scholarly journals Corrigendum: Large-Scale Urban Prototyping for Responsive Cities: A Conceptual Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Buš
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Large Scale

scholarly journals How Tour Guides’ Professional Competencies Influence on Service Quality of Tour Guiding and Tourist Satisfaction: An Exploratory Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Chien Lin ◽  
Mei-Lan Lin ◽  
Yi-Cheng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Partial Least Squares ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Tourist Satisfaction

Drawing upon the theoretical perspectives from activity competency model and prior tourism literature, this study propose a conceptual framework to explain the impacts of professional competencies on service quality and tourist satisfaction. Empirical data were gathered from a large-scale online survey with experienced GPT tourists to test the proposed hypotheses and research model. The proposed conceptual framework was validated using the partial least squares (PLS) technique. Data gathered from tourists was based on a convenience sample of 345 respondents to test the proposed plausible hypotheses. The conceptual model was validated using the partial least squares (PLS) technique. The empirical results indicate that tour guides’ professional competencies significantly impact on service quality and tourist satisfaction; and tour guides’ service quality positively influences tourist satisfaction.

scholarly journals A conceptual framework for large-scale ecosystem interoperability and industrial product lifecycles

2017 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 85-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Selway ◽  
Markus Stumptner ◽  
Wolfgang Mayer ◽  
Andreas Jordan ◽  
Georg Grossmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Industrial Product

A Conceptual Framework for Allocation of Federally Stockpiled Ventilators During Large-Scale Public Health Emergencies

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Zaza ◽  
Lisa M. Koonin ◽  
Adebola Ajao ◽  
Scott V. Nystrom ◽  
Richard Branson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Health Emergencies

Toward a quantitative description of large-scale neocortical dynamic function and EEG

2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul L. Nunez
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Global Dynamics ◽  
Global Mode ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Decay Times ◽  
Neocortical Dynamics ◽  
Brain States

A general conceptual framework for large-scale neocortical dynamics based on data from many laboratories is applied to a variety of experimental designs, spatial scales, and brain states. Partly distinct, but interacting local processes (e.g., neural networks) arise from functional segregation. Global processes arise from functional integration and can facilitate (top down) synchronous activity in remote cell groups that function simultaneously at several different spatial scales. Simultaneous local processes may help drive (bottom up) macroscopic global dynamics observed with electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG).A local/global dynamic theory that is consistent with EEG data and the proposed conceptual framework is outlined. This theory is neutral about properties of neural networks embedded in macroscopic fields, but its global component makes several qualitative and semiquantitative predictions about EEG measures of traveling and standing wave phenomena. A more general “metatheory” suggests what large-scale quantitative theories of neocortical dynamics may be like when more accurate treatment of local and nonlinear effects is achieved.The theory describes the dynamics of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic action fields. EEG and MEG provide large-scale estimates of modulation of these synaptic fields around background levels. Brain states are determined by neuromodulatory control parameters. Purely local states are dominated by local feedback gains and rise and decay times of postsynaptic potentials. Dominant local frequencies vary with brain region. Other states are purely global, with moderate to high coherence over large distances. Multiple global mode frequencies arise from a combination of delays in corticocortical axons and neocortical boundary conditions. Global frequencies are identical in all cortical regions, but most states involve dynamic interactions between local networks and the global system. EEG frequencies may involve a “matching” of local resonant frequencies with one or more of the many, closely spaced global frequencies.

scholarly journals From prosumer to prodesigner: Participatory news consumption

Comunicar ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (50) ◽  
pp. 77-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
María-José Hernández-Serrano ◽  
Paula Renés-Arellano ◽  
Gary Graham ◽  
Anita Greenhill
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
News Production ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Industry ◽  
Social Logic

