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Santaella-López, Juan. "New technologies in humanistic learning." Comunicar 10, no. 20 (March 1, 2003): 184–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c20-2003-27.
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The new technologies should have a greater presence in the educational system. If their use is aimed at learning some meaningful and formative curricula, there will be no doubth of their positive impact in the development of a humanistic learning; on the Las nuevas tecnologías pueden y deben tener una mayor presencia en el sistema educativo. Si su uso va destinado al aprendizaje de unos currículos significativos y formativos, sin duda que incidirán positivamente en el desarrollo de una enseñanza humanística; si, por el contrario, el aprendizaje y la utilización de tales medios se desconecta de un saber reflexivo y crítico, su aportación a un sistema educativo más humanizado y ético será inexistente.
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Folegotto, Isabel Elena, and Roberto Tambornino. "New communication languages in education." Comunicar 11, no. 22 (March 1, 2004): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c22-2004-08.
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When e-learning use the new technologies of information, as the Internet and others, the educational process suffers from an important change by helping the interaction between student and the process, and allowing a more active learning and a better acce La educación no presencial, al utilizar los nuevos desarrollos tecnológicos para el soporte/ transporte de la información (informática, correo electrónico, Internet, distribución satelital de información audiovisual), produce un cambio sustancial en el proceso educativo al favorecer la manipulación individualizada de los aspectos simbólicos de la cultura, como así también facilitar el acceso al conocimiento distribuido. Esto lleva implícita la necesidad de desarrollar nuevas competencias cognitivas en el usuario. Por ello, es necesario realizar esfuerzos para comprender y sistematizar las nuevas formas de lenguaje asociadas a las nuevas tecnologías, como así también intentar su abordaje semiológico.
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Delalande, François. "Musical education in the new technologies age." Comunicar 12, no. 23 (October 1, 2004): 17–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c23-2004-04.
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A fact marks recent history: the relation between music and technology. But this alliance must be readjusted as the cultivated music previous to our age was based also on tehcnology, but a different one. Many different aspects of a change in music and its aesthetic, social and pedagogical consequences appear in school as a new enviromment of new languages. Un hecho marca la historia reciente: la relación entre la música y la tecnología. Pero esta alianza debe ser relativizada, pues la música culta anterior a nuestro tiempo también se apoyaba en una tecnología, sólo que no era la misma. Diferentes aspectos de una mutación de la música y sus consecuencias estéticas, sociales y pedagógicas aparecen en la escuela como entorno de la innovación de nuevos lenguajes.
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Comuzzi, Inés. "Communicational technologies in teaching training." Comunicar 10, no. 19 (October 1, 2002): 141–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c19-2002-24.
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Teacher training in new technologies of information and communication is related to the appropiation of aesthetic and cultural codes as tools which enable teachers to research and propitiate genuine ways of expression in their communities and changes in t La formación docente en nuevas tecnologías se vincula con la apropiación de los códigos estético-culturales como herramientas para que los educadores a través del lenguaje digital, investiguen y propicien formas auténticas de expresión de sus comunidades de pertenencia y de transformaciones en las condiciones sociales del contexto de aplicación de dichas tecnologías.
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MJWACU, THEMBISA. "Opportunities and Challenges of New Technologies in Media and Communication: The Windhoek Declaration." African and Asian Studies 1, no. 4 (2002): 407–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156921002x00097.
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ABSTRACT The author of this essay argues that the success or failure of development depends on the availability of technology. The invention and development of new technologies are instrumental in changing the way people live, the way people communicate and the way people respond to their environment. However, despite the advantages of new technologies, the problem of access remains an enduring one. In South Africa, access to new communications and information technologies is limited to a few people owing to the high costs of these technologies. Therefore, the mere acquisition of new technology may not help that much to end the underdevelopment of many parts of the world, including South Africa. Mjwacu claims that the imbalance or gap that the use of new technology and the failure to development the social infrastructure needed to use this technology can lead directly to an infringement of people's right of access to the media. She argues that the emphasis needs to be placed on establishing community-based communication systems in countries such as South Africa to advance both their technological and social development.
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Romero-Carmona, Juan-Bautista. "New technologies and musical expression; other languages in education." Comunicar 12, no. 23 (October 1, 2004): 25–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c23-2004-05.
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This paper tries to show a brief but profound view about new languages of communication introduced at school. On the one hand, the musical language included in the curriculo and the other hand the technological language spread in our society in order to transmit the importance of new technologies as well as the different posibilities that they offer to the teaching-learning process inside the educational area focusing on the musical educational one. Con este artículo se pretende dar una visión superficial, pero cargada de intencionalidad, sobre algunos de los nuevos lenguajes de comunicación que se han implantado en la escuela. Por un lado, el lenguaje musical recogido en el currículo y por otro, el lenguaje tecnológico extendido en nuestra sociedad. Se intenta transmitir la importancia que tienen las nuevas tecnologías, así como las diferentes posibilidades que ofrecen para el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje dentro del ámbito educativo, centrándonos de manera especial en el campo de la educación musical.
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Fu, Tingting, Huanghong Zhu, Han Hai, and Haksrun Lao. "A Time-Overlapping Multiplex VLC System for End-Edge Data Transmission." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2021 (August 5, 2021): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9970972.
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Communication is one of the most important foundations in the Internet of Things. Although some cutting-edge technologies, such as 5G, have greatly empowered edge computing, electromagnetic interference and pollution make them impracticable in many environments. The visible light communication (VLC) is a new type of wireless communication technology with appealing benefits not presented in radio communications. VLC allows a lamp or other light source to not only serve as illumination but also simultaneously transmit data. Although traditional VLC multiplexing technologies have been able to achieve a high-speed data transmission rate, they require all receivers to use the same modulation means. In many scenarios, various-type receivers coexist; it is costly to incorporate multiple senders to implement adaptive content distribution in on-demand services. In this paper, we propose a new type of VLC multiplexing system, which realizes end-edge data transmission through pulse position modulation (PPM), pulse width modulation (PWM), and pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) simultaneously. Therefore, one edge server can serve multiple types of end-users without interference. In order to evaluate the performance of the system, we conduct experiments with different settings of communication distance, communication angle, and different environmental light conditions. For three modulations, the proposed system can achieve a transmission speed three times as that for a single modulation, and reach the accuracy rate of up to 99% within the proper communication range.
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Skaržauskienė, Aelita, and Monika Mačiulienė. "Mapping International Civic Technologies Platforms." Informatics 7, no. 4 (October 21, 2020): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/informatics7040046.
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The new communication paradigm supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) puts end-users at the center of innovation processes, thereby shifting the emphasis from technology to people. Citizen centric approaches such as New Public Governance and Open Government in the public management research suggest that government alone cannot be responsible for creating public value. Traditional approaches to public engagement and governmental reforms remain relevant, however our research is more interested in the ability of a networked society to resolve social problems for itself, i.e., without government intervention. In seeking to gain insights into bottom up co-creation processes, this paper aims to collect and generalize information on the international civic technology platforms by focusing on three dimensions: identification of the objectives (content), classification of main stakeholder groups (actors), and definition of co-creative methods (processes). In view of a paucity of research on Civic Technologies, the content analysis will extend the understanding of this growing field and allow us to identify the patterns in their development.
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Franco, David, Marina Aguado, and Nerea Toledo. "An Adaptable Train-to-Ground Communication Architecture Based on the 5G Technological Enabler SDN." Electronics 8, no. 6 (June 12, 2019): 660. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics8060660.
