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The purpose of this research is to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the legal information profession within law firm libraries in Britain and Ireland. As the pandemic only began the year before commencing this research, few studies had been conducted on the topic, thereby a clear opening for this study emerged. This study uses a survey research strategy comprised of a mixed methods research approach. Desk research in the form of a literature review opens the study. A questionnaire and 5 semi-structured interviews were subsequently conducted. To understand the impact of the pandemic on the legal information profession within law firm libraries, the research objectives break the topic down into 4 areas that give insight into the consequences of the pandemic. The research found that A) working from home was the major impact faced due to the lockdown in spring 2020;B) use and spending on print resources declined;C) the role of legal information professionals has not significantly changed;and D) future legal information professionals will need to upskill due to technological developments and improve the image of the profession. Owing to the recent outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to compare the findings of this research to similar future studies to determine the validity of the results.
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This work is part of a learning environment that has virtual laboratories that are designed for distant practical work (Tele-PW). In these environments, Tele-PW is performed in two modes: individual and/or collaborative. In this paper, we are concentrating on the tele-collaborative distant practical work model. The work, presented in this paper, proposes an artificial agent called Synchronizer Coordinator Agent (SCA) to synchronize and coordinate the activities of a cognitive process in order to build and maintain a shared conception of a distant practical work between a set of learners. This agent provides certain features such as managing groups of learners, coordinating tasks, shared workspace among members of the Working Group. It is also responsible for the synchronization of workspace agents when they want to manipulate shared virtual objects simultaneously. We have chosen Petri nets to illustrate the principle of granting access to shared objects in the case of simultaneous requests. Experimental results show the effectiveness, of the artificial agent within any tele-collaborative/tele-cooperative learning situation. Several situations describe the geographical/time dispersion of learners and tutors in our system are considered during the system design phase.
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1ISG-009 Figure 1ResultsThe Pharmacy Department has the capacity to switch all outpatient prescriptions to be requested through the online portal and a total of 14 618 medication shipments were home delivered from 15 March to 10 June 2020. 14 618 medication shipments were delivered out of 25 520 online requests submitted;the difference between the number of delivered prescriptions and received requests was due to repeated submissions by patients or because the refill due date did not arrive.WhatsApp Business has been initiated for direct communication between patients and pharmacists. A total of 10 030 inpatient pharmacy and outpatient pharmacy orders were verified through remote access. 1ISG-009 Table 1Parameter Online refill March 2020 3340 April 2020 9413 May 2020 4990 10 June 2020 7777 Total number of requests during 2019 488 Total number of requests in 2020 25 520 Total shipped 15 March to 10 June 2020 14 618 WhatsApp sent message 14 633 WhatsApp received message 26 613 Orders verified by remote access (outpatient) 4650 Orders verified by remote access (inpatient) 5380 Conclusion and relevanceIn conclusion, the implementation of telepharmacy via the utilisation of medication home delivery services, remote access, and modification of the previous workflow was associated with promising outcomes in terms of efficient, high-quality pharmaceutical care delivery while avoiding medication distribution disturbances as well as containing the spread of the pandemic among staff and patients, thus ensuring their safety during this crisis.References and/or acknowledgementsConflict of interestNo conflict of interest
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Telehealth can be used to decrease healthcare worker exposure and personal protective equipment donning, doffing, and conservation, while caring for COVID-19 patients and providing virtual urgent care screenings. The manuscript is organized as following: theoretical overview (section 2), methodology (section 3), interconnected and heterogeneous networks in patient diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment (section 4), monitoring systems and wearable sensors integrated in Internet of Medical Things and smart healthcare (section 5), networked wearable devices, machine learning algorithms, and Internet of Medical Things (section 6), discussion (section 7), synopsis of the main research outcomes (section 8), conclusions (section 9), limitations, implications, and further directions of research (section 10). 4.Interconnected and Heterogeneous Networks in Patient Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Treatment Smart healthcare leverages Internet of Medical Things, wireless communication technologies, medical sensors, wearable devices, and machine learning algorithms (Calvillo-Arbizu et al., 2021;Chang et al., 2022;Muhammad et al., 2021) to inspect patient data. Telehealth can be used to decrease healthcare worker exposure and personal protective equipment donning, doffing, and conservation, while caring for COVID-19 patients and providing virtual urgent care screenings. Internet of Medical Things articulates appropriate and inexpensive manners for healthcare delivery by integrating remote access in patient physiological data collection while harnessing machine learning techniques in diagnosis assistance.
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Background: Cyber security has turned out to be one of the main challenges of recent years. As the variety of system and application vulnerabilities has increased dramatically in recent years, cyber attackers have managed to penetrate the networks and infrastructures of larger numbers of companies, thus increasing the latter’s exposure to cyber threats. To mitigate this exposure, it is crucial for CISOs to have sufficient training and skills to help them identify how well security controls are managed and whether these controls offer the company sufficient protection against cyber threats, as expected. However, recent literature shows a lack of clarity regarding the manner in which the CISOs’ role and the companies’ investment in their skills should change in view of these developments. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the CISOs’ level of cyber security-related preparation to mitigate cyber threats (and specifically, the companies’ attitudes toward investing in such preparation) and the recent evolution of cyber threats. Methods: The study data are based on the following public resources: (1) recent scientific literature;(2) cyber threat-related opinion news articles;and (3) OWASP’s reported list of vulnerabilities. Data analysis was performed using various text mining methods and tools. Results: The study’s findings show that although the implementation of cyber defense tools has gained more serious attention in recent years, CISOs still lack sufficient support from management and sufficient knowledge and skills to mitigate current and new cyber threats. Conclusions: The research outcomes may allow practitioners to examine whether the companies’ level of cyber security controls matches the CISOs’ skills, and whether a comprehensive security education program is required. The present article discusses these findings and their implications.