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Design Challenges for GDPR RegTech
The Accountability Principle of the GDPR requires that an organisation can
demonstrate compliance with the regulations. A survey of GDPR compliance
software solutions shows significant gaps in their ability to demonstrate
compliance. In contrast, RegTech has recently brought great success to
financial compliance, resulting in reduced risk, cost saving and enhanced
financial regulatory compliance. It is shown that many GDPR solutions lack
interoperability features such as standard APIs, meta-data or reports and they
are not supported by published methodologies or evidence to support their
validity or even utility. A proof of concept prototype was explored using a
regulator based self-assessment checklist to establish if RegTech best practice
could improve the demonstration of GDPR compliance. The application of a
RegTech approach provides opportunities for demonstrable and validated GDPR
compliance, notwithstanding the risk reductions and cost savings that RegTech
can deliver. This paper demonstrates a RegTech approach to GDPR compliance can
facilitate an organisation meeting its accountability obligations
Imposed versus affect-based resistance training intensities on adherence, session affect, session perceived exertion, and intrinsic motivation measures during a six-week program in novice female lifters
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) recommends that individuals perform resistance training exercises at a specific intensity based on external load (percentage of one repetition maximum; %1RM). However, only 29.6% of adults in 2013 reported strength training two or more times per week. Furthermore, individuals lifting at recommended percentages vary in their pleasure and displeasure. Self-selected exercise seems to promote positive affective responses, in part, due to the perceived autonomy. The effects of regulating exercise intensity using affect as opposed to imposed intensities as a means for improved fitness, promoting exercise behavior, and enhancing other psychological outcomes have yet to be established for resistance training. The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether affect-regulated exercise intensity during a 6-week resistance training program resulted in greater adherence than a traditional percentage-based exercise intensity. Participants included college-aged females (n=15; 21.53±1.96 years) novice lifters who completed baseline measures of their eight-repetition-maximum on the chest press, shoulder press, lat-pulldown, seated cable row, leg press, leg extension, and leg curl. They were randomly split into an affect-regulated exercise intensity group (+3; “Good”) or percentage-based exercise intensity group (70% 1RM) and followed a six-week unsupervised resistance training program based off of American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) guidelines. Independent sample t-tests were used to examine differences between groups for adherence, session affect, and session perceived exertion. A mixed methods ANOVA was used to examine between and within groups for the four subscales of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory. The results of this study indicated that there was no significant differences between adherence, session affect, session perceived exertion, and intrinsic motivation subscale scores between the two groups. The results add to and provide insight into the direction of future studies in regards to affect-regulated exercise prescription for resistance training for novice lifters
Digital Photography as Experience Artifact
Through the screen interface, the boundary between personal and collective experience is being redefined both spatially and temporally. Here, memories are given independent mediated existence, taking form in digital photographic artifacts that can be communally shared and manipulated into a synthetic continuum
Going beyond FADN: The use of additional data to gain insights into extension service use across European Union Member States
This paper examines the use of extension services by farm households across eight European Union (EU) Member States,
exploring the type of extension service engaged with, the degree of engagement and the type of information sought. The
impact of extension on economic, environmental and social sustainability is also considered. European data utilised are those
collected from a pilot sample of 820 households in 2015/2016 as part of the EU Framework 7 project FLINT, from which the
Irish results are incorporated further with Irish Farm Accountancy Data Network data. The results outline the key contrasts
across the countries investigated and suggest that the degree to which households engage with extension services is primarily\ud
infl uenced by national policies. In addition, this analysis indicates that the extent of this engagement has implications for
sustainability at the farm level. The final conclusions and policy recommendations in this paper support the development of a
large-scale version of the FLINT pilot survey
Critical elements of synthesis questions are incompletely reported: survey of systematic reviews of intervention effects
Objectives: To examine the characteristics of population, intervention and outcome groups and the extent to which they were completely reported for each synthesis in a sample of systematic reviews (SRs) of interventions. Study design and setting: We coded groups that were intended (or used) for comparisons in 100 randomly sampled SRs of public health and health systems interventions published in 2018 from the Health Evidence and Health Systems Evidence databases. Results: Authors commonly used population, intervention and outcome groups to structure comparisons, but these groups were often incompletely reported. For example, of 41 SRs that identified and/or used intervention groups for comparisons, 29 (71%) identified the groups in their methods description before reporting of the results (e.g., in the Background or Methods), 12 (29%) defined the groups in enough detail to replicate decisions about which included studies were eligible for each synthesis, 6 (15%) provided a rationale, and 24 (59%) stated that the groups would be used for comparisons. Sixteen (39%) SRs used intervention groups in their synthesis without any mention in the methods. Reporting for population, outcome and methodological groups was similarly incomplete. Conclusion: Complete reporting of the groups used for synthesis would improve transparency and replicability of reviews, and help ensure that the synthesis is not driven by what is reported in the included studies. Although concerted effort is needed to improve reporting, this should lead to more focused and useful reviews for decision-makers
A half-step in quantized conductance for low-density electrons in a quantum wire
We investigated the effect due to perpendicular magnetic field on quantum
wires where spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of electrons is not neglected. Based
on the calculated energy dispersion, the nonlinear ballistic conductance ()
and electron-diffusion thermoelectric power () are calculated as functions
of electron density, temperature and applied bias voltage. A low-temperature
half-step feature in , which was observed experimentally by Quay et al. [see
Nature Physics {\bf 6}, 336 (2010)], as well as a new peak in are
reproduced here in the low density regime. These phenomena are related to the
occurrence of the Zeeman splitting and SOI induced saddle point in the band
structure, where the channel chemical potential lies within an anticrossing gap
between the saddle point of the lower subband and the bottom of the upper
subband. Additionally, side peaks in far away from the zero bias for the
nonlinear transport, as well as a quadratic bias-voltage dependence of near
zero voltage, are predicted and discussed.Comment: 7 figure
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