scholarly journals Design And Build E-Therapy During The Pandemic Using An Android-Based User-Centred Design Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-193
Author(s):  
Feby Riwindi Silitonga ◽  
Ristya Febriani Br Karo Sekali ◽  
Stefania Gracella Simamora ◽  
Marlince NK Nababan
Keyword(s):  
Process Model ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
User Needs ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
Design Process Model ◽  
The University

Therapy is a treatment to restore health to people who are sick such as mental disorders, many factors make people's psychological disorders today, one of which is the corona virus which is being experienced by many Indonesian people and even the world which has a negative impact. When people are infected with the corona virus, many experience depression, and this also has a negative impact on students at the University. The purpose of this research is to develop an application that can reduce the anxiety of people affected by the corona virus and aims to relax the human brain. And not only for people affected by Covid but also for the community as a tool for self-reflection. This application is designed to meet the needs of users affected by the corona virus. To make products more accessible to users, User-centered design (UCD) is a design process model that prioritizes user needs following user needs. From some people who have been exposed to the corona virus, the research team tries to respond to applications that have been developed. From the results of this study, the authors can conclude that from several characteristics of existing therapy, Muslim motivation is the most popular type of therapy with a test rate of 88.5% while the lowest test rate is Christian motivation with 57%.

Fetomaternal Outcome of Pregnancy with COVID-19: An Observational Study in Tertiary Care Hospitals of Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1903-1906
Author(s):  
Nabila Khan ◽  
Zahra Wasim ◽  
Aesha Sadaf Rizwan ◽  
Afshan Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Tahir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Heart Defects ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
World Health ◽  
Observational Research ◽  
Military Hospital ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The World

Background: The new corona virus first appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has since spread around the world to other countries. The World Health Organization believes that this new CoV-19 epidemic is a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on January 30, 2020Worldwide.The mortality rate of this viral infection ranges from 2% in Pakistan to 14.4% in Italy. Lympopenia, elevated transminase, proteinuria, increased LDH, and C-reactive protein levels are all common laboratory findings in the early stages of the disease. Covid patients have experienced a variety of complications, including extreme pneumonia, ARDS, heart defects, sepsis and septic shock, and respiratory tract super infection. Methodology: This retrospective observational research study was carried out at the Gynecology Unit of MardanMedical Complex, Mardan and Combined Military Hospital, Risalpur for 06 months duration from April 2020 to September 2020. In a pre-constructed data collection form, biochemical and radiological parameters of medical history, test results, symptoms, pregnancy, and neonatal outcomes were noted. Patients treated in an outpatient setting were not included in the study. Results: There were 121 patients in total, with mean age of 27 having standard deviation ± 5, having range 19-40 years. 48.3% pregnant women reported their first pregnancy(primigravida). 51.3% of SARS-Cov-2 were in their 3rd trimester while 34.7% were in their 35-40 weeks of gestational age. Common complications are gestational hypertension (PIH) (16 cases), hypothyroidism (14 cases) and gestational diabetes (GDM) 9 cases. More than half (53%) of patients are asymptomatic. Common symptoms are cough (22%) and fever (11%). The incidence of multiple organ failure was 2% as shown in table 01. Lymphopenia was common (84%). A CT scan of 24 patients showed bilateral invasion. Conclusion: COVID-19 has a negative impact on the foetus, according to our results. Although pregnant women do not seem to be more vulnerable to COVID-19 complications than non-pregnant adults, previous research has suggested that pregnant women could be at higher risk for negative pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, foetal pain and respiration, symptoms, and LBW in a newborn baby. Keywords: Corona virus, COVID-19, Pregnancy, Outcome.

scholarly journals COVID-19: an Indian perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 2003
Author(s):  
Prahlad Kadambi
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Index Case ◽  
World Health ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
First Case ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University ◽  
Indian Perspective

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is currently spreading globally rapidly. The World Health Organization (WHO) named the virus as the 2019 novel corona virus (2019-nCoV) on January 7, 2020. On February 11th 2020, the illness associated was named as 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Subsequently, the WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. The first case of COVID-19 was reported in India on 30 January 2020 in Thrissur, Kerala. This was the index case in India who tested positive after coming for a vacation. This individual was a student of the University of Wuhan. Subsequent cases were reported in Kerala. Subsequently, the number of cases in India increased to 519 as on 24th March 2020 with mortality in 7 patients as on 22nd March 2020 and 10 patients on 24th March 2020.

