scholarly journals Digital Neuropsychological Assessment: New Technology for Measuring Subtle Neuropsychological Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
David J. Libon ◽  
Ganesh Baliga ◽  
Rod Swenson ◽  
Rhoda Au
Keyword(s):  
Neuropsychological Assessment ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Early Identification ◽  
Neuropsychological Tests ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Assessment ◽  
Neurological Illness ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Standard Paper ◽  
Identification Of Persons

Technology has transformed the science and practice of medicine. In this special mini-forum, data using digital neuropsychological technology are reported. All of these papers demonstrate how coupling digital technology with standard paper and pencil neuropsychological tests are able to extract behavior not otherwise obtainable. As digital assessment methods mature, early identification of persons with emergent neurodegenerative and other neurological illness may be possible.

Digital Technology in Visceral Medicine: An Overview in Outpatient Care in Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Axel Naumann ◽  
Ulrich Tappe ◽  
Andreas Teufel
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Medical Progress ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Adenoma Detection ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Medical Histories ◽  
Administrative Tasks

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Digital technology has become an integral part of healthcare and will revolutionize the practice of medicine. Although previously the administrative tasks were captured by digital technologies, now the communication channels with the patients are also being focused. For example, taking medical histories is now made possible by this new technology, information and explanatory forms can be sent digitally, and even face-to-face consultations are increasingly made possible by video consultations. Especially in the COVID pandemic, this form of contactless encounter has become a valuable enrichment of medical care. But also telemedical tasks such as teleconsultation or artificial intelligence in the context of adenoma detection are techniques that are conquering outpatient and inpatient visceral medical care. <b><i>Summary:</i></b> This article gives an overview of digital communication and possible uses of digital technologies in medical practices in Germany. <b><i>Key Message:</i></b> Medicine is renewing itself through digital techniques. The pace of change is rapid and unstoppable. Today’s medical progress is no longer conceivable without these techniques.

Neuropsychological Assessment after Lead Poisoning without Encephalopathy

1982 ◽  
Vol 54 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1283-1288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrietta K. Sachs ◽  
Vita Krall ◽  
Mary Ann Drayton
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Neuropsychological Assessment ◽  
Lead Poisoning ◽  
Neuropsychological Tests

100 subjects who were lead poisoned in early childhood and treated before the onset of encephalopathy were given neuropsychological tests, along with 28 unaffected siblings. No difference was found in the results for the two cohorts on the battery of tests administered.

scholarly journals Before and beyond trust: reliance in medical AI

2021 ◽  
pp. medethics-2020-107095
Author(s):  
Charalampia (Xaroula) Kerasidou ◽  
Angeliki Kerasidou ◽  
Monika Buscher ◽  
Stephen Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Practice Of Medicine

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing healthcare and the practice of medicine as data-driven science and machine-learning technologies, in particular, are contributing to a variety of medical and clinical tasks. Such advancements have also raised many questions, especially about public trust. As a response to these concerns there has been a concentrated effort from public bodies, policy-makers and technology companies leading the way in AI to address what is identified as a "public trust deficit". This paper argues that a focus on trust as the basis upon which a relationship between this new technology and the public is built is, at best, ineffective, at worst, inappropriate or even dangerous, as it diverts attention from what is actually needed to actively warrant trust. Instead of agonising about how to facilitate trust, a type of relationship which can leave those trusting vulnerable and exposed, we argue that efforts should be focused on the difficult and dynamic process of ensuring reliance underwritten by strong legal and regulatory frameworks. From there, trust could emerge but not merely as a means to an end. Instead, as something to work in practice towards; that is, the deserved result of an ongoing ethical relationship where there is the appropriate, enforceable and reliable regulatory infrastructure in place for problems, challenges and power asymmetries to be continuously accounted for and appropriately redressed.

Histories of Technology Culture Manifestos

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-84
Author(s):  
Ellen K. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Collaborative Conversation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Invisible Labour ◽  
Cultural Oppression

Abstract Taking impetus from a collaborative conversation about writing a feminist repair manifesto, this article is focused on examining radical feminist manifestos, new technology manifestos, and their intersecting themes and influence upon cyberfeminist manifestos. Its theoretical underpinnings include histories of repair and maintenance and the manifesto as technological form. As a practice, repair and theorisations of repair regarding technology take into account invisible labour and create a relationship of care not only within communities, but in relation to everyday technologies. Since this work to write a feminist fixers’ manifesto was inspired by the iFixit Repair Manifesto, the NYC Fixers Collective manifesto, as well as manifestos from radical feminist technology movements, it seemed appropriate to consider and critically engage the function of manifestos in these various maker and digital technology communities, as well as the history of radical feminist manifestos in response to cultural oppression. By looking more deeply at specific historical instances and their function, I aim to uncover the importance of such artefacts to give voice to alternative narratives and practices, to subvert systemic oppressions while at other times reproducing them in their form. I argue that there is power in iterating and proliferating manifestos with a critical stance and work to establish the knowledge-producing and world-making potentials of manifesto writing.

