Era Of Rapid Technological Change Research Articles

Real-time data analytics in retail: A review of USA and global practices

Real-time data analytics has emerged as a pivotal tool in the retail sector, revolutionizing decision-making processes and operational strategies. This study delves into the extensive landscape of real-time data analytics in retail, offering a comprehensive review of practices both in the USA and on a global scale. In the United States, retail giants have harnessed real-time data analytics to gain unprecedented insights into consumer behavior, preferences, and market trends. From personalized marketing campaigns to dynamic pricing strategies, retailers leverage real-time analytics to optimize inventory management and enhance the overall customer experience. The integration of technologies like RFID, IoT devices, and advanced analytics platforms has facilitated the seamless flow of data, enabling retailers to respond swiftly to changing market dynamics. On a global scale, diverse retail markets have embraced real-time data analytics to stay competitive in an ever-evolving landscape. Cross-border e-commerce and the proliferation of online marketplaces have intensified the need for real-time insights into global consumer trends. Retailers worldwide are adopting predictive analytics to forecast demand, reduce stockouts, and streamline supply chain operations. Moreover, the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms enhances the ability to analyze vast datasets, uncovering hidden patterns and predicting future market trends. Challenges such as data privacy concerns, integration complexities, and the need for skilled professionals are acknowledged in this review. Despite these challenges, the transformative impact of real-time data analytics on the retail sector is undeniable. As technology continues to advance, the synergy between real-time data analytics and retail practices is expected to deepen, fostering innovation and reshaping the industry's landscape. This study provides a glimpse into the dynamic and evolving realm of real-time data analytics in retail, offering insights into the strategies employed by both the USA and global players to thrive in an era of rapid technological change.

Navigating the Complexity of Construction Contracts and the value of Blockchain Technology: A Systems Dynamics Perspective - Review Paper

This paper examines the integration of systems thinking and blockchain technology in construction contract management. It addresses the complexities inherent in construction contracts, which are often exacerbated by issues in transparency, efficiency, and stakeholder collaboration. Systems thinking is applied to understand the dynamic interactions within contracts, while blockchain technology is explored as a solution for enhancing contract management, focusing on its capabilities for improving transparency, streamlining execution, and facilitating dispute resolution. The paper critically analyzes the potential benefits and challenges of blockchain implementation in construction, including technological complexities, regulatory uncertainties, and industry adoption barriers. Through a synthesis of current literature and case studies, the paper highlights the transformative potential of combining systems thinking and blockchain in construction contracts, offering insights into future research directions and technological advancements needed for effective integration. This approach promises a more efficient, transparent, and collaborative future in construction contract management, aligning with the industry’s evolving needs in an era of rapid technological change.

Adapting an Organizational Culture to Stay Abreast of Technological Changes in Indonesia’s Government Scientific Sector

This research navigates the disruptions the government science sector faces in an era of rapid technological change, examining the interplay of government science funding, information technology integration, and research collaboration networks. The study employs a cross-sectional design, exploring the impact of government scientific communication policies and access to advanced research technologies as independent variables, mediated by a researcher's digital literacy and skills, on the dependent variable of innovation resilience in government science. Additionally, the moderating role of government scientific infrastructure and capabilities is investigated. A comprehensive survey was administered to participants within the government science sector in Indonesia, encompassing diverse demographics and scientific disciplines. Results reveal a significant positive association between transparent government communication policies and innovation resilience, highlighting the pivotal role of effective communication in fostering adaptability. Furthermore, the study underscores the importance of government initiatives in building digital literacy and skills among researchers. The positive impact of communication policies on digital capabilities emphasizes the need for proactive strategies to enhance workforce proficiency in a technologically dynamic environment. The conceptual framework, validated through empirical findings, introduces the central construct of innovation resilience in government science, emphasizing adaptability to disruptive changes and consistent innovation.

Ethical challenges in the use of digital technologies in psychological science: Introduction to the special issue.

Digital technologies are pervasive in every aspect of our daily lives. The proliferation of such technologies has also influenced the conduct of biomedical, behavioral, and social research. The articles in this special issue provide illustrative examples of the range of applications of digital technologies in psychological science research across a variety of populations. They highlight ethical, legal, and social issues that emerge when digital technologies are employed in psychological science research in the current era of rapid technological change, increasing prevalence of interdisciplinary team science, evolving understandings of ethical precepts and social norms, and promoting open science. This introduction to the special issue provides an overview of challenges to the Belmont principles of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice revealed in the 10 articles. The conclusions reached are that these ethical principles do not always adapt well to the digital environment and that practices cannot always be uniquely classified under one of these three headings. We recommend that conceptual work and practical guidance be undertaken to expand the interpretation of these principles in the light of evolving societal norms and emerging ethical issues. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

