Technology and the Texture of Modernity

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Mongili
Keyword(s):  
Technical Level ◽  
Sociotechnical Networks ◽  
Technological History ◽  
Social Level

This chapter introduces networks, contexts/ecologies, and innovations as the three main concepts that make technology pivotal for constructing contemporary societies, as well as many ideas of modernity. Technologies are not mere artifacts, but also sociotechnical networks made by distinct artifacts composed, in turn, by different elements belonging to various technical networks. Digitalization has exagerated and changed this process, which was present from the very beginning of modern technological history. Any multiple assemblage looks for its continuous existence in two different fields: at the mere technical level, on standardization and classification of elements and activities; and at a human and social level, on uses, habits, conventions, and practices.

scholarly journals The Influence Factors of Medical Disputes in Shanghai and Implications - From the Perspective of Doctor, Patient and Disease (Observational Study)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Liu ◽  
Fei Yu ◽  
Feng Zhao ◽  
Xingchen Yang ◽  
Guangyao Ji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Influence Factors ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Technical Level ◽  
High Expectation ◽  
Class A ◽  
Medical Disputes ◽  
Classification Of Diseases ◽  
Level 3 ◽  
Medical Dispute

Abstract Objective Based on the cases collected in eight hospitals in Shanghai in recent three years, causes of medical disputes in Shanghai and influence factors of medical dispute levels were discussed, and targeted suggestions were put forward. Methods Multistage sampling were used to collect 561 cases of medical disputes occurred in two Class A Tertiary hospitals, two Class A Secondary hospitals and four community hospitals in Shanghai in recent three years. On the basis of questionnaire, the causes of medical disputes were analyzed by descriptive statistics and the factors affecting the level of medical dispute were analyzed by means of one-way ANOVA and Logistic regression analysis.Results Factors of doctor and patient are involved in the causes of medical disputes, with 87.1% disputes related to doctors and 13.9% related to patients. The doctor’s factors include lack of communication (28.82%), low technical level (16.91%), lack of sense of responsibility (8.86%), defective case records (6.92%), imperfect operation (6.44%), inadequate experience (6.44%), inadequate condition evaluation (5.8%), irregular management process (4.03%), violation of diagnosis and treatment regulation (4.03%), misdiagnosis and mistreatment (3.54%), belated diagnosis and treatment (2.58%), postoperative complications (2.42%), equipment problems (1.13%), missed diagnosis (0.81%), poor condition monitoring (0.48%), unreasonable charge (0.48%) and poor service attitude (0.32%). The patient's factors include misunderstanding of medical behavior (43.48%), high expectation of prognosis (25%), bad attitude (13.04%), inadequate medical knowledge (7.61%), disturbance (6.52%), poor compliance (3.62%) and mistrust (1.09%). Among all medical disputes, there are 406 cases of level-4 medical disputes (78%), 95 cases of level-3 medical disputes (18%), 19 cases of level-2 medical disputes (4%), and no level-1 medical dispute. Meanwhile, the classification of diseases, treatment effect, doctors' violation of diagnosis and treatment regulation, and low technical level are the reasons for the level differences in medical disputes.Conclusion Factors of doctor in medical disputes in Shanghai mainly include inadequate communication and low technical level while the patient’s factors mainly contain misunderstanding of medical behavior and high expectation of the prognosis. Level-3 and 4 medical disputes take up the major part in all medical disputes. The classification of diseases, treatment effect, doctors' violation of diagnosis and treatment regulation, and doctor’s deficient technical level are high-risk factors requiring critical attention in medical disputes.

Possibilities of Integrating Medical and Economic Science in the Process of Introducing Innovations in Regional Healthcare on the Example of Oncological Service of the Sverdlovsk Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
N.V. Krivenko ◽  
◽  
V.G. Elishev ◽  
A.S. Shershever ◽  
I.V. Borzunov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Regional Health Care ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Level ◽  
Scientific And Technological Development

In the framework of the strategic tasks for the country to increase the level of scientific and technological development and enhance innovation, it is of scientific interest to study these processes using the example of healthcare as the most dynamically developing social sphere. Aim of the study: to consider the possibilities of interaction between medical and economic science in the process of introducing innovations in regional health care. Materials and methods. The paper uses systemic and integrative approaches, methods of comparative and statistical analysis, and modern IT solutions. Results. The article proposes a classification of innovations in medicine and confirms the effectiveness of the integrated use of organizational, informational, medical, non-medical innovations in the industry, which helps reduce morbidity, disability, and mortality of the population at the macro- and meso-levels. Conclusions. The authors’ approach to the study of innovations in the regional healthcare system substantiates the feasibility of integrating medical and economic science from the perspective of not only medical, but also economic effects at the social level. The authors’ approach has been tested on the example of the oncological service of the Sverdlovsk region, proving the achievement of high medical, social, economic effects at the regional level as a result of the integrative interaction of medical and economic science.

