scholarly journals You Have a New Super Power: Ethics of oocyte Cryopreservation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Mohammadi ◽  
Silvia Martinez ◽  
Daniel Aranda
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ethical Analysis ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Oocyte Cryopreservation ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

This chapter will be an ethical analysis on challenging situations surrounding oocyte cryopreservation treatment in young healthy women. There has been always a complicated interaction between technology and changing societal values. This ethical discussion is not on whether or not oocyte cryopreservation in itself is ethically justifiable. Through a comprehensive literature review, this chapter discusses some ethical aspects that have emerged since oocyte cryopreservation was applied for the first time. Through a practical approach, this chapter address ethical uncertainties presenting case studies, ethical questions and terms, existing arguments in favor and against oocyte cryopreservation; and examine the individual patient’s beliefs, perception and opinions.

Information Systems Prototyping in Practice

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Beynon-Davies ◽  
Douglas Tudhope ◽  
Hugh Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Is Development ◽  
Current Experience

This paper describes a study of the use of prototyping approaches in information systems (IS) development. It reports a comprehensive literature review of prototyping from which we developed a taxonomy of prototyping practice. This analysis guided an empirical study which has collected data on IS practitioners’ formulations of the current experience of prototyping in UK IS development organizations. These formulations are compared with data collected in a number of case studies of prototyping projects.

scholarly journals Extended Reality in Spatial Sciences: A Review of Research Challenges and Future Directions

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 439
Author(s):  
Arzu Çöltekin ◽  
Ian Lochhead ◽  
Marguerite Madden ◽  
Sidonie Christophe ◽  
Alexandre Devaux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Technology Design ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review

This manuscript identifies and documents unsolved problems and research challenges in the extended reality (XR) domain (i.e., virtual (VR), augmented (AR), and mixed reality (MR)). The manuscript is structured to include technology, design, and human factor perspectives. The text is visualization/display-focused, that is, other modalities such as audio, haptic, smell, and touch, while important for XR, are beyond the scope of this paper. We further narrow our focus to mainly geospatial research, with necessary deviations to other domains where these technologies are widely researched. The main objective of the study is to provide an overview of broader research challenges and directions in XR, especially in spatial sciences. Aside from the research challenges identified based on a comprehensive literature review, we provide case studies with original results from our own studies in each section as examples to demonstrate the relevance of the challenges in the current research. We believe that this paper will be of relevance to anyone who has scientific interest in extended reality, and/or uses these systems in their research.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in e-Business

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review

This paper argues that a combination of entrepreneurship and innovation is a crucial factor for the long-term sustainability of e-commerce and e-businesses. Entrepreneurship and innovation are positively related to each other and interact to help an organization to flourish. The study takes an integrative approach to exploring the synergies between entrepreneurship and innovation and to analysing the factors that foster an interaction between the two. Case studies of entrepreneurial and innovative dot.com companies were conducted to complement a comprehensive literature review of entrepreneurship and innovation. This empirical study contributes to a better understanding of the existing theories and practices of entrepreneurship and innovation in organizations.

Entrepreneurship and Innovation in E-Business

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Dot Com

This chapter argues that a combination of entrepreneurship and innovation is a crucial factor to the long-term sustainability of e-commerce and e-businesses. Entrepreneurship and innovation are positively related to each other and interact to help an organisation to flourish. The chapter takes an integrative approach to exploring the synergies between entrepreneurship and innovation and to analysing the factors that foster an interaction between the two. Case studies of entrepreneurial and innovative dot-com companies were conducted to complement a comprehensive literature review of entrepreneurship and innovation. This empirical study contributes to a better understanding of the existing theories and practices of entrepreneurship and innovation in organisations.

scholarly journals EAFP

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 223-241
Author(s):  
Nedim Dedić
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Functional Integration ◽  
Fusion Process ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Knowledge Gap ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is well researched and well-developed concept, and even a two decades ago there were a plenty of frameworks in this field. However, the functional integration of EA at operational and tactical levels in organisations is identified as one of the biggest challenges faced by many Enterprise Architects today. To overcome this challenge, a comprehensive literature review on EA is conducted, which resulted with the identification of the knowledge gap. To overcome this gap, Enterprise Architecture Fusion Process (EAFP), a novel practical approach that demonstrates the capability of integrating EA activities into operational and tactical activities in respective organisation is developed and presented in this paper.

