Digitized Research Articles

Дигіталізація в логістиці за рахунок введення алгоритму мурашиної логістики

Дигіталізація в логістиці за рахунок введення алгоритму мурашиної логістики

A Novel Approach to Digitizing a Conventional Cephalometric Film

A Novel Approach to Digitizing a Conventional Cephalometric Film

The Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA: From Digitalization to Sequencing

The Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA: From Digitalization to Sequencing

Augmented Empathy: Comprehending Other Minds in a Digitized World

Augmented Empathy: Comprehending Other Minds in a Digitized World

El retrato político en la época de su reproductibilidad digital: análisis visual y mediológico de un caso

La digitalización ha revolucionado la manera en que las imágenes son producidas y puestas en circulación. Los signos visuales son añadidos instantáneamente a la órbita de Internet, donde son alterados y reproducidos hasta la saciedad, perdiendo en muchas ocasiones su significado original y generando nuevas formas e interpretaciones indeseadas. Como muestra el análisis visual y mediológico de un célebre caso, la imagen del matrimonio Obama con Rodríguez Zapatero y familia en el Metropolitan Museum of Art de Nueva York, el género del retrato político no ha permanecido ni mucho menos ajeno a esta situación. El conflicto sociocultural derivado de la confluencia de diferentes regímenes representacionales dentro de aquella instantánea continúa alimentando hoy, diez años después de su aparición, la reflexión sobre las múltiples y estrechas conexiones existentes entre estética y política.

Modelo computacional para reemplazar el material del refuerzo inferior de parachoques en preprototipado

INTRODUCCIÓN. Se desarrolla un método computacional para la simulación dinámica del sistema de protección de peatones y análisis de cambio de material, con el fin de disminuir costos en pruebas que comúnmente requieren ensayos destructivos y, que dificultan el proceso de prototipado ante la necesidad de aumentar el número de piezas fabricadas en Ecuador. OBJETIVO. Validar un modelo de simulación computacional para reemplazo del material original del refuerzo inferior de parachoques del Kia Sportage R-2014 con materiales alternos. MÉTODO. El sistema fue digitalizado en el software Unigraphics NX, en base a la norma ACEA/2003/102/CE y el protocolo del Adendum 126: Regulación-N°127 de la ONU relativo a protección de peatones, los componentes fueron simulados con ayuda de Ansys Student usando 6 materiales alternos al original. RESULTADOS: La normativa de protección se cumple para todos los materiales, con excepción del ABS que supera los 200 g, mientras que el material con menor deformación y rotura es el PLA. DISCUSIÓN Y CONCLUSIONES: Dada las propiedades en deformación estructural, masa y aceleración en el impactador de piernas, se considera al PLA como el material con las características más cercanas al material original, mientras el policarbonato en caso de usar materiales disponibles en la industria ecuatoriana es el segundo material con las mejores propiedades, sin embargo, sufre una leve rotura en su zona frontal tras el impacto.

Some Thoughts on Extended Collaboration of Entities with Natural and with Artificial Intelligence in Health Care and Beyond.

This lecture is dealing with new, future forms of collaboration and with its (hopefully existing) extended synergies, which may now will come in our era of digitization. Entities in this collaboration are we, the human beings, and other living entities such as animals with 'natural intelligence' as well as non-living entities, in particular functionally comprehensive machines, with 'artificial intelligence'. Based on lessons learned during the last years, among others in a task force on synergy and intelligence (SYnENCE) of the Braunschweig Scientific Society, five consequences for future health care with respect to this collaboration are put for discussion: (1) functional comprehensive 'intelligent' machines should be regarded as entities, not as modalities, (2) such machines have to become users of information systems in health, in addition to human entities, appropriate (3) legal and (4) ethical frameworks have to be developed, (5) extended collaboration in medicine and health care needs to be evaluated in accordance with good scientific practice. The statements of Karl Jaspers, made in 1946 on medicine and on technology, may help us to find a good way.

