Hi-tech World Research Articles

Knowledge based quality medical education by utilizing the means of technology application

In the 21 century`s hi-tech world, imparting the scientific medical health educational instruction is changing fast, which is inclined through several indeed many factors which includes altering health care milieu, role-of Doctor of Medicine, transformed societal prospects, swiftly varying remedial-medicinal, medical and therapeutic-science, plus range of didactic (pedagogical) methods, techniques, and prototype models.Changes and transformations in `societal-expectations` set `patient-safety` in front of, also raise `ethical-issues` of learning connections plus measures over live subjects, through venerable teaching is any more suitable. Aims of education through technology in medicine comprise, providing `knowledge-acquisition’, civilizing resulting, development of perceptual disparity, enhancing quality-skills harmonization, working for unusual or grave measures, knowledge side imparting guidance, plus humanizing psycho motor skills – perceptual abilities and motor controls. Thus, various technologies could address the above objectives.Newer technologies like podcast s, videos through flipped class-work-learning’s cellular-mobiles yapps, videogames, computer-simulations model-prototypes, amateur trainers, incorporated model-simulators, virtual-reality, plus smart-wearable devices-Google glass, are few techniques accessible to tackle the varying educational-instructive milieu.This study addresses the application of technology which yields the infrastructural network plus basis for understanding several confronts given that `medical education` pro (in support of the) prospect.

Multifunctional Layer-by-Layer Coating Based on a New Amphiphilic Block Copolymer via RAFT-Mediated Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly Process.

In this hi-tech world, the "smart coatings" have sparked significant attention among materials scientists because of their versatile applications. Various strategies have been developed to generate smart coatings in the past 2 decades. The layer-by-layer (LbL) technique is the most commonly employed strategy to produce a smart coating for suitable applications. Here, we present a smart coating with healing, antifogging, and fluorescence properties fabricated by the LbL assembly of an anionic amphiphilic block copolymer latex and cationic inorganic POSS (polyhedral-oligomeric-silsesquioxane) nanoparticles. In this case, a new anionic block copolymer (BCP), {poly(sodium styrene sulfonate)-block-poly[2-(acetoacetoxy)ethyl methacrylate]}, (PSS-b-PAAEMA) was synthesized via surfactant-free RAFT-mediated emulsion polymerization using the PISA technique. The PSS-b-PAAEMA was characterized by 1H NMR, dynamic light scattering, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy analyses as well as by UV-vis and photoluminescence spectroscopy. For LbL coating fabrication, an amine-modified glass was successively dipped in the anionic latex and cationic POSS solution. The transparent coating exhibited good fluorescence properties under UV light (blue color). The antifogging performance of the coating was also investigated using both cold-warm and hot-vapor techniques. Additionally, the coating surface showed a significant healing activity with a healing efficiency of >75% through ionic interaction. Thus, this finding provides a simple low volatile organic compound (VOC) water-based LbL coating with multifunctional properties that can be a potential material for versatile applications.

Examinations in the Higher Education Space

Universities are central to society in that they contribute extensively to the delivery of competencies, skills and knowledge essential to the hi-tech world we have developed since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The Covid pandemic has forced academe to rethink the strategies that are used to assess students' competence. The purpose of this interpretive paper is to reflect on online examinations. In this paper, a short outline of traditional examinations is considered and compared with current examinations. This is important because it appears that examination strategies have not sufficiently evolved over the years to reflect the current circumstances. The different issues that affect the digital learning space are examined and some of the challenges are assessed. The practical implications of this research are that we as academe need to co-create the learning journey with our students.

Integrative competency of a teacher as the condition of efficiency of the educational process in the modern age

Formation and development of professional qualities of a person is a long and difficult process, which is divided into several levels of training, whereby achieving positive results at one level allows the transition to the next. First, a person gets an extensive database of knowledge, skills abilities at school, and this base helps him/her to determine his/her preferences and make a choice in favor of a certain profession. Then a person continues education for chosen profession in university, and then, after graduation, a person gets an opportunity to continue improving and self-educating in the chosen professional sphere. But all these levels of education are not possible to perform without the direct or indirect influence of the one who can teach, guide and even control the process of education. A person constantly interacts to some extent with a teacher, mentor, tutor and others while acquiring knowledge, forming skills and abilities. The modern generation is fundamentally different from the previous one, with different life approach and understanding of the world, as it lives in a hi-tech world of accessible information, virtual reality, social networks, online stores, smartphones and other gadgets. The boundaries between real and virtual worlds have almost been erased. Therefore, in order to increase the efficiency of learning and education processes in the new reality, a new approach, concepts and rules are needed, and consequently, new competencies that teacher should acquire. Taking into account the peculiarities of the term “competence” and also the fact that the field of teacher’s expertise is extensive and includes both educating and building students’ personality, there is a need to form an integrative competence of future teachers, which will provide them with essential assistance in their professional life. The paper formulates the definition of integrative competence; determines the place occupied by these competences in the hierarchy of competences; indicates the social and practical conditionality, significance of the competence, personal significance of the competence, competence indicators; gives a brief description of the fund of evaluation tools allowing to judge its formation.