scholarly journals Engineering Design Contests and Courses: a Model-Based Taxonomy

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason A. Foster ◽  
Patricia K. Sheridan
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Initial Development ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Design Process Model ◽  
Faculty Time ◽  
The University

Engineering faculty develop both design courses and design contests and competitions. These design experiences target and involve a wide variety of participants including students, faculty members, and members of the engineering profession. Given constraints on faculty time and resources, a common taxonomy and set of archetypes has the potential to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the design of these experiences. Such a taxonomy can also prompt discussion among engineering design educators regarding their design pedagogy. This paper presents the initial development of such a taxonomy by modeling design experiences using an engineering design process model. Each stage of the design process model has been augmented with a set of common design decisions found in such experiences at the University of Toronto. Although preliminary, this augmented model shows promise as the foundation of both a taxonomy of design experiences and a handbook of design experience design.

scholarly journals Process models: plans, predictions, proclamations or prophecies?

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
Martin Stacey ◽  
Claudia Eckert ◽  
Rafaela Hillerbrand
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Industrial Practice ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
Design Process Model

Abstract Design process models have a complex and changing relationship to the processes they model, and mean different things to different people in different situations. Participants in design processes need to understand each other’s perspectives and agree on what the models mean. The paper draws on philosophy of science to argue that understanding a design process model can be seen as an imagination game governed by agreed rules, to envisage what would be true about the world if the model were correct. The rules depend on the syntax and content of the model, on the task the model is used for, and on what the users see the model as being. The paper outlines twelve alternative conceptualizations of design process models—frames, pathways, positions, proclamations, projections, predictions, propositions, prophecies, requests, demands, proposals, promises—and discusses when they fit situations that stakeholders in design processes can be in. Articulating how process models are conceptualised can both help to understand how process management works and help to resolve communication problems in industrial practice.

scholarly journals Roadmap of shifting to online education during COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-197
Author(s):  
Ozcan Asilkan ◽  
Elton Domnori
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The World ◽  
Keywords Education ◽  
The University

After the widespread of the corona virus disease 2019 corona virus pandemic, most educational institutions stopped conventional in-class teaching all over the world. The Metropolitan University of Tirana (UMT) in Albania took a rapid decision for shifting to online education by estimating that the pandemic might continue longer than expected, which could create difficulties to gain the time lost. Considering these circumstances, UMT immediately formed a specialised team to prepare the roadmap for starting online education. This team evaluated the existing online platforms and prepared a guideline to be followed for a smooth shift. As a consequence, the university shifted to online education with more than 80% of the students’ attendance from the earliest days. This study presents the road map that was developed rapidly and applied effectively for a quick but smooth shift to online education.   Keywords: Education, shift to online education, coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, Albania.

scholarly journals The impact of neglecting user-centered information design principles when delivering online information

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-177
Author(s):  
Maria dos Santos Lonsdale ◽  
David J. Lonsdale ◽  
Hye-Won Lim
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Information Design ◽  
Online Information ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Design Process Model ◽  
Lasting Impression ◽  
The Impact ◽  
User Centered

Abstract Information design principles are overlooked in cyber security awareness websites. An Information Design Process Model has been devised to help frame and interpret how online information is processed and the role information design principles play in facilitating that processing. Two websites have been compared, and results show significant differences in terms of performance, behavior and perception. The results also show that in situations where serious information is at stake, such as cyber security, a more accessible design does not seem to be sufficient to project a sense of trust and security among users. All these findings have led to original insights regarding the design of online information in terms of lasting impression and user-centered design approaches.

Outcomes: Promoting Reflective Practice Using Performance Indicator Questionnaires

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Pat McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Education ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Clinical Practicum ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
Traditional Performance ◽  
The University

This article details the process of self-reflection applied to the use of traditional performance indicator questionnaires. The study followed eight speech-language pathology graduate students enrolled in clinical practicum in the university, school, and healthcare settings over a period of two semesters. Results indicated when reflection was focused on students' own clinical skills, modifications to practice were implemented. Results further concluded self-assessment using performance indicators paired with written reflections can be a viable form of instruction in clinical education.

