Citizens’ Juries: When Older Adults Deliberate on the Benefits and Risks of Smart Health and Smart Homes

open access articleBackground: Technology-enabled healthcare or smart health has provided a wealth of products and services to enable older people to monitor and manage their own health conditions at home, thereby maintaining independence, whilst also reducing healthcare costs. However, despite the growing ubiquity of smart health, innovations are often technically driven, and the older user does not often have input into design. The purpose of the current study was to facilitate a debate about the positive and negative perceptions and attitudes towards digital health technologies. Methods: We conducted citizens’ juries to enable a deliberative inquiry into the benefits and risks of smart health technologies and systems. Transcriptions of group discussions were interpreted from a perspective of life-worlds versus systems-worlds. Results: Twenty-three participants of diverse demographics contributed to the debate. Views of older people were felt to be frequently ignored by organisations implementing systems and technologies. Participants demonstrated diverse levels of digital literacy and a range of concerns about misuse of technology. Conclusion: Our interpretation contrasted the life-world of experiences, hopes, and fears with the systems-world of surveillance, e ciencies, and risks. This interpretation o ers new perspectives on involving older people in co-design and governance of smart health and smart homes

Fracture toughness of HSLA coiled tubing used in oil wells operations

Coiled Tubings are thin walled steel tubes of 25-89 mm diameter and thousands meters long, used in the oil industry for production and maintenance services. They suffer plastic deformation during unwinding of the reel, passing through a goosneck arch guide and an injector unit. Strain levels are of 2-3%, making the tubing fail by low cycle fatigue in around 100 wrap-unwrap cycles. As coiled tubing material generally behaves in a ductile manner at surface and down well temperatures, the R curve has to be known to make instability analyses. J-R curves were determined to characterize the fracture toughness of nonused coiled tubing, using nonstandard specimens due to difficulties with their small thickness and diameters. Different crack lengths and crack locations were tested to analyze the 2C 0W ratio and the influence of the longitudinal weld. The R curves obtained show crack arc length dependence and are influenced by the position of the longitudinal weld.Fil: Wainstein, Jessica Elvira. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia "san Juan Bosco". Facultad de Ingeniería - Sede Comodoro. Departamento de Mecanica; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Perez Ipiña, Juan Elias. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Facultad de Ingeniería. Grupo de Mecánica de Fractura; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin

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Este estudio tuvo como objetivo determinar la relación entre los esquemas desadaptativos tempranos y adicción a redes sociales en estudiantes del VII ciclo de una institución educativa nacional de Lambayeque, así como conocer la relación con sus dimensiones correspondientes a la última variable mencionada y determinar la presencia de los constructos. Para ello, se desarrolló un estudio correlacional, no experimental, transversal, en el cual la muestra estuvo conformada por 237 estudiantes mujeres de 3ero a 5to de secundaria, quienes resolvieron dos cuestionarios para medir los constructos antes planteados. Se recogieron los datos y se analizó la correlación mediante el coeficiente de correlación de Spearman, determinando que los esquemas desadaptativos tempranos muestran correlaciones directas y con débil con la adicción a las redes sociales; asimismo, en su mayoría, los esquemas desadaptativos tempranos presentan un nivel medio y la adicción a redes sociales un nivel bajo. Finalmente, los esquemas desadaptativos tempranos muestran correlaciones positivas y débiles con las dimensiones de la variable adicción a redes sociales; concluyéndose a modo general que, entre mayor estructuración de los esquemas tenga la persona, mayor será el nivel de adicción a redes sociales experimentado

Diseño de un modelo de clima organizacional en el área administrativa de la corporación universitaria del huila – corhuila

