Historical Messages in the Digital Medium

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
Roger Matuz ◽  
Nancy Godleski ◽  
Christine Ericson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Medium

Making the Most of the Internet for Failure Analysis

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan J. Bodoh
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Failure Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Optimization Theory ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Digital Production ◽  
Computer Monitors ◽  
And Storage

Abstract The growth of the Internet over the past four years provides the failure analyst with a new media for communicating his results. The new digital media offers significant advantages over analog publication of results. Digital production, distribution and storage of failure analysis results reduces copying costs and paper storage, and enhances the ability to search through old analyses. When published digitally, results reach the customer within minutes of finishing the report. Furthermore, images on the computer screen can be of significantly higher quality than images reproduced on paper. The advantages of the digital medium come at a price, however. Research has shown that employees can become less productive when replacing their analog methodologies with digital methodologies. Today's feature-filled software encourages "futzing," one cause of the productivity reduction. In addition, the quality of the images and ability to search the text can be compromised if the software or the analyst does not understand this digital medium. This paper describes a system that offers complete digital production, distribution and storage of failure analysis reports on the Internet. By design, this system reduces the futzing factor, enhances the ability to search the reports, and optimizes images for display on computer monitors. Because photographic images are so important to failure analysis, some digital image optimization theory is reviewed.

Effects of plasma atherogenic index and plasma osmolality on arteriovenous fistula patency in hemodialysis patients

2021 ◽  
pp. 112972982110118
Author(s):  
Cengiz Güven ◽  
Arda Aybars Pala ◽  
Yusuf Salim Urcun
Keyword(s):  
Renal Failure ◽  
Arteriovenous Fistula ◽  
Patency Rate ◽  
Fasting Blood Glucose ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Plasma Osmolality ◽  
Density Lipoprotein ◽  
Atherogenic Index ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Digital Medium

Background: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of Plasma atherogenic index (AIP) and plasma osmolality (PO) values on arteriovenous fistula (AVF) patency in patients with chronic renal failure. Methods: The patients with primary AVF between December 2012 and March 2020 with the diagnosis of end-stage renal disease in our clinic were included in the study. The patient data were collected retrospectively in digital medium. Diabetic patients were not included in the study. The Triglyceride (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), sodium (Na), fasting blood glucose, and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) values were found and recorded from the files. AIP and PO were calculated with special formulas. Fistula patency rate in 6th, 12th, and 24th months were evaluated in 2-year follow-ups. Results: According to the results of two-year follow-ups of the 162 patients, who underwent primary AVF, 21 (13%) patients were found to have thrombosis in the 6th month, 33 (20.4%) patients in the 12th month; however,141 (87%) and 129 (79.6%) patients actively used AVF in the 6th and 12th months, respectively. The AIP and PO values that were calculated in the patient group with AVF thrombosis were significantly higher ( p = 0.001, p < 0.001; respectively). In the multivariate logistic regression analysis, Na, BUN, and HDL-C variables were found to be independent predictive factors for AVF thrombosis (OR (Odds Ratio): 1.169, 95% CI (Confidence interval)): 1.056–1.294, p = 0.003; OR: 1.108, 95% CI: 1.043–1.176, p = 0.001; OR: 0.874, 95% CI: 0.820–0.932, p < 0.001; respectively). It was also found that the patency rate was 64.2% (104 patients) in the 24th month. Conclusion: AIP, PO, Na, and BUN values are positively associated with AVF thrombosis. Checking AIP, Na, and BUN values will be useful in patients with end-term renal failure, who already have difficulties in renal replacement methods and vascular access.