The Center for International Biomedical Communications Research

1966 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 142-146
Author(s):  
A. Kent ◽  
P. J. Vinken
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
English Language ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Excerpta Medica Foundation

A joint center has been established by the University of Pittsburgh and the Excerpta Medica Foundation. The basic objective of the Center is to seek ways in which the health sciences community may achieve increasingly convenient and economical access to scientific findings. The research center will make use of facilities and resources of both participating institutions. Cooperating from the University of Pittsburgh will be the School of Medicine, the Computation and Data Processing Center, and the Knowledge Availability Systems (KAS) Center. The KAS Center is an interdisciplinary organization engaging in research, operations, and teaching in the information sciences.Excerpta Medica Foundation, which is the largest international medical abstracting service in the world, with offices in Amsterdam, New York, London, Milan, Tokyo and Buenos Aires, will draw on its permanent medical staff of 54 specialists in charge of the 35 abstracting journals and other reference works prepared and published by the Foundation, the 700 eminent clinicians and researchers represented on its International Editorial Boards, and the 6,000 physicians who participate in its abstracting programs throughout the world. Excerpta Medica will also make available to the Center its long experience in the field, as well as its extensive resources of medical information accumulated during the Foundation’s twenty years of existence. These consist of over 1,300,000 English-language _abstract of the world’s biomedical literature, indexes to its abstracting journals, and the microfilm library in which complete original texts of all the 3,000 primary biomedical journals, monitored by Excerpta Medica in Amsterdam are stored since 1960.The objectives of the program of the combined Center include: (1) establishing a firm base of user relevance data; (2) developing improved vocabulary control mechanisms; (3) developing means of determining confidence limits of vocabulary control mechanisms in terms of user relevance data; 4. developing and field testing of new or improved media for providing medical literature to users; 5. developing methods for determining the relationship between learning and relevance in medical information storage and retrieval systems’; and (6) exploring automatic methods for retrospective searching of the specialized indexes of Excerpta Medica.The priority projects to be undertaken by the Center are (1) the investigation of the information needs of medical scientists, and (2) the development of a highly detailed Master List of Biomedical Indexing Terms. Excerpta Medica has already been at work on the latter project for several years.

Coronavirus diseases and pregnancy: COVID-19,SARS, and MERS

2020 ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Mobina Fathi ◽  
Kimia Vakili ◽  
Niloofar Deravi
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Intrauterine Growth Retardation ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
World Health ◽  
Wuhan City ◽  
Intrauterine Growth ◽  
Exponential Increase ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Respiratory Droplets

Around the end of December 2019, a new beta-coronavirus from Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China began to spread rapidly. The new virus, called SARS-CoV-2, which could be transmitted through respiratory droplets, had a range of mild to severe symptoms, from simple cold in some cases to death in others. The disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 was named COVID-19 by WHO and has so far killed more people than SARS and MERS. Following the widespread global outbreak of COVID-19, with more than 132758 confirmed cases and 4955 deaths worldwide, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic disease in January 2020. Earlier studies on viral pneumonia epidemics has shown that pregnant women are at greater risk than others. During pregnancy, the pregnant woman is more prone to infectious diseases. Research on both SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, which are pathologically similar to SARS-CoV-2, has shown that being infected with these viruses during pregnancy increases the risk of maternal death, stillbirth, intrauterine growth retardation and, preterm delivery. With the exponential increase in cases of COVID-19 throughout the world, there is a need to understand the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the health of pregnant women, through extrapolation of earlier studies that have been conducted on pregnant women infected with SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV. There is an urgent need to understand the chance of vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from mother to fetus and the possibility of the virus crossing the placental barrier. Additionally, since some viral diseases and antiviral drugs may have a negative impact on the mother and fetus, in which case, pregnant women need special attention for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of COVID-19.

The dilemmas of the Israeli reality and the choice of war

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Bashir Hadi Abdul Razak
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Arab World ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
World Today ◽  
The World ◽  
Arab Israeli Conflict ◽  
Internal And External Factors

The Arab-Israeli conflict is among the longest and most complex conflicts in the world today, a conflict that transcends borders or a difference of influence. It is a struggle for existence in every sense. Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, one of the regional forces whose political movement is determined by the Arab world has become the result of the internal and external factors and changes that affect it. This entity is hostile to the Arabs, Which would have a negative impact on the regional strategic situation.

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