scholarly journals The Influence Factors of Medical Disputes in Shanghai and Implications - From The Perspective of Doctor, Patient and Disease

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Liu ◽  
Yonghai Bai ◽  
Pei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Effect ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Technical Level ◽  
High Expectation ◽  
Medical Disputes ◽  
Classification Of Diseases ◽  
Level 3 ◽  
Medical Dispute

Abstract Background Based on the cases collected in eight hospitals in Shanghai in recent three years, causes of medical disputes in Shanghai and influence factors of medical dispute levels were explored, and targeted suggestions were put forward. Methods Multistage sampling were used to collect 561 cases of medical disputes occurred in two Tertiary hospitals, two Secondary hospitals and four primary hospitals. The causes of medical disputes were analyzed by descriptive statistics and the factors affecting medical dispute were analyzed by means of one-way ANOVA and Logistic regression analysis. Results Factors of doctor and patient are involved in the causes of medical disputes, with 87.1% disputes related to doctors and 13.9% related to patients. The doctor’s factors include lack of communication (28.82%), low technical level (16.91%), lack of sense of responsibility (8.86%), defective case records (6.92%), imperfect operation (6.44%), inadequate experience (6.44%), inadequate condition evaluation (5.8%), irregular management process (4.03%), violation of diagnosis and treatment regulation (4.03%), misdiagnosis and mistreatment (3.54%), belated diagnosis and treatment (2.58%), postoperative complications (2.42%), equipment problems (1.13%), missed diagnosis (0.81%), poor condition monitoring (0.48%), unreasonable charge (0.48%) and poor service attitude (0.32%). The patient's factors include misunderstanding of medical behavior (43.48%), high expectation of prognosis (25%), bad attitude (13.04%), inadequate medical knowledge (7.61%), disturbance (6.52%), poor compliance (3.62%) and mistrust (1.09%). Among all medical disputes, there are 406 cases of level-4 medical disputes (78%), 95 cases of level-3 medical disputes (18%), 19 cases of level-2 medical disputes (4%), and no level-1 medical dispute. Meanwhile, the classification of diseases, treatment effect, doctors' violation of diagnosis and treatment regulation, and low technical level are the reasons for the level differences in medical disputes. Conclusions Factors of doctor in medical disputes in Shanghai mainly include inadequate communication and low technical level while the patient’s factors mainly contain misunderstanding of medical behavior and high expectation of the prognosis. Level-3 and 4 medical disputes take up the major part in all medical disputes. The classification of diseases, treatment effect, doctors' violation of diagnosis and treatment regulation, and doctor’s deficient technical level are high-risk factors requiring critical attention in medical disputes.

scholarly journals The Structural Approach to Social Representations: Bridges between Theory and Methods

Psico-USF ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Wolter
Keyword(s):  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Technical Level ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
The Social

Abstract Since the publication of the works of Jean-Claude Abric and Celso Sá, the structural approach to social representation has become widely diffused. There is often a lack of congruency between theoretical aspects of the structural approach and technical characteristics of the different methods used. This paper aims at making explicit the structural characteristics that are studied by the different structural approach techniques. These characteristics are: associative power of the elements, consensual aspects of thought and object essence. With these characteristics it is possible to elaborate a classification of the different techniques of the structural approach to social representations. The conclusion focuses on the absence of the social representation dynamics on a technical level despite being a central theoretical point for a better understanding of the socio representational phenomenon.

Drawbacks and Pitfalls of Machine-Readable Texts for Linguistic Research

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Facchinetti
Keyword(s):  
Text Difficulty ◽  
Part Of Speech Tagging ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Targeted Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Machine Readable ◽  
Speech Tagging ◽  
Social Level

The paper highlights and discusses some practical issues related to the drawbacks and pitfalls of computerised texts in regard to both databases themselves and the software employed to codify and search them. In the first place, some corpora and databases are compiled in such a way as to be searched and analysed by means of tools which allow only specific kinds of search to be made. This often prevents scholars from carrying out their own free study of the data, thus hindering an effective, targeted analysis. Moreover, in some cases, the need for comprehensiveness leads to the codification and classification of subjective aspects like the text difficulty and the participants' social level This subjectivity of interpretation might mislead the researchers in a socially-orientated analysis. Finally, despite being highly sophisticated, the techniques employed for automated grammatical and part-of-speech tagging as well as for semantic and prosodic parsing appear not to be totally reliable, since mistakes in the codification of simple items are likely to occur. Each of the above thorny issues, together with some other minor matters, are testified to with instances drawn from the author's personal linguistic research on a variety of synchronic and diachronic corpora and databases.

Note on the spectral classification of carbon stars in the photographic infrared region

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Y. Fujita
Keyword(s):  
Infrared Region ◽  
Spectral Classification ◽  
Carbon Stars

We have investigated the spectrograms (dispersion: 8Å/mm) in the photographic infrared region fromλ7500 toλ9000 of some carbon stars obtained by the coudé spectrograph of the 74-inch reflector attached to the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory. The names of the stars investigated are listed in Table 1.

