Digitized Research Articles

Mediating imaginaries

The aim of this article is to illustrate how visions of the future—sociotechnical imaginaries— mediate and thus shape sociotechnical practices involving educational robots in a Danish school context. In the analysis I show how imaginaries are manifested both in technological artefacts, teachers’ discourse and in policy documents from political bodies such as the OECD and the Danish Agency for Digitisation (DIGST). To show this manifestation, I apply two concepts: The Science and Technology Studies (STS) concept of ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’ as formulated by Sheila Jasanoff (2015) and the concept of ‘mediation’ known from postphenomenological tradition. I develop an analytical framework based on these two concepts and coin a third — ‘symbolic mediation’ — to present and analyse a case study based on an ethnographic field study that included semi-structured interviews conducted in a Danish school setting. The case study shows how the use of the robot NAO—an educational technology—is driven by two related imaginaries that both serve as arguments for implementing and using the robot—the imaginary of the digital future and the imaginary of educational optimization.

Designing a cryptosystem for data at rest encryption in mobile payments

ABSTRACT Since the evolution of m-commerce, security and entrustment of digitized transactions have become of captious concern to financial institutions. Card information hacking has caused money losses around the world, therefore it is imperative for financial institutions to get rid of such losses. Currently, the number of mobile payment schemes have been purposed but primarily the schemes aim attention at transaction security, fraud detection and prevention, not on data at rest encryption in mobile payments. Therefore, this work aims attention to encrypt sensitive static data residing at database server in mobile payments. Data at rest is the static data i.e., card details of the users which resides at the server. It is essential to ensure that the sensitive data of the payment users stay protected so as to prevent the adversaries looking for unauthorized access to the data. The encryption of data at rest is accomplished at the database level in this work. Cryptography is increasingly being used to combat against the security of sensitive data to guarantee data confidentiality and data integrity. In this work a cryptosystem is proposed which describes the management of cryptographic keys of the sensitive data at rest, in a mobile payment system with symmetric cryptographic implementation, the keys involved are identical for both encrypting and decrypting the sensitive data.

Riegos de la comunicación digital en la transición a la docencia no presencial.

El impacto del confinamiento por el Covid-19 ha transformado el modelo de educación acelerando nuevos canales de comunicación basados en la digitalización. De forma repentina el alumnado debía continuar su proceso de aprendizaje desde casa, la actividad docente basada en la presencia del profesor y el alumnado en el mismo espacio se ha transformado para convertirse en un espacio digital. El nuevo modelo no ha estado exento de complicaciones, esta investigación ha permitido analizar cómo se ha desarrollado el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje a través de la comunicación digital para descubrir los nuevos riesgos que se deben prevenir en la educación online. Aplicando un cuestionario online el profesorado ha expresado su experiencia como docente virtual y ha definido riesgos que se deben afrontar y superar: la brecha digital, la carencia de competencias digitales, el docente como transmisor, la desmotivación y el abandono del alumnado. Se ha verificado la hipótesis que establece relación entre el grado de comunicación digital y el grado de desempeño de la docencia en la modalidad no presencial. El escenario educativo es diseñado por los nuevos canales de comunicación digital, basados en la necesidad de la alfabetización digital para el alumnado y para el profesorado, e incorporar en la didáctica la monitorización de las nuevas aplicaciones digitales.

