scholarly journals Open access digital tools’ contribution for mapping and monitoring of biodiversity

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Wellington Buarque de Souza ◽  
Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura ◽  
Heiko Max Brunken ◽  
Valdir Paulo Ferreira Filho ◽  
Anne Drielly dos Santos Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Monitoring Of Biodiversity ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Natural Histories

Biodiversity constitutes a source of natural richness of life on Earth, including all the variety of living organisms. The United Nations Organization proclaimed the period between 2011 and 2020 as the International Decade of Biodiversity. Knowing that the majority of the existing information about species distribution is not promptly reachable, the adoption of Georeferencing tolls as a brace for mapping, managing and handling of the biodiversity stands out. The present essay aims to describe the development and implementation of the Digital Atlas of Herpetofauna from the state of Pernambuco, a new digital tool of open access, which integrates data about species, their natural histories and their spacial distribution. For its development, the Joomla!, version 1.5.26, was adopted as Content Management System and the MySQL as Database System, these were integrated to the Library System PROJ.4 in order to enable graphic projections. The result is the developed tool itself, applying the combination of geographic data stored by mapping based on web browser. This study presented advantages found in the use of open access digital tools for mapping and monitoring species, pointing that its use is a very effective way to aggregate and communicate information about biodiversity.

The Bones of Digital History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Osmond ◽  
Murray G. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
General Public ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Digital History ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Historical Representations ◽  
The Relationship

This introductory chapter discusses the relationship between history making and the digital era, particularly sport historians' use of digital tools and engagement with digital history. The digital era provides extensive options for sharing the thoughts and experiences of sport historians on any topic. Indeed, the digital era opens new avenues for pre-publication review, including open-access feedback channels for either the general public or for specific communities of readers. The chapter then differentiates digital history from digital tools. Whereas digital tools can be adapted for a variety of purposes in historical research, teaching, and communication, digital history uses the digital tool box to create or analyze particular forms of online historical representations.

Versorgung von allergischen Erkrankungen: Große Fortschritte in der digitalen Transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-79
Author(s):  
Stephan Traidl
Keyword(s):  
Change Management ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Airway Disease ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Distorted Image

Digital anamorphosis is used to define a distorted image of health and care that may be viewed correctly using digital tools and strategies. MASK digital anamorphosis represents the process used by MASK to develop the digital transformation of health and care in rhinitis. It strengthens the ARIA change management strategy in the prevention and management of airway disease. The MASK strategy is based on validated digital tools. Using the MASK digital tool and the CARAT online enhanced clinical framework, solutions for practical steps of digital enhancement of care are proposed.

scholarly journals De digitale apparaten voor de dialectstudie aan de Gentse Universiteit

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Jacques Van Keymeulen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Instituut Voor ◽  
Large Audience ◽  
Dutch Language ◽  
Year 2000

Abstract Digital tools for dialectology at the Ghent UniversityTill the year 2000, all professors of Dutch Linguistics at Ghent University were professional dialectologists, who were at pains to carefully document the dialects of Dutch speaking Belgium. These efforts resulted in large collections of dialect data. During the last decade, all collections were digitized and made available in open access to a large audience. In this article, we will in short present both already available databases (and the accompanying tools) and the projects in progress. Eventually, all Ghent dialect databases will be hosted and cared for by the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Institute for the Dutch Language) at Leiden (The Netherlands).

scholarly journals Role initiative: a digital tool for a physical game

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Wade Krysztofiak
Keyword(s):  
Digital Tools ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
The Core

Tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) feature several natural inefficiencies due to the adaptable and sandbox nature of D&D campaigns and the game’s wargaming roots. One of the core failings of Dungeons & Dragons’ Fifth edition, according to users, is slow and disengaging combat. It is my belief that digital tools can be added to Dungeons & Dragons in such a way that their implementation does not limit physical gameplay while providing a variety of new tools to players. This paper proposes a tool that can avoid these pitfalls while improving combat and gameplay flow.