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Railway communications are closely impacted by the evolution and availability of new wireless communication technologies. Traditionally, the critical nature of railway services, the long lifecycle of rolling stock, and their certification processes challenge the adoption of the latest communication technologies. A current railway telecom trend to solve this problem is to design a flexible and adaptable communication architecture that enables the detachment of the railway services—at the application layer—and the access technologies underneath, such as 5G and beyond. One of the enablers of this detachment approach is software-defined networking (SDN)—included in 5G architecture—due to its ability to programmatically and dynamically control the network behavior via open interfaces and abstract lower-level functionalities. In this paper, we design a novel railway train-to-ground (T2G) communication architecture based on the 5G technological enabler SDN and on the transport-level redundancy technique multipath TCP (MPTCP). The goal is to provide an adaptable and multitechnology communication service while enhancing the network performance of current systems. MPTCP offers end-to-end (E2E) redundancy by the aggregation of multiple access technologies, and SDN introduces path diversity to offer a resilient and reliable communication. We carry out simulation studies to compare the performance of the legacy communication architecture with our novel approach. The results demonstrate a clear improvement in the failover response time while maintaining and even improving the uplink and downlink overall data rates.
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McMullan, John. "A new understanding of ‘New Media’: Online platforms as digital mediums." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 26, no. 2 (November 5, 2017): 287–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856517738159.
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For the last few decades, media theorists have been faced with the understanding that the networked digital computer is the meta-medium to end all mediums. This places researchers in the curious position where online platforms, such as YouTube, cannot legitimately and directly be contrasted with traditional analogue mediums, such as cinema and television. To address this inconsistency, I developed the theory of foundation technologies and their respective proto-affordances, which demonstrates the existence of past periods of ‘new media’. These were brought about by the introduction of key technologies that each offered, at the time, a new and unique underlying affordance to a society. Each new ‘proto-affordance’ inspired social disruption, as new specific mediums were spawned – each remediating existing mediums of similar mode. This framework shows digitality as another evolutionary step in a line of foundation technologies, which includes the artefact, the machine and electricity. The theory of foundation technologies permits software-based online platforms, such as YouTube, SoundCloud and Twitter, to be called digital mediums, and thus aids in understanding their technological substrate and unique affordances. Justifying this relation between old mediums and new, digital, ones equips us to more effectively comprehend and analyse these platforms as to their social adoption and uses, cultural practices, implications and effects. This allows us to better understand and control our present, and even guide our potential future.
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Durkin, Barbara J., and Izabella V. Lokshina. "The Power of Integrated Wireless and Mobile Communication Technologies and Their Impact on the Corporate World." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking 7, no. 3 (July 2015): 36–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijitn.2015070103.
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This paper validates the progression and expected trends of integrated wireless and mobile communication technologies. Currently, these breakthroughs have allowed for high quality end-user experience with an acceptable level of usage and efficiency in business organizations. Forthcoming mobile broadband life creates new norms and expectations for end-users from the next business generation, who can utilize integrated wireless and mobile communication technologies in their full potential. Several scenarios from different domains illustrate the power of integrated wireless and mobile communication technologies and their impact on the corporate world. The models and scenarios show that the power of integrated wireless and mobile communication technologies is certainly in several orders of magnitude greater than the simple sum of their separate individual impacts.
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Omeri, Arti. "The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education." European Journal of Social Sciences Education and Research 11, no. 2 (June 10, 2017): 390. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejser.v11i2.p390-393.
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The technology is developing very fast in all aspects of life. Information and Communication Technologies as part of it are being introduced with a high impact in the lives of human beings. As a result they also play an important role in education. This research is focused on new communication technologies in education as it is a highly discussed topic nowadays. Then the most modern literature on the topic was analyzed. After reviewing the literature and giving credit to main theories, a questionnaire was conducted in three universities in Albania. Firstly it was conducted at two state universities in Tirana and Elbasan. Then it was conducted at a private university that uses the most modern technology in teaching. The questionnaire included both open ended and closed ended questions. Being a lecturer in two out of these three universities gave me the possibility to conduct the survey personally without much difficulty and in a relatively short period. These universities were chosen in order to evaluate the importance of using Information and Communication Technologies in education. Also it was very interesting to compare the benefits of using such technologies. Although all three universities are located in the same country the inequalities are easily visible. At the end of the study there are given suggestions in order to find the ways to improve the education system through using Information and Communication Technologies.
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Hinojo-Lucena, Francisco Javier, and Francisco Fernández-Martín. "Design of attitude scales for teaching training in new technologies." Comunicar 10, no. 19 (October 1, 2002): 120–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c19-2002-21.
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In this paper, the authors present a scale elaborated in order to find out towards training and continuum improvement in NICT (new information and communication technologies) of education professionals, since this attitude is negative to them. This may be En este artículo se presenta una escala elaborada con el fin de conocer las actitudes sobre la formación y perfeccionamiento en las nuevas tecnologías de la información (NTIC) de los profesionales de la educación ya que muchos no han desarrollado aún una actitud favorable hacia ellas. Ésta puede ser una de las razones por las que no las utilicen en el aula, lo que conlleva una falta de aprovechamiento de los beneficios que pueden aportar tanto a su trabajo como al aprendizaje de sus alumnos. Para ello, después se teoriza sobre las actitudes y la formación y perfeccionamiento en NTIC, finalizando con la construcción de una Escala Likert.
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Midor, Katarzyna. "New technologies and quality of customer service – case study." Multidisciplinary Aspects of Production Engineering 2, no. 1 (September 1, 2019): 548–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/mape-2019-0055.
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Abstract Nowadays, companies are increasingly forced to fight against competition. The number of competitors on the market is constantly growing, and customer’s demands on the products offered by the companies are increasing. The role of customers on the market has changed in recent years. Customers are more active than before, i.e. they started to actively co-create value, so they stopped being passive to the purchase process. Organizations that make appropriate use of the increase in customer activity can count on large benefits for the company. One of the methods to increase competitiveness is continuous introduction of new technologies based on the Internet, which recently resulted in easier cooperation between customers and suppliers, making and settling transactions, coordination of orders in the supply chain thanks to e.g. solution supporting electronic exchange of EDI documents. Therefore, the development of information and communication technologies has significantly influenced the development of organization through its improvement. This paper presents the importance of new technologies for the customer that improve the process of its service in a selected clothing sales network in Poland.
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Werner, Piotr, and Bartłomiej Iwańczak. "Impacts of ICT on the Spatial Differentiation of Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards in Poland." Miscellanea Geographica 19, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 64–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mgrsd-2015-0026.
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Abstract The development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has significant economic and social impacts at both the global and regional level. Some of these implications have been perceived as positive and unexpected. While both the positive and negative social and economic impacts have been highlighted in the literature, opinions on these impacts remain ambiguous. Those aspects considered to be advantageous include faster communication, ease of use, development in the range of services and revenues, and an increase in individuals’ free time allowance. ICT penetrates all branches of the economy as a set of general purpose technologies. New information and communication technologies ease everyday life, serve as tools to help people in extreme situations, e.g. accidents, illnesses or natural disasters, and are also the pillars of contemporary entertainment media. The usefulness of ICT has been stressed and loudly disseminated to a large extent by the media. On the other hand, these new technologies sensitize society in quite new ways to the well-known natural hazards that people have encountered in the past.
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Khamayseh, Yaser, Wail Mardini, Shadi Aljawarneh, and Muneer Bani Yassein. "Integration of Wireless Technologies in Smart University Campus Environment." International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education 11, no. 1 (January 2015): 60–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijicte.2015010104.
