scholarly journals Digital interfaces of historical newspapers: opportunities, restrictions and recommendations

2021 ◽  
Vol HistoInformatics (HistoInformatics) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Pfanzelter ◽  
Sarah Oberbichler ◽  
Jani Marjanen ◽  
Pierre-Carl Langlais ◽  
Stefan Hechl
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
International Audience ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Insight Into

International audience Many libraries offer free access to digitised historical newspapers via user interfaces. After an initial period of search and filter options as the only features, the availability of more advanced tools and the desire for more options among users has ushered in a period of interface development. However, this raises a number of open questions and challenges. For example, how can we provide interfaces for different user groups? What tools should be available on interfaces and how can we avoid too much complexity? What tools are helpful and how can we improve usability? This paper will not provide definite answers to these questions, but it gives an insight into the difficulties, challenges and risks of using interfaces to investigate historical newspapers. More importantly, it provides ideas and recommendations for the improvement of user interfaces and digital tools.

Agricultural Multifunctionality and Care Farming: Insight from the UK

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Paul Custance ◽  
Keith Walley ◽  
Gaynor Tate ◽  
Goksel Armagan
Keyword(s):  
Learning Material ◽  
Multifunctional Agriculture ◽  
Economic Support ◽  
International Audience ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Generic Points ◽  
Care Farming ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
Insight Into

The purpose of the article is to provide insight into care farming and the role that it may play in agriltural multifunctionality. The paper outlines three case studies of care farming in the UK to compare and contrast the roles that such organizations may play in multifunctional agriculture. Although the work has the obvious limitation of being based on case-study care farms that are based in the UK, the findings are sufficiently generic to serve as valuable learning material for those interested in the subject and located anywhere in the world. The main finding from this study is that care farming can take many different forms but still contribute to agricultural multifunctionality. The study also confirms the important roles that economic support and favourable legislation play in successful care farming. The paper concludes that care farming is a legitimate form of agricultural multifunctionality but reminds those interested in setting up or promoting care farms of the need for a supportive economic and legislative environment. The paper provides contemporary insight into the concept of care farming as a form of agricultural multifunctionality. A number of generic points are made that should be of value to an international audience of academics researching in this area as well as students studying care farming and agricultural multifunctionality, farmers considering diversifying into care farming and politicians working to create a political and economic environment that may support care farms.

scholarly journals MAUI (MBI Analysis User Interface)—An image processing pipeline for Multiplexed Mass Based Imaging

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. e1008887
Author(s):  
Alex Baranski ◽  
Idan Milo ◽  
Shirley Greenbaum ◽  
John-Paul Oliveria ◽  
Dunja Mrdjen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Parameter Tuning ◽  
Crosstalk Noise ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Imaging Artifacts ◽  
Cellular Phenotypes ◽  
Insight Into

Mass Based Imaging (MBI) technologies such as Multiplexed Ion Beam Imaging by time of flight (MIBI-TOF) and Imaging Mass Cytometry (IMC) allow for the simultaneous measurement of the expression levels of 40 or more proteins in biological tissue, providing insight into cellular phenotypes and organization in situ. Imaging artifacts, resulting from the sample, assay or instrumentation complicate downstream analyses and require correction by domain experts. Here, we present MBI Analysis User Interface (MAUI), a series of graphical user interfaces that facilitate this data pre-processing, including the removal of channel crosstalk, noise and antibody aggregates. Our software streamlines these steps and accelerates processing by enabling real-time and interactive parameter tuning across multiple images.

scholarly journals State higher vocational school libraries – an attempt at characterization on the basis of questionnaire survey

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
Jan Pojedyniec
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Private University ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
Free Access ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Home Pages ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Storage Area

