The application of new technologies to improve literacy among the general public and to promote informed decisions in genomics

2020 ◽  
pp. 130-147
Author(s):  
Serena Oliveri ◽  
Renato Mainetti ◽  
Ilaria Cutica ◽  
Alessandra Gorini ◽  
Gabriella Pravettoni
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Informed Decisions

Evaluation, Management, and Support

2012 ◽  
pp. 242-260
Author(s):  
Dane Conrad
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
End User ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Informed Decisions ◽  
Technology Leaders ◽  
Support Evaluation ◽  
Technology Systems

A technology leader’s day-to-day responsibilities and tasks can be divided into three basic categories: evaluation, management, and support. Evaluation involves making informed decisions and planning tasks when considering new technologies. Management not only maintains the infrastructure of technology systems, but also the data that flows through the system. Finally, support covers the responsibilities related to customer service for the technology leaders’ end-user environment. Each category poses a unique challenge to technology leaders and requires them to be both adaptable and consistent. This chapter explores these three areas giving detailed insights into topics and concerns within each.

Study on Different Graphic Representations in Architectural Heritage

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-205
Author(s):  
José T. Garfella-Rubio ◽  
Jesús Máñez-Pitarch ◽  
Joaquín A. Martínez-Moya ◽  
Jaume Gual-Ortí
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
General Public ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Digital Representations ◽  
Graphic Representations ◽  
3D Scanners

In recent years, cutting-edge methods have emerged to gradually replace or be used with traditional methods to carry out graphic surveys of architectural heritage; modern topographic tools such as 3D scanners and specific software. In addition, the new technologies of additive printing and three-dimensional digital representations has made architectural heritage more accessible to the general public. The main objective of this study was to conduct an analysis of each of the methods, to determine their advantages and disadvantages, as well as to carry out a comparative study of the results obtained with each of them.

TWEET DATA EXTRACTOR FOR CREATING A TWITTER TRAFFIC MAP MASHUP

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirul Afif Jasmi ◽  
Mohamad Hafis Izran Ishak ◽  
Nurul Hawani Idris
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Transportation Planning ◽  
General Public ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Road ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Road Users ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Over recent years, there has been a growth of interest in the use of social media including Facebook and Twitter by the authorities to share and updates current information to the general public. The technology has been used for a variety of purposes including traffic control and transportation planning. There is a concern that the use of new technologies, including social media will lead to data abundance that requires effective operational resources to interpret the big data. This paper proposes a tweet data extractor to extract the traffic tweet by the authority and visualise the reports and mash up on top of online map, namely Twitter map. Visualisation of traffic tweet on a map could assist a user to effectively interpret the text based Twitter report by a location based map viewer. Hence, it could ease the process of planning itinerary by the road users. 

How to Reach Technological Early Adopters? An Empirical Analysis of Early Adopters’ Internet Usage Behavior in Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050010
Author(s):  
Riccardo Reith ◽  
Maximilian Fischer ◽  
Bettina Lis
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
General Public ◽  
Diffusion Of Innovations ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Usage Behavior

Early adopters (EAs) represent a crucial group of consumers in the diffusion of innovations. Therefore, reaching potential technological EAs for up-and-coming innovations is of vital importance. However, little is known as to how potential EAs for new technologies use the Internet. Our study examines the Internet usage of EAs in comparison to the general public and gives an overview of 15 different channels. Consequently, we classified EAs and analyzed a vast set of data containing 119[Formula: see text]829 subjects. The results demonstrate significant differences between EAs and the remaining population and offer marketers new insights into EAs’ Internet usage behavior.

scholarly journals Do Developing Countries need Astronomy?

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Philippe Eenens
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Young People ◽  
General Public ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Scientific Education ◽  
Scientific Careers ◽  
International Collaborations

AbstractAstronomy can help, directly or indirectly, in the acquisition and creation of new technologies, in attracting young people to scientific careers, in providing a scientific education to the general public and in fostering international collaborations. These and other benefits of professional astronomy are critically reviewed in the context of countries which are facing urgent, basic needs. Several criteria are suggested for the best implementation of astronomy in developing countries and the most efficient collaboration with industrialized countries.

