Digitized Research Articles

Delirium, Disruption and Death: On Stéphane Vanderhaeghe’s Charøgnards (Quidam éditeur, 2015)

Whilst reading Stephane Vanderhaeghe’s dystopian fiction and touching on Bernard Stiegler's Age of Disruption, Greg Hainge explores the world that now reads us via a universal digitisation.

Estudio histórico y recreación virtual 3D del Panteón de los Ciudadanos Meritorios -Cementerio de la Recoleta- de Carlo Zucchi

Este trabajo presenta los resultados de la propuesta de visualización digital 3D de una hipótesis de trabajo en el marco de los avances de investigación de la tesis de maestría de una de las autoras. Se enfoca en la combinación de indagación histórica en arquitectura y arte y la utilización de técnicas de digitalización 3D (modelado y registro). Se aboca al estudio de un conjunto de monumentos funerarios del Cementerio de la Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina) denominado Panteón de los Ciudadanos Meritorios, erigidos entre 1832 y 1834, existentes en la actualidad y la reconstrucción 3D del proyecto arquitectónico del Panteón a los Hombres Ilustres de la Patria. Ambos elaborados por o con la intervención de Carlo Zucchi, arquitecto-ingeniero de la Provincia de Buenos Aires en esa época. Los monumentos estudiados son los dedicados a: Cornelio Saavedra (1831); Gregorio Funes (1831); Gregorio Perdriel (1832); Marcos Balcarse (1832); Antonio Sáenz (1833) y Juan Izquierdo (fallecido en 1834).

An Analysis of the Growth in Uptake of OpenWHO's Online Learning Resources for COVID-19.

From 26 January - 21 April 2020, 9 online courses for COVID-19 were published on OpenWHO.org. The courses are available in 18 different languages, totalling 53 learning resources and more than 1.5 million course enrolments. This paper analyses key trends in the growth of enrolments in these resources. The number of enrolments increased significantly between 26 January and 21 April, with distinct spikes in growth preceded by important global milestones in the timeline of the outbreak. The surge in users demonstrates that the platform is serving as a source of digitized learning for COVID-19, helping meet the broad demand for outbreak-related information.

Digitalizing Nursing in the Bavarian Swabia Region of Germany - Presentation of the Joint Project CARE REGIO.

The joint research project CARE REGIO aims to modernize the care system with digital solutions. We focus on the development of a uniform electronic care record, uniform data exchange between care facilities, and technical assistive systems, which shall all be unified in a standardized care-based storage solution.

The HiGHmed Didactical Framework for Online Learning Modules on Medical Informatics: First Experiences.

Within the HiGHmeducation consortium various online learning modules shall be developed by members of the consortium to address the increasing need for skilled professionals in a networked and digitalized healthcare system. Transferability of these modules to other locations is one main objective for the design of online learning modules. Thus, a didactical framework for online learning modules was developed. To ensure feasibility of the framework, the participating universities were analyzed concerning availability of e-learning support structures and infrastructures including learning management systems (LMS). The analysis especially focuses on the various LMS learning tools and their suitability for the framework. The framework is the basis for 12 HiGHmeducation online learning modules of which a part has firstly been conducted in winter 2019/20 and leads to a comparable structure of the modules.

Relationship Between the Problem of Computer Dependence and Social Exclusion in the Process of Youth Socialization

