Mobile Project Research Articles

Pathology quality improvement in British Columbia using performance measurement and knowledge mobilization.

54 Background: Pathology reporting content and formatting varies considerably in British Columbia (BC). The impact of this variability on the quality of care is unknown but it hinders effective data collection and measurement to guide quality improvement. A knowledge mobilization project that digitalized standardized reporting would ensure report completeness and generation of comparative performance data could be used within communities of practice to facilitate peer-to-peer conversations and create action plans to improve patient care. Methods: In 2014 BC adopted the College of American Pathologists cancer checklists as the standard for synoptic reporting using a single standalone electronic synoptic reporting program which interfaced with all five provincial laboratory information systems. Using the tool ensures all mandatory clinical prognostic indicators are reported. Discrete data elements were transmitted to a central data repository (CDR) which was mined to compile key performance indices reports for individual pathologists and generate comparative data reports at the institutional, regional and provincial level. Results: In the first six months of its implementation there was variation from 11-94% across different laboratories in their adoption of the reporting tool. The goal is to increase the average adoption rate from 76% to 90%. Analysis of data showed a highly comparable pattern of pathology practice across the major cancer sites/types and comparable to other Canadian provinces and the literature. Advisory committee reviews with interdisciplinary discussion of comparative data reports revealed potential areas for clinical improvement. For example, significant variation in the number of lymph nodes in colorectal resections was identified with some sites falling short of published recommendations. Conclusions: Population-based standardized digitalized pathology data reporting with centralized data collection can be achieved. Analysis of this data enables monitoring of performance metrics and meaningful discussions via communities of practice identify areas for quality improvement and create action plans.

PO-118 Effects of field-battle hypoxia supporter on free radical metabolism after exercise at high altitude

Objective To explore the effects of field-battle hypoxia supporter on free radical metabolism after exercise at high altitude．
 Methods A total of 40 healthy fighters stationed in the 3800m plateau for 10 days were randomly divided into two groups. Each group of 20 men, armed with heavy weapons and hypoxia supporter, hiked 5 km and then climbed a 4,300 m peak, a total distance of 10 km. The control group closed the valve of hypoxia supporter without oxygen inhalation, the experimental group opened the valve and inhaled oxygen. The serum levels of superoxide dismutase(SOD), total antioxidant capacity(T-AOC), reactive oxygen species (ROS) and malondialdehyde (MDA) were measured at rest and after exercise. In addition, The average marching speed of the two groups were compared．
 Results The T-AOC, ROS and MDA were increased both in the control group and experimental group after exercise, and the SOD increased significanly in experimental group (P<0.01)．Compared with control group, the SOD and T-AOC were increase but the ROS and MDA were decreased significanly after exercise(P<0.01)．The average speed of 10km cross-country march in the control group and the experimental group was (3.0±0.3)km/h and (2.3±0.5)km/h respectively, and there were significant differences (P<0.01).
 Conclusions The field-battle hypoxia supporter can restrain free radical damage after exercise at high altitude and increase the efficiency of work at high altitude.
 Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the Guangdong Science and Technology Equipment Mobilization project (Research and application of field-battle hypoxia supporter).

Changes in mobility and migrations. On the possibility of new intra-European migration networks

This article aims to explore the new intra-European migration dynamics, highlighting the importance of globalization in promoting migratory processes and establishing new social networks, which can generate migration microsystems between departure and arrival places at the European scale. Thus, we will present a case study in Southern Europe, more specifically Portugal, based on a survey of individuals who have conducted their migration abroad, namely France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom, coming from a territory and a community with rare cases of international migration. We will try to understand the motivations behind the mobility project, as well as their role in establishing migration networks and future consequences in terms of opening and strengthening new migration channels.

On-mouse projector: Peephole interaction using a mouse with a mobile projector

In our previous work, we have proposed a user interface that combines a mouse with a mobile projector and that allows users to perform peephole interaction, which is an effective method for realizing a wide workspace with a mobile device. In this paper, we conducted a new experiment that compared the proposed system and a tablet PC. The result showed that the participants were able to complete a map navigation task in significantly shorter time with the proposed system than with a tablet PC. We also show users’ perceptions about our proposed interface through qualitative analysis.

