Digital Project Research Articles

Optimizing polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)-based stretchable microneedle arrays by vat photopolymerization for efficient drug loading

Advancements in vat photopolymerization printing technology have enabled the fabrication of components with varying mechanical properties within a single print job. Using a digital light projector to cure photopolymer resins layer by layer, it allows the fabrication of parts with both flexibility and rigidity, in different regions. It simplifies the manufacturing process by eliminating the need for multiple steps. Specifically, for applications such as microneedles, printing onto a stretchable substrate is crucial compared to a rigid substrate, as it conforms better to the contours of the skin, ensuring more effective and comfortable drug delivery. However, a notable limitation of vat photopolymerization printing is the current lack of biocompatible materials, which restricts its application for microneedle fabrication. The challenge lies in developing materials that meet biocompatibility standards, while also being compatible with the printing technique and capable to achieve precise microscale structures. Therefore, we have developed an ultraviolet (UV)-curable polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) suitable for the vat photopolymerization printing and the microneedles were designed to have a hollow side structure, enhancing drug loading efficiency. Comprehensive testing has been conducted, including durability test, drug loading efficiency, and skin penetration capability.

Too little or too much transparency? Influencing accountability in project management through the practices of using digital technologies

Managing projects increasingly involves digital technologies, yet it remains unclear how project participants use digital technologies for accountability. Based on data from a qualitative field study in a software consultancy organization, this article examines how accountability is shaped by project teams’ use of digital project management tools. The findings reveal that project teams actualize visibility and association affordances to configure accountability and reinforce shared accountability in client relationships. However, they are constrained by persistence affordance, which requires consistent and aligned digital transparency. This study demonstrates that the impacts of digital technologies on project accountability emerge from the actualization of affordances in specific technology practices, co-determined by the technology materiality and the accountability goals of project participants. Through visibility and association affordances, digital technologies can reinforce both hierarchical and socializing forms of accountability. However, this requires project participants to form a consensus on technology usage, binding them to each other's digital practices.

STATE POLICY, HUMAN CAPITAL AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF REFORMING LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BODIES THROUGH DIGITALIZATION, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS

The study examines human capital as a set of socio-economic relations and as one of the determining factors of economic growth. The main attention is paid to the analysis of opportunities to improve the quality of human capital at the local level, based on mechanisms of cooperation among stakeholders and reforming the landscape of local self-government - in particular, through the creation of innovation hubs, the implementation of digitalization projects, and the expansion of the use of artificial intelligence technologies. The opportunities and benefits of direct participation of local communities in international economic relations and global supply chains are demonstrated.

Supply Chain Risk Management Strategies in the Era of Digital Intelligence Integration: Strategies and Insights

This study explores the impact of digital intelligence-driven developments on business strategies and operations, and through a combination of theoretical analyses and case studies, it provides insights into the risk landscape faced by enterprises in the context of digital and smart transformation, offering practical solutions and insights to help them meet the challenges. In addition, the study highlights the experience of leading manufacturing companies such as Haier in building digital supply chains, which provides valuable experience for SMEs seeking to improve their competitiveness and adaptability. This study also delves into key issues that hinder the implementation of digital supply chain projects, such as financial constraints, technological barriers, talent shortages and cybersecurity issues. Based on these findings, this study proposes that companies adopt a phased digital transformation strategy, focus on talent development and technology adoption, and collaborate with government and stakeholders to create an environment that fosters digital innovation and enhances resilience. Ultimately, successfully addressing supply chain risks in the age of digital intelligence requires proactive strategies, flexible adaptation and cross-sectoral collaboration to drive sustainable growth and competitiveness in the digital economy.

Exploring the impact of absorptive capacity to navigate the challenges of uncertainty in digitalization projects

PurposeThis research fills a gap in digitalization project studies by exploring them through the lens of organizational learning. It investigates the impact of uncertainty on digitalization project success and the role of absorptive capacity.Design/methodology/approachA mixed-methods approach is adopted, incorporating qualitative and quantitative analyses. The qualitative part assesses how uncertainty affects digitalization project success, while the quantitative side explores absorptive capacity as a mediating factor between adaptability to uncertainty and project success.FindingsThe qualitative results uncover challenges facing digitalization projects under uncertainty and suggests coping strategies at individual, project, and organizational levels. Quantitative results show that both potential and realized absorptive capacities significantly mediate the link between adaptability to uncertainty in the environment and project success.Originality/valueThis research offers new insights into digitalization project studies, merging organizational learning theory with a mixed-methods approach. It highlights how uncertainty and absorptive capacity influence digitalization project success.

