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Pilot Testing Of A Non-Gaming Cognitive Battery In Expert Esports Athletes, Allison J. Brager, Patrick Belling, Jason Sada, Jeffrey Osgood, Bradley Fawver, Michael Dretsch

Journal for Sports Neuroscience

Introduction: The esports industry is rapidly expanding, making it imperative to identify common data elements of expert gamers for the purposes of performance optimization and enhancement. We aimed to measure cognitive performance in a convenient sample of expert esports athletes, as well as to determine if cognitive performance of these individuals could be further enhanced through a novel non-gaming neurocognitive test battery.

Methods: Elite esports athletes (n = 5) participated in a four-day cognitive and strength & conditioning program at the Sports Academy (Thousand Oaks, CA). Cognitive performance was assessed through five tasks of increasing cognitive load. Baseline …

Stethoscope, 1979 May, Advocate Aurora Health

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Mount Sinai Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI: May 1979 edition of the Stethoscope, a Mount Sinai Medical Center publication. Includes articles on National Hospital Week, the new Neonatal Special Care nursery, the first annual Scientific Day, images from the first annual House Staff Ball, and various personnel announcements.

Life Events As An Approach For Service Ecosystem Design: Lessons Learned From The Finnish Public Services, Núria Solsona Caba, Taija Turunen

ServDes Conference Series

Life event services have emerged worldwide as an approach for designing public services by addressing significant transitions in life and building an ecosystem around them. We study this approach as an opportunity to engage the ecosystem in a novel manner. Empirically, we investigated three digital public service cases in Finland that leverage the life events approach. Life transitions make gaps between systems visible to the large and complex network of value-creators. Life events is a unifying term for public administrations, cross-sector organisations, and communities involved as providers. Whilst this approach uncovers an underserved set of actors and situational motivations, it …

Between Diving, Breathing And Splashing: Metaphors As Lenses To Inquire Public Innovation Initiatives, Caio Werneck, Isabella Brandalise

ServDes Conference Series

This paper focuses on metaphors as a methodology to design and reflect on design-led initiatives in the public sector. We are drawing on the experience of a capacity-building program developed in 2020 by Enap (National School of Public Administration) in partnership with teams of the Brazilian federal government, in which we conducted four projects through the metaphor of a collective dive. When analyzing the effects of the projects through conversations with participants, we expanded the metaphor, understanding the reflections as breathing, the project conditions as bubbles and currents, and the results as splashes. We see splashes as variable yet rarely …

Issues Integrating Urban Data And Citizen Participation, Raquel Cordeiro, Manuela Quaresma, Isabel Froes

ServDes Conference Series

The smart city concept goes beyond expanding technology, including sustainability and citizen well-being. The growth of available datasets provides rich material for public management. However, the potential of this information is underused due to its breadth and complexity. One key challenge is associating it with qualitative research. To address this challenge, within the scope of a PhD research, a set of interviews were carried out with professionals working in the area of smart city and public development in three European cities. The aim was to identify issues and solutions in projects with urban data and citizen participation and better grasp …

Co-Design As A Public Service To Support Social Innovations In City Making, Daniela Selloni, Anna Meroni, Marta Corubolo

ServDes Conference Series

This paper discusses the conditions and some possible ways in which co-design can be regarded as a public service offered by public administrations to city dwellers and organizations to foster social innovation in city making projects. It starts by discussing the theoretical and operational entanglement of public services, co-design and place making, in order to understand the background that generates the research question on the opportunity to consider co-design as a public service and set up the conditions for it to be so. Then, the paper presents a case study of a co-design process developed for the city of Reggio …

Challenges And Opportunities For Service Design[Ers] In Vietnam: The Ho Chi Min City’S Public Healthcare Context, Renato Antonio Bertão, Thai Nguyen Dac

ServDes Conference Series

In the last decade, service design has been promoted globally as an approach to creating efficient and meaningful experiences for customers, users, and citizens. However, in some regions, its practices are incipient. This study listened to design practitioners in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest Vietnamese metropolis, to unveil issues and opportunities for service design in the public sector, mainly healthcare services. The practitioners’ lenses helped to identify various HCMC citizens’ pain points to accessing public [healthcare] organizations. It also describes obstacles professionals face collaborating with government bodies to propose a change via service design. Although the local designers suggested …

