Along with the growth of Grid infrastructures, ubiquitous service provision and consumption has received wide attention in literature and practice. Although the number of available services rises rapidly, concepts and standards for an economical efficient service allocation remain in their infancy. Most proposed mechanisms lack of an interdisciplinary analysis that accounts for economical and t...

Hospital admissions among patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) are a major contributor to health care costs. A comprehensive disease management program for CHF was developed for private and statutory health insurance companies in order to improve health outcomes and reduce rehospitalization rates and costs. The program comprises care calls, written training material, telemetric monitori...

1. Renewable Wind and Solar Energies: The Context 1.1. An Economical and Environmental Necessity 1.2. Energy Definitions and Units 2. Basic Knowledge in Geophysics for Energy Resource Evaluation 2.1. Earth Energy Budget and Atmospheric Motion 2.2. Near Surface Wind 2.3. Impacts of Clouds and Aerosols on Surface Solar Radiation 3. Wind Energy Resource 3.1. Wind Energy: A Brief History 3.2. Wind ...

BACKGROUND Site selection for urban facilities is a crucial topic in planning decision processes for the several side effects they produce and the multiple criteria involved, especially for healthcare facilities. Nevertheless, the location problem has been ignored by most of the existing evaluation systems. METHODS Starting from a deep literature review and the analysis of hospitals in 10 Eur...

This paper describes the development, prototyping, and evaluation of RMAIS (RFID-based Medication Adherence Intelligence System). Previous work in this field has resulted in devices that are either costly or too complicated for general (especially elderly) patients to operate. RMAIS provides a practical and economical means for ordinary patients to easily manage their own medications, taking th...

Introduction Groundwater supply sustainable yield is herein defined as how much water can be withdrawn from an aquifer system, where and for how long, with acceptable physical, economical, environmental, social, cultural, institutional, and legal consequences. The purpose of this Technical Commentary is to focus on the following technical aspects of groundwater supply sustainable yield that are...