How to Empower Educators through Digital Pedagogies and Faculty Development Strategies

Purpose: In order to fully explore and comprehend the dynamic intersection between digital technology, pedagogical innovation, and faculty development within the higher education landscape, it is currently necessary to empower educators by providing them with training in digital pedagogies and various other faculty development strategies in higher education institutions, including universities. In an era of rapid technological change and shifting educational paradigms, this research aims to identify efficient tactics and approaches that can enable educators to flourish in their roles as mentors, teachers, and researchers. This research seeks to provide important insights that will help educational institutions improve the quality of teaching, learning, and research, thereby fostering a more robust and responsive educational ecosystem. It does this by looking into global trends, synthesizing postulates, and offering useful suggestions. Methodology: Exploratory research methodology is used. Required information are collected using various online sources through Google search engine, Google Scholar search engine, and Various GPTs including ChatGPT and Bard. The information is analysed, evaluated, and interpreted as per the specific framework to develop the postulates and provide suggestions to improve the system. Outcome: Based on systematically identified objectives, analysis, evaluation, comparison, and interpretation, on how to empower educators through digital pedagogies, and faculty development strategies, few postulates and suggestions are presented as the outcome of this exploratory research. Originality/Value: Through systematically reviewing the current status, and collecting secondary information, various digital pedagogies for classroom teaching, blended teaching, and online teaching, faculty development strategies for improving classroom teaching, online teaching, and blended teaching are identified, analysed, compared, evaluated, and interpreted with unique suggestions. Type of the Paper: Exploratory Research

Diagnostic Yield vs Diagnostic Accuracy for Peripheral Lung Biopsy Evaluation: Evidence Supporting a Future Pragmatic End Point

Diagnostic yield and accuracy endpoints have been used inconsistently in the evaluation of advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy devices and techniques, limiting between-study comparisons. In addition, diagnostic accuracy can only be adjudicated after prolonged clinical follow-up which delays reporting on the performance of novel devices. Will a conservative diagnostic yield definition would result in few false negative initial results to closely approximate diagnostic accuracy and represent a useful outcome for future studies of diagnostic utility? Commonly utilized definitions of diagnostic yield were applied to a prospective dataset of consecutive peripheral pulmonary lesions sampled by navigational bronchoscopy from 2017 to 2019. All consider malignancy to be diagnostic but differ in their classification of non-malignant biopsy findings, which were subcategorized as specific benign, nonspecific benign, or normal lung. Diagnostic yield calculations were also compared to diagnostic accuracy, defined as the proportion of biopsies deemed diagnostic by each definition that were confirmed accurate through two years of follow-up. A total of 450 biopsied lesions were analyzed. The prevalence of malignancy was 60.9% (274 of 450). On initial bronchoscopy pathology, there were 227 malignant diagnoses (50.4%), with a single false-positive (0.4%). Among 104 biopsies with specific benign findings, only two were false negative for malignancy (1.9%). There were 119 nonspecific benign biopsies with 46 false negatives for malignancy (38.7%). The discrepancy between diagnostic yield and accuracy was 0.7% for the conservative definition which only considered malignant or specific benign findings as diagnostic. A conservative diagnostic yield definition excluding nonspecific benign diagnoses closely approximated diagnostic accuracy through two years follow-up, with a less than 1% discrepancy. Using this conservative yield definition may allow for dissemination of reliable diagnostic utility data without protracted delays needed for follow-up data in this era of rapid technological change in advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy.

Quality and Innovation as Factors Influencing the Pricing Policy of Hotels in Historical Buildings in the Slovak Republic

In today’s era of rapid technological change and increasing competition in the tourism industry, historic hotels have become unique destinations for discerning guests. Their unique charm and cultural heritage have attracted the attention of tourists from all over the world. However, despite their historicity, these hotels face complex challenges associated with modernisation and competition in today’s domestic and global markets. The prices they set for their services have become key factors affecting their competitiveness and long-term sustainability. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of quality and innovation as factors influencing the price and pricing policies of hotels in historical buildings operating in the Slovak Republic from the perspective of consumers. The results of the paper will provide valuable insights for the hotel industry in the Slovak Republic and can serve as a guideline for hoteliers and managers in shaping a pricing policy that takes into account the expectations and preferences of consumers, while striving to strike a balance between preserving the historic character and providing innovative services.

