Possibilities of Correction of Alimentary Status in the Era of Digitalisation

A balanced diet contributes to the prevention of nutritionallyrelated diseases. The purpose of this paperwas to demonstrate how tools of the digital economy could be used to help improve nutritional status, using the example of Microsoft Excel. To improve nutritional status, reliable digital information is needed on the content of macronutrients and micronutrients in raw materials and foodproducts. Then the correction of the diet or formulation of an individual product can be carried out. The database “Chemical composition of food raw materials and food products” was developed using Microsoft Excel; this database is a digital tool for quick and reliable information about the nutrient profile of Russian raw materials and food products. Itobtained official state registration under the number 2012620334. The database is a series of spreadsheets that are interconnected by common key fields. For each type of food raw material or food product, the database contains descriptors: the main chemical composition (mass fraction of water, protein, fat, saturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, cholesterol, mono- and disaccharides, starch, digestible carbohydrates, dietary fibre, ash, organic acids); minerals (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron); vitamins (A, B1 , B2 , PP, C, beta-carotene, retinol equivalent, tocopherol equivalent, niacin equivalent); and energy value. Using the database can help to speed up and facilitate calculating individual and group diets and can assist in adjusting the nutritional status for healthier outcomes. Keywords: healthy nutrition, nutritional status, chemical composition, database, digitalisation, Microsoft Excel

Consumer Legal Protection Principles of Billing Mechanism by Digital Financial Service Provider: a Prescriptive Fintech Law Study in Indonesia

Financial Technology or Fintech currently grows rapidly in Indonesia. The total of loan disbursement reached 155,902.55 Million IDR in the end of 2020. Alongside with it‟s development this digital tool like two blades which has negative and positive aspects. This research tries to explore the philosophy of consumer protection in online lending practices and investigate the consumer protection in the online loan collection mechanism by digital financial service providers in Indonesia. Through using some theory and literatures such as the justice theory, consumer protection, economic and law morality, digital document and supported by several primary and secondary legal materials to explain and answer the research question. The research method is the prescriptive by combining the types of doctrinal, reform-oriented, and theoretical research. The results obtained by the author found similarities between dispute resolution from the perspective of the consumer protection act with the arbitration protection law and alternative dispute resolution which both provide legal certainty to the parties

ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS BY FOREIGN AND UKRAINIAN PHARMACIES WITHIN THE CONCEPT OF HOLISTIC MARKETING

digitalization of the pharmaceutical sector requires the use of modern marketing approaches to provide pharmacies with quality and safe pharmaceutical care within the holistic concept of marketing management. A promising direction of digital transformation of the retail market of medicines is the introduction of special mobile applications in the activities of pharmacies, which become a safe and accessible platform for the sale of medicines to the population. The main purpose of the study is to exercise the analysis of the features of pharmaceutical services provision using mobile applications to foreign and Ukrainian pharmacy chains. The study is based on the use of content analysis, analysis of electronic resources, system, and logical analysis, as well as of the modeling method. As the objects of the study, American pharmacy chains CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens, British Boots, and Lloyds Pharmacy were selected, as well as 10 pharmacy chains in Ukraine in terms of turnover in January-October 2020. It is revealed that the leading world leaders in the retail market of medicines have been using this digital tool in their marketing activities for a long time. Unlike domestic pharmacies, applications of foreign pharmacies additionally provide such services as online registration for testing and vaccination against COVID-19, additional opportunities for the visually impaired, drug disposal, and others. Among the studied Ukrainian pharmacy chains by market share, only a half have mobile applications with various functions, among the most developed mobile applications are “Like” from LLC “Apteka-Magnolia” (“Pharmacy-Magnolia”), "Pharmacy 911" and “Apteka Dobroho Dnia” (“Good Afternoon Pharmacy”). An integrated model of a mobile application of a modern pharmacy has been developed, aimed at effective interaction of all necessary functions to provide the population with high-quality, convenient, and available pharmaceutical care. Promising areas of further research are the justification of the feasibility of using certain functions of mobile applications, as well as other digital tools, such as pharmacy websites, social media pages within the concept of holistic marketing. The results of the study conducted may be useful to specialists in the pharmaceutical industry for use in practical pharmacy.

Malaria Dashboard: a digital platform for epidemiological data from India (Preprint)

BACKGROUND A digital dashboard on malaria epidemiological data will be an invaluable resource for the research community and the planning of malaria control. OBJECTIVE To develop a digital Malaria Dashboard (MDB) for malaria epidemiological data METHODS We have developed a digital Malaria Dashboard (MDB) using the R software. A total of thirteen different R packages were used in this process, within which shiny and ggplot2 were used more intensively. The MDB is a web application that can work online as well as offline. Presently it is available in offline mode only. The MS Excel file may be used as an input data source and any personal computer may be used for this application. RESULTS The MDB is a highly versatile interface that allows prompt and interactive analysis of malaria epidemiological data. The primary interface of MDB is like a web page that has 14 tabs (or pages), some more tabs may be added or deleted as per requirement and each tab corresponds to a particular analysis. A user may move from one tab to another via tab icons. Each tab thus allows flexibility in correlating various parameters like SPR, API, AFI, ABER, RT, malaria cases, death due to malaria, BSC, and BSE. The data can be analyzed in required granularity (national, state, district), and its enhanced visualization allows for facile usage. Using the MDB, one can quickly assess national or more granular scenarios in a time series manner and then compare the malaria epidemiology in various states and their constituent districts. CONCLUSIONS This MDB is a highly effective digital tool for studying the malaria situation and strategizing for malaria elimination and researcher may use it as a prototype for developing some other dashboards in their own fields.