Is digital always better? Comparing two English print dictionaries with their digital counterparts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Ferrett ◽  
Stefan Dollinger
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Relevant Question ◽  
Market Leader ◽  
Oxford University Press

Abstract In this paper we discuss advantages and disadvantages of e-dictionaries over print dictionaries in order to answer one increasingly relevant question: is digital always better? We compare the e-content from Oxford University Press and Merriam-Webster flagship dictionaries against their most recent print counterparts. The resulting data shows that the move from print to digital, against popular perception, results in a loss of lexicographical detail and scope. After assessing the user-friendliness of the e-dictionaries’ sites in both desktop and mobile app formats, we conclude that Merriam-Webster currently utilizes the digital medium somewhat better, while Oxford University Press is the current market leader in collaborations with tech giants such as Google. Most crucially, however, both companies have yet to devise and implement optimal ways to balance advertising noise and lexicographical content. Finally, we compare the virtual popularity of e-dictionaries according to their social media efforts and product partnerships. The greatest problem e-dictionaries currently face is that content does routinely change in unspecified and even undocumented ways. Despite these significant disadvantages, the convenience of mobile online accessibility appears to outweigh the concern with the reliability and quality of content.

scholarly journals Greek Literature, the Digital Humanities, and the Shifting Technologies of Reading

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elton Barker ◽  
Melissa Terras
Keyword(s):  
Multispectral Imaging ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Greek Literature ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Digital Text ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Technological Developments

Contrary perhaps to expectation, Classical studies is at the vanguard of the latest technological developments for using digital tools and computational techniques in research. This article outlines its pioneering adoption of digital tools and methods, and investigates how the digital medium is helping to transform the study of Greek and Latin literature. It discusses the processes and consequences of digitization, explaining how technologies like multispectral imaging are increasing the textual corpus, while examining how annotation, engagement, and reuse are changing the way we think about “the text”. It also considers how the digital turn is reinvigorating textual analysis, by exploring the broader ecosystem, within which the digital text can now be studied, and which provides enriched contexts for understanding that are constantly shifting and expanding. Classical literature in the digital age has the potential to both challenge dominant modes of thinking about antiquity and disrupt traditional ways of doing research.

scholarly journals Poetic Publications Authored with Free Software Managana

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-230
Author(s):  
Álvaro Andrade Garcia ◽  
Lucas Santos Junqueira
Keyword(s):  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Digital Publication ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Linguistics

In the Ciclope atelier, what moves us is the creation of new languages for the digital medium. In this text I present a synthesis of our research and experimentation work: a free digital publishing software called Managana; the first poetry eBook authored with it, Grão [Grain], launched along with the software in 2012; and our latest release, Poemas de Brinquedo [Toy Poems], launched in 2016. Grain and Toy Poems are good examples of publications that use Managana. Resulting from prolonged research in dictionaries and linguistics’ texts, etymology and mythology, Grain proposes to recreate the world through the word. Its poems experiment the evolution of James Joyce’s verbivocovisual to the possible interanimaverbivocovisual in a digital publication. The application-book-performanceToy Poems is a publication that addresses the possibilities and difficulties of today’s transmedia poiesis.

scholarly journals Digital costume sketching through embodied awareness

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsi Manninen
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Costume Design ◽  
The Body ◽  
Digital Medium ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Initial Results

This article presents a method for costume design, where empathy and embodiment are used as methodological choices by the designer in the character-creation process. In creating references for the sketching process, costume designers combine photos in which they portray themselves as the character that they imagine. These role-selfies, taken with a handheld tablet, work as starting points for the sketching procedure. The material for the present study is collected from MA costume design students who participated in digital character-creation courses at Aalto University, in Helsinki, Finland, and is a part of doctoral research by the author. The data are collected through a mixed-method approach and is organized as a case study investigating the experiences of using the body as a source for costume design. The research question in this study is as follows: does an awareness of one’s own body facilitate the sketching process? The initial results show that the research participants consider the method useful because it enables them to experience a stronger bodily connection with the digital medium, the imagined design and the emerging character in the costume sketching process. Hence, the findings of this study can be used to develop design and teaching practices not only in the field of costume design but also in other design processes involving character creation.

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