Processing of Electronic Health Records using Deep Learning: A review

Availability of large amount of clinical data is opening up new research avenues in a number of fields. An exciting field in this respect is healthcare, where secondary use of healthcare data is beginning to revolutionize healthcare. Except for availability of Big Data, both medical data from healthcare institutions (such as EMR data) and data generated from health and wellbeing devices (such as personal trackers), a significant contribution to this trend is also being made by recent advances on machine learning, specifically deep learning algorithms

Community Energy Planning From the Ground Up: Developing an Integrated Energy Plan

Community Energy Planning and Green Urbanism initiatives have been embraced by governing bodies to reduce their carbon footprint and achieve energy security. Although authorities have embraced ideal visions of sustainability, they have largely been unable to achieve their goals. In this paper, I begin by examining the different aspects of Green Urbanism and how it can be implemented at different scales. Next, I examine the process known as Community Energy Planning and how it can be used as a tool to achieve energy democracy. This requires a comprehensive analysis of existing legislation with respect to energy management and sustainable development in Ontario. My analysis reveals that existing sustainable guidelines and energy conservation initiatives are most often voluntary programs, vaguely outlined, and often subject to misinterpretation. This results in a gap between planning and implementation that hinders the development of low-carbon communities. In seeking to identify the underlying issues, I analyze how the influences of neoliberalism pose considerable barriers for the effective implementation of CEP. Next, I examine six case studies where community power projects have successfully been implemented in Europe, Central America, and Canada in order to identify alternative models. I identify several challenges in Ontario in terms of replicating these models and using CEP as a way forward to achieve green urbanism. Common issues include high upfront capital costs, high risk, lack of technical knowledge and experience, and legal and regulatory barriers. Lastly, as a way of addressing these issues, I present key considerations towards integrating energy management and land use planning processes in order to formulate more holistic approaches, from a bottom-up and community-driven approach, towards achieving energy democracy and green urbanism ideals in Ontario

Educational Psychologists’ participation in online social networking websites: A mixed methods study exploring use and perspectives.

Social networking websites (SNWs) provide Educational Psychologists (EPs) with an opportunity to collaborate, reflect, and share knowledge. Examples of SNWs in use by (EPs) include Twitter and Facebook. SNWs provide EPs with opportunities for ongoing dialogue with colleagues outside their service who have different specialisms and approaches to practice. While there appears to be a growing number of EPs using accounts professionally, there is currently no research documenting what this use is and how it may impact EP’s professional practice. This research has two aims. Firstly, to document how EPs are using SNWs professionally, and secondly, to explore EP’s perspectives around EPs’ use of SNWs. This was explored using a mixed-method study with two phases. 112 participants completed an online questionnaire, and 7 of these participants continued to a second semi-structured interview phase. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Descriptive statistics were used to quantify the types and frequency of SNW use. The findings of this analysis included that the most regular use of SNWs was to read other EP’s posts and find out about new ways of working. Reflexive thematic analysis was also used to support a description and understanding of EP SNW use. Reflexive Thematic analysis was used to gather a picture of EP’s meaning-making and perspective of using SNWs professionally. The seven main implications of the study were identified and discussed, such as the importance of EPs, employers and professional bodies having a shared understanding of what constitutes safe and ethical SNW use. This study’s strengths and weaknesses are presented, together with future directions for researc

Educational Psychologists’ participation in online social networking websites: A mixed methods study exploring use and perspectives

Social networking websites (SNWs) provide Educational Psychologists (EPs) with an opportunity to collaborate, reflect, and share knowledge. Examples of SNWs in use by (EPs) include Twitter and Facebook. SNWs provide EPs with opportunities for ongoing dialogue with colleagues outside their service who have different specialisms and approaches to practice. While there appears to be a growing number of EPs using accounts professionally, there is currently no research documenting what this use is and how it may impact EP’s professional practice. This research has two aims. Firstly, to document how EPs are using SNWs professionally, and secondly, to explore EP’s perspectives around EPs’ use of SNWs. This was explored using a mixed-method study with two phases. 112 participants completed an online questionnaire, and 7 of these participants continued to a second semi-structured interview phase. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Descriptive statistics were used to quantify the types and frequency of SNW use. The findings of this analysis included that the most regular use of SNWs was to read other EP’s posts and find out about new ways of working. Reflexive thematic analysis was also used to support a description and understanding of EP SNW use. Reflexive Thematic analysis was used to gather a picture of EP’s meaning-making and perspective of using SNWs professionally. The seven main implications of the study were identified and discussed, such as the importance of EPs, employers and professional bodies having a shared understanding of what constitutes safe and ethical SNW use. This study’s strengths and weaknesses are presented, together with future directions for research

SOCNET 2018 - Proceedings of the “Second International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Management of Social Networks and Their Applications”

