Hands Of End Users Research Articles

JA:2021-9. Pesticide Label Safety Information in Spanish and English: In Your Hand, Anytime & Anywhere

ABSTRACT Purpose: The Etiquetas bilingües de pesticidas, or Bilingual Pesticide Safety project, aims to put pesticide label health, safety, and environmental protection information directly into the hands of end-users – pesticide handlers and managers. These mobile applications provide producers a risk management tool for minimizing health, safety, environmental, fiscal, and reputational risks associated with pesticide use. The initial spark for the project occurred in 2006 when formative research on pesticide safety needs for Washington State (WA) identified a significant safety barrier: pesticide labels are in English, while Spanish is the primary language of most agricultural workers. Methods: As smart phones and mobile devices have become essential work and personal tools, they were selected as the delivery platform to put this safety information into the hands of end-users. This bilingual app features the English label content and true, accessible Spanish translations; easy iaccess through a menu; and full-function offline for use on remote farms lacking connectivity. Research for this translation project has three phases. Phase 1 (2016): First generation pilot app (pome fruit) for proof-of-concept. Phase 2 (2018): Second generation β-app for expansion (tree fruit). Phase 3 (2020–2022): Product upgrades (WA specialty crops), added features, and distribution through app stores. Each phase includes end users evaluating app function, usability, and translations. Results: The pilot and ß-apps demonstrated that the design and user-friendly interface was appropriate, the translations were excellent (“[They’re] like the translations I use”), and stakeholders were eager for full product availability. Similar results were obtained from the first user tests for Phase 3. Stakeholders, including producers, industry organizations, state agencies, and end-users, are now partners in support of Phase 3 currently underway. Discussion and Conclusion: With strong industry support, two apps are now funded for WA. ¡Etiquetas de pesticides, ahora!/Pesticide Labels, Now! with safety information from 40 labels used in apple and pear production will be released in Winter 2020. The PestiSeguro™/PestiSafe™ app covers labels for WA specialty crops with a 3-year staged release starting in 2020. Initially this app will be available without charge as we develop a roadmap for future growth and financial sustainability and build partnerships for these endeavors.

Automated Test Input Generation via Model Inference Based on User Story and Acceptance Criteria for Mobile Application Development

There has been observed explosive growth in the development of mobile applications (apps) for Android and iOS operating systems, which has led to the direct impact towards mobile app development. In order to design and propose quality-oriented apps, it is the primary responsibility of developers to devote time and sufficient efforts towards testing to make the apps bug-free and operational in the hands of end-users without any hiccup. Manual testing procedures take a prolonged amount of time in writing test cases, and in some cases, the full testing requirements are not met. Besides, the insufficient knowledge of tester also impacts the overall quality and bug-free apps. To overcome the obstacles of testing, we propose a new testing methodology cum tool called “AgileUATM” which works primarily towards white-box and black-box testing. To evaluate the validity of the proposed tool, we put the tool in a real-time operational environment concerning mobile test apps. By using this tool, all the acceptance criteria are determined via user stories. The testers/developers specify requirements with formal specifications based on programs properties, predicates, invariants, and constraints. The results show that the proposed tool generated effective and accurate test cases, test input. Meanwhile, expected output was also generated in a unified fashion from the user stories to meet acceptance criteria. The proposed solution also reduced the development time to identify test data as compared to manual Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) methodologies. This tool can support the developers to get a better idea about the required tests and able to translate the customer’s natural languages to computer languages as well. This paper fulfills an approach to suitably test mobile application development.

Kajian Rantai Pasok Dan Pemasaran Daging Sapi Di Kabupaten Mempawah

Beef is one of the food products that have no nutritional value in other to meet protein needs for the community. Beef supply chain is a concept that has a regulatory system relating to product flow, financial flow and information flow which jointly working to create and deliver a product into the hands of end users in the process of distribution of beef cattle live into beef. This study aims not only to determine the flow of products, financial flows and the flow of information in the beef supply chain, but also to analysis the efficiency of the level marketing. The study used description and analysc whith proportional random sampling and snowball sampling methods. The data is this study have been analysis by using marketing efficiency analysis, marketing margin, analysis and farmers share as well as profitability index. The results of this study as follow : (1) there streams in the beef supply chain in Mempawah Regency such as product flow, financial flows and information flow are not working well optimally; (2) the distribution channel of beef supply chain in Mempawah Regency is efficient based on efficiency of marketing value, marketing margins are profitable, the value of FS > MP and PI values that show the value of profits earned.Keywords : Supply Chain, Beef, Marketing

Evaluation of a Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Detection

The efficiency of a novel targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS) test, the Devyser BRCA kit, for a comprehensive analysis of all 48 coding exons of the high-risk breast/ovarian cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 has been assessed. The new assay intended to detect nucleotide substitutions, small deletions/insertions, and large deletions/duplications. To document the false-negative and false-positive rates of the NGS assay in the hands of end users, 48 samples with previously identified 444 small variants and seven gross rearrangements were analyzed, showing 100% concordance with gold standards. Furthermore, all other 43 variants (42 single-nucleotide variation or insertion/deletion variation and one copy number variation, whose significance is or may be of clinical value), which were called by the NGS assay in a prospectively analyzed 179-sample set, were confirmed by Sanger sequencing or multiplex ligation probe amplification, according to their nature. We conclude that the Devyser BRCA kit performed satisfactorily for use in a clinical laboratory.

