; type of fixture of the suspension element; number of contact elements; sample type; type of load. For illustrations, the classification of the most common equipment was carried out. The research was conducted to compare and select the most rational equipment to study the effect of traffic environment on the road pavement. The research was carried out by the multi-criteria analysis. Based on the conducted research, the most rational installations for conducting experiments were determined.

scholarly journals On the road and away from home: a systematic review of the travel experiences of cancer patients and their families

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 2973-2982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Vindrola-Padros ◽  
Eugenia Brage ◽  
Pinkie Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road
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