Status of treatment for atrial fibrillation in a community health service center in Shanghai Pudong New Area

Objective To analyze the status of the treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF) in a community health service center in Shanghai Pudong New Area. Methods Clinical data of all patients with AF attended in Hudong Community Health Service Center of Shanghai Pudong from August 2016 to August 2017 were retrospectively reviewed. The gender, age, smoking history, drinking history, concomitant diseases, antithrombotic therapy, rhythm control, ventricular rate control drugs, health education, needs for setting up AF clinics in the community were analyzed. Result The study included 220 patients, with average age of (59.7±10.4) years; 34.1% (75/220) patients had hypertension and the blood pressure was controlled in 41.3% (31/75) ; 20.5% (45/220) patients had diabetes mellitus and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) was controlled well in 26.7% (12/45) . Three cases of mitral stenosis were treated with warfarin anticoagulation. Among 217 patients without valvular atrial fibrillation, 157 had thromboembolic risk score≥2, 20.4% (32/157) of whom used warfarin anticoagulation, 10.8% (17/157) used new oral anticoagulant (NOAG) and 58.1% (91/157) had never used warfarin or NOAG anticoagulation. The reasons were as follows:doctors did not prescribe (41.9%, 39/91), patients did not accept (35.2%, 32/91), and so on. There were 21.8% (48/220) of patients undergoing drug cardioversion, and 5.9% (13/220) undergoing electrical cardioversion. For control of ventricular rate, 55.9% (123/220) patients used beta blockers, 13.6% (30/220) used non-dihydropyridine calcium antagonists, and 23.6% (52/220) used digitalise. Less than 55% of patients were given health education of physical exercise, weight management and medicine use. For AF clinic in community hospital, 56.8% (125/220) of patients needed, and 17.3% (38/220) very need; 50.0% (110/220) patients trusted and 12.3% (27/220) very trusted in anticoagulation management in community hospitals. Conclusion The anticoagulant rate is relatively low, treatment of concomitant diseases is less satisfactory and the health education might be incomplete in the community surveyed in this study. Key words: Atrial fibrillation; Community health services; General practitioner; Treatment

Introducing a Research Management System to Speed Up and Streamline Clinical Research Activities.

Clinical Research is a complicated process within a research institution or a tertiary care hospital, almost all research project proposal needs to get an institutional review board (IRB) approval before any research activity takes place. IRB approval involves various processes, in form of sub-committees through which the proposal is reviewed. It is of utmost importance to understand the complete functioning of an IRB, in order to automate the various processes using a management system. The Research office entity forms the central body managing the IRB functions. It provides all sorts of administrative support as far as guidelines, documentation, communication and co-ordination is concerned; hence the research office forms the administrative wing of the IRB. Further the IRB has several sub-committees such as the Ethics Committee, Basic Research committee and the Animal Care and Use Committee. Each committee has a chairperson and several members from different specialty to cover all the aspects of research. Each committee may have its own process/workflow of approval, but usually the process of each committee is somewhat similar to each other. Apart from these workflows process the things that needs to be digitized would include researcher's profile, pre-award and post-award management, publication management, graduate student management and research analytics for the organization.

Challenges of Health Analytics Utilization: A Review of Literature.

The last four decades witnessed a huge progress in digitizing health information, representing an unmatched opportunity for utilizing health analytics in improving the quality of healthcare and reducing its costs. To learn more about different challenges facing the successful utilization of health analytics, a careful review of literature was conducted, and a qualitative analysis was used to explore and classify these challenges. Three main categories of challenges were identified. 1) Technological challenges; hardware, software, and data content, 2) Human challenges; knowledge, experiences, beliefs and attitudes, and end user behaviors, and 3) Organizational challenges; managerial, financial, and legal barriers to optimal utilization of health analytics. The non-technological problems seem to be harder to solve as well as more time consuming, including the existence of a specific business need and a clear vision to guide the project. In addition, health analytics should always be built with the end users in mind.

