Digital Twin-Driven Condition-Based Maintenance

The world is witnessing an all-level digitalization that guides the industry and business to a restructuration in order to adapt to the new requirements of the surrounding environment. That change also concerns the labour of the technical professionals and their formation. As a consequence of this deep consciousness-raising, this chapter will investigate and develop simulation models based on the current digitalization. The aim of this chapter is the exposition of a real case development of “digital twin” models framed as part of the condition-based maintenance paradigm to improve real-time assets operation and maintenance. This model contributes by providing real-time results that could turn into a basis for the industrial management decisions and place them in the Industry 4.0 paradigm environment.

Social and physical processes in production of urban public spaces case: Development of RPTRAs in East Jakarta

Public spaces in the big city of Jakarta are decreasing from year to year due to the ever expanding physical development. However, since 2015 until October 2019 290 RPTRA units had been built in DKI Jakarta where previously public spaces have not been paid much attention to and have always been defeated by more commercial developments. The objectives of this study are to find what structuring forces affect, who actors were involved in the production of those public spaces, and how they affect physical public spaces at all stages of physical life cycle in different RPTRAs. For those objectives this study used an analytical framework of institutionalist understanding and used descriptive qualitative descriptive approach and chose 4 RPTRAs in East Jakarta as case studies. The results of case studies show there are the structuring forces and the different actors operating in each RPTRA but what are structuring forces and who are the actors are relatively the same in each RPTRA. The results of this study suggest that urban design practitioners need to have greater understanding of the social processes guiding the production of public spaces and need to incorporate such understanding into their practice.

Developing standardized patient-based cases for communication training: lessons learned from training residents to communicate diagnostic uncertainty

Health professions education has benefitted from standardized patient (SP) programs to develop and refine communication and interpersonal skills in trainees. Effective case design is essential to ensure an SP encounter successfully meets learning objectives that are focused on communication skills. Creative, well-designed case scenarios offer learners the opportunity to engage in complex patient encounters, while challenging them to address the personal and emotional contexts in which their patients are situated. Therefore, prior to considering the practical execution of the patient encounter, educators will first need a clear and structured strategy for writing, organizing, and developing cases. The authors reflect on lessons learned in developing standardized patient-based cases to train learners to communicate to patients during times of diagnostic uncertainty, and provide suggestions to develop a set of simulation cases that are both standardized and diverse. Key steps and workflow processes that can assist educators with case design are introduced. The authors review the need to increase awareness of and mitigate existing norms and implicit biases, while maximizing variation in patient diversity. Opportunities to leverage the breadth of emotional dispositions of the SP and the affective domain of a clinical encounter are also discussed as a means to guide future case development and maximize the value of a case for its respective learning outcomes.

Case Study Inquiry & Black Feminist Resistance

This article explains the researcher ownership of tools of inquiry. Using personal narrative, the text highlights the elements of case study development presenting the familial as the impetus for an alternative mode for LIS social justice research in an ethnic, racial, gendered community. Using the researcher journey as an example, the approach is explored through a theoretical and methodological iterative case development process. Implications in the furtherance of LIS social justice inquiry models utilizing a critical-qualitative approach are explicated towards the development of a case study in the pursuit of community-focused research.

Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis with malignant transformation

Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) is a rare disease with an unpredictable course. The etiology is associated with the human papillomavirus (HPV). Malignant transformation of papillomas is extremely rare. Two clinical cases of RRP malignization are presented. In the first case, 22-year-old women with a long history of RRP and the lower respiratory tract lesions, squamous cell lung cancer developed. Second case - development of squamous cell carcinoma from the tracheal papilloma in a 35-year-old patient. Aggressive local endobronchial treatment was carried out; however, the prognosis remains pessimistic due to the absence of etiopathogenetic therapy for RRP. Careful monitoring including HPV typing is mandatory, since infection with aggressive HPV strains leads to rapid proliferation of papillomas and malignant transformation.

Using Blockchain-Enabled Solutions as SDG Accelerators in the International Development Space

As the world is striving to recover from the shockwaves triggered by the COVID-19 crisis, all hands are needed on deck to transition towards green recovery and make peace with nature as prerequisites of a global sustainable development pathway. In this paper, we examine the blockchain hype, the gaps in the knowledge, and the tools needed to build promising use cases for blockchain technology to accelerate global efforts in this decade of action towards achieving the SDGs. We attempt to break the “hype cycle” portraying blockchain’s superiority by navigating a rational blockchain use case development approach. By prototyping an SDG Acceleration Scorecard to use blockchain-enabled solutions as SDG accelerators, we aim to provide useful insights towards developing an integrated approach that is fit-for-purpose to guide organizations and practitioners in their quest to make informed decisions to design and implement blockchain-backed solutions as SDG accelerators. Acknowledging the limitations in prototyping such tools, we believe these are minimally viable products and should be considered as living tools that can further evolve as the blockchain technology matures, its pace of adoption increases, lessons are learned, and good practices and standards are widely shared and internalized by teams and organizations working on innovation for development.