The research at University College London School of Medicine (UCLSM) is supported by the Wellcome Trust, Action Research, the Special Trustees of University College Hospital, and the Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain. The studies have been carried out with the assistance of Dr. P. S. Tofts, Mr. D. Delpy and Mr. A. Chu of the Department of Medical Physics (UCLSM), and Mr. N.Taylor of Kin...

System-initiated digressive proposals may be used to introduce new and unexpected information into automated telephone services. These digressions may be viewed as particularly pronounced forms of unsolicited interruptions as they contain information not directly related to the caller’s intended activity. In human–human conversation, interruptions are considered to be speech acts which intrinsi...

T his study investigates the effects of extra-ECOWAS merchandise trade and investment flows on the transmission of business cycles in the selected ECOWAS between 1985 and 2014.  The study finds that total trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) significantly influence the transmission of business cycles with elasticities of 1.1 and 0.7, respectively in the long run. There are little vari...

Hurdle technology is a method of ensuring that food products will be safe for consumption and extending their shelf life. It also ensures that pathogens in food products will be eliminated. Hurdle technology is used in food industry for the gentle but effective preservation of foods. The shelf life, sensory and nutritional quality of foods are based on applications of combined preservative fact...

The Persistent Archive Testbed and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) research prototype persistent archive are examples of preservation environments. Both projects are using data grids to implement data management infrastructure that can manage technology evolution. Data grids are software systems that provide persistent names to digital entities, manage data that are distribu...

The majority of previous studies on investment evaluation of RFID technology ignore the flexibility and the Real Options that this kind of investment can lead to. However, studies on the evaluation of other Information Systems have acknowledged the importance of these options as they create future business opportunities or give to managers the opportunity to take actions that could favorably in...

In 1981, Paris and Wilkie [28] indicated it was an open question whether IΣ0 would satisfy the Second Incompleteness Theorem for Herbrand deduction. We will show that some specially formulated axiomizations for IΣ0 can evade the Herbrandized version of the Second Incompleteness Theorem.

The preservation of digital information for long periods of time is becoming feasible through the integration of archival storage technology from supercomputer centers, data grid technology from the computer science community, information models from the digital library community, and preservation models from the archivist’s community. The supercomputer centers provide the technology needed to ...

Investments in the area of technological innovations are particularly risky, since, apart from price uncertainty, firms must take into account not only uncertainty in the arrival of innovations but also the presence of potential rivals. Therefore, we develop an analytical framework for sequential investment in order to determine how duopolistic competition impacts a firm’s technology adoption s...