In several previous studies, we performed sensitivity analysis to gauge the relative importance of different atomic partial charges in determining protein-ligand binding. In this work, we gain further insights by decomposing these results into three contributions: desolvation, intramolecular interactions, and intermolecular interactions, again based on a Poisson continuum electrostatics model. ...

Asymmetry exists among the firms selling homogeneous product in online market. This paper provides a theoretical study on the equilibrium behavior of the firms and the information gatekeeper in a duopoly market with asymmetric sizes of loyal consumers. In equilibrium, the firm with larger number of loyal consumers tends to advertise less frequently but charges a lower average price whenever adv...

BACKGROUND In today's health care, new health reforms focus on market values and demands of efficiency influence health workers' professional practice. Norwegian public health nurses work mainly with healthy populations, but the children, families and young people they meet can be in vulnerable and even dependent situations. Strategies in coping with ethically challenging encounters can be impo...

Public health nurses in Ireland are charged with conducting a home visit to every postnatal mother within 48 hours of hospital discharge. This represents the beginning of a long-term relationship, not only with the mother and newborn child but also with the family. This article fundamentally demonstrates the essential work of the public health nurse in promoting the health of the baby within a ...

This paper proposes two topics for a high performance fingerprint sensor. A modified capacitive detection circuit of charge sharing scheme is proposed, which shows 40% reduction of power consumption and 90% improvement of difference between a ridge and valley sensing voltage than typical scheme. This paper also proposes an effective fingerprint identification system with hardware unit (thinning...

One-stop government refers to the integration of public services from a citizen’s point of view. Currently, the realisation of online one-stop government in Europe is in an infant state. The eGOV project recognises that online one-stop government can only realise its full potential if supported by an integrated, open and extensible platform. The aim of the project is to develop and evaluate thi...

The debate on television’s "public service"obligations can only make full sense if integrated in the broader context of the debate on the best political model for society. In fact, the classic "public service"rationale is based in a normative conception of good and in a suspicious view of the average citizen that is largely tributary of a Platonic or Elitist approach to the political organizati...

This paper describes the attitude of a Greek public administration user group towards the EC SYSTRAN machine translation (MT) system and its contribution to the system's evaluation and enhancement. EC SYSTRAN was first made available to the Greek public sector in 1994, under an initiative of the Greek Government in collaboration with the EC. Translation services are provided free of charge to t...