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship as a Form of Social Responsibility in Bulgaria

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
Daniela Ilieva-Koleva ◽  
Julia Dobreva
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Business Climate ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Social entrepreneurship is becoming a popular form of social responsibility and a way to solve a variety of urgent social problems. In order for a society to boost social entrepreneurship it needs a specific environment where such ideas can emerge and develop into an active business activity. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive literature review of the terms social responsibility and social entrepreneurship and to examine the current social entrepreneurship activities in Bulgaria. The analysis highlights the importance of social entrepreneurial ideas for improving the business climate in the country. A number of case studies are discussed to provide evidence of particular entrepreneurial activities which have successfully solved a number of social problems.

scholarly journals The Sociology of Prayer: Dimensions and Mechanisms

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Paul Froese ◽  
Rory Jones
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Social Outcomes ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Cultures ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Private Prayer

The sociology of prayer has a long history and routinely stresses the centrality of prayer to religious belief and ritual solidarity. Still, we have struggled to clearly define the parameters of prayer and the various components of this ubiquitous practice. Drawing from a comprehensive literature review of prayer research, we propose that there are four conceptually distinct dimensions of the private prayer experience which vary across religious cultures and traditions; they are (1) the quantity of prayer, (2) the style of prayer, (3) the purpose of prayer, and (4) prayer targets. Our proposed measures of these dimensions offer researchers a framework to better theorize and investigate the social mechanisms which produce variation in prayer as well as the individual and social outcomes of prayer. In particular, we discuss how each prayer dimension fits within specific theoretical framings to better test the extent to which the emotional, rational, and behavioral elements matter to prayer outcomes.

Interagency Collaboration: Driving and Restraining Forces

1982 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 395-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Wayne Johnson ◽  
John A. McLaughlin ◽  
Margaret Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Interagency Collaboration ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Information Base ◽  
Individual Needs ◽  
Training Strategies ◽  
The Individual

An information base on interagency collaboration which can be used to direct the development of training strategies for persons involved in the design or operation of interagency endeavors is presented. Interagency collaboration is defined as a process in which two or more agencies integrate their resources to provide services to meet the individual needs of handicapped learners. Many key factors are associated with the success of interagency agreements, the most important being the degree to which people associated with the program can work together. The vehicles used to generate the information base were literature review, a working conference, and five case studies.

scholarly journals Organic matter parameters in WWTP – a critical review and recommendations for application in activated sludge modelling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Ahnert ◽  
Thomas Schalk ◽  
Heike Brückner ◽  
Johannes Effenberger ◽  
Volker Kuehn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Activated Sludge ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Composition Data ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Activated Sludge Models

Abstract This paper includes a comprehensive literature review of sludge composition data from wastewater treatment plants. 722 data sets from 249 sources were used to establish typical ratios between COD and solids-based parameters and to verify rule-of-thumb values, respectively. Confirmation of these typical ratios can also be accomplished by using biochemical composition data. It is shown that a correlation between data from proteins, lipids and carbohydrates analysis can be related to COD/VSS ratios. Finally, using the findings from the literature review, the organic and inorganic conversion factors of COD fractions in activated sludge models are adjusted to solids-based parameters. It was shown that with the adjustments of the factors and a partition of the particulate inert fraction into a fraction assigned to the influent and a fraction assigned to the endogenous products, a better agreement with the ratios of COD/VSS in the individual sludge streams can be established.

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