447 research outputs found
Valuing Diagnostic Innovations: Towards Responsible Health Technology Assessment
No full textDiagnostic innovation is increasingly perceived as an institutional interplay with many heterogeneous stakeholders in which users are more proactively involved in diagnosis. This challenges traditional Health Technology Assessment (HTA) practices, focusing on efficacy, safety, quality, and costs. Other values become important in diagnostic innovations, including social and ethical norms, expectations, positions, and distributed roles of stakeholders. This chapter asks which set of values, which logic of valuing could be leading in such new practices of HTA for diagnostic innovations. It zooms in on the current logic of valuing in HTA. It presents various empirical cases reporting on diagnostic innovations, and reflects on how HTA strategies, policies, and interventions for practitioners and users of diagnostic innovations could be more flexible and responsible
Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease. Innovating with Care
No full textPublic announcements of breakthroughs in diagnosing alzheimer’s disease regularly appear in newspapers, radio and television programmes, and on the web. The types of diagnostic tests recommended range from mri and pet scans of the brain, to spinal taps, blood tests, simple eye cell tests, and even smelling peanut butter. Most of these tests measure so-called ‘biomarkers’: certain molecules in the body that are linked with the pathology thought to underlie alzheimer’s disease. The usual claim is that these tests are more reliable, less burdensome, faster and/or cheaper than existing diagnostic procedures. But most importantly, the novel tests are thought to reveal alzheimer’s at an early stage, possibly even years before the onset of symptoms.keywordsinnovation processhealth technology assessmentdiagnostic technologybiomedical domainresponsible researchthese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease: How to innovate with Care
No full textThis volume has explored the global attempts to innovate the diagnostics of alzheimer’s disease (ad), by means of biomarkers or otherwise. This exploration exceeded the confines of memory clinics and research centres, but also included sites such as newspapers, policy documents, patient groups, general practitioners, and online diagnostics tools. The diversity of sites reflects the many faces and manifestations of ad: it is not just one thing but many. This diversity brings along that the very notion of the disease and how it should be addressed are elusive. Diagnosis can take many forms and play different roles, and is not equally important for everyone. Moreover, exploring the different sites where ad manifests itself shows that ideas of what ad is and how its diagnostics should be improved often are contested. Innovation of ad diagnostics, so much is clear, takes place in an elusive and controversial field. How to answer, then, the question about the desirability of emerging diagnostic technologies?keywordsinformal caregiverpower differencememory clinicinterpretative frameworkdiagnostic practicethese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Classifying the performances of «Moors and Christians»
No full textPara complementar el estudio de los rituales festivos de moros y cristianos,el autor explora las vías clasificatorias que permitirán su conocimiento en profundidad.To supplement the study of the festive rituals of the Moors and Christians, the author explores the forms of classification that allow a deeper understanding of these interesting performances.Grupo de Investigación Antropología y Filosofía (SEJ-126). Universidad de Granad
“With a more passionate love of Mother Earth”: A “scamper on the moors” with Emily Brontë
No full textReader, I’ll wager you. I bet that if I asked you to name an author that you would most associate with the moors, your answer would be Emily Brontë. And there’s a good reason for that choice: Emily, more than any other Brontë — either her older sister, Charlotte, or her younger sister, Anne — is indelibly entwined with the moors surrounding Haworth, comprising what we today call “Brontë Country”. Charlotte described Emily as a “nursling of the moors”. Locals remembered Emily heading towards the moors regularly, walking in elongated strides and whistling happily to herself with her dog Keeper by her side. Long walks were so important to Emily and her first formal biographer (external to the family), Mary Robinson, described Emily as “elastic of tread”. [...]</p
Experience report: Scala collections
No full textWe report on our experiences in redesigning Scala's collection libraries, focussing on the role that type systems play in keeping software architectures coherent over time. Type systems can make software architecture more explicit but, if they are too weak, can also cause code duplication. We show that code duplication can be
avoided using two of Scala's type constructions: higher-kinded types and implicit parameters and conversions.sponsorship: The second author (Adriaan Moors) is supported by a grant from the Flemish IWT.status: Publishe
sj-docx-1-jab-10.1177_00218863221132321 - Supplemental material for Implementing Diversity Training Targeting Faculty Microaggressions and Inclusion: Practical Insights and Initial Findings
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jab-10.1177_00218863221132321 for Implementing Diversity Training Targeting Faculty Microaggressions and Inclusion: Practical Insights and Initial Findings by Ellen Ernst Kossek, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Brittany J. Wright, Cassondra Batz-Barbarich, Amy C. Moors, Charlene Sullivan, Klod Kokini, Andrew S. Hirsch, Kayla Maxey and Ankita Nikalje in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science</p
sj-docx-1-jab-10.1177_00218863221132321 - Supplemental material for Implementing Diversity Training Targeting Faculty Microaggressions and Inclusion: Practical Insights and Initial Findings
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jab-10.1177_00218863221132321 for Implementing Diversity Training Targeting Faculty Microaggressions and Inclusion: Practical Insights and Initial Findings by Ellen Ernst Kossek, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Brittany J. Wright, Cassondra Batz-Barbarich, Amy C. Moors, Charlene Sullivan, Klod Kokini, Andrew S. Hirsch, Kayla Maxey and Ankita Nikalje in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science</p
Understanding consumer needs and preferences in new product development: the case of functional food innovations
No full textAs the majority of new products fail it is important to focus on the needs and preferences of the consumers in new product development. Consumers are increasingly recognised as important co-developers of innovations, often developing new functions for technologies, solving unforeseen problems and demanding innovative solutions. The central research question of the paper is: How to understand consumer needs and preferences in the context of new product development in order to improve the success of emerging innovations, such as functional foods. Important variables appear to be domestication, trust and distance, intermediate agents, user representations and the consumer- and product specific characteristics. Using survey and focus group data, we find that consumers need and prefer easy-to-use new products, transparent and accessible information supply by the producer, independent control of efficacy and safety, and introduction of a quality symbol for functional foods. Intermediate agents are not important in information diffusion. Producers should concentrate on consumers with specific needs, like athletes, women, obese persons, and stressed people. This will support developing products in line with the needs and mode of living of the users.consumer needs, preferences, new product development, functional foods
User producer interaction in context: A classification
No full textScience, Technology and Innovation Studies show that intensified user producer interaction (UPI) increases chances for successful innovations, especially in the case of emerging technology. It is not always clear, however, what type of interaction is necessary in a particular context. This paper proposes a conceptualization of contexts in terms of three dimensions – the phase of technology development, the flexibility of the technology, and the heterogeneity of user populations – resulting in a classification scheme with eight different contextual situations. The paper identifies and classifies types of interaction, like demand articulation, interactive learning, learning by using and domestication. It appears that each contextual situation demands a different set of UPI types. To illustrate the potential value of the classification scheme, four examples of innovations with varying technological and user characteristics are explored: the refrigerator, clinical anaesthesia, video cassette recording, and the bicycle. For each example the relevant UPI types are discussed and it is shown how these types highlight certain activities and interactions during key events of innovation processes. Finally, some directions for further research are suggested alongside a number of comments on the utility of the classification.Innovation, users, interaction, learning, typology of UPI
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