Visions and Challenges in Managing and Preserving Data to Measure Quality of Life

Health-related data analysis plays an important role in self-knowledge, disease prevention, diagnosis, and quality of life assessment. With the advent of data-driven solutions, a myriad of apps and Internet of Things (IoT) devices (wearables, home-medical sensors, etc) facilitates data collection and provide cloud storage with a central administration. More recently, blockchain and other distributed ledgers became available as alternative storage options based on decentralised organisation systems. We bring attention to the human data bleeding problem and argue that neither centralised nor decentralised system organisations are a magic bullet for data-driven innovation if individual, community and societal values are ignored. The motivation for this position paper is to elaborate on strategies to protect privacy as well as to encourage data sharing and support open data without requiring a complex access protocol for researchers. Our main contribution is to outline the design of a self-regulated Open Health Archive (OHA) system with focus on quality of life (QoL) data.Comment: DSS 2018: Data-Driven Self-Regulating System

The Age of Urban Ageing. An overview of different social and spatial answers to ageing

The world is rapidly ageing: the number of people aged 60 and over as a proportion of the global population will double from 11% in 2006 to 22% by 2050. By then, there will be more elders than children (aged 0-14 years) in the population for the first time in human history. The process of demographic transition had transformed the age structure of population, clearly shown in the changing geometry of demographic “pyramids” towards the form of a “kite”, where older people will represent an increasing portion of the raw population. The shift toward more aged populations is not the result of some inevitable evolutionary development in the human organism but rather a product of a process of societal “modernization”, possessing social, cultural, economic, political and technological dimensions. The process of population ageing has gone hand in hand with that of urbanization and industrialization. Recent publications on ageing produced by the Population Division include the World Population Ageing series, offer many reports over the last decade. Thus we can say that the world is facing the “urban age” but also the “age of urban ageing”. Moving from the recent studies on urban ageing, the intention is to highlight the current spatial answer to demographic change. In particular, this paper tries to go beyond the description of today's “specialized” landscape for senior citizens. These planned territories are often characterized by exclusive design strategies. This paper presents two case studies, the first one is the planned retirement community of Sun City in Arizona and the second is the urbanization of the Costa del Sol in Spain. In both cases the role of elders is central, as actors and as developers, for shaping a new lifestyle and new housing models. From this analysis emerges a new way to “celebrate retirement” with some recurrent topics and devices. Through the comparison of these spaces, both morphological and social, emerges a specific scenario in contrast with the common landscapes where most of the population lives, and so even the elderly

DESAIN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN IPA BERBASIS ANDROID DI SMP N 2 TALAMAU

Penelitian ini didasarkan pada kemajuan dalam inovasi data yang menggabungkan pengaruh positif pada dunia pengajaran. Dimana saat ini bentuk pembelajaran sudah mulai dikolaborasikan dengan pembelajaran elektronik. Salah satu kemajuan dalam inovasi data yang berkembang pesat saat ini adalah smartphone. Namun pencipta melihat bahwa smartphone lebih sering digunakan untuk kesenangan semata, sebaliknya jika digunakan secara sah dapat digunakan dalam pegangan pembelajaran. Hasil wawancara penulis dengan pengajar dan siswa mata pelajaran IPA SMP N 2 Talamau, media pembelajaran bersumber dari buku paket dan internet, guru lebih sering menggunakan metode ceramah dikarenakan keterbatasan waktu karena mempersiapkan media membutuhkanwaktu yang cukup lama. para siswa mengatakan bahwa instruktur menjelaskan pelajaran juga cepat dan cenderung membosankan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk merencanakan sebuah media pembelajaran Ipa berbasis Android yang dibuat dengan memanfaatkan software  Adobe flash CS6 dan beberapa dukungan lainnya

Alpha Entanglement Codes: Practical Erasure Codes to Archive Data in Unreliable Environments

Data centres that use consumer-grade disks drives and distributed peer-to-peer systems are unreliable environments to archive data without enough redundancy. Most redundancy schemes are not completely effective for providing high availability, durability and integrity in the long-term. We propose alpha entanglement codes, a mechanism that creates a virtual layer of highly interconnected storage devices to propagate redundant information across a large scale storage system. Our motivation is to design flexible and practical erasure codes with high fault-tolerance to improve data durability and availability even in catastrophic scenarios. By flexible and practical, we mean code settings that can be adapted to future requirements and practical implementations with reasonable trade-offs between security, resource usage and performance. The codes have three parameters. Alpha increases storage overhead linearly but increases the possible paths to recover data exponentially. Two other parameters increase fault-tolerance even further without the need of additional storage. As a result, an entangled storage system can provide high availability, durability and offer additional integrity: it is more difficult to modify data undetectably. We evaluate how several redundancy schemes perform in unreliable environments and show that alpha entanglement codes are flexible and practical codes. Remarkably, they excel at code locality, hence, they reduce repair costs and become less dependent on storage locations with poor availability. Our solution outperforms Reed-Solomon codes in many disaster recovery scenarios.Comment: The publication has 12 pages and 13 figures. This work was partially supported by Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF Doc.Mobility 162014, 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN

PENGARUH PEMBERIAN JUS KUNYIT TERHADAP TEKANAN DARAH PADA LANSIA DI DESA LERENG WILAYAH KERJA UPT BLUD PUSKESMAS KUOK TAHUN 2021

