Toward Blockchain Realization

Digital Supply Chain Transformation toward Blockchain Integration

Digital supply chain integration is becoming increasingly dynamic. Access to customer demand needs to be shared effectively, and product and service deliveries must be tracked to provide visibility in the supply chain. Business process integration is based on standards and reference architectures, which should offer end-to-end integration of product data. Companies operating in supply chains es...

Toward Open Data Blockchain Analytics: A Bitcoin Perspective

Bitcoin is the first implementation of what has become known as a ‘public permissionless’ blockchain. Guaranteeing security and protocol conformity through its elegant combination of cryptographic assurances and game theoretic economic incentives, it permits censorship resistant public read-write access to its append-only blockchain database without the need for any mediating central authority....

Toward a Theory of Nonlinear Stochastic Realization

Toward the realization of cell therapy

*Correspondence to: Hiroshi Wakao; Email: [email protected] Submitted: 05/27/2013; Accepted: 06/04/2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cc.25706 Wakao H, et al. Cell Stem Cell 2013; 12:546-58; PMID:23523177; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2013.03.001 Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are a subset of the innate type T cells and are characterized for the expression of an invariant T ...

Blockchain Revolution without the Blockchain

The technology behind blockchain has attracted a lot of attention. However, this technology is for the most part not well understood. There is no consensus on what benefits it may bring or on how it may fail. A careful look into the technology finds that most of the proposed benefits of so called blockchain technologies do not really come from elements unique to blockchain. Instead, they come f...