Introduction: At present there are 36 state higher vocational schools in Poland. Each of them hosts a library, which is an indispensable element of the process of higher education. Aim of the study: The purpose of the study is to outline a characteristics of the academic libraries which have been functioning since the beginnings of state higher vocational schools in Poland.Material and methods: The basic method used was an analysis of a survey of 20 libraries that had responded to the survey (out of the 36 existing ones). The questionnaire contained both closed and open questions. The study included several self-chosen library activity areas and a few selected functionality indicators. Results: Most of the libraries surveyed share space with other university units. The prevailing use area is up to 100 thousand m2, with the storage area being up to 100 thousand volumes. All the libraries provide free access to shelves; 12 of them run science information centres. Using Internet home pages with a view to communicating with a reader is still not common. Formally, 13 libraries have created special departments , but none has had heads of the departments appointed. Only 3 libraries have had deputy directors appointed. A functionality indicator comparison has demonstrated that state higher vocational school libraries are very close to public university libraries; when compared to private university libraries, however, their results are very often higher.Conclusions: State higher vocational school libraries form a specific network of university libraries and fulfil similar tasks at the same time and at the same level as most academic libraries in Poland. Their specifics is indicated by less extensive organizational structure, smaller use and storage areas as well as non-autonomous budget implemented from the central level of a university

Writings on the City Wall

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nili Steinfeld ◽  
Azi Lev-On
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
City Wall ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

Municipality Facebook pages are significant social media arenas for maintaining contact between representatives and their constituencies. The authors use digital tools to collect and analyze some 24,000 posts from the Facebook pages of all Israeli municipalities in a six-month period. Following a purely automatic linguistic analysis of the texts of all posts published on the pages, this study moved to a manual coding of a sample of the most popular posts in the data in order to gain insight into the character of the discourse in these arenas; the actors; the format, type, and emotionality of the contents that attract the highest levels of engagement.

Brave New Digital Tools for Action Research in Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 42-64
Author(s):  
Reinhard Bauer ◽  
Klaus Himpsl-Gutermann ◽  
Martin Sankofi ◽  
Petra Szucsich ◽  
Ruth Petz
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

Due to the rapid development of digital media, the work of researchers in all scientific disciplines has dramatically changed. The objective of this chapter is to give a brief overview of digital tools that can be used for action or practice research in the context of seamless learning. It is the intention of the authors to, on the one hand, provide some initial orientation and deeper insight into the complex subject matter of digital science. On the other hand, researchers shall be equipped with a user guide that encourages them to try out various digital tools for searching, collecting, annotating, analyzing, visualizing, interpreting as well as publishing information. Owing to the dynamic nature of the issue under review this chapter will undoubtedly only offer a snapshot.

Meeting the Needs of Diverse User Groups

2011 ◽  
pp. 80-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gottfried Zimmermann ◽  
Jan Alexandersson ◽  
Cristina Buiza ◽  
Elena Urdaneta ◽  
Unai Diaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Anecdotal Evidence ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Implementation Support ◽  
European Project ◽  
Universal Control ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Service Control

“Pluggable user interfaces” is a software concept that facilitates adaptation and substitution of user interfaces and their components due to separation of the user interface from backend devices and services. Technically, the concept derives from abstract user interfaces, mainly in the context of device and service control. Abstract user interfaces have been claimed to support benefits such as ease of implementation, support for User Centered Design, seamless user interfaces, and ease of use. This paper reports on experiences in employing pluggable user interfaces in the European project i2home, based on the Universal Remote Console framework, and the Universal Control Hub architecture. In summary, our anecdotal evidence supports the claims on the benefits, but also identifies significant costs. The experience reports also include some hints as to how to mitigate the costs.

Dynamics of Intra-Party Organisation in the Digital Age: A Grassroots Analysis of Digital Adoption

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Dommett ◽  
Luke Temple ◽  
Patrick Seyd
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Party Organisation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Over recent decades, scholars have explored political parties’ adoption of digital technology. Tracing successive eras of change, scholarship has examined the degree to which digital disrupts or embeds traditional power structures—with many studies finding evidence of ‘controlled-interactivity’. In this article, we revisit debates around the adoption of digital tools from a bottom-up perspective. Moving beyond attempts to categorise elite strategies for digital adoption, we consider practices on the ground to document how, in practice, digital technology is being taken up and used. Using a case study of the UK Labour Party, we categorise a range of different practices, highlighting and theorising the presence of digital adherents, laggards, entrepreneurs, renegades and refuseniks. Discussing the drivers of these practices, we offer new insight into variations in digital adoption and consider the significance of these trends for our understanding of party organisation.

