Kinds Of Services Research Articles

ПОРІВНЯЛЬНИЙ АНАЛІЗ МЕХАНІЗМУ ПІДТРИМКИ РОЗВИТКУ СТАРТАПІВ БІЗНЕС-ІНКУБАТОРАМИ ЗА ЗАКОНОДАВСТВОМ КАЗАХСТАНУ ТА УКРАЇНИ

The article analyzes the Kazakhstan’s and Ukrainian legislation regarding the legal status of a business incubator in the field of entrepreneurship and start-ups support. The article provides for the definitions and main features of business incubators. It has been demonstrated that Kazakhstan’s legislation, unlike Ukrainian legislation, does not differentiate business incubators by type, and a startup company can be organized in any form of a commercial legal entity. The authors prove the necessity of contractual regulation of relations between a business incubator and a start-up. Contractual regulation is necessary due to number of variables of these relations. First, there is a vast variety of types of investments by business incubator at the stage of a prototype, or a business project, which may include money, property, services etc. Second, organizational and legal forms of start-ups may vary. Third, the investments may be done in several modes. One of possible investment modes is entering the charter fund of a legal entity-start-up in order to control and manage it, to participate in the distribution of profit and to obtain first-hand information about the start-up’s activities. Another mode of investing into a start-up is through the contract of loan with suspending condition of purchase of shares of the company. All these variables lead to the necessity of contractual regulation. Moreover, a business incubator, as a subject of these relationships, provides start-ups with premises for rent, provides various kinds of services. This also entails the need to conclude a lease contract and a service contract between the parties. The research demonstrated that, despite the similarity of the reasons for the emergence and development of these mechanisms, their practical application in Ukraine and Kazakhstan is somewhat different. Although the article shows that in both countries business incubators have potential of being an effective support to start-ups, there are still several issues which have to be addressed. Namely, there are concerns about protection of the rights of investors and start-up participants from violations of their intellectual property rights and property interests, such as profit distribution, business interference, the procedure for the election and exit of investors and startup participants and others. Due to these issues the investments to start-ups look risky and lose their attractiveness for investors. Therefore, in the countries in consideration business-incubators cannot exist without significant state support.

Smart contracts in tourism industry: a model with blockchain integration for post pandemic economy

ABSTRACT This research aims to fill the gap in the existing methods related to the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices with smart contracts without a need for intermediaries for the reservations and services secured by Blockchain for the post-pandemic economy. Although there is a limited number of studies in the literature, which are mainly based on the reviews of the integration of smart contracts with the IoT devices, the questions about how to apply these methods in the tourism industry remain unanswered. Therefore, this present study contributes to the existing literature by creating a contract with a reservation system integrated with hotel services. The proposed method creates a booking system with a unique smart contract between customers and hotels. These contracts will include all kinds of services a customer may need during the stay and will be secured by a Blockchain structure. Besides, it might help eliminate commission fees and reception costs with the decentralized proof mechanism in the proposed method which combines smart services, IoT devices, decentralized proof methods, and interplanetary file systems with Blockchain-based smart contracts.

GrimoireLab: A toolset for software development analytics.

BackgroundAfter many years of research on software repositories, the knowledge for building mature, reusable tools that perform data retrieval, storage and basic analytics is readily available. However, there is still room to improvement in the area of reusable tools implementing this knowledge.GoalTo produce a reusable toolset supporting the most common tasks when retrieving, curating and visualizing data from software repositories, allowing for the easy reproduction of data sets ready for more complex analytics, and sparing the researcher or the analyst of most of the tasks that can be automated.MethodUse our experience in building tools in this domain to identify a collection of scenarios where a reusable toolset would be convenient, and the main components of such a toolset. Then build those components, and refine them incrementally using the feedback from their use in both commercial, community-based, and academic environments.ResultsGrimoireLab, an efficient toolset composed of five main components, supporting about 30 different kinds of data sources related to software development. It has been tested in many environments, for performing different kinds of studies, and providing different kinds of services. It features a common API for accessing the retrieved data, facilities for relating items from different data sources, semi-structured storage for easing later analysis and reproduction, and basic facilities for visualization, preliminary analysis and drill-down in the data. It is also modular, making it easy to support new kinds of data sources and analysis.ConclusionsWe present a mature toolset, widely tested in the field, that can help to improve the situation in the area of reusable tools for mining software repositories. We show some scenarios where it has already been used. We expect it will help to reduce the effort for doing studies or providing services in this area, leading to advances in reproducibility and comparison of results.