The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Innovative Work Behavior Mediated by the Organizational Culture

Innovative work behavior, transformational leadership style and organizational culture are critical variables that must be the focus of attention of every organization in order to succeed in this era of rapid technological change. This study aims to determine the effect of transformational leadership on innovative work behavior that is mediated by the organizational culture of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) teachers throughout the city of Mataram. The population of this research is active teachers in MAN in Mataram City, amounting to 124 teachers. The rate of return of questionnaires in this study was 83% or a total of 124 respondents. Hypothesis testing in this study uses path analysis with the SmartPLS3.2.8 program. The results showed that transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on innovative work behavior, transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on organizational culture, organizational culture has a positive and significant effect on innovative work behavior, transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on innovative work behavior mediated by culture organizations where organizational culture acts as a partial mediating variable. These findings indicate that to improve innovative work behavior it is necessary to apply transformational leadership styles and strengthen organizational culture

“Technology inevitably involves trade-offs”: The framing of technology in social studies standards

ABSTRACT We live in an era of rapid technological change. Not only must citizens contend with social problems presented by new and more invasive technologies, but they must also make sense of older technologies that can be viewed as natural to the world. We sought to answer the question, how is technology included and framed in K–12 content social studies standards? Through coding, we identified 984 references where students are expected to learn about technology in the K–12 social studies standards of 10 states. Overall, the standards showed a preference for broad labels and neutral or positive framing, with technology often serving as a vehicle to explain social phenomena or economic growth. Production technologies were most frequent, but there was wide variance in the particular technologies referenced by each state. Even when technology was referenced, it often was not the primary focus of the standard’s content. Standards rarely framed technology with critical perspectives for inquiry into collateral, unintended, and disproportionate effects. We draw on technology criticism to offer a technoskeptical framework that educators and scholars can use to question narratives of technological progress and encourage collateral thinking about the consequences of technologies for human societies.

Foresight as a tool of public administration in the field of science, technology and innovation

Given the growing role of technological foresight as a tool for reconciling visions, goals and ways of STI development in an era of rapid technological change and global challenges, the approach to foresight research to select priorities for science and innovation in Ukraine for 2022–2026 has been improved. It takes into account a wide range of national targets for achieving SDGs by 2030. The developed Methodological recommendations provided a thorough analysis of more than 3,000 potentially acceptable technological and innovative proposals. The approach to setting STI priorities is new for Ukraine and involves a consistent process of selecting the top 30 most acceptable proposals in each of the seven thematic areas through five stages of discussions and evaluations. The result was the formation of a database of technology passports and developments on the experts’ proposals, their selection by practitioners, ranking, evaluation in terms of the potential of Ukrainian science and relevance in terms of world science and new technologies using international databases. They are the basis for decisions by the Expert Councils and the High-Level Working Group on key thematic areas and the preparation of a relevant draft government decision. Despite the conditions of quarantine, for the first time more than 2,500 experts from science, business, state and public organizations took part in the discussions, which is the basis for impartial and public decision-making. To strengthen the role of foresight as a tool for public planning and management in the field of STI, it is proposed to develop a STI roadmap as part of a research and innovation strategy for smart specialization (RIS 3) at the national level.

New Aba Guidance on the Ethics of Working Remotely

On March 10, 2021, the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued its Formal Opinion 498, which contains timely guidance on ethical issues specific to working remotely, which many lawyers have found themselves doing during the Coronavirus Pandemic. ABA Ethics Opinion 498 outlines ethical issues specific to remote law practice, including lawyers’ ethical duties of competence, confidentiality and supervision, which are imposed by Rules 1.1, 1.6, 5.1 and 5.3 of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Responsibility. The new ethics opinion actually contains a relatively modest amount of new information, and synthesizes principles which have been articulated by both the ABA and state bar ethics committees over the past several years, including New York County Lawyers Association Formal Opinion 754-2020 and California State Bar Formal Opinion No. 2020-203, both of which provide helpful guidance for lawyers seeking to maintain traditional ethical values of confidentiality and competence in an era of rapid technological change. As will be seen, the concept of professional competence increasingly encompasses technological know-how. Twenty-First century technology is quite literally becoming mandatory training for lawyers