Evaluation on Digital Online Videos-Project of Algebra Material

It's a challenges to learn algebra at the faculty of informatics in Sorong, Papua Barat, Indonesia. This suggested learning materials that were engaging and interactive and focused on practical skills. Algebra courses at times assign online digital video projects as a learning strategy. In this study, the skills of students in video-projects along with additional online, digital assignments pertaining to algebra were observed, examined, and determined. The ICSDR (Identify, Conceptualize/Connect, Storyboard, Develop, Review/Reflect, and Refine) methodology was utilized as the framework for a digital online video production. The ICSDR methodology makes algebraic content interactive for education and helps students in understanding the idea of online digital video projects. This study employed a hybrid approach, including project-based learning , descriptive theoretical-practical evaluation, and subjectively analysis. As a result, students are passionate about using applications for producing movies and working on assignments such as online digital video projects. This increased skills and experience in terms of video processing and video editing. Results from the subjective video evaluation were fairly good in terms of concepts, creativities, theories, and problem solving as practice questions. Keywords: e-learning, digital video, ICSDR, project-based learning

Refugee Housing Accessibility with a Strategic Digital City Project

Adequate housing is pivotal for the refugee’s well-being, demanding strategic urban management to facilitate their integration. The research objective is to analyze housing access for adult refugees within the context of a strategic digital city, focusing on adult refugees and city strategies as a subproject of the strategic digital city project. The research methodology adopted is a case study in Curitiba, the research employs both qualitative and quantitative techniques, guided by a research protocol. Results suggest that addressing housing access challenges entails more than mere provision; it involves safeguarding rights, stability, integration, and participation in public policies and municipal strategies within the strategic digital city framework and the right to the city. These findings underscore the necessity for support services and robust collaboration among diverse stakeholders and public policies to tackle the multifaceted refugee issue, thereby fostering their integration and well-being in the host society. The conclusion emphasizes prioritizing concepts such as privacy and dignity in housing, highlighting the urgent need for effective policies catering to refugees' diverse needs.

The Impact of Managerial Competence, Digital Project Innovation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems on Project Performance and Business Resilience in Property Companies

The aim of this research is to determine the influence of managerial competence, digital project innovation, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem on project performance and business resilience at company properties. This research is included in quantitative research. The population in this research is all property companies in Indonesia. On the results of the analysis, it was found that Managerial Competence had no effect on Project Performance; There is a positive and significant influence by Digital Project Innovation on Project Performance; There is a positive and significant influence by the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem on Project Performance; There is a positive and significant influence by Managerial Competence on Business Resilience; Digital Project Innovation has no effect on Business Resilience; The Entrepreneurship Ecosystem has no effect on Business Resilience; There is a positive and significant influence of Project Performance on Business Resilience; There is no mediating effect of Project Performance on Managerial Competence on Business Resilience; There is a mediating effect of Project Performance on Digital Project Innovation on Business Resilience; There is a mediating influence of Project Performance in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem on Business Resilience.

Toward a community model of scholarly editing: FAIR/CARE, research ethics, & labour visibility

Historically, scholarly editions of music have identified a managing editor and individual volume editors. Other contributors might receive an acknowledgement with a vague description of activities, with institutional support often appearing in the printed metadata. This model’s emphasis on single scholars perpetuates a myth, relying heretofore upon predominantly invisible labour. Digital editions require interdisciplinary collaboration combining musicological skills, technical skills, and infrastructural resources, thus challenging this model’s ability to endure. Moreover, digital editions proffer opportunities for reconsidering the roles, workflows, and knowledge structures involved in critical musical scholarship. Situated at the intersection of currently running and recently completed digital projects, continuously emergent tools, sociology, and philosophy, this essay reflects on the role of the editor in the digital age. Beginning with Howard Becker’s art worlds model of creative communities, it suggests a model based on FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) and CARE (Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, and Ethics) principles and the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI). MEI affords expansive metadata recording for contributors – composers, librettists, performers, editors, researchers, funders, etc. – to a work and its embodiments, which in turn enables broader visibility and empowers greater acknowledgement of the labour involved in such projects. Alongside other digital projects, this essay pays particular attention to how these technological and team-focused concepts are at- and in-play in the Reger-Werkausgabe Online.

Анализ социальных проектов в стратегических документах цифровой трансформации Республики Коми

The article interprets the concepts of digitalization and digital transformation discussed in the regulatory legal acts, documents of international organizations and scientific publications. It analyses legal acts regulating the processes of digital transformation for industries and subjects of the Russian Federation. The current strategic directions in the field of digital transformation of economic and social sectors determine largely the general and project content of strategies and digital transformation programmes of the regions. The main attention is paid to the consideration of health, education and culture projects in the strategy and digital transformation programme of the Komi Republic. Underlined is the lack of official monitoring for the implementation of digital transformation projects and the possible analyzing the situation only according to the data in the regional media, which complicates the unbiased assessment.

