‘Personæ’ is an interactive large-scale space sound installation designed by the students of the music technology classes of the ‘V. Gambara’ music high school in Brescia (Italy). The activities that ...led to the conception and realization of the installation were part of ‘The Discovery of Interactive Spaces’ project, a set of extracurricular workshops organized by the authors of this article between spring 2019 and winter 2020 with the support of the Italian National Operation Program (PON). At the end of January 2020, the installation was presented during a public event and an evaluation questionnaire was administered to 79 visitors. The purpose of this research is to assess how the public, students, parents, teachers and classmates received the ‘Personæ’ installation, and the technology integration within regular study curricula. While the majority of visitors have well received the artistic and communicative value of the installation, the questionnaire reveals that there is not a similar uniformity of agreement on some aspects of technology integration in school curricula.
INTRODUCTION
Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are used by prosthetists to assess and communicate effectiveness of prosthetic interventions. The Prosthetic Limb Users Survey of Mobility ...(PLUS-M) is a PROM developed to evaluate lower limb prosthetic mobility.1 Valid and reliable translations of prosthetics-specific PROMs, like PLUS-M, do not exist for Japanese-speaking patients. The purpose of this research was to translate PLUS-M to Japanese using rigorous translation guidelines in order to maintain the meaning and applicability of items across both languages.
Abstract PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cpoj/article/view/32017/24436
How to cite: Balkman G, Samejima S, Aoki D, Hafner B.J. JAPANESE TRANSLATION OF THE PROSTHETIC LIMB USERS SURVEY OF MOBILITY. CANADIAN PROSTHETICS & ORTHOTICS JOURNAL, VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2, 2018; ABSTRACT, POSTER PRESENTATION AT THE AOPA’S 101ST NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, SEPT. 26-29, VANCOUVER, CANADA, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33137/cpoj.v1i2.32017
Abstracts were Peer-reviewed by the American Orthotic Prosthetic Association (AOPA) 101st National Assembly Scientific Committee.
http://www.aopanet.org/
Abstract Objectives To analyze changes in users’ awareness of the healthcare system and of their rights to healthcare in Colombia in the last 10 years, as well as the factors that influence users’ ...awareness. Methods We carried out a descriptive study to compare the results of two cross-sectional studies based on two surveys of users of the Colombian healthcare system. The first survey was performed in 2000 and the second in 2010. The municipalities of Tuluá (urban area) and Palmira (rural area) were surveyed. In both surveys, a stratified, multistage probability sample was selected. There were 1497 users in the first sample and 1405 in the second. Changes in awareness of the healthcare system and associated factors in each year were assessed through multivariate logistic regressions. Results Users’ awareness of the healthcare system was limited in 2000 and was significantly lower in 2010, except for that relating to health insurers and providers. In contrast, more than 90% of users in both surveys perceived themselves as having healthcare rights. The factors consistently associated with greater awareness were belonging to a high socioeconomic stratum and having higher education. Conclusions The most underprivileged users were less likely to be aware of the healthcare system, hampering their ability to make informed decisions and to exercise their health rights. To correct this situation, health institutions and the government should act decisively to reduce social inequalities.
Potential beneficiaries of the COSPAR Space Weather Roadmap can be classified in two groups – 1) operational space weather service providers, which can be viewed as direct users of the science ...developed through the COSPAR roadmap process; 2) end-users such as the electricity and satellites sectors whose requirements should define the metrics and parameters delivered through the products of space weather service providers, which therefore are intimately linked to the focus and evolution of the COSPAR roadmap.
