Teaching Systems – Getting future IT entrepreneurs to see the full picture

Information is going everywhere. It is bleeding out of the Internet and out of personal computers, and it is being embedded into the real world. Mobile devices, networked resources, and real-time systems are making our interactions with information constant and ubiquitous. Information is becoming pervasive, and products and services are becoming parts of larger systems, many of these emergent, complex information-based ecosystems where participants are co-producers and where relationships between elements, channels and touchpoints are messy and non-linear. Still, by and large, within the area of informatics and information systems we teach management and design as if they were linear. Could we try something different? How would that work and what results could it produce in terms of both learning outcomes and student satisfaction? This paper details the approach we followed and the early results we achieved in introducing business and informatics students to entrepreneurship and innovation through a holistic approach in the 2-year Master in IT, Management and Innovation at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), in Jönköping, Swede

Cervical Bone Graft Candida albicans

Candida osteomyelitis in the current literature is an emerging infection. The factors contributing to its emergence include a growing population of immunosuppressed patients, invasive surgeries, broad-spectrum antibiotics, injection drug users, and alcohol abuse. The diagnosis requires a high degree of suspicion. The insidious progression of infection and the nonspecificity of laboratory and radiologic findings may contribute to a delay in diagnosis. The current case concerns a 27-year-old man with a spinal cord injury who, after undergoing anterior cervical fixation and fusion surgery, developed postoperative systemic bacterial infection and required long-term antibiotic therapy. After six months, a CT scan demonstrated an almost complete anterior dislocation of the implants caused by massive bone destruction and reabsorption in Candida albicans infection. The patient underwent a second intervention consisting firstly of a posterior approach with C4–C7 fixation and fusion, followed by a second anterior approach with a corpectomy of C5 and C6, a tricortical bone grafting from the iliac crest, and C4–C7 plating. The antifungal therapy with fluconazole was effective without surgical debridement of the bone graft, despite the fact that signs of the bone graft being infected were seen from the first cervical CT scans carried out after one month

Turtles and Ethics: Experiential Learning through Game-making

Experiential learning through games is becoming increasingly relevant as games exert an enormous influence on the imaginarium of newer generations. This paper details the use of a game-based learning process focusing on game-making in relation to ethical issues of digitalization for graduate education in digital service innovation. Within the context of a masters education, students from diverse knowledge backgrounds learned about and reflected upon ethical issues related to social media usage by playing, remixing and designing games using the Design Games Framework. This paper illustrates that game-making can enable non-designer students to work with ethical issues. There are good possibilities to explore ethics through designing tabletop games, and having diverse groups of participants can be advantageous. Using a qualitative approach based on observation and interviews, the paper contributes to the body of literature focusing on experiential learning through game-based approaches and to the consolidation of the Design Games Framework

Kinds of tags: progress report for the DC-Social tagging community

Apresentação efectuada na DC-2007 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications - "Application profiles : theory and practice", Singapura, 27 - 31 Ag. 2007

Meta-Analysis on the Effects of Octreotide on Tumor Mass in Acromegaly

<div><h3>Background</h3><p>The long-acting somatostatin analogue octreotide is used either as an adjuvant or primary therapy to lower growth hormone (GH) levels in patients with acromegaly and may also induce pituitary tumor shrinkage.</p> <h3>Objective</h3><p>We performed a meta-analysis to accurately assess the effect of octreotide on pituitary tumor shrinkage.</p> <h3>Data Sources</h3><p>A computerized Medline and Embase search was undertaken to identify potentially eligible studies.</p> <h3>Study Eligibility Criteria</h3><p>Eligibility criteria included treatment with octreotide, availability of numerical metrics on tumor shrinkage and clear definition of a clinically relevant reduction in tumor size. Primary endpoints included the proportion of patients with tumor shrinkage and mean percentage reduction in tumor volume.</p> <h3>Data Extraction and Analysis</h3><p>The electronic search identified 2202 articles. Of these, 41 studies fulfilling the eligibility criteria were selected for data extraction and analysis. In total, 1685 patients were included, ranging from 6 to 189 patients per trial. For the analysis of the effect of octreotide on pituitary tumor shrinkage a random effect model was used to account for differences in both effect size and sampling error.</p> <h3>Results</h3><p>Octreotide was shown to induce tumor shrinkage in 53.0% [95% CI: 45.0%–61.0%] of treated patients. In patients treated with the LAR formulation of octreotide, this increased to 66.0%, [95% CI: 57.0%–74.0%). In the nine studies in which tumor shrinkage was quantified, the overall weighted mean percentage reduction in tumor size was 37.4% [95% CI: 22.4%–52.4%], rising to 50.6% [95% CI: 42.7%–58.4%] with octreotide LAR.</p> <h3>Limitations</h3><p>Most trials examined were open-label and had no control group.</p> <h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Octreotide LAR induces clinically relevant tumor shrinkage in more than half of patients with acromegaly.</p> </div

