A Novel Approach for Developing Web Blog APP

The main aim of this project is to provide data to students in only one site. Students can gather the information from one site as well as give their feedback and create their own blog. Students can post their views and thought and analyse themselves. Besides all such core functionalities, the application also includes features like FAQ, request, feedback etc. so as to provide a satisfactory user experience. The homepage will list all blog posts, and there will be a dedicated detail page for each individual post. A blog is a great addition to any personal portfolio site. Whether you update it monthly or weekly, it’s a great place to share your knowledge as you learn. If user wants to access database and want to post a blog they have to sign in that they have created. In this section, you’re going to build a fully functioning blog that will allow you to perform the following tasks like create, update, and delete blog posts, display posts to the user as either an index view or a detail view and assign categories to posts and allow users to comment on posts.

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User eXperience (UX) Evaluation for MR Cultural Applications: The CEMEC Holographic Showcases in European Museums

Applied System Innovation ◽

10.3390/asi4040092 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 92

Author(s):

Alfonsina Pagano ◽

Eva Pietroni ◽

Daniele Ferdani ◽

Enzo d’Annibale

Keyword(s):

User Experience ◽

Mixed Reality ◽

Evaluation Model ◽

Educational Impact ◽

Cultural Backgrounds ◽

Great Opportunity ◽

Museum Visitors ◽

Effective Evaluation ◽

Novel Approach ◽

The Eu

Within the EU CEMEC project framework, a novel approach for using holographic showcases in museums has been conceived and experimented upon in different venues in the context of an itinerant exhibition dealing with Early Medieval European collections. The purpose of this holographic showcase, the so-called “box of stories”, is to improve the link and interaction between real and virtual contents in the museum’s context, making the exhibited object “alive” in the visitors’ perception. An Avar sword and a Byzantine treasure have been used as the main case studies, and they have been experienced in the museums of several European regions by audiences with different cultural backgrounds. This has been a great opportunity to carry out user experience (UX) evaluations in order to collect feedback (from about 600 museum visitors) regarding the attractiveness of such a mixed reality (MR) system, its usability, the comprehension of the contents, the efficacy of the logistics and environmental conditions, as well as the educational impact. The results of such inquiries helped the CNR ISPC team to identify the most meaningful User eXperience Analytics (UXA) able to support the work of UX evaluators and UX designers to assess the efficacy of digital cultural products. Indeed, this manuscript presents UXA and tries to draft a concrete and effective evaluation model for future digital projects for museum contexts.

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MP35: The CanadiEM Junior Editor Program: Integrating medical students and junior residents into a dedicated FOAMed training program

CJEM ◽

10.1017/cem.2017.201 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 19 (S1) ◽

pp. S77

Author(s):

M. Bravo ◽

R. Carey ◽

D. Nguyen-Dinh ◽

T.M. Chan ◽

B. Thoma

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Medical Students ◽

Medical Knowledge ◽

Online Training ◽

Management Skills ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Senior Editor ◽

Junior Residents ◽

Online Group ◽

Blog Posts

Introduction/Innovation Concept: Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM) is a rapidly emerging medium for the dissemination of medical knowledge, especially in Emergency Medicine. However, the most contributors to FOAM are EM attendings who write on established platforms which they also maintain. EM learners have difficulty breaking into this quickly evolving field. In an effort to encourage FOAM involvement of trainees early in their careers, CanadiEM recruited 10 junior residents and medical students with the purpose of developing the skills necessary to contribute to FOAM. These Junior Editors actively participate in the blog workflow, developing writing, editorial, and management skills necessary to operate a high-traffic EM website. Methods: Potential candidates were recruited by placing an advertisement and application on the CanadiEM website. 10 medical students or junior residents were invited to online group video interviews and were all accepted as Junior Editors (JE). Senior CanadiEM staff held online training sessions for all new JEs on how to use Wordpress to create, edit and publish posts, as well as basics in Search Engine Optimization. The junior editors collaboratively developed an instructional document containing the information they learned during these sessions. JEs then volunteered for editorial jobs via an online messaging system (Slack) as they became available. After uploading the draft of each post, the final products are reviewed by senior Editor and feedback was given to each JE. Curriculum, Tool, or Material: All JEs have learned to use the Wordpress blogging platform to create, edit, and upload posts; optimize blog posts for search engines. Following their own interests, some JEs have also learned to edit podcasts, promote the blog on social media resources (Twitter and Facebook), create infographics, and copy-edit blog posts. Conclusion: After 8 months, the JE program has yielded 6 very active editors who maintain a strong blog workflow, have well-developed social media skills, and are actively involved in developing their own content for future posts. The JE program is a strong pathway to introduce medical trainees to both the technical and creative aspects of FOAM and serves as a novel approach to transition students from passive utilization of online content to active contributors.

