scholarly journals Apps and Mobile Support Services in Canadian Academic Medical Libraries

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tess Grynoch
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Medical Apps ◽  
The Past ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Medical App ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Medical Libraries ◽  
The Many ◽  
Mobile Medical Apps

Objective: To examine how Canadian academic medical libraries are supporting mobile apps, what apps are currently being provided by these libraries, and what types of promotion are being used. Methods: A survey of the library websites for the 17 medical schools in Canada was completed. For each library website surveyed, the medical apps listed on the website, any services mentioned through this medium, and any type of app promotion events were noted. When Facebook and Twitter accounts were evident, the tweets were searched and the past two years of Facebook posts scanned for mention of medical apps or mobile services/events. Results: All seventeen academic medical libraries had lists of mobile medical apps with a large range in the number of medical relevant apps (average=31, median= 23). A total of 275 different apps were noted and the apps covered a wide range of subjects. Five of the 14 Facebook accounts scanned had posts about medical apps in the past two years while 11 of the 15 Twitter accounts had tweets about medical apps. Social media was only one of the many promotional methods noted. Outside of the app lists and mobile resources guides, Canadian academic medical libraries are providing workshops, presentations, and drop-in sessions for mobile medical apps. Conclusion: While librarians cannot simply compare mobile services and resources between academic medical libraries without factoring in a number of other circumstances, librarians can learn from mobile resources strategies employed at other libraries, such as using research guides to increase medical app literacy.

Modern Medical Innovation on the Preferred Information about the Medicine using AI Technique

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Ashok Kumar .. ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Point Of Care ◽  
Improve Patient Care ◽  
Medical Innovation ◽  
Medical Apps ◽  
Health Apps ◽  
The Past ◽  
Medical App ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Mobile Medical Apps ◽  
Improve Patient

The number of mobile Medicare applications has grown exponentially over the past few years, and it is expected to continue to grow soon. The use of health apps promises to be a good way to improve patient care and make work easier for professional. However, some cases of malfunction or misdiagnosis and treatment recommendations have been reported. Regulation is essential to protect users and support product development. So, to suppress the malfunctions we present a pharmacopeia Medicare app in which the customer can see the original profile and the specification of any stimulant with its useful information. This inculcates a clean process which procures a less chance of misapplication of the drugs. These mobile medical app companies have improved access to clinical references and point of care tools. However, it is difficult to identify mobile medical apps that are suitable for the practice of pharmacy. This app is entirely based on our experience in accrediting websites with health-related content and journal.

The Many Pasts of Detective Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Thomas Leitch
Keyword(s):  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Public History ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Detective Story ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Detective Novels ◽  
The Many

Building on Tzvetan Todorov's observation that the detective novel ‘contains not one but two stories: the story of the crime and the story of the investigation’, this essay argues that detective novels display a remarkably wide range of attitudes toward the several pasts they represent: the pasts of the crime, the community, the criminal, the detective, and public history. It traces a series of defining shifts in these attitudes through the evolution of five distinct subgenres of detective fiction: exploits of a Great Detective like Sherlock Holmes, Golden Age whodunits that pose as intellectual puzzles to be solved, hardboiled stories that invoke a distant past that the present both breaks with and echoes, police procedurals that unfold in an indefinitely extended present, and historical mysteries that nostalgically fetishize the past. It concludes with a brief consideration of genre readers’ own ambivalent phenomenological investment in the past, present, and future each detective story projects.

Big Data Ethics and Politics: Toward New Understandings

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhong Chen ◽  
Anabel Quan-Haase
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
Data Ethics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Privacy Breaches ◽  
The Many ◽  
Ethics And Politics

The hype around big data does not seem to abate nor do the scandals. Privacy breaches in the collection, use, and sharing of big data have affected all the major tech players, be it Facebook, Google, Apple, or Uber, and go beyond the corporate world including governments, municipalities, and educational and health institutions. What has come to light is that enabled by the rapid growth of social media and mobile apps, various stakeholders collect and use large amounts of data, disregarding the ethics and politics. As big data touch on many realms of daily life and have profound impacts in the social world, the scrutiny around big data practice becomes increasingly relevant. This special issue investigates the ethics and politics of big data using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. Together, the articles provide new understandings of the many dimensions of big data ethics and politics, showing it is important to understand and increase awareness of the biases and limitations inherent in big data analysis and practices.