Digitization of Literature on Social Media

Digitization of Literature on Social Media

Novel Benchmark Database of Digitized and Calibrated Cervical Cells for Artificial Intelligence Based Screening of Cervical Cancer

Objective: The primary objective of this research work is to develop a novel benchmark database of digitized and calibrated, cervical cells obtained from slides of Papanicolaou smear test, which is done for screening of cervical cancer. This database can serve as a potential tool for designing, developing, training, testing and validating various Artificial intelligence based systems for prognosis of cervical cancer by characterization and classification of Papanicolaou smear images. The database can also be used by other researchers for comparative analysis of working efficiencies of various machine learning and image processing algorithms. The database can be obtained by sending a request to the corresponding author. Besides developing a rich machine learning database we have also presented a novel artificial intelligence based hybrid ensemble technique for efficient screening of cervical cancer by automated analysis of Papanicolaou smear images. Methodology: The correct and timely diagnosis of cervical cancer is one of the major problems in the medical world. From the literature it has been found that different pattern recognition techniques can help them to improve in this domain. Papanicolaou smear (also referred to as Pap smear) is a microscopic examination of samples of human cells scraped from the lower, narrow part of the uterus, called cervix. A sample of cells after being stained by using Papanicolaou method is analyzed under microscope for the presence of any unusual developments indicating any precancerous and potentially precancerous developments. Abnormal findings, if observed are subjected to further precise diagnostic subroutines. Examining the cell images for abnormalities in the cervix provides grounds for provision of prompt action and thus reducing incidence and deaths from cervical cancer. It is the most popular technique used for screening of cervical cancer. Pap smear test, if done with a regular screening programs and proper follow-up, can reduce cervical cancer mortality by up to 80%. The contribution of this paper is that we have created a rich machine learning database of quantitatively profiled and calibrated cervical cells obtained from Papsmear test slides. The database so created consists of data of about 200 clinical cases (8091 cervical cells), which have been obtained from multiple health care centers, so as to ensure diversity in data. The slides were processed using a multi-headed digital microscope and images of cervical cells were obtained, which were passed through various data preprocessing subroutines. After preprocessing the cells were morphologically profiled and scaled to obtain separate quantitative measurements of various features of cytoplasm and nucleus respectively. The cells in the database were carefully classified in different corresponding classes according to latest 2001-Bethesda system of classification, by technicians. In addition to this, we have also pioneered to apply a novel hybrid ensemble system to this database in order to evaluate the effectiveness of both novel database and novel hybrid ensemble technique to screen cervical cancer by categorization of Pap smear data. The paper also presents a comparative analysis of multiple artificial intelligence based classification algorithms for prognosis of cervical cancer. Results: For evaluating the effectiveness and correctness of the digital database prepared in this work, authors implemented this database for training, testing and validating fifteen different artificial intelligence based machine learning algorithms. All algorithms trained with this database presented commendable efficiency in screening of cervical cancer. For two-class problem all the algorithms trained with the digital database showed the efficiencies in range of about 93-95% while as in case of multi class problem algorithms expressed the efficiencies in the range of about 69-78%. The results indicate that the novel digital database prepared in this work can be efficiently used for developing new machine learning based techniques for automated screening of cervical cancer. The results also indicate that hybrid ensemble technique is an efficient method for classification of pap-smear images and hence can be effectively used for diagnosis of cervical cancer. Among all the algorithms implemented, the hybrid ensemble approach outperformed and expressed an efficiency of about 98% for 2-class problem and about 86% for 7-class problem. The results when compared with the all the standalone classifiers were significantly better for both twoclass and multi-class problems.

