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    Microcredentials to support PBL

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    University bulletin 2023-2024

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    This catalog for the University of South Carolina at Beaufort lists information about the college, the academic calendar, admission policies, degree programs, faculty and course descriptions

    Multilingualism and the Public Sector in South Africa

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    This book contributes to the discourse on language in South Africa with a specific focus on multilingualism and the public sector

    Digital agriculture: research, development and innovation in production chains.

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    Digital transformation in the field towards sustainable and smart agriculture. Digital agriculture: definitions and technologies. Agroenvironmental modeling and the digital transformation of agriculture. Geotechnologies in digital agriculture. Scientific computing in agriculture. Computer vision applied to agriculture. Technologies developed in precision agriculture. Information engineering: contributions to digital agriculture. DIPN: a dictionary of the internal proteins nanoenvironments and their potential for transformation into agricultural assets. Applications of bioinformatics in agriculture. Genomics applied to climate change: biotechnology for digital agriculture. Innovation ecosystem in agriculture: Embrapa?s evolution and contributions. The law related to the digitization of agriculture. Innovating communication in the age of digital agriculture. Driving forces for Brazilian agriculture in the next decade: implications for digital agriculture. Challenges, trends and opportunities in digital agriculture in Brazil

    Integration of energy and urban planning dynamics for cities' climate-neutrality

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    145 p.La sociedad se enfrenta a la emergencia climática, donde las ciudades juegan un papel crucial como concentradoras de población, productoras de PIB, consumidoras de energía, generadoras de residuos y emisoras de GEI. Con la premisa de mejorar una respuesta eficaz de las administraciones locales a esta crisis, este doctorado se centra en dar soporte a aquellas ciudades que están dispuestas a iniciar su viaje hacia la neutralidad climática (cero emisiones netas de CO2) y en cómo orquestar esta transición desde un enfoque local. En términos de planificación del proceso hacia una meta tan ambiciosa, esta investigación ha identificado la falta de integración entre las dinámicas de planificación energética y urbana como una barrera clave en esta transición. En consecuencia, el objetivo de esta investigación es mejorar ese nivel de integración por diferentes medios. Primero, a través de un liderazgo integrado de procesos estratégicos municipales; en segundo lugar, mediante el uso de herramientas y procedimientos de gestión de datos adecuados que permitan la integración de elementos energéticos y espaciales en la toma de decisiones; y finalmente, a través de una involucración adecuada de los agentes locales en el proceso de planificación hacia la neutralidad climática. Todas estas hipótesis son analizadas por 4 estudios de investigación conectados entre sí, y validados posteriormente a través de su aplicación en el proceso de coordinación del plan de neutralidad climática de Vitoria-Gasteiz

    Desarrollo de un software de automatización del soporte técnico para múltiples entidades