Find research data repositories for the humanities - the data deposit recommendation service

How can researchers identify suitable research data repositories for the deposit of their research data? Which repository matches best the technical and legal requirements of a specific research project? For this end and with a humanities perspective the Data Deposit Recommendation Service (DDRS) has been developed as a prototype. It not only serves as a functional service for selecting humanities research data repositories but it is particularly a technical demonstrator illustrating the potential of re-using an already existing infrastructure - in this case re3data - and the feasibility to set up this kind of service for other research disciplines. The documentation and the code of this project can be found in the DARIAH GitHub repository: https://dariah-eric.github.io/ddrs/.

Safety Concerns Emerging from Robots Navigating in Crowded Pedestrian Areas

The slogan “robots will pervade our environment” has become a reality. Drones and ground robots are used for commercial purposes while semi-autonomous driving systems are standard accessories to traditional cars. However, while our eyes have been riveted on dangers and accidents arising from drones falling and autonomous cars’ crashing, much less attention has been ported to dangers arising from the imminent arrival of robots that share the floor with pedestrians and will mix with human crowds. These robots range from semi or autonomous mobile platforms designed for providing several kinds of service, such as assistant, patrolling, tour-guide, delivery, human transportation, etc. We highlight and discuss potential sources of injury emerging from contacts of robots with pedestrians through a set of case studies. We look specifically at dangers deriving from robots moving in dense crowds. In such situations, contact will not only be unavoidable, but may be desirable to ensure that the robot moves with the flow. As an outlook toward the future, we also offer some thoughts on the psychological risks, beyond the physical hazards, arising from the robot’s appearance and behaviour. We also advocate for new policies to regulate mobile robots traffic and enforce proper end user’s training.

Post-consumer food waste generation while dining out: A close-up view.

Food loss and food waste occur along the food supply chain, negatively impacting the environment, global economy, and food security. There is a growing global interest in tackling this issue to mitigate or handle the waste generated and limit its repercussions, as one in eight people suffer from undernourishment worldwide. In the Arab world, where there is a high dependency on imports and limited potential of increasing local food production, addressing food loss and waste becomes substantial. Research has mainly been focused on household food waste generation, while data on post-consumer plate food waste in the foodservice sector remains scarce. In this study, managers from a representative sample of 222 restaurants located in Municipal Beirut, Lebanon, were surveyed about food waste generation. Plate food waste was measured to establish baseline information. Multiple Tobit regression analyses were performed to explore the determinants for plate food waste generation. Plate waste generation was also compared between Lebanese and non-Lebanese cuisine restaurants. Results revealed that 1,620 tons of plate food waste are generated per year in Beirut, equivalent to 0.15% of Lebanon's total organic waste. Furthermore, Lebanese cuisine restaurants serving Mediterranean Mezze were found to generate 34 kg of organic waste per day more than restaurants that serve international non-Lebanese cuisine. The type of cuisine, kind of service, and menu planning were significantly associated with post-consumer food waste generation. This study revealed an increasing concern towards the amount of plate waste generated in Beirut, and thereby further research is needed to create baseline information at the national level.