Social Autonomy and Decision Making in L2 Group Work

This article presents an investigation into the socio-interactional nature of learner autonomy in language learning groups. The study is situated in the context of a mobile phone video project with 13 Mexican adult learners of German as a foreign language (GFL). The aim was to examine autonomy, heteronomy and participation in L2 classroom negotiations in a group work situation. These constructs have been shown to be highly influential in second language learning in an institutional context (Little, 2000; O’Leary, 2014; Schmenk, 2008; Thornbury, 2011). Decision-making episodes of three project groups were examined from an interactional, participational and sequential point of view. The analysis offered both an etic and an emic perspective on L2-group negotiation processes and allowed for the detailed reconstruction of collective and cooperative participation mechanisms. It unveiled a strong link between individual interaction styles, different types of participation, group discourse patterns and the display of group autonomy and/or personal autonomy. These findings inform an empirically grounded theoretical model of group autonomy in the L2 classroom, which will be introduced in this paper.

Social Mobility and the Ambiguous Autonomy of Roma Migration

Since the institutionalisation of the ‘nomads camp’ as housing policy for the Roma in Italy, various securitising discourses have ambiguously incorporated the motifs of mobility and stasis to construct Roma as a highly mobile – hence potentially ubiquitous – threat, while deploring their perceived social and cultural immobility through the tropes of their unwillingness to ‘integrate’ or to become ‘civilised’. Against the backdrop of these securitising narratives surrounding Roma (im)mobility, the article will bring to the fore the lived experiences of movement of two Roma women currently living in Rome; as they try to navigate economic hardship, the (im)mobility and pressures imposed by states’ or local authorities’ regulations of their lives, and personal contingencies, they contest, side-track or submit to the regimes of (im)mobility imposed on them. Applying a transnational and intergenerational lens to their social mobility projects contributes to nuance the autonomy of migration thesis within mobility studies: while some of their moves do challenge the categories upon which state power is predicated, in other respects they submit to prescribed paths of social mobility.

Investigating ideal-solution based multicriteria decision making techniques for sustainability evaluation of urban mobility projects

Confronted with negative environmental impacts, rising fuel costs and increasing congestion, many cities are implementing sustainable mobility measures to improve the flow of passenger and goods. Examples of these measures are use of public transport, cycling, walking, energy efficient vehicles, biofuels. The challenge before transport decision makers is which one(s) to choose for implementation as often there is no or limited quantitative data available on the subject. Moreover, the context of each city, its geographic and transport conditions restrict the generalization of results obtained in experienced cities. In this paper, we are investigating application of ideal solution based multicriteria decision making (MCDM) techniques namely fuzzy TOPSIS, fuzzy VIKOR, and fuzzy GRA for sustainability evaluation of urban mobility projects. A real application for city of Luxembourg is provided. Three projects are evaluated namely implementation of a new tramway in the city center of Luxembourg, re-organization of existing bus lines in the city to perform optimized service, and implementation of electric vehicle car-sharing stations in the city. Sensitivity analysis is performed to determine the influence of input parameters on modeling results.The proposed work is one of the first few works to investigate application of ideal-solution based multicriteria decision making techniques for sustainability evaluation of urban mobility projects under uncertainty. Besides, the best alternative is selected using veto thereby overcoming the limitations of single MCDM methods.

KIM SŬNG-OK’S LITERARY RESPONSE TO PAK CHŎNG-HŬI’S RE-MAKING OF KOREANSOCIETY

Kim Sŭng-ok’s early literature has been extensively talked about in regard to a number of themes including as a critique of western capitalism. However, there has been almost no analysis of how some of his early fiction can be read as a response to Pak Chŏng-hŭi’s attempt to create a modern Korean mass identity through conservatizing and re-Confucianizing the nation by means of a powerful military-style mobilization project. After positing the existence of something called “a world of one’s own” in a story titled “Saengmyŏng yŏnsŭp” (Practice for life, 1962) and incorporating a clearly Freudian super-ego vs. Id clash into the plot, Kim Sŭng-ok writes two more stories that can be read as having strong elements of resistance to Pak Chŏng-hŭi’s totalizing project: “Yŏksa” (Strongman, 1963) and “Mujin kihaeng” (Record of a journey to Mujin, 1964). In these stories, his protagonists make efforts to resist the totalizing, subsuming effects of the homogenization and mobilization that appear in the texts and that can be traced to such efforts by the Pak regime. This article will analyze these stories for their attempts to resist the domination of a societal super-ego represented by Pak Chŏng-hŭi’s patriarchal persona and mass mobilization efforts using state power. A psycho-analytic approach will be used to show how Kim attempted to create an individuated ego that could withstand (or escape) the tyranny of this societal super-ego.