Re-mediating The Female American: Collaboration and Situated Knowledges in the Digital Humanities Classroom

ABSTRACT The Female American, published pseudonymously in 1767, has drawn scholarly attention in recent decades as a novel that raises questions about anonymity, gender, authorship, Indigeneity, settler colonialism, and the American literary canon. Yet access to the text has remained limited, dependent on subscription databases and print scholarly editions. In 2022, as part of a graduate seminar on eighteenth-century literature, science, and colonialism, we produced the first open-access digital edition of volume 1; a subset of the class also recorded a public domain audiobook of the full novel. This article presents an account of our process and the connections drawn between these projects and course content, with attention to conversations and tensions that arose as we drafted a land acknowledgment for the edition. Moving beyond the “how we built this” genre common in digital humanities, this article offers a critical reflection on the ways our individual interests, identities, commitments, and institutional embeddedness shaped the knowledge we could cocreate. Our aim is to demonstrate that the benefits of digital pedagogy extend far beyond technical skill-building—especially in graduate education, where digital projects provide an opportunity for emerging scholars to reflect critically on material and social entanglements that conventional humanities workflows often obscure.

Big Data Analytics and its Approaches: The Digital Transformation of the Future

This study is all about the importance- of methods in big data study, and what they might mean for future- digital growth projects. The rese-arch explores current patte-rns, issues, and smart plans. This gives valuable information for groups figuring out the- tricky mixture of data study and digital growth. The focus of the pape-r is on important methods like batch handling, stream handling, and machine- learning. It looks at their strengths, limits, and use-s. We see the-ir effects on growing and improving. We fore-cast future patterns, tackle issue-s and suggest inventive solutions for succe-ss. This research acts like a guide- for groups that want to line up their digital changes with the- best methods for continuous success.

Recent Digital Humanities Projects in Russian and Eastern European Studies

Recent Digital Humanities Projects in Russian and Eastern European Studies

دور الحكومة الرقمية في دعم النمو الاقتصادي للدول - دراسة حالة: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة

The study aimed to identify the reality and future of implementing digital government in the United Arab Emirates, and its role in supporting the country’s economic growth. This is done by learning about the concept of digital government, its elements, and its importance, and then learning about the foundations of implementing digital government in the United Arab Emirates. The role of the digital government in enhancing the position of the United Arab Emirates regionally and internationally as a center for technical progress and e-commerce, and knowing the position of the United Arab Emirates in the relevant global competitiveness indicators through the use of the descriptive analytical approach and the case study approach. The study reached a set of results, the most important of which are: The contribution of the United Arab Emirates’ adoption of modern technology and its application to digital government in achieving the concept of leadership and innovation, and developing distinguished infrastructure, as the country has allocated large investments to support the information technology sector; This led it to become a regional center for information and communication technology services and industry, and created an attractive investment environment in the information technology sector, which enhanced the diversification of sources of income and increased the size of the gross domestic product and its dependence on non-oil sectors, as the percentage of increase in the gross domestic product reached 7.9%. Year 2022, these sectors, of all types, relied on a qualified infrastructure of technical development, which highlights the importance of the state adopting technical progress through digital government in supporting economic growth. Digital transformation in the United Arab Emirates also contributed to enhancing its competitiveness in the international system by occupying first place globally in 23 indicators in 2020 in multiple sectors, including communications, health, work, and residence, all of which fall within the digital transformation in the United Arab Emirates. The study recommended a set of recommendations, including the need to generalize the success of the United Arab Emirates’ experience in implementing the digital government project to Arab countries; this is due to the success of its application in the UAE and its role in facilitating and simplifying all procedures and services provided to customers. Its impact on reducing time and costs, and its role in attracting investments and promoting economic growth. In addition to continuing to build and strengthen the education system using modern technical means, which contributes to spreading the culture of information technology and preparing technically qualified educational personnel to deal with the requirements of technical development.

A readiness assessment model for human systems management digitalization in industrial organizations

ABSTRACT Human systems management (HSM) in organizations must invest in digitization to remain competitive. Even though there is no denying digitalization is essential for modern industrial organizations, the success of digitalization projects is rarely contingent on chance. HSM digitalization requires more than just technology. It also requires leadership, people, strategy, innovation, and process readiness. Organizations must select the most suitable digitalization project to initiate the transition and begin by increasing and monitoring readiness for a successful transition. A practical approach to a successful transition begins with increasing and monitoring readiness. The literature suggests a lack of analytical assessment models for HSM digitalization readiness in industrial organizations, especially for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This research presents a framework with the general best-worst method (GBWM) to examine decision criteria and help organizations, particularly SMEs, choose the most effective digitalization strategy. A case study demonstrates the applicability and efficacy of the proposed method in assessing HSM digitalization readiness in SMEs.

