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Manfaaat Museum Simalungun Dalam Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Sejarah dan Seni Budaya

Museums play a central role in maintaining, preserving, and teaching cultural heritage to the public. This article discusses the important role of museums as cultural institutions that have the responsibility of preserving and presenting cultural heritage for future generations. Museums are not only repositories of historical artifacts, art, and knowledge, but also educational centers that provide in-depth insights into history, art, and culture.This article discusses two main aspects of the museum's role: preservation and education. First, museums function as custodians of cultural heritage by collecting, caring for and preserving historical artifacts and objects. Thus, museums become a bulwark against the loss of cultural and historical identity. Second, museums as educational institutions provide opportunities for the public to gain in-depth knowledge about various aspects of human life through exhibitions, educational programs, and interactive activities.

Lessons Learned from a National Initiative Promoting Publicly Available Standards-Based Clinical Decision Support.

Clinical decision support (CDS), which provides tools to assist clinical decision-making, can improve adherence to evidence-based practices, prevent medical errors, and support high-quality and patient-centered care delivery. Publicly available CDS that uses standards to express clinical logic (i.e., standards-based CDS) has the potential to reduce duplicative efforts of translating the same clinical evidence into CDS across multiple health care institutions. Yet development of such CDS is relatively new and its potential only partially explored. This study aimed to describe lessons learned from a national initiative promoting publicly available, standards-based CDS resources, discuss challenges, and report suggestions for improvement. Findings were drawn from an evaluation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient-Centered Outcomes Research CDS Initiative, which aimed to advance evidence into practice through standards-based and publicly available CDS. Methods included literature and program material reviews, key informant interviews, and a web-based survey about a public repository of CDS artifacts and tools for authoring standards-based CDS. The evaluation identified important lessons for developing and implementing standards-based CDS through publicly available repositories such as CDS Connect. Trust is a critical factor in uptake and can be bolstered through transparent information on underlying evidence, collaboration with experts, and feedback loops between users and developers to support continuous improvement. Additionally, while adoption of standards among electronic health record developers will make it easier to implement standards-based CDS, lower-resourced health systems will need extra support to ensure successful implementation and use. Finally, although we found the resources developed by the Initiative to offer valuable prototypes for the field, health systems desire more information about patient-centered, clinical, and cost-related outcomes to help them justify the investment required to implement standards-based, publicly available CDS. While the standards and technology to publicly share standards-based CDS have increased, broad dissemination and implementation remain challenging.

"I like to See the Ups and Downs of My Own Journey": Motivations for and Impacts of Returning to Past Content About Weight Related Journeys on Social Media

Documenting weight-related journeys (e.g., weight loss, weight gain) is prevalent on social media, as is weight stigma, resulting in easily accessible personal archives filled with emotional, and potentially stigmatizing content. Through semi-structured interviews with 17 U.S.-based social media users sharing weight-related journeys, we investigate the motivations for and impacts of returning to previously posted weight-related social media content. We show how these personal archives foster a contested relationship between one's past and current self, where returning to past content facilitates dynamic interpretations of the self. We argue these interpretations' impacts cannot be understood without acknowledging and addressing the socio-technical context in which they exist: one filled with weight stigma, fatphobia, and narrow body ideals. We introduce the novel concepts of Transtemporal Support and Transtemporal Harm to describe the support and harms that one experiences in the present from returning to their past social media content. We posit that designs accounting for transtemporal support 1) can facilitate reflective sense-making for users who create repositories of digital artifacts about sensitive, potentially stigmatizing experiences on social media, and 2) should not perpetuate transtemporal harm.