Digitalizing Kazakhstan’s Courts: Keeping Up with the Times

Digitalizing Kazakhstan’s Courts: Keeping Up with the Times

OPTIMALISASI PENGGUNAAN GOOGLE CLASSROOM SEBAGAI ALTERNATIF DIGITALISASI DALAM PEMBELAJARAN JARAK JAUH (PJJ)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan manfaat dan informasi mengenai optimalisasi penggunaan Google Classroom sebagai alternatife digitalisasi dalam pembelajaran jarak jauh sebagai solusi dalam melaksanakan proses pembelajaran Daring. Perkembangan teknologi yang sangat pesat memberikan pengaruh yang sangat besar di dunia, bahkan hingga ke setiap aspek kehidupan manusia, salah satu diantaranya adalah bidang Pendidikan. Perkembangan teknologi yang pesat ini memberikan kemudahan bagi para siswa untuk belajar secara mandiri, dengan menggunakan bahan belajar tertulis dan melalui computer/gawai, smartphone dan internet. Selain pesatnya perkembangan teknologi, dalam keadaan saat ini, dunia sedang diuji dengan suatu permasalahan Kesehatan yaitu pandemic covid-19 yang sangat berpengaruh juga pada dunia Pendidikan dan aspek kehidupan. Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh (PJJ) menjadi pilihan utama karena adanya pandemik ini. Pembelajaran Jarak Jauh adalah pendekatan pembelajaran yang pada pelaksanaannya tidak bertatap muka langsung di kelas. E-Learning yang digunakan dalam kondisi seperti ini adalah salah satunya Google Classroom , karena berbasis internet yang berarti tidak perlu datang ke kelas. Oleh karena itu Google Classroom menjadi pilihan karena dapat menghemat biaya, waktu dan lebih fleksibel. Metode penelitian yang dilakukan adalah studi Pustaka atau telaah Pustaka.

ANALISIS KEMAS ULANG INFORMASI PADA LAYANAN DIFABEL CORNER DI PERPUSTAKAAN UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA

This study responds to the increasing needs of persons with disabilities in the current digital era due to difficulties in accessing and obtaining information. Limitations and abilities possessed by persons with disabilities as special needs users fcilited by the library with their special repackaging information in their Difabel Corner to be able to provide equal services for general users and special needs users. This research uses mixed methods, qualitative descriptive method and quantitative descriptive method. Qualitative descriptive method is to answer problem formulation related to the process of repackaging information with data obtained through interviews, observations and documents. Quantitative descriptive method is to answer the formulation of the problem relating to the percentage of collections that have been repackaged with data obtained by using descriptive statistical methods. Qualitative data validation test uses Expert Judgment. While the quantitative data validation test uses non-test with the institution's note instrument which is obtained directly from the website at difarepositories.uin-suka.ac.id. The results showed that in the repackaging of information at the Sunan Kalijaga UIN Library had been carried out with the form of media transfer, namely digitizing printed collections in the library. This collection can be accessed through difarepositories.uin-suka.ac.id/ and supported by tools adaptive for people with disabilities. But the percentage of information repackaging is still small, at only 0.478%. In addition, it is only intended for the visually impaired, whereas other disabled persons have not been facilitated by repackaging information in accordance with the limitations in the library.

L’économie numérique fausse-t-elle le partage volume-prix du PIB ? L’expérience française

Le ralentissement de la croissance economique ces vingt dernieres annees contraste avec la numerisation de l’economie. De ce fait certains economistes s’interrogent sur un probleme eventuel de mesure du PIB et notamment de son partage volume‑prix. L’article revient sur les methodes utilisees par les statisticiens, avec un focus sur le cas francais, pour distinguer les changements de prix des changements de volume, en s’interessant particulierement aux particularites et aux difficultes liees a l’economie numerique : les biens et les services de communication, l’existence de formes de ventes numeriques, l’apparition de nouveaux services, le developpement de services gratuits. Si les methodes mises en place meritent d’etre questionnees, une simulation montre qu’une erreur sur la mesure des prix des produits d’information et de communication n’est pas de nature a expliquer le ralentissement de la croissance economique.

О регулировании рисков цифровизации финансовой индустрии

О регулировании рисков цифровизации финансовой индустрии

Digitalised Scanner with Self-Assisted Flipping of Pages

Digitalised Scanner with Self-Assisted Flipping of Pages

Digitization and the Reorganization of GVCs.

Digitization and the Reorganization of GVCs.

Revealing a Significant Center of Sedge Diversity: Carex (Cyperaceae) of Jackson County, Alabama, U.S.A.

