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Along with the first pandemic wave of COVID-19, many makers' initiatives shed light on the innovative potential of developing computer assisted machinery services for the health sector. Even since before that, collaborative innovation structures such as FabLabs have been arising in public health institutions, which indicates the increasing demand for technological tools as well as innovation assistance in the public health sector. However, how FabLabs facilitate innovation processes contingent on hospital context is a question that needs to be further explored. In this article, a single case study on the Hephaïstos FabLab at the Bicêtre Hospital in France is developed in order to understand the role that a FabLab service can play in fostering innovation in a hospital ecosystem. The results show how innovation is stimulated by the FabLab proximity, the methodological approach developed by the FabLab team and the participants' profiles. These insights are pertinent for hospital managers to help identify strategies and ensure continuity of a FabLab service. © 2022 IEEE.
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Proposals on the inclusion of hydrogen as an energy vector into the large-scale energy socio-technical system has gained considerable momentum along with the effects of the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines the conflict between various dimensions of decarbonization with hydrogen agenda within the conceptual framework of international environmental law and policies. Firstly, we carry out a general due diligence of the technical, economic, and legal aspects of the hydrogen economy particularly in Europe. Subsequently, via textual analyses of European Union's strategic documents, the incompatibility of the hydrogen risk chain with the hydrogen value chain is revealed. Finally, as one remedy to this incompatibility;the precautionary principle, its relation to science, technology and society studies, and its possible policy applications in the context of hydrogen technologies are discussed. © 2022 Proceedings of WHEC 2022 - 23rd World Hydrogen Energy Conference: Bridging Continents by H2. All rights reserved.
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Since the unfolding of the COVID-19 virus as a global health crisis that threatens public health, government and health officials in Canada and in many other countries used Twitter as an instrument for health communication. It has been a relevant mean for informing and raising public awareness about precautionary measures to better mitigate the pandemic. In Canada, governments and public health institutions at federal, provincial and territorial levels have been using Twitter to spread COVID-19 related public health information to their citizens during the first, second and third waves of the pandemic. In this study, we aimed to investigate the use of Twitter by governments and health institutions at the Federal government of Canada, and Canadian provinces and territories. Specifically, our main purpose is to explore insights from Twitter online public discourse harnessed by the government and the public health institutions in Canada through their official accounts. These insights will be studied from three analysis: Activity, engagement, and trends. To do so, we collected 32,198 tweets published from a total of 62 government (i.e. 29 Twitter accounts) and health accounts (i.e. 33 Twitter accounts) including institutions (e.g ministries) and officials (e.g Prime Ministers accounts) Twitter accounts between 01 September 2020 and 31 August 2021. Our results show that the health and government institutions have been more active during the third wave of the pandemic than the second wave. The results also show that among all the Twitter accounts, the federal representatives and the representatives of the provinces of Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia respectively have been more active. Finally, the results demonstrate that the Twitter users in Canada have been more engaged with the government accounts at the federal level than at the provinces and territories level. © 2022 ACM.
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This paper uses prognosticative machine learning models that predict corona positives and deaths as a result of the crisis, and the recovery rate from the pandemic. This method aids in diagnosing the contours of an individual's presumption in data transmission based on medical knowledge and calculates the unfolding virus's socioeconomic impact. It examines the Covid-19's spread technique with the help of machine learning models. It also identifies the approaching prophecy and recessive presumption of the crisis at the same time, and as a result, this applicable analysis aids similar countries in making decisions. This paper also considers the global prevalence of the plague. Within the first phase of the irruption, eight supervised classification epidemiologic models are used to estimate the day-to-day and monomer incidents of coronavirus throughout the world, as well as the vital replica variety, growth rate, and increasing time. Calculations are also made for the more intricate efficacious replica variety, which reveals that since the predominant cases are confirmed to the specific countries, the severity has decreased. Machine learning models' prognosticative capabilities are found to provide an additional satisfactory match, and simple estimates of daily incidents around the world. © 2022 IEEE.
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This paper examines how people transitioned into newly created pandemic information environments and the ways in which information literacy practices came into view as the SARS-CoV-2 virus took hold in the UK. Employing a qualitative research design, semi-structured interviews were carried out from May 2020-February 2021 with 32 participants, including people who were engaged in new employment, voluntary or caring roles as well as people who had been diagnosed with COVID. Findings demonstrate that transition into new pandemic environments was shaped by an unfolding phase, an intensification phase, and a stable phase, and information literacy emerged as a form of safeguarding as participants mitigated health, financial and wellbeing risks. This paper develops research into the role that information practices play during crisis as well as extending understanding related to the concept of empowerment, which forms a key idea within information literacy discourse. Findings will be useful for librarians and information professionals as well as public health researchers designing health promotion strategies. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The Outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic has proved to be destructive at economic, social, and ecological ends across the globe. It has disrupted human life in an extremely adverse way. The pandemic aftermath is yet to be completely realised, yet the scale of economic, social, and ecological damage is unfathomable. The situation has elevated the responsibility on entrepreneurial ground to bring in solutions at the affected fronts and work towards sustainability. It is high time to realize the significance of sustainable entrepreneurship at the time when pandemic consequences are severe and still unfolding which will show in the times to come. Though the disruption caused by the pandemic is huge on everyone and everything, the study reveals that sustainable entrepreneurship has comparatively less effect of adversities of COVID-19 than the normal business. This study presents the need and significance of sustainable entrepreneurship to address the damages caused by COVID-19 pandemic. © 2021 IEEE.