scholarly journals International river environment education that combines simulations with specimens from different times and regions

Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-37
Author(s):  
Shigeki Mayama ◽  
Matt Julius ◽  
Karthick Balasubramanian
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
River Pollution ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Set Up ◽  
International River

Over the years, humankind has contributed to the destruction of the environment, including river pollution. When comparing river water quality in developed and developing countries, the history is the opposite, with developed countries suffering from polluted rivers at a time when developing countries had relatively clean rivers. Although the literature provides descriptions of past water quality across the globe, there are no samples of this water, leading to a gap in knowledge. Fortunately, a team of researchers led by Dr Shigeki Mayama, Advanced Support Center for Science Teachers, Tokyo Gakugei University Koganei, Japan, has found a way to ascertain past water quality and decipher how it relates to the environmental concerns of the present. Ultimately, they want to help address environmental challenges by helping children to understand the direct impact of human activity on river environments. As such, the researchers are developing an educational programme involving a virtual environment and microorganisms called diatoms. Mayama and the team have developed simulation software called SimRIver, using which students can set up their own river basin environments and use diatoms as proxies for the aquatic environment to learn how they affect water quality. SimRIver is available in 22 languages, making it accessible to children in different countries and broadening its impact. In addition, it operates in a manner that mimics video games in order to be as appealing to students as possible. To circumvent a possible lack of reality, SimRiver is supplemented with actual specimens collected from the river. The idea is that combining virtual simulations with real-life specimens will promote effective learning.

scholarly journals Cloud Computing in Education in Developing Countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faten Karim ◽  
Giselle Rampersad
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Cloud Computing Adoption ◽  
Limited Degree ◽  
Set Up

The main advantage of cloud computing is to reduce the IT cost. By using cloud computing, organisations do not have to set up an IT infrastructure, and instead are able to rent resources and give payment only for the using services. Even with the appealing of cloud computing benefits, it is still in infancy in developing countries due to many reasons. Technology adoption has been explored to a limited degree in developing countries, particularly in relation to cloud computing in the tertiary education sector. Existing studies have examined technology adoption in developed countries and to a lesser extent in developing countries in non-education contexts such as e-government. This paper contributes to the cloud computing adoption literature in developing countries, and specifically in Saudi Arabian universities. 

scholarly journals Centralised Biological Therapy Registry for Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis – Overview and Methodology

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
R Sutka ◽  
J Pec ◽  
T Pecova
Keyword(s):  
Plaque Psoriasis ◽  
Biological Therapy ◽  
Treatment Guidelines ◽  
Safety Data ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Severe Plaque Psoriasis ◽  
Set Up

Abstract The introduction of new pharmacotherapy entities in the last decade accentuate the necessity to set up treatment guidelines based on real life evidence. Randomized controlled trials remain golden standard of a research. Data derived from studies aiming on daily clinical practice should bring needed, added value. Disease prevalence growth, due to increased life expectancy, better diagnostic procedures and earlier medical intervention, as well as ever growing demand for highly priced, sophistically produced drugs put stress on healthcare budgets even in developed countries. Large databases commonly called - therapy registries are implemented to collect data on therapy effectivity in terms of effectiveness, safety and patient long-term on therapy survival. Registries importance rose together with biological therapies introduction. New in class molecules entered the market conditionally being obliged to provide additional e.g. safety data. Such procedures require involvement of many different professionals, e.g. physicians, professional medical bodies, IT experts, database administrators, statisticians and government institutions. Paper based, followed by computer based forms were distributed among physicians to collect these data. eHealth technologies provide physicians with centralized, more intuitive applications. The particularities of different diagnosis caused great variations within each specific registry launched. Important information was missing since they were pointed out as optional and many were redundant causing frustration among physicians due to inadequate administrative workload. The main objective of this work was to set up the therapy registry standards and procedures. Methodology of „ideal“ moderate to severe plaque psoriasis biology therapy registry development, introduction, administration and evaluation was prepared to assist any government institution or professional body when planning registry deployment. Electronic application based on widely used MS Excel platform was developed and installed in the biological therapy centers as a standalone application for the pilot use.

scholarly journals Effluent standards for developing countries: combining the technology- and water quality-based approach