Finding access and digital preservation solutions for a digitized oral history project

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krystyna K. Matusiak ◽  
Allison Tyler ◽  
Catherine Newton ◽  
Padma Polepeddi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Jefferson County ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Preservation Solutions

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine affordable access and digital preservation solutions for digital collections developed by under-resourced small- and mid-sized cultural heritage organizations. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a case study of Jeffco Stories, a collection of digitized oral histories created by the Jefferson County Public Library in Colorado. Findings This paper describes how the Jefferson County Public Library undertook a migration project of its oral history digital collection into an open-access platform, Omeka, and selected DuraCloud as a hosted digital preservation service. Research limitations/implications As a case study, this paper is limited to one institution’s experience with selecting access and digital preservation solutions. Practical/implications This paper is relevant to librarians and archivists who are exploring access and preservation solutions for digital collections and to those who are considering migrating to open-access content management systems and cloud-based digital preservation solutions. Originality/value This paper presents a case of a public library and the challenges in finding affordable access and digital preservation solutions for small digital collections.

Accelerating Clinical Innovation in Biomedical Engineering Education by Using a Digital Portal for Collaboration

2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel L. Berry ◽  
Kristen Noles ◽  
Alan Eberhardt ◽  
Nancy Wingo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Improve Patient Care ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Fluid Exchange ◽  
Continuous Innovation ◽  
Clinical Innovation ◽  
Stem Students ◽  
Improve Patient ◽  
Internal Funding

Abstract The rapidly changing healthcare landscape requires continuous innovation by clinicians, yet generating ideas to improve patient care is often problematic. This paper describes the development of a digital tool used in an interprofessional program designed to enhance collaborations between clinicians, undergraduate, and graduate STEM students, particularly biomedical engineering (BME). The program founders began by connecting clinicians and students through a course portal in a learning management system (LMS). They eventually secured internal funding to create an open access tool for posting and viewing problems, allowing interprofessional teams to rally around healthcare challenges and create prototypes for solving them. Results after three years of the program's inception have been encouraging, as teams have created devices and processes that have led to intellectual property disclosures, provisional patents, grant funding, and other productive interprofessional relationships. The open access tool has given clinicians and STEM students an outlet for convenient team formation around unsolved clinical problems and allowed a fluid exchange of ideas between participants across a variety of clinical disciplines.

scholarly journals Role of Water for Life

2019 ◽  
Vol 03 (01) ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Bengt Nordén
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Potential ◽  
Genetic Recombination ◽  
Solar Systems ◽  
Gene Recognition ◽  
Low Dielectric ◽  
Sexual Recombination ◽  
Dna Strand Exchange ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Dna Strand ◽  
Life On Earth

The behavior of benzoic acid in polyethylene inspired me to reflect on why water is a unique molecule that all living organisms depend upon. From properties of DNA in aqueous solution a seemingly counter-intuitive conjecture emerges: water is needed for the creation of certain dry low-dielectric nm-size environments where hydrogen bonding exerts strong recognition power. Such environments seem to be functionally crucial, and their interactions with other hydrophobic environments, or with hydrophobic agents that modulate the chemical potential of water, can cause structural transformations via ‘hydrophobic catalysis’. Possibly combined with an excluded volume osmosis effect (EVO), hydrophobic catalysis may have important biological roles, e.g., in genetic recombination. Hydrophobic agents are found to strongly accelerate spontaneous DNA strand exchange as well as certain other DNA rearrangement reactions. It is hypothesized that hydrophobic catalysis be involved in gene recognition and gene recombination mediated by bacterial RecA (one of the oldest proteins we know of) as well as in sexual recombination in higher organisms, by Rad51. Hydrophobically catalyzed unstacking fluctuations of DNA bases can favor elongated conformations, such as the recently proposed [Formula: see text]-DNA, with potential regulatory roles. That living cells can survive as dormant spores, with very low water content and in principle as such travel far in space is reflected upon: a random walk model with solar photon pressure as driving force indicates our life on earth could not have originated outside our galaxy but possibly from many solar systems within it — at some place, though, where there was plenty of liquid water.

scholarly journals Biomonitoring of Heavy Metal Pollution Using Acanthocephalans Parasite in Ecosystem: An Updated Overview

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 811 ◽  
Author(s):  
El-Sayed E. Mehana ◽  
Asmaa F. Khafaga ◽  
Samar S. Elblehi ◽  
Mohamed E. Abd El-Hack ◽  
Mohammed A.E. Naiel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Heavy Metal Contamination ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Heavy Metal Accumulation ◽  
Natural Ecosystem ◽  
Parasitic Infestation ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Life On Earth