London Street Noises: A Ground-Breaking Field Recording Campaign from 1928

In a leading article by Sir Percival Philips in the UK popular newspaper, the Daily Mail, July 16, 1928, came the following headlines: “Millions Lost by Noise – Cities’ Worst Plague – Menace to Nerves and Health – What is Being Done to Stop it”. The article was supported by research from Prof Henry J. Spooner, who had been researching and campaigning on the ill-effects of noise and its economic impact. The article sparked subsequent discussion and follow-up articles in the Daily Mail and its international partners. In an era of rapid technological change, that was on the cusp of implementing sound pressure measurements, the Daily Mail, in collaboration with the Columbia Graphophone Company Ltd, experimented with sound recording technology and commentary in the field to help communicate perceived loudness and identify the sources of “unnecessary noise”. This resulted in the making of series of environmental sound recordings from five locations across central London during September 1928, the findings of which were documented and discussed in the Daily Mail at the time, and two recordings commercially released by Columbia on shellac gramophone disc. This was probably the first concerted anti-noise campaign of this type and scale, requiring huge technological efforts. The regulatory bodies and politicians of the time reviewed and improved the policies around urban noise shortly after the presentation of the recordings, which were also broadcast from the BBC both nationally and internationally, and many members of the public congratulated and thanked the Daily Mail for such an initiative. Despite its unpreceded scale and impact, and the recent scholarly attention on the history of anti-noise campaigning, this paper charts and contextualises the Daily Mail’s London Street Noise campaign for the first time. As well as historical research, this data has also been used to start a longitudinal comparative study still underway, returning to make field recordings on the site on the 80th and 90th anniversaries and during the COVID-19 lockdown, and shared on the website londonstreetnoises.co.uk.

Exploring firms’ innovation capabilities through learning systems

In this study, several machine learning-based experimental methods are used to analyse firms’ research and development (R&D)-related activities and predict their technological innovation performance. Using unbalanced panel data from the CSMAR database for all listed firms in China from 2008 to 2018, we analyse the firms’ basic information, R&D investment, patent application and authorization activity, financial status, and human capital. We use a logistic regression model, decision tree model, three weak classifiers random forest model, XGBoost model, and two weak classifiers gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) model to integrate strong classifiers separately. A comparison of the results produced using the different models shows that the performance of the XGBoost model is better than that of the other models in terms of net profit, total sales revenue, and the number of invention patent applications as a proportion of the total number of patent applications. However, the performance of the GBDT model is significantly better than that of the other models in terms of the number of patent applications per 100,000 yuan of R&D expenditure. The results of this study can help scholars to accurately predict the innovation performance of firms and help business managers to make better decisions to improve the innovation performance of their firms in the current era of rapid technological change.

Родительские стратегии в использовании детьми цифровых технологий

The article provides a review of studies concerning the parent’s attitude to digital technology utilization of their young children. Data presented show an increase in intensity and a significant decrease in the age at which children start using mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. It is shown that new technologies significantly change the relationship of children and parents. Variants of parental mediation strategies in the process of using digital technologies are highlighted and described: restrictive, active, co-use, etc. This paper is concluded with recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics for use of media by young children. The need to make a General Comment on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which protects children’s access, protection and participation rights in use of new digital resources in an era of rapid technological change, is emphasized.

Influence of Transformational Leadership and Work Engagement On Innovative Behavior

Innovative behavior, employee engagement and transformational leadership are critical variables that should be the focus of every organization’s this era of rapid technological change. This study aims to determine the effect of transformational leadership and work engagement on innovative behavior in the banking industry in Indonesia. The technique sampling is purposive sampling, so the numbers of samples are 378 people. The Data analysis technique is multiple linear regression analysis. The results show that transformational leadership and work engagement have a significant and positive effect on innovative behavior, in which work engagement as a mediating variable will to the positive influence of transformational leadership on innovative behavior. These findings suggest that it is necessary to apply transformational leadership styles and increase employee engagement to improve innovative employee behavior.DOI: 10.15408/etk.v17i2.7427

Bitcoin, crypto-coins, and global anti-money laundering governance

Crypto-coins (CCs) like Bitcoin are digitally encrypted tokens traded in peer-to-peer networks whose money laundering potential has attracted the attention of regulators, firms and the wider public worldwide. This article assesses the effectiveness of the global anti-money laundering regime in balancing both the challenges and opportunities presented by these novel ‘altcoins’. Two main arguments are advanced. First, the implications that crypto-coins presently pose for global anti-money laundering efforts stem less from the threats of their illicit uses as digital currencies and more from the opportunities presented by their underlying blockchain technologies. Second, despite several shortcomings, the risk-based approach pursued by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) strikes an effective balance between the existing threats and opportunities that crypto-coins currently present. Rather than a conclusive evaluation however this article stresses the need for continual monitoring and investigation of the wider ethical implications raised by CCs for global efforts to combat money laundering in an era of rapid technological change.