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In this paper, the authors are particularly interested in enhancing the education process by integrating new tools to the teaching environments. This enhancement is part of an emerging concept, called smart campus. Smart University Campus will come up with a new ubiquitous computing and communication field and change people's lives radically by providing systems and devices supported with smart technologies that have the capabilities of rapid respond to changes and circumstances without human interference, and it will be able to learn from these circumstances. This paper presents framework architecture for integrating various types of wireless networks into a smart university campus to enhance communication among students, instructors, and administration. Moreover, the authors study two possible applications to utilize the proposed networking framework: smart identification and social collaboration applications. An essential part to achieve the main principles of smart university campus is the deployment and usage of smart card technologies for identification and payment. Nowadays, there are several types of smart identification cards that support wireless technologies such as RFIDs and NFC. In both types, a card reader can read the card information from a distance. Moreover, in NFC cards, the card is integrated with the user's cellular phone. Social networking services (such as Facebook) facilitate online communication and provide a suitable environment for collaboration among students. As a part of future work, the proposed framework is deployed in the authors' university campus to find out the end-end performance and system usability.
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Santarremigia, Francisco E., Sara Poveda-Reyes, Miguel Hervás-Peralta, and Gemma D. Molero. "A Decision-Making Method for Boosting New Digitalization Technologies." International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making 20, no. 02 (February 16, 2021): 635–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219622021500097.
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Market acceptance of new digitalization technologies is low. To help to address this shortcoming, the following paper defines a quantitative decision-making methodology for the exante evaluation of the market acceptance of new digitalization solutions in the initial stages of design and development. The proposed decision-making methodology includes a first evaluation, using Volere methodology, for the quantification of how useful the new digitalization solution is for the end users, and a second method, the calculation of the net present value (NPV) based on potential benefits in terms of costs and intangible benefits of the new tool. A new tool for the management of freight transport was used as a case study. The usefulness of a new information technology tool was assessed in six different companies. It was designed to help developers and decision makers in information and communication technology (ICT) product development, and company managers in the evaluation of technical solutions that might better satisfy their needs. Further studies could measure the power of this methodology by comparing the implementation levels of two different prototypes designed for the same function and with different Volere and NPV scorings.
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Gulati, Rakesh Kumar, and Manveen Kaur. "Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Inclusive Human Development: A Review." International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology 6, no. 10 (October 20, 2017): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.23956/ijermt.v6i10.76.
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Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) adoption is increasing globally for human development because of its potential affect in many aspects of economic and societal activities such as GDP growth, employment, productivity, poverty alleviation, quality of life, education, clean water and sanitation, clean energy, and healthcare. Adoption of new technologies has been the main challenge in rural areas and is the main reason for the growing gap between rural and urban economy. The work related ICT use have also yielded mixed results; some studies show the individual’s perceived work-family conflict, negative cognitive responses e.g. techno stress while others show increased productivity, improved job satisfaction and work-family balance due to flexible work timings. This paper attempts to understand the role of ICT in human development areas of health, education and citizen empowerment taking into consideration of digital divide which exists in geographic area and within the communities through literature review.
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Sirotko, I., A. Volobuev, and P. Romanchuk. "Genetics and Epigenetics of Alzheimer’s Disease: new Cognitive Technologies and Neurocommunication." Bulletin of Science and Practice 7, no. 2 (February 15, 2021): 89–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.33619/2414-2948/63/09.
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The 21st century Homo sapiens evolves and improves using new nano, bio, information and cognitive technologies that provide and focus on cognitive and creative processes. 21st century brain H. sapiens combines internal and external layered information into a single algorithm for structuring, routing, storing, and retrieving information in the present and future time period. 4P and 5P medicine, 5G medical services, next-generation sequencing and pharmacogenetics are new modern foundations of personalized medicine. The next-generation information and communication infrastructure of 5G for clients (patients) from the medical sphere is an intelligent border-cloud platform with an integrated cloud network architecture. Next-generation mobile technologies are being introduced in a modern hospital: from higher communication speeds to smart computing and additional reality. 5G medical services are a revolution in the medical industry. Neuromarketing and neurobytes, neuroimaging of consciousness and brain-machine interfaces, biorobots and biochips interact with the “external and internal hippocampus”. The result of human activity in a market economy and a new society is intellectual property. The heterogeneous nature of dementia (Alzheimer’s disease, Peak, frontal-temporal degeneration) and the various pathophysiological features of specific dementia highlight the need to develop separate algorithms based on current biomarkers specific to these diseases. Modern prognosis of Alzheimer’s disease is achieved by structural neuroimaging, cognitive testing, and biological indicators (genotype APOE-ε4) based, both on orders, standards, and clinical recommendations, as well as on the quantitative assessment of brain structures using neurointerfaces. The functioning of integrated neural systems through integration and analysis of dynamic hybrid multimodal neural EEG and fMRI information, combined with neuropsychological testing, will enable the geriatric clinician to manage healthy aging of H. sapiens.
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Pustišek, Matevž, Anton Umek, and Andrej Kos. "Approaching the Communication Constraints of Ethereum-Based Decentralized Applications." Sensors 19, no. 11 (June 11, 2019): 2647. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19112647.
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Those working on Blockchain technologies have described several new innovative directions and novel services in the Internet of things (IoT), including decentralized trust, trusted and verifiable execution of smart contracts, and machine-to-machine communications and automation that reach beyond the mere exchange of data. However, applying blockchain principles in the IoT is a challenge due to the constraints of the end devices. Because of fierce cost pressure, the hardware resources in these devices are usually reduced to the minimum necessary for operation. To achieve the high coverage needed, low bitrate mobile or wireless technologies are frequently applied, so the communication is often constrained, too. These constraints make the implementation of blockchain nodes for IoT as standalone end-devices impractical or even impossible. We therefore investigated possible design approaches to decentralized applications based on the Ethereum blockchain for the IoT. We proposed and evaluated three application architectures differing in communication, computation, storage, and security requirements. In a pilot setup we measured and analyzed the data traffic needed to run the blockchain clients and their applications. We found out that with the appropriate designs and the remote server architecture we can strongly reduce the storage and communication requirements imposed on devices, with predictable security implications. Periodic device traffic is reduced to 2400 B/s (HTTP) and 170 B/s (Websocket) from about 18 kB/s in the standalone-device full client architecture. A notification about a captured blockchain event and the corresponding verification resulted in about 2000 B of data. A transaction sent from the application to the client resulted in an about 500 B (HTTP) and 300 B message (Websocket). The key store location, which affects the serialization of a transaction, only had a small influence on the transaction-related data. Raw transaction messages were 45 B larger than when passing the JSON transaction objects. These findings provide directions for fog/cloud IoT application designers to avoid unrealistic expectations imposed upon their IoT devices and blockchain technologies, and enable them to select the appropriate system design according to the intended use case and system constraints. However, for very low bit-rate communication networks, new communication protocols for device to blockchain-client need to be considered.
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Carter, Sarah P., and Keith D. Renshaw. "Spousal Communication During Military Deployments." Journal of Family Issues 37, no. 16 (July 10, 2016): 2309–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x14567956.
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Military deployments are stressful for service members and partners. Communication is an important factor in trying to maintain a relationship during these separations. This article presents a brief overview of communication in long-distance relationships for context, then reviews articles on communication during military deployments. This review reveals that emerging technology has resulted in an increase in the ability to communicate during deployment, although some studies suggest that access to such technology may vary. The few empirical studies that examine new communication technologies have found that different media (e.g., video calling vs. letters) may serve different functions in communication during deployment (e.g., facilitating problem discussion vs. providing tangible reminders of the partner). Military specific concerns, such as restrictions on communication and the potential for communication to distract service members from their mission, also appear to be important factors. The article concludes with clinical and research recommendations.
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Garov, A. S., I. P. Karachevtseva, E. V. Matveev, A. E. Zubarev, and I. V. Florinsky. "DEVELOPMENT OF A HETEROGENIC DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT FOR SPATIAL DATA PROCESSING USING CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLI-B4 (June 13, 2016): 385–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b4-385-2016.