The Transformative Role Of Service Design – A Case Study Of A Public Library, Justyna Starostka, Nicola Morelli, Amalia De Götzen

ServDes Conference Series

Using a wider context of a growing role of service design (SD) in different change processes, the aim of this article is to explore the transformative role of service design on two levels: organizational and societal. We investigated a transformation process of a public sector organization – a public library, showing how service design can be a vehicle of organizational and societal changes. We were able to map 3 cycles of transition that have been gradually expanding the visions, theories of change, mindsets, and new ways of designing in the organization, helping to achieve more and more agency in transforming, …

Smoties: Scenario-Building For Creative Future Solutions In Remote Places, Annalinda De Rosa, Valentina Auricchio, Vanessa Monna

ServDes Conference Series

This paper introduces a scenario-building design methodology used in setting up a four-year Creative Europe Program project co-funded by the European Union. The project addresses an emerging field of action that aims to explore how small and remote places can benefit from the design of cultural and creative innovations within public spaces and in collaboration with local stakeholders. The paper describes how a common ground of scenarios has been designed for the development of project trajectories by defining future visions of action within small and remote places in Europe. This methodology is currently being applied and tested in ten pilot …

From Ideas To Policies, Through Places:Service Design-Driven Prototyping Guidelines For Urban Regeneration, Francesca Foglieni, Francesco Leoni, Laura Cipriani, Stefano Maffei

ServDes Conference Series

This paper describes the development of a set of service design-driven guidelines for prototyping in urban regeneration processes. After introducing urban regeneration as a policy area acting on cities’ social and cultural aspects, the authors consider three perspectives from design research to frame the service design intervention in urban regeneration. Further, the characterising aspects of prototyping in the public sphere are considered to advance a refinement of the typical service design approach to prototyping for this domain. The paper then describes the guidelines, developed through the experience of an ongoing research project, providing practical step-by-step suggestions for each prototyping cycle …

Peeling Back The Layers: Prototyping Systemic Transformation Through The Circular Food Innovation Lab, Lily Raphael, Marcia Higuchi, Laura Kozak, Erin Nichols

ServDes Conference Series

Wasted food — the result of a linear pattern of producing, under-consuming and disposing of food — is a pervasive issue globally and in Canada. Wasted food is a complex challenge, meaning it is characterized by unpredictability, ambiguity, and many actors. The current climate crisis, food insecurity, economic disparity and housing inequality all intersect with this challenge. If we are to tackle these increasingly complex issues in social and public sectors, we need to work together in new and emergent ways. The Circular Food Innovation Lab was a unique research initiative that drew together municipal government, interdisciplinary designers and regional …

Exploring Service Design From The Grass-Roots Level Of A Governments’ Public Ecosystem: The Case Of J Province, Bojun Hou, Xin Wang

ServDes Conference Series

The modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity is one of the major strategies of national development. Service design is contributing its unique role and value to promoting the modernization of the government service system and improving the efficiency of national governance, but the current research is still relatively insufficient. This paper is a preliminary discussion on the application of service design to promote the construction and development of the grass-roots government's sustainable convenience service ecosystem, based on a public service project of administrative examination and approval we did in a town government in J Province in 2021. …

Digital Future Design: Designing Digital Service Systems Based On Future Visions, Fumiya Akasaka, Yuya Mitake, Kentaro Watanabe, Yuri Nishikawa, Jun Ozawa

ServDes Conference Series

Recently, initiatives that use advanced digital technologies to address social issues and drive social innovation, such as the “smart city”, have been attracting attention. While public expectations for smart city projects are high, they are often executed from a technocentric approach that lacks a human-centered perspective, which leads to various criticisms and opposition from residents. This necessitates a method for envisioning a desirable future society and designing the entire service system, including digital technologies (i.e., digital service system), from a human-centered perspective. Therefore, we have developed a novel design method, called Digital Future Design Method, that supports the designing of …

