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A literature review on the challenges of eHealth implementation in developing countries among rural folks: A case of Ghana

AIM: The aim of this research study is to investigate the challenges of eHealth implementation in developing countries among rural folks, a case of Ghana. BACKGROUND: The usage of technology in delivering and providing healthcare is ubiquitous worldwide. In spite of the potential advantages of eHealth, implementation of these systems is frequently reported as challenging. The health care system of several developing countries, like the present situation in Ghana, is so beset with numerous challenges and issues. Ghana is still in its nascent stages of achieving meaningful use of the technology in the rural areas of the country. METHOD: The chosen research method is descriptive literature review. The Inductive Content Analysis and Normalization Process Theory Coding Framework was used to analyse the data. FINDINGS: Lack of ICT infrastructure, electric power supply and basic ICT knowledge or skills has been some of the challenges facing eHealth implementation in developing countries using Ghana as the case study. Lack of infrastructure in the rural areas makes the rural folks not able to access the internet, besides electric power supply is not available this makes it even difficult to fix ICT infrastructure which relies on electric power to operate due to this ICT knowledge and skills is low among the rural folks. CONCLUSIONS: When these challenges concerning eHealth implementation in the rural communities have been resolved, will the rural areas be able to appreciate the enormous remunerations that eHealth solutions provide.
Safety implementation of adaptive embedded control components

The paper deals with dynamic reconfigurations of component-based adaptive embedded control systems to be automatically handled at run-time by intelligent agents. We define a Control Component as a software unit supporting control tasks of the system which is assumed to be a network of components with precedence constraints. We assume a reconfiguration scenario as any run-time operation allowing the addition, removal or update of software components to adapt the system to its environment. Several complex networks can implement the system such that each one is executed at a given time when a corresponding reconfiguration scenario is automatically applied by the agent. The latter is specified in our research by nested state machines to cover all reconfiguration forms of the software architecture, structure or data of the system. We propose technical solutions to implement the whole agent-based architecture, by defining UML meta-models for both Control Components and also agents. To guarantee safety dynamic reconfigurations at run-time, we define service and reconfiguration processes for components and use the semaphore concept to ensure safety mutual exclusions.
Negativity Bias: The Impact of Framing of Immigration on Welfare State Support in Germany, Sweden and the UK

Abstract How does the framing of immigration influence support for the welfare state? Drawing on research from psychology, specifically the notion of negativity bias and the sequencing of negative and positive information, this article argues that negative immigration frames undermine welfare support, while positive frames have little or no effect. Individuals take less notice of positive frames, and the effect of such frames is further undermined by the previous exposure to negative frames, which tend to stick longer in people's minds. The findings, based on survey experiments on over 9,000 individuals in Germany, Sweden and the UK, show that negative framing of immigration has a strong and pervasive effect on support for welfare. The article also finds some evidence that this effect is further amplified for people who hold anti-immigrant and anti-welfare attitudes or feel economically insecure. The effect of positive framing is considerably weaker and does not strengthen welfare support in any of the three countries.
Stemming Russia’s Informality

Growing informal employment in Russia raises concerns about fiscal sustainability, productivity, and social protection. Cutting through various data and definitions, this report finds one consistent outcome: informal employment is on the rise. As of 2016, Russia’s informal employment was estimated to range between 15.1 and 21.2 percent. The fiscal loss of underpayment by informal workers is estimated at between 1 to 2.3 percent of GDP. However, Russia’s share of informal employment is not that high when compared to other middle-income countries. In fact, countries such as Kazakhstan and Turkey, who have a similar GDP per capita as Russia, exhibit higher informal employment rates – 30 and 33 percent, respectively. Informal employment is a pervasive phenomenon in Russian labor markets, and its growth cannot be solely attributed to changes in the sectoral or demographic composition of the labor force. Rather, informality appears to have been growing across all sectors and particularly among workers without at least some tertiary education. Migrants tend to be more informal: the 2016 share of informal migrant workers (only partially captured in the surveys) was 26.2 percent, versus 15.7 percent of Russian workers. The increase in informality is attributed mainly to the lack of formal job creation, which in recent years, was close to zero. The report focuses on three aspects that affect informality: labor market regulations; taxes and benefits; and labor mobility.
Post-Positivist Approach to Factors that Influence K-12 Teachers’ Use of iPads and Chromebooks

