Assessing the inequalities in access to online delivery services and the way COVID-19 pandemic affects marginalization

This paper discusses the importance of incorporating online home delivery services (OHDS) into the concept of accessibility and marginalization. The authors propose a method to quantify access to OHDS and assess levels of\ua0inequalities\ua0in access to OHDS using data from OHDS providers in the pharmaceutical and food sectors, as well as from transport operators delivering parcels. The V\ue4stra G\uf6taland Region in the West coast of Sweden is used as a case study. The results show significant inequalities in access to OHDS. Moreover, there are segments of population under a compound marginalization during the COVID-19 pandemic due to (i) limited accessibility to OHDS services, (ii) high incidence of COVID-19 cases in their area that makes physical visits to a store a risk activity, and (iii) high vulnerability (e.g., high share of individuals older than 65). These results reveal a need for the public sector to prioritize innovations in services that target specific clusters of the population that are vulnerable and marginalized, but also shows the imminent risk for some of these segments during the pandemic

Cellphone banking adoption and its impact on the transactional behaviour of low income consumers

This aim of this study was to establish if individual characteristics have an impact on the adoption of cellphone banking amongst low-income (Mzansi) consumers. The second component of the study then set out to assess the impact that cellphone banking adoption has on the financial behaviour of these consumers. This data was obtained using the data mining technique. Data from one of the local banks was extracted and analysed. In addition to using descriptive statistics, the ANOVA was used. The ANOVA is an inferential statistical method. It establishes whether there is a relationship with the defined variable and the adoption of cellphone banking. Race, age, income, gender, number of bank products and channel of registration where the variables that were analysed. With the exception of age, no other variable had an impact on adoption for both Mzansi customers as well as the entire base. The subsequent post adoption behaviour analysis that was conducted identified some key behaviour changes. Consumers who adopted cellphone banking significantly increased (>300%) their demand of prepaid products. Secondly, the demand for cash amongst adopters was lower than the demand from non-adopters which could signal a shift towards cashless solutions. And finally, the cellphone banking adopters were found to perform more transactions prior to adoption when compared to non adopters thereby demonstrating a higher need for a mobile banking solution. CopyrightDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)unrestricte

Personalising patient Internet searching using electronic patient records

The research reported in this thesis addresses a patient's information requirements when searching the Internet for health information. A patient's lack of information about his/her health condition and its care is officially acknowledged and traditional patient information sources do not address today's patient information needs. Internet health information resources have become the foremost health information platform. However, patient Internet searching is currently manual, uncustomised and hindered by health information vocabulary and quality challenges. Patient access to quality Internet health information is currently ensured through national health gateways, medical search engines, third-party accredited search engines and charity health websites. However, such resources are generic, i.e. do not cater for a patient particular information needs. In this study, we propose personalising patient Internet searching by enabling a patient's access to their Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) and using this EPR data in Internet information searching. The feasibility of patient access to EPRs has recently been promoted by national health information programmes. Very recently, in the literature, there are reports about pilot studies on personal Health Record (PHR) systems that offer a patient online access to their medical records and related health information. However, the extensive literature searching shows no reports about patient-personalised search engines, within the reported PHR prototypes, that utilise a patient's own data to personalise the search features for a patient especially with regard to health information vocabulary needs. The thesis presents a novel approach to personalising patient information searching based on linking EPR data with relevant Internet Information resources, integrating medical and lay perspectives in a diagnosis vocabulary that distinguishes between medical and lay information needs, and accommodating a variable perspective on online information quality. To demonstrate our research work, we have implemented a prototype online patient personal health information system, known as the Patient Health Base (PHB) that offers a patient a Summary Medical Record (SMR) and a Personal Internet Search (PerlS) service. PerlS addresses patient Internet search challenges identified in the project. Evaluation of PerlS's approach to improving a patient's medical Internet searching demonstrated improvements in terms of search capabilities, focusing techniques and results. This research explored a new direction for patient Internet searching and foresees a great potential for further customising Internet information searching for patients, families and the public as a whole