Berdasarkan data WHO dari 31,7 % penderita hipertensi dan yang mendapat pengobatan dengan baik (adequately treated cases) diketahui hanya 9,5%. Dan pada kelompok umur 65-74 tahun ditemukan ada sebanyak 56,7% yang menderita hipertensi. Tujuan dalam penelitian ini adalah mengetahui pemberian jus kunyit (Curcuma Longa) berpengaruh terhadap penurunan tekanan darah pada pasien hipertensi di Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Kuok Kabupaten Kampar tahun 2021. Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh responden yang menderita hipertensi kategori sedang yaitu sistolik 160-179 mmHg dan diastolik 100-109 mmHg. Sampel 16 orang. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan purposive sampling. Alat ukur yang digunakan adalah Tensimeter, dan lembar observasi. Analisis yang digunakan adalah Univariat dan bivariat dengan uji T-Test, diolah menggunakan sistem komputerisasi. Dengan hasil diketahui bahwa, rerata tekanan darah sistolik dan diastolik pada penderita hipertensi sebelum diberikan jus kunyit yaitu 169/103 mmHg dengan Standar Deviasi 5.692, sedangkan rerata tekanan darah sistolik dan diastolik pada penderita hipertensi sesudah diberikan jus kunyit yaitu 145/90 mmHg dengan Standar Deviasi 5.799. Berdasarkan uji statistik terdapat Perbedaan Tekanan darah Sistolik dan diastolik pada penderita hipertensi sebelum dan sesudah diberikan jus kunyit degan p value 0,000 (<0,05) yang artinya terdapat pengaruh pemberian jus kunyit (Curcuma Longa) terhadap tekanan darah pada pasien hipertensi. Diharapkan puskesmas hendaknya menghimbau masyarakat untuk melakukan pemeriksaan tekanan darah minimal setiap satu bulan sekali agar penderita prehipertensi dapat mengontrol tekanan darahnya

L’importanza della motivazione in un ambiente educativo

In this article we will discuss how the concept of motivation in education, affects the learning process of students. Lack of motivation in education can undermine the process of their learning. Are students motivated to cumulating knowledge, without internal incentives (psychological, emotional) or external (social - education)? How to build a combination of internal factors and external motivational between lecturer and student, for learning function in the academicenvironment? All students, including teachers, are motivated in different ways and forms. For this reason, the educational environment is always very dynamic because each of the two components play certain roles. In the motivational aspect, the role of teachers in the educational process is the creation of a climate and a positive attitude that encourages learning and theirlong-term success. While the role of students is qualitative knowledge processing and being active in order to increase their academic. Increasing collaborative and communicative force between student and instructor are two basic factors of motivation for learning. The study will be based on a framework familiar with some of the main definitions of the term motivation andsome socio - educational and psychological theories, theory of Maslow, Herzbergs, McClelland,etc., to take a point of view from some of the perspectives and cognitive educational skills that realizes the motivation of students in the academic environment.In questo articolo andremo a discutere di come il concetto di motivazione in materia di istruzione influenzi il processo di apprendimento degli studenti. La mancanza di motivazione in materia di istruzione è in grado di minare il processo del loro apprendimento. Gli studenti sono motivati a accumulare conoscenza, senza incentivi interni (psicologici, emotivi) o esterni (sociali- educativi)? Come costruire una combinazione di fattori motivazionali interni ed esterni, tra docente e studente, per le funzioni di apprendimento in ambito accademico? Tutti gli studenti, compresi gli insegnanti, sono motivati in modi e forme diverse. Per questo motivo, l’ambiente educativo è sempre molto dinamico, poiché ciascuno dei due componenti svolge determinatiruoli. Sotto l’aspetto motivazionale, il ruolo degli insegnanti nel processo educativo consiste nella creazione di un clima e di un atteggiamento positivo che incoraggia l’apprendimento e il successo a lungo termine. Mentre il ruolo degli studenti consiste nella trasformazione qualitativa della conoscenza e nell’essere attivi per aumentare la qualità degli studi accademici. Aumentarela forza collaborativa e comunicativa tra allievo e formatore rappresenta due fattori fondamentali di motivazione per l’apprendimento. Lo studio si baserà su un quadro di familiarità con alcune delle definizioni principali del termine “motivazione all’apprendimento” e con alcune teorie socio-educative e psicologiche, la teoria di Maslow, Herzbergs, McClelland, etc., percogliere il punto di vista di alcune delle prospettive e competenze educativo-cognitive che realizzano la motivazione degli studenti in ambito accademico

Formative and Summative Assessment: Trends and Practices in Basic Education

At the basic education level, multiple perspectives on the purposes of assessment and the relationships between effective summative and formative assessments together present real, practical dilemmas and challenges for teachers, who are tasked with promoting pupils learning as well as certifying their performance. Formative assessment occurs throughout a class or course, and seeks to improve student achievement of learning objectives through approaches that can support specific student needs while Summative assessment sums up what a student has achieved at the end of a period of time, relative to the learning aims and the relevant state/national standards. In practice of balanced assessment, both summative and formative assessments are an essential part of information gathering. Depend too much on one at the expense of the other, the reality of pupils’ achievement in your classroom becomes unclear. A point to make about formative and summative at the basic education level is to question whether there is any value in making a distinction between them or whether the relationship is better considered as a dimension rather than a dichotomy. Keywords: Basic education, Formative, Summative and Assessment DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-27-06 Publication date:September 30th 201