Modeling, analysis, control, and management of complex social networks represent an important area of interdisciplinary research in an advanced digitalized world. In the last decade social networks have produced significant online applications which are running on top of a modern Internet infrastructure and have been identified as major driver of the fast growing Internet traffic. The "Second International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Management of Social Networks and Their Applications" (SOCNET 2018) held at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, on February 28, 2018, has covered related research issues of social networks in modern information society. The Proceedings of SOCNET 2018 highlight the topics of a tutorial on "Network Analysis in Python" complementing the workshop program, present an invited talk "From the Age of Emperors to the Age of Empathy", and summarize the contributions of eight reviewed papers. The covered topics ranged from theoretical oriented studies focusing on the structural inference of topic networks, the modeling of group dynamics, and the analysis of emergency response networks to the application areas of social networks such as social media used in organizations or social network applications and their impact on modern information society. The Proceedings of SOCNET 2018 may stimulate the readers' future research on monitoring, modeling, and analysis of social networks and encourage their development efforts regarding social network applications of the next generation.Die Modellierung, Analyse, Steuerung und das Management komplexer sozialer Netzwerke repräsentiert einen bedeutsamen Bereich interdisziplinärer Forschung in einer modernen digitalisierten Welt. Im letzten Jahrzehnt haben soziale Netzwerke wichtige Online Anwendungen hervorgebracht, die auf einer modernen Internet-Infrastruktur ablaufen und als eine Hauptquelle des rasant anwachsenden Internetverkehrs identifiziert wurden. Der zweite internationale Workshop "Modeling, Analysis and Management of Social Networks and Their Applications" (SOCNET 2018) wurde am 28. Februar 2018 an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg abgehalten und stellte Forschungsergebnisse zu sozialen Netzwerken in einer modernen Informationsgesellschaft vor. Die SOCNET 2018 Proceedings stellen die Themen eines Tutoriums "Network Analysis in Python" heraus, präsentieren einen eingeladenen Beitrag "From the Age of Emperors to the Age of Empathy" und fassen die Ergebnisse von acht begutachteten wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen zusammen. Die abgedeckten Themen reichen von theoretisch ausgerichteten Studien zur Strukturanalyse thematischer Netzwerke, der Modellierung von Gruppendynamik sowie der Netzwerkanalyse von Rettungseinsätzen bis zu den Anwendungsbereichen sozialer Netzwerke, z.B. der Nutzung sozialer Medien in Organisationen sowie der Wirkungsanalyse sozialer Netzwerkanwendungen in modernen Informationsgesellschaften. Die SOCNET 2018 Proceedings sollen die Leser zu neuen Forschungen im Bereich der Messung, Modellierung und Analyse sozialer Netzwerke anregen und sie zur Entwicklung neuer sozialer Netzwerkapplikationen der nächsten Generation auffordern

Telemedicine and Digital Medicine in the Clinical Management of Hypertension and Hypertension-Related Cardiovascular Diseases: A Position Paper of the Italian Society of Arterial Hypertension (SIIA)

: High blood pressure is the leading cause of death and disability globally and an important treatable risk factor for cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and chronic kidney diseases. Digital technology, including mobile health solutions and digital therapy, is expanding rapidly in clinical medicine and has the potential to improve the quality of care and effectiveness of drug treatment by making medical interventions timely, tailored to hypertensive patients' needs and by improving treatment adherence. Thus, the systematic application of digital technologies could support diagnosis and awareness of hypertension and its complications, ultimately leading to improved BP control at the population level. The progressive implementation of digital medicine in the national health systems must be accompanied by the supervision and guidance of health authorities and scientific societies to ensure the correct use of these new technologies with consequent maximization of the potential benefits. The role of scientific societies in relation to the rapid adoption of digital technologies, therefore, should encompass the entire spectrum of activities pertaining to their institutional role: information, training, promotion of research, scientific collaboration and advice, evaluation and validation of technological tools, and collaboration with regulatory and health authorities

The Growth of Knowledge-intensive Entrepreneurship in India, 1991-2007

There is enough consensus to show that India's economic performance since 1991 is a direct result of the economic liberalization measures that have been put in place. One of the outcomes of this improved performance is the growth of innovations in the country. This was accompanied by or caused by the emergence of a number of technology-based enterprises. This paper takes a critical look at the available quantitative evidence on the growth of knowledge or technologybased entrepreneurship. It then looks at five facilitating factors for the emergence of this phenomenon in terms of the existence of increased market opportunities, availability of financial support schemes in the form of venture capital funds, existence and enlargement of a number of government programmes, a number of private sector initiatives and education, and training leading to the supply of technically trained personnel. The paper concludes with certain policy suggestions for the continued sustenance of this activity.knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship, knowledge process, outsourcing venture capital, angel financing, business incubators