HF01-01 THE 50-YEAR EVOLUTION OF THE WILLIAM P. DIDUSCH CENTER FOR UROLOGIC HISTORY

You have accessJournal of UrologyCME1 Apr 2023HF01-01 THE 50-YEAR EVOLUTION OF THE WILLIAM P. DIDUSCH CENTER FOR UROLOGIC HISTORY Sutchin R. Patel and Ronald Rabinowitz Sutchin R. PatelSutchin R. Patel More articles by this author and Ronald RabinowitzRonald Rabinowitz More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1097/JU.0000000000003243.01AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookLinked InTwitterEmail Abstract INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: The William P. Didusch Museum is a resource and repository of artifacts, texts and knowledge that encompasses the history of urology. METHODS: We reviewed the literature and personal accounts surrounding the founding of the museum. We had discussions with previous historians, curators and staff of the museum in regards to the changes to the museum over time. RESULTS: William P. Didusch was a world-renowned medical artist who studied under Max Brödel and was the staff artist for the Brady Urological Institute when it was first established under Hugh H. Young. The William P. Didusch Museum was founded in 1971 and comprised of the collection of Didusch’s drawings and Dr. Young’s instruments, which were housed at the AUA headquarters. When the museum was opened in 1972, Didusch served as its first curator. At the time of Didusch’s death, the AUA had purchased a new building and began extensive restructuring and renovation. Dr. Herbert Brendler and then Dr. William W. Scott served as the next curators focusing on cataloguing all of the items housed in the museum prior to it being reopened in 1989. Dr. Rainer Engel took over as curator of the museum in 1993 and supervised extensive renovations to the exhibit area with new display cabinets and updated story lighting and story boards. In 2003 the museum was moved to the new AUA Headquarters in Linthicum, MD. The new headquarters was designed to incorporate urologic history into the building, from cabinets to house educational exhibits, stairwells containing urologic history panels and meeting rooms with urologic history items. Under Dr. Engel, the central exhibit on the history of the cystoscope was finalized and the annual history exhibits flourished. With industry sponsorship and growth of the exhibit hall, the exhibits took on a life of their own! Dr. Michael Moran, the last of the full-time curators, brought his interest of historical texts and extensive publications to the museum. The museum is now governed by a history committee and has an annual exhibit curator. The museum continues to evolve and includes a dynamic website with a virtual museum tour and links to the past history exhibits. A quarterly newsletter, "The Scope of Urology," is in its 2nd year helping to further disseminate interesting history articles. CONCLUSIONS: The William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History has a rich heritage. It continues to evolve in pursuit of its mission to preserve, document and present the history of urology and to educate and engage the medical community and public in order to better understand its impact on today’s healthcare environment and provide insight into the future. Source of Funding: None © 2023 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 209Issue Supplement 4April 2023Page: e256 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2023 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.MetricsAuthor Information Sutchin R. Patel More articles by this author Ronald Rabinowitz More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...

The Creative Potential of the Modern Museum as a New Model of Communicative Culture

The object of the research in the article is virtualization of the space of a modern museum as a new model of communicative culture. The interpretation of the museum as a center for storing historically significant relics — forms of cultural memory in order to present and study them acquires a more voluminous content within the new paradigm, ensuring the influence of museum communications on the real cultural process. Based on the research of domestic museologists (Z. A. Bonami, T. M. Troshina, A. V. Smirnov, etc.), the author considers the processes of modifying the museum as a social institution in the era of globalization and digitalization and proves that thanks to network technologies, its functionality: the museum has turned from a repository and review of artifacts of the past into an open interactive space focused on dialogue with the visitors, awakening their creative activity and intellectual potential.

Stabilization and Conservation of Iron Objects in the Collections of the Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

The Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus possesses a century-old repository of archaeological artefacts obtained during planned and rescue excavations. Iron items are a true gem of this collection. Until recently, stabilization, conservation, and restoration of iron artefacts remained a relevant problem, a lot of items being lost to corrosion. The experimental laboratory for stabilization and conservation of archaeological iron, which appeared in 2019, stabilizes iron artefacts by treating them with thin alkaline sulfite solution under ultrasound. This method is extremely effective against active corrosion. More than 200 iron objects have already undergone a full cycle of conservation. Half of them is deposited in the repositories of the Institute of History, and the other half is exhibited at its archaeological scientific museum. Restoration preserves metal objects for research, increases their interpretability, and introduces them into scientific circulation. Their appearance being restored, iron artefacts can be exhibited both at stationary and traveling exhibitions, thus popularizing the domestic archaeology and encouraging cooperation with Russian historians.

The DISAPALE Project: A New Digital Repository of Lithic and Bone Artefacts

ABSTRACT As for every aspect in our daily lives, in the past two decades a digital turn has stormed Archaeology. More specifically, in the field of Palaeolithic research, 3D recording methods are currently starting to become an established standard in the documentation, study and analysis of lithic artefacts. Once made available to public, the DISAPALE project will represent one of the largest 3D-models repository of lithic artefact: after introducing the project, its goals and main characteristics, the paper first contextualizes the specific nature of the blank material in relation to the 3D recording techniques, and then presents a significant example of the workflow that has been implemented during the DISAPALE project and a comparison between 3D models of three objects realized with two different methods, briefly discussing their relative pros and cons.