Jackson County is the northeasternmost county of Alabama, U.S.A., and falls entirely in the southern portion of the Appalachian Plateaus physiographic province. Based on multiple years of fieldwork, herbarium work, and review of online (digitized) specimens, this study presents the diversity, habitats, biogeography, and conservation status of Carex in Jackson County. We document 90 Carex taxa from Jackson County by voucher specimens deposited in multiple herbaria. This value exceeds the number of taxa known from other, similar-sized regions in the southern part of the Appalachian Plateaus. Carex albicans var. emmonsii is a new state record and is known in Alabama only from Jackson County. We encountered high numbers of misidentifications among specimens collected prior to this study and exclude nine taxa previously reported from Jackson County that are based on misidentifications. Carex plants grow in a great number of habitats in Jackson County, with two hosting the greatest number of taxa: mature, wet-mesic, deciduous, floodplain forests on clays and clay loams; and mature, mesic, calcium-rich, deciduous, upland forests on loams. Jackson County is a nexus for both southeastern endemics and taxa occurring at or near their southern limits. Thirteen of the Carex taxa are rare in Alabama and likely of conservation concern in the state. This study contributes fundamental knowledge that makes sedge diversity, ecology, geography, and conservation better known, and is especially important for revealing a significant center of Carex diversity in North America.

Designing and construction of genetically encoded FRET-based nanosensor for qualitative analysis of digoxin

Nanobiotechnological improvements defined on the utilization of biological materials and principles have enormously partaken to revolutionize physical, chemical, and biological sciences. However, the exploration of plant nanobiotechnology is still in its outset. The search for novel tools to monitor plant biomolecules is an emerging issue for the nanobiotechnologists. Given this, a genetically encoded FRET-based nanobiosensor has been developed to monitor the popular plant cardiac glycoside – digoxin, which is used as the most common prescription drug for heart-related illnesses across the world. Digoxin is sourced from the leaves of the foxglove plant (Digitalis purpurea L.) and has a significant demand in the medical sector. Moreover, with the rising popularity of the herbal formulations in the global market, attention towards the authentication and quality control of the herbal drugs is important. Furthermore, digoxin has a very narrow therapeutic range, i.e., 0.6 nM - 2.6 nM. Therefore, strict monitoring of blood digoxin levels is necessary. Besides, previously used techniques for drug authentication and quantification of small-molecule drugs in blood samples are not the best choice available. The nanobiosensor is based on the FRET (Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer) mechanism, and it is constructed in such a way that it gives a changed FRET output in the presence of digoxin. Two fluorophores, enhanced cyan fluorescent protein (ECFP) and Venus, were attached on either end of the sensory domain - human nuclear receptor ROR-gamma (RORγt). The developed nanobiosensor was named as fluorescent indicator protein for digoxin, (FLIP-digoxin). The ligand binding affinity of FLIP-digoxin was calculated as 425 μM. Affinity mutants of the FLIP-digoxin were also generated to measure digoxin in wide concentration ranges. This sensor offers high-throughput qualitative analysis of digoxin in Digitalis preparations procured from local drug stores. It confirms the authenticity of the preparations through the detection of digoxin. The FLIP-1n was also able to monitor digoxin concentration in serum samples in lesser than 5 min. The nanobiosensor was found pH stable, digoxin-specific, non- interfered by the biological serum species and can perform high throughput screening of the Digitalis powder, infusion and tincture preparations.

Characterization of Magnesium Sulfate as an Antiarrhythmic Agent.