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (9) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M.J. Ragas ◽  
P.A.G.M. Scheren ◽  
H.I. Konterman ◽  
R.S.E.W. Leuven ◽  
P. Vugteveen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Water Quality Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Effluent Standards ◽  
The Usa

It is a challenge for developing countries to realize socio-economical development without impairing water resources in an unacceptable way. A possible means for controlling water pollution is through defining, applying and enforcing effluent standards for wastewater discharges. However, in many developing countries the definition of effluent standards is still poor. They are either too stringent because they are based on standards from developed countries, or too relaxed and therefore they do not guarantee the safe intended uses of water. In order to define an approach for setting effluent standards that suits the needs and means of developing counties, water quality management practices in the USA, the EU, the New Independent States (NIS) and the Philippines were analyzed and compared. Four criteria (protection of the environment, technical viability, economic feasibility and institutional capacity requirements) were used to assess the suitability of these practices for developing countries. It is concluded that a combined approach that is based on best available technology not entailing excessive costs and environmental quality standards is the best way to define effluent standards that restrict water pollution against affordable costs.

scholarly journals Matching Students’ Dominant Intelligences with their Fields of Specialization: Did Students Select the Right Specialization?

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-73
Author(s):  
Faten Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Academic Organizations ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Right ◽  
Comprehensive Reference

Accreditation is a fundamental part in primary healthcare (PHC) systems. The purpose behind this paper is to review the literature and track down the most appropriate PHC accreditation models and norms, around the world, and to set up a complete and fair outline from looking at these models. Finding that it is less likely to be independent, and more likely to be associated with government for the accreditation programs in developing countries, where they are distinguishable from those of developed countries, the differences between countries and agencies relate to the inclusion of patients/users, managers, patient or advocacy organizations, academic organizations and professional colleges. This review has identified that the most potential comprehensive reference program or model for the development of nation accreditation programs is the JCAHO program.

scholarly journals The two faces of user involvement: Everyday life and local context

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tine Mechlenborg Kristiansen ◽  
Rasmus Antoft ◽  
Jette Primdahl ◽  
Kim Hørslev Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Set Up

In most developed countries, healthcare systems are increasingly faced with political demands to involve users in the planning and development of their services. This article reports findings from an ethnographic fieldwork that investigated an inter-organizational project involving user representation. The project was set up to develop an educational programme for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). By investigating user representatives’ experiences, our aim was to bring to light more general determinants and conditions of user involvement in health services. Drawing on an analytical framework within everyday life sociology, the analysis explored the dual concept of “conditions and conditionality”, metaphorically described in this article as “the two faces of user involvement”. From one perspective, everyday life experiences – living with RA, encounters with the health system and professional identities and work life – conditioned user representatives’ participation in the project. From another perspective, the local institutional context and interactions within the project framework conditioned the way in which users are involved. The ways in which these conditions changed over time are described, in relation to the specific spatial, temporal and social developments in both the everyday lives of the user representatives and in the local project.

P.R. Brahmananda. Growth/ess Inflation by Means of Stockless Money: A New Classical Treatise on Rising Prices. Bombay: Himalaya Publishing House. 1981. pp.xvi+471. Price: Rs.9S.00.

1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-172
Author(s):  
Faiz Bilquees
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Problem ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Developed Countries

Traditionally inflation has been seen as a purely economic problem. In recent years studies have emphasized that the present day inflation is more than an economic problem. It has deep roots in the political and social systems which have strong connections with the economic mechanism of society. Inflation is analysed and conceptualized as :I problem in political economy. It is a worldwide phenomenon but it has become most pertinent in the case of developing countries where the socio-economic fabric of the society is far removed from that of the developed countries on whose experience the prevalent economic theories of inflation are based. As such when the theories completely divorced from reality are applied in the developing economies they aggravate the situation further. The book under review is free from this blemish as it examines the problem of inflation with reference to the socio-economic and political set-up of the developing countries in general and to the Indian situation in particular.