This paper focuses on the factors that influence in-service teachers’ use of Chromebooks and iPads in K-12 classrooms. Fifty-one participants enrolled in online education programs at a university in the state of South Carolina participated in the study. Data were collected using an online survey and analyzed using an inductive approach focusing on important patterns across the raw data to come up with the themes. The results indicated that there were four main factors that influenced in-service teachers’ use of Chromebooks and iPads in their classrooms which were (a) Availability, (b) Familiarity, (c) Functionality, and (d) Targeted professional training. Implications for school administrators, teachers, and researchers are discussed.
Copy-Resistant Credentials with Minimum Information Disclosure

Public-key based certificates provide a standard way to prove one's identity, as certified by some certificate authority (CA). But standard certificates provide a binary identification: either the whole identity of the subject is known, or nothing is known. By using a Merkle hash tree structure, it is possible for a single certificate to certify many separate claims or attributes, each of which may be proved independently, without revealing the others. Additionally, trees from multiple sources can be combined together by modifying the tree structure slightly. This allows claims by different authorities, such as an employer or professional organization, to be combined under a single tree, without the CA needing to know (let alone verify) all of the claims.
A Qualitative Case Study of the Cultural Experiences of Undergraduates on a Study Abroad Program in Costa Rica

NACTA Journal • June 2017, Vol 61(2) Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine how College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) Leadership Institute participants experienced cultural adaptation during a seven-day short-term study abroad experience in Costa Rica. The CALS Leadership Institute is a 17-month program focusing on leadership development through, leadership modules, mentor relationships, service learnings, and international travel. The service learning experience took place in Costa Rica and provided the participants an opportunity to help with wildlife rehabilitation. Participants’ experienced the following stages of cultural adaptation: Initial feelings, cultural uncertainty, cultural barriers, cultural negativity, academic and career development, feelings throughout the program, and cultural growth. As participants navigated various stages of cultural adaptation, cultural integration occurred. Participants who focused on cultural integration took cultural adaptation a step further. Their actions fit into the culture while visiting the country, and they planned to incorporate portions of the host country’s culture into their everyday lives. The anticipation of integrating a different culture into their life signifies that the participant has moved beyond the adaption stage and into the integration or assimilation stage of cultural adaptation.
Mobile Robot for Overhead Powerline Inspection-a Review

This paper first reviews the development of mobile robot for overhead powerline inspection at home and abroad. Then, several typical inspection robot structures, their advantages and drawbacks are analyzed, and key technologies such as obstacle avoidance, power supply, fault detection methods are discussed too. Finally, the development trend and the application perspective of overhead powerline inspection robot are presented.
Research on Mass Image Storage Platform Based on Cloud Computing

With fast development and deep appliance of the Internet, problem of mass image data storage stand out, so the problem of low management efficiency, low storage ability and high cost of traditional storage framework has appeared. The appearance of Hadoop provides a new thought. However, Hadoop itself is not suit for the handle of small files. This paper puts forward a storage framework of mass image files based on Hadoop, and solved the internal storage bottleneck of NameNode when small files are excessive through classification algorithm of preprocessing module and lead-in of high efficiency and first-level of index mechanism. The test manifests that the system is safe, easy to defend and has fine extension quality; as a result, it can reach to a fine effect.
Risk-informed decisions for epidemics

Abstract Social media, an open and free platform containing large volume of user-generated content (UGC) is an ideal data source to achieve risk-informed decisions for epidemics. The probability and predictive value of how social systems deal with epidemics can be conceptually and empirically studied by monitoring social media data for formulating risk-informed decisions in improving preparedness and response to epidemics. ILI (influenza-like illness) surveillance by monitoring social media data offers opportunity to provide early warning signs for improving public health interventions. In this research, we monitored Weibo, a Chinese social media data on swine flu in 2011 to analyse the post content, the correlation with official surveillance data as well as geography distribution in order to verify whether Weibo is an effective platform for conducting risk-informed decision for epidemics.
Evaluating Gender and Equity in Elementary Education: Reflections on Methodologies, Processes and Outcomes

This article traces the path taken in India towards more rigorous and nuanced analyses of gender and equity issues in elementary education. It argues for the need to go beyond counting numbers of girls and boys enrolled or completing school and delve into the in-school, family and community issues that facilitate or impede successful school completion. Based on research studies and evaluations the article argues for a nuanced and textured analysis of gender and social equity issues that influence educational outcomes as well as frame educational opportunities available to girls and to children from socially disadvantaged groups. The article explores methodologies to capture overt and subtle forms of discrimination and exclusion in schools. The unique feature of this article is that it explores the systemic factors that have inhibited access and learning and explores research methodology adopted to capture the voices of children in schools and those who are out of school.
Online learning early skip decision method for the HEVC Inter process using the SVM-based Pegasos algorithm

