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Accessibility and Fieldwork in the Time of Coronavirus

Fieldwork in the geosciences is increasingly relying on groundwork laid by accessibility advocates.

EHBB/mHBS-DHIS2: Mobile Virtual Reality Provider Training in Helping Babies Breathe®

Background: Intrapartum asphyxia accounts for the deaths of around 280,000 babies per year. Helping Babies Breathe® (HBB) is an evidence-based global neonatal resuscitation training program. HBB utilizes an in-person dissemination model. However, there are challenges to maintaining training fidelity, data collection, and continuous learning and improvement. Aim: The objective is to develop and test an integrated mobile virtual reality (VR) simulation application (eHBB) and data collection tool (mHBS) for healthcare worker training in neonatal resuscitation. Methods: eHBB, a VR training application developed on the Unreal™ platform and accessible on mobile devices …

Perceptions of organizational justice in incentive contracts and their effect on congruence between personal and organizational goals

Purpose – This research aims to verify if perception s of organizational justice in incentive contracts have a positive effect on the congruence between personal and organizational objectives in companies with decentralized structures . Design/methodology/approach – The research is quantitative . W e used a questionnaire as the form of data collection. The instrument consists of 39 statements to test the theoretical hypotheses through structural equation modeling . The acces sibility sample consisted of 140 managers of Brazilian companies. Findings – The results indicate that: (a) multiple performance measures increase the perception of d istributive and p rocedural j ustice; (b) quality feedback leads to the understanding that incentive contracts are fair; (c) disregarding uncontrollable aspects by managers in performance evaluation s does not lead to the perception of p rocedural and d istributive j ustice; (d) p erception s of organizational justice have a positive effect on the congruence between personal and organizational goals. Originality/value – I n addition to contributing to the advancement of knowledge in the managerial area, t he findings of this research may support policies for the formulation of incentive contracts in Brazilian companies with decentralized structures , and this aspect represents a business and practical contribution for company managers and owners.

Diagnóstico de la percepción que tienen los usuarios sobre la calidad de productos y servicios que brinda BanEcuador B.P. sucursal Tulcán.

Las experiencias y evaluaciones hacen que los clientes ya no sólo decidan donde solicitar los productos y servicios que ofrece una Institución financiera pública, sino también se guían por la calidad del servicio prestado; desde siempre los clientes han exigido un buen trato, atención, confiabilidad, calidad, tiempos razonables, procesos apropiados, accesibilidad y constante innovación por parte de la entidad y funcionarios públicos, por ello cada una de las instituciones se han visto ante el reto de buscar diversas alternativas para enriquecer dichas exigencias y poder captar nuevos clientes; este estudio buscó identificar si la percepción de satisfacción que tienen los usuarios ante la calidad de los productos y servicios que otorga BanEcuador B.P influye en su permanencia en la Institución Financiera, realizando un estudio con un enfoque cuantitativo, de tipo descriptivo - no exploratorio; se trabajó con una muestra estratificada compuesta por 186 clientes de la sucursal Tulcán año 2018; para el levantamiento de datos se diseñó un cuestionario estructurado con 22 preguntas con escala de Likert, cuyo resultado permitió conocer que la satisfacción del cliente residente en el cantón Tulcán, ante la utilizaciónde los productos y servicios brindados por la Institución es del 62,9%, destacándose las acciones relacionadas con el asesoramiento por parte del personal de la Institución, mientras que, el atributo que necesita mejorarse, es una mayor comunicación sobre el acceso a la banca virtual y como este canal electrónico puede facilitarles soluciones en menor tiempo.

Remote SEM revolutionised – imaging and teaching accessible to all

Remote SEM revolutionised – imaging and teaching accessible to all

Discapacidad y distribución de bienes simbólicos

Este artículo constituye un análisis de la experiencia institucionales de estudiantes con discapacidad en dos universidades del conurbano bonaerense, la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ) y la Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche (UNAJ). El objetivo de este texto es comprender las dinámicas internas de las instituciones y su relación con la distribución de bienes simbólicos. Las dimensiones de análisis emergentes de la experiencia de investigación situaron la reflexión en los procesos de identificación, la construcción de la ciudadanía universitaria, el fenómeno de vecinalización de las universidades del Conurbano y las experiencias en la política estudiantil.
 El foco de este trabajo está puesto en algunas dimensiones culturales y simbólicas que son condicionantes de la experiencia de la discapacidad en el ámbito universitario. Estas reflexiones permiten entender que la construcción de una universidad accesible implica una transformación cultural más amplia que modifique el sentido común que se construye alrededor de la discapacidad en nuestra sociedad.

