FOREWORD The authors are obliged to the reviewers for the time spent in revising the paper. In the following pages, we describe in detail how their concerns have been addressed. Some of the requests of the reviewers imply adding a lot of material in the paper. For space limitations we added this material to the extended version of our paper, which is available on line [17] and we referenced suc...

The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU) are obliged to monitor the radioactivity in the environment since the signature of the Euratom Treaty (Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community). Numerous secondary legislations derived from the Treaty can be found stating restrictions and maximum permitted levels of radionuclides in foodstuff. But to that purpose, no common inte...

INTRODUCTION New laparoscopic techniques put distance between the surgeon and his patient. PRESENTATION OF CASE 3D volume rendered images directly displayed in the da Vinci surgeon's console fill this gap by allowing the surgeon to fully immerse in its intervention. DISCUSSION During the robotic operation the surgeon has a greater control on the procedure because he can stay more focused no...

The EU regulation 536/2014 aims to facilitate the experimental use of diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals in particular for GMP requirements and needs to be applied in EU countries. As definitely clarified by this survey, the application is still far from being completed due to national restrictions that are conflicting with the content of the above EU regulation. Although the nuclear medicine cent...

The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are gathering information or data from different sensors nodes sent in remote areas and after that transmitted to a focal controller which then oversees and controls this information. Wireless communications for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is obliged to applications where wired correspondences to the remote site a...

C ultural competency is a term that has become ubiquitous within medical education. It has been placed within the core competency of professionalism, and cross-cultural communication skills have been identified as one of the ways to address healthcare disparities among cultural and ethnic groups. This case highlights the need for cultural competency and places the argument within an ethical par...

The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are gathering information or data from different sensors nodes sent in remote areas and after that transmitted to a focal controller which then oversees and controls this information. Wireless communications for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is obliged to applications where wired correspondences to the remote site a...

Computing needs number of equipment and programming assets which are changing or getting updated in this way requiring clients to reliably pump in speculations to overhaul their infrastructure. This obliged specialists to land at an answer where clients would have entry to most recent renditions of equipment and programming without requiring new speculations. This prompted the very idea of Clou...

Business modelling is a primary task in information systems development lifecycle. Although both MEASUR (Methods for Eliciting, Analyzing and Specifying User’s Requirement) and RUP (Rational Unified Process) provide their own Business Modelling Method (BMM), each has obvious merits and drawbacks. In order to devise a combined BMM, which can keep the merits and avoid the drawbacks at the same ti...

Computer ethics can be defined as a set of moral principles that monitor the use of computers. Similar rules were then required for both programmers and users. Issues that were not anticipated in the past have arisen due to the introduction of newer platforms such as Semantic Web. Both programmers and users are now obliged to consider phenomenon such as informed consent. In this paper, I will e...