scholarly journals Innowacyjność kluczem rozwoju firmy IBM

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 40-53
Author(s):  
Radosław Uliszak ◽  
Nina Grad
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Hard Disk Drives ◽  
Storage Media ◽  
The World ◽  
Market Areas ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Moment

Innovation seen as the development of new methods, tools, new approaches and improvement of the existing processes is generally synonymous with “young” and modern companies. Hardly anyone would expect after 100 years of a company’s existence that it is able to continually meet the highest standards of business and compete on the international market, especially in terms of innovation. An example of such a company is International Business Machines (IBM). The company was founded in 1911 and initially dealt with the production of various equipment: weights, meat slicers, or data storage media, such as punch cards and machines for them. The latter have become over time the most important activity of the corporation. At the turn of the 1960s, IBM introduced hard disk drives, developed the world’s first storage, and introduced to customers the software language Fortran, which is still in use. In 1969, IBM computers were used by NASA during the first man on the moon mission. In 1981, the company created the first personal computer IBM 5150 PC, which the weekly magazine “Time” dubbed “machine of the year”. Thanks to its innovations, regardless of the era, IBM has always been ahead of the reality in which it is located. Today IBM announced that in 2019 it will have a supercomputer, which should come close to matching the power of the human brain. At the moment, BlueGene already copies 4.5% of human brain activity. The activities of such a powerful company are not only associated with market developments. In the 1990s, the company began to focus on new market areas, in particular services. In November this year, IBM introduced the five innovations that over the next five years would significantly improve the quality of life of urban citizens around the world, as well as reduce potential hazards. Therefore, the vision of the company seems to be right – our customer’s success, innovation for us and the world. The purpose of this paper is to present innovative solutions implemented by IBM in terms of technology and services.

scholarly journals Smallpox eradication, laboratory visits, and a touch of tourism: travel notes of a Canadian scientist in Brazil

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 777-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Palmer ◽  
Gilberto Hochman ◽  
Danieli Arbex
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organisation ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
World Health ◽  
Eradication Programme ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
The World ◽  
Eradication Campaign ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
International Scientific Cooperation

The paper presents and discusses the travel notes diary of Canadian scientist Robert J. Wilson when he visited Brazil in April 1967 during the Smallpox Eradication Programme run by the World Health Organisation. Wilson's report makes it possible to reflect on the smallpox eradication campaign in Brazil; on the Canada-Brazil cooperation to improve the quality of the smallpox vaccine; on his assessment by of scientists and Brazilian laboratories; on the effects of intersections between scientific activity and social and cultural activities; on the role played by specialist communities of experts role in international scientific cooperation projects; and on a Canadian traveller's concepts and prejudices about Brazil at the end of the 1960s.

scholarly journals EPIDEMIOLOGIC ASPECTS IN PREVENTION OF THE NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION (COVID-19): LITERATURE REVIEW

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-176
Author(s):  
T.M. Butaev ◽  
◽  
A.S. Tsirikhova ◽  
D.V. Kabaloeva ◽  
D.O. Kudukhova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Clinical Course ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Resident Physicians ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The Moment

At the end of 2019 the mankind had to face a new coronavirus infection with higher virulence which resulted in its rapid spread all over the world and in an ultimate pandemic. Initially a new virus which causes COVID-19 was called 2019-nCoV but it soon acquired its well-known name, SARS-CoV-2. We can positively state that this new coronavirus infec- tion will remain in the history of world public healthcare as a disease that caused a collapse in rendering medical aid. Un- doubtedly, this new coronavirus infection has changed customary lifestyle of the overall world population.This review can be considered problematic in its essence and focuses on examining contemporary trends in the official epidemiologic situation in the world regarding the new coronavirus infection (SARS-CoV-2). Having analyzed several for- eign and domestic documents, the authors revealed a necessity to enhance levels and quality of COVID-19 epidemiologic diagnostics. There is a suggestion being considered at the moment on including additional clinical and diagnostic activities aimed at preventing further spread of the new coronavirus infection. We should note that data on COVID-19-related mortal- ity and morbidity are renewed every day and every hour. Given that, it seems rather difficult to keep in line with the latest trends in COVID-19 prevention and epidemiologic diagnostics. However, the authors made an attempt to possibly collect all the latest data on epidemiological peculiarities related to clinical course of the new coronavirus infection. The authors have a hope that this review will be useful for epidemiologists when they detect new cases of the diseases as well as for lecturers at medical higher educational establishments when they train students and resident physicians.