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    [Resumen]: El objetivo de este TFM es el desarrollo de una aplicación web empresarial enfocada a la optimización del soporte técnico ofrecido por una serie de empresas. Principalmente, el software estará enfocado a la optimización del soporte realizado a través de canales de texto, ya sea a través de redes sociales como puede ser WhatsApp o a través de un chat en su propia página web. El software pondrá a disposición de los operarios una serie de árboles de decisión que se adaptarán a las diferentes solicitudes que puedan tener los clientes. A través de los nodos de estos árboles podrán atender a los clientes de forma prácticamente automática, ya que dispondrán de todas las preguntas y respuestas que han de darle al cliente listas para ser fácilmente copiadas y pegadas al canal de texto. En caso de que el cliente sea atendido por un canal de voz, sólo deberá leer las respuestas indicadas por el árbol en cuestión. A medida que la conversación con el cliente avance, los operarios deberán avanzar en el árbol de decisión abriendo los nodos acordes a las respuestas del cliente. Para maximizar la eficiencia, múltiples operadores atenderán a diferentes clientes simultáneamente a través del sistema. Cuando un operario lleve demasiado tiempo esperando la respuesta de un cliente, podrá abandonarlo para no perder el tiempo. El sistema almacenará el punto de la conversación exacto en el que se quedó el operario inicial para que el cliente pueda ser atendido por otro trabajador de forma transparente cuando este responda. En cuanto a la estructura del sistema, se optó por una arquitectura cliente-servidor. El servidor está compuesto por un backend en C# usando .NET Framework 5.0 junto con Entity Framework y una base de datos utilizando MariaDB. El lado cliente de la aplicación se desarrolló utilizando React.js junto con otras librerías o paquetes de JavaScript que resultaron convenientes y se mencionarán más adelante. Todo el proceso de desarrollo se llevó a cabo dentro de la empresa ALDABA siguiendo una metodología de desarrollo basada en SCRUM. Aunque el software se desarrolló con un cliente empresarial específico en mente, dispone de soporte para múltiples entidades independientes que podrán ser gestionadas por el sistema.[Abstract]: The objective of this Master thesis is the development of a business web application that optimizes the technical support offered by a series of organizations. Primarily, the software is aimed to optimize the technical support done through text. It doesn’t matter If it is done through social media or through chat in the organization page. The software will offer its users a series of decision trees that will adapt to the different requests made by clients. Through the nodes of these trees, users will be able to solve the request almost automatically. This is due to the fact that the nodes will contain the appropriate answers that should be delivered to the clients ready to be copied and pasted easily into the text channel. In case the client is being attended via voice, the user can simply read the answers instead. While the conversation with the client is progressing, the user should advance in the decision tree opening the appropriate nodes considering the client answers. To maximize efficiency multiple users will attend different clients simultaneously within the app. When a user has been waiting for a response for too long, he can abandon it. The system will store exactly where the last user left the client. This allows a second user to attend the same client seamlessly when he responds, and without him noticing that he is talking to different people. Regarding the system architecture, a client-server architecture was chosen as an appropriate option. The server consists of a backend using .NET Framework 5.0 together with Entity Framework and a MariaDB database. For the client side a web application was developed using React.js in addition to another JavaScript packages and libraries that will be covered later in this document. The development process of this project has been made within the ALDABA corporation following a scrum-based methodology. Even though the software was made with a certain enterprise customer in mind, multiple organizations can be managed within the app.Traballo fin de mestrado (UDC.FIC). Enxeñaría Informática. Curso 2022/202

    System dynamics approach for digital transformation and complex policy design for the postal sector in Southern Africa