Supporting Multi-level Medical Education with Knowledge-Based Systems

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 102-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Carstairs ◽  
K. King
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Knowledge Based Systems ◽  
Clinical Environment ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Use Of Knowledge

Abstract:Knowledge-based systems for medicine have enjoyed minimal success in developing countries as end-user systems. The reasons for this are complex. As funding agencies understandably tend to err on the side of caution, and knowledge-based systems are still (despite an almost 40 year history) seen as a new and untried technology, few have been implemented. Of those which have, most are inappropriately simple and thus do not fit in with the real-life clinical environment. In contrast to the sophisticated systems in use in developed countries which reflect a mature technology, the use of knowledge-based systems in medicine in developing countries has primarily revolved around simple ‘expert’ systems, where the program functions more as a ‘guru’ than as a support function. We propose the more appropriate use of these systems as educational tools in medicine. In this discussion paper we describe a multi-level programme to support medical education, focusing on patient information systems involving natural language generation, decision-support systems as educational aids for primary health-care workers and model-based reasoning tools which allow exploratory learning for physicans in training. Throughout this paper we refer to Knowledge-Based Medical Education Systems as KBMES.

CD-ROM in Developing Countries: A UNESCO Perspective

1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-183
Author(s):  
Abdelaziz Abid ◽  
Denise Pélissier
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Cooperative Network ◽  
Clearing House ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Different Parts

UNESCO set up a Clearing House in 1992 to promote and disseminate the information it gathers and to create new information sources corresponding to the needs of Member States. A survey of needs showed a strong demand for CD-ROMs, and the success of a prototype, UNESCO Databases, encouraged it to prepare a new edition and plan two more CD-ROMs, Index Translationum and World Heritage. Another programme involves the CD-ROMs of full text as a means of helping less developed countries to obtain affordable economic access to literature. An agreement has been reached with ADONIS whereby free subscriptions to the ADONIS discs for 1991 and 1992 are given to ten selected institutions in Africa, the Arab states, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. A further initiative is the joint ICSU/UNESCO International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, a cooperative network of donors and recipients. Training workshops are also being held in different parts of the world, and an inventory of CD-ROM in developing countries is being prepared.

Study the Heat Sink Potential of Building Ground Floor Slab Integrated with ELT

2012 ◽  
Vol 268-270 ◽  
pp. 967-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Al Hasan ◽  
Muhammad Abu Eusuf
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Passive Cooling ◽  
Environmental Load ◽  
Tyre Waste ◽  
Set Up

The aim of this paper is to investigate the heat sink properties of ELT (end-of-life tyres) waste. A hazardous waste, ELT or massive scraped tyre waste created environmental load to the local environment. Today, when researchers think of the environmental impacts of tyres, they mostly focus on the management of tyres at the end of their useful lives. From Global perspective it is found that one billion tyres reach the end of their useful lives annually, out of which about four billion ELTs are currently in landfills and as stockpiles worldwide. Study revealed that most of the developing countries currently are not experienced with the disposal method of ELT. Besides, developed countries from Europe, USA, Japan and Singapore have framed specific law or regulation to the disposal of ELT. Recently it is obvious that should find out alternative ways as to reduce the load of massive ELT waste. Furthermore, this study has been designed to manage ELTs massive waste, experimentally. Due to fact that this research followed by an effective experimental set up to observe the real phenomena of ELT for passive cooling in hot humid and tropical climate and make comparison with conventional construction materials and systems.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Drivers Affecting the Implementation of Environmental Management System in Indian Automotive Industries

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 4559-4565
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Management System ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Societal Pressure ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Set Up

Due to various government regulations and many other environmental related problems industries have to focus on these issues if they want to make business in the competitive market. Implementation and certification of Environmental Management System (EMS) is very important for industries as it will help to remove many environmental related issues and for sustainable development. Environmental related issues play different role in developed and developing countries. Developed countries have set up their own environmental standards and regulations which should be fulfilled by industries of other countries to have business with them. Regulatory pressure play important role to save environment but other factors like customer awareness, competitor’s pressure, societal pressure etc. are also important. Environmental issues related to automotive sectors need appropriate investigations in developing countries. Various drivers which create pressure on companies to adopt EMS practices are identified by extensive literature review which is the main objective of this paper. It includes providing a background on related concepts, literature review on various environment related issues and the concluding remarks for this review to save environment to some extent.

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