Can microfinance borrowers use the discipline of regular loan repayments in order to accumulate savings if prompted to do so? In an experiment, we offered commercial savings products to the microfinance borrowers of Guatemala’s largest public-sector bank. We find that giving these borrowers the opportunity to develop a saving plan and be reminded of saving at the time of loan repayment caused n...

We explore the opportunity Pervasive Spaces provide as supplemental energy sources surrounding visiting mobile devices. We utilize the nature of pervasive smart spaces to outsource computation that would normally be performed on a mobile device to a surrogate server within the smart space. The decision to outsource a computation depends on whether its energy cost on the device is larger than th...

BACKGROUND Telemedicine has emerged as an alternative mode of health care delivery over the last decade. To date, there is very limited published information in the field of telehealth and paediatric nephrology. The aim of this study was to review our experience with paediatric telenephrology in Queensland, Australia. METHODS A retrospective audit of paediatric nephrology telehealth consultat...

Decrease of fossil fuel dependence and resource saving has become increasingly important in recent years. From this perspective, higher recycling rates for valuable materials (e.g. metals) as well as energy recovery from waste streams could play a significant role substituting for virgin material production and saving fossil resources. This is especially important with respect to residual waste...