Demonstrating the generation of electricity with Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor (ADSR) technology will incur substantial financial risk both from traditional reactor construction uncertainties and new technology uncertainties such as the reliability of the accelerator system. The sensitivity of the economic value of ADSRs to the reliability of the accelerator system is assessed. The eco...

In the last few decades, community based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged as an important approach that links environmental health and justice advocates with research institutions to understand and address environmental health problems. CBPR has generally been evaluated for its impact on policy, regulation, and its support of community science. However, there has been less emphasis on ...

The recent developments in remote healthcare systems have witnessed significant interests from IT industry (Microsoft, Google, VMware etc) that provide ubiquitous and easily deployable healthcare systems. These systems provide a platform to share medical information, applications, and infrastructure in a ubiquitous and fully automated manner. Communication security and patients' data privacy ar...

1 Acquiring knowledge for adaptation in CBR is an demanding task. This paper describes an approach to make user experiences from an Internet community available for the adaptation. We worked in the cooking domain, where a huge number of Internet users share recipes, opinions on them and experiences with them. Because this is often expressed in informal language, in our approach we did not seman...

Social Norms proliferate in societies as a mechanism for selforganization. This kind of norms are not enforced by a central authority and the individuals of the society are those responsible for their generation and maintenance. The maintenance process is what is known as norm support and is supported by several mechanisms like for example laws, social proof, dominance, etc. We believe that age...

We consider the effect communications by mobile phone have on the process of building relations of individuals, and discuss the impact such communications have on interpersonal relationships among individuals in a network society. Our research results indicate that a network society is significantly affected when mobile communication becomes widespread within that society. In the field of manag...

Medication non-adherence, the extent to which a person’s behavior does not coincide with medical or health advice, is a serious public health issue. Objectives: 1) Develop a new typology of medication non-adherence, 2) Develop models to predict different types of non-adherence based on Andersen Behavioral Model (ABM) and Leventhal’s Common Sense Model (CSM), and 3) Test the models across two di...

One of the fundamental notions in a multiagent system is that of delegation. Delegation forms the foundation for cooperation and collaboration among the members of a multiagent system. In diverse environments such as those formed by open multiagent systems, the various members constituting the environment are customarily alien to one another. Delegation decisions in such environments are necess...