Analyzing the Direct and Transitive Impact of Vulnerabilities onto Different Artifact Repositories

In modern-day software development, a vast amount of public software libraries enable the reuse of existing implementations for reoccurring tasks and common problems. While this practice does yield significant benefits in productivity, it also puts an increasing amount of responsibility on library maintainers. If a security flaw is contained in a library release, then it may directly affect thousands of applications that are depending on it. Given the fact that libraries are often interconnected, meaning they are depending on other libraries for certain sub-tasks, the impact of a single vulnerability may be large, and is hard to quantify. Recent studies have shown that developers in fact struggle with upgrading vulnerable dependencies, despite ever-increasing support by automated tools, which are often publicly available. With our work, we aim to improve on this situation by providing an in-depth analysis on how developers handle vulnerability patches and dependency upgrades. To do so, we contribute a miner for artifact dependency graphs supporting different programming platforms, which annotates the graph with vulnerability information. We execute our application and generate a data set for the artifact repositories Maven Central, NuGet.org, and the NPM Registry, with the resulting graph being stored in a Neo4j graph database. Afterwards, we conduct an extensive analysis of our data, which is aimed at understanding the impact of vulnerabilities for the three different repositories. Finally, we summarize the resulting risks and derive possible mitigation strategies for library maintainers and software developers based on our findings. We found that NuGet.org, the smallest artifact repository in our sample, is subject to fewer security concerns than Maven Central or the NPM Registry. However, for all repositories, we found that vulnerabilities may influence libraries via long transitive dependency chains and that a vulnerability in a single library may affect thousands of other libraries transitively.

An empirical study of regression testing techniques

Regression testing is a testing process for established software and developed ones. Adding features to the software should not cause errors in the previous software version. There are several methods for implementing regression testing. The most straightforward is to do retest-all, but this technique is costly and protracted because it has to execute all test cases in the test suite. This situation is the nature of regression testing research, i.e. determining how to execute only a few test cases to shorten the time, and the faults can be found as much as possible. Recently there are various algorithms for regression testing process. This paper explains an empirical study of several regression testing methods. In the empirical evaluation, we used open-source SUTs, and several are implemented ourselves. On the other side, we utilize an MTS tool from the software artefact repository (SIR) and other open-source tools to automatic testing execution. The empirical study shows that each technique has a specific characteristic, and also has effectiveness significantly to reduce execution time testing process. So that in the regression testing implementation, it is crucial to determining the techniques considering each of them has consequences.

국내 박물관 번역 연구 활성화를 위한 해외 연구 고찰 및 시론적(試論的) 논의

In Korea, despite the comparatively rich provision of translations in museums, museum translation has been under-researched in Translation Studies. The reason can be attributed to the limited perceptions of museum and museum translation here. According to the definition of the International Council of Museums, the term “museum” encompasses diverse institutions such as archeological, ethnographic, historic and natural monuments and sites, botanical and zoological gardens, as well as science centers. In contrast, a narrower definition is generally used here, strictly referring to museums as the repository of artifacts. Also, museum translation tends to be associated only with textual factors or translated materials in museums. Hence, this study reviews related studies overseas, adopting broader concepts of and diverse perspectives on museum translation. Then, with a view to invigorating related research here, this paper explores ways to apply those various approaches to museum translation research in the Korean context. To sum up, it suggests that interdisciplinary perspectives should be applied in research on museum translation here, drawing upon concepts and theoretical frameworks from other disciplines. It is also suggested that museum translation research should examine, to cite Sturge’s (2007) terms, not only “translations in the museum” but also “museums as translations.”

Postcards from Isolation: Digital Artefacts from the Lockdown Time

'Postcards from Isolation’ is a collection of collaborative & interactive experiences that represent the shifts caused by the COVID‐19 pandemic.The origins of the project lie in a reflection on the deeper social, cultural and economical impact of being in isolation. Drawing on ethnographic accounts (Malinowski, Mead), we studied how the context of being isolated these days corresponds to the uniqueness of geographical islands ‐ spaces that enforce a different connection to land and its resources; and ones that lead to unique cultural patterns. Drawing on that metaphor, we explored to what extent we, as individuals, may be evolving into symbolic islands of our own, driven by similar powers, at a scale unlike before. What can we learn from that? How can we visualise these shifts for others to remember?The non profit project was self‐initiated by a group of cross disciplinary HCD colleagues. The website (isolation.is) currently holds 15 Postcards that represent shifts most important to its contributors. This pecha kucha tells a story of how Postcards became (1) a platform that allows for a rich understanding of how the COVID pandemic is shifting our lives; (2) a living repository of digital artefacts that can be studied like any other piece of material culture; and (3) a collection of digital drawings that are an important asset in any anthropologists’ notebook (Taussig).