Aplicativos Educacionais para Smartphone e sua Integração Com o Ensino de Química

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 398
Author(s):  
Marcella Cristyanne Comar Gresczysczyn ◽  
Paulo Sérgio de Camargo Filho ◽  
Eduardo Lemes Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Teaching Chemistry ◽  
Semiotic Representations ◽  
Education Improvement ◽  
Google Play

A tecnologia digital é uma grande promessa para o ensino de Química na escola, acredita-se que a implementação dessas tecnologias produz melhoria na educação. No entanto, pouco se sabe sobre a articulação coordenada dos aplicativos para smartphone propostos para este fim e as demais representações semióticas tradicionais da Ciência e efeitos sobre a aprendizagem dos alunos. É importante acrescentar que a escola ainda não conseguiu integrar todas as mudanças da sociedade com a rápida evolução das tecnologias, afastando-se dos jovens inseridos nessa evolução. Ao professor se exige um esforço para a readaptação a essa integração, o papel desse educador deverá ser ativo e responsável no enquadramento pedagógico das tecnologias, para que possa tornar-se um meio de renovação do ensino e não apenas um mero reforço de práticas tradicionais. Atualmente, na área da Educação Química, nota-se que a informatização e os aplicativos tão acessíveis a qualquer classe da população, podem proporcionar situações de aprendizagem que acabavam restritas, pelo alto custo. Nesse contexto e, com o objetivo de conhecer os aplicativos para a Educação Química e o crescimento de sua oferta para incentivar sua adoção na educação, são trazidos, nesse artigo, os resultados de uma pesquisa sobre aplicativos para Android® relacionados à área, realizada a partir da busca de aplicativos em repositórios livres tais como Free and Open Source Software - FOSS® e Google Play® disponíveis em um período de 2012 a 2016, apresentando a evolução do número de aplicativos disponíveis, os temas mais recorrentes e indicando aplicativos para a Educação Química. Palavras-chave: Ensino. Química. Aplicativos. Smartphone. Tecnologia Digital AbstractThe use of digital technology holds great promise for teaching chemistry in school, it is believed that the implementation of this new technology produces education improvement. However, little is known about the coordinated joint applications for smartphone proposed for this objective and other traditional Sciences semiotic representations and effects on the students’ learning. It is important to add that the school was still not able so far to integrate all the changes in society with the rapid technology evolution, moving away from our young people who are inserted into this evolution. To the teacher, it is required an effort to rehabilitate this integration, the educator’s role should be active and responsible in the technologies educational environment, so they can become a means of teaching renewal and not just a mere reinforcement of traditional practices. Currently, in the Chemical Education area, it is noted that the computerization and applications so accessible to any class population can provide learning situations which used to be limited due to theirhigh cost. In this context and in order to knowthe Chemistry Education applications and the growth supply to encourage their adoption in education, are coveredin this article, the results of a survey on applications for Android® related to the area, accomplished from search applications for free repositories such as Free and Open Source Software - FOSS® and Google Play® available in a period from 2012 to 2016, showing the evolution of the number of available applications, the most recurrent themes and indicating applications for Chemical Education.Keywords: Education. Chemistry. Applications. Smartphone. Digital technology.

Neuropsychological Syndrome and long term effects of Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides in Humans

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1219-1227
Author(s):  
Dr.Maida Zameer ◽  
Dr. Sunbal Siddique ◽  
Dr.Maria Baig
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Neuropsychological Assessment ◽  
Organophosphate Pesticides ◽  
Significant Morbidity ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Neurological Illness ◽  
Organophosphorous Compounds ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Neuroimaging Techniques

Organophosphorous compounds, the anticholinesterases, produce significant morbidity and mortality in Pakistan. Neuropsychological assessment was traditionally carried out to assess the extent of impairment to a particular skill and to attempt to determine the area of the brain which may have been damaged following brain injury or neurological illness. With the advent of neuroimaging techniques, location of space-occupying lesions can now be more accurately determined through this method, so the focus has now moved on to the assessment of cognition and behaviour, including examining the effects of any brain injury or neuropathological process that a person may have experienced.