Plataforma de presencia virtual de bajo costo para personas con discapacidades motoras severas

Debido a la falta de autonomía y a la dificultad en las interacciones sociales, las personas con discapacidades físicas, generalmente sufren de una calidad de vida disminuida. El siguiente documento describe el desarrollo de una plataforma móvil de bajo costo capaz de asistir a las personas con severas discapacidades motoras en diferentes interacciones sociales. La plataforma requiere una base móvil inalámbrica; adaptando dos dispositivos, una cámara y un rastreador ocular; adicionalmente se requiere un software que permite integrar todos los componentes para elaborar una aplicación fácil de usar. Luego, para validar la operación de la plataforma se realizaron varias pruebas, usando una metodología de medición de usabilidad, con diferentes usuarios dentro de un cierto rango de edad, con y sin discapacidades. En consecuencia, como primera instancia de validación, la plataforma de bajo costo cumple con la función esperada para la asistencia de interacción social de personas con discapacidad. Finalmente, al ser un diseño abierto y verificado su funcionamiento, toda la información necesaria para la construcción del aparato es de libre acceso, a través de la página electrónica del proyecto.

Feasibility of primary percutaneous coronary intervention via the distal radial approach in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Background/AimsRecently, distal radial approach (DRA), called as snuffbox approach, has gained the interest of interventional cardiologists, but there is a lack of data about the feasibility of DRA as an alternative route for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).MethodsA total of 138 patients presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in whom primary PCI via the DRA was attempted at three hospitals from October 2017 to September 2019 were analyzed.ResultsThe success rate of snuffbox puncture in the setting of STEMI was 92.8% (128/138). Successful primary PCI via the DRA was achieved in all 128 patients. The snuffbox puncture time, defined as the time interval from local anesthesia induction to successful sheath cannulation, was 2.7 ± 1.6 minutes, and snuffbox puncture was performed within 5 minutes in 95.3% of patients. Moreover, the percentage of the puncture time in the door-to-balloon time was 3.3%. The left DRA was selected in 103 patients (80.5%), and primary PCI via the DRA was performed using a 6-Fr guiding catheter in 125 patients (97.7%). There was no major bleeding; however, there were four cases (3.1%) of access-site complications, including three cases of local hematoma (≤ 5 cm diameter) and one case of local numbness, which improved 3 months later.ConclusionsIn the setting of STEMI, the DRA could be a feasible alternative access route for primary PCI.

ДИДАКТИЧНІ ПРИНЦИПИ ФОРМУВАННЯ ЦИФРОВОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ МАЙБУТНІХ ФАХІВЦІВ-ЕКОНОМІСТІВ


 
 
 
 In the article the author defines didactic principles as a system of basic requirements, which should be guided in determining the content, forms of organization and teaching methods, which will most contribute to the formation of digital competence of future specialists of economic profile in accordance with the purpose of the chosen educational program (economics; information systems in economics and business analytics; business economics; enterprise economics; economic cybernetics; international economics; personnel management and labor economics, etc.), common with task of training and education, patterns of learning.The following didactic principles are characterized: scientific, systematic and consistent, accessibility, consciousness and activity of learning, clarity, strength of knowledge, communication of theory and practice, emotionality, control and correction of knowledge, optimization of learning. The mechanisms of implementation of these principles are disclosed.
 
 
 

Ruta de La Reserva de la Biosfera de La Rioja: ejemplo de integración entre ser humano y medio

Biosfera (MaB) de la UNESCO. Es un ejemplo de lo que representan estos espacios desde el punto de vista social, económico y científico para la conservación del medio dentro del marco del desarrollo sostenible. Incluye a 40 municipios marcados por el declive demográfico, la falta de servicios y de accesibilidad, pero también afortunados por el patrimonio natural y cultural que atesoran. El aprovechamiento como recurso de las formaciones geológicas y el relieve, la biodiversidad, las icnitas, las aguas termales, la fisonomía de los pueblos y las manifestaciones culturales en la Reserva convive con la actividad humana en un equilibrio armonioso que exige un esfuerzo continuado. La lucha por su supervivencia es el reto más importante al que se enfrentan sus habitantes, como actores del territorio, y el conjunto de la sociedad como responsables de su conservación para el disfrute de las generaciones futuras.

Accessibility and Open GLAM

Accessibility and Open GLAM

Access as Practice: Disability, Accessible Design, and History

Access as Practice: Disability, Accessible Design, and History

On stethoscopes, patient records, artificial intelligence and zettabytes: a glimpse into the future of digital medicine in Mexico.

