Digital Profile Research Articles

Development of a digital profile of a university teacher

Currently, digitalization is a cross-cutting business process in the higher education system. Digital transformation has affected both the functioning of the higher education system in general and the activities of each university and participants in the educational process in particular.An important problem is the adaptation of teachers to a dynamically changing digital environment, taking into account the requirements for the level of digital competencies resulting from the specifics of the digital environment, and the already existing level of digital literacy of the teacher. In a modern university, a teacher is a multifunctional subject who performs educational, methodological, research, and administrative tasks, the solution of which is often associated with working in the digital environment of an educational organization.The article presents a model of the digital environment of a university with an emphasis on human resources and digital services is presented, which allows the development of a policy for managing changes and transformation processes in universities. The thesis that the digital environment determines the level of requirements for the digital competencies of teachers is substantiated.The authors propose an evaluation method for the teacher’s digital literacy, which makes it possible to develop the teacher’s digital profile considering the educational, methodological, administrative, and research activities.

Correction of Batch Effect in Gut Microbiota Profiling of ASD Cohorts from Different Geographical Origins.

To date, there have been numerous metataxonomic studies on gut microbiota (GM) profiling based on the analyses of data from public repositories. However, differences in study population and wet and dry pipelines have produced discordant results. Herein, we propose a biostatistical approach to remove these batch effects for the GM characterization in the case of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). An original dataset of GM profiles from patients with ASD was ecologically characterized and compared with GM public digital profiles of age-matched neurotypical controls (NCs). Also, GM data from seven case-control studies on ASD were retrieved from the NCBI platform and exploited for analysis. Hence, on each dataset, conditional quantile regression (CQR) was performed to reduce the batch effects originating from both technical and geographical confounders affecting the GM-related data. This method was further applied to the whole dataset matrix, obtained by merging all datasets. The ASD GM markers were identified by the random forest (RF) model. We observed a different GM profile in patients with ASD compared with NC subjects. Moreover, a significant reduction of technical- and geographical-dependent batch effects in all datasets was achieved. We identified Bacteroides_H, Faecalibacterium, Gemmiger_A_73129, Blautia_A_141781, Bifidobacterium_388775, and Phocaeicola_A_858004 as robust GM bacterial biomarkers of ASD. Finally, our validation approach provided evidence of the validity of the QCR method, showing high values of accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, and AUC-ROC. Herein, we proposed an updated biostatistical approach to reduce the technical and geographical batch effects that may negatively affect the description of bacterial composition in microbiota studies.

India's digital dividend: A strategic opportunity and challenge

India has been on a digital growth trajectory for a few years, prompted by its goal of becoming a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025. The Indian digital revolution has resulted in a new wave of digital consumption and dividends. This manuscript examines the transformative journey of India's digital revolution, highlighting the strategic opportunities and challenges it encompasses. The Digital India initiative, a cornerstone government policy, has been instrumental in this transformative process, aiming to digitize various aspects of life and governance. Despite a significant increase in internet users and the successful launch of numerous digital projects, a substantial digital divide remains, characterized by disparities in mobile phone ownership, internet access, and digital literacy across different genders, geographical locations, and income groups. Using a qualitative research methodology, this study investigates the economic impact of digitalization on the Indian economy and identifies factors contributing to the digital divide. An extensive literature review and qualitative content analysis identified five primary themes: the digital profile of India, digitization and economic growth, digitalization and economic variables, digitalization across sectors, and the digital divide. These themes elucidate India's progress in digital literacy and financial inclusion, the economic advantages of digitalization, and the obstacles to achieving digital inclusivity. The manuscript proposes a developmental framework with recommendations for policymakers, business leaders, and other stakeholders to mitigate the digital divide and maximize the benefits of digital dividends. It underscores the necessity of a comprehensive digital strategy, the enhancement of digital infrastructure, the development of digital human resources, the promotion of digital literacy, and the fostering of digital entrepreneurial capacity.