Sensitivity analysis for numerical simulation of compressible flows in external aerodynamics

L'analyse de sensibilité pour la simulation numérique des écoulements compressibles en aérodynamique externe par rapport à la discrétisation de maillage et aux incertitudes liées à des paramètres d'entrées du modèle a été traitée 1- par le moyen des méthodes adjointes pour le calcul de gradient et 2- par approximations stochastiques non-intrusives basées sur des grilles creuses. 1- Une méthode d'adaptation de maillages goal-oriented basée sur les dérivées totales des fonctions aérodynamiques d'intérêt par rapport aux nœuds du maillage a été introduite sous une forme améliorée. La méthode s'applique au cadre de volumes finis pour des écoulements RANS pour des maillages mono-bloc et multi-bloc structurés. Des applications 2D pour des écoulements transsoniques ainsi que subsonique détaché atour d'un profil pour l'estimation du coefficient de traînée sont présentées. L'apport de la méthode proposée est vérifié. 2- Les méthodes du polynôme de chaos généralisé sous forme pseudospectrale creuse et de la collocation stochastique construite sur des grilles creuses isotropes et anisotropes sont examinées. Les maillages anisotropes sont obtenus par le biais d'une méthode adaptive basée sur l'analyse de sensibilité globale. L'efficacité des ces approximations est testée avec des fonctions test et des écoulements aérodynamiques visqueux autour d'un profil en présence d'incertitudes géométriques et opérationnelles. L'intégration des méthodes et aboutissements 1- et 2- dans une approche couplée permettrait de contrôler de façon équilibrée l'erreur déterministe/stochastique goal-oriented.Sensitivity analysis for the numerical simulation of external aerodynamics compressible flows with respect to the mesh discretization and to the model input parametric uncertainty has been addressed respectively 1- through adjoint-based gradient computation techniques and 2- through non-intrusive stochastic approximation methods based on sparse grids. 1- An enhanced goal-oriented mesh adaptation method based on aerodynamic functional total derivatives with respect to mesh coordinates in a RANS finite-volume mono-block and non-matching multi-block structured grid framework is introduced. Applications to 2D RANS flow about an airfoil in transonic and detached subsonic conditions for the drag coefficient estimation are presented. The asset of the proposed method is patent. 2- The generalized Polynomial Chaos in its sparse pseudospectral form and stochastic collocation methods based on both isotropic and dimension-adapted sparse grids obtained through an improved dimension-adaptivity method driven by global sensitivity analysis are considered. The stochastic approximations efficiency is assessed on multi-variate test functions and airfoil viscous aerodynamics simulation in the presence of geometrical and operational uncertainties. Integration of achievements 1- and 2- into a coupled approach in future work will pave the way for a well-balanced goal-oriented deterministic/stochastic error control

Analyse de sensibilité pour la simulation numérique des écoulements compressibles en aérodynamique externe