scholarly journals Construction Technology Adoption Cube: An Investigation on Process, Factors, Barriers, Drivers, and Decision Makers using NVivo and AHP Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samad Sepasgozar ◽  
Steven Davis
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Tunnel Boring Machine ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Process Factors ◽  
Project Objectives

Due to the complexity, high-risk, and conservative character of construction companies, advanced digital technologies do not become widely adopted in the short term, while vendors make determined efforts to overcome this and disseminate their technologies. This paper presents the methods of an investigation addressing the extremely complex issues related to the current practices of digital technology adoption in construction. It discusses how construction companies follow a specific logical process linked to need, project objectives, characteristics of the adopting organization, and the characteristics of the new technology to be adopted. The study aims to demonstrate a novel method of data collection and analysis including data and methodological triangulation techniques including the use of NVivo and AHP to explore how companies make the decision to uptake a new technology (e.g. advanced crane, tunnel boring machine or drones) by focusing on customer and vendor activities, their interactions, contributing factors, and people involved in the process. The major original contribution of this paper is to develop an innovative methodological Cube for investigating the Construction Technology Adoption Process (CTAP) covering technology adoption, acceptance, diffusion and implementation concepts. CTAP is a framework that delineates the phases of the process that customer organizations use when deciding to adopt a new digital technology and the parallel vendor activities. The significance of these contributions is that they enable vendors to understand how to match their strategies with customer expectations in each phase of the CTAP. It also provides a benchmark for new construction companies to use the current best practice of decision making. Future research is warranted to more clearly delineate any differences with developing nations or related industries such as mining and property management.

scholarly journals Robots are Coming

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 707-730
Author(s):  
Megan Cloud
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Surgical Techniques ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
Choice Of Law ◽  
Early Adopters ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Care Field ◽  
Rural Access ◽  
Improve Access

New technology frequently emerges that challenges the legal status quo. Early adopters must then grapple with uncertainty over how the law will apply to novel legal quandaries. There is no better example of this than in medicine; however, the health care field is notoriously risk averse. Despite this, the practice of medicine stands to gain tremendously from these technological advancements. One such advancement is the relatively new ability to perform robotic surgery in which the surgeon is remote from the patient. Widespread use of this technology would improve rural access to surgical care, as well as improve access to more advanced surgical techniques. But problems may arise concerning choice-of-law when the laws of jurisdictions that the patient and surgeon are located in conflict. This Comment will explore the choice-of-law dilemma using Texas as a point of reference to discuss the likely choice-of-law analysis that would take place in a telesurgical malpractice case.

scholarly journals Codes in the Atomic Weights of Chemical Elements

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Lutvo Kurić
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Information Theory ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Chemical Elements ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Subject

The subject of this thesis is a digital approach to the investigation of the digital basis of digital Periodic Table. The digital mechanism of this Table have been analyzed by the application of cybernetic methods, information theory and system theory, respectively. This paper is to report that we discovered new methods for development of the new technologies in chemistry. It is about the most advanced digital technology which is based on program, cybernetics and informational systems and laws. The results in practical application of the new technology could be useful in chemistry, bioinformatics, genetics, bio-chemistry and other natural sciences

scholarly journals Copyright

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (03) ◽  
pp. 162-164
Author(s):  
P Smart
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Copyright Transfer ◽  
Right To Copy ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

‘Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.’ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle When authors submit an article for publication, most publishers will ask for a signature from the author on a copyright form. The relationship between an author and the publisher is then a partnership but one that many authors are reluctant to enter into. After all, why should a publisher take copyright from an author of an article when the author had the idea and has done all the hard work for the content of the article? In response to this question, publishers will generally claim that copyright transfer agreements protect authors from copyright infringements such as plagiarism, libel and unauthorised uses as well as protecting the integrity of the article. Copyright in the UK was originally concerned with preventing the unlawful copying of printed material in the 17th century in response to the then new technology of book printing. The first copyright act in the UK, the Statute of Anne in 1710, was subtitled ‘An Act for the Encouragement of Learning’, and granted privileges and monopolies to book printers. Since then, copyright law has evolved to incorporate many forms of communication, including photography, film, music, computers, engraving, designs on t-shirts and digital technology among other forms of media. The most recent act in the UK is the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. While copyright covers an author’s right to copy, distribute and revise the work, it does not protect ideas – just their fixation or expression. The moment that an idea is fixed or expressed physically, copyright starts and does not have to be registered. In this article, Pippa Smart provides an overview of the legal framework that protects authors and publishers. Jyoti Shah, Commissioning Editor

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