Digital Forms Research Articles

TATAR CULTURE: A SOCIOCULTURAL ANALYSIS IN THE CONTEXT OF ETHNOCULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE MODERN AGE OF DIGITAL LIFE

This study explores how ethnic minority activists in Russia appropriate digital technology and forms of creative cultural production that are widely disseminated around the world. The study also illustrates the ways in which these forms influence alternative ethnic cultural expressions and innovative interpretations of minority cultural heritage. Tatarstan, an autonomous region of the Russian Federation, has seen a growth in the number of innovative cultural and digital initiatives launched during the last five to seven years. These initiatives are driven primarily by young Tatar businesspeople and activists, most of whom are based in the Republic of Tatarstan. Tatarstan has long been the epicentre of traditional Tatar culture, including the Tatar people's theatre, music, visual arts, and literature. It is also the primary location for the instruction of the Tatar language. Tatarstan's political autonomy arrangements from the 1990s have been primarily undermined due to Russia's efforts toward centralization and cultural unity under the presidency of Vladimir Putin (beginning in the year 2000). Activists working to preserve the languages and identities of ethnic minorities face new challenges directly from the new, more conservative ideologies that have taken hold in the country. The emergence of new forms of cultural production in Russia is influenced by the growth of digital technology as well as by international cultural production. The younger members of the Tatar community are adopting the international formats and genres popular elsewhere and applying them to their cultural activities, thereby creating new forms of ethno cultural activism. When it comes to matters of ethnic identity, they devise innovative approaches to depict and articulate it, which are distinct from the models of ethnic culture that were inspired by the Soviet Union. Environments are becoming increasingly ideologically and politically restrictive. Minority participation in urban activities is frequently linked with secession. Due to these groups' activities, it is possible to depoliticize ethnic activism.

FEATURES OF CONSTRUCTION OF DIGITAL RELIEF MODEL ACCORDING TO THE RESULTS OF GEODESIC SURVEYING LOCATIONS

Topographic maps in digital and electronic forms are created on the basis of available paper topographic maps or on the basis of primary materials of geodetic surveys. Geodetic surveys are performed both by ground methods, without the use of photogrammetric materials, and on the basis of materials obtained as a result of ground phototheodolite or aerial photography. The construction of a digital terrain model is a multi-stage process, which consists of a significant number of interconnected operations performed at the stage of in-house processing of the results of geodetic measurements carried out during engineering and geodetic surveys. The quality of the final result of modeling depends on the quality of each stage of construction of a digital terrain model, so it is extremely important to pay attention to all technological processes of model construction. The digital relief model is considered as an ordered set of triangular faces constructed by the Delaunay algorithm. The main condition of this type of triangulation is that in the middle of the circle described around any triangle can not be the vertex of another triangle. Construction of a digital terrain model based on the results of geodetic surveying of the area in the general case can be divided into several stages. At the beginning, an automated construction of triangulation is performed on the basis of the results of geodetic measurements, which carry information about three-dimensional coordinates of survey points. Allotments adjust the display of horizontals. Regardless of the selected surface display style, the surface model is a grid of triangles. At the next stage of construction of the digital model of a relief carry out visual control of the created model and if necessary carry out editing of elements of a surface and change of position of edges of triangulation for change of position of horizontals. The last stage of building a digital terrain model based on the results of geodetic surveying of the area is the design of modeling results, the application of individual styles of reflection for individual areas of the surface and the creation of mountain strokes and signatures of horizontals.

Design of A Web-Based Credit Information System Using Framework Codeigniter (Case Study: Bpr Tala)

Currently this technology has had a major influence on the way of life and lifestyle so that it has spread to all domains, including credit applications that have made major changes to digital forms. Applications for credit at the Tanah Laut people's credit bank are still done manually starting from the credit application process, processing data and files, to preparing reports. This causes the credit application process to be ineffective and takes a long time, so that it can negatively affect customer satisfaction. This credit application system was developed on a web basis using a codeigniter framework, with the waterfall development method. This system can apply for credit online, helps make it easier to make decisions in determining the receipt of credit applications, helps in making monthly reports.

