Centric Programming Research Articles

EMPOWERING WOMEN THROUGH AIRWAVES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WOMEN-CENTRIC PROGRAMMING ON ALL INDIA RADIO AND MY FM 94.3

Radio, which is called the medium of sound, is actually working like a magic into listeners ears the reason is voice, presentation, language, tone of the artists and its content. Radio is the most important program content that engages the audience and has always been working to create awareness and educate the society. There has been an old relationship between radio and women. Radio has been broadcasting programs for women for many years, but with time there have been many changes in the program content, through which we have tried to know what kind of content the radio channels are now broadcasting for women. Are they relevant to women empowerment? or their main objective just to entertain? For the study, we have selected a private radio channel (94.3 MY FM) and a public radio channel (All India Radio). To know about women empowerment content, we have included women centric programs of both the channels for the study. The study area is city of lakes Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh). This is the one-week radio shows study in which researcher has recorded one-week women-based radio shows on mobile phone. We have analyzed the study content very deeply. The researcher also tried to know how much time slot they are giving for women centric shows. As well as to know what the difference between the two is, for which we have used a comparative study methodology to get better results.

PHS99 - Patient Centricity – Patient Related Programs In The German Healthcare Environment

For many mostly chronic diseases and related appropriate therapies patient centered programs are offered by the healthcare industry, healthcare provider and healthcare associations. These programs are intended to support patients in the application of their therapy. The objective of the analysis was to identify the characteristics of industry offered patient support programs, healthcare provider and association related programs. Furthermore the objective was to identify possible touchpoints with disease management programs from statutory health insurances. The web based research regarding patient centered programs offered by the medical industry, healthcare provider and associations was conducted in March 2016. Therefore the keywords (German language) “patient support program”, “patient centered programs” were used. Information were identified, categorized and compared by the following parameters: provider, indication, product, service, level type. Characteristics of disease management programs from statutory health insurances are equal by definition by German healthcare legislation. In total 40 patient support programs from healthcare industry could be identified (87%). Four patient centered programs (9%) were offered by healthcare associations, two patient centered programs were offered by healthcare providers (4%). In total 13 disease areas are covered, this is more than half of all existing ICD-categories. In total for 40 programs (87%) with service center support could be identified and 18 programs offered nurse services (40%). In general three different categories of patient centric programs are offered within the German healthcare system: product related programs, disease management programs of the statutory health insurances and programs fostering structured healthcare offered by healthcare providers as well as healthcare associations. More than half of the existing ICD categories are covered by patient centric programs with categorized characteristics. Beside different characteristics of programs similar touchpoints could be identified. Sources: web based research, March 2016 using German keywords: Patienten Support Programm, Patienten zentriertes Programm. Individual sources provided on request.

SPARTex

A growing number of applications require combining SPARQL queries with generic graph search on RDF data. However, the lack of procedural capabilities in SPARQL makes it inappropriate for graph analytics. Moreover, RDF engines focus on SPARQL query evaluation whereas graph management frameworks perform only generic graph computations. In this work, we bridge the gap by introducing SPARTex, an RDF analytics framework based on the vertex-centric computation model. In SPARTex, user-defined vertex centric programs can be invoked from SPARQL as stored procedures. SPARTex allows the execution of a pipeline of graph algorithms without the need for multiple reads/writes of input data and intermediate results. We use a cost-based optimizer for minimizing the communication cost. SPARTex evaluates queries that combine SPARQL and generic graph computations orders of magnitude faster than existing RDF engines. We demonstrate a real system prototype of SPARTex running on a local cluster using real and synthetic datasets. SPARTex has a real-time graphical user interface that allows the participants to write regular SPARQL queries, use our proposed SPARQL extension to declaratively invoke graph algorithms or combine/pipeline both SPARQL querying and generic graph analytics.