High efficient video coding (HEVC), the latest coding standard, has an encoding complexity much higher compared with H.264/advanced video coding (AVC). The greater efficiency in HEVC is obtained at much greater computational cost compared with AVC. A fast coding unit (CU) splitting algorithm is proposed for the HEVC encoder, which early terminates the CU partitioning process based on an adaptive classification model. This model is generated by an online learning method based on a Pegasos (primal estimated sub-gradient solver for SVM) algorithm. The proposed method is implemented over the HEVC reference implementation on its version 16.7. Experimental results show that the proposed method reduces the computational complexity of HEVC encoder to 35% without any loss, resulting in a 1% of Bjontegaard Delta-rate gain in the low delay B configuration without any offline training phase.
Hamstring Strain in Soccer Players: Things the Trainer Must Know

with physical activity [12,13]. Frustration with hamstring strain is explained by the high prevalence of these injuries and by the prolonged duration of symptoms, poor healing responses and a high risk of re-injury rate [7,14]. Also Engebretsen et al. [15] found that previous injury was a risk factor for hamstring injury after reporting 76 injuries in 508 amateur football players. Ekstrand et al. [16] reported injury rates over seven consecutive seasons from 23 professional European Football clubs and found unchanged training and competition hamstring injury rates during this period. These findings may suggest that prevention and rehabilitation programs have not been effective. The purpose of this article is to highlight the main points that the professional soccer trainer must know about hamstring strain, treatment, rehabilitation, and the risk of re-injury.
An Economical Public-key Crypto-device for C/S and B/S Applications

This paper proposes an economical public-key crypto-device suitable for user authentication in large-scale C/S and B/S applications, such as e-commerce and e-government systems. RSA encryption algorithm is incorporated in the crypto-device together with the decryption algorithm of a newly developed cryptography, which is much more efficient then RSA in message decryption.
Piccole e medie imprese e corporate social responsibility: una review sistematica della letteratura

A great number of studies related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) have been published in recent decades, but only a limited amount of research has been dedicated to small and medium-sized entreprises (SMEs). Through a systematic review of academic literature of the last 15 years, our study aims to analyse the current state of research on CSR in SME contexts. In particular this study analyses theoretical viewpoints, methodological approaches, important results obtained from research, as well as suggestions for future studies on this topic. Our study may be valuable to both CSR scholars and practictioners, so as to promote and stimulate new research and applications in this area.
What Becomes of Chronic Juvenile Delinquents? Multifinality at Midlife

Popular in the field of developmental psychopathology, multifinality means that an initial condition or status can manifest in diverse outcomes across life. Using a near population of federal correctional clients selected from the Midwestern United States, the current study examined the association of chronic delinquent offender status on assorted life outcomes at midlife (average age of offenders was nearly 44 years). Although just 16% of the current offenders were formerly chronic delinquents, they accounted for 13.9% of current employment, 54.6% of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) cases, 54% of those at the 90th percentile for arrest charges, 45.8% of those at the 90th percentile for assaultive arrest charges, 53% of gang activity, 43.8% of lifetime traumatic brain injury, and 22.9% of lifetime mental illness. Logistic regression models indicated that former chronic delinquency was associated with 41% reduced odds of employment, 897% increased odds of ASPD, 81% increased odds of 90th percentile offending, 82% increased odds of 90th percentile assaultive offending, 144% increased odds of gang activity, 115% increased odds of traumatic brain injury, and 141% increased odds of lifetime mental illness. Former chronic delinquency has more consistent predictive validity among males than females and among Whites than African Americans. Multifinality is a useful concept to understand the developmental course of chronic delinquency and assess noncriminal yet nevertheless socially and societally burdensome outcomes.
Purposeful Independent Practice Procedures: An Introduction to the Special Issue