Rehabilitation: A Community Challenge

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-131
Author(s):  
SEYMOUR S. BLUESTONE
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Community Activity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
The Many

This volume collates knowledge accumulated, mainly during the past decade, by the many individuals and groups concerned with the provision of rehabilitation services. As one of the outstanding among these individuals, the author can speak authoritatively on the wide range of subjects covered. The book is well documented with references and is supplemented by an extensive classified bibliography. Intended "to form a source of reference and guidance for all those interested in (rehabilitation), particularly those at the planning level of community activity," the book should be of even wider interest as a significant contribution to the basic understanding of rehabilitation by all thinking people.

scholarly journals Uncertain Multiplicative Language Decision Method Based on Group Compromise Framework for Evaluation of Mobile Medical APPs in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 2858
Author(s):  
Junchang Li ◽  
Jiantong Zhang ◽  
Ye Ding
Keyword(s):  
Health Management ◽  
Medical Application ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Medical Apps ◽  
Attribute Weight ◽  
Group Ranking ◽  
Medical App ◽  
Multiple Attribute ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mobile Medical Apps

The mobile medical application (M-medical APP) can optimize medical service process and reduce health management costs for users, which has become an important complementary form of traditional medical services. To assist users including patients choose the ideal M-medical APP, we proposed a novel multiple attribute group decision making algorithm based on group compromise framework, which need not determine the weight of decision-maker. The algorithm utilized an uncertain multiplicative linguistic variable to measure the individual original preference to express the real evaluation information as much as possible. The attribute weight was calculated by maximizing the differences among alternatives. It determined the individual alternatives ranking according to the net flow of each alternative. By solved the 0–1 optimal model with the objective of minimizing the differences between individual ranking, the ultimate group compromise ranking was obtained. Then we took 10 well-known M-medical APPs in Chinese as an example, we summarized service categories provided for users and constructed the assessment system consisting of 8 indexes considering the service quality users are concerned with. Finally, the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method and the consistency of ranking results were verified, through comparing the group ranking results of 3 similar algorithms. The experiments show that group compromise ranking is sensitive to attribute weight.

Examining mobile medical app usage intentions (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiao-Chen Chang
Keyword(s):  
Medical Application ◽  
Successful Operation ◽  
Personal Innovativeness ◽  
Medical Apps ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Medical App ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Mobile Medical Apps

BACKGROUND The successful operation of medical mobile applications primarily depends on the extent to which users are fully motivated to adopt it. OBJECTIVE Therefore, the primary purpose of this study is to investigate the factors influencing mobile medical application usage intentions. METHODS This study applied the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) to build a comprehensive model that explains the usage intentions of mobile medical apps. RESULTS Research findings confirm the validity of the UTAUT2 in explaining the intention of using mobile medical apps in the context of mobile medical services. Also, the results focus on the enhancement in the role of the other, rather contextual attributes of the IT/IS environment (i.e., personal involvement and personal innovativeness). CONCLUSIONS By conducting surveys, mobile medical app designers can know that personal involvement and personal innovativeness leads to influences on the effectiveness of corporate marketing efforts about using mobile medical apps.

scholarly journals Masers in evolved star winds

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S287) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Anita M. S. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Stage ◽  
Interferometric Imaging ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Evolved Stars ◽  
Multiple Observations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Many ◽  
Term Monitoring

AbstractThis review summarises current observations of masers around evolved stars and models for their location and behaviour, followed by some of the many highlights from the past 5 years. Some of these have been the fruition of long-term monitoring, a vital aspect of study of stars which are both periodically variable and prone to rapid outbursts or transition to a new evolutionary stage. Interferometric imaging of masers provide the highest-resolution probes of the stellar wind, but their exponential amplification and variability means that multiple observations are needed to investigate questions such as what drives the wind from the stellar surface; why does it accelerate slowly over many tens of stellar radii; what causes maser variability. VLBI parallaxes have improved our understanding of individual objects and of Galactic populations. Masers from wide range of binary and post-AGB objects are accessible to sensitive modern instruments, including energetic symbiotic systems. Masers have been detected up to THz frequencies withHerscheland ALMA's ability to resolve a wide range of maser and thermal lines will provide accurate constraints on physical conditions including during dust formation.