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We are developing a unified distributed communication environment for processing of spatial data which integrates web-, desktop- and mobile platforms and combines volunteer computing model and public cloud possibilities. The main idea is to create a flexible working environment for research groups, which may be scaled according to required data volume and computing power, while keeping infrastructure costs at minimum. It is based upon the "single window" principle, which combines data access via geoportal functionality, processing possibilities and communication between researchers. Using an innovative software environment the recently developed planetary information system (<a href="http://cartsrv.mexlab.ru/geoportal"target="_blank">http://cartsrv.mexlab.ru/geoportal</a>) will be updated. The new system will provide spatial data processing, analysis and 3D-visualization and will be tested based on freely available Earth remote sensing data as well as Solar system planetary images from various missions. Based on this approach it will be possible to organize the research and representation of results on a new technology level, which provides more possibilities for immediate and direct reuse of research materials, including data, algorithms, methodology, and components. The new software environment is targeted at remote scientific teams, and will provide access to existing spatial distributed information for which we suggest implementation of a user interface as an advanced front-end, e.g., for virtual globe system.
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Garov, A. S., I. P. Karachevtseva, E. V. Matveev, A. E. Zubarev, and I. V. Florinsky. "DEVELOPMENT OF A HETEROGENIC DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT FOR SPATIAL DATA PROCESSING USING CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLI-B4 (June 13, 2016): 385–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b4-385-2016.
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We are developing a unified distributed communication environment for processing of spatial data which integrates web-, desktop- and mobile platforms and combines volunteer computing model and public cloud possibilities. The main idea is to create a flexible working environment for research groups, which may be scaled according to required data volume and computing power, while keeping infrastructure costs at minimum. It is based upon the "single window" principle, which combines data access via geoportal functionality, processing possibilities and communication between researchers. Using an innovative software environment the recently developed planetary information system (<a href="http://cartsrv.mexlab.ru/geoportal"target="_blank">http://cartsrv.mexlab.ru/geoportal</a>) will be updated. The new system will provide spatial data processing, analysis and 3D-visualization and will be tested based on freely available Earth remote sensing data as well as Solar system planetary images from various missions. Based on this approach it will be possible to organize the research and representation of results on a new technology level, which provides more possibilities for immediate and direct reuse of research materials, including data, algorithms, methodology, and components. The new software environment is targeted at remote scientific teams, and will provide access to existing spatial distributed information for which we suggest implementation of a user interface as an advanced front-end, e.g., for virtual globe system.
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Pérez-Pérez, Ramón. "Literacy in the media communication: code and decoding of the digital narrative." Comunicar 13, no. 25 (October 1, 2005): 167–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c25-2005-023.
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The generalization of a technological and digital screen world shows a complex reality. Traditional communication systems and new unknown relation with other novel and strangers converge in this reality. The television already has entered the digital world. The digital technologies define a new universe of languages, of interactions and systems of relation. A new reality that is located between the real thing and the virtual thing. This world of «screens» has numerous edges that are necessary to analyze in all their dimensions and individual influences, social and cultural. All solution happens through a process of alphabetization in the new technologies of the communication. La conformación y generalización de un mundo tecnológico y digital, «de pantallas», presenta una realidad compleja. Convergen en esta realidad sistemas de comunicación y de relación tradicionales con otros novedosos y desconocidos. La televisión ya ha entrado en el mundo digital. Las tecnologías digitales definen un nuevo universo de lenguajes, de interacciones y sistemas de relación. Una nueva realidad que se sitúa entre lo real y lo virtual. Este mundo de «pantallas» tiene numerosas aristas que es necesario analizar en todas sus dimensiones e influencias individuales, sociales y culturales. Toda solución pasa por un proceso de alfabetización en las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación.
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Nakayama, Fernando, Paulo Lenz, Stella Banou, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos, and Kaushik R. Chowdhury. "A Continuous User Authentication System Based on Galvanic Coupling Communication for s-Health." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2019 (November 28, 2019): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9361017.
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Smart health (s-health) is a vital topic and an essential research field today, supporting the real-time monitoring of user’s data by using sensors, either in direct or indirect contact with the human body. Real-time monitoring promotes changes in healthcare from a reactive to a proactive paradigm, contributing to early detection, prevention, and long-term management of health conditions. Under these new conditions, continuous user authentication plays a key role in protecting data and access control, once it focuses on keeping track of a user’s identity throughout the system operation. Traditional user authentication systems cannot fulfill the security requirements of s-health, because they are limited, prone to security breaches, and require the user to frequently authenticate by, e.g., a password or fingerprint. This interrupts the normal use of the system, being highly inconvenient and not user friendly. Also, data transmission in current authentication systems relies on wireless technologies, which are susceptible to eavesdropping during the pairing stage. Biological signals, e.g., electrocardiogram (ECG) and electroencephalogram (EEG), can offer continuous and seamless authentication bolstered by exclusive characteristics from each individual. However, it is necessary to redesign current authentication systems to encompass biometric traits and new communication technologies that can jointly protect data and provide continuous authentication. Hence, this article presents a novel biosignal authentication system, in which the photoplethysmogram (PPG) biosignal and a galvanic coupling (GC) channel lead to continuous, seamless, and secure user authentication. Furthermore, this article contributes to a clear organization of the state of the art on biosignal-based continuous user authentication systems, assisting research studies in this field. The evaluation of the system feasibility presents accuracy in keeping data integrity and up to 98.66% accuracy in the authentication process.
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Mironov, Vladimir. "FROM HOMO SAPIENS TO HOMO SAPIENTISSIMUS." Chelovek.RU, no. 15 (2020): 208–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.32691/2410-0935-2020-15-208-216.
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The article problematizes the consequences of digital culture development. It is shown that up to the last third of XX century communication between cultures was realized as a dialogue of local formations, where human evolution was based on the human essence and was dominated by a cultural man or "Ho-mo sapiens". As a result of technological achievements, there was a transformation of the dialogue space of local formations. Communication turned into a core of modern culture. The paper analyzes the conse-quences of the introduction of new technologies. At the end of the work, the author raises a rhetorical question about the entry of mankind into a new stage of its evolution, where genetic engineering and new technologies can create a superhuman "Homo sapientissimus".
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González-Oñate, Cristina, Carlos Fanjul-Peyró, and Francisco Cabezuelo-Lorenzo. "Use, consumption and knowledge of new technologies by elderly people in France, United Kingdom and Spain." Comunicar 23, no. 45 (July 1, 2015): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c45-2015-02.
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Our population is ageing very quickly. This increase is added to the rapid, exponential breakthrough of new technologies in our everyday lives. These two factors are generating great interest and many studies have been published on how information technology and communication simultaneously exist in ageing western societies. This paper analyses the main habits of use and consumption of new technologies by older people, in particular, the level of knowledge and their level of education. The purpose is to analyse whether the technological skills of our elderly are sufficient, as well as to know if the audio-visual resources are appropriate. This study wants to know if the ageing society is prepared to handle everything the internet has to offer. This study has taken place in three countries of the European Union: the United Kingdom, France and Spain. An attempt is made to generate comparisons and conclusions that help to increase the opportunities and to take on challenges of our current digital society. This study has used a methodology based on surveys which collect information on the use and habits in the three countries and the level of media literacy, as well as the interest of our elderly in training in new technologies. La población está envejeciendo de una manera muy rápida. A esta realidad hay que añadir el exponencial y rápido avance de las nuevas tecnologías en nuestras vidas cotidianas. Este binomio está generando gran interés y muchos son los estudios sobre la convivencia de las tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación en los diferentes colectivos de las envejecidas sociedades occidentales. Este trabajo analiza los principales hábitos de uso y consumo de las nuevas tecnologías en las personas mayores pero, sobre todo, el nivel de conocimiento y preparación que tienen. La finalidad es comprobar si la competencia mediática en materia tecnológica de nuestros mayores es la adecuada, así como conocer la adecuación de la oferta audiovisual actual. Este trabajo quiere responder a la cuestión de si los públicos de una sociedad europea envejecida están preparados ante la gran oferta online. Con este fin, se estudian los datos de tres grandes países de la Unión Europea como son Francia, Reino Unido y España, intentando establecer comparaciones y conclusiones que ayuden a aumentar las oportunidades y retos de nuestra actual sociedad digital. Para ello, se ha utilizado una metodología basada en encuestas de elaboración propia en los tres países en las que se retratan tanto los hábitos de uso y consumo como el nivel de competencia mediática, así como el interés o no por parte de los mayores en la formación en las nuevas tecnologías.
