Well-defined Services Research Articles

A Study of Novel Education and Classicization of Ancient Chinese Novels in the Age of Fusion Media

In today’s new media environment, more and more communication contents have been digitized. Also because of digitization, traditional media and new media, which were previously well-defined services, have now merged, media fusion. In the age of media fusion, communication systems are updated more rapidly and more and more novels are being adapted into TV series. Literary education in ancient China has a long history and has played an important role in the development and dissemination of the ancient Chinese literature. Literary education refers to an educational behavior in which the educator and the educated acquire knowledge, enrich emotional experience, and obtain aesthetic pleasure through the reading, explanation, and acceptance of literary texts and then cultivate language ability and cultivate spirituality. There are many factors that promote the classicization of ancient Chinese fiction works. This thesis examines the relationship between fiction education and the classicization of ancient Chinese fiction works. The experiment shows that there are still many problems with the reading of ancient Chinese novels today; the number of respondents who have an average interest in reading ancient Chinese novels accounts for 51%, and only 12% have a high interest in reading. In terms of the choice of reading content, 16% of the students focus on reading literary masterpieces, 70% are inclined to reading young adult literature and campus literature, and 14% prefer to read romance martial arts novels, popular science books, and newspaper publications, etc.

Review of digital twin applications in manufacturing

In the Industry 4.0 era, the Digital Twin (DT), virtual copies of the system that are able to interact with the physical counterparts in a bi-directional way, seem to be promising enablers to replicate production systems in real time and analyse them. A DT should be capable to guarantee well-defined services to support various activities such as monitoring, maintenance, management, optimization and safety. Through an analysis of the current picture of manufacturing and a literature review about the already existing DT environment, this paper identifies what is still missing in the implemented DT to be compliant to their description in literature. Particular focuses of this paper are the degree of integration of the proposed DT with the control of the physical system, in particular with the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) when the production system is based on the Automation Pyramid, and the services offered from these environments, comparing them to the reference ones.This paper proposes also a practical implementation of a DT in a MES equipped assembly laboratory line of the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano. The application has been created to pose the basis to overcome the missing implementation aspects found in literature. In such a way, the developed DT paves the way for future research to close the loop between the MES and the DT taking into consideration the number of services that a DT could offer in a single environment.

Cloud IoT as a Crucial Enabler: a Survey and Taxonomy

Commonly, the technology of information scales by an order of magnitude and with high probability reinvents itself every five years or so. However, the long-standing dream has definitely become a reality today that saying you need merely a credit card to get on-demand instant accesses to a large pool of thousands, if not millions of computers founded in tens of data centers scattered across the globe.
 
 As a matter of fact, Cloud Computing is indeed a new radical paradigm shift that evolved out of utmost needs for hosting and delivering all the things electronically as well-defined services over the Internet. Its aim is not only to provide improved computerized services but also innovative ones to every user from ordinary-home end-users to professional workers.
 
 Another further long-held dream of computing that has recently emerged as a reality is the CloudIoT paradigm where the cloud-based application platforms are enhanced to generate smart decisions and usable intelligence based on Internet-connected semi-autonomous smart small sensors that can sense, interrupt, and interchange data between each other as well as with the same computing clouds.
 
 With the intention of reaching the right cloud computing vision, it is, however, insufficient to just track a set of research and development actions that address the major concerns without practical support from both industrial and research communities. Rather, there is a necessity to enact a series of insight development strategies and policies that not only ensure that the right issues are well-timed addressed, but also that the most appropriate actions are taken and accomplished.
 
 Additionally, one of the key points to consider in this paper is that this in-depth evaluation of using Cloud computing may find points lacking in the cloud environments that could open up new research opportunities to be further investigated or enable new speed-to-market scenarios.

