Mobile Medical Applications: definitions, benefits and risks

Security in WEB Applications, Definitions, Risks and Tools

Security in WEB applications has become a major concern for the scientific and business communities today. An increasing amount of money is being spent for handling information security. . Therefore, giving the proper importance of handling information security, the paper focuses on: definitions of software security, vulnerabilities and risks, dealing with various threats and vulnerabilities, t...

Mobile Devices into Information Systems: risks, facilitating factors and benefits

This article intends to contribute to a better understanding of the mobile devices roles in information systems and its contribution to communications processes as a systemic competitive weapon. The main objective of this research has been to explore the evaluation of risks, facilitating factors, and benefits of mobile devices in small medium sized enterprises (SME). The results indicate that m...

Governing risks and benefits: Mobile communication technologies in British universities

MCTs pose new opportunities and challenges to university governance. Not only are the devices widespread, they have particular capabilities and constantly changing uses which makes any governing of them difficult. Furthermore most devices are individually owned. Thus universities are unable to directly control how they are used but do have a duty of care towards those learning and teaching with...

CT Scans: Balancing Health Risks and Medical Benefits

Principles, applications, risks and benefits of therapeutic hyperthermia.

Hyperthermia as a heat therapy is the procedure of raising the temperature of a part of or the whole body above normal for a certain period of time. Based largely on delivery methods, therapeutic hyperthermia falls under three major categories: local, regional, and whole-body. It may be applied alone or jointly with other modalities such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, radiochemotherapy, and gen...