Analysis Of The Integration And Contribution Of The Sdgs To Equitable Global Results In The Light Of Service Design: A Scoping Review, Kelly Rocha, Amanda Xavier, Maria Carolina Santos, Ariele Rodrigues-Ferreira

ServDes Conference Series

The construction of the 2030 agenda aims at sustainable, inclusive and collaborative development among countries to challenge them to transpose usual definitions and ideas in favour of equitable actions. To fulfil this purpose, the UN and Member States must assess progress made, obstacles faced and integration between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through a scoping review, this study aims to answer the question: How integrated are the SDGs for an equitable global outcome? In the context of Brazil, what is the assessment of engagement and carrying out actions for the performance of the SDGs? What are design contributions to the …

Disaster Insurance And Risk Transfer Mechanisms For Natural Disasters – Challenges And Opportunities For A New Service Discussed In Literature Reviews, Cássio Maduro, Tharcisio Fontainha

ServDes Conference Series

Climate change is increasing the risks, frequency and intensity of disasters related to extreme weather events. In this context, the academic literature has suggested disaster insurance as a potential financial tool. Therefore, the research investigates the challenges and opportunities in developing disaster insurance as a financial service related to disaster risks. The research adopts a systematic literature review in the Scopus and Web of Science, identifying 81 other literature reviews on the theme, resulting in the analysis of 15 papers. The results describe the state of the art in terms of topic, location, disaster and insurance types. The analysis indicates …

Autoethnographic Study Of Applying Service Journeys To Asylum Applications, Mari Suoheimo, Tetiana Dubovenko, Ted Matthews, Satu Miettinen

ServDes Conference Series

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting to fade, the Russia–Ukraine conflict erupted into a large-scale war. This caused a new influx of refugees to many European countries. In this case study, through an autoethnographic service journey, we investigate the process of applying for asylum in Norway. We aim to understand the parts of the journey that work well and the issues that still require attention. By analysing the data collected, we can see that there are two main underlying issues, which are creating transparency and building trust between the applicant and the service system involved in asylum seeking processes. …

Community-Based Design Thinking: A Moment Or A Movement?, Danielle Lake, Phillip Motley, Kathleen Flannery, Tracey Thurnes, Audrey Mangili

ServDes Conference Series

This paper assesses the value and limitations of a two-year community-engaged design thinking initiative across one county in the southeast United States. Initiative goals were to foster the design of more inclusive and holistic public health community-based services with underserved communities, institutionalize and socialize community-based design within a public health framework, and build organizational and individual capacities. Findings indicate the acquired design thinking processes transformed mental models, fostered new relationships, and built skills. Findings surfaced challenges related to grant and time constraints as well as organizational differences. Recommendations for service design practitioners and researchers seeking equity-centered, community-first practices are noted, …

When Service Design Meets Social Impact: Process And Mindset Used To Contribute To The Public Policy To Reduce The Overpopulation In Brazil’S Prison, Renata Martinez, Jessika Lima, Leandro Celes

ServDes Conference Series

Brazil has the third largest prison population in the world, 682,100 people, and this number is growing faster than the global average (Programa Fazendo Justiça, 2022). In this scenario, the Fazendo Justiça Program has its relevance compromised with the United Nations Agenda 2030 to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. The program has 28 actions that unfold into various initiatives. The focus will be on one of the projects: The implementation of the new module of Alternative sentences and Measures to imprisonment …

Sinaiscope, 1964, V3, July-August, Advocate Aurora Health

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Mount Sinai Hospital, Milwaukee, WI: Internal staff publication updating personnel on employment changes, announcements, and administrative developments. This issue features an article on the new medical record filing system.

Sinaiscope, 1964, V4, September-October, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Mount Sinai Hospital, Milwaukee, WI: Internal staff publication updating personnel on employment changes, announcements, and administrative developments. This issue features an article on the physical medicine and rehabilitation department.