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Rodríguez-Fidalgo, María Isabel, and Adriana Paíno-Ambrosio. "Use of virtual reality and 360° video as narrative resources in the documentary genre: Towards a new immersive social documentary?" Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies 12, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 239–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00030_1.
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Virtual reality and 360° video are some of the latest technological developments within the media and communications industry. These technologies, which are designed to facilitate viewer immersion, are currently being used to create fictional and non-fictional content, thus giving rise to a new audio-visual narrative. On the basis of these premises, this research article analyses how immersive narratives are applied to the social documentary genre in its social dimension. To this end, qualitative content analysis was performed on a sample of 49 immersive documentaries published on the WITHIN platform. This analysis, which was completed with quantitative data, allowed us to confirm that these technologies have enabled the development of immersive narratives, which has given birth to a new type of documentary – the ‘immersive social documentary’.
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Darginavičienė, Irena, and Jelena Suchanova. "LINGUISTIC ASPECTS AS CREATIVITY EXPRESSION IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED BUSINESS COMMUNICATION." Creativity Studies 13, no. 2 (May 14, 2020): 325–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cs.2020.12503.
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Business communication online has developed over time due to the constant change of modern communication technologies. Researchers affirm that digital technologies have both positive and negative impact on business communication. Creativity in business communication turns to be crucial in the realization of business opportunities. However, it is linked not only to imagination or original ideas. It also means innovation and innovativeness, the use of innovative digital technologies that help to fuel great ideas, enhance critical thinking, open new ways to business ambitions. The study is devoted to the analysis of linguistic aspects in computer-mediated business communication. Two types of digital business discourse – e-mail and websites of insurance companies – are analyzed with the focus on their linguistic features. From the linguistic point of view computer-mediated business communication differs from conventional business communication and the use of lexicon (e.g. special formal and standard vocabulary) is critical in making this communication successful. Grammatical features of business language are also of great relevance. Stylistic features employed in business communication are also crucial since they help to provide emphasis, achieve clarity and freshness of expression. Linguistic elements of computer-mediated communication in e-mails and analysed websites do not always coincide. The analysis has shown that websites tend to be less formal and compared to e-mails are more exposed to creative linguistic expressions.
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González-Prieto, Evaristo. "To learn for communication with e-papers." Comunicar 11, no. 22 (March 1, 2004): 152–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c22-2004-23.
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Electronic mass media are more and more visited by people interested in today´s news and they are becoming a referent to be taken into consideration. Schools should incorporate these new technologies in their academic curriculum, so that students become f Los medios de comunicación electrónicos reciben cada vez más consultas del público interesado en la actualidad y, poco a poco, son un referente informativo a tener en cuenta. Los centros educativos deben acercarse a estos nuevos medios e incorporarlos a su programación de contenidos para que el alumnado los conozca, observe sus posibilidades, los utilice y adquiera una más completa educación en comunicación. El presente artículo explica una experiencia con diarios digitales y pretende demostrar que también son útiles en las clases.
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Kimic, Kinga, Gabriela Maksymiuk, and Marzena Suchocka. "The application of new technologies in promoting a healthy lifestyle: selected examples." Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 43, no. 43 (March 16, 2019): 121–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bog-2019-0008.
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AbstractModern society is fascinated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), physical laziness, isolation from nature, and a preference for staying indoors. Despite the general acceptance and understanding of the health benefits of recreation in the open air, a change is being seen in the recreational patterns of urban dwellers, as they spend less time outdoors. In order to counteract such behaviours, we can try to apply ICTs to enhance time spent outdoors. The performed study aimed to find uses of ICT solutions in designing public spaces in order to enhance and promote a healthy lifestyle. The selected examples show possible applications of ICT in promoting active recreation, e.g. mobile applications for sport activities, urban games in line with the idea of the Playable City, and urban furniture and outdoor hotspots enabling access to the Internet. The research findings proved that digitisation is not only a threat to a healthy lifestyle, but that it can also create opportunities to improve the quality of life.
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Rüssmeier, Nick, Axel Hahn, Daniela Nicklas, and Oliver Zielinski. "A research port test bed based on distributed optical sensors and sensor fusion framework for ad hoc situational awareness." Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems 6, no. 1 (January 26, 2017): 37–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/jsss-6-37-2017.
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Abstract. Maritime study sites utilized as a physical experimental test bed for sensor data fusion, communication technology and data stream analysis tools can provide substantial frameworks for design and development of e-navigation technologies. Increasing safety by observation and monitoring of the maritime environment by new technologies meets forward-looking needs to facilitate situational awareness. Further, such test beds offer a solid basis for standardizing new technologies to advance growth by reducing time to market of up-to-date industrial products and technologies. Especially optical sensor technologies are well suited to provide a situational and marine environmental assessment of waterways for (i) online detection of relevant situations, (ii) collection of data for further analysis and (iii) reuse of data, e.g. for training or testing of assistant systems. The test bed set-up has to consider maintainability, flexibility and extensibility for efficient test set-ups. This means that new use cases and applications within the test bed infrastructure, here presented by a research port, can be easily developed and extended by installing new sensors, actuators and software components. Furthermore, the system supports reliable remote communication between onshore and offshore participants. A series of in situ experiments at the research port of Bremerhaven and in other maritime environments were performed, representing applications and scenarios to demonstrate the capability for the proposed system framework and design.
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Demertzis, Konstantinos, Konstantinos Tsiknas, Dimitrios Taketzis, Dimitrios N. Skoutas, Charalabos Skianis, Lazaros Iliadis, and Kyriakos E. Zoiros. "Communication Network Standards for Smart Grid Infrastructures." Network 1, no. 2 (August 3, 2021): 132–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/network1020009.
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Upgrading the existing energy infrastructure to a smart grid necessarily goes through the provision of integrated technological solutions that ensure the interoperability of business processes and reduce the risk of devaluation of systems already in use. Considering the heterogeneity of the current infrastructures, and in order to keep pace with the dynamics of their operating environment, we should aim to the reduction of their architectural complexity and the addition of new and more efficient technologies and procedures. Furthermore, the integrated management of the overall ecosystem requires a collaborative integration strategy which should ensure the end-to-end interconnection under specific quality standards together with the establishment of strict security policies. In this respect, every design detail can be critical to the success or failure of a costly and ambitious project, such as that of smart energy networks. This work presents and classifies the communication network standards that have been established for smart grids and should be taken into account in the process of planning and implementing new infrastructures.
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Zhurauliou, О. V., and O. A. Simachev. "Internetization and Global Institutionalization of Economic Systems." Statistics of Ukraine, no. 4(79) (December 20, 2017): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31767/su.4(79).2017.04.05.
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The article is devoted to the vital problem of the extension of the concept of globalization to Internetization in the context of the global institutionalization of economic systems.