scholarly journals Electroencephalogram (EEG) Recording Protocol for Cognitive and Affective Human Neuroscience Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaclyn L. Farrens ◽  
Aaron M. Simmons ◽  
Steven J. Luck ◽  
Emily S. Kappenman
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Neuroscience Research ◽  
Eeg Data ◽  
Eeg Recordings ◽  
Brain Processing ◽  
Resolution Measure ◽  
Electroencephalogram Eeg

Abstract Electroencephalography (EEG) is one of the most widely used techniques to measure human brain activity. EEG recordings provide a direct, high temporal resolution measure of cortical activity from noninvasive scalp electrodes. However, the signals are small relative to the noise, and optimizing the quality of the recorded EEG data can significantly improve the ability to identify signatures of brain processing. This protocol provides a step-by-step guide to recording the EEG from human research participants using strategies optimized for producing the best quality EEG.

scholarly journals Electroencephalogram (EEG) Recording Protocol for Cognitive and Affective Human Neuroscience Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaclyn L. Farrens ◽  
Aaron M. Simmons ◽  
Steven J. Luck ◽  
Emily S. Kappenman
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
High Temporal Resolution ◽  
Neuroscience Research ◽  
Eeg Data ◽  
Eeg Recordings ◽  
Brain Processing ◽  
Resolution Measure ◽  
Electroencephalogram Eeg

Abstract Electroencephalography (EEG) is one of the most widely used techniques to measure human brain activity. EEG recordings provide a direct, high temporal resolution measure of cortical activity from noninvasive scalp electrodes. However, the signals are small relative to the noise, and optimizing the quality of the recorded EEG data can significantly improve the ability to identify signatures of brain processing. This protocol provides a step-by-step guide to recording the EEG from human research participants using strategies optimized for producing the best quality EEG.

STUDI LITERASI PENGEMBANGAN MANAJEMEN KLUB SEPAKBOLA DI INDONESIA

MODUS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Andrew ◽  
Ian Nurpatria Suryawan
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Integrated Management System ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
The World ◽  
Sport Industry ◽  
Organizational Problem ◽  
The Moment

Abstract Football is the most popular sport in the World and in Indonesia. However, it seems that at the moment many difculties and challenges occur in Indonesian sport industry that impede the development. Another problem that become serious issue is the dispute between Indonesian Football Association with the Indonesian Ministry of Youth and Sports. The issue grows since there was an organizational problem within Indonesian League clubs from Surabaya and Malang East Java Indonesia. Based on some similar event abroad, those kinds of issues should be resolved with an integrated management system within Indonesian Football Club. The main purpose of this literacy study is to improve the quality of football club management in Indonesian Football Clubs as an alternative to the development of tourism in Indonesia.Keywords: Football, Management, PSSI, Tourism.

Maintaining Identity

2030 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rutger van Santen ◽  
Djan Khoe ◽  
Bram Vermeer
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Story Line ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Machine Operator

Baroness Susan Greenfield’s origins are humbler than her title might suggest. Her father was a machine operator in an industrial neighbour-hood of London. In Britain, unlike many other countries, it is possible to earn a peerage through your own merits rather than pure heredity. Lady Greenfield is a leading world authority on the human brain. She is concerned that technology has invaded our lives so profoundly that it has begun to affect the way our brains operate and hence our very personalities. “People are longing for experiences rather than searching for meaning,” she says. “They live more in the moment and have less of a sense of the narrative of their lives—of continuity. They lack a sense of having a beginning, a middle, and an end. They have less of a feeling that they are developing an identity throughout their life with a continuing story line from childhood, youth, parenthood, to grandparenthood. The emphasis is more on process than content. You now have people who are much more ‘sensitive’ rather than ‘cognitive.’ ” Susan Greenfield identifies one of the causes of this development as the impressions our brains receive from a very early age. Modern life, she argues, with its hectic rhythm of visual impressions is very different from the past, in which she includes her own childhood in the 1950s and 1960s. It’s in our youth that our brains are shaped: They grow like mad during the first 2 years of life, developing a maze of connections. And in the years that follow, they remain extremely nimble, forming new connections rapidly and changing in response to our surroundings. It is very much the world around us during infancy, childhood, and early adolescence that determines the outcome of this stage of brain formation. The brain displays an immense degree of what Greenfield likes to call “plasticity” during this stage; connections are formed as and when they are needed. The foundations of Baroness Greenfield’s own personality were laid in a similar way during her youth.