New democratic participation forms and collaborative productions of diverse audiences have emerged as a result of digital innovations in the online access to and consumption of news. The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework based on the possibilities of Web 2.0. Outlining the construction of a “social logic”, which combines computer and communicative logics, the conceptual framework is theoretically built to explore the evolution of news consumption from a pure circulation of designed products towards a global conversation of proactive news designers. Then, the framework was tested using an empirical database built by the Pew Research Centre, which investigates the future of the news industry, through a large-scale survey with adults. Results show significant differences (by age, gender and educational level) in the forms of participation, access and consumption of news. However, whilst immersed in the culture of Web 2.0 there is a low-level of user participation in news production; far from being proactive news designers, findings suggest that citizens are still located in the lower participatory levels of our conceptual framework. Conclusions suggest there is a need for media education providers to carry out training initiatives according to the social logic possibilities through proposed guidelines. Nuevas formas de participación democrática y producciones colaborativas de audiencias diversas han surgido como resultado de las innovaciones digitales en el acceso y consumo de noticias. El objetivo de este estudio es proponer un marco conceptual basado en las posibilidades de la Web 2.0. Describiendo la construcción de una «lógica social», que se combina con las lógicas comunicativa y computacional, se construye el marco teórico para explorar la evolución en el consumo de noticias desde una mera circulación de productos diseñados, hacia una conversación global de diseñadores proactivos de noticias. Este marco teórico se ha testeado a través de una base de datos empírica del Instituto de investigación PEW, que mediante una encuesta con adultos a gran escala permite analizar el futuro de la industria de las noticias. Los resultados muestran diferencias significativas (por edad, sexo y nivel educativo) en las formas de participación, acceso y consumo de noticias. Aunque existe una cultura Web 2.0, hay un bajo nivel de participación de usuarios en la producción de noticias; lejos de ser diseñadores proactivos de noticias, los hallazgos sugieren que la mayoría de ciudadanos se sitúan en los niveles de participación más bajos del marco conceptual propuesto. Se concluye sugiriendo la necesidad de que los responsables de la educación en medios desarrollen iniciativas formativas acordes a las posibilidades de la lógica social a través de la propuesta de pautas.

scholarly journals Developing HL7 CDA-Based Data Warehouse for the Use of Electronic Health Record Data for Secondary Purposes

ACI Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. e44-e62
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Pecoraro ◽  
Daniela Luzi ◽  
Fabrizio L. Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Heterogeneous Systems ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Electronic Health Record Data ◽  
Health Level 7 ◽  
Electronic Health ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
Definition Of

Background The growing availability of clinical and administrative data collected in electronic health records (EHRs) have led researchers and policy makers to implement data warehouses to improve the reuse of EHR data for secondary purposes. This approach can take advantages from a unique source of information that collects data from providers across multiple organizations. Moreover, the development of a data warehouse benefits from the standards adopted to exchange data provided by heterogeneous systems. Objective This article aims to design and implement a conceptual framework that semiautomatically extracts information collected in Health Level 7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) documents stored in an EHR and transforms them to be loaded in a target data warehouse. Results The solution adopted in this article supports the integration of the EHR as an operational data store in a data warehouse infrastructure. Moreover, data structure of EHR clinical documents and the data warehouse modeling schemas are analyzed to define a semiautomatic framework that maps the primitives of the CDA with the concepts of the dimensional model. The case study successfully tests this approach. Conclusion The proposed solution guarantees data quality using structured documents already integrated in a large-scale infrastructure, with a timely updated information flow. It ensures data integrity and consistency and has the advantage to be based on a sample size that covers a broad target population. Moreover, the use of CDAs simplifies the definition of extract, transform, and load tools through the adoption of a conceptual framework that load the information stored in the CDA in the data warehouse.

Efficient conceptual framework to quantify flow uncertainty in large-scale, highly nonstationary groundwater systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 381 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 297-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuen-Fa Ni ◽  
Shu-Guang Li ◽  
Chien-Jung Liu ◽  
Shaohua Marko Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Groundwater Systems
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