Personal digital sovereignty: communicative aspect

The article reveals the essence and content of the personal digital sovereignty in the context of dynamically developing digitalization processes. The relevance of the topic is based on the growing need in security of personal, private and other sensitive data in the digital space. The use of digital profiles and accounts containing sensitive and confidential information, the use of smart devices, programs and technologies raises the question of understanding the digital sovereignty of the individual, the ways to ensure it, and the problem of communication in the digital space as a whole. In scientific and practical literature significant attention has recently been paid to the digital sovereignty of the state. However, the peculiarities of the development of a digital society, i.e. the issues of protection of the rights and interests of individual in the digital space, remain poorly studied. The subject of the article is the personal digital sovereignty, its basic characteristics and structural elements. The authors reveal the main approaches to defining the essence of this concept from the standpoint of many disciplines and branches of knowledge. The study is concluded with the authors’ definition of the concept of “personal digital sovereignty”.

EXPERT OPINIONS ON THE PRACTICE OF CREATING DIGITAL STUDENTS PROFILES IN UNIVERSITIES

This article presents the results of an empirical study on the creation of digital profiles of students, which are understood as a visualization of the competencies acquired by a student as a result of mastering basic and additional disciplines, as well as a tool and means of electronic communications of the university and business structures, primarily employers. The results and prospects of creating digital profiles become the subject of scientific discussion and theoretical comprehension. The research interest is related to the assessment of domestic experience in the context of digitalization of higher education. The creation of digital profiles of university students requires constant monitoring and correction, as it has the format of a pilot project and is not systematic. The issues of determining the content of a student's digital profile, the format of its presentation, the methods of collecting and systematizing a sufficient amount of information understandable to external stakeholders are not always clear. The questionnaires developed as part of the study made it possible to obtain an expert assessment of the practice of creating digital profiles of students in domestic universities. Keywords: digitalization of education, digital profile, competencies of graduates, electronic communication, soft skills.

РОЛЬ ЧЕЛОВЕЧЕСКОГО ФАКТОРА ПРИ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИИ ЦИФРОВЫХ ПРОФИЛЕЙ СТУДЕНТОВ, ПОСТРОЕННЫХ НА ОСНОВЕ БИГ ДАТА

The article is devoted to the consideration of a number of socio-cultural effects and ethical problems accompanying the process of building a digital learning environment and its integration into the traditional educational system of higher education institutions, namely the attitude of students to the digital registration of their academic and non-academic achievements and their operation, the use of their personal data and ethical problems arising from their use. The student's digital profile provides a lot of information for analysis and decision-making to improve learning effectiveness. In turn, there are a number of costs of this process: ambiguous reactions of students to the operation of data on their achievements in the educational process, raising issues of confidentiality and freedom of decision-making.

Understanding Older Adults' Experiences With a Digital Health Platform in General Practice: Qualitative Interview Study.

In our aging population, primary care is under pressure to remain accessible to all. Effective use of digital health care could potentially lower general practitioners' (GPs) workload. Some general practices are already implementing a digital health platform as a primary method to contact their patients. However, it is unknown how older people experience this novel way to communicate with their GP. The aim of this study was to study the experiences of patients aged 65 years and older in general practices who use digital health as a primary communication tool. The secondary aims were to identify barriers and facilitators for the use of digital health care and whether a practice focus on digital health influences older patients' choice to enlist. We invited all patients aged 65 years and older at 2 general practices in Amsterdam that work with a novel digital health platform. We used purposive sampling to select a heterogeneous group of patients in terms of age, sex, level of education, digital literacy, and experiences with the digital app of their general practice. We conducted 18 semistructured interviews from May through July 2023. All interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, coded, and thematically analyzed. We generated three themes: (1) experiences of older people with digital health care in general practice, (2) impact of individual factors on digital health experiences, and (3) reasons for choosing a digitally oriented general practice. Participants reported both positive and negative experiences. The main perceived advantages of the digital health platform were increased accessibility, direct GP contact without an intermediary, and saving time through asynchronous communication. The disadvantages mentioned were log-in difficulties and problems with the automated explanatory questionnaire. Individual factors such as age, digital literacy, and expectations of general practice care seemed to impact people's experiences and could act as barriers or facilitators for using digital health. Reasons for older patients to enlist at a general practice were mainly practical. The digital orientation of the practice hardly played a role in this choice. Older patients in general practice see benefits to using a digital health platform that offers 2-way chat-based communication between the patient and GP. We found that individual factors such as skills, norms and values, attitudes toward digitalization, and expectations of general practice care impacted older patients' experiences with digital health care. For many older participants, the digital profile of the general practice did not play a role in their choice to enlist. Further improvement of digital health platforms will be necessary to ensure digital health for all in general practice.

