A Practical Application of TrimCloud

The current educational technologies in developing countries are not always successfully implemented and utilized due to infrastructure limitations, such as limited resources, limited training in educational technologies, and the unrealized potential usefulness of these technologies. Using an effective and relevant educational technology will efficiently maximize the use of the limited resources available to schools in developing countries in order to provide a larger outreach and increase access to up-to-date information and useful electronic resources. Thus, the authors propose TrimCloud as an alternative educational technology to help rebuild the education system and encourage innovation and development in developing countries. TrimCloud is an open-source virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that is offered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) and a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS). In this paper, the authors examine possible solutions to issues plaguing the educational environment in developing countries by using TrimCloud at the primary, secondary, university/higher education, and administration levels. They propose the use of refurbished legacy systems as the alternative hardware source for using TrimCloud as an educational technology, which will also aid to alleviate the “e-waste dump” problem. Lastly, the authors explore further network enhancements to TrimCloud that will provide a reliable and robust option for developing countries.

Download Full-text

E-learning and its applications in the educational environment An analytical view of the reality and ambition of educational technology

Journal of Distance Learning and Open Learning ◽

10.21608/jdlol.2019.74251 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (12) ◽

pp. 11-66

Author(s):

Raeed AltaeeD

Keyword(s):

Educational Technology ◽

Educational Environment ◽

E Learning

Download Full-text

Enabling Green IT through Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

2012 Eighth International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids ◽

10.1109/skg.2012.29 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Don-Anthony Dasilva ◽

Lu Liu ◽

Nik Bessis ◽

Yongzhao Zhan

Keyword(s):

Green It ◽

Virtual Desktop ◽

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Download Full-text

A Process Approach to Educational Systems Design

Journal of Educational Technology Systems ◽

10.2190/yyte-5ec3-81en-7hl1 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 185-204

Author(s):

Donald W. Meals

Keyword(s):

Educational Technology ◽

Education System ◽

Iterative Process ◽

Systems Design ◽

Educational Environment ◽

Process Approach ◽

Educational Systems ◽

Dynamic Quality ◽

Technology Systems

An examination of the steps in systems design reveals it to be an iterative process. The complexity and dynamic quality of the educational environment require designers of educational technology systems to emphasize this process and at the same time take into account conditions within the education system and the community that provide essential data. Examples of attempts to cope with these features of the design processes are presented along with implications for changes in the approach to the design of educational technology systems.

Download Full-text

The Implementation of a GPU-Accelerated Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Platform

2017 International Conference on Green Informatics (ICGI) ◽

10.1109/icgi.2017.42 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jheng-Yue Li ◽

Chan-Fu Kuo ◽

Yuan-Ting Wang ◽

Ching-Fang Lee ◽

Tzu-Yang Chen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Virtual Desktop ◽

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Download Full-text

Analysis of a Secure Virtual Desktop Infrastructure System

International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics ◽

10.4018/ijdcf.2015010104 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 69-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Yi Jie Tong ◽

Wei Qi Yan ◽

Jin Yu

Keyword(s):

Information Security ◽

Data Storage ◽

Storage Capacity ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Energy Costs ◽

Campus Network ◽

Effective Solution ◽

Virtual Desktop ◽

Infrastructure System ◽

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

With an increasing number of personal computers introduced in schools, enterprises and other large organizations, workloads of system administrators have been on the rise due to the issues related to energy costs, IT expenses, PC replacement expenditures, data storage capacity, and information security, etc. However, Application Virtualization (AV) has been proved as a successful cost-effective solution to solve these problems. In this paper, the analytics of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) system will be taken into consideration for a campus network. Our developed system will be introduced and justified. Furthermore, the rationality for these improvements will be introduced.

Download Full-text

Innovations in Educational Technologies in the Training of Personnel for the Tourism and Hospitality Industry

Uchenye Zapiski RGSU ◽

10.17922/2071-5323-2021-20-2-97-104 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 97-104

Author(s):

Vladimir V. Zelenov ◽

◽

Vladislav V. Galstyan ◽

Anastasia V. Gorbachevskaya ◽

◽

...

Keyword(s):

Hospitality Industry ◽

New Technologies ◽

Educational Environment ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Educational Technologies ◽

Literary Sources ◽

Tourism And Hospitality Industry ◽

Tourism And Hospitality ◽

Training Of Personnel ◽

Descriptive Method

The article discusses and summarizes the features of the application of innovative technologies and methods in the educational environment for the training of specialists for the tourism and hospitality industry. The methodology of the study of this issue was the analysis of literary sources of domestic authors, the synthesis of the acquired knowledge and the use of the descriptive method. Results: the tourism industry is one of the priority sectors of development, it is necessary to use new technologies in the educational environment.