Метою статті є аналіз проблеми соціалізації сучасної молоді в епоху тотальної диджиталізації, дослідження комп’ютерних ігор як потужного агента соціалізації молоді. Для досягнення поставленої мети необхідно проаналізувати особливості впливу ігор на процес соціалізації молоді та формування нових ціннісних орієнтирів, акцентувати увагу на понятті «кіберсоціалізація» та «кіберадикція».Методи дослідження: аналітичний метод, метод включеного спостереження, метод структурно-функціонального аналізу, феноменологічний метод. Аналіз впливу залежності молоді від комп’ютерних ігор і вивчення впливу цифровізації на соціальну комунікацію молоді. Дослідження використання інформації з інтернету на формування світосприйняття в молодої частини населення, і як можна використовувати її в навчанні, формуванні особистості й моральному вихованні. У період формування світогляду інтернет може суттєво впливати на становлення молодої людини та здатність її до соціалізації.Новизною дослідження є визначення особливостей впливу комп’ютерних ігор на моральні та соціальні цінності сучасної молоді та здійснення соціально-філософського аналізу проблеми впливу комп’ютерів і мережевих технологій сучасного світу на процес формування цінностей і свідомості підлітка в глобалізованому світі. У статті розглянуто вплив комп’ютерної залежності на соціалізацію молоді та формування людських цінностей. Розкрито поняття «кіберсоціалізація» та «кіберадикція». Встановлено причинно-наслідкові зв’язки між комп’ютерними іграми та порушенням формування правильних соціальних цінностей, показано вплив комп’ютерної залежності на погіршення комунікативних навиків і підвищення рівня агресії підлітків.Висновки. Дослідження засвідчило, що через систематичне використання комп’ютерних технологій у молодої людини знижується успішність у навчанні, через малорухливий спосіб життя виникають певні хвороби, а також явище соціальної самотності, знижується рівень активності й охайності, паралельно збільшується рівень відчуженості від соціальних норм і цінностей, зрештою виникає соціальне виключення індивіда.

Conventional Medicine in the Treatment of Different Diseases as a Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Traditional medicine is still the only treatment in many rural areas especially the rural communities of east. Due to limited access to modern medicine, local people use medicinal plants to treat most diseases. Some herbs contain powerful contents and must be treated with the same precautionary care as in the case of drug, we do. In fact, a lot of drugs are basically based on artificial verities of natural composite in plants. For example, the heart drug Digitalis comes from a foxglove plant. Some drugs are single active substance derived from botanical sources. Herbalists believe that if the active ingredient is isolated from other parts of the plant, its action may be lost or its safety may be reduced. E.g, salicylic acid is present in a plant of meadowsweet which is used for aspirin production. Aspirin may cause bleeding in the gastric mucosa, but meadowsweet contains some other compounds naturally that interfere with the stimulation of salicylic acid. According to some practitioners, the effect of whole plant is greater than its parts individually. Critics believe that the nature of the herbs makes itself difficult to administer of such active ingredients. Herbs contain active ingredients, Mostly of them have unknown ingredients. As with other prescription drugs, herbs should always be prescribed by a qualified doctor.

A Comparative Study of Different Solvents on the Toxic and Antioxidant Properties of Digitalis ferruginea L. subsp. ferruginea

Digitalis plants have different biological actions, including antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. In addition, some members of this genus are used in traditional Turkish medicine as diuretics and tonics. The purpose of the present study is to compare the antioxidant, toxic activity and phenolic profile of two extracts of D. ferruginea L. subsp. ferruginea. The radical scavenging capacities in the hydromethanolic extract were higher than the hydroethanolic extract. The same extract was effective in total antioxidant (β-carotene, 83.75% and phosphomolybdenum 111.5 µg/mg) and metal chelating activities. The hydromethanolic extract (75.91 mgGAEs/g) exhibited higher phenolic content than hydroethanolic extract (70 mgGAEs/g). There were no statistical differences between the flavonoid and tannin contents of the extracts. The HPLC results determined major phenolics: 2,5 dihydroxybenzoic, vanillic and caffeic acid. In addition, this plant is also rich in polyphenolic content as well as toxic activity. The present data could provide significant information regarding its potential use in the pharmaceutical industry.

The Status Quo of Rare Diseases Centres for the Development of a Clinical Decision Support System - A Cross-Sectional Study.

Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) help to improve the diagnostics and treatment of rare diseases (RD). As one of four funded consortia of the Medical Informatics Initiative supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, Germany), MIRACUM develops a clinical decision support system (CDSS) for RD based on distributed data of ten university hospitals. The CDSS will be developed at the Rare Diseases Centres (RDC) of the MIRACUM consortium. Since it is essential to deliver decision support at the right time and place in the clinician's workflow, this study aimed to capture relevant information of the RDCs regarding patient admission and diagnostic process. Additionally, we investigated how patient documentation and digitalisation is performed at the centres. Therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional survey involving experts in the RDs domain to capture relevant information for the further development of a CDSS in RD. For each centre, one expert on RDs participated in the study (n=8). The survey identified several challenges regarding the reuse of patient data, e.g. the paper-based documentation of a patientâĂŹs medical history and coding of diagnoses using ICD-10. However, we noticed a relevant use of current software diagnosis support and a similarly performed diagnostic process in all RDC. Further studies are needed to get more detailed insights and to define specific requirements.