scholarly journals A Review of the Optimisation of Photopolymer Materials for Holographic Data Storage

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinxin Guo ◽  
Michael R. Gleeson ◽  
John T. Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Data Storage ◽  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Holographic Data Storage ◽  
Recording Media ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Low Loss ◽  
Storage Media

Photopolymers are very interesting as optically sensitive recording media due to the fact that they are inexpensive, self-processing materials with the ability to capture low-loss, high-fidelity volume recordings of 3D illuminating patterns. We have prepared this paper in part in order to enable the recognition of outstanding issues, which limit in particular the data storage capacity in holographic data storage media. In an attempt to further develop the data storage capacity and quality of the information stored, that is, the material sensitivity and resolution, a deeper understanding of such materials in order to improve them has become ever more crucial. In this paper a brief review of the optimisation of photopolymer materials for holographic data storage (HDS) applications is described. The key contributions of each work examined and many of the suggestions made for the improvement of the different photopolymer material discussed are presented.

Suspension

How to Land ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 79-106
Author(s):  
Ann Cooper Albright
Keyword(s):  
Two Dimensional ◽  
The World ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Ways Of Being

This is a chapter about suspensions, about the moments in our lives when we can’t move, when we don’t know which way to turn. Suspensions slow us down enough to feel space enter time. Using our breath to find spaciousness attunes us to a heightened sense of three-dimensionality, including a critical recognition of the importance of thinking backwards as well as forwards. In lives filled with screen-based, two-dimensional interactions, this sense of amplitude can make a big difference in the quality of our being present in the moment. Moving from a discussion of improvisation to a meditation on breathing through the elusive quality of air and into a final discussion of dwelling, this chapter explores how suspensions can open new ways of being in the world. Attending to the breath can lead us into the under-charted territory of largely unseen but nonetheless deeply felt situations, including those of loss, memory, and grace.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Total Quality Management terhadap Kinerja Manajerial

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (02) ◽  
pp. 158-163
Author(s):  
Fitria Fitria
Keyword(s):  
Total Quality Management ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Business Organization ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Managerial Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Research Show

The era of globalization reach out to various aspects of life. Business organization first compete on a local level & national only. Where the moment is all companies competing around the world, therefore the company must make improvements continuously. By using TQM we can improve the quality of the company. Here we will look at the influence of managerial performance against TQM. TQM Does by manufactory companies while banking is still less that apply. In this research show that TQM and the performance at the production Management has significant influence. The research we conducted at BRI where located in Payakumbuh, Padang and Bukittinggi. 0.0 where smaller than 0.05 means there are influences between variabel.

Modern problems of medical care quality (review of literature)

10.12737/8114 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0 ◽  
Author(s):  
Орлова ◽  
A. Orlova
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Moment

High quality of medical care is the primary goal of a health system. At the moment it cann’t be considered high. The results of sociological surveys presented that quite a large proportion of patients isn’t satisfied with the care provided by medical assistance. The causes of this are: absence of funding for health care (and related problems of material and technical base, staffing, staff interest and other), as well as the absence of commonly agreed (and unified with the world) approaches to the definition criteria (indicators), means of verification and a unified system of quality assurance. The moral and ideological factors (destructive changes in the medical profession, the divergence of moral and professional principles, a dominance of the economic aspects of rela-tions, reduced social activity and responsibility) are important. In addition, managers of medical institutions are the following problems of theoretical and methodological nature: the need for a clear distinction between the concepts of "quality of care", "quality of medical services", "quality organization" (including accessibility, ethi-cal aspects, sanitary conditions, which significantly affect the level of subjective assessment). In the context of globalization and international cooperation, it is very important to bring domestic approaches to understanding, assessing, managing the quality of health care in the world.

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