Planning Human Factors Engineering for Development of Implantable Medical Devices

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-160
Author(s):  
Maria Lund Jensen ◽  
Jayme Coates
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Implantable Devices ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Implantable Medical Devices ◽  
Life Cycle Stages ◽  
User Groups ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level

Development of implantable medical devices is becoming increasingly interesting for manufacturers, but identifying the right Human Factors Engineering (HFE) approach to ensure safe use and effectiveness is challenging. Most active implantable devices are highly complex; they are built on extremely advanced, compact technology, often comprise systems of several device elements and accessories, and they span various types of user interfaces which must facilitate diverse interaction performed by several different user groups throughout the lifetime of the device. Furthermore, since treatment with implantable devices is often vital and by definition involves surgical procedures, potential risks related to use error can be severe. A systematic mapping of Product System Elements and Life Cycle Stages can help early identification of Use Cases, and for example user groups and high-level use risks, to be accounted for via HFE throughout development to optimize Human Factors processes and patient outcomes. This paper presents a concrete matrix tool which can facilitate an early systematic approach to planning and frontloading of Human Factors Engineering activities in complex medical device development.

scholarly journals Use of a hydrologic mixing model to examine the roles of meltwater, precipitation and groundwater in the Langtang River basin, Nepal

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (71) ◽  
pp. 155-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alāna M. Wilson ◽  
Mark W. Williams ◽  
Rijan B. Kayastha ◽  
Adina Racoviteanu
Keyword(s):  
River Discharge ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Hydrograph Separation ◽  
Flow Paths ◽  
Isotopic Tracers ◽  
Glacier Melt ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Debris Cover ◽  
River Sample ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractUnderstanding the hydrology of glacierized catchments is an important step in assessing the vulnerability of water resources to a changing climate. While there have been increased efforts recently to understand the dynamics of Asia's cryosphere, glacier melt dynamics and hydrograph separation of river discharge are open questions. A multi-year, multi-seasonal dataset of water chemistry from the Langtang Valley, Nepal, is used to explore water sources and flow paths that contribute to Langtang River discharge. Differences in hydrochemistry of samples from debris-free Khimsung Glacier and debris-covered Lirung Glacier demonstrate the effect of debris cover on glacier outflow. Additional data show seasonal transitions in the composition of Langtang River discharge. End-member mixing analysis (EMMA) using geochemical and isotopic tracers suggests that reacted meltwater contributes the majority of flow during most of the year, with the exception of the summer when unreacted meltwater and precipitation dominate streamflow. We hypothesize our dataset is missing characteristic monsoon water and utilize a Late May river sample as a proxy for precipitation-influenced groundwater in the EMMA. Results offer insight into the plausibility of flow sources and pathways in the basin.

scholarly journals The theoretical molecular weight of NaYF4:RE upconversion nanoparticles

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis E. Mackenzie ◽  
Jack A. Goode ◽  
Alexandre Vakurov ◽  
Padmaja P. Nampi ◽  
Sikha Saha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Weight ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Crystal Phase ◽  
Diameter Distribution ◽  
Upconversion Nanoparticles ◽  
Cubic Crystal ◽  
First Time ◽  
Graphic User Interfaces ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractUpconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are utilized extensively for biomedical imaging, sensing, and therapeutic applications, yet the molecular weight of UCNPs has not previously been reported. We present a theory based upon the crystal structure of UCNPs to estimate the molecular weight of UCNPs: enabling insight into UCNP molecular weight for the first time. We estimate the theoretical molecular weight of various UCNPs reported in the literature, predicting that spherical NaYF4 UCNPs ~ 10 nm in diameter will be ~1 MDa (i.e. 106 g/mol), whereas UCNPs ~ 45 nm in diameter will be ~100 MDa (i.e. 108 g/mol). We also predict that hexagonal crystal phase UCNPs will be of greater molecular weight than cubic crystal phase UCNPs. Additionally we find that a Gaussian UCNP diameter distribution will correspond to a lognormal UCNP molecular weight distribution. Our approach could potentially be generalised to predict the molecular weight of other arbitrary crystalline nanoparticles: as such, we provide standalone graphic user interfaces to calculate the molecular weight both UCNPs and arbitrary crystalline nanoparticles. We expect knowledge of UCNP molecular weight to be of wide utility in biomedical applications where reporting UCNP quantity in absolute numbers or molarity will be beneficial for inter-study comparison and repeatability.

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