TRAINING OF MEDICAL STAFF FOR USING DATA – USAGE OF THE FULL CAPABILITY OF SMART DEVICES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Rusev ◽  
Rumen Rusev ◽  
Boyana Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Medical Staff ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Data Usage ◽  
Using Data

Validation of a Chinese version of the Perceived Coolness Scale among Chinese college students

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Lin Liu ◽  
Jian Li ◽  
Jinnan Wu ◽  
Tingting Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Purchase Intention ◽  
New Product ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Undergraduate College Student ◽  
Willingness To Buy ◽  
Good Internal Consistency ◽  
Using Data

Coolness is considered important for new product adoption but little is known about how consumers in different cultures perceive coolness, or if perceived coolness affects their willingness to buy a new product. We translated and validated a Chinese version (C-PCS) of the Perceived Coolness Scale (PCS) for new smart devices, using data from 307 undergraduate college student participants. The PCS initially comprised the four dimensions of originality, subculture, attractiveness, and utility, but utility was not included in the final version of the PCS. In contrast, we included all four dimensions in the CPCS. Our results show that the C-PCS had good internal consistency and satisfactory structural validity. In addition, each of the four dimensions of perceived coolness predicted participants' purchase intention for new smart devices.

A Critical Analysis on Obtaining and Using Data and Information for Pandemic Management

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
World Health ◽  
Death Rates ◽  
Current Strategy ◽  
Data Usage ◽  
Time Availability ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Health Cloud

The chapter provides an in-depth overview and analysis for developing policies and strategies for managing a pandemic based on information and data. While looking for the credibility of an information source, various parameters are subjected for considerations (i.e., infection and death rates per given time, availability of personal protective equipment [PPE], overall population attitude, current strategy response rate, society behaviors, outcomes of policies interventions for curbing the spread of the virus, and many more). To critically analyze pandemic information and data usage along with issues and challenges that arise in collecting, extracting, or using various forms of information and data for pandemic management, numerous national action plans, world health databases, pandemic monitoring smart applications, government published infection-to-death ratios, and health cloud services are interpreted and discussed.

scholarly journals Smart-devices in Human Behavior Manipula-tion: Process diagram with exploratory assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
Md. Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda ◽  
Md. Alamgir Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Smart Device ◽  
Sensitive Data ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Using Data

Smart devices have become an essential part of human life with a bunch of modern features and facilities. Even in health care, health management, education, and the science sector use intelligent devices for their convenience. With the assertion of its wellness, people forget its downside and treating smart devices as their primary need. Whereas smart devices are tracking and collecting all user movements, including interest, boredom, and daily activity. As the data remain store in vendors' servers, and lightweight smart devices follow weak security, so data leakage also makes the data available to unauthorized parties. This sensitive data uses by vendors and  third-party for business and various purposes to influence and manipulate human behavior by showing content mapping to the collected data. Because of the huge involvement of the user in smart-device, marketing strategy also changed a lot. Digital marketing has been  introduced and become a key to success for many businesses where a particular content/advertisement can be mapped to particular leads. The next move of a user on the internet is shaping by applying numerous strategies based on previously collected data. In the era of smart devices, our personal life and personal data are not remaining personal anymore. This paper illustrates the systematic process of collecting and using data for manipulating human behavior. The raise of human behavior manipulation has been explained and an exploratory survey is imputed to strongly support the research statement.

scholarly journals Sensing-HH: A Deep Hybrid Attention Model for Footwear Recognition

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1552
Author(s):  
Yumin Yao ◽  
Ya Wen ◽  
Jianxin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Gait Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Gait Pattern ◽  
Human Gait ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Motion Sensors ◽  
Attention Model ◽  
Young Females ◽  
Using Data

The human gait pattern is an emerging biometric trait for user identification of smart devices. However, one of the challenges in this biometric domain is the gait pattern change caused by footwear, especially if the users are wearing high heels (HH). Wearing HH puts extra stress and pressure on various parts of the human body and it alters the wearer’s common gait pattern, which may cause difficulties in gait recognition. In this paper, we propose the Sensing-HH, a deep hybrid attention model for recognizing the subject’s shoes, flat or different types of HH, using smartphone’s motion sensors. In this model, two streams of convolutional and bidirectional long short-term memory (LSTM) networks are designed as the backbone, which extract the hierarchical spatial and temporal representations of accelerometer and gyroscope individually. We also introduce a spatio attention mechanism into the stacked convolutional layers to scan the crucial structure of the data. This mechanism enables the hybrid neural networks to capture extra information from the signal and thus it is able to significantly improve the discriminative power of the classifier for the footwear recognition task. To evaluate Sensing-HH, we built a dataset with 35 young females, each of whom walked for 4 min wearing shoes with varied heights of the heels. We conducted extensive experiments and the results demonstrated that the Sensing-HH outperformed the baseline models on leave-one-subject-out cross-validation (LOSO-CV). The Sensing-HH achieved the best Fm score, which was 0.827 when the smartphone was attached to the waist. This outperformed all the baseline methods at least by more than 14%. Meanwhile, the F1 Score of the Ultra HH was as high as 0.91. The results suggest the proposed model has made the footwear recognition more efficient and automated. We hope the findings from this study paves the way for a more sophisticated application using data from motion sensors, as well as lead to a path to a more robust biometric system based on gait pattern.

scholarly journals The social imaginaries of data activism

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395171882114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuukka Lehtiniemi ◽  
Minna Ruckenstein
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Social Imaginaries ◽  
Data Usage ◽  
Data Ethics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Data Infrastructures ◽  
Using Data