The Development of Digital Audio Broadcasting in Croatia: The Case of DAB+

ABSTRACT Croatian FM radio broadcasting has a long and rich tradition. The Radio Digitisation Project was announced in 2010, but the first commercial DAB licenses were granted in 2022. Only 0.8% of the population own a home DAB+ device and only 7.7% of cars can retrieve the DAB+ program. Is DAB a good solution for the Croatian radio landscape dominated by local radio stations? This pioneering work in Croatian science shows the non-competitiveness of the conditions for broadcasters to enter the DAB+ network, the lack of support from key stakeholders, and ultimately the absence of conditions for shutting down FM radio.

Analysis of the impact of auniversity distance learning course on digitalization in medicine on students and healthcare professionals.

The public medical universities in Austria (educating 11,000 students) developed ajoint public distance learning series in which clinicians discussed current digital lighthouse projects in their specialty. This study aims to examine the changes in attitude and knowledge of the participants before and after the lecture series to gain insights for future curriculum developments. The lecture series was announced via various channels at the universities, in health newsletters and in social media. Attitudes toward digitalization in medicine were surveyed before and after the lecture series, together with demographic data. The data were analyzed statistically and descriptively for four groups of interest: female medical students, male medical students, faculty members and members from industry and public agencies. Out of 351 subjects who attended at least 1 lecture, 117 took part in the survey before and 47 after the lectures. Most participants had apositive attitude towards digitalization (85.3%). They improved their self-assessment of their knowledge from 34.4% to 64.7% (p < 0.05). After the lecture series 55.8% of participants considered digital medical applications to be important or very important today and 68.6% in the future. The study shows that the presentation and discussion of lighthouse projects improves understanding of digitalization in medicine but does not trigger astrong desire for additional further training.

Unpacking EFL learners’ emotions and emotion-regulation strategies in digital collaborative academic reading projects: An integrated approach of vignette methodology and interview analysis

This study explored the manifestation of multifaceted emotions, sources of emotions, and emotion regulation strategies of college EFL learners participating in digital collaborative academic reading projects. Data were collected through a vignette-based survey that was comprised of 19 episodes of authentic emotion-inducing scenarios among 72 Chinese EFL learners, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with 16 participants. While the results showed a relatively balanced distribution of positive and negative emotions, anxiety, nervousness, and happiness were found to be the top three most commonly experienced emotions. The study identified three sources of positive emotions including topic interest, experiencing mastery and achievement, and recognition from other groups. The findings also revealed factors inducing negative emotions in digital collaborative academic reading: reading difficulties, challenges in interacting with group members, low-quality feedback from external groups, online learning environment and technology issues, and time pressure. Furthermore, the study extended the literature on emotion regulation by developing a comprehensive taxonomy of six categories of strategies (i.e., co-regulation, cognitive change, response regulation, attention deployment, task-related regulation, and situation modification) tailored to the context of digital collaborative academic reading. These findings can offer practical guidance for enhancing social-emotional interactions in technology-enhanced collaborative academic reading.

The Meise Botanic Garden Herbarium Data Management Plan

This Data Management Plan outlines a comprehensive strategy for handling, storing, and sharing of data generated by digitisation projects of the herbarium at Meise Botanic Garden with Index Herbarium code BR. Its purpose is to establish clear guidelines for both staff and external users, specifying the terms governing data usage and storage. It aims to prioritise the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), ensure responsible data management, facilitate long-term preservation, uphold legal and ethical obligations, all while aligning with the research excellence mission of Meise Botanic Garden. This plan serves as a guiding document to effectively and efficiently achieve these goals.

Listening Beyond: Collaborative Reflections on Learning about Activism Through an Undergraduate Oral History and Podcasting Project

ABSTRACT This article, written collaboratively by a professor and four undergraduate students, explores the pedagogical challenges and opportunities of learning oral history and creating an oral history podcast in one thirteen-week undergraduate course about activism. The article highlights four main themes that emerged: the use of oral history as a pedagogical tool and way of learning about activism, the challenges and opportunities of collaborative work, the particularities of conducting a digital project for public dissemination, and the significance of positionality and the ethical imperative of avoiding transactional and extractive approaches. This article emphasizes the inherent messiness and complexity of striving for equality in oral history pedagogy, acknowledging the tension between theory and practice, institutional constraints, and the transient nature of the classroom. The transformative potential of oral history pedagogy lies in its ability to bring diverse voices into the classroom while striking a balance between utopian aspirations and pragmatic considerations. Despite various challenges, the authors express collective effort and pride in the outcomes, reinforcing the value of teaching through oral history for meaningful engagement and personal growth.