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Amidst tremendous changes in the worlds of work in light of digitalization, non-attachmental work designs, where individuals gain income without being bound by a fixed administrative attachment to an employer, hold promises of self-actualization along with threats of insecurity. Today's technology boom and the consequent flexibility and uncertainty it brings into workers' lives may translate into inspiring growth opportunities or overloading pressure, contingent upon mental health and wellbeing impacts. This paper first provides a conceptualization of the non-attachmental work designs of the 21st century, before proceeding to an extensive mapping of literature at their intersection with psychological health.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of digitally enabled remote work with consequences for the global division of labour. Remote work could connect labour markets, but it might also increase spatial polarisation. However, our understanding of the geographies of remote work is limited.

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Sharing economy platforms mediate exchanges between service providers and consumers. The experiences of service providers in the sharing economy have been extensively studied. Nevertheless, our knowledge in regard to the extent to which providers' participation influences their wellbeing remains incomplete.

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Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality.

Int J Educ Technol High Educ

September 2021

Global Learning Council/Leibniz Association, Chausseestraße 111, 10115 Berlin, Germany.

Unlabelled: The edtech community has promoted claims that digital education enhances access, learning, and collaboration. The COVID-19 pandemic tested these claims like never before, as higher education systems seemingly overnight had to move teaching online. Through a sequential mixed-method approach, we investigated how 85 higher education leaders in 24 countries experienced this rapid digital transformation.

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Science is increasingly expected to help in solving complex societal problems in collaboration with societal stakeholders. However, it is often unclear under what conditions this can happen, i.e.

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Based on a communication-centered approach, this article examines how researchers approach societal impact, that is, what they think about societal impact in research governance, what their societal goals are, and how they use communication formats. Hence, this study offers empirical evidence on a group that has received remarkably little attention in the scholarly discourse on the societal impact of research-academic researchers. Our analysis is based on an empirical survey among 499 researchers in Germany conducted from April to June 2020.

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Numerous health insurers offer bonus programmes that score customers' health behaviour, and car insurers offer telematics tariffs that score driving behaviour. In many countries, however, only a minority of customers participate in these programmes. In a population-representative survey of private households in Germany (N = 2,215), we study the acceptance of the criteria (features) on which the scoring programmes are based: the features for driver scoring (speed, texting while driving, time of driving, area of driving, accelerating and braking behaviour, respectively) and for health scoring (walking distance per day, sleeping hours per night, alcohol consumption, weight, participation in recommended cancer screenings, smoking status).

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Proceedings from the CIH Symposium 2020 on "eHealth: Trends and innovations".

BMC Proc

December 2020

Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.

Article Synopsis
  • eHealth refers to using technology and communication tools to enhance public health, facilitating better connections between researchers, healthcare providers, and patients.
  • The CIH Symposium 2020 focused on discussing challenges in eHealth, examining implementation opportunities, sharing experiences across various healthcare systems, and exploring future trends in digital health platforms.
  • The symposium emphasized the need for increased investment in eHealth, improving disease prevention and patient care, and addressing the ethical and legal issues surrounding the development of these technologies, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
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The cryptographic method Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC) could facilitate data sharing between health institutions by making it possible to perform analyses on a "virtual data pool", providing an integrated view of data that is actually distributed - without any of the participants having to disclose their private data. One drawback of SMPC is that specific cryptographic protocols have to be developed for every type of analysis that is to be performed. Moreover, these protocols have to be optimized to provide acceptable execution times.

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It is widely acknowledged that data sharing has great potential for scientific progress. However, so far making data available has little impact on a researcher's reputation. Thus, data sharing can be conceptualized as a social dilemma.

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Crowd science is scientific research that is conducted with the participation of volunteers who are not professional scientists. Thanks to the Internet and online platforms, project initiators can draw on a potentially large number of volunteers. This crowd can be involved to support data-rich or labour-intensive projects that would otherwise be unfeasible.

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Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of study results and the reuse of old data for new research questions.

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