“If your students don’t remember what you taught them, did you really teach them? ” Many teachers most likely have made the following observation (or something like it) during their careers: “They knew it last week, but they don’t today! ” Assuming initial instruction of “it” was effective in the short term, a likely explanation for the failure to accurately and fluently retrieve skills and content in the long term centers on practice. It’s not necessarily that practice did not occur, but rather, the independent practice procedures and activities used were not optimally designed and delivered for a specific purpose. Without use of evidencebased, independent practice procedures and strategies, what is taught can be forgotten, fragmented, or poorly organized. In addition, seeing the results of their efforts dissipate over a short period of time is frustrating for students and their teachers. For this special issue, we use the term independent practice to describe when students practice newly acquired skills (e.g., skills that can be performed with 85% or higher accuracy) with minimal or no support for the specific purpose of long-term retention, fluid retrieval, and generalization. Some independent practice activities may involve other students if doing so makes pedagogical sense; however, students are still expected to complete some practice items independently. Other forms of practice, such as guided practice, are crucial within explicit instruction models; however, guided practice occurs during initial instruction, whereby the teacher provides high levels of initial guidance as students begin to practice and then systematically fades those supports based on student performance (Archer & Hughes, 2011; Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan, & Willingham, 2013). Although cognitive scientists and educational psychologists have validated a number of effective independent practice techniques, this information has not consistently trickled down to classrooms, resulting in yet another research-to-practice casualty! This is not surprising given the concept of practice in education is often misunderstood, misused, maligned, and somewhat ignored. For example, some education writers 850067 TECXXX10.1177/0040059919850067<sc>Council for Exceptional Children</sc><sc>TEACHING Exceptional Children</sc> editorial2019
Beneficios de la terapia asistida por caballos en las variables de la marcha en personas mayores de 18 años, con deficiencias motoras secundarias, ante un accidente cerebrovascular o esclerosis múltiple

El proposito de este articulo es analizar los resultados obtenidos sobre los beneficios de la terapia asistida por caballos, en variables de la marcha (equilibrio, coordinacion y control postural), en personas mayores de 18 anos con deficiencias corporales o fisiologicas, transitorias o permanentes, secundarias, ante un accidente cerebrovascular (isquemico o hemorragico) o EM (recaida-remision o secundaria progresiva), luego de haber participado en entrenamientos de dicha terapia. La metodologia utilizada fue una revision narrativa de la literatura existente, con metodo de busqueda sistematico, en las siguientes bases de datos: PubMed, SciELO, LILACS y Scopus, con el fin de realizar una actualizacion bibliografica del tema. Finalmente, se seleccionaron 11 articulos (revisiones sistematicas, ECA, estudio control) para su posterior analisis. Los resultados de estos articulos coinciden en que el uso de la terapia asistida por caballos pudiera ser efectiva en la mejora de las variables ya mencionadas. No obstante, la informacion existente en las distintas plataformas de busqueda es escasa, por lo que surge la necesidad de llevar a cabo estudios con un tamano de muestra representativo, en los que se utilicen las mismas escalas de evaluacion, con el proposito de poder objetivar y homologar los resultados. A modo de conclusion, se establece que hoy existen estudios, originados en diferentes partes del mundo, los cuales indican que la terapia asistida por caballos podria ser una herramienta efectiva en la rehabilitacion de los distintos componentes que afectan la marcha, como el equilibrio o la coordinacion, en personas con deficiencias motoras secundarias, ante un ACV (isquemico o hemorragico) o EM (recaida-remision o secundaria progresiva). En consecuencia, se podria considerar la utilizacion de la terapia asistida por caballos como una herramienta terapeutica, en el proceso de rehabilitacion de la marcha en personas mayores de 18 anos con dano neurologico.
Effects of Ethics and Performance Management on Organizational Performance in the Public Sector

This study empirically tests the effects of ethics management, performance management, and transformational leadership on organizational performance in Korean public organizations by using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) on data collected from 270 public employees. In examining the relationships among ethics management; performance management; transformational leadership; and organizational performance, this research also explores the mediating roles of organizational commitment and ethical performance that contribute to organizational performance. Informal ethics management and transformational leadership are found to increase organizational performance by reducing unethical behavior and improving organizational commitment in public agencies.
Effect of self-determined motivation in physical education on objectively
measured habitual physical activity

Grounded in the trans-contextual model, the purpose of the present study was to examine the role of self-determined motivation in Physical Education (PE) on self-determined motivation in Physical Activity (PA), PA intention, and accelerometer-measured habitual PA behavior among high-school aged adolescents. A sample of 394 Spanish high-school students (211 males and 183 females; aged 12-16 years) participated in the present study. The outcome measure of PA was established using accelerometry, whereas motivation toward PA and PE as well as PA intention were measured using validated questionnaires. Path analyses supported in part the central propositions of the trans-contextual model. Self-determined motivation in PE predicted the self-determined motivation in PA (β=.45, p<.001, R2=.26). Self-determined motivation in PA predicted PA intention (β=.51, p<.001, R2=.41). The predictive strength from PA intention to behavior was weak (β=.11, p=.011, R2=.21) with a statistically non-significant mediational model from self-determined motivation in PA via PA intention to PA behavior (β=.28, p=.231). This weak-to-non-significant relationship does not fully support the previous findings that have shown the feasibility of the trans-contextual model in charting the pathways from self-determined motivation in an educational context to behaviors in an out-of-school context.