Цифровая форма объекта интеллектуальной собственности как способ повышения его конкурентоспособности

Relevance. To analyze the problems of legal status’ determination of intellectual property objects’ in digital form in the framework of valid civil legislation. The study tested the admission of different basis for regulation of the intellectual property objects’ possession and use in the digital and analog form. Methodology: the methodological basis of the article is formal-logical law research method. Results. The author concludes that intellectual property objects in digital form exist only in Internet that give for its possessors more opportunities for digital contact distribution. Moreover digital form of the intellectual property object influences on the marketability of digital product in respect of broad list of methods’ use of this product and reduction of its cost in comparative with the analog object. The research provided digital and analog forms of the intellectual property objects are not the same as a whole in spite of its content unity. The author makes a conclusion that such categories as «original work» and «sample of work» can’t be used to the digital form of the intellectual property objects, because the objects in digital form are only the copies of the original work. Therefore legal regulation of the intellectual property objects depends on its forms. The author suggests considering license agreement made on form of click-wrap-agreement as application of the intellectual property objects in digital form. Discussion. The conclusions of the study can be used as a basis for further researches and lawmaking.

Digital forms of service delivery for personalized crisis resolution and home treatment

HintergrundDie stationsäquivalente psychiatrische Behandlung (StäB) wurde 2018 als Krankenhausleistung für Menschen eingeführt, die die Kriterien einer stationären Behandlung erfüllen. Die rasanten Fortschritte im Bereich der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie bieten neue Chancen für innovative digitale Versorgungsangebote wie telemedizinische, eHealth- oder mHealth-Verfahren.Ziel der ArbeitDiese Übersichtsarbeit soll einen umfassenden Überblick über neue digitale Versorgungsformen geben, die zur Personalisierung der StäB bei schweren psychischen Erkrankungen beitragen und somit klinische und soziale Outcomes verbessern sowie direkte und indirekte Kosten reduzieren könnten.MethodeDiese Arbeit basiert auf einer selektiven Literaturrecherche (Narratives Review).ErgebnisseEs wurden vier primäre digitale Versorgungsformen identifiziert, die in der StäB gewinnbringend genutzt werden könnten: (1) Kommunikation, Behandlungskontinuität und -flexibilität durch Online-Chat und Videotelefonie, (2) Monitoring von Symptomen und Verhaltensweisen in Echtzeit durch Anwendung des ambulatorischen Assessments („ecological momentary assessment“ [EMA]), (3) Nutzung multimodaler EMA-Daten für die Generierung von personalisiertem Feedback über subjektives Erleben und Verhaltensmuster sowie (4) auf Person, Moment und Kontext zugeschnittene, adaptive ambulatorische Interventionen („ecological momentary interventions“ [EMIs]).DiskussionDigitale Versorgungsformen haben erhebliches Potenzial die Effektivität und Kosteneffektivität der StäB zu steigern. Ein wichtiger nächster Schritt besteht darin, die Anwendung dieser Versorgungsformen im Bereich der StäB zu modellieren und deren Qualität aus Sicht der Patient*innen, Sicherheit und initiale Prozess- und Ergebnisqualität sowie Implementierungsbedingungen sorgfältig zu untersuchen.

Development and testing of a summative video-based e-examination in relation to an OSCE for measuring communication-related factual and procedural knowledge of medical students.