An approach for scaling cloud resource management

Given its current development trajectory, the complexity of cloud computing ecosystems are evolving to where traditional resource management strategies will struggle to remain fit for purpose. These strategies have to cope with ever-increasing numbers of heterogeneous resources, a proliferation of new services, and a growing user-base with diverse and specialized requirements. This growth not only significantly increases the number of parameters needed to make good decisions, it increases the time needed to take these decisions. Consequently, traditional resource management systems are increasingly prone to poor decisions making. Devolving resources management decisions to the local environment of that resource can dramatically increase the speed of decisions making; moreover, the cost of gathering global information can thus be eliminated; saving communication costs. Experimental data, provided in this paper, illustrate that extant cloud deployments can be used as effective vehicles for devolved decision making. This finding strengthens the case for the proposed paradigm shift, since it does not require a change to the architecture of existing cloud systems. This shift would result in systems in which resources decide for themselves how best they can be used. This paper takes this idea to its logical conclusion and proposes a system for supporting self-managing resources in cloud environments. It introduces the concept of coalitions, consisting of collaborating resources, formed for the purpose of service delivery. It suggests the utility of restricting the interactions between the end-user and the cloud service provider to a well-defined services interface. It shows how clouds can be considered functionally, as engines for delivering an appropriate set of resources in response to service requests. And finally, since modern applications are increasingly constructed from sophisticated workflows of complex components, it shows how combinatorial auctions can be used to effectively deliver packages of resources to support those workflows.

A Service Composition using Hierarchical Model in Multiple Service Environment

Internet-of-Things (IoT) becomes one of the most promising future paradigms, which foresees enormous amounts of interoperable things and heterogeneous services. The goal of IoT is to enable all things connected and brings all kinds information and services to people. However, such a great deal of information may lead to cognitive overload or restrain in productivity of people. Thus, it is a necessity to build intelligent mechanisms to assist people in accessing the information or services they needed in a proactive manner. Most of previous related mechanisms are built on well-defined web services and lack of consideration of constrained resources. This paper suggests a services composition method by adapting a hierarchical model, which is a graph-based model composed of four layers: Context Layer, Event Layer, Service Layer and Device Layer. With a such multi-layer graph, service composition can be achieved by the iteration of layer by layer. Then, to evaluate the effectiveness of this proposed hierarchical model, a real-life emergency response dataset is applied and the experimental results are composed with the general probabilistic method and indicate that the proposed method is help for compositing multiple services while considering given context and constrained resources.

Web 2.0 services for collaborative spatial decision making

Spatial information is a powerful way to integrate data and knowledge in intuitive maps, enabling spatial patterns and relationships to be instantly visible. This paper describes a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) that supports web-based data exploration in spatial decisional processes. Based on a cloud environment, the SDSS is made up of specialised modules providing well-defined services. Mash-ups integrate data from different resources on the internet and provide the user with a flexible and easy-of-use interface. The paper focuses on Web 2.0 technology as a way for sharing geospatial data under the umbrella of collaborative decision making and it aims to make both a conceptual and a practical contribution. Conceptually, it leverages on web-based data integration as a power technology to increase broadly and self-adaptive management of data with high user involvement. Practically, it illustrates how this technology can be effectively deployed in a real estate decision-making scenario.

A Qualitative Characterization of Mentorship in Vascular Neurology (P07.227)