The Use of Digital Technologies in the Institute of Higher Education

The article presents a description of modern digital tools that can be used in the educational process for more activating content in the formation of the necessary professional competencies in students. The use of the Internet board "Miro" allows students to master such concepts as "conflict" and "conflict resistance" while studying the discipline "Conflictology"; the digital tool "Nearpod" while studying the topic "Conflict Management in the Organization" made it possible to present a presentation and, after studying its content, conduct online testing on the "Test Wizard" platform, using tasks of varying complexity; the use of artificial intelligence is also possible as a new tool for resolving interpersonal conflicts - on the platform of the TELEGRAM social network.

Leveraging asynchronous speaking tasks to promote willingness and confidence to speak in Spanish: A qualitative study

This study describes the experiences of students in a flipped intermediate Spanish college class who used a video discussion digital tool to develop their confidence to speak in the foreign language. Students participated in a series of 10 speaking tasks designed based on the framework on technology-mediated tasks (Gonzalez-Lloret & Ortega, 2014) and the world-readiness standards for communicative performance of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (2015). Through semi-structured interviews and reflection journals, students shared their learning accomplishments, unveiled their inner fears in speaking skills and detailed their journey in gaining confidence to speak in Spanish. Their experiences showed that willingness to communicate and self-efficacy are driving forces that, fostered in a brave learning environment, enable students to take risks and be creative with the language. The study also presents pedagogical implications regarding the design of technology-mediated tasks and the conditions of the learning environment that can foster or hinder students’ language oral communicative skills. Implications for practice or policy: Technology-mediated tasks should be designed based on a learner-centred approach and the affordances of the tool to promote communicative competence in foreign and second language learning. Technology-mediated tasks can promote the development of confidence to use the foreign and second language more spontaneously, while allowing students to fail without being judged or penalised. Technology-mediated tasks can give students some control over their own learning process, facilitating opportunities for self-monitoring to gain confidence in speaking in the foreign or second language.

Strategies for Successful Project Execution – A Transformation in Project Delivery without Disruption

Cost overruns on lump sum turnkey projects have challenged Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) project implementations. Several causes can be attributed to this problem but common to all is that despite significant efforts spent in planning and estimating the job, most projects fail in the execution stage. A new approach to EPC projects execution and delivery combines better management of scope brought by the Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) procedure and efficiencies from the LEAN principles of an engaged workforce that was Toyota's success in manufacturing industry can be applied to construction industry. The implementation of this enhanced process supported by a digital tool, an end-to-end platform, can be extremely useful for projects in Petroleum Industry. Methods, Procedures, Process: The approach has been designed to tackle three crucial challenges of project execution: people (company culture), process inefficiencies and data handling. The sense of inclusion, empowerment of a worker and the clarity of scope of every activity to be performed have a profound impact on the performance of the worker. It is designed to involve all stakeholders (from the owner to the last member of the crew) giving them an opportunity to contribute to the project implementation. The proposed enhancement of the processes at every stage of the project (from engineering to completion) drastically reduces the traditional inefficiencies of EPC projects which are responsible for cost overruns, schedule delays and poor quality of work. Results, Observations, Conclusions: A plethora of digital tools used today in EPC industry create a large pool of data that can be leveraged to have an insight on the projects. However, all the data produced by different and disconnected tools are still used in silo and large data available creates complexity in analyzing and interpreting it. The AWP+LEAN approach brings transformation without disruption: an automated integration with existing systems used in the organization can be established in order to collect, give consistency and synchronize all the available information hassle-free. The novelty of the approach presented in the paper compared to the other practices is its non-disruptive nature. The idea is to combine in a consistent fashion, all the information collected during the project by different tools and orchestrate them to provide a deep insight and granular visibility to the project. This means that there are no switching costs for the EPC companies and less resistance from people in adopting the new processes, making the journey to improvement easy and smooth.

Teaching Digitally-Ready Soft Skills for Employability

The coronavirus pandemic triggered an abrupt change to emergency e-teaching and has accelerated the adoption of digital teaching practices in higher education. This transition from in-person instruction to online-only teaching took place globally and disrupted the conventional lecture format. While the catalyst, namely COVID, was the same throughout the world, a growing body of research confirms that instructors across the educational spectrum are experimenting with, and implementing, a plethora of methodologies based on their digital abilities and experiences. This paper will critically analyse several online-based methodologies and digital tools developed and introduced at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences within an undergraduate module called Employability. The authors will use the six areas of the European Commission’s DigCompEdu framework as a reference to analyse and summarise digital tool implementations and enhance students' digital collaboration skills, online experience, and learning outcomes. The methodological focus is on teaching soft digital skills for employability, namely, digital communication, problem-solving, collaboration skills, as well as, digital content creation and media literacy in tandem with the main content of the course. Possible issues when teaching the Employability module in post-COVID offline or hybrid classrooms will be discussed, particularly with regards to ensuring that teaching formats are fit-for-purpose in increasingly digital, and remote, work environments.