IPICT - An Explanatory Scheme About The Innovation Phenomena Towards Integrated Care Enhanced By Digital Technologies

The introduction of innovative models of care, especially in the management of chronic diseases and other long-term conditions, responds to an urgent need of economic sustainability of the health and social system, while maintaining or increasing the level of quality of the system. In this context it is crucial to assure the proper co-evolution of organizational models and technological solutions. This paper presents an explanatory scheme about Innovation Phenomena towards Integrated Care enhanced by digital Technologies (IPICT), developed in the context of the European project STOPandGO: organisational and informational integration may be achieved both vertically among care settings and horizontally between healthcare and social care. Full integration may be the final goal of a long process made by a progressive local deployment of several initiatives, possibly coherent with regional or national plans. Within each initiative, innovation has not to be necessarily present in each individual activity or in each technological component, but it may be triggered by the appropriate combination of activities and technologies according a suitable model of care. The proposed scheme identifies six layers, ranging from a technological approach on enabling infrastructures in Layers L1 and L2, to a perspective on organizational models co-designed with technological solutions in Layers L3 and L4, up to the comprehensive vision of the overall (regional) strategies on Integrated Care in Layers L5 and L6. In particular, Layer L4 regards the measures able to “reify the innovation” in the models of care deployed within the initiatives of Layer L5. The list of L4 measures worked out by STOPandGO project was tested on the production of a coherent set of local tenders to improve the health and well-being of citizens across hetero-geneous organisational/clinical circumstances

Evaluation of cross-layer reliability mechanisms for satellite digital multimedia broadcast

This paper presents a study of some reliability mechanisms which may be put at work in the context of Satellite Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (SDMB) to mobile devices such as handheld phones. These mechanisms include error correcting codes, interleaving at the physical layer, erasure codes at intermediate layers and error concealment on the video decoder. The evaluation is made on a realistic satellite channel and takes into account practical constraints such as the maximum zapping time and the user mobility at several speeds. The evaluation is done by simulating different scenarii with complete protocol stacks. The simulations indicate that, under the assumptions taken here, the scenario using highly compressed video protected by erasure codes at intermediate layers seems to be the best solution on this kind of channel

Pengaruh penginapan ke atas disiplin pelajar di Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

Kajian pengaruh penginapan ke atas disiplin pelajar di Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) ini memfokuskan kepada tiga objektif iaitu mengenal pasti tahap kriteria penginapan dari aspek fizikal dan bukan fizikal yang memberi kesan terhadap penginapan pelajar di UTHM, mengenal pasti kesalahan disiplin pelajar terhadap peraturan tempat penginapan mereka dan mengkaji hubungan signifikan antara disiplin pelajar dengan tahap kriteria tempat penginapan mereka. Sampel kajian dipilih secara rawak yang terdiri daripada 350 pelajar dari lima kolej kediaman iaitu Kolej Kediaman Tun Syed Nasir, Kolej Kediaman Tun Dr. Ismail, Kolej Kediaman Tun Fatimah, Kolej Kediaman Melewar dan Kolej Kediaman Perwira. Data-data kajian diperolehi daripada soal selidik dan statistik kesalahan disiplin pelajar terhadap peraturan kolej yang direkod oleh setiap Kolej Kediaman. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan kriteria penginapan pelajar dari aspek fizikal dan bukan fizikal berada pada tahap sederhana masing-masing mendapat skor min 3.01 dan 3.47. Kesalahan disiplin pelajar menunjukkan setiap 25 orang pelajar yang tinggal di Kolej Kediaman melakukan satu kes kesalahan. Dari segi hubungan signifikan antara disiplin pelajar dengan tahap kriteria penginapan pelajar di UTHM menunjukkan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan berdasarkan perbandingan yang dilakukan. Hubungan ini wujud berdasarkan kajian yang dijalankan di UTHM sahaja namun hubungan ini tidak semestinya wujud di penginapan pelajar di tempat lain

Multimedia delivery in the future internet

The term “Networked Media” implies that all kinds of media including text, image, 3D graphics, audio and video are produced, distributed, shared, managed and consumed on-line through various networks, like the Internet, Fiber, WiFi, WiMAX, GPRS, 3G and so on, in a convergent manner [1]. This white paper is the contribution of the Media Delivery Platform (MDP) cluster and aims to cover the Networked challenges of the Networked Media in the transition to the Future of the Internet. Internet has evolved and changed the way we work and live. End users of the Internet have been confronted with a bewildering range of media, services and applications and of technological innovations concerning media formats, wireless networks, terminal types and capabilities. And there is little evidence that the pace of this innovation is slowing. Today, over one billion of users access the Internet on regular basis, more than 100 million users have downloaded at least one (multi)media file and over 47 millions of them do so regularly, searching in more than 160 Exabytes1 of content. In the near future these numbers are expected to exponentially rise. It is expected that the Internet content will be increased by at least a factor of 6, rising to more than 990 Exabytes before 2012, fuelled mainly by the users themselves. Moreover, it is envisaged that in a near- to mid-term future, the Internet will provide the means to share and distribute (new) multimedia content and services with superior quality and striking flexibility, in a trusted and personalized way, improving citizens’ quality of life, working conditions, edutainment and safety. In this evolving environment, new transport protocols, new multimedia encoding schemes, cross-layer inthe network adaptation, machine-to-machine communication (including RFIDs), rich 3D content as well as community networks and the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays are expected to generate new models of interaction and cooperation, and be able to support enhanced perceived quality-of-experience (PQoE) and innovative applications “on the move”, like virtual collaboration environments, personalised services/ media, virtual sport groups, on-line gaming, edutainment. In this context, the interaction with content combined with interactive/multimedia search capabilities across distributed repositories, opportunistic P2P networks and the dynamic adaptation to the characteristics of diverse mobile terminals are expected to contribute towards such a vision. Based on work that has taken place in a number of EC co-funded projects, in Framework Program 6 (FP6) and Framework Program 7 (FP7), a group of experts and technology visionaries have voluntarily contributed in this white paper aiming to describe the status, the state-of-the art, the challenges and the way ahead in the area of Content Aware media delivery platforms