The Impact of Value, Employees Performance and the Integration of Healthcare Services on Loyalty toward Community Pharmacies in Saudi Arabia: A Structural Model

With the focus of the scholars and literature on the importance of customer value, the emphasis has been paid to this concept in a great number of retailing specialties, but it was neglected in the case of community pharmacies. This research focuses on the service value, trust and employee performance as factors explaining loyalty to pharmacies and adds the verification of the impact of the integration of primary healthcare services as a way to enhance or sustain the level of loyalty to the initial pharmacy or switching intentions toward other pharmacies which integrate this kind of service. Thus, an original conceptual model is proposed and tested. A survey was distributed electronically via a social media application (WhatsApp) to participants based on the convenience sampling technique. 492 respondents submitted the survey. Results show that perceived value, employee performance and trust influence initial loyalty. In addition, the integration of Primary Healthcare services sustains this loyalty, but initial loyalty does not prevent switching intentions in case other pharmacies integrate primary healthcare services.

Anticipating distributional impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading: Inference from a realist review of evidence on Airbnb

Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading – where energy prosumers transact directly between each other – could help enable transition to a low-carbon energy system. If it is to be supported in policy and regulation, it is important to anticipate the distributional impacts (or how it might impact segments of society differently). However, real-world evidence on P2P energy trading is currently extremely limited. To address this challenge in the short- to medium-term, this study aimed to explore what might be learned from the extensive body of research on a comparable offering in the accommodation sector: Airbnb. A realist review approach was employed to maximise transferability of findings, focused on what mechanisms are thought to lead to what distributional outcomes, in what contexts. On the basis of the review, participation in P2P energy trading schemes would be expected to represent disproportionately those living in areas with network management challenges, who are younger and more highly educated. This is likely to be moderated by access to generation assets and the kinds of service it is possible to trade. The review also raised the prospect of discrimination on the basis of characteristics such as race and gender where there are high levels of individual choice over who to trade with. Recommendations include monitoring, incentivising diversity, anonymization, limiting some trading choices, and diversifying what can be traded. • Evidence of distributional impacts of peer-to-peer energy trading is extremely limited. • This study used a realist review to explore what lessons might be learned from Airbnb. • Younger, highly educated people in areas of network constrained most likely participants. • Risk of introducing discrimination on basis of race and gender. • Recommendations include monitoring/incentivising diversity and limiting trading choices.

Electronic patient reported outcome in Brazil: Insurance provider impact on adherence.

e13590 Background: Routine monitoring of cancer patients' symptoms during their journey can improve symptom management, quality of life, and survival. Wecancer App is an electronic patient-reported outcome tool, which also provides on-demand multidisciplinary digital support by nurses, psychologists and nutritionists. It also encompasses real time remote patient monitoring, symptoms diary to patient and medical staff, symptom monitoring, medication control and a content hub with reliable information. It is free to any patient who download the app. In this study, we aim to understand if insurance provider type (private, public or out of pocket) impact on app adherence. Methods: This study examined daily symptom reporting (with electronic patient-reported outcomes [e-PROs]) patterns in breast cancer patients, according to insurance provider. The following were observed: app adherence, numbers of reports, chat interactions, specific symptoms, symptoms alerts and wellness reports. Patients could report sixteen common symptoms through a mobile application, on their smartphones and tablets, for monitoring, symptom management and follow-up with a specialized nurse, determining care based on digital support clinical protocols through online chat. The nursing team action started at the moment of patient inclusion with the tutorial to download the App and training it with the patient/caregiver. The alerts made through the chat system guided the clinical actions of the nursing team in relation to online clinical management that can stratify the risk by crossing the intensity of symptoms by the CTCAE grading scale and PRO-CTCAE Measurement System and promote preventive educational conduct of vigilance and risk mitigation. Results: From January 2020 to January 2021, 543 female eligible patients downloaded the app. The e-PRO completion rates were superior to 90% at baseline, and 55.47% completed all on-treatment assessments. The app adherence for private insurance patients (PIP), 37.06% for public insurance patients (PIP) and 7.45% for out of pocket patients (OPP). 2,626 reports were made (46.41% IP; 28.58% OPP; 25% PHP); 1008 chat interactions (52.18% IP; 40.28% PHP; 7.54% OPP); 1144 number of symptoms reported (46,41% IP; 28.58% OPP; 25% PHP); specific symptoms most reported in all kind of service was tiredness, pain, nausea, tingling; 547 symptoms alerts (54.84% IP; 35.46% PHP; 9.7% OPP) and 451 wellness reports (55.43% IP; 35.03% PHP; 9.53% OPP). Conclusions: Private insurance patients are more adherent to ePROS than public insured or out of pocket patients. Lack of free internet access and digital literacy could be impacting on adherence and, ultimately, quality of life and survival. Further studies are warranted to understand how to improve equality for digital health tools.