El futuro de las ciudades digitales: retos, oportunidades y prospectivas

El objetivo de esta contribución es definir y analizar el concepto de Smart City a la luz de las evoluciones tecnológicas que las ciudades contemporáneas incorporan progresivamente y de acuerdo a los principales aportes teóricos en el campo sociológico. El impacto de las tecnologías digitales está transformando gradualmente nuestras formas de relacionarnos dentro de varios contextos de referencia, no siendo menos importante la ciudad como lugar de producción y consumo. Vivimos cada vez más contextos híbridos, físicos y digitales en los que se forman caminos en diverso sentido derivados de la coexistencia en dos espacios, caminos que llevan a muchos a interpretar cómo el concepto de realidad en sí mismo se enriquece hoy por las oportunidades que ofrece el mundo digital (y viceversa), que fluyen en la dirección de la realidad aumentada, por un lado, y del brick and click, por el otro.

O diretor de comunicação no futebol: perfis e tendências nos “três grandes” clubes portugueses

Objetivo do estudo: Traçar o perfil do Diretor de Comunicação (DirCom) nos grandes clubes do futebol português e analisar a sua atividade, não só enquanto pivô do processo comunicativo, mas também como protagonista de um processo de comunicação, influência e poder. Pretende-se assim analisar as competências necessárias para o exercício desta função.Metodologia/abordagem: A partir de uma revisão da literatura problematizamos a centralidade midiática do DirCom, tendo como estratégia metodológica a observação participante completa no Sporting Clube de Portugal. Foi ainda efetuada uma análise documental, de caráter descritivo/comparativo, da imprensa desportiva, currículos e trajetos profissionais dos DirCom dos “três grandes” (Benfica, Porto e Sporting).Originalidade/relevância: A centralidade da função DirCom nas Sociedades Anônimas Desportivas (SAD) em Portugal não encontra, ainda, correspondência ao nível das pesquisas acadêmicas e científicas desenvolvidas. Este estudo exploratório ganha relevância ao contribuir para o aprofundamento e conhecimento deste assunto.Principais resultados: O perfil identificado caracteriza-se pela senioridade, experiência política e empresarial dos DirCom, em detrimento da esportiva. São privilegiados modelos de comunicação unidirecionais (propagandísticos) num ecossistema comunicacional que proporciona aos clubes um maior controle sobre as suas mensagens, com as suas próprias plataformas de comunicação e sem necessidade de intermediação jornalística.Contribuições teóricas/metodológicas: Promove a discussão da relação entre a mercantilização, a política e o futebol, em torno do DirCom e o seu papel na atualidade, objeto por explorar.Contribuições sociais/para a gestão: Analisa o papel do DirCom na governança das SAD e na relação com os stakeholders, num mundo cada vez mais digital, abrindo caminho a novas pesquisas.

DIGITALIZATION OF AUDIT IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE COVID-19

DIGITALIZATION OF AUDIT IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE COVID-19

Using Business Intelligence Tools to Support Medical Validation of Laboratory Tests.

Modern clinical laboratories have to confirm that the procedures used for specific tests are reliable and valid. There are several sources of errors and interferences that can invalidate the results. Medical validation refers to the plausibility check of the test results. Implausible results indicate that something might went wrong with a sample retrieved from the patient, e.g., the blood sample got contaminated with another fluid, which requires re-examination. Here, we describe how an integrated R-based business intelligence (BI) tool can be developed that increase the efficiency of the medical validation at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry (ICC) of the University Hospital Zurich. A BI software environment allowed us to digitalize steps in the validation process that were manually done in Excel worksheets, e.g., importing the data, calculating percentiles, and producing graphical outputs.

