The deployment of new value-added mobile services has had mixed results in terms of adoption rates and revenue generation, despite the fact that mobile operators rely on such services for future growth, in view of saturated markets for the basic voice service. The paper suggests that innovation and growth in the mobile services industry largely depends on the extent to which structural conditio...

Both study designs were randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials qualifying as a level of evidence Ia. In the study by Martinez, Franceschini, Patta, Quintana, Gomes, et al. (2009), half of the women received a single dose of tinidazole (2g) in addition to 2 placebo capsules while half received tinidazole (2g) supplemented with 2 capsules containing L. rhamnosus GR-1 and L. reuteri R...

We investigate the connections between compression learning and scenario based optimization. We first show how to strengthen, or relax the consistency assumption at the basis of compression learning and study the learning and generalization properties of the algorithm involved. We then consider different constrained optimization problems affected by uncertainty represented by means of scenarios...

introduction the morphologic features of human sperms are key indicators for monitoring fertility problems in men. therefore, automated analyzing methods via microscopic videos have become the most favorite policy in infertility treatment during the last decades. materials and methods in the proposed method, firstly a hypothesis testing framework was defined to distinguish sperms from backgroun...

municipal solid wastes (msws) vary in terms of quality and quantity, especially their toxic content. the efficient and sound disposal of msws not only needs implementing an integrated management procedure, but also performing a conservative way to reduce the impacts on resources. in the present research, after characterization of msw streams and consideration of disposal methods practiced in si...

ion) or treat ICT as a monolithic sector (high level of abstraction). The studies reviewed all cover ICT impacts on the industry, transport, and building sectors and agree on the relevance of most ICT applications concerning GHG emissions, but some ICT applications such as smart city planning are only treated by one study quantitatively. Other ICT applications such as precision farming are not ...