El propósito de este trabajo se enmarca en el interés de la organización por ofrecer servicios educativos de calidad, por lo tanto, propende por ambientes sanos, relacionados con la cultura organizacional de tal forma, que, permita una percepción favorable y de calidad en la prestación de estos. En este contexto, el área administrativa de la Corporación Universitaria del Huila – Corhuila, tiene amplios desafíos para el cumplimiento de cada una de las metas trazadas, por lo que debe cumplir a cabalidad con normas, estándares, indicadores que deben estar encaminados en cumplir con las necesidades de los colaboradores, para que haya una relación con la satisfacción de los requerimientos de los usuarios de los servicios, y que involucre elementos como: filosofía institucional, estructura organizacional, participación, instalaciones y elementos de trabajo, holismo y sinergia, liderazgo, toma de decisiones, gratificación laboral, desarrollo personal, relaciones interpersonales, calidad del servicio, solución de conflictos entre otros, los cuales se analizarán con el desarrollo del instrumento de aplicación, centrados específicamente en el personal del área administrativa, por lo que los resultados favorecieron el clima organizacional y por ende el comportamiento de cada uno de los colaboradores. Entre las diversas teorías y estudios de tipo administrativo, se proponen aspectos relacionados con la administración del recurso humano en procesos de cambio organizacional desde la gestión del clima organizacional, factor motivante para el desarrollo y crecimiento de las mismas, y que para el caso de estudio es la Corporación Universitaria del Huila – Corhuila, en su área administrativa, por lo que se hace necesario mantener relaciones armónicas, de constante empatía entre sus funcionarios que facilite y contribuya con la oferta de servicios de educación superior.The purpose of this work is part of the interest of the organization to offer quality educational services, therefore, it tends towards healthy environments, related to the organizational culture in such a way that it allows a favorable perception and quality in the provision. thereof. In this context, the administrative area of the University Corporation of Huila - Corhuila, has wide challenges for the fulfillment of each one of the outlined goals, for which it must fully comply with norms, standards, indicators that must be aimed at meeting the needs of the collaborators, so that there is a relationship with the satisfaction of the requirements of the users of the services, and that it involves elements such as: institutional philosophy, organizational structure, participation, facilities and work elements, holism and synergy, leadership, decision making, job gratification, personal development, interpersonal relationships, service quality, conflict resolution among others, which will be analyzed with the development of the application instrument for the collection of information, specifically focused on administrative area personnel, that is, 23 collaborators, so the results favored the organizational climate and therefore the behavior of each of the workers. Among the various theories and administrative studies, aspects related to the administration of human resources in processes of organizational change are proposed from the management of the organizational climate, a motivating factor for their development and growth, and that for the case study It is the, in its administrative area, for which it is necessary to maintain harmonious relations, of constant empathy among its officials that facilitate and contribute to the offer of higher education services

Ferromagnetic proximity effect in a-Co_xSi_(1-x)/Nb bilayers: Role of magnetic disorder and interface transparency

The superconducting and magnetic properties of a-Co_(x)Si_(1−x) /Nb bilayers have been studied as a function of Co content in order to analyze the superconducting/ferromagnetic proximity effect in a system with strong disorder in the magnetic layers. As Co atoms become more diluted, the magnetization of the amorphous a-CoxSi1−x alloy decreases gradually, whereas their resistivity increases and enters in a weak localization regime. The superconducting transition temperatures of the a-Co_(x)Si_(1−x) /Nb bilayers follow a decreasing trend as Co content is reduced, reaching the lowest value at the boundary between the ferromagnetic-nonmagnetic amorphous phases. These results can be understood in terms of the increase in interface transparency together with the changes in the spin-flip scatterin

A comparison of presentation methods for conducting youth juries

The 5Rights Youth Juries are an educational intervention to promote digital literacy by engaging participants (i.e. jurors) in a deliberative discussion around their digital rights. The main objective of these jury-styled focus groups is to encourage children and young people to identify online concerns and solutions with a view to developing recommendations for government policy-makers and industry chiefs. The methodology included a series of dramatized scenarios that encourage jurors to deliberate about their digital rights. This paper compares two formats for these scenarios: live actors and professionally recorded and edited videos of the same actors. Results failed to show any major differences between formats indicating the cost-effectiveness of the video-recorded format and the possibility for others to run the 5Rights Youth Juries with the support of an online open educational resource

The digital workplace and its dark side: An integrative review

An intensification of digital working driven by Covid-19 has brought into sharp focus both the beneficial nature of digital workplace technologies and their potential dark side. Research has burgeoned in this area in recent years, but an integrated view across fields, technologies, dark side effects and outcomes is lacking. There are potential insights to be gained from compiling and comparing results and theoretical approaches. Following integrative review procedures, 194 studies were analysed to understand unintended negative consequences of a range of workplace technologies across disciplines and methodologies. The results demonstrate that considerable insight has been uncovered regarding certain dark side effects, stress in particular, in relation to e-mail and smartphones. However, a broader view of how they might manifest in relation to employees’ holistic digital experience of work beyond certain information and communication technologies (ICTs) is lacking, including a clear picture of objective demands of the technology with which these effects are associated. Much remains to be understood across the full range of dark side effects in relation to the digital workplace including the associations between them and how they relate to cognitive and affective outcomes. The importance of both theoretical rigour and diversity is highlighted