The advancement of mobile technologies and the proliferation of map-based applications have enabled a user to access a wide variety of services that range from information queries to navigation systems. Due to the popularity of map-based applications among the users, the service provider often requires to answer a large number of simultaneous queries. Thus, processing queries efficiently on spa...

Many organizations now source tasks from shared service units (SSUs). SSUs are dedicated centers, focused on a particular business function, which delivers common and standardized services, from a central point, to different parts of the organization (Fielt et al. 2014; Gospel & Sako 2010; Gartner 2013). Shared service models have become increasingly popular with large multinationals including ...

BACKGROUND nursing-home patients usually have many medical problems and often take many drugs. They are therefore at risk from drug side effects and interactions. AIMS to evaluate the impact of a visit by a general practitioner and a comprehensive repeat prescribing review on the consumption of inappropriate drugs in nursing homes. METHOD two general practitioners made one comprehensive vis...

Optical communications is rapidly expanding beyond long-haul fiber-optic networks into shorter distance, lower-cost applications such as infrared wireless links and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH). CMOS implementations of optical receivers are attractive given their reduced cost and size, but the trend towards lower system voltages in CMOS challenges the long-term viability of integrated designs. Trad...

The development of software systems from already built COTS components has been motivated by the prospect of reduced cost and development time. However, developing COTS-based systems introduces new challenges and risks different from building systems from scratch. In particular, this new paradigm requires simultaneous tradeoffs among user requirements, COTS products and system architecture. In ...

NONCODE (http://www.bioinfo.org/noncode/) is an interactive database that aims to present the most complete collection and annotation of non-coding RNAs, especially long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). The recently reduced cost of RNA sequencing has produced an explosion of newly identified data. Revolutionary third-generation sequencing methods have also contributed to more accurate annotations. Ac...

With the technical development of the reading equipment, e-books have witnessed a gradual and steady increase in sales in recent years. Last year, smart phones announced to be able to perform additional functions as e-book reading devices, making it possible for retailers selling e-books for smart phones (SPR) such as iPhone to differentiate with those selling e-books for specific reading equip...

Motion estimation is one of the important factors to be considered for video coding. In this paper, the main objective is to increase the motion estimation in terms of fast, low complexity and reduced cost. To do this, in this paper an Modified Un Even Multi Hexagonal grid search algorithm [MUEHS] developed to obtain fast motion estimation for video coding by using hybrid block matching and sea...

latest evolutions in GIS technology and spatial information acquisition technology have led to a more distributed data method and computing environment. “Cloud” expertise has appeared as technologies by its focus on large-scale asset sharing and reduced cost for large-scale data storage technology. Specially, the problems of big volume of spatial data in some of the emergency cases which make t...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) usually employ different ranging techniques to measure the distance between an unknown node and its neighboring anchor nodes, and based on the measured distance to estimate the location of the unknown node. In its operation, a range-based localization scheme uses either trilateration or multilateration algorithms to obtain such range information. To trim down the...