A survey on life prediction of equipment

Once in the hands of end users, such durable equipment as spacecraft, aircraft, ships, automobiles, computers, etc. are in a state of debugging, working or storage. In either state, availability, reliability and super-efficiency are the ultimate goals, which have been achieved through constant monitoring as well as regular, preventive, routine and corrective maintenance. Although some advanced instruments can visualize certain invisible malfunctioning phenomena into visible ones, deeply hidden troubles cannot be found unless monitoring and testing data are addressed using tools that process the data statistically, analytically and mathematically. Some state-of-the-art trouble-shooting and life-predicting techniques and approaches are introduced in this paper.

Mobile Spatial Mapping and Augmented Reality Applications for Environmental Geoscience

Modern communication technologies are changing the way we think about spatial mapping information and how we deliver it into the hands of end-users. For geoscience, the challenges are particularly interesting because of the strong three-dimensional nature and sheer richness of the underlying geological information. For several hundreds of years, the favoured method for delivering this information has been the paper map. However, as in the topographical sector, the geosciences have moved rapidly over recent years to digital platforms for effective delivery of spatial information. What we are delivering is still a map, but what it looks like and how it is carried will have changed beyond recognition for earlier surveyors. In particular, new generations of mobile tablet computers and smartphones, which can self-locate using GPS technology, and stream in spatial mapping live to the user, have all but rendered the paper map redundant in many parts of the UK and beyond. Furthermore, the interactive nature of these technologies allows two-way sharing of information, through twinned display of digital maps and live ‘crowdsourced’ collection of point observations. But perhaps the greatest opportunities lie in the use of augmented reality techniques to transform complex three-dimensional information into an easily digestible form for the user. The paper map made an admirable attempt to do this in the geosciences but mobile technologies and software offer the chance to at last display the information in the way it has always existed within the mind of the geological surveyor. This paper describes the informatics research and development work lead by the British Geological Survey (Natural Environment Research Council) which is taking on these challenges and opportunities, and is already beginning to deliver a new and very different generation of the geological map.

XcelLog: a deductive spreadsheet system

AbstractThe promise of rule-based computing was to allow end-users to create, modify, and maintain applications without the need to engage programmers. But experience has shown that rule sets often interact in subtle ways, making them difficult to understand and reason about. This has impeded the widespread adoption of rule-based computing. This paper describes the design and implementation of XcelLog, a user-centered deductive spreadsheet system, to empower non-programmers to specify and manipulate rule-based systems. The driving idea underlying the system is to treat sets as the fundamental data type and rules as specifying relationships among sets, and use the spreadsheet metaphor to create and view the materialized sets. The fundamental feature that makes XcelLog suitable for non-programmers is that the user mainly sees the effect of the rules; when rules or basic facts change, the user sees the impact of the change immediately. This enables the user to gain confidence in the rules and their modification, and also experiment with what-if scenarios without any programming. Preliminary experience with using XcelLog indicates that it is indeed feasible to put the power of deductive spreadsheets for doing rule-based computing into the hands of end-users and do so without the requirement of programming or the constraints of canned application packages.

Modern Information Infrastructure in the Support of Distributed Collective Practice in Transport

Transport is one of the oldest and most important forms of distributed collective practice. This paper traces the role of information and communication technologies in the transformation of transport-based distributed collective practice, focusing on the evolution of technologies that place control of the transport infrastructure in the hands of end users. Examples of this shift are provided, including an analysis of the events of September 11, 2001 as forms of distributed collective action.

The establishment and management of corporate intranets

Corporate intranets are being deployed at an increasing rate as organizations seek to harness the potential of internet technologies for the sharing of information and the facilitation of collaboration. However, the management of the development process cannot be ignored. If left unrestricted and unsupported in the hands of end-users, the result may echo what happened to client-server. This paper presents an approach to actively managing intranet development by recognizing and treating it as an extension of end-user computing.

Information and communication technology and business organization

Developments in information and communication technology are part of a trend toward cooperation among companies. This paper argues that these same trends will lead toward increasing growth of small businesses that cooperate via electronic links. The National Information Infrastructure should be designed to help this trend by placing control of information structures in the hands of end users, by facilitating the entry of entrepreneurial information providers, and by emphasizing the linking of small businesses with each other.