Managing Technological Innovations at Deki Electronics

Deki Electronics was a Noida based capacitor manufacturing firm. By virtue of being a technology-based manufacturing firm, it was susceptible to risks of technology obsolescence. The company got a major shock when the lighting industry shifted from CFL to LED-based lighting within a very short span of time. Innovation was the only key to their survival. The case explores how they learnt to manage technological innovations and explores the question that how to avoid such technological shocks.

The Teachers' Opinion about Online Learning Process for Children with Special Educational Needs

Communication in the online environment represents a real evolution for the whole society, hence for the educational system but because the whole change took place in a short span of time, the education has faced an unencountered challenge up to now. Component of the informational society, the educational dynamic and open system promotes nowadays ways of achieving the instructional educational process, offering to the teacher a multitude of organisational and functional variants. However, in the case of children with special educational needs, there are many barriers in the way of achieving their right to education in the virtual space. The present study consisted of achieving an inquiry-based questionnaire, applied to the teaching staff who works in inclusive education centres and to those who have students with different deficiencies and special educational needs in their class. The results of the study highlight both the difficulties and the opportunities of achieving a didactic activity in the online environment for students with special educational needs.

Employability focused technology enhanced hybrid and online accounting capstone experience

In this paper, we share insights from our experience of harnessing technologies to innovatively design a capstone experience for large cohorts of accounting students in hybrid and online environments, informed by insights from key stakeholder consultations and relevant research. To support scaffolded development of professional skills and identity in a short span of eleven weeks, we designed a coherent suite of experiential learning and assessment activities based on contemporary events, an Enterprise Resource Planning business simulation, employability skills training and authentic case studies. Consistently high student evaluations of this unit suggest that our students find this experience valuable. Student responses to the Graduate Attribute Scale in the Graduate Outcomes Survey have shown improvement following the introduction of the capstone unit.

A Comprehensive Overview on COVID-19: Future Perspectives

The outbreak of COVID-19 has proven to be an unprecedented disaster for the whole world. The virus has inflicted billion of lives across the globe in all aspects—physically, psychologically, as well as socially. Compared to the previous strains of β-CoV genera- MERS and SARS, SARS-CoV-2 has significantly higher transmissibility and worst post-recovery implications. A frequent mutation in the initial SARS-CoV-2 strain has been a major cause of mortalities (approx. 3 million deaths) and uncontrolled virulence (approx. 1 billion positive cases). As far as clinical manifestations are concerned, this particular virus has exhibited deleterious impacts on systems other than the respiratory system (primary target organ), such as the brain, hematological system, liver, kidneys, endocrine system, etc. with no promising curatives to date. Lack of emergency treatments and shortage of life-saving drugs has promoted the repurposing of existing therapeutics along with the emergence of vaccines with the combined efforts of scientists and industrial experts in this short span. This review summarizes every detail on COVID-19 and emphasizes undermining the future approaches to minimize its prevalence to the remaining lives.

Is There a Significant Difference in Accuracy of Four Intraoral Scanners for Short-Span Fixed Dental Prosthesis? A Comparative In Vitro Study

Is the accuracy of the older generation of IOSs an impediment for obtaining a quality intraoral digital impression? The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences in accuracy between four intraoral scanners (two of the latest IOSs and two older IOSs) in the scenario of a short span fixed partial denture, and to determine if these differences have a major impact on the quality of the final digital impression. Four intraoral scanners: Cerec PrimeScan, Medit i700, Cerec Omnicam and Planmeca PlanScan and one laboratory scanner were used in this study. The scanned data were processed with the help of Geomagic Control X, a metrology software. For the statistical data analysis, the level of significance was set as 0.05 (α = 0.05). The Medit i700 group displayed the best level of trueness with the median value of 23.25 µm, PrimeScan group with a median of 25.55 µm, Omnicam group with a median of 32.3 µm and the PlanScan group which displayed the lowest level of trueness with a median value of 75.8 µm. From the precision data analysis, it was concluded that the PrimeScan group showed the best results, followed by Medit i700, Omnicam and the PlanScan group which showed the lowest precision. Even if there are some significant differences in accuracy between old and new IOSs, in the in vitro scenario of short span dental prostheses, the accuracy values were within the clinically acceptable range and may present important clinical implications.