Library user digital profiling: The structural and functional approach. (Part I)

This is the first of two articles on the problem. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the demonstration of the potential of library user digital profiles (DP). The author examines the following problem components: a) user DP structure with specifying the layers – subject, object, domain, communications, and b) layer function – identification, clusterization, filtration, and collaboration. For each layer, the dominant factors are identified that enable to model, structure and use DPs for proactive meeting of library users’ information demands. The practical value of the study lies in the DP development and application for services personalization: proactive building awareness of new acquisitions, digital user support and curation, support of research projects; reconciling library collection and the demands of core user groups (collection structure enhancement, changing of the policy of acquisitions, cataloguing, and library services promotion); need-demand interdependence through using DP information, which makes acquisitions and services more efficient; and accommodation of library activities with local community’s plans and expectations.

DIGITAL LEARNING FOOTPRINT AS A WAY OF FIXING SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL TEXTS AS A RESULT OF SEMANTIC READING BY SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Purpose. One of the main directions of teaching methodology is the creation of a personalized educational route. In the context of the development of the digital educational environment, it is necessary to explore the possibilities of combining individualization of learning with modern digital platforms. The key concept in the study of this topic is the "digital footprint". The article presents a model for displaying a digital footprint in the form of a digital profile, a universal diagnosis of the understanding of the educational text is compiled to create its own text field and it is recorded that the secondary educational text can be a digital artifact that remains in cloud storage and forms part of the digital footprint for a certain period of time. Methodology. The research is based on the analysis and synthesis of psychological, pedagogical and educational literature, on modeling the process of fixing secondary educational texts in the form of a digital artifact, which will be part of the digital footprint, as well as displaying the levels of subject, meta-subject and personal results. Results. The concepts of digital footprint and digital artifact, secondary educational text, and semantic reading are defined. A digital footprint model consisting of digital artifacts in the form of secondary educational texts has been developed, and a universal diagnostic of the understanding of the educational text has been created to create a secondary text by students. Practical implications. The results can be applied in creating a digital educational environment of an educational organization based on the compilation and accumulation of a digital footprint of each student, in the analysis of digital artifacts presented in the form of secondary educational texts, in the development of a system for evaluating educational results achieved using modern technologies.

A Photographic Approach Studying the Orientation of the occlusal plane of the Malaysian Population. A Proposal for an Orienting Device

The occlusal plane is crucial in prosthodontic reconstructive treatment as it affects the most important factors for the proper functioning of the artificial prostheses. The achievement of correct occlusal plane position offers maximum aesthetic, phonetic, mastication, and patient’s satisfaction. An incorrectly oriented occlusal plane interferes with denture stability and retention, in addition to more vital functions of the teeth and oral cavity. This study used a photographic approach to determine the occlusal plane inclination in relation to some anatomical references. 95 young volunteers of Mahsa University College, aged between 20 and 25 years, were selected for this study. The participants were selected according to specific inclusion criteria. A standardized digital profile and front images were taken for each participant using a digital camera that is fixed on a tripod with the fox bite plane placed on the occlusal surfaces of the maxillary teeth. The angle amplitude of the reference planes in relation to the occlusal plane was measured using a digital protractor on the screen display. The results revealed that the least mean angle difference was with the AT1, while higher variability was found using the Frankfort plane. In addition, there were no significant differences between the two genders or among the three ethnic groups. It is concluded that the photographic method can be used successfully to study the occlusal plane, and the lowest point of the tragus is the best posterior reference point to determine the ideal location of the occlusal plane.