Objective: In the context of educating medical students, testing of competence in medical communication is carried out primarily with the Objective Structured Clinical Examination [1]. This makes it possible to assess practical performance, but it is resource-intensive and has a negative impact on test quality. The project “Digital test tool for measuring communication skills in medical studies” (digiRole) was funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and its objective was to develop digital formats as electronic versions of an OSCE in order to test the communication competency of medical students. Such digital forms of examination should be cost-effective, be relevant to clinical practice and have high psychometric quality. In terms of content, the examination questions should incorporate factual and procedural knowledge as components of communication competency, although we assumed that procedural knowledge is more relevant than facutal knowledge to OSCE performance. This article describes the development and testing of a video-based, communication-related e-examination that is relevant to passing the test, which is the first milestone of the overall project.Methodology: We produced videos and related exam questions in the form of a situational judgement test [2] related to medical psychology and medical sociology, based on the educational content of a preclinical course on doctor-patient communication at the Mainz University Medical Center. In the summer semester of 2018, 226 students sat for this video-based single-choice e-examination (VSE). In the winter semester of 2018/2019, a different cohort of 192 students participated in the VSE as well as a tried-and-tested communication OSCE with five stations [3].Results: The internal consistencies for the VSE in the summer semester of 2018 were α=.55, in the winter semester 2018/19 with α=.62 and for the OSCE with α=.60. There was a positive correlation between the performance of the students with the VSE and that with the OSCE (r=.21, p≤.01). Principal Axis Analyses did not reveal any dimensioning in terms of factual and procedural knowledge. In the evaluation, the majority of the students stated that the VSE was quite relevant to the practise of medical communication and were in favour of retaining this form of examination.Conclusion: The correlation between the VSE and the OSCE is relatively low, so that the VSE in this form is not a satisfactory predictor of an OSCE result. In terms of internal consistency, the VSE and the OSCE produced an almost identical result. It can also be assumed that the VSE can achieve a high degree of objectivity with the use of standardised video-based examinations as well as greater resource efficiency than OSCEs.

Digital conferencing in times of crisis

Abstract This essay stems from our growing concern about the carbon intensity of academia, and of conferencing as an epitome of this. Face-to-face conferencing is widely recognised as both unsustainable and inequitable. Against this backdrop, digital conferencing (online only, or in hybrid form) offers a viable alternative. However, shifting to digital forms of conferencing does not automatically bring about equity. Drawing on white papers, academic discussions and results from a PollEverywhere survey, this essay explores issues of sustainability and equity across modes of face-to-face and digital conferencing, with the aim of charting a path towards more sustainable and accessible digital practises for a diverse community of linguists.

FORECAST OF TIME PROBABLE DISEASES IN PERIOD OF EPIDEMICS OF INFLUENZA AND CORONAVIRUS

Abstract. The purpose of the research is to determine the frequency of infection occurrence and use it for forecasting. According to the dates of human pathologies, the frequency of diseases (PZ) of 2400 parents and children, men and women was determined. To improve the accuracy of determining the PZ, astronomical units were used to record the time of occurrence of pathologies: 4 phases of the moon, 4 components of the moon's declination, and a day. The hereditary periodicity of diseases (NPD) was revealed, which is shown in graphic and digital forms. The refinery is used for predicting the time of probable acute infectious diseases and their complications. The goal of forecasting is to take timely preventive measures. 7 forecasting methods have been developed, 2 computer programs have been created that use different coordinate systems, and more than 1,600 computer forecasts have been made. With an error of + 1-4 days, 50% - 62% of diseases of children, women and men who were ill on average 3 times a year and more often are predicted. In 2014 registered application for invention No. 2014116101 "Method for simultaneous prediction of the time of probable acute infectious diseases of a person and the optimal date of vaccination". Rospatent's conclusion: ".. the invention can be implemented, but its practical applicability has not been confirmed." The implementation of the invention can be carried out in the period of the pandemic coronavirus. The conclusion about the "impracticability of forecasting" hinders the practical applicability of the invention and predicting the time of probable covid-19 diseases.