Socialinių paslaugų benamiams įgyvendinimas Lietuvoje: benamių vyrų patirtys

This article analyses the experiences of men who are suffering homelessness. The aim of this article is to identify the main problems of social services and to show their potential development. In today’s Europe, no one can be forced to sleep on the street just because there are no high-quality services that meet human needs. The state must ensure the rights of persons, who are suffering homelessness and to preserve their dignity by providing efficient and high quality social services, because only this kind of services allows to talk about the development of the modern state, shaping and reshaping the model of social services. This research allows to understand the phenomenon of homelessness from the point of view of homeless men and to identify the main problems that hinder to overcome homelessness. This article presents the empirical study, which results showed that social services in Lithuania are based on the material supply, so homeless men have poor access to quality social services. The infrastructure of hostels is not adapted for person with disability; social housing is difficult to obtain because of the long queues; homeless men also have difficulties to access independent living or nursing homes for the elderly.

\u201cIt\u2019s a Big Family Here.\u201d Becoming and Belonging in a Service Providing Employment-Related Support for People with Mental Health Problems: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

The impact of employment for individuals with mental health problems is complex. However, research suggests that when support is provided for accessing employment and gaining roles and skills that are valued by others, a positive effect can be seen on recovery. Employment-related support can take many forms and there is a need for further research into the experience of accessing different kinds of services. The current paper examines the lived experience of 11 people participating in a UK social enterprise providing work experience, training, and skills development for those with mental health problems. Although ‘sheltered’, the organisational ethos strongly emphasised service-user empowerment, co-production, equality with staff, provision of valued social roles and person-centred support. Phenomenological analysis revealed that participants valued a sense of belonging and authentic relationships within the service, whilst being given the opportunity to rediscover an identity that may have been lost because of their mental health problem. However, participants also discussed how, although the service improved their self-value, some feared the ‘real world’ outside of the service and were unsure whether they would be met with the same support. Tensions between field dominant approaches in supported employment and the experiences and values of the participants are explored. We argue that the findings highlight the importance of a nurturing working environment and the value for recovery of a range of meaningful roles, beyond competitive employment.

‘Too Unsavoury for Our Fastidious Tastes’: Unmarried Motherhood in South Africa’s Mother City, Cape Town, 1910–1948

ABSTRACT Focusing on the establishment of maternity care services predominantly for young, working-class white and coloured unmarried mothers, this article examines social and institutional responses to and changing conceptions of single motherhood and illegitimacy in early to mid-twentieth-century Cape Town, then one of the country’s largest and most well-established urban centres. It suggests that despite growing organisational support for the plight of the unmarried mother, such women continued to be seen as deviant and were treated in a manner that affirmed this status, although it is possible to track significant shifts in the way in which social workers and the government understood single motherhood between 1910 and 1950. It also argues that in Cape Town specifically, competing racial and religious concerns modulated the language used to describe unmarried motherhood, determining what kinds of services were available, where and for whom.

The COVID-19 pandemic in Russia: Effects on clinicians and mental health services

Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020, it has had different infection rates across the world. Russia had one of the largest numbers of infected cases during 2020, but with a lower overall fatality rate. Nevertheless, as in other countries, clinical practice within the mental health care system has faced many stresses and challenges. This concerned the need to organize a treatment of COVID-19 in psychiatric hospitals, as well as a transformation of outpatient care, including psychotherapy, which has largely switched to a remote format. To better understand the effects of the pandemic on mental health professionals, a large-scale study has been implemented through the Global Clinical Practice Network, one of the largest professional communities, which includes 969 members from Russia. The study assessed how COVID-19 affected clinical practice and well-being of clinicians. The first of three surveys was launched in June 2020, in six languages including Russian. Over 2,500 global mental health professionals participated in the study, including 205 clinicians from Russia. Current work circumstances, work-related stressors, and use of telehealth were evaluated. In Russia, the data collection period was characterized by generally improvement in the overall pandemic situation. Results to be presented include the proportion of clinicians that continued working, what kinds of services they provided, their well-being strategies, telehealth modalities and areas in which they had particular concerns about assessment, treatment, or monitoring of patients with mental disorders using remote technologies.DisclosureNo significant relationships.