scholarly journals Defining OER-Enabled Pedagogy

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wiley ◽  
John Levi Hilton III
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Learning Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Open Educational Practices ◽  
The Many ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

The term “open pedagogy” has been used in a variety of different ways over the past several decades. In recent years, its use has also become associated with Open Educational Resources (OER). The wide range of competing definitions of open pedagogy, together with its semantic overlap with another underspecified term, open educational practices, makes it difficult to conduct research on the topic of open pedagogy. In making this claim we do not mean to cast doubt on the potential effectiveness of the many pedagogical approaches labeled open. In this article, rather than attempting to argue for a canonical definition of open pedagogy, we propose a new term, “OER-enabled pedagogy,” defined as the set of teaching and learning practices that are only possible or practical in the context of the 5R permissions that are characteristic of OER. We propose criteria used to evaluate whether a form of teaching constitutes OER-enabled pedagogy and analyze several examples of OER-enabled pedagogy with these criteria.

Hardseededness in Mediterranean annual pasture legumes in Australia: a review

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 (7) ◽  
pp. 645 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Management Systems ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pasture Legumes ◽  
Laboratory Techniques ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Seed Hardness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Softening Process ◽  
The Many ◽  
Made In

Hardseededness (seed coat impermeability) is the main seed dormancy mechanism for regulating germination of annual pasture legumes both within and between years. Progress made in Australia over the past 30 years towards an understanding and better utilisation of the mechanism is the subject of this review, together with relevant overseas studies. Although some legumes produce virtually no hard seeds, newly ripened seeds of most cultivated annual pasture legumes are >90% hard when produced under favourable seed maturation conditions. The pattern of seed softening (loss of impermeability) varies widely among legumes both within and between years and is one of the more important considerations in selection programs. The many factors that influence the longevity of seed hardness are described. Differences among legumes in patterns of summer and autumn seed softening, which may influence the extent of seed losses through false breaks of season, are explained in terms of a 2-stage conceptual model of the seed softening process. This model has led to the development of laboratory techniques that effectively simulate field softening behaviour in a wide range of legumes. Different rates of seed imbibition, which may be attributable to a previously unrecognised stage in the seed softening process, and which can offer some further protection against false breaks of season are also described. The wide range of seed softening characteristics that are now recognised provides opportunities for better adapting pasture legumes to particular management systems, including rotations with crops.

scholarly journals Clinical Evaluation of Mobile Medical Apps

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-176
Author(s):  
Scholtes Michael ◽  
Behrend Annemarie ◽  
Stephanie Buedenbender ◽  
Gross Volker ◽  
Sohrabi Keywan
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Evaluation ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Computer Applications ◽  
Medical Apps ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Regulatory Changes ◽  
App Development ◽  
Medical App ◽  
Mobile Medical Apps

AbstractComputer applications in medicine are very important. However, there are differences in quality of such software, which periodically led to discussions about safety, regulation, and registration of software applications. Today, the admission procedure of medical products is highly regulated, and this applies also for mobile medical apps. The clinical evaluation is one important aspect of the admission procedure, especially due to the latest regulatory changes of the guideline MedDev 2.7/1 revision 4. The requirements have increased, and uncertainty grows in medical app development companies. The aim of this paper was the development of a process orientated guide, that gives an overview of the needed steps of a clinical evaluation of mobile medical apps and that could help to give a rough estimation about the necessary effort. The guide was developed, based on the relevant literature and legal texts. The clinical evaluation can be conducted in five substeps: “Planning and Scoping”, “Literature Research”, “Literature Assessment”, “Clinical Data Analysis” and “Reporting”. Prospectively, this guide will be evaluated by developers and adjusted, as soon as Medical Device Regulation is legally binding.

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