Imagining the Commoning Library

The ascent of neoliberalism and informational capitalism has been largely successful in privatizing and re-regulating state-subject-market relations in ways that treat them “as if” they are a market situation. Here, we observe both the increasing commodification of digital forms of knowledge, as well as the commodification of the access to this knowledge. As predominantly non-commercial spaces, libraries serve the vital function of deflecting these developments. In this article, I argue for going one step further and imagining libraries as institutionalized and pedagogical spaces that can negotiate and transgress their institutional limits vis-à-vis public and private resources, discourses, policies, and technologies for the purpose of furthering the commons. In so doing, libraries serve as alter-neoliberal pedagogies, which democratize the construction and deconstruction of knowledge, as well as the access to them. Here, alternative literacies, ways of learning, and ways of being can be prefigured in practice. In imagining these conceptual potentialities of academic and public libraries, this article sets forth an initial agenda toward the commoning library.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Coastal atmospheric climate and artificial intelligence English translation based on remote sensing images

In the twenty-first century, in the form of intelligent digitization, the rise of artificial intelligence, as well as the birth of black technology, have made good products convenient for our lives. For example, Sogou is a translation software used in translation treasure or travel portable pen. The emergence of artificial intelligence translation software gradually into the public vision, to more and more people to bring convenience in life, we think that artificial intelligence translation software can replace the traditional meaning of simultaneous translation, for people is more liberation. But the author thinks that the birth of artificial intelligence translation software should be more about the topic of learning methods. The aerosol optical thickness index of Kuihua-8 satellite is used to reflect the air freshness of satellite remote sensing, and a province is taken as an example to judge the seasonal environmental changes. The results show that the AOD values of coastal cities in the four seasons are higher than those in the western regions. The AOD numbers in autumn and winter of the whole province are low, and the AOD values in four quarters are different from those of neighboring provinces. The tree coverage rate of the land in the province is high, and the temperature changes steadily in four seasons. After the research of AOD, NDVI, and RSAI, the air freshness of the province is good, the pollution is small, the vegetation coverage is high, and the air freshness of satellite remote sensing is better, which has great improvement on the development of tourism industry and people’s own health.

Gruppenpsychotherapeutische Weiterbildung und Versorgung über digitale Medien

Summary Group Psychotherapy and Group Training Online As a result of the Corona pandemic, digital forms of communication have come into focus. In other countries (e. g., USA), there was a relatively rapid switch to digitally conducted group psychotherapeutic care services. In the German health care system, outpatient group psychotherapies hardly did not take place in presence due to strict hygiene regulations, nor digitally due to a lack of privacy-compliant platforms. In our paper, we address the resulting consequences for the further development of group psychotherapy.

Beads, Pixels, andNkisi: Contemporary Kinois Art and Reconfigurations of the Virtual

AbstractIn the 2016 Abiola Lecture, Mbembe argued that “the plasticity of digital forms speaks powerfully to the plasticity of African precolonial cultures and to ancient ways of working with representation and mediation, of folding reality.” In her commentary, Pype tries to understand what “speaking powerfully to” can mean. She first situates the Abiola Lecture within a wide range of exciting and ongoing scholarship that attempts to understand social transformations on the continent since the ubiquitous uptake of the mobile phone, and its most recent incarnation, the smartphone. She then analyzes the aesthetics of artistic projects by Alexandre Kyungu, Yves Sambu, and Hilaire Kuyangiko Balu, where wooden doors, tattoos, beads, saliva, and nails correlate with the Internet, pixels, and keys of keyboards and remote controls. Finally, Pype asks to whom the congruence between the aesthetics of a “precolonial” Congo and the digital speaks. In a society where “the past” is quickly demonized, though expats and the commercial and political elite pay thousands of dollars for the discussed art works, Pype argues that this congruence might be one more manifestation of capitalism’s cannibalization of a stereotypical image of “Africa.”

Staying close to business: the role of epistemic alignment in rendering HR analytics outputs relevant to decision-makers

HR Analytics (HRA) are said to create value when providing analytical outputs that are relevant to decision-makers’ immediate business issues. While extant research on HRA attributes success (or lack thereof) in providing business relevant outputs to the presence or absence of particular skills and resources, we know little about how practitioners actually mobilize these skills and resources in daily practice. Drawing on observational and interview data from a case study of an HRA team, we identify boundary spanning, customizing dashboards, and speaking a language of numbers as three epistemic practices in which team members combine and mobilize a particular set of skills and resources that allows them to accomplish epistemic alignment, i.e. aligning to decision-makers’ perception of business reality when creating analytical outputs. Epistemic alignment enables the team members to produce complex analytical outputs while at the same time staying close to the decision-makers’ immediate business problems. At the same time, team members are capable of accounting for conditions in the broader organizational context, such as compliance issues, dependencies, political tensions, and a prevailing data-driven decision culture. Our findings contribute to knowledge on how organizations can build effective HRA and how advanced forms of digitalization transform the work of HRM in contemporary organizations. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2021.1886148. The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author, ME. The data are not publicly available due containing information that could compromise the anonymity and privacy of research participants.