Цифровая идентичность как условие бытия человека в цифровом обществе

Introduction. The article is devoted to the problem of digital identity. The development of the information society and digitalization processes poses to each Internet user the challenge of matching the digital profile to its real owner. There is often a big difference between a real person and his digital avatars, which leads not only to confusion and ambiguous perception of the narrator and the author by the other, but also to depersonalization of the author. Theoretical analysis. Having a digital identity allows you to successfully self-realize in the virtual space and in the real world, be it finding a job or finding a life partner. However, the development of artificial intelligence and neural networks makes it possible to create many fakes, impersonate one narrator for another, and replace the image of the author. On the other hand, the author’s desire to create a different virtual image for himself due to a number of complexes or intrigues can lead to a split personality. Conclusion. Modern digitalization processes lead to the awareness of the need for digital identity. The formation of digital identity can take place both in an authoritarian way and in a softer educational way. In any case, its presence will give the user of the digital environment undeniable advantages in personal and professional activities.

Enhancing e-IDs authentication with NFC

In the modern times, the heavy footprint of Information and Communication Technologies in the everyday life brings multiple challenges to the ordinary citizen, like having a digital profile on numerous services and institutions. The spread of authentication services that need to be verified to perform simple tasks is thus overwhelming. Many countries hence developed elaborated solutions to unify some of the authentication services around a single e-ID card to help performing different everyday tasks. The burden associated with carrying a smartcard reader to authenticate, or the time spent and complexity of the authentication using Mobile Digital Tokens represent an adversity for citizens who are not so digitally educated. NFC is a technology that is growing in usage every year and is widely adopted now. It is easy and fast to use. This paper proposes a safe, easy, and fast way to implement NFC-based authentication in an e-ID card and discusses its benefits.

Human Information Rights in Digital Space: To the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

An important milestone in the development of the institute of human rights is the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which for the first time in history comprehensively enshrined the basic human rights and freedoms, taking into account the natural, political and social needs and interests of the person (individual). The adoption of this very document declared the man, his fundamental rights and freedoms to be the main value. The international community sought to cover all possible spheres of public relations (public and private) that are necessary for a person to function normally, consolidating basic rights and freedoms. It is impossible to deny the importance of this international legal act for the «human family» and each individual. At the same time, we may state that this document was adopted three quarters of a century ago and it does not fully reflect reality, does not take into account the dynamics of the development of public relations, in particular, does not define human rights in the emerging information society, in particular the digital space. After all, even the approach to individualization and identification of the person himself is changing, digital profiles of citizens appear, digital passports and other identification documents are issued, moreover, «cybermen» appear — individuals with subcutaneously implanted microchips (capsules) with NFC technologies (Near Field Communication), containing information, in particular, about personal and banking data.