Sinaiscope, 1964, V5, December, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Mount Sinai Hospital, Milwaukee, WI: Internal staff publication updating personnel on employment changes, announcements, and administrative developments. This issue features an article on the out-patient department, as well as images from the annual employee holiday party.

Sinaiscope, 1965, V6, March, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Mount Sinai Hospital, Milwaukee, WI: Internal staff publication updating personnel on employment changes, announcements, and administrative developments. This issue features an article on the new research laboratory.

Sinaiscope, 1965, V10, July, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Mount Sinai Hospital, Milwaukee, WI: Internal staff publication updating personnel on employment changes, announcements, and administrative developments. This issue contains a directory of new fellows and information on various improvements.

Working Together At Lutheran Hospital Of Milwaukee, Inc., Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Lutheran Hospital of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI: Employee handbook. Undated, likely late 1960s.

Front Matter, Angela Clark-Taylor

Journal for Women and Gender Centers in Higher Education

Front Matter

From Archive To Anarchive: How Bereal Challenges Traditional Archival Concepts And Transforms Social Media Archival Practices, Mandi Li

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

BeReal, an “anti-Instagram” photo-sharing app, not only challenges the performative culture of social media but also revolutionizes the very concept of ‘archives.’ By employing the technical walkthrough method grounded in software studies, this research found that BeReal can be conceptualized as an anarchive that consists of diverse storytellers, decentralized micro-narratives, and interdependent contexts. More specifically, although some classical archival elements can be found in BeReal, the platform challenges the traditional archival industry in two ways: one, its ordinary record subjects and high level of accessibility shatter the centralization of traditional archives; two, it challenges the humanist value of archivists by …

Defining Archival Debt: Building New Futures For Archives, Jillian Cuellar, Audra Eagle Yun, Jennifer Meehan, Jessica Tai

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

As archivists surface and reckon with harmful theory and practice, how can we awaken to transcend past legacies? This article introduces and reflects on the concept of “archival debt,” defined as resources owed to address problematic legacy issues in an archival repository resulting from past practices, policies, and strategies that prioritized the protection and validation of institutions over democratic access and responsible stewardship. As a concept, archival debt amalgamates the myriad issues we now grapple with as a profession, including harmful or inadequate description, performative or competitive collecting, languishing backlogs, failure to recognize staff potential, shortsighted fund management, neglected constituencies, …

Letter From The Editor, Angela Clark-Taylor

Journal for Women and Gender Centers in Higher Education

Welcome to our inaugural issue from Editor-in-Chief Angela Clark-Taylor, Ph.D.

Effects Of Technological Progress And Productivity On Economic Growth In Uganda: A Generalized Least Squares Approach, Jimmy Alani, Bruno Yawe, John Mutenyo

Arab Economic and Business Journal

The paper makes use of the generalized least squares method to examine the effects of technological progress and productivity on economic growth in Uganda during the 1970 to 2020 period. Data employed in conducting empirical analyses were collected from the United Nations data bank. The paper is based on the neoclassical growth model and Cobb–Douglas production function with decreasing returns to scale because production often takes place within the feasible region of production. Therefore, we focus on the range of diminishing (but non–negative) productivity of the factors of production. We also examine the effects of some determinants of technology (e.g., …

Accuracy And Trueness Of Exporting Computer Aided Designs Of 3-Unit Fixed Dental Prosthesis By 3 Cad Systems, Ezzat Abou-Alnaga, Ashraf Hussein, Ahmed Naguib, Shereen Ahmed Nossair

Future Dental Journal

Objectives: Computer-aided design (CAD) software programs offer the option to export 3D scans and designs across different CADCAM systems, commonly referred to as open CADCAM technology. However, there is insufficient evidence of whether this exporting procedure has an impact on the accuracy of digital designs.This study aimed to investigate the accuracy of exporting of computer aided designs (CAD) of three-unit fixed dental prosthesis using 3 CAD systems. Materials and Methods: Three CAD softwares (inLab 17™, CeraMill Mind™, Dental System 2017™) were used to generate designs of a three-unit fixed partial denture. The designs generated by each CAD software were exported …