BACKGROUND: Recently, intravenous magnesium therapy has been used for the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias, but data to establish a causal link between the electrophysiological properties and the antiarrhythmic actions are lacking. METHODS AND RESULTS: The acute antiarrhythmic effect of magnesium sulfate was assessed using epinephrine-, digitalis-, and coronary ligation-induced canine ventricular arrhythmia models. The intravenous administration of magnesium sulfate (100 mg/kg) reduced the incidence of the ventricular arrhythmias of all models. The antiarrhythmic effect on the epinephrine-induced arrhythmia was potent and long-lasting, while those on the other arrhythmia models were weak and transient. The direct cardiovascular effects were assessed using the canine isolated, blood-perfused sinus node, papillary muscle, and atrioventricular node preparations. The intracoronary administration of magnesium sulfate (0.1-30 mg) suppressed sinoatrial automaticity and ventricular contraction, while it increased atrio-His and His-ventricular conduction time, coronary blood flow, and the duration of monophasic action potential in a dose-dependent manner. The effects on His-ventricular conduction and monophasic action potential duration were less potent compared with the other cardiovascular effects. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that magnesium sulfate possesses multiple electrophysiological properties and that the effects related to the calcium channel inhibition may be the most relevant for the antiarrhythmic actions.

Переводческая деятельность в условиях цифровизации: обучение и трудоустройство

Переводческая деятельность в условиях цифровизации: обучение и трудоустройство

“TOPLUM 5.0”DA BİLGİ VE İLETİŞİM TEKNOLOJİLERİ İLE YAŞLI BAKIMI

“Sanayi 4.0” kategorisinde olan ileri derecede gelişmiş birçok ülke, yüksek oranda yaşlı nüfusa sahip olmanın bir sonucu olarak ciddi anlamda bakıma muhtaçlık sorununun etkisi altındadır. Buna bağlı olarak gelecek yıllarda Japonya başta olmak üzere hemen hemen bütün gelişmiş ülkeler, daha çok bakım elemanına ihtiyaç duyacaktır. “Toplum 5.0” oluşum sürecinde bu ülkelerin hastanelerindeki ve yaşlı bakım merkezlerindeki sayıca artacak olan bakıma muhtaç yaşlılara yönelik yatılı bakım sistemi, bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerine bağlı olarak değişecektir. Diğer taraftan sağlık ve bakım sektöründe istihdam edilen bakım personeli arasında yaygınlaşmakta olan bilgi ve iletişim teknolojileri, sağlık sektöründeki istihdam yapısını, çalışma organizasyonunu ve şartlarını değiştirecektir. Yaşlı bakımının gittikçe daha çok bir parçası haline gelecek bilgi ve iletişim teknolojileri, yardımcı teknolojiler ve robotların bakım kalitesini iyileştireceği düşünülmektedir. Bu makalede ilk olarak “dijitalleşme” ve “Toplum 5.0” kavramlarına kısaca yer verildikten sonra bilgi ve iletişim teknolojileri ile bu teknolojilerin yaşlı bakım elemanları ve bakıma muhtaç yaşlılar üzerindeki sosyo kültürel ve etik etkileri incelenmiştir. Özellikle yapay zekâlı robotların, beden bakım ve temizliğin ötesinde manevi sosyal hizmetler ve bakım alanlarında da görev alabileceği konusu, kaygı ile ele alınmaktadır. En son olarak dijitalleşmenin sağlık/bakım sektörü üzerindeki olası etkileri üzerinde bir değerlendirme yapılmaktadır.

Entrepreneurship in the city: the digitalization

Entrepreneurship in the city: the digitalization

Guilt

the air is tense and unsafeshimmering veils obscure emotionfears and hopes digitized misunderstoodwarm tears stream for himboth vying for indefinite optionshis lungs are weakershe pleads for himhe cannot pleadhe cannot breathebut not seen through plexiglass wallsand faceshields and masksis guiltguilt that she was on the other sidethat she brought this homethat he is here because of herguilt cannot escape because it is protectedinside the confines of this roomfor no one else to perceiveand in these walls of protectionthat there is nothing to protect herfrom this immutable guilt

Dibyendu Maiti, Fulvio Castellacci and Arne Melchior (Eds), Digitalisation and Development: Issues for India and Beyond

Dibyendu Maiti, Fulvio Castellacci and Arne Melchior (Eds), <i>Digitalisation and Development: Issues for India and Beyond</i>