With regard to Group (1), interaction with COSPAR that feeds Group 2 requirements into the roadmap process may be enhanced via specific activities such as:•Participation in COSPAR bodies such as the Panel on Space Weather and ISWAT.•Participation in ISES and WMO space weather teams that are increasingly engaging with COSPAR to better coordinate research and operational space weather activities.•Promoting actions to ensure the R2O-O2R circle is complete - this may include adopting specific R2O-O2R actions or best-practice identified through WMO, ISES, or COSPAR activities that may also be effectively used to focus future iterations of COSPAR space weather roadmaps.Group 2 members often exist at one step further removed from the research community (i.e., they typically speak to operational service providers (Group (1) and these service providers interact with the research community), so there is a risk that their requirements are not fully addressed by the operational service providers and of a disconnect with the research community. To strengthen the research/operational centre/end-user chain, we first need to know how the operational centres and end-users interact, via a survey. Following this, we can better target research to support operational centres and understand how the research to end-user connections may be improved.
In this paper, we describe such a survey and present the results. The survey focuses on the level of engagement between operational centres and end-users, end-user views of the quality of existing services, and their views on how further research can be exploited to better meet their requirements. We focus on the six key end-user sectors of Power, Aviation, Satellites, HF communications, GNSS, and Aurora Watchers. Via these examples, the connection from end-user impacts through to operations through to research requirements can be clarified. We further summarise the survey findings in terms of the end-user impact pathways defined in Schrijver et al. (2015).
Ontology matching: A literature review Otero-Cerdeira, Lorena; Rodríguez-Martínez, Francisco J.; Gómez-Rodríguez, Alma
Expert systems with applications,
02/2015, Volume:
42, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
•We present a literature review regarding articles on ontology matching published in the last decade.•It serves the purpose of offering an up-to-date review of the field and showing its evolution ...trends.•Over 1600 papers have been sorted according to a classification framework that we have defined.•This framework helps in identifying the distribution of the load work in the last decade.•Practitioners have been consulted to contrast and validate the results of the review.
The amount of research papers published nowadays related to ontology matching is remarkable and we believe that reflects the growing interest of the research community. However, for new practitioners that approach the field, this amount of information might seem overwhelming. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to help in guiding new practitioners get a general idea on the state of the field and to determine possible research lines.
To do so, we first perform a literature review of the field in the last decade by means of an online search. The articles retrieved are sorted using a classification framework that we propose, and the different categories are revised and analyzed. The information in this review is extended and supported by the results obtained by a survey that we have designed and conducted among the practitioners.
Graph processing is becoming increasingly prevalent across many application domains. In spite of this prevalence, there is little research about how graphs are actually used in practice. We performed ...an extensive study that consisted of an online survey of 89 users, a review of the mailing lists, source repositories, and white papers of a large suite of graph software products, and in-person interviews with 6 users and 2 developers of these products. Our online survey aimed at understanding: (i) the types of graphs users have; (ii) the graph computations users run; (iii) the types of graph software users use; and (iv) the major challenges users face when processing their graphs. We describe the participants’ responses to our questions highlighting common patterns and challenges. Based on our interviews and survey of the rest of our sources, we were able to answer some new questions that were raised by participants’ responses to our online survey and understand the specific applications that use graph data and software. Our study revealed surprising facts about graph processing in practice. In particular, real-world graphs represent a very diverse range of entities and are often very large, scalability and visualization are undeniably the most pressing challenges faced by participants, and data integration, recommendations, and fraud detection are very popular applications supported by existing graph software. We hope these findings can guide future research.
In sub-tropical city of Hong Kong where summer is hot and humid, the usage of outdoor spaces is often hindered due to thermal discomfort. In order to improve the thermal comfort of the outdoor ...environment and to make urban outdoor spaces delightful places for people to use and enjoy, better understanding of the thermal perception of people is needed. This paper presents the results of an outdoor thermal comfort study conducted in Hong Kong. The findings of the study reveal that air temperature, wind speed and solar radiation intensity are influential factors in determining the thermal sensation of people outdoor. Based on our analysis, the neutral physiological equivalent temperature (PET) in summer in Hong Kong is around 28 degree C. Under shaded condition, a wind speed of 0.9a1.3 m/s is needed for a person in light clothing to achieve neutral thermal sensation in an urban environment. This understanding can contribute towards establishing wind performance standards for thermal comfort in hot and humid tropical and sub-tropical cities.
PDF
