The sigma delta conversion technique has been in existence for many years, but recent technological advances now make the devices practical and their use is becoming widespread. The converters have found homes in such applications as communications systems, consumer and professional audio, industrial weight scales, and precision measurement devices. The key feature of these converters is that t...

This paper presents an overview of an information technology education practice for healthcare practitioners in graduate school. Based on hands-on experience of the Information Technology Applied to Healthcare classes at the Jequié Campus of the Southeast Bahia State University (UESB) for the Nursing and Physiotherapy courses, an experience is reported that stresses the importance of teaching i...

This article reports on the literature associated with practising teachers’ uptake of information and communications technology (ICT). Studies reveal a number of factors which influence teachers’ decisions to use ICT in the classroom: access to resources, quality of software and hardware, ease of use, incentives to change, support and collegiality in their school, school and national polices, c...

Tell us a bit about your professional interests. I started my career working in telecommunications for about 10 years, then joined Toyota 13 years ago. My early time at Toyota was focused on wireless communications—including PHY, media access control, and security and privacy. For the past seven or eight years, I’ve worked on broader topics, trying to answer the question, “What should Toyota do...

In today’s globalised world in which both communications and marketing experts struggle to attract public attention, in a world overloaded with information to such an extent that the apathy aspect is the response to advertisers’ messages, branding is becoming one of the key factors in the success of companies, products and services, and they also include cultural content. The theme of this pape...

The Interpretive Visualization (IVIS) Group at the Division of Biomedical Communications, Dept. of Surgery, University of Toronto has developed a visually-oriented, Internet-based Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course on Sentinel Node Biopsy. The site design methodology involved an extensive needs assessment, iterative formative evaluations of site and media design, a summative evalu...

The standards of scholarly publications are evolving to meet the ever-growing demands of digital communications globally. Current authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers face numerous challenges, which can be overcome through Continuous Professional Development (CPD) aimed at advancing skills in research reporting and communicating with the global scientific community. The best scientific t...

The sigma delta conversion technique has been in existence for many years, but recent technological advances now make the devices practical and their use is becoming widespread. The converters have found homes in such applications as communications systems, consumer and professional audio, industrial weight scales, and precision measurement devices. The key feature of these converters is that t...

Joan Feigenbaum Technical Report YALEU/DCS/TR-­‐1448 December 2011 Support for anonymous communication in hostile environments is the main goal of DARPA’s “Safer Warfighter Communications” program (DARPA-­‐BAA-­‐10-­‐69: SAFER). Despite the fact that the word is regularly encountered in common parlance, “anonymity” is actually a subtle concept – one that the computer-­‐science community has ...

Clinical psychiatry, for all its emphasis on scientific rigour, is mediated mainly by words rather than by numbers. As with other professional areas, it has developed its own set of jargon words and phrases. Many of these are not the technical terms traditionally seen as jargon, but standard English words and phrases used in an idiosyncratic way. They therefore go unnoticed as jargon, while enf...