Analisis Good Corporate Governance dalam Transformasi Digitalisasi Perbankan (Studi Pada Aplikasi Pelayanan “Pemda Online” Bank Pembangunan Daerah Lampung)

Tata kelola perusahaan (Good Corporate Governance) adalah seperangkat aturan yang mengatur hubungan antara perusahaan dengan para stakeholder, yakni para pemegang saham, dewan komisaris, pemerintah, masyarakat dan karyawan dalam memenuhi hak -hak dan kewajiban perusahaan dalam melindungi kepentingan para stakeholderyang berlandaskan atas nilai -nilai korporasi perusahaan yang sehat.Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan gambaran dan analisis mengenai pelaksanaan GCG, indikasi GCG dalam mendukung transformasi digitalisasi perbankan dalam meningkatkan kualitas inovasi pelayanan melalui aplikasi pelayanan pemda online sebagai aplikasi yang mendukung transparansi dan akuntabilitas pengelolaan keuangan daerah dan mengenai kendala dalam pelaksanaan GCG dalam mendukung transformasi digitalisasi melalui aplikasi pemda online pada Bank Pembangunan Daerah Lampung. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pelaksanaan GCG pada Bank Pembangunan Daerah Lampung telah dilaksanakan sesuaidengan prinsip-prinsip GCG yang berlandaskan atas: transparansi, akuntabilitas, responsibilitas, kemandirian dan kesetaraan, Namun pada pelaksanaan nya belum dilaksanakan secara baik, disebabkan oleh beberapa faktor penghambat yang diantara nya adalah :belum terpenuhinya kepengurusan inti Bank Pembangunan Daerah Lampung dan terbatasnya jangkauan teknologi informasi.

Development of new health provision models by advanced practice midwives - The Master of Science in Midwifery at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH): an educational concept for the future

Background: The increase in chronic diseases, dealing with a diverse clientele, the rapidly developing digitalization in healthcare as well as the demand for interprofessionalism poses complex demands on the midwifery as profession. Within this context institutions of higher education are expected to train midwives as trendsetters in the development of new, integrated healthcare models which can meet the health needs of mothers and their families. Goal: The goal of the master course in midwifery is to increase awareness of the relevance of current challenges in maternity care. Midwives are prepared to competently deal with current health issues, using innovative healthcare models, by taking on advanced and specialized roles. Methods: The course imparts knowledge and know-how for midwives who wish to prepare to take on duties in modern obstetric and maternity care. Midwifery master students complete interprofessional course modules, such as Ethics, Advanced Practice or Health Policy and Health Economics, conjointly with fellow students of nursing, physiotherapy as well as nutrition and dietetics degrees. Three profession-specific course modules focus on the challenges imposed by complex processes in perinatal care. Results: The case study of a 5th semester student shows how the course supports the development of the new role of an Advanced Practice Midwife (APM) in the field of perinatal mental health. As an assignment within the profession-specific course module Perinatal Mental Health the student developed a concept draft for an APM role. She presented the concept in her own field of work, where she was charged with further developing and advancing the project. Furthermore, the student focused her Transfer Course modules on the project and deepened her skills in mental health and research skills through work shadowing in a research department and mental health ward, also called ,,Crisis lntervention Centre", in a university psychiatric clinic. Based on the APN model she finally developed how to establish the APM role in her master thesis. To conduct the needs assessment for mentally ill pregnant women and mothers she is conducting a secondary data analysis of a research project of the Division of Midwifery of BFH. Relevance: The establishment of integrated and intersectoral healthcare models is currently being discussed in Switzerland. The models require specific skills in healthcare professionals. The interprofessionally oriented master studies at BFH teach midwives to meet the requirements of needs-based, family-centred perinatal healthcare and strengthen its quality. Recommendations/Conclusions: The interlocking of master studies and practice offers the unique opportunity to further develop innovative healthcare models which are aimed at addressing present and future challenges in healthcare delivery and which are based on research.