As a result of the global industrial revolution, contamination of the ecosystem by heavy metals has given rise to one of the most important ecological and organismic problems, particularly human, early developmental stages of fish and animal life. The bioaccumulation of heavy metals in fish tissues can be influenced by several factors, including metal concentration, exposure time, method of metal ingestion and environmental conditions, such as water temperature. Upon recognizing the danger of contamination from heavy metals and the effects on the ecosystem that support life on earth, new ways of monitoring and controlling this pollution, besides the practical ones, had to be found. Diverse living organisms, such as insects, fish, planktons, livestock and bacteria can be used as bioindicators for monitoring the health of the natural ecosystem of the environment. Parasites have attracted intense interest from parasitic ecologists, because of the variety of different ways in which they respond to human activity contamination as prospective indices of environmental quality. Previous studies showed that fish intestinal helminths might consider potential bioindicators for heavy metal contamination in aquatic creatures. In particular, cestodes and acanthocephalans have an increased capacity to accumulate heavy metals, where, for example, metal concentrations in acanthocephalans were several thousand times higher than in host tissues. On the other hand, parasitic infestation in fish could induce significant damage to the physiologic and biochemical processes inside the fish body. It may encourage serious impairment to the physiologic and general health status of fish. Thus, this review aimed to highlight the role of heavy metal accumulation, fish histopathological signs and parasitic infestation in monitoring the ecosystem pollutions and their relationship with each other.

scholarly journals Replaying the tape of life in the twenty-first century

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 20150057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginie Orgogozo
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evolution ◽  
First Century ◽  
Phenotypic Evolution ◽  
Phenotypic Differences ◽  
Diverse Species ◽  
Evolution Of Life ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Living Organisms ◽  
Life On Earth

Should the tape of life be replayed, would it produce similar living beings? A classical answer has long been ‘no’, but accumulating data are now challenging this view. Repeatability in experimental evolution, in phenotypic evolution of diverse species and in the genes underlying phenotypic evolution indicates that despite unpredictability at the level of basic evolutionary processes (such as apparition of mutations), a certain kind of predictability can emerge at higher levels over long time periods. For instance, a survey of the alleles described in the literature that cause non-deleterious phenotypic differences among animals, plants and yeasts indicates that similar phenotypes have often evolved in distinct taxa through independent mutations in the same genes. Does this mean that the range of possibilities for evolution is limited? Does this mean that we can predict the outcomes of a replayed tape of life? Imagining other possible paths for evolution runs into four important issues: (i) resolving the influence of contingency, (ii) imagining living organisms that are different from the ones we know, (iii) finding the relevant concepts for predicting evolution, and (iv) estimating the probability of occurrence for complex evolutionary events that occurred only once during the evolution of life on earth.

Optimizing cancer care using digital technologies requires coordinated multi-stakeholder effort.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e14108-e14108
Author(s):  
Sendhilnathan Ramalingam ◽  
A Jay Holmgren ◽  
Jennifer Goldsack ◽  
Adam Conner-Simons ◽  
Edmondo Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Care ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Drug Approval ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Digital Tool ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

e14108 Background: Oncology has unique characteristics that predict early benefit from digital technologies including a culture of patient involvement in trials, genetic testing, and longitudinal assessments including objective measures. However, implementation of digital tools is slow for many reasons including lack of incentives/interoperability, and high-profile cases highlighting inadequate data governance. We report results from the Digital Medicine Society’s study of the stakeholders involved in using digital technologies to optimize health, with a focus on oncology. Methods: We performed 16 interviews with diverse Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) including physicians, executives, senior government officials, patients, payers, tech innovators, and investors. KOLs received a pre-interview list of topics. We used the Delphi method, an evidence-based approach to compile expert opinions, to iteratively refine recommendations. Results: We identified priorities for 5 stakeholder groups to facilitate digital tool implementation (Table); all groups must also act now to develop a framework for data governance. We describe 4 categories of early success in oncologic digital tools: regimen/drug choice, drug approval efficiency, digital user training, and patient generated health data. Conclusions: Data and technology have great potential to improve cancer care. Multi-stakeholder involvement and a framework for US health data governance are needed. [Table: see text]

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