The power of parent attitudes: Examination of parent attitudes toward traditional and emerging technology

The United Arab Emirates is a smallish Arabic/Islamic country about the size of Maine located at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Though currently oil dependent, the country is moving rapidly from a petrocarbon to a people-based economy. As that economy modernizes and diversifies, the country’s underlying social ecology is being buffeted. The most significant of the winds of change that are blowing include a compulsory, free K-12 education system; an economy shifting from extractive to knowledge-based resources; and movement from the almost mythic Bedouin-inspired lifestyle to that of a sedentary highly urbanized society. Led by resource-rich Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the federal government has invested heavily in tourism, aviation, re-export commerce, free trade zones, and telecommunications. The Emirate of Dubai, in particular, also has invested billions of dirhams in high technology. The great dream is that educated and trained Emiratis will replace the thousands of foreign professionals now running the newly emerging technology and knowledge-driven economy.

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E-Learning as an Emerging Technology in India

i-manager’s Journal of Educational Technology ◽

10.26634/jet.7.1.1187 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 52-61

Author(s):

Pooja Grover ◽

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Neha Gupta ◽

Keyword(s):

Emerging Technology ◽

E Learning

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Ozone O3 An Emerging Technology in the Food Industry

10.29011/2575-7091.100124 ◽

2020 ◽

Keyword(s):

Food Industry ◽

Emerging Technology

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An Emerging Technology Report on Computational Toys in Early Childhood

Technology Knowledge and Learning ◽

10.1007/s10758-019-09423-8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 213-224 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Megan Hamilton ◽

Jody Clarke-Midura ◽

Jessica F. Shumway ◽

Victor R. Lee

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Emerging Technology

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Emerging Technology for a Green, Sustainable Energy Promising Materials for Hydrogen Storage, from Nanotubes to Graphene—A Review

Materials ◽

10.3390/ma14102499 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (10) ◽

pp. 2499

Author(s):

Krzysztof Jastrzębski ◽

Piotr Kula

Keyword(s):

Energy Source ◽

Hydrogen Storage ◽

Mobile Applications ◽

Emerging Technology ◽

Green Energy ◽

Point Of View ◽

Energy Industry ◽

Volumetric Density ◽

Potential Use ◽

Carbon Based

The energetic and climate crises should pose a challenge for scientists in finding solutions in the field of renewable, green energy sources. Throughout more than two decades, the search for new opportunities in the energy industry made it possible to observe the potential use of hydrogen as an energy source. One of the greatest challenges faced by scientists for the sake of its use as an energy source is designing safe, usable, reliable, and effective forms of hydrogen storage. Moreover, the manner in which hydrogen is to be stored is closely dependent on the potential use of this source of green energy. In stationary use, the aim is to achieve high volumetric density of the container. However, from the point of view of mobile applications, an extremely important aspect is the storage of hydrogen, using lightweight tanks of relatively high density. That is why, a focus of scientists has been put on the use of carbon-based materials and graphene as a perspective solution in the field of H2 storage. This review focuses on the comparison of different methods for hydrogen storage, mainly based on the carbon-based materials and focuses on efficiently using graphene and its different forms to serve a purpose in the future H2-based economy.

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Three-dimensional(3D) printing in forensic science–An emerging technology in India

Annals of 3D Printed Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.stlm.2021.100006 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 100006

Author(s):

Gargi Jani ◽

Abraham Johnson ◽

Jeidson Marques ◽

Ademir Franco

Keyword(s):

3D Printing ◽

Forensic Science ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Emerging Technology

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Parent and Clinician Views of Managing Children with Symptoms of a Lower Respiratory Tract Infection and Their Influence upon Decisions to Take Part in a Placebo-Controlled Randomised Control Trial

Antibiotics ◽

10.3390/antibiotics10040356 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 356

Author(s):

Catherine J. Woods ◽

Zoe Morrice ◽

Nick A. Francis ◽

Paul Little ◽

Theo Verheij ◽

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Keyword(s):

Respiratory Tract ◽

Lower Respiratory Tract ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Randomised Control Trial ◽

Antibiotic Prescribing ◽

Parent Attitudes ◽

Telephone Interviews ◽

Tract Infections ◽

Interview Studies ◽

Safety Netting

Children presenting with uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) commonly receive antibiotics despite public campaigns on antibiotic resistance. Qualitative interview studies were nested in a placebo-controlled trial of amoxicillin for LRTI in children. Thirty semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with sixteen parents and fourteen clinicians to explore views of management and decisions to participate in the trial. All interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. Parents found it difficult to interpret symptoms and signs, and commonly used the type of cough (based on sound) to judge severity, highlighting the importance of better information to support parents. Provision of a clinical examination and reassurance regarding illness severity were key motivations for consulting. Many parents now acknowledge that antibiotics should only be used when ‘necessary’, and clinicians reported noticing a shift in parent attitudes with less demand for antibiotics and greater satisfaction with clinical assessment, reassurance and advice. Decisions to take part in the trial were influenced by the perceived risks associated with allocation to a placebo, and concerns about unnecessary use of antibiotics. Clear communication about self-management and safety-netting were identified as important when implementing ‘no antibiotic’ prescribing strategies to reassure parents and to support prescribing decisions.

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CioSy: A Collaborative Blockchain-Based Insurance System

Electronics ◽

10.3390/electronics10111343 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. 1343

Author(s):

Faiza Loukil ◽

Khouloud Boukadi ◽

Rasheed Hussain ◽

Mourad Abed

Keyword(s):

Data Storage ◽

Insurance Industry ◽

Emerging Technology ◽

Third Party ◽

Insurance Companies ◽

Smart Contracts ◽

Insurance Policy ◽

Insurance System ◽

Advanced Technologies ◽

Multiple Challenges

The insurance industry is heavily dependent on several processes executed among multiple entities, such as insurer, insured, and third-party services. The increasingly competitive environment is pushing insurance companies to use advanced technologies to address multiple challenges, namely lack of trust, lack of transparency, and economic instability. To this end, blockchain is used as an emerging technology that enables transparent and secure data storage and transmission. In this paper, we propose CioSy, a collaborative blockchain-based insurance system for monitoring and processing the insurance transactions. To the best of our knowledge, the existing approaches do not consider collaborative insurance to achieve an automated, transparent, and tamper-proof solution. CioSy aims at automating the insurance policy processing, claim handling, and payment using smart contracts. For validation purposes, an experimental prototype is developed on Ethereum blockchain. Our experimental results show that the proposed approach is both feasible and economical in terms of time and cost.

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