Трансформація професії бухгалтера в умовах диджиталізації управління

Трансформація професії бухгалтера в умовах диджиталізації управління

The impact of lures on a mobile digitized n-back

The impact of lures on a mobile digitized n-back

Pieni ja keskisuuri urbanismi kaupunkikehittämisen voimavarana

Kaupungistuminen on maailmanlaajuinen vahva megatrendi, joka liitetään ilmiönä useimmiten suurkaupunkeihin. Helposti unohtuu urbanisaation hennompi prosessi, joka muokkaa pienempiä kaupunkeja ja yhdyskuntia sekä näitä ympäröivää maaseutua. Vaikka tämän tyyppinen muutos ei ole määrällisesti tarkasteltuna yhtä kiinnostava, se avaa tärkeitä näkökulmia yhdyskuntien laadulliseen muutokseen ja sen hallintaan. Maahanmuutto, digitalisaatio ja biotalous ovat esimerkkejä vahvistuvista muutosajureista. Ne tulevat muokkaamaan kaupunkielämää, -taloutta, -tilaa ja -rakennetta tavoilla, joita tunnemme toistaiseksi huonosti. On myös mahdollista, että keskittyminen suurille kaupunkiseuduille laukaisee vastaliikkeen, jossa arvostetaan puhtautta, hiljaisuutta ja turvallisuutta. Tällaisia laatuja haetaan yleensä pienemmistä yhdyskunnista. Jotta pienille ja keskisuurille kaupungeille löydetään niille ominaiset kehittämisperiaatteet, tarvitaan ”urbanismin” käsitteen laajentamista. Tutkimuksen kohdealueena on Etelä-Pohjanmaa, jonka kaupunkikehittämistä tarkastellaan tästä näkökulmasta. 

ENTERPRISES REORGANIZATION IN THE DIGITALIZATION EPOCH

ENTERPRISES REORGANIZATION IN THE DIGITALIZATION EPOCH

Digitization of Archived Documents as a Source Study Problem

Digitization of Archived Documents as a Source Study Problem

Construction and application of digital protection system for incontinence-associated dermatitis based on earlier prevention

Objective To establish a digital protection system for incontinence-associated dermatitis based on earlier prevention to reduce the incidence of incontinence-associated dermatitis. Methods Based on the informationization of nursing platform, we run the digital protection system module of incontinence-related dermatitis based on the forward moving of the prevention gateway in Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital. Through comparative study, 108 patients with incontinence and incontinence-related dermatitis from January to March 2018 were randomly selected as the pre-operation data, and 108 patients with incontinence and incontinence-related dermatitis from January to March 2019 as the post-operation data. The nurses of the two groups were observed and compared in terms of their assessment accuracy in patients' incontinence risk, position and Incontinence Associated Dermatitis Severity (IADS) , clinical staging, and implementation of prevention strategies. Meanwhile, the incidence of incontinence-related dermatitis among all inpatients in the hospital from January to March in 2018 was compared with the same period of 2019. Results After the operation of the digital protection system for incontinence-related dermatitis based on earlier prevention, the nursing staff's accuracy rate in the risk assessment of incontinence (χ2=38.095, P<0.01) , IADS (χ2=64.901, P<0.01) , clinical staging accuracy (χ2=42.424, P<0.01) and the implementation of protective measures (χ2=50.000, P<0.01) had significant statistical differences. The incidence of incontinence-related dermatitis in hospitalized patients decreased from 0.35% before operation to 0.06% after operation with statistical significance (χ2=41.031, P<0.01) . Conclusions The operation of the digital protection system for incontinence-associated dermatitis based on earlier prevention can reduce the incidence of incontinence-associated dermatitis and improve the prevention and management competence of nursing staff. Key words: Incontinence-associated dermatitis; Digitization; Prevention system; Earlier prevention; Specialty of wound, stoma and incontinence; Assessment; Prevention

ПРАКТИКА ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ МЕХАНИЗМОВ РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЯ В ОСОБЫХ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ ЗОНАХ И IT-КЛАСТЕРАХ КАК ЭЛЕМЕНТ РАЗВИТИЯ ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ

ПРАКТИКА ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ МЕХАНИЗМОВ РЕГУЛИРОВАНИЯ В ОСОБЫХ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ ЗОНАХ И IT-КЛАСТЕРАХ КАК ЭЛЕМЕНТ РАЗВИТИЯ ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ

New Triage System Using Digitized Information Entered Via a Digital Pen

New Triage System Using Digitized Information Entered Via a Digital Pen