Diagnostic Value of Electron Microscopy in Soft Tissue Tumors

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 220-221
Author(s):  
Gerald Fine ◽  
Azorides R. Morales
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Myxoma ◽  
Osteogenic Sarcoma ◽  
Diagnostic Value ◽  
Soft Tissue Tumors ◽  
Amelanotic Melanoma ◽  
Growth Patterns ◽  
Light Microscopic Level ◽  
Mesenchymal Tumors ◽  
Good Agreement

For years the separation of carcinoma and sarcoma and the subclassification of sarcomas has been based on the appearance of the tumor cells and their microscopic growth pattern and information derived from certain histochemical and special stains. Although this method of study has produced good agreement among pathologists in the separation of carcinoma from sarcoma, it has given less uniform results in the subclassification of sarcomas. There remain examples of neoplasms of different histogenesis, the classification of which is questionable because of similar cytologic and growth patterns at the light microscopic level; i.e. amelanotic melanoma versus carcinoma and occasionally sarcoma, sarcomas with an epithelial pattern of growth simulating carcinoma, histologically similar mesenchymal tumors of different histogenesis (histiocytoma versus rhabdomyosarcoma, lytic osteogenic sarcoma versus rhabdomyosarcoma), and myxomatous mesenchymal tumors of diverse histogenesis (myxoid rhabdo and liposarcomas, cardiac myxoma, myxoid neurofibroma, etc.)

Ultrastructure of mesotheliomas

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 98-101
Author(s):  
Irving Dardick
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Latent Period ◽  
Spindle Cell ◽  
Spindle Cell Sarcoma ◽  
Metastatic Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Cell Sarcoma ◽  
Cytological Features ◽  
Industrial Use ◽  
Degree Of Differentiation

With the extensive industrial use of asbestos in this century and the long latent period (20-50 years) between exposure and tumor presentation, the incidence of malignant mesothelioma is now increasing. Thus, surgical pathologists are more frequently faced with the dilemma of differentiating mesothelioma from metastatic adenocarcinoma and spindle-cell sarcoma involving serosal surfaces. Electron microscopy is amodality useful in clarifying this problem.In utilizing ultrastructural features in the diagnosis of mesothelioma, it is essential to appreciate that the classification of this tumor reflects a variety of morphologic forms of differing biologic behavior (Table 1). Furthermore, with the variable histology and degree of differentiation in mesotheliomas it might be expected that the ultrastructure of such tumors also reflects a range of cytological features. Such is the case.

Interpreting HVEM of muscle-cell impulse networks

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-127
Author(s):  
Paul DeCosta ◽  
Kyugon Cho ◽  
Stephen Shemlon ◽  
Heesung Jun ◽  
Stanley M. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Muscle Cell ◽  
Electron Micrographs ◽  
Relative Size ◽  
Automatic Classification ◽  
Nerve Fibers ◽  
Analysis Algorithm ◽  
Structural Networks

Introduction: The analysis and interpretation of electron micrographs of cells and tissues, often requires the accurate extraction of structural networks, which either provide immediate 2D or 3D information, or from which the desired information can be inferred. The images of these structures contain lines and/or curves whose orientation, lengths, and intersections characterize the overall network.Some examples exist of studies that have been done in the analysis of networks of natural structures. In, Sebok and Roemer determine the complexity of nerve structures in an EM formed slide. Here the number of nodes that exist in the image describes how dense nerve fibers are in a particular region of the skin. Hildith proposes a network structural analysis algorithm for the automatic classification of chromosome spreads (type, relative size and orientation).

Dual stain kit for the microscopic gram classification of ocular infection bacteria

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 248-249
Author(s):  
Jacob S. Hanker ◽  
Dale N. Holdren ◽  
Kenneth L. Cohen ◽  
Beverly L. Giammara
Keyword(s):  
Contact Lenses ◽  
Ocular Infection ◽  
Gram Negative Bacteria ◽  
Gram Negative ◽  
Gram Staining ◽  
Ocular Infections ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Culture Positive ◽  
Increased Susceptibility

Keratitis and conjunctivitis (infections of the cornea or conjunctiva) are ocular infections caused by various bacteria, fungi, viruses or parasites; bacteria, however, are usually prominent. Systemic conditions such as alcoholism, diabetes, debilitating disease, AIDS and immunosuppressive therapy can lead to increased susceptibility but trauma and contact lens use are very important factors. Gram-negative bacteria are most frequently cultured in these situations and Pseudomonas aeruginosa is most usually isolated from culture-positive ulcers of patients using contact lenses. Smears for staining can be obtained with a special swab or spatula and Gram staining frequently guides choice of a therapeutic rinse prior to the report of the culture results upon which specific antibiotic therapy is based. In some cases staining of the direct smear may be diagnostic in situations where the culture will not grow. In these cases different types of stains occasionally assist in guiding therapy.

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