11 generating contextual information which can be used to make applications which are adaptive and far more exible. The third generation of multimedia applications will not only exploit improvements in the network technology, but more importantly will take advantage of any contextual or location information made available. As mentioned earlier, this information will come from agents interpretin...

Gail Wilkes, RNC, MS, AOCN®, is an oncology nurse educator at Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts. Wilkes is a member of the speaker’s bureau for Sanofi-Synthelabo, Inc., the manufacturer of oxaliplatin (EloxatinTM). (Mention of specific products and opinions related to those products do not indicate or imply endorsement by the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing or the Oncology Nursing Soc...

In the last weeks, the Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (BJCVS) Blog published three articles concerning the intersection of cardiovascular surgery and entrepreneurship. One of the articles brings the international case of the Indian cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Devi Shetty, who created a health management model that revolutionized Indian reality. A second article dissects a Brazilian ...

This paper reviews the main studies on entrepreneurship conducted during the past two decades that are relevant for the understanding of various macroeconomic issues. I organize the discussion by distinguishing three groups of contributions. The first group includes studies whose main purpose is to understand the factors that affect the decision to become an entrepreneur. The second group inclu...

By the example of sp-bonded semiconductors, we illustrate what 3rd-generation muffintin orbitals (MTOs) are. We demonstrate that they can be downfolded to smaller and smaller basis sets: spd, sp, and bond orbitals. For isolated bands, it is possible to generate Wannier functions a priori. Also for bands, which overlap other bands, Wannierlike MTOs can be generated a priori. Hence, MTOs have a u...

Biofuel production from renewable sources is widely considered to be one of the most sustainable alternatives to petroleum sourced fuels and a viable means for environmental and economic sustainability. Microalgae are currently being promoted as an ideal third generation biofuel feedstock because of their rapid growth rate, CO2 fixation ability and high production capacity of lipids; they also ...

As we can instantaneously link the universities as main actors in the creation of highlyqualified labour force, the role of universities increases parallel to the previously mentioned progresses. Universities are the general institutions of education, however in the need of adaptation to present local needs, their activities have broadened in the past decades [Wright et al, 2008; Etzkowitz, 200...

This paper examines the development of adaptive hypermedia systems and proposes adaptive characteristics for third generation adaptive hypermedia systems. First generation adaptive hypermedia systems predated the World-Wide Web (WWW) and were primarily single user adaptive hypermedia systems. Second generation systems have exploited the distributed nature and ease of authoring of the WWW to dev...