GAMBARAN TINGKAT KEPUASAN WISATAWAN ASING TERHADAP MUTU PELAYANAN KESEHATAN GIGI DAN MULUT DI BALI DENTAL CLINIK 911 DENPASAR TAHUN 2020

Bali Dental Clinic 911 is Dental and Oral Health Service which located in Denpasar. The kind of service in the Clinic, include; preventive, kurative, and rehabilitave in dental health, for Indeonesian and foreigns.The data shows that patients visiting in 2016 are 5,043, in 2017 are 5,830, and in 2018 are 6,350, majority patients from Austria. The goals of this research is to know the descriptive of satisfaction of foreigns tourism toward dental and oral services in Bali Dental Clinic 911 in 2020. This is a descriptive research with survey. The respondents in this research were all foreigns tourism who were visit Bali Dental Clinic 911 Denpasar in March 2020, with the total number of respondents are 50.The result of this research shows that: reliability demention with very satisfaction (91,5%), Responsiveness demention with very satisfaction (87,3%), assurance demention with very satisfaction (92%), Emphaty demention with very satisfaction (90%), tangibles demention with very satisfaction (85%). The conclussion of this research shows that majority foreigns tourism who were visit Bali Dental Clinic 911 Denpasar in March 2020 got very satisfaction services in dental and oral health

Semantic micro-contributions with decentralized nanopublication services.

While the publication of Linked Data has become increasingly common, the process tends to be a relatively complicated and heavy-weight one. Linked Data is typically published by centralized entities in the form of larger dataset releases, which has the downside that there is a central bottleneck in the form of the organization or individual responsible for the releases. Moreover, certain kinds of data entries, in particular those with subjective or original content, currently do not fit into any existing dataset and are therefore more difficult to publish. To address these problems, we present here an approach to use nanopublications and a decentralized network of services to allow users to directly publish small Linked Data statements through a simple and user-friendly interface, called Nanobench, powered by semantic templates that are themselves published as nanopublications. The published nanopublications are cryptographically verifiable and can be queried through a redundant and decentralized network of services, based on the grlc API generator and a new quad extension of Triple Pattern Fragments. We show here that these two kinds of services are complementary and together allow us to query nanopublications in a reliable and efficient manner. We also show that Nanobench makes it indeed very easy for users to publish Linked Data statements, even for those who have no prior experience in Linked Data publishing.

A Research Study on Protocol Stack of Space-Based Optical Backbone Network

Facing the growing high data rate and large communication capacity demands, optical communications are widely recognized to be used to implement satellite communications. For a space-based optical backbone network, an appropriately designed protocol stack is important. In this paper, we proposed a protocol stack that is suitable for a space-based optical backbone network. Following this, we then used software to simulate this stack, built a hardware platform to test it, and finally, analyzed the results. The results showed that the proposed protocol stack was well designed to provide efficient control and management of the space-based optical backbone network. It could improve management efficiency by collecting resources and automatically calculating and building route paths. It could also facilitate data forwarding in intermediate satellite nodes with limited source and power, by using an advanced orbiting systems (AOS) frame switching scheme to avoid unnecessary processes, such as unpacking, upper-layer processing and repacking for passing services. The protocol stack could also support the use of unidirectional links to improve the link resource utilization. Finally, it could also provide transparent transmission for different kinds of services.