Objective: Our objective is to characterize mentorship in vascular neurology and provide recommendations to prepare future leaders. We assess the hypothesis that there is a consensus among neurologists regarding the importance of mentorship in vascular neurology and mechanisms for its enhancement. Background Vascular neurology is an evolving area of medicine that requires specialty-trained clinicians committed to the field. A conduit for this endeavor is mentorship. Many sources cite mentorship as an integral role in clinician development, but information specific to mentorship in vascular neurology is limited. Design/Methods: North American vascular neurologists were surveyed to assess mentorship. Email invitations to participate in an IRB approved, confidential, anonymous survey were sent to American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Vascular Neurology Diplomates and Canadian Stroke Consortium registered vascular neurologists. The survey included demographic, reflective, and satisfaction questions. Results: The response rates were 123/591 (21%) and 25/95 (26%) among American and Canadian respondents, respectively. All neurologists surveyed received mentorship in their careers, and 57% had served as mentors. Eighty percent (95%CI,72-85%) strongly agreed that mentorship is critical to the training of vascular neurologists. One-third (95%CI,22-41%) cited the opportunity to foster research skills and 23% (95%CI,15-32%) named clinical skill development as the most valuable aspects of mentorship. While 83% (95%CI,76-89%) expressed satisfaction with their mentorship experience, 92% (95%CI,83-96%) felt that the experience could have been enhanced. Sixty-nine percent (95%CI,57-78%) called for formalization of mentorship programs. The most frequently named recommendations for future mentorship experiences were a well-defined curriculum and career-planning services, 28% (95%CI,22-41%) and 13% (95%CI,15-33%), respectively. Conclusions: The allocation of protected time for clinical and research endeavors, as well as career advising are vital to successful mentorship experiences. As evidenced, there is a need for formalization (e.g. mentor-mentee pairing), in addition to developed curricula. Although the value of mentorship in vascular neurology is clear, a more formal analysis is needed. Supported by: Funding for this study was provided by Vladimir Hachinski9s Paul Morley Mentorship Award of the Canadian Stroke Network. Disclosure: Dr. Minzer has nothing to disclose. Dr. Miley has nothing to disclose. Dr. Hachinski has received personal compensation for activities with Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Servier, Uriach as a participant in Symposia.Dr. Hachinski has received personal compensation in an editorial capacity for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins for serving as Editor-in-Chief of the American Heart Association Journal STROKE. Dr. Kachroo has nothing to disclose.

End of the road for treatment-as-usual studies?

Using treatment as usual (TAU) in trials has obscured the repeated finding that assertive outreach has never reduced hospitalisation when compared with treatment by multidisciplinary teams (community mental health teams, CMHTs). Its use has delayed recognising that CMHTs are the more cost-effective, evidence-based approach. The term should be abandoned and trials should compare two equally well-defined services.

Towards the security and privacy analysis of patient portals

Clinical information systems (CIS) significantly influence the quality and efficiency of health care delivery. However, CIS are complex environments that integrate information technologies, human stakeholders, and patient-specific data. Given the sensitivity of patient data, federal regulations require healthcare providers to adopt policy, as well as technology, protections for patient data. Ad hoc system design and implementation of CIS can cause unforeseen and unintended privacy and security breaches. The introduction of model-based design techniques combined with the development of high-level modeling abstractions and analysis methods provide a mechanism to investigate these concerns by conceptually simplifying CIS without losing expressive power. This work introduces the Model-based Design Environment for Clinical Information Systems (MODECIS) - a graphical design environment that assists CIS architects in formalizing CIS systems as well-defined services. MODECIS leverages Service-Oriented Architectures to create realistic system models at an abstract level. By modeling CIS using abstractions, we enable the analysis of legacy architectures, as well as the design and simulation of, future CIS. We present the feasibility of MODECIS via modeling certain functions, such as the authentication process of the MyHealth@Vanderbilt patient portal.

‘Not in My City’: Local Governments and Homelessness Policies in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Region

To understand local government social welfare policies in large metropolitan areas, we need to pay attention to the processes by which amorphous social problems are translated into well-defined services amenable to local government structures of provision, and we need to place these processes within an interjurisdictional context that is more complex than a simple ‘city-suburb’ binary opposition. In this paper I explore the interjurisdictional allocation of responsibility for social welfare in a fragmented metropolitan region, through a case study of city responses to the suburbanisation of homelessness in Los Angeles County in the 1990s. The results of a 1991 survey of all eighty-five local governments in the county revealed wide variations in the extent to which cities acknowledged responsibility for dealing with homelessness, and in the forms of actions adopted by cities. Some city characteristics (population size, median household income, and charter city status) were significant factors affecting the level of action on homelessness. However, the variation in city action must also be understood as a product of the metropolitan context, where city officials develop welfare policies with close attention to the actions of neighbouring cities, and with a keen awareness of the opportunities for burden shifting and ‘beggar thy neighbour’ responses. Although the relative mobility of homeless people (both forced and voluntary) heightens the impact of policy disparities among cities, a similar scenario can be imagined for other social needs in a politically fragmented region.