Science and technology are modifying medicine at a dizzying pace. Although access in our country to the benefits of innovations in the area of devices, data storage and artificial intelligence is still very restricted, the advance of digital medicine offers the opportunity to solve some of the biggest problems faced by medical practice and public health in Mexico. The potential areas where digital medicine can be disruptive are: accessibility to quality medical care, centralization of specialties in large cities, dehumanization of medical treatment, lack of resources to access evidence-supported treatments, among others. This review presents some of the advances that are guiding the new revolution in medicine, discusses the potential and potential barriers to implementation, and suggests crucial elements for the path of incorporation of digital medicine in Mexico.

The Multifacets of COVID-19 in Adult Patients: A Concise Clinical Review on Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Manifestations for Healthcare Physicians.

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Most people with COVID-19 have a mild to moderate respiratory illness; others experience severe illness, such as COVID-19 pneumonia. The first and most accessible diagnostic information is from symptoms and signs from clinical examination. Infected patients present with a variety of manifestations. Formal diagnosis requires laboratory analysis of nose and throat samples, or imaging tests like CT scans. Emerging data suggest that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has extrapulmonary manifestations. Sometimes these extra-respiratory manifestations may be the initial or only symptom of COVID-19, prior to fever or respiratory manifestations. In summary, our concise review shows that there is a wide range of symptoms that can be presented by COVID-19 patients. Extra-respiratory manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection have recently been observed in the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases. Considering the broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and the increasing worldwide burden of the disease, there is an urgent need to rapidly scale up the diagnostic capacity to detect COVID-19 and its complications. (www.actabiomedica.it)

Pyrene-based metallocycles and metallocages: more than fluorophores

This review comprehensively summarizes the construction of pyrene-based metallocycles and metallocages as well as their properties and applications.

Piaget como referencial teórico para o ensino e aprendizagem de adolescentes e adultos

Foram muitas as contribuições da epistemologia de Jean Piaget ao ensino de diversas áreas do conhecimento no decorrer das últimas décadas. As perspectivas interacionistas, críticas e progressistas que têm sido comumente adotadas, deram ao movimento construtivista um potencial interpretativo capaz de analisar os processos didático-pedagógicos por meio de superações de concepções individuais de senso comum. Apesar disso, por meio de nossa vivência em nossas atividades docentes cotidianas, levantamos a hipótese de que não é incomum a compreensão do aporte teórico piagetiano como uma referência teórica capaz de lidar somente com situações que envolvem eminentemente crianças e o início da adolescência. Os manuais didáticos que visam divulgar as contribuições piagetianas, apontam preponderantemente os conceitos e análises que se referem ou se enquadram à educação infantil, o que obstaculiza sua incorporação como referência teórica para investigações de situações que remetem ao Ensino Médio e ao Ensino Superior. Este trabalho trata-se de análises de uma pesquisa empírica feita com alunos de uma universidade pública do Brasil, que visou corroborar ou refutar nossa hipótese. Por fim, sugerimos para formação inicial ou continuada de professores, materiais que dizem respeito a pesquisas que se usam desta epistemologia a fim de estendê-la e de torná-la acessível para o docente em seu trabalho cotidiano

Accessibility and IoT / Smart and Connected Communities

Accessibility and IoT / Smart and Connected Communities

Making the Brain Accessible with Comics

Making the Brain Accessible with Comics

Decentralized infrastructure for knowledge discovery in the Semantic Web

An enormous volume of well-structured data with explicit semantics, in accordance with W3C’s standards, becomes a reality in the Web of Linked Data. However, the Semantic Web promise to turn it into a machine-processable global graph of knowledge still encounters numerous impediments. Efficient acc ess and discovery along with the semantic heterogeneity have been identified as major stumbling blocks. Following the design principles for Semantic Web and Linked Data, we present ActiveDiscovery, a decentralized infrastructure for distributed SPARQL query evaluation based on its terminological entities, namely the ontologies used in a query. ActiveDiscovery’s main goal is to facilitate distributed and transparent semantic search based on structural rather than keyword-based querying in the Semantic Web. Key architectural extensions regarding metadata, indexing and ontology alignment are proposed to achieve transparency for federated query execution in a decentralized manner. The rewriting procedure for extensional SPARQL query is considered regarding the proposed components and SERVICE clause as a standard recommendation for query federation. We investigate the feasibility of our approach and present preliminary results of initial evaluation. We conclude by indicating questions which need to be addressed in future work.

Making the applied research that practitioners need and want accessible

Making the applied research that practitioners need and want accessible