Conserving Thangka [formula omitted] A technical approach unto the preservation of Buddhist Thangka through automation

Cultural patterns have been generated from the prehistoric period and have percolated down over the ages with evolution and constant evaluation by successive generations. Such patterns are created using mechanical automation. This article is an attempt to capture such cultural patterns using iconometric analysis. In this article, first, a brief study of various technical research carried out on cultural heritage related to Buddhist iconography has been presented. And then, a computational technique has been proposed to digitize the method that is followed by the Thangka practitioners for drawing the portrait of Buddha on Thangka. The methodology can be used for preservation and learning of the patterns of special significance in this rich art form. These pattern generation techniques can be used as a learning aid in the study of subjects and can generate newer interpretations from patterns in numerous Buddha images and paintings that have been developed over the ages and by various sects within the Buddhist practice. This method, when used to churn out rich cultural heritage artefacts, can lead to the development of centralized digital archives which provide opportunities to the common people to get access to such heritage objects which otherwise may have been hard to lay eyes upon. This will also help in scientific authentication of the present repository of historical artefacts. The article discusses the automated generation of Tibetan thangka−based Buddha faces, satisfying the iconometric proportion as used by different Buddhist schools of thought. The images generated by this method can be considered as authentic Buddha Images. This paper also provides the geometry for the reconstruction of an authentic Buddha image using the key facial features of Buddha. This research can help the traditional learners of Thangka painting to use modern pattern recognition techniques for skill enhancement.

Design Ideator: A Conceptual Design Toolbox

Computer tools for embodiment and detailed engineering design (computer-aided design (CAD)) evolved rapidly in the past 35 years and are now pervasive throughout the industry. But todays commercial CAD is geometry-centric, not appropriate for early stages of design when detailed geometry and dimensions are not known. This paper describes a framework and a set of interconnected tools for conceptual design. In this system, a broad range of intuitive and experiential concept generation methods have been operationalized and implemented as databases, artifact repositories, knowledge bases, and interactive procedures to promote divergent thinking. The so-called “Design Ideator” includes methods for flexible and dynamic design problem formulation, re-formulation, and restructuring in the form of hierarchical and re-configurable morphological charts. This tool has been continuously enhanced through three phases of user studies and feedback. The main contributions of this work are as follows. First, this research has created a holistic framework with interlaced knowledge bases from a wide range of methods, as opposed to past research that have relied on single experiential only method. Second, we have formulated algorithms to support several intuitive methods, such as contextual shifting, analogical reasoning, provocative stimuli, and combinatorial play.

Case study: Creating a fully accessible digital archive of the American Foundation for the Blind’s Helen Keller Collection

The American Foundation for the Blind’s Helen Keller Archive (https://www.afb.org/HelenKellerArchive) is the world’s largest repository of letters, speeches, press clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, artefacts and audiovisual materials relating to Helen Keller — the first deafblind person in the USA ever to graduate from college. Keller worked at the AFB from 1924 until her death in 1968, during which time she became a world-famous author, activist and advocate for disability rights. A mammoth digitisation project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and further supported by American Express, set out to preserve the rich primary and secondary source materials related to this groundbreaking figure in the history of disability rights, and create a collection that was fully accessible to audiences who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing, low vision or deafblind. This case study describes the work involved in creating digital surrogates for all items, including photographing delicate Braille materials; adding captioning and audio description to film clips; customising a digital archive management system; and extensive usability testing with diverse participants. The finished system achieves the AFB’s two core objectives: (1) presenting these materials in multiple accessible formats, so that students and researchers with a variety of access preferences can use the archive easily, and (2) setting a higher accessibility standard on which all digital archives can build.