Optimalisasi Sinergi Pendidikan Tinggi Ilmu Komunikasi Dengan Industri Di Era Digital

Kegiatan komunikasi adalah kegiatan yang setiap hari dilakukan oleh manusia dalam berinteraksi dengan sesama. Cukup menarik jika komunikasi menjadi perbincangan dunia atau menjadi kajian sebuah ilmu sosial khususnya dalam ilmu komunikasi yang berkonsentrasi pada bidang media cetak, media elektronik, media baru, public relations, advertising, dan desain komunikasi visual. Komunikasi memiliki peran yang sangat penting. Di era milenial, komunikasi dilakukan dengan berbagai cara karena perkembangan teknologi komunikasi yang begitu pesat, sehingga menjadikan komunikasi sebagai alat penyampai pesan yang efektif dengan menggunakan multiplatform. Kegiatan Jambore Nasional Komunikasi II - 2018 yang diselenggarakan Asosiasi Pendidikan Tinggi Ilmu Komunikasi (ASPIKOM) Jabodetabek di Universitas Negeri Jakarta, 27-28 Maret 2018, mengundang para akademisi di seluruh Indonesia, untuk mempresentasikan hasil penelitian melalui Call for Paper. Paper yang sudah dipresentasikan, dipublikasikan dalam bentuk prosiding. Dalam rangkaian yang sama, ASPIKOM Jabodetabek juga mengundang seluruh mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi di Indonesia untuk mengikuti kompetisi lomba karya, yaitu: citizen journalism, penulisan esai, film dokumenter, fotografi jurnalistik, iklan layanan masyarakat, motion infographic, program public relations, short feature, serta lomba presenter dan news anchor. Lomba tersebut merupakan bentuk apresiasi ASPIKOM Jabodetabek untuk karya mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi. Dengan adanya kegiatan Jambore Nasional Komunikasi II - 2018, bukti nyata ASPIKOM JABODETABEK menjembatani para akademisi dan praktisi ilmu komunikasi serta seluruh mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi di Indonesia untuk terus berkarya demi kemajuan bersama Ilmu Komunikasi di Indonesia bahkan internasional

'Oot o' the World and into the Langholm' : A critical introduction to Hugh MacDiarmid's 'The Muckle Toon' with text, commentary and glossary

The present study grew out of a conviction that the poems written for the Muckle Toon volume of Clann Albann - Hugh MacDiarmid’s abandoned opus of the early nineteen thirties - are too intricately interrelated to be understood in isolation from each other. My aims were to arrange the poems of The Muckle Toon in a manner suggestive of MacDiarmid's unity of purpose in planning and composing that unfinished work, and to relate their themes and techniques both to his earlier and later development and to modern poetic practice generally. I have hoped thereby to clarify the shape of his career, the most widely accepted view of which rests upon an inadequate appreciation of the poetry of the early thirties. Volume One comprises a critical introduction to The Muckle Toon. The biographical opening chapter centres on the poet’s youth in ’the Muckle Toon o' the Langholm’, and on the background to his imaginative concern with the place in maturity. Chapter Two, the most wide-ranging in my study, discusses questions relating to language and meaning in MacDiarmid's work which must be explored if the position of The Muckle Toon in his career is to be understood. Chapter Three examines the poetry with regard to structure, symbol, prosody, and language, while Chapter Four is concerned with the subject-matter of The Muckle Toon. This last chapter also argues for the continuity of MacDiarmid's development by demonstrating that the early Shetland poetry embodies a critical response to, and a partial fulfilment of, the Clann Albann scheme. Volume Two includes the text of The Muckle Toon, supplemented by related items drawn from the range of MacDiarmid's output in poetry ana prose, a critical and explanatory Commentary, and a Glossary. Reasons for including the 'related items’ are given in A Note on the Text