Historically, the globalization process took various forms, and its meaning changed. This term was used for the first time in English language publications in 1930s. Its meaning was rethought at the end of 20th century in view of the radical structural change and technological achievements that had occurred in 1980s. The concept “globalization”, therefore, started to be used as a reference to “modern” economies and social processes of 20th century, including the exchange of money by use of Internet technologies. However, due to the diversified historic applications, this term can hardly reflect the capacities of electronic and digital technologies related with the information revolution.
Information and communication technologies have the key role in the new economy, especially in changing the structure of international production. The revolution in information and communication opens up immense capabilities for the inclusive development. The significance of time and geographic location has been gradually declining. The time required for connection has shortened to nanoseconds, and the communications are becoming even more extensive and dense. The geographic borders have been increasingly transparent in social, economic and political terms. The new economy, built on the innovation culture, puts emphasis on the creativity; the signs of the new global economy are new ideas, new technologies, new products, new areas and new initiatives.
Transformation in the contemporary global world is continual and related with global processes and challenges faced by the humanity in 21th century. It is demonstrated that industry 4.0 is penetrating into the economic world, and everything gives evidence of the convergence to the smart environment, with all the entities constantly connected to the network. It is proposed to extend the concept of globalization to Internetization.
It is demonstrated that technological transformations, if not supported institutionally, will widen inequality instead of resulting in effective transformations.
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Baron, Naomi S. "Redefining Reading: The Impact of Digital Communication Media." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128, no. 1 (January 2013): 193–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2013.128.1.193.
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It's not a book. It doesn't have a smell, you don't touch it …, you're plugged into the internet, you can't concentrate, it hurts your eyes, and you lose the beauty of the words behind this screen. Life itself is in hard copy. … Not this treacherous digitalism which has permeated our lives and our reality.—Respondent to survey comparing on-screen with hard-copy readingEach new technology may be janus-faced, potentially improving and degrading the human condition. The steam engine made industrial products cheaper and more diverse but contributed to the exploitation of child labor and proliferation of squalid urban living conditions. The automobile makes transportation more convenient but pollutes and leads to countless highway deaths. Calculators let anyone perform feats of math but have weakened basic arithmetic skills.A related conundrum holds true for technologies of the written word. The printing press helped spread literacy but shook the foundations of the Catholic Church. Word processing enabled the Japanese to generate text without producing each kanji stroke by stroke, but now many Japanese find themselves forgetting the stroke order. The spelling checkers in word-processing programs monitor typographical errors but dampen motivation to master spelling.Information and communication technologies have generated new platforms on which to read. The list includes desktop and laptop computers, e-readers (such as the Kindle and Nook), tablet computers (e.g., the iPad), and handheld devices (e.g., the iPod Touch, mobile phones). But does reading on these devices differ from reading in hard copy? If so, does our growing dependence on reading onscreen contribute to a redefinition of what it means to read?
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Dawadi, Babu Ram, Danda Bahadur Rawat, and Shashidhar R. Joshi. "Software Defined IPv6 Network: A New Paradigm for Future Networking." Journal of the Institute of Engineering 15, no. 2 (July 31, 2019): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jie.v15i2.27636.
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Recent advancement in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has encouraged all stakeholders to move towards the new networking paradigm. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addressing, Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are regarded as technologies for enhancing network efficiency and effectiveness. However, the technology migration becomes one of the central challenges for the stakeholders such as service providers, end users, and regulatory bodies. This is more challenging in case of developing countries due to lack of sufficient cost and skilled human resources. In this paper, we provide an overview and survey of SDN and IPv6 networking technologies, their benefits and future challenges. Then we introduce Software Defined IPv6 (SoDIP6) network as a next generation networking technologies and their unified approach of deployment over the Tier-3 ISPs of the developing nations that could help for speedy and smooth migration with optimized cost. The demonstrated superior features of SDN enabled IPv6 network from different perspectives with its contributions to green ICT are recognized as the networks of the future generation in the networking world.
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Skågeby, Jörgen. "Gift-Giving as a Conceptual Framework: Framing Social Behavior in Online Networks." Journal of Information Technology 25, no. 2 (June 2010): 170–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jit.2010.5.
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This paper explores the use of gift-giving as a theoretical and conceptual framework for analyzing social behavior in online networks and communities. Not only has gift-giving the potential to frame and explain much social media behavior, but reversely, and perhaps more Importantly, mediated social behavior also has the potential to develop gift-giving theory. Information and communication technologies form joint sociotechnical systems where new practices emerge. The paper focuses on describing the academic background of the gifting framework to help develop a deeper, theory-based, understanding of these sociotechnical phenomena. Three themes are prevalent In the gifting literature: other- orientation, social bonding and generalized reciprocity. The paper gives examples of how these themes are enacted by end-users via the use of Information and communication technologies. Finally, sociotechnically embedded economies, called gifting technologies, are Identified and discussed.
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Hancox, Graham, Sue Hignett, Hilary Pillin, Spyros Kintzios, Jyri Silmäri, and C. L. Paul Thomas. "Systems mapping for technology development in CBRN response." International Journal of Emergency Services 7, no. 2 (August 6, 2018): 111–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijes-08-2017-0044.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an EU sociotechnical systems (STSs) map to represent a harmonised concept of operations (CONOPS) as a future development platform for technologies used in multi-services emergency responses to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) incidents. Design/methodology/approach AcciMaps were developed to locate where technologies are currently used, and opportunities for new technologies. The AcciMaps were iteratively co-designed with end users (fire, ambulance, police and military) across three EU countries (the UK, Finland and Greece). Data were collected using document analysis and interviews with senior ranking (Gold or Silver Command level) representatives of the participating end users. Findings Despite differences in terminology and between service sectors, consensus was achieved for the command structures (Gold, Silver and Bronze), and Hot Zone responders (specialist blue light responders and blue light responders (BLR)). A control room was included as the communication spine. BLR activities were limited by their scope of practice and available equipment, for example, breathing apparatus. The harmonised EU AcciMap offers a high-level STSs map of CBRN response. Critical segments have been identified which offer opportunities for technology developments that can add value in terms of response capabilities (e.g. tag and trace). Originality/value A large scale major CBRN incident may need cross-border and cross-professional engagement where efficient interoperability is vital. This research is the first EU consensus of a STS map for CONOPS. It supports future research for technology development, e.g., detection and decontamination equipment design and use, communication, diagnosis and response technologies.
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Cebreiro-López, Beatriz, and Carmen Fernández-Morante. "The technologies of the education in the european space for the university education." Comunicar 11, no. 21 (October 1, 2003): 57–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c21-2003-08.
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The creation of an Europe based on the knowledge represents for the universities a great challenge. For it, the European Union has created the european space of the university education, across which the improvement of the systems of education and formation in the whole Europe are favoured. In all this process of change, the technologies of the education (TIC) appear as protagonists in the production, transmission and development of the information and the knowledge. In this paper one tries to think about the new role and the new requirements that the current society raises to the university. La creación de una Europa basada en el conocimiento representa para las universidades un gran desafío. Para ello, la Unión Europea ha creado el llamado espacio europeo de la educación superior, a través del cual se favorece la mejora de los sistemas de educación y formación en toda Europa. En todo este proceso de cambio, las tecnologías de la comunicación (TIC) aparecen como protagonistas en la producción, transmisión y explotación de la información y el conocimiento. En este artículo se pretende reflexionar sobre el nuevo papel y las nuevas exigencias que la sociedad actual plantea a las universidades.
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Patti, Gaetano, Luca Leonardi, and Lucia Lo Bello. "A Novel MAC Protocol for Low Datarate Cooperative Mobile Robot Teams." Electronics 9, no. 2 (February 1, 2020): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics9020235.
