The AllDay Financial Services Group has the stated business goal of being able to sell any of its products, at any time of the day or night, in any place, and through any available channel to market. In this paper, we outline the business benefits this Group has obtained from the deployment of current workflow technology and short comings of the technology that are preventing the Group from com...

Even though complete resection is regarded as the only curative treatment for nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC), >50% of resected patients die from a recurrence or a second primary tumour of the lung within 5 yrs. It remains unclear, whether follow-up in these patients is cost-effective and whether it can improve the outcome due to early detection of recurrent tumour. The benefit of regular fol...

This paper presents two proactive resource allocation algorithms, called RBA* and OBA, for asynchronous real-time distributed systems. The algorithms consider an application model where timeliness requirements are expressed using Jensen’s benefit functions and propose adaptation functions to describe anticipated application workload during future time intervals. Furthermore, the algorithms cons...

This article reports on an exploratory research project to evaluate the usefulness or otherwise of real-time visual feedback in the singing studio. The primary purpose of the work was not to optimize the technology for this application, but to work alongside teachers and students to study the impact of real-time visual feedback technology use on the students' learning experiences. An action res...

Anatomical segmentectomy has been developed to offer better pulmonary function preservation than lobectomy, in stage IA lung cancer. Despite the retrospective nature of most of the studies and the lack of randomised studies, a substantial body of literature today allows us to evaluate to what extent lung function decreases after segmentectomy and whether segmentectomy offers a real functional b...

The Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products (“AMNOG”) introduced an early benefit assessment (EBA) of pharmaceuticals in Germany in 2011. According to this law, all pharmaceuticals with a new active agent made available on the market for the first time have to go through a benefit assessment process. A benefit assessment dossier has to be submitted at the time of the market entry...

The practice of “fat feeding” has become common in the dairy industry in a number of countries. There are several ideas as to how dietary lipids could influence reproductive performance. Highly saturated triacylglycerols (TAG), like palm oil, can increase milk yield but may aggravate negative energy balance and consequently impair fertility when fed during the first weeks postpartum. However, p...