AUTOMATED DECISION MAKING IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE – MYTH OR REALITY?

In this paper the authors analyze the possibility of automated decision making in the administrative procedure, as one of the aspects of the development of e-administration. Services of e-administration are developing and expanding to numerous aspects of administrative work, with administrative decision-making being one of the most important and intriguing aspect. Having that in mind, the authors defined the term automated decision making and researched the question whether the legal framework of the Republic of Serbia enables the implementation of new, digital forms of administrative decision making. For that purpose, relevant provisions of the Law on General Administrative Procedure, the Law on Electronic Government and the Law on Personal Data Protection have been analyzed. The authors identified the situations of general administrative procedure within which it would be possible to consider practically, and in the near future normatively as well, the introduction of an automated decision making in the administrative procedure. A lesser portion of the paper is dedicated to the prerequisites and risks related to human rights and liberties when it comes to automated decision making in the administrative procedure.

A Preliminary Study of Indonesian Academic Libraries Digital Disaster Preparedness

Academic libraries are one of the vital institutions that collect and manage the intellectual and cultural output of human beings, both in print and digital forms. Along with the growth of digital collections, the threats to or vulnerability of those collections are also increasing. This paper aims to describe the digital disaster preparedness measures implemented by respondent academic libraries in Indonesia that participated in the study. The study was conducted in Jakarta, Indonesia. The finding shows that even though libraries have taken steps to protect their digital data and collections, most of the libraries that participated in this study do not have a written digital disaster preparedness policy and had never conducted a risk analysis of the potential for digital disasters in their institutions. This research recommends that the libraries need to do a risk assessment first to prevent and manage any potential disaster.

Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 on Economy Based on the “Economic Cross” Model

The article assesses the impact of the global pandemic COVID-19 and its events on the global information space using the “economic cross” model. Quantitative and qualitative economic results of the pandemic impact on economy both in the global and at the national Russian level are considered. The information and economic nature of the impact of the global pandemic on the development of global society is proven. An economic interpretation of the reaction of the global information space and national governments in the early 2020 and subsequent events, including self-isolation and expansion of digital forms of interaction in the information space at all levels of social activity, are proposed. The structure of the points of no return in the development of the global information space and its economic and social projection are investigated and temporary changes are identified, the preservation of which is unlikely after the end of the pandemic. An assessment of the development of the global information space is carried out taking into account pre-existing trends in the medium term and possible deviations in its development are investigated by updating the COVID-19 problem. On the basis of studying the cycles forming the “economic cross” of corononomics, forecasts of the development of the Russian economic system for the medium term are proposed.

Acquiring vulnerability indicators to geo-hydrological hazards: An example of mobile phone-based data collection

Geo-hydrological risk reduction is a key issue for local governments in Italy. In this context, a collaboration was undertaken between multiple actors in the La Spezia municipality aimed at: (i) monitoring building characteristics, using specific and valuable indicators, and (ii) increasing the knowledge of geo-hydrological hazards across residents and local land planners (iii) implementing local emergency civil protection plan. An extensive mobile data collection was carried out through apps specifically developed for Android and IOS mobile devices. The digital forms were differentiated on the basis of the potential hazard: one of 46 fields and one of 125 fields designed for buildings respectively located in flood prone areas and in medium to very high landslide susceptibility areas. The digital version of the forms was designed using the Open Data Kit (ODK) and GISCloud client-server approach. All the collected data, including geospatial locations and images, were automatically sent to a central server, stored and organized in a database. Geospatial data-analysis and maps resulted useful in evaluating possible impacts to exposed buildings to potential geo-hydrological processes. The proposed public participation method for data-gathering increased the knowledge across residents providing a better understanding of the urban systems, of the buildings condition and their relation respect to the geo-hydrological risk. The method can be considered as part of the decision support systems for civil protection purposes to better planning geo-hydrological mitigation measures. The application of mobile technology for data collection can be effectively used when local government resources are limited.