The Bustle of Horses on a Ship: Drug Control in New York City Public Housing

For decades, violence, drugs and public housing have been closely linked in political culture and popular imagination. In 1990, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) made funds available to public housing authorities to combat drug and crime problems. This program, the Drug Elimination Program (DEP) combined several strategies under one administrative umbrella: police enforcement, drug treatment, drug prevention, youth and gang outreach, community organizing, integrated health and social service agencies, and tenant mobilization projects. In New York, the Housing Authority spent $165 million on DEP in its 330 public housing sites between 1990 and 1996. Yet there has been little research on this large investment, either in New York City or nationwide. In this study, we examined the effects of the DEP intervention at three levels of complementary theoretical relevance: the public housing development itself, the neighborhood in which public housing is situated, and the police precinct that surrounds each public housing project. We used spatial analyses and hierarchical regressions to estimate DEP effects on drug and crime in public housing sites and their surrounding neighborhoods. We show that crime and drug problems were reduced significantly in the immediate neighborhoods and police precincts surrounding the public housing sites, but crime and drug problems in public housing sites were unaffected by DEP interventions. The absence of effects within public housing reflects the details of the DEP strategies, with its disproportionate allocation of funds to policing strategies compared to demand reduction and informal social control programs. DEP police efforts were nominally focused on public housing sites, but in reality were diffused in the NYPD's broader administrative units to provide resources that benefited law enforcement generally. Seen this way, DEP was an important and strategically valuable supplement to the NYPD's strategic response to a particularly acute violence and crime epidemic, but did little to alter the basic social organization of crime and drugs within public housing sites. We argue for an intervention model that promotes collective action between residents and legal actors, interactions that promote citizen compliance and cooperation with police. The police depend heavily on the voluntary cooperation of citizens to fight crime, and DEP created disincentives for cooperation. This social norms approach would invite policing of drug problems in the context of a legitimacy-focused approach that promotes citizen-based regulation of crime and disorder.

Transport Network Capacity Planning And Analysis Operator X Using Overbooking Method In Jombang Rawa Area

The high quality of high-speed communication services is now a requirement for LTE (Long Term Evolution) users, resulting in high traffic capacity requirements. Jombang Rawa area is one area that has a high traffic capacity. To overcome this problem, X operator rolled out a mobile network project called roll out project that aims to provide sufficient LTE network capacity for operator X customers. In the project, the capacity of the transport network is done using a microwave backhaul which aims to support the new LTE site so that there is no bandwidth shortage in the new site path. The method used to obtain the appropriate traffic for the new site path is the overbooking calculation method. Based on Overbooking calculations of 102 sites, there are 22 sites that require a propose bandwidth capacity solution. Using the overbooking method there is a configuration upgrade as a solution to deal with trafficked paths.

Enhancing User Experiences of Mobile-Based Augmented Reality via Spatial Augmented Reality: Designs and Architectures of Projector-Camera Devices

As smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile devices have continued to dominate our digital world ecosystem, there are many industries using mobile or wearable devices to perform Augmented Reality (AR) functions in their workplaces in order to increase productivity and decrease unnecessary workloads. Mobile-based AR can basically be divided into three main types: phone-based AR, wearable AR, and projector-based AR. Among these, projector-based AR or Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) is the most immature and least recognized type of AR for end users. This is because there are a small number of commercial products providing projector-based AR functionalities in a mobile manner. Also, prices of mobile projectors are still relatively high. Moreover, there are still many technical problems regarding projector-based AR that have been left unsolved. Nevertheless, it is projector-based AR that has potential to solve a fundamental problem shared by most mobile-based AR systems. Also the always-visible nature of projector-based AR is one good answer for solving current user experience issues of phone-based AR and wearable AR systems. Hence, in this paper, we analyze what are the user experience issues and technical issues regarding common mobile-based AR systems, recently widespread phone-based AR systems, and rising wearable AR systems. Then for each issue, we propose and explain a new solution of how using projector-based AR can solve the problems and/or help enhance its user experiences. Our proposed framework includes hardware designs and architectures as well as a software computing paradigm towards mobile projector-based AR systems. The proposed design is evaluated by three experts using qualitative and semiquantitative research approaches.

Mobile Learning, Teacher Education, and the Sociomaterial Perspective

This article is primarily a theoretical piece that uses a model of mobile learning, the FRAME model (Koole 2009), to explore a mobile teacher-training project that took place in Papua New Guinea: the SMS Story. The author takes a sociomaterial perspective, drawing upon Barad's agential realism and Sørensen's multiplicity perspective. As the author explores the “intra-actions” of the social, learner, and technological aspects of the FRAME model, diffraction patterns arise; in other words, spaces of social and material possibilities, constraints, and tensions come into view. New ethical questions emerge regarding whose perspectives and whose practices should come to matter in pedagogical practices. This article is intended for qualitative researchers, teachers, and teacher educators who are interested in alternative ways of thinking about the entanglement of mobile technology, humans, and materialities in educational contexts.