Geographies of digital skill

In an era of rapid technological change, especially considering the rise of robotics and AI, there is widespread anxiety about the impacts of digital technologies across a vast range of industries. Policy responses to this changing employment landscape champion the necessity for growing ‘digital skills’. However, we argue that these dominant macropolitical interpretations draw on a restricted understanding of spatiality where digital skills are discretely located in particular bodies and in particular geographical locations. The paper develops a novel geographical response through an exploration of the micropolitics of digital skills. This focuses on the material and practical dimensions of work with digital technologies that produces a more dynamic spatiality and thus a more complex politics of labour. We argue that the dynamic spatiality of digital skills can be evaluated according to: (1) site-specific dimensions, as digital skills are co-minglings of humans and technologies; (2) extensive dimensions, as digital skills are networked across geographically dispersed sites; and (3) intensive dimensions, as digital skills emerge across bodies and environments through repetitive practices. This analysis suggests that policy declarations of digital skills ‘shortages’ are problematic, since they overlook the contested and shifting forms of enablement and constraint that labour practices involving digital technologies give rise to. Unpacking this labour politics therefore requires geographical approaches that are adept at grasping these complex spatialities of labour.

Silencing Peter Does Not Quiet Paul: Constitutional Infirmities in the TCPA's Ineffective Quest to Silence Telemarketers

This article considers the viability of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) in light of recent Supreme Court First Amendment precedent (such as Reed v. Town of Gilbert and Sorrell v. IMS Health) and technological & regulatory developments (such as the FCC’s ongoing consideration of rules that would allow or require prospective callers to implement technologies that obviate many of the TCPA’s concerns). The TCPA is the primary law prohibiting “robocalls” – phone calls made using autodialers or pre-recorded messages without the consent of the call recipient. In recent years robocalls have become one of the primary consumer protection issues facing regulators – with more than 4.1 billion of these calls placed eachmonth, consumer concern about them dominate complaints received by both the FCC and FTC. Simultaneously, as cellphones have become a ubiquitous means by which individuals engage with one another and the public square, the scope of the TCPA has expanded from protection of the privacy of the home (long recognized as Constitutionally permissible) to a more general shield from unwanted communications (generally not Constitutionally permissible). Because the TCPA regulates speech, it has been subject to repeated First Amendment challenges since it was enacted in 1991. Those challenges have consistently been reviewed subject to intermediate scrutiny, under which the statute has consistently survived. Recent developments in First Amendment precedent, however, suggest that such challenges would likely be subject to strict scrutiny today. Moreover, recent technological and regulatory developments suggest that the statute is not sufficiently tailored to survive application of intermediate scrutiny, let alone its stricter cousin. Given the sharp increase in TCPA suits in recent years -- from just 14 suits in 2007 to nearly 5,000 in 2016 – and this legal evolution, this article provides analysis relevant to certainly-forthcoming judicial and regulatory consideration of the TCPA. The TCPA also raises difficult questions beyond the traditional First Amendment analysis. For instance, the government itself regulates many aspects of the architecture of the telephone network. In this role, it has slowed or prevented the adoption of technologies that could dramatically reduce the problems the TCPA seeks to address by curtailing speech in order to (ineffectively) address. And the TCPA is largely premised on the government’s important interest in protecting the sanctuary of the home as a place in which individuals can be free from intrusions from the outside world. But as mobile telephones increasingly displace residential wireline telephones, the TCPA’s effect has grown sub silentio from protecting the sanctuary of the home to protecting the sanctuary of the phone. These issues raise important questions about the government’s power to regulate private speech, particularly in an era of rapid technological change.

Chinese Perceptions of and Responses to US Conventional Military Power

ABSTRACTChinese analysts view the US military not only as a model for emulation but also as a serious threat given its strengths in high tech weapons and equipment, power projection, and unparalleled ability to conduct information-intensive joint combat operations. Yet they also see many of the capabilities the US military relies upon to execute these operations – most notably forward bases, space capabilities, and computer networks and information technology systems – as potentially vulnerable to disruption. Accordingly, China has developed capabilities designed to deter or counter US military intervention in areas close to China. This poses two interrelated challenges for the United States: maintaining its military advantage in an era of rapid technological change and preserving deterrence against growing Chinese ambitions in Asia.

Economic welfare evaluation in an era of rapid technological change

In an era of rapid technological change, from the perspective of welfare measurement a case can be made for modifying currently popular consumer demand systems. The case is based on the importance of the income effect. In particular it is important to avoid a problematic characteristic of some popular demand systems which we term effective homotheticity. This characteristic compromises the ability of counterfactual analyses to distinguish different sized welfare effects at different income levels. The paper proposes an appropriate modification to two popular demand systems and derives the implied welfare evaluation formula required for counterfactual analysis of non-homothetic income effects.