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    The key motivation of the study was to explore and enlarge understanding of the factors that inhibit and drive the performance of the postal sector in a dynamic setting in the context of Southern Africa. This study was prompted by the unsatisfactory performance of the postal sector in Southern Africa as measured by the Integrated Index on Postal Development (2IPD) an index used by the Universal Postal Union to measure the performance of Posts across the globe on dimensions of reliability, resilience, reach, and relevance. Postal operators across the world are faced with inescapable business model disruptions steered by the digital era, and Southern Africa is not an exception. The dawn of the digital age presents both prospects and threats to business models of the industrial age as digitalisation has resulted in a sustained decline of mail volumes as the core business of the postal service for the past 100 years. The substitution of traditional physical mail with electronic alternatives has been a threat that has unsettled the postal service for over two decades. However, the arrival of the digital age has quickened the decline of mail volumes at an unprecedented speed as the digital age diffuses to almost all sectors of society and the digital economy becomes the preferred platform for conducting business. A constructivist philosophical worldview, an inductive research approach, a Grounded Theory research strategy, and a qualitative methodological choice were adopted for the first phase of the research which was to identify the inhibitors and drivers that are prevalent in the postal sector. System dynamics was adopted as a modelling and simulation approach for the second phase of the research and aimed to conceptualise the interaction of the variables extracted from the insights gained from literature through a Grounded Theory research strategy. The ten dimensions that arose from the exploratory study were digital culture, adoption, customer insights, digital investments, digital ecosystem, operational efficiency/excellence, shared vision, digital capabilities, digital competitiveness, and diverging interests. These dimensions were further synthesized during the development of the system dynamics model, four key stocks emerged that are prevalent in managing digital transformation in the postal sector. The four key stocks (variables) that emerged were adoption, digital culture, operations capability maturity, and financial performance. The system dynamics approach revealed that the postal sector can be described as a complex phenomenon due to intricate interdependent variables that interact in a dynamic setting. The complex nature of the postal sector is further amplified by multiple feedback systems of non-linear relations. The results of the study point to the complex interaction of these variables that inhibit and drive the digital transformation and competitiveness of the postal sector. It is by grasping these complexities that decision-makers and policymakers could pull the levers revealed by this research to direct the postal sector toward a sustainable future. The system dynamic model (stocks and flows) was developed and validated with postal industry experts, and the verification and validation processes confirmed that the model outcomes are reliable and reflect the reality of the dynamics prevalent in the sector. The results indicate that the factors that inhibit postal development and sustainability of the sector include poor digital culture, poor adoption of the Universal Postal Union digital ecosystem, and underperforming operations capability and this leads to poor financial performance and unsustainability of the sector in Southern Africa and many developing countries globally. Different policy design and analysis scenarios were evaluated, and the outcomes of the policy design and analysis revealed that there are vital levers that administrators and policymakers could pull to improve the financial performance and overall competitiveness of the postal sector. The levers include but are not limited to factors such as digital financial payment services offered, support services offered, ePost and eGov services offered, e-commerce services offered, change of Chief Executive Officers in 10 years, unavailability of Enterprise Architecture blueprint, number of staff who attended Train-post courses, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) index, e-Government index, marketing effectiveness, adoption fraction, contact rate, drop out of adopters rate, non-compliance to electronic advance data, compliance to quality of service, operational expenses, rural population, universal service obligation paid, universal service obligation shortfall and other factors. The study presents a scientific and systemic approach to improve operations capability maturity as measured through the Integrated Index on Postal Development (2IPD) and the financial performance of the postal sector in Southern Africa. The novelty of the new body of knowledge lies in the mathematical equations developed and their application through simulation and scenario analysis to develop a robust solution to improve the business model of the postal sector in Southern Africa through the adoption of a digital transformation agenda and complex policy design. It is noteworthy to point out that the study confirmed the systems thinking principle that “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts”. This was evident in the results when the stocks were improved as stand-alone compared to when the improved stand-alone stocks interacted with each other in a dynamic setting. All stocks exhibited solid improvements when stand-alone scenarios were allowed to interact with each other in a dynamic setting.College of Engineering, Science and TechnologyD. Phil. (Industrial Engineering

    Digital agriculture: research, development and innovation in production chains.

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    Digital transformation in the field towards sustainable and smart agriculture. Digital agriculture: definitions and technologies. Agroenvironmental modeling and the digital transformation of agriculture. Geotechnologies in digital agriculture. Scientific computing in agriculture. Computer vision applied to agriculture. Technologies developed in precision agriculture. Information engineering: contributions to digital agriculture. DIPN: a dictionary of the internal proteins nanoenvironments and their potential for transformation into agricultural assets. Applications of bioinformatics in agriculture. Genomics applied to climate change: biotechnology for digital agriculture. Innovation ecosystem in agriculture: Embrapa?s evolution and contributions. The law related to the digitization of agriculture. Innovating communication in the age of digital agriculture. Driving forces for Brazilian agriculture in the next decade: implications for digital agriculture. Challenges, trends and opportunities in digital agriculture in Brazil.Translated by Beverly Victoria Young and Karl Stephan Mokross

    Teaching and Collecting Technical Standards: A Handbook for Librarians and Educators

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    Technical standards are a vital source of information for providing guidelines during the design, manufacture, testing, and use of whole products, materials, and components. To prepare students—especially engineering students—for the workforce, universities are increasing the use of standards within the curriculum. Employers believe it is important for recent university graduates to be familiar with standards. Despite the critical role standards play within academia and the workforce, little information is available on the development of standards information literacy, which includes the ability to understand the standardization process; identify types of standards; and locate, evaluate, and use standards effectively. Libraries and librarians are a critical part of standards education, and much of the discussion has been focused on the curation of standards within libraries. However, librarians also have substantial experience in developing and teaching standards information literacy curriculum. With the need for universities to develop a workforce that is well-educated on the use of standards, librarians and course instructors can apply their experiences in information literacy toward teaching students the knowledge and skills regarding standards that they will need to be successful in their field. This title provides background information for librarians on technical standards as well as collection development best practices. It also creates a model for librarians and course instructors to use when building a standards information literacy curriculum.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/pilh/1004/thumbnail.jp
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