A scenario simulation approach for sustainable mobility project evaluation based on fuzzy cognitive maps

Sustainability evaluation of new urban mobility projects is a challenging decision due to the presence of multiple objectives (social, economic, environmental), limited data availability, presence of multiple stakeholders, and specific context of each city. Scenario modeling and simulation is a useful tool to address such situations. In this paper, we present a fuzzy cognitive mapping-based scenario simulation approach for evaluating sustainable mobility projects. Linguistic assessments and fuzzy set theory are used to address the uncertainty arising from lack of quantitative data. The criteria for sustainability evaluation are obtained using fuzzy Delphi technique. A numerical application is provided for the city of Luxemburg. The strength of the proposed approach is the ability to aid in decision-making of new sustainable mobility project evaluation and selection under limited or no quantitative data availability. In addition, it is able to deal with multiple, co-related and conflicting criteria in evaluation.

A goal-oriented approach based on fuzzy axiomatic design for sustainable mobility project selection

ABSTRACTSustainable mobility project evaluation is a challenging problem for transportation decision-makers. The specific context of each city, involvement of multiple objectives of stakeholders, governmental priorities, uncertainty about evaluation process and metrics combined with lack of quantitative data make the problem challenging. Existing techniques for project selection often ignore proximity of criteria scores to targets values (or goals) which can lead to sub-optimal solutions. In this paper, we propose a goal-oriented approach based on fuzzy axiomatic design for prioritising sustainable mobility projects. The criteria (attributes) for sustainability evaluation are generated using affinity diagram technique. Fuzzy Delphi technique is used to rate the criteria and the alternatives. The final rankings for the urban mobility projects are generated using fuzzy axiomatic design and the best project(s) are chosen for implementation. Sensitivity analysis is conducted to determine the influence of variation in input parameters on stability of model results. A numerical application for ranking of three sustainable mobility projects in the context of city of Luxembourg is provided.

Compromise and complicity in international student mobility: the ethnographic case of Indian medical students at a Chinese university

ABSTRACTExisting scholarship on international student mobility (ISM) often draws on Bourdieu to interpret such mobility as a strategy of capital conversion used by privileged classes to reproduce their social advantage. This perspective stems from and also reinforces a rationalistic interpretation of student mobility. A shift of focus to interAsian educational mobilities involving non-elite individuals and institutions can reveal logics of behavior and of social interaction that are at discrepancy with the dominant perspective, thereby advancing the theorization of educational mobilities. This paper examines a case of Indian youths of less affluent backgrounds pursuing English-medium medical degrees (MBBS) at a provincial university in China. Through ethnography, the paper illustrates how various parties – individual, organizational and institutional – to this somewhat ‘unlikely’ project of knowledge mobility follow the discrepant logics of compromise and complicity to seek to realize their educational desires, social aspirations, and organizational objectives amidst realities of class disadvantage and resource inadequacy.

Development of Animation Projector System and Usefulness in Pediatric Head CT

The restlessness of young children often causes motion artifacts on CT images. We devised a new animation projector system (CT Theater) that enables a child to view an animation during a pediatric head CT examination. The purpose of this study is to assess the usefulness on a children of a video viewed during a head CT scan. Children of 3-10 years old who underwent head CT (SOMATOM Definition Flash, SOMATOM Force; Siemens) were analyzed for a period from 6 months before, to 6 months after, introduction of the projector system (before: n=46, after: n=29). Mobile projector (MP-CL1; Sony) connected with tablet device (iPad; Apple) was put on the CT table near the child's head. An animation was projected on the child's line of sight inside the gantry. The animation is projected on the line of sight of the child such that the projector moves with the child on the table. The number of requests for use made by children was 28/29 (96.6%). The presence of images without motion artifacts decreased significantly after introduction (before/after introduction: 84.8% vs 100%, p=0.03). The overall examination success rate tended to increase after introduction (84.8% vs 92.9%, p=0.26). The overall examination time was significantly reduced (92.4±42.4 s vs 65.1±47.3 s, p<0.001). We developed an animation projector system that shortened examination time and decreased motion artifacts in pediatric head CT.