Quality of Life: Erosions and Opportunities Under Managed Care

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Haavi Morreim
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Managed Care ◽  
Functional Status ◽  
General Public ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Disease Specific

In recent years a number of commentators have discussed the importance of measuring quality of life (QL) in health care. We want to know whether an intervention will help people to live better, not just longer, and whether some treatments cause more trouble than they are worth. New technologies promise wondrous benefits. But when millions of people have no insured access to health care, and when many others face increasingly stringent limits on care, technologies’ high costs require us to choose what we should do from the broader universe of what we can do.The challenges to measuring QL are formidable. Researchers debate whether to measure general QL or disease-specific QL; whether to focus on functional status such as the patient's ability to walk and dress himself, or on the value people ascribe to that functional status; whether to seek the values of the general public, or to concentrate on people actually affected by a given disease or disability.

scholarly journals Archaeology, Politics, Entertainment and Dialogue: Polish (Digital) Public Archaeology

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja Piślewska
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Economic

The following article addresses notions of communication of archaeology and communication between archaeology and society in Poland—past and present. The examination of these two issues begins with a presentation of their historical background, rooted in a political, economic and sociological context. Through reaching back to the past of the Polish state some trends in presenting archaeology to the public can be easily traced. Particular ways of communicating archaeology to the general public are deeply connected with tradition and the wider social and political context, all of which have an undoubtful impact on the reception and perception of archaeology—as a science and as a profession. New technologies, through which communication between archaeologists and society takes place, are definitely used in Poland nowadays, however, the ways in which information is constructed should refer to the existing experience. What should be found is some common ground on which new technologies and traditional ideas of presentation of archaeology could work together and create the most efficient presentation.

scholarly journals Dissemination of digital educational content: experiences with the Digital Library of Sciences (BDC), YouTube and App stores

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Eduardo Galembeck
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
General Public ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Educational Content ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Content Dissemination ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Poster Sessions ◽  
Information And Communication

The publication of online digital content is a practice that is growing in importance in the academic world. The dissemination of academic production in an accessible way, in media that go beyond the specialized journals, is a powerful way of approximating the universities with the general public. Committed in the production of digital content aimed at Teaching Biochemistry since the end of the 90s, I had the opportunity to try different ways of disseminating these contents. In this presentation will be traced a timeline of the development of the technologies we use in the publication of digital content dissemination, starting from the first diskette given with software to three or four people interested in software presented in the SBBq's poster sessions during the 90s, to the distribution of online content at BDC, App stores and Youtube that reach over 1 million downloads and spread such content across the globe. The new technologies of information and communication have not only been effective to spread knowledge, but it has now allowing to understand how it has been used by the following their trace.

Multi-Messaging and Multimodalities for Online Learning Contents and Digital Leave Behinds

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-136
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Instructional Design ◽  
General Public ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
Event Sequence ◽  
Informed Decisions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Main Ideas

“Online learning contents” for online learning tend towards complexity (and multi-messaging) and may instantiate in different modalities (a variety of analog and digital). “Digital leave behinds” are learning contents that are hosted on websites or repositories or other spaces and are used as part of a post-learning or post-event sequence to help learners refresh on their main ideas, make informed decisions, and advance their knowledge, skills, and abilities/attitudes (KSAs). These digital leave behinds may also be used as stand-alone learning contents usable by the general public, even if the users were not part of the original formal learning or event. These objects must be as comprehensive as possible and practical in application. This work describes the uses of visual instructional design for the creation of multi-messaged and multi-modal (1) learning contents and (2) digital leave behinds.

scholarly journals HERITAGE SURVEY AND SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF THE WATCHTOWERS THAT DEFENDED THE LAST ISLAMIC KINGDOM IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA (THIRTEEN TO FIFETEENTH CENTURY)

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W5 ◽  
pp. 259-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J. García-Pulido ◽  
J. Ruiz Jaramillo ◽  
M. I. Alba Dorado
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
General Public ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Military Architecture ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Structural Capacity ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Information And Communication

The Islamic Nasrid kingdom of Granada occupied the mountainous areas of the southeastern area of the Iberian Peninsula. There, a natural border was established between the Nasrid kingdom and the Christian kingdom of Castile from 1232 to 1492. To control this frontier and establish visual communication between it and the Nasrid center at the Alhambra citadel, an extensive network of watchtowers and defensive towers was constructed.<br><br> Studies have been done of individual towers, but no comparative study has been undertaken of all of them. Graphic, homogenous, and exhaustively planimetric documentation would bring together existing information on the majority of them and enable comparative analysis. For this reason, this work conducts systematic architectural surveys of all these military structures, using photogrammetry.<br><br> In addition to studying the construction typology and techniques, the structural capacity of these towers has been analyzed. It examines how they have been affected by human and natural destructive forces, especially earthquakes, which are common in eastern Andalusia. Although all the historical military architecture is protected by the Spanish and Andalusian Heritage laws, many of these medieval towers and their cultural landscapes are in severe risk.<br><br> The towers are being studied as individual specimens (emphasizing their differences) and as a unit in a typological group (looking for similarities and unifying characteristics). New technologies for Information and Communication are being used in order to disseminate the results among specialists and to make them available to the general public. Guidelines for restoration projects are also being formulated from the cases analyzed.

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