Data activism, promoting new forms of civic and political engagement, has emerged as a response to problematic aspects of datafication that include tensions between data openness and data ownership, and asymmetries in terms of data usage and distribution. In this article, we discuss MyData, a data activism initiative originating in Finland, which aims to shape a more sustainable citizen-centric data economy by means of increasing individuals' control of their personal data. Using data gathered during long-term participant-observation in collaborative projects with data activists, we explore the internal tensions of data activism by first outlining two different social imaginaries – technological and socio-critical – within MyData, and then merging them to open practical and analytical space for engaging with the socio-technical futures currently in the making. While the technological imaginary favours data infrastructures as corrective measures, the socio-critical imaginary questions the effectiveness of technological correction. Unpacking them clarifies the kinds of political and social alternatives that different social imaginaries ascribe to the notions underlying data activism, and highlights the need to consider the social structures in play. The more far-reaching goal of our exercise is to provide practical and analytical resources for critical engagement in the context of data activism. By merging technological and socio-critical imaginaries in the work of reimagining governing structures and knowledge practices alongside infrastructural arrangements, scholars can depart from the most obvious forms of critique, influence data activism practice, and formulate data ethics and data futures.

scholarly journals Using assessment data to improve equity: How teachers use insights from the Scottish National Standardised Assessments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Richardson ◽  
Sladana Krstic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
School Level ◽  
Assessment Data ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Sensemaking Theory ◽  
Data Usage ◽  
Whole School ◽  
Using Data

Evidence-based decision-making is regarded as an important indicator of quality in schools around the world. Using data gathered from assessments, in conjunction with other insights, can help school leaders and teachers better meet the needs of learners. In schools that cater to disadvantaged learners, using data to design targeted interventions plays an important role in improving equity. In this paper we report on a study with five schools in Scotland. All schools had learner cohorts characterised by multiple layers of disadvantage. Informed by the theoretical underpinnings of sensemaking theory, we investigated how teachers and school leaders used data from the Scottish National Standardised Assessments (SNSA). Our findings suggest that teachers and leaders are adept at combining assessment data with other insights – including their own observations. All schools were active in using data to inform decision-making, both at the whole-school level and at the classroom level. They reported multiple uses of data, from validating their own instincts to targeting support to particular cohorts of learners. We suggest that the way in which SNSA is designed – explicitly providing data to teachers to help inform their professional judgement – is a factor in the positive approach to data usage among these schools.

scholarly journals Creation and provision of a question and answer resource for esophageal cancer based on medical professionals’ reports of patients’ and families’ views and preferences

Esophagus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasushi Toh ◽  
Yoji Inoue ◽  
Masayo Hayakawa ◽  
Chikako Yamaki ◽  
Hiroya Takeuchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Esophageal Cancer ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Treatment Quality ◽  
Cancer Information ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Question And Answer ◽  
Using Data

Abstract Background In the rapidly-progressing healthcare environment, it is essential to improve treatment quality through continuous clarification of the needs and concerns of esophageal cancer patients and their families. Effective collaboration between information providers and academic associations could help make such clarified information available. Methods We analyzed esophageal cancer patients’ views and preferences (PVPs) using data that were previously obtained from medical staff in Japan. Based on these PVPs, we created a question and answer (Q&A) resource through collaboration with the Cancer Information Service in Japan (CISJ) and the Japan Esophageal Society (JES). Results Regarding esophageal cancer, “diet and eating behavior” was the most frequent PVP mentioned by patients and their families, followed by “treatment-related symptoms and adverse effects” and “daily life, recuperation, and survivorship.” These PVPs were noted by a wide variety of medical specialties. By analyzing the PVPs, the CISJ developed 11 proposed questions and sent them to the JES, which then created answers based on evidence and clinical–practice-associated consensus. The resultant Q&A resource was uploaded to the CISJ website with mutual linkage to the JES website. Conclusions This study showed the usefulness of collecting esophageal–cancer-related PVPs from medical staff and fostering successful collaboration between a cancer-information provider and an academic association. This arrangement may represent a model case for developing a sustainable system that can satisfactorily respond to PVPs regarding other cancers and/or issues.

Polar Magnetic Field Reversals of the Sun in Maunder Minimum

2000 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 193-196
Author(s):  
V. I. Makarov ◽  
A. G. Tlatov
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Maunder Minimum ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Annual Rings ◽  
Field Reversal ◽  
Polar Magnetic Field ◽  
Pine Trees ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Magnetic Field Reversal

AbstractA possible scenario of polar magnetic field reversal of the Sun during the Maunder Minimum (1645–1715) is discussed using data of magnetic field reversals of the Sun for 1880–1991 and the14Ccontent variations in the bi-annual rings of the pine-trees in 1600–1730 yrs.

Accent Policy and Accent Modification Enterprises as Potential Indicators of Intercultural Power Relations: A Call for an Updated Research Agenda

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brynne D. Ovalle ◽  
Rahul Chakraborty
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article has two purposes: (a) to examine the relationship between intercultural power relations and the widespread practice of accent discrimination and (b) to underscore the ramifications of accent discrimination both for the individual and for global society as a whole. First, authors review social theory regarding language and group identity construction, and then go on to integrate more current studies linking accent bias to sociocultural variables. Authors discuss three examples of intercultural accent discrimination in order to illustrate how this link manifests itself in the broader context of international relations (i.e., how accent discrimination is generated in situations of unequal power) and, using a review of current research, assess the consequences of accent discrimination for the individual. Finally, the article highlights the impact that linguistic discrimination is having on linguistic diversity globally, partially using data from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and partially by offering a potential context for interpreting the emergence of practices that seek to reduce or modify speaker accents.

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