Efforts to Reverse the Trend of Enrollment Decline in Computer Science Programs

Introduction Since the turn of the century, there has been a barrage of reports and statistics that point to one fact regarding enrollment in technology related programs: there is a sharp decline of enrollment in computer related courses and programs. This trend is not limited to computer science programs, but extends to all technology centric programs. Computer science programs in particular are one of the hardest hit programs that faced this sharp decline in enrollment (Ali, 2009; Benokraitis, Bizot, Brown, & Martens, 2009; Dean, 2007; Zweben, 2009). Recent years have shown some progress regarding increasing enrollment in these technology programs, but a determination is yet to be made whether this slight upward trend represents a turn-around in enrollment or not (Markoff, 2009; Slonim, Scully & Mcallister, 2008). Among these programs that witnessed some recent increase in their enrollment is the computer science program (COSC) at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). This department made numerous adjustments to curriculum, programs and degrees offered. The problem of enrollment is being addressed at the supply side by reaching out to high school students, secondary education technology teachers, guidance counselors and by establishing affiliations with other institutions. All of these efforts were (and are) aimed at reversing the trends of enrollment decline in their program. The experiences of this program along with the steps they have taken to reverse the trend of enrollment decline are illustrated in this paper. The remainder of this paper is divided into five sections: The first section describes the low enrollment trends in computer science programs. It lists various statistics and employs charts that show this enrollment decline. The second section discusses possible reasons that led to this decline. The third section elaborates on steps that have been suggested to reverse this trend of enrollment decline among technology programs. The fourth section explains the steps and procedures that have been taken by the computer science program (COSC) at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) to reverse this trend. A summary and suggested future research is included at the end of this paper. Enrollment Decline--Numbers Different studies have been conducted and numerous statistics gathered to investigate this enrollment decline at the various Computer Science (CS) departments. All the studies and the statistics lead to one conclusion: There is a sharp decline in enrollment among computer science programs. The statistics differ by area of study, school and gender and sometimes categorize the numbers differently. However, despite these differences, the same statistics point to the grim reality of the enrollment decline among students enrolled in technology programs (Ali, 2009; Benokraitis et al., 2009; Dean, 2007; Vesgo, 2008; Zweben, 2009). But to give one set of numbers to describe enrollment may not explain the whole picture of enrollment decline as there are numerous factors that affect these numbers. Thus, this section presents the data and analysis of enrollment from different viewpoints. It first describes the peak enrollment time(s) as they are often referred to when explaining enrollment numbers. Then it analyzes different charts that show the number of admitted students and graduates from CS programs and among women in particular. Later, it highlights enrollment numbers in the COSC program at IUP and makes additional notation on the general trend. Peak Enrollment Time When presenting trend data, it is accustomed to provide comparison numbers in terms of a peak period. In other words, in order to see the comparative numbers of any trend, statisticians tend to list the highest value of a particular trend and show comparative numbers as they relate to the trend being exhibited. The trend of enrollment at CS programs may be better explained if they are compared to a similar peak (or highest) numbers. …

Hospitality in hospitals?

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore an organization‐wide philosophy of hospitality in a hospital setting.Design/methodology/approachAn exploratory case study method approach matched the research purpose. First, a hospitality centric philosophy (HCP) was defined from the literature review. Next, a triangulation of unstructured visits, structured visits and key informant interviews is used to further explore a HCP in one organization. After this, the hospitality centric programs (HCPr) supporting the HCP are defined, identified, described and classified.FindingsA fairly distinct HCP viewed as a method for enhancing service excellence was in place and supported by top management. The hospital aimed to offer hospitality to patients on par with the hospitality experience offered to hotel guests. A department of hospitality services, a service excellence council, a director of service excellence, and an external hospitality advisory board were in place and met regularly. Further, many formalized HCPr had been created for the execution of the HCP.Practical implicationsThe researchers believe that an effectively managed HCP can be modified by culture to enhance the service excellence of the patient/guest experience in hospitals and in the hospitality industry. For hospitals, further enhancements can be realized through developing and executing hospitality centric goals aligned with the performance metrics beyond traditional competition boundaries, such as a hospital seeking to deliver a service experience on par with a hotel. For more traditionally defined hospitality businesses, the extreme context of a hospital where the importance of hospitality is magnified due to treating and caring for sick guests offers a different frame of reference for learning. This new frame of reference can lead to more cutting edge ideas for refining and customizing the service design and delivery. For both hospitals and hospitality businesses, putting in place an HCP with the appropriate organizational support through HCPr allows for more precise information and thus improved service outcomes.Originality/valueAn HCP is defined and acknowledged as a distinct organization‐wide philosophy for enhancing service excellence that is applicable across industries. An HCP is demystified through investigating hospitality centric goals, identifying organizational support teams that solely consider HCP, and through further specifying examples of HCPr for activating the HCP. Finally, the study suggests hospitality centric service excellence (HCSE) as a higher distinction of service excellence outcome that is more likely to be achieved through a HCP.

Example centric programming

Programmers tend to understand programs by thinking of concrete examples. Example Centric Programming seeks to add IDE support for examples throughout the process of programming. Instead of programmers interpreting examples in their head, the examples are written down and the IDE interprets them automatically. Advanced UI techniques are used to present the results closely integrated with the code. Traditionally distinct programming tools (the editor, Read-Eval-Print-Loop, debugger, and test runner) are unified into a single tool that might be called an example-enlightened editor. This is expected to benefit a wide spectrum of programming activities, for both novice and experienced programmers. Some novel methods for testing and development are made possible. In the longer term, example centrism has implications for the design of future programming languages. A prototype has been implemented for Java in Eclipse.

E-business technology education: a preliminary model

In this paper, we describe a preliminary model proposing that the e-business technology (EBT) should be one area of many specialization areas within Computing Science & Information Technology (CSI taught many times by the authors during the past decade) from the viewpoint of the preliminary model developed in this paper. One of the original contributions of this paper is that the authors have coined two new terms to reflect the latest technological developments and proposed educational changes: the “mobile PC telephone”, and the “e-business centric programming”.