PreventS-MD®: a New Digital Technology to Maintain Cardiovascular Prevention in Routine Clinical Practice

Stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), and other main non-communicable diseases (NCDs) remain major causes of mortality and disability globally. Up to 80% of cardiovascular events and up to 60% of NCDs are associated with potentially controlled risk factors (RFs). State-of-the-art digital technologies can help bridge the gap between evidence-based prevention methods and their critically low availability in routine clinical practice.
 An innovative digital platform named PreventS-MD® is a specially developed tool for healthcare professionals to be used under time constraints. With PreventS-MD®, clinicians can estimate patient's 10-year cardiovascular risk within several minutes. Then, they automatically get adapted results and recommendations to address identified RFs as well as graphical representation of specific RF contribution to overall stroke and MI risks. If some additional time is available, the clinician and the patient can collaboratively set customized achievable goals to correct modifiable RFs. An integrated analytical module provides healthcare managers with current digital risk profiles of the relevant population to evaluate prevention effectiveness and to forecast the load throughout the healthcare levels.
 PreventS-MD® has several unique advantages, including time-saving design, the function to activate motivated RF correction, individually tailored recommendations, and information on personally changed digital profiles of vascular risks. As cardiovascular diseases and main NCDs have a lot of common RFs, PreventS-MD® implemented into routine clinical practice will utilize a complex approach to the prevention of main NCDs, decreasing both stroke and MI burden and addressing complications of chronic pulmonary and kidney disease, tumors of any type, dementia, etc.

Analyzing Monetaray and Credit Policy of the Russian Federation in Conditions of Sancion Restrictions

The article deals with problems connected with monetary and credit policy of the Russian Federation in new economic and geo-political conditions, such as mass sanction pressure on home economy, serious fluctuations of raw material prices, drastic changes in economic logistic chains and growing needs in budget expenditure. The author showed the role of monetary and credit sphere in the system of providing national economic security in the country, investigated tools of monetary and credit policy in conditions of sanctions and analyzed and assessed key trends that are realized by the Bank of Russia and aimed at overcoming economic after-effects of sanctions. The article fixed characteristics of the monetary and credit system which can be considered safe. Steps of the Bank of Russia aimed at overcoming economic after-effects and minimization of threats for the monetary and credit system were studied. It was shown that innovation development of the banking system is still a promising trend that includes the project of using the digital profile aiming at higher accessibility of finance resources and minimization of negative consequences of sanction restrictions. And finally, the author came to the conclusion that high degree of openness of such policy can increase confidence on the part of economic relation entities to the Central Bank of the Russian Federation as a key monetary and credit institution.

The Model of the Digital Competence Profile of Pedagogical University Students

The article actualizes the assessment of the competencies of students of a pedagogical university through the systematic collection and analysis of the level of competence formation in the process of mastering the main professional educational program. The need to monitor and evaluate the development of students’ competencies makes it possible to identify the absence or insufficient level of competence formation among students and make appropriate managerial and pedagogical decisions to improve the quality of the educational process. One of such means is the digital competence profile of a student of a pedagogical university, by which the authors understand the system of collecting, analyzing and visualizing a set of competencies that are formed and developed by students as a result of mastering the basic educational program and extracurricular activities necessary for the implementation of professional pedagogical activity, presented digitally in the information and educational environment of the university. The article presents a model of the digital competence profile of pedagogical university students, identifies structural elements and functional relationships between them. The purpose of the article is to develop a model of the digital competence profile of pedagogical university students, to identify objects and subjects of the digital profile, to determine the structural elements of the digital profile of a pedagogical university student, to identify functional relationships and relationships between the structural elements of the model. Methodology and methods of research. The study was carried out on the basis of the modeling method and the structural and functional method, which provides identification of the structural elements of the digital profile of a student of a pedagogical university, determination of functional relationships and relationships between structural elements and their functions relative to each other. Conclusion. The model proposed by the authors is aimed at tracking the level of formation of the digital profile of competencies during the transition from formal assessment of knowledge to informal assessment of abilities, forming an individual route of formation in the context of a successful individual career trajectory of a student of a pedagogical university. The model is the basis for the development of an information system of a digital tool and can be used to monitor and evaluate the professional competencies of students of a pedagogical university.