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Virtual Clay Prototyping System – A Framework for Real-Time Modeling

International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE) ◽

10.3991/ijoe.v11i5.4798 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 24

Author(s):

Qi Bin ◽

Sun Xiao Ming ◽

Pei Eujin ◽

Liu Bing Jian

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

User Experience ◽

Force Feedback ◽

Virtual Prototyping ◽

Physical Modelling ◽

Data Conversion ◽

System A ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Time Modeling ◽

Modelling Environment

In order to provide users a real-time force-feedback immersive virtual modelling environment, powerful computing capabilities are often needed. As this potentially results in a calculation bottleneck, virtual modelling scenes are often delayed and resulting in a poor user experience. In this paper, the authors present a novel approach to improve the calculation speed for the volume pixel (voxel) amount of force feedback generated based on the amount of pressure exerted on the ‘virtual material’ per unit time. Results from the experiments reveal that this approach required less computing power, thereby offering a better user experience. This has been confirmed through a series of trials that investigated the amount of time students spent during sketching, physical modelling and virtual prototyping. Results found that the remapped virtual prototyping method was more effective than physical model in productivity in terms of time, and efficiency in terms of data conversion.

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Copper-dependent ATP7B up-regulation drives the resistance of TMEM16A-overexpressing head-and-neck cancer models to platinum toxicity

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bcj20190591 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 476 (24) ◽

pp. 3705-3719 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Avani Vyas ◽

Umamaheswar Duvvuri ◽

Kirill Kiselyov

Keyword(s):

Oxidative Stress ◽

Head And Neck ◽

Transcriptional Activation ◽

Platinum Resistance ◽

Mrna Levels ◽

Strong Positive Correlation ◽

Platinum Compounds ◽

Copper Chelation ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Cancer Models

Platinum-containing drugs such as cisplatin and carboplatin are routinely used for the treatment of many solid tumors including squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN). However, SCCHN resistance to platinum compounds is well documented. The resistance to platinum has been linked to the activity of divalent transporter ATP7B, which pumps platinum from the cytoplasm into lysosomes, decreasing its concentration in the cytoplasm. Several cancer models show increased expression of ATP7B; however, the reason for such an increase is not known. Here we show a strong positive correlation between mRNA levels of TMEM16A and ATP7B in human SCCHN tumors. TMEM16A overexpression and depletion in SCCHN cell lines caused parallel changes in the ATP7B mRNA levels. The ATP7B increase in TMEM16A-overexpressing cells was reversed by suppression of NADPH oxidase 2 (NOX2), by the antioxidant N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC) and by copper chelation using cuprizone and bathocuproine sulphonate (BCS). Pretreatment with either chelator significantly increased cisplatin's sensitivity, particularly in the context of TMEM16A overexpression. We propose that increased oxidative stress in TMEM16A-overexpressing cells liberates the chelated copper in the cytoplasm, leading to the transcriptional activation of ATP7B expression. This, in turn, decreases the efficacy of platinum compounds by promoting their vesicular sequestration. We think that such a new explanation of the mechanism of SCCHN tumors’ platinum resistance identifies novel approach to treating these tumors.

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Collecting Words: A Clinical Example of a Morphology-Focused Orthographic Intervention

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/2020_lshss-19-00050 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 51 (3) ◽

pp. 544-560 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kimberly A. Murphy ◽

Emily A. Diehm

Keyword(s):

Written Language ◽

Morphological Knowledge ◽

English Orthography ◽

Word Level ◽

Novel Approach ◽

Language Pathology ◽

The One ◽

Critical Intervention ◽

Reading And Spelling ◽

Reading And Spelling Difficulties

Purpose Morphological interventions promote gains in morphological knowledge and in other oral and written language skills (e.g., phonological awareness, vocabulary, reading, and spelling), yet we have a limited understanding of critical intervention features. In this clinical focus article, we describe a relatively novel approach to teaching morphology that considers its role as the key organizing principle of English orthography. We also present a clinical example of such an intervention delivered during a summer camp at a university speech and hearing clinic. Method Graduate speech-language pathology students provided a 6-week morphology-focused orthographic intervention to children in first through fourth grade ( n = 10) who demonstrated word-level reading and spelling difficulties. The intervention focused children's attention on morphological families, teaching how morphology is interrelated with phonology and etymology in English orthography. Results Comparing pre- and posttest scores, children demonstrated improvement in reading and/or spelling abilities, with the largest gains observed in spelling affixes within polymorphemic words. Children and their caregivers reacted positively to the intervention. Therefore, data from the camp offer preliminary support for teaching morphology within the context of written words, and the intervention appears to be a feasible approach for simultaneously increasing morphological knowledge, reading, and spelling. Conclusion Children with word-level reading and spelling difficulties may benefit from a morphology-focused orthographic intervention, such as the one described here. Research on the approach is warranted, and clinicians are encouraged to explore its possible effectiveness in their practice. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12290687

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