‘The centre of the muniment’: archival order and reverential historiography in the India Office, 1875

In 1875, the civil servants and scholars George Birdwood and Clements Markham both submitted proposals to the India Office regarding the cataloguing and arrangement of its archive. These proposals had in common that they both involved the records of the early modern East India Company, and evinced an understanding of the archive as both a privileged repository of historical artefacts and a technology of imperial government. However, they articulated divergent ideologies of empire, ways of conceptualising the past and its materials, and understandings of the ways in which information and knowledge should be mobilised in an imperial context. This article analyses the two proposals in the light of their proposers' biographies, their politics, and their institutional and disciplinary commitments; and it notes each proposal's contribution to the production of a historiography which valorized early modern navigators, traders and mercantile communities as progenitors of the British imperial state. The proposals' troubled bureaucratic history emerges as an expression of conflicts of practice, ideology and administrative cultures within the India Office, and more broadly within the imperialisms of the time.

Text Categorization Approach for Secure Design Pattern Selection Using Software Requirement Specification

Secure patterns provide a solution for the security requirement of the software. There are large number of secure patterns, and it is quite difficult to choose an appropriate pattern. Moreover, selection of these patterns needs security knowledge; generally, developers are not specialized in the domain of security knowledge. This paper can help in the selection of secure pattern on the basis of tradeoffs of the secure pattern using text categorization. A repository of secure design patterns is used as a data set and a repository of requirements artifacts in the form of software requirements specification (SRS) are used for this paper. A text categorization scheme, which begins with preprocessing, indexing of secure patterns, ends up by querying SRS features for retrieving secure design pattern using document retrieval model. For the evaluation of the proposed model, we have used three different domains’ SRS. These three SRS documents represent three different domains, i.e., e-commerce, social media, and desktop utility program. A traditional precision and recall method along with F-measure used for evaluation of information/document retrieval model is used to evaluate the results. F-measure for 17 different design problems shows around 81% accuracy with recall up to 0.69%.

Historicist Audio Forensics: The Archive of Voices as Repository of Material and Conceptual Artefacts

This article considers the status of audio artefacts that comprise the historical archive of voices within the context of digital environments.

Developing Strategies for Sustainably Managing Archaeological Collections

Developing Strategies for Sustainably Managing Archaeological Collections

Improving IR‐based traceability recovery via noun‐based indexing of software artifacts

SUMMARYOne of the most successful applications of textual analysis in software engineering is the use of information retrieval (IR) methods to reconstruct traceability links between software artifacts. Unfortunately, because of the limitations of both the humans developing artifacts and the IR techniques any IR‐based traceability recovery method fails to retrieve some of the correct links, while on the other hand it also retrieves links that are not correct. This limitation has posed challenges for researchers that have proposed several methods to improve the accuracy of IR‐based traceability recovery methods by removing the ‘noise’ in the textual content of software artifacts (e.g., by removing common words or increasing the importance of critical terms). In this paper, we propose a heuristic to remove the ‘noise’ taking into account the linguistic nature of words in the software artifacts. In particular, the language used in software documents can be classified as a technical language, where the words that provide more indication on the semantics of a document are the nouns. The results of a case study conducted on five software artifact repositories indicate that characterizing the context of software artifacts considering only nouns significantly improves the accuracy of IR‐based traceability recovery methods. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Comparison in vitro and in vivo efficiencies of three attractant products against webbing clothes moth Tineola bisselliella (Hummel) (Lepidoptera: Tineidae)

Moth pests belonging to the Tineidae attack clothing and other animal products, during the processing or manufacturing stage as well as in storage. The insects cause considerable loss or damage to the commodity in terms of quantity, quality and market value. Insect control measures in these products differ depending on the conditions of storage or processing and the relevant cost factor. Fumigation products play an important role in insect pest elimination for the majority of stored animal products. The need of detailed studies on alternatives methods involving the exploitation of insect traps for pest management has been highlighted. In the past years test systems for the evaluation of attractant products have been developed and further refined in our laboratory. In this study, a standardized test system for the evaluation in vitro of commercial traps for Tineola bisselliella, the webbing clothes moth (WCM), was validated. Three sticky traps baited with female-produced sex pheromone were tested in the laboratory and in vivo at the “Mobilier National”, a repository of valuable artefacts. In both types of experiment the number of individuals captured was closely linked with the kinetic release of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the sticky traps. The test system allowed clear discrimination of the products according their efficiency in a reliable manner but none of the traps tested were effective enough to reduce the damage potential of the pest.In the light of these results, the characteristics needed for an effective trap in warehouse conditions is discussed.