Single phase AC power load profile emulator

This paper deals with the realization and design of a consumption profile emulator intended for the validation of different element energy models of a stand-alone wind and photovoltaic system, associated with electrochemical energy storage [1]. The emulator is designed to vary active power but in the near future it will also be used to load simulation with reactive power. Energy models are then inserted in a sizing optimization algorithm in order to minimize the Global Energy Requirement (GER) of the whole system [2]. Afterwards, we will focus on the emulator power part dimensioning and then its modelling in view of the stand-alone system controlled by an active power reference. Moreover, the digital profile generator is described. The impact on the DC bus capacitor current, caused by the frequency difference between the grid and the inverter, has also been tackled. Finally, experimental results are shown.

Digital profile and self-presentation in educational video blogging: working with the target audience

The article discusses the features of educational video blogging using a sample of 240 videos as an example. Along with quantitative characteristics (13 indicators), the features of self-presentation of video bloggers are analyzed. The latter include clothing style, speech characteristics, location of video filming, use of special effects, etc. (6 categories in total). Quantitative characteristics and features of self-presentation of bloggers are examined in the context of three target audiences - children, teachers, and others. For the analysis, the MannWhitney comparison test and the Phi coefficient were used to study statistically significant relationships between dichotomies.

Toward Innovation in Healthcare: An Analysis of the Digital Behavior of Older People in Europe and Japan for the Introduction of a Technological Coaching System.

(1) Background: The increasing older population and demographic shifts highlight the need to understand the digital profiles of older adults, a pivotal factor in developing innovative technologies like the e-VITA virtual coach. This personalized coach provides recommendations for sustainable well-being in a smart home environment. (2) Methods: This study focuses on analyzing the characteristics of older individuals categorized as Internet users (onliners) and non-users (offliners). European Social Survey data from 2021 were utilized for European analysis, determining Internet usage based on frequency. Offliners are defined as users who never use the Internet, and onliners as those who use it, albeit with different frequencies. In Japan, data from the 9th International Comparative Survey on the Lives and Attitudes of the Elderly were employed, based on the responses of 1367 subjects, which defined onliners as individuals using communication devices and offliners as those not utilizing fax machines, cell phones, or the Internet. (3) Results: This paper presents a primary analysis of older end-user context and perspectives, outlining effective strategies for the diffusion of an active and healthy aging coaching system in the market and society. (4) Conclusions: the study emphasizes the importance of analyzing digital behavior in any user-centered design approach to ensure the system's acceptance after deployment.

Development of the Tourism Industry in a Region: Digital Decision-Making Tools Based on Geoanalytical Data

Relevance and objectives of the research. Consumer research, development of customer profiles of target segments is an important activity of any organization, including the tourism business and tourism administrations. Knowing the target audience allows you to create a value-oriented client-oriented offer of tourist products, plan tourist flows and develop territories. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how analytical work with digital data on the behavior of tourists and the construction of digital tourist profiles based on the obtained data can be used for the most effective management of the tourism industry in the Russian Federation, as well as the creation of customer-oriented regional tourism products.Materials and methods. The methodological base of the study was made up of general scientific methods, methods of analysis of secondary and primary data. The following research methods were used in the work: the method of analysis and synthesis, comparison and generalization of information, the method of induction and deduction, secondary and primary marketing research, digital analytical data. The information base of the study was the materials of the Federal State Statistics Service, Penzastat, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Penza Region, documents defining the strategic development of the tourism industry in the Russian Federation, the results of scientific and marketing research of the tourism market, data from the GeoEffect analytical digital platform of the MTS software, authors’ own research.Results. Based on the data of the GeoEffect digital platform, an analysis was made of the structure of tourist flows in the Penza region, digital profiles of tourists were described, the most popular visiting areas were identified, on the basis of which recommendations were developed for a roadmap for tourism development in the Penza region.Conclusions . Digital data analytics and building digital profiles of tourists allows the tourism business to take into account consumer behavior in their activities, and tourism administrations to focus the resources of the region on objects and locations that are attractive from the point of view of consumers, forming a value proposition for them.