SSW: Smart Steering Wheel for Real-Time Heart Rate Monitoring of Drivers

It’s very hard to know that Over 467,044 accidents took place specifically on the road in our country in 2018 as per a report revealed by the MoRTH recently. Rapid increasing in numbers of vehicles on the road, stress level of drivers in traffic and even lethargic driving are few reasons for road accidents. Unfortunately, sudden heart attacks of drivers also a reason behind some road accidents; this can be preventable. During driving, monitoring heart rate is not a big deal in today’s hi-tech world. Health monitoring while driving is not only important in daily healthcare, also a prevention of bus accidents. Here the proposed work is designing a smart steering wheel based on the technology so-called the Internet of Things (IoT) that monitors the heart rate and foresees the onslaught of fatigue of a driver; also it shares the location to the rescue team. Pulse sensor, GPS and GSM modules are conjoined into the steering wheel. The setup once it gets powered-up, which transmits the data of a driver’s health condition and get stored in the cloud environment. By this approach, the steering wheel gives the real-time based monitoring. Therefore this work is aiming for the development of a system which includes multiple sensors incorporated with the steering wheel which is capable to measure the pulse rate and alert the rescue team dynamically about the health related data of a driver, to prevent accidents.

CURTAILING SEVERITY OF DEPRESSION DUE TO SOCIAL PRESSURE BY MEDICATION

The cut-throat competition to be the best individual is coming out to be social issue in the hi-tech world. Society increases this pressure by imposing their expectation. Both these issues result into imbalance situations which results stress and depression in an individual. The life style adds more depression. The relation between depression due to social pressure and get relief from this needs medication is modelled in this research. The formulation is done with the help of system of nonlinear differential equations. The fraction (threshold) of individuals suffering from depression who needs medication is computed. The stress-free equilibrium and its stability are analysed.

Implementation of enhanced canny recognition algorithm and non – natural neural system based speech fusion for sightless persons

Along with the rapid development of information technology, the sightless persons have numerous visual difficulties in doing their day by day activities. In this technological world, we have many resources for the human to live their life, still blind peoples suffers a lot for their survival in this hi-tech world. Through computing the solution can be obtained for their independent survival to the blind peoples. This paper implements a powerful speech fusion system with to support the sightless persons. This system produces the text image documents as voice.

Speaker verification from codec distorted speech for forensic investigation through serial combination of classifiers

Forensic investigation often uses biometric evidence as important aids for identifying the culprits. Speech is one of the easily available biometrics in today's hi-tech world. But, most of the speech biometric evidence acquired for investigative purposes will usually be highly distorted. Among these distortions, most prominent is the distortion introduced by the speech codec. Speech codec may either remove or distort some of the speaker-specific features, and this may reduce the speaker verification accuracy. The effect of distortion on commonly used speaker-specific features namely Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) and Power Normalized Cepstral Coefficients (PNCC), due to Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP) codec (the most widely used speech codec in today's mobile telephony), is quantified in this paper. The features which are least affected by the codec are experimentally determined as PNCC. But, when these PNCC coefficients are directly employed, speaker verification error rate obtained is 20% with Gaussian Mixture Model-Universal Background Model (GMM-UBM) classifier. To improve the verification accuracy, PNCCs are slightly modified, and these modified PNCCs (MPNCC) are used as the feature set for the speaker verification. With these modified PNCCs, the error rate is reduced to 15%. By fusing these MPNCCs with MFCC, the error rate is further reduced to 8.75%. A series combination of GMM-UBM and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers is also proposed here to enhance the speaker verification accuracy further. The speaker verification error rates for different baseline classifiers are compared with that of the proposed serially combined GMM-UBM and SVM classifiers. The classifier fusion with the fused feature set largely reduced the error rates to 2.5% which is very much less than that of baseline classifiers with normal PNCC features. Hence, this system is a good candidate for investigative purposes.