Social mobility concept in changing societies

The concept of social mobility, as many other concepts, that underpin modern sociology is undergoing substantial evolution under the influence of change that occurs in modern societies often characterized as fluid and unstable. The mobility theory has been used by sociologists to diagnose the state of society, discover the directions to which it was heading. Early at the start of mobility studies one of the founders of social mobility theory called for a complex view of it, proposed to view as complex, inter-related moves of people, objects and ideas. P. Sorokin called for a study of mobility that incorporated not only human beings, but also artifacts and ideas. He regarded a complex view of mobility as opening a new perspective on change in modern societies. However, in the wake of the turbulent war and revolution ridden period the accent of mobility studies shifted, the rise of an industrial society placed emphasis on the study of workplace change and inter-class transition. Urbanization stressed geographical mobility from village to city. These ideas became central for many empirical studies, viewing modern society as a space of inter-class transition, primarily transitions into the growing middle class. The new hegemonic project led to a new emphasis on the reproduction and expansion of the middle class. The middle class society became a model for many developing countries. The ideology of mobility that inspired their many reformers and revolutionary leaders in the third world who often strove to adopt a policy of mobility at all costs. The policy led to serious complications, discord of social positions, tensions, political tension including as a result of the inability of the young reformist regimes to solve the problem of structural weaknesses of developing countries. The ideology and practice of mobility met with problems of inter-class barriers and their limited permeability as well as with the problem of culture that appeared to be less flexible than social positions. It is fair to assume that many of the negative phenomena in the Arab countries or other less fortunate parts of the world are the outcome of the failed mobility projects, dashed hopes of prosperity and better life for the masses. In early 21st century it is appropriate to discuss new tacks of mobility theory, marking a return to a multiple approach to mobility that would equally take into account its structural and subjective aspects, compare societal and individual perceptions of success, relate workplace stability, geographical, housing and other dimensions that make modern society so fluid.

University-Industry Linkages in the Disaster Resilience Sector: A Case Study of Thailand

Abstract University-industry linkages in the Disaster Resilience Sector in Thailand were studied at two main levels: the national level and the institutional level. Comparisons were made of specific data such as the linkage structures, lessons learnt, policies and barriers, between Thailand and developed countries such as the United Kingdom. This analysis was done to identify the key elements, factors and contexts in constructing and maintaining university-industry linkages in various spectrums and approaches, and to apply these to the Disaster Resilience Sector. These results can be further developed as guidelines for universities in developing countries that wish to develop university-industry linkages. The study also addressed a specific university-industry linkage called ‘secondment plan’ which includes university policies on the detachment of university staff from their regular work or position in the university for temporary assignment in industry sectors. For this part, the Talent Mobility Project, a governmental project that supports Thai university staff, particularly academic staff, in doing cooperative work with the industry sector, was analysed. This project is the responsibility of the National Science Technology and Innovation Policy Office (STI) of Thailand. The weakness and the strengths of this project were identified through interviews with senior staff of STI, Science Park and Naresuan University. The results have been developed into a guidelines model for universities in developing countries.

A Fast Multiobjective Optimization Strategy for Single-Axis Electromagnetic MOEMS Micromirrors

Micro-opto-electro-mechanical (MOEMS) micromirrors are an enabling technology for mobile image projectors (pico-projectors). Low size and low power are the crucial pico-projector constraints. In this work, we present a fast method for the optimization of a silicon single-axis electromagnetic torsional micromirror. In this device, external permanent magnets provide the required magnetic field, and the actuation torque is generated on a rectangular multi-loop coil microfabricated on the mirror plate. Multiple constraints link the required current through the coil, its area occupancy, the operating frequency, mirror suspension length, and magnets size. With only rather general assumptions about the magnetic field distribution and mechanical behavior, we show that a fully analytical description of the mirror electromagnetic and mechanical behavior is possible, so that the optimization targets (the assembly size, comprising the mirror and magnets, and the actuation current) can be expressed as closed functions of the design parameters. Standard multiobjective optimization algorithms can then be used for extremely fast evaluation of the trade-offs among the various optimization targets and exploration of the Pareto frontier. The error caused by model assumptions are estimated by Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations to be below a few percent points from the exact solution.

Mariama on the move. Capital migratorio y segundas generaciones en la emigración juvenil española

La representación mediática de las personas jóvenes españolas protagonistas de una nueva emigración hacia Europa en los últimos años suele recurrir, por defecto, a una composición homogeneizadora que no se corresponde con la realidad de este flujo. Este artículo contribuye a hacer visible la diversidad en la composición de los jóvenes españoles que emigran al extranjero en el contexto de crisis y sus estrategias específicas, a través del trabajo de campo etnográfico desarrollado en el área de Barcelona. El análisis se centra en el estudio de caso de Mariama, descendiente de migrantes de África occidental en Europa, y su movilidad comunitaria y de emancipación, que permite identificar la construcción y el uso del capital migratorio que subyace a la emergencia de un ‘nuevo’ proyecto de movilidad, sumándose a esa parte de la juventud española que se ha visto forzada a construir su futuro en otros países de Europa.