Implementation and analysis of several keyframe-based browsing interfaces to digital video

In this paper we present a variety of browsing interfaces for digital video information. The six interfaces are implemented on top of Físchlár, an operational recording, indexing, browsing and playback system for broadcast TV programmes. In developing the six browsing interfaces, we have been informed by the various dimensions which can be used to distinguish one interface from another. For this we include layeredness (the number of “layers” of abstraction which can be used in browsing a programme), the provision or omission of temporal information (varying from full timestamp information to nothing at all on time) and visualisation of spatial vs. temporal aspects of the video. After introducing and defining these dimensions we then locate some common browsing interfaces from the literature in this 3-dimensional “space” and then we locate our own six interfaces in this same space. We then present an outline of the interfaces and include some user feedback

Significance Driven Hybrid 8T-6T SRAM for Energy-Efficient Synaptic Storage in Artificial Neural Networks

Multilayered artificial neural networks (ANN) have found widespread utility in classification and recognition applications. The scale and complexity of such networks together with the inadequacies of general purpose computing platforms have led to a significant interest in the development of efficient hardware implementations. In this work, we focus on designing energy efficient on-chip storage for the synaptic weights. In order to minimize the power consumption of typical digital CMOS implementations of such large-scale networks, the digital neurons could be operated reliably at scaled voltages by reducing the clock frequency. On the contrary, the on-chip synaptic storage designed using a conventional 6T SRAM is susceptible to bitcell failures at reduced voltages. However, the intrinsic error resiliency of NNs to small synaptic weight perturbations enables us to scale the operating voltage of the 6TSRAM. Our analysis on a widely used digit recognition dataset indicates that the voltage can be scaled by 200mV from the nominal operating voltage (950mV) for practically no loss (less than 0.5%) in accuracy (22nm predictive technology). Scaling beyond that causes substantial performance degradation owing to increased probability of failures in the MSBs of the synaptic weights. We, therefore propose a significance driven hybrid 8T-6T SRAM, wherein the sensitive MSBs are stored in 8T bitcells that are robust at scaled voltages due to decoupled read and write paths. In an effort to further minimize the area penalty, we present a synaptic-sensitivity driven hybrid memory architecture consisting of multiple 8T-6T SRAM banks. Our circuit to system-level simulation framework shows that the proposed synaptic-sensitivity driven architecture provides a 30.91% reduction in the memory access power with a 10.41% area overhead, for less than 1% loss in the classification accuracy.Comment: Accepted in Design, Automation and Test in Europe 2016 conference (DATE-2016

Status and overview of development of the Silicon Pixel Detector for the PHENIX experiment at the BNL RHIC

We have developed a silicon pixel detector to enhance the physics capabilities of the PHENIX experiment. This detector, consisting of two layers of sensors, will be installed around the beam pipe at the collision point and covers a pseudo-rapidity of | \eta | < 1.2 and an azimuth angle of | \phi | ~ 2{\pi}. The detector uses 200 um thick silicon sensors and readout chips developed for the ALICE experiment. In order to meet the PHENIX DAQ readout requirements, it is necessary to read out 4 readout chips in parallel. The physics goals of PHENIX require that radiation thickness of the detector be minimized. To meet these criteria, the detector has been designed and developed. In this paper, we report the current status of the development, especially the development of the low-mass readout bus and the front-end readout electronics.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures and 1 table in DOCX (Word 2007); PIXEL 2008 workshop proceedings, will be published in the Proceedings Section of JINST(Journal of Instrumentation

Digital maturity variables and their impact on the enterprise architecture layers

This study examines the variables of digital maturity of companies. The framework for enterprise architectures Archimate 3.0 is used to compare the variables. The variables are assigned to the six layers of architecture: Strategy, Business Environment, Applications, Technology, Physical and Implementation and Migration. On the basis of a literature overview, 15 “digital maturity models” with a total of 147 variables are analyzed. The databases Scopus, EBSCO – Business Source Premier and ProQuest are used for this purpose