Cloud and Biometrics: The Future of Authentication

Technologies to provide security to this hi-tech world are the most promising thing now days. We usually hear about flaws and crimes due to password leakage PIN theft etc. With the numerous passwords one has to remember in order to authenticate her, they are often forgotten, misplaced or stolen. As there is a problem there must be a way to wave out those problems. There should be some methodology that can identify each human individually, and the bio-metrics is the one. Bio-metrics is the branch of science that deals with study of human physical and behavioural characteristics like fingerprint, iris scan, face recognition, voice recognition, DNA etc. We are so much concerned about the security that we are using this authentication purposes in banking sector, airports security, online authentication and more. As most of the organizations (governments and NGOs) are moving towards bio-metric based authentication, a huge amount of bio-metric data is to be stored and handled. And here comes the big word “Cloud”. We use cloud computing to store and process these huge amounts of data. Cloud computing is the ability to utilize the immense power of distributed storage and computation. Citizen of one country can go to another country and she may use the services there by authenticating herself using bio-metrics. This is a great advantage of using cloud computing for bio-metrics. We are using various technologies of cloud computing and bio-metrics together for better performance of the authentication system. Keywords: Cloud computing, Biometric, Biometric Authentication as a Service, SaaS

Usage of Social Networking Apps Using Smart Phones: A Comparative Study of India and Islamic Republic of Iran

Quest for knowledge is much easier in the present hi-tech world of education, and distance or continuing education is exploring new means and ways of interacting with students and patrons. Education has become much novel by using the Internet and social media in current decade. Smartphone is an important device in the current age that has created different ideas and opportunities for communications. All kinds of applications are in the competition. Instant messaging system has significant influence on long distance communication. This kind of communication has led us to get more familiar with other societies/communities. All types of information and knowledge are shared by social networking websites or applications on smart phones between individuals and public. It just takes less than a second for getting aware and informed about the news or a topic around the world. People of all age groups have free access to their circles via Internet. The aim of this study is to explore how and which type of knowledge Indian and Iranian media students are getting and sharing via smart phones. Telegram messenger is the mostly used application by Iranian while Indian students use WhatsApp. The methodology of this study is both quantitative and qualitative using interview and questionnaire methods.

The Role of Counselling in English Language Teaching

Counselling plays a significant role in bringing out a remarkable change in an individual’s personal and professional life. It has entered a number of domains including education. As human problems are mushrooming day by day in this hi-tech world, there is a dire need for finding solutions to those problems. It is counselling that comes to one’s aid to solve one’s problems that are psychological and personal. In English language teaching and learning too, there are multiple problems encountered by teachers and students as well. This paper discusses how counselling is indispensable to English Language Teaching (ELT) for finding solutions to problems faced by English language learners. Exploring the relevance of counselling to ELT, it also seeks to highlight the benefits of integrating it with ELT. It brings out the need for introspection of English language teachers to provide counselling to students. It enumerates various counselling skills, and presents an account of problem-solving method in ELT and eight approaches to counselling.

What astronomy can bring to the hi-tech party

AbstractThis is about the relationship between technology and astronomy, and in particular about people in astronomy getting into the hi-tech world. These people might be graduate students looking for jobs, they might be fully fledged academics wanting to exploit their know-how. Whichever it is, it is essential to understand the differences between these two worlds and especially to understand that the hi-tech world only wants you for what you can bring to the table. So welcome to “the hi-tech party”.

Delirium, opioid regulation, and pathological gambling

Delirium is common in elderly patients in emergency and inpatient settings. It is often caused by hospitalization and its attendant procedures. John Young and Sharon Inouye review the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of delirium, and distinguish it from dementia (doi: 10.1136/bmj.39169.706574.AD). Even in our hi-tech world, the diagnosis of delirium remains a clinical one. Medical history is crucial—has there been a recent decline in cognitive function? Fluctuating …

Technology and loneliness in old age

The ability to use complex technology has become a key competence for independent and successful living. Elderly people, as is often assumed, might lose out in the trend towards odernization because they are less likely to have technological know-how. Against this general background, this paper aims to link new technology with loneliness in advanced age. Although lack of social contact and social support are hypothesized to be essential influences on loneliness, this study seeks to enrich the psychological understanding of loneliness by introducing a new flow of arguments including technology issues as follows: First, two key elements of technological competence, i.e., experience with and acceptance of technology, are assumed to positively influence one‘s perception of ‘being in control’. Going further, they may also prevent older adults from feeling obsolete or marginal in an increasingly hi-tech world. Second, individual dispositions such as control beliefs or perceived obsolescence may contribute to the interpretation of and response to deficits in social relationships and thus mediate technology effects on the experience of loneliness in old age. Supporting empirical evidence for this conceptual avenue is presented.

Education in the new hi-tech world

Education in the new hi-tech world

Education in the new hi-tech world

Education in the new hi-tech world

Hi-tech for construction projects

The Hi-Tech industries today seem to be symbolised by two major developments, the supercomputer and the robot, but as yet the construction industry has benefitted little from such developments. Construction is a Mid-tech industry in a Hi-tech world, an industry with static productivity levels for two decades now, but an industry under increasing pressure from foreign construction developments to innovate. The wide array of technologies available to the industry tends to defeat the clarity of purpose necessary for change, and so an attempt is made to focus on a few key options.