Office automation in the campus environment---the user services role

A neglected yet increasing student population in higher education at the threshold of the 21st Century, Latina college and university students face distinct challenged and barriers to participation. This manuscript explores various Latina student issues - including "labeling," barriers, and factors contributing to success - and examines effective strategies for student and academic affairs administrators to support Latina success in higher education (ie, financial aid, academic support, social/cultural support, and campus environment).

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Athletes Drive Distinctive Trends of COVID-19 Infection in a College Campus Environment

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18147689 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (14) ◽

pp. 7689

Author(s):

Austin T. Hertel ◽

Madison M. Heeter ◽

Olivia M. Wirfel ◽

Mara J. Bestram ◽

Steven A. Mauro

Keyword(s):

Risk Group ◽

Temporal Trends ◽

Rapid Identification ◽

College Campus ◽

Surveillance Program ◽

Institutions Of Higher Education ◽

Rt Pcr ◽

Campus Environment ◽

Incidence Risk ◽

Academic Year

The COVID-19 pandemic forced most institutions of higher education to offer instruction and activities offsite, impacting millions of people. As universities consider resuming normal operations on campus, evidence-based guidance is needed to enhance safety protocols to reduce the spread of infectious disease in their campus environments. During the 2020/2021 academic year, Gannon University in Erie, PA, USA, was able to maintain most of its operations on campus. Part of Gannon’s disease mitigation strategy involved the development of a novel in-house, real-time RT-PCR-based surveillance program, which tested 23,227 samples to monitor the presence of COVID-19 on campus. Temporal trends of COVID-19 infection at Gannon were distinct from statewide data. A significant portion of this variance involved student athletes and associated staff, which identified as a higher incidence risk group compared with non-athletes. Rapid identification of athlete driven outbreaks allowed for swift action to limit the spread of COVID-19 among teammates and to the rest of the campus community. This allowed for successful completion of instruction and a modified season for all sports at Gannon. Our findings provide insights that could prove useful to the thousands of institutions seeking to resume a more traditional presence on campus.

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Office automation issues viewed from a multi-perspective systems-based framework

Human Systems Management ◽

10.3233/hsm-2001-20203 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 95-103

Author(s):

D. Sculli ◽

J.K.K. Ho

Keyword(s):

Electronic Commerce ◽

Systems Thinking ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Office Automation ◽

Office Environment ◽

Automation Technology

Advances in office automation technology and electronic commerce are expected to transform the present office environment. This transformation will not be gradual and smooth, but it is expected to raise many technical, behavioural, and even ethical issues. This paper presents a multi-perspective systems-based framework developed from the general concepts of systems thinking. The framework is used to examine and explore issues related to office automation. A case example is presented to demonstrate the application of the framework.

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Online Local Path Planning on the Campus Environment for Autonomous Driving Considering Road Constraints and Multiple Obstacles

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11093909 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 3909

Author(s):

Changhyeon Park ◽

Seok-Cheol Kee

Keyword(s):

Path Planning ◽

Driving Simulator ◽

Autonomous Driving ◽

Campus Environment ◽

Vehicle Localization ◽

Time Operation ◽

National University ◽

Planning Algorithm ◽

Path Planning Algorithm ◽

Multiple Obstacles

In this paper, an urban-based path planning algorithm that considered multiple obstacles and road constraints in a university campus environment with an autonomous micro electric vehicle (micro-EV) is studied. Typical path planning algorithms, such as A*, particle swarm optimization (PSO), and rapidly exploring random tree* (RRT*), take a single arrival point, resulting in a lane departure situation on the high curved roads. Further, these could not consider urban-constraints to set collision-free obstacles. These problems cause dangerous obstacle collisions. Additionally, for drive stability, real-time operation should be guaranteed. Therefore, an urban-based online path planning algorithm, which is robust in terms of a curved-path with multiple obstacles, is proposed. The algorithm is constructed using two methods, A* and an artificial potential field (APF). To validate and evaluate the performance in a campus environment, autonomous driving systems, such as vehicle localization, object recognition, vehicle control, are implemented in the micro-EV. Moreover, to confirm the algorithm stability in the complex campus environment, hazard scenarios that complex obstacles can cause are constructed. These are implemented in the form of a delivery service using an autonomous driving simulator, which mimics the Chungbuk National University (CBNU) campus.

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Office automation in the executive suite

10.1145/1500518.1500611 ◽

1980 ◽

Author(s):

James Carlisle

Keyword(s):

Office Automation ◽

Executive Suite

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A Brief Analysis on the Construction of Banking Office Automation System

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.225-226.743 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 225-226 ◽

pp. 743-746

Author(s):

Zhen Li ◽

Yan Fang Zhao ◽

Min Li

Keyword(s):

High Speed ◽

Banking Industry ◽

Office Automation ◽

Automation System ◽

Management Level ◽

Currency Exchange ◽

Office Automation System ◽

Economic Construction ◽

Working Efficiency ◽

Advanced Computer

As one of the most important parts of the financial organizations nowadays, banking industry plays an important role in not just the area of high-speed operation of the sociaty’s economy but also in the area of currency exchange. The Wave of Information Technology, which has caused a swift-development of the whole world’s economy, brings about both opportunity and challengs never arised to the banking industry. The sociaty, as it is becoming more intellectual and automatic, has post a harder demand for the working efficiency of the banking industry. Therefore, the banking industry must enhance its construction of informationization and automation in order to strengthern its competitiveness as well as the economic construction of service sociaty. Banking office automation will improve the working efficiency along with modernized management level in the light of advanced computer technology.

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