Sensitivity analysis for the numerical simulation of external aerodynamics compressible flows with respect to the mesh discretization and to the model input parametric uncertainty has been addressed respectively 1- through adjoint-based gradient computation techniques and 2- through non-intrusive stochastic approximation methods based on sparse grids. 1- An enhanced goal-oriented mesh adaptation method based on aerodynamic functional total derivatives with respect to mesh coordinates in a RANS finite-volume mono-block and non-matching multi-block structured grid framework is introduced. Applications to 2D RANS flow about an airfoil in transonic and detached subsonic conditions for the drag coefficient estimation are presented. The asset of the proposed method is patent. 2- The generalized Polynomial Chaos in its sparse pseudospectral form and stochastic collocation methods based on both isotropic and dimension-adapted sparse grids obtained through an improved dimension-adaptivity method driven by global sensitivity analysis are considered. The stochastic approximations efficiency is assessed on multi-variate test functions and airfoil viscous aerodynamics simulation in the presence of geometrical and operational uncertainties. Integration of achievements 1- and 2- into a coupled approach in future work will pave the way for a well-balanced goal-oriented deterministic/stochastic error control.L'analyse de sensibilité pour la simulation numérique des écoulements compressibles en aérodynamique externe par rapport à la discrétisation de maillage et aux incertitudes liées à des paramètres d'entrées du modèle a été traitée 1- par le moyen des méthodes adjointes pour le calcul de gradient et 2- par approximations stochastiques non-intrusives basées sur des grilles creuses. 1- Une méthode d'adaptation de maillages goal-oriented basée sur les dérivées totales des fonctions aérodynamiques d'intérêt par rapport aux nœuds du maillage a été introduite sous une forme améliorée. La méthode s'applique au cadre de volumes finis pour des écoulements RANS pour des maillages mono-bloc et multi-bloc structurés. Des applications 2D pour des écoulements transsoniques ainsi que subsonique détaché atour d'un profil pour l'estimation du coefficient de traînée sont présentées. L'apport de la méthode proposée est vérifié. 2- Les méthodes du polynôme de chaos généralisé sous forme pseudospectrale creuse et de la collocation stochastique construite sur des grilles creuses isotropes et anisotropes sont examinées. Les maillages anisotropes sont obtenus par le biais d'une méthode adaptive basée sur l'analyse de sensibilité globale. L'efficacité des ces approximations est testée avec des fonctions test et des écoulements aérodynamiques visqueux autour d'un profil en présence d'incertitudes géométriques et opérationnelles. L'intégration des méthodes et aboutissements 1- et 2- dans une approche couplée permettrait de contrôler de façon équilibrée l'erreur déterministe/stochastique goal-oriented

“I Work Here”: Cross-channel, Blended Spaces, and the Challenges of Digimodernism

<p>“I Work Here”: Cross-channel, Blended Spaces, and the Challenges of Digimodernism</p><p>（Long Abstract）</p

Les architectures d’information

L’article soutient que, dans le cadre du passage du paradigme postmoderniste au paradigme pseudo-moderniste, l’environnement technologique, économique, social et culturel a profondément modifié l’architecture de l’information depuis les années 1990. D’une approche essentiellement centrée sur la conception de sites web, le champ s’est ouvert à des théories et des pratiques professionnelles intégrant le design, la pensée systémique, l’architecture, les sciences cognitives, les études culturelles et les nouveaux médias. S’appuyant sur des exemples précis, l’article affirme que l’architecture de l’information contemporaine est un cadre fondamentalement multi-disciplinaire qui appréhende les objets culturels dans leur complexité, par rapport à leur sens global et comme des écosystèmes informationnels transmédias.The paper maintains that in the epistemological shift from postmodernism to pseudo-modernism, technological, economic, social, and cultural elements of change have thoroughly transformed the scenario in which information architecture operated in the late 1990s and have eroded its channel-specific connotation as a website-only, inductive activity, opening the field up to contributions coming from the theory and practice of design and systems thinking, architecture, cognitive science, cultural studies and new media. The paper argues, through a thorough discussions of causes and effects and selected examples taken from the practice, that contemporary information architecture can be thus framed as a fundamentally multi-disciplinary sense-making cultural construct concerned with the structural integrity of meaning in complex, information-based cross-channel ecosystems