Dematerialization: Variety, caution, and persistence.

Promotion of Administrative Modernization through Processes Dematerialization

In today’s information society, many organizations are looking for new approaches to improve the production, organization, handling and retrieval of information processes, using new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The dematerialization emerges as one of the solutions, promoting clear, structured and transparent processes, especially when the problems are associated with the e...

The factors influencing the immune response to hepatitis B vaccine and persistence of the protection.

 Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and its sequelae which include cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma is a major public health problem throught the world.The WHO strategy for effective control of HBV infection is vaccination with the surface antigen of virus(HBsAg).The results obtained from a large number of studies demonstrated that the vaccine induces a protective antibody resonse (anti-HB...

Demand and Dematerialization Impacts of Second-Hand Markets

Dematerialization Through Electronic Media?

While the traditional roles of the computer as a machine for scientific calculations, text editing, and graphic design are still significant, computers are increasingly perceived as means of accessing information and interacting with other people – i.e., as electronic media. The aim of this chapter is to analyze digital electronic media and their effects on environmental sustainability. Two fie...

Archiving Digital Documents: Issues in Dematerialization

In the last years, public administrations and private companies have been involved in the process of document dematerialization, consisting in converting paper documents into digital ones, storing them on optical supports and developing databases to enable an effective classification of such a huge amount of information. In this respect, Italian law establishes the use of digital signature to g...