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Cooperative mobile robot applications enable robots to perform tasks that are more complex than those that each single robot can perform alone. In this application context, communication networks play a very important role, as they have to cope with strict requirements (e.g., in terms of mobility, reliability, and bounded latencies). Recent cooperative robot applications foresee the support of low datarate communication technologies, that provide, among other benefits, lower energy consumption and easy integration with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Unfortunately, the state-of-the-art solutions either entail high costs and complexity or are not suitable for low data rate communications. Consequently, novel solutions for cooperating robots are required. For this reason, this paper presents RoboMAC, a new MAC protocol for mobile cooperating robots that enables the integration of robots with WSNs, supports mobility and real-time communications, and provides high scalability. The paper also presents a proof-of-concept implementation that proves the feasibility of the RoboMAC protocol on COTS devices.
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Hakken, David. "Computing and the Crisis: The Significant Role of New Information Technologies in the Current Socio-economic Meltdown." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 8, no. 2 (August 28, 2010): 205–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/vol8iss2pp205-220.
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There is good reason to be concerned about the long-term implications of the current crisis for the reproduction of contemporary social formations. Thus there is an urgent need to understand it character, especially its distinctive features. This article identifies profound ambiguities in valuing assets as new and key economic features of this crisis, ambiguities traceable to the dominant, “computationalist” computing used to develop new financial instruments. After some preliminaries, the article identifies four specific ways in which computerization of finance is generative of crisis. It then demonstrates how computationalist computing is linked to other efforts to extend commodification based on the ideology of so-called “intellectual property” (IP). Several other accounts for the crisis are considered and then demonstrated to have less explanatory value. After considering how some commons-oriented (e.g., Free/Libre and/or Opening Source Software development projects) forms of computing also undermine the IP project, the article concludes with a brief discussion of what research on Socially Robust and Enduring Computing might contribute to fostering alternative, non-crisis generative ways to compute.
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Gimenez, Pierre-Francois, Jonathan Roux, Eric Alata, Guillaume Auriol, Mohamed Kaaniche, and Vincent Nicomette. "RIDS." ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems 5, no. 3 (July 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3441458.
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The expansion of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market is visible in homes, factories, public places, and smart cities. While the massive deployment of connected devices offers opportunities to improve quality of life and to develop new services, the impact of such devices on the security of the users in a context where the level of malicious threat continues to increase is a major concern. One of the challenges is the heterogeneity and constant evolution of wireless technologies and protocols used. To overcome this problem, we propose RIDS, a Radio Intrusion Detection System that is based on the monitoring and profiling of radio communications at the physical layer level using autoencoder neural networks. RIDS is independent of the wireless protocols and modulation technologies used. Besides, it is designed to provide a threefold diagnosis of the detected anomalies: temporal (start and end date of the detected anomaly), frequential (main frequency of the anomaly), and spatial (location of the origin of the anomaly). To demonstrate the relevance and the efficiency of our approach, we collected a large dataset of radio-communications recorded with three different probes deployed in an experimental room. Multiple real-world attacks involving a wide variety of communication technologies are also injected to assess the detection and diagnosis efficiency. The results demonstrate the efficiency of RIDS in detecting and diagnosing anomalies that occurred in the 400–500 Mhz and 800–900 Mhz frequency bands. It is noteworthy that compromised devices and attacks using these communication bands are generally not easily covered by traditional solutions.
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Damnjanovic, Vesna. "Touché solutions – response to “Y” generation." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20450621111114830.
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Subject area Marketing. Study level/applicability This case study can be taught in a marketing course MBAs students: (communication trends analysis, sales models analysis, strategic marketing decision). It can also be taught in a sales management course with focus on sales process analysis and financial risk analysis. Students should use quantitative criteria for the analysis: potential sales revenue, market potential and qualitative criteria: risk analysis, customer satisfaction. Case overview Vision of the owner of the company was to improve modern marketing communications using high end technologies – mainly touch sensitive technologies, by which the company was named. The case study “touché solutions” describes the example of new start up business as a small enterprise involved in high tech marketing interactive communication solutions in Serbia. Set in 2007, the company is having problems with profitability, sales negotiation and choosing priority business clients in 2009. Lazar Stojkovic, CEO has recently identified influences on the Internet, “Y” generation needs and new communication challenges, that led to conclusion that interactive technology provides the possibility of dialog with consumers and response to company's offer. Expected learning outcomes Understanding the differences between habits and customer behavior of X and Y generation; being able to understand the influence of media mix investments on marketing and sales effects globally, in EU and Serbia; understanding the obstacles and benefits of small enterprise and partners for financial sales agreement – new financial model; recognizing the differences between traditional sales model and innovative sales partnership model; being able to analyze and identify sales and market potential for business clients; understanding the model of accepting the innovation on the market. Supplementary materials Teaching note.
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Drabek, Marcin, and Małgorzata Waszkowska. "ICT-based mobile work: new challenges and risks." Occupational Safety – Science and Practice 560, no. 5 (May 23, 2018): 22–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.0414.
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Implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in many economy domains results in a rise of new professions and new services, in new forms of employment (e.g., mobile work), in an increase in autonomy and flexibility at work. It encourages workers’ work ability, high effectiveness and innovativeness, which impact business efficiency. However, ICT increase work demands, work overload, role conflict; they result in the need for continual learning, a blurring of the work–life boundary; they are conducive to occupational and social isolation, burnout, Internet addiction, etc. Therefore, prevention measures are required: periodical assessment of the work environment and its impact on workers’ functioning permitting implementation of relevant modifications.
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Dedeic, Predrag. "Corporate governance and information society." Corporate Ownership and Control 7, no. 2 (2009): 202–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv7i2c1p3.
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Information and communication technologies are an important cohesive factor in developing global economy and binding up capital markets. Corporate governance has its place in the process of creation of new capital flows. Financial instrument markets are connected in their existence with relevant information and their dissemination, so that information technologies contribute to the efficiency of their organization and functioning. By its nature, technological changes, which influence the market, encourage the change of structure and processes which make the system of corporate governance. Application of new technologies helps easier problem solution regarding numerous corporate governance issues such as: rational apathy of shareholders, principal-agent problem, transparency, information transfer, etc. The application of technology within a public company should help in distribution of corporate power and contribute to balance of numerous divergent interests within a company, which is very important in terms of achieving primary goal – providing long-term well-being of the shareholders and the public company. On the external plan, application of technology can contribute to better quality of relations among the participants on the capital market. New technologies should help public companies to be successful in a long run by providing more efficient functioning of corporate governance by encouraging shareholders to effectively use their rights. Inability, disinterestedness and inertia of the shareholders will open doors to activities which direct company resources towards satisfying other interests (e.g. management interests) but not interests of the shareholders. Application of information technology can contribute significantly to more effective protection of both basic rights of the shareholders and higher level of more complex managerial enterprises (effective shareholders assembly, material distribution, accepting agenda, discussing and exercising voting power of all shareholders, particularly important for cross-border shareholders, voting in absence etc. The Internet and other technologies provide opportunity for everyday interactive communication between the public company and the shareholders. Interactive communication through on-line forums on the Internet provides instantaneous access of great number of shareholders and an opportunity to find answers on questions they are concerned with in a more effective way. The use of new technologies can reduce these costs of communication in a great deal, for it is possible to send piles of documents important for assembly sessions and decision making to an endless number of e-mail addresses (financial reports, auditor’s report, supervisory board report, board of directors report regarding business operations of the company, as well as reports on corporate governance).
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KAČERAUSKAS, Tomas. "TECHNOLOGIES IN CREATIVE ECONOMY AND CREATIVE SOCIETY." Technological and Economic Development of Economy 21, no. 6 (May 29, 2015): 855–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/20294913.2015.1036325.