Innovative Methodology for the Identification of the Most Suitable Additive Technology Based on Product Characteristics

This paper reports the study and development case of an innovative application of the Cloud Manufacturing paradigm. Based on the definition of an appropriate web-based application, the infrastructure is able to connect the possible client requests and the relative supply chain product/process development capabilities and then attempt to find the best available solutions. In particular, the main goal of the developed system, called AMSA (Additive Manufacturing Spare parts market Application), is the definition of a common platform to supply different kinds of services that have the following common reference points in the Additive Manufacturing Technologies (DFAM, Design For Additive Manufacturing): product development, prototypes, or small series production and reverse engineering activities to obtain Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models starting from a physical object. The definition of different kinds of services allows satisfying several client needs such as innovative product definition characterized by high performance in terms of stiffness/weight ratio, the possibility of manufacturing small series, such as in the motorsport field, and the possibility of defining CAD models for the obsolete parts for which the geometrical information is missed. The AMSA platform relies on the reconfigurable supply chain that is dynamic, and it depends on the client needs. For example, when the client requires the manufacture of a small series of a component, AMSA allows the technicians to choose the best solutions in terms of delivery time, price, and logistics. Therefore, the suppliers that contribute to the definition of the dynamic supply chain have an important role. For these reasons, the AMSA platform represents an important and innovative tool that is able to link the suppliers to the customers in the best manner in order to obtain services that are characterized by a high-performance level. Therefore, a provisional model has been implemented that allows filtering the technologies according to suitable performance indexes. A specific aspect for which AMSA can be considered unique is related with the given possibility to access Design for Additive Manufacturing Services through the Web in accordance with the possible additive manufacturing technologies.

Procedural Democracy and Electronic Agents

In recent years, firms offering political campaigning and fundraising services have claimed that artificial intelligence is used to maximize their clients' interests. Numerous news reports suggest that artificial intelligence capacities have influenced high‐profile voting events; publications decrying the threat posed to democratic procedures are proliferating. This article takes a skeptical view of such claims, with an argument in six sections. First, the received principles of procedural democracy in relation to voting events are outlined. Second, the kind of services in question are considered. Third, to what extent these services actually involve artificial intelligence is pondered. Fourth, how such technological capacities may bear upon the tenets of procedural democracy are raised. Fifth, it is argued that it is unlikely that those tenets are indeed significantly undermined in practice. And sixth, this article concludes by considering the implications of it being proven that such technological capacities do play a decisive role in voting events.

Feature: The Profession of Teaching English in the Two-Year College: Findings from the 2019 TYCA Workload Survey

In fall 2019, the Two-Year College English Association distributed a survey to two-year college English faculty across the United States through professional listservs, regional distribution lists, and social media platforms. This report summarizes the key data derived from 1,062 responses to close-ended questions about workload related to teaching, service, leadership, and professional development. The report discusses the demographic profile, employment status, and contractual obligations in course assignments of the two-year college English faculty who responded. It also summarizes Information about respondents’ overload teaching, their autonomy within their teaching responsibilities, and the kinds of service and professional development activities in which they engaged.

Analisis Perancangan Aplikasi Layanan Konseling Individual Berbasis Aplikasi Website Di SMPN 2 Merangin

guidance and counseling which is part of education as a process of providing assistance to individuals (counselees) in dealing with problems, which is carried out through various kinds of services. E-counseling is an effective and efficient way of distance counseling between counselors and clients to help with problems related to personality development and client's life, letters or writing on the internet. The purpose of Website-based Guidance and Counseling is to provide services to students via the web on academic, socio-personal, career issues and develop students' full potential, adapt to the environment, how to overcome difficulties and obstacles in the student environment.The development model used in this study uses the ADDIE Branch theory research model. The feasibility assessment by media experts obtained an average score of 5.0. When converted into a percentage, the figure is obtained 100%, so this product is included in the category of interpretation of "Very Appropriate" and effective. The feasibility assessment by the material expert obtained an average score of 4.70. When converted into a percentage, the figure is 94%, so this product is included in the category of interpretation of "Very Appropriate" and effective. The feasibility assessment by 36 students obtained an average score of 4.65. When converted into a percentage, the figure is 93%, so this product is included in the category of interpretation of "Very Appropriate" and effective.