Prospects for the development of digital forms of political participation of generation Z in modern Russia

The article considers the forms of political participation of generation Z in modern Russia and gives an assessment of the prospects for digital forms of this participation. The paper describes the characteristics that distinguish generation Z in terms of the influence of these characteristics on the political behavior of its representatives, as well as possible motives for the political participation of young people. The authors give the results of a study that allow you to get answers to the questions: what features make this or that form of political participation the most attractive for generation Z? Is generation Z really critical and negative about regime? Can digital forms of political participation become mainstream in the country’s political life thanks to youth and the rapid digitalization of society? The paper describes the criteria for the attractiveness of various forms of political participation, such as rallies, actions, demonstrations, strikes, hunger strikes, revolutions, elections, crowdfunding, written appeals to the authorities and petitions, participation in political movements and parties, meetings with political figures. These criteria are: personal safety, speed of implementation of the form, the ability to attract attention and find like-minded persons. According to the results of the study, the authors substantiate the conclusion about the prospects of using digital forms (in particular, online voting) of political participation, primarily due to the speed and security that distinguish digital forms of political participation from traditional ones: it is very convenient to express your civic position from anywhere in the world, while simultaneously doing other things and not fearing negative consequences for participation. In addition, digital forms of political participation are demanded by young people as the most convenient, as they are built into their “natural habitat” – the space of social networks.

Digital opportunities for feminist film historiography

This paper discusses some of the key methodological challenges emerging from the AHRC project Reframing Vivien Leigh: Stardom, Archives and Access, led by PI Dr. Lisa Stead at the University of Exeter. This twenty-month project examined how the legacies of screen star Vivien Leigh are archived and curated by a range of public institutions in the South West of England, taking audiences behind the scenes of local archives and museums. The paper reflects on how researching within rural heritage centres and volunteer run archives encourages the introduction of new voices and new case studies within women’s film history, by encompassing the archival labour of a network of volunteers, amateurs and professionals within a broader heritage sector whose historical actions and choices produce alternative kinds of women’s film history. It reflects in turn on the challenge involved in finding new ways to present these histories in interactive, digital and physical forms for audiences beyond the academy and to make meaningful impact from this kind of research.

Nuevos escenarios para la estrategia de desarrollo universitario en el espacio educativo internacional

El objetivo de esta investigación fue mostrar cómo diversos enfoques para comprender el papel, el lugar y la misión de la universidad han sufrido cambios en el contexto de la retrospectiva histórica y la sociedad moderna. La base metodológica del estudio son los trabajos clásicos y modernos de científicos y especialistas rusos y extranjeros, los métodos de generalización y análisis teóricos, el método de sistematización, el análisis interdisciplinario y comparativo de trabajos sociológicos, filosóficos, culturales y económicos en el campo de la educación superior. educación, y evaluaciones de expertos y análisis de los datos secundarios. Como resultado, se identificaron las principales tendencias en el desarrollo de las universidades y los determinantes socioculturales de la transformación de las universidades. Se analizó la erosión de los formatos universitarios tradicionales y la transición a formas digitales de comunicación educativa y científica. A pesar de las transformaciones socioculturales actuales y la aparición de nuevos modelos de universidad, la universidad resuelve sus principales tareas de formar una persona pensante y formar especialistas de alto nivel. Sin embargo, estos procesos obligan a la universidad a revisar las estructuras y principios tradicionales de existencia, así como a estar más atenta al proceso de incremento de nuevos conocimientos e información, para no caer en los extremos de quedarse exclusivamente en la educación o la ciencia.