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The article deals with issues of technologies in the environment of creative economy and creative society, mostly focusing on the following topics: 1) invasion of technologies, which is accompanied by technical illiteracy or simplification of intellection presupposed by a certain technique (e.g. computers); 2) new technologies emerge in the environment dominated by consumption in order to boost consumption; 3) political, media and communication technologies are intertwined to the extent that allows us to speak about the technologized society; 4) technologies are inseparable from creative activities: on the one hand, development of technologies needs creativity, on the other hand, every branch of creative industries needs certain technologies; 5) technologic development is conditioned by their syncretism, i.e. their ability to serve the art (technē) of life and creative intentions; 6) in the creative society, happiness does not depend on constantly upgraded (i.e. consumed) technologies but is rather possible in spite of them; 7) unlimitedness is the greatest limitation of global technologies: unconnected with any existential region, they billow in the wind of ever newer technologies.
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Tudoran, Cristian. "New Training Trends in High-Risk Technology Fields." Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence 14, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 474–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2020-0045.
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AbstractThe more developed new and sophisticated technologies are, as in the energy sector, paradoxically, the more critical people are in terms of competences. A prophecy for 2020 was that machines and robots would replace people. It happened mainly for routine activities. Therefore, humans remain a crucial element in the technology world, especially in high-risk areas, such as nuclear. Companies developing, using high-risk technologies employ people with high-technical knowledge - not enough. Poor communication, failing leadership, improper management, decision reluctance, generation gap, lacking teamwork competencies were human errors that caused accidents. Besides technical competences, these people also need consistent training and workshops on soft skills, leadership, and strategy. Besides generic skills, requirements for training staff in long-life cycle technologies should consider: specific reaction patterns for various generations; the high-risk technologies are a combination of technologies with various durations, e.g., Silicon-based digital technology life cycle is about five years. However, the digital technology evolution to new ones, like quantum computing, may trigger unexpected interfaces with the underlying reactor technology, dominant in a nuclear plant, and requirements for training of staff. Extended use of the well-trained competencies can make the difference between life and death; Training? Because it is a combination of knowledge and practice; Coaching? Because it generates new behaviors in ordinary situations and improves the work-unit relationship; Leadership? Because there are moments when people need someone leading them to accomplish tasks efficiently. The methodology used to investigate such aspects was of team-group interviews for diverse generations involved in a nuclear project for risk analyses and master students, by using the same combination of training and coaching exercises. The paper presents the results of these investigations, considering the aspects mentioned and contributes to raising awareness of strategic development approaches for employees to aim at the emergence of new leaders.
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Akyeampong, Kwame. "Making the Introduction of Multi-media Technologies Count in Education Reform in Africa: the Case of Ghana." Comunicar 16, no. 32 (March 1, 2009): 109–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c32-2009-02-009.
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This contribution reviews the introduction of old and new information communication technologies in Ghanaian education. It points out how the recent proliferation of multi-media technologies in the country has ultimately encouraged the introduction of ICTs in education. However, the author argues that much of the move to introduce these new technologies into schools and colleges has not reflected the need to re-conceptualise teacher education curriculum practices to base its foundations on constructivist ideas about knowledge and its production. Without this, reforms to introduce new information communication technologies in classrooms risk becoming tools that are again used to reinforce old traditions of teaching and learning based on uncritical transmission of knowledge. Finally, the author argues that changes to the teacher education curriculum in Ghana, and elsewhere in Africa, should also reflect the new professional learning identities and learning experiences that ICT and other media communication tools are meant to foster in the classroom. La presente contribución da un repaso a la introducción de las tecnologías antiguas y nuevas de la información en el sector educativo de Ghana. Señala cómo la reciente proliferación de las tecnologías mul timedia en el país ha alentado finalmente la introducción de las TIC en la educación. Sin embargo, el autor sostiene que buena parte de la motivación para introducir estas nuevas tecnologías en los centros educativos e institutos superiores no ha reflejado la necesidad de reconceptualizar las prácticas curriculares en la formación docente, con el fin de fundamentarlas en ideas constructivistas sobre los conocimientos y su producción. Sin esto, las reformas para introducir las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación en las aulas corren el riesgo de ser meramente herramientas que nuevamente se utilizan para reforzar las viejas tradiciones de enseñanza y aprendizaje en base a la trasmisión de los conocimientos sin ningún pensamiento crítico. Finalmente, el autor insiste en que los cambios curriculares en la formación docente en Ghana, y en otras partes de África, también deben reflejar las nuevas identidades de aprendizaje profesional y experiencias de aprendizaje que deben fomentar las TIC y otras herramientas mediáticas en el aula.
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Arroyo-Almaraz, Isidoro, and Raúl Gómez-Díaz. "The Undesired Effects of Digital Communication on Moral Response." Comunicar 22, no. 44 (January 1, 2015): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c44-2015-16.
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The current paper is based on the hypothesis that communication through the new digital technologies modifies the moral response of users, and therefore reduces social capital. This approach has been contrasted by designing and conducting an experiment (N=196) using our own adaptation of the Spanish version of the Defining Issues Test on subjects who have been socialized by Internet and who constitute the representative samples of this study. This test on paper was adapted to our research following an expert validation procedure and then transferred onto two types of digital audiovisual formats. Finally, The use of digital communication technologies and students’ fluid intelligence response were evaluated in order to establish whether their response was significant and if it modified moral response. The results confirm the hypothesis and show that the quality of moral response decreases when digital technologies are used instead of pencil and paper. This difference is greater when virtual images of people designed by animation are used rather than visual images of real people. In addition, the results show that fluid intelligence mitigates these modifications. Se investiga cómo la comunicación mediada por tecnologías digitales modifica la respuesta moral de los usuarios, y por tanto, varía el capital social. Se diseña y realiza un experimento con 196 sujetos que se sirve de una adaptación de diseño propio del «Defining Issues Test» en papel, a partir de la versión española, sobre una muestra representativa del universo de sujetos que se han socializado con Internet. Se valida la adaptación del test sometiéndolo a juicio por un panel de expertos, se amplía el mismo a otros dos formatos digitales audiovisuales diferentes: con imágenes reales de personas o con imágenes virtuales de personas a través de animación, y se comprueba si la inteligencia fluida de los sujetos es significativa en la modificación de la respuesta moral. Los resultados confirman las hipótesis y demuestran que la calidad de la respuesta moral disminuye cuando se usan tecnologías digitales respecto a cuando se usa papel y lápiz. Esta diferencia es mayor cuando se usan imágenes virtuales de personas a través de animación que cuando se usan imágenes audiovisuales de personas reales. En todos los casos la inteligencia fluida es un atenuante de estas modificaciones.
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Lofi, Christoph. "Analogy Queries in Information Systems — A New Challenge." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 12, no. 03 (August 25, 2013): 1350021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649213500214.
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Besides the tremendous progress in web-related technologies, interfaces to access the web or large information systems have largely stayed at the level of keyword searches and categorical browsing. This paper introduces analogy queries as one of the essential techniques required to bridge the gap between today's interfaces and future interaction paradigms. The intuitive concept of analogies is directly derived from human cognition and communication practices, and is in fact often considered to be the core concept of human cognition. In brief, analogies form abstract relationships between concepts, which can be used to efficiently exchange information and knowledge needs or transmit even complex concepts including important connotations in a strictly human-centred and natural fashion. Building of analogy-enabled information systems opens up a number of interesting scientific challenges, e.g. how does communication using analogies work? How can this process be represented? How can information systems understand what a user provided analogy actually means? How can analogies be discovered? This paper aims at discussing some of these questions and is intended as a corner stone of future research efforts.