Download Full-text

Consensus for Treatment of Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer: Report From the First Global Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference for Developing Countries (PCCCDC)

JCO Global Oncology ◽

10.1200/go.20.00505 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 550-558

Author(s):

Fernando Cotait Maluf ◽

Felipe Moraes Toledo Pereira ◽

Pedro Luiz Serrano Uson ◽

Diogo Assed Bastos ◽

Diogo Augusto Rodrigues da Rosa ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Prostate Cancer ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Androgen Deprivation Therapy ◽

Best Practice ◽

Specific Antigen ◽

Limited Resource ◽

Consensus Conference ◽

Androgen Deprivation ◽

Limited Resources ◽

Resource Limited

PURPOSE International guideline recommendations may not always be extrapolated to developing countries where access to resources is limited. In metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC), there have been successful drug and imaging advancements that were addressed in the Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference for Developing Countries for best-practice and limited-resource scenarios. METHODS A total of 24 out of 300 questions addressed staging, treatment, and follow-up for patients with mCSPC both in best-practice settings and resource-limited settings. Responses were compiled and presented in percentage of clinicians supporting each response. Questions had 4-8 options for response. RESULTS Recommendations for staging in mCSPC were split but there was consensus that chest x-ray, abdominal and pelvic computed tomography, and bone scan should be used where resources are limited. In both de novo and relapsed low-volume mCSPC, orchiectomy alone in limited resources was favored and in relapsed high-volume disease, androgen deprivation therapy plus docetaxel in limited resources and androgen deprivation therapy plus abiraterone in high-resource settings were consensus. A 3-weekly regimen of docetaxel was consensus among voters. When using abiraterone, a regimen of 1,000 mg plus prednisone 5 mg/d is optimal, but in limited-resource settings, half the panel agreed that abiraterone 250 mg with fatty foods plus prednisone 5 mg/d is acceptable. The panel recommended against the use of osteoclast-targeted therapy to prevent osseous complications. There was consensus that monitoring of patients undergoing systemic treatment should only be conducted in case of prostate-specific antigen elevation or progression-suggestive symptoms. CONCLUSION The treatment recommendations for most topics addressed differed between the best-practice setting and resource-limited setting, accentuating the need for high-quality evidence that contemplates the effect of limited resources on the management of mCSPC.

Download Full-text

Consensus on Treatment and Follow-Up for Biochemical Recurrence in Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer: A Report From the First Global Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference for Developing Countries

JCO Global Oncology ◽

10.1200/go.20.00508 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 538-544

Author(s):

Fernando S. M. Monteiro ◽

Fabio A. Schutz ◽

Igor A. P. Morbeck ◽

Diogo A. Bastos ◽

Fernando V. de Padua ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Prostate Cancer ◽

Developing Countries ◽

Biochemical Recurrence ◽

Specific Antigen ◽

Consensus Conference ◽

Limited Resources ◽

Response Options ◽

Recommended Treatment ◽

Clinical Scenarios

PURPOSE To present a summary of the treatment and follow-up recommendations for the biochemical recurrence in castration-sensitive prostate cancer (PCa) acquired through a questionnaire administered to 99 PCa experts from developing countries during the Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference for Developing Countries. METHODS A total of 27 questions were identified as related to this topic from more than 300 questions. The clinician's responses were tallied and presented in a percentage format. Topics included the use of imaging for staging biochemical recurrence, treatment recommendations for three different clinical scenarios, the field of radiation recommended, and follow-up. Each question had 5-7 relevant response options, including “abstain” and/or “unqualified to answer,” and investigated not only recommendations but also if a limitation in resources would change the recommendation. RESULTS For most questions, a clear majority (> 50%) of clinicians agreed on a recommended treatment for imaging, treatment scenarios, and follow-up, although only a few topics reached a consensus > 75%. Limited resources did affect several areas of treatment, although in many cases, they reinforced more stringent criteria for treatment such as prostate-specific antigen values > 0.2 ng/mL and STAMPEDE inclusion criteria as a basis for recommending treatment. CONCLUSION A majority of clinicians working in developing countries with limited resources use similar cutoff points and selection criteria to manage patients treated for biochemically recurrent castration-sensitive PCa.

Download Full-text

Software Asset Re-Use

Software Reuse in the Emerging Cloud Computing Era ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-0897-9.ch001 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 1-27

Author(s):

Richard Millham

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Software As A Service ◽

Legacy Systems ◽

Computing Environment ◽

Migration Process ◽

Legacy System ◽

Cloud Computing Environment ◽

Data Intensive ◽

System Migration ◽

The Web

In this chapter, the author examines the migration process of a legacy system, as a software-as-a-service model, to the Web, and he looks at some of the reasons that drive this legacy system migration. As migration is often a multi-step process, depending on the legacy system being migrated, the author outlines several techniques and transformations for each step of the migration process in order to enable legacy systems, of different types, to be migrated to the cloud. Of particular interest are the different methods to handle data-intensive legacy systems to enable them to function in a cloud computing environment with reduced bandwidth. Unlike the migration of an unstructured legacy system to a locally-distributed desktop system, system migration to a cloud computing environment poses some unique challenges such as restricted bandwidth, scalability, and security. Part of this migration process is adapting the transformed legacy system to be able to function in such an environment. At the end of the chapter, several small case studies of legacy systems, each of a different nature successfully migrated to the cloud, will be given.

Download Full-text