Classification of Histologic Images Using a Single Staining: Experiments with Deep Learning on Deconvolved Images.

The automated analysis of digitized immunohistochemistry microscope slides is usually a challenging task, because markers should be analysed on the tumor area only. Tumor areas could be recognized on a different slide, stained with Haematoxylin-Eosin. The basic idea of the present poster is to evaluate how well deep learning methods perform on the single haematoxylin component of staining, with the prospective possibility of developing a classifier able to recognize tumor areas on IHC slides on their haematoxylin component only. In a preliminary experiment, single stain images obtained by H-E color deconvolution showed an accuracy of 0.808 and 0.812 for Hematoxilyn and Eosin components, respectively.

Digitization is a contemporary reality and its importance in the Saudi plastic arts

يشغل الفنان بعد الانتهاء من الانتاج الفني صدى هذا الإنتاج عند المتلقى. سواء كان هذا المتلقى من العامة من الفنون، أو الخاصة من الفنانين والنقاد والأكاديميين. وفى الماضي كان لحدود الزماكانية كبير الأثر فى الحد من هذا الصدى أو نوعيته، إذ كانت آراء المتلقيين تتأثر إلى حد كبير بالفكر السائد أو بالاتجاهات الفنية المسيطرة على الساحة الفنية في البيئة المحيطة التي نشاء بها الفنان. ولكي يظهر الفنان اعماله لأوسع شريحة من المتلقين فانه يتحمل عناء تكاليف نقل العمل وحفظة من التلف اثناء التنقل والمبالغ المادية التي قد تعيق نشر العمل الفني والبحث عن منصات عالمية لنشر العمل. الى أن أتت الرقمنة لتوفر منصة جديدة أقل كلفة وأكثر شفافية يقدم من خلالها الفنان انتاجة الفني.ومن خلال المنهج الوصفي التحليلى يهدف هذا البحث إلى فهم دور الرقمنة فى عملية الإنتاج الفني، وارتباطها بالمفهوم الرقمي اليوم، ومن ثم مناقشة أثر الرقمنة على عرض وتداول أعمال الفنانين التشكيلين السعوديين. بداية من خلال فهم معنى مصطلح الرقمنة وما يشير إليه. ومن خلال عرض لبعض أهم المنصات الرقمية لعرض وتداول أعمال فن التصوير التشكيلي السعودي على الساحة الفنية اليوم.

Hyvinvointialan yrittäjien tiedot ja käsitykset hyvinvointiteknologiasta – kysely eteläpohjalaisille yrittäjille

Digitalisuus, teknologioiden hyödyntäminen ja mobiilit palveluratkaisut ovat Suomessa ajankohtaisia aiheita. Suomen taloudellinen tilanne, väestöennuste, sekä työn muuttuminen globaalissa mittakaavassa vaativat uusia tapoja tehdä työtä ja tehostaa palveluita. Hyvinvointiteknologioiden hyödyntäminen on vielä vajavaista hyvinvointialoilla, sillä yritykset ovat eri vaiheessa teknologioiden hyödyntämisessä, ekosysteemi on kehittymätön sekä kustannus- ja vaikuttavuushyötyjen osoittaminen on haasteellista.
 Artikkelissa tarkastellaan eteläpohjalaisten hyvinvointialan yrittäjien käsityksiä, tietoja ja tiedontarpeita hyvinvointialan robotiikasta sekä tekoälyn ja mHealthin sovelluksista. Aineisto on kerätty sähköisellä kyselylomakkeella keväällä 2019 hyvinvointialan pk-yrittäjiltä ja yritysten toimitusjohtajilta yrityksistä, joiden päätoimipiste sijaitsee Etelä-Pohjanmaalla.
 Kyselyn vastanneet eteläpohjalaiset hyvinvointialan pk-yrittäjät ja yritysten toimitusjohtajat kokivat tietonsa hyvinvointiteknologioista heikoiksi ja tiedontarpeita esiintyi useilla osa-alueilla. Suurimmaksi tiedon tarpeeksi nousivat ihmisen ja robottien välinen yhteistyö sekä tekoälyn ja mHealthin sovellusten vaikuttavuus ja vaikutukset. Vastaajista enemmistön käsitykset hyvinvointiteknologioista olivat melko kielteisiä. Hyvinvointiteknologioiden etuina nähtiin henkilöstön työn kuormittavuuden väheneminen. Haasteina puolestaan nähtiin inhimillisen kosketuksen ja vuorovaikutuksen sekä ihmisten työpaikkojen väheneminen.
 Kyselyyn vastanneiden yrittäjien määrä jäi vähäiseksi (n=6), joten tuloksen eivät ole yleistettävissä, mutta ne todentavat mielikuvaa tiedoista ja asenteista hyvinvointiteknologioita kohtaan.

Logisztika 4.0 Digitalizációs projektek hatása a fenntarthatósági teljesítményre

A cikk celja, hogy bemutasson negy, logisztikai szolgaltatok koreben fellelhető digitalizacios projektet, valamint elemezze ezek fenntarthatosagra gyakorolt hatasat kvalitativ kutatasi modszerek segitsegevel. Negy esettanulmanyt ismertet a cikk, melyek eredmenyei azt mutatjak, hogy a digitalizacios projekteknek pozitiv hatasuk van a fenntarthatosag gazdasagi dimenziojara. A kornyezeti teljesitmeny nem valtozik szamottevően, de a CO2 kibocsatas jelentősen csokkenthető. A tarsadalmi fenntarthatosagi dimenziot tekintve a digitalizacios projektek a jelenlegi kutatas alapjan nincsenek hatassal a munkavallalok szamara, inkabb a jelenlegi munkavallalok terheleset hivatottak csokkenteni, valamint biztonsagosabb es kreativabb munkakornyezet biztositasa a celjuk.

LeafMachine: Using machine learning to automate leaf trait extraction from digitized herbarium specimens.

PremiseObtaining phenotypic data from herbarium specimens can provide important insights into plant evolution and ecology but requires significant manual effort and time. Here, we present LeafMachine, an application designed to autonomously measure leaves from digitized herbarium specimens or leaf images using an ensemble of machine learning algorithms.Methods and ResultsWe trained LeafMachine on 2685 randomly sampled specimens from 138 herbaria and evaluated its performance on specimens spanning 20 diverse families and varying widely in resolution, quality, and layout. LeafMachine successfully extracted at least one leaf measurement from 82.0% and 60.8% of high‐ and low‐resolution images, respectively. Of the unmeasured specimens, only 0.9% and 2.1% of high‐ and low‐resolution images, respectively, were visually judged to have measurable leaves.ConclusionsThis flexible autonomous tool has the potential to vastly increase available trait information from herbarium specimens, and inform a multitude of evolutionary and ecological studies.

Guest Editor’s Note on Digitalization in Law

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Optimalisasi Mutu Pembelajaran Berbasis Revolusi Industri 4.0 pada Program Studi Kedokteran Hewan Universitas Nusa Cendana

OPTIMIZATION OF LEARNING QUALITY BASED ON INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0 IN THE STUDY PROGRAM OF ANIMAL MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF NUSA CENDANA. Innovation activities carried out aim to find out the main issues that become problems at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nusa Cendana. The method used in determining the main principle is the Urgency, Seriousness, Growth method. Based on this analysis, the most appropriate contemporary issue to be raised is that the optimization of learning based on the industrial revolution 4.0 is not yet optimal within the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. If the issue is left then the quality of the institution will decrease. Therefore, innovation activities are needed to overcome these issues. There are four innovation activities carried out. The first is the determination of the main issues, the second is to provide assistance for lecturers regarding digitalization of teaching materials, assisted by the quality assurance group of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the third is the preparation of e-learning based learning designs, and the fourth is the collection and preparation of e-learning based learning materials. The result of this activity is the use of digitizing learning in veterinary study programs. This activity has an impact on the development of e-learning learning in veterinary study programs at the University of Nusa Cendana by increasing the participation of lecturers and students in using e-learning at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Nusa Cendana. Through this activity, learning is more creative and innovative based on the industrial revolution 4.0.