Accelerating the Provision of Safe Water Supply in Urban and Rural Areas of Indonesia

Over the past 100 years, the provision of a safe water supply to drink in Indonesia has been slowly progressed with low coverage. The majority of the population does not have access to safe water. Morbidity and mortality of water-related diseases, including diarrhea, are very high. The provision of safe water is not a technological issue but good water management that comprises content, institutional, and communication layer. This paper provided information for strategic and operational decisions to accelerate the provision of safe water services in urban and rural areas. Benchmarking good water management with the characteristics of the water supply location is required to improve the health status of the population, mainly the poor urban and rural areas with limited resources, including time and cost.

URBAN DISTANCES. DIMENSIONS OF URBAN UNITS AND DISTRIBUTION OF FUNCTIONS IN THE CITY IN CONTEXT OF WALKING, CYCLING AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT DISTANCES

The share of various means of transport in travels within the city is not only a technological issue, but first and foremost a spatial issue. Walking and bicycle trips tend to be shorter both in terms of distance and time, compared to trips made by public transport or by car. Therefore, a question arises: how functions should be distributed of in the city to enable its inhabitants to use individual car transport as little as possible? The aim of the article is to discuss several concepts regarding walking, cycling and public transport distances and to confront these theories with data obtained in several European cities -Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Paris, Warsaw and Vienna.

Speckle pattern optimization for DIC technologies

This paper contains the relation between speckle pattern and Digital Image Correlation (DIC). The most important advance in experimental mechanics has been DIC since the strain gage. The deformation (strain) of an object can be visualized by DIC. Among all scientific fields, the DIC Technologies have seen a dynamic increase. The relationship between the paint and the sample - as the patterns mediate the deformation to the cameras - has been the most important technological issue. In this article the method developed for the detection of isolated particles in alloys is used to characterize the spots, which help the best speckle pattern has determined.

Evaluation of De-Embedding Methods for Impedance Characterization of Magnetic Nanoparticles

Data storage and memory access has been, over the years, a technological issue due to the big volume of digital information. High-frequency magneto-transport in ferromagnetic nanoparticles may be used to deal with nanoscale storage devices, which requires an adequate electrical and magnetic characterization in the frequency domain. In this work, we fabricate ferromagnetic nanoparticles on top of platinum electrodes using focused-electron-beam induced +deposition (FEBID) method. Electrical characterization was performed using a Vector Network Analyzer (VNA). After these measurements, three de-embedding methods were applied: Open De-Embedding (OPD), Open-Short De-Embedding (OSD) and the Thru-Short-Open De-Embedding (TSOD) methods. We could observe that Thru-Short-Open De-Embedding provides good accuracy for evaluating the scattering parameters and to compensate the electrodes (fixture) signal due to the high frequencies behavior of ferromagnetic nanoparticles. The results will be useful to characterize ferromagnetic nanodisks used in data storage devices.

Ethics and Social Responsibility

Ethics is an important social and technological issue. The powerful computer capabilities provide new frontiers of economic and social human activities. Information, about employees, consumers, and markets, becomes more relevant when it enables economic decisions and impacts on the organization's competitiveness. Recent examples such as fake news show a necessity of a comprehensive and multidimensional economic and social approach to frame the use of algorithms and technologies to guarantee suitable ethical patterns in the information society. It is important to analyze the sensibility of economic stakeholders to the ethical limits of information collection and treatment about consumers and technology users. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the proposed model for ethical analysis through a proof of concept applied to a Portuguese energy operator, framing the identification and mitigation of the ethical risks associated with the continuous digital transformation process.

The Need for Sustainable Teleconsultation Systems in the Aftermath of the First COVID-19 Wave

The physical and social distancing measures that have been adopted worldwide because of COVID-19 will probably remain in place for a long time, especially for senior adults, people with chronic conditions, and other at-risk populations. Teleconsultations can be useful in ensuring that patients continue to receive clinical care while reducing physical crowding and avoiding unnecessary exposure of health care staff. Implementation processes that typically take months of planning, budgeting, pilot testing, and education were compressed into days. However, in the urgency to deal with the present crisis, we may be forgetting that the introduction of digital health is not exclusively a technological issue, but part of a complex organizational change problem. This viewpoint offers insight regarding issues that rapidly adopted teleconsultation systems may face in a post–COVID-19 world.

Beliefs and Habits Towards the Use of English Newspapers in Learning Autonomy

The current era is an era of media and technology. Reading English newspaper is also a technological issue of language learning and teaching. Many studies have shown that autonomous learners are able to learn the language without being spoon-fed the information and assistance. Learners perform many activities inside the classroom and outside the classroom. The present article is the exploration of autonomic English learning strategies through newspaper reading. This study attempts to explore the students’ and teachers’ beliefs towards the use of English newspapers with reference to learning autonomy and it also aims to explore the habits of reading English newspapers. For this, both qualitative and quantitative data have been interpreted and analyzed. To examine the beliefs of students towards the use of English newspapers exit poll questionnaire survey was used. The key informant interview method also has been employed to explore beliefs of the teachers as well as the experiences regarding the reading newspapers and forming the habits of reading newspapers. Furthermore, the results suggest that students should use and read newspapers as an authentic and useful supplementary materials for improving their English language autonomously. Moreover, this study also asks the teachers to make students informed regarding the usefulness of newspapers for the part of learning English language.

The Need for Sustainable Teleconsultation Systems in the Aftermath of the First COVID-19 Wave (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED The physical and social distancing measures that have been adopted worldwide because of COVID-19 will probably remain in place for a long time, especially for senior adults, people with chronic conditions, and other at-risk populations. Teleconsultations can be useful in ensuring that patients continue to receive clinical care while reducing physical crowding and avoiding unnecessary exposure of health care staff. Implementation processes that typically take months of planning, budgeting, pilot testing, and education were compressed into days. However, in the urgency to deal with the present crisis, we may be forgetting that the introduction of digital health is not exclusively a technological issue, but part of a complex organizational change problem. This viewpoint offers insight regarding issues that rapidly adopted teleconsultation systems may face in a post–COVID-19 world.

LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS IN THE ERA OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Digital transformation provoked by Industry 4.0 should not be just seen as a technological issue, it causes also fundamental changes in processes and in organizations of companies. Notably a new understanding of leadership can be counted on to them. The so-called “digital leaders” are expected to act rapidly and flexible in networked and distributed organization structures on the one hand and on the other hand they have to manage the digital transformation of the organization. Since most of the companies are still in the beginning of their digital transformation, there is a lack of a common understanding and a standard model of digital leadership. Most of the existing research works are visionary and predict the requirements for digital leadership on anticipated technological, economical and organizational changes; only few of them report about changes in leadership based on implemented cases. The objective of this study is to sum up main characteristics of the leadership in the era of digital transformation by applying content analysis of literature review as the method.

Identifying different challenges of online business using document analysis

The main focus of this study was to find out the different online business challenges in different scenarios. Documents analysis was used as the data collection method. This study exhibits a qualitative analysis and includes challenges on different aspects of e-businesses in South Asia and the European Union. The delivery problem, security concern, tax issue, legal issue, technological issue, consumer personality, trust issue, cultural diversity, etc. have been found as the challenges for e-business in South Asia. Different currencies, trust issues, different payment gateways